. some call it a white house in crisis, president trump faces new waves of scrutiny about his contact with russian operative >> benjamin netanyahu is had the white house and you can see on the run down, use the #5at630. let's get right to the breaking news, developing news, president trump's pick for labor secretary andrew pudzer withdrew his nomination today, his decision came amid growing skepticism from republicans, democrats and liberal group

criticized the fast food ceo of mistreating his workers opposing the minimum wage. he was scrutiny of his personal life including allegations he abused his ex-wife in the 80's. 12 republican senators were withholding their support. no word who the president will choose to nominate in pudzer's place. there was something about an undocumented house worker and i believe that's also in pudzer's past. that's also one of the reasons when your labor secretary that's kind of a crucial element of it all >> even if you pass everything else he's been accused of fairly or unfairly >> democrats of course are claiming victory but this is one of those where we saw more members of the gop come over and say, i don't think so. . >> we'll move on. >> we'll move on too. president trump hosting israeli benjamin netanyahu net had the white house, goal for the meeting to improve ties with the u.s. israel's

important ally. president trump during the campaign said he was a big supporter of israel >> ronica cleary was inside for the press conference, ronica, what happened? >> reporter: jim and shawn, prime minister netanyahu said exactly that. these two countries are, they're no greater allies than the two of them. put that on the table. during today's press briefing. we got to hear a little bit about the future of the u.s. israeli relationship, and both leaders really said the past few weeks of the trump administration have made them very happy, in terms of that relationship. that was the point they brought home. some key issues and points that many people are expecting to learn about were will he move the embassy to jerusalem. president trump said it's something he's seriously considering, is for settlements, he looked to netanyahu and said let's hold off on at

bit. one interesting part of the dynamic. this press availability, now there were only a few questions given but it happened before their meeting took place, certainly maybe some of these questions had more answers come with that private meeting but that wasn't something that the press was able to access once they had that meeting. finally, president trump spoke about a two-state solution. listen to what he had to say. >> so i'm looking at two-state and one-state and i like the one that both parties like. i'm very happy with the one that both parties like. i can live with either one. i thought for awhile the two-state looked like it may be the easier of the two, but honestly, if bee bee and the palestinians, if israel and the palestinians are happy, i'm happy with the one they like the best >> i don't know if you could hear it. i could hear pretty clearly in my ear, he

he's laughing when they're talking about something as serious as the two-state solution. and what i think that really came home tonight in the whole presser was the friendship that these two share. the fact that they were at times making jokes. prime minister netanyahu made a joke about the art of the deal arbitration agreement the pretty conference, spoke about knowing jared kushner from when he was a child, defended president trump's relationship and support of the jewish people. that, i think, was a very interesting dynamic to just watch the two put it all on you there and say, we are friends and we're very close to one another as they approached this new relationship now, as two leaders. so that was an interesting dymic to pick up on. back to you. >> thank you very much. the visit by the prime minister comes at a time of crisis for the white house. the "new york times" reports members had real estated contacts with russian intelligence the year before the election. in fact, they knew about the contacts, phone

the. but the times said there's no evidence of collusion. >> a lot paying attention to that last night the fall-out over michael flynn continues >> they say flynn's error was not that he discussed u.s. sanctions but that he denied it for weeks. president trump was notified six days into his presidency about flynn's communication with the russians and that elied to the vice president. yesterday the white house said the president asked for flynn's resignation because they said he lied. today, the president seemed to blame the media. >> michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderland man. i think he's been treated very failure by the media. as i call it, fake media in many cases. and i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated to badly. i think in addition to that, from intelligence, things are being

it's criminal action. criminal acts. it's been going on for a long time before me. but now it's really going on. and people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. >> it's worth mentioning that during the campaign, we mentioned this last night. when wikileaks was pushing out a lot of documents, which were against the democrats, the president had -- the president at the time, candidate trump had no problems with wikileaks, he said i love wikileaks >> the president doesn't like the leaks but the candidate loved the leaks. >> let's bring in karen hostile from the virginia tech, karen, let me ask you, what did you make of that statement? of course, we heard originally that the president asked for michael flynn's resignation because he was not truthful and he lied. today, we hear him saying the media, and more about these leaks. >> i think what president trump is trying to do is put the best face he can on what looks to many osi

administration at least experiencing some very early, and there's also concern with any administration about trusting the person in the nsa position like michael flynn >> professor, this has been going on for a couple of weeks now. we're about four weeks into the administration. a lot of attention has been paid for. are we making too much of this right now? >> one could argue that the specifics probably so that's true in most new administrations everybody is trying to learn who the major players are. what some of the difficulties may be. but i also think that this is another suggestion of some of the difficulties in transitioning into power that many members of trump administration have been experiencing, not only this case, certainly the secretary of labor, nominee withdrawing from consideration and some other close cabinet members suggesting this administration is having a little bit of a rough

>> many democrats come out and said there needs to be some sort of investigation similar to the 911 commission investigation, republicans have been slow saying maybe an investigation one of those closed investigations, that you know, for higher security clearance. do you think that maybe they're doing this because right now they're like let's hurry up and get these bills we want to get passed and have him sign it? and we'll, you know, maybe push back a little bit later >> that's certainly could be some of it. especially on the house side. i think should of the senate republicans and contrast are taking this a little bit more seriously and may well hold hearings. as the house intelligence committee is saying as well. this is difficult for the congressional republican, they finally have a situation where they got a republican president and attention is being diverted by these kinds of things going around the white house >> the one narrative a lot of people pushed especially democrats is you have a republican congress who launched an investigation into what we saw the tragedy in benghazi

2012, when you talk about this, where is the investigation? is that pellets and oranges here? >> to some extent, yes, the benghazi, investigation showed the secretary of state probably did not have direct responsibility for the purpose what happened. but that also was the case in which people died. this is simply not that situation. but it's comes in a context in which there's lots of concerns about u.s. ties with russia. >> do you think this is just the beginning? do you think we're going to start to see some people say that more dominos start to fall here? >> could well be. i think it's a little early to say that. but certainly, the trump administration needs to start now, seeming to get its carts in order and not letting these continue new cycles be dominated by these new situations. let's move on and talk about what we saw. felt a lot of wind and saw a lot of wind >> hair

place. sue palka? >> how long will everybody else hair be blowing around >> keep the product handy for tomorrow, jim and shawn. i'm recommending pony tails again, because >> noted >> blustery conditions will continues. if i have good news, it won't be quite as windy tomorrow as it was late this afternoon and evening when we had gusts of 45 but they could gust to 20 or 30 and you know what? we have to say by bye-bye to bao bao and bye-bye to temperatures like this. it's going to feel like it's in the 30's for most. at cold and blustery thursday that we're advertising here in the weather department, and overnight temperatures will just be getting you started because we're headed to 30 in the district. 27 for dulles, 26 for manassas. 28 for gaithersburg and with the winds staying breezy it will feel colder. tomorrow, air temperature we should be able to touch 42 degrees most of the day with the strong winds continuing out of thno

an hour, it won't feel quite like 42. it will feel more like in the 30's, get ready for that. fredericksberg 43. manassas and maybe other places north and west may not get to the 40's tomorrow. air temperatures may stay in the mid 30's. so it's definitely going to have a little bit of a bite to it tomorrow and while we have to deal with this cold shot, we think that friday will be a bit more seasonal, but look what happens as we head to the weekend. things are going to warm up nicely. we advertise a warm weekend last week but stayed just to our south. this one looks like it's going to be able to deliver and not just for one or two days. saturday starts a stretch of days in the 60's. and that will continue, we think on our seven-day forecast. all the way into next wednesday. so president's day monday, a lot of people have the day off. we're looking very nice just have to bundle up for next couple days and especially tomorrow to get ready for a very mild weekend that will give you a little hint of spring fever. shawn and jim, that's ou

seven-day forecast >> we can hold on. two more days. holding line on taxes. why it could cost you more money in the long run, push from big business when 5at630 continues.

♪ sunsets. what you pay your favorite store could hinge >> the heads of some businesses you may shop at frequently are in dc trying to get lawmakers to hold the line on any new taxes. that could mean more money out of your pocket and fewer jobs. tom fitzgerald is live in northwest to explain. >> reporter: remember last week everybody was talking about how donald trump's administration and retailers across this country were not going to get along because of the tweets about nordstrom's? it turns out that's probably not going to be a problem, they got along swimmingly today.

a group of about eight business executives that reply companies that you probably do business with, places like, you know, target, gap, different, other companies, auto zone we're here on georgia avenue. they went to the white house with a specific message, they were asking the trump administration today not to put in this 20% import tax they were talking about to help pay for the mexican border wall. apparently, that message was received, because when the president started talking today, as he does in some of these meetings. did not talk about that idea. instead, he talked about the work that this administration is doing right now. to unraffle the spaghetti nest of regulation that is a lot of these businesses say makes it harder to do business in this country. listen to how president trump explained how this deregulation plan is going to work. >> i've taken executive action to create

of regulatory reduction. by creating one and one. basically for everyone regulation, two are out. we knock out two. so we put in one. to put in one, you have to knock out two. that's the least of it. but it's an important symbol. >> reporter: the idea there being if you are going to put in a new regulation on business, you're going to have to get rid of two unnecessary regulations that are currently on the books. now, this idea for this 20% import tax came from the white house as a way to help pay for that border wall but it was quickly slammed by the national retailer federation warning that not only was it going to raise prices for everybody who shopped but putting at jeopardy 42 million jobs in the retail business sector. once the meeting was over, the ceos came out.

zone told media out front that the relationship with this white house maybe some people didn't expect in large part because this president comes out of the business world himself. >> the president and his team, as we can't to look to move the interest of our industry, our employees, and most importantly, the consumers, the hard working american consumers that we all serve. >> reporter: one of the things the white house has been criticized about is not listening to people who disagree with him. i think shawn and jim, if you look what happened in that meeting today, this is case where the white house did hear very harsh criticism after that idea was floated and seems to have responded and con that mexican border track seems to be often the table at this moment >> people are probably happy with that

>> lindsey graham said anything that raises core row in as, avacados and -- >> >> thank you fitz. a day without immigrants. high profile dc restaurants are expected to shut down as part of a national protest tomorrow.

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that sheriff is david clark you saw during the rnc a huge backer of the president. one big name locally jose an dress. he tweeted he will be closing all five dc restaurants tomorrow and he's not the only one. places like bar, bus boys and poet it's. it's in district response to the president's crack down and illegal immigration. dc restaurants owners say they're on board. >> we're for this, we want you guys to stand up. we want you to, you know, fight for your rights and you know, be a part of the justice system as much as we are. >> in addition to taking the day off work, many people in the immigrant community are also encouraging people to stay home, not shop or buy anything tomorrow as well. now the movement is generating

plenty of response on our fox 5 dc facebook page. many view viewers are weighing in, they're saying the protests are missing the point because president trump wants to crack down on illegal immigration, not as a whole >> my husband was born here but gets told i'm tired of you people taking our jobs. it's not about illegals it's about immigrants, my grandfather was came from italy. it's sad to back to having to prove our worthy as an american >> i support this one a hundred percent percent, let's see how america makes it without immigrants, half of dc, maryland mainly virginia have immigrants, one thing i can say, immigrants are hashed working, not all are bard and i speak for immigrants becausmy dad is one i have family members that are. >> and brenda added if they want to keep immigrants working do the right thing, if they're not legal, make them become legal, problem solved, might be a little more difficult than just saying you have to be legal. but nonetheless, there's a lot

gotten good press, duncan donuts require all of their workers to go through e checks and verify the employment status. this is what america is about. you can protest. you can speak out. and it's all protected. >> we will be covering it tomorrow. you will be able to see >> i'm anxious to see. we're going to talk about ashton kutcher. why was he on capitol hill? no, he was blowing kisses at senator john mckane >> we'll be right back.

ashton kutcher of all people testified at a hear to go the senate foreign relations committee today. and it was really about serious topic, human trafficking but got off to a funny start with john mccaine. take a look. >> ashton you're better looking in the movies. >> there you have it. >> this has been -- this has been a topic that the

have been passionate about and saw he responded by blowing a kiss at senator mccaine. >> that got a lot of laugh there is. >> started off nicely. >> the former president and first lady are looking for in persons. the office of president barack and michelle obama sent e-mails to former white house interns announcing they were launching an in person program in the district responsibility would say include a variety of tasks with an emphasis on correspondence. it will run from february 27th to june 16th. there are no additional details explaining if they're looking for undergraduate or grad students or if they're paid. i'm certain there probably, people are applying to get those internships >> they're trying to get a sense of what the focus will be of the obama foundation. they're asking for opinions out there, what you think the issues they should tackle moving forward. keep an eye on that one. let's talk about wine, they

say this brand is flying off the store shelves. the co owners speculate supporters are buying the wine because of president trump election victory or buying the wine as a joke on someone else who didn't vote and that makes no sense because you're still buying it in the first place. it sells six options from trump winery in charlottesville virginia. they range from 25 to $35. there you have it >> if i was trying to play a joke on someone i wouldn't spend 25 to $30 to do it >> that was like the protest against star bucks, go to star bucks and have them write different things. you're still giving them the money, so if the intended purpose was a protest, not so much. >> you got to think about how you're doing these things. >> we'll keep an eye what's going on tomorrow. that protest going on aimed at obviously not spending money and not getting out there >> plan that for you. >> thank you guys for joining us on 5at630. we love when you tweet it, make sure you do, using 5at630. we're back

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announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: this is the great paradox of 2017. kellyanne conway, according to ron howard -- >> she has no credibility except that she's good at her job. >> she's wily. when you think you have her cornered, she can pivot and move. that's her job to do that. >> if she left the administration, what's next for kellyanne conway? >> i think she goes back to stand-up comedy. give it another whirl. >> ryan seacrest, we talked to him about "america's got talent." and nick cannon leaving. there are rumors he's going to take over the next job. >> it's a fantastic show. >> simon cowell is a judge on the show. harvey: so if ryan comes back as the host, it will be the same thing as "american idol." >> basically, with more juggling. harvey: yeah, more juggling!