arthel: hello everyone. one of president trump's long time confidants falling into special counsel robert mueller's crosshairs as mueller continues to investigate possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign. hello everyone. welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. blake: i'm blake burman in for eric shawn this afternoon. kristen davis the so called manhattan madame is expected to be subpoenaed by the mueller investigation. she has close ties to the former trump aide roger stone. this is how stone reacted last night. >> she has been an associate of

mine for over ten years. she's someone i have great affection for. i am as mj lee reported the godfather to her son. she's a single parent. she's now in the cosmetology business. at this juncture, mr. mueller has had full access to my e-mails and therefore he is well aware that there's no evidence whatsoever. blake: garrett tenney live now from washington. how does kristen davis figure into this investigation? >> well, blake, roger stone said in the interview last night that the only reason he can think of for mueller's team that would want to speak with her is because of her close ties to him and stone has long been a person of interest in the special counsel's investigation in no small part because of his contact during the campaign with the hacking group, which we know now was operated by russian intelligence officers. in an interview with the washington post, friday, kristen davis describes stone as one of her best friends and called the mueller probe a witch hunt saying quote in terms of russian

collusion, i know nothing. they seem to be going back with him and picking up people who worked for roger and some people who are disgruntled. now we've reached out to davis and her attorney for comment, and while the special counsel's office also is not commenting on these latest reports, davis would be the latest addition to a long list of folks with ties to roger stone whose mueller's team has already spoken to. blake: separate from that, we are also learning more about the recording michael cohen made of a conversation a couple years ago with president trump. what can you tell us about that? >> sources familiar with the investigation tells fox news this recording was made in september 2016 just a couple of months before the election. the conversation revolved around a possible payment to former playboy model karen mcdougal who claims she had an affair with donald trump back in 2006. now, cohen allegedly suggested on this recording that he and mr. trump buy the rights to mcdougal's story in order to prevent the allegations from becoming public. the president's current attorney

giuliani says no payment was ever made and suggested this recording actually helps the president's case that there were no violations of campaign finance laws, telling the new york times, quote, nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance. in the big scheme of things, it is powerful exculpatory evidence. cohen's attorneys also say there is nothing in the recording that will hurt their client. sources tell us the fbi is now in possession of that recording, which was obtained in its raid on cohen's office back in april. blake: potentially more. garrett tenney out of washington thanks. arthel: let's bring in the politics editor for the national journal. josh, let's start there with those recordings. what could this mean for president trump? might there be legal jeopardy for him or not? >> well, from a political standpoint it suggests that president trump is getting awfully nervous because he tweeted out just this morning for the first time public criticism of his long time

attorney and fixer michael cohen. so i think there was an assumption from the white house for quite a while that cohen could be loyal, he might actually stay on trump's team and not work with the feds. but the fact that trump is now publicly attacking one of his long-time allies suggests he's worried about what may be on the tapes the feds seized and worried about what michael cohen may tell the feds on this case. arthel: any potential political impact for the president? >> it threatens to dampen republican enthusiasm for the midterm elections. i mean, it couldn't come at a worst possible time for the white house. republicans were hoping that once judge kavanaugh was picked as president trump's supreme court nominee, that the republicans would be enthused, would be talking about judges, we would be talking about the supreme court, instead we're talking about russia and we're talking about a possible serious ethical issue. that's not good news for republicans who are largely staying on president trump's side on this issue, but there's some signs that some of the

softer supporters, some of the softer republicans are not as enthused as they once were. arthel: i had a follow up regarding judge kavanaugh, but i i need to move on. if i have time, i will circle back to that. i want to continue with michael cohen. what does this signal about him? how much is he cooperating with investigators, tapes of course nabbed in an fbi sweep of his office, but might michael cohen have more to offer? >> he is in serious legal trouble, and it sounds -- he gave an interview to abc news a few weeks ago suggesting that he's willing to cooperate with the feds. he's not defending president trump any longer. and he's someone who knows the president's deepest secrets. he recorded as we now know about a two minute call that undermines what the white house had been saying, what president trump had been saying about not knowing anything about these payments to a former model, karen mcdougal. so this is big political troubles, big legal trouble for president trump, and michael cohen looks like he's trying to

get himself out of his own serious legal issues, and he could ensnare the president or people close to the president as part of the investigation. arthel: what about roger stone? >> well the sharks are circling around roger stone as well, as we now know with the indictment against 12 russian intelligence officials, stone was essentially named -- not named by name but was referenced in that indictment showing that he had communicated with the hacking group, which was someone who was a russian intelligence official. who knows what roger stone's legal jeopardy will end up being, but boy he sure showed a lot of bad judgment in having conversations with people who hacked hilary clinton, the dnc and all the other democratic files, and he's certainly on the fbi and the department of justice's target list. arthel: josh, i have to leave it there. we have some breaking news right now. blake: that breaking news is a fox news alert.

let's take you to a press conference at the hospital in branson, missouri. you see one of the survivors from the boating accident speaking now. let's listen in. >> a ton of family, praying for me, being behind me. as soon as they found out, they left in the middle of the night to come down. my pastor's even come down. i have had my friends come down here to support me. this isn't all the family. this is just some of the family that you see here. i have had tons of family members and friends sending requests and asking how i'm doing and supporting. so that's the only way i'm getting through this is through god and through a lot -- a lot f people here in the city, i have had pastors from the city come and they have prayed for me and said they will keep me in their thoughts and prayers. that's the best getting through it >> what about going home? >> going home i already know is going to be completely difficult. i don't know how i'm going to do

it. since i've had a home, it's always been filled with little feet and laughter and my husband. i don't know how i'm going to do it. i just know that i will continue to need the support of my family, my friends, and even my extended family and friends i haven't met, i will need that. >> how were you able to survive? >> i've always loved water. i don't know, but i've always loved water. but when that water came over the boat, i didn't know what happened.

i had my son right next to me. but when the water filled up the boat, i could no longer see. i couldn't feel anybody. i couldn't see. i just remember i got to get out. i got to get out. and i don't know if somebody pushed me or what happened, but i hit my head on part of the boat, and when i got out into the water, it was ice cold, and i remember as we were going into the water, they said that the lake stays pretty warm, like in the 80s, so i knew since it was being so cold that i'm close to the bottom. i'm not close to the top. i just remember kicking and swimming, swimming up to the top, and as i was swimming up, i was praying, i said lord, please let me get to my babies. got to get to my babies. i was kicking. the harder i fought to get up to the top, i was getting pulled down. i kept fighting and i kept fighting. and then i said lord, if i can't make it, there's no use in keeping me here. and so i just let go, and i

started floating, and as i started floating, i felt the water temperature change, and it got warmer, and as it got warmer, i knew i was to the top, so i stuck my hand out, and i kept swallowing tons of water. the waves were crashing over my face, and every time i'd get my head a little bit above water, i would scream help! help! finally i came up to the surface, i saw a great big boat out there, like a river boat, and they were -- oh my god -- they were jumping in and saving people. they were throwing life rafts out to everybody. but i couldn't reach it. i couldn't get there in time, and so somehow i managed to get to the boat. seeing beautiful people, angels, i don't know who they were, they pulled me up, and when they pulled me up from the boat, i didn't see any of my family.

but i believe i survived by god and by good samaritans. >> [inaudible]. >> the captain did say something about life jackets. she said above you are your life jackets. there's three sizes. he said i'm going to show you where they are. but you won't need them. so no need to worry. so we didn't grab them. >> [inaudible]. >> i really don't know. i'm kind of in and out

remembering my new facts, but it was said that there are life jackets, but don't worry. you will not need them and we were never told after that to grab them. >> [inaudible]. >> i have no idea. i just know when the water -- i was getting close to the front, so when the water came up over me, i immediately floated up but i hit my head on something, so that's all i know about that. >> the last thing i wanted to ask -- [inaudible]. >> i have no idea. again, i can't answer that. i don't know how i got out. i couldn't see anything.

>> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> [inaudible]. >> it took me maybe a minute to realize. it took me a minute before the boat went under because the water was splashing. it was so high. the water was splashing. but when the big swell came in, that's when i got nervous, and then the next big swell is what -- i didn't know the boat capsized. i thought it went under. so when that next big swell came in, i did go under. so i don't -- i don't know how long that was. >> [inaudible].

-- the weather before you went out -- [inaudible]. >> sure. before we left, they just said there's a storm coming so go to the -- [inaudible] -- so you can avoid it. >> was it cloudy? >> not right then it didn't. even when we first hit the water, it didn't look cloudy. >> [inaudible]. >> no. >> [inaudible]. >> you are welcome. >> so sorry -- [inaudible]. i was wondering, you said you were sitting in the front of the boat, if you could give me an idea from your vantage point for

what the greatest obstacle for yourself and everybody on the boat -- the water rushing in? [inaudible]. the one thing that stood out to you. >> the biggest thing that stood me out to me is no matter what, i felt like if i was able to get a life jacket, i could have saved my baby because they could have at least floated up to the top and somebody could have grabbed him. and i wasn't able to do that. i can't say what the restriction was because when i went up, i thought i hit the ceiling, and i thought i was dead because i didn't know how to get out from -- i'm great with directions, but in water, i don't know which way i'm facing, so when i went up, i didn't know if i was in the ceiling or i figured i was in the ceiling because i wasn't moving.

something just kept pushing me. i kept floating up, and so i don't know if i was coming through a window or if somebody did remove the roof. i have no idea. >> [inaudible]. >> there's some things i'm not at liberty to say. i have no idea. >> [inaudible]. >> based on what me and my family went through, i don't want to be on any boat ever again in my life, anybody's boat. >> [inaudible]. >> i want them to be remembered

how they were. i lost nine people. i lost my husband who was -- he was so loving. he didn't look like he was, but he was loving. to remember my baby, my oldest son, who was on the autism spectrum, but he made every day worth living, and he was the happiest sweetest little boy anybody would ever want to meet. everybody remember my evan who was 7 who was extremely smart and quick and witty. he loved life, and he was a great brother, a big brother and a little brother. and then my baby, she was only 1, and she had a thousand personalities wrapped up in her

one, and she would blow kisses, and she would fight. she was a little fireball, and my only girl, and to remember my uncle ray, he was the oldest. he liked to laugh and have a good time. my father-in-law who had a heart of gold. he would give anything for anybody. my mother-in-law who was like a second mom. i never knew i would marry into such great people. i never knew it. she was always there with a supportive word. my sister-in-law who i call my sister because she was. she was so loving. and she'd do anything for her family. for my nephew, the sweetest baby ever. he loved big hugs and warm

kisses. and i would ask everybody to remember my family as the beautiful people they were. >> [inaudible]. is there anything you would like to say to the owner of the boat company -- [inaudible]. >> i don't have anything to say to the owner. i don't have anything to say to the captain. to the survivors of the boat, i continue to keep you in my prayers. i know what you are going through. to all the lives that were lost, to all the lives that were lost,

i just pray that they're continuing to live on in their family's hearts. >> [inaudible]. >> the hotel we were staying at we -- the kids always loved to swim in the water. we just liked getting in the water. so we all went down to the water, had a good time in the pool, and then i caught myself sneaking off to get in the hot tub, here comes the little bodies coming in there with me. this feels so good, so good. i said get back in the kiddy pool. i will always remember how they always loved to be around

family. we end up going out to eat while we were here. i guess i forgot how much food they had. the kids were like can we have this? on vacation you can have whatever you want. i started piling up their plates. they were eating up all this food. they had cotton candy, rainbow sherbet, stuff you probably shouldn't give your kids all the time, that's the kind of parent, i would do stuff like that, you know, occasionally. i enjoyed -- we had a big van. i enjoyed us being together and laughing at each other's stories and just talking to each other. >> [inaudible]. >> we did not see shows. in our family, like i said my oldest son is autistic, so a lot of things that quote unquote

normal families or people say that normal families do we don't always do, and that's another thing i loved about my family. they would make a situation fit for him. so we had to do stuff that would keep him -- where he can jump up and be entertained or he likes to ride. so he could ride. that was one thing we knew, he loves water and he likes to ride. we were like that would work out for everybody. we can drive around on the boat and get in the water and it will be a good time. we had planned on going out to eat afterwards. so we did not see any shows. on our family trips, we always tried to cater to the kids. >> [inaudible]. >> this is our first time coming to branson. we go as a family -- we travel to different places. the best one that i've been to

for me i will say is michigan. it was all peaceful. the clearest lake i had ever seen. it felt like i had stepped back in time. they don't even have internet. they have dial up. what's going on? i felt like that was one of my favorite places to go. the kids favorite place was south carolina, myrtle beach. arthel: remembering beautiful moments and recalling an unthinkable nightmare. a young woman there, tia coleman of indiana lost nine members of her family in that boating accident there in branson, missouri, including her husband and all three of her children, ages 9, 7, and 1. she's asking for prayers. no doubt she will need them. and there has been a go fund me

account set up by the company that owns that boat. go fund me.com/branson-duck-boat survivor. we're going to get the graphic up for you. there it is right there. go fund me.com/branson-duck-boat- survivors. so far $71,000 has been raised. blake, the money will definitely be needed because unfortunately, tia coleman, again a young woman who looks to be somewhere near 38 or 40 something should not be bearing this sort of tragedy in her life at any point and certainly not now. she's going to need the money because now she has to bury her husband. she has to bury her three children, ages 9, 7 and 1. 17 people all together died in that accident there. and the youngest person who died is a 1-year-old girl. >> blake: the oldest 76 years old.

17 victims in total, ranges from 76 years old to 1-year-old. tia coleman you just heard from there when she asked what stands out to her now, the thought of getting a life jacket to save her babies, her three children, 9 years and younger. there are a lot of questions what could have been done. she talks about the boat captain there. that's probably a conversation for another day. there are questions about the thunderstorm that moved in, what could have happened, etc. for now, we watch tia coleman and you think about what she's going through, her family, what they are going through and the 17 victims in this case. arthel: three generations lost. let's go to mike tobin now and see if he has anymore information on that accident. mike? >> there's a couple of parallel investigations taking place right now. there's the one that we have been talking about with the ntsb and the coast guard. that's the overarching

investigation. we expect to get an update on that particular investigation in less than an hour's time. but there's also the local investigation that's being taken up -- taken up by the missouri state highway patrol. ultimately overseen by the state's top lawmaker, the attorney general. the information that we're getting from him is that among other things, these duck boats should have for lack of a better term black boxes on them. these black boxes will record video from a number of different points and also record gps data. some of the information that they are going to marry up with some of the physical evidence are things like you just heard from tia coleman, she has said throughout this process that in her recounting of it that the passengers were told not to put on life vests, that they weren't going to need them. she also says that the staff on board the boat altered the course because they knew that bad weather was coming. there's going to be a lot of investigation done as far as when that information about the thunderstorm warning was relayed to whomever and how fast it got to the people on the boat, whether it was ignored, whether safety checks were done before

that boat departed from shore and went out to sea, whether all the proper protocol was followed. there were 600 witnesses on board the branson belle that was watching the whole thing, the missouri state highway patrol as they start doing their investigation, they are going to have to interview each one of these people. we talk about this investigation it will take on the term criminal investigation, but you have to be careful with that term because when you start talking about criminal investigation, simply because you have 17 people dead. it is not necessarily a situation where someone has determined negligence at this state. so it would warrant a criminal investigation. it's just simply because of the gravity of that situation. what we're also hearing from the attorney general as they move forward is they want more cooperation out of this parent company, ripley's entertainment which owns the franchise called ride the ducks which operated these particular boats. they want to speak to among other people the surviving captain of the boat. we know now that the driver of the boat perished in this accident, but they haven't had an opportunity to speak to the

surviving captain. they want more cooperation out of that company. they want to be able to speak with the witnesses and the staff on board this boat. and you're going to see a long investigation still, much like we heard from the ntsb that this is going to take a while because among other things they have some 600 people they have to talk to, to get their stories. there's loads and loads of physical evidence to go through, not the least of which is the amount of -- is the amount of data or information that was shared related to the thunderstorm warnings ahead of this boat taking to the water, and pardon me, arthel, back to you. arthel: no problem. i understand, no problem, thank you, mike to bin. -- mike tobin, very sad story. blake: the legal implications of a secretly recorded conversation and how it could affect the president, still ahead, next. innovation that goes

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unheard of and perhaps illegal. the good news is, your favorite president did nothing wrong. now it is important to note fbi agents did have a search warrant for the cohen raid, and one big question here today, where was this recording made? specifically what state? laws on taping private conversations differ when you cross state lines. in new york where cohen lives and works it is one party consent state meaning only one party must know about it and that could mean michael cohen since he's the one in the conversation. sources tell fox news the nearly two minute chat revolved around a possible payment to a former playboy model who claims she had an affair with mr. trump in 06. her name karen mcdougal. she sold her story to the parent company of the national enquirer ami in august of 2016 but that story was never published. the conversation was reportedly about paying mcdougal for the life rights to her story and if they did that, would this be a payment made with check or with cash? that payment was never made. there are reports today that president trump's legal team

waived the attorney-client privilege on this 2016 conversation so that the story could come out because the team felt that it was going to be out there anyway and it would not be something that would be damaging to mr. trump in the end. blake? blake: right. we are also hearing that the special counsel in the russia investigation has someone new that they want to talk with? >> yeah, we're hearing about this now investigators with the special counsel robert mueller's office have reportedly given notice to the attorney for kristin davis, you might remember this name. she is known as the manhattan madame. and they say they do want to talk to her. now, davis made headlines years ago for running a high end prostitution ring and was also connected to former new york governor elliot spitzer. investigators reportedly want to talk with her about her close friend roger stone who had been a political operative and long time confidant of president trump. that is something new that has developed over the last 24 hours. we will continue to bring you up to speed here in new jersey as

we get it. blake: laura in berkeley heights new jersey, thanks. arthel: police officers in dallas mourning the loss of one of their own. motorcycle police officer senior corporal earl jamie givens being hit by an suv during a funeral escort. the crash happening this morning as they were transporting the body of another officer to a funeral in louisiana. >> the driver of the kia sportage collided into a concrete divider and remained at the scene where he was subsequently arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. senior corporal givens was a 32-year veteran of the dallas police department. he served in the motor unit since 2012. arthel: and police are still working to confirm if the driver was drunk. blake: police are also on the hunt for the person who killed

the cardiologist who once treated the president george bush. we are telling you what authorities are saying about this. plus the u.s. accusing countries violating sanctions. how both countries are responding, coming up. i've got to tell you

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those talks is to not loosen the sanctions. we can't do one thing until we see north korea respond to their promise to denuclearize. we have to see some sort of action. arthel: united nations ambassador nikki haley renewing the trump administration's commitment to get north korea to scrap its nuclear program before sanctions are lifted. meanwhile, china and russia are rejecting a request from the u.s. to stop repeatedly violating u.n. oil sanctions as north korea smuggles in more oil than is allowed. now, this is coming as nuclear talks continue between the u.s. and north korea, to support last month's summit, in singapore between president trump and regime leader kim jong-un. jim walsh is here, international security expert at mit, their securities study program, a phenomenal place. does north korea remain a threat to the u.s.?

if so, in what way? and how serious is the threat? >> arthel, those are the right questions to ask. i think, yes, north korea continues to be a threat. it has nuclear weapons. it has missiles. it has chemical and bio agents that might be used against our friends and allies or the u.s. homeland. yes, it is a threat. number two, i would say it is less of a threat today than it was before the singapore summit. why do i say that? because at least for right now there's a moratorium, no nuclear tests, no missile tests. i also think that because the parties are talking, the chances of war on the peninsula, whether by design or by accident, by miscalculation are lower. so that's a good thing. we're safer today than we were a month or two months ago. but the danger remains. arthel: listen, we were all hoping for safety. meanwhile, though, can the president, his intelligence agents, his security experts,

secretary of state pompeo, can any of these players afford to take their eyes off of kim jong-un and north korea for a second? >> no, no, not at all. in fact, what i would hope is that the real focus here is probably less sanctions at the margins which were always a little shaky. the real center of gravity here is negotiating an agreement. now, i give the president credit for trying something different. the traditional ways you work the bottom up. you have years of negotiations, then the leaders walk in at the end, give their blessing and sign the paper. the president has gone in a different direction. and i welcome that. that is a top-down approach, where the two leaders got together at the beginning to get political momentum to a process. but keep in mind, that when you reverse that, when you stand it on its head, then you have all the negotiation that has to be done. you know, so it's going to be months or years of negotiation. we have no definition of terms. we have no list of facilities and materials. all that stuff has to be worked

out in negotiations so that we have a plan to implement to achieve denuclearization or at least to reduce the nuclear threat. that's the tough part. that's what we're really looking at right now. so i'm keeping an eye on those working groups that have been assembled between the u.s. and north korea to see if they're making progress. if they are, that's a good thing. arthel: does kim jong-un have reason to push back on the notion of him giving up his nuclear capabilities? >> well, i think most of my colleagues in security studies are skeptical. i totally understand that. you know, there's this notion that if he gives everything up, he could end up like saddam hussein or moammar qaddafi. i think what we want to do is test this proposition. north korea is the most opaque country in the world. we have no idea what the leader is thinking. maybe he wants to play us. maybe he wants to make an authentic change and try to

adapt to the future so he can hold on to power. i don't know which it is. but i know it is a good thing to try to force him through proposals, through negotiation to show his cards and then that holds open the possibility that if he is truly interested in a better path forward, then we don't miss that because we aren't stuck in some mental frame that prevents us from seeing the real possibilities. so either way, i think it is a win to force the north koreans to come to the table and to negotiate in good faith. arthel: ambassador nikki haley, she was speaking thursday on north korea illegally getting petroleum. >> the u.s. put yesterday a halt to all additional refined petroleum shipments to north korea. china and russia blocked it. now, for china and russia to block it, what are they telling us? are they telling us that they want to continue supplying this

oil? they claim they need more information. we don't need any more information. arthel: i need to wrap it up here. there you have it. you have trade war, trade war with china. you have got the summits with kim jong-un and russian president putin. is this like a ball of interconnected nerves and one wrong move can paralyze or cripple all potential progress? >> arthel, quickly, that's a great question. and we don't know the answer to that yet. but you put your finger on something that is dangerous going forward. it's hard to have a cooperative situation when we're fighting everyone about different things, trade, this, that. i hope we can keep this separate in its own box, the whole north korea problem, work with china, who has self-interest in keeping this contained and stable and peaceful. but certainly as relations grow worse, with china and with russia, there's always the danger that something happens -- that happens in one area spills over and affects another. but i think we've got to try to

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blake: the trump administration says syria talks will be on the table when the russian president vladimir putin comes to the white house in the fall, at least potentially scheduled as of now. it's unclear exactly what the two leaders discussed in helsinki regarding syria, but the pentagon and russian military officials are not on the same page. >> for us right now it's kind of steady as she goes. we have received no -- no further direction than we've currently been operating under, and as i mentioned in my remarks, we continue our communication and deconfliction with the russian federation commanders to ensure protection of our forces, of our respective forces and to meet our obligations. blake: but a russian three star general saying quote russia already has sent formal

proposals to washington for joint u.s. russia efforts, to fund reconstruction of war-ravaged syria and facilitate the return home of millions of syrians who fled the country following agreements reached by trump and putin. retired lieutenant colonel, former green beret commander and counterterrorism advisor to vice president dick cheney. thank you for joining us this weekend. we appreciate it. >> thank you. blake: so you heard both sides there. i want to play some sound here from sarah sanders from the white house briefing the other day because she was asked what deals might have been reached behind closed doors. this was her response right here. listen. >> a number of issues were raised including syrian humanitarian aid, iran's nuclear ambition, israeli security, north korean denuclearization, ukraine and the occupation of crimea, reducing russian and u.s. nuclear arsenals and of course your favorite topic, russia's interference in our elections. all of these issues were talked about. this is the beginning of the

dialogue with russia and our administration and theirs, and we're going to continue working through those things. blake: the white house saying things were talked about and there was dialogue and then you have the russians saying there were formal proposals. who to believe here? >> well, what's becoming increasingly clear in the region is that assad is there to stay. after president obama allowed the russian air force, the iranian army and hezbollah to reinforce assad's forces who are now marching down along, across from the israeli border is that it seems to be that assad is there to stay and that the israeli prime minister netanyahu is shifting to that reality. what he cares most about and what has been driving the negotiations is getting the iranian military buildup off its border. he's met with -- the israelis have met with the russians nine times in the last 18 months. he wants iran off his border.

that seems to be the center of the topic that came up in helsinki, and the russians seem to be okay with that. the question is, will iran withdraw its forces? it's enjoyed tremendous success under the obama administration in creating the land bridge through iraq to the israeli border and i think the answer there is cash. president trump rightly withdrew from the iran deal. the iranian economy is going from bad to worse, and the deal that seems to be at play here is the russians pressuring the iranians to back off the israeli border. that's what netanyahu is pushing and that seems to be what president trump is giving a nod to. blake: i'm going to have to keep this tight because of breaking news. if assad is on the same team as putin, how can a deal be reached with russia? >> well, keep in mind that the russians and assad have committed atrocities that have been -- that are truly historic,

but at the end of the day, it seems like he is in power. what we need to worry about and focus on is our ally israel and we're focused on iran. the question is do we just push them off and use leverage to push them off the israeli border or get them out of syria which is what i'm hearing ambassador bolton is pushing for. from our perspective we need to be sure that president trump is pushing for a drawdown, but we have to do it responsibly so that isis doesn't return and the question in my mind is what we do about the kurds, that the turks could go after if we completely leave. blake: i have to jump in. thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. arthel: we will have more on that deadly crash in a moment. back in a moment. willingham s goooooooaaaaaaaallllllll! that...was...magic. willingham tucks it in and puts the championship to bed. sweet dreams, nighty night.

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brake blake we start with fox news alert right at top of 6:00 o'clock hour. we are keeping eye on branson, missouri, ntsb will share information about the boat accident killing 17 people, nine of them were from the very same family. >> so horrible. we start this new hour i'm arthel neville, welcome. blake: and i'm blake berman in for eric sean. loved ones in the community mourn the loved ones. we heard from survivor that lost nine members in the accident, listen. >> the beautiful people, angels, i don't know who they were, they pulled me up and when they pulled me up from the boat i

didn't see any of my family, but i believe i survived by god and my the samaritans. blake: woman lost husband and three young children. mike is in branson, missouri with the very latest, hi, mike. >> and blake, we know that there's one investigation that's been headed by ntsb and coast guard. we heard a lot about that, and we are about to get update with ntsb shortly here. but parallel to that, there's an investigation being conducted by the missouri state highway patrol ultimately overseeing by the state's top law men josh, we have a lot of new information about that as far as they are looking into. some of it is what you heard from the unfortunate woman who survived this tragedy on the water among things that she has said that passengers were instructed not to put on life vests. a lot of attention will be paid

how quickly the information about the thunderstorm was relayed, was it respected, did it make it to crew in time. these are some of the things the investigates or want to get into. we got the 2-minute warning as far as when briefing will come through. but further with the investigation what we know about the parallel investigation at the state level, we know that there were black boxes on board these vessels and we black vessels, video recorders at different points along the point that record vhs data, according to attorney general, the black box in possession of ntsb and they are at least prif -- privy to the data and difficult to determine what they ingested thus far. investigators want to do, interview can 600 witnesses who were on board of branson bell who watched all of the tragedy as it unfolded. other information that they want to get to, they want to get to the captain of this boat. we know the captain survived, the driver perished when it

overturned in the waves in this situation. but the attorney general tells me they are not getting a lot of cooperation out of the parent company, ripley entertainment and that's the company that owns the ride the duck franchise and thus far they are not hearing a lot from them. attorney general says anyway they want to get more information, interviews and how quickly it was relayed. they do call criminal investigation. you have to be careful with that term. that's simply because of the magnitude and impact of the case. you have 17 people whoa perished but when they use criminal that doesn't mean that there's determination made as far as negligence or criminal wrongdoing. blake: mike tobin, in missouri, we will stay here and await the comments from ntsb, arthel, there's a whole lot of questions to get. you talk about the question about life vests, accessibility,

why the boat was allowed -- arthel: bad weather, exactly. absolutely, we have to get to those technical details and get the answers, of course, but i certainly want to remind everybody as we can't forget our hearts are heavy for this family of tia coleman who lost nine family members, including her husband, three of her children and we were talk about three generations of the family and her children ages 9, 7 and 1. and mike tobin mentioned the company that run it is duck boat, that company has set up gofundme payment for tia coleman's family, in fact, 17 people died in the accident. the page is gofundme.com/branson -- duck -- dash duck, dash

survivor. like like i believe the conference is getting underway. >> thank you, chief. i would also like to introduce our investigator in charge mr. young and coast guard captain scott. they'll be answering technical questions. i'd like to -- [inaudible] >> i also like to extend condolenceases to family and friends of the victims of this accident. the progress so far, we have retrieved and reviewed the video from the other duck 54 that was

in the water at the same time, we also retrieved recorder by duck on its way to washington, d.c. even as we speak. we processed in ntsb lab there and as soon as it's possible and reusable conditions we will read that out, analyze what the contents show us. we've continued interviewing. we have interviewed six people from the show boat bell, that includes the captain and fist mate. we gathered information about the weather conditions at the time. we have recorded readings of 53, i'm sorry, 73 miles per hour, pu

that in context to hurricane-force winds are considered starting at 75, only 2-miles-per-hour difference. looking at some of the videos and reports from other folks, we estimate that the waves were probably generally 4 feet, maybe as high as 6-foot crashes. ride the duck branson has provided today similar vessel to stretch 7 and the investigators as well get time on the vessel to better understand how it is operated, what the configuration might have been with pearrgs -- passengers and so forth. we have come part-timed document requests, document requests like

inspection records, training records, maintenance records, incident histories and so forth. they used subscription weather service and that information was available in the offices as we understand and we want to know how the information was passed on to the people that went out at that time. we requested water information from the army corps of engineers and as well as we requested to contents of the video surveillance cameras on the show boat, more information for us to understand what was going on at the time.

i would like to point out for any of the media or people who are listening to this who have video or photographs that might be of interest to us, please send them to us, witness at ntsb.gov. that's witness at ntsb.gov. people from family assistance team, the transportation disaster assistance have been meeting with family members, we've met with the ripley's who own right the ducks, local hospital, working to see that the personal facts go back to

the owner. at this time i would like to thank you coast guard. all local and state law enforcement, first responders, mayor, governor parsons, senators ron cascall, good samaritans, in particularly the crew of the branson bell. this would be the last on scene briefing for me. for announcements and updates on the ongoing investigation please follow us on twitter, the address is at ntsb underscore news room or contact -- arthel: okay, the most important take away from the press conference from the ntsb in branson, missouri they are asking of

anyone with photos or video of the accident to e-mail them to witness at ntsb.gov. they have retrieved the recorder recovered by divers, the recorder on its way to dc for processing at ntsb lab. they have interviewed six people including the captain and first meat as they look for answers as to how that boat, vessel went out on in the water in the face of 73-miles-per-hour winds. keeping in mind that hurricane-force winds at 75 miles per hour. we will continue to monitor conference and coast guard and other officials trying to figure out how that happened and how it happened and we will have more from mike tobin who is out in branon, missouri, blake. blake: new developments in the special counsel's russia investigation. robert mueller's team reportedly

reaching out to kristin davis, she's close ties to former trump aide roger stone, this is how stone reacted last night. >> in my view in all honesty this is a fishing expedition, perhaps it is the payback to the fact that i broke the story yesterday on info wars that tony pa desta -- podesta, special caunl asked for immunity for him in the manafort investigation. blake: white house reporter for associated press and she joins us this saturday evening, hi, darlene. >> hi, blake. brake blake what do you make of this? she has ties to roger stone and lots of questions surrounding roger stone? >> right, and kristin davis and roger stone have a relationship that goes back a decade or so, perhaps the special counsel robert mueller thinks that she knows something or can tell him

something or the investigators something about roger stone that would be pertinent to the investigation that he's doing into russian collusion, possible russian collusion with the trump campaign ahead of 2016 election, that's -- that's what i take away from it. blake: so kristin davis now in headlines and so once again is michael cohen, the president's former i think it's safe to say attorney, long-time fixer as well. news story coming out today in "the new york times" involving michael cohen, you're big take away with that? first off, michael cohen, at one point he said of the president, quote, my wife -- he said basically he would take a bullet for the president. he has changed tone, recently my wife, daughter, and son have my first loyalty and always will, i put family and country first. we have seen a change from michael cohen and now there is this recording of him, recording that he has involving him in and

the president involving a possible payout to a former play boy play mate. a lot there, what's the big take away from that? >> the big take away is michael cohen showing willing tons break with the president. michael cohen did say that he would be willing to take a bullet for this president and now he's indicating, showing his willingness to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller in this ongoing investigation into ties between trump's campaign and russian officials. it's just another example of mike -- i think it's another example of michael cohen showing willingness to cooperate and no longer being willing to take that bullet for the president. blake: we can get into the minutia in exact case, big picture, is it indication that michael cohen might flip and end up giving robert mueller

whatever they might need if there's something hypothetically? >> it's possible if there is something. we don't know what michael cohen knows or how much he would be willing to tell prosecutors who he knows about the president. it's one of those situations, i think, where a little bit of time will tell us how he knows and how far he's willing to go but that's certainly option that's out there and an option that i believe b is unnerving the president and lawyers to a degree. blake bake one of the options that we continue to follow is whether or not president trump might sit down with interview with robert mueller. earlier this week the president said the following of the possibility, watch here. >> my lawyers are working on that. i've always wanted to do an interview because, look, there's been no collusion, there's been no talk of russia, there's been no phone call, there's been nothing and it's -- i call it a witch hunt, that's exactly what it is. it's a vicious witch hunt.

blake: i play the sound bite because now that we know there's possibility of one tape involving with former attorney, does that change calculus or decision that the president might have to make of sitting down with robert mueller? >> it could change the calculus as you heard the president say there, he is still interested and willing in sitting down with robert mueller and his team. the president's lawyer rudy giuliani are still trying to figure out whether it's in the president's best interest to do that and how -- how the revelation of this -- this conversation between michael cohen and the president talking about these payments factors into that remains to be seen. brake blake a lot does remain to be seen, that's for sure, darlene, thank you, appreciate it. >> thanks. arthel: darlene and blake,

meanwhile president trump continues to catch heat from all sides following his meeting with russian vladimir putin, our next guest says the russians are using the fallout from the summit to advance their own message. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. with the capital one quicksilver® card, you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. it's like a cash back oasis. what's in your wallet?

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rounds, palestinians didn't respond. this is an isolated incident that seized fire still hold, keep in mind, this is the second cease fire in less than a week. now, this most recent round of violence kicked off when sniper killed israeli soldier. the israelis found readiness to use force in cases where they traditionally wouldn't have. palestinians have been turning kites, hundreds of these as improvised fire bombs and flying them over the fence into israel. israelis up until now have been retaliating to that by tightening block aid of gaza and population of 2 million people. now looks like they are prepared

to use military force. it's all got the secretary general of the united nations very concern, he's just issued a statement where he says, quote, i call on hamas and other palestinian militants to cease the launching of rockets and kites and provocations along the fence and israel must exercise restraint to avoid further inflaming the situation. now, arthel, here is the thing, israel and hamas have brought three wars in the last decade. the last one just four years ago, the -- concern that the united nations, not only the united nations is it could be on the brink of another one. arthel. arthel: ryan, thank you very much. blake: all right, getting fox news alert, hundreds are rallying in los angeles demanding that the city do more to protect migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, this happening at federal judge praised the progress made by the trump administration toward meeting deadline next week to

reunite hundreds of children separated from their parents at the southern border. jeff paul is live on the scene with the very latest in los angeles this afternoon. hi, jeff, what's it looking like there? >> well, blake, the group of several hundred people cleared out just a few minutes ago but a short time ago a huge crowd out here trying to bring attention to the separation of immigrant families from their kids, there's also some concern over a thursday deadline that's coming up. that's when those kids who have been separated from participants are supposed to be reunified with them. now in an effort to bring attention to what they call ongoing issue, the group took to the streets a short while ago taking up two lanes of traffic. they are hoping people within the community will see and hear message and in their words realize that timgration system, it's still flawed. they are also trying to send a message to those who might have crossed the border illegally and are in fear. >> i think we need to show

people in los angeles in the united states and around the world that we support immigrants, we welcome refugees and we want them here in our city and in our country. >> now, as far as the reunification deadline, a federal judge in san diego addressed concerns during court hearing on friday, federal judge dana said in part, quote, i'm very impressed with the effort that's being made. it really does appear that there has been great progress towards reunification, it appear it is process is working, on track and is on time. some of the activists and protestors we spoke with say that even if all of those families are reunited with their kids they feel believe there are major issues involving immigration and that this particular issue just highlights that the system needs to be overhauled. blake. blake: jeff, thanks. arthel: horrific moment when a vintage airplane attempts to take off but then bursts into flames. plus, we just got a new

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putin, one of those critics was his director of national intelligence who said the president should not have met with putin one-on-one. >> if he had asked me how that ought to be conducted, i would have suggested a different way. but that's not my role, that's my my job, so it is what it is. arthel: so director of national intelligence coats is also responding awkwardly during the interview thursday with andrea mitchell when he was told the white house invited putin to washington in the fall, andrea mitchell said i just have breaking news via twitter and here is what it is and coats now releasing this statement saying, quote, some press coverage has mischaracterized my intentions in responding to breaking news presented to me during a live interview, my admittedly awkward response was in no way meant to be disrespectful or criticize the actions of the president and

some -- goes onto say some press coverage has mischaracterized intentioned in responding to breaking news presented to me during live interview as we said and meanwhile there's more to come here. we have something from "the new york times", i believe, right, guys, the disconnect between the policies aimed at curbing russia and the president's position has never been wider, a gap that presents serious risks. okay, lots to get to here, let's bring in director of margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation and nile, does president trump's approach to president putin compromise u.s. security at all? >> well, i have to say that the helsinki summit was not a foreign policy success for the trump presidency, i think there's been a great deal of negative fallout this week both domestically and on the

international stage without a doubt, i think, that vladimir putin and his regime feel embolden following the summit, a lot of u.s. allies are unnerved. i think certainly the white house has tried to clarify some of the details of that summit but the bottom line here is that the president missed a very good opportunity to stand up to putin and his monstrous regime, he should have called putin over occupation of crimea and policy of ukraine, he should have confronted putin over recent chemical weapon's attack on british soil, for example, there were so many opportunities for the president to aggressive stand up to vladimir putin, he did not take those opportunities in helsinki, i hope that he will do so when vladimir putin comes to washington in the fall, but certainly this has been probably the most difficult week for the trump presidency so far on the foreign policy front. arthel: and the week is not over. i wanted you to set the stage of

your take and now you have dan coats who was critical, he said that it was awkward to respond to the fact that he learned during breaking news, during live interview coming via twitter from the white house that president putin has been invited to come to the white house in the fall, director coats is clarifying and quantifying the statements, easing the blow if it came across that way to the president. what does that say to you, that director of national intelligence dan coats is sort of, you know, kind of not back peddling but trying softening the blow to the president. >> first of all, dan coats is doing an outstanding job and so u.s. intelligence services and i think the most important thing to bear in mind here is that the reality is the russians tried to interfere in the u.s.

presidential election. the u.s. intelligence services are united in assessment -- arthel: right, but let me jump in because we have short amount of time. >> sure. arthel: but my point is, what you're saying that our intelligence agency says, listen, in fact, russia meddled in 2016 presidential election and then you have people watching as president trump is not being as forceful on that matter and now you have the person in charge, the director of national intelligence is sort of, again, trying to soften his statement, his critical statements against the president. what -- what message does that send to russia and to our allies? >> well, i think it's important that there's one single message sent by the u.s. administration that the russians did, indeed, attempt to interfere in the u.s. presidential election, there should be consequences for russians, the united states must aggressively stand up to moscow to ensure that this does not

happen again and i think it's absolutely, you know, clear that the white house, the president himself must be fully in sync with his own administration on this, off rule, i think the trump administration has been robust in standing up to putin in terms of the policy implemented, it's vital, i think the president projects exactly the same messaging here and i think the russians will try to exploit any difference of perception or opinion coming from -- from the white house -- arthel: right. >> propaganda here. they will exploit any kind of perceived division but the reality is the trump administration has been very, very tough on russia and the president just needs to reinforce, i think, the policies of his own administration. arthel: well, as you know, the president had that offline backdoor meeting with putin in

helsinki lasting two hours, we haven't gotten any specifics on exactly what it is that they discussed. secretary pompeo said without great detail that there was a discussion between the two presidents about solution in syria and how we might get the refugees back, i want to now before jump in put up reporting from the washington post and i will read this to you, ask about russian claims that agreements had been reached, national security council spokesperson said that as president stated two sides agree that national security council staff will follow up on the president's meetings and discussions underway, there were no commitments to undertake that both sides should continue discussion n quotes, the spokesperson is speaking on condition of aninemity and

continuing working-level dialogue, listen to this, to review suggestions by putin for a new cyber group and restarting a counterterrorism group, the two leaders also discussed forming groups of business people and retired diplomatic and military official to provide ideas for cooperation. does any of this make sense? is this a good idea, any of this? >> well, i think there's a huge amount of spin coming from moscow, not least because, you know, the full details of that two-hour discussion has not been released. i think the white house needs to push back and so this idea that the kremlin is putting out, they are going to be all sorts of working groups to discuss cybersecurity, for example, business-working groups. i do think that there's very little support for that on the u.s. side, let's not forget the russians are still under u.s. sanction, the russians are the

masters of using, you know, cyber terrorism, cyber techniques against the free world and we have count and cannot trust putin dealing with cybersecurity, iran, europe, we simply cannot trust putin. arthel: you said, it's okay that president putin is going to come to the white house sometime this fall, you said that's okay, how can president trump make this right? >> well, you know, i don't think that putin deserves actually to be coming to the united states but the decision has been made by the white house, it is what it is. do i think that president trump should stand up very aggressively to vladimir putin when putin comes to u.s. soil and putin must understand that the leader of the free world will stand up to russian aggression at every opportunity and so i do hope the president will be making it very, very

clear that putin's aggressive actions against the u.s. electoral system is aggressive actions in europe and the middle east simply will not be tolerated. arthel: thank you very much, we will have you back again, thank you, sir. >> my pleasure, thank you very much. blake: in the meantime president trump is ready to slap more tariffs on china to the tune of $500 billion, why he says now is the time to do it, coming up ♪

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blake: welcome back, president trump threatening to propose $500 billion of tariffs in chinese import. the president claiming that now is the right time. >> the stock market after the election well documented was up 1.40% or so and consolidated and does that go into your thinking in terms of if we are ever going

to address -- >> this is the time. >> this is the time. >> this is the time. >> is there a time -- >> you know the expression we are playing with the bank's money? blake: joining me now the president of the committee for responsible federal budget and ted of campaign the fix the debt, big issues, hi, maya. >> hi, there. brake blake the economy is doing well, the stock market is roaring, the gdp figures are exceeding expectations or doing fairly well, the president says now is the time, you've got the house money on our side, how is he wrong? >> well, he's not completely wrong, there's a lot going on here in the whole trade negotiations and enough to give you a whiplash trying to figure out from one day to the next what we are trying to establish and if the overall objective here is let's improve the terms of trade that the u.s. has with other countries,ic that's a worthwhile endeavor, but there are a lot of sort of -- sub goals which don't seem to be

pursuing in the right way. the first thing is if what we are trying to do is reduce the trade deficit, then probably the most single most important thing to do in the country is to reduce budget deficit which is coming up on trillion dollars and leaves us need to go borrow from around the world. if concern trade with china which is worthwhile, then at the same time we are picking all the trade fights with other countries which actually weakens our negotiating hand. blake: let me jump in on china because the administration's stance is when you talk to people at the white house, look, the trade imbalance with china, they brought in $500 billion worth of goods, we have upper hand because we can impose, this is the administration's thought up to $500 billion worth, do you think it'll get to that level, though? >> so maybe, certainly is not a typical form of how you negotiate in trade deals because they are complicated, there are

a lot of economic factors that they effect and remember as consumers, open trade, more trade benefits us and we have much more choice in what we can buy, but at the same time as producers or workers, of course, terms of trade that don't work for us and hurt only of our industries can be harmful, so it's kind of like pushing on the balloon, one things that help you in one place hurts you in the other place, it's very aggressive approach that's not helping us meet our overall goals. one of the things that we want to achieve is more certainty in the economy and business sector, that's one thing that we do not have, we don't know what's going to happen day-to-day, we can't expect industries to be able to invest more if they don't know how the terms of trade are going to change from one week to the next. blake: the other big issue, maya, is europe, the president on car imports and car parts wants to potentially erase the tariff all the way up to 20%, could be zero, could be 20,

could be something in between. here is german chancellor angela merkel on the trade and balance trade with the european union. >> we do not want the trade tariffs, we are convince they harm all of us not only the european union, the fallout can be much broader. blake: so john, comes to white house next week wednesday, what do you think the likely outcome, on the onehand, you could have zero percent or you have the president talking about 20% on cars? >> yeah, keep in mind that cars are the number one product that are in global trade so this is a huge slice of the economy that we are talking about and a very big margin for change that could happen. i imagine we could -- it is very likely we could end up with tariffs in autos and that's going to escalate the tensions that are going on with europe and the u.s. in terms of trade just at the same time that i would think we would want europeans to be helping us and working with us as we try to change how china works which is

really the bigger problem in terms intellectual property, open markets, that's where i think a lot of our focus should be. but probably the single most important thing in all of this is how do we continue and sustain our economic growth, and a trade war is certainly not the right way to do that. if this getstous better terms of trade albeit not a good way of negotiating, that could be good outcome but if it disrupts economy that's a very bad outcome. we need to get control of budget deficit, we need to help sustain. a trade war will not be helping to any goal. brake blake budget deficit is a whole other conversation for a whole different day. we appreciate you joining us this saturday evening, thank you. arthel: what the former secretary of state just said about president trump's summit with russian president vladimir

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blake: hillary clinton speaking at music arts and politics festival in new york city just a little while ago, the former secretary of state going on the record slamming president trump about his russia summit. bryan llenas was there and joins

us in news room, brian, what did she say? >> blake, speaking for 45 minutes on stage in central park secretary hillary clinton made first on camera public criticism about the helsinki summit between president trump and russian president vladimir putin. on this on-stage conversation in front of a few thousand people clinton criticized president trump for trying to go above and beyond to be friends with russian president vladimir putin, she insinuated that president trump was unprepared for the summit, she said the president did not have vigorous debate or discussions with his advisers about russia before the meeting because if he did he would not have each considered to allow russia to interrogate a u.s. ambassador to moscow michael as putin proposed during the summit. >> the idea that the president even considered for a nano second turning over a former ambassador to russia to russia

was simply unbelievable and in this case it doesn't seem like our president cares, he wants to be friends with putin for reasons that we are all still trying to figure out. >> clinton said it was very alarming that the white house allowed president trump to meet one-on-one with russian president putin, she said she met with putin several times while secretary with president obama, she said she's alarmed that the white house has allowed putin to dictate to the world what was said in this private one-on-one meeting. >> you can have one-on-ones as they are called with friendly leaders and that has happened, you need others in there and you particularly need a note-taker so there can be no mistake about what was said. >> just two days ago trump tweeted the damage and fake news ever learn this is classic

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arthel: nice to be with you, blake, sitting in here for eric. blake: nice to be here on saturday afternoon. hope you will allow me to come back one day. arthel: absolutely, mike emanuel with fox news report. >> washington is reeling tonight from the new twist of the mueller investigation, counsel issuing subpoena to kristin davis. good evening this is mike emanel in for jon scott. she served time for role in u.s. prostitution ring, it's not clear what mueller wants to ask her, what we do know that davis use today work for roger stone, former trump campaign adviser over alleged contacts with kremlin-hillary clintoned hackers, stoneman maintaining he did not collude with the russians. >> sure, mr. mueller h