chris stirewalt is standing by. let's begin with chief intelligence correspondent kathleen herrige. kathleen, you spoke to scooter. what did he have to say? >> yeah, within the last hour i was able to have a very brief conversation with scooter libby. i want to be respectful of him and his privacy. but he did authorize me to report that he is very pleased as he said his innocence has been recognized and he pointed to that white house statement. the key element in that white house statement, dana, is that in about 2015 a witness in the case came forward and said that they believed evidence had been withheld from them during the prosecution process and the interview process and that they would have testified quite differently if they had known that information. in any event, scooter libby has spoken to me. i want to be respectful of that conversation, but he did authorize me to report that he is very pleased that his innocence has been recognized. with this decision by the white house. >> dana: we're going to talk mor

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chris stirewalt, thank you.ive court watchers say president trump was making his mark on the federal court system and now he got a chance to begin reshaping what is widely viewed as the most liberal federal court in the country. he joins us from the life of my cart -- >> it covers nine western states. in recent years, it's handled some of the most pivotal issues like immigration, same-sex marriage, and landmark environmental cases. the court, as you know tacoma has gained a reputation as being among the nation's most liberale fought to keep it that way. four years ago, when circuit judge stephen reinhardt was 83, his longtime friend and uc berkeley school of law suggested that he stepped down, while democrats still had the power to replace him with a like-minded liberal. reinhardt refused to answer now death allows president trump to name his replacement. it goes even deeper. after 29 judges who make up the ninth circuit, there are now eight vacancies and with republicans controlling the senate, mr. trump likely

we will check in with chris stirewalt on the mueller probe, plus facebook grilled on capitol hill. mark zuckerberg sitting through hours of questioning about privacy issues. and some unusual questions today. >> do social media companies hire consulting firms to help them figure out how to get more dopamine feedback loops so that people don't want to leave the platform? >> no, senator . >> shannon: after complaints about the doj slow rolling congress, will the house judiciary committee finally get the unmasking documents that and answers it wants? a u.s. attorney is overseeing the fight for their release. >> it's very clear that my direction is to make sure we get the documents produced as quickly as we can. we do so completely, under the law, we do so with integrity, professionalism. >> shannon: the verdicts are in him just as neil gorsuch's first year on the supreme court. how his vote could not impact the landmark decisions we are awaiting from the high court tonight. ♪ experience the 2018 lexus nx and the nx hybrid. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. roundup for lawns has

chris stirewalt here to analyze the breaking news of the evening.. >> bill: sean spicer last hour said certainly it's a distraction in the west wing. you can understand why it would be. this maybe doesn't come up every day. but it comes up offensive. what is your view of the events tonight, chris? >> as you saw there, whether it's coming up, it is definitely on the president's mind and how could it not be. you saw his response there very visceral. very emotional response from the president. of course, done in the context of those folks sitting around that room where have you military brass in uniform. your national security advisor. this is not the kind of setting in which you would normally expect to hear sort of foe me fomentations. it represent existential threat to his presidency. >> bill: your job is to analyze the impact on elections. you have a midterm coming up in seven mongts. piece in the "new york times" today talked about raising the possibility if the democrats gain the house of impeachment proceeding. whether there is grounds for it or

we have ari fleisher and chris stirewalt. but we begin with john roberts live in the east room ppl >> reporter: good afternoon. we're probably a couple minutes from the president and the german chancellor coming in. the dignitaries are making their way in. here comes the vice president. that's e typically an indication that we're just a short amount of time away. the discussions between the president and german chancellor follow along the same lines in terms of issues. as the president's conversations with the president of france earlier this week. at the top of the list, trade and whether or not the president will extend waivers on steel and aluminum tariffs as of may 1st to the e.u. then on the iran nuclear deal, whether or not the u.s. was going to pull out of the joint comprehensive plan of action. macron earlier this week and i'm sure angela merkel will encourage the president to stay in. macron proposing a third way to leave the jcpoa in place, but at the same time craft a second deal that would cover iran's long term n

now let's bring in fox news politics editor, who also writes the halftime report, chris stirewalt. i just mentioned the tennessee race. we had the election yesterday in arizona. maybe i can go to this first with you and ask about the west virginia senate race, because there was some new fox news polling yesterday. i know martha and bret are getting ready for that first debate next tuesday. since it's in the state from which you hail, i wonder what you think about everything. >> it's only fitting that the fox news channel begin its sojourn across the united states doing primary debates in the great state of west virginia. 35th state. mountain state. we have our participants, congressman evan jenkins, former coal executive don blankenship and state attorney general patrick morrisey will be on our stage on tuesday in morgantown, west virginia. the poll tells us this is anybody's race. that this is very fluid and that there is a substantial undecided. and which one of these guys is the best choice to take on joe manchin in what is substantially one of the four most vulnerable democrati

chris stirewalt, good to see you. >> how are you. >> good. legal team for president is spinning this as positive, still under investigation in connection with a number of things, not target of a criminal investigation, butst special counsel still wants to talk to him. >> a good idea if you want the investigation to come to a conclusion. that the question for this president, and his lawyers. are you ready to be done. if you are, and let the chips fall where they may, you do that interview. it is fool hardy to imagine somehow this matter could conclude without president providing some testimony, they will fight over the terms, but it has to happen or it is not going to be finished. we although matter how you butter your bread everyone needs this to come to a conclusion. >> we'll talk about more what it could meanh for legal team, but today president saying he is super tough on russia, not everyone believes him. >> nobody been tougher on russia. with that said, i think that i could have a very good relationship with president putin. >> idea of h

chris stirewalt is here. i was a little -- all day. let's talk about this.hand amazon found a way to get the cheapest shipping possible by jumping through government loopholes through this communistic system that is the united states postal service. so the president should say good jock or they negotiated a great deal. either way the president should have more props in his bag. >> if the goal is to arm amazon and hurt the company, those things don't matter. their stock price for a time reflected thap that. if he's trying to punish jeff bezos and hurt amazon, that rhetoric could help. donald trump never said he's a conservative in this way, and he favors government interventions and planning as it relates to the economy, picking winners and losers as the republicans used call it. if he wants to bridle the tech center and prop up brick and mortar retail, it's within a world view that he has outfliend his political career that that falls weren't purchase view of his world view. that's what he says. the question is, would republicans, especially republican -- co

. >> harris: joining me now with more on this, fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. s, where are we just in terms of moving forward at this point? is this a signal, says the president is not legally a criminal target, that things are coming closer to an end, or we don't know? >> it depends on what the president wants to do or what the president decides to do. this is in every way mueller has hinted in all possibly to my possible public ways, will steal keeping propriety of his office, he wants to wrap it up. he wants to finish his work and move on. he can't do it until he talks to trump. trump's legal team, which has gone through a lot of changes over the past weeks and months, seems to be at odds. or maybe the president is at odds. we don't know. mueller can't finish until he talks to trump. >> harris: here are some facts you do know and it's funny you bring up the legal team, we know from john dowd's own words that perhaps they were in different camps on whether or not the president should sit down and actually talk with robert mueller. the two attorneys left behind

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chris stirewalt is with me now, you get the feeling when you watch this, maybe it's going to ramp upn the coming months as we get closer to the midterms, but the posture from many republicans out there is we're pretty much done with business, we are super excited about that and we think that's going to write us through the midterms, but even if we do lose the majority in the house and the midterms, that's typically what happens. i don't think that's the way people voted republicans in the last election and they expected this would play out. they thought it would be a tremendous energy behind that. >> one of the reasons is because people like tom colburn and trey gowdy, these conscientious conservatives who stick to their guns on the issues that matter to them and their constituents no matter what. they eventually get fed up and go home because they can't change it. you can't turn the boat. tom colburn is one of the strongest voices and conservative in years and he could not change the point of view with his colleagues in congress or this president or anybody because it takes on the g

let's bring in fox news politics editor and the editor of halftime report chris stirewalt. let me start with the comey memos. as these came out, people that had entrenched positions were just reinforcing those positions. but take a listen to two people from the media. "washington post" defending comey saying, when you cut through all the noise, what they really reveal is that senior law enforce phpbtd official struggling to figure out in real-time how to handle efforts by the president to turn him into his political will. on the other hand, byron york in the washington examiner saying, why would trump wonder about the fbi director's loyalty? perhaps because in their first meeting the fbi director dropped the sex allegation of trump, followed immediate by by his publication in the media. it seems entirely reasonable for a president to wonder what was going on and whether the fbi director was loyal. your thoughts today, chris? >> i am really struggling to understand why the republicans were so eager to get these things out. they want to provide as much air cover for their pre

chris stirewalt is fox news policy editor. good to see you.ten, the legal team for the president is spinning this is a positive thing. they say he is still under investigation in connection with the number of things. he's not part of the criminal investigation but special counsel still wants to talk to them. there is debate about whether that's a good idea or not. >> it's a good idea if you want the investigation to come to a conclusion. that's basically the question for this administration and for this president and for his lawyers. are you ready to be done? if you are ready to be done and let the chips fall where they may and have this be overcome and then you do the interview. it is foolhardy to imagine that somehow this matter could conclude without the president providing some testimony. they are going to fight like the dickens over with the terms are and what those things are but this has to happen. or we are not going to be finished. we all, no matter how you butter your bread politically, everybody needs this to come to some sort of cl

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let's welcome our panel, chris stirewalt, richard fowler, and katie pavlich.not? >> you bend, but you don't break in a situation like this. jerry brown of course has a little freedom of the laying duck, but in california, if you were to come out and say yes, he finds himself in a huge uproar, but if he is is a hard know, he'll find himself with the federal government. you'll see the government moving his hand, so he has found some way to politically play this. they're not going to do anything, i promise. >> martha: obviously california is like a state under siege itself. you've got parts of california that are very upset about the sanctuary laws there. is he trying to keep everybody a little bit happy here with this? >> may be. there already fighting to lawsuits on federal land. jerry brown is actually saying what the other governors and other states have said in a sense that the national guard is really going to be there as back up. they'll be there as a determinant. deterrent. they have enforced these laws to get to the front line while basic tasks like taki

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the ap is calling at we had fox news politics editor chris stirewalt is here to break it down.you. president trump won base pay 21 points. there has been some time, some water under the bridge, things have happened, a lot of folks, what we are seeing a six points, a lot of folks said it needs to be double digits in order for the g.o.p. to breathe any kind of sigh of relief. speak of the mentor number for democrats since 2016 has been 17 points. they have outperformed their partisan baseline and districts in statewide races and everything else on an average of about 17 points. now i don't think these numbers -- i can't imagine these numbers will hold. the way arizona works, you get all the early boats, there's a ton of early boats, a lot of older voters. you get a lot of those early voting that comes in, and then you wait, and at midnight eastern, they will dump the rest of it. the ap is calling this race on the basis of just the early vote that's in. basically they are saying, if the democrat is not closer than six points in this boat, she won't be able to make up the differenc

riddle me this, chris stirewalt.in favor of higher taxes and cutting spending. but if they got bipartisan agreement on that, that would somehow be a negative that would hurt them in the election? >> only in washington. only in washington would you shelve a bell picketers was going to get too much bipartisan support. only here. look at my my eye understand te concerns of the people running against -- we are talking about joe manchin, heidi heitkamp, claire mccaskill, the most vulnerable democratic senators, and the republicans running against them, say, don't let them have a good vote because what ryan is talking about, making the middle-class tax cut permanent instead of with an expiring date. they might vote for that, that would take away a talking point. they don't want it and washington is stupid. >> martha: i don't think people are that stupid. richard, i think that republicans, if i was telling them what to do, i would say, just go out there and tell them what the democrats did, that they are only doing this bec

with us here to discuss is chris stirewalt. the president is furious that the fbi raided the home and offices and hotel room his personal attorney. will this lead to muler's firing? >> he can't fire mueller directly. but he can fire rod rosenstein. and if rosenstein is not willing to do what the president was, you go through firing people until you get to somebody who will execute your demand. as are you charles nixon found out sometimes you have to go all the way through the justice department before you will find somebody to do your bidding. rosenstein has played this very carefully, very close to the vest. if he goes in and tries to pry rosenstein out, by the time he gets there, you will have the calvary coming from congress. kennedy: i think it would be better for the president to go through this whole process and be impeached. i think to his face he would be a folk hero. there is almost no benefit for him to fire mueller. if there is no collusion. he should just let the process play out even if it means in a democratically

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let's bring in chris stirewalt and charlie hurt. s the mood in washington this morning after the stunning announcement by paul ryan yesterday morning? >> a lot of pollen here because of all the blossoms but other than that i would say people are anxious. they are anxious because we have potential conflict brewing with our number one foe on the planet. there is the mueller investigation and all this other stuff. at the same time watching congress not fail -- watching them going through with mike pompeo here and the trump administration with a good foot forward and nominee i think there is some calm at least in washington for a change. >> sandra: as you said that he walked into the room. we were following his movements there as you mentioned. as you can see there are protests going on ahead of him taking a seat. we'll keep an eye on that. charlie hurt. there has been a night to digest it and what it means for the party. how do they proceed? >> well, i think that it's kind of funny talking about the environment around her. republicans a

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we have ari fleisher and chris stirewalt. begin with john roberts live in the east room ppl >> reporter: good afternoon. we're probably a couple minutes from the president and the german chancellor coming in. the dignitaries are making their way in. here comes the vice president. that's e typically an indication that we're just a short amount of time away. the discussions between the president and german chancellor follow along the same lines in

. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in chris stirewalt. where to begin?hter] >> it's just tuesday. only tuesday, sandra. >> sandra: it is hard to believe. as the news keeps coming in you're seeing the president very upset over the situation that we're seeing calling this an absolute witch hunt. chris stirewalt, the investigation he says is an attack on the country. where does all this go? >> well, i think any time you are talking about people who are involved in an investigation you have to be careful when it comes to taking their words at face value. i'm sure the president is very angry and all these things. we have to watch and wait and see what he does. does he take provocative action against the special counsel? how do he and his legal team act? are they blowing off steam or is this working up to some concrete action like firing mueller, which if that happens, then, you know, katie bar the door. >> sandra: we saw what the response from the president was on questions about just that. he said many people have recommended firing him. >> that's true. >> s

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chris stirewalt. thanks for joining us this morning. >> you bet. >> leland: and breaking news the pentagon demanding answers after three military crashes in two days. the latest in an elite thunderbird out of nevada. details coming up. >> sandra: devin nunes making a new push to find out what exactly sparked the f.b.i.'s original investigation into the trump campaign. trey gowdy and tim scott are here together to react. >> leland: we'll talk to the veteran suing the u.s. air force kicking him out of a retirement ceremony for simply saying the word god. >> to see something like this transpire in our nation when we have people in the military that serve our nation honorably it is something that is hard to imagine. people, i look like most people. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some,

chris stirewalt will rule out the fox news ratings for the first time. >> harris: john bolton is takingfor today as president trump's third national security advisor and he already has a full plate as you know, including yesterday suspected chemical attack on citizens of syria. that will give us insight into how the former u.n. ambassador will advise the president. he will also have to deal with challenges from north korea, china, iran. back from "outnumbered," jessica tarlov and the deputy editorial page editor for "the wall street journal," both are fox news contributor's. dan, i am going to come to you first on this. we saw from the cabinet meeting that john bolton was over the president's left shoulder, ready to step in. this is day one. >> he has more than a lot on his plate, his plate is overflowing. the president has said, it's been reported that he may make a decision by the end of the day to do something about syria and i think the big question here both for john bolton and the president is it's not just about syria and assad, the larger issue is russia. we had an agreement in

chris stirewalt is standing by. let's begin with chief intelligence correspondent kathleen herrige. kathleen, you spoke to scooter. what did he have to say? >> yeah, within the last hour i was able to have a very brief conversation with scooter libby. i wanto

her to break it all down, fox news politics editor, chris stirewalt. how are you? >> shannon bream, the people's choice. >> shannon: let's talk about this. obviously it's capturing all kinds of headlines. doesn't matter to the voters? it is months away from the midterms. it's going to be old news by then? >> which part of the amazing story? >> shannon: comey, he swing to be the rollout for the next couple weeks. >> i could hear so little about james comey and what he has to say and what the president has to say about james comey at this. this is now. it's quickly devolved into straight partisan baloney. it's either james comey is the devil incarnate or donald trump is a wicked and iniquitous man. good luck on the book trail. that's not going to affect much because people's attitudes are made up about this. it's turned into a fairly partisan thing. >> shannon: i like how professor jonathan turley put it. he says comey is telling himself with the vigor of a kardashian in the viciousness of a trump. witnesses are generally asked to avoid public comments, let alone tel

chris stirewalt joins me with his thoughts on all of this. ws all of this really well but west virginia politics really well. your thoughts on what we are looking at here, chris? >> a goat roping and a good one. fascinating one. i love this race. we are seeing the same narrative play out in west virginia that we are in indiana and elsewhere around the country. candidates try to position themselves as the trumpest, who can outtrump trump? and in this race all of them have tried but the reason it's still competitive for blankenship is he has made a pretty convincing case for republican voters in west virginia. is he a businessman. you talk about outsider. that's outside. and all of that stuff. and that's why these folks are still sticking with him. that's why this is still anybody's race. >> martha: when you look at the polls, chris, how reflective do you think they are at this point? i know it's always tough to do in a primary race. in early stage of the game. but, you know, what's your sense of west virginia? >> well, it's the best state other

chris stirewalt, editor of halftime report, joins me. you must love this day.ng power rankings. >> how good could life possibly be, dana perino? we are, in fact, unveiling our new graphics, our new look, our new map, our new power rankings. and i am in the greatest place in the world. i am in west virginia. we're here in morgan down. we're getting ready for the west virginia senate primary that will take place tomorrow. i am agog and twitter. >> dana: tell me about this map. i'm going to put it up here for our viewers. you're saying that -- well, you tell me what you're saying. got republicans 49 and dems at 44. what do those numbers mean? >> when you get down to it, right now -- we're going to try to make it simpler for people to keep track of the midterm election. we've sorted out the governor races, the house races and what you see there the senate race. we have sorted them into the races that will probably not going to be that competitive. the races that might be competitive and then the tossups. what you see there are those seven seats in the united states

we are going to talk about all of those things with fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. need that everywhere i go. >> shannon: governor cuomo, you heard some things he said. he is also saying in addition. >> i am undocumented. you want to deport an undocumented person? start with me because i am a known document in. >> shannon: legitimately confused about that. if he has a birth certificate, he was born here, his parents were here. not sure where he's going. >> taking him in a meta-way. he is saying that as new yorkers, solidarity together. if one of us is undocumented, all of us are undocumented. we should start with the understanding that andrew cuomo is coming by my estimation, perhaps the most overrated politician in american politics and government. the hype that had surrounded him because the lord for his father, she inherited the press and democrats of a certain kind huge reverence for his dad. not a good campaigner. not been a particularly successful governor. i don't think cynthia nixon is going to beat him. >> shannon: do think he's feeling a little bit of heat

fox news politics editor and author of "the halftime report," chris stirewalt joins us now.lot of people on the right to hope that is what is happening. these primary contest put so far left that when the candidate wins, they may not be able to win the general. >> if you recall the concern about this in when steve bannon was roy mooring it up out there, when you will get -- you won't be able to get back to the middle in time to run in the general election. we should remember, midterm elections are a lot more about face turn out to support then a quadrennial presidential year. it matters more, can you people go might get your people motivated? this is a tough test. how do you prevent real weird beards from getting in as nominees, -- >> shannon: you've never heard of that. >> you've never heard of that? i bequeath it to you. can you keep these folks out but keep their borders? ore, and the ideal situations, you find people who are crossover candidates that succeed that are either far left but look like they are straight and narrow, or are -- i think the success they had with c

chris stirewalt, editor of halftime report, and charles gasporino. charles, i want to start with you. you had the treasury secretary steve mnuchin saying on another network this whole deal with china and the tariffs could lead to a trade war. had larry kudlow saying, the president's not bluffing here. we see the markets down 613 points. what's going on? >> they think they have some leverage over china. i think larry kudlow's brain has been taken over by peter navarro's. i know larry really well. i actually like peter navarro as well. he's a trade adviser who is more, let's go after china with everything we've got. and larry understands that we have a lot to lose in this. i think if you're going to be part of the administration as is larry's predecessor knows, you got to go along with the game plan, which is tough talk on tariffs. i talk to a lot of investors. they still think it's a bluff. they still think you're going to get trading headlines. >> ed: this is a negotiation. throw it out there. >> i will say this as i reported on fox business. two maj

joining us now, fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. there. that was a stupid question, showed a total lack of respect for the president of france and our value office. am i going too far, chris? >> well, i appreciate your sensitivities to the subject of decorum. [laughter] i know that you stand on, stand on ceremony, and i would never want you to be harmed in that way psychically. [laughter] look, it is, it's a foolish question in this way: the purpose of asking the question is to try to goad the president into a response. so i think that was john carl from abc, succeeded in that way. he got the president to take the bait a little bit. stuart: and that's considered a success, chris, really? on the part of our media? >> i didn't -- well, first of all, i work for the fox news channel, and i don't work at abc. i'm saying that in the mind of the questioner, i presume they think it was a success because they got the president riled up, and he took the bait. now that's that. now, the reason it's a pointless question is we have no idea what mi