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big stories we're following. there is more fallout after the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine told lawmakers president trump put the pressure on the state department to fire her. as the white house touts a partial trade deal between the u.s. and china, raising hopes for a bigger agreement to come. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. eric: thank you for joining us. i'm eric shawn. it's a time out for now for the trade war. the u.s. is now suspending a tariff hike on $250 billion worth of chinese goods that were set to take effect next week. this as beijing agrees to buy more american a agriculture products. this comes as president trump turned his furr fur his fury toe impeachment. >> the radical democrats' poll sis are crazy.

their their politicians are corrupt. their candidates are terrible. and they know had they can't win an election day so they're pursuing an illegal, invalid and unconstitutional [bleep] impeachment. eric: we'll get a democratic member of congress view on those claims but first we start our coverage with lucas to lieu lucn with the latest. but first, kevin cork on the north lawn of the white house. >> reporter: two people familiar with the inquiry, that is how the times is describing the two people who tipped them off about this apparent federal investigation into the president's private attorney rudy giuliani who is said to be under investigation for possible campaign finance law, tied to an investigation, according to the paper into two of his associates who were arrested this week on campaign finance related charges. here's just a quick quote from the times, very interesting. it is also a stark turn for

mr. guliani who finds himself under scrutiny from the same u.s. attorney's office he led in the 1980s when i first rose to prominence as a tough on crime prosecutor and later served two terms as mayor of new york. the president weighing in on this apparent investigation, on twitter he said so now they're going after a -- make that now they're after the legendary crime buster and greatest mayor in the history of nyc, rudy giuliani. he may seem rough around the edges sometimes, but he's also a great guy and wonderful lawyer. such a one-sided witch hunt going on in the usa. deep state, shameful. last night, at president trump's rally in louisiana he said the whole ukraine story is a hoax. you may be wondering what about the democrats. on the hill, they say they'll press on because the rule of law demands accountability and they of course accuse the president of soliciting foreign interference into the 2020

election. so as that story line continues, another big story line happening on friday. a phase one u.s.-china trade deal, this is a major development in what has been a protracted trade war between the two largest economies in the world. the president announcing that this would impact agriculture, banking, se technology, energy d well, as well as intellectual property protections. bottom line, tremendous news for the american heartland with some relief for china as well as the u.s. agrees not to proceed to a hike in tariffs to 35% on $250 billion in chinese goods. china agrees to make suring of 40 to $50 billion in u.s. agricultural goods, that's a big, big plus for those folks in the midwest who obviously were targeted by china's actions in the meantime. so for them, this is obviously very great news. part of what promises to be an interesting week as we continue

to track whether or not the u.s. and china are able to hammer out the details of the deal any time soon, but what other deals may be coming down the pike. we were told by some folks involved in the negotiations what that the phase one deal could be hammered out in writing sometime in the next several weeks. eric: president taking a victory lap on this. thanks so much. arthel: congressional democrats issuing more subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry, after the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, told house panels behind closed doors that she was ousted due to pressure from president trump. meanwhile, another key diplomat says he will testify, despite objections from the trump administration. lucas tomlinson in washington with more. lucas. >> reporter: marie yovanovitch stepped forward and told

investigators the president pressured the state department to fire her because she would not investigate joe biden. one of the president's critics on capitol hill admitted that until the past he summer ukraine was one of the president's bright spots. >> it was a perfect policy, better than the obama administration's policy. the official policy, which was fighting corruption and supporting ukraine against russia. but what started happening over the last year was the president through rudy giuliani was running a parallel policy, a shadow policy that had a different aim, the aim was to try to get dirt on vice president biden. >> reporter: president trump's former ambassador told lawmakers there was a campaign within the administration to oust her based on what she called false claims by rudy giuliani that she tried to block efforts to go after joe biden and his son, hunter. the democratic chairman of the house intel committee defended the former ambassador with over

30 years experience in the foreign service. >> i think she has been a model diplomat and deserved better than the shabby treatment she received from this president and the secretary of state. so i think we're all deeply in her debt for representing the country so well around the world and for so long. >> reporter: some republicans accuse their democratic colleagues of stonewalling. >> they're cherry-picking what's a leak, they're withholding key facts, they're lying about other claims and the american public gets deceived as a result of it. if you're going to have secret hearings, then provide the american public the copy of the transcript afterwards. kurt volcker's transcript hasn't yet been released. >> gordon sunland will also appear for a deposition on capitol hill later this week. eric: for more on what we can expect on the house investigation and the next steps

in this inquiry, michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell joins us. congresswoman from southfield, michigan, this afternoon, first of all, do you think the speaker will finally move to try to get that full house vote, formalizing the impeachment inquiry? >> you know, i'm somebody who thinks that this is a very sad day, very sad time, that we must methodical, we cannot be emotional or whatever. we have three committees that are investigating. they're following where the facts are going to take us and we'll see whether that will be -- the house has been out for the last few weeks. there's been a series of hearings in a classified setting, because the acting director of homeland security and the inspector general said there were dangers to our national security. i think we need to try to be as transparent as we can. we need to tell american people, i agree with many o -- with as

many of the facts as we can. i want to follow the facts. no one is above the rule of law. i think if we ever needed to be deliberate, calm and methodical and we are talking about our national security. eric: the republicans are criticizing the democratic efforts, saying it's not been formalized like the clinton and nixon impeachment processes and there should be. do you think there should be a full house vote. >> >> i want to hear wha went whad last week. i've been talking to some republicans. i worry for the country right now, i worry for our democracy. one of the things i've been worried about all year, i said this consistently, if you read the mueller report, if you listen to intelligence coming from other countries, russia is trying to divide this country and destabilize other democracies. i'm focused on us not being

divided. i'm focused on how do we keep us together but also make sure what that our national security and our democracy and our constitution are protected. eric: how would that be at risk if there's no -- without a house vote or with a house vote? >> is there enough facts to take us there right now? i don't know. we have not -- we had a conference call yesterday afternoon with the caucus, speaker pelosi has tried to keep the caucus informed while we've been gone for two weeks. chairman schiff was still in the hearing with the ambassador at the time of the hearing. i don't -- you know, it might surprise people, but i probably don't have a lot more facts than a lot of the american people do right now because people are worried about our national security. when we get back, we'll meet as a caucus. i'm going to talk to my republican friends as much as my democrats. i don't approach this from a partisan viewpoint. i approach this as being an american who is protecting my constitution and our democracy and our nation had nail

security. that's what -- national security. that's what i swore an oath to. eric: you said republicans are a part of this. they criticized the democratic process saying they're not. they don't have subpoena power. that's their argument. >> i don't want to -- i was about to say i trusted a republican which i'm not going to say who it is because i'd probably hurt him by saying it. that shouldn't mean anything. the senate intelligence committee is a very central intelligence committee. when did national security become partisan? we just can't do that to ourselves. so i've got -- you probably would be surprised at the number of friends that i have from all different kinds of backgrounds and i want to know what they're thinking. that matters to me. eric: what are they saying to you? >> i haven't talked to them. i've been home for two weeks. i can tell you what people in my district are saying. i'm screamed at because i'm not out there more for impeachment and surprisingly i've had some people talk to me and are upset but i've had through areas that

i represent that voted for president trump think he's doing a good job on the economy. i think a lot of people are worried about the drama. they're worried about the tone, the rhetoric and wish that we could all find a way to dial down some of the rhetoric. eric: one criticism of the republicans is that the president doesn't have due process, he can't challenge what's going on in the house, he's not able to bring in his own witnesses l. but wait a minute, isn't this an inquiry, like a grand jury with a prosecutor, isn't that what the senate trial is for? that's where he gets the chance to -- >> you know, one of the things i am worried about as we talk about protecting our democracy is due process. it's one of the things i struggle with as a woman who has been sexually harassed in the me too movement, we've got to protect due process. that's one of the most fundamental principles of our constitution. they're gathering facts. what you talk about as a trial or whatever would occur in the

senate, that is where that would happen, but if he would not send letters to the hill and say they're not going to cooperate or would -- i'm certain that if the people that he thought should be appearing, republicans could request that and they could be there. i don't know. i haven't had that conversation. but i know the quality of the people that are involved in this. eric: finally, quickly, you talked about dialing down the rhetoric. let me play a clip from the president the other night where he said nancy pelosi, the speaker, hates america. >> we used to think she loves the country. she hates the country. she wouldn't be doing this to the country if she did. she hates the country, nancy pelosi hates the united states of america. or she wouldn't be doing this. i'm telling you, foreign nation, foreign people looking at us, they honestly think we're nuts. eric: is that true? >> well, i'm not going to put kerosene on a fire already.

i fear what foreign countries are saying about all of us right now. nancy pelosi doesn't hate this country. she, by the way, was one of the people that absolutely had an enormous amount of pressure on her to take this where it went. it wasn't until an inspector general said there is a real and present danger that she said let's investigate. she's been called for impeachment -- she hasn't called for impeachment yet. she's saying get the facts. we all love this country. and maybe today -- i've gotten in trouble saying this but i'm going to say it. let's remind ourselves about president george bush this week and let's remember that we are americans and we are americans first and try to do a little more of listening to each other. we have different life experiences, different perspectives. that's what makes us strong. we've got to stop this fear and hatred in this country. eric: congresswoman, thank you

for joining us here on the fox news channel. >> thank you, eric. eric: arthel. arthel: the turkish military now claiming to have captured a key syrian border town, marking its most significant gain so far, as its offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria enters a fourth day. turkey pressing its assault and showing no signs of stopping, despite mounting international criticism. steve harrigan is live in iraq with the latest. steve. >> reporter: that's right, arthel, turkey saying it captured a major city inside the border, across the border into syria, as well as several key highways. there's been no let-up in this four-day assault that turkey is calling an a operation against terrorism. turkish war planes continue to attack and the shelling continues as well. the goal, turkish officials say is to go 20 miles deep in syria,

to create a safety area free from kurdish fighters. it's hard to get an accurate death toll from either side as to the number of fighters killed but both sides admit civilians have been killed on each side of the border, roughly 50 in total. as far as the situation for those civilians, those who can are leaving the fighting area as quickly and chaotically as possible, getting onto whatever vehicle possible, carrying whatever they can. you see families scrambling. the u.n. saying as many as 100,000 people are on the move, trying to get away from the fighting. international criticism of turkey's president has been intense. criticism too from u.s. officials, u.s. saying there could be serious consequences, also threatening possible financial sanctions turkey but as of yet no concrete steps to slow turkey's military offensive. arthel: steve, thank you very

much. coming up, we'll have more on the situation in syria as well takes pentagon's plan to send additional u.s. troops to saudi arabia as a deterrent to iran from a former intelligence officer. eric. eric: arthel, there's word on another high profile departure from the trump administration. the president announced that kevin mcaleenan is leaving the job. who could replace him? the nation has a lot of work to do on immigration reform and border security. the anand the hard rock hotel ur construction in new orleans, the crane collapsing. it has killed one person. we'll have details from an emergency responder on the grounds in new orleans in a moment. (engines rev) with dodge power dollars buy any challenger, charger, or durango and get ten bucks cash allowance for every one horsepower.

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arthel: we continue to monitor breaking news out of new orleans. at least one person is dead and at least three others are unaccounted for, this after a large portion of the hard rock hotel under construction collapsed. cell phone video capturing the moment as the upper floors began to fall on top of each other before part of the building fell to the ground below. joining me now on the phone with the latest is lieutenant jonathan for c' forkay with news

ems. what else can you tell us, first of all, about those missing and injured in this accident and do we know if the family of the person who died has been contacted yet? >> hi, good afternoon. thanks for having me. so we have a total of 20 patients that we've made contact through new orleans ems. of those 20, 18 were transported to a local hospital. one refused medical treatment on-scene and one is that fatality that's in the building. we have not reached out to families of the victims. i know that families are contacting area hospitals. but right now it's still under investigation, so no names are being released from ems. arthel: that's understandable.

this is very -- a big tragedy and very sensitive situation when you are going to receive a call like that. a lot of people know where this is, it's right there next to -- across the street from the sanger, people who are not from new orleans, they've seen that on canal street, the perimeter of the french quarter. do we know what caused this? i mean, how did this happen? >> i don't have that information. i don't know what caused the collapse of the building. but i do know that the building is still very unstable and you're correct, it's right here on historic canal street, right where all of our streetcars pass, right in front of this construction site. right now most of the street is closed. our street line -- streetcar line is closed all the way down to the mississippi river. and again, we're urging folks to stay out of the area as the building is still unstable. the crane itself is leaning and

is still unstable. like you mentioned, there are three folks who are unaccounted for. that doesn't necessarily mean that they're in the building but they're unaccounted for. they may be in the building. they may have hopped in their personal vehicles and left the scene. we just don't know that right now. arthel: understood. lieutenant, what's being done -- i know you said people are kept away from the area but what's being done to fortify and secure the remainder of this structure? >> well, i know that nopd is working well to barricade off the area, using metal barricades and crime scene tape to keep folks out of the area. but as far as the actual structure of the building, i'm not sure who is going in there to stabilize anything with the building. that's outside of my knowledge. i do know that we have some urban search and rescue teams

who are arriving on-scene right now and they are preparing to sweep the building to see if there are any other victims inside. our urban search and rescue team, it's first responders, fire. ms, police, -- ems, police, who have extensive training with search and rescue and instances like this, like a structure collapse. they also have extensive search and rescue capabilities in swift water or hazmat situations so these are very professional first responders who are going into this building to see if there's any other victims. now, before they go in, they have a process. they are surveying the area with a drone first. once they deem that it's safe, they'll send some k-9s in and behind the k-9s will be some

search and rescue medics. arthel: right. and listen, i know lieutenant forkay you're with new orleans ems so of course your concern and all of our concerns are the people who were injured and if someone has been killed in this unfortunate tragedy there, that's first and foremost important to everyone involved. of course, -- i don't know if you know, you're speaking to r arthel neville, i'm from new orleans. i've driven past that spot over the past years, numerous times watching it go up. i knew this was going to bring more tourist dollars to new orleans. do you know -- it may be too early, i don't want to come across as insensitive, but do you know if construction will resume at some point? >> i have no idea. arthel: all right. lieutenant jonathan forkay, new orleans ems, thank you very much for joining us. it is an unfortunate tragedy.

let's hope no one else loses their life in this event and hopefully they can find whoever is missing and whatever other details we will bring you here on the fox news channel. eric: it's so hard that it touched that wonderful city of new orleans that we so cherish. president trump dispatching more troops to saudi arabia, in the weak of attacks last month on the kingdom's oil facilities. does that mean iran will back down? also, should the white house strategy as the democrats warn against blocking impeachment witnesses, what should that be? we've got court rulings, we'll bring all that to you next as america's news headquarters rolls on.

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ukraine for aappearing for her testimony. joining me now is the former senior advisor to the senate foreign relations committee. how much legal force does congress have behind them? what can they do to stop the white house from blocking impeachment witnesses or inquiry witnesses? >> well, it's a tough he question. obviously the house has the power to try to enforce subpoenas in a variety of ways. it can go to court, use the political arena, try to enforce subpoenas and it could in theory order the sergeant of arms of the house to bring people to testify before it. most of those things are unlikely. with respect to going to the courts, that's an uphill battle, takes a long time. as we've seen in the last year, we've just seen the end of the litigation over attorney general eric holder from the obama administration who they want to testify and lois learner, the

former irs -- arthel: what administration are we talking about? >> we're talking about the prior administration. it took until this time, this year in the courts to sort that out. so if they try go to the courts on these trump administration subpoenas, it could take another four, six years to wind its way through the courts. the courts are an unlikely option. arthel: is that the strategy on the part of the trump administration. >> i think their strategy is to say look, you want to have an impeachment hearing, we might cooperate. you have to give us rights dark- arthel: do they have rights right now, the three committees, to issue these subpoenas without calling for a full -- that's what they're doing, they're trying to investigate the to see if it's necessary to call for a full impeachment. isn't that part of the political game for one side to say hurry up and do this, and the other side to say look, you rushed to judgment. >> in the tradition of

impeachments, what's happened is the house typically voted before beginning an inquiry. they've got a vote in the full house. the democrats have one to get one going now. they haven't done that here. the constitution doesn't require them to hold a vote. that's a his tore historical p. arthel: i get your point. i thank you for clarifying it. i want to go to specifics now. first, ambassador to the european union, gordon sunland was blocked by the state department from testifying before congress. then he was subpoenaed to testify, it's going to happen next week on thursday. what information will they want to get from him and how much executive privilege cover does sunland have? >> what they really want to talk to him about is text t messages they have between him and kirk volcker and bill taylor who replaced marie yovanovitch and the question they'll ask is what

did you know about the president's efforts in ukraine, what about rudy giuliani, what was he asking for what did they seek getting, from the ukraine, was there a quid pro quo. the question whether they'll get it or not is a good question. he could say look, my conversation was the president are protected by executive privilege and the administration will try to tell him look, you can't testify at all, he'll say i'm going to testify no matter what. the question is whether he'll certificate executive privilege. arthel: how much coverage does he have under that. >> we generally tend to think conversations between the president and close advisors, in this case an ambassador would be a close advisor, are generally protected by executive privilege. congress will want to get to the heart of that. it gets to the heart of what did he know and what was the president trying to do.

arthel: i want to read a statement from a democratic chairman, this was released yesterday. in part it says any efforts by trump administration officials to prevent witnesses, witness cooperation, with the committees will be deemed obstruction of a co--equal branch of government and adverse inference may be drawn against the president on the underlying allegations of corruption and coverup. so you now to you, jamal, is it in his rights as president to determine who testifies before congress or is it instructio obf justice. >> when it comes to impeachment inquiries, the president has a right to determine what evidence is presented against him, if it's something coming from the administration. that being said, congress has a right to demand it too. this is what happens when you put two co--equal bran of. s ibranches inconflict. what you're seeing here is a

really aggressive conflict. the president is going to assert executive privilege, will congress be able to get past it. that's more o -- that will play out right in front of us. arthel: finally, quickly if i can, part of the republican talking point is, quote, the president did nothing wrong. what's behind blocking witnesses? wouldn't the president want to have the witnesses tell what they know to clear his name. >> if the president didn't do anything wrong, why is he trying to keep witnesses from testifying. the democrats are saying this proves you did something wrong. it's going to be inferred against you. the president's position is look, these are my employees, i can determine, you should vote, you should give me rights, i want those rights and then we can talk about me testifying or my people testifying. this is what happens in these impeachment inquirelies, this fight between two branches, we'll see it play out here. at the end of the day, the american people are going to have to judge in the next election what they think of the

inquiry and the president's reaction to it. arthel: thank you so much. eric: as president trump wrestles over widespread criticism of a decision that led to turkey invading syria and r targeting our allies, the kurds, the administration is bolstering defenses elsewhere against iran. about 1800 troops, several dozen fighter jets have been dispatched to saudi arabia to better help protect that country against more suspected iranian attacks. they are joining our forces and anti-missile t batteries that are on the ground in the kingdom. what does this mean in the fight against iran? john bremmer joins us, a former intelligence officer. do you think 2,000 -- just under 2,000 troops and basically four dozen fighter jets, will that be enough and is that strong enough message against iran? >> well, good afternoon. this is just in addition to the 14,000 troops that have calm

accumulated since may since we first started seeing the series of attacks from iran on saudi arabia. so it's in addition to what's already there. he we've been bolstering continuously since that time and strengthening our position to show our support for iran and to send iran a message that we have them on watch and that what they do in syria, what they do in the region, what they do in the gulf, that we're ready for action. eric: on one hand the president is sending more troops and defending the kingdom, at the same time he's redeploying about 50 special ops in northern syria and telling him to stand down against what's happening with turkey. icrist ex.critics say he's beine call, dispatching more troops and retreating elsewhere. >> you have to look at what is the mission of each set of troops. one are engaged in war fighting and the other are a deterrent,

meaning they're not engaged, they're preparing and training and the others are engaged in daily activities. it's different in what they're doing and the kind of danger they're in each day. eric: do you think that iran will get the message or -- they have been ratcheting up the attacks. first they went to oil tankers. then more oil tankers and then allegedly sent cruise missiles into the heart of the global energy infrastructure, trying to take down the global economy. >> you know, at some point i would hope iran would finally decide that the best alternative here is to sit down and to have some sort of talks. we've seen signs over the last few weeks where they're warming up to the idea but between economic sanction that's have them past recession, nearing a depression, to showing our force with the united states and our allies, the partnership with germany, france, the united kingdom, you know, what else will it take for iran to

understand that the best way for them for their people is to have some meaningful talks and see how we can get past this stalemate that we're in. eric: do you have any doubt that iran was not behind those attacks. the latest evidence is that they feel that perhaps the cruise missiles, which were certainly the saudis say were manufactured and from iran, that they were programmed to go around the northern part of the persian gulf and maybe come up and hit through iraq to try to deflect suspicion that iran was behind it. any sense that, in your view, the chances are that they had nothing to do with this? how concrete do you think they were behind it? >> once a missile has been fired and it's hit, you have to go off the forensics that you have left. i would say that in the intelligence world we say if you have two credible sources that confirm, then the probability of it being true is pretty much

there. and in this case, we have germany who has sided with the united kingdom and france. so you've got the united states and three of our allies confirming the same story. there's no 100%, but i'd say this is in the high 90s. eric: if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck and quacks like a duck -- >> you bet. eric: thank you. good to see you l. tomorrow on fox news sunday, chris wallace will have defense secretary, he'll be sitting down with him, asking about syria, turkey, iran and everything else that's facing our country around the globe. don't want to miss it, check your local listing and local fox station or just keep it tuned right here on the fox news channel. arthel: eric, thank you. kevin mcaleenan is no longer acting dhs secretary, so who could replace him for the top job of keeping the home bland safe? with we'll -- homeland safe? we'll talk about that next. rong.

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arthel: president trump working to fill a new top level vacancy in his cabinet as kevin mcaleenan resigns as acting secretary of homeland security. his departure coming as immigration reform and border security remain top priorities for the administration. garrett tenneys has more from washington. >> reporter: sources familiar with the situation tell us that this was mcaleenan's decision. he was not fired. last night in a call with senior dhs leaders mcaleenan said he was leaving to spend more time with his family but according to the source, the acting dhs secretary has been on the outs with the white house for some time. he felt like administration officials didn't listen to him anymore and he knew that he was not going to be nominated to lead dhs permanently so he decided to step aside. it is worth remembering that mcaleenan took over after the former secretary kirstjen nielsen was fired from the post as the white house was aiming to take a tougher approach on

immigration. the president tweeted he's done an outstanding job as acting secretary of homeland security. we have worked well together with border crossings being way down. kevin now wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. the president said he would announce mcaleenan's replacement next week. a former senior dhs official with close tie toss to the administration says that ken couckusestchnellie is at the toe list. a number are not fans of the former attorney general who led efforts as president of the conservative fund. the source tells us he's in swinge thsyncwith the presidents to a number of key immigration policies and the white house has been working to make this happen. arthel: tomorrow on america's

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arthel: fire crews in the greater los angeles area are battling a fast-moving wildfire. tens of thousands are under orders to evacuate as the fast moving flames burn homes and buildings. we have fox team coverage. adadam klotz is in the fox news weather center. christina -- >> reporter: right now, the saddle ridge fire is 19% contained and mandatory evacuation is in place for 100,000 people who live in the area. firefighters want to protect them from the damage that the flames can cause. you can see it right there. this is one of the 31 properties that were destroyed in this fire. you can see the roof has caved

in. there's debris spilling out into the driveway. at least 7500 acres have burned in this fire so far. it started thursday night. one man died of a heart attack, trying to protect his property during the fire. pg&e cut fire t power to at leat 700,000 customers to prevent the strong winds from toppling power lines and causing the fire. the power is back on for at least 98% of those customers but firefighters are still concerned about strong winds. i spoke with a man who lives next door to a house that was destroyed. he watched with a neighbor as the homeowner's house was engulfed in flames. >> they're very religious people and we -- the nicest couple you can possibly meet. it was so sad looking at her, watching her house burn down. you know. it's like i wasn't even looking at the house burning down, i'm looking at her, thinking of what's going through her mind. >> reporter: well, at least 1,000 firefighters are out here

working these fires, checking on hot spots, trying to prevent it from spreading. we will continue to monitor this and keep you updated on the very dry and windy conditions. r arthel. arthel: thank you very much. eric: team coverage continues now with meteorologist adam klotz with the very latest. adam. >> unfortunately, these conditions that are kind of fueling these fires, they continue at this point. this is our wildfire danger across portions of southern call california. there's loss an los angeles. the wind comes out of the valley and inches tens intensifies this things to move very quickly. the critical risk is stretching to the north, from santa collara and thousand oaks. these are areas that are used to it and the weather will continue and allow this to be an issue for the next couple days. temperatures in the mid-80s

but it's been absolutely bone-dry. so 80 degrees to the south of la, 84 degrees in la, a little bit cooler up to the north because of some of the winds. what they truly need across the area would be a little bit of moi'moisture, a little bit of r. that is not the case. here's the satellite and radar. it is completely dry. any sort of rain that would be henful, guys, that is not in the forecast this weekend. eric: one time you wish it was all clouds. adam, thank you. arthel: that does it it for us for now. we'll be back here at 4:00 eastern with more news. hope you can join us. eric: we'll see you in a few montes moments, actually -- few minutes, actually 60 minutes from now. [son]: who are you talking to? [son]: that guy's scary. the first item on the list is selecting a chairman for the... for the advisory board what's this? as well as use the remaining... child care options run out.

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paul: welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. the impeachment battle took a dramatic turn this week with the white house counsel sending a letter to nancy pelosi saying the administration will not cooperate with the probe, claiming the house inquiry into president trump is, quote, constitutionally invalid and violates basic due process rights and the separation of power. let's bring in constitutional attorney david riff kin, he served in the white house counsel's office during the an