democratic nominee for president. if this is a true story that's coming from drudge, this is michael bloomberg's way of saying not so fast, bernie. fox continues next. ♪ > >> president trump and bill barr fielding criticism from democratic lawmakers who are questioning the motives behind the doj's decision to shorten sentencing recommendations for roger stone. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm molly line. >> that story started this week and blew up. it's not going to end over the weekend. i'm leland vittert. and they decided not to charge andrew mccabe after a long criminal investigation into some of his actions on the job. mark meredith travelling with the president who is down enjoying the nice weather in

west palm beach, florida. hi, mark. >> hi, leland, good afternoon. the justice department is fielding questions after a slew of questions. and there has been so much speculation on recent developments involving multiple cases. president trump did not speak with reporters as he made his way to florida. his trip came days after bill barr told that the president's constant tweets are impacting the justice department. >> the president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case. however, to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me

to do my job. >> the attorney general is denying that president trump is involved in the department's case against former trump associate roger stone. stone was convicted on multiple counts of lying to congress. and prosecuted recommended between seven and nine years. and we learned that justices wanted to overrule and shorten the sentence and democrats are calling for barr to resign over the matter. >> what the attorney general could have said to satisfy me was that he was resigning. i called for his resignation. i think that he is part of a pattern of political interference in the department of justice that's absolutely intolerab intolerable. >> now, on friday, fox learned that the justice department is ending its investigation into former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. mccabe was facing allegations whether or not he had lied regarding a leak to the media. mccabe said he's thankful the

investigation is over, but he felt it went on for far tie long. and president trump is in florida as you mentioned, he's got a fundraiser in town this evening and tomorrow heading up to daytona for the daytona 500. and this is interesting. john roberts broke this last night, it's possible that we could see the presidential limo go on the race track with the president inside and the details are worked out and should make for quite a spectacle for the folks not only watching in person in daytona and those on television as well. leland: they call it the beast. perhaps a little lower on the track than some of the cars later in the day. mark meredith in a windy west palm beach, florida. we'll check with you. thanks. >> the trump administration announcing sending tactical border patrol agents to sanctuary cities in an effort to crack down on undocumented migrants marked for deportation. and this fascinating story to

understand. >> good morning, molly. i speak with the acting dhs secretary, chad wolf and he says he would deploy to the southern border because he's not getting help he needs in the so-called sanctuary cities. >> in our sanctuary cities, we get zero help from law enforcement. most the times they are prohi t prohibited from helps us. not only in the jail settings, but no support as we go to the communities either. >> wolf is going in and calling in the heavy fire power, the special forces of dhs are sent to chicago and new york to enforce immigration and customs enforcements and addition to atlanta, houston, detroit, and other cities. and they're overwhelmed from them coming in by waves and the hardline stance. the teams will be deployed through may, according to dhs.

not everyone is happy. the mayor of los angeles as well as its police chief criticized the move on humanitarian grounds and they also don't want to turn their streets into war zones. >> i want you to know that you do not need to be afraid. the city is on your side. and rest assured if you're in los angeles we are not coordinating. >> the los angeles police department is not assisting ice in any way. we will not enforce immigration laws that are civil in nature and that fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government. immigration is a federal matter. safety is a police matter. >> secretary wolf would like to see more cooperation between cities and the trump administration on this issue. >> it's fascinating to see the pushback from the leaders in the cities so swiftly. lucas tomlinson, thank you. >> we'll bring in darrell issa running in the district a little south of with are he used to represent. congressman, good to see you. we appreciate it.

let's start with this, do you think these border patrol teams will actually make a difference or more of window dressing for the president to prove he's doing something? >> well, leland, the 18,000 men and women of the border patrol make a difference every single day. the question where are they making a difference? at the border where we need more fence armor wall to free up some of those people? absolutely. but in the interior where you have my state obstructing the removal of ms-13 and other criminal aliens, they're going to make a big difference. the people that are being affected by crime on the streets are the very people they claim they want to protect. police cannot protect from criminals if criminals are first of all, not arrested in california, not prosecuted in california and then if they're illegal, they're not even deported from california. >> we saw that clip lucas'

report from the mayor of los angeles and also the sound bite from the police chief. it seemed a damning indictment of the way the federal government is asking los angeles to enforce immigration laws. how is it you've got a police chief basically saying we're not going to enforce laws since they're federal. is it sincerity or he's being told what to do? >> when i talk to law enforcement including deputy sheriffs i work closically with, they want to release from their jail criminal aliens directed to ice. they're prohibited by the legislature and laws they passed and signed and approved by two democratic governors in a row, they're prohibited from doing it. by state law, they want it changed, you ask any law enforcement person off the record, they're going to say t you talk about somebody who an a political appointee like the

police chief, of course he wants to keep his job, he's going to say what the mayor wants him to say. >> the president is headed out to california for fund raising, and he's the president of everybody in the united states, but i don't think anybody thinks he's got a chance to win california come november. in part, he does these trips and highlights the differences between california and the rest of the country. does that message translate outside the borders of your state? >> oh, absolutely. and remember, leland, there are pockets of red here in california, including the 50th congressional district. these are places where my voters are energized, but throughout the state, millions of people, even the ones who might not have voted for president trump, they want safe streets, they want jobs protected and they know that president trump is doing it. so, he is triangulating the bad

behavior of new jersey, new york, california to help the rest of the country, but he's sending people to those states to protect the citizens that right now are not being protected by their own law enforcement because of these adverse policies. >> you certainly were an outspoken member of congress, both from the hearing rooms and then also on cable television. take you back to 2016, as you talked about this video, the meeting between loretta lynch, then the attorney general, bill clinton, former president and husband of hillary clinton who was running for president. this is a video of that famous meeting on the tarmac and this is what you had to say about it. >> madam attorney general, what were you thinking? when would you ever allow yourself to be compromised like that? it's practical jury tampering when you have that kind of exec

ex parte event. >> the attorney general never had a conversation, the president allows him to do his job. but the president has an obligation in his mind and reality to communicate his thoughts to the american people and this president, president trump does it like no other president. so i think there is a disconnect that you have to accept, that president trump will tell people what he thinks, he will allow the attorney general to do what he thinks is right, that's what is supposed to happen. people just aren't used to a president who expresses it. leland, remember, the president has the absolute right of pardoning -- there's no question that the president can change the outcome if he chooses to, but when he tweets-- >> there's a difference between presidential power and presidential propriety. forgive me congressman, i think if president obama had had tweeted such things about fast and furious, you would have been up in arms. you certainly were about eric holder saying he was president trump's wing man--

president obama's wing man. >> remember, president obama actually covered for hillary clinton saying he thought she didn't commit crimes when, in fact, she had classified documents in her home and had left office. so, there is a history of actual interference and actual statements by the chief executive that are very different than simply an opinion that a sentence is going to be too long. >> so you're saying that by president obama saying that hillary clinton didn't have-- commit any crimes, he was putting his hand on the scale and you don't like that. but what president trump tweeted, vis-a-vis roger stone isn't putting his hand on the scale? >> well, i think when you deal with sentencing, and i think this is an important distinction. when you're dealing with the crime, was it committed or not, we could have a discussion about when it's appropriate or inappropriate to speak. but when you're talking an opinion whether a crime and the punishment fit, quite frankly the court welcomes people to

weigh in with their opinions and as a matter of fact, there's a process to do it. yes, it's the president of the united states and makes a difference, but let's remember, the president of the united states is looking at a host of people who committed bigger crimes and aren't even being prosecuted while one of his friends is actually going to jail for decades. leland: you have to wonder what president trump is going to write a character memo for roger stone to give to the judge that. would be one to see. we appreciate your time. >> thank you, leland. >> thanks for being with us for the weekend where it's warmer than here. >> and on fox news sunday. chris wallace haskelly ann c-- has kellyanne conway. and boy was it a week, bill barr's interview with abc and they broke into programming for that interview.

that all is tomorrow, media buzz 11 a.m. eastern. >> the u.s. and the taliban are agreeing to a week long reduction in violence in what could be the first steps in ending america's longest running war. mike tobin has the details live from our middle east bureau. >> promising, but not without risk. that's what they told after a deal was struck that could ultimately lead to u.s. troops coming home from afghanistan. it happened on the sidelines of a security forum in munich, germany. >> we have to give peace a chance the best if not only way forward in afghanistan means a political agreement. that means taking some risks. that means enabling our diplomates. >> the deal hangs on a seven-day reduction in violence which means the taliban have agreed to halt roadside and suicide bombs for this time period.

if the taliban hold up their end of the bargain, the u.s. and taliban agreement, a possible country-wide cease-fire and the commitment from the taliban not to harbor fugitives from terrorist organizations like that, and they would not comment about the size or time frame from the troop withdrawal. the expectation is that the number would be reduced 8,600 following the announcement of a deal. the announcement of a deal came after secretary esper met with mike pompeo-- >> mike tobin, thank you very much. ♪ >> france now confirming the first coronavirus death outside of asia.

this as china says it's taking new steps to keep the virus from spreading. a lot of questions in terms of exactly how candid china is being about all of this. christina coleman tracking the outbreak from los angeles. hi. >> leland, well, this illess has been to more than two dozen countries. the 80-year-old, and the cases through friday, a significant drop from more than 5,000 cases reported in the previous 24 hours. this brings the country's total to 66,492 infected. the world health organization has named the illness corvid-19. a team of world health organization meet this weekend.

and travelers head back to densely populated city and people returning to beijing to isolate themselves at home for 14 days. the department of health and human services a supporting the state department in getting american citizens back to the u.s. who were on board the diamond princess cruise ship currently docked in yokohama, japan. the ministry says that 67 more people aboard the quarantined ship have been infected with the strain of coronavirus, bringing the cases to 285 on board who are sick with this illness. the japanese health minister says it will start preparing to evacuate americans aboard the quarantined vessel. the state department says it has a chartered flight to bring american citizens back to the u.s. everyone will have to go undergo a health screening before they're allowed on the chartered flight. anyone who shows symptoms will not be allowed on the plane.

those who arrive in the u.s. will have to go through another two weeks of quarantine. some will go to the travis air force base in california and some will fly to lackland air force base in texas. even though the c.d.c. maintains a general risk to the public is low, government officials do not want to take any chances. >> the measures that we have in place are staying in place for the forseeable future. whether they come back to the u.s. in the next several days or weeks, they're still going to be medically screened. and the c.d.c. announcing that they will be testing for the strain of coronavirus in five u.s. cities including here in california, in san francisco and los angeles, and in new york city. leland. >> all right, still so much unknown, unknowns as they say about this. christina coleman, thank you. molly. >> the second wave of the flu is sweeping the u.s. the number of child deaths and hospitalizations now at its

highest in 10 years. and experts say the wave is expected to continue for weeks, causing a particular worry because the flu and the coronavirus can show similar symptoms. leland: federal appeals court has upheld a blocking of the trump administration medicaid work requirements. the three-judge panel agreeing with a lower court ruling that found work requirements for medicaid in arkansas to be, quote, arbitrary and capricious. about 18,000 people in arkansas lost benefits as a result of those requirements. 20 other states are in the process of trying to implement the same requirement. watch what happens because the court decisions on that. china, molly. >> china collects billions in tariffs, will it end to a shot in the arm for u.s. exports? a closer look. ok everyone!

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>> some of the wildfires in australia are finally under control, especially in new south wales. firefighters down there say heavy rains over the last week have helped their effort. millions of acres burned since those fires began all the way back in september. you can see some of the devastation there. half a billion animals have

died. 11 firefighters as well died, including three americans who were there trying to help out >> the u.s. china trade, phase one trade deal is in effect with both countries slashing tariffs on friday. china is lowering on soybeans, pork, and chicken. american autos, cars and gas and seafood and the u.s. is cutting on electronics and footwear and apparel. and affecting your wallet. here is mitch. and thank you for joining us today. i guess one of the big questions as we look at what's unfolding in china is the administration would like to see great, positive numbers come out of this. the u.s. economy would like to see great numbers out of this

trade deal, but china is embroiled in the thick of dealing with the coronavirus and all that that entails, including the potential economic impact. could that potentially muddy the impact of the outcome of this phase one as we move into it? >> molly, quite possibly. you know, what i've been saying is just when it was start safe to trade with china, we have the coronavirus. i think that we are guess seeing the beginnings of what this could mean to their economy and potentially to ours as a result. you have tourism off. you have transportation industry off. you have manufacturing shutdown, you have our retailers that are doing business there, closing stores. so, i think it's going to have an impact on u.s.-china trade, no question about it. >> getting us into a few more specifics regarding phase one. china had made this enormous purchasing promise. all of these goods they're expected to have promised, essentially to buy from farm products, 32 billion testified

goods and 80 billion energy products and 25 billion. these were promises made before the coronavirus struck and began to have impact. would they have kept their promises anyway and will it be even more challenging now? >> well, let's go back to what they were trying to do. so the trade was off in 2018 and 2019 because of a trade war. so they're trying to get back to the levels that they were moving towards in 2017. you have agricultural products, you have consumable food products, so soy beanies are something that they definitely need. pork is something they absolutely need because lost in the headlines is the swine flu epidemic that exists in that part of the world so the industry has to buy those things. the thing that's troublesome, the chinese economy which historically has been one relying on manufacturing is now rely and the on the consumer and their consumers impacted by what's going on there and they stop consuming, then there's be

less demand for the varied products. >> the international monetary fund managing director said the next couple of weeks there on the ground in china will be very telling. here is what she said. when we look forward, the next two weeks will be quite critical. china's factories are opening up and on that basis, spillover for the rest of the world. and we're watching how the virus is going outside of china. if it spreads over into after ka, that may change. bottom line, we don't know enough. we have to be vigilant and recognize that we're dealing with uncertainty in a relatively weak, overall world economy. so what do you think about that that the next two weeks that there's a lot riding on these next two weeks as the chinese workers head back. >> right, so they were out for lunar new year and then out for the factory shutdown so there's going to be a drag on their economy there because many people may not have gotten paid

or furloughed. we're uber focused on china, but china is partners with the rest of the worldment and other parts of the world are relying goods coming from china and that could very much disrupt global supply change. the word in that bite there, was uncertainty. uncertainty regarding the economy is the thing that could slow down the economy. you have western europe slowing down, if this means that china is in fact slowing down, that that could have a contagious effect, pun intended. >> you're seeing fiat chrysler is saying it's halted in serbia because of the parts manufactured this china and we know that europe has been struggling. is that a part of the overall economy and the domino effect that we have to keep an eye on? >> many manufacturers around the world look to find alternatives

and certainly u.s. importers look to find alternatives to china in, as the trade war was going on and they look to vietnam and cambodia and bangladesh and different things, but it takes a long time to rebuild a supply chain and so many of the components of technology, things like flat screen tv's and auto parts come from china if those factories remain shut down for a while, the car that you're waiting for from a u.s. manufacturer could be delayed. molly: and the big question to where would the coronavirus move and could we see an outbreak potentially in countries that you mentioned. we just don't know. as you mentioned the word was uncertainty. thank you for joining us. >> you bet, molly. leland: the economy is hot topic and the campaign trail. live pictures, henderson, nevada. amy klobuchar is one of the democrats hitting the campaign trail this weekend. ellison barber is hot on their

heels from fabulous las vegas. hi, ellison. >> hey, leland. one can candidate not here, mike bloomberg, dominating headlines and looking at a potential running mate. i have major money saving news for my fellow veterans. va mortgage rates have dropped to near 50 year lows. call newday usa. one call can save you $2000 a year. with the newday va streamline refi there's no income verification, no appraisal and no out of pocket costs. and my team can close your loan in as little as 30 days. one call can save you $2000 every year.

>> with just one week left until the democratic caucuses. presidential candidates are making a major push to reach the state voters. ellison barber is in vegas tracking it for us. ellison. >> hey, molly. bernie sanders, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, elizabeth warren, joe biden and tom steyer are all expected to be in las vegas for the kickoff tonight for the caucus 2020 gala. one candidate who will not be here though is former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. despite that he's dominating the

headlines for things he's done in the past and could do in the future. he's faced allegations of gender and allegations in the workplace, making comments to employees, and told her to this after she said she was pregnant. there was insight into the allegations and underscores how bloomberg and his company bloomberg lp have the claim. and they are responding to the article, and featured women talking about positive experiences with them. tweet says mike has always supported women with work and family and zero tolerance for an environment where women aren't respected. and all of that as the drudge report says that bloomberg is

considering hillary clinton and the pair would be a formidable force. bloomberg's communication director did not exactly refute, but said we're focused on the primary and debate not vp speculation. hillary clinton was asked in a recent interview if she would consider being someone's running mate, she said probably no. mol molly. molly: the speculation makes it so much fun to follow and thank you for your work out there covering a lot of ground. leland: and speaking of that sound bite. we're going to play it in a second. after nevada the spotlight turns to south carolina and for that, we bring in the voice of south carolina, josh, kimbrel. good to see you. let's listen to that on the "ellen" show just poeover a wee ago. >> if someone asked you to be vice-president would you do

that? >> that's not going to happen, but no. >> you don't know that's not going to happen. >> yeah, i do. i think i do. >> what do you think of that. >> you have to listen to what she said after that, when she was pushed harder and she said i do believe in serving my country so i can never say never. not twisting her arm that leland, she's not forced into speculation. i think she likes the attention. leland: she certainly has not been, shall we say, silent on the issue of the 2020 race. she blasted bernie in so many ways and also, blasted tulsi gabbard, both of whom are trying to catch up to joe biden in your moment state. are either of them making any headway? >> neither one of those-- sanders is making some headway, it's interesting in south carolina to watch a lot of people self-described socialists engage in a whole lot of capitalism and buying tv ads helping our state's economy, but sanders is catching up to biden, biden to lose, 28% for biden. 20% for sanders, the interesting thing in my state, tom steyer is

making a move because he hired the old barack obama ground game here. and the top three are biden, sanders and steyers. >> and politico has a headline, deep cracks, and she switched allegiances and she switched after they said the grass roots approach was outdated. agreed? >> i think that's probably true. biden's camp in south carolina believed he was such a formidable front runner, 20 points up. and all the way tom steyer has been runs tens of millions of ads in the southeast and everybody is sick of hearing i'm

tom steyer and i approve this message. it's eating into joe biden's african-american support. i don't think that tom steyer could beat them, but they could pull enough away with the barack obama ground game, even if he can't come on here, if he loses here, he's toast. leland: put up the poll here from politico and the joe biden fire where he counts on the african-american vote. 29%, february, 27th%. that's a precip tis drop. if you were to end up with a bloomberg-clinton ticket, this drudge report seems to indicate is a possibility.

does hillary clinton bring the machine back into play for joe biden? >> hillary clinton joining bloomberg would help because of stop and frisk. if they announced this before joe biden's campaign on the 29th, it could hurt biden. because clinton did pretty well with african-american voters in south carolina in 2016. the problem is bloomberg does not appear on the ballot in south carolina so the voters are going to have to go for somebody on the ballot. first choice among african-american voters at the moment is biden, but as i said a moment ago, the wild card will be steyer. and hillary clinton would help bloomberg on super tuesday and beyond. no question about it. leland: and with appreciate the conversation, thank you, sure. >> always fun, thank you, sir. leland: molly. molly: the next days in harvey

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and breaking down week's long trial into three themes, power, manipulation, and abuse. ayn since the beginning of this milestone in the #metoo movement. 28 witnesses took the stands for the prosecution and including six accusers, two of them the focus of this case. m iechmimi haley said he assau her. and aspiring actress accused him of rape. the defense countered the relationships were consensual, even providing evidence that some of the accusers kept in touch with weinstein after the alleged abuse. >> you have to look at each individual situation for what it is and evaluate that evidence. i don't think the totality of the circumstances mattered. >> they told the jurors they don't have to like weinstein, but doesn't make him guilty. in final arguments, they said

that the prosecution humiliated weinstein showing naked pictures and one testified to the defo deformities on his body. and one praised his team's closing arguments. weinstein faces five criminal accounts and if convicted he could spend life in prison. while this case moves to the hands of the jury on tuesday, weinstein faces an upcoming sexual assault case in los angeles. molly: thank you. those california charges that alex mentioned stem from two separate instances of alleged sexual assault. they both took place over two days in february in 2013. the first three charges you see there are related to the first alleged attack. the final fourth charge is connected to the second alleged incident. so a lot to unpack there, and whatever happens here, he has still this to look towards in

his future. leland: it's so interesting how this is a pretty novel type of prosecution. it was tried a little bit before in the cosby case, but now you have in the weinstein case, them having other women testify that they suffered similar actions by weinstein without him being charged with those incidents and it's a very-- it's a novel way for the prosecution to do it and we'll see how well the jury receives that, conceivably deliberations on this one could last a while. one of the things they're going to be thinking about is the defense's closing argument, they, meaning the prosecution, are creating a universe in which they're stripping adult women of common sense, autonomy and responsibilities. that statement goes on to say, in their universe women are not responsible for the men they attend, the men they flirt with, plane tickets they accept and jobs they obtain and not responsible for sitting at their

computers and e-mailing someone across the country. the defense arguments going on and read more about it on foxnews.com, but it gives you a sense so often they're trying to frame the victims as perhaps having regrets and not necessarily being the victims of a crime here and that it's a risky defense as you've seen in trials that you've covered as well. sometimes the jury buys it and sometimes the jury has a harsh reaction of putting the victims on trial. molly: the defense argued that regret sex is not rape. and prosecutors pushed back in their statements arguing that harvey weinstein was no victim, quote, he felt like he had a sure fire insurance policy and witnesses were standing in line to get into his universe. he made sure he has contact with the people he's worried about to make sure they wouldn't walk out of the shadows and call him exactly what he was, an abusive rapist. and that's part of this as well, the allegation that he not only conducted these acts, but that he also threatens these women

and told them to keep quiet. leland: and threatened them with their jobs or enticements are not getting other jobs. how much the world has changed in four years for sure, this being just the latest example. we'll watch the trial from new york as it continues. and now to this, check out this video, 21-year-old boxing phenom, well, he took barely any time to defend his title. the highlights when we come back. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. you have potential. you have-oh boy.

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it does more for a cold sore. >> he's taken him down. it's over! >> it was over pretty quick. ryan garcia defending his title with a knockout in seconds. the 21-year-old born boxer beat fonseca. he's the silver light weight champion and he's 20 on 1 and that lasted 90 seconds so that

was sort of almost what, triple the value of time and pay-per-view got for the mcgreggor fight. what took him so long. molly: i don't know, that was incredible. he's amazing and the slow-mo is the best when you see the action go down and see how far their reach is. leland: i'll say, molly, you and i have worked together for five years and friends longer. and i wouldn't have taken you as a connor-mcgreggor. molly: how big of a fan. leland: you paid for it on pay-per-view. all right, something new every day. molly: and the freeze felt in parts of the nation are going to give way to warmer weather. leland: i like it, molly. molly: yeah, you do it better, doing well, adam. leland: adam, here is your challenge. do the weather forecast in less

time than that knockout happened. molly: that might be time left. >> we've used most of it and i'll fly through it. in new england, you're currently looking at temperatures down to the 20's and add the wind chill and suddenly the bottom falls out. if you live in upstate new england, parts of new york and single digits in some places negative temperatures and that's the case all the way back to the upper midwest. the thing is, it's been mild so far this year and that's kind of the trend that's going to continue. so we go through this saturday and temperatures are on the colder side and sunday into monday, close to 50 degrees in new york city, back up to 40 degrees in chicago, and so a lot of really warm air kind of funneling back in. and on the other parts going to the pacific northwest. currently some rain running into portland to seattle and does eventually track into some higher elevations and you've got winter storm watches and warnings across this entire

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♪ >> the trump administration announcing plan to crack down on sanctuary cities saying we would send tactical agents across the nation. welcome to america's news headquarters. leland: unclear if they will get a warm reception when agents get there. i'm leland vittert. it is facing backlash from the so-called sanctuary cities, lucas thompson with political debates and perhaps on what the agents will be doing. >> all part of the administration's hardline approach to illegal immigration. i spoke to chad wolf minutes before your show, he explained what happened last year and why he ordered reinforcement to so-called sanctuary cities.

>> we had over a hundred thousand folks, 44,000 folks coming into the country illegally, we released the large majority into the interior. >> wolf said he received zero help from law enforcement in sanctuary cities and calling on heavy fire power, special forces of dhs to go to chicago and new york to reinforce and additional agents atlanta, boston, newark, new jersey, wol -- wolf says officials are overwhelmed. police chief criticized move on humanitarian ground, released the following message to offer their support. >> i want you to know you do not need to be afraid, your city is on your side. and rest assured here in los angeles we are not coordinating

with ice. >> it's not assisting ice in any way, we will not enforce immigration laws that are civil in nature and fall under jurisdiction of federal government. immigration is a federal matter, safety is a police matter. >> secretary wolf would like to see more cooperation from democrats on the issue, major challenge in an election year, leland. leland: yeah, for sure, part of the story will not end, we will see how teams do and how that plays out politically for the president and his team. lucas, thank you very much, molly. >> the president is in mar-a-lago today as he and attorney general with criticism from democratic lawmakers. mark mother deat ---- mark mere. >> all began when attorney

general bill barr criticized president trump over frequent comments regarding cases that the justice department is dealing with, barr under fire of democrats handling of the case against former trump associate roger stone, stone convicted on multiple accounts on lying to congress. they wanted to recommend 7 to 9 years behind bars. top officials overruled recommendation and want judge to go to shorter sentence and barr insists that the decision has nothing to do with president trump. >> did you talk to the president at all about your decision regarding the recommendations? >> the recommendations on this case, never. >> anybody from the white house call you to try to influence you? >> no. nope. i have not discussed the roger stone case at the white house. >> but several senate democrats are not buying barr's denial, they are sending letter to attorney general, they put this

out yesterday, they called for resignation, among senators abdelhamid abaaoud she wrote, quote, a department of justice that bans rule of law in order to give sweetheart deals is as corrupt as it is as unacceptable. now we've also learned that the department of justice has ended investigation into former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, mccabe facing allegations that he might have been lying about media leak, however, mccabe said he's glad investigation is over and felt like it went on for far too long, molly. >> all right, mark meredith, thank you so much. ♪ ♪ leland: china says it's taking new measures to combat the corona virus ordering 14-day,

hi,. >> this brings the country's total to more than 66,400 infected. 1,523 deaths of the virus in mainland china so far. they are expecting to start investigating illness in china, also in an attempt to curve the virus as millions of travelers, the government ordering people returning to beijing to isolate themselves at home for 14 days. >> encourage that steps china has taken to contain outbreak at its source appears to have the time, even though those steps have come at greater cost to china itself.

>> this illness has spread to more than 2 dozen countries including france which reported europe's first death from virus. the epicenter of outbreak, daughter got sick but authorities say she's expected to recover. u.s. department of health and human services is supporting the state department and getting american citizens back to the u.s. are aboard the diamond princess cruise ship docked in japan. 400 u.s. citizens on board. japan's health ministry say 67 have been infected with corona virus, the state department saying it has chartered flight to bring citizens back to u.s. no one with symptoms will be allowed on the flight, they will two to travis air force base in california or lockland air force

in texas. 15 cases of th virus have been reported so far and in 5 u.s. cities including san francisco, los angeles and new york. leland. leland: still so many questions about whether or not the chinese are telling the truth about all of this. thank you. molly has more on that. >> yes, for more on that we turn to anthony, director of national institute of allergy and infectious disease and member of corona virus task force, doctor, thanks for being here, are we remotely close to vaccine and what would it take to get there? >> we are not close in sense of next month and next month after, we will be starting a trial in about 2 months to determine candidate vaccine, there's more than one, probably 10 or so that are in this position that will start to determine if it's safe and induces response that you

would predict would be protected. that would take 3 months to determine if we are at that swing and if we are it'll take 6 to 8 months to determine if it works when we do a larger phase 2 trial very likely in china. we are talking about rocket speed in the history of developing vaccines but even in that context it's going to be at least a year or more before we would have a vaccine to be able to implement in anyway, so right now the answer to do -- to be able to contain this is typical classic public health issues such as identification, isolation and contact tracing. >> you know, the citizens there on the cruise ship, apparently they have the opportunity to come home, the government, aircraft will arrive, charter, buses, that sort of thing, at least on one of the people in te cruise ship said they don't love this idea, if they are well getting on a bus or chartered

flight with others that could have illness, of course, significant amount of screening, is this really good news for folks on the cruise ship? >> it is. we need to get them off there, we need to do it in a safe way that is sensitive to the health of the individuals, we obviously have individuals there who are elderly and frail, we have to protect them from getting infected and we have to take care of their health needs so the state department is working with the center for disease control and hhs to get them safely back to the united states so they can be taken care of if necessary. >> on the issue of broader challenge, senator of vermont had this to say about what the united states is doing. he said we should all be ask whether we in the united states and international community are doing enough to combat and prepare for known and escalating

threat, seems obvious that we are not. do you agree with that sentiment and is there more that the u.s. and the international community should be doing? >> well, i cannot speak for the international community but i can tell you we have a pandemic preparedness plan that we developed for influenza some time ago that's being put to effect. as you gave a nice summary in the beginning of the show, in the beginning of the segment, not only are we doing the identification isolation and contact tracing of the 15 people that are infected but the cdc is now beginning a surveillance and we are screening them for corona virus, that's expanded beyond the 5 cities soon. right now we are doing it in 5 cities. i really do think we are doing a lot to protect the american public from having this

particular corona virus break out in a more unfortunate fashion in the united states, obviously the situation in china is dreadful. they are having a serious situation in china and one of the ways we are trying to protect it travel restrictions that we have for people in china. >> president trump weighed on the geraldo cleveland radio show and expressed hope that the virus had essentially a timeline of demise or tapering off and tied it to the spring, take a listen. >> the april date is very, very important because if that's the case, if heat does, in fact, kill, that's when it start getting hot and this virus reacts very poorly to heat and dies. >> your thoughts on that potential theory, is that potentially true when we get into the spring or april the virus could taper off? >> when you look at influenza they are, indeed, seasonal, peak

in the winter and march, april and may they go down. the same with classical corona virus that cause the common cold, that is true, that is a fact, however, since this is completely unknown now and it's a novel virus for which we have no experience, i don't think we can say with any confidence that when the warm weather comes this is going to go away, but the hypothesis that this will happen is not an unreasonable hypothesis but we don't know right now because we've never had any experience with this particular corona virus. >> thank you, dr. anthony, we appreciate it going through the knowns and unknowns of which there are many. we appreciate it, thank you so much, something we are all watching, appreciate it. >> good to be with you. leland: fox news alert, the nypd commissioner announcing a short time ago that a 14-year-old boy we are told is now in custody in connection to the murder of

tessa majors. >> it's been a long deliberate process from december 11th when majors was murdered until today february 15th when we are confident we are delivering measure of justice and announcing grand jury indictment and subsequent arrest of one of those involved in the killing. leland: teen arrested last night will be tried as an adult. a 13-year-old also arrested and charged in connection with majors death. here is a picture of majors, stabbed to death follow attempted robbery, she's a college student who was just 18 year's old. >> legal battle for jesse smollet and how legal team is reacting after the break.

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identifying unnamed minor six who claims that the r&b singer sexually abused her for several years beginning when she was 14 or 15 year's old, same indictment no longer including

claims by minor two, a different woman who accused kelly of sexual abuse, not clear why she was removed from the filing, r kelly fighting the charges and due back in court next month. ♪ ♪ leland: in chicago as well, they are waiting for jussie smollett to head back to court, actor now faces 6 new charges in relation to hate crime attack that prosecutors say he staged and lied about it. the man who has been following all for us andrew, chicago based attorney, north western adjunct professor as well. jussie smollett written 10,000-dollar check to make the case go away and now special prosecutor who says we will reindict you, how does that work? >> she made the mistake after poking the bear, he sued the

city for malicious prosecution, remember, back when old mayor was here and old police chief, civil war between cook county prosecutor's office and basically jussie smollett saying the charges never should have been dropped. poked the bear, special counsel waaswinged and now he's been recharged. what's questionable here is the james comey-like timing of the charging decision just 35 days before the election, referring to hillary clinton, something voters in the era of donald trump should consider offensive, so when in doubt play the victim, is that the strategy here? >> that's it. she has a play book and has a very well defined play book and the election is 35 days away and this is her nightmare scenario,

dropped the charges, perception she did it because you have a rich celebrity who is well connected and dan webb, prosecuto-- leland: interesting question, part of web's investigation, he's recharging jussie smollett, does he have the power or ability or scope to look into why charges were dropped and waiting to drop the information or is that off limits for him? >> no, he has a very clear mandate to investigate everything and the second part of that is why the charges were dropped, that's the big shoe that's going to drop, we don't know when, but when it does it could be the ultimate nightmare

scenario for kim fox. leland: when you say could be, what does he have the right to do? can he subpoena phone records and emails that perhaps she didn't have to turn over before? >> he's operating under state statute, kind of like robert mueller in terms of federal statute, he can look at everything, emails, text, he can interview witnesses under oath to determine what happened and why the charges were dropped. leland: this is clearly become a lot bigger than jussie smollett, you mentioned that he poked the bear, is the case now prosecuted against jussie smollett or does this go back to kim fox and her office? >> kim fox has been removed. she will have nothing to do with this case, daniel webb is calling the shots, that's a wonderful thing. he will get to the bottom of this. leland: this is about politics not justice, et cetera, et

cetera, what does jussie smollett actually face here? >> he faces 6 felony disorderly conduct charges, now, look it's not the kid napping of the baby, right, if he's convicted he will not serve 5 to 10 years, he did do damage to the reputation of chicago, fed the perception, think about it, other hate crime victims that come forward, immediately cases will be questioned, he hurt chicago's reputation and cost $150,000 of taxpayer money to go spent on frivolous investigation and chicago will get pound of flesh. leland: you have the civil lawsuits, he sued the police and the police countersued him. does the civil case be put on hold or does he fight both battle because rights under each one are different? >> that's right. civil case will be stayed, the criminal case will proceed, i think we will have resolution on it within a year.

leland: we see jussie smollett probably not in handcuffs but in court when? >> that's tough to say, but needless to say the case will be rocket docketed because of how high-profile it is. i would say probably within a year. leland: noteworthy to swing out excellent reporting done by local television stations there in chicago, that's certainly going to continue on the jussie smollett case. now to r kelly case real quickly, the pictures we have of r. kelly of him in an orange jump suit, is this piling on of charges change anything about his fate or what goes forward in this? >> yeah, i mean, there have been criticisms that the federal and state prosecutors are piling on. he faces charges in state court, in minnesota, in federal court, multiple different jurisdictions, some people have said it's piling on but in the same sense there's a perception that he's a serial pedophile and

they want to eventually get him off the streets and now they will probably do it. leland: each individual victim has her own story to share and deserves her own day in court and him to answer those charges and face accusers as well, we appreciate it andrew, if we could have guessed how this was going to turn out with jussie smollett with twists and turns we would have a lot more time to talk about it. >> amen. leland: molly. >> south carolina officials say they have identified a new link in the disappearance of 6-year-old fay. alex. >> molly, still no word yet on cause of death of a child but autopsy will yield answers, one autopsy will take place on a man is connected to this child, tragic end for search of missing girl who vanished this week.

>> i can't find my daughter, she was outside. >> the search for the missing child with 911 call that you could hear, all came to an end, heartbreaking week to the community of casey, south carolina, fay disappeared on monday while playing in her front yard. more than 250 officers joined the race to find fay eventually tracking down her body on thursday in wooded area in her neighborhood. a day after finding body police discovering another one, investigators identify the man as 30-year-old cody taylor, police finding the man's body inside his home which is less than 500 feet away from where fay's mom last saw her. leading police to trash can outside of taylor's house, police wouldn't say what they

found but they did say this. >> what i will confirm is this, critical piece of evidence that would have been listed on her missing person's flyer, we want to thank the community for their tips, without them we may not be where we are. >> taylor had no criminal history, police say he wasn't a relative or friend, just a neighbor, this is a homicide investigation and investigators telling the public at this swing they are not looking for any other suspects. police saying this is far from the outcome that they wanted but it's where they are and now they'll seek justice for the child and for her loved ones, after fay's autopsy, police are expected to escort the little girl's body back to her home. >> thank you, alex. leland: elizabeth warren among others on the trail in nevada, ellison barber is right behind them in las vegas, hi, ellison.

>> hey, leland, we are at a senator bernie sanders' event, one of the candidates hitting the ground in nevada hard trying to make round as they head to the first state in the west, diverse states, we will tell you what will happen here and later today. ♪

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♪ >> back to top story, local officials in so-called sanctuary cities are pushing back against the trump administration's plan to report tactical patrol units, one of the cities los angeles where officials are going after this move. >> i want you to know you do not need to be afraid, your city is on your side and rest assured here in los angeles we are not coordinating with ice. >> the los angeles police department is not assisting ice in any way. we will not enforce immigration

laws that are civil in nature, immigration is a federal matter, safety is a police matter. >> your thoughts and officials in the city pushing back against plan being unrolled here. >> i think it's unfortunate when jurisdictions do not work with ice. they are protecting criminals. >> quick note, i forgot to introduce you ron, former u.s. border patrol chief, thank you for sharing your insights, of course. >> my pleasure. >> on aggressive new action in general, your thoughts on sending the teams essentially tactical units into various cities across the nation, of course, within the 100-mile radius, they have the right to be in the area, your thoughts on the new move? >> tens of thousands of immigration fugitives and

locations on record saying they do not want to cooperate with ice and thousands of individuals roaming the streets, the team is designed to do hard things very quickly. >> so one of the things about the teams is they are essentially thought of as the s.w.a.t. and one of the big challenges for border patrol agents when they are trying to apprehend someone who is not in the system already, you know, if you call and say is someone getting out of jail, we would like to pick them up, safer than find them somewhere else, is this about protecting the people that are trying to protect us? >> it's absolutely true. ice is overwhelmed with thousands of people, thousands of fugitives in the locations, it would be much better if jurisdictions cooperate with them so officers can go to jail after released and hand them over, instead they have to find them in the cities and neighborhoods where they live. >> we shared piece with little bit of sound of officials in la,

not the only one, boston mayor, policy aiming to show division, not merely to families that are targeted but broader community and also congressman aiana presley, i call on each of my colleagues in the city of boston and targeted cities across the nation to affirm that we would not comply or cooperate with abuse of power from the trump administration. so we see people at the level of congress as well as mayors in major cities expressing that they are not going to participate, how do -- does this make it more challenging for the agents, for officers? >> it does. they're professionals and overcome this. they are here in the country illegally and gone onto commit crimes, 6 of every 10 arrests that ice makes are people who are in the country illegally. deportation officers, agents are overwhelmed.

cbp helping is a good thing. >> the president has pushed back at another level arguing that we should -- people who are victims or family members who are victims should be able to go after the sanctuary cities if the crimes happened and enabled by the sanctuary cities, take a listen. >> not one more american life should be stolen by sanctuary cities, they are all over the place and a lot of people don't want them, that's why we are calling on congress to pass legislation giving american victims the right to sue sanctuary cities and hold them accountable for the suffering and damages that they've caused. >> what do you think of that idea? >> there has to be some accountability, the folks are here in the country illegally or if they hurt someone or commit a crime, or worse, that's a preventible offense. i think he's onto something. there has to be accountability so we can get cooperations. >> i don't have a whole lot of time but i want to talk about the wall, shift in funding and

the president, the administration getting kind of a bipartisan pushback on that, where they are taking the funds, how they are applying to the border wall including ranking member of the house armed services, republican out of texas who said we take the pentagon's recommendation seriously during deliberations but the final decisions contained in bill passed by congress and signed into law, once the choices have been made the defense department cannot change them without approval of congress, tends to do so undermine civilian control of military and violation of separation of powers within the constitution. your thoughts on the shifting of funding and the importance of the border wall. >> well, national emergency act was passed by congress in 1976, gives the president the authority. more importantly what he's using it for for capability needed on the border, if we want control of the border, we need to fund it and put the wall down and we need agents and we need the technology that goes along with it. i think this is well within authority and certainly necessary. >> ron botello, thank you so

much for your insights today, thank you very much, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. ♪ >> immigration has certainly been a big part of the 2020 campaign and now out to the campaign trail early voting kicks off in nevada today, bernie sanders among others out there trying to get some delegates in this third of the faceoffs, ellison barber live in nevada with a look on what the candidates are saying and the closing arguments, hi, ellison. >> hey, leland, joe biden reported redeployed some members from his staff to super tuesday states from nevada and south carolina, he said to have about 150 staffers on the ground in this state right now, senator bernie sanders, though, he has a very significant well established ground game in this state as well, some 250 staffers on the ground and supporters, you can hear them here, they are enthusiastic, he's said to speak

any minute now. his wife, key surrogate for him especially during impeachment trial spoke to cavuto earlier this morning. >> we want people to be less stressed about having health care and being able to afford health care or at home care for their elderly parents. i mean, i think that it is -- it's -- what side are you on? it's clear to everybody who knows him and maybe that's why they respect him is that bernie honestly and consistently is on the side of the working class. >> the nevada caucuses are significant because it is the first election in the west, it also is a more diverse state unlike new hampshire and iowa where the vast majority of the population is white, this state has a large hispanic population and also significant because of what happened in iowa, nevada, is a caucus just like iowa and as we saw in iowa, that caucus

was safe to say a disaster, the nevada democrats have taken steps to avoid some of those issues, the biggest issue in iowa started with the new reporting app that they were using and the failures of that app, nevada democrats plan to use spectacular app initially but once they saw issues happening in iowa, they scrapped that idea, they say they are now using apps and technology that is off the shelf and developed by mostly by google, leland. leland: we will see how those work out, i know everybody hopes they would work better than iowa, ellison, thank you. they talked about this guy being in 2020 field, perhaps he'll be somewhere else in the 2020 election, michael avenatti convicted of extortion, we will talk about what his appeal might look like when we come back.

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>> reports this week that white house trade adviser peter navarro is pressing lawmakers to have amazon ceo jeff bezos testify before congress as part of the house's antitrust investigation into big tech. it is a move that would be the latest in an ongoing feud between bezos and the trump administration, dan springer has more on all of this. >> the ongoing feud between the world's wealthiest person and most powerful leader is headed to a federal courtroom with 10 billion-dollar contract and perhaps a lot more at stake. amazon argues it lost the jed icloud computing contract for microsoft for one reason, president's dislike for jeff bezos who owns washington post, frequent target of the president's criticism. this week a judge blocked microsoft working with jedi,

move that stunned legal experts. >> the amazon team made a profoundly compelling case to this judge and i'm sure has been unlearned by jeff bezos to do whatever is legally appropriate and ethically permissible to win the case. >> defense secretary mark espera and former secretary james mattis they sign a passage in the book, trump called and directed mattis to screw amazon by locking them out. microsoft says it won the contract fair and square and in a statement the defense department agrees, quote, we are confident in our award of the jedi-cloud contract to microsoft and remain focused on getting critical capability in hands of war fighters. >> several past presidents have been compelled to give sworn

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>> mourners gather outside of stoneman douglas high school to honor victims of parkland shooting, friday marking 2 years of the event. holding a moment of silence and taking part in community service projects throughout the day. ♪ ♪ leland: michael avenatti is not done fighting after jury finding him guilty extorting

nike. >> he's considering running for president to facing up to 42 years in prison, on friday federal jury convicted avenatti on 3 accounts including extortion, threatening to expose corruption at the company involving alleged payments to elite high school basketball players. after verdict while defendant may try to hide legal terms, the jury saw the defendant's scheme on what it was, an old-fashion shakedown. here is how his team reacted. >> we are obviously disappointed in the verdict in this case, surprised by it but we have issues on appeal and we will be pursuing that and we standby our client and look forward to the next phase.

he is a fighter a you all know -- as you all know. >> in april he will face charges in new york for allegedly stealing from the book proceeds of former client adult star stormy daniels. >> what avenatti did to me was tip of iceberg of deceit. his behavior became pervasive that the jury found his true character. nebraska senator ben sasse weighing in, scum bag and describing him scum bag and orchestrated attacks on bet calt

kavanaugh. leland: you say that as punch line but in a way it's amazing that a year and a half ago people were talking about michael avenatti being possible contender for dnc nomination and didn't take him seriously. a lot of television segments about it. noteworthy what he was convicted of trying to do with nike, he wasn't asking for the money for his clients who were allegedly victims in this basketball thing, but he wanted the money personally for himself and basically said nike, if you don't give me $25 million personally to run an investigation into your company and internal investigation, i'm going to hold a press conference and ruin you all. >> being this bombastic, that's not illegal, loud mouth, but very often prosecutors will take

someone's tone and go after them and say, look, this speaks to intent, so when you're so boldly processing that you're caught on tape and all sorts of -- leland: he went to see nike's lawyers and he said all of the things, i'm going to do all this or pay me $25 million, that's wonderful, let's meet in a couple of days to discuss it, walked across the street to the fbi, now you have evidence, but as you swing out, he actually faces another couple of trials and right now is still in jail awaiting all that. >> millions of dollars in total extorted from clients allegedly and it'll be a rough summer for him, for sure. >> b list celebrity there for a while, warmly received. >> a bit generous. leland: ben sasse had the final word. what is that a broken heart?

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instagram, evidently this is about love, the latest work which some are calling cupid outside of house in england, a girl firing a slingshot, there's the girl and slingshot with red flowers, image of the piece on valentine's day, that looks more like a broken heart to me. >> it's grown on me, i like it, i love it. i think i will paint my house. >> that may have increased value, banksy can come on over. one couple having private dinner, one minor catch to this terminal to yourself dinner,

happened between 2:00 and 4:30 so they could be all alone. movie in the making, we will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> it is onto nevada for the 2020 democrats and the third presidential contest, 8 candidates now buying for support as early voting in the caucus is now underway, democratic party looking to avoid the chaos of iowa, hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. eric: i'm eric sean. senator bernie sanders, well, he's trying to bill on early victories while former vice president joe biden hoping on boost of momentum after disappointing finishes in iowa and new hampshire. the two are a