>> 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

reporter ellison barber joins us live from helsinke with more on what's happening at this hour. 0. >> they were set to meet for this bilateral meeting for 90 minutes. this started around 2:16 p.m. local time. now just after 4:00. this meeting has gone longer than we expect. we don't know exactly what's happening inside now but after they finish their bilateral meeting they're expected to have a working lunch and press conference afterwards. we heard from president trump and vladimir putin heading into this meeting frank and that was something we weren't expecting to hear at all. we weren't expecting him to speak to the press but they did and they both seem to head into the meeting saying they had a lot to discuss. >>> do we know by both presidents opted to do a one-on- one meeting with translators as opposed to bringing in an advisor or two. >> only speculation at this point on my end at least but this is something you have heard both parties say. president trump told cbs news he had low expectations heading in but perhaps something would be surprised and come out of it but both leade

ellison barber. >> reporter: from washington. >> i'm looking forward to a good meeting.ugh spending a third day on capitol hill meeting lawmakers ahead of confirmation hearings that could make him justice cavanaugh. so far, republicans have been generally supportive with some even predicting they could pick up votes from democrats in states president trump won in 2016. >> i think democrats will jump on board. but they will be hesitant. >> reporter: democratic opposition seems to be coalescing around an effort to influence moderate republicans. a coalition of liberal groups joining with democrats to launch a coordinated campaign ahead of the confirmation spending $10 million to highlight the stakes on key issues like healthcare and abortion. supporters see it as a way to not only sink the nomination but also keep red state democrats from supporting cavanaugh. >> we are trying to rise to the challenge here and make investments that will help position our democrats and potentially either susan collins or murkowski to oppose it. >> reporter: they are the most likely defector

ellison barber with the latest.ough turmoil not only through political turmoil in deals with scrutiny over the zero tolerance policy at the border. a lot of the united states mexico border from texas. and during our time here there's been days nothing has been planned that we've seen impromptu dinner rations outside of one of these child holding facilities in texas. video now inside the facility at fox news was given an inside book earlier this week although journalists are not allowed to shoot there in pictures. this was video given to us by hhs for more than 300 kids are being kept in air-conditioned tents. mostly adolescent boys ranging from 13 to 17 years old and some girls house here as well. the department of health in humans services says out of all the kids, 22 were classified as separations. hhs has what they call detect its assigned to each one of these cases working to find the miners parent first if they are unsuccessful, they try locating another family member guardian. detectives also help facilitate t

ellison barber is live near the president's club in new jersey. ellison, nice to see you.use preparing for monday's big announcement? >> hey, mike, so the white house says that -- or sources tell us that the white house is working on what is known as rollout packages for four different candidates, brett kavanaugh, raymond kethledge, amy barrett and the last person the sources are calling at this point a dark horse when it comes to the potential final nominee thomas hardiman. vice president pence met with three of those candidates this week. sources are telling us that he met with kavanaugh on wednesday in d.c. at the naval observatory and then on monday and tuesday he met with barrett and kethledge when he was in indiana. the president and vice president had dinner last night. deputy press secretary told fox news the pair talked about a number of things including monday's supreme court announcement. senate democrats are encouraging their supporters to seek out against the president's nominee. they have previously said republicans should follow the precedent that they set w

but we begin with ellison barber in berkeley heights new jersey near the president's golf club where he's wrapping up the weekend. ellison, talk about the trump cohen tape. what makes mr. giuliani think it's been tampered with. reporter: he says the tape ends abruptly and forensic experts can tell it's been played with in some form or fashion, played is the word that mr. giuliani used when we spoke to him yesterday. beyond that, giuliani has not offered specific evidence as to what makes him think the recording was tampered with. he had the trump-cohen recording analyzed by two forensic experts and some retired fbi agents who he's worked with in the past, according to mr. giuliani. they came back to him and said it is a tape of a tape and could not say it ends abruptly because mr. cohen turned it off in realtime or something happened to it after the fact. when i spoke to him on the phone, giuliani said there were more recordings and he wants them released. on cbs face the nation, giuliani said there are 180 recordings of cohen and others. >> one of those were the president of the unit

. >> ellison barber is live near the president's golf club with more. reporter: hi, mike, the president and legal team have gone back and forth on the idea of a sitdown between president trump and special counsel robert mueller. today his personal attorney rudy giuliani said they are leaning closely towards not doing it at all. >> have you simply determined that the president is not going to sit down. >> we have not, we're close to determining that, but the reason for the extension are the extraordinary things that happen that we didn't expect. reporter: giuliani told the "new york times," and confirmed to fox news that the president's legal team wants the special counsel to produce evidence proving the president committed a crime before they'll let him sit down with mr. mueller. on twitter this weekend, president trump repeated a familiar phrase calling the investigation a rigged witch-hunt. democrats have long said that those attacks are illegitimate and whether it comes from the president or congressional republicans, that is part of an effort to dis

with more on that and the white house reaction on this, ellison barber. what are they saying? >> the president loves the numbers. you heard from him awhile ago. if we wanted to summarize his message, it could be victory, things are going great. by his account, the administration takes the credit. listen. >> we've accomplished a economic turn around of historic proportions. we're the economic envy of the entire world. when i meet the leaders of countries, the first thing they say, mr. president so nice to meet you. congratulations on your economy. you're leading the world. they say it each and every time. america is being respected again and winning again because we're finally putting america first. >> economists say these numbers are a short-term sugar high, a temporary boost and not sustainable in the long run. the president says it is sustainable and that's what his economic advisers are saying as well. >> in a cyclical business cycle sense, we're coming awful a low inventory base. if inventories were the big contributor and you know they have to be worked off at some point,

we begin with ellison barber who is in new jersey not far from where the president is staying this weekend. so ellison, the white house is getting ready for monday's major announcement. how many justices are in the final running? >> the president -- well, president trump says he has narrowed it down to four from what we're hearing when we speak to sources. the white house seems to be focusing on four candidates as well when it comes to their prep work, heading into monday evening. the sources are telling fox news that the white house is working on what's known as rollout packages for four candidates brett kavanaugh, raymond kethledge, amy barrett and thomas hardiman, the last candidate hardiman is considered to be lower on the list of four and somewhat of a dark horse. vice president pence reportedly met with three of those this week. sources tell fox news he met with kavanaugh on wednesday, on monday and tuesday he met with barrett and kethledge when he was in indiana. heading into the dinner last night, sources told us the president and vice president would compare notes on candidates an

ellison barber live for us in washington, d.c. what we can expect from that, morning, ellison. >> peter strzok is expected to tell lawmakers that his work has never been tainted by political bias, he's expected to be on capitol hill today. democrats say that all of this is part of political gained at discrediting the special counsel investigation. strzok previously sat down with lawmakers for 11 hours, dim contracts are calling release full transcript of the closed-door deposition. congressman said the american public should see what republicans are doing with their tax dollars adding, this, quote, this investigation is political charade, platform to elevate far-right conspiracy theories and undermine the special counsel's ongoing criminal investigation of the president and campaign aides, strzok's antitrump messages raised concerned about political bias in the counsel investigation even though robert mueller removed him of the team after learning about the text messages, yesterday from brussels, president trump called russia prob

arthel: in helsinki, ellison barber has the latest. reporter: president trump called the european union a foe. president trump referred to russia a number of times as a competitor, not an enemy. a description criticized by some. his remarks about the e.u. are raising eyebrows. he's on his way to finland after spending the first part of the weekend in scotland. the meeting in finland is a headlining event. russian military action in crimea, russia meddling in the 2016 election and joinltd military proliferation. the u.s. ambassador to russia says this is a meeting that absolutely needs to happen. >> you have to build trust in a relationship that has none. so the collective blood pressure in our bilateral relationship is high. we are not talking with one another, we are talking past one another. reporter: the stakes are high. russia increasingly isolated itself from the rest of the world. the british government blames russia for a never agent attack that killed one of it citizens. the rest of the world, including the u.s., expelled russi

we will move on to the issue we just heard from ellison barber of god as it relates to rudy giuliani in his standoff with michael cohen. rudy giuliani may and july talk about the same man. take a listen. >> he doesn't have any incriminating evidence about the president for himself. >> if he's backed up against the wall, you will live because despite all his life. >> rudy giuliani and michael coen. is this going to be a problem if the white house wants to keep going a pathological liar couple months ago they said he's an honest, honorable lawyer. >> things have changed since then. the other things mr. giuliani said changed a lot of things. he was a trusted advisor for a while. taping a client is hardly what i see as being honest. things have changed their president trump didn't realize he was being taped. time will tell on this. when does the lawyer tv client? that is the issue i think is a real problem. time will tell them the public decide what is right and wrong in this case in the meeting that they're talking about what is the big problem they are saying the russians were looking

reporting in he i'm ellison barber ktv u fox two news. >>> brian joins us live on the phone this afternoon, president trump, brian, standing next to the russian president basically declining to back u.s. intelligence, would you call it an unprecedented refuse al. >> possibly mike, it was odd to watch. i think usually in that situation i president would say intelligent services know what they know. adimir putin offered to have russian agents interrogate t12 under u.s. indictment. how much further can that go? with that is that there had to be a reciprocal move by the united states to allow interviews with people here who may have illegally made money in russia. and avoided taxes and that sort of thing. so in all these situations it's never one sided. there's always an exchange. and i'm not sure that this goes any place to be honest with you. >> i was sitting at my desk watching the post game analysis watching the feedback come in from republicans and democrats and bob corker said something that stood out. the republican senator from tennessee and he said he thought vladimir putin would be e

julie: ellison barber, thank you very much.spark a reaction from vice president mike pence s&m with maria bartiromo. a wide-ranging exclusive interview. that heirs to mauritanian eastern on "sunday morning futures". here's a preview. >> the reality is in the last two administrations, the economy grew by less than two percent. in the first few much of the ministration we are little shy lester we are on track to be at three percent or better this year. we really believe the internals of the numbers, whether it be the dramatic increase in business investment or dramatic increase in american exports, all support the conclusion that the policies the president has been advancing, that republican congress has supported directly working to revive the economy. mike: new jersey republican congressman on the house energy and commerce committee and my guess, great to have you, sir. >> thank you. >> this is a pretty wonky number. how do explain the big number, 4.1 percent yesterday to the constituents? >> i think it is due to a series of fa

ellison barber has the latest live in new jersey down the road from the president's golf course. a. former secretary pruitt's resignation is effective today. he spent months trying to explain ethical questions. there's more than a dozen federal investigations into his behavior. he came under fire for his security detail, which is larger and cost more than what his predecessors had. he rented an inexpensive condo from a lobbiest and he installed a sound proof phone booth that cost $43,000. his resignation was unexpected to those of us in the media. he attended the white house fourth of july celebration the other day. president trump says that pruitt told him he planned to resign a couple days ago. and his letter mentioned unrelenting attacks taking a toll on him and his family. president trump told reporters there wasn't one particular thing that led to his resignation. there was no final straw. he called pruitt a terrific guy. he told reporters on air force one "i think scott felt he was a distraction. it was up to him." reaction came nancy pelosi tweeting one down, one to go unti

ellison barber is live in new jersey. >> hi julie.reporters he thought he would make a decision on who he wants to nominate to the supreme court by sunday.of course the official announcement will come or is expected to come monday night around 9 o'clock. the vice president was in bedminster for a little bit he had dinner last night with the present. the press secretary talked about a number of things including monday's announcement of a new supreme court nominee. the vice president report we met with three candidates this week and told fox news he met with brett kavanaugh wednesday in d.c. and on monday and tuesday he met with amy barrett and raymond kethledge in indiana. sources said the president spoke with six judges peer but the white house is only preparing rollout packages for four of them. cavanaugh, kethledge, barrett and hardemon. we also following is an account of the special counsel, robert mueller.the president's outside legal counsel says that the president is going to sit down with for an interview with mr. mueller, they

. >> ellison barber is live from berkeley heights in new jersey near the president's golf course. reporter: hello. the president, the ministration are pointing to the numbers, the gdp growth and economy, any chance to get they see it as a sign of successful governance. here is vice president mike pence in an interview set to air tomorrow on "sunday morning futures". >> we really believe the internals of these numbers, whether it be the dramatic increase in business investment, dramatic increase in american exports, all support the conclusion that the policies of president trump has been advancing that a republican congress has been supporting are actually working to revive this economy. reporter: of course, the ministration is dealing with more than one major new story right now. the helsinki summit the present came home to a lot of witticism for members of his own party with some accusing him of during the united states under the bus. last week the white house supports a number of people, even some of the top advisors made an announcement that president trump would invite the rus

ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. , ellison. >> hey, leland, president trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. he's set to head to tampa on tuesday for a campaign rally there. traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but president trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. >> i am going to work very hard. i'll go six or seven days a week when we're 60 days out and i will be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race, and we think we're going to bring them over the line and i believe that because we're doing so well as a country and so well with the economy, i think we're going to be surprising a lot of people. >> the president says a big selling point is the economy. that's what the white house is trying to keep the focus on in general, the economy. but a number of other stories are muddying the messaging waters, new questions about the 2016 meeting at

reporter: ellison barber is at the biat -- at the bedminster gf course.eporter: he says he has two forensics experts giuliani said he worked with in the past. we don't have names. they are experts that have been hired or solicited by the trump legal team. he said the tape is not an original. that someone played with it. they are trying to obtain a copy of the original raw recording. cnn reported that cone is prepared to tell the special counsel that then candidate trump knew about the 2016 trump tower meeting his son arranged with russian officials. in may in an interview with cbs news juliany called cone an honest, honorable lawyer. giuliani said his opinion changed after he heard about the tapes. reporter: any response from the cohen camp in all this? reporter: some but not a whole lot. i reached out to lanny davis, cohen's attorney. he says the statement we received yesterday focused on reports that giuliani warned cohen to stop talking and he's violating attorney-client privilege. davis says mr. giuliani seems to be confused. here is giuliani on "fox

ellison barber live in washington what we can expect today, hi, ellison. >> good morning to you bothyou, peter strzok expected to tell law makers that political bias and personal opinion did not impact or taint his work. he's been the fbi for over 20 years, the associated press obtained a copy of strzok's prepared remarks and according to reporting, strzok will tell lawmakers the hearing is, quote, a victory notch in putin's belt, strzok's antitrump text messages with former fbi lawyer lisa page raised concerned about political bias and impact on the clinton e-mail investigation and ongoing russia probe. democrats say this is all part of a political game aimed at discrediting the special counsel's investigation. strzok previously sat down with lawmakers for 11 hours. democrats want republicans to release transcript of closed-door deposition. in a statement congressman argued that the american public deserves to see what republicans are doing with their tax dollars adding, quote, this investigation is a political charade, platform to elevate far-right conspiracy theories and undermine

ellison barber in new jersey traveling with the president before he heads back to d.c. >> hey come only lend to the president and his legal team have gone back and forth over whether the idea president trump will sit down and speak with robert mueller. they had said before that he wants to. the legal team said he has to see if that's a good idea. various potential timelines. they say they have not ruled it out, but now they are closer than ever to potentially not doing it good rudy giuliani said today that is what they are leaning towards. >> have you simply determine the president is not going to sit down? >> the reason for the extension by the extraordinary things that happen things that happen that we wouldn't expect. >> the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani confirmed to fox news the president legal team wants a special counsel to produce evidence proving the president committed a crime before they'll let him sit with mr. mueller. they talk to the special counsel about that and have communications with him in e-mails on the phone. president trump repeated a familiar phrase: the centr

ellison barber joins us with what both sides are saying. >> three former wrestlers at ohio state universityold nbc news republican congressman jim jordan either knew about sexual abuse involving the team doctor or he chose to ignore what was common knowledge. the congressman adamantly denying it. >> i know jim knew about the, what i call, the deviant atmosphere. >> how do you know? >> we all had conversations. there was a lot of banter about the doctor being a groper. >> he was a friend with something's changed. things he said were not true. >> jim jordan is already one of the most recognizable members of the house g.o.p. he serves on the oversight committee, cofounder of the house freedom caucus and he's being accused of ignoring sexual abuse. jordan worked at all housing diversity as an assistant wrestling coach more than 20 years ago. in april, ohio state announced they were investigating allegations of sexual misconduct involving the wrestling team's former position, dr. richard strauss. official said the incident involved strauss' behavior with student athletes from the mid-1970s to th

tough on a new target, hoping new threats will bring an american home appeared correspondent ellison barberwith the latest push to free pastor andrew brunson. >> lots of different moving parts. last week of bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would restrict international loans to turkey until the end the "unjust detention of u.s. citizens," one of them being pastor andrew brunson. the white house may not be waiting on capitol hill. >> to president erdogan and the turkish government. >> vice president mike pence closed out a conference on religious freedom with a warning to a nato ally. >> release pastor andrew brunson now or be prepared to face the consequences. if turkey does not take immediate action to free this innocent man of faith and sent him home to america, the united states will impose significant sanctions on turkey. >> president trump reiterating that on twitter, adding that brunson is suffering greatly. turkey seemed to respond to the president's tweet with a tweet of their own. the turkish minister of foreign affairs tweeted in english "no one dictates tur

ellison barber is tracking it. >> "wall street journal" has a report. are saying michael cohen secretly recorded chris cuomo earlier this year and that he talked about arranging the harsh payment to stormy daniels, telling cuomo i didn't on my own. "the wall street journal" breaking news related to the tapes we have already heard. citing a source familiar with the matter, the journal report cohen created a shell company in september 2016 with the intention of buying the rights to karen mcdougal story. mcdougall and daniel said they had affairs with trump. federal investigators seized 12 audio items when they raided michael cohen's office in april. the public recording has led to a number of questions in a number of responses. today twitter responses from the president, his personal lawyer, and cohen's lawyer. in the oval office, a cnn correspondent tried to ask about cohen and the tape. >> mr. president . did michael cohen betray you? >> why is vladimir putin not accepting your invitation. >> the president did not answer her question. according to cnn,

. >> ellison barber is live in berkeley had new jersey near the bedminster golf club where the president is spending the weekend. >> too much ago rudy giuliani told abc news that michael cohen was an honest, honorable lawyer. he says he is a pathological liar. giuliani claims he did not know michael cohen them like he does now. i spoke to mr. giuliani on the phone yesterday. he said everything changed when he found out about his secretly recorded tapes. he reiterated that today on "fox news sunday". >> the recording his clients, which is a disbarred table offense. obviously, i knew that i would never said anything about him being a reputable lawyer. i would say he's a scoundrel. now unfortunately, too many hours of tapes i listen. and he is a pathological manipulator, liar. i did not know that. i did not know him well but i knew nothing bad about michael cohen until all of this started to happen in the last couple of weeks. >> we reach out to michael cohen the attorney yesterday and again this morning be said we got the same statement yesterday as today. about the interview it focused on

thank you, ellison barber. >> we have the director of the national security law for george mason university and a former clerk to neil gorsuch. how are you? >> i am good. >> let's start with the list for what to make of the list, the sourcing for the list and who are the front runners and is there anything about any of the people on the list, the candidates that would get them denied? >> i don't think so per the president has a very transparent process. more than any other president out there. during the campaign he said here are the people i will pick from. when he got the first chance neil gorsuch was picked from that list. now he has five more people as the end of last year. now he will pick off of that list. there are some pressing him to pick off of a different list or add people but i think you will pick the list he has. we know the kind of judge he is talking about. the kind of jurors he's talking about. judges who will obey the law, interpret the law in line with what is written. that is what he did with neil gorsuch and that is what he got. >> yes the senator collins in maine is on

tonight correspondent ellison barber tells us what's behind the changes. >> supporters say the endangered species act is critical when it comes to protecting the ecosystem the bald ego, gray wolf, grizzly bear alligator. burdensome, harmful to businesses and outdated. >> even the u.s. constitution has been amended more recently than the endangered species act. >> the administration says it's time to make changes and clarifications. on thursday, the departments of interior and commerce unveiled what would be the most significant changes to the act in decades. the agencies want to change the definition of a threatened species. right now a threatened species in danger of extinction or likely in the foreseeable future. they want to narrow the definition of foreseeable future. provide procedures for designating critical habitat. experts say it will lead to easier construction of pipelines. environmentalists say all of it is dangerous. >> it will probably, over time and collectively, degrade many of the natural areas that are part of america's heritage. this isn't about small businesses. this i

correspondent ellison barber is here with that story. good evening. >> good evening to you. a whole lot of history, for the fins and russians a significant part of that history is war. >> in 1939, the soviet union invaded finland, historians say 25,000 fins died or went missing during the winter war. russia lost at least 48,000. this wasn't finland's first fight with russia. finland was part of the russian empire until 1917. more recently the fins and russians at times have a tepid relationship. the government says russia was behind a 2013 cyberattack on the foreign ministry. local polls show that most finnish people dislike president putin and most dislike president donald trump too. only 2% say putin makes the world a safer place. only 4% say trump makes the world a safer place. today in helsinki, some protesters marched along the cobblestone streets carrying signs and chanting. >> i think they should work for a better world because they are guys who have power to change things, and i wish everybody -- [inaudible] -- but i'm afraid these guys aren't doing it. >> but the pr

rob: ellison barber takes up our coverage from helsinki this morning. reporter: good morning.he administration says they have the upper hand, but it's no secret democrats say this meeting that is makes them uncomfortable. chuck schumer says he spoke with secretary of state mike pompeo on sunday. he told pompeo he doesn't believe the trump putin meeting should take place without, but if it's going to happen, president trump must press hard on the issue of election interference. you can't simply raise that accept elections denial and let him off the hook. the justice and of the 12 officers related to vacuum leak of democrats who knows during the 2016 election. they should demand that britain extradite all 12 of those officials can send them to the u.s. to stand trial. the indictment is a strong piece of evidence showing what u.s. intelligence community concluded long ago paid the russian government to help then candidate campaign and discredit hillary clinton. the latest indictment put them in the position of strength heading into the meeting with vladimir putin. >> i would say

ellison barber is with the president in new jersey, with the latest on what he's up to today. >> presidentmp says he has narrowed it down to four potential candidates who he's looking at. he says of course he will make his official announcement to the public monday evening. he says he will make a decision on those four, though, in his mind by sunday night. sources tell fox news that the white house is working on rollout packages for four candida candidates. they are brett kavanaugh, raymond kethledge, amy barrett and thomas hardiman. the president's interview with kethledge lasted longer than the others. the president spoke with him for about 40 minutes. hardiman is said to be sort of the dark horse candidate of those four. sources say that vice president pence net with -- met with kavanaugh and also met with barrett and kethledge. the meeting with kavanaugh in d.c. on wednesday. last night president trump sat down for dinner with vice president mike pence as well as his wife. we were told the plan going into that dinner was to compare notes on the top supreme court picks. neil: thank you

ellison barb barber has latest. >> reporter: on twitter thursday more than, president trump attacked the media and claimed that many of the story written about him and his staff are total fiction adding, quote, the fake news media wants so badly to so a major confrontation with rush yitzhak rabin even a confrontation that could lead to war. the tweets come as the president faces widespread criticism following his joint news conference monday in helsinki. >> president trump's actions have degraded the dignity of the office of the president. >> reporter: since leaving finland, the administration has tried to walk back an clarify some of president trump's comments. he said he strongly addressed election meddling during his closed door peteing with russian president vladimir putin. >> i let him know we can't have this. we are not going to have it. and that is the way it is going to be. >> reporter: but hours before the president seemed to say something different when asked by a reporter if he believed rush yaz was still have trying to interfere. president trump said no contradicting his