snatches the souvenir from him. the a's lost to the angels 12-7. >> i'm sometimes perplexed when we have these stories where have you adults and kids fighting over foul balls. rob: got to go. ♪ ♪ ♪ brian: at least one thing is clear as bad as the weather has been across the country. bad enough that we at least open up with some music instead of some catastrophic tornadoes. ainsley: you are right. i forgot. we have been banned music for the last few days. brian: for great reason. going out to ellison barber shortly about ohio. ainsley: janice says it's going to clear up. right?

brian: i don't pick the music it comes from ainsley's jukebox. ainsley: that would be sad. brian: before the show she gets change for a dollar and picks the songs. ainsley: that's right. there is one song per hour and then there is an extra. there is an alternate. brian: that's the bonus because we are regular customers. yesterday at 11:00 robert mueller spoke. you have already heard that already so let's talk about something else. pete: i don't think so. ainsley: so much to talk about here. he broke his silence and this that press conference. pete: unexpected. ainsley: president lashing out saying this is a witch-hunt. democrats heard what he said and now calling for imsaying it was an impeachment referral. listen to this. >> after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.

the introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision. it explanation that under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider. pete: let's be clear, this is a guy who traffics in words. he knows exactly what he is say something very intentional. if that phrase if we had confidence that the president did not clearly commit a crime we would have said so was effectively fodder will be fodder for democrats to say his hands were tied by the justice department. he couldn't make a determination. but he also didn't exonerate the president. that's what they're running with this morning. brian: pete what i found astounding this morning seaside-to-side not watching prime time last night it's there. i asked bob mueller are you

charging him just because you think a president could be charged he said three separate times, no, that's not the reason. what happened in the interim. this is a key moment. you are going to tell me that attorney general barr had it wrong in three separate times and rod rosenstein was in the room. he could be the tie breaker. what put bob mueller out on that podium for nine minutes yesterday? was it part of return the keys? shut the lights and give a press conference? was that part of the deal in the office rental space agreement? i'm not sure. ainsley: some will say because he doesn't want to testify. this is the only time he is going to speak. brian: it's a great theory and i can't dispute it. i would say this. if you say he traffics in words. could he have said we have concluded -- if we could have concluded that the president -- if we could have concluded the president didn't commit a crime, we would have said so, that's what he said. if he said we could have concluded the president did commit a crime we could have said so. that's one word.

ainsley: that one sentence is so bizarre. the way he phrased it. and alan dershowitz said he did this with the motive to help the democrats. why wouldn't he just say we couldn't determine if he committed a crime. he did say that at some point just the phrasing of that if we had confidence clearly the president didn't commit crime we would have said that. pete: he went out of his way to talk about the russians being indicted the russians are innocent until proven guilty the russians. he never went out of way to say about a sitting president. brian: the president has been brilliant so far being reserved. came out immediately with this. nothing changes from the mueller report there was insufficient evidence and, therefore, in our country, a person is innocent. the case is closed. thank you. as an american citizen i wanted to know if the president or anybody was colluding with the russians to sir couple venting our elections process. after moo reading the mueller report i'm drawn to this. if you thought vladimir putin had direct lines to the president of the united

states or visa versa. would this have happened this? this is in the report. peter avin is an oligarch he meets with vladimir putin once a month. he spoke about the difficulty faced with the russian getting government in getting in touch with the incoming president with anybody in the incoming trump administration. according to avin putin indicated he did not know with whom he could formally speak and generally did not note people around the president. it was up to ava of alpha bank to make those contacts. if he was colluding with trump, he would be on his speed dial wouldn't you think? that's in the mueller report. pete: if he was obstructing there should be an underlying crime which there never was either there is a lot of holes in this. who do you go to often for clarity? ainsley: the great one. brian: after brian kilmeade it's mark levin and here is his take. >> i want to remind mr. mueller of something that a first-year law student knows the fifth

amendment. it's called due process. the sixth amendment it's called a right to a jury trial. the fifth, sixth, and 14th amendments presumption of innocence. you burned every one of those amendments, mr. mueller. just because you can't indict a sitting president, heard somebody say sure he can indict a sitting president it's just that the attorney general can reverse course. that's not what the memo says. it says you cannot indict a sitting president. pete: it's like at the end of the fight one guy takes one last kick not because he won just because he wanted to get one last in that's that feels like what mueller wanted to do. ainsley: they say it's very clear the public doesn't want talk about impeachment. if you look at numbers they don't want to talk about impeachment, they want to talk about the economy, healthcare. even nancy pelosi, she release thad 5-paragraph memo about it, no words of impeachment. democrats, however, there are many of them that are ramping up this rhetoric,

let me show you some of the democrats that calling for impeachment that are running for president. can we pull this up? these five are saying impeach, impeach, impeach. and there are more in addition to this as well. pete: they came out with statements almost immediately. this is chum in the water, it felt like bob mueller was handing a reason to, you know, rabid democrats to want to impeach him. brian: as you said, pete, he is saying i can't indict but i hope you will. to me it shows for two years the president has been saying it's a witch-hunt. mueller is compromised. he took it personal. my opinion he took it personal and that was his subtle shot trying to remain professional but saying i will get you in the end. here are the democrats giving their point of view on impeachment and some of the media weighing in predictably. >> this is as close to impeachment referral as you could get. >> he told us enough to interpret what he said as a referral for impeachment proceedings. >> with respect to impeachment question at this point, all options are on

the table. >> what if now the widely held expectation that the democratic controlled congress will have no choice but to open an impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> sounds like the special counsel is calling for congress to pick up where he left off. that process has a name it begins with the letter i you, impeachment. >> you if the house leadership doesn't start hearings now, i believe it's hard to see them ever doing it in the months ahead. again, now or never. pete: the power is being held by nancy pelosi. she gets to make the call effectively for democrats to decide whether this is the path that she takes. ainsley: you know what? there are so many house investigations because the democrats have the power now. the house judiciary they issued a subpoena for hope hix and donaldson. tax returns. house oversight committee seeking documents from his accounting firm. they are not going to let

this end. brian: rush limbaugh put it in perspective like only he can. he hops on the air an hour later. here's a look. >> a mirage is what the democrat party has and the media have been chasing and have been believing in and have been hoping for. and with each mirage and with each belief that you have been saved, you realize you saw something that wasn't there. well, that's hot democrats and the media have been. ever since the mueller report came out, they had everything wrapped up in it. the mueller report was going to finally deliver them their reason for living. bye-bye donald trump. and because roberts mueller made that mirage come to life they're going to grow.

they're going to get stronger because of roberts mueller's creation of a real pool of water. brian: you know democrats are going to be talking about this for a lot longer. it's going to be the same thing. meanwhile in canada the usmca is going to pass. the new nafta so many people in the midwest devastated by natural disasters. an structure plan where you have a president who wants to build and he might have about a trillion dollars to do so. we're not going to do it. we have an immigration system that needs to be addressed yesterday. not comprehensive. and i guess we are going to ignore that. ainsley: what do you think? do you think the democrats should push for impeachment? a lot of republicans are hoping they do. if you look at bill clinton's numbers from the beginning of that monica trial to the end of the impeachment, according to gallup, his approval rating went up 7 percentage points. pete: peter strzok talked about that insurance policy. i think what mueller did there, if they go for impeachment is a new insurance policy. ensuring that president trump gets elected in 2020.

pete: it's a bad political move but i don't know that they can resist it. brian: robert mueller does this on the day in which james comey writes a column, editorial talking about investigating the investigators and what a folly it is and how dumb it is. pete: i forgot about that. brian: we are going to be tossing to jillian who i have a chance to talk to substantively every morning now because our offices are right next to each other. jillian: i'm like the first personal you see. ainsley: is his office still clean? jillian: it's not put together yet. ainsley: we cleaned it a few weeks ago but we just moved offices. jillian: starting with this fox news alert. let's begin here. julian assange too toil appear in london court even by video link according to his lawyers. he is fighting extradition to the u.s. to face charges of conspiring with army intelligence officer chelsea manning to break into a classified pentagon computer. he also faces 17 charges

under the espionage act. assange is in a prison hospital wing as concerns grow for his, quote, deteriorated health. he is due in court on june 12th. breaking overnight. israel announces it will hold a second national election this year. the unprecedented move coming after prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to form a coalition government by wednesday's mid night deadline. it's the first time in history that has happened. at issue is a controversial bill surrounding military service in israel. of the new elections will be held september 17th. a cubs player breaks down when a foul ball hits a very young fan. watch this. >> oh, cubs center albert almora jr. brought it tears

at the park in houston. >> as soon as i hit it, the first person i'm speechless. i'm at a loss of words. will being a father, two boys. jillian: the girl was rushed tout hospital but will be okay. you can see she is very young and he was very shaken over that at a mets dodgers game a fan was smacked in the head by a line drive. is he expected to be okay. but that is just scary. brian: big push to put nets up. jillian: a lot of people say they don't want their view obstructed. pete: tragic things are going to happen. thank goodness that child is okay. bring your glove to the game. brian: or everybody go to the game with a catcher's mask? that might be good. pete: it's another option. ainsley: remember the town fighting with an rv company over its giant american flag? we got a big update for that you could mean a big win for old glory. ♪ ♪ you better to get to

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radio talk show host tony katz. thanks for being here this morning. appreciate it. we know what the so-called elites in the beltway and here in manhattan are thinking and talking about all day long. whawhat are regular folks reacting to here? >> to the extent that indiana is regular folk my god is this still going on? that's the way the majority of the country is going. why did he do this press conference? why did he tell us what's already in the mueller report, if he wanted to say congress impeach why didn't he just say those words? why is everything with him this couched kind of nonsense. that's not the way people are supposed to speak. they talk and you need a decoder ring to figure out what just happened here. he is goading congress. go on, impeach the man. that's what i think the majority of america took from this. and now we are just expecting it. pete: that's a great point i need to get my d.c. decoder ring, i agree. here is how democrats, some of them running for president some not reacted. listen. >> with respect typically people question at this

point all option ron's the table. >> he told us enough to interpret what he said as a referral for impeachment. >> the decision to go down this path will be determined by the facts and where they take us. pete: it appears they got the message. is that good track with voters? >> i think that's the conversation that democrats and republicans are going to have in d.c. and certainly we are going to have based on what it is that they do. is there a win in impeachment? but i think that the reality is that nancy pelosi can't stop these people. right? she can't, as william jacobson of legal insurrection cornell law professor she can't keep the finger in the dam and stop this overflow of democrats who are to an extent bloodthirsty for impeachment. and if robert mueller, going back to him he he could have been honest and said i think that based on our assessment, based on our investigation donald trump is guilty on these four points. and he didn't do that newt gingrich on this very network just yesterday said that ken starr said the word

guilty about bill clinton 11 times. robert mueller never did. he wants to come out with a press tore hedge them. pete: when talking about the russians indicted they are innocent until proven guilty. those words never uttered from his lips as pertains to the commander-in-chief. >> when hillary clinton is caught sending classified information she is not supposed to send there is not enough here to prosecute. when you don't tell us what it is that you would have prosecuted about donald trump, yet, still we should really consider what comes next. again, the blood theirs citiness the politics of it is all too much. pete: you are good at decoding, tony katz, indiana, appreciate your take from middle america. >> you got it. pete: alex trebek sharing mind boggling news. dr. nicole saphier is up next. >> with the help of your

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confirmed 17 tornadoes touched down in the state of ohio. memorial day night in to early tuesday morning. storms have torn through a number of states in recent days hitting places like iowa, ohio, texas, arkansas, new jersey, new york, and kansas. the countless tornadoes took out power lines destroyed homes injured dozens and killed at least 9. >> i told my son i have lived in kansas city 43 years i have never seen a tornado and chances of getting hit by a tornado are really slim i told him don't worry about that i don't think we will get hit by a tornadoes. boy was i wrong. >> the wind was really bad. all of a sudden like a massive freight train coming through the area. they were telling us you don't want to go out there. >> countless homes and businesses look just like this across ohio as well as many of those other states.

they are destroyed uninhacketteddable. you can see unhere two cars that were in a garage when the garage collapsed entirely. all that is left is that chimney. lots of stories like this of destruction and people losing their homes after decades. brian, there are also lots of good stories of people helping. we have met a lot of people who have come out to bring food, water. services to help landscape and help people who have been hit like this to clean up and try to start to rebuild their lives. brian? brian: wow, ellison, thanks so much. look forward to seeing some progress today. ainsley? ainsley: okay. thanks, brian. jeopardy host alex trebek revealing that his stage 4 peak cancer i pretty nicepancrer remission. he shared this with his fans. >> i'm going to fight this and i'm going to keep working and with the love and support of my family and friends and with the help of

your prayers, also, i plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease. ainsley: trebek now says some of his tumors have shrunk by more than 50%. what comes next for him? here with insight is fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: are you shocked by this i know you see this every day are you shocked? >> that's wonderful news. cancer is just a word. it's not necessarily a sentence. and even if you have stage 4 prettpancreatic cancer meaning it's me as it sized. we have advanced. it's not necessarily a life sentence anymore there is something very powerful about hope and positive thinking and just the support that he has been getting and that is stronger than any sort of treatment we could ever hope to give him. ainsley: number one leading cause of cancer death in the united states was lung cancer.

then you said breast cancer and you said colon and number 4 is pancreatic cancer why do we hear it's the worst of worst. >> fourth leading cause of death only secondary to the more common. we see a lot more of them. more people do die of them. pancreatic cancer is. we don't screen like we do with mammograms and colonoscopy. people don't get symptoms until after it's metastasized which is now stage 4 and much more difficult to treat. now, in his case, he is not the candidate for surgery. maybe not even radiation because it's metastasize you had. but he said the cheney is shrinking his tumors that's so encouraging and wonderful. really these days cancer can almost be treated like a chronic disease like a diabetes. people are living many, many years on treatment. people are walking around

with metastatic cancer and you don't even know it. they are living life. ainsley: doctors like you saving their lives. >> a lot of research. it's like we are here to prolong life and give a quality of life. not about reaching remission or curing cancer these days just allowing people to live. ainsley: he did say with prayer he plans to beat this low survival rate of cancer. how much does prayer and the willingness to fight come in to play? does that help a patient? >> for someone like myself very black and white and linear i would like to say oh it's the treatments that's doing it. let me tell you there are so many studies that show the power of prayer. great support system. and just having that positive outlook really is a huge player when it comes to any souter of medical treatment. ainsley: real quickly if people are watches, what are the symptoms? >> early pancreatic cancer not much but it can be real vague. abdominal pain, yellowing of a skin. if you have a history some

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>> we are investigating and we're litigating and we are going to as we go down the path make a decision based on the strongest possible case to get the best results putting american people --

everybody wants justice. everybody wants the president to be held accountable in the most serious way and everybody believes -- now i'm talking on the democratic side, that no one is above the law. especially the president of the united states. brian: that was in san francisco yesterday. the speaker of the house responding to the 11:00 press conference eastern time when robert mueller came out and to me went out of his way to let everybody know as he turned out the lights and turned in his keys that he did not find the president -- did he not say that the president could not be charged. joining us now is mercedes schlapp. white house director of strategic communications. mercedes we went back and forth on texts i was asking you during the radio show do you know what this is going to be about? what kind of heads up did you get? what is your take on what robert mueller said in those nine minutes? >> i think mueller pretty much made the case that the case is closed. the investigation is closed. and he is moving on. and in essence, that is a

very straight direct message that we all need to move on. i mean, the president is focused and committed to passing, for example usmca an important trade deal with mexico and canada and ensuring that we can push forward a solution on the border crisis. this president is focused on what we need -- what the american people want us to do which is that of the work of the people. of ensuring that we can continue to grow our economy strong. that we stay strong in the sense of our relations across the globe and ensure we produce results. that's what the president is focus out on while the democrats want to continue to push endless focus on trying to attack this president because they refuse to accept the results of the mueller report and they refuse to modify on. pete: the message democrats got was if you unlock the dc da court key as tony katz said he was effectively

saying the ball is in your court. i wasn't able to bring charges because you can't indict a sitting president so here did you go. do you believe that's what the democrats will run with. brian: the attorney general says something different. >> piece mealing mueller's remarks because at the end of the day we know that mueller, if he had a case, he would have made that decision. he would have said we are bringing charges against the president. in essence he handed it over to attorney general william barr. he said based on the report there was no obstruction of justice. they didn't base it on the constitutional considerations or for example the olc opinion that says you can't basically prosecute a sitting president. so, let's make that very clear attorney general barr, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein both looked at the evidence and they said

there wasn't enough evidence for obstruction of justifiable. there was no collusion, which, if you remember, that's how the special counsel started. and, yet, what we are seeing is that the democrats are saying okay, now let's, us, politically charge partisan house of representatives the senate, democrat senators basically say let's take this up and investigate, re-litigate. despite the fact that this president that our administration has been incredibly transparents in this process. ainsley: despite the fact that the voters are wanting to move. in the states show they care about the economy healthcare and immigration. let's talk about immigration right now the dhs had to release 5,000 border crossings illegal aliens because of catch and release. 2,000 they bused over to el paso. 1500 to phoenix. 1,000 to san antonio. let them out in hopes they will show up four court

date. will congress look at these numbers and see what's happening and some are saying in 15 minutes they could change this by changing the laws. >> the president gets tremendous credit in basically talking about this issue and letting americans know that there is a national emergency that there is a true border crisis as oppose to the democrats who have constantly called this a manufactured crisis. and so this president has done everything he can administratively, turned every stone to come up with solutions to help our border patrol agents have the resources that they need. but the reality is, that unless the democrats move forward and come -- work with us, work with us on closing these legal loopholes, this will continue to be a problem. our border patrol agents say it. we are at a breaking point. there is these magnets that basically that attract these individuals to keep coming here illegally. i have will say acting

secretary kevin mcaleenan went down to guatemala. they worked on an agreement so that the guatemalan authorities can ensure that they basically keep individuals from trying to leave their country and coming over to the border. we have been working with mexico where they are also apprehending individuals and stopping them at the border. but, again, it is a very -- we are at a very difficult moment right now. this president, his leadership has been impressive in this area. we do know that what we need is the support of these democrats. brian: so when the president travels overseas there is a big story if the "wall street journal" today that the secretary of defense was told to keep the uss john mccain out of sight and keep the name uss john mccain on that ship covered in a tarp. can you tell us what you know about that story in the president says he was unaware of this. the "wall street journal" stands behind this story. we know the two men had a rivalry that has lasted beyond john mccain's death. but what can you tell us about this, mercedes? >> it's a fake news story.

the navy came out and basically said in no way did they try to hide any of their warships in this case, this particular warship and, again, the president was not aware that this was even -- the story we all read it in the "wall street journal." again, it's another one of these let's get anonymous sources. let's push this narrative and it's just unfortunate. it's just unfortunate. brian: you are saying it did not happen. >> no. i mean the president was not aware. the president tweeted about it late last night i believe and the navy also sent out a tweet about this. brian: mercedes overall the president has been very measured in his response to robert mueller's minute press conference. do you expect that to maintain itself? >> you know i think the president as we all believe and know we all cooperated and we have done our job. it has been an exhaustive process that has has cost

taxpayers millions of dollars. we are at a moment in our history, in our country that it is time to move on. it is time to focus on the work of the american people. it is time to solve this border crisis. and it is time to ensure that we keep creating jobs, bringing companies back to the united states to invest in our american workers and ensure that, again, that we grow as a safe and prosperous nation. that is the goal of this president and what he is committed to every single day. the democrats are going to keep playing these political games and it's, i think, a destructive political strategy for them. ainsley: okay. mercedes, thank you. >> thanks so much. pete: well, democrats treating robert mueller wants statement like a bombshell but he didn't reveal anything new. brian: what's the deal here? the judge is on the case. ♪ ♪ get it! get that butterfly!

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jillian: good morning to you back with headlines. jillian: police find the body of a 5-year-old girl. alex win pell is charged with murder. police say he gave them a map to her remains. investigators also claim they have a broken knife, pvc pipe and bloody clothes linking him to the girl. this charging document say he was licking his hands clean after his police interview. the company sued for flying a giant american flag could soon be let off the hook. the city of statesville, north carolina is considering an amendment to an ordinance to 40 boy 80-foot flag fly. camping world was told to take the flag down or face $11,000 in fine. the company refused. the city council will decide on the amendment next month and we will keep you updated on that outcome. brian?

brian: thanks, jillian. robert mueller making first public statement on the mueller investigation. he made it clear kind of. we won't be hearing from him again on the topic or at least if he has his druthers. so why are democrats treating his comments as ground breaking? pete: here to explain fox news senior judicial analyst and host of liberty file on fox nation judge andrew napolitano. judge: that presumes i can explain what happened yesterday. pete: was yesterday necessary? why go to the podium? >> i don't think yesterday was necessary. in fact, when stuart varney asked my do you think he is going to resign? i said why we call a national press conference like this just to resign? that's the news yesterday is that today he is a private citizen. reading between the lines, he still has a dispute with his boss attorney general barr over the meaning of his report. he still is arguing there is enough evidence of the president's culpability not using the word guilt. culpability on obstruction of justice that they couldn't clear him on it.

and he is saying the only reservreasonwe didn't charge the president because of this office of legal counsel opinion in october of 2000 saying you can't charge a sitting put. that opinion, i have to tell is you advisory, not mandatory. how do we know that? it came out october 16th, 2,000. what happened in november of 2,000? a month later the same justice department charged the president of the united states, bill clinton with lying under oath and with obstruction of justice. and what happened after two months after that? he pleaded guilty. so it's obvious that this opinion that everybody is looking at in different ways is advisory and not mandatory. where does this take us? he is certainly going to testify again, whether he wants to or not. is he a private citizen. they will probably serve him with a subpoena this afternoon. he has opened the door to that and basically said i'm washing my hands of this. congress, it's in your court. ainsley: when i was watching it yesterday i thought oh my gosh he is opening a whole new can of worms. >> i felt the same thing. ainsley: he had that one

phrase that was so weird if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said that he didn't say he did commit a crime. >> this has got to be so frustrating for the president. ainsley: alan dershowitz the professor was interviewed yesterday and he said this proves there is a motive to help the democrats there. do you agree with that. >> no, i don't agree with that i still think that bob mueller is a clean, honorable guy. he did some stuff when he ran the fbi is indefensible. no reason to get into that now i think he is a marine and he didn't want to challenge his boss bill barr in public the reason no indictment of the attorney generapresident camedown the atl wouldn't believe one. brian: this is different. you can't believe bill barr and robert mueller. barr said three times bob, is the only reason you are not charging him because he is the sitting president? he said no three times. >> is he because is he a sitting president. brian: for the record, judge

if you look at me and ask a question does that count as my question? he kept looking at me like. ainsley: hold on, i took it as as he wasn't able -- he didn't say whether or not he did commit a crime. he basically said we couldn't determine it but if he did, and if i had found that out, then i wouldn't charge him. >> and if he wasn't the president i would have charged him. look, i think they are going to testify next to each other at the same time. that would be really dramatic. brian: not in public. mueller says i have got to go behind closed doors 00 not at all. >> they work for us. if they testify in public the democrats will come out and give their version, the republicans will give their version. we are adults. ainsley: are you allowed to charge a sitting president. >> we know that because bill clinton was charged with perjury. brian: so what mueller said is not true. >> i'm sorry to say that's

correct. at least with ainsley's phrase. it's a can of worms. new headache that the president doesn't need. it advances the ball into congress' court. it makes impeachment investigation almost certain. brian: make sure you phrase canal of worms. ainsley: used for fishing. good bait. brian: we will watch you on "special report." >> i wonder what you will be talking about. brian: i think we know. ainsley: we warmed you up. steve: it wasn't an a or b grade. the teacher wrote wtf on a student's homework. ♪ good morning ♪ good morning ♪

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♪ pete: it wasn't an a or b grade. one teacher wrote wtf on her student's homework. ainsley: carley shimkus is here with reaction. what is this teacher thinking. >> wtf absolutely no credit. that's a zero. no sticker on the page would have been fine. brian: what was the subject? >> science. rutherford high school administrators are saying they are investigating this situation but. ainsley: where is this? >> florida. they are also refusing to release the name of the teacher and the principal released this interesting statement and said teachers are humans so we make mistakes but we understand that we are called to a higher professional standard that was a portion of his

statement. we make mistakes. it's not like a mistake of me. mistake of giving somebody a b when they deserve an a. social media divided. absolutely the teacher should have consequences. the code of conduct should be lead by the good example of a professional staff. ainsley: maybe she doesn't know what the f stands for. >> probably does. jane says while i wouldn't write this on a paper i don't see the harm in it. clearly the teacher misjudged the student-teacher relationship and it back fired. no word on if this teacher is going to face punishment. ainsley: a high school student. at least it wasn't second grade. brian: stanley playoff national anthem. >> watch party at home statement. the live feed went down right when the national anthem was playing so naturally fans got up and sang the song themselves. watch this. ♪ the land of the free

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♪ ♪ brian: there you go. the capitol is where a lot of action taking place yesterday. just when you thought we were ready to turn the page, subpoena, obstruction. and some rejection. then comes an announcement about 9:00 a.m. there will be press conference at 11:00 a.m. featuring robert mueller. we hear him talk for the first time he didn't come off strong with timber. he didn't come off defiant but man did his words have weight. pete: yeah, brian, i was on your radio program when it was announced we literally 20 minutes what could this be? is it going to be i'm done which did he say he is done.

is he going to dispute some of the misinformation that's been out there? instead. ainsley: so much ambiguity, opening up a can of worms. scratching our head what is this all about? is he not happy with barr's decision? is he in support of the democrats? is this an impeachment referral? why would he do this and open up another can of worms and still come out and so ambiguous. we couldn't make a determination. we are not confident either way. the president can't be charged with a crime even if we found one while is he in office. listen to what he said yesterday. >> after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. volume 2 of our report explains that decision. it explains under

longstanding department policy, a present president cannot be charged with a federal crime while is he in office. that is unconstitutional. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider. brian: so when bob barr says -- bill barr says bob mueller told me three separate times that wasn't the only reasonable reason we are charging him but something he kept in mind. bob mueller went out of the way to write that in the script to make this clear that's the only reason we took to have the table. the judge just told us if you look at bill clinton what happened in 2,00 2000. even if he kept under seal. part of the department of justice and by regulation was bound by the department policy charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option to consider. so if you can't consider charging him, but you didn't exonerate him and he made that clear of obstruction i guess that's so.

so if you can't i easily could have said we could have. he said i did not. and i did not exonerate and i did not i did not conclude he committed a crime then we have a debate. the fact he left that out there on purpose scripted address makes me feel as though he wants this debate to happen and impeachment proceeding to take place. pete: all he did was muddy the water. take a giant sucker punch at the end of his report to say i have nothing left to say. i don't want to testify in the future except all of this carefully worded ambiguous language. he chose his words specifically when talking about the russians and the indictments of russians he said they are innocent until proven guilty. then he goes on to say what, brian, you just read about the president. now, the president came out very quickly with a measured tweet in response yesterday if you didn't see it. this is what he said. he said nothing changes from the mueller report there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country is a person is innocent. the case is closed.

thank you. ainsley: so i have the statement. there are three pages that we printed out this morning. there is one sentence in here that's very, very oddly worded. he said if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that. alan dershowitz had this reaction to that strange statement. >> when he said, quote: if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. that was absolutely inappropriate for him to say. it was worse than anything that comey said when he exonerated hillary clinton and then said but she engaged in extremely careless conduct. everybody condemn you had that this is much, much worse. and it does show that he had a motive to help the democrats here. he could have easily said the opposite. no, he emphasized only the possibility the president might have committed a crime. that went well beyond his authority as special

counsel. brian: i keep saying to myself what's he doing there? he writes a 440 page report. barr says release all of it. he said i wanted to release the summaries first. barr says i you want to release almost all of it he said okay i respect your right to do it. then out of nowhere when we start focus on investigating the investigators and how this whole thing launched. he decides to call this nine minute press conference and refocus everyone. to me this is a punch back at the president who has been taking swings at him for being conflicted for the last two and a half years. pete: he said he didn't want to testify by giving this nine minute speech he made it far more likely he will testify. he just incident kateed. ainsley: now everyone has more questions. pete: they have more questions. bine brian do you know republicans have questions, too? they're not backing off. they want to ask him stuff. pete: correct. ainsley: you sat down with tony katz the radio talk show host he said this is what the country wants to know. >> my god is this still going on? i think that's the majority

of the way the country is going. why is robert mueller doing this press conference and why did he tell us what's already in the mueller report? if he wanted to say hey congress, impeach, why didn't he just say those words? why is everything with him this couched kind of nonsense. that's not the way people are supposed to speak. they talk and then you need a decoder ring to figure out what happened here? he is goading congress. go on, impeach the man. that's what i think the majority of america took from this. and now we are just expecting it. brian: of course, 2020 candidates and there are 24 of them. all of them just about outside joe biden saying it's time to look at impeachment. and then the media and democrats like jerry nadler quickly said this proves the president is lying. and they are going to look at impeachment. nancy pelosi won't commit to that but nadler was in to impeaching two days ago. i think this will just fuel the flames. listen. >> this is as close to impeachment referral as you could get. >> he told us enough to interpret what he said as a

referral for impeachment proceedings. >> with respect to impeachment question at this point, all options are on the table. >> what is now the widely held expectation that the democratic controlled congress will have no choice but to open an impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> sounds like the special counsel is calling for congress to pick up where he left off. that process has a name. it begins with the letter i. impeachment. >> if the house leadership doesn't start hearings now, i believe it's hard to see them ever doing it in the months ahead. again, now or never. pete: biden did come out with a statement you needed one of those d.c. decoder rings to figure out what he meant. we might get there like nancy pelosi he knows it's a bad political move for them. it's a mirage of something once you reach there is no there there and independent voters just like tony katz said in middle america are thinking why are we still

talking about this? mueller submitted his report. no collusion, no obstruction. move on. democrats cannot figure that out. ainsley: some republicans are saying they are really hoping impeachment is pushed because the studies show, statistics show americans only care about healthcare and economy and immigration issues. they want to move on. brian: in history you don't want to be with nixon johnson impeached presidents. people look back what happened in 2019 oh yeah that was donald trump, he was impeached. you can get suspended from school but they don't reinforce it. it's still on your record. ainsley: yeah. brian: that's the only analogy i have that doesn't revolve around sports. pete: would he be the first to get reelected? >> no. bill clinton. pete: second term. ainsley: are you saying you know a lot about ports and being suspended? brian: fined and suspended. here is karl rove who doesn't play sports and was never suspended.

>> she can't walk this line new harvard harris poll 69% don't want impeachment. majority of democrats do. significant majority of republicans and independents don't endorse impeachment. they will have a disaster on their hands if they pursue impeachment. pete: i think you are right. it would be a mark on our history as well. lives with us forever. ainsley: look at the stats from the time monica lewenski scandal and impeachment. his approval rating increased 7 percentage points. brian: real quick, think think are going it do a slow bleed on impeachment. we are going to see hope hicks or not we are going to see don mcgahn or not. slow bleed to make this president unelectable. fund mentionly their goal. i don't think there is any argument the major domestic issue in this country that needs to be solved yesterday is the situation at our border. and one of the big magnets for those and other nations that want to come here are sanctuary cities.

and first and foremost the state of washington. pete: that's right. sheriff in washington is going to defy the sanctuary state law and says it's actually, the governors there, his name is governor inslee. he is the one obstructing justice. listen to the sheriff. >> i intend to fully help our federal partners take criminals off our street regardless of their immigration status. that's just going to happen that way. he doesn't really have that authority. in my opinion, one of two things, he should be held in contempt of congress because congress passed that law or he should be arrested for obstruction of justice. ainsley: basically the law goes to help the immigrants and he is saying i can't support this. it basically says law enforcement is banned from asking someone's immigration status. pete: that's right. this is an interesting showdown. a presidential candidate the governor of a state with sanction jerry city laws and a sheriff there who is charged with enforcing the law, the rule of law is saying you are obstructing

my ability to bring justice and defend my citizens? it's a very interesting take. brian: right. pete: love it. brian: you don't get into law enforcement to not enforce the law. pete: exactly. brian: california lawmakers voted free health insurance to undocumented. another magnet. kachaos on the west coast. meanwhile jillian mele belongs here. pete: she does and she is here legally. jillian: i am. i can confirm. once good morning. start off with a fox news alert. states of emergency across the midwest. tornadoes ripping through iowa including this massive funnel cloud in the city of hubbard. this is the worst year in tornado alley since 1950. victims now sharing stories of survival. >> lord help me, lord help me. i heard him say sue, we're coming. we're coming. and i saw the flashlight. and the neighbor on both

sides helped get me out. jillian: massive trees toppling on to homes in new jersey and crews running flew floodwaters to rescue people trapped in arkansas. also breaking right now an urgent manhunt is underway for two escaped inmates in arkansas. police say the two men crawled through a bathroom ceiling, climbed on to a roof and ran away from the jail in little rock. one of the men being held on robbery charges. the other drug charges. they were discovered missing at 2:00 in the morning. the coast guard suspends the search for a missing pilot overnight. beach goers watched in horror as a single engine plane fell into the water cape . police say the pilot was the only person on board. five months after she was born, the world's smallest baby is heading home. born at just 23 weeks and weighing 8.6 ounces, known as sabe weighed about the same as an apple. at first doctors were not

sure she would survive more than a few hours. but she defied the odds. here she is in a tiny graduation cap before leaving the san diego hospital weighing more than 5 pounds. the nurse calls her a miracle. brian: no kidding. pete: beautiful. thank you very much, jillian. ainsley: thank you, jillian. brian: beto o'rourke vowing to fix immigration calling it the most sweeping overhall in ages. he probably stood on a counter and swung his arms while saying it. pete: ken paxton here to respond to his fellow texan ♪ i guess you're just what i needed ♪ i needed someone to please ♪ eciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago.

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brian: welcome back, beto o'rourke releasing his plan to fix the crisis at our border. his campaign calls it quote the most sweep region write of immigration law in our nation. would any of it work here with reaction is someone from beto's home state ken paxton would be impacted. welcome mr. attorney general. >> great to see you. brian: go through this piece by piece and see if you think it will be effective.

forceful day one executive action would include remove fear for deportation of dreamers and tps only requires detention with those with criminal background okay with you. >> going to create a greater incentive for more illegal immigration. doesn't solve the problem. the president has offered something like that in conjunction with border security. without border security that doesn't work. brian: getting 2200 a day just in el paso. >> yeah. >> in huma it's the same situation. he is going to say if you are here you can stay if you dent get caught shoplifting? >> if you could imagine what it would do to our border crisis only make it much, much worse. brian: we write immigration laws this way pathway to citizenship 11 million people. naturalization easier for 9 million people. create a community based visa. >> none of this is going to work. this is all creating an opportunity for more people to come here. we are up to 100,000 people every month now. and if you don't address border security with a wall, with more technology, with

more border agents, this is just going to create an incentive for more immigration. brian: what about the message for the people doing it the right way brazilian trying to drive a car or work his way construction card. studying for a test. are you basically laughing in their face. >> you basically are here is an interesting thing. he was in congress for years and offered nothing like this and suddenly he is running for president he has this great solution that doesn't work. bringe brian we will see because is he desperate to get attention. he headlines this partner informs prosperity invest 5 billion in central america. write some checks. we are already doing that the president is so frustrated is he pulling back. is doubling down going to help? >> no. it's not worked in the past and not working now. where does the money come from. the president couldn't get more money for building a wall and now suddenly o'rourke wants to send more money to south america. brian: give me a couple things that will work if you are serious about working out that five alarm fire at

your border. >> something he does not address human trafficking, drug trade, the crime going on at our border, we have to have more border security agencies we have to have the wall in the right places and technology to deal with this. that's what he misses in his entire presentation. brian: we got to be able to keep these people more than 20 days. have to release them more than 20 it's impossible. we have no place to put everybody. >> we have to figure out this asylum policy. people figured out the loopholes. people come and claim asylum and we have them for a long time that system is not working. brian: now we are asking for babysitters at our border. it just doesn't seem like any end is in sight. >> congress has not provided the money and resources to do what we are doing now. he has not been given the resources to deal with all the people coming across right now. brian: congressman roy says tie that to the emergency funding going through the house right now i hope that happens. good to see you attorney general. >> thank you. brian: from baited toe to bernie some democrats are worried they won't support

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for being on the program this morning. >> good morning. pete: we hear rumors like this a lot. now ultimately bernie sanders did in 2016 endorse hillary clinton at the last anyone. if he were to not get the nomination, do you think he would support the democratic nominee? >> well, of course. he will say that he supports the democratic nominee but he can't control you know his supporters. the playbook is very clear. sanders supporters attack, attack, attack anyone that challenges senator sanders they do it to me this morning i was added to a list called human garbage i'm not even running for president. anyone that goes against senator sanders his supporters will be there to attack whether it's biden or warren or harris, whether it's anyone. it's bigger than just joe biden. >> we have 20 plus candidates running for the democratic nomination. sanders supporters have very clear if anyone challenges king sanders they are there to destroy and divide and there will be no unity. we can pretend there is. i know the playbook and know it well and see it all play out in the next year.

pete: sanders supporters probably came out for hillary clinton or maybe crossed over to trump. in 2020 you are saying even if bernie sanders let's say joe biden gets the nomination. even if bernie sanders endorses him his supportsers may not come out to th polls to support biden because berniey has been twice. >> i was against hillary clinton in 2016 because it was just two candidates to choose from. she wasn't my candidate. now that you have 20 plus candidates finance going to be telling to see if people are really interested in other policies or ideas or are they just simply part of the sanders' cult. they can say no our supporters will get behind whoever the candidate is, that's simply not true. you will see within the next year or so how they continue to perform. pete: easy to say now we will see how it unfolds. >> that's right. pete: joe biden 38%, bernie sanders 20. elizabeth warren 9. pentagon looked like a moderate to begin with and look at his policies much

more left of center. if you add up sanders, warren and buttigieg, is there a progressive well there that will eventually overcome joe biden's 38% with his universal name i.d.? >> i think senator warren is under estimated. i look forward to hearing heller in the debate. she is the only one that says i have a plan. i have a plan. she has more specific policies that address african-american concerns important to me. she is also the one that didn't write the crime bill like sanders didn't write and sign it like harris. she is somebody who people should certainly paying attention. to say i'm not saying i support her now. i look forward to the debates. i hope people make honest debates after the 12 debates between this year and next year. pete: it will be a long road. say we are playing out hypothetical and biden and bernie at the end. who is everyone else's second pick in the field? does elizabeth warren go to bernie? where do other people go in your estimation?

>> >> i think elizabeth warren should probably go to bernie but i don't think she will. you know, when you look at the divisiveness that you see from the bernie sanders camp, i don't know if elizabeth warren will be on board with it. remember she didn't come to support sanders either. she stayed in the back until he supported hillary clinton. so she has always been strategic. very thoughtful in her process and i see her supporting whoever that nominee is if if it is sanders she will. she has a game people under estimate. pete: it's a long road we know nothing about the future. >> that's right. pete: thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. pete: video frightening. a trooper grabbing a little girl wandering all alone. we will show what happened in the moments after that dramatic save. ♪ all i need is a miracle ♪ all i need is you ♪ where people are into coffee, tech, and retirement planning. the perfect retirement for me is doing the things that i want to do,

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>> no one has told me whether i can or should testify or speak further about this matter. there has been discussion about an appearance before congress. any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made. we chose those words carefully and the words speak for itself. and the report is my testimony. brian: let's bring in john sail former assistant watergate prosecutor has some opinions on this about what robert mueller did yesterday. the president doesn't think he changed things. john, do you think the president is looking at a different verdict today after robert mueller's statement yesterday. >> no, i don't. but, you know, there is a lot of ban theying around around witch-hunt and it's not whether you or you guys think it's a witch-hunt. if you put yourselves in the shoes of the president he never believed he did

anything wrong. and the mueller report didn't find that he did anything wrong. so i understand that he feels it's a witch-hunt and being unjustly prosecuted or persecuted. i just get that and it's not inflammatory. pete: you were involved in watergate. how does what you have seen unfold over the last two years compare to scandal you have watergate? >> public opinion that i think one of the things that has bothered me is the cruel criticism of the president's legal team that their lawyering has been excellent. the trump white house has maintained strong public opinion, strong support in the republican senate. so they are not in any danger. with watergate, they made a big calculation. i will tell you what the real difference is here the third branch of government. i think the democrats are overreacting with all these

subpoenas. if they were smart, they might issue one or two targeted subpoenas and go to court with it. but, the court is going to rule here. what happened in watergate first underlying crime a burglary. pete: a real crime. >> so there was something to cover up. here there is no underlying crime. it's just totally different. but public opinion, as long as the trump white house, the president keeps public opinion, the ballot box is going to decide whether or not president trump continues or doesn't continue. ainsley: jon, i'm watching yesterday oh gosh here we go again just as we thought this was wrapping up. this is going to be something that the democrats and media is going to run with. opening another can of worms. what did you think of it and what's really happening here? is he trying to show that barr is biased? why would he do this? >> the criticism of barr i just don't understand. at his age to take this job, he has no political aspirations, nowhere to go. he is just doing what's

right. but i could go by barr's four page letter paragraph by paragraph and i could tell you why it was accurate but it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter what the letter said. what matters is what has he done? mueller said i appreciate the attorney general released almost the total report that's unredacted. can i say one other thing? mueller, to his credit, said that there is a presumption of innocence. people are innocent until provenhe was referring to people who are indicted. well, the president was not indicted. why has he not enjoyed, the president, this presumption of innocence? what the public, what the media and now that he hasn't been found to do anything wrong, does anybody think of saying to the president, mr. president, we apologize for putting you through all of this? the answer is no. nobody is saying that. brian: do you know why? he basically said our indications are that he would have indicted the president had he been able to but he can't indict a sitting president. that's what he cited. >> respectfully, i don't think he said that the "new

york times" today said he, quote: hinted at it. well, if the hint is in there, it's an invisible ink. i read that report from cover to cover. the indices, the footnotes, he just passed on that. he did not hint, suggest, or say he would have. all he said is i can't and he punted on deciding whether or not he would have if he could have. brian: he says if we concluded that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> that's turning the world upside down. you know, so he didn't conclude he didn't. but what about that he did? he didn't conclude that either. brian: i think. so he went out of his way to say it like that. he was reading his own words. is he trying to give us a message. >> that's in the eyes of the beholder. everybody is talking about exoneration. he did not exonerate the president. prosecutors do not exonerate. i have been doing this for a long time on the defense side. i'm still waiting for an exoneration. they don't do that they charge or don't charge. they don't exonerate.

the "times" headline said he failed to absolve. ainsley: there wasn't enough evidence. >> you don't absolve or exonerate. you charge or don't charge. pete: jon, i like listening to people who know what they're talking about. >> thank you. i appreciate that. brian: where do you go from here legally if you are the president? he has been very measured in his tweets and statements. so has his communication staff. so where do you go from here? >> you move on. you continue to build up political support. brian: going to get subpoena after subpoena former staffers former and current? >> they have an absolute right to challenge them in court. the only thing the president is not do is defy a court order. but i don't think he is going to do it. i think they are going to challenge it in court and whether or not they win, that's where our three branches of government and our balance of power. ainsley: will we hear from mueller? will he be called to speak in front of congress? >> with all due respect to what i heard judge napolitano said if he is subpoenaed, of course he will appear but is he simply not going to answer these questions. it's not appropriate for a

prosecutor to. he is going to say my report speaks for itself. ainsley: what he said yesterday. pete: john sail, than sale. thank you. jillian: ashton kutcher taking the stand in accused serial killer. he never answered the door for him when he went to pick her up for a date. this was back in 2001. kutcher saying quote i remember the next day after i heard about what happened i went to the detectives and said my fingerprints are on the door. i was freaking out. kutcher was assured he was not a suspect. suspect michael faces life in prison if convicted. a tearful father gives heart breaking testimony about his son's deadly overdose in a landmark opioid trial. >> from the university of oklahoma the saturday before

he died. he was one of those kids that people gravitated to him. >> craig box testifying in oklahoma's case against drugmaker johnson and johnson. the company is accused of helping fuel the opioid crisis. box's son was an oklahoma university football star. he died in 2011. a state trooper saves a child from getting hit by a dump truck. symptom what you are doing and watch this. >> oh, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. jillian: right place, right time, the michigan trooper grabbing the 2-year-old girl just in time. her mother says she lost track of the child for just a few seconds. arnold schwarzenegger making a bid for song of the summer. you have to see his rapping debut. ♪ deep down and ask yourself ♪ who do you want to be ♪ not what but who ♪ if you believe success will come to you ♪ work like hell ♪ trust yourself

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overnight on monday. now in the days since they have been out surveying sights thesurvey sitesthey say d confirmed 17 tornadoes touched down in ohio alone overnight on monday. they say there are still some areas that they may go out and survey. that number potentially could change again. storms have torn through a number of states in recent days. hitting places hard like iowa, ohio, texas, arkansas, and kansas. it even hit new jersey and new york. they spawned countless tornadoes, took out power lines, destroyed homes and in the midwest, injured dozens and killed at least 9. this area where we are just outside of the city of dayton is trotwood, ohio. if you guys walk with me a little this way, you can see some of the damage. this entire area looks like this. it's not just one home but it is rows of houses where everything is gone. you can see all of the clothes scattered all across this area. shoes, candles, if you look

over here, too. you can see what is left of this one house. the entire back side has been torn off. a lot of these houses actually look like doll houses that you would play with when you were a child. the roofs are gone and the backs will be gone where you can almost just reach in. we just spoke to one hand who said the person who lives in this house was out of town. he came home to find, this that his home is likely not something that can be lived in or fixed. it is gone. you can see here on the ground what looks like a piece of christmas decoration. this, i think is, one example of the many reminders we see when we look at these houses whether it's clothes or something that looks like what you imagine someone would hang up on man tell during christmas is that these aren't just structures. they aren't just homes, they are people's lives in an instant were destroyed. now people are trying to clean up and rebuild what they can but it's going to be a long tough journey. people don't have anywhere to live right now because their homes look exactly

like this house right here. pete, brian, ainsley? pete: thank you very much. devastation. brian: great job bringing that i haven't seen any sign of fema yet but i'm sure they are heading there. 14 minutes before the top of the hour. you have been calling this and give us insight. where is this heading? >> today actually is the last day of this round of severe weather for the next several days but we still have several tornadoes reports in texas, oklahoma, up towards illinois and iowa, some of the same areas and then we have had quite a bit of hail and damaging winds across the mid-atlantic. no severe thunderstorm watches or tornadoes watches which is great news. so we are starting to see the pattern kind ofbreak up the same pattern that brought that highway of storms over the last well let's see two weeks, i would think. and the severe threat of today for parts of the great lakes and the mid-atlantic but it's starting to diminish. that is not to say that the flooding threat is going away. this is something we are going to be talking about for weeks and months as all of that water goes

downstream. so the missouri river, the arkansas river, the mississippi river valley some places we are rivalling the great flood of 1927. this is epic and it is destroying crops. so, i want to make sure that we focus on the fact that the flooding is going to be the story over the next several weeks. we have received, you know, at least six inches in some of these areas and, again, this is an area that has seen so much rain over the springtime so, there is no place for any more water to go so some of the same areas over the next couple of days are going to get more rain in the forecast which is going to be devastating for some of these regions. all right. pete: thank you, janice. ainsley: 48 minutes after the top of the hour. nationwide abortion debate also growing on college campuses. the student who is fighting to keep student fees from funding abortions on his campus is going to join us live next. ♪ and t-t-t-t-t-icks! and mosquitoooooooooooes!

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as the debate over abortion continues in courtrooms all across our country now hitting a fevered pitch at the university of chicago's campus. hundreds of students protesting a bill that would prohibit student fees from funding abortions. brian: the bill then failed the student council vote of 15-1. next guest offered the pro-life bill and only one to vote for t joining us now is university of chicago student bret barbon set fee for student life costs. when did you find out some of those costs would go to abortions? >> hi, brian and ainsley. thanks for having me on. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning. at the university of chicago we pay a student life fee every year as part of our tuition that is supposed to go to recreational, educational, social and cultural activities on campus. a polarization of those fees go to student government. our student government divided it wanted to use student life fees to fund abortions. just a few weeks ago the incoming president of our student government said on facebook abortions are good thing and her committee

supports and funds abortions proudly. and several concerned students reached out to thee that their student life fees could be going toward funding abortions that would be a violation of their conscience. they asked me a member of student government to draft legislation to address the situation. ainsley: why are there borings happening on your campus? >> well, i'm certainly there is abortions happening on campus but the thing is this committee which was set up to fund them actually hasn't funded any abortions even though it's been running over year they take both student life fees from our student government. financially coerced from our student and take private donations so the question is really why are they continuing to use our student life fees which only make up 10% of their total funding in order to fund abortions when they have the rest of the 90% to use. brian: you put this bill forward and not only did you get support among the council you got proteste protesn what way. >> absolutely. i got protested certainly within the room a relatively civil discussion about my legislation. although some members of student government said that

reiterated that abortions are a good thing to. abortions are amazing. but online i received death threats, people were calling for people to track me down and beat me up. there was a student egged outside of the room. and it was really was -- unfortunate to see on a campus like the university of chicago where we have such strong free speech and free expression principles. ainsley: you know, if you look at what is happening in new york, you are allowed to get an abortion up all the way until the very end when the baby is born. if you look at what is happening down south and alabama and the midwest, the rules are very conservative or laws conservative. are you thinking about moving and leaving and going to a school in the south? >> no. i'm graduating in a few weeks. and actually i considered my legislation to be a compromise. seeing as it gives three exceptions in order to use their student life fees like this hyde amendment which has passed the federal level 43 years ago consensus in our society if we have people so passionate on both sides those who believe it's a violation of their

conscience shouldn't be coerced with their tax dollars to pay for abortions. we are trying to go to school to get an education. we shouldn't have to be violating our conscience in this way. brian: yeah. i hear you. bret, you can continue to fight. good luck on your graduation in a couple of weeks. thanks form sharing your story. >> thank you so much, brian. ainsley: we reached out to your school, bret for a statement and we did not hear back from them. brian: will nancy pelosi or not look for impeachment. ainsley: former speaker newt gingrich knows a thing about that and he is going to join us at the top of the hour. ♪ i want to fly like an eagle ♪ i want to fly ♪ ♪ so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work.

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ainsley: good morning to you on this thursday, may 30th. booedness. -- goodness. we're glad we're here. last day of school for the new york area. pete: you're looking especially dapper. ainsley: is it clean? is it clean? let me see. oh. fresh out of the dry cleaner. brian: you guys spotted i left my dry cleaning tag on. maybe i overreacted. ainsley: what is the tag number? brian: number 57. thanks, pete, appreciate it. here we are, 22 hours ago, robert mueller changed everything, when came to the robert mueller investigation. he came out for nine minutes, let everybody know he did not exonerate the president. i'm leaving my keys. i'm turning out the lights. i'm done.

i'm finished, i'm through but man, he left us a bomb. pete: he really did. ainsley: the president tweeted about it. the he said, the greatest presidential harrassment in history with unlimited access, people resources cooperation, highly-conflicted robert mueller would have brought charges if he had anything but there were no charges to bring. pete: that was about 22 minutes ago. three minutes ago tweeted, russia, russia, russia. all you heard at the beginning of the witch-hunt hoax. russia disappeared. they didn't help me get elected. there is crime that didn't exist and now the dems -- brian: as we bring in newt gingrich, as you read the robert mueller report they talk about a scramble from one of the oligarchs, because no one has any contacts with incolling trump administration. they are tasking one of them who owns one of these aspen banks to go ahead to try to make some contacts because we need to

speak to somebody. we had random russians calling hope hicks' cell phone number to get a meeting with a higher up. does that sound like somebody who colluded with russia? newt gingrich, welcome. >> good to be with you. this whole thing would be a farce if it weren't so serious. the fact is there was never any evidence that the president colluded with anybody. there is no evidence in 428 pages, there is no evidence that the president in any way obstructed anything. mueller got to see everybody he wanted to see except the president himself. the president agreed to submitting written questions and's. mueller got to put people solitary confinement. in one case a woman served over half of her potential sentence in solitary confinement in a way i think is very un-american.

mueller had lots and lots of lawyers, virtually all of them anti-trump, very smart lawyers, very good prosecutors from very expensive law firms, after two years, what do they got? the most startling thing if anybody wants to know how sick the system got, it is mueller's assertion that he couldn't exonerate trump. that is exactly the opposite of the american system. in the absence of proof of guilt somebody is automatically innocent. we don't have to walk around every day proving we're innocent. that is our birthright as americans of the it is the duty of the state to prove we're guilty. clearly mueller could not do that. ainsley: what did you think happened yesterday? what were your thoughts when you were watching him and listen way he was phrasing some of the odd statements. brian: why? >> i have no idea. look i'm not a psychologist.

i'm a historian and i have no idea what is going on in his head but my guess is in his social circles people felt he failed to serve the worthy cause of destroying donald trump and he was trying to sort of cleverly toss it to the congress and say, gee, if you really want to go do this if he can. may have been trying to preempt for him to testify. he said hey, i said everything i'm going to say but it was a very bizarre briefing, wasn't really a press conference and alan dershowitz did a brilliant job within very few minutes taking it apart in an article on "the hill" step by step proving that mueller didn't have the right to say the things he was saying. so i think for historians they're going to look back and see how deeply, passionately

anti-trump the establishment was, look at how a career fbi agent, federal judge, senior official, turns everything on its head. i mean mueller yesterday reversed american tradition. he says of the russians, they're innocent until proven guilty. in the next paragraph he says he can't prove the president's innocence. so the standard for the american president is dramatically lower than his standard for russians. you could not have made that up. pete: you talk about alan dershowitz response. democrats had immediate response as well. if bob mueller's intent was to ramp up impeachment talk he did that. here is montage of democrats after mueller spoke for nine minutes. >> he told us enough to interpret what he said as a referral for impeachment proceedings. >> with respect to impeachment

question at this point all options are on the table. >> what is now the widely-held expectation that the democratic controlled congress will have no choice but to open an impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> sounds like the special counsel is calling for congress to pick up where he left off. that process has remained. it begins with the letter i. impeachment. >> if the house leadership doesn't start hearings now, i believe it is heart to see them ever doing it in the months ahead, again now or never. brian: gameplan this out, mr. speaker what's next? >> last comment is perfect. if it is now or never it will be never. nancy pelosi watched what we went through in 1998. she understands that the average american gets very rapidly fed up. that the average american does not want to see the congress spend its time on impeachment.

she also understands that the republican senate will never convict, ever. it is not going to happen. and i think she is trying to sort of put the brakes on. i thought she was pretty direct yesterday. then she said almost dismissively, look, 10% of my conference, 10% of the congress wants to go forward. that does not intimidate me. so i think she is saying the answer is never. and i think she is probably going to end up succeeding. the presidential candidates are all trying to make noise. they're all trying to appeal to the most radical wing of their party. and i think in some ways the decisive person will be joe biden. biden lived through the watergate period. he lived through the clinton impeachment. he has had real experience. and my hunch is that biden will come out and say, you know, we ought to move on to solving problems. this is a dead end. pete: the decision that is, the

tag line that is impeach him at ballot box, if they were smart politically, that is the pivot they would make, all eyes on nancy pelosi and biden. brian: vice president biden's camp, the vice president agrees with speaker pelosi no one should relish what would certainly be a divisive impeachment process but it may be unavoidable if the administration continues on its path for these reasons and many more. vice president biden will continue to make the case why he should be elected as president. he is not jumping in but not jumping out. ainsley: nancy pelosi is going after barr and saying he misrepresented robert mueller. listen to this. >> the report has been misrepresented grossly by the attorney general. misrepresenting in his spoon-fed by his own choosing of words what the mueller report was about. they did a disservice to truth

an disservice to the country. >> the attorney general concluded it was appropriate to provide our report to congress and to the american people. i certainly do not question the attorney general's good faith in that decision. ainsley: is it fair to put barr back in the spotlight, newt? >> of course, the democrats and left-wing media are terrified of the power the president has given attorney general barr to declassify information. first time in my lifetime that elements of the news media and "new york times" and "washington post" are not in favor of publishing secrets. the reason is, there are a number of people in the obama administration, potentially including vice president biden who are in danger of serious embarassment. there are a lot of things that could come up. mueller is closing lines about how noble and wonderful all these people were, one of them is potentially going to be indicted for lying. comey clearly has significant legal problems.

you have several people like strzok ho were viciously anti-trump. you have totally false use of what we now know as a phony british agent designed report. you go down the list of stuff. it's a little strange that mueller would try to cast a blanket of honor and nobility over all these activities but the left understands, if the attention turns away from donald trump and turns back how sick was the establishment in trying to destroy trump, they have a big problem on their hands. brian: newt, finally, you know what it is like to be at loggerheads with a president still want to get stuff done. president of the united states, you have to make a decision, nancy pelosi, legislate or investigate, is there a third way and do you encourage the president to start doing, do something about immigration, border, usmca, anything like that? >> sure. first of all as much as i like donald trump as a former speaker

of the house i also believe speakers of the house are not dictated to by presidents. pelosi can do anything she wants to. she want investigate and legislate. then the president has a problem. the democrat were clever which they have not been so far, they would boss really popular legislation. they would pass deliberately bipartisan legislation. then the president have to decide, will you really veto this stuff? but instead they keep talking at a kind of a up here level rather than letting all 435 members have a role. i think presently what you will see because mitch mcconnell is pretty smart about this, the senate will start producing real legislation. you are going to have a republican senate being productive and democratic house pursuing investigations and at a time as karl rove pointed out on fox, the increasing number of independents do not want to see this degenerate into pure investigations. they're driving independents towards the republicans by their

very pave i don't remember. brian: check out newt's podcast and pick up, "collusion." two other reasons to like newt gingrich. mr. speaker, thank you so much. >> glad to be with you. brian: jillian mele says so often it is great to be with us. jillian: always. i appreciate every moment. let's start off with a fox news alert, a story we're following. julian assange is too ill to appear in london court even by video link according to his lawyers as his hearing is postponed. he is fighting extradition charges conspiring with chelsea manning to break into a pentagon computer. assange is in hospital wing as concerns grow for his deteriorated health. he is due in court on june 12th. the coast guard suspend the search for a missing pilot overnight. beachgoers watched in horror as a single-engine plane fell into

the water off cape may, new jersey. they found the plane in 18 feet of water. they say the pilot was the only person on board. a cubs player breaks down when a foul ball hit as very young fan. watch this. it looks like that -- right now. there you go, in the video you can see he was disturbed by this. cubs centerfield albert amora, jr., brought to tears. the. >> reason i hit it i'm speechless. lost for words. being a father of two boys. jillian: the little girl was rushed to the hospital but will be okay. that is your headlines. back to you. brian: crazy, dramatic events.

pete: the president is speaking on the south lawn right now. we'll give it to you on the other side the break. ainsley: he is getting on air force one to give a commencement speech. brian: he is going to the airrc force academy. cramping, gas, or sudden urgency. miralax. look for the pink cap.

brian: back with a fox news alert. a slow motion disaster you can say happening now along the arkansas river. ainsley: historic flooding happening in nearly every community in the state. pete: matt finn is live in fort smith, arkansas where more rain is on the way. reporter: guys, the river is raging. all the water is headed toward the capital of little rock. unfortunately in the fort smith area and eastern oklahoma there are entire communities even underwater right now. water up to the rooftops. it could be days until the water recedes. this river according to the national weather service is sitting at an all-time high of 40 feet at this hour. give you an idea how high that is, there is electrical box, that locals here tell us usually requires a ladder to get to. you can see the box is almost partially underwater. the national guard this morning tells us this morning it has relocated high water teams to the south in conway in jefferson counties. here in fort smith and western

oklahoma the floodwaters are still up to some rooftops in the area. businesses are still under water. we talked to one family, who is pumping water out of their house this morning, they said they worry about their neighbors. >> for a while we thought we would lose our whole house, everything. some of these people don't have flood insurance. we luckily do. we don't have a rot -- lot. reporter: the governor here in arkansas asked the president to declare this a federal disaster. brian, ainsley, pete. brian: won't have any problem getting the disaster recommendation. i appreciate it. ainsley: thank you so much. brian: straight ahead, we're finding this out, the president just spoke to reporters outside the white house as he always does heading off to marine one for air force one. reaction from robert mueller's statement that happened yesterday. we'll bring you those comment right after this.

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milano. >> i wasn't sure if she was joking or if she was serious or what was going on but i looked at it further. i think she was quoting i think what her trolls say to her. that tweet tells us more about her, what she is thinking, how she feels and i think, i think that she gets hurt as an actor when people come after her. so i think she used that opportunity to sort of dig at jon voight a little bit because she did put it on her resistance page, not her acting page. she has several twitter pages. so you know, i think she was using it as a opportunity to tell us how she was feeling about how she doesn't like it but then do it at the same time. i don't know. pete: a dig at jon voight would be inherently a dig at herself.

do you think she is exploiting a double standard in hollywood, someone like her can get away with it because the industry thinks and feels, but conservatives, you shouldn't talk like at that? >> i think we, in hollywood, i don't think we should be going after each other. you know, with our careers and, you know, jon voight is lovely man. i've known him for some years. i just love him. he wasn't doing anything. he wasn't attacking anyone. he was, you know, being a patriot and speaking how he feels and what he believes in. and, i think that she could have just said you know, i don't agree with what he said about him being the best president since abraham lincoln but you know, good for you, jon. i don't think she needed to take it to that level per se. ainsley: we've been talking a lot about this investigation in washington and we've been reading text messages between the two lovebirds in washington, lisa page, mr. strzok. i know that you and dean cain

have a production where you're acting this out, you're getting death threats now? >> there was a death threat last week on twitter to lock the doors and burn down the theater. you know, that's unfortunate, nobody wants to see something like that and you know, i don't know, i don't know what to say, other than report it and you know let people know. we don't deserve that. pete: of course not, death threats. the play is fbi lovebirds, undercovers. running in washington as one-night only production in on june 13th. will the show eventually happen? will it go on? >> yeah the show is going on. we're switching theaters at this point. you know, i'm an actor and you know, i'm going to be playing lisa page.

i look forward to playing her as written by her actually. all of it is her text messages and her testimony and dean cain will be playing peter strzok. and you know, if you circle it back to what alyssa milano is saying, i guess i can look forward to the fact that she won't be attacking me for doing this play. ainsley: what made you want to do this play? you know there might be some backlash? we hear hollywood is so liberal, when actors play conservative roles, even though this is not a conservative role, people are probably mad at you for doing this, why did you decide to be a part of this production? >> well i think it is a story that people need to hear. whether it is a book or a audio, or, video, or a play, this is just a creative way of doing it where we're going to be on stage actually reading from the script. you know, for me, personally,

you know, when dean came to me with this, i said what? in front of a live audience? are you kidding me? not really with i'm used to. i'm used to doing television and film. so i have never done a play. neither has dean. this will be a new, a new challenge for me. and, i look forward to it. you know. pete: let us know what it does air. we'll check it out and play some of it on our program maybe on the other side. actress kristy swanson. ainsley: when i was a little girl, i was extra in the movie, the program. you were the love interest in that movie. i followed your career. you were doing a great job. >> thank you, ainsley. take care. ainsley: did you see me, in university of south carolina in the stands among 70,000 people. i was one of those extras. [laughter]. pete: we need to find you and show it. ainsley: my point in a sea of fans. pete: opened a can of worms. ainsley: 28 minutes after the

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the border, comb men'sment address to the air force. but as usual he does not, you know, the press secretary doesn't give press conferences anymore. we also never had a president accessible anymore. wherever he goes he sits and talks to reporters. you get one, you lose another. ainsley: when you're a reporter talking to governors or presidents, if you have that, that privilege, then you know most of the time when they're walking to the helicopter to get on air force one they will not stop and talk to you, this president enjoys doing that. you usually can get an interview, he did that this morning talking about the mueller report. we're turning video. it was pool video. every network gives you the video. we'll get it in a second. first jason chaffetz, fox news contributor, former utah congressman, chairman of house government and oversight committee and author of, the deep state. good morning to you, jason. >> good morning. ainsley: after that briefing

yesterday with robert mueller, did he open the tore to impeach ment? >> it was everything but open invitation. he had resources could have written what he wanted to write, no hinderances forever, should give donald trump awards from the sunlight foundation, how open and transparent he was, but to come a month or so after the report is issued, make those types of statements it, was terribly self-serving. not what the department of justice should be doing. he was putting his hands on the political scale. i thought it was a political stunt to save his own hide within his own social circles. i was terribly disappointed with him. pete: folks with a rot of expertise some think it would lead to the road to impeachment. speaker gingrich said it wouldn't. your take, knowing congress? >> i don't think they have the

ability the democrats to hold back. you had more than 60 members of the democrats preaching and supporting impeachment before mueller had even issued a word of it. you had one member of congress even as the president was sworn in saying he was going to impeach the president. i just don't think they have the discipline internally. the senate will never take it up. there is no core basis for justification to have these hearings, to go through this process. brian: jason we're waiting for president's comments about the topics you're discussing. my sense, your take, there is no answer as of yet. why did he do it? why now, why yesterday, why did he say what he said and why did he leave when he did? what is behind it? >> i mean it is purely a guess but from where i sit i think it was to cover his butt within his own political social circles.

i think that the democrats were so disappointed that they didn't have what they had preached for two years. that he had to come out there and try to say, and this is a the core question. you have barr, rosenstein and another person sitting in this room supposedly mueller says look, i didn't prosecute and you know, here are the issues. but, you have this discrepancy now as to whether or not he said, was i held back because of the law? but i don't think he was. i think barr was actually out there telling the truth and it scared mueller and his reputation. he was supposed to be the guy to get trump and he didn't, he feels bad about that but there was no evidence. he could never make a case. brian: he is republican. >> i don't think that matters. there are a lots of republicans that love donald trump, some that don't. democrats that like donald trump

and some that don't. i don't think the political label that does anything. you have comey and mueller doing what the department justice is not supposed to do. i think they screwed over hillary clinton. i think they're screwing over donald trump. these department of justice officials have got to stop weighing in on political matters. that is not what they're there to do. ainsley: what about all these investigations? you were on oversight and now oversight is seeking documents from his accounting firm? you have house ways and means, they have subpoenaed his tax returns. you have house judiciary, they issued subpoenas to hope hicks and annie donaldson. the house is ought to get him. >> they have since day one. can i just mention, ainsley, the biggest story that came out yesterday that was never mentioned was it got smothered by mueller. inspector general issued a report that they had given a criminal referral to the deputy assistant director and it was dropped. >> press we were trying to get.

they released him a little while ago into home custody. he will be released from home custody to the united states pretty soon. i just want to thank president erdogan. we dealt with that. he was great. released prisoner hostage. he is at home custody. he will be released fairly soon that is good news. you probably know about that. other than that i think things are going very well. the economy is doing fantastically well i don't know any expectations. unemployment numbers are just about the best in the history of our country. employment numbers are the best. we have close to 160 million people working today which is more than we ever had before. i'm going out to colorado today to give the commencement address for the air force, which is actually very exciting for me. it is an amazing place.

these are great people. so i look forward to doing that? any questions? [inaudible conversations] >> i think it was the same as the report. there wasn't much change, to me the same as the report. and there is no obstruction. you see what we're saying, there is no obstruction, no collusion, no nothing. nothing but a witch-hunt. this is witch-hunt by the media and the democrat, they're partners. and it keeps going. i thought it was finished when the report was released but it goes on. to me it was the same frankly as the report and he said basically it was the same as the report. reporter: [inaudible]. >> i think he is totally conflicted because as you know wanted to be the fbi director and i said no. as you know i had a business dispute with him after he

evident left the fbi. we had a business dispute. he wasn't happy with what i did. i don't blame him but i had to do it because that was the right thing to do but i had a business dispute. and he loves comey. you look at the relationship at that those two. so whether it is love or deep like but he was conflicted. robert mueller should have never been chosen because he wanted the fbi job he didn't get it. the next day he was picked aspects counsel. so you tell somebody i'm sorry, you can't have the job. then after you say that he is going to make a ruling on you? doesn't work that way. plus we had a business dispute. plus his relationship with comey was extraordinary. now one other thing i'll say, why didn't he investigate strzok and page and mccabe and comey and all the lies and brennan and the lies and clapper and the

lies to congress and all the things that happened to start this investigation? why didn't comey come clean? why didn't comey come clean and say the things that he knows are a fact? why didn't mueller investigate comey, his best friend or his very good friend? there are some other things. here is a question. this is the study of russia. why didn't they invest the insurance policy? should hillary clinton lose, we have got an insurance policy? guess what? what we're in right now is the insurance policy. [reporters shouting questions] >> i think he is a total conflicted person. i think mueller is a true never-trumper. he is somebody that dislikes donald trump. he is somebody that didn't get a job that he requested he wanted very badly. and then he was appointed. and despite that, and despite

$40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that worked for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it is pretty amazing. [reporters shouting questions] reporter: do you believe russia helped you get elected? >> russia did not get me elected? you know who got me elected? i got me elected. russia didn't help me at all. russia if anything helped other side. what you asked this, do you think the media helped hillary clinton get elected? she didn't make it. look at collusion twine hillary clinton and the media. look at collusion between hillary clinton and russia. she had more to do with the campaign with russia than i did. i had nothing to do. by the way, one other thing, if you look, this is all about russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore. because it turned out to be a hoax. it was all a hoax. and then they say, gee, he

fought back, isn't that terrible. he fought back. of course i fight back because it was a false accusation. a totally false accusation. and it is a disgrace. and it is a very, it is a very sad period for this country. i think in the end, i will consider what is happening now to be one of my greatest achievement. exposing this corruption. [reporters shouting questions] reporter: do you think they will impeach you? >> i don't see how they can because they're possibly allowed -- i can't imagine the courts allowing it. i have never gone into it. i never thought that would even be possible to using that word. to me it's a dirty word, the word impeach. it's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word. it had nothing to do with me so i don't think there was no crime. high crimes and, not with or or or, it was high crimes and

misdemeanorses. there was no high crime or there was no misdemeanor? how do you impeach based on that? it came out nothing to do with russia. the whole thing is a scam. it is a giant presidential harrassment. and honestly, i hope it goes down as one of my greatest achievements. because i have exposed corruption, i've exposed corruption like nobody knew existed. [ers shouting questions] reporter: [inaudible]. >> what? reporter: [inaudible]. >> i think we're doing very well with china. i want to shake your hand. come here. you treated me fairly. thank you, thank you. wait, wait. i want to ask a real reporter's question. we'll answer a real reporter's question, okay?

china would love to make a deal with us. we had a deal, they broke the deal. i think they had it to do again they wouldn't have done what they did. we're taking in billions of dollars in tariffs. china is subsidizing products. so the united states taxpayers is paying for very little of it. if you look at inflation, if you look at pricing, it has gone up very little. the tariffs are having a devastating effect on china. people are fleeing the country with their companies. these companies are leaving for vietnam, other parts of asia. they're even coming to the united states, because then there is no tariff. i think we're doing very well with china. we'll see what happens. i can tell you, china very much, wants to make a deal, because, the companies are leaving china to avoid the tariffs. china is becoming a very weakened nation. just as iran has become a very weakened nation. and iran wants to make a deal

also. [. reporter: [inaudible] >> say it? reporter: farage? >> nigel farage is friend of mine. boris is a friend of mine. they're two very good guys, interesting people. nigel had a great victory, picked up 32% of the vote starting from nothing. i think they have done a good job. reporter: [inaudible] >> i like them. they're friends of mine but i haven't thought about supporting them. maybe it is not my business to support people but i have a lot of respect for both of those men. reporter: do you think it is fair to, do you think it is fair to the sailors on the john mccain that they were banned from hearing you speak? >> i don't know what happened. i wasn't involved. i would not have done that. i was very angry with john mccain because he killed health care. i was not a big fan of john mccain in any way, shape or

form. i think john mccain had a lot to getting president bush, a lot to do with it, to go into the middle east which was catastrophe. to me john mccain, i wasn't a fan. but i would never do a thing like that. now, somebody did it because they thought i didn't like him. okay? and, they were well-meaning they were say. i didn't know anything about it. i would never have done that. reporter: sailors of -- >> not at all. i heard sailors -- we had a tremendous group of sailors from various ships. it was a beautiful day. but the mccain thing i knew nothing about. reporter: [inaudible]. >> well i think i've been much tougher on elections than president obama. president obama was told in 2016 just before the election in september that russia may try to interfere with the election. he did nothing. the reason he did nothing because he thought hillary was

going to win. we are doing a lot. we're trying to do paper ballots as a backup system as much as possible. because going to good old-fashioned paper in this modern age, is the best way to do it. reporter: [inaudible]. >> well i think we want to have a relationship with russia and china and everybody. i have said that a long time. getting along with russia, getting along with china, is a good thing, if we can do it on fair terms or our terms. reporter: [inaudible] >> well venezuela, we're just on watch. we'll see what happens. i would love to see them work out their problems. i understand there are a lot of talks going on but i'm all for the people of venezuela. you know that probably better than anyone. steve, go ahead. reporter: [inaudible] form a

coalition -- >> too bad what happens in israel. it looked like a total win for netanyahu. he is a great guy. he is a great guy. now they're back in the debate stage. they're back in the election stage. that is too bad because they don't need. i mean they have got enough turmoil over there. it's a tough place. i feel very badly about that. it looks like they're talking but more likely they will have to go back into election mode. that is too bad. reporter: [inaudible] reporter: trying to help you and hurt hillary clinton. was mueller wrong about that? >> i believe russia would rather have hillary clinton as president united states than donald trump. the reason is, nobody has been tougher on russia than me. whether it is our energy policy was not hers. whether it is the pipeline, as you know, in europe, going all over the place, that i've been bitterly complaining about. whether it is ukraine.

whether it is a whole host of things, there is nobody ever been more tough or difficult for russia than donald trump. i have to tell you this, i put sanctions on russia at a level that nobody has seen before. nobody even want to write about it. with all of that i want to get along with russia. i want to get along with europe. i want to get along with europe. i want to get along with everybody, if it is possible. i even want to get along with iran. iran wants to talk and if they want to talk i'm available. thank you. reporter: [inaudible]. >> [inaudible] meeting with a lot of the irish officials. it will be an overnight stay. i look forward to that. a lot of -- [inaudible].

reporter: [inaudible]. >> well i can't, because i didn't know anything about it. i don't know who did it. we'll probably find out who did it. they thought they were doing me a favor because they know i'm not a fan of john mccain. john mccain killed health care for the republican party and he killed health care for the nation. i disagree with john mccain on the way he handled the vets because i said you had to get choice. he was never able to get choice. i got choice. i disagree with john mccain on the middle east. he forced bush to make a bad decision to go into the middle east. i was not a fan of john mccain, never will be, but i couldn't care less whether or not there is a boat named after her father. reporter: [inaudible]. >> there were no charges, none. if you look at, if you look at

bill clinton, that very, nice gentleman who has been so much on my side, as you know, his special prosecutor, it was guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, so many guilties. with me there was no guilty. number one there was no crime. and number two, i fought back. i'll tell you, wait, wait. wait. wait. there was no collusion. there was no collusion. read volume one. there was no collusion. reporter: [inaudible]. >> that means you're innocent. that means you're innocent. excuse me. then he should have said, you're guilty. reporter: [inaudible]. >> that's wrong. that's wrong. because he said -- he said it differently the first time. so he said essentially, you're innocent. i'm innocent of all charges. and you know the thing that nobody brings up, there was no crime. they're saying he obstructing something there is no crime.

nobody brings it up. also some day you ought to read a thing called article 2. read article 2, which gives the president powers that you wouldn't believe, you don't even have to rely on article 2. there was no crime. there was no obstruction. there was no collusion. there was no nothing. and this is from a group of people that hate me. if they only found anything, they would have had it and he knows that better than anybody. reporter: [inaudible]. he did not say you were innocent. >> there was no crime. there was no charge. he had no information. reporter: [inaudible]. do you agree with louisiana's ban on abortion at -- [inaudible] >> we'll have a statement about it. i'm also going to have probably, today, a major statement on the border. this is a big league statement but we are going to do something very dramatic on the border because people are coming into our country, the democrats will

not give us laws, they will not change laws, they will not meet, they will not do anything. they want to have open borders. they want to have crime. they want to have drugs pouring into our country. they want to have human trafficking. i'm going to be making a statement, probably tomorrow but maybe today. reporter: [inaudible] >> i'm not closing the border. i'm doing something else. we're going to be having a major statement on the border sometime later today or tomorrow. reporter: [inaudible]. >> it will be a statement having to do with the border and having to do with people illegally coming over the border. and it will be my biggest statement so far on the border. we have brought something to the light of the people. they see now it's a national emergency. and most people agree. the democrats agree too but they won't give us the legislation you need to fix it. right now, when you catch somebody you have to release them. they won't give us the

legislation. whether it is chain migration or whether it is lottery, they won't give us any, and the asylum procedures are ridiculous. no place in the world has what we have in terms of ridiculous immigration laws. so i will be making a major statement. i would say my biggest statement on the border, probably today or tomorrow. thanks. [reporters shouting questions] brian: president covered a wide range of topics. four times i thought he was walking away. four times he came back. ainsley: he started with the prisoner release in hostage in turkey. talking about employment numbers being great. he answered five or six questions about mueller. then talked about every other topic. made me wonder, media want to talk about mueller, that is the big headline this morning but they're are also so many other topics voters and viewers care about. pete: sounded like a president

undeterred, unleashed, feeling liberated by the report. seeing what bob mueller is doing. i will litigate this. i will fight back. mueller is conflicted. why don't they investigate strzok, page, comey. he said a statement, we're right now in the insurance policy. feedback loop cycle is meant to discredit and harass me which is the definition of their insurance policy. ainsley: peter strzok and lies is a page said what happens if hillary clinton doesn't win. don't worry there is a insurance policy. he said this is the insurance policy. he said the great thing was exposing the sandal. brian: he will watch on television on air force one. he will be riled up or determined to push it aside. i think advantage to push it aside to let everybody else get riled up. gloves are off on robert mueller. guy wanted to be fbi director. i said no. we had a business disputes something with the golf club. it wasn't a good one.

so he hired 18 henchmen, bad guys they found nothing. pete: worst human beings on. brian: compared to what went on with bill clinton. he had a bunch of guilt toss. ken starr had a bunch guilt toss. i have nod guilties. he refuses to look at new language. i don't blame him. he didn't find anything. ainsley: in this country you have to be proven guilty if there is not enough evidence to prove you guilties, because they didn't do that i am on the innocent. pete: one of his greatest accomplishments exposing corruption, if him going through means exposing administrative state, deep state, what democrats are willing to do that the upside. asked about the word impeachment which he called a dirty and disgusting word. would prefer not to go through the process. even if going through the process might insure election. ainsley: reporter asked how do you feel about russia helping you get elected.

he said i was one got me elected. brian: a tweet deleted, he took it down, he doesn't believe russia helped him get elected. he answered the question, russia would be better off with hillary clinton elected. look what i have done. he leaves out all the people he expelled from the nation after they poisoned that former russian expat in london. he was the one with the strong sanctions. pushing them out of the best he can out of venezuela. challenging germany to stand up. to defend against who, russia? trying to do that, saying two things, more salesman than factual, i think china wants to talk, iran wants to talk. that is where he is trying to push them. i'm not sure there they're yet. ainsley: talked about israel, venezuela, nigel farage, talk abouted what is happening in uk, talked about the border, talked about impeachment, talked a about john mccain, didn't know anything about moving the uss

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>> sandra: the president spoke for 20 minutes and talking about many things. he says robert mueller should have never been chosen as special counsel. here is a taste of what we just heard. >> president trump: it was to me the same as the re