liz: let's take it to blake burman in dc, saying he wants a general in this operation. go ahead, blake. >> well, not necessarily in this operation. liz: he said he wanted a general, we have heard, in the white house. but go ahead. >> right. so, yeah, he's had this admiration, as we know, as he talked about for a while his upbringing as a child and all the way to this day of how he loves the generals, he refers to them as my generals at certain points. look, e macwe knew that this was coming at some point. the relationship here with the new dynamic of anthony scaramucci and reince priebus was unsustainable. scaramucci himself with the interview that he gave to or the conversation that he had with ryan linda of the new yorker the other night basically said let's leave it up to happen to see how all of this plays out. on this day, at least, it appeared that scaramucci was still part of the white house apparatus as he was on the plane, on air force one to the president's event in new york. that plane has now the president on his way back here to the white house. and with tha

[shouting] blake burman is standing by in hamburg, germany. of your e-mails which said they actually locked the doors of your hotel in order to, i guess protect people inside the hotel from those outside. angela merkel had been warned not to hold the meeting in hamburg which is where a lot of protesters were located. she did it anyway. putting quite a strain on police, right? reporter: yeah. this is the city where angela merkel was born. this is where she wanted to host the g20 summit. they were anticipating the protesters, not even g20 summit officially yet. it begins tomorrow. these protesters had planned this protest tonight they wanted to call it welcome to hell. we saw some of those signs out here on the streets of hamburg a little while ago. you mentioned our hotel, front door still locked by the way although streets behind me you can tell most definitely calmed down from the scene it was an hour or so ago. this is a major european city though. it is believed some of these protests are still happening elsewhere. as for the politics of th

it's really a vote to start the discussion. >> shepard: blake burman is live from fox business. he asked the question of the president today. you gave it a valiant effort. >> it was asked by bloomberg. the president gave the standard answer. that he was dis appoiappointed didn't go about answering, do you plan on firing the guy. he called him weak earlier today. he said i think the american people want to know, do you have confidence in the guy and do you want him to resign or be fired? again the president side-stepped this just saying that his disappointed in the decisions that the attorney general made about recusal. it's still up in the air from the white house perspective of what jeff sessions does next or potentially even what president trump might do next, shepard. >> shepard: blake burman from fox business. i know you have to do some reporting for that network. thanks for stepping by. i want to head to julie now, white house reporter for the associated press. she co-wrote a recent article about the firing of jeff sessions. any more to report based on this nonanswer today,

blake burman has details from the white house.rue nature of kushner had four contacts with prescience before entering the white house and he did nothing wrong. those interactions or twice during the campaign and twice during the transition. two conversations with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak, though one lasted under a minute. kushner came back to the white house and defended himself all accusations and a first of its kind public statement. >> i did not collude with russia, nor do i know anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian fun for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent and providing all requested information. reporter: and a fan of the less than three minutes statement, kushner said the storyline belittles those who voted for the president. >> donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he won. suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him. kushner will return to capitol hill today for more private questioning t

lauren: let's get those details from blake burman.rioritizing middle-class tax relief is that the white house says is the focus for tax reform. in an interview with "the wall street journal" tuesday, president trump was ambiguous about tax cuts for the wealthy, telling the journal the people i care most about are the middle income people who have gotten screwed. if there's upward revision, it is going to be on high income people. that led me to ask the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders the following question. does the president believe the wealthiest americans deserve a tax cut? >> the president is looking and prioritizing middle-class tax relief. he's made no secret about that. that's one of the biggest priorities of the three things is focused on what tax reform. reporter: adding a simpler code and creating jobs as part of the focus as well. there appears to be a possible downshift here is the administration said earlier this year they were hoping for the biggest tax cut fatter. back to you in new york. lauren: blak

cheryl: blake burman in washington.and swift economic actions against venezuela. president nicolas maduro goes ahead with the plans to rewrite the constitution saying the united states will not stand by as venezuela crumbles. the opposition says 7 million people rejected the plan as monday in a symbolic referendum. >> i am here because my conscience as a citizen demand that ip year. this is strong evidence people are unhappy. at the international level, regardless of whether it has elect her powers for who is ruling, this is the citizens power. this is the change people are waiting for and we are all here for that. trade three more than 90 people killed in violent clashes. the widespread shortages and inflation right now. train to shame what's happening in that country. back here at home, tax negotiators ended about the 15% pledge made by the president on the campaign trail. lea: tracee carrascas drains us now. good morning. lea: good morning, ladies. president trump 15% from its current 35%. official said on monday tha

blake burman. at least they're trying to stay optimistic. i will tell you, thanks, blake, not only health care weighing on the markets overall. goldman sachs taking a hit today, after the investment bank reported a 40% drop in its bond trading business. joining me, gary kaltbaum, kaltbaum capital management president. and jonathan hoenig of capitalist pig hedge fund. both fox news contributors. thrilled you're with us today because it is eight days straight. we haven't seen that since february of 2015 for the nasdaq. new record high. remember the tech wreck last month. we made it through that but today it was d.c. gridlock. gary i begin with you, your thoughts what we're seeing right now and goldman sachs as well? >> market is acting just fine. goldman sachs was basically the dow today. nasdaq was enfuego. it was apple and netflix and few others. i have no complaint. amazing to watch because you have a republican leadership great at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. i'm kind of surprised that markets aren't doing a little bit worse b

blake burman is life with us. are you with us? >> yes, i'm here.you have going on with the president over these next two days, as you just saw, he's in poland for a summit of about 12 eastern european countries, energy part of the main focus there and made them tonight the president will come for the g20 summit. president trump will meet with dozens of world leaders over these next two days. the one country really gaining a lot of the attention, in fact all of the attention at this hour is north korea come especially after its intercontinental ballistic missile this week. at a news conference in poland, president trump was asked about north korea. he called it a quote threat, said they had very, very bad behavior. when he was asked what he might do, is a military option on the table? the president would not reveal what he might do next. >> as far as north korea is concerned, i don't know. we will see what happens. i don't like to talk about what i have planned, but it's in pretty severe things we're thinking about. i don't draw the lines. >> the ot

and there were not one but two questions right there, including our own blake burman about that. i first want to hear -- is it blake's question and response. whatever it is, let's listen to what happened when he was asked about jeff sessions. not there. we're going to have it in one second. and now it's there. now it's not. okay. for the moment, let me just tell you that he gave the wall street journal a sit-down interview earlier this morning, during which -- and this is rather extraordinary. he declined to say whether he fired jeff sessions. he dismissed the fact that sessions was first to endorse him saying quote it's not -- and this is a quote. it's not like a great, loyal thing about the endorsement. remember, jeff sessions was the very first senator, the very first congressperson to even say "i'm with donald trump" during the campaign. now we do have blake's question. let's listen in. >> but i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior

blake burman live at white house with more. hey there, blake. reporter: trish, let me tick down through a couple of emails for you. they were posted by donald trump, jr., he preempted "the new york times" earlier today by posting a handful of e-mails on the twitter feed. it starts with email from acquaintance of his by the name of rob gold stone. goldstone writes to donald trump, jr., on june 3, 2016, a russian prosecutor told influential russians, that prosecutor had dirt on hillary clinton, stuff that would be harmful to her and helpful to then candidate trump. here is the first email that goldstone wrote to donald trump, jr. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. just minutes after that trump, jr., followed up responding to the email himself. he said, i love it. especially later in summer. could we do a call first thing next week when i am back? now. that was june 3rd. six days later to june 9th, new york city, trump tower, donald trump, jr., jared kushner, p

let me bring in blake burman. blake, during the same news conference president trump said quote, something good could happen regarding the paris climate accord. what is the world focusing on with all that came out of the news conference? >> liz, president trump standing there in the heart of paris along with french president emannuel macron. as french media got first shot at asking questions, no surprise the first question was about the climate agreement that bears that city's name. macron said this was campaign promise drawing united states out of paris accord and acknowledging that is what president trump ended up doing and president trump didn't make it seem if he would be reversing his position anytime soon, either. listen. >> something could happen with respect to the paris accord. we'll see what happens but we will talk about that over the coming period of time, and if it happens, that will be will, and if it doesn't, that will be okay too. >> then the american media got its shot at some questions. that is wh

blake burman is hearing all kinds of news leading up to it. attracting the senates up to the movement. or remain rooted in procedural quicksand. they're also extending my life to analyze the speech that the senate gop will vote yes. the homebuilders are building muscle. today's existing home sales and prices crushing. it's now the time to lock in low rate which seems to be old enough the biceps as well. they blast passed an all-time record close earlier in the session that can enclose in that thinner air up there. how about straight a's. alpha met with the big earnings reveal. let's start the countdown. how is this for a monday. look at this intraday chart. they blast through the record roof. what we need you to do is watch them in the final half hour. it has spiked even higher up 19 points. the tech heavy index is on track to close in record territory be the fourth record close in the last five sessions. but almost more and presently would be the record close purity date. not bad. up 17.6 percent. this is the chief equity strategist. the sect

liz: thank you, blake burman. dick durbin bashing president trump and speaking favorably about vladimir putin before the two leaders met at the g20 summit. take a listen. >> senator, what's the most positive thing you have to say about vladimir putin and the most negative? >> he is gifted in knowledge of history. our president is not. he certainly knows how to meet with foreign leaders and push his agenda. our president has limited experience in that. in terms of his weakness, he too suffers from a form of megalomania. liz: economist ben stein joins me now. good to see you, ben. >> honored to be here. liz: what do you think of senator durbin going after the president and making it seem like vladimir putin is better as a leader? >> i think it's extremely unfortunate. this is a time when the country needs to unified. we face extreme, extreme threats from north korea. in a way like hitler with nuclear weapons, it's a time for us to be pulling together. these are cheap shots by mr. durbin. he could have said i find fa

trump: blake burman. thank you. hello, blake. question: president trump, hello. thank you. indulge us here for a second. just to pick up where margaret left off, the american people i think would like to know: do you feel that the attorney general should indeed stay? do you intend on firing him? why should he remain as the attorney general? and, secondly, on a separate topic, with the healthcare vote that just came about, there is a still long ways to go. at what point do you feel that republicans, if they can't get something done, should just say, you know what, we gave it a go, let's move on to tax reform instead? thank you. pres. trump: i want the attorney general to be much tougher on the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever leaked before, at a very important level. these are intelligence agencies. we cannot have that happen. you know many of my views in addition to that, but i think that's one of the very important things that they have to get on with. i told you before, i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we w

lea: blake burman thank you.showing up for work at the white house on monday in a new position so this white house shakeup means there's a job opening at the department of homeland security starting monday. we will discuss that. stay with us. whoooo. i enjoy the fresher things in life. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest prices. so if you're anything like me... ...you'll want to check tripadvisor. we now instantly compare prices from over 200 booking sites... ...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. go on, try something fresh. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. van the white house shakeup means homeland security is now looking for new secretary. here to discuss j.d. gordon the pentagon spokesmen and retired naval commander and rebekah grant a former official in the office of the air force secretary and currently with the irs independent research. welcome to you both. >> thank you. lea: rebekah wants us to review. alain duque will be asking

lauren: blake burman, thank you.ds wrapping up their two-day policy meeting today in the president says he is still thinking about nominating janet yellen to a second term at the federal reserve chair. he likes her and thinks she's done a good job in one's interest rates to stay low. the president says his economic advisor gary kahn is another top candidate. >> the fed will announce their decision on interest rates today. investors looking for clues details on when the fed plans to start trimming down its massive bond holdings and of course how about one that the stock market. cheryl: that brings volatility which many analysts expect it will. the president fulfilling his promise to bring jobs back to the u.s. one technology company is set be a key player in the process. lauren: a big company. tracee carrascas with bad news. >> a huge company in an interview with "the wall street journal," president trump says apple ceo tim cook promised him it would be building three new manufacturing plants in the united states. he

blake burman is in hamburg with the latest, blake. >> hi there, charles, we expect the president to bend. i'm not sure if that's the support plane, but either way the president will be on the ground in hamburg momentarily. when he's just down the road where we're staying, this is when the interesting part of the trip starts to begin for the president. he will have a 10 to 15 minute meeting or so with angela merkel, the german chancellor hosting the g20 summit. you can imagine what's on the top of the agenda. defense spending, trade, merkel telegraphed in her own right, the president's decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement, something she does not agree with. they will have a bilateral meeting after that. the president will have dinner with the leaders of japan and south korea and the main issues, i think it's fair to say, north korea, north korea, and north korea after that. you've already heard the president's comments on this day in which he said he's looking into, quote, pretty severe things into north korea in response to their intercontinental ballistic missile test.

blake burman thank you. for more analysis, we have fox news military analyst general jack keane. >> good to be here, trish. trish: good news on the syrian cease-fire. >> anything that can reduce the horrific humanitarian catastrophe in syria is a good thing. we've been working on this, the united states, russia, jordan for some weeks. they have been having classified meetings to this end, hopefully when they had this meeting today they would have some kind of agreement. secretary tillerson as we noted in the introduction they still have to work out the details of enforcement. right now looks like some russia participation, some u.s. and some jordanian participation. the concern about enforcement is simply this. we have to make sure russia is going to control syrian ground forces. two, irransians are in the area. will they agree to get out of there. and three, extremists will likely attack the area just on prince he pill. we have to have forces on the ground to protect people in the area. trish: i want to tur

liz: stay safe, blake burman, we know you'll be on the story. the president met with german chancellor angela merkel as the g20 summit kicks off in her hometown. this after merkel criticized protectionism as the wrong answer for the world, top german officials warn germany faces 680 islamist threats including terror, noting 24,000 islamists in the country. they left to fight for isis in syria and iraq in recent years. a fifth of them were women. defense stocks like lockheed martin, northrup grumman ending in the red. let's get to form campaign adviser to george h.w. bush, he is campaign senior adviser, president of proactive communications mark serrano. good to see you. >> thank you, liz. liz: will merkel listen to president trump how to curb terror attacks? >> no, not at all. a lost cause. i am speechless, speechless. can you imagine? donald trump says no more, angela merkel and her administration say expect more, expect more terror attacks in the streets of germany. that's what they did today and unfortunately angela merkel in globalist open b

blake burman keeping pace with this fast-breaking story. and by the way, we are getting bret baier in the chair in d.c. on the power that one e-mail release had, at least temporarily, over your money and whether there's more to come of that. and we've got the incredible story of the owners of a small texas bridal shop who stood by and watched as the irs seized their business, sold the entire inventory for pennies on the dollar within just hours. you won't believe the government's reason for doing that. the family's attorney joins us. and on wall street, after the donald jr. or tweet gave stocks a scare, an announcement from the senate reverses the license. with less than an hour to the closing bell, let's start the "countdown." ♪ ♪ liz: well, we are looking at breaking news coming out of the u.s. senate at this hour, and that is a relatively unprecedented situation. six gop senators this morning came out and said we need to either shorten or cancel the august recess, and it was just announced within the last 40 minutes they will shorten it

blake burman live in d.c. with the fallout. main target of his bad-mouthing is reince priebus. any word whether he's going to stay or go? >> reporter: that's the pg way of putting it, david. based on what was said the other day. reince priebus is still at the white house, though there hasn't been a defense from folks inside the building of reince priebus, as it stands this afternoon, he is indeed the chief of staff. he was aboard air force one along with anthony scaramucci today as the two were with the president for his event earlier this afternoon in new york, and going onto that plane, coming off it, reporters asked scaramucci about his comments, that he made in a phone call with a reporter from "new yorker" couple of nights ago which he absolutely trashed the white house chief of staff and scaramucci did not have any comments. the comments that scaramucci made the other night were as follows, and i quote here -- and then he had some more colorful words for the chief strategist steve bannon. earlier today and speaking with s

i want to go to blake burman who has more from the white house. hi, blake.here, trish, white house on this day, rest of the book really is focusing on a made in america theme. there will be similar themes over the upcoming next two weeks. in fact in about an hour from now president trump will partake in an event on the south lawn with products made in america, 49 of the 50 states represented. and then later in the week on wednesday he is expected to sign a proclamation as well. this sort of builds off the manufacturing push that has been part of the president's domestic agenda. you probably remember the president signing an executive order, buy american, hire american, back in april. >> america first you better believe it. [cheers and applause] it is time, right? it is time. reporter: however critics say the president and his phamly should adhere to that very made in america theme. the white house would not say yesterday whether the trump organization or ivanka trump would commit to more products being made here in the united states. in fact the democratic n

blake burman with more. hi, blake. >> hi, neil. officials that i have spoken to throughout the day suggest that they feel there is a way forward on healthcare. the blinders are very much on still pointing in that direction. to that end, earlier today here at the white house, president trump met with senator lindsey graham to discuss graham's possible way forward in which he suggests that money should be taken from obamacare and put back to the states. last night in the 2:00 hour here on the east coast, when this latest iteration failed on the senate floor, president trump tweeted out the following. he said "let obamacare implode, then deal" as you played from the clip there. he reiterated that once again this afternoon in new york. while also expressing some frustration here with washington. >> they should have approved healthcare last night, but you can't have everything. boy, oh, boy. they've been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? the swamp. we'll get it done. >> the surprise no vote came from senator joh

thanks so much, blake burman. i want to stay on these protest pictures as we continue to watch these being fed into us via sky news there. hamburg, germany, again, you see protesters clashing with police outside of that g20 summit. and this happens typically at a lot of these summits. there's a lot of protesters that want to rail against things like globalism. but this in particular, this particular protest seems to be worse than others we have seen, so we want to talk about all of that. why they're protesting, and what we can anticipate in the hours ahead from our president and from vladimir putin. from more of this as we continue watching these pictures, former governor of arkansas and fox news contributor mike huckabee joins me. governor, good to have you back. good to see you. is there anything different or anything special about these particular protests happening now in germany as we watch these pictures come in? >> probably not, trish. most of these protesters are part of what security officials openly call

in the meantime, blake burman at the white house on the fast moving developments. blake?and neil, the update from the white house at this moment is there is going to be an on-camera briefing here at the white house, 2:00. sarah huckabee sanders, in which they will sort of spell everything out or what they want to spell out as to how everything plays. we will see if anthony scaramucci is involved with that briefing. as you know, recently, the white house has been bringing several cabinet members. top principals to the briefings to spell out whatever the topic du jour is and turn it over to sarah sanders. to take it from there, we don't know if scaramucci will be brought in or sarah sanders doing the briefing, either way, the white house will spell out in about an hour how all of this played out and how communications shop will work going forward? this has all developed within the last few hours, and what have you at the white house right now, neil, is a communications department whose job is solely to communicate with the media and the american public, the administration's

blake burman at the white house. blake, the real question is, whether rates will go up on the wealthy or whether when the president is talking about some people paying more, he means they will lose deductions, rates might go down but might end up paying more because they lose deductions. >> reporter: and i tried to get into it with the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders about rates and what the president means with all of this, they didn't want to get into the specific numbers on this day. a white house official did point out the very point that you made, david, the rates if they don't go down as low as possible as once thought with the deductions and so forth, it's still a moving puzzle over here that everybody is trying to figure out. the catch phrase on this day from the white house is this, pirateizing middle class tax relief. that's what they say, press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said is the focus for the white house and the president going forward. genesis of all of this was a "wall street

blake burman, thank you very much. reporter: i was saying at inner right now she is seated next to vladmir putin. david: interesting. geography is important. blake, thank you. melissa. melissa: let's bring in former u.s. spokesperson to the united nation and fox news contributor ric grenell. what do you make of the progress we saw come out of this meeting? do you consider it progress? >> i would say big progress, going into this meeting there was a talk of handshakes and first putin-trump meeting but the substance needed to focus on syria and north korea. those are two issues. clearly we have news and diplomatic breakthroughs on both fronts. as blake said, we have this semblance of a cease-fire. i know we had this talk before but it looks like one will start on sunday, a cease-fire inside of syria. that is a really, a remarkable actually, after all that we've been through, if we can get a cease-fire to hold, that is going to be big news. on the other front on north korea, something that is not talked about too much, is

blake burman at the white house. he has a briefing right? blake? reporter: from sarah huckabee sanders from a little while ago which really nothing, they were kind of deflecting, connell on this russia stuff as the president this morning pretty much defended his son on twitter in which he said the following in regards to donald trump, jr.,'s interview last night with sean hannity, wrote, quote, my sons donald did a good job, last night, open, transparent, innocent. this is the greatest witch-hunt in political history. sad. however on capitol hill today, the president's hand-picked fbi director nominee christopher wray, suggested in a exchange should foreign help, potential foreign help try to help a candidate here in the united states, that that candidate or whoever is involved should end up going to the fbi. watch this exchange here between christopher wray and the republican senator, lindsey graham. >> being director of fbi, pal. here is what i want you to tell over politician, if you get a call suggesting a that foreign government wants to help

but first, i want to go straight to blake burman live at the white house with the latest on kushner's meeting with the intel committee. blake. >> hi, there, trish, kushner said that he had four different contacts and kushner said he did absolutely wrong. two of those occurrences happened during the campaign. the other two during the transition. he said he met two different times with the russian ambassador kislack. though, he said one of those took place for less than a minute. early today, kushner made his way from the white house to capitol hill for a couple of hours. spoke with some members of the senate intelligence committee, or at least members of their staff. and then he came back here to the white house and fully defended himself in a very rare public statement. >> i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. >> also, during that less than three-minute statement, kushner suggested

blake burman live at white house with the latest on the president's meeting with french president macron. fill us in blake. reporter: it was this time yesterday when the president's hand-picked fbi director christopher wray testified on capitol hill, that anyone in donald trump, jr.'s position should have picked up the phone and called the fbi. the president was asked about that at the press conference a little while ago, in paris, france, alongside emannuel macron, the president came to the defense of his oldest son, saying he is a good person, con 10ed anyone else in his son's position would have done the same thing. >> my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. it was a short meeting. i think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting. reporter: president trump also described the meeting as means to tracking down opposition research which he said is very standard in politics. the president also did not shy away from meeting last week with vladmir putin. in fact he noted that it res

blake burman in the white house with all things surrounding the president's trip abroad. ake, why did they leave you home? reporter: i didn't get to go to paris, france, after italy, after germany. the wife is happy i guess. melissa: there you go. reporter: there was a big news conference over there in paris which unsurprisingly melissa, questions put to president trump about donald trump, jr. yesterday here in washington on capitol hill, that hand selected nominee, christopher wray, suggested if someone were put into the position donald trump, jr. was put in regards to russian attorney meeting, wray said that person should pick up the phone and can't the fbi. earlier today president trump was asked about the comments made by the director nominee. saying that his donald trump, jr. is a good person and the president contends anybody else in the political game would have acted the same way. >> my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer. not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. it was a short meeting, i think from a practical standpoint, mo

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i just reached out to blake burman. he said this not making any sense.here's no rhyme or reason to this massive protest. they are going sometimes it builds and then it comes back and reaches back. it is coming in waves. it has died down for a bit right now since the last shot that we did with him about 16 minutes ago. they are continuing to hit session low after session low. it's down 62-point right now. and just off the lows of the session for all three. the order seems to be restored. and these protest. >> when i was in sun valley last time. that is a joke. it is a big median --dash immediate conference. charlie gasper in getting ready. getting ready to megadeal and wheel india. for our new reviewers. google it. it was an overly aggressive specific you did not pay attention to that. and we will be covering this next week. it is that premier immediate conference. it is interesting it is going to be a one-stop shopping for dealmaking and what are the conditions that could create a lot of telecom deals. the situation as this. a better regulatory environme

had last year with a kremlin linked lawyer promised damaging information about hillary clinton, blake burmant the white house, blake, good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you as well donald trump, jr., acknowledged i probably should have hammed things a little bit differently as you mentioned president trump is defending his oldest son the president took 20 twitter a while ago writing my son donald did a good job last night, he was open transparent, and innocent, this is the greatest witch hunt and political history, sad. the president was he referencing his son's interview with sean hannity. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things little differently again this is before the russian mania before they were building up in press for me this was opposition research they had something you know, or maybe concrete evidence to all stories i have been hearing about probably under reported for you know years not just during campaign so i think i want to hear it out. >> trump, jr., e-mail show he met with attorney for russia six days after being emailed by adequateness june 2016 t

blake burman live at the white house. new revelations over the weekend about this. there was yet another person inside that meeting a russian-american lobbyist who had ties at one point or another to the russian military so the list of people inside that room keeps on growing. at the white house press briefing a little while ago. he was asked about the loan tweet on this day which reads the following. most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one he attended in order to get info on an opponent that is politics. sean spicer just wrapped up his off-camera briefing a little while ago. he was ask about that asked about that tweet and here's how he responded. he said and i will quote. i think we were having trouble turning them. you know i'm not getting into the specifics of this but i will say that it is quite often for people who are given information during the heat of a campaign to ask but that is that is what he simply did. that is part of the defense from the white house on this day. it is a made in america event that is about to happen. maybe they are

it was blake burman standing by there were a lot of things they will have really just popped up in the last few days. and the president taking on to twitter to humor him where the transgender issue which is very opaque and unclear right now. as to how they would effectuate that. what jumped out at you. it was a major statement i that was just put out. and four of the top members. there were two pretty big points that we had been following for quite a while. the possibility of that is that at this point. it was the timeline up all of this. we've been hearing the tax reform legislation would come in september late september or maybe even october or even eventually in december. either way earlier today the vice president made the guarantee that it will happen this year. the discussions and negotiations will continue. details will continue to be worked out. but rest assured we are going to cut taxes and we are to cut taxes this year. also from that briefing. in tax reform. as a white house press secretary was asked if the president said there was confidence in his very own chief of staff.

neil: blake, thank you very, very much, blake burman.justice department official tom dupree said as things stand right now, awkward though this whole meeting had to be and the son's zeal to have it, there is no smoking gun going on here. tom, your argument is just that, right? doesn't zoom to be anything untoward, maybe a little bit bad optics but leave it at that? >> i don't think it is a smoking gun, neil. look, there is no question this is a meeting that never should have happened. i think it was a terrible idea to get involved in the shadowy world of russian espionage and that sort of thing look at from legal perspective do i think the evidence we know and understand it today amounts to a federal crime, i don't. i don't think we crossed that line. as we know, there could be more to come. that has to be the concern of the white house, if it ends here that is one thing. if this will be a situation where day after day, week after week, we have sequential disclosures, i think that is really going to be a killer. neil: i'm old enough to r

thank you very much, blake burman.eanwhile, daniel hopper with us, real clear republican editor amy stoddard. the associated legal cases that those involved legally like this, amy, tend to be innocuous and kind of vanilla. what do you expect to hear? >> you are right. they usually come out and give you a problem that is not newsworthy. he has been advised and even if he does and his forthcoming and he is willing to answer questions and answer all the questions he has said they want to present them and get as many answers as possible and be open about this. i don't know that we are going to hear anything. i doubt that he takes questions and i don't know that we'll hear anything groundbreaking. he's pretty much denying everything and he must've gone through everything obviously carefully with his lawyers before he did that. neil: you know, danielle, we already know the players and they seem be wiring. charlie gasparino is pretty reliable on this stuff, talks about donald trump junior lawyering up to include the very lawy

i want to go to blake burman live at white house. lake, i think it is important distinction hgwdver to make, he took a meeting, he as far as we know, didn't do anything criminal, and right now, the left is all worked up as though this is treason, as though this is something criminal. how is the white house responding? reporter: the white house responded with a tweet from the president himself this morning trish. president trump taking to twitter to defend his oldest son, donald trump, jr. with it the president blasted a renewed focus on multitude of russian story lines. responding to the interview last night with sean hannity, the president said, quote, my son donald did a good job last night. he is open, transparent and innocent. this is the greatest witch-hunt in political history. sad. the president was contradicted by his own fbi director christopher wray who testified before the senate. this is not the russia investigations, they are not a political witch-hunt. and wray was pressed by senator lindsey graham about a don, jr.-like

fbn's blake burman on what we can expect and what they are worried about. neil. and the upcoming g20 summit very clearly on purpose's mind on this -- on president trump's mind. he tweeted out he would be having phone calls with the leaders of france, germany and italy throughout the day. that is an interesting subset, especially when you look at angela merkel of germany, germany hosting this g20 summit as these folks have been very critical of the president and his decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. in fact, it was merkel who kind of set the table on this topic last week in which she said the following as it relates to paris and the president's involvement in the upcoming g20, she said and i quote here, one should not expect any easy conversations in hamburg. so those conversations, those phone calls at least later today or at least throughout the day. the president also over the weekend spoke with the leaders of china and japan, xi xi jinpi, shinzo abe. trade was a part of those conversations, but also north korea remains the number one issue

blake burman live at the white house with all of these cross-currents. r: neil, politics is a strange thing at times when you hear chuck schumer come to the defense of the republican and stated attorney general. on this day the focus is renewed once again as president trump is absolutely hammering his current attorney general, one of his earliest supporters, jeff sessions, the person that he personally picked to be the next attorney general, the current attorney general. here is the tweet that kicked it all off this morning, quote: attorney general jeff sessions has taken a very weak position on hillary clinton crimes. where are the e-mails and dnc server and intel leakers? neil, here at the white house today they haven't really come to the defense of jeff sessions at all. in fact, anthony scaramucci, the new communications director, said on this day, quoting here, he said, we'll get to a resolution shortly when talking about all of this. and kellyanne conway was asked will sessions be fired? this was her response. >> that is up to the president. and it's

the foxbusiness blake burman who was in that press brake a few minutes ago. to the all-important issue she said she had three priorities and that that she could talk about. you throw all of it up right there. it all originated with the interview from yesterday which he said what they are working on it is going to be on high income people. the question is from the current level that the code is at now which is a high of 39 or the 35% level but the president wants to get it to. here at the white house in throughout the interrupt the government today have been fairly consistent. so sanders would not get into that. i just simply followed up with a pretty broad question which was this. does president trump feel that the wealthiest of americans should receive a tax break. and this was her response. we are focused on the three big priorities of the tax reform. that is where we are right now and we are continuing to work through that process. does the present belief president believe that the wealthiest americans deserve a tax cut. i think the president is looking an

for very latest, blake burman at the white house. hey, blake. reporter: trish, one of the top democrats speaking out defense this is adam schiff. the top dim on the house intelligence committee, looking into the the russian collusion possibility and the meeting between the russian attorney and donald trump, jr., jared kushner and you paul manafort quoting here, certainly raises questions and could be quote, very significant. trump, jr., initially said this meeting involve around adoption policy and brought in that scope on sunday saying that essentially the russian attorney came forward saying that there could be or this person could have dirt or hillary clinton. trump, jr. put out a statement. he is defending himself a bit facetiously. obviously i'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. went nowhere, had to listen. that is part of his story. questions surround his sister, that being ivanka trump. part of her role during the g20 summit as you know at one point president trump got up from the table,

blake burman is live in hamburg, germany, where i understand at one point you kind of had to -- wereause they were worried about some of these rioters, right? >> reporter: locked in it. right now we're actually on the second floor of the press filing center here because of protesters, david, coming up and down the street. which we saw yesterday, but things escalated a bit once object toes were starting to get thrown at the windows, several windows had been shattered, and that was kind of our tipping point where we said it's probably ad good idea to bring the camera inside, and that's where we've been along with other media outlets when made the same decision that as these protesters came down the streets, bring things indoors. it has most certainly been heated here, to say the least, at the start of the g20 summit. you mentioned at least on the news front that the meeting between president trump and vladimir putin has ended. it was scheduled to last 30 minutes. instead, it went about 13w -- 130 minutes, north of two hours. in that meeting was just the president, the russian president

blake burman at the white house with the latest. reporter: neil, keeping that in mind just yesterday at white house press briefing the white house put forward mark short, legislative affairs head at the white house, in part talking about health care, in part talking about tax reform. now fast forward 20 hours or so, email dump by donald trump, jr., himself, poeted to his very own twitter account. we've gone through the few emails that he posted. let me ticket through from the beginning. donald trump, jr., has an acquaintance he known by rob gold steen. in this email in the early parts of june 2016 goldstein emailed donald trump, jr., saying influential russians he had heard, top prosecutor had told these russians that had dirt potentially damaging on::and helpful to then candidate trump. so goldstein emails this to donald trump, jr. he then goes on to say, i quote, this is obviously very high level and a sensitive information, but as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. now donald trump, jr., follows up that emai

melissa: we are going to blake burman at the white house. latest on that one, blake. reporter: think there, melissa, david. this is the start of the white house rolling out "made in america" week. you heard the president talk about 10 or 15 minutes, what this does this day and potentially throughout the rest of the week, allow the president to get back on the economic message we heard from him. the need to pump up american manufacturing jobs. the need to level the playing field as he put it. here was president trump just moments ago. >> remember in the old days they used to have made in the usa, made in america but made in the usa we're going to start doing that again. we'll put that brand on our product because it means it is the best. reporter: however the critics of president say he and his family need to look inward when it comes to this topic. democratic national committee put out a statement regarding president and his daughter ivanka trump. quote, made in america week is is the epitome of president trump's hypocrisy. we needs to make more products in america bu

fox business's blake burman with the latest dust-up on all this. blake, what are you hearing? this was very interesting. those comments president trump, "new york times" interview came directly after he dressed down republicans on health care, when he brought cameras in, hey look, get some things done here. he lit into senate republicans. goss into the oval office. makes comment about jeff sessions which he says he is unhappy. if he had known now what, if he knew now what he had known then he wouldn't have hired the guy. jeff sessions was involved with a news conference here in washington today on an issue completely not related to any of this. a bit of fortuitous timing for us covering the story. couple questions were posed to sessions about all of this, and sessions said this morning that he is not going anywhere anytime soon. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general. it is something that goes beyond any thought i would have ever had for myself. we love this job. we love this department. and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. reporter: in t

blake burman standing by at the white house with the very latest. blake, let me put something out there. i know it is farfetched, could it be there is some strategy donald trump had for putting that out there or you think it was a mistake? >> i think that is the 64,000-dollar question on a lot of issues at white house, david. is there strategy or throwing things out seeing where it goes? this could be part of pressure from the president to get sessions to resign or to send a message. who knows what the president was intending with this "new york times" interview but on this day the white house is contending that the president does indeed have confidence in the attorney general jeff sessions. when asked at off-camara press briefing a little while ago, deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, she was asked what does that confidence stem from? sanders's in part was session's ability to combat the ms-13 gang. that was a bit of cleanup, where the president said he thought it was extremely unfair that sessions recused himself from the russia investig

fox business blake burman live in hamburg, germany. we've got a lot to tackle here, blake.st, i need you to tell us the situation on the ground there with all of the riots, and then i need you to let's know what happened to syria and there's now a cease-fire. >> well, as we have seen throughout the day here in amberg, which is a large, vast city. there have been protests occurring throughout the city here on this initial day of the g20 summit. however, where we are right now, liz, we can't really see any protests. that's not unusual. as these protesters come in waves. they are often here for a couple of minutes, they move on and go out to the next spot and make their loop. we had to bring our camera here to inside, though. we're on the second floor because where we are, rocks were thrown at the building. several of the windows were shattered, and that was kind of our tipping point, liz, our breaking point where we said we have to go indoors, and that's where we are now as police are on the streets here. and so are the protesters. as far as the politics of all of this, of co

blake burman, live from the white house. blake, what is it today?n offense, one on defense. jim comey back in the news, melissa, this afternoon as deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said in the off-camara press briefing, that they feel comey should be he quote, thoroughly investigated. this relatings to "the hill" article, that jim comey memos he made between himself and president trump, "the hill" reports that some of those contained classified information. that caught the eye of president trump on this day who tweeted out the following early this morning, writing, quote, james comey leaked classified information to the media. that is so illegal. here with sanders at the off-camera briefing just a little while ago. >> i think there are a lot of questions out there. and a lot of reports where it indicates that director comey may have leaked classified information. that certainly is a threat to the national security and violates policy and law. i think it is something that should be investigated thoroughly. reporter: now to the defense bec