arthel: ellison barber is live at the white house. reporter: the letter is dated january 9, 2018. that was before rudy giuliani joined the legal team. but he says the legal arguments tonight are strong. and he says he's not keen about a sit-down between the president and robert mueller. >> i want to keep an open mind. i am leaning toward not. but look, if they can convince us that it will be brief or to the point, there are five or six points they need to clarify and with that we can get the nightmare for the american public over. reporter: in the memo they argue an in-person interview between president trump and robert mueller is not necessary because they already have answer the answers in the documents they were give be. they argue the president's actions could not be obstruction because he has the constitutional and legal authority to end the russia probe. giuliani says constitutionally he could do it but it wouldn't be a very great idea. >> if he terminated an investigation of himself -- reporter: the "new york times" first reported on, sekulow and dowd talk about the documen

ellison barber is live at the white house.oes the administration have a concrete plan to reunify separated families? we will start there. >> yes, the president signed the executive order this past week and it had a fair amount of some specifics but not a lot of specifics but jeff sessions filed a request to try and modify the settlement but it did not lay out any specifics for re-unifying family separate at the board up you have a plan coming from homeland security and health and human services. they released a fact sheet last night outlining a reunification process for the 2053 separated minors as of june 20. those are the numbers. they say the reunification process is a well coordinated effort between customs and border patrol, i.c.e. and hhs for they do not say how long it will take to reunify all of the families. they say because border patrol has reunited some migrant children that were separated from adults as part of the zero-tolerance initiative and more reading and so set to take place by the end of the day. he says i

>> ellison barber in new jersey with the president. thank you. >>> meanwhile, thousands braving the sweltering heat in washington, d.c. to attend an immigration rally right across from the white house. one young protester there reading a letter to a child separated from his parents at the southern border. >> i really hope you and everyone else gets free and live a happy playful life like a kid [applause] [cheers] >> i wish the president would think about everyone else who is suffering and sad and try to help. people may argue that there are good reasons for this, but there are not. there's not even one good reason. [cheers and applause] >> garrett tenney is covering that and has more for us from washington. garrett? >> after spending the day out there covering these protests in d.c., it is worth noting that a lot of the groups that are behind today's marches are the same ones that have been involved in organizing other protests against president trump and his policies. what was interesting though with this issue of immigration, and the

washington, d.c., i'm ellison barber, fox news. >> so many unanswered questions, add to go confusionlican leaders are delaying vote on compromise immigration bill. vote was supposed to take place last night and delayed till friday and now next week. leaders decided to punt. >> we are going put the vote off until next week and this will give us time to work out differences. but this is one of the better if not best conferences i've been to where everybody is trying to come together as a team so we can get to 218 and get us across the finish loin. >> the xrmize would provide path to dealership while keeping migrant families at the border and provide for more security there. we will have more on all of this later in the program. tracee: house did accomplish one thing yesterday, narrowly passing farm bill, controversial work requirements for food stamp recipients to overhaul the country's welfare system, 213 to 211. senate is expected to vet on its own version to have bill which funds crop insurance and payments to farmers when prices or revenues drop. president trump praising the house'

gerri: ellison barber has the details. >> illegal immigration continues to heat up with pictures of theworse. debate over immigration took center stage during a make america great again rally in minnesota. >> we are going to keep families together, but the border is going to be just as tough as it's been. >> this hours after president trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping families together across the southern border illegally. the order is aimed at keeping families together, but it does not change the administration's so-called zero-tolerance policy. the secretary of homeland security to maintain custody of alien families while criminal and proper injury or immigration proceedings play out. a 2015 ruling related from detaining to file a request to modify the settlement agreement and allow dhs to detained migrant families throughout their proceedings, proceedings that can take weeks or months. the aclu says the executive order will replace one crisis for another. congress is having their own problems finding a compromise. speaker of the h phone lines was caught on camera havin

ellison barber is in new jersey near the president's golf course. we begin with garrett tenney live in the nations capital. the site of a massive march held earlier today. what did you hear from protesters? >> we just got back after covering the marches. like a lot of the big marches in dc, you have the official demands organizers put out there but use of the demands which you are hearing from the folks that are actually out there marching and organizers have three things they were demanding. reunification of families, and to families being detained and an end to the zero-tolerance policy. this included a lot of chanting, protests and signs calling for an end to i.c.e. several folks we spoke to also made it clear that this protest was just as much about the president's policies as it was about his rhetoric on immigration. >> basic human decency. whether or not you believe, what you believe about the strength of our borders or how it should be handled. i believe immigrants should be treated with decency. >> it is a very difficult problem and it is go

elizabeth: ellison barber with the latest current hot topic of the political show. let's bring in reporter inder eggert. like i said, it's a hot topic today. one of the things i mentioned before is that the president is really doubling down on this. why? >> is really not surprising to see this kind of one way or the other black-and-white rhetoric and he could take a binary view of these things. it shows a lot of at least add behavior if not corruption in things like that. obviously not surprising to say. >> take it one step further. he said it's exonerating him and in reality it is not that much to do with it. the fbi was first getting off the ground. and so you can see where the president might say that this is at least showing by raising investigation is.ow the leland: we'd a lot about the ripple effect within the fbi and political perception. i'm curious about who else is getting effective, sort of a ripple effect. are we seeing it impacting members of the house and investigations there as well. >> the rhetoric from the white house is one thing, but the more impo

ellison barber joins us live with the very latest. reporter: it's a change of tune and the administration though it till doubling down on that today. the president's second follow-up, not the initial agreement to sign it. members of congress say the president is alienating key allies. peter navarro had this to say on "fox news sunday." >> chris commander is a special place in for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with president donald jay trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door. that is what bad faith, justin trudeau did with that press conference. that was one of the worst political miscalculation in modern canadian history. >> trudeau said canada would move forward with talent tori mashers next month. >> the administration's choice to impose illegal and i'm except double tariffs, illegitimate and unacceptable tariffs to canadian steel workers and other workers must be met with an equivalent response. >> from accusing the prime minister of making false statement at the news conference

reporting at the white house, i'm ellison barber, fox news. >>> coming up, san francisco moving forwardshoot up. details on this controversial first of its kind center going up in the city. >> there is no faith-based in drugs. zero safety. >> also new information from health officials that shows this flu season was the deadliest on record for children. >>> president trump today said he will likely support a bipartisan effort in congress to ease the government ban on marijuana. the federal ban on marijuana has created a conflict with more than 2 dozen states that have legalized marijuana in some form. the legislation would ensure states have the right to determine the best approach to marijuana within their borders. some u.s. restrictions would remain though including recreational sales of marijuana to people younger than 21. >>> san francisco is moving forward with its plan to open drug injection centers. a press conference was held today to discuss the idea. these centers will be the first of the kind in the nation. they provide addicts a place to bring their own drugs and shoot up und

kristin: ellison barber live at the white house. thank you.and: despite the executive order last week, hundreds of children remain separated from their parents. trump administration says the government does the location of all children in its custody and is working with them to reunite families and their children. just all live in texas at the very latest. have you seen any of those reunions yourselves? >> we have not. it is very hot. it's windy and all sorts of dust flying through the air. it hasn't stopped hundreds of people that come out here to protest. the zero-tolerance immigration policy has separated more than two dozen immigrant kids from their parents. this group specifically during attention to the so-called tent city a few hundred yards away from where we are were couple hundred boys and girls are being housed ages 12 to 17. they just spoke a little while ago. he's worried about the gifts being reunited with families and blames the trump administration for what's happening. >> keep putting pressure on the segment ration until we se

ellison barber joins us live from the scene with late developments. >> reporter: hi, julie. yeah, right now police are holding off on giving a name. sources have told fox news that the suspect has not been cooperating with investigators. our sources have told us that he actually mutilated his fingers seemingly in an effort to make it more difficult for police to identify him. the police as they held a press conference within the last hour pushed back on some of that not officially confirming it but again, we have heard from our sources that that is one of the reasons why they ve much difficulty today identifying this man. police say thatwhite adult male in his 30s and as you said, julie, they say that this was a targeted attack. he came into this building trying to go after the capital gazette. five people were killed, at least two injured, although police say their injuries are relatively minor and seem to have mostly come from shattered glass. in terms of exactly how or why this person may have targeted the capital gazette, police are not officially saying. but as you just

for all the latest reaction, let's had to ellison barber live at the white house. >> this letter is signedthe president's attorney, jay secular from january 28 team, dated january 29th, 2018. the president has added a new member to his legal team who giuliani did not write this letter, but the legal argument in it are strong. giuliana also says that it comes to a sitdown between the president of special counsel robert mueller he hasn't ruled it out, but it's not particularly keen on it. >> there's gotbe a high bar they have to reach in convincing that we look at two things we need. if they can convince us to be brief, to the point in five or six points they have to clarify and without the 10 at this nightmare the american public over. the mac they argue that an in-person interview between mueller and president trump is not necessary because the special counsel has all the answers in the form of document in interviews to any questions they plan on asking president trump. they argue the president's actions could not be obstruction because he has a constitutional and legal authority to and th

garrett tenney standing by in washington but we begin with ellison barber live at the white house. >> hi, laura, so much of yesterday centered around the letter that was being delivered to president trump from north korean leader kim jong un, senior white house official telling fox news that president trump read the letter before he departed for marine one yesterday. he is spending the weekend at camp david. the president boarded marine one with some family members, daughter and son-in-law/senior aides ivanka and jared, donald, jr. and tiffany, first lady is staying in dc this weekend. vice president hand-delivered a letter and then eight days after capg ealing the june 12th summit, president trump announced the summit is back on. >> what's your stance on what the north koreans are willing to do on the issue of denuclearization? are they -- >> i think they want to do. i know they want to do that. they want other things along the line. they want to develop as a country. that's going to happen. i have no doubt. japan is involved as you know and south korea is very much involved. we will

mike: ellison barber from the white house. laura. >> let's bring in political panel, kim, republican strategists and talk america contributor, liberal commentator anushe hussein, thank you both for being with us today. >> thank you. >> kim, i want to start with you, in this letter challenges mueller that there are questions remaining that haven't been answered in the large amount of documents that they have handed over to mueller's team. how well do you think the argument will work? >> i think it's going to work because if you keep in mind the president has a constitutional right to actually say i'm not going to sit down for these questions, i think they've tried something like this in the past in 1998 like with bill clinton and didn't go further either. seems to be a hoax, they aren't finding any collusion with russia, with president trump whatsoever. the fact that he's entertaining this, i think, is great on his part to but he does care about the investigation. he wants people to know there is no russian collusion. he does n

we get live coverage now from fox news' ellison barber in washington, d.c.se voted down one bill today and delayed a vote on a more moderate bill. >> reporter: right. they are expected to look at that more moderate bill tomorrow but even when it comes to that bill, there is not a lot of optimism that anything will get done. president trump says while he thinks the executive order order he signed was a very good order, that it is limited and it is only a start and he says that now congress needs to step up and close immigration loopholes. >> the bill is not passed. >>> reporter: the first of two republican-led immigration bills voted down on the house floor. lawmakers rejected representative bob goodlatte's version in part because it did not offer a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who came to the u.s. illegally as children. so-called "dreamers." the second dubbed the compromise bill remains on the table and includes funding for a border wall and offers a path to citizenship for "dreamers." >> daca, the immigration system is broken, the border is un

reporting at the white house, ellison barber. fox news. >> the emotionally charge debate raised in all media this week especially social media. bryan llenas has a look at that. >> fact is when you take an already emotional situation and add children into the debate, emotions will run extremely high. the newest addition of "time magazine", the cover has added more fuel to the fire. it shows a two-year-old girl crying as the president is towering over and looking down the toddler. the cover reads welcome to america. the little girl was crouched -- cropped in a photo. "time magazine" in its article said that after the photo was taken the girl was separated from her mother. that is not true. it turns out that the mother and her daughter will never split up and are still together. the white house press secretary sarah sanders says the image is misleading tweeting quote - it's shameful that the media exploited the photo. she was not separated from her mother. the democrats should fix the broken immigration system # change the laws. "ti

jon: ellison barber at the white house. thanks. >>> meanwhile, demonstrators calling for an end to the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. keep families together rallies and protests drawing thousands across the country today. >> we have to reject this zero tolerance policy because it makes zero sense. it is cruel. it is inhumane and it is immoral! and we must insist that these children who are intense in 100-degree temperatures, be taken and reunited with their families now. jon: some of the protests along the southern border where, jeff paul joins us from texas, jeff? reporter: john, this is the entrance to the facility drawing so much attention, the so-called tent city, hundreds of immigrant boys and girls now between the ages of 12 and 17, some of which were separated by their parents. 30 miles northwest of where we are, a group of 30 parents arrived in el paso. immigrant adults who they split as part of the zero tolerance policy, they're staying in a shelter as they try to track down kids. this comes on the s

ellison barber has the latest from the white house. ellison, good evening. what are the arguments against a sit-down? >> the legal team for president trump has changed a little bit since january. but what you have here are two of his attorneys arguing and essentially pointing to case law and also documents and interviews to say he shouldn't sit down with robert mueller. they suggested an in person interview between mr. mueller and president trump is not necessary because the special counsel in their view already has the answers to the questions that they plan on asking. the letter says, quote, after reviewing the list of topics you presented, it is abundantly clear to the undersigned that all of the answers to your inquiries are contained in the exhibits and testimony that have already been voluntarily provided to you by the white house and witnesses. it goes on to say, quote, in light of these voluntary offerings, your office clearly lacks the requisite need to personally interview the president, the information you seek is practically available from anothe

. >> ellison barber is live now from washington with more. ellison, the ig testified this week. what do we expect to hear? >> the report is over 500 pages long. there are many options when it comes to questions and republican congressman says at this point he already knows he's going to have quite a few of them. >> the hilary clinton failure to prosecute was predicated upon two things, number one, that her e-mails were not exposed to foreign actors. there's some evidence that that's not true. evidence of intent.ere was no well, of course there's no evidence of intent. you didn't bother to ask her. you went into the interview knowing that she was not going to be charged. so i think some members will ask about that. a lot of members are going to ask about the bias. >> the inspector general says former fbi director comey failed to follow established protocols and was insubordinate but they say the investigation was not motivated by political bias. the two fbi officials exchanged thousands of messages, many antitrump on the third page of the ig report summary it says quote we were c

and that people in the clinton program for clinton and against trump. >> ellison barber, thank you. the next chapter in the justice department watchdog report is the ig set to testify on tuesday. what can we expect on the rhetoric? will take the substrate ahead. >> the holiday cease-fire in afghanistan took a deadly turn over the weekend. two separate suicide bombings have happened in the past two days. dozens were killed, isis now claiming one of the attacks. we are live in the middle east puree with connor. who was the exact specific target of these attacks? >> this cease-fire did not stop all the violence in afghanistan. they were real was important because it was an agreement between the afghan government and the taliban. we saw the taliban goes into cities, laid on weapons and celebrate the muslim holiday. the problem with this cease-fire is it did not include isis who launched a series of attacks on the taliban fighters. both the afghan government and the caliban our enemies and isis used these cease-fires to attack the caliban in two different situations. yesterday they kille

>> ellison barber at the white house. ellison, thank you very much. for more on this, let's bring in white orrespondent for the "washington examiner". good to see you >> thanks for having me. >> the new york times says this is a broad interpretation of executive authority and it is a novel approach and likely to be tested if a courtattle ensues, what do you think? >> well, you know, if you look through the pages of ts letter that was sent in january, it is clear that they think president trump has the constitutional authority to end this investigation, and that therefore you know prohibits him from obstructing justice, as ellison just read earlier that, wrote in this giuliani -- or i'm sorry, the president's outside attorneys say that he cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer and therefore would be obstructing himself. that's really what they are arguing here, and it will be interesting to see if they ultimately decline a sit-down interview with mueller's team. whether or not the special counsel moves forward with a su

arthel: ellison barber, thank you.hile, defense secretary mattis is restating the president's position that north korea must get rid of all of its nuclear weapons. mr. mattis speaking at a security conference in singapore which happens to be the site of the up coming summit. also took aim at china. garrett tenney has more on what he said. hi, garrett. >> the u.s. is walking a bit of a diplomatic tight rope with china. on one hand we need their help with north korea but on the other hand, they have taken aggressive steps to build up their military presence in the disputed south china sea, something china's president recently said he would not be doing. today secretary mattis said beijing has deployed anti-ship and anti-air missiles to islands in that region as well as electronic jammers and nuclear capable bombers. mattis promised there would be consequences despite china's claims to the contrary. >> despite china's claims to the contrary, the placement of these weapon systems is tied directly to military use for the pu

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ellison barber is live in the newsroom with details.h plaintiffs but not entirely agreeing. what is the doj arguing about this? >>reporter: they think because the new tax law gets rid of the mandate penalty starting in 2019 that the individual mandate is unconstitutional as our two provisions. provisions that are supposed to protect people with pre-existing conditions. the department of justice told the court that those provisions cannot be separated from the mandate. 20 states are arguing that all of obamacare needs to be struck down because the individual mandate is unconstitutional now that the penalty is gone. the department of justice is only making their argument about those two provisions. they say the other provisions can be separated from the individual mandate. democrats say this is sabotage and they are urging the administration to reverse course. - - writing quote, it is time to stop the sabotage. we are a country of laws and the laws must be respected, defended and enforced regardless of the person occupying the oval office

. >> fox news's ellison barber joins us live in washington, d.c. for the latest. >>> reporter: president reagan nominated justice anthony kennedy for the supreme court in the late 1980s. he served on the court since february of '88. his retirement offers president trump a rare opportunity to try and cement conservative control of the high court. >>> reporter: supreme court justice anthony kennedy is stepping down. the 81-year-old said in a statement his resignation is effective as of july 31st. >> this retirement is earth- shattering and gut-wrenching. >> reporter: the president praised the long-time justice for his 30 years of service and says the search for a new justice will begin immediately. >> he is a man who is displaying great vision. he displayed tremendous vision and tremendous heart. and he will be missed. >> reporter: justice kennedy cast the swing vote on several divisive issues, including abortion, affirmative action, and same-sex marriage. >> need to have someone who has the ability to see both sides of an issue, is not ideological,

cheryl: ellison barber live in washington with what this means to the possible, maybe nuclear summit.ter to president trump from north korean dictator kim jong un. he's be the most senior north korean official to visit the white house in 18 years, back in 2000 top military leader delivered a letter to then president bill clinton from kim jong un's father, one of kim jong un's closest aides, many call him the dictator's right-hand man, former intelligence chief who was sanctioned by the u.s. because of the 2014 hack on sony pictures, u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo spent 2 days meeting with him in new york. a week ago president trump sent letter to north korean leader kim jong un canceling the highly-anticipated june 12th summit. the summit is still not officially back on but pompeo says there is progress. >> we have made real progress in the last 72 hours towards setting the conditions, the conditions are putting president trump and chairman kim jong un where there can be real progress. it does no good if we don't think there's good opportunity. >> hopefully the summit happens in

ellison barber has more on this back and forth. reporter: july 1 canada says it will impose $1.8 billion in retaliatory tariffs. joe yogurt, chocolate. coffee, whiskey, playing card, toilet paper, ballpoint opinions. >> i don't want to hurt american workers. they are our neighbors and friend. my job is to stand up for canadian workers. the administration's choice to impose illegal and unacceptable tariffs, illegitimate and unacceptable tariffs to canadian steel workers and auto workers must be met with an equivalent response. reporter: the news conference enraged the president and his administration. they said canada wronged the u.s. on trade for years. the u.s. steel and aluminum tariffs on canada, mexico and the european union are a national security necessity. they are look at tariffs on automobile imports. >> there is a special place in hell for any foreign leader who engages in bad faith diplomacy with donald j. trump then tries to stab him in the back on their way out the door. to my friends in canada, that was one of the wor

ellison barber is in washington with more.orter: the department of justice says they agree partly with the plaintiffs in this case.in a rare move, will not defend an existing loan. democrats say it's sabotage an attack on people with pre-existing conditions and they are urging the administration to reverse course. for senator send a letter to president trump writing quote, we are a country of laws and the laws must be respected, defended and enforced regardless of the person occupying the oval office. 20 states are suing over the individual mandate arguing it's unconstitutional because the new tax law got rid of the individual mandate penalty. the penalty discipline court used to uphold the law in 2012. those states claimed if the individual mandate is unconstitutional, the entire law is. the department of justice agrees that it's now unconstitutional and they say to provisions that protect people with pre-existing conditions are invalid as well. the department of justice is only making their argument about those provisions. o

ellison barber reports from washington, dc. >>> reporter: president trump is speaking at a campaign rallyht now. immigration is expected to be something that he talks about. a few hours ago he signed that executive order aimed at keeping families who are detained at the u.s./mexico border together. it was a dramatic reversal for the president who claimed more than once that only congress had the power to stop the controversial separation. >> it's about keeping families together while at the same time being sure that we have a very powerful, very strong border. >> we look forward and expect the house to act this week. we ask them to do their jobs. >> reporter: president trump signed an executive order aimed at ending the separation of families at the southern border. >> thank you very much, everybody. >> reporter: he offered few details in the announcement of the white house meeting with congressional leaders, but sources told fox news the order would allow children of adults illegally crossing the border to stay with their parents through the entire adjudication process potentially keepin

>> ellison barber in washington tonight, thank you. >>> the first lady's visit to the texas border today was not without controversy. some people questioned the jacket she was wearing when she got on the plane. on the back of her jacket it said i really don't care, do u? a spokesman for mrs. trump says there is no hidden message behind the jacket. she took it off when she arrived in texas. the first lady changed her jacket during the texas visit but was wearing it again when she arrived back at andrews air force base in maryland. >>> california and 10 other states are planning to sue the trump administration over the separation of children from their families. they say that president trump's executive order halted the separations does not reunite parents and children who have already been torn apart. the lawsuit announcement was made today outside of a federal prison south of seattle where 200 immigrants had been transferred. they include dozens of women separated from their children under the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. >>> someone who is unhappy with the family separation

ellison barber reports. >> reporter: justice kennedy's retirement goes into effect at the end of july. already lawmakers seem to be preparing for a fight when it comes to his replacement. he was nominated by president reagan. he served as a key swing vote since february of 1988. >>> reporter: supreme court justice anthony kennedy is stepping down. the 81-year-old said in a statement his resignation is effective as of july 31st. >> this retirement is earth- shattering and gut-wrenching. >> reporter: the president praised the long-time justice for his 30 years of service and says the search for a new justice will begin immediately. >> he is a man who is displaying great vision. he displayed tremendous vision and tremendous heart. and he will be missed. >> reporter: justice kennedy cast the swing vote on several divisive issues, including abortion, affirmative action, and same-sex marriage. >> need to have someone who has the ability to see both sides of an issue, is not ideological, is going to use his best judgment when looking at cases. >> reporter: maj ority leader mitch mcconnell sa

here's correspondent ellison barber. >> on july 1st, canada says it will impose roughly 12.8 billion dollars worth of retaliatory tariffs on the u.s., taxes on goods in two lists, variation of products made from steel, iron, aluminium, items many americans have at home, yogurt, chocolate, maple syrup, coffee, whiskeys, playing cards, toilet paper, ballpoint pens. >> i don't want to hurt american workers. they are our neighbors. they are our friends. my job is to stand up for canadian workers. >> the prime minister trudeau says he does not want to impose the tariffs but claims he has no choice. >> the administration's choice to impose illegal and unacceptable tariffs illegitimate and unacceptable tariffs to canadian steelworkers and autoworkers, must be met with an equivalent response. >> that news conference enraged the president and his administration. they say canada has wronged the u.s. on trade for years, that the u.s.'s steel and aluminium tariffs on canada, mexico and the european union are a national security necessity. president trump says the u.s. is now looking at adding mo

ellison barber is live in washington with the story. >> in a court filing the administration side with the 20 republican-led state suing over the individual mandate. the states say obamacare as a whole is unconstitutional because the new tax law got rid of the individual mandate by just dropping the penalty to zero dollars. the supreme court upheld this in 2012 as an appropriate use congress taxation powers. administration agrees in part and says the individual mandate is now unconstitutional as are two provisions per the guarantee issue provision and community ratings provision. provision is meant to protect people with pre-existing conditions.in a letter addressed to house speaker, paul ryan, jeff sessions explains why the department of justice will not defend obamacare in this situation. and says he made the decision with the approval of the president. president trump has long said he wants to repeal and replace obamacare but he also repeatedly talked about how a replacement is to protect people with pre-existing conditions.here he is speaking to congress in february of 2017. we do

ellison barber reports. >> reporter: justice kennedy's retirement goes into effect at the end of julyady lawmakers seem to be preparing for a fight when it comes to his replacement. he

. >> ellison barber is live with details in washington. >> hi eric.the president agree to the g7 finalounced all seven countries agreed to it. then president trump tweeted something else entirely. writing quote - based on justin's false statement, in his news conference and the fact that canada is charging massive tariffs to our u.s. farmers, workers and companies, i've instructed the u.s. not to endorse this as we look at tariffs on automobiles flooding the u.s. market. in another treatment the president called the prime minister dishonest and weak. at the press conference at seemingly start the president tweets. justin trudeau said canada would refer with retaliatory tariffs starting july 1. >> i highlighted directly to the president that canadians did not take it lightly. that the united states has moved forward with significant tariffs on the steel and aluminum industry. particularly, we do not take lightly the fact that the national security reason. >> the members of congress or the presidents response crossed the line and he is alienating key allies. >> this was not just with jus

. >> thank you, ellison barber in washington. >>> some people say the executive order seems like a catch-22 keeping families together while still enforcing the "zero tolerance" policy on immigration. >> rob malcolm reports from the newsroom. >>> reporter: that executive order may have been signed but local lawmakers and even experts say not much has changed with that "zero tolerance" policy still being enforced. they expect legal battles to follow. >> we're going to have a lot of happy people. >>> reporter: after insisting only congress can solve the problem, the president signed the executive order designed to keep migrant families together. but what really happened here? >> children will continue to be held. i suppose that you could say it's a victory of sorts for political sentiment in the sense that the children will not be separated from their parents. >> reporter: there's little compromise says this professor. >> okay. we're not going to separate the children from the parents. but we're going to detain you for a long time together. and, um, and in order to get the authorization to

. >> ellison barber has more from the white house. >>> reporter: president trump has been making wavesdential pardons. so far he showed a preference for conservatives and celebrities he feels have been wronged by the system including the late boxers jack johnson. today he floated another famous name from the ring. >> i'm thinking about muhammed ali and some others. >> reporter: there's confusion. ali's conviction for dodging the draft was overturned by the supreme court in 1971. the family attorney thanked the president but saying that there is no conviction from which a pardon is needed. the move comes just two days after president trump commuted the sentence of convicted drug dealer alice johnson after being lobbied by kim kardashian drawing criticism from some who say the president needs to look beyond celebrities when exercising his pardoning powers. >> there's usually a legal process that goes along with pardoning people and commuting people's sentences. and the president just took one meeting with kim kardashian so there is some sort of criticism or speculation. >> reporter: but

here's correspondent ellison barber. >> on july 1st, canada says it will impose roughly 12.8 billionworth of retaliatory tariffs on the u.s., taxes on goods in two lists, variation of products made from steel, iron, aluminium, items many americans have at home, yogurt, chocolate, maple syrup, coffee, whiskeys, playing cards, toilet paper, ballpoint pens. >> i don't want to hurt american workers. they are our neighbors. they are our friends. my job is to stand up for canadian workers. >> the prime minister trudeau says he does not want to impose the tariffs but claims he has no choice. >> the administration's choice to impose illegal and unacceptable tariffs illegitimate and unacceptable tariffs to canadian steelworkers and autoworkers, must be met with an equivalent response. >> that news conference enraged the president and his administration. they say canada has wronged the u.s. on trade for years, that the u.s.'s steel and aluminium tariffs on canada, mexico and the european union are a national security necessity. president trump says the u.s. is now looking at adding more tariff

all right, ellison barber at the white house with more. >> hi, neil, yeah, president trump left for lasegas this morning and left the white house at about 9:30 a.m. in las vegas he is set to fund raise and campaign for nevada senator dean heller and he's also expected to host a round table on tax reform and then head back to d.c. a little later tonight. he is still back here in d.c. and across the country, really, facing a lot of heat when it comes to his zero tolerance policy at the southern border. yesterday, president trump attacked democrats for pushing what he calls phony stories of sadness and grief. and he tried to get the nation to focus on the stories of so-called angel families. >> these are the american citizens, permanently separated from their loved ones. no major network sent cameras to their homes, or displayed the images of their incredible loved ones across the nightly news. they don't do that. they don't talk about the death and destruction caused by people that shouldn't be here, people that will continuously get into trouble and do bad things. >> some say the preside

ellis ellison barber is bedminster where the president is spending the weekend it has an annual budget of $6 billion, according to ice, that primarily goes to three areas, homeland security investigation, office of principal legal advisor and enforcement and removal operations on the left, as you said, there are growing calls now to get rid of the agency some say they have overstepped, they're more focused on two-year-olds instead of terrorists and terrorizing immigrant communities at large. and president trump addressed some criticisms, tweeting in part to the great and brave men and women of ice, do not worry or lose your spirit. you're doing a fantastic job of keeping us staff by eradicating the worst criminal elements and the radical left dems want you out and next it's zero chance, it will never happen. in an interview set to air tomorrow on sunday morning futures, fox's maria bartiromo looked at ice. >> a 20-year-old socialist who beat out joe crowley says abolish ice, and christian gillibrant saying abolish ice. >> i hope they're thinking about it, they're going to get beaten so

let's head over to ellison barber over at the white house. >> the president is tweeting with the numbers and he also tweeted about them yesterday. about an hour before they were publicly released. he sent out a tweet and he didn't give specific numbers, but he did seem to be enthusiastic, writing, quote, looking forward to seeing the unemployment numbers at 8:30 this morning. the president is traditionally briefed on these numbers before they're publicly released. the numbers are good. the department of labor says 223,000 jobs were added last month and the unemployment rate is down to 3.8%. that's the lowest unemployment rate since 2000, but some say the president's tweet early friday morning crossed a line and violated longstanding federal rules. the former press secretary to president george w. bush and contributor ari fleischer said this certainly was a no-no, the advanced info is sacrosanct and not to be shared. they say the white house did nothing wrong. i looked at the tweet this morning, i don't think he gave anything away. >> the president welcomed a top north korean official to

ellison barber here to break down what the justice department is doing and what it could mean politically good to see you. so, it was a unique rare move for the department of justice to say they weren't going to defend this in court. on thursday, the trump administration did this and they said they would not defend the affordable care act. and in the filing, sided with republican-led states who say the mandate is unconstitutional and so are two provisions meant to protect people with preexisting conditions. president trump said that obamacare is a bad law and he wants to repeal and replace it, but repeatedly talked about how a replacement must protect people with preexisting conditions. said on twitter, i would not sign graham-cassidy if it did not cover pre-existing conditions and told congress and 60 minutes something similar in the past couple of years. >> we should ensure that americans with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage, and that we have a stable transition for americans currently enrolled in the health careexchanges. i am going to take care of everybody. i don't ca

let's head over to ellison barber over at the white house. >> the president is tweeting with the numbers tweeted about them yesterday. about an hour before they were