what is being reported to me at this time. >> shepard: catherine herridge, thank you very much. we believe we've just received a picture of what may be one of the vans. there is a great deal of confusion, police in barcelona are communicating to the best of their ability, no doubt. but some latest video on sky news, let's go to that. you can see authorities in these alleys around la rombla, let's listen now, sky news has new information. >> the many thousands of people that would normally be there, we heard from an eyewitness that confirmed it was a van that was driven approximately 150 meters down the pedestrian part of the center and initially, subsequently we got messages about this for a second white man that was one rented by thee person as the initial van, that has been disputed on spanish media as well. at the place of las romblas where we are there were at least eight or nine ambulances waitin waiting. >> shepard: on the right-hand side of your screen is what we believe to be the mercedes man in question here. this is a still picture from social media. and this is the wh

we were just told them i went to bring in catherine herridge, she joins a fly from washington. what are you learning? >> i've been making calls last half hour, what i can say is the u.s. government is engaged in monitoring when happening right now and barcelona, as we reported about 25 minutes ago, this is the nations hub analysis that was set up after 9/11. they focus on barcelona, the details of their jumping out at them is the use of a rental van, and what appears to be some kind of follow-up attack with one or two armed individuals. the fbi has an office in madrid, people forget that because the primary domestic law enforcement agency of this country, they have what's called a lead guest in madrid. they said at this point, still considered an ongoing situation and spaniards are obviously in the lead, but if the fbi can help in any way, they will offer that kind of assistance. the other thing i would've my contacts pointed out to me is that there has been discussion of who it may have been responsible for this event. a domestic terrorist group in spain, their typical ml is s

catherine herridge's live just outside of fema headquarters there in our nation's capital. u, catherine? >> thank you, molly. where i am right now is home to something called the nrc see, the national response ordination center. this is the group that is steering this federal response, whether it is a hurricane like harvey or the major incident in this country. vice president mike pence arrived here at headquarters in downtown washington, just for some perspective it's about a half-mile from the white house and a half mile from capitol hill. he was inside for about an hour, reporters were not with him but we believe he was getting a comprehensive briefing on the federal response. earlier we heard from the fema administrator who explained to reporters how they practice a number of scenarios, a number of responses, but he said nothing could have prepared them for harvey. >> you can say it's going to really reign over five, pinpoint exactly what watershed that rain is going to go into is near impossible to figure out. the city of houston is huge. >> resources remain fluid but t

catherine herridge working her federal sources and live in washington. catherine? >> first, within the last hour, the news agency for the isis terrorist group has claimed responsibility for barcelona. so that leads us with three options. the suspect or suspects were radicalized by consuming isis propaganda online or there's a more direct connection that the isis terror group directed the mission, helped organize the plot or there's a third scenario in which isis being opportuni opportunistic and they're trying to take credit for the violence and had no relationship at all. in washington what we've seen the last three to four hours is all the relevant government agencies ramp up and get focused on barcelona beginning with the national counter terrorism center, this is the group that was created after 9-11 as the aggregator of threat information and the primary analytic group that looks at threat information. the second group is homeland security. the secretary, elaine duke was briefed around she continues to monitor the situation. up until recently, john kelly, the

catherine herridge updating her sources on the federal level. what have you learned? >> in the last hour, i have learned through a government source that the intelligence agencies are doing broad review of their holdings and the terror watch list as well as other databases to see if this hispanic suspect driss oukabir was on their radar as someone who was unknown terror suspect, someone who was radicalized. for that reason, would have been blocked entry to the united states if they had tried to travel here. remember, he's of moroccan dissent, has a spanish passport in spain and can enter the united states without getting a visa in advance. what we've seen really unfold in the last couple hours in washington is that all of the relevant agencies are fully engaged and monitoring the situation in barcelona from the national counter terrorism tourist center. it was set up after 9-11 to assess and get information from department of homeland security. we have confirmation the acting secretary there, elaine duke, has been briefed and monitoring what happened in barcelona. unt

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington. we're learning more.you tell us about the doj problem? >> we were told the justice department is exploring whether others were involved. for example, did that know about the suspect's attack in advance and did nothing to stop him or did they help to facilitate his plan? the attorney general left open the possibility mentioning the one fatality by name. >> you can be sured we're going to take the most vigorous action to protect the rights of people like heather heyer to protest against racism and bigotry. we're going to protect the rights to assemble and march and protect everybody to the fullest extent of the law. >> the fbi has teams on the ground in charlottesville. they're not commenting, but it's standard in this case to look at the electronic trail, which is often vital and standard practice to review the suspect's electronics to answer the questions, harris. >> harris: there's the tough about the definition of terrorism and how the attorney general said that what happened is in fact that. >> harris,

let's go to catherine herridge. this is just breaking, catherine. i would be surprised if there was anything further on it yet. but you have some background as well. >> that's right. let's start with what is apparently the target of this plot las ramblas. it's 100 meters, which is nearly a mile in length. and by all accounts it's really a show piece or one of the crown jewels for tourism and economics in barcelona. so this would be for any terrorist group a high profile target and i would elm iemphasize that the spanish authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. i want to have -- bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. we have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families on las rambla, which is pedestrianized. it does allow for some vehicle traffic. now a follow-on event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. now, as you have be

our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live with more. catherine?the committee is not commenting that the session moved ahead today. meantime, a committee spokesman did confirm that glen simpson and the firm provided documents to congressional investigators but most are worthless or irrelevant. the statement reads that fusion's documents consisted of headlines from public news reports and more than 175 pages of blank paper. fusion provided the dossier that has been publicly available since january. a privileged log that raises more questions than it answers. last month simpson, who is seen here at the security forum, received a congressional subpoena to testify and eventually agreed to a nonpublic session with a transcript. late july, the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee questioned the firm's ties to moscow and alleged smear campaign against a public corruption whistle-blower. >> what phases do you have to believe that fusion's -- >> this entire effort was under the auspices of natalia, the one organizing it, it was being paid f

catherine herridge in washington. military officials still waiting for guidance from the president on a new policy regarding transgenders. jennifer griffin reporting on an issue that sparked a deep divide inside and outside the pentagon. >> nearly three weeks after president trump announced over twitter that transgender service members were no longer welcome in the military in any capacity, the pentagon reports the policy remains the same. defense secretary jim mattis says he expects guidance from the white house soon. >> we have received no direction that would indicate. >> president trump weighed in on the issue thursday. >> it's been a confusing issue for the military and i think i'm doing the military great favor. >> the new navy secretary says he welcomed transgender service members. >> any patriot that wants to serve and meets the requirements should be able to serve in our military. stick a u.s. military's highest-ranking officer joe dunford drew a redline speaking for all the military services one day after th

gerri: wow, catherine herridge, zig-zagging through the crowd, it really, it is appalling, we appreciate you bringing the details to us, thank you so very were. reporter: you're welcome. gerri: top leadership has been fired from uss fitzgerald, collided with a cargo ship on june 17, 7 sailors died, at some point the bridge team lost situation at awareness. >> sad story. >> later in the show we look at today's hardest hit market sectors, and we'll ask a former director from fbi how former director from fbi how safe we are at home in the u.s. of a, stay with us. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. copdso to breathe better,athe. i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma . it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asth

catherine herridge is live in washington at one point this story was white-hot but now we don't hear that much about it. >> that might have to do with the fact that congress is in recess. the statement from simpson's lawyer claims that he is being smeared by the campaign team and allies over the issue. after the senate committee confirms that simpson and his legal team provided thousands of worthless documents to congressional investigators, the statement reads in part "fusions recent production of documents consisted solely of headlines from news reports and over 7500 pages of blank paper. fusion eventually provided a copy of the same unverified dossier that has been publicly available since january. "the senate committee issued a subpoena for simpson to publicly testify, at the same time fox news found simpson and his lawyer reportedly told the committee he was on vacation and traveling through early august. fox news understands that investigators want more information on simpson's sources and who paid for the dossier. last month the committees chairman -- -- the repeal of u.s. san

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catherine herridge's live in washington with more. catherine herridge?after they said that they received multiple warnings from officials between 2014 and 2016, the russian president and his government were aiming to disrupt the u.s. election, president trump responded on twitter writing, according to an apart, obama knew about russian involvement but he did not want to involve russia. meanwhile a congressional independent reported to fox news that back to the 2014 of crimea, in its attempt to influence election two years later, there was concern that he is developing tools to influence the democratic election and that process. these warnings according to the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee were dismissed by the obama white house, because it was apparently eager to be set its relationship moscow as evidenced in this 2009 video of secretary of state, hillary clinton, and russian counterpart. overseas, he stood by his public statement on the issue from march. >> in recent years, committee members have please for stronger action agai

. ♪ ♪ >> bill: catherine herridge tonight on what they knew, when they knew it and why nothing was apparentlyout it. >> after political reported the obama administration was warned by national security officials as early as 2014 that the russian government was acquiring tools to disrupt u.s. elections, president trump tweeted. "according to report, president obama knew about russian interference three years ago but didn't want to anger russia." congressional source independent lee confirmed to fox that after russia's annexation of crimea and efforts to influence the ukraine presidential election, there was deep concern putin was developing the capacity to influence other elections. these warnings, according to the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, were dismissed because the obama administration wanted to reset its relationship with moscow. nunez told fox tuesday he stood by the statement for march. >> committee members have issued repeated and forceful pleads for stronger action against russian belligerents. the obama administration was committed to the notion against a

catherine herridge will tell us with the intelligence is saying. we start off with chief white house correspondent john roberts at fort meyer in virginia. >> good evening. the troops behind me are gathering in anticipation of going into witness the speech. the president has said repeatedly that the war in afghanistan is going nowhere and is in urgent need of a new strategy. what is expected tonight differs vastly from what he's advocated in the past. at the president's only public appearance today, watching the clips, he said nothing about tonight's address although he is expected to announce more u.s. troops will be headed to afghanistan. >> i think we are going to see him on general nicholson's request for more troops. about 4,000, to train the afghan national army and police and the governance of my afghanistan. >> in 2013, donald trump was a fierce advocate of complete withdrawal. in a series of tweets writing "we've wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in afghanistan. their government has zero appreciation. let's get out." and "i ag

catherine herridge has been following the story very closely. catherine, what can you tell us.ter: david, good afternoon. a u.s. government official tells fox news investigators are focused on the size of the spanish cell and the scope of their support network. officials point to confirmation from spanish authorities linking barcelona van attack with wednesday's explosion in a near by city and overnight vehicle attack with suspects reportedly wearing fake suicide belts. the explosion leveled this house 70 miles from barcelona, initially thought a bass leak. investigators believe it was a bomb-making factory. spanish police say there was evidence of premeditation. the cell was preparing for even bigger attack. senior republican on house intelligence committee told fox this morning that the plot appears to have multiple layers and players. >> what is different, this was not a lone wolf. this is a well-organized plot and cell. it was really important for the, pan -- spaniards to track this down and other cells. this is more organized this was not a lone wolf doing it on his own. r

catherine herridge is live in washington with me. paul manafort said he turned down one of the adviser's request. >> that's right. he provided fox with a statement saying the e-mail from "the washington post" show manafort turned down the offer. they read in part, mr. manafort's swift action reflects the attitude of the campaign. any invitation by russia directly or indirectly would be rejected outright. his request that it came from a low level staffer said it did not enter consideration. this is concrete evidence that the russia collusion narrative is fake news. asked if why manafort didn't turn down the trump tower meeting with trump jr., jared kushner and others that promised negative information about hillary clinton, fox was told by a source familiar with the matter that there's really no evidence that manafort read the entire e-mail inviting him to the meeting which turned out to be a ruse. it was about discussing u.s. sanctions against senior russian officials. another adviser copied on that request, carter page, who has been

catherine herridge gets reaction and looks at what iran is possibly hoping to do. national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the pentagon perspective. >> good evening. defense secretary james mattis made a surprise visit to iraq today to shore up allies but also to help promote the president's new policy on afghanistan. >> i prefer not to go into those numbers right now. i have directed the chairman to put the blame together. >> this is the top u.s. commander for the middle east says the first new u.s. forces will arrive in afghanistan within days or weeks. >> america's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. stick with the president opted to keep u.s. troops in afghanistan for as long as it ts based and not a blank check and this time there are no timetables for withdrawal. >> i will not say when we are going to attack. but attack we will. >> the plan will rely on the state department. >> have that talent and understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one but neither will you. at some point, we have to c

. >> kimberly: really quick, catherine herridge is waiting. >> greg: kwon mentioned a myth that thiss spread by the internet, it is not true. it is who you know. if you look at the close circle, actually people you know, it is not necessarily picking people off, that it's very rare. it is who you know. >> kimberly: same when you do gang analysis any part of the board, they look for the tentacles and who your associates are part of the united states government is monitoring the developments in spain. the chief intelligence catherine herridge is here with the very latest from author washington. >> i want to take a moment to just connect some of the dots for people at home so that they can understand the bigger picture of what has happened in the last 24 hours paid we had the van attack and barcelona. but now we understand that an explosion in a town about 100 miles southwest called alcs directly affected. if they thought that the explosion last night was just due to a gas leak, but on closer inspection, they realize the building had been flattened because they found at least 20 caniste

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. >> are there areas in houston-- catherine herridge, fox news, are there some individuals that are trapped and not able to communicate an emergency situation? >> you want to talk about the-- >> we've been able to use google heat maps, if you will, and where the concentration of where the calls are coming from, even if someone can't communicate we have 11 fixed wing airplanes that are doing surveillance as well. so we have a pretty good idea where the concentration of those who are still in high water, and at the same time, more moderate rain as you heard from the administrator, the heavy rainfall that occurred in port arthur and beaumont as well. this isn't quite five-year-old where everyone is looking across one point. we're looking across the metropolitan area to make sure we've got resourced allocated and it's well gorcoordinated an national guard. >> and can you be more specific about the clusters of areas, and how many areas in houston, still? >> we're talking square miles. yeah, we're not down to blocks. so we're talking entire houston metropolitan areas. others more impacted than ot

we just heard from catherine herridge more assets are going in.ged this morning even though your state and residents are facing very tough conditions? >> look, i'm always encouraged to be an american and be a texan. we come together as one, eric. i know you've been showing videos throughout the days and evenings of extraordinary efforts by our volunteers. there is a movie out in the theaters dunkirk about the big armada that went to save their soldiers. we have our own flotilla right now. we have people trapped in their homes and trapped on balconies and on apartment rooftops and people from louisiana, from surrounding states, all across texas from brought in their boats and going out and staying past dark sometimes when it gets pretty dangerous. it's dangerous during the day as well. they're joining our brave first responders and we have people -- you mentioned the last report some photos from new york that is here to help us, california, louisiana, nebraska, arizona, states all around us. this is going to be years in recovery, eric. this is a st

we'll talk to catherine herridge. a lot more details straight ahead.asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller derby. ♪ now give up half of 'em. do i have to? this is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. but, if we start saving even just 1% more of our annual income... we could keep doing all the things we love. prudential. bring your challenges. gregg: we are following breaking news out of spain. spanish media says several people were injured by a second van attack in cambrils. it's south of barcelona where the earlier attack took place today along the main boulevard there. in cambrils attackers were apparently inside a van and they were able to injure people before they were then intercepted by police. four were shot dead, four suspects were shot dead, one was injured. catherine: following this story. good evening. what more do you know? >> it's important to lay out the timeline. all this unfolded within the last hour. spanish police sent out an alert in the town of

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let's go live to catherine herridge live at fema headquarters.morning. >> we've been given the two-minute warning here at fema headquarters so we'll hear from the fema administrator brock long as well as the secretary and the commandant of the coast guard. we're at the nrcc, the national response coordination center, the hub that is directing the federal response and to give you a sense of the scope of this operation, they have three smaller incident response centers to help execute the operation and these incident response centers are closer to texas. we got a lot of numbers in terms of the federal response but i want to draw your attention to a handful of numbers which will really help you understand the scope of the operation. 8,800 federal employees have now been deployed to respond to hurricane harvey. number two, they have pre-positioned assets nearly three million meals and liters of waters in staging areas so they can surge them into texas once the lines of communication and transportation open up. so that tells you that this is going to

catherine herridge gave us a heads-up on this.ecking intel terror data bases. >> what they are checking right now is all the watchlists they have plus all the intelligence mechanisms they have to look at. they are looking to see, has there been any chatter about something like this that was so unspecific that they couldn't figure out what country they were talking about? now they are looking to see if they did have this kind of chatter, they can plug it into being in spain. the other thing they are look at is if these names i'm sure are known to the law enforcement agencies, whether there is anything known to any of these intelligence agencies in the united states and worldwide. there is such a degree of cooperation today that didn't -- unfortunately didn't exist in the past. i think this is one of the main things to help all of us through all of these difficult problems. gleg * it's been reported and it's fairly reliable that our cia director gave our spanish counterparts a heads-up it was so specific he named las ramblas, this m

fusion gps, with allegation again then candidate don donald trump has spoken with investigator, catherine herridge with latest. reporter: glen sympton met with set o investigator, for 10 hours behind closed-doors, his search said he did not reveal who he worked for and claimed his client is being sphere smeared by the trump team and his allies. they say simpson provided worth less records, more than 7500 pages of blank paper, the company, provide a copy of same unfair vied dossier. in july senate committee issued a subpoena to secure simpson's testimony. they found nim i him in colorado. last month committee chairman grassley pressed for answers about simpson's work, including undermining russian whistle blower's credibility. punishing russia officials, per the murder. >> how mr. simpson manipulated the media to spea smear you, and how do you know about that. >> yes, so, glen simpson was calling a number of journalists, pitching a story. the story he was pitching was that sergei had not been murdered he died of natural causes. and sergei was not a whistle-blower, he was a criminal. reporter: forme

joining me is catherine herridge. how credible is the claim of responsibility from the islamic state? catherine: it appears quite credible on its face. within an hour or 90 minutes of the attack in barcelona we started getting isis social media accounts of them celebrating the violence. they are not leadership accounts, but they can be indicators of a forthcoming claim of responsibility. and that's what we got about an hour later from the official mouth piece agency for isis. what's not clear tonight is which one of the three options this barcelona attack seems to fit into. the individuals were inspired by isis so they were consumers of their ideology online or whether it was something more sophisticated. that isis helped develop the plot and directed the individuals to act or a third option, isis is looking to be opportunistic and capitalize on the violence in barcelona. what we are seeing tonight in our reporting. there were multiple pieces of moving plots to this. kennedy: were there warnings from u.s. intelligence

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is following all of this from washington. >> thishe trump administration, fema is one of the components of homeland security and its new administrator has been in the job two months. this morning fema release this photo on twitter of the situation room meeting in washington with the administrator getting an update on the movement as well as conditions on the ground. fema is sending 250,000 meals, 4,000 tarps and 70,000 liters of water to the randolph air force base near san antonio. fema is also working with the army engineers, providing generators to help restore power to badly afflicted areas. this morning the texas governor was sounding the alarm. >> the thing i am most concerned about right now is the fact that this storm has taken on new and worsening conditions over the past 24-48 hours. a couple days ago texans assumed this would not be that severe of a storm and not too many people evacuated. >> long was confirmed in june and has a background in emergency management. he was the director of fema in alabama and he told congress

. >> bill: for more on this, intelligence news correspondent catherine herridge live in washington now>> fox news is working to independently confirm the timeline laid out in the reporting by politico. the central allegation is that the obama administration was so determined to reset its relationships with rosaura, remove are the 29 photo op, but then secretary of state clinton and her russian counterparts in the makeshift reset button you see there. the president seemed downplayed or resisted warnings by the intelligence community that moscow was working to undermine democratic elections. republican chairman of the house intelligence committee and outspoken critic of the obama white house has consistently faulted multiple administrations on the russia is issue as well as the white house for failing to understand the threat posed by the goals of the former communist country. >> we've known that russia is a very sophisticated bad actor in the cyber realm. many members of congress, not just members of the house intelligence committee have been warning the obama administration about russi

catherine herridge has more. >> jeff sessions and christopher ray, the fbi director, the president confirmedthat a federal probe is open saying there's no place for hatred, bigotry and violence. >> the department of justice has opened a civil rights investigation into a car attack that killed one innocent american and wounded 20 others. to anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. justice will be delivered. >> sandra: the fbi has devoted significant resources to this investigation with teams on the ground in virginia and ohio where the suspect is from, sandra. >> sandra: does the attack fit the description of terrorism? >> the attorney general said it meets the definition of terrorism, which is the act of violence to intimidate or promote a political end. >> you can be sure this department of justice in his administration is going to take the most vigorous action to protect the rights of people like heather heyer to protest against racism and bigotry. we're going to protect the right to assemble and march and we're going to prosecute a

catherine herridge is here with an update. >> the fbi raid on former trump campaign chairman lasted ten hours. the raid was described as heavy-handed and designed to intimidate. the account backed up by a second individual. said both manafort and his wife were asleep when armed fbi agents entered the condo without warning. fox news was told that agents copied his electronics and agents collecting records, including several documents marked attorney-client that included privileged material to prepare manafort for congressional testimony. manafort appeared before two senate committees. a spokesman for the special counsel robert mueller declined to comment. former justice department officials said the timing and its significance. >> you would think prosecutors might say this person is cooperating and there's no need for us to go in and get a search warrant. the fact that mueller nonetheless went in, got a search warrant, and raided his home suggests there something else going on. >> it is separate developing, investigators are reviewing campaign email sent by rick dearborn, now the preside

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here with what lawmakers are learning. >> glenn simpson met with investigators behind closed doors. their focus, the sources for the unverified dossier and who paid ford. -- paid for it. senate investigators complained simpson provided worthless records, including press clippings. simpson's company fusion gps provided a copy of the same unverified dossier that's been publicly available things january. in july, the senate committee issued a subpoena to secure public testimony. fox news found him at a colorado security conference, his lawyer reported he was on vacation and not available. fox news asked for further clarification today and received no response. last month, charles grassley pressed for answers about simpson's work, including undermining a russian whistle-blower and advocating for the repeal of u.s. sanctions, punishing senior russian officials. >> can you explain how mr. simpson manipulated the media to smear you? >> the story he was pitching was that magitsky wasn't murdered. >> the russian ambassador to washington was

a chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge's live in washington with more. >> a departmentfamiliar with the investigation confirmed to fox earlier today that department has opened up federal civil rights hate crime investigation, it is not limited to the driver and will consider if others help with the planning. based on the evidence so far, the attorney general said this morning the act meets the definition of domestic terrorism, which is an act of violence to intimidate or promote a political end. >> you can be sure that this department of justice in his administration is going to take the most vigorous action to protect the right of people like heather heyer, to protest against racism and bigotry, we are going to protect the right to assemble and march and we are going to prosecute anybody to the full extent of the law. >> fields motive is not clear, officials said they have enough evidence to be suspicious the suspect intended to send a message and not just harm random victims. domestic terrorism includes criminal acts that are dangerous to human life. attorney general

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here.ing. >> according to senior republicans, fbi records indicate former director james comey drafted a conclusion apparently exonerating hillary clinton the email case two months before the investigation was over before the fbi interviewed clinton aide cheryl mills, i.t. specialist brian paglia on outcome and clinton herself. the fbi transcripts from interviews are coming to light after a records request from the republican leaders. they said it appears that in april or early may 2016, comey had decided against criminal charges before 17 interviews were complete, writing to the fbi the senators added conclusion first, fact gathering second. that's no way to run investigation. the fbi should be held to a higher standard. after he was fired by president trump, comey told congress loretta lynch was the one who had blood size email case. >> was your decision influenced by the attorney general tarmac meeting with the former president bill clinton? >> yes, ultimately in a conclusive way. >> wer

catherine herridge is live for us in washington, it will be interesting if we hear a lot about the story. >> a congressional source independent lee confirmed to fox news that after russia's annexation and effort to influence the ukraine presidential election two months later, there was deep concern towards developing tools to disrupt democratic elections. these warnings according to the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee were dismissed by the obama administration because it was apparently eager to reset its relationship with moscow. you will probably or member this march 2009 photo op where then secretary of state clinton presented her russian counterpart with a makeshift reset button to highlight the effort. traveling overseas and reached by phone today, nunez stood by this recent public statement. >> we've known russia is a very sophisticated bad actor in the cyber realm, many members of congress have been warning the obama administration about russia's continued cyber attacks on this country and they did nothing. >> political reports the warnings began as early as

chief intelligence correspond anne catherine herridge is live with more on the investigation. >> reportere use of vehicles as weapons reflects a significant shift by al qaeda and isis to low tech low cost plots that are nearly impossible to disrupt. self-radicalized terrorists are just as capable as those who risk travel to syria, iraq, afghanistan for more formal training. the barcelona attack is the sixth in europe that has used vehicles to mow down civilians with little or no warning. while car accident kill 30,000 to 40,000 people a year, world wide terrorists using cars or trucks kill only a tiny fraction. but an hraoeufts say this kind of attack using one of the most ordinary items makes it all the more shocking. >> from an isis perspective, minimum investment, maximum result. they're very speck hrar attacks carried out in places that have a lot of cameras. the images go around the world, they terrify a lot of people. they capture the imagination and paralyze the life of cities. >> reporter: new data shows vast majority of recent plots have been home grown terrorist and not foreign

fox news chief intelligence catherine herridge joins me now from washington. e has been talking to her intelligence sources all day on this. here with the latest. good evening, catherine. >> the spanish authorities are connecting the attack within an explosion last night in a town 90 miles away. what may be a bomb making factory. police telling reporters that two suspects connected to the attack are in custody, but not the driver of the white van. counterterrorism source telling fox at the evidence is consistent with the small more complex plots rather than the lone actor. fox news has told the intelligence agencies that they are reviewing the watch lists and databases to see if the suspects identified by spanish authorities were known to homeland security, the nation's threat analysis, the fbi as well as others. and whether the suspects were blocked from entering the u.s. because of their suspected terror ties. spain is part of the visa waiver program. almost immediately, isis social media accounts celebrated the attack in barcelona. these accounts are known i

. >> sandra: wanted to get this in here, reporting from catherine herridge, he learned about 40 minutesws from a senior republican party source sink and threats republican party beliefs continue to fall out with general kelly played a role in all this. >> general kelly had the easiest job when it comes from a military background. he is well-versed in politics, in terms of him being a political lesion liaison policf of staff. don't forget, you are dealing with donald trump here. there's only so much you can do to try and keep the presidents ship on course, keep that train rolling down the tracks before you quickly become persona non grata in the president's eyes. people that i talked to said what the president did earlier this week and that bizarre press conference and trump tower was, in, in a way, to general kelly, you may be trying to control me, but i'm the one who's going to control me. let's not forget your chief of staff, you work for me. i'm the boss. general kelly has probably got a very tough challenge there. if you decide to go into in iraq, he's got a real challenge when it g

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more on the testimony live from washington. >ent from simpson's lawyer did not address the key question raised by fox news after the senate committee confirmed the assistant and his legal team provided thousands worth of documents to congressional investigators. the statement from the senate judiciary committee reads in part "fusion's initial of documents consisted of headlines from publicly available news reports and more than 7500 pages of blank paper." fusion eventually provided a copy of the same unverified dossier that has been publicly available since january, and a privilege log that raises more questions than answers. last month, the senate committee issued a subpoena for some sin to testify publicly and at the same time, they found simpson at the aspen security conference and his lawyer reportedly said he was on vacation and traveling through early august. there is a full transcript of simpson's testimony with the report claiming it lasted ten hours. the transcript is not public and we are working to confirm whether othe

catherine herridge from washington full civil rights investigation, what does that mean? >> good morning. justice department official familiar with the investigation tells us the department has opened a federal civil rights hate crime investigation and it's not limited to the driver and it will consider if others helped with the planning. this morning the attorney general jeff sessions said there is no higher priority. >> you can be sure that this department of justice and his administration will take the most vigorous action to protect the right of people like heather heyer to protest against racism and bigotry. we'll protect the right to assembly and march and we'll prosecute anybody to the full extent of the law. >> while the motive is not yet clear the officials said they have enough evidence to date to be suspicious that the suspect intended to send a message. domestic terrorism include criminal acts dangerous to human life and appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. attorney general sessions is working directly with the f.b.i. director w

let's get the latest now on the investigation from fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge capitol hill now with the latest. good morning to you, catherine. >> reporter: good morning, steve and maureen. so at this hour, there's a manhunt in spain for an 18-year-old suspect who believed drove that white van through downtown barcelona yesterday killing 14 and injuring dozens of others. based on our reporting, he rented the van and he used his brother's department at the papers. that's why we saw widely circulated yesterday this photo of his brother who's about 29 years old. what's key this morning is that all of the evidence is pointing to a much larger complex plot with a number of cells as opposed to just the work of a lone wolf or a single terrorist in this case. catherine d that mean more tax are possible, planned, already in the works as far as the planning stage of multiple cells are involved? >> reporter: really goes to the heart of where we are today. if i can just connect the dots for a moment for people at home. just to give them an overview of what happened in the