counsel robert mueller's investigation and call out a favorite topic and target, the clintons, ellison barberthe white house with more ellison, 7 tweets by my count over the past 24 hours, any idea what sparked the tweet storm or is it just saturday and sunday at the white house? >> maybe a little -- maybe two things can be true at once. big issue or big point of contention right now for the white house is an fbi informant and what they did or did not do during the campaign president trump suggesting the informant was a spy, in the course of 7 tweets, president trump called on the doj to turn over documents related to informant, only the release or review of documents can give conclusive answers, the new york times reporting that the fbi sent an informant to talk to two campaign advisers but only after they received evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to russia during the campaign. this morning, president trump tweeted that the investigation a witch hunt and also mentioned hillary clinton and the dnc. he wrote in one, whatever happened to the server tat center of so much cor

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for more on the fallout of president trump's announcement, we are joined right now by fox news' ellison barber live in washington. ellison. >>> reporter: officials from the white house have not responded to the statement or response from north korea. but the president of course talked a lot about this today and he seemed at times both in his letter as well as when spoke to the press this morning to leave the door open saying if kim jong-un changes his mind, he could call or write. but the president has said for weeks that the u.s. is not afraid to walk away from the negotiations with north korea if he doesn't feel like he has the right deal or things are going as he wanted them to go. and today the president did exactly tha. >> i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. >>> reporter: president trump canceled next month's summit with north korea citing tremendous anger and open hostility coming from their most recent statement. that statement reads in part, whether the u.s. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear

>> bret: ellison barber live in cleveland. we will have results and updates throughout the night here. up next, president trump withdraws the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal. we get reaction from the panel as they react to how the world is reacting, when we come back. , plus 21 vitamins and minerals including calcium and vitamin d, to help your family be their best. carnation breakfast essentials®. i'm still giving it my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what's next? seeing these guys. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding

ellison barber has more from the white house.giuliani said he and other members of the president outside legal team are still waiting to get more information from special counsel robert mueller. he also said they are waiting to see what a federal judge in virginia does in regards to charges against former from campaign advisor, paul manafort. and whether that judge decides to dismiss charges against manafort. one thing at play is the summit with north korea. giuliani told fox news any potential interview would happen after the summit because it wouldbe too difficult to pre president for an interview before then. is what he said about and you last week.an interview last week.>> although you might not see an avenue to quickly resolve this for the american people. we know our president will seek a resolution that gets them a clear path to getting it resolved. right now, the odds are he wouldn't be interview. but i don't close my mind to it. >>reporter: previously, the president's legal team suggested heat they could make a decision

ellison barber live from the white house with more. llison. >> hi, mike, yeah, according to this there's been a few agreements that china has made one being significantly increasing their purchases of u.s. goods, senior administration officials met with the chinese trade delegation at the department of treasury on thursday morning, later that day, president trump met with chinese vice premier, china and the u.s. released joint statement moments ago that china engaged in, quote, confrontations and both parties agreed, quote, taking effective measures to substantially reduce the united states trade deficit and goods with china, they go onto say to meet the growing consumption of the needs -- of the chinese people and the need for high-quality economic development. china will significantly increase purchases of the united states goods and services, this will help support growth and employment in the united states. president trump talked a little bit about this issue yesterday. >> they have been taking out hundreds of billions of dollars. t

ellison barber has more live from the white house. hi, alison. reporter: hi, liz. josh wolf sat next to the president and on the couch nearby with his mom, dad, wife and his stepdaughter. he said the last two years have been incredibly rough, a difficult way to start a new marriage. after all of it, he was grateful and thankful to finally be home. >> i am just overwhelmed with gratitude, for you guys, for everything that you've done, for the support of my wife. those two years were very, very difficult two years. i'm so grateful for what you guys have done and for thinking about me and carried about me as a normal person. reporter: holt traveled to venezuela two years ago to their venezuela women he met online or they got married and were waiting for the proper visas to come to the u.s. when police raided their homes. they accused mr. what is stockpiling weapons and they rested his wife tammy as an accomplice. the uss holt is a political prisoner. president trump says he was a hostage. as of yesterday morning, he and his wife are free and back in the u.s. i asked t

rick: ellison barber is at the white house with more on this. ellison? reporter: rick, the white house said in the past they respect senator john mccain, but when it comes to the comments about senator mccain, one big thing missing is an i'm sorry. instead, what we're hearing from sources is most of the focus at the white house seems to be on the leak. senior white house sources tell fox news there is so much disappointment over the situation and the leak that staff changes are likely coming soon. here's what deputy white house press secretary hogan gidley said on fox and friends this morning. >> i don't know if the comment was made or not. i wasn't in the meeting. i'm not denying it, i wasn't in the meeting. that's an internal meeting, a private meeting at the white house. the comments, whether made or not made, there were reports that comments should not be made public. reporter: they believe the controversy itself is overblown and they're disheartened by it because they believe someone on the team is out to get kelly sadler, and the leak of her commen

julie: ellison barber has the latest. >> the president is trying to emphasize tax cuts and the economy as we head into this election season. many republicans are doing that as well. the president sat next to republican senate candidate congressman, who is hoping to win the ohio republican nomination and beat democratic senator brown in november. tuesday is primary election day in ohio. the president endorsed the congressman last week and stumped for him today. >> jim's really doing great. he's really got a big shot at doing it. he's been a fantastic congressman. and i really suspect you're going to be an even more fantastic senator. we need your vote. we feed your help. -- we need your help. go out and help jim. >> the president hinted at potential future actions in regards to immigration and healthcare. >> we're going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while. over the next few weeks, we will have a very big announcement on healthcare. >> this week the president has had difficulty keeping the discussion on policy. a lot of that is because of hi

ellison barber is live at the white house with more. hi, ellison. >> hi, arthel. joshua holt. he and his wife were arrested about two years ago, and now he is headed home. he's expected to arrive here at the white house around 7:00 this evening. holt and his wife boarded a plane and left venezuela earlier this morning and tennessee senator bob corker was on the flight with them. corker is the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. he met with venezuelan president on friday and reportedly played a big role in securing the holt's release. holt traveled to venezuela near two years ago to marry a venezuelan woman. police accused holt of stockpiling weapons. the u.s. has long said his arrest was political. the announcement of the holt's release came this morning on twitter with president trump writing, quote, good news about the release of the american hostage from venezuela, should be landing in d.c. this evening. and be in the white house with his family at about 7:00 p.m. the great people of utah will be very happy. all of this as the white house moves ahe

ellison barber has the latest on how the white house is responding. reporter: hi, liz. they respect john mccain at the white house has yet to apologize for the comments made about the senator. instead their complaint seemed to be focused on the league. senior white house sources tell fox news there's so much frustration over the situation in the link that stuff changes are likely coming. white house deputy press secretary hogan gigli on "fox and friends" earlier this morning. >> i wasn't in the meeting. >> they came to apologize. sounds like pathetic. as a kind? >> i heard it as well. those comments whether made are not made at some reports in their about the internal workings of the media and the judge shouldn't be made public. >> senior administration officials tell fox news they believe controversy is overblown and that they are disheartened by it because they believe someone on the team is trying to cause chaos and about to get kelly sadler in the wake of her comments were done out of malice. during a meeting with white house communications staff they were discussin

>> ellison barber live in washington. thank you. to help put some legal context throughout this, ron is here, defense attorney and formerly a prosecutor. he also worked at the department of justice. i want to start off where ellison left off there. it's important because donald trump goes in and says, look, we wanted the dirt on hillary clinton, right? the president later said yeah, if they are growing to give me dirt on hillary, i wanted it and so would have any other presidential candidate. what do you make of that? >> there's a misconception in the public about what is going on. it's not illegal to talk to russians. everything we read, it's not illegal to get opposition research on your opponent. whether you're a british intelligence officer or a russian adoption specialist and you have dirt, you can talk about it. it's legal. it's only illegal if you have an illegal agreement to affect the election. it's not illegal to get e-mails that somebody has that they want to give you. if you conspire with them to get that information, he

ellison barber, thank you very much. leland: the white house talking more and more about tax-cut in the economy. we bring in andy pazner, author of the new book the s. comeback and a close confidant of the president, once a nominee for labor secretary. nice to see you, sir. appreciate you being with us. >> as was noted yesterday when the president was in ohio, sort of rave reviews about his tax cuts and about the economy. as we were in ohio, we saw that from columbus through cleveland. the rest of the economy was doing really well, but even those who voted for him didn't necessarily give him the credit. where do you think the disconnect is? >> i'm not really sure. if you think about it when i come on shows like yours back before president trump was elected board president obama with the lack it, we talk about how people are dropping out of the labor force that couldn't find jobs. as many girls and hardee's at the time in people working part-time and we talk about how to create jobs. now, the situation. drink it and the c

with an expert about what these new developments could mean first to washington and ellison barber. >> reporter: in a statement this evening, north korea's foreign minister says that the president's decision to cancel the summit is unexpected and regrettable. he also said north korea is still willing to talk. of course, this comes after president trump's letter earlier today. for weeks, president trump has said if he didn't feel like this meeting was going well or if the conditions were not right, he would not be afraid to walk away from the negotiating table. and that's exactly what he said he would do this morning. >> reporter: i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. >> president trump today canceled the high stakes nuclear summit with north korea. citing anger and hostility from their most recent statement. that statement says: whether the u.s. will meet us at a meeting room or at nuclear-to- nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the united states. white house officials tell fox news the nucl

ed: ellison barber doing an outstanding job of standing on top of two stories. thank you, ellison. clearly an emotional day for the family of joshua holt who are calling this release after spending nearly two years in a venezuelan prison simply a miracle. bryan llenas is here with more. we heard that bob corker the senate foreign relations chairman had a big role in this but it sounds like senator hatch a veteran senator from utah also played a big role. >> no one in washington, d.c. knows about this painful journey the family has gone through over the last two years more than republican senator hatch from utah. this is video of senator hatch greeting jason and laurie holt the parents of 26-year-old joshua holt before they headed to the airport to fly to washington, d.c. tonight to meet josh and his wife tammy. senator hatch's people tell me he called venezuelan president last weekend and made the case that it was time to release the holts after being held for two years without a court appearance. senator bob corker as you heard, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committ

. >> ellison barber is live at the white house with the latest. >> the meeting is not officially back on but the preparations for it certainly are. the us team is northern north-south border right now. a statement they said a us delegation is ongoing toxic north korean officials. we continue to pay for a meeting between the president and north korean leader kim jong-un. president trump in the oval office yesterday. >> people want to see it we will get the meeting and get something done. we got that done. if we can be successful in the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, 11 people are working on it. it is moving along very nicely so we are looking at june 12 in singapore.it has not changed. it is moving along pretty well. we will see what happens. >> on capitol hill, there seems to be a fair amount of skepticism this past week. some lawmakers say more preparations need to go into this meeting. >> right of the north korean playbook. in three generations of the playbook, act like you want to negotiate and come up with something outlandish of what it means and try to wind up with ea

said this in a statement -- >> harris: ellison barber is live for us. >> in the testimony he told the senate committee he did not tell his father about the e-mail setting up that meeting and he doesn't know when the president and his team learned of the e-mail. when it comes to questions about president trump's involvement in a july 8, 2017, statement about that controversial meeting trump jr. seemed to suggest he was somewhat involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. in a july state he told the "new york times" the meeting with the russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya was about russian adoption. he did not mention the fact he agreed to the meeting after a british publicist named rob goldstone told him the person had information that might hurt hillary clinton's campaign. "washington post" reported that trump dictated this on air force one. when asked if it was correct trump jr. said i don't know. he was asked if he provided any edits to the statement and trump jr. said he may have commented through hope hicks. do you know if the comments were incorporate

. >> ellison barber has more. >> the president is ta taking t twitter again. the president's personal attorney rue -- giuliani is still weigh the sit-down between the president and special counsel robert mueller. if he says the president is going to sit down with mueller, giuliani first needs to see fbi documents related an fbi informant. >> the reality is we're not going to sit him down if this is a trap for perjury. and until we're convinced of that, if they don't show us these documents, well, we're just going to have to say no. >> according to a report in the washington post, in 2016, an fbi informant, a retired american professor spent months seeking out a meeting with three trump campaign officials. he was reportedly working with the fbi as they investigated russian interference in the 2016 election. the president claims he was a spy, put there for political reasons. department of justice officials briefed lawmakers on thursday in two different classified meetings, both in regard to the informant. democrats say they saw no evidence that the informant was

ellison barber has the latest. we begin with kristin fisher covering trade talks.ft out of the talks with china and a critical foreign policy moment? >> this feud between navarro and mnuchin. nationalism versus globalism. it's been an issue since the early days of the administration. only now these tensions are playing out in full view of chinese officials at a time when both countries, the u.s. and china, are sitting down in washington to try to stop a trade war. on wednesday, administration sources said white house trade advisor peter navarro was out of today's high-level trade talks between the u.s. and china. less than 24 hours later, he was back in, according to the president's top economic advisor larry kudlow. >> of course he will be there. he is a member of our team. he is a smart guy. >> navarro is a protectionist, pushing president trump to keep his promise of an america first trade strategy. he wants the u.s. to get tough on china with trade. it puts him at odds with treasury secretary steven mnuchin who worries that such aggressive tactics could spark a

senate primary and ellison barber is live in dennis kucinich's headquarters in ohio where the formeressman is looking to defeat richard cordray for the democratic nomination there. first to peter doocy in west virginia. hi, peter. >> don blankenship has self-funded his entire three and a half million dollar campaign with the exception of one donation for $1,000. nobody is telling him what to do, and that's why his primary day included a trip to the tailor to get fitted for a new suit and a two hour nap. his final day radio ad actually repeated establishment republican attacks against him for being a bigot or mentally ill, but he explains to voters in the ad that even if those things are true he thinks he would be a better choice than congressman evan jenkins or attorney general patrick morrisey. morrisey and jenkins have something that blankenship doesn't, and that is the blessing of president trump. in a state where trump beat clinton by 42 points in 2016. morrisey's closing argument that it was all about electability. he believes that after the fox news debate last tuesday this bec

elizabeth: all right, ellison barber with the latest.and: as ellison just mentioned, joshua holt is expected to be back in the united states by this evening for a homecoming that has been a long time coming. bryan llenas with the background on this story and what is finally bringing joshua home. >> 26-year-old joshua holt and his wife are now free after they were imprisoned in venezuela on weapons charges for nearly two years. back in june, 2016 he went to venezuela to marry tamara, a woman he meant online. they wanted to spend a couple of months in venezuela so tamara and her two daughters could get visas and move to the u.s. on june 30th he and his wife were arrested in an apartment complex in venezuela. the holt family says that venezuela authorities framed them bringing in a stockpile of weapons and grenades and placing them inside of his wife's apartments. they took photos for evidence and arrested them. they were accused of weapons charges and spying on behalf of the americans. now, just last week, holt pleaded for help in a cell p

said this in a statement -- >> harris: ellison barber is live for us. >> in the testimony he told

ellison barber at the north lawn of the white house. not said whether the president will sit down with special counsel moller and not if or when they will make that decision. the president outside legal team have previously said they would try to make a decision on whether that interview would happen by may 17. that's the one year anniversary of one special counsel robert moller was appointed. in a phone call, president trump's attorney rudy giuliani told fox news the legal team is waiting for information from moller and it's difficult to make a decision on whether or not he will sit down at this point. one thing a play is thesummit i northwith north korea in singapore. saying it would be too difficult to prepare the president for a sitdown interview before then. the special counsel's probe has resulted in indictments for 19 people including four former campaign advisors. giuliani says the president's legal team is waiting to see whether or not a federal judge in virginia dismisses charges against one of those people. former campaign ad

liz: ellison barber with the latest, thank you so much, appreciate it.h fox news sunday chris wallace talks to incoming nra president oliver north. mike kelly from different law center to prevent gun violence in the wake of friday's shooting in santa fe, texas, check your local listings for time and channels on both of the interviews. leland: polarization of texas school shooting already in opinion pages on new york times on online edition, the great lady blasting congress for not enacting stronger gun laws, with that we bring republican congressman ron desantis of florida, nice to see you, sir. i'm not sure being held at task by the editorial page of "the new york times" bolsters you but does the inaction by congress bother you? >> well, in this case, leland, we are still getting facts but seems like he used the shotgun and just basic handgun that he didn't have the right to have anyway, so i'm not exactly sure what "the new york times" are referring to. i know they definitely have an agenda where they want to restrict gun usage and gun ownership. looki

ellison barber live from the white house on this one. all right, ellison, was this expected? we are having technical difficulties there. go ahead, ellison. >> fist indication of anything happening that we received from the white house. went to venezuela two years ago to get marry and stay until the venezuelan wife and two children had the proper visas to come to the u.s., the pair hadn't been married for long when they were arrested on weapon's charges, the u.s. said that the arrest was politically, president trump says that holt will be in dc at the white house with his family around 7:00 o'clock tonight. he made the announcement on twitter writing in part, good news about the release of american hostages from venezuela, great people of utah will be very happy. holt is a mormon missionary from utah, has sent the last two years pushing for holt's release. in a statement this morning, both holt and his wife are on plane heading home. tennessee senator bob corker, top official on the senate foreign relations committee met with the venezuelan president nicolÁs maduro, pivotal to

ellison barber with more. ellison? >> hi, neil. trump jr. told the senate judiciary committee that he did not tell his father about the e-mails setting up the june 2016 meeting. he doesn't know when and if the president learned of the e-mail. when it comes to president trump's involvement about the meeting, trump jr. seemed to suggest he was involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. in the initial july statement, trump jr. told "the new york times" the meeting with lawyer veselnitskaya was about russian adoptions. he didn't mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting at a british publicist named rob goldstone said that the person might have information to help hillary clinton's campaign. the "washington post" said the president dictated the statement on air force one. the committee asked if that was correct to which trump jr. said i don't know. i never spoke to my father about it. he was later asked did the president provide any edits to the state or input. trump jr. said he may have commented through hope hi

eric: we go to ellison barber who is live on the front lawn of the white house. >> the informant what they did or didn't do during the campaign is a points of contention for the white house. the white house is reporting that an informant was sent after they received evidence that the pair had links to russia during the campaign. trump calls for the doj to have the fbi release the documents. he fired off five tweets after that saying there was no collusion. talking about hillary clinton's emails, the dossier, the email server. here is kellyanne conway this morning. >> all i know is what i see. the president is within his rights to talk about this. winning solves a lot of problems. winning completes many sentences. but you can't have it both ways. if you are going to investigate all of this, investigate all of them. we have a right to know what happened with respect to both campaigns and how the issues were handled. reporter: the top democrat on the intelligence committee is saying the allegations coming from president trump are nonsense. >> this is a string of allegations, i was wireta

ellison barber is live at the white house with details. did they come to any other agreement that you can report on? >> according to the statement seems it made at least some form or fashion, some different agreements. some related to intellectual property protections. as he said, reducing the trade deficit. all of this comes after two days of meetings between senior administration officials and chinese trade delegation. officials met thursday morning at the us treasury department. president trump met with the chinese vice premier at the white house that very same day. the joint statement says both parties agreed on court taking effective measures to substantially reduce the united states trade deficit in goods with china. pleasant is a quote - to meet the growing consumption is of the chinese people and the need for high-quality economic development, china will significantly increase purchases of the united states goods and services. this will help support growth and employment in the united states. it is messy but the president has been

reporter ellison barber joins you live from washington, d.c. with the story. >> reporter: hi, heather. there are more reports coming out tonight that perhaps put this meeting in even bigger question mark territory. the reports coming from north korean state media that a foreign ministry official in north korea will suggest to the north korean leadership that they reconsider the summit. that foreign official is also saying that whether or not this meeting, this summit, happens depends entirely on the u.s. earlier today, as you mentioned, the u.s. secretary of state went before congress and told congress that they were ready, the u.s. is ready to meet with north korea but he said they are also ready to walk away if the right deal is not on the table. >> our eyes are open to the lessons of history but we are optimistic that we can achieve an outcome that would be great for the world. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo laying out u.s. goals for a scheduled meeting with north korean leader kim jong- un. >> our posture won't change until we see credi

arthel: ellison barber has more from the white house.eporter: the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani saying in order to decide whether president trump will sit down with robert mueller for a potential interview, he says without more information he couldn't possibly prepare the president for a sit-down with special counsel if mueller. >> the reality is we are not going to sit him down if this is a trap for perjury. until i'm convinced of that. if they don't show us those documents, we'll have to say no. >> democrats think the president and his team are playing games and insist there was no spy and nothing they saw in thursday's classified briefing contradicts that. >> you have the president peddling falsehoods and people like rudy perpetuating that fiction. reporter: the president tweeting a lot about the russia investigation and writing who is going to give back to young lives destroyed by the phoney russia collusion witch hunt in they journeyed to washington with cars in their eyes want be to help our nation, thn they went home

ellison barber is live at the white house with the very latest. >> hi dear the president is trying to keep the focus on jobs, the economy, tax cuts. please undo that that the roundtable in cleveland and also statements that he made over the past couple of days in dc. but in the past couple of days, payment to stormy daniels has been the primary focus. $130,000 payment to stormy daniels that she received from longtime trump attorney michael cohen. install news because the newest attorney, rudy giuliani.he made an unexpected admission during an interview. >> he made the payment and the president repaid. question is a statement quote - clarifying some of his remarks basically there is no campaign violation. the payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the presidents family. he would've been done in any event whether he was a candidate or not. he also said that quote - my reference to timing were not describing my understanding of the presidents knowledge but instead my understanding of these matters. regardless

ellison barber is live with more. >> emmanuel macron and angela merkel visited d.c.resident a couple of weeks ago hoping to convince him to stay in the iran nuclear deal. britain's foreign secretary expected to be in d.c. to make the same push over the next few days for justice said to arrive in d.c. ticket according to the secretaries office to meet with the vice president mike pence, national security advisor john bolton as well as other administration officials senior administration officials to talk about the iran nuclear deal. the presidency he will go out of the deal by may 12 unless there were substantial changes. the deadline is of course less than one week away and publicly the president seems to be suggesting that he has not seen the changes that they wanted to see.i spoke to nr in dallas friday he once again criticized the deal and the people who made it. >> we have the former administration. as represented by john kerry. not the best. he never walked away from the table. accepting the bicycle race. >> laura: mike pompeo suggested more than once the us has

ellison barber at the white house now with the very latest. hi, ellison. >> eric, much of what we're hearing from sources at the white house is that much of the frustration here at the white house is around the leak. senior white house sources are telling fox news that there's so much disappointment at the situation and the leak that staff changes are likely on the way. senior administration officials tell fox news they believe the controversy itself is overblown and that they are disheartened by it because they believe someone on their team is out to get kelly sadler and the leak of her comments were done out of malice. sadler's comments that mccain's opposition to the president's nominee for cia director didn't matter because he's dying anyway were not said as a joke, but matter of factually. >> i don't know if the comment was even made or not. i can't confirm it. i wasn't in the meeting. >> so you're denying that she said it? >> no i'm not denying it. i'm saying i wasn't in the meeting. >> she called meghan mccain to apologize so it sounds l

ellison barber is live at the white house with more. >> last night president trump called on the department of justice to release documents related to informant saying the only way to find conclusive answers was to review or release related documents. now he says that he is demanding an end will make the demand official tomorrow. he tweeted this. quote i hereby demand and will do so officially tomorrow the department of justice looking into whether or not the doj, fbi /doj infiltrated that campaign for political purposes. reports surfaced about a secret fbi informant the president suggested informant was a spy and possibly therefore political reasons. "the new york times" is reporting that the fbi sent an appointment to talk to two campaign advisors that quote - only after they received evidence that the fair had suspicious contact link to russia during the campaign. republicans on the house intelligence committee and on the senate judiciary committee are saying that they have many questions, the dock democrat on the house intelligence committee says all of the presidents allegations are no

ellison barber, big day there. >> yeah, laura, it is, according to president trump we expect holt to 7:00 o'clock this evening, he and his wife boarded a plane in venezuela thi

ellison barber is live with the details. what do we know?>> president trump attacked democrats in a medium you noticed he likes to use. twitter, of course. he tweeted about the f.b.i. informant four times this morning, writing in one the democrats are now alluding to the concept that having an informant in an opposing party's campaign is different than having a spy. what about an informant who is paid a fortune and sets up way earlier than the russian hoax? democrats say they have not seen evidence of a spy inside the trump campaign. yesterday's classified briefing did not change their view but the briefings did lead to more frustration among democrats, especially after white house officials showed up to the meetings. as lawmakers and the d.o.j. officials headed to the briefings so did white house chief of staff john kelly and attorney emmet flood who deals with the russia probe. and democrats say their attendance was inappropriate. >> it's trying to throw their weight around. yes, i think it's an effort to bully the department of justice. >

ellison barber is in washington. catch us up. there is a lot to digest here. >> right, there is. of course, with over 2,000 documents we are still trying to go through a lot of it. but what we know is that in his testimony, trump junior told the senate committee he did not tell his father about the e-mail setting up the meeting and he doesn't know when the president and his team learned of the e-mail. when it comes to questions about president trump's involvement in a july 8, 2017, statement about the controversial meeting, trump junior seemed to suggest he was involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. the initial july statement trump jr. told the "new york times" the meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya was primarily about russian adoption. he did not mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting after british publicist named rob goldstone told him that the person had information that might hurt hillary clinton's campaign. the "washington post" reported that president trump dictated the statement on air force one. the committee asked i

ellison barber is in washington with more. >> molly, the president said he would pull out of the iranay 12th, unless there were substantial changes, less than a week away from that deadline and publicly the president is still criticizing the deal and seemingly suggesting like it really hasn't changed a whole lot. when he spoke to the nra in dallas friday, he once again criticized the deal and the u.s. officials who initially drafted it. >> we have the former administration as represented by john kerry. not the best negotiator we've ever seen. he never walked away from the table, except to be in that bicycle race where he fell. >> french president macron and german chancellor merkel visited president trump a couple of weeks ago in part hoping to convince him not to back out of the deal. britain's foreign secretary is heading to d.c. today, according to the foreign secretary's office, he will meet with vice president mike pence, national security advisor john bolton and senior administration officials. he like macron and merkel is expected to push for the u.s. to stick with the iran dea

ellison barber in ohio but we start with peter doocy in west virginia for the latest from the senate primary that has been, we could say, rather colorful. >> very colorful, shannon. patrick morrissey the winner tonight. his pitch to voters had been that he was the only conservative in this contest and republicans tonight rewarded him with a chance to challenge democratic senator joe manchin in the fall, who he is already comparing tonight to senator chuck schumer. just now morrissey in a victory speech, morrissey is the attorney general and in a victory speech he thanked resident from for his tweet of support yesterday. it morrissey defeated congressman evan jenkins, who was also part of that presidential shout out and who was the target of more than a million dollars of negative ads ordered by democratic super pacs. third place tonight, don blankenship, the former called baron who tells me that the constant attention on his conviction for conspiring to violate mine safety laws was a real drag on his campaign. groups associated with the majority leader mitch mcconnell spent more than

ellison barber has been following the story and she has more.will get all of this, the good and the redemptive. >> we will start with father pat conroy pretty unresigned in a letter to house speaker paul ryan. he said he wants to finish his term as house chaplain, writing in part "i have never been disciplined nor reprimanded, nor have i ever heard a complaint about my ministry during my time as house chaplain." he goes august 8 ryan never spoke with him about resigning. the chief of staff delivered the message. conroy writes "i inquired as to whether or not it was for cause in mr. brooks mentioned dismissively something like maybe it's time we had a chaplain that wasn't catholic." he also mentioned the prayer he is referring to, some saw it was critical of tax reform. ryan says he's excepted the letter and decided that father conroy will stay as house chaplain. ryan claims his initial decision "was based on my duty to ensure that the house has the kind of pastoral services that it deserves." democratic congressman joe crowley calling for a sele

ellison barber has more from the north lawn of the white house. >> since the early days of the presidentspaign he talked about infrastructure, the need for reform, the need for more investment in us infrastructure. he unveiled an infrastructure proposal last year. can build and another one in february. a plant you 200 billion federal dollars to generate 1.5 claim dollars in infrastructure investment. in march each other to ohio to convince americans that the plan was a good one and when they should support. it seems to be one of the biggest priorities in 2018 but this month the white house press secretary said a big infrastructure bill probably isn't happening anytime soon. >> certainly, the administration as you mentioned, secured some funding for infrastructure projects. whistling priorities that we wanted to see in an infrastructure legislation package. we're going to continue to look at ways to improve the nations infrastructure. in terms of specific legislation, i am not aware that it will happen by the end of the year. >> and ohio the present discuss healthcare you're telling the cr

ellison barber at the white house. thank you and liz has got more.lizabeth: here with more white house reporter for the washington examiner, gabby, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: i want to start with the stormy daniels news and i don't want to harp on it. i want to get your take, the job rates is lowest level, 3.9% and then a story of trump's denial of hush funds. >> the juxtaposition is incredible. there have been so many accomplishments for this administration on economics and seeing the way the economy is flourishing right now. it's disappointing for a lot of white house officials to constantly deal with the questions and the legal troubles that the president is facing now with not only his personal attorney and the issues of stormy daniels the mueller investigation as well. i think that white house aides are frustrated. the president is surely frustrated. he talked about this yesterday during his remarks at n.r.a. convention how this is just one large distraction. he likes to use the phrase witch hunt, but i do thin

neil: ellison barber thank you very very much. all right let's go to house armed services committee member and republican congresswoman liz cheney daughter of dick cheney and so much more. congresswoman very good to have you what do you make of the sudden turn of events here? >> well, thank you, neil great to be with you. look i think the north koreans have been playing this same game essentially for decades now, and we've seen them do this where they make promises they make threats they pocket concessions and then they continue the development of their nuclear program and in particular, you seen them do this in order to get access to foreign aid which they really are dependent upon foreign economic assistance, foreign trade from nations like china in particular, and so we've got to be very very cautious and very careful that we don't go down the same path unfortunately that we've seen too many administrations previously go down. neil: you know there is that verified within ronald regan made famous but how do you verify whatever t