back to you. >> jon: doug mckelway, thank you. in the meantime, president trump coming out the mainstream media for criticizing his latest statement on the violence in charlottesville. the president is back in new york city now. he clarified his original response of the white house yesterday. >> racism is evil and those who fight in its name are responsible. including hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold here as americans. >> jon: afterward he tweeted, made additional remarks on charlottesville and realized once again the fake news media will never be satisfied, truly bad people. betsy woodruff and chris beaton. betsy, we heard from david lee miller that two ceos were on the presidents manufacturing panel resigned even after he clarified those remarks. it is not just the news media who are unsatisfied, some americans aren't satisfied either. >> exactly. that feeds to one of his essential concerns about his presidency, my understanding is the president very much feels that even though he is the most powerful person

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doug mckelway live in charlottesville where the suspect remains in custody. we begin with kevin corke at the white house. >> critics slammed to the president for taking too long to address the violence in charlottesville, virginia, and for initially saying many sides were involved. now some 48 hours into the biggest domestic challenge of his young presidency, mr. trump has made a course correction. >> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> in a forceful denunciation of the violence that rocked charlottesville, virginia, over the weekend, president trump said racism, hatred, and bigotry have no place in america. >> we must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry, and violence. we must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as americans. >> the president's statement came after he faced harsh criticism

so this information was breaking as doug mckelway came to us. go to catherine herridge, i want to say the charlottesville suspect, which doug mentioned, the associated press is now reporting james fields jr. was previously accused of beating his mother. the a.p. is citing records from 911 calls that show field's mom called police in 2010 and 2011 and reported one case where he smacked her in the head and locked her in the bathroom. another saying he threatened her with a knife. his mother is disabled, use as wheelchair. she appeared unaware of the accusations her son faced until reporters filled her in. we told you about that during doug's report. that's part of the widening information that we know about the investigation. let's move on. president trump today confirmed that justice department officials have opened their own separate civil rights investigation into what happened in charlottesville over the weekend. a senior justice department official is telling fox news that that probe is not limited to the driver. that suspect fields, that i ju

let's go to doug mckelway in charlottesville who has the latest. what do we expect to hear? >> it's hard to say. i know reporters will be asking tough questions. they're chomping at the bit to understand what the motivation of the police department here and their associated forces was as this thing began to get out of control early saturday morning. i know for a fact that we have heard from a senior law enforcement from another county nearby, this one, that says that some of his underlinks that attended a briefing here conducted by the city of charlottesville and the police department in charlottesville and the mayor's office of charlottesville before saturday morning's riot happened that they were not to make arrests without the explicit approval of the mayor, of the city of charlottesville. we're going to ask that question of the police chief. i know that other people will want to ask of the police chief, whether he intends to resign. that's one of the rumors -- i've heard of it from reporters that told me that they would ask that question of the police chief. they're unde

back to you. >> jon: doug mckelway, thank you.ext hour of "happening now," it is now three years since our first bombing raid against isis, so where does the u.s. stand now? this amid growing concerns about iran and the impact it is having on the conflict. we'll go in depth. plus, the nfl funding a new program for young athletes, focusing on concussion prevention. we are live with more on that. >> jon: this was our first time in our new studio. >> melissa: it's fabulous. i might bring david over here and take over. you watch and see. we'll be back here in an hour, i hope, still. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> jon: bye-bye. >> harris: fox news alert, north korea is a problem, defiant as ever, pressing against the toughest imposed sanctions in years with an official government statement that it will never negotiate its nuclear weapons program. this is taliban here today, jessica tarvlov, entities of #oneluckyguy, the former congressman of the great state of utah and fox news contributor jason chaffetz is in the house. good to ha

kevin corke, doug mckelway.ich edson starts us off from the state department with a war of words. >> good evening. secretary of state rex tillerson returning from several days in southeast asia where he tried to convince adversaries and allies to pressure north korea to get it to give up its weapons program. secretary of state says that campaign is beginning to show signs that it's working. as he does so, he's trying to also calm the rhetoric between north korea and the united states. as two nuclear armed countries trade threats, secretary of state rex tillerson offers calm. >> americans should sleep well at night. no concerns about this particular rhetoric over the last few days. i think the president as commander-in-chief, he felt it necessary to issue a strong statement directly to north korea. >> tillerson returning from several days of diplomacy. he spoke to reporters. traveling to guam, an island north korea warned it was "carefully examining" as a missile target. >> they will be met with fire and fury lik

doug mckelway has more live. tell us more about today's hearing. >> well, as one lone white nationalist stood outside the general house before me this morning, inside the courthouse, the alleged, james alex fields jr. made his first court appearance via video. he was wearing a black and white jump suit, that is standard equipment in the jail. he answered yes when he answered why he was there. a member of the public defender's office has a relative that was a part of this terrorist incident on saturday, the public defender's office said they couldn't represent james fields. fields will be represented by a long-time charlottesville attorney by the name of charles weber. no bond was set today. a second hearing august 25. in addition to the state charges which fields faces which include second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit-and-run, the feds are ramping up pressure on him, hiring an army of lawyers to basically throw the book at mr. fields. here's the attorney general jeff sess

doug mckelway in charlottesville again tonight. president trump calling business leaders who are bailing on his manufacturing council grandstanders. a fifth person has stepped out. >> they are not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country. some of the folks that will leave, they are leaving out of embarrassment. because they make their products outside. i want manufacturing to be back into the united states so that american workers can benefit. >> liz claman joins me from new york. good evening. this has snowballed a bit, has it not? >> in the last couple hours, as you saw, richard trumka. something like 21 million active and retired employees. he is out, and when you talk about the players, we need to explain to people that the president today, it's very complicated from both sides, but criticize the ceos, saying he believes they are embarrassed because they manufacture many of their goods overseas. while the ceo say divisive politics and contrasting values are at the heart of their departures from the council, a d

including the appearance of bob menendez on the senate floor. >> bret: doug mckelway on capitol hill. thank you. new details on the fbi's early morning raid on former trump campaign manager paul manafort on the latest on that investigation. that's next who knew that phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track, and finding us dates. phones really have changed. so why hasn't the way we pay for them? introducing xfinity mobile. you only pay for data and can easily switch between pay per gig and unlimited. no one else lets you do that. see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit or go to xfinitymobile.com. >> bret: we are learning new details about the day federal agents storm the residents of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. 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

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mike: doug mckelway live at the white house, many thanks. laura: and, mike, critics questioning the timing of these latest moves by the white house. some accusing the administration of using the hurricane as a distraction to avoid a lot of negative coverage. so let's bring in jamie weinstein, host of "the jamie weinstein show" podcast and contributor to "the washington examiner" to talk about all of this. welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. laura: how do you describe the activity we saw out of white house? what's your take? >> you've heard of friday news dumps, this was a friday and hurricane news dump, at least i think with the joe arpaio pardon. that's the type of news that probably would get negative coverage in much of the mainstream press, but, you know, with the hurricane and the weekend, it's not getting all that much news. but it is getting news where i think the trump administration and president trump wanted it to get news, and that is in publications like breitbart where supporters of donald trump will be enthused by this par

doug mckelway has the latest from the white house. the president's response? >> reporter: well, the latest from camp david is that the president did, indeed, have this video conference with his entire cabinet about 11:00 this morning, and the white house just issued a couple of photos, the cabinet assembled in the white house situation room. among them, chief of staff john kelly, vice president mike pence, the homeland security adviser and many, many others. a white house readout of that teleconference said president trump reminded his team that the full impacts of the storm will occur over the next few days with heavy rains and flooding. the white house is signaling that the president may still visit the south texas coast in the coming days. the timing of the visit is uncertain, but the white house has to balance the good optics of such a visit -- many would say it's an obligatory visit -- against the potential downside that it poses. here's michael brown, former fema director. >> it's that balancing act, because the president travel

doug mckelway live from the white house with more. a lot going on there, what's the latest on the friday night pardoning of arpaio? >> reporter: well, you know, as we all know, all recent administrations have used the friday night document dump to lessen the impact of really important stories and throw in a category four hurricane, and it makes it all that much easier. sure enough, just as hurricane harvey was beginning to lash the shore of the texas coast, the president tweeted just last night, quote: i am pleased to inform you that i have just granted a full pardon to 85-year-old american patriot sheriff joe arpaio. he kept america -- excuse me, he kept arizona safe. writing in "the washington post" just this morning, dan balz said of the pardon, the president is a divider, not a uniter. quote: in pardoning arpaio, the president has again linked himself to the most extreme elements of the immigration debate. sheriff arpaio sees it entirely differently. he responded, quote: thank you@real donald trump for seeing my conviction for wha

our doug mckelway is there. doug?shep, you have a strong sense of her upbringing from the very different personalities of her parents. her father spoke early on. he was very emotional. despite his unimaginable grief, called for reconciliation, called for forgiveness. and then his mother spoke of using the sound bite that you said a feisty person. apparently heather got her personality from her mother. we heard from other family members. here's her grandfather and her cousin. >> she wanted to understand your viewpoint. it didn't seem right to her, but she insisted on knowing your viewpoint. i think you saw some of that. so we talked about we discussed and we had many questions and answers, but sometimes i couldn't come up with answers. she was pretty sharp. >> did i ever tell you how much you taught me? you don't have to be a world leader or ceo to change the world. just be one person willing to show compassion to another. >> outside the theater, you can still sense some tension here. a group of four or five people wer

doug mckelway has more. doug, are you there?try again, please. >> shepard: doug, it's my understanding there's a memorial set for the woman that died there. >> i got you. i got you now. i think you're talking about the memorial service if i'm not mistaken for heather heyer. i'll have a few more details for you. it's at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow at the paramount theater, which is on the pedestrian mall here in charlottesville. doors open up at 10:00 a.m. they are expecting a overflow crowd. police are telling people if you want to come, there will be monitors on the pedestrian mall. you can watch it from the outside. the family is asking that people wear purple. what is the significance of purple? nothing more than it was heather's favorite color. the charlottesville police are offering their cooperation issuing a statement that said the police are working with the family to ensure safety. we will not go into specifics, but we have since learned they will not permit backpacks or weapons for the service. virginia has an open carry law.

. >> heather: doug mckelway live in charlottesville, obviously everyone on edge including you.rd conducting a search and rescue mission after an army black hawk helicopter goes down after a training exercise. vice president pence condemning the venezuelan president for destabilizing south america. more on the u.s. response to the crisis in that oil-rich nation. [upbeat music] >> announcer: no one loves a road trip like your furry sidekick! so when your "side glass" gets damaged... [dog barks] trust safelite autoglass to fix it fast, and we'll get you back on the road! [dog barks] ♪safelite repair, safelite replace.♪ >> heather: this is a fox news alert, vice president mike pence continuing his latin american trip with a stop in santiago. he called out the tierney in venezuela, that is where hundreds of opponents to the authoritarian president have died in protest over the last few months. the vice president reacting in a jointç news conference with the chilean president. >> i will return home more confident than ever that freedom loving countries across latin america along wit

doug mckelway joins us now from charlottesville. have things calm down at all there?yes, they have come down tremendously since saturday. that is for certain. it is a sign of the simmering tension that just lie underneath the surface. this morning, we saw another provocative incident. the young man in his early 20s came to emancipation park. he was carrying a confederate flag, and he was having it draped around his shoulder, an assault rifle. it is an open carry state. you can have a weapon on your person as long as it is visible. he had an assault rifle over his shoulder. he stood quietly at the base of the lead statue. giving him the international symbol of goodwill calling him a racist and shouting and shame, shame, shame. the police stepped between those protesters and the young men. it took him to their squad car, place them in the front seat and drove him off. that said, there are already people talking about removing this monument by themselves, on their own volition. activists are talking about doing that. one of them told the "richmond times" that it will hap

our colleague doug mckelway was there in charlesville on sunday and he had that same question. >> whenhe tear gas started to fly. thrown by protesters the police themselves began to evacuate that i asked the guy who was in charge i said where are you going? he said we're leaving. it's too dangerous. they had an opportunity to nip this thing in the bud and they chose not to. >> tucker: multiple videos show marchers beaten with cops nowhere to be seen. one video shows law enforcement hurting a group of white nationalists directly toward left wing counter protesters with predictable results. none of this seemed to bother elected officials in the state. virginia governor terry mcauliff said this morning the cops did, quote a magnificent job. the over his head head mayor of charlottesville agreed with that unfortunately a long history in this country politicians for whatever reason preventing the police from doing their jobs in times of crisis. way back in 1991, new york mayor david dinkens let the crown heights riots rage for three days before allowing police to restore order there have yo

we will take it to doug mckelway now who is standing by with more word from the white house. >> we all know how frustrated the president of the united states has been with these continual leaks, his frustration has now filtered down to the department of justice, the fbi and the director of national intelligence who all promised a crackdown on leaks. session cited one leak just yesterday, "the washington post" publishing transcripts of president trump's private conversations with the president of mexico and the prime minister of australia. >> no one is entitled to surreptitiously fight to advance battles in the media by revealing sensitive government information. no government can be effective when its leaders cannot discuss sensitive matters in confidence or talk freely in confidence with foreign leaders. >> on that note, sessions ventured into what many people consider to be dangerous territory, promising to look into reporters who are the recipients of leaks. >> one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas. we respect the important role that the pres

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correspondent doug mckelway sets the stage. >> emails, flight and hotel reservation, credit card statementsal election commission filings. the justice department detailing its case against new jersey democratic senator robert menendez and now a vicious war of words has erupted between the prosecutors and senators defense team. in an unsolicited letter, justice department prosecutors wrote the presiding judge suggesting he "prohibit the defendants from distracting and using the jury with their claims that the investigation and indictment are political retribution." a reference to widespread speculation in 2015 that the obama justice department indicted menendez because he opposed to key obama initiatives. >> do you believe because he of your opposition to iran, cuba policy, that this administration was trying to silence you? >> i am innocent of the charges. i am going to prove that the government overreached. >> i think what the justice department was trying to do is give the court a road map. >> menendez's lawyers see it as a sinister attempt. they fire back that the prosecution letter was

correspondent doug mckelway tells us what's at stake. >> jury selection gets underway next tuesday in bribery trial of new jersey democratic senator bob menendez. it sets in motion swirl about shift in the balance of senate power less than a month after republicans fell one vote short of repealing obamacare. >> the ayes are 49. the neys are 51. >> menendez is accused of using his senate seat to help the financial froms of a friend who allegedly returned the favor with almost $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions. menendez has said he is innocent. >> these allegations are false. and i am confident they will be proven false and i look forward to doing so in court. >> his high powered attorney abby lowell reminded reporters at the time of the department of justice's track record in winning political bribery convictions. >> from former hud secretary mike espy in 1999, to senator ted stephens in 2007, and two years ago in the case of senator john edwards, prosecutors at the justice department often get it wrong. >> but even if he is found guilty a bribery conviction would not forc

doug mckelway joins us live from the white house to let us know exactly what's going on here. >> it'sto see how the president is not going to be infuriated and/or embarrassed over these leaks, especially coming as it does just a 24 hours before attorney general jeff sessions has his press conference at the department of justice on cracking down on internal white house and administration leaks. first, let's get to the first one. this was with the leader of mexico on generate 27th about the wall. we're both on a bit of a political bind because i have to have mexico pay for the well, i have to. we should both say we will work it out. it will work out on the formula somehow as opposed to you saying we will not pay in me saying we will not pay him a political standpoint, that's what we would say. politically, this might be the most important thing to talk about. and now, trump on illegal drug importation. they're sending trips to chicago, los angeles, and new york. up in new hampshire, i won new hampshire because new hampshire is a drug-infested then. trump on drug cartels. i know this is

doug mckelway, as always, thank you. julie: the white house today trying to reframe president trump's public remarks about the violence in virginia yesterday saying, of course, president trump also condemns the kkk, neo-nazis and all extremist groups. this after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the president for condemning hatred and violence, quote, on many sides while not explicitly mentioning white supremacists. kristin fisher is live from new jersey with more. hi, kristin. >> reporter: well, the white house is now explicitly condemning the white supremacists for inciting the violence in charlottesville yesterday, but this statement didn't come from president trump himself, it came from an unnamed white house official. and here's the quote. the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violation, bigotry and hatred, and of course that includes white supremacists, kkk, neo-nazis and all extremist groups. now, for his critics like republican senator cory gardner

but as correspondent doug mckelway tells us critics insist we have heard that all before. >> the drafty scientists from 13 federal agencies and obtained by the "new york times" sounds a dire warning about climate change that average temperatures in the u.s. have risen rapidly since 1980 and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1500 years. it projects increases of 5 to 7.5 degrees fahrenheit by the late century depending on future emissions. it concludes that even if humans immediately stopped emitting greenhouse gases temperatures would raise half a degree fahrenheit. >> the science is getting a lot more specific being able to attribute the drought, the floods and heat waves and specific events we are experiencing to climate change in our human fingerprint on the earth's k4r50eu789. >> to september skeptics the report alarmism cherry picked extreme and models convenient data. >> as co 2 has risk, our weather has gotten less extreme. hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes have been at record low for five years and declined since the 1950s, floods there is no trends on 100 y

i know our own doug mckelway who was there at the time, saw people from both sides who had been busedn. was anybody at either side of this rally local? >> no, there were unfortunately local elements. it is, i mean unfortunately this is a pox that knows no geographical boundary. what was sort of mind-numbing to me, this number of hate-filled people could get together in concentration as large as it was. good news there are 323 million people in america and 322,999,000 would judge people not based on color of their skin but content of their character. that is what i spoke about with the mayor today. soon to criticize law enforcement. they would stick between themselves and all that would destroy america and what it stands for. we wholeheartedly agree on the central premise that is america, that we're all created equal. we should judge people on content of their character, not color of their skin. instead of both sides trying to score political points right now, we need to tone down the rhetoric and focus what brings us together. david: couldn't agree with you more. the mother of the vic

let's bring in doug mckelway. he lived in charlottesville.he has all the story d details. >> hi, dana. there is a growing chorus of the police did not act proactively to quell the violence in the early stages before it got out of hand. late today, the police chief of the charlottesville police department, al thomas, held a press conference, in which he vehemently denied those accusations. speak of the morning hours on saturday, the charlottesville police wered in position and undergroud and across the street from emancipation park in order to readily observe and monitor the actions of the crowds and respond as quickly as possible when emergencies arose. >> for that reassurance is following on the deaf ears of the aclu, as we all know, they are normally allied with leftist causes, but in this case, they took thee side of the alt-right movement. they filed the seat against the cityhi to try to move this to a suburban park. the case, rather, the rally was held at emancipation park downtown. this morning, national public radio, virginia governor

let's bring in doug mckelway with all the storied details. >> there is a growing chorus of voices here not act proactively to quell the via balance in the early stages before it got out of hand. lay of the today the police chief of the charlottesville police department al-thomas held a press conference in which he vehemently denied those allegations. >> early morning hours on saturday police were positioned in and around and across the street from emancipation park in order to readily observe and monitor the reactions of the crowd and respond as quickly as possible when emergencies arose. >> but that reassurance is falling on the deaf ears of the aclu. as we know they are normally aligned with leftist causes in this case they took the side of the alt right movement. they filed suit against the city's decision to try to move this protest out to a suburban park. they won that case so the case, rather the rally was held at emancipation park downtown. this morning, on "national public radio," virginia governor mcauliff blasted the aclu for in effect contributing to the violence by winning

thank you, doug mckelway at the white house. >> bill: byron york, good morning to you. you say it was a most presidential performance to date, but you wonder -- what's going on there? we'll figure it out. it looks like there was another eclipse, but i think that was yesterday. does he go rogue tonight? >> you just never can predict with the president. last night it was the most president performance in the white house because it had all the elements. it was a prime time address on issues of the war and peace. he was acting as commander-in-chief, a military audience, it had all the elements and president trump delivered a very solid speech. the worry of his staff and his supporters is that he will go rogue in phoenix tonight, decided to relitigate charlottesville or who knows what and step on all the progress he made last night. but no doubt last night with a solid performance. >> bill: you say there is no doubt he is gotten behind a policy that he clearly did not support. >> we mentioned this a little bit yesterday. in the campaign he talked about the invasion of iraq a

but when our reporters on the ground, doug mckelway, would talk to the protesters, everybody was thererent cause. and i'm sort of curious the ripping effect when we do have these protests with five or six different themes, and now we see people pushing back against the police. leland: from from my experience being in these crowds, these are sort of anti-police agitators. there's no -- they don't seem to be everybodying any other -- serving any other purpose other than just taking on the police. elizabeth: that's why i wanted to bring in doug because of the ripple effect of that. there's not a clear and concise message that is coming out of a weekend like this, how does that impact any potential progress when there isn't a coercive message? >> i think it depends on how the media outlet portrays it, because right now you're calling it as it is, i'd say based on what i'm hearing you say and based on what i know on the ground over in boston, massachusetts, is that the group that is in there, there are, like you said, a whole menagerie of groups that are represented. but there are some peop

david: doug mckelway was there not only before the violence was going on but after, the anti-kkk crowdthe nazi kkk crowd came in were just as well uniformed. what bothers me, nan, is the fact that you had governor mcaulifee, terry mcaulifee, fine he pointed out the kkk and all the other nazi-like organizations that were there, why didn't he put out any leftists involved you can see in all the video were involved? >> why don't democrats, i'm not giving republicans any slack by the way, why don't democrats call out the anti-fan? >> they should. >> i, they are -- agreed, anti-fan is not antifascist. it is fascist. they are violent. >> of course. we know that. let's be real clear here. >> you need to reject on all sides. president said that. >> let's not, at this network let's not say it was the anti-fa that start it. david: i never said that. >> i hope so. david: what we're saying there was, anybody who uses violence to pursue a political motive inside the united states should be condemned. anybody. >> right. david: whether it is in response or not. blake is standing by at the white house