>> ♪ >> well, we've learned that this is just another day in washington. more tweets from the president and his new press secretary sent the capitol and everybody on the hill into a frenzy. >> oh, yeah. as you can see from the rundown as usual this is the big story we're talking about tonight at 6:30, you guys are as usual always welcome to join us. tweet us using its #5at630. no doubt we have a lot to cover. key republican senators warning president trump if he fires attorney general jeff sessions and moves against special counsel robert mueller it could be the beginning of the end of his presidency. >> yeah, this was a big one this morning. it is still percolating out there. fox5's tom fitzgerald live with more details on this. hey fitz. >> reporter: yeah, jim, shawn it goes further than

they don't want him to just not fire jeff sessions they want this cyber bullying to come to an end and this call today is coming from two heavy weights, not on the democratic side of the united states senate, on the republican side. last night charles grassley chairman of the senate judiciary committee sent out a tweet and it said this that the senate judiciary committee schedule is set for the remainder of the term and then he got to a point where he said ag no way. what's that mean? well, that's a pretty strong sign that charles grassley is not about to be scheduling any attorney general confirmation hearings when he just did that about six months ago for jeff sessions. so, the word there from grassley, don't bring another nominee because my committee is not going to move on any sort of nomination. if you fire jeff sessions. now, then that came with a one-two punch and that was from lindsey graham this

morning. stopped him in the hall of the office building and was asked flat out what would it mean, lindsey graham if president donald trump were to fire jeff sessions and then in turn move to do away with the special counsel in the russia investigation. robert muller. graham did not pull any punches. listen to what he said. >> the chairman of the judiciary committee sent a very chilling tweet yesterday. there will be no confirmation hearing for a new attorney general in that 2017. if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. any effort to go after mueller could be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency unless mueller did anything wrong. right now i have no reason to believe that mueller is compromised. >> reporter: so s-you heard him there. holy hell to pay if jeff sessions gets fired. jim and shawn it's easy to for get even with the bad

sessions got into immediately after his confirmation hearing because of the things he said and then later had to recuse himself in the russia investigaion, there is a still a very strong wellspring of good feeling towards jeff sessions in the united states senate. he is one of their own. he served the state of alabama for decades in that body and senators don't take a liking normally to other senators even former senators being treated in the way that jeff sessions has been lately, so it's likely we're going to see more not less of these kinds of things coming out of the republican side if this continued onslaught against jeff sessions continues by the president. >> hey fitz we were following yesterday that story about the guy who replaced jeff sessions luther strange that said jeff sessions come back to the senate. i'll drop out of the race. it's crazy when you start talking about that layer of the story. it's crazy but i've seen it before. 20 years ago when bob torricel

united states senate the state of new jersey, the new jersey legislature and the democrats made this end around and somehow at the last minute were able to plug then and then future senator frank lautenberg back into that race, a race that he was not going to be in and then frank lautenberg returned to the united states senate for years after that. so, it would be remarkable if that happened but if we learned anything this year it's that don't get tied to what's not remarkable. >> oh, yeah, i mean that's just the way it is day after day right here in washington. thank you fitz. >> and this is ever changing, the war between incoming communications scaramucci and reince preibus. >> the new yorker used very choice language. >> very choice. >> and anthony scaramucci had to tweet out a few moments ago i sometimes use colorful language. i

put not give up the passionate fight for donald trump's agenda. this is about the fact that scaramucci says he's going to crack down on leaks from inside the administration. >> and this all stemmed from him putting out a tweet last night that seemed to imply reince preibus leaked scaramucci's financial disclosure. >> he's a successful man. >> yeah but he said that that tweeter getting out that information was a felony. turns out that is not true. under federal law those sort of documents must be made public. so now it's like what happens now. scaramucci hasn't even officially taken over this job. fox5 it's ronica cleary is live at the white house with more on this war of words and the crackdown on leaks tonight. ronica. >> reporter: that's right, jim and shawn. i was just thinking maybe part of the reason that donald trump selected scaramucci is because he seems to like twitter just as much as he does and jim, you just pointed out to the tweet that just came out but let's take a step back to help paint the picture of how this all started. it started about

last night. i didn't realize when i screen grabbed the tweet it would have been important to have done so because it was soon deleted. look at this. it says in light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony and as shawn said we've learned that that information was actually public record i will be contacting the fbi and the justice department #swamp and then he includes reince preibus in it. now, that, you know, raised a lot of you eyebrows and had people asking is he tagging reince preibus to sort of suggest that he is the leaker? well, he deleted the tweet and early this morning around 12:45 he posted this next tweet responding to that. he goes wrong tweet was public notice to leakers that all senior admin officials are helping to illegal tweets and then tags reince again. well, fast forward to early this morning on cnn. he calls in to basically address all of this and broke it down into really two main take aways. what does he think about reince preibus and then what does he think about the leaks in the bigger picture. take a

highlights. >> and i put out a tweet and i put reince's name in the tweet. they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are so if reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that. but the white house leaks are small potatoes relative to things that are going on with leaking things about syria or north korea or leaking things about iraq. those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago people would have actually been hung for those types of leaks. >> reporter: yeah, and the leak that did start all of this was pretty small. it was a leak about the fact that president trump was having dinner at the white house with sean hannity and bill shine a former fox news executive but at the briefing today with sarah huckabee sanders she really stayed close to the vest. she did not say much asking if whether or not the white house believes reince preibus is the leaker she deferred to anthony scaramucci. but she did give us a little insit

this topic. she basically said that the president really likes to foster competition, that he believes that this creates a better performance if you will so i spoke with niles stanage you know he's a friend of the show white house columnist for the hill. listen to his take on that. >> this is something that we do here from time to time that the president enjoys competition among his staff and quite enjoys the drama of internal rivalries. that's a complete 180 from his predecessor who was famously nicknamed no drama obama. donald trump seems to like the drama of these kind of rivalries. >> reporter: well, then the other part of what scaramucci said this morning basically saying that the leaks are so treasonous that if these happened over a century ago people would be hung for it. i spoke with debbie heinz an attorney to just get a better picture of what does happen to people who leak today and if they do go

treason. take a listen. >> we're talking on the one hand about deliberately willfully on purpose leaking classified documents that you would know would be classified documents, an unauthorized person and for that crime it's a 10 year maximum penalty and or a fine that's involved with that. and then on the other hand what we're talking about at least what the president is trying to say is referring to treason and treason is such a much higher standard. it's not just simply leaking information. it's aiding and abetting our enemies and so it's a much higher standard and you generally don't see it with an average american such as what's going on today. >> reporter: oh, and jim as you said just about an hour ago we really got the insight and back story to this when an article in the new yorker by ryan liza the language as you ised is pretty i guess unexpected shocking over you want to describe it. he paints a

views on reince preibus and steve bannon anthony scaramucci tweeted about pit saying he's going to continue to defend the president and said #maga. back to you jim and shawn. >> i think it's interesting to point out we're talking about leakers in the white house. i believe the obama administration prosecuted the most leakers in recent presidential history. >> yeah it was the espionage act they used a number of times through the 82ers to prosecute whistle blowers and at the start of the administration people were saying if they come after journalists look at what happened under the obama administration. this is not new leaks have happened it's just a matter that they were prosecuted quite a bit. >> it's going to be interesting to watch when scaramucci actually really takes the -- takes over in his position because he's not officially there. the name calling today of reince preibus saying he's going to fire everybody and it's interesting because he's the communications director. reince preibus is the chief of staff so what exactly is his role? it's going to be interesting to watch this. congress voted to slap new sanctions onus

sent the bill to the president's desk. despite the president's objections to their legislation it's going to be interesting there were early reports where the president said he wasn't going to sign these. but congress is saying that's ridiculous because we can override your veto. we'll see what happens. >> the healthcare battle though continues today on capitol hill as republicans try to put together a winning bill. a party still split among those who want to rip the band-aid off and repeal the affordable care act altogether and those who want to stop the pleading opting for a slim down approach. they're calling it skinny repeal. it would get rid of the unpopular individual and employer insurance mandate as well as the tax on medical devices that were passed in the original obamacare legislation. today senators started the voterama which is a ton of amendments with no debate. >> if this skinny bill goes down as it should we will sit down and work in a bipartisan way to improve

we know obamacare needs some work. we don't deny that. >> i would encourage senators with healthcare ideas whether republicans democrats or independents to bring their amendments to the floor. >> all right. association the healthcare debate continues again we're watching closely just to see if they pass this skinny repeal. yeah, let's bring in now dr. john dombrowski from the washington pain center and thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> if they knowledge pass this skinny repeal what does that mean for the millions of americans right now who have obamacare. >> well, right now what's going to happen with the repeal especially with the skinny thing it had as to do with in terms of the mandates. i as an individual i'm not going to be mandated to buy a product i don't particularly want or i don't have to buy the full product perhaps what they can start doing is like we do with our car insurance what kind of collision do i want, what kind of other prices do we have to make it more competitive for the market 'cause obviously it's just too expensive right now and that's why it's going bankrupt. >> you know you're a doctor. what do you hear from patients? what are their

comes to getting healthcare keeping healthcare paying for healthcare. >> well, let's talk about paying for it. deductibles and co-pays have gone up dramatically. that's why most people aren't accessing medical care. costs have gone up dramatically as you've seen so for those people who needed coverage it was very good for them but 80 to 90 percent of americans who had coverage they went up dramatically and we have to remember who we're taking care of in terms of our patients. >> this is a repeal. who knows when that replacement plan could come about. have you heard from your patients are they concerned about what this could mean for them? >> well, right now i think they realize the system is failing so something must be done. the repeal that did fail it gave a two year time frame for congress to come up with a replacement. that did fail. they're sort of in flux and even the patients know it's nt working and something is going to be done. i'm glad something is happening for my patients that

>> dr. dom bross key thongs for joining us. it's always good to get -- we talk to a lot of politicians think tanks but you're on the front line. we appreciate it. >> absolute. >> keep it right here. we're right back after the break.

>> ♪ >> cracking down on the ms-13 gang. today the acting director for the immigration and customs enforcement shared the agency's mission to combat the international criminal gang. >> northern virginia has been a hot bed for ms-13. we have followed this story very closely. fox5's tisha lewis is here to tell us a little bit more about the story and what's being done 'cause tisha we've seen so many crimes linked to ms-13. >> that's right. it was just yesterday that we learned that one of the immigrants who died in that sweltering tractor-trailer apparently had ties to ms-13. today we're learning that besides los angeles, ice considers northern virginia a hub for ms-13 and in fact we're told there are between 900 and 1100

members in the d.c. area alone. and that number is growing. fox5 has exclusively obtained these internal snapshots from immigration and customs enforcement. the pictures prominently feature ms-13's markings and include images from closed cases that included arrests of gang members best known for drug trafficking robbery and larceny. >> targeting arresting and removing members of violent street gangs such as ms-13 sends a clear message to criminal enterprises around the world you are not welcome in the united states. >> a stern message to ms-13 gang members. >> and you'll find no harbor here. >> during a rare appearance at thursday afternoon's white house press briefing ice acting director thomas holman says getting ms-13 off our streets is a priority. >> we need the community's help and most importantly we need local law enforcement's help especially county jails that will have an ms-13 booked in that county jail but that county jail is located in a sanctuary city. they get released back to the

streets. we're asking the local jurisdiction hang onto them until we can get there and take custody of them when they're done with you. >> pursuant to the president's direction and executive orders the attorney general has directed the department's law enforcement agencies atf, dea fbi and the marshall service as well as federal prosecutors across the can untrue to prioritize the prosecution of gang members specifically ms-13. >> i'm told ice is willing to potentially offer undocumented immigrants who are victimized by ms-13 gang members legal status to stay in the united states if they report ms-13 gang members to ice and cooperate with its investigations. the department of justice has also requested funding for 300 additional federal prosecutors to focus specifically on violent crime and criminal immigration enforcement to directly target ms-13 members and their associates. president donald trump will travel to long island tomorrow to talk about the fight to

long island is also considered an ms-13 hub. tisha lewis, fox5 local news. >> thank you tisha. >> the boy scouts apologizing for president trump's now controversial speech he made to thousands of scouts this week. the head of the scouts in part i want to extend myaid- sincere apologies to those in our scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric inserted into the jamboree. that was never our intent. in the president's speech he attacked hillary clinton and former president obama. he also promised to repeal obamacare. there was speculation and his name escapes me right now but the man who is the head of at&t figures very prominently into boy scouting. there was a lot of talk about right now at&t is trying to get the okay from the government to merge with time warner and some people said maybe this was on olive branch. they always invite him h1 of the reasons they m h

reticent to deride what he said or condemn what he said very quickly was because of that connection. >> a reporter asked sarah huckabee sanders in light of this apology or in light of this letter apologizing to the parents who were there, did the president owe the boy scouts an apology. her response was she was there, she saw 40,000 happy boy scouts and looked like everything was good to her. >> there you have it. >> so there you have it. >> would you like to learn how to be the president? >> uh-uh not at all. >> you don't want the job. >> i would love a president. >> house of cards, scandal. we'll be right back.

>> ♪ >> all right, how should you prepare for political debate? >> i don't know. how would you prepare? i'd practice with other people. >> and watch the west wing. >> ah-ha. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau says he drew inspiration from t

trudeau says his favorite episode showed president bartlett in a debate and admitted he watched it on youtube to bone up for his own debates. >> that's interesting. he watched a fictional show. >> yeah. >> it was sort of the perfect prototypical. jeb bartlett was idea lift idea. >> it has been since years since adrienne fenty vacationing in croatia. sailed on the yacht. fenty was mayor of d.c. from 2007 to 2011. he and powell have been dating now for two years.

president obama how many buttons you unbutton on your shirt now. >> he probably used to do that when he was mayor, too. >> when you're casual when you're on the yachts you enjoy it. >> one of my friends noted he seems buff. i said i didn't know. i didn't notice. we'll be right back everybody. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

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>> ♪ >> talk about here rows. t --heros the president awarding the medal of valor. they sprung into action at the shooting at the congressional baseball practice. they were all struck. the gunman was killed by police. >> capitol police, special agents, david bailey and crystal griner raced through the bullets and that's exactly what they did, they raced through

gunman. these officers saved the lives of every innocent person on the field that day. they're american heros and we salute them. [applause] >> house majority whip steve scalise is now out of the hospital. he will begin a period of intensive rehab. doctors say he's in good spirits. we know he'll be in rehab for some time. >> obviously it's amazing considering the injuries he sustained -- good to see crystal griner and everybody getting their due because they stepped into the line of duty when that happened. >> it was one of those situations you guys all remember it had they not been there who knows what would have happened. >> right. >> thankful that steve scalise had his detail there. >> yeah. >> because typically we know members of congress don't have details. >> that's what we said. had he not been there, had it been just a practice without any detail who knows. but that said we thank them for their service as well went

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