to fox business's blake burman live outside the white house. we have a couple things here, all the saudi issues, but president trump, is he still speaking? reporter: just wrapped up a little while ago. we should have a potential pivot point here with all of this when we hear from the president in minutes, we believe here, as he just spoke to reporters on the south lawn. remember, it was 20 days ago that jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey. over the weekend, the saudis put out their reporter, at least their explanation as to what they say happened, and now for the first time, we are going to get president trump's reaction to that. over the weekend, the saudis said this was a fight inside the consulate that went bad. afterwards, jamal khashoggi they say was then killed. the saudi foreign minister describing this over the weekend calling this a rogue operation, a mistake by those who exceeded their authority, and he also claimed this did not go all the way up to the top in the kingdom. >> for the past 18 years

blake burman, thank you. connell: blake burman goes out on a limb be every time.sa: every time. connell: we have interesting data on our own polling we want to show you real quickly on some of the issues, what voters consider extremely important to determine their vote. this is where immigration ranks, it is not top issue, when we asked people, 46% said it is extremely important to their votes. if the president says if he wants to fire up the base to talk about. health care is at top, if you're in battleground states, iowa, couple times this year, in my head, anybody watching in any of those states, watch a commercialal a democratic candidate, almost to the candidate health care is the big topic. the president actually tweeted about it this afternoon. democrats are trying to hit the republicans on preexisting conditions. the president is fighting back against that. health care is the big topic. finally "wall street journal" lead editorial this morning that growth would be on the ballot. the economy should a good topic for republicans an extremely morn to more than

connell: blake burman from the white house. robert strang joins us from new york, former terrorist tack force co-chair. thank you for patience watching this story develop. pick up from the blake's questions we don't have answered following from the president's comments. >> when you make an arrest like this, you have to quickly go out, you have to take a look at phones, any personal data, do complete search warrant, take all that information and allocate all the resources in the field, develop, if a conspiracy exists who else was involved. that is exactly what is going on now. remember, this is one of the biggest investigations in the country over the past two years. the past two days so much is going on, every state, local, federal law enforcement age sy is working together. now those efforts are going into this defendant what is happening there. connell: you caught yourself, two years, two days, brings up a larger point how quickly law enforcement was able to move. we were told but number of experts that would be the case. i gu

blake burman is live at the white house with details. they went even a little beyond schemes didn't they, blake? reporter: this is very, very lengthy article released by "the new york times," david. to break it down you have to separate this in two different buckets. the first "the new york times" says it has gone over documents, interviewed people, et cetera in this lengthy piece. they say that president trump's image he is this self-made billionaire that barely relied on his real estate developer father for help is essentially an overblown image. when they have gone through the documents over time, tax documents, et cetera, they claim that president trump's father gave him another of $100 million worth over time, even dating back to his infant years. that is the first part. the more damaging part that the "new york times" claims, i'm not sure we should say damaging but the more explosive part that the "times" claims is the following, this is how they begin their article, quote, president trump participated in dubious tax schemes during

very busy for the president and blake burman. we have richard fowler, and lawrence jones. thank you both for being here. lawrence, let me begin with you. what's going to be the fallout from this incredibly contentious confirmation process that we just witnessed with brett kavanaugh? i think it seems to me both sides, democrats and republicans, say their base are fired up over it. what's your take? >> i think that it is fair to say both bases are fired up but the problem is that democrats have positioned themselves to win a little bit of seats because republicans were going to stay at home. they just were. there wasn't anything to fire them up. they were complacent because they had gotten the president they wanted to, into office. he was passing much of the legislation that they advocated for but there was nothing to rally them but we know one thing is true. if you really want to get conservatives and republicans to go out and vote, start attack the supreme court. because the democrats were so political and quite frankly wanted to deny due process they anger ad lot of peopl

blake burman at the white house. catherine? >> thank you, charles. this afternoon we confirmed through a federal law enforcement official that the working theory of investigators is that a single individual or group has been behind all of these packages. that is based on a number of similarities with the devices as well as similarities with the packaging. let's take a look at the photo of the device -- that suspicious package found at cnn. you can see it has the excessive postage and the excessive packaging and the unusual or pronounced labelling, this is addressed to john brennan. it also has a returned a dress to debbie wasserman-schultz. that was a returned a dress on at least one other package. the fbi is handling the forensics in this case and they believe they'll get an answer within days if not sooner. let's listen. >> i want to assure you that the reason that we're here because the totality of the federal state and local authorities will investigate this thoroughly. we will not rest until we find them, stop these hazardous devices from being

blake burman at the white house with more on all of this. blake?eporter: connell, fbi director christopher wray said he received congratulatory phone call from president trump of the president was very publicly supportive and congratulated law enforcement from all across the country earlier today when he spoke about this arrest here from the white house. the president also called on the country as a whole to sort of turn down the political temperature. >> the bottom line is that americans must unify and we must show the world that we are united together in peace and love and harmony as fellow american citizens. there is no country like our country, and every day we are showing the world just how truly great we are. reporter: the president also at one point suggested earlier today that this was becoming a political distraction. he tweeted out the following earlier this morning, writing, quote, republicans are doing so well in early voting and at the polls and now this bomb stuff happens and momentum greatly slows. news not talking politics. very unf

blake burman at the white house. roger wicker, the republican mississippi senator and what hey has to look forward to. each senator has a chance to read but one at a time. let's say you're looking at 20 minute force each of them to read it multiplied times 100, 2,000 minutes, 30 plus hours. kristin fisher with more. >> yeah, neil, things are moving so fast here. we're hearing that senators could get their hands on that fbi report as early as this afternoon. whatever is inside could make or break the judge's confirmation hearing so could what president trump said at that rally last night. all three of the critical republican swing votes, flake, collins and murkowski, all three of them have come out and spoke out strongly against those remarks. here's two of them. >> the president's comments were just plain wrong. >> there's no time and no place for remarks like that. to discuss something this sensitive in a political rally is just not right is. it's not right. i wish he didn't do. just -- it's appalling. >> so as all

blake burman at the white house, thank you very much. let's bring in republican congressman from new york and co-chair of the house manufacturing caucus, tom reed. congressman, good to see you. >> great to see you, cheryl. cheryl: this must be great news for your constituents. new york, third largest dairy-producing state, we had been shut out of canada with the tariffs at nearly 300% this is win for you and new york? >> i was saying canada stay at the table. the window is closing. they negotiated this out and we have an opportunity to have a fair shake at the canadian market. cheryl: what did your constituents tell you at the time, those dairy producers in particular, what was their particular concern and are they ready to now do exports they will basically have permission to do? they had permission before but at an incredulous cost but they can do business? >> it was concerning. they were struggling. i heard that voice, i told them we got a deal done with mexico. canada is coming into the final stretch. now that we got that finalized,

let's go to blake burman at white house. you had a chance in the briefing with sarah sanders to ask her about the possibility of tariffs. tell us about that. reporter: first briefing in 26 days with press secretary sarah sanders. right before it began came a story are bloomberg saying if the talks between president trump and china's president xi xinping, in argentina do not go well on the trade front that the united states could go forward, the president and his administration could go forward with a next batch of tariffs at $257 billion. sanders would not say whether or not that meeting will be an inflection point or not. watch this exchange. >> i'm not going to get ahead of the president's meeting and i hope it goes well. april, go ahead. sorry, go ahead. >> how important is that meeting? because you heard larry kudlow say last week or two weeks ago maybe there notmight not be a lot of detail that comes in terms of trade going back and fourth? >> as the president likes to say we'll see what happens. i will not get ahead of

blake burman at the white house with the latest. hey, blake. >> hi there, neil.ou will remember last week president trump threw out this threat that money could be pulled from three central american companies, guatemala, honduras and he el salvador: he pull their fund organize substantially reduce it when you actually look at the amendment of money here. it is a pretty substantial amount. the latest data that we have or at least the most complete recent data that we have goes back to 2016 in which guatemala received $177 million in aid from the u.s. government. honduras 152 million. el salvador 90 million. that's about $420 million. however that is scheduled to drop and to do so significantly in 2019. the numbers instead guatemala about $70 million, honduras almost $66 million. el salvador a little north of $45 million. the president is now saying those three nations deserve little to none. >> woe give them tremendous amounts of money. do yoyou know what it is you cover tall the time. hundreds of mulls of dollars. they like many others do nothing for our country.

blake burman at the white house.avid: here is dan henninger, "wall street journal" editorial page deputy editor and fox news contributor. president calls it a hoax all the kavanaugh business. what do you think? >> i don't think it was a hoax but we're past the point getting too bent out of shape of any particular word donald trump utters. david: that's right. there is one part of this that does seem more and more to be like a hoax and that's the supposedly spontaneous uprising against kavanaugh with all those protests. in fact there was a great piece in the "wall street journal" today called, george soros' march on washington. in fact number one trending piece in the "wall street journal" on the website. it turns out the woman who cornered jeff flake in the elevator, that famous scene between that woman, looked like a spontaneous moment in which a woman was outraged that he might be on the supreme court, there she is. well the author of this piece says that this woman was anna maria achila the executive director of a

. >>> first, we go to blake burman live at the white house for more on judge kavanaugh's confirmation fight. hey, blake. reporter: hi, trish. the president himself for many of the last handful of days has said the testimony of dr. christine blasey ford was credible but last night, in a campaign rally in mississippi, the president gave a much different sentiment, or a much different statement, kind of went off the script that he and others here at the white house have been using over the last several days, as he questioned, criticized, some would say even mocked, the senate testimony of dr. ford. when you break it all down as it relates to the votes on capitol hill, this all breaks down to essentially three republican senators, jeff flake, susan collins, lisa murkowski, and how they might vote on brett kavanaugh, and two of the three have already come out today saying they do not like what the president said last night about dr. ford's testimony. >> there's no time and no place for remarks like that, to discuss something this sensitive at a political rally is just not right. it's just

blake burman is live at the white house with the latest from the president. blake, i bet they liked that speech. reporter: about 30 minutes into the speech, i sent an e-mail over to a wlous hite house offi who is very familiar with this entire brett kavanaugh process. i asked for reaction as susan collins was speaking. i got a four-word response during the time of the collins speech. it was this, quote, this speech is outstanding. very clearly a relief here from this white house or for this white house, rather. they were very confident throughout the day before the procedural vote earlier this morning and even after it, especially, that this would go their way. but now it is apparent that republicans at the minimum here appear to have 51 votes and the press secretary, sarah sanders, echoed those comments about susan collins speech by saying quote, thank you, senator collins, for standing by your convictions and doing the right thing to confirm judge kavanaugh. we have yet to hear, though, from the president himself. no official statement or tweet from the pres

blake burman is trying to figure out what is the latest, blake?ter: we have a better idea when president trump and chinese president xi could meet next month. the two are scheduled to be in buenos aires, argentina for the g20 meetings. economic advisor larry kudlow said today that it is possible that those two might at some point during the summit. he also left a little bit of wiggle room when i asked whether or not it is likely. watch here. >> this is under discussion. these things are tricky. not just logistics. they will be in the same city. it is agendas. who will be in there, those kinds of things. reporter: now the white house has made a point in the past to say there has been communications with the chinese for trade discussions. it is very much though been, kind of off again, on again discussions. the president made it seem a few days ago it it was in the off again phase. >> china wants to make a deal. i say they're not ready yet. i say they're not ready yet. we can sell ad couple meetings, i just say they're not ready to make a deal. repo

connell: so president trump shooting down the idea back and forth with our buddy blake burman, the tariffs the economy. could they and will they? grover norquist, americans for tax reform president. always good to see you. the idea behind blake's question, markets are up 200 points. all the economic indicators that we have are excellent. with this trade war on going, with the chinese, will that at some point cut into economic growth? what do you think? >> well, it certainly can because tariffs are just another word for taxes. connell: right. >> what happened so far the president went to the europeans and we need to re think european union trade. he threatened tariffs. they decided to go to zero, zero, tariffs. zero none tariffs barriers and zero subsidies. you can't screw up a negotiation where your goal is to get to complete free trade in europe. we didn't have a trade war and moved in exact opposite direction. with canada and mexico we look at things come up with a deal. i don't think it is terribly exciting, what it isn't is a on going trade war? connell: china? >> china you and us, eve

blake burman. let's go to sean spicer.ng book "the briefing", a former top spokesman for the white house. much, much more on -- sean, what did you think how this day ended? >> well, i think it ended the way that everyone on the republican side and the white house wanted it to. it took a lot longer than folks thought it did. it got messier. i think karl rove is right. the process is disappointing for both sides, this is no way to run a railroad, as they said. but i think that the white house persevered. the white house office of legislative affairs deserve as lot of credit for staying in touch with these members on the senate and making sure that they had their pulse on where things were going. overall, the strategy that the white house employed the last few days, their temper month, output, responses was right and they let the process play out in a way it should. we got to the right outcome. let's not pom the champagne bottles, but by all accounts, it looks like brett kavanaugh will be confirmed. >> neil: and what i'm hear

l liz: thank you very much, blake burman. look at microsoft, leading the dow 30 heat map right behind walmart at this hour. the tech giant upping its cloud game in an effort to battle amazon. as the two fight it out for a $10 billion pentagon contract that google said it wasn't interested in being in the running for. >>> let's take a look at tesla. it's in the lead on the nasdaq, up 5% with mcquarry getting bullish on the electric vehicle maker. starting shares at outperform, including a pretty significant $430 price target on the shares. oh, yes. you're right. that's $10 above the $420 target ceo elon musk had envisioned when he considered taking the company private just two months ago, quote funding secured. tesla looking to snap a five-day losing streak. looks like it might do it today. trading volume, 10.8 million shares. >>> he has moved tesla shares and general electric shares and yesterday, cbs shares with his ground-breaking reporting. charlie gasparino heading to the studio right now. new details in his pocket on the

before all of that, blake burman of the white house on these fast-changing developments. y, blake. >> hi there, neil, that's exactly right. the secretary of state mike pompeo will be in turkey tomorrow. today he was in riyadh, saudi arabia meeting with the saudi arabian king bin salman. president trump tweeted out yet again saudi arabia's top leaders continue to say that they had no involvement whatsoever with the disappearance of the missing "the washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. the president tweeting this out just a little while ago. quote: just spoke with the crowned prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their turkish consulate. he was with secretary of state mike pompeo during the call and told me that he has already started and will rapidly expand a full and complete investigation into this matter. answers will be forthcoming shortly. now, just before that tweet there, the president wrapped up an interview with trish regan and the president said he will soon hear from the secretary of state. >> we're trying to find ou

we're getting blake burman upon the camera at the white house in just a second. he just questioned sarah sanders white house press secretary on that and she was the one who got her to respond. we are covering the stories on multiple fronts monday afternoon. while session for stocks which puts the final hour under the microscope you need to stay with me because the dow up as much hundred 50 points earlier has now come plainly reversed down 123 points at the lows of the session and you can look at the tech heavy nasdaq as well. it had a great morning jumping up 120 points only to squander that and more. we now have that nasdaq down 105 points. the markets are leading to an epic blame game from the white house to congress to the federal reserve to even you, an investor that some say is too knee-jerk and too reactive but market town crier peter shows only two of these entities on your screens are really responsible for the confusion and stocks in the economy. he names them and why he is leaving us markets and going elsewhere, now. the united kingdom signaling it will

blake burman.re are other storms to consider besides the political one and how the president deals with a very, very real one along the gulf right now where hurricane michael is gathering a lot of steam uniting a lot of worry. 35 counties under a state of emergency. the latest right now on all of this from our own meteorologist adam klotz. what are we looking at? >> looking at a strengthening storm getting closer and closer at this point to the coast. likely around lunchtime tomorrow. sitting currently at category 2 level storm. i do want to take weather 7 for the folks in the control room. that's what i'm going to need. what we are looking at right now is the path where we will jump from a category 2 storm up to a category 3 storm. you see ittrength. when will this be making landfall? we are talking about a landfall probably around tomorrow morning at least seeing early conditions. 8:00 a.m. landfall closer to lunchtime. still beginning to weaken. indecision with current track as we follow anywher

blake burman, let me bring you into this conversation. one of the interesting things he said was that this suspect allegedly, cesar sayoc, faces 58 years in prison, illegal mailing of explosives, illegal mailing of explosive devices to threaten former presidents and federal officials. what else can you tell us? this was jam-packed with some real information. reporter: the attorney general, jeff sessions, said that could expand as well. so more charges could be coming. you're right, this was pretty detailed from not only the attorney general but also the head of the fbi, the director chris wray. at this point, the fbi director made it clear they don't want to get into all of the details. clearly there's some investigative work that still needs to happen at this point. but he was fairly specific, the fbi director saying as far as these devices go, six inches of pvc pipe, a small clock, battery, wiring, potentially explosive materials. the fbi director making it clear that these were not hoax devices, though they aren't entirely sure at this

blake burman at the white house. blake. reporter: we have some of the gaps filled in, charles.d. nikki haley appearing in the oval office we believe on going still. haley saying simply put it was time to move on. she will be leaving at the end. year. the president was made aware of this months prior. this appears not to caught him off-guard. haley pointing this out she has been at this close to two years. before that she was in public service six to eight years. whether that be as governor of south carolina. she was in state politics as well. simply put, time to move on. she will take time off at the end. year. she will officially hand over answer of u.n. ambassador, to the u.n. ambassador from the united states. she was very amicable, complimentary of the president and his administration and agenda and his children, saying nice things about ivanka trump and jared kushner. she addressed speculation at some point she wants to run for president. haley said she will not run for president in 2020 and she will support president trump. when you take a step back from all of this, char

i'm blake burman in for elizabeth macdonald. blake: james mattis is expected to sign off on sending 800 troops down to the u.s. border as migrants continue their trek toward the united states. william lajeunesse is reporting live from chiapas, mexico. reporter: the caravan has always been the united states. we are being told that's of the people are going to take it train. they thought when were going to walk and stay together. now we are told several of the men plan to hop the beast. the train of the unknown, seven locomotives, 285 cars long. central americans for generations have used the train to migrate to the united states. the train will cover in one hour what it would take one day to walk. the estimated time to tijuana, about 15 days. >> my boss in california speak with me and said when you come back, i need it in my company. i say maybe 30-35 days, maybe. reporter: u.s. officials tell me mexico promised to disrupt train service out of the next town but they also said they would prevent police from allowing private citizen

blake burman. just moments ago i had a chance to catch up with the am a ambassador for germany, ric grenell about all of this, and what the germans are doing about all of this. this news today that germans could buy more liquified national gas from the united states as a time president trump is pushing that, what made the germans change their mind? >> i think president trump's resolve, no question about it. from the very beginning president trump made it clear we would make regulatory changes in his administration. we would do everything we can to make it easier for u.s. companies to supply liquid natural gas this year. we became the world es largest supplier of liquid natural gas so it only makes sense europe is now going to start getting more of u.s. lng. what the president said to chancellor merkel in front of me was we wanted to make this happen, we wanted to figure it out, so we went work on it. we've been working many months. the chancellor has now indicated they are going to invest in one of

our own blake burmaned ask the white house about it this afternoon. take a listen. >> i will not get ahead of the president's meeting. i hope it goes well. april. sorry, go ahead. >> how important is the meeting because you heard larry kudlow say two weeks ago maybe there might not be a lot of detail comes from it in terms of trade going back and forth? >> as the president likes to say we'll see what happens. i'm not going to get ahead of the conversation. you have two of the most powerful leaders in the world. i think that is consequential no matter what happens. we'll see what happens. david: see what happens. where have you heard about that. what do you make of all this. >> not surprising. open up with germany. far right winner in brazil. far left in mexico. the midterms coming. you have "brexit" in question. you have italy talking about deficits in the eurozone. that doesn't include what was obviously devastates over the weekend. david: i thought, looked like we would find a bottom for this market? >> eventually we will. robert you're right, there

blake burman at the white house with the latest. blake? reporter: we heard of the penny plan but the president upped that five-fold at a cabinet meeting. the president asked cabinet secretaries to cut budgets by 5%. the defense department would be excluded from this before the official ask of his cabinet members the president told stuart varney that he believes his administration will bring down spending. >> you're going to cut some spending? >> we'll cut spending absolutely. >> that is tough order, mr. president. >> not as tough as you think. there is a lot of fat in there. we had to get the military done the last time. >> the reality, one of the final calls will come from the folks up on capitol hill. president's own budget chief mick mulvaney acknowledged that very reality earlier of the day. >> the rules of the senate which require 60 votes for every single spending bill in the senate, by definition, unless one party has 60 votes which very rarely happens, every spending bill must be bipartisan. congress spends the money. that is the w

blake burman from the white house. hey, blake. reporter: threat was from the president. deal from the united states and mexico to try to solve this latest issue, revolving around this latest caravan. however the caravan is moving for war as griff pointed out, as president says he will follow through on that threat. these are tweets he sent out earlier this morning writing, quote, sadly looks like mexico's police and military unable to stop the caravan heading to the southern border in the united states. criminals and unknown middle-easterners are mixed in. i alerted border patrol and military. i we must change laws. i asked the white house has the president declared official national emergency or not. what does that entail? we're awaiting a a response. he sent up a tweet saying we're cutting off or substantially reducing massive foreign aid given to them, guatemala, duras, el salvador. there is a lot of money talking about aid and these three specific countries. last record-keeping 419 million given out. when you look at fiscal year 2019, numbers on the screen significan

blake burman at the white house. come in on secretary mnuchin.the last few minutes to treasury secretary saying he's consulted consulted with the president. he's consulted as well with secretary of state and they've decided steve mnuchin will not be heading to the investor summit in saudi arabia. there had been a question for many days now as to whether or not that treasury secretary would indeed go. many people from all the world, have been pulling out and in fact i believe france's finance minister announced today he would not be going and now that the secretary has gotten back from saudi arabia, the president and secretary of state have decided they will not head to this day conference in saudi arabia. by the way, i should note that fbn is a sponsor of the conference and participation in it is currently under review. stuart: just a real fast question. is it correct to say that treasury secretary mnuchin spoke with secretary of state pompeo and with the president before he made the announcement that he pull out of the summit? >> history says we

blake burman live at the white house with the latest, blake.r: melissa, the first reaction from the white house came from press secretary sarah sanders and then after that shortly after that vice president mike pence, they described whoever might behind attempted attacks as cowards. later in the afternoon we heard from president trump and first lady melania trump, that the president is saying he is angry, sad and upset. first lady says we should embrace kindness over hatred. >> we have to unify. we have to come together. and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message, that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america. >> we cannot tolerate those cowardly attacks and i strongly condemn all who choose violence. >> the president, melissa, describing this as major federal investigation right now as fbi, department of justice, department of homeland security and united states secret service, i'm sorry. melissa: thank you, blake. connell: well cover as search for answers continues this wide-ra

fox business's blake burman live at the white house with latest on that. hi, blake. reporter: dave, we got clues from president trump on the south lawn. president said dina powell is under consideration to replace nikki haley as united states ambassador to the united nations. powell is someone well-known within the white house. she served in the administration, for about a year. left earlier this year as depthty national security advisor. president also saying that ivanka trump probably will not get the job, not because she isn't competent. he said maybe there isn't anyone more competent to hold that position. instead the president expressed concerns that she might fall subject to anti-nepotism rules and laws. that is probably one of the reasons why he won't go down that road. in any event nikki haley publicly announced her resignation. she wrote a letter to the president on october 3rd, saying as much. haley said she was a governor six months, six years rather, in the state of south carolina. held the post at the united nations for two years. she felt it was time to

but they still show gains at the moment for the dow jones industrials up 104 points fox business blake burman was listening along with you and with us here in studio and blake tell us what you thought and what is jumping out at you with this speech? >> you said victory lap it was just that, liz. we heard from president trump here yesterday at the white house, he of course went on the road as well last night for one of the campaign style rallies and this event in philadelphia today to speak before the national electrical contractors association had already been scheduled but no doubt about it, this provided a back drop for him to take this victory lap, the start of his celebration, for this new u.s. mexico canada agreement something that the president had talked about for 20 months on the job and possibly as long as that as he was running for office, and now the president gets to go out on the road and says i told you we were going to do this and look we have done exactly that. the president continuing to talk about how much he despised the old nafta deal, so much so that he said he didn't eve

. >> all right we have blake burman at the white house he's got more. >> president trump following throughn his threats saying he will either eliminate or substantially reduce the foreign aid given to three foreign countries, honduras guatemala and el salvador that comes via twitter after caravan of migrants continue to cross through mexico and grow in size. in 2016, the the last full year of accounting, guatemala received 177 million dollars in aid from the united states. hon durings rays 152 million el salvador 90 million dollars. however, that scheduled to drop significantly in 2019. 70 million for guatemala. 66 million for honduras and 176 for elle saferl doer but they deserve little to none. >> guatemala. honduras pay paid a lot of money every year we give them foreign aid and they did nothing for us. nothing. >> now even if president requests for those countries to have their funding slashed it remains to be seen how that could be received not only at the state department but also with the folks up on capitol hill. back to you in new york. >> well formerrer president barack obama hit

blake burman is at the white house with more. >> a phone call between president trump and saudi arabia'sing on monday morning believed to be first between the two since disappearance of the washington post columnist jamal. the president made it clear that the king denies any involvement saying for his son, the crowned prince. president suggested his disappearance could be an operation carried out by rogue actors. the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know i don't to get into his mind but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers who knows. we're going it try to get to the bottom of it very soon. but his was a flat denial. >> president says phone call lasted about 20 minutes. i asked him if he trust or believed the king's denial. >> all i can do is report what he told me and he told me in a firm way they had no knowledge it have. he said it very strongly. >> after the call they sent mike pompeo to saudi arabia it is possible as with that pompeo ends up making his way to turkey he's been missing for last two weeks, ever since he walked into the

let's get to blake burman, who is at the white house. blake, speaker paul ryan is throwing a political wrench into the commander in chief's latest immigration plan about this birthright issue, specifically saying this is the law, if somebody is born on u.s. land, they do become a citizen immediately and there's nothing the president can do about that. reporter: yeah, the house speaker, that's right, paul ryan chimed in. he was doing a radio interview with the wisconsin radio station just a little while ago and said the president's idea that he could overturn all or parts of the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution is not accurate, not factual, because he says the president cannot do that with an executive order. so you've got the house speaker against the president right now on this one issue. that issue being the president told axios yesterday in an interview here at the white house that he does not believe that the children or at least i should say he wants an executive order that would overturn parts of the 14th amendment so that ch

blake burman is live at the white house. blake?hi there, shepard, i should know at the top here. we'll reached out to health and human services a spokesperson earlier today. they would not comment on this draft document that the "new york times" reports about. we just heard from president trump on the south lawn of the white house. relating to this "new york times" story that it is something that they're looking at taking seriously. in any event, this document that the "new york times" reports on says that h.h.s. is looking at the definition of sex under chapter 89 protections and whether or not sex should be defined as how one is born or how one identifies themselves. this was the president moments ago. watch. >> i'm protecting everybody. do you know what i'm doing? i'm protecting everybody. i want to protect our country. >> >> reaction from the human rights campaign is as you would expect, shepard. they call this a destructive precedent, rather. that the administration would be engaging in. they say, quote: the trump-pence admini

blake burman at the white house. get the read from john hannah, former advisor to vice president dick cheney, foundation for democracies. john, what do you make of the timing of all this? >> the timing was clearly a surprise to everybody, neil but i've got to say a two-year mark is not atypical point for senior administration official to leave an administration. so i take it largely at face value. she felt with a successful second u.n. general assembly under her belt a couple weeks ago, this was a good time to make the announcement and move on. neil: now the question becomes who is in her place. we have a little bit of time until the end of the year. take at face value, what she was saying, the president was saying. would there be a short list of people considered? would it be a bump up from already somebody serving in the administration? >> i think it could be any of those things. we're all speculating at this point in time. these are very big shoes to fill. she was incredibly effective in a very, very tough and cha

first we want to go to blake burman standing by at the white house where the president a short time ago the president touted his new trade deal before heading to philadelphia. blake. reporter: president trump in the air aboard air force one. he weiland in philadelphia to speak to the national electrical contractors association. this will give him another forum to tout this new trade deal between the united states, canada and mexico, the usmca as it is being called. the white house it is very clear the last 24 hours, the white house is very confident once this trade deals makes it way to capitol hill for a up-or-down vote likely next year, the white house believes democrats will be on board. here is the president just a little while ago from the south lawn before departing on marine one? >> even many of the democrats, including chuck schumer came out and said nice things. so that is very nice to hear that. so it is nice to see a little bit of a bipartisan approach. reporter: the president also continued to defend his supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh. mitch mcconnell says there

neil: thank you very, very much blake burman at the white house.ight have heard senator dianne feinstein saying friday is too soon for a vote. we went into this with the understanding of the one-week fbi investigation and then a vote. it is what it is. joining us is john yu, steve start with you first, is it likely the fbi can wrap up what it has to do and do what it has to do by friday if, in fact, the directive has widened to include all accusers and witnesses to those who can or cannot corroborate by what those accusers are saying by friday? >> if you caught me smirking, you said do what they have to do. we don't be what they have to do. the worst things can you do to investigate quality investigation is a, set an arbitrary deadline, and b, try to limit somehow the scope of an investigation before it even starts. in this case, we've got both things that have been done to the fbi. there's no way to know what they're going to uncover on day two of the investigation that may then require them to go into day three, day four, day five. you just don't

blake burman with who more on t. reporter: two developments as it relates to disappearance of "washington post" columnist, jamal khashoggi. the they are citing a high level turkish official when they went in the saudi consulate inside of istanbul they found evidence in that search that jamal khashoggi was killed inside of that consulate. "the washington post" columnist hasn't been seen since the surveillance video showed him walking into the consulate two full weeks ago on october 2nd. he met with king salman and the crown prince, mohammed bin salman in saudi arabia. according to reports, saudi arabia is admitting that khashoggi died as a result of a botched interrogation inside the consulate. president trump said after he had a 20-minute phone call with king salman, that the king denied any knowledge whatsoever. in washington feel saudi arabia opened itself up to potential sanctions. here the strong word from senator lindsey graham. >> what i would do, i'm going to do, sanction the hell out of saudi arabia. we deal

blake burman is live in following their trip step-by-step.s as the market search desperately following wall street's worst week since march as earning seasons get to the full swing, the dallas in

blake burman is live in following their trip step-by-step. this comes as the market search desperately following wall street's worst week since march as earning seasons get to the full swing, the dallas in swinging at health. at one point i was down 89 points. right now up 107. s&p is an undergrad. now it's up for. the nasdaq not making a go of it just yet. last week's scary selloff taking money investors by surprise leaving them to wonder was what you see on the side of your screen from the big word just a painful quick episode for the death knell of the bull market? self-made billionaire has made a career of nailing the right market calls at the right time. where are we now in this extended old run in spotting major markets turning point. he's about to teach you how appeared we've got a turkish search teams storming the saudi and missed the for clues to the disappearance of the dissident column. charlie gasparino with the back story on what finally pushed dozens of titans of finance and business from jamie dimon to stephen schwartzman and n

blake burman live with more. reporter: three big story lines from president trump, remarks after he took from reporters signing of a presidential memorandum in state of arizona. president touching on murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. the president moving further in the direction of backing potential sanctions. there have been many up on capitol hill who have said that saudi arabia should be sanctioned for whatever role, possible top members within that government played in jamal khashoggi disappearing from inside the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey on october 2nd. according to even the president himself, at this point it appears as if khashoggi was murdered on that day. the president saying that congress, that he would listen to what congress has to say as it relates to sanctions saying he will certainly hear what they will have to say. though the president also talked about how there are billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in commitments from saudi arabia and that is something that

. >> blake burman is at the white house with the details. president trump and first lady melania trump will head to pittsburgh later today comes as jewish leaders within that area are telling the president to stay away until he fully denounces white nationalism the white house says president has done just that. the press secretary sarah sand rs got choanged up monday when pointing out president's families jewish heritage. >> president is the grandfather of several jewish grandchildren. his daughter is a jewish american, and son-in-law is holocaust -- >> sanders addresses criticism during first press briefings and bloomberg reported that if president trump meeting with china's president xi jinping doesn't go well on the trade are front then trumped administratin could move forward worth of tariff. sanders would not say, though, if that meeting will be an inflection point. >> i'm not going to get ahead of the president meeting and i hope it goes well. >> sorry go ahead. >> how important is that meeting then because you heard larry kudlow say w

blake burman from the white house what the latest president is saying on the fbi report. hi, blake.eporter: final pieces of the fbi report got to the white house 2:00 this morning. we're told the president was briefed first thing in the morning. nine difficult witnesses were interviewed by the fbi according to the white house however dr. christine blasey ford is not one of them and her attorneys are taking issue with that. her attorneys sending a letter to fbi director chris wray which reads in part it, took tremendous courage for dr. ford to come forward. she was eager to come before the fbi. the investigation conducted over past five days, is stain on the process on the fbi and our american ideal of justice. many senate democrats agree. >> white house didn't limit what the fbi does on the fbi checks. seems they did, limited number of witnesses or so many witnesses who weren't called, should have been. make it public. reporter: the white house though is describing the kavanaugh nomination as the most thorough vetting after supreme court nominee in history. they say they were hands

blake burman he did ask the question about what's next. that is the biggie. one trade relationship that could be thorniest to get through that is china. the president said he didn't think it would come to blows so to speak, but what is your sentiment? reporter: i want to follow up with him, neil, how long does this runway go with china? is this potentially months, even years there could be back and forth and this threat of tariffs with china? this white house is not committed to a date, whether or not how long this could potentially go. the president clearly talks about the market, and economy running up, no doubt about it. one thing some would say is, which i asked him, if there wasn't this threat of tariffs hovering over it, how much further could it have run at this point? in any event at white house it was a pretty big celebration for this president on one of his signature campaign events. the president officially agreeing to a new deal, nafta 2.0, u.s. mexico canada agreement, whatever you want to call it. going forward there is big political question ha

connell: thank you, blake burman.sa: michael o'hanlon, brookings institution, foreign policy senior fellow. what do you make of this whole situation? some. reports coming out today, the idea they were painting inside the embassy there and you saw that the crews and the trucks just went in with ultraviolet light and everything else doing the saying he was killed inside the embassy. hard to argue with that. >> i'm highly suspicious. the burden of proof is on the saudis. no point in mine arguing based on circumstantial evidence is aware of. doesn't sound compelling to say he is okay or some interrogation went bad somehow wound up dismembering him. some. theories out there sound incredulous. makes me think the saudis are looking for a half-truth or partial truth or non-truth that can deflect blame but that is speculation on my part. >> talk from the white house seems to change day-to-day. most recent comments they're hearing if they knew about it, it is really bad. makes them sort of say that they didn't know about it. is

blake burman live at the white house for us. what is the latest, blake? reporter: well, connell, president trump and saudi king salman had what was believed to be their fir phone call this morning since the disappearance of "the washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. president trump says the king denies any involvement in this so to for his son the crown prince. the president suggested earlier today this could potentially been the act of rogue individuals. watch. >> the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know. maybe, i don't want to get into his mind but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. who knows. reporter: that conversation on the phone between the two lasted for about 20 minutes. i then asked president trump whether or not he can trust, whether or not he believes the saudi king. this is his response? >> all i can do is report what he told me and he told me in a very firm way they had no knowledge of it. he said it very strongly. reporter: connell, cnn is reporting that the saudis are preparing a

blake burman is live at the white house with the very latest from the president, blake. reporter: melissa, that's right. the president continuing his criticisms on the federal reserve keeps in theme what we've seen out of the president over last few days as the stock market slide continues. late last night the president described the fed as lock loco and described recent moves as. >> they are making a mistake. it is not right. despite that we're doing very well but it is not necessary, in my opinion and i think i know about it better than they do. reporter: the president contending though his own hand-picked fed chair, jay powell is not in jeopardy of losing his job. >> no. no, i'm not going to fire him. i'm just disappointed at clip. i think it is far too fast, far too rigid, far too fast. reporter: the fed did not very comment on president's most recent criticisms. they pointed back to comments that jay powell made at end of last month and was asked about president's criticisms about the fed then, at that point, we don't consider political factors tore things like that

fox's blake burman live at the white house. i'm sure every director at each department is tearing out their hair saying where are we going to find this 5% but they have to, do they not? reporter: there have been requests from the trump administration before for them to cut their budgets. now the president is saying hey, let's try to do this again another time. you have heard of the penny plan before that someone pitched. president trump today went that five-fold saying he wants to enact a nickel plan. 5%. he wants each one of his cabinet secretaries to cut their budget by that amount. it's important to note the president says the defense department would be excluded. before the president made that official in a cabinet meeting at the white house earlier today, he was speaking with stuart varney and the president insisted that they indeed can cut spending. watch. stuart: you going to cut spending? >> we are, absolutely. it's not as tough as you think. frankly, there's a lot of fat in there but we had to get the military done las