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to counter illicit trafficking. the trump administration is accused of moscow are propping up the disputed president, nicolas maduro, amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis there. the us anasazi pledged to support juan guaido, has been recognized as the countries interim leader. we will closely follow this breaking story and bring all the updates as they come into the newsroom. >> and date to an oppressive heat wave. daytime highs expected to reach the upper 90s but with humidity it is making it feel in the triple digits. tens of millions of people from the east coast although up to new england sweltering under heat warnings and advisories on this sunday. it is not letting up yet. we'll tell you about it. i'm eric shawn this is "america's news headquarters". request i am laura ingle sitting for arthel neville today. early six deaths are being named on excessive heat.

it is getting bad multiple alto public events now canceled out of safety concern. including a festival in new york city where the mayor has called an emergency. they are looking for air conditioners and fans. and zoo officials looking to keep the animals cool. and we have more from the extreme weather center. it is certainly extreme today, how much longer are we going to bake? >> today for everyone a little bit more tomorrow to get through then everyone is a lot better. today's the third day across the eastern seaboard. during the planes were baking all week long but notice things improving a lot, there is a little front right there and it will eventually sweep all the way through the east coast and cool things on this is where the advisors are still left near des moines to minneapolis is not there anymore. chicago the same story. but right there is the batch of rain and it will is what is cooling things down. also bring a lot of very heavy

rain with it. we had flooding this morning across northwest areas of missouri, 3 to 5 inches of rain falling rapidly, this becomes a really potent cold front. that's where we haves to see temperatures drop dramatically behind it. also why we have them so warm and hot and humid. this what we expected today. another day in the triple digit heat, all up and down the eastern seaboard. today will be a little more uncomfortable than yesterday even. a little more humid, just to notch up the humidity level. certainly take care as you go through today. here's what happens tomorrow. the frontmost areas of the north east, toward the mid-atlantic you still have one more hot day here. i will also tell you as the frontmost through, it will bring a lot of us are pretty much everybody as a friend goes through will see rounds of really heavy rain. it could cause localized flooding, be prepared for that. the benefit of it is as it goes through behind the hermas is way drier so humidity levels are going to drop a lot. temperatures drop down as well. look at the monday high

temperature. beautiful around the great lakes, 80 degrees in new york. still hot across the mid-atlantic. watch what happens tuesday. 82 in new orleans, 79 atlanta, cold front not going to make his way to most of florida but maybe the western panhandle is going to see the cold front go through. we'll talk about humidity levels that feel like fall even as far south as new orleans. it gets a lot better and warms up a little wednesday but overall much of this coming week is looking great across the east. we just have to get through this day and tomorrow across that southeast coast. we are almost there but they will more distantly check in on everyone around you, make sure anybody especially elderly are check in and watch your pets and check the cars your backseat before you get out. >> thank you para. eric: lawmakers reacting to rising tensions with iran. they say to ryan seiz a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz on friday. theday after the president of

the us had destroyed an iranian drone . the same strategic waterway. this morning senator ben cardin was on sunday morning features and he warned this back to back could potentially spiral out of control. >> detentions couldn't be higher with the iranians, they did the past few days and stopping vessels and international waters, the downing of our drone. these are extremely dangerous situations. that could explode there could be a miscalculation which could lead to military conflict. eric: with fox news team coverage on this. trey yingst with the latest international. but first we start with garrett tenney from washington. >> the trump administration so innocently continuing to lash out in response to the heavy toll of us tensions on his economy.saturday in ecuador the secretary of state mike pompeo says the us remains ready to sit down with the iranian leadership and negotiate a new deal to lift

sanctions and adjust the aggressive and destabilizing behavior in the region by iran. >> in the end the iranians have two, the regime has two a decision that wants to behave like a normal nation. if they do that we are prepared to negotiate across a broad spectrum of issues with no preconditions. i hope that they will do that today we have seen no indications that the arenas are prepared to fundamentally change the direction of the nation.reporter: to the iran for minister attempted to blame the presidents national security advisor, john bolton, for the seizure of uk oil tanker. tweeting make no mistake heavy failed to lord donald trump into a war of the century, fearing collapse of his team the ambassador john bolton is turning his venom against the uk in hopes of dragging into a quagmire. only prudence and foresight can force such poise. it is increasingly aggressive

actions iran is running the risk of pushing european leaders who want to keep the nuclear deal alive, to side with the us appeared on the scene and state of the union senator ron johnson said with each move iran is bring the world together against it. because i think iran is playing a very dangerous game, it makes no sense after the uk i think they were trying to divide the us from our friends and allies they are just uniting us and hopefully standing up to iran once and for all. reporter: the us continues to build up the military presence in the region to counter iran. this past week the pentagon announced hundreds more us troops are headed to saudi arabia joining the 70,000 troops already deployed to the middle east. eric: thank you so much. laura: we do have new details on the iran seizure of the british oil tanker that garrett was mentioning. as a radio exchange between the british navy and an iranian patrol boat has now been made public. trey yingst is live the jerusalem newsroom with more. reporter: laura, information

today is shutting down the iranian seizure of a british oil tanker on friday. newly released video does show a dramatic scene as iranian troops armed with machine guns repel from a helicopter to board the british flag vessel. it was carrying no cargo ahead of crew of 23 people on board. radio transmissions between the british and iranians paint a picture about how the event unfolded. as a rainy military vessel demands the british tanker alter its course. a british military ship tries to explain a request is a violation of international law. [inaudible] >> the british tanker was ultimately taken into iranian custody remains pete over the weekend british foreign minister jeremy hunt called him a tanker to be released after saying the seizure appears to be a tit-for-tat situation after the british retain the remaining oil tanker earlier this month suspected trying to

deliver oil to syria. britain maintains take an iranian ship was legal as a defense secretary sedona iran taken the british tanker was illegal. >> it is absolute clear, i spoke to a maritime commander in the region today. early this morning, it's very clear that there, the ship was in the waters this is a hostile act. reporter: the also stop a second tanker in the gulf on friday. it was ultimately released. both actions have led the united states and allies to beef up military presence in the gulf and anticipate the possibility of a larger conflict. laura: trey yingst in the jerusalem newsroom, thank you. eric: for more in all of this we do invite joe rubin former senior democratic senate national security aide also deputy assistant secretary of state. under president obama and now president of the washington strategy group. this remind me of the annoying

brat, the arrogant twerp that hits you with spitballs in class and grabbed your baseball and runs. i mean if they want to make friends and influence people, is this the way to do it? >> yeah eric this is bad behavior. we should call it out as such. iran is behaving in a way however, that was predictable and this is where we have a nuclear deal to be within the obama administers because you don't trust the behavior of iran. right now we are watching the unwinding of this dynamic in a very dangerous direction. we watching tit-for-tat, we watching shooting down of the drone, seizure of the ship. you name it, where does it end? if it ends predictably in a very bad place, it could end in a war. no one seems to want but there are no offers diplomatically and that's was dangerous right now but the situation. eric: they would say the nuclear deal brought us this play because it gives iran and tehran billions of dollars because of the number one state sponsor of terrorism, to fund hezbollah and terrorism around the world including assassination plots right here

in the us to blow up a restaurant in georgetown and basically blow up an opposition rally in paris that could have killed rudy giuliani. they are continuing to sow chaos around the globe and what they are doing now is trying to split great britain, germany and for france from us because the maximum president -- the maximum pressure by the president is working. the policies have brought us to this point. they are feeling the heat finally. >> you bring up a lot of complaints and concerns that are across-the-board concerns. the big issue that the supporters of the iran nuclear deal like myself have, is that we want to ensure that they would not get the nuclear bomb. that in and of itself was the primary goal and it was achieved and verifiable. the british, french, our allies in europe are on board with us on that. now the danger with this maximum pressure campaign is

that by the us withdrawing from the nuclear deal, we've actually created division between us and europe. iran is feeling the pain but they are lashing out always i can actually increase in insecurity in the region. i agree, fighting terrorism, fighting the activity that iran has engaged in, no doubt has to be priority but we lost our allies so right now maybe they are coming back a little bit with this tit-for-tat rhetorically but is not a position where anyone was to get in because there is no military solution to dealing with the iran issue. even senator rand paul as an example and many house republicans last week voted against any military force against iran without congressional authorization. the people know the ultimate state here is diplomatic agreement.we're just not heading in that direction. eric: britain is said that there is no military action.

-- as you know, this will continue. what type of diplomatic overtures do think there could be when the supreme leader says he will not even deal with the us and javad zarif the foreign minister, he is just a front man. >> you bring up the question right now, with the europeans have been trying to do is create a channel where there can be benefits to iran for having engaged in and participate in legitimate in the nuclear deal. and verifiably not have advanced nuclear program. they want us to kind of get back in that deal. we can work with the europeans to do that but our sanctions frankly right now preventing them from happening. and so we not quitting a middle path to open up the possibility of direct discussions, back channel discussions. again rand paul, it is worth noting did meet with javad zarif last week, the foreign minister, with the support of the present because he's trying to find a back channel. it has to be engaged if were going to get out of the dynamic which is really a tinderbox waiting to explode. eric: maybe they should stop saying death to america. stop saying death to israel. it is an easy first start in

tehran. stop saying that. i think it is so important what was said listen to this again and give me your reaction. >> the iranians, the reigning regime has to make a decision that he wants to behave like a normal nation. and if they do that, we are prepared to negotiate across a broad spectrum of issues with no preconditions. i hope that they will do that but to date we have seen no indications of the arenas are prepared to fundamentally change the direction of the nation. eric: is even possible for iran to behave like a normal nation? >> going big is a great idea and behave like a normal nation we took in a country of 80 million people that actually have the population is half supportive of the nation is supportive of the american

people. i would love to see the secretary put that on paper, bring it to the un, bring it to javad zarif and start engaging. right now we're not doing that. it is a lot of messaging at the media level but not a lot of action. that is where the diplomats really what they need to be doing now. eric: we keep hearing that the people, so many young people in iran is really the regime, it is the behavior of this dictatorship regime , a murderous regime that is the issue, not the people. >> yet and the regime is keeping down the people of iran. i want to be very clear in that, this is, the idea of negotiating and dealing with iran is not about somehow supporting theregime. it's about ensuring they do not do the worst things possible which is building a nuclear weapon . that is the key goal here. the people of iran have been suffering under this regime for years, decades. that is all we had to be very careful. realtor action will do nothing but unite the people and the regime against us. we have to be very sensitive to that dynamic as well. eric: array recall them for canning death to america could

be a good easy first thing. >> i can support that. eric: joel rubin, always good to see you. thank you. laura: two of europe's largest airlines abruptly canceling flights to egypt citing security concerns. have you heard about this? british airways and a german caria lufthansa suspending flights avon as passengers were just about to board. lufthansa is resuming some flights but british airways is not. american carriers say they are monitoring the situation. members of the so-called squad firing back at president trump and the president of course responded. the latest on this ongoing war of words and whether both sides have political benefits to this continued showdown. >> what will happen to me if someone else comes into my neighborhood and a lot of other communities in the country are struggling with the idea that somehow your identity changes with the presence of another.

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war of words that continues between the president and the four democratic congresswomen known as the squad. today the present tweeting the first term democratic progressives are in his words quote - not quote - capable of loving our country. one of the congress woman is alexandria ocasio-cortez. she spoke of yesterday in her district. >> freedom is what we are talking about. i think that all people should be free to be here. there is a lot of fear and it is an intentional stoking of fear around those who are different. eric: ellison barber is live in berkeley heights, new jersey near the president's golf club

in bedminster where he is spending the weekend. reporter: hi, eric. seven days after president trump's initial round of tweets that the house voted to condemn his race at the trump versus the squad feet is still front and center and president trump still tweeting about it. a senior white house aide is pushing back on accusations of racism. telling "fox news sunday" he believes that term is often used to stifle dissent. >> i think the term racist chris, has become a label that is too often deployed by left democrats in the country, simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with her speech they do not want to hear. reporter: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez spoke at a town hall in her district yesterday afternoon and seemed to joke about the presidents attacks on herself and the other members of the so-called squad. before taking a more serious tone. listen here. >> they sent me back to queens. [laughter]

and i'm happy to be here! [laughter] once you start telling american citizens to quote - go back to your own countries, this tells you that this presidents policies are not about immigration. it is by ethnicity and racism. [applause] his biggest mistake was that he said the quiet part loud. that was his biggest mistake. because we know he's been thinking this the entire time. reporter: in the tweet this morning the president called on the squad to apologize to america and israel. eric? eric: thank you so much. laura? laura: for more on this we bring in the white house correspondent for usa today, a lot to get to hear. john, first i want to ask you what your take is been on the back and forth between the

democratic congresswomen known as "the squad" and president trump. i know you are about some of it being consider a distraction. >> i think the political landscape here is ready clearly illustrated in the polling that we see usa today found that a slim number people agreed and i think is a classic donald trump play to the base. and a lot of experts think it is risky. i think republicans on capitol hill think it is risky but donald trump has used this kind of talk to before. andy's been successful at it. it is not all you know the security around this -- the fury around this is just before the iowa caucuses when he raised the idea of a ban on muslims. entering the country there was a lot of republicans unsure what to do, donald trump ultimately won the nomination. laura: neither said is backing down as you see.congresswomen ill homework tweeted yesterday on the issue of race.

i want to put this up. usual and the charade and except that this racist president once every black, brown person deported and muslims band. his immigration policies say this much. and earlier today "fox news sunday" had an exclusive interview with senior white house policy advisor, stephen miller, chris wallace it was a great interview. who defended the presidents words regarding the squad. saying this. >> these four congresswomen detest america as it exists, as it is currently constructed. they want to tear down the structure of our country. they wanted to be a socialist open borders country. if as donald trump says you want to destroy america with open borders, you cannot say you love your country. if you attack border ages the way ocasio-cortez has, it means you have a deep seated hatred of the nation as it exists. laura: as all of this is out there you know when you look at it how does it help or hurt both sides? >> it was a fascinating interview by the way.

i think that look, there is clearly palpable concern about what people, a lot of people in the country i think feel as an overreaction to political correctness. there's a lot of sort of pushback on that idea and i think that leads to an impulse todefend things like this sometimes . i also that there are a lot of republicans who feel like maybe the strategy here is, is not to focus on this go back stuff and focus instead on what the four women are saying. the president knows that "the squad" is not popular with his base of think is pretty clearly strategic. any question that they were strategy here i think you can throw out the window when he took the debate stage on wednesday night. and with teleprompters sort of laid out his case against these four women. i think trump has said as much he said on the lawn this week it felt like republicans were getting new life, new energy from this and he felt like, he felt like they are winning.

you know i think it remains to be seen. laura: i was going to ask about that. you read about how some republicans have been critical of the situation of the send her back chant at the rally. but have limited criticism to the crowd, not the president himself. how is this playing out with your readers? i know you get a lot of feedback at usa today. what are you hearing from them? >> and that is absolutely right. i think there were a number of republicans on the hill he came out and talked about the chance. in a way they did when the tweets first came out. the first several days after that it was pretty quiet on the hill. and then when the chants haven't heard more media reaction including that night from people who thought that the chants are disgusting and ugly or some of the word they were used to describe it, donald trump's on reaction i think is pretty interesting. he came out and disavowed these but again a typical way that he often does, has sort of added fuel to the fire.

by retweeting about it than coming out saying that they were patriotic americans. i think is a little confused as far as where the president really is on the chants. will be fascinated to see if the next rally whether they come back or not. laura: oslo toákind of hard to predict next tweet or rally cry. how much will this carry to 2020? so much rhoda still ahead of us. >> that's a great question.we story this week rude about democrats and some of their own problems for the race and it got a lot of pushback. i want to be clear that we not try to make an equivalency here. i think democrats are wrestling with some policy issues and it's different than what trump is doing but i do think it is fair to point out that there are some divisions within the democratic party, the democratic field for 2020 on race as well. you know the big moment from that first democratic debate was about school integration. and bussing and there are divisions of joe biden and the rest of the field on reparations. one of the top candidates, pete buttigieg, has issues back at home with african-americans after a fatal police shooting

involving a white police officer. and so i do not think there is an equivalency but i do think we would be talking more about the divisions within the democratic party were we not consumed by this discussion of donald trump's tweets against "the squad". laura: john fritze, thank you for being with us. eric: a hot sunday! tens of millions of us face another day of sweltering heat. temperatures outside feeling like 100 degrees in some spots. coming up, we will show you how some folks are trying to beat the heat. >> the supervisors and managers out there handing out water and as a safety in turn the keys to hydrate, drink plenty of fluids and water. replace electrolytes. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost.

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eric: reaction as all eyes will be onl hill wednesday, that's when former special counsel robert mueller testifies publicly in back to back hearingsings before the house judiciary and intelligence committees. democrat congressman jerry nadler and ranking member doug collins both appeared this morning and gave a report. >> there's substantial evidence, and we have to present or let mueller present those facts to the american people and see where we go from there. >> i think the democrats, what they're trying to do is revive this and make something of it that after being three months out in the public, everybody has

looked at the mueller report. we see that people are beginning to tire of this. eric: for more, we talk to the former assistant attorney general and former senior investigative counsel for congress. chris, you've got a lot of experience in this. any bombshellses you expect, or will mueller go just by the book? >> eric, good to be with you, and i don't think there's going to be any bombshells, and here's why. bob mueller's report has been out for weeks now, if not months. everybody knows what's anytime. he has said himself he doesn't want to go far beyond that. i think what we can expect is the democrats are going to focus on what mr. mueller talked about with respect to obstruction, and the republicans are going to ask him about what led up to investigation. they're going to ask him, mr. mueller, what he thinks about texts going back and forth between senior fbi officials making derogatory comments about the president. they're going to ask him what he thinks about the fbi general counsel possibly being involved

in inappropriate behavior leading up to wiretap. so i don't there's going to be bombshells -- i don't think there's going to be bombshells, but it'll be a show. eric: so you think a lot of it will be on the fisa controversy, the christopher steele dossier? >> no question. i think -- and as you know, eric, and i've heard you report on this before, there's now a u.s. attorney who's looking into all of that. so i think and i've heard other republicans on both committees talk about being interested in what led up to that, because if people are interested in the mueller report itself -- which they should be, it's part of what's going on in the united states right now, but they should also be interested in what led up to that. so i do think that in large part the republicans at these hearings will focus on that issue. and as i said, the democrats are going to want to talk about obstruction. eric: met me throw some -- let me throw some questions at you that could be expected, why were

you unable to exonerate the president? what do you think he'll say? >> i think he'll, in large part, he'll mimic what he said in his written testimony. but once, you know, i think it was mike tyson who had a saying which is everybody has a game plan until you get punched in the face. so even though bob mueller might have a game plan and even though the democrats and the republicans, and i used to prepare for those hearings, have a game plan, once the cameras go on and once they start rolling in the lights, everybody's going to ask what they want anyway. so i think what mueller's going to say when they say, well, why didn't you indict him, i think he's -- i don't know what else he can say much other than one of to two things, you cannot indict a sitting president, or i didn't have enough evidence to indict him. and then that brings up the question, well, then why did you say it anyway? even when jim comey, when he went out and didn't prosecute hillary clinton, but then he talked about all the things that he thinks she did inappropriately, that's not what

a prosecutor does. you either prosecute or you don't say anything. eric: he's going to say, all right, read page 352. that's what he's going to say. right. eric: here's what he said on may 29th. let me play this sound bite. >> when a summit of an investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government's effort to find a truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. eric: he's inferring that the president, perhaps, obstructed justice. he had those examples. and lied. what does he say when he's asked about that? >> well, you're -- you said it just before this, eric, i think he's going to have to say look at page whatever, page 242. but you also, in that clip, eric, you focus on a key issue which is, i think you just said he makes the suggestion, he infers that the president did these things. but in america whether you like donald trump or don't, whether you like barack obama or don't, that's not how it's supposed to

work. either you come out and say that as a prosecutor, you have a lot of authority and power, either you come out and say someone did something or you don't prosecute. you don't make inferences and say, well, we can't really get him, but we think he did it. that's not how any american should be treated the. they should go after him if they have it on him d. eric: and he made that point in his news conference on the 29th, and here it is. >> these indictments contain allegations, and we are not commenting on the guilt or the innocence of any specific defendant. every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. eric: we are not commenting. expect to hear that? >> i do expect to hear that, but it's not going to be as easy for him, and he's -- i actually think the guy's great. i think he's an american hero. but, you know, bob mueller, even as smart as he is, it's going to be a lot harder when you're

actually up there answering questions on live tv. he will try to say no comment, and maybe he'll get away with it, but it's going to be much harder than at a press conference where you're the only guy standing up there and you say you're not going to take questions. it's easier to do it there than at a congressional hearing. eric: everyone's going to be watching. it's on wednesday. chris, i know you'll be watching. >> i will. eric: chris, good to see you, thank you. and we do want to remind you that, yes, you can watch the whole hearing right here on the fox news channel, special coverage of the testimony will begin this wednesday, july 24th. we're starting at 8 a.m., so you know it's going to be a big news day as robert mueller raises his right hand and takes the oath. laura: and a fox news alert for you now on to oppressive heat wave that continues holding almost two-thirds of the country in its grip. here in new york city mayor bill de blasio declaring a heat more than for the weekend as temperatures are expected to get

dangerously close to 100 degrees. jacqui heinrich is feeling that heat firsthand, live on the fox news plaza right outside our air-conditioned studios. i was at a backyard party last night on long island, and no matter where you went, it didn't seem the matter, it just feels so hot no matter where you go. how does it feel? >> reporter: well, you can't escape it. the only way is to go inside those front doors -- [laughter] where i am not right now. but there were concerns that record energy demand was going to put a strain on the city's power grid, and so far we're seeing 600 people without power in queens and long island. power company is working to restore that right now, and they had preemptively called in about 4,000 additional workers leading into this weekend. but new york city is not alone in it suffering. more than two million -- 200 million americans in 32 states are under heat wave advisories and could face heat indexes over 100 degrees. before the weekend the mayors of boston, new york city, philadelphia and washington,

d.c. declared heat emergencies with baltimore and new york issuing code red extreme heat alerts. in new york people are flocking to public spaces with air-conditioning. this library serving as one of the city's 500 cooling centers. outdoor events like ozzy fest and the new york city triathlon were canceled. mayor bill de blasio issued an executive order for tall office