ing. jillian: gosh, that's hurts. he slipped and face planted on the ice. i didn't realize singing the national anthem was a full contact sport. jillian: we got to go. goodbye. ♪ oh, oh ♪ i just want to feel this moment ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ i just want to feel this moment. steve: you are looking at the truman ball can only of it of the white house south lawn. about 90 minutes from right now kids are going to start streaming through the gates at the white house for the annual easter egg roll. it's so much fun if you are a kid in washington, d.c. you want to be there today. jedediah: even if you are not a kid i you want to be there. pete: i saw it last year it's good stuff. steve: ainsley is there. and we are going to catch up with her in about 10

minutes. meantime, 6:00 here in new york city. we start this hour with a fox news alert. officials now say islamic militants are what is probably responsible for the coordinated easter sunday attacks on churches and hotels across that country. pete: nearly 300 people, including americans now confirmed dead. jedediah: live in the newsroom with the breaking developments. iesha? >> house minister announced a local militant group carried out these attacks and officials at the government actually received a warning that the group was planning attacks 10 days ago. of course, that's now raising new questions about what could have been done to stop these attacks. at least 24 people have been arrested so far. 290 people are confirmed dead. another 500 more or r. wounded. investigators say the official wave of attacks was carried out by seven suicide

bombers. it's all unfolded on easter sunday as christians were celebrating one of the holiest days of the year. now, holmes of these blasts were near of the capital city of colombo as you see right there on the map. a popular tourist destination. confirming that yes some americans were killed in these attacks. secretary of state mike pompeo said this in a statement, quote: these vile attacks are a stark reminder of why the united states remains resolved in our fight to defeat terrorism. we stand with the sri lanka government and people as they confront violent extremism. the state department has also issued a revised warning on travel now to i sri lanka and said terror groups are still planning to plot and possibly carrying out new attacks in hotels and churches. back to you. steve: all right. will. jedediah: thanks a arab.

steve: they got all kinds of detail saying they could be planning something. the warnings at that point were not so specific as to act upon according to sri lanka. they did not include mentioning hotels and tourist sites as potential targets as we know hotels were part of the targets. pete: easter, prom mental churches, seven suicide bombers. this is straight out of the al qaeda isis play book. this group ngt local radical muslim group but they have been linked to desis he creation of buddhist sites and the goal of this group is to spread the global islamic movement to villainca. it was about political violence within the country. they are hoping to spread the same goal of al qaeda and isis in sri lanka and targeted christian churches on easter.

jedediah: whether you have a warning like this it can be very nonspecific. there has to be a way to take a warning like that and heed some action. 10-day period and look at the devastation. death toll is 295. 500 wounded. americans poem from britain. this really spans so many individuals and growth devastation that there has to be a way to heed a warning like that and at least have authorities some marriage if that means amped up security or whatever can you do. look what it's capable of. devastating. pete: sofings sosks sophistication: 7 to 9 locations nearly the same time. it happened throughout the day. coordinated at churches. steve: sounds like they were mainly suicide bombers. they convinced themselves this is what they were going to be doing. a former intel officer and iraq veteran says even though isis has been disbanded, we still have to

pay attention. >> as isis has disbanded across the global. all of us need to stay alert. we need to understand these type of targets whether it's shopping centers and places where we worship, our faith will continue to be test you had. it is terror and will continue to strike until we do something. pete: it hasn't stopped you are seeing desis he creation odesecration ofsites in europe. radical islamist us. get at the ideology and find them and get rid of them. jedediah: amped up security happening around worship centers. this is the most terrifying thing to me. worship center where people go for peace, what they consider the most safety. the most security. when these areas are threatened, people become most alarmed, most terrifying. we have to figure out a way not only as a country but a world to come together and address these attacks to prevent them as much as we can.

steve: it is literally a holy war. meanwhile, let's move on to politics. and later on today because they were officially ren. recess, the democrats are going to have a conference call and try to figure out okay, we got to mueller report. what do we do? do we call for the people exeevment oimpeachment. pete: they made up their mind whether they believe mullen or not. continue for impeachment. isn't a necessarily winning winning message for democrats. jedediah: those saying impeach, impeach. impeach. listen to what they had to say talking about mueller report. >> the fact of the matter is i think when you look at this report, you can see that there is enough information to move forward

with impeachment on this president. >> what is the best thing for the country? it may be that we undertake an impeachment nonetheless. >> if proven, some of this would be impeachable. yes. obstruction of justice impeachable. >> if we did not win and there were not impeachment what's going to happen is the president is going to be emboldened. steve: keep in whinsd when it comes to the presidential candidate. says go ahead and impeach him. a couple of members of congress, will green, will tlaib and aoc on that bandwagon. most democrats according to the "new york times" article this morning see the mueller report as a way to you fund raise and also as the best way to hit the president up to 2020. just keep knocking him on the head. remember what the mueller report said. it was ambiguous about

obstruction of justice. pete: president asking how do you impeach a republican president for a crime that was committed by the democrats? make america great again. now, if you want to hear a great take on, this you can always go to mark levin he was on the channel earlier talking about the mueller report and impeachment. >> this is a disgrace what's being done to this country by the democrat party and by the media. one of the same. it is a disgrace. this is the greatest scandal in american history. not that the russians tried interfere with our election. they did. and they always do. the mueller team saw it and so the mueller team wrote particularly volume 2 for the democrats in the house of representatives this is an impeachment report. they wrote it for cnn. they wrote it for msnbc. they wrote it for nadler and schiff and all the other retrobaits they wrote the report for them. who cares about the justice system? not one.

jedediah: i was going to say how i applaud that. is he is absolutely 100 percent right. a way for democrats to with impeachment. the voting public is getting tired of investigations. originally saying yeah, let's see if there is any collusion. this is an important issue. turns out no collusion no, conspiracy with the russians. i warn democrats if you stray away from issues for too long. if you are not talking about economy and healthcare particularly at a time the economy is doing really well under this president it's going to be your race you will lose as a result. pete: there were 18 and now there are 19 candidates on the democratic side. jedediah: who is not running? pete: we hear joe biden may join this week. seth molten out of massachusetts iraq war veteran. he put out announcement video yesterday. take a watch. >> even a war i disagreed with, there is nothing i am more proud of than being on the ground, serving with those marines. it turned out that the war

was based on a lie. i returned home and decided to run for congress because i realized that a lot of americans are feeling betrayed by washington. it's all led to an administration that's turned away from our values it is shredding our moral authority. i'm running becauses we have to to beat donald trump. i want us to beat donald trump because i love this country. steve: that's just about 30 seconds of about a four minute video that he put out. 50 minutes ago. online. you know, we have seen people declare on social media, on the late night show and there is a video that's just been released. seth mowl mowl ton wants to be wants to be your next president. pete: i know him personally he is a smart guy, spent time with him as a vet. that is based on a lie. such basic telling to toss to the left. you don't have to believe

that the iraq war earned in good consequences but don't sell it as a lie for someone who is very proud of his service. i think it's beneath him. jedediah: may be talking to independent voters. pete: talking to the base. steve: primary. jedediah: libertarians and people who may not like either side. we need to talk to a certain woman and that is jail i can't believe. pete: you get the prize for the best easter dress. jillian: a woman tackled inside church on easter sunday. parishioners jumping into action when they supposed toed her holding a baby and a gun. >> from behind me, came this young lady and she had a baby and she also had a gun. it was unloaded. but she had a gun. and she was just having conversation and basically she just wanted to be heard. jillian: san diego police say her guns were not loaded and no one was hurt.

she is under arrest. her children are in protected custody. today, secretary of state mike pompeo is expected to announce all countries importing oil from iran will face u.s. sanctions the "the washington post" reports the trump administration is ending waivers for these 8 countries that look to the country for oil. the u.s. is ramping up pressure on iran to curb it's nuclear program. the change takes effect on may 2nd. it's no joke. a comedian with zero political experience is elected president of the ukraine. will beating the incumbent in a landslide 70% of votes. comedian best known for his role in a tv series where his character accidentally becomes president of ukraine. the irony there. he will serve a five year term. back to you. steve: life imitating art. jedediah: thanks, jillian. steve: as you saw at the top of the program we are live at the white house for the annual easter egg roll. and there is ainsley

earhardt. ainsley: this is a ticket for the white house easter egg roll. this is a postcard. everyone who attends if you are 12 and under you get one of these wooden eggs. it has the seal on the front or some of them have the white house on the front and then they are signed by the president and the first lady. there are 30,000 people going to be here. we will see all the kids running around including my own little girl will be here. it's something we will remember as a family forever. i hope everyone had a wonderful easter and passover on this holy high school day. stephanie grisham spokesperson for the first lady. kellyanne conway and sarah huckabee sanders and hogan gidley. we have a great show. jedediah: you are going to have fun out there. you are going to have way more fun. steve: after 21 seasons and 159 wins head college football coach tommy tuberville trading in playbook to run for senate in alabama.

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tommy good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you doing? steve: why do you want to be the next u.s. senator from the great state of alabama. >> new chapter in my life, steve, coaching 40 years you do a lot of the different things. you meet a lot of great people. i love this country. i really do. i love this state. it's a great place. we are having problems in our state and in our country. i want to give back and i learned leadership, communication stills bringing people together and that's what you do in a job like this. you use all those skills and try to make everybody better. i want to build a winning strategy for alabama and for this country. i announced 8 or 9 days ago. put up my website tommy for senate.com. it's been overwhelmed the support we have had has been outstanding and people

wanting to support our campaign. jedediah: tommy, this is the age of the washington outsider. where people are looking to individuals who have a barack ground like yours as ache former football coach to really go in and change washington what are. so key issues for you and how you would want to impact washington? >> well, as you said, i'm not a politician. especially a career politician. and i don't want to be. you know, i want to be somebody that just helps out the people of this country. this is a great country. i have had a chance to travel all over the world, being a football coach going to see our troops. traveling all over the country. been in rich homes, poor homes, middle class homes. just meeting the people as a football coach. but now i want to do it as somebody that's going to help, that tries to give back. and i think it could be -- i could thank 212 people in the coaching business would make great congressman or senators? washington, d.c.

steve: tommy, real briefly i know you don't want to give away everything. as coaches do going into the big game a strategy. what else your strategy to win? >> well, first of all, i want to support president trump. i supported film day one. i'm the only candidate in this race that supported him in this last election. i believe in him. he has great work ethic. the guy is a winner. and the things that he has done, we need people to stand behind him in the senate in congress to help him get his agenda through. that's the main thing. i want to help this state in alabama. alabama is going to grow. it's going to really grow. we have a democratic senator in there right now that is not doing the things we need to do to help the state of alabama. jedediah: thanks for coming on. unfortunately we are out of time. we appreciate you being here. >> thank you very much. jedediah: we reached out to doug jones and he could come on this week. steve: we never know. a reporter harassing robert

mueller as he left church yesterday. >> can we ask you a couple questions. will you testify before congress, sir. >> i have no comment. >> are you sure about that, sir? >> you bet dan bongino has something to say about that and is he coming up next.

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last week when she was shot and killed. jedediah: robert mueller ambushed by nbc reporter outside of church before easter. >> can i ask you a couple questions can i ask you a couple questions. >> i have no comment. >> have you sure about that. >> no comment. >> if you were anybody but the president would mr. trump be indicted? >> would the attorney general accurately characterize your position on conspiracy and obstruction? >> the special counsel immediately shutting down questions related to his russia probe. >> here with reaction, dan bongino, fox news contributor former secret service guy and author of the upcoming book exonerated. i wonder what that's all about. dan, it's one thing to try to interview somebody in the news like mueller is after he dropped the report on thursday, but there is always a line where, you any, you don't cross a line sometimes was that the line? >> yeah.

that's a good point. steve. listen, i have no love loss for bob mueller. i thought he did an awful job and his report was a gross act of prosecutorial malfeasance. but on the holiest dave the christian call ta calendar to confront him outside a church. now nbc and others try to do journalistic journalism. we have been skeptical of this whole collusion narrative. people here do actual journalism and nobody produced evidence. and now all of the sudden on on easter msnbc is sitting around hey fellows, let's go do journalism and confront bob mueller outside a church and ask him about this reports. give me break. had you two years to do investigations into this case. you didn't do it. you all got worked and now they are trying to save face. it's embarrassing. the. jedediah: the general public looks that the now it's completely unhinged. gets to a point where the

media and democrats have is pushed this collusion narrative and harassment of people onto such a point that they are going to lose rationale voters who are center and center left looking at this saying this is a little much. >> yeah. you know, jed, you and i see that i bet steve and pete do as well and most rational people watching this. i don't think the media people in that bubble do. i really do. the people at the other network with probably cnn as well are probably sitting there going hey, this was great. and they aired it the and the reporter seemed almost prout oproud ofit. did you see the hit he did from the white house lawn. celebrating himself and laughing at it you and i are looking at that and going really? i'm not even a man of mueller. come on. the guy is leaving church? that looks horrible. i bet they loved it. pete: now they are turning on mueller because mueller didn't deliver the goods they thought he was going

to. they thought he was going to be their savior. >> exactly. pete: the evidence of collusion coordination of obstruction is in plain sight. he was on our channel on fox news channel. asked about saying that time and time again. here is his response. >> the fact that you may not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a criminal conspiracy doesn't mean there is absence of evidence of crime. what more clear intent to collude could you have than the russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. pete: saying the same thing. >> this guy is a disgrace. i cannot believe he continues to appear in front of cameras and humiliate himself in front of a national audience. i don't know if schiff is aware, people can see this stuff. you know when it appears on cable and "fox news sunday" people watch it. eyeballs hurting. i think they think it's a private conversation. he keeps on producing nonevidence. and insisting it's evidence. i was thinking before i came on the air. what's a quick way to

explain. it's like you are in a bank and you take out some money from your bank and a day later the bank is robbed. and schiff keeps talking but being in the bank as evidence of a crime when everybody knows you were in california the next day and the bank is in new york. but he keeps saying it. no, no. but pete, you were in the bank the day before. i didn't rob the bank. he keeps doing this with donald trump. he keeps producing nonevidence. he produces innocuous meetings with russians and then just completely claims now interaction with russians as evidence of a crime and never pliewses the actual crime u it's ridiculous. steve: he just say adam schiff robbed a bank? [laughter] >> if 245 was on msnbc or cnn they would probably report that it doesn't have to be true. jedediah: thanks, dan. fired up as always. pete: ainsley is live at the white house for the easter egg roll. ainsley, what do you have coming up? ainsley: hey, guys, yes.

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jedediah: ainsley is live there for the easter egg roll. so exciting. what do you have going on? ainsley: i wanted to share facts about the easter egg roll. 141st easter egg roll. first one hosted by rutherford b. haze. it used to take place capitol hill. with all the wear and tear of the ground and crowd grew so large congress passed an act prohibiting the egg roll to take place there wonk wonk. in 1878 the kids were knocking on the gate of the white house and president was living here at the time. obviously, president hayes. gardner telling him kids outside and wanted to come on to the lawn and play with their eggs. and he said come on in and that's how it started. marine band was added and they will be setting up behind us on the balcony. a few of them are arriving. you might be able to see them behind me. play some lively tunes to keep the children

entertained. when the children leave the event they get wooden eggs signed by the first lady and president every year that was a tradition that really began with nancy reagan. she attended the event when she was a little girl. she started the easter egg roll with wooden eggs on the lawn. every child under the age of 12 will get one of these eggs. expecting 30,000 people it's a lottery system. everyone who applies doesn't get. in if you are interested next year sign up online and hopefully you will get a ticket. easeaster bunny first appeared in 1969 and appeared every year since. stephanie grisham a spokesperson for pleamp, the first lady, obviously. y'all have spent so much time and effort into this. the first lady she plans everything, right? >> yes. as with everything she does she is very detail-oriented we starterred this six months ago. she picked the egg colors. all the activities. new activities that we are

really excited for that go in line with her be best campaign. be best hopscotch for the kids. be best musical eggs that will be really fun. like you said we are expecting more than 30,000 people on the lawn. it's going to be a great day. ainsley: tell me about some of the stations. you at home can't see this. stations where they can go and cornered off with fence. >> traditional egg roll which the president and first lady will take part in. cards where the president and first lady will color with children and cards get sent to troops overseas. frops at the bottom o photo props at the bottom of the lawn. amazing kids can do. eggs and snacks down at the both the lawn. stuff to do. great day. ainsley: my daughter is coming for the first time. >> great. ainsley: hopefully you can get me a picture with her with the president, okay? >> they are probably watching. we will make that happen.

ainsley: tell me about the atmosphere now that the investigation is over. is a weight lifted this year when you were planning? >> i would say a weight lifted because it was all very ridiculous. it is great. we were down at mar-a-lago with the president and first lady. great mood and spirits and focused on this and going to be a great day. about the people coming here. that's what's important, keeping up traditions and that kind of a thing. ainsley: we had waterfall weekend. i hope you did too. >> i was ought mar-a-lago with the first family. so they had a beautiful brunch. we went to church and then there is an easter egg roll for all out kids. a lot of easter the last few days for us. ainsley: thank you so much. >> no. thank you. ainsley: we have kellyanne conway coming up. we have sarah huckabee sanders and we have hogan gidley. they are going to be live out hire on the lawn with us, too. steve: fantastic. i love the fact that you showed the wooden egg. when i covered that back during the reagan years. a white house official told me the reason they use wooden eggs is kids would

come to the white house and take the hard boiled eggs home and keep it for years. >> that makes sense, yes, yes you don't want a smelly egg. good point. thank you for the woodennings. back to you guys. steve: wooden eggs from the state of maine. pete: kids are going to drop it right away. yesterday jed remember when you were a kid you had to raise an egg and if you dropped it. anyway, i'm prepared. jillian: i'm not with you on this one. i have never raised an egg. pete: i did, too. i eat an egg. jillian: man posing as an abulbasherer driver is due

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greatest double play you have ever seen. oakland a's outfielder robbing a home run before his team throws the running out at 2nd, a.'s lost the game. that is the highlight right there. pete: it wasn't a double. it was a great play. jillian: are you questionable their ability to make that call? jedediah: can't expect any less, jillian. steve: thanks for joining us on this monday. our top story sounds like islamic militants now being blamed for the easter sunday attack that killed nearly 300 people in sri lanka including americans u. pete: next guest says the war against islamic militants is far from over.

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morning. welcome back. quick headlines now. 16 people rushed to the hospital as soon as their plane touches down. >> mernls says the group of students and chaperones were flying to boston when they started feeling ill. they had eaten at restaurant in ecuador the night before. everyone will be okay. as the young democratic socialist of america at the university of buffalo called condoleezza rice a war criminal before she spoke at the school last week. they referenced her time as national security advisor say she go approved waterboarding prisoners. rice was invited as part of the school's distinguished speaker series. pete? pete: that's filed under a ludicrous source: deadly massacre killed 300 people mostly christians including several americans. as our next guest explains violence on one of the holiest days of the christian calendar is nothing new. here to weigh in is retired fbi special agent bobbie. thank you for being here

this morning. tough news. but for someone like you, this is not something new. we have seen muslim radical terrorist groups attacking christians around the globe. what does this attack tell you? >> well, it's an outreach, right? we have had relative stability in sri lanka for at least 10 years since the civil war ended. it tells me that this radical ideology is spreading. the indian subcontinent now being attacked. you know, it's another sign that the middle east is not the soul source of this these attacks. why seal more of these attacks in places where we have seen relative stability. pete: this group ngt there hasn't been radical islamic terrorism in sri lanka. their aim is to spread islamic movement. suicide bombings those are the things we saw in al qaeda and isis. is part of this same strand still alive?

>> sure. and make no mistake. while they are identifying this local group as the one that carried it out, the planning and the support that was needed to carry out an attack like this is undoubtedly been supported by significant assistance from outside of sri lanka. i would not be surprised if the investigation determines that it was significant coming from groups outside that country to support an operation like this. very coordinated. very planned. this small local group inside sri lanka while it could have carried out an attack like this, i doubt that they did so without material support from outside that country. so, we have to look at isis. we have to look at al qaeda. we have to look at some of the international groups that are able to send that kind of support both financial, training, bomb-making equipment, bomb makers and those kind of things. i would imagine going to find a lot of that support came from outside sri lanka. >> it hasn't been reported

very widely. christian churches attacked throughout france's countryside. things like this are happening in europe as well. >> right. as we see the vast migration out of the middle east across europe and other continents, i mean, you are going to see this type of thing. we know that those terrorist groups will feed those migration patterns and see those migration groups with their own people. the first thing they do when they get in those countries is start to foment defense. they look at country's have them assimilate or help them assimilate as almost genocidal which is ridiculous, of course. we in the united states know very well our history being able to assimilate. my parents immigrated from europe. and you know they moved to new york city and they became assimilated into the culture here. so it can happen. it's just such a resistance and you are right, across france, catholic churches being attacked. very under reported. you rarely see stories about it in the news. it's happening more and more. and these countries need to

get a grip on it. pete: it's a huge problem. not clear that europe is capable of that type of assimilation. we shall see. the last thing here the physical caliphate in iraq and syria has been mostly destroyed. the islamic state isis seems they are on the rise somewhere else in the congo. >> right. so, last year, they had several incidents where publications that were put out b isis basically manuals from a couple years ago. basically terrorist manuals were found on the bodies of fighters in the congo. so, you know, the representative the agency, they are starting to look at the reach of isis. groupings like isis in areas where there is already certain civil wars or certain dissent going on. it's a hot bed for them to take advantage of that dissent that's already happening to spread their ideology. pete: you are right. you can crush them territorial but ultimately you have to get at the

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>> day one of our series on post college prep we are tackling the student debt crisis which recently hit an

all-time high. in the u.s. about 65% of college seniors who graduated in 2017 had student loan debt while 40% of younger borrowers carry credit card debt. next guest says both kinds of debt can turn into a trap as students don't understand some money basics. joining me is brian brenberg king college of new york city. i needed some of your advice when i was younger. >> i needed my advice when i was younger. jedediah: one stat that jumped out to me that was outrageous adults ages 18 to 29 had $60 billion in credit cart dend in 2018. so, what do you have to say to young people out there who are listening who are struggling with debt who have these student loans and don't know what to do? >> number one, have you got to prioritize paying them off. it's hard in the culture we live. we live in instagram culture where you see your friends doing all sorts of great things. traveling around the world. will the great apartment in hip part of town.

have you got to stay away from that fear of missing out when it comes to your budget and have you got to prioritize. paying your debt. have you got to start on it now and not let it that interest build up if it does it will sink you. many of us know that from our own prior experience in life that can really sink you. you have got to start now with the right habits. budgeting is really important. budget around real priorities. don't budget around your imagine inned priorities and what you see happening with your friends on instagram. jedediah: step 3. don't follow the grad school herd. i went to grad school. and looking back i don't know if it was the best decision. i came out great degree i struggled to find a job. i got a free ride because i worked my butt off. if you don't wind up having a lot of debt and lost out. >> there some people get done with undergraduate degree. i don't know what to do in the world path of least resistance for them is go back to school and do more grad school. that's a recipe for disaster for couple of reasons.

one is spend more money going to school. number two get out there after grad school and a lot of employers are going to look ought and say i think you might be overqualified for entry level job. you still might not know what you want to do. it's much better, especially in this economy, i mean this economy is so full of jobs. wages are rising. the best thing you can do is go out and work, build a resume, build some experience, that is going to help you pay down the loans you had from undergrad and give you a better sense of what you should do in the world. >> what about young people who say i am working but stuff is expensive? you say live within your means. what if you live in a city like new york or los angeles or san francisco where these really expensive places where you are on your own and have to pay your rent. you are trying to budget and doing your best that credit card has to go up. you have no choice. are there any things you can do while yes the credit card is building but you can kind of manage your reality that is your reality. >> get creative and honest. what i find with a lot of students they will say well

i'm living right at the edge of my means. there is nothing i can do. when you ask them have you really sat down and done a line by line audit of where your money goes? what happens is you find out oh my goodness i am spending so much money on breakfast out or coffee out i didn't know that you have got to get that under control. that's how you actually start to get out of that debt. get serious about it. jedediah: i wish i had speed dial back in the day. tomorrow series post college prep. resume does and don'ts. super important. >> you bet. jedediah: fox news alert. another explosion in sri lanka. we have more details of that sunday massacre coming up next. who saved by adding a hotel, which led to new adventures, ♪ that captured their imaginations ♪

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reported police have just desto be nateed device. a van bombed yesterday as they diffused it exploded. pete: live look now as police continue their investigation. sri lanka officials say they now think islamic militants responsible for attacks on churches and hotels. nearly 300 people, including americans, mostly christians now confirmed dead. jedediah: iesha in the newsroom. >> coming into the newsroom that van had a bomb inside it as you saw there just exploded moments ago -- leaders feared there would be more bombs out there and that is exactly what they are finding. now, this is all happening as sri lanka's health

minister says a local militant group known as the nationals -- carrying out attacks. government failed to act on a warning. a warning the group was planning these attacks just 10 days ago. that's obviously now raising new questions about what could have been done to stop these attacks from happening. at least 24 people have been arrested. 290 people are confirmed to be dead. another 500 more are wounded. investigators say these initial wave of attacks were carried out by seven suicide bombers. this all unfolded on easter sunday as christians there celebrated one of the holiest days of the year. christians making up about 7% of the population there. most of the blasts were near the capital city of colombo which is a popular tourist destination. the u.s. state department is confirming that some americans, several americans, actually were killed in these attacks.

secretary of state mike pompeo said in a statement, quote: these vile attacks are a stark reminder of why the united states remains resolved in our fight to defeat terrorism. and we stand with the sri lankaen government and people as they confront violent extremism. the state department has also, again, issued a revitzed warning on travel to sri lanka and have said that terror groups are continuing to plot and possibly carry out those new attacks in hotels and churches and there corone coulde you that you have more bombs across the area. steve, jedediah, pete. steve: look at the brand new video inside our newsroom in the last couple minutes. pete, as have you seen before, right there, that was a van parked outside a church. and obviously one of the churches where scores of people were murdered yesterday. as is the case with these

terror groups. sometimes what they do is they will plan a secondary bombing. and so as people rush out of the church, a boom, there is a van or, whatever reason it did not explode yesterday. pete: apparently the bomb squad was on the scene there that is exactly right. that is evidence of a coordinated, planned more sophisticated attack. a group not just think guilty about initial attack. you know, listen, not to get too into the weeds here i don't love that statement from the secretary of state. this isn't just terrorism. this isn't violent extremism. this is jihad. this is islamist terrorism. using suicide bombers and bringing to sri lanka. on the holiest day for christians. jedediah: country will look and say are there more coming? other things planted that did not set off yesterday

walking around. when will this end? steve: just look at that you know, that was supposed to go off yesterday and could have killed more people. they had that picture right there. jedediah: thankfully. steve: are there others that didn't go off yesterday. the sri lanka government has a lot to explain. because this group was on their radar 10 days ago where they heard this islamist group could teenage the attacks. the warnings weren't specific enough. they didn't mention hotels and tourist sites as potential targets. now as they pick up the pieces and try to figure out how did we miss this? this is a glaring error. jedediah: question is how can authorities ask though. but if you don't have specific information, is there something they can do in terms of prevention? is there something that was not done here that people

around the world can learn from? because, obviously, this is a huge tragedy. a devastating loss. and when you see that there were 10 days of warning. you have to wonder if there was something that could have been done. steve: remember when home landing security in this country ratchet up the color codes and people were suddenly on high alert. so many terror threats in sri lanka well, we got four last week. pete: this is a country ravaged by civil war multiple decades, most lie by leftist groups vying for political control inside that country. this is 70%. buddhist country. 13% hindu. 7% christian. they haven't had a history of radical islamic terrorist attacks. sometimes it takes you a while to find out what it means. we had bobby, a counter-terrorism expert retired special agent. the reason this is more

sophisticated maybe there is more to it listen. >> i would not be surprised if the investigation determines that it was significant assistance coming from groups outside that country to support an operation. this is a very accord nativitied very planned. this small local group inside sri lanka while it could have carried out an attack like this. i doubt that they did so without. we have to look at isis and al qaeda. we know those terrorist groups will feed those migration patterns. steve: they may have had help. according to authorities this morning according to sri lanka all of the bombers were citizens of sri lanka. pete: world of internet with the global islamic movement any group could be a target. unfortunately on easter.

jedediah: people watched this and mourned with out people of sri lanka. pete: true. steve: 7:07 in new york city and jillian joins us with news. >> an army soldier is killed if a noncombat incident on his first deployment to iraq. 22-year-old ryan rilefully kentucky was a decorated fire control specialist. his death comes as the remains of staff sergeant robert miller are returned to the u.s. miller died at air base in qatar. both deaths are under investigation. importing oil from iran will face u.s. sanctions. "the washington post" reports the trump administration is ending waivers for these 8 countries. the u.s. is ramping up pressure on iran to curb its nuclear program. the change takes effect may 2nd. the supreme court will hear arguments tomorrow over adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. the trump administration has been fighting for months to get the question included. a new york city group claims

it will scare immigrants. the administration says it's necessary to get an accurate population count. three federal judges have previously ruled the plan unconstitutional. and seth moulton announces is he running for president. he releases a video telling why. >> i'm running because we have to beat donald trump. i want us to beat donald trump because i love this country. jillian: mowlt ton joins 18 democrats vying for the 2020 nomination as the list grows. back to you. steve: over the next five days seth is going to travel to new hampshire, south carolina, iowa and nevada. so he is in it. jedediah: 18 democrats and one of those democrats pete buttigieg throughout making a lot of waves. knocked beto o'rourke out of the way in a lot of headlines. is he out there, he knows he needs to go after bernie sanders. bernie sanders obviously has a lot of fervour. the base loves him.

what he divided to do was compare bernie supporters to trump supporters. very strategic. take a listen. >> i think the sense of anger that comes from seeing that the numbers are fine. unemployment is low, like all that and yet a lot of neighborhoods and families are living like this recovery never even happened. they are stuck. kind of turns you against the system in general. and then you are more likely to blow up the system which could lead you to somebody like bernie and trump. that's how we got where we are. steve: some of the bernie supporters are taking offense what he did say. pete: that's the point. you don't win by offending other people and who they supported by saying you tried trump. now you are going to try this guy bernie. they are drawn to something. i also don't believe there is all this massive crossover between trump supporters and bernie supporters. most supporters of the

president are traditional not interested in socialism. one time going to need people who were one time bernie supporters. instead of mocking you solidify. jedediah: i like it. i think is he smart. i think he is preventing himself. you see these populists over here. these guys are all talk. get out and give great speeches. i'm the practical guy and rational and intellectual. i will sit down and be the problem-solver. great way to distinguish himself out. bernie gets out a lot of unicorns and rainbows not applicable. buttigieg comes across as much. >> morgan: rationale thinker. not an idealogue practical guy. pete: he supports the green new deal. jedediah: look at his policies different. he is delivering in the way he wants himself perceived. i think it was good. pete: the question is are we still in a populist moment or not? jedediah: i think we are.

steve: we will talk with robert wolf a democratic strategist about the state of the race on the democratic side. meantime go down to where everybody on the democratic sight wants to live. they want to live in the white house. ainsley as you can see with the easter bunny. and the egg roll kicks off shortly. ainsley: his whiskers keep getting caught in my hair. this is the guy, do you remember when sean spicer dressed up as the easter bunny part of george bush's staff 43? we are here south lawn of the white house. look, we have a giraffe here. we have easter bunny. egg rolls are going to be here. the first lady and president are going to be on this side. blowing a whistle. and then military cars are -- cs are going to be made here and sent overseas. thanking them for their service. the doors open here at 7:30. we have so many kids here.

30,000 people will be here on the south lawn? lots of people apply for this every year. lottery system. if you are interested in definitely keep that in mind. i know nancy reagan came here as a child and that's where the wooden egg tradition started. here is one of the wooden eggs. every guest and little child will get one of these little eggs signed with the seal and picture of the white house. we will be here all morning interviewing sarah huckabee sanders and hogan gidley and kellyanne conway. we have a full packed show for you. a little politics but also a lot of fun. happy easter everyone. pete: see smoky the bear behind you and eggs running around too. ainsley: those are the washington capitals, all right? here we go. we have got mr. and mrs.. oh there is smoky. hey, smoky. good to see you. don't have a lot to say. pete: dancing. tough interview when they can't talk. steve: it goes fast that's

jeffrey. jeffrey is back. remember we thought jeffrey have been trying to find a home for jeffrey. toys r us not closing. jedediah: wow. ainsley: remember a story they went bankrupt and we were trying to find a home for jeffrey. steve: apparently he is home at the white house. jedediah: thanks, ainsley. steve: all right. the fun is going to kick off. officially start letting kids in 15 minutes from right now. meanwhile, new tension along our southern border after mexican troops draw weapons on american soldiers on our side of the border. pete: tom homan says this is not a new tactic. he shares his stories from the border coming up next. ♪ all right now ♪ baby, it's all right now ♪

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well, as a former border patrol agent our next guest says he has had to confront and arrest mexican soldiers that pa controlling on u.s. soil. here to share his own personal story is tom homan. retired ice director and fox news contributor. tom, good morning. thank you for your service. so, break down this story and tell us your own, please. >> well, you know, i read this story and it looks like they were outnumbered. looks like the mexican officials did draw their weapons on them and u.s. soldier surrendered firearm to a mexican soldier. i wasn't there. i'm not going to judge them. back in my day, i was talking to a producer back in 1985. i was a young border patrol agent probably a year in when we got a gradual dispatch rancher reported a group of what appeared to be soldiers on his property. we responded at the time and showed up. probably 8 to 10 of them and a couple units like three of us, maybe four. quickly realizing mexican

soldiers. on the way there are there actually mexican soldiers lost? are there mexico mexican soldiers acting as detail for a drug smuggling operation which happens or just drug smugglers dressed in if a tiegs. we didn't know. quickly recognized mexican soldiers. and we arrested them. we disarmed them, we arrested them. and took them back to our station and processed for them entering the country illegally and returned them to the point of entry to their commander 'w. their firearms. pete: why were they there. >> after this was all said and done they were on a training expedition and they got lost. back then the mexican borders weren't surrounded by a barbed wire fence. you don't know is that a border or rancher's fence keeping cattle in. they got lost. hopefully they weren't trainings on a compass because if they did their training session went really bad. it wasn't until after the situation we actually think wow, that could have went bad. pete: there are senarios

where they are working with cartels creating diversification and helping drugs get through. >> absolutely. that's what you think about as you respond to the scene. are they on the bad side? are they operating as a security detail for drug cartels? that does happen, still. or were they actually drug smugglers dressed in if a fatigues which hans all the time. these situations are very dangerous and very hairy. pete: the job you guys do on that border incredibly difficult and ambiguous much like being in combat. thank you very much for what you have done and sharing your story. >> appreciate it, thank you. pete: april ryan sparking a twitter feud with mike huckabee after saying this about his daughter white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. >> she should be fired. when there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off. pete: lopping heads off. governor huckabee is here with a message for her and mitt romney and another topic coming up next. ♪ ♪ you make me a believer

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about. first, start with bombing attacks on churches and hotels in sri lanka on the holiest day in christianity. >> i think the saddest thing and what he what we learned from this is number one is that islamic terrorism is anything but dead. it's much alive. number two, we learned that it's global. it's not just targeted to a handful of countries like the united states and not just targeted in middle eastern countries but across the globe. a global war on terrorism. these are cowardly people who go after innocence. these aren't folks who have the guts to take on a military. these are people who blow up innocent people in this case people who are going to church. people who are celebrating the holiest day for christians around the world nothing could be more cowardly and more disgusting and it shows you the character of those who are involved in this kind of terror. pete: well said, governor. on another topic because we have a bunch to get to this morning.

failed presidential candidate mitt romney now a senator trashed the president after the release of the mueller report he said i'm sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land including the president. he is sickened, governor. >> well, i was sickened by mitt romney wanting to be in the news cycle and try to be the contrarian. he is trying to take jeff flake's place as the guy who gets afraid in the elevator. if mitt romney has a disagreement with the president i get that he is certainly free to do it. but i don't understand what he thinks he gets by being the contrarian in the senate for the republicans and trying to always make donald trump look bad. this is president who has done things that mitt romney claimed he wanted done when he ran for president not once but twice and lost not once but twice. i remember mitt romney was all too happy to take money from donald trump in 2012. loved his endorsement. hugged him so happy about

that. four years later made one of the most blistering and disgusting speeches against donald trump right in the heat of the election was tantamount to saying let's elect hillary which i found sickening and then you know just a few months after that he was grabble bling up at bedminster begging the president to be secretary of state. the job he didn't get. so he became senator and now he wants to be the thorn in the side. mitt needs to realize flip flops are great for the beach but don't really work rewell in the u.s. senate. jedediah: unfortunately, governor not an i couldn't know coming pattern more. author of romney care and decided to run as a limited government conservative which cracked up a lot of us. one thing on twitter interesting that happened recently you got into a bit of a feud with cnn's april ryan after she made unfortunate comments about your daughter. let's take a listen and i want to get your response. >> the american people can't trust her. they can't trust what's said

from the president's spokesperson people's house u therefore she should be let go and fired. when there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off. jedediah: that lopping heads off comment is pretty outrageous. >> especially in light of the fact that sarah palin got pillarried because she talked about targeting racist. targetintargeting -- races is rs you want to win. then april ryan who is supposed to be an objective journalist in this is not objective journalism. how does a person sit there in that space at the white house pressroom claiming to be a reporter and journalist and have such over-the-top opinions about the white house press secretary who does, yes, happens to be my daughter. sure, pops is a little sensitive about it i think it was outrageous and cnn

never called her out. near did the white house correspondents association. that's not the kind of comments that should be celebrated among journalists. it's ridiculous. jedediah: what i thought was most interesting is she had a problem were w. your daughter's credibility. i wonder if she a problem with the credibility of so many people who showed up on cnn and peddled a collusion story without asking a single question about what the basis of that investigation was to begin with. i'm sure she didn't. >> i'm sure she didn't. it's important to note that cnn had michael avenatti on so many times i thought he was a regular and people like john brennan on saying that the president was guilty of treason. that's a crime punishable by death. that kind of thing cnn ought to be ashamed of themselves and they're not capable of it and that's unfortunate. steve: governor, talk about fox nation, have you upcoming special on fox nation prayers of a liberal president. here's a clip.

watch this,. >> i was stunned iconic fdr champion of all things liberal who was very outspoken in expressing his faith. >> day and night, i pray tore the restoration of peace. steve: all about fdr. >> if fdr were running in the democratic primary today he wouldn't get to first base because is he not liberal enough. i found it stunning to read and listen to the prayers of fdr. i never realized haw explicit he was in so the just sort of a generic if there is a good and whoever he or she may be, may he or she bless us in some wonderful fashion. this was a president who openly prayed on radio for this nation and explicitly called upon us to to the the love of god. this is stunning stuff when you go back and listen to it

and realize up until recent days. u.s. presidents were pretty clear about their expression of faith and confidence in the sovereignty of god and god's involvement and the world and more specifically in the reality of the united states of america. steve: fox nation prayers of a liberal president. starting on thursday. if you people don't have fox nation go to fo foxnation.com and find out how you can watch for free. thank you for joining us today. >> always a pleasure. jedediah: ainsley is live at the white house for the easter egg roll. ainsley, what do you have coming up next? ainsley: doors opening at 7:30. can you see way in the back all the families coming. in little kids. all the sea of mascots here coming up. come on over, hogan gidley. we are going to be talking to hogan coming up all about politics and how much fun it is to celebrate as well. stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪

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♪ makes me want to ride the ride. steve: eggs are going to be rolling at the white house 141st annual easter egg roll on the south lawn on this birthday and we have dispatched ainsley earhart for the assignment of talking to the folks down at the white house. ainsley: such a beautiful day. last year it was rainy and cold. abby huntsman was out here live. everyone is talking about how the weather is so much better. a little chilly but the sun is coming up and all the kids are around eventful day. can you hear the manner band behind us playing. all the kids are so cute. we have hogan gidley here who works obviously in the administration. hogan, first of all, it's nice to be out here. the investigation is over.

you probably had a cuferl weekend celebrating easter. i know your mom is in town. >> she is. what's the mood like right now in the white house? >> it's very good. listen, the media basically accused the president of treason for two and a half years no proof, no evidence. they lied about this man. when we actually went through all of the process, the $35 million they spent. more than a million documents. 800 subpoenas. witnesses and warrants and wiretaps and the whole thing, no collusion. no obstruction. a total exoneration of this president. and, look, there is no doubt that there is some level of excitement in a cloud being lifted but there is also some righteous indignation and anger why did this all starts in the first place? completely wasted the american's people's time and money. ainsley: it's not stopping. democrats whether or not they want to impeach and pursue that sarah huckabee sanders is getting attacked. her dad is getting in war with a reporter. and then the latest is maxine waters is saying if you defend this president, which you do, you are not a

patriot. >> sarah huckabee sanders will be on a little bit later on she can defend herself. we at the white house staff are not going to take a lecture and truth telling from the mainstream media lying about this president for two years. not going to happen. no credibility on this topic. someone like maxine waters actually called for violence against so many on the staff. if you see someone from the administration. if you see someone from the cabinet or white house you go out and you see the crowd you get in their face. this type of rhetoric is unacceptable. ainsley: if you support the president, she is saying more than 50% of the country not a patriot. >> right, if you support free and fair elections. if you support the rule of law, if you support an investigation that turned up no evidence to say this president included with a foreign power. it's almost like so many democrats on the left said okay. this entire process no collusion. a united states president did not work with the a foreign power to undermine our elections. and they are upset about it. they should be celebrating the fact that the president was being truthful. he was being honest and knew

that there was nothing there. no evidence, to corroboration, no collusion. instead they are upset about it and as you said they are continuing on this and i will make one more point. adam schiff even said he agreed with nancy pelosi he didn't think impeachment was right right now there was not demonstrable overwhelming evidence. wait a minute, he has been telling the american people he had this evidence stone cold evidence. he joined in with the clappers and brennans of the world new and used clowted and power and information like they had information from the intel community that would hurt this president and turns out it's all a lie and no one is asking adam schiff hey, do you retract this? do you have the evidence? everyone still takes him seriously. i don't even know how that's possible. ainsley: democrats is saying the president is putting the party before the country. true? >> absolutely not. this president loves the country. he didn't have to run for president. he was a successful businessman. he has seen how this country has been hurt last 8 years

economically and isis taking over so much of the world. he has came in and changed all of that systematically in two years even with 93% negative news coverage against him and two year investigation saying he included with russia he was still able to do it. imagine what he is going to be able to do now. ainsley: let's talk about what happened in sri lanka. holy people for christians and jewish people across the world. i know your faith is important to you. about 300 people have been killed in sri lanka while they were worshiping jesus christ. and most recently this morning, police had to detonate a van. there could be more attacks. the state department is warning there could be more attacks. >> obviously a horrific tragic situation. this president came out immediately and condemned these obvious acts of terrorism in this instance and across the globe. done it consistently throughout his presidency regardless of what group was under attack. this is one of those times where people need to understand that this type of behavior and this type of anger and hatred in your heart is just unacceptable.

in this country or anywhere else. we condemn it strongly and our hearts go out to the people in sri lanka. those affected or injured by. this and the family and friends that are surviving the ones that did not die in the horrible attacks. ainsley: we celebrated easter yesterday and passover was on friday. what's your message for folks that are watching as we spring forward? you know, it's a new season. you can turn over a new leaf. >> being lo. i think the message is hope and optimism for what we have to accomplish still yet. i mean, so much has been done. a record-setting accomplishment in record-setting time with this white house. with job numbers. massive unemployment. unemployment at all-time lows for african-americans. hispanic americans. women, asian americans. and moving forward some things we still wants to do. infrastructure wants to be addressed. immigration obviously needs to be addressed. we are finally seeing some democrats come to the relation this is not

manufactured. ainsley: cory booker. >> mayors across the southern border saying you can't keep putting people in states of emergency. we have to come together and work to do it. ainsley: thank you so much. thank you for letting us all come together on the white house lawn. >> happy easter. ainsley: kellyanne conway and sarah huckabee sanders going to be coming up sitting in this chair as well. back to you in the studio. steve: thank you so much. terrific. beautiful day. jedediah: yeah. steve: and meanwhile then there were 19. democratic congressman from massachusetts seth moulton has officially entered the 2020 race. >> i'm running because we have to beat donald trump and i want us to beat donald trump because i love this country. steve: big question is does seth moulton even have a chance? next guest a democrat from the same hometown. congress is going to join us from inside coming up next. ♪

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♪ jillian: good morning back with headlines. we begin with a fox news alert. a denver man confirmed by family as the first american victim of the bombings in sri lanka. he was staying at one of the hotels targeted in the easter attacks. right now 290 people are confirmed dead. and a live look in sri lanka after a new explosion outside a church. [explosion] jillian: police were investigating a report of explosive devices inside a van when it exploded. there are no reports of any new injuries. officials now believe the church and hotel attacks were carried out by a local

islamic militants group. we will keep you updated on the very latest. the search for a missing 5-year-old shifts to his own home. investigators say there is no indication andrew friend was abducted. his illinois home now considered a crime scene as his mother begs for answers. snowbled that's my life are my kids. >> andrew's father says he will continue to look for his son on his own. he has been missing since wednesday. and tesla is looking into why one of its cars suddenly exploded. look at this. security video showing a parked car bursts into flames in china. no reported injuries. at least 14 reported cases of teslas catching fire since 2013. that's a look at your headlines. steve, send it to you. steve: thanks, jillian. democratic congressman from massachusetts seth moulton is joining the 2020

presidential race. >> whether even a war i disagreed with nothing more proud being on the ground. it turned out the war was base on a lifetime achievement it led to an administration turned away from our values. i'm running because we have to beat donald trump and i want us to beat donald trump because i love this country. steve: moulton's announcement this morning via video makes him the 19th democrat. here to weigh in former advisor to barack obama robert wolf. robert, good morning to you. >> great to see you, steve. steve: in that video which was released a little before 6:00 this morning. we have got to beat donald trump. is that the guy to beat donald trump. >> you know, it's too early to tell. i have known seth for years. i'm from his hometown. listen, there is something he brings to the table that a lot of people aren't talking about. >> three time iraq war veteran really strong on national security. he is on the apartment services. and he is strong on defense. and he also has progressive values. is he someone that checks a

lot of boxes. you and i have been talking now for months on this. you need name recognition and you need to raise money. those are the two things he is going to have to show quickly and i also think for him it's going to be about new hampshire. 45 minutes from new hampshire. he has to show he can really do well there. last thing you and i were just speaking about sorry to hog first minute. steve: that's okay. >> this point in 2008 is giuliani beating secretary clinton. steve: that's right. >> 2016, president trump was about 5%. steve: how did that work out. >> what we don't know is we don't know. steve: absolutely right. somebody who has run for president before is joe biden. done it a couple of times. it's expected on wednesday he may make up to three different campaign appearances, a couple in pennsylvania maybe one in virginia. what does joe biden bring to the table other than name recognition? >> you know, you know him close with the vice president. i'm a big fan the first

thing the vice president one of the reasons he has gained in the polls recently is with the rise of senator sanders and donald trump's popularity within his own party, that combination really couple of things. one, it takes the whole age factor out of the equation. and number two, it goes back to the number one poll for democrats who is the candidate that is beth to beat donald trump? a lot of polls have literally have joe biden? and so his polling only one north of 30%. once again, this is a lot of name recognition. we really won't know until things fall out until he announces whether he gains in popularity and the excitement the polls are saying. steve: look for that on wednesday. >> interesting week. steve: no kidding. robert thanks. >> thanks for having me on. >> meanwhile today, national jelly bean day. did you know they were one

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♪ jedediah: well today is national jelly beate jelly bean. did you know they were ronald reagan's favorite candy? steve: the author of the book the president will see you now. stories from ronald reagan's final years. she joining us now live from atlanta. good morning to you, peggy.

>> good thanks for having me on this morning. steve: you bet. how did president reagan use jelly bellies or jelly beans as a secret test. >> a strategy for him. when he was going into big meetings or negotiations we all have seen those jelly bean jars he would pass around the table. watch as people took the jars and decide whether they were going to take a jelly beatejellybean take it on or dit or fairly particular. >> if somebody just reached in and took a big scoop and threw them in their mouth regardless of color or flavor, he would jokingly say i think the negotiations are going to be pretty easy. pleasant to work with. [laughter] jedediah: the president on everyone's mind mind for sure did president reagan have any gavery jelly bean flavors? >> he did. he loved the blacklic black lick

rich. people either love it: jelly belly created the blue berry flavor. as we saw beautiful jars and gift bags of jelly beans being handed out coconut or but berry? pete: does this date back to his time at governor i believe it's a california company. there is a connection there. >> it is. it's a great california company. and something he had been fond of back through his governor days. you are right. so it was something that i know that most of us enjoyed jelly beans on easter and easter time for ronald reagan it was a year around thing. steve: ronald reagan also back in the day presided over the national easter egg roll on the south lawn of the white house that takes you back today as well. >> what a special day for us to put religion and politics aside and celebrate

collectively as a nation there at the people's house. and it's fascinating to think nancy reagan actually as a young child attended a white house easter egg roll. so she was very involved in the planning of the easter egg roll when she was first lady and we are grateful for her impact on that including creating wooden eggs. the fresh eggs smelled a little rotten after a few days. she started the tradition of moving to the wooden eggs which was probably a good idea. steve: you could keep forever and keep a fresh egg right there on the man tell for 12 years is going to be a problem. >> i'm grateful to the white house historical association for giving me my own commemorative egg and 30,000 visitors are expected today and anyone under the age of 12 will receive a special egg with the president and first lady's signatures on them. pete: thank you. the book is: the president will see you now. thank you. a big final hour ahead. white house press secretary

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[ex-most shun] pete: we begin with a fox news alert. a van blown to pieces as police work to diffuse explosives inside. just learning the family of this man, confirming set first known american to be killed in the easter sunday attacks. officials believe they were carried out by a local islamic militant group. steve: this is live look in the capital city of sri lanka of colombo, after outside one of the churches bombed yesterday. ainsley: benjamin hall is live in the london bureau as police

discover new bomb detonators. benjamin. reporter: good morning the scale of this attack the planning the preparation went into it is becoming clearer. 290 is the death toll. great fear that could rise. 500 injured and as you point out bombs are still being founded not just one that exploded outside one of those churches but a huge six foot pipe bomb found at airport, fortunately diffused. 87 bomb detonators found at a bus station. 24 suspects are in custody. others blew themselves up when police arrived. coordinated bombings came through thinks and hotels was carried out by seven suicide bombers called national throwheeth jama'ath. two from the u.s. who died at well as one from china, portugal japan. there is no official claim of

responsibility. the officials say the group that carried out the brutal attack was taught by yet unidentified international terror network. she lawn -- sri lankans are asking for help. they do not appear to followed up on a tip. people talking about the rise of islamic terrorism in southeast asia. that terribly on easter sunday has become a reality. back to you. steve: benjamin hall, thank you. the warnings were not specific enough. they didn't mention hotels. they didn't mention tourist sites. of course they hit hotels and churches as well. but then again at same time, when you think about the possibility of terrorism, anytime there's a holy day, that is always a day where you got to worry. pete: yesterday was easter. you're exactly right.

benjamin talked about it in his report. we had a previous guest. the level of devastation, implies sophistication, coordination, some level of financing. some of those vehicles as you point out, steve, may have been secondary devices. this was sophisticated attack on christians on easter using suicide bombers. all hallmarks of al qaeda and isis. this national throwheeth jama'ath, n j.t., a radical local muslim group, in a country with a small christian community and small muslim community and no history of this radical islamic terrorism. the goal is to spread the global islamic movement to sri lanka, if that is their goal they started in unfortunate fashion. ainsley: worldwide tragedy. victims from america britain, china, japan, portugal. people are looking at places of worship, how do we handle a warning that comes into authorities that is non-specific, doesn't specify locations but does specify a

radical islamist group. how does one act to prevent such a horrific tragedy. steve: that was a bombing within the last hour or so. let's bring in sarah sanders, white house press secretary sarah sanders joins us from the south lawn. it is very noisy as kids gather for the 141st annual white house easter tegg role. your observations about the easter suicide bombings in sri lanka. >> good morning. great to be with you, guys. yesterday's events were absolutely tragic and horrific. obviously the president came out and strongly condemned these acts. this is something that should never happen. certainly should never happen on such a holy and special day for people across the world. the united states stands ready to help in anything we can do and look forward to helping bring these individuals that are responsible to justice. again our hearts, our prayers, our thoughts are with the

people. all of the individuals that have been impacted by this just awful, awful attack. that took place yesterday. pete: sarah, we've seen attacks on christians, and christian holy sites across the middle east and europe now, sri lanka. what more can be done as radical islamists target christians to help those communities? >> i think speaking out. i think so often christians are attacked, not always in this way. not always in such aggressive and horrific way as we saw in these bombings. we've seen the arsonist fires take place in the southern part of the united states. absolutely awful in a lot of churches down there. we have seen christian faith daily under attack, even just here in the united states, again not in the same way, not necessarily to the same degree but by desensitizing people to the protection of faith, whether christian faith or any other,

that is going to become a problem. it makes people more likely and more willing to attack people based on that. it is something we simply can't stand for. something i'm proud the president and vice president have stood up, talked very boldly and publicly about a number of tiles. ainsley: sarah, i want to shift over to the mueller report. there was no finding of collusion on part of the president yet democrats are still fervently talking about impeaching president trump. listen to some sound. i want to get your reaction. >> fact of the matter is, i think that when you look at this report, you can see that there is enough information to move forward with impeachment on this president. >> what is the best thing for the country? it may be we undertake an inimpeachment, nonetheless. >> if proven, some of this would being impeachable, obstruction of justice if proven would being impeachable. >> if we did not win possibly, if there were not impeachment. what is going to happen the

president will be emboldened. >> some arguing that the purpose of part two of the mueller report all along was to incentivize impeachment and give democrats in congress a little nod to say here, here's the takeoff, what do you think? >> look democrats got beat in 2016 and they got beat because they had a bad candidate and we had a great candidate. our candidate had a better message, a better vision and outworked his opponent. they have been losing every day since. they're constantly looking for excuses. they still haven't found a message. their only option to attack this president. unfortunately underdonald trump is doing amazing. the economy is booming. isis is on the run. we're becoming an energy dominant and energy independent country again. we could not be doing better under this president and in just two short years. i think the country will benefit a great deal more by having president trump for another six years.

and i think it is sad what democrats are doing. they have the option. they could be working with the president to solve some of the big problems. so far the president has done it on his own. he would be happy to work with democrats to see that impact doubled. there are some places we could get there, whether lowering prescription drug prices or working to help veterans continuing to grow the economy. there are a number of places i think democrats should want to work with the president. hopefully they will start to see what they're doing, continuing to attack the president is not a winning message. they should know that by now. they keep losing, president trump keeps winning. hopefully they see that, change their ways start to work with us than against us. frankly the country deserves better. the country deserves better than what the democrats are offering. they have become not just an embarassment for their party but an embarassment for public service because they are not providing the service which they were elected to actually fulfill. hopefully that changes. but i don't see a lot of

progress in their message at this point at all. steve: sarah, sounds if they have a conference call where they go from here. whether they call for impeachment or investigation or whatever. we want to play a sound bite for you from cnn -- >> steve, they have to get a conference call together to figure out where they're going from here? they shouldn't be in office in the first place. they should have known what they were coming to do when they got to washington. so far, again all they do is attack the president and i think it is quite said they have to have a conference call with all of their members to figure out what they are going to do with themselves now that the mueller report is out, proven there was no collusion or no obstruction. that message plan didn't work. now what do we do? simply sad. steve: sarah, on friday april ryan from cnn actually kind of mentioned you, we're going to play that sound bite. >> kind of. steve: we'll get your reaction. >> the american people can't

trust her. they can't trust what's said from the president's mouthpiece spokesperson, from the people's house. therefore she should be let go, she should be fired. when there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off. steve: she was talking about how you have lied to the press and then later it is time to you know start firing people. we had your dad on about an hour ago. he was steamed. curious about your reaction. >> i have had reporters say a lot of things about me. they said i should be choked. i should deserve a lifetime of harrassment, certainly never had anybody say i should be decapitated. a new low for liberal media. once again proves why this journalist is taken seriously. i spent yesterday, easter sunday, the weekend with my family, thinking about the things we're grateful for. one of the things i'm most grateful for is all that the

president has accomplished under these last two years. i think that he has a freight six years ahead of him. i think our team needs to remain focused on how we keep pushing those things that actually help americans and not engage in these petty fights with journalists that again shouldn't be taken seriously. i don't think are taken seriously and looking for couple more minutes on tv. frankly i feel sorry for them. they lost the collusion battle. now they're looking for anything they can hang on to keep the story alive, frankly i think it is time to move on. i think the country is ready to. they have been for the last 2 1/2 years. they're ready to focus on what impacts them, what matters to them, the things the president is doing is exactly that. we'll continue fighting for americans and including the patriots that elizabeth warren and those like her questioned because they support this president, they support our

military, they support our veterans, they support a booming economy and all of the great things that the president is doing. we will keep fighting and ignore all the extra noise from journalists trying to get a couple minutes tv time. pete: good luck enjoying the noise behind you or ignoring it. >> this is a happy noise. we'll take this any day of the week of the united states military band are truly incredible and amazing. we're thankful they're willing to come out every year for the es easter tegg roll. president and first lady will welcome 30,000 visitors to the white house. the first lady and her team have done incredible job to do a perfect event. it may be a chilly. we're excited to welcome everybody here and time honored tradition of the easter egg roll. jedediah: have some fun. >> thanks.

steve: 8:12 in new york city, you heard media report it for months before the mueller report was released. >> fire mueller. >> his attempt to fire mueller. >> yes moved to fire robert mueller. >> the president sought to have mueller dismissed. >> president's former attorney john dowd they got one thing wrong. he is live to set the record straight. coming up next. jedediah: we'll take you back to the white house for the easter egg roll. don't miss it. ♪ feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin

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report's to task, challenging some of the biggest assertions like you heard in the report. here to set the record straight former trump attorney john dowd. >> good morning. great to be with you. steve: when did president trump say go out there and fire mueller? >> he never did. i was there at same time report said mcgahn mentioned this. i dealt with, i was assigned to deal with mueller. i briefed the president every day. every week i saw mueller's for eight months. at no time did the president ever say john, i'm going to get rid of him. john, i will not do it. that is just the opposite. here is the message the president had for robert mueller to me, to carrie, you tell him i respect what he is doing. you tell him he has my full cooperation. number three, get it done as quickly as possible. and number four, whatever else you need, let me know. that was always the message and

that is exactly what we did. and as you know we produced everything. without document missing. without a lie. steve: sure. >> can you imagine in washington something without a lie. >> that was of course behind the scenes. president on twitter and stuff was referring to it as a witch-hunt. but that was separate. >> that's right. i talked to bob about that. do you understand -- oh it is political. he has to do that for political reasons. one time early on he said one thing i'm worried about, i don't want to scare off witnesses. i said, i tell you what, the president and i will make sure, we'll say publicly cooperate with bob mueller and we did early on. so that was it. i just i think there was a misunderstanding with don mcgahn. people forget it was rosenstein that ambushed the president with the appointment of mueller. so the president never had a chance to think about it, have him vetted.

steve: are you talking about the suggestion from the report that don mcgahn, the president's attorney was told go out and fire him. >> yes. that's the report. and i just don't believe it. i think the president simply wanted mcgahn to call rosenstein, have him vetted, because the president believed mueller did have some conflicts. whether he did or not the president as number one law enforcement officer he was entitled to ask rosenstein to do that, he asked his white house counsel to do it. steve: real quick, on scale of one to 10, what do you give it? >> an f. complete f. i used to have a strike force. i ran cases just like this. there is so poorly done. there are things missing. parts of it are not right. i would say, they had a junior writer from "the new york times" do it. it is very poor. steve: got to have you come back and talk about. john dowd, thank you very much. >> you bet, steve.

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>> good morning to you, welcome back. a woman is tackled inside of church on easter sunday. parishioners jumping into action when they spotted her holding a baby and a gun. >> from behind me, came this young lady, and she had a baby and shy she also had a gun, it was unloaded but she had a gun. she was having conversation and, basically she just wanted to be hurt. jillian: san diego police the guns were not loaded and no one was hurt. he is under arrest.

her children are in protective custody. we have an update on the tiger that attack ad zoo keeper is back on display. sanje will not be put down after puncturing a woman's head, neck and back at topeka zoo in kansas. the employee is intensive care but she is in recovery. back to you. jedediah: a traffic stop is going viral for the extraordinary ending. pete: this police officer stop ad young man for expired plates and invalid driver's license. when he learned he was on the way to a job interview and had no way to get there. the officer decided to drive the man himself and once more the man landed the job. jedediah: here is the officer and keyshawn baldwin. this is one of my favorite stories i read this week. keel us how it felt for you to experience this kind of interaction with an officer and get that ride to the job and get

the job! >> it made me feel like, basically all people, all people in society treat people different basically. he took time out of his day to actually take me to the job interview, after a traffic stop. after i violated the law, basically. not driving with a valid license or having expired tags. and, driving a car, when i wasn't supposed to. the time out of his day to take me to the job interview and it made me feel good inside. pete: officer, as he said, you had a choice. he had broken the law. you pulled him over for a reason, yet you decided to show compassion and assistance. walk us through that decision.

>> well, i pulled him over. i knew it wasn't his car. so i knew he was trying to find a way to work he told me was going to job interview, had no other choice, kind of made it easy. wasn't going to be like just be able to, you know, he was in a spot where he needed another job, to give him tickets and tow his car would make things a lot worse. trying to think how i could help him out. that is something a lot of police officers in this world do that just don't get recognized. it is just an ordinary thing. that is just how it went down. this is where we are. jedediah: officer, the cahokia mayor commended you. he said it was not always about writing tickets or sending someone to jail but building relationships. well done officer, and congrats to the young man for getting the job. when i see this story, officer this is the kind of police work

that i am so proud of. this is the type of community building between police and citizens i think sends such an important message to the nation. >> yeah. it is this day and age, police officers get a lot of bad rap. our department does their best to try to make sure we're involved in the community and help out people that we can. so this is just another example of what all of us do there. pete: has this changed your view of the police at all? i'm sure this is not the outcome you thought it would be? >> i actually, i didn't view the police in like a different type of way. i think basically he was doing his job. he solve ad non-violent crime in a difficult manner. and it just, everything went, i

guess the correct way. jedediah: yeah. >> it wasn't like there was a situation where i could have got pulled over and, i could have did a flee and elude because i was scared. that is what most people do. they flee and elude the police because they're scared, they don't have a valid license or they can't drive. they will flee because they scared. that will get more charges, cause more trouble and, that was unnecessary. i did the right thing. i pulled over, i explained to the officer that i didn't, that my license was suspended and, i explained to him i was going to my interview so. jedediah: we want to congratulate you so much, getting that job. that is really, really fantastic. thank you so much, joining us, both of you, sharing this amazing story. i think it inspired many. pete: now you have a ride to

work if you need one in the future. thanks, guys. appreciate it. >> thank you. pete: welcoming up we're checking back in with ainsley live at the white house for the easter egg roll. >> what a touching story in the spirit of easter, spring, giving back and doing nice things. we're here at the white house. these are the wooden eggs every child get when they exit. this was tradition started by the reagans. we have kellyanne conway coming up, we'll talk politics and easter egg roll. my little girl just arrived. you will meet here at the end of the show. stick around. ♪ you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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♪ steve: i don't think the windows are down at the white house. pete: i think they're very thick. steve: i think you're right. kellyanne conway will join us. talked to ainsley on south lawn of the white house. the easter egg role is about to commence. the kids are coming in. they expect 30,000 in attendance by the time it is all done later today. jedediah: look at them rolling in. imagine being a kid going to do this. steve: when i was at nbc 30 years ago i got my kids there. i got pictures of peter and mary. jedediah: got to get the eggs. i didn't get any wooden eggs. pete: you will, some day. friend of sieve you have a shot. steve: this is easter monday. some refer to it as day after

easter. when they do the easter egg roll. easter sunday. yet was a day when robert mueller, i believe his family, went to church and, as it turns out because robert mueller has been in the news a lot. mueller report comes out on thursday. this is the holiest day in the christian church. that is the day you're going to ask the guy a million questions. jedediah: take a look how it all went down. >> sir, could i ask you a couple questions. will you testify before congress, sir? >> no comment. >> are you sure about that, sir? >> no comment. >> if he were anybody about the president, would mr. trump be indicted sir? know that you finished -- >> sir, why didn't you make a recommendation to congress one way or the other? >> are you going on vacation. >> did the attorney general

accurately characterize your positions. steve: after three or four questions you will get the idea you will not talk. jedediah: is there any place you can't to not to be harassed. pete: i don't think so. jedediah: we talked to dan bongino on air, last hour, former secret service agent. he was talking about how inappropriate this was. take a listen. >> i have no love lost for bob mueller okay. i thought he did an awful job. i thought his report was a gross act of prosecutorial malfeasance but on the holiest day of the christian calendar, to confront them outside of a church, steve, think about it. now, msnbc and others start trying to do journalism? now all of sudden on easter mean is sitting around, hey, fellows what do you want to do today? let's do journalism, let's confront bob mueller outside after church. ask him about the report. pete: bad timing, bad timing for bob mueller to lose his keys. couldn't get into his own car.

was a little hesitant. didn't know where to go. now the media, he didn't deliver the goods -- steve: snoking gun. pete: now they're going after him. now bob mueller has to ask questions. what more does he know. go all the way to his church service to do so. jedediah: people in the media, probably cheering him on. yeah, maybe in the media, but around the country people look at that, come on, he is at church. democrat, republican, independent, i don't care who you are, you don't want to be harassed going to church. that we can universally say that is not a good idea. steve: i realized bob mueller and i drive the same car. a subaru, built in the usa. jedediah: hopefully you don't get harassed. steve: email us, fox news.com and we're on facebook. jillian: we'll talk about what is going on in texas. a mom there is missing after she never showed up to pick up her

son from a babysitter. she was last seen on this surveillance video in dallas. her stepfather says she is in the national guard and recently became a u.s. citizen. police are asking the public for any help they might have. veteran football coach, tommy tuberville looking to tackle washington, launching a campaign for alabama senate. he joined us for his first interview announcing his run. >> we have problems in our state and country. i want to give back. i learned leadership, communication skills, bringing people together. that is what you do in a job like this. jillian: tuberville is challenging incumbent democratic senator, doug jones. drivers expected holiday traffic this weekend but they could have never imagined this. a stampede of horses running single file down the fast lane, forcing drivers to pull over in

the uk. took two hours to round them up. they were returned to a nearby field where they escaped one. that is interesting. pete: wonder what that police call looked like? steve: animal in the road. pete: horses gone wild. >> thanks, jillian. steve: counselor to the president kellyanne conway will join ainsley live at the white house. there they are. she will talk to her next. ♪ ...and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com. i heard there guwere fleas out here.r? and t-t-t-t-t-icks! and mosquitoooooooooooes! listen up, scaredy cats. we all have k9 advantix ii to protect us. it kills and repels fleas, ticks and mosquitoes, too.

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the tradition behind it? >> it's a beautiful history. it's a non-partisan day. we hope people across the country will enjoy themselves. the first lady and her team deserve all the credit. she has relatively small staff that produces an unbelievable amount of fun events and wonderful occurrences like this, where they're opening up the people's house to the people. there are a couple new features this year, including the best hopscotch. which, ties into the first lady's platform of better choices and, of course she is very involved with the opioid crisis with the children. internet safety and the like. it's a beautiful day where people enjoy coming to the white house, enjoy taking in the different stations. actually one of my favorite is that you can write letters to the military. ainsley: i love that. >> the kids think about it. they ask for guidance. the other feature the first lady and her team put together, you can write a postcard to anybody.

it is very solemn day. i just got off the phone for the president. thank you for your forbearance waiting for me. sri lanka is very much on his mind. we know how we feel, ainsley, nobody ever, especially a place of worship, the mosque in new zealand, the synagogue, tree of life in pittsburgh, obviously the church in south carolina, sutherland springs, people should feel safe in places of worship. looks like the folks may have been targeted for their faith but we'll allow the authorities -- what a tragedy. ainsley: state department says there could be more attacks. police had to detonate a van this morning. >> that is true. secretary of state mike pompeo is briefing at state department right about now. i will let him do that. i talked to the president briefly this morning, tremendous concern he offered sri lanka any help we can give.

ainsley: i pleased to see barack obama and hillary clinton tweeting and praying for folks over there. >> some things are still non-partisan. ainsley: they said into the tweet, easter worshipers, they didn't call them christians. anything into that. >> you have to ask them about that. no confusion on our part. ainsley: easter worshipers. >> without knowing response of particular attack formally. one reason i knew hillary clinton was going to lose, i said it at time on fox news, at her convention in philadelphia she, i scoured her speech ahead of time, she would never say radical islamic terrorists. there are many evil people, many different idealogical and many rereligions but when you have islamic terrorism, when she was secretary of state, while her husband was president, murdering innocent people, call it what it is, we can solve the problem. you have to be willing to admit,

only referred to republicans as terrorists and not terrorist as terrorists. that is great concern. in large part why this president got elected why he won't be impeached. it's a ridiculous proposition they are putting forward. impeaching republican president for something democrats started with this ridiculous investigation cost us $25 million. millions of pieces of paper having been produced. let's go to the process briefly. the special counsel provides a report to the attorney general who in concert with the deputy attorney general and office of legal counsel decided there was no obstructive conduct. they could not bring obstruction charges. they made that decision. i'm sure director mueller and his team could have brought those very clear charges they would have. they were under enormous pressure to do bidding of democrats in the media who thought they would bleachbit bill barr and bleachbit donald trump's election. i think too many people in the

media and democratic party were invested in the mueller outcome. they should admit that. if there were criminal conspiracy, in fact the campaign manager for president trump, trump family, trump and pence themselves were conspiring with the kremlin to turn the election his way that would explain why everybody in the media got so wrong. they never saw it coming, would be able to go back in time, i didn't see it, i was looking at legitimate metrics, media polling wink-wink. saying this fun for future reference, people still in the media, some got promotions, writing articles in late october, president trump, donald trump has 0% chance getting elected. so they have to somehow save their own face, if they could have found criminal conspiracy, we cheat and lied and stole the election. that would have done. legitimately elected president, 304 electoral votes. won states like wisconsin, michigan pennsylvania, that republican nominees had not won

in long time. we have 19th democrat running for president. seth moulton? who? remind everybody, simple math, one, 19, 50, anything times zero simple multiplication. 50 democrats can run. 19 are running but if your message is zero it's a big zero. ainsley: now they're going after some of you in the administration. press is tough on you, with your husband writing articles against him. press is going after sarah huckabee sanders not only should lose her job but lose her head. now they want the president to be impeached. i'm told going back to new york. there is breaking news. guys? steve: thank you, ainsley, kellyanne. fox news alert. secretary of state mike pompeo is at the state department where he is expected to announce that the administration will end iran sanction waivers, seeking to

drive oil exports to zero. >> tried so hard for peace in recent years has been targeted by these terrorists. we mourn the loved ones of the victims, some of whom we can confirm were indeed u.s. citizens. this is america's fight too. i spoke with the prime minister of sri lanka this morning. and our embassy and other parts of his government are offering all possible assistance to americans and she lang -- srilankan government. we sand with millions of she today our nation grieves with the people of sri lanka. we stand committed, resolved to confront terrorism together. now, turning to iran.

almost one year ago after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal president trump implemented the strongest pressure campaign in history against the islamic republic of iran. the goal remains simple, to deprive the outlaw regime of funds used to stablize the middle east for four decades and incentivize iran to behave like a normal country the up to 40% of the regime's revenue come from oil sales. it is the regime's number one source of cash. before the sanctions went into effect, iran would generate $50 billion annually in oil revenue. overall today we estimate our sanctions denied the regime well north of $10 billion. the regime would have used that money to support terror groups like hamas and hezbollah and continue its missile development in defiance of u.n. court council resolution 2231. and it would have perpet eighted the humanitarian crisis in

yemen. our goal has been to get countries to see supporting iran oil entirely. last november we granted exemptions from our sanctions to seven countries and to taiwan. to give allies partners to wean themselves off iranian oil and insure a well-supplied oil market. today i'm announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions. we're going to zero. going to zero across the board. we will continue to enforce sanctions and monitor compliance. any nation or entity interacting with iran should do its diligence err on the side of caution. the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits. i want to emphasize that we have used the highest possible care in our decision to ensure market stability. the united states has been in constant discussion allies and partners to help them transition away from irraeanne crude to other alternatives. we've been working with major oil producing countries to insure the market has sufficient

volume to minimize impact on pricing. kingdom of saudi arabia and united arab emirates said they will insure appropriate supply for the markets. of course the united states is now a significant producer as well. i can confirm that each of those suppliers are working directly with iran's forker customers to make the transition away from iranian crude less disruptive. as i said we're doing our part in the united states too in 2018. crude production increased 1.6 million-barrels per day over the 2017 levels and u.s. energy information agency projects an increase of additional 1 1/2 million barrels per day in calendar year 2019. with the announcement today we made clear, our seriousness of purpose. we are going to zero. how long we remain there at zero depend solely on the islamic republic of iran senior leaders. we have made our demands very

clear to the ayatollah and his cronies. end your pursuit of nuclear weapons, stop testing and proliferating ballistic missiles. stop sponsoring and committing terrorism. halt the arbitrary detention of u.s. citizens. our pressure aimed at fulfilling demand and others. continues to accelerate until iran is willing to address them at the negotiating table. finally as i said befores, these demand are not just coming from the united states government and many of our allies and partners there. similar to what we hear from the iranian people themselves. i want the iranian people to know we're listening to them and standing with them. we will not appease their oppressors as the last administration did. our hopes are for better life for them. all people affected by the regime's violence and destruction. i will take a few questions. reporter: thank you, good morning, mr. secretary. >> good morning, sir.

>> reporter: broadly on iran, aside, your goal bringing them back to the negotiating table, but, are you really interested in renegotiating the jcpoa or negotiating something like that? or are you just looking for, are all these steps you're taking aimed at just getting them to change their behavior without getting anything in return? and then secondly, if you could address a report about comments you allegedly made to iranian diaspora leaders last week in texas. >> what comments in particular? reporter: that the, you're not interested in any kind of military intervention, that it is basically economic, diplomatic pressure and that, some, i don't know some kind of comment about the mek and you're not -- >> thank you. let me take those. i take them in reverse sequence. we've not supported any outside

group. we're supporting iranian people. and so i get questions all the time about outside iranian groups including the mek. and i, every time i engage with anyone, this was meeting with folks who have family, often had family inside of iraq, we want to make clear we're supporting iranian people, not any particular group. that is the u.s. administration's policy second, with respect to our objectives, we're happy to receive the, we're happy to bet the outcome however we can achieve it. president always made very clear, we made it clear to iran's leaders if americans are attacked we will respond in a serious way. i don't think there should be any doubt about the fact if it is required for to us take an action in response to something that soleimani does or iriranian leadership or shia leadership around the world we'll respond to that in a way to appropriate to protect american interests wherever we find them. with respect to our goal.

we laid them out. there are 12 things we're looking for. when we get to those things, we're happy to reengage with iran at normal arrangement. if they are happy to negotiate to those things to get to the out come, fantastic, if not the campaign we've been engaged franklin since the administration took office, more clearly since the president's decision to withdraw from the jcpoa, the campaign will continue. we built enormous coalition to work on this. gulf state partners, israel, lots of countries working alongside us to achieve objections. europeans increasing risk from the assassination campaign taking place inside of their country. iran continues to try to have a role in protecting maduro in venezuela. this is countries in south america to understand the expeditionary nature of islamic republic is something that threatens sis sense across the world. this is not the united states alone. it's a true coalition working to achieve the ends which we laid out. thank you.

ma'am. good morning. reporter: maximum pressure campaign have you detected any change in the iranian behavior, with the few exceptions i think you mentioned before which is short of cash of the hezbollah and maybe to not giving oil to the syrian regime? talking about senior leadership, do you have any appointment of irgc that is named -- because he has been praised as hard-liner to the u.s.? >> so, we have watched iran have diminished power as a result of our campaign. their capacity to wreak harm around the world is absolutely clearly diminished. i talked about it with respect to hezbollah not being able to make payroll in timely fashion. talked about it in other places as well. what we're announcing this morning, designation of the irgc a couple weeks back, actions that we'll take in a handful of weeks, each of these things will

continue to support the iranian people so they can get what they ultimately are so desperately seeking. i don't have any comment of the new appointment of the irgc leader, other than this, you described him as a hard-liner. it is the case that every iranian leader, that includes president rouhani and foreign minister zarif has accepted notion, has accepted this fundamental notion of the nature of the regime itself, right? so they accept that the islamic republic of iran is the appropriate method for iran to engage. ones they conceded that in our view, these distinctions are often, are often insignificant. that is if you are pushing and you are supporting soleimani's efforts in iraq, supporting efforts of the quds force and hezbollah and supporting underwriting of hamas, by definition that is working against what america laid out as

our objective. reporter: thank you, sir. >> take one more. reporter: how are you, mr. secretary? >> i'm very good. reporter: mr. secretary i want to ask you about the timing of your announcement. oil supplies are pretty tight, given oil come off venezuela's as well, what are your discussions, china said today. steve: we've been listening to mike pompeo secretary of state. announcing trump administration will end iran sanction waivers currently being extended to eight different nations. they will pull the plug on that. try to drive down you know, essentially, ring any cash out of iran that they're currently making on market. jedediah: big statement by pompeo. . .