and doug mcelway.orter: it's remarkably quiet almost as if people are deliberately avoiding the downtown area of the city. the death toll stands at three. one person deliberately mowed down by a vehicle and two officers killed in the crash landing of a virginia state police helicopter. the same helicopter monitoring and hovering over the protests all day long. white nationalist protesters scrapped with anti-white he presentist protesters. the governor singled out the white yo supremacisted as unwand outcasts. >> i have a message. go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. you pretend that you are patriots. but you are anything but a patriot. reporter: mcauliffe did not single out the anti-protesters. i know from being in the thick of it, they were just as well armed as many of the white nationalists. they came out wearing helmets. baseball size sticks they used with great effect to also injure their opposition. nighter of the two sides came here today looking for peace. the r

doug mcelway at the white house on shall we call it, odd timing, doug? >> so true, neil. president trump may be an outsider, but he's not above the classic washington game of the friday night document dump. he tweeted last night just as the full fury of harvey was lashing the texas coast, i'm pleased to perfect you i've granted a full pardon to american patriot joe arpaio who kept america safe. he continued the life's work protecting the public from scourges of illegal immigration. he's now 85 years old and after 50 years of admirable service. arpaio followed up, thank you, president trump for those asking how to help, donation to my legal fund and going directly to pay off legal fees from this fight. and neil, there was yet more palace intrigue at the white house last night with either the resignation or firing, depending who you believe, of a familiar face to fox news viewers, sebastian gorka, gorka was known as a hawkish hardliner especially when it comes to islamic terrorism and islam hardlinism. he was seen as a close steve bannon ally and his departure is seen as an

>> sandra: doug mcelway, thank you for that. as the nation recovers from last week's events in virginia, our next guest has a new idea aimed at bridging the gap between our past and modern day. instead of tearing down confederate monuments, she says build more statues to commemorate for our notable minorities, freedom fight ers. cheryl, it's a difficult subject, but it's an uncomfortable conversation as that young woman's mother talked about at that memorial service today that has to be had. in your piece in "the washington times" you begin it by saying charlottesville is coming to a city near you, count on it. the big question that follows all of this is where does it stop? you are offering a solution. what is that? >> right, sandra. thanks for having me. welsh basically if we're going to go about and tear down monuments because they hurt people's feelings, they bring back memories of times that we would rather forget, then instead, why don't we build up monuments that show the other side of the story. instead of tearing down r

doug mcelway is live in washington. good morning, doug. what do we know about the suspect?ll, his name is mohamed alshanawi, a maryland native. the wall street journal reported yesterday the government alleges he pretended to sell computer printers on ebay as a cover to receive payments from isis. tapped phone calls vealed he once confided that he dreamed of killing people in a church. on other occasions he communicated about building a bomb. the report claims he was part of an isis organization that used ebay to funnel money. it was master minded by isis director of computers who was later killed in a drone attack. e bail told fox news in a statement ebay has zero tolerance for criminal activity on our market place and we worked with law enforcement to bring this person to justice. pay pal works closely with law enforcement including in this matter and responds quickly to lawful requests to support agencies in their investigations. the company pro-actively reports any suspicious activities investing significant time and resources into our vigilant efforts to prevent terror

but first we start with doug mcelway live from the department of justice. doug, we understand the administration wants to potentially look at reporters roles in these leaks. what did they say exactly about that? >> reporter: this may not be all that surprising, sandra, given that the president repeated the same for what he calls the quote unquote fake news media. there are many constitutional scholars who will tell you that reporters are protected by the first amendment and that the first amendment is sacrosanct. but there are many cases where reporters have been jailed for refusing to divulge their sources. judith miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to divulge a source of course, demanded by federal judge thomas hogan. our colleague james rosen was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the obama justice department, eric holder. but this treacherous road is one of the reasons that attorney general jeff sessions may have worded this so carefully when it comes to reporters. here he is. >> one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting me

>> leland: doug mcelway live at the justice department.xpect from the attorney general and his men today? >> well, leland, in all likelihood we expect to see the department of of justice say it will crack down with stiffer penalties on those who leak potentially sensitive information like this. the potential cost of these kinds of leaks yesterday when the "washington post" published the transcripts of two presidential conversations that mr. trump had in the first week of his presidency, one with the president of mexico and the other one was the prime minister of australia the following day. on the surface there appeared to be nothing of national security value in those calls beyond the embarrassment it caused the president. but kellyanne conway begs to differ. >> leaking the phone calls between our president and other heads of state is nothing short of a national disgrace. democratic senator from virginia mark warner agrees with that. he said so yesterday. >> what foreign head of state will want to speak openly and confidently with the pre

but first we start with doug mcelway live from the department of justice. tion wants to potentially look at rep

doug mcelway is at the site where the car plowed into the demonstrators in charlottesville.eporter: that site is a half block from where we now stand. people have been placing flours and making an emprop to you memorial. at the city center, the pedestrian mall. this is what charlottesville, virginia is lake on most of days. that may change later this afternoon. at 2:00 p.m., two of the people the governor was imploring to get out of the state are coming back to the state. richard spencer and jason kessler. we heard enough of their hatred spewing from their mouths. we'll be here on stand by in case counter protesters show up. i would be surprised if authorities let them speak given what happened yesterday. the woman killed by the white supremacist driver has been identified. 32-year-old heather heyer * the driver of the car is jamessed -s fields. the standard practice in charlottesville is people arrested on the weekend face bond hearings at 9:00 a.m. monday morning. he faces charges of second degree murder and malicious wounding and hit-and-run. the associated press spoke to

that doug mcelway is following today. >> it is no secret that president obama or president trump madetral thing and the wall may never be built. he is keeping the immigration promises in other ways. >> those who seek improper and illegal entry in this country, be forewarned it is a new era that is it a trump era. >> the administration massively cut down on illegal immigration. >> since i took office, we have cut illegal immigration on our southern borders. >> now imdpragz lawyers may have less time to prepare client's cases. the memo urges judges to grant fewer continueiances and given there is 6000 this need resolution. it rose 23 percent in 2006 and 2015. in the second step. the department of homeland security is terminating the miner's program to allow them to work here on refugee status as parole. >> i am grateful to get to tell you my story. make you see why it is important to help protect children that are running away from home like i did in our home countries of central america. in 2009. i was ten years old and i fled guatemala to get away from men trying to harm me. >> like o

doug mcelway live in d.c. on this. what can you tell us about the new policy?o a formal decision yet. this new proposal would require tobacco companies to reduce the nicotine content in smoking products significantly. they won't provide an exact percentage. anti-smoking groups say it will put tobacco companies to the test. >> if this policy goes through it will for the first time put the test to the tobacco companies claim that smoking is a free choice. if you eliminate the nicotine, if you reduce the addictiveness of the product the smokers will have a real free choice. phillip morris international has been promoting itself as a company that wants to move current tobacco users from products that kill them to products that don't kill them. we'll find out if they mean it. >> some question whether the proposed change will actually work among adult long-time smokers. it is nicotine they crave. if nicotine is reduced, some fear long-time smokers may seek black-market alternatives to get their fix. >> they find it helps them concentrate and relaxes them. these are t

doug mcelway reporting as the neo-nazis were throwing tear gas canisters the police said we're out gunned out numbered. we will let the melee occur. the governor supported the police. take a listen. all right. we'll stay with the shot of air force one pulling up but the governor essentially saying i think the police did a great job. it was a tough situation. no way to prevent these kinds of things. your thoughts. >> the most comment made yesterday on that issue was made by the mayor of charlottesville. the aclu and mr. kessler brought a lawsuit against the city demanding that they be allowed into that small park in the middle of downtown. the federal court ruled on that and they said instead of following the city's suggestion this incident -- the protest be allowed to occur in a bigger park a little outside the downtown area, that it was constraining the constitutional right of free speech of mr. kessler and they had to have it downtown. they were warned by the city it was a tactically dangerous place to do this demonstration. and quite frankly what happened was the protestors used all th

. >> shannon: doug mcelway is live at the white house. the president doesn't have a lot of good choices here. >> he is facing the same difficult choices his two predecessors faced. he is facing the longest war in u.s. history now stretching into its 16th year, as you said. there is no clear victory in sight. the instinct is to pull out to save american lives and treasure. that would allow the toxic brew of al qaeda, taliban and other bad actors to run free in afghanistan. that's the same dynamic that allowed for the successful carrying out of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. on friday the president met with his national security team at camp david and settled upon a future afghanistan policy. one that begrudgingly acknowledges that afghanistan is worth the continued long-term fight. jim mattis hinted at what the strategy is and hinted at the mess he inherited. >> i might make minor changes, you know, 100 security troops in, you know, 75 engineers working on a project. there is a very strange accounting procedure i inherited that what i'm probabl

doug mcelway is at the white house. >> this is really, don't underestimate it, an important time for the trump administration, how it handles a major disaster. we know what can happen if the federal response is somehow seen as ineffectual or ineffective. senator chuck grassley tweeting out. don't repeat the mistakes of hurricane katrina and the president responded,@chuck grassley, got your message loud and clear, we had people there long before harvey. so far so good. another presidential tweet, closely monitoring hurricane harvey from camp david, we're leaving nothing to chance, city, state, federal government working great together. it is almost imperative that the president show up at some point in the aftermath of this disaster struck area. in fact, president trump promised he'll do that, the time is unspecified sometime next week, that's the time the president promised a series of visits, the first in springfield, missouri to tout his tax reform proposal. make no mistake, natural disaster appearances are pretty much for optic appearances only. the president arriving at the disas

fox news correspondent doug mechanical way at the -- mcelway at the justice department with the report. reporter: no secret that president has been infurated by the number of leaks from his administration and national security apparatus. todadepartment of justice, fbi, promise they will leave no sphoastoneunturnd. >> this nation must end this culture of leaks, we will investigate and seek to bring criminals to justice. we will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country. reporter: in a controversial step, sessions announced that reporters who are recipients of leaks will not bi be inland regiona.>> immune. >> it is not unlimited. reporter: drawing a spring rebuke. saying that attorney general ising is is a dangerous threat to american people to know and understand what their leaders are doing and why. triple what they were in latter stains of obama administration. so many see this as a symbolic step, the more people who have access to classified information, the more likely that leaks will happen. in 2014, officer of management and suggested that