ellison barber reporting live at the white house. ellison? >> shep, that's right. despite all of that, the president, his top aides here at the white house and his outside legal team, they're saying the same thing, that right now they feel vindicated. in a statement from president trump's personal attorneys, they said "the report underscores what we've argued from the beginning, there was no collusion or obstruction. after a 17-month investigation, it's clear there was no criminal wrong doing." the special counsel's report says that president trump's efforts to influence the russia investigation were mostly unsuccessful because the people he tried to do things, they wouldn't do it. white house senior adviser, counselor to the. kellyanne conway was speaking with reporters and she was asked about that. she pushed back on that and accused reporters of cherry picking information in the report. right now the white house as well as the president are adamant. they feel like they won on this. >> shepard: how are staffers reacting? >> this morning there was more of a mixed

>> john: ellison barber at the white house, thank you. joining us now with more on this tragedy, poway mayor steve vous, the suspect in this case, and nursing student, if you want to be a nurse, you have to want to help people. how do you square that with what happened yesterday, mayor? >> i can't even begin to think about the suspect. i don't care about the suspect. i hope that he receives the full force of the law. my care is for my community, and we have come together in the fashion that we always do, when a wildfire comes over the hill we're there to fight it together , and when we have a kid go missing we turn out together and we are here for our brothers and sisters at poway and we will stand with them. >> john: the gripping story that the rabbi told about those moments inside, obviously, they were there looking out for each other in the kind of way you're describing. >> yes, we had a session with them just a few days after the tree of life massacre in pittsburgh, where we brought in the sheriff's deputies and i was there myself and

ellison barber live from the white house. it's so windy they had to hop in the motorcade rather than take marine one out there. >> and they will be later, if they could have happened on marine one. i don't know enough about golf to tell, but that. they were stet to play a game this morning and probably spent time talking about trade. the two leaders left the white house earlier today, this comes on the heels of the u.s. and china meeting for two days in d.c., trying to negotiate a bilateral trade deal in the oval office. the president said those talks are going well and suggested that an agreement could be signed when he visits japan in may. the u.s. wants japan to get rid of tariffs so they can have for access to the market. listen here. >> we will be discussing strongly agriculture because as the prime minister knows, japanese puts massive tariffs on agriculture, agriculture going for many years going into japan and we want to get rid of the tariffs because we don't tariff their cars. we're trying to bring some balance to t

ellison barber has more now from washington, ellison. >> first public event since several women camed said they felt uncomfortable with interactions with former vice president joe biden, vp seemed to make light of the allegations saying at least twice he had permission to touch others on stage. >> i just want you to know i had permission to hug lonnie, by the way he gave me permission to touch him. [laughter] >> biden made remarks on friday during speech at the international brotherhood of electrical workers shortly after lucy flores, first woman to come forward and say biden behaved in a way that made her feel uncomfortable, tweeted it's clear biden hasn't reflected at all and how unsolicited touching made women uncomfortable. to make light of something degrades the conversation. women everywhere are courageously trying to have. former vice president biden did not directly apologized to the women that have spoken out against him, at least 7, he told reporters he feels bad if he made someone feel uncomfortable. >> are you sorry for the way -- >> i'm sorry i -- i'm not sorry for any o

ellison barber at the white house with their arguments over the past couple of days, hi, ellison. >> leland, the white house said they have not decided whether or not to move forward with this idea but president trump says he was -- has a right to do it. in a trump president trump said, usa has the legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants, transfer to sanctuary cities, we hereby demand they've been taken care of high levels especially the state of california. previously told fox news the white house asked department of homeland security and immigration and customs enforcement possible to large bus numbers of immigrants from the southern border to so-called sanctuary cities, ice told the white house they thought it would be illegal finish a number of reasons, one they reportedly says goes against laws in immigration enforcement, two, they don't have the money. >> all options across the table are taking on the entire burden and we are shifting some of that burden to places we constantly claim to want to have open borders and want to have open city, raised at staff level initi

ellison barber has more now at the white house, hi, ellison. >> hi, arthel, a lot of back and forth onwhat exactly comes next when it comes to southern border, it's been confusing at times to follow what the president plans to do next. president trump started the week by starting to shut down the border despite both lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. if mÉxico does not do more to stop migrants probably impose tariffs on mexican products namely cars within the next year and if that didn't work, possibly close the borders, here white house chief of staff mick mulvaney explained it all on fox news sunday. >> a couple of different things he said this week, we need help right away on migrant crisis, we also have another longer-term issue with mÉxico on drugs. i think if you go back and look at statement, you know, we need help within the next year on drugs. mÉxico has done more in the last week to help our illegal immigration crisis than nancy pelosi and democrats in the house. >> president trump claims mÉxico started to do more after he threatened to shut down the southern border despit

jon: all right, ellison barber at the white house, thank you.esident has plenty of competition coming up. reaction to the synagogue shooting coming in from some of the 2020 democratic candidates who hope to win the white house. david is live in washington with the latest on that. >> hey, jon, good evening, several democratic candidates are in las vegas and spoke before union group on stage but did not address the tragedy on camera as it was unfolding at the time but many have taken to twitter, bernie sanders who was not at the vegas event, another horrific shooting at place of worship today at the poway synagogue in san diego county, we must every day to eradicate forms of bigotry, kamala harris, senator from california tweeted yet again place of worship of senseless gun and must not be silenced, enough is enough. my heart with synagogue. congressman for massachusetts tweeted, quote, we have a hate problem in america, we have a gun problem in america, it's time to look ourselves in the mirror and fix both, end quote. we expect to get reaction fr

ellison barber on the lawn of the white house with how this could work. , ellison. >> president trump says he's strongly considering this idea although the administration warns it's likely illegal. due to the fact that democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are, indeed, as reported giving strong consideration placing illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities only. in the roosevelt room, president trump threatened to send immigrants who crossed the southern border legally to sink sanctuary cities if the democrat don't get on board to fix what the president sees as major holes in sanctuary cities. >> catch and release, the asylum laws are insane, we could fix those so fast if the democrats agreed. but if they don't agree we could do what the democrats say they want, we could bring the illegals, i call them the illegals, they came across the borders illegally, we'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it, whether it's a state or whatever it might be. we always say open arms, let's see if

jon: ellison barber at the white house, thank you.ction is swift to president trump's suggestion that any migrants who make it across our southern border asking for asylum should be sent to sanctuary cities including many places that are home to some of our political rivals. some democratic leaders are pushing back on the idea. >> i don't know anything about it but, again, it's just another notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the united states and disrespectful of the challenges we face as a country, as a people to address who we are, a nation of immigrants. jon: jeff paul is live in los angeles with the latest. jeff. >> reporter: jon, from mayors to members of congress, the reaction has been strong and swift. some saying the president's idea is a waste of time, others going as far as saying it's helping him put forth a racist agenda. but the mayor of san jose saying despite what happens, his city's arms are always open to migrants. >> we welcome any families, the city of san jose, who have endured such incredible hardships a

>> ellison barber. thank you. leland?> congressional democrats doubling down wanting to see president trump's tax returns, demands for the full release of the mull per report are ramping up against several house investigations. garrett tenney with the latest. democrats don't want to let this go. reporter: member of both parties are fighting for the full mueller report released without any redactions but for very different reasons. democrats are looking for any dirt on president trump. many top democrats believe the attorney general may be protecting the president to take out damaging information from the report before it goes to congress. on the other side a number of republicans believe the special counsel's investigation was politically motivated from the get go. they want unredacted report to uncover how the probe began. today the top republican on house intelligence committee told maria bartiromo that he is sending eight criminal referrals to the justice department about alleged misconduct during the mueller investiga

ellison barber with the news now. >> hi, harris. house democrats spent three days huddled together, about an hour away from d.c. in leesburg, virginia. the scene of this year's 100 days and fighting for the american people. house democrats talk about what they've achieved in the last 100 days and talked about paths forward for legislative priorities like health care, infrastructure, and lowering the cost of prescription doubt don't like drugs. despite the tense relationship between president trump and house speaker nancy pelosi, we could pose the end the top congressional democrats are adamant that they can get big pieces of legislation passed. >> the president has said over and over that he wants to do an infrastructure bill. so do we. we are going to. we are making progress as to what the parameters of that would be, time wise and financially. the president has said he wants to lower the cost of prescription drugs. now we are talking about two of our top priorities. lower the cost of prescription drugs, build the infrastructure fo

ellison barber has more. >> reporter: jon, at his first public event since several women came forward said they felt uncomfort, during interactions, the vp seemed to make light of the allegations saying at least twice that he had permission to touch others on stage. >> i just want you to know, i had permission to hug lonnie. by the way, he gave me permission to touch him. [laughter] >> reporter: biden made those remarks on friday during a speech at the international brotherhood of electrical workers. shortly after, lucy flores, the first woman to come forward, tweeted: it's clear biden hasn't reflected at all on how his inappropriate and unsolicited touching made women feel uncomfortable. to make light of something as serious as consent degrades the conversation. women everywhere are courageously trying to have. former vice president biden did not directly apologize to the women who have now spoken out against him, at least seven. instead, mr. biden told reporters he feels badly if he made anyone uncomfortable and reiterated that was not his intent. >> for some who want to hear direct

>> shannon: ellison barber, thank you very much. what mueller's investigation of the partisan posturing that is followed were sent russian interference as kushner claimed? let's turn to nelson cunningham and former cia station chief dan hoffman. good to have you here. dan, but about the idea that this was russia's plan all along? that they simply wanted to cause chaos and division? you've got both sides of the aisle at each other's throats. in some way, did they -- we know that there were attempts to directly influence the election, but have they done so, at least this way? >> make no mistake, as the mueller report correctly notes, there was a sweeping and systemic make interference from russia to degrade our democratic process. but it was our self affected partisan wounds afterwards, it is of putin injected a virus into our political process and there was some woeful carriers of that virus, including my old boss, john brennan. he speculated wildly and made unfounded claims about the president and all that i did was drive up the tem

ellison barber has the latest.i, the attorney general is set to testify in about a week and a half. you can bet democrats will have a lot of questions. they're already accusing attorney general barr of misleading the public on the details. yesterday, there was a subpoena for the full, unredacted report and told the department they must comply by may 1st with that subpoena. >> we have to hear from mueller and ask him a lot of questions. we have to hold hearings and hearing from other people both on the question of obstruction of justice. where, as i said, the special prosecutor invited congress to look into that, not the attorney general. we need the entire report under redacted and underlying documents in order to make informed decisions. >> around page 220, the report they currently have access to, talks about the role of congress, and says, with respect whether the president can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his power under article two of the constitution. we concluded that congress has the au

let's first go to ellison barber live on the north lawn of the white house. ison. >> hi, eric, president trump says that our country is full and continues to insist that there is an emergency on the u.s.-mÉxico border, you remember president trump said last week that he would likely shut down the u.s.-mÉxico border if mexico did not do more to stop the central american migrants that were coming into the u.s. through mÉxico, there was a lot of pushback from lawmakers on both sides of the i'll saying that would be an economic debacle and hurt a lot of americans, the president changed his tube on that a bit and walked that back, he said it wasn't necessarily because of the criticism, he, in fact, said that security was most important, more important than potential economic ramifications here, he said that he changed his tune on that a little bit because mÉxico was doing more, that mÉxico has stepped up. the president says they've seen changes with mÉxico's behavior in the past few days but he says closing the southern border is still an option on the table. >> mÉ

eric: ellison barber reports from the north lawn in the white house, hi, ellison. >> hi, eric, you heard the president telling crowd in wisconsin that the evil of anti-semitism must be defeated. the president, the vice president and the first lady have all condemned the attacks, first lady tweeting this calling it senseless shooting in a place of worship. vice president pence called evil and cowardly shooting and said no one should be in fear in house of worship. anti-semitism isn't just wrong he said, it's evil. on the south lawn on twitter and campaign rally in wisconsin, the president spoke about the attack, president trump says he has spoken with the mayor of poway and also the governor of california, before leaving white house yesterday saying the attack is hard to believe. >> my biggest sympathies go to the people that were affected, the families, their loved ones, at this moment looks like a hate crime but my deepest sympathy to all of those affected. we will get to the bottom of it. >> the president called law enforcement response courageous and incredible. he singled out off-dut

arthel: let's go with ellison barber. >> you heard president trump saying that a good economy and weak immigration laws are to blame for the surge of migrants at the u.s.-mÉxico border, he told fox business, fox news maria bartiromo that things are good here economically and that the downside of that is more people want to come here even if it means embarking on a dangerous journey. the president blamed the democrats for not doing more to fix which he sees as loopholes in u.s. immigration system. things like so-called chain migration as well as catch and release. listen to a little more of what he had to say. >> it's a disgrace to our country what's going on but worst immigration laws ever, incompetent, they are there for a long time, when they used to separate children which was done during the obama administration with bush, with us, with everybody, far fewer people would come and we'd been on a humane basis pretty bad, we go out and we stop the separation, the problem is you have 10 times more people coming up with their families, it's like disneyland now. >> other administrations h

ellison barber at the white house. e president spoke about this a couple of times ellison. >> that's right, he did. the president said the attack is hard to believe in rally in wisconsin last night. offered sympathies to those impacted and vowed to get to the bottom of what happened. >> the strength of our nation is sound in the heart of people so true tonight america's heart is with the victims of the horrific synagogue shooting in poway, california, just happened, our entire nation mourn it is loss of life, praise for the wounded and stand in solidarity with the jewish community, we forcefully condemn the evil of anti-semitism and hate which must be defeated. >> the president also spoke about the attack before leaving for wisconsin telling reporters gathered on the south lawn it appears this was a hate crime, he praised law enforcement on the south lawn on twitter and at the rally, he called the response courageous and incredible. at the rally president trump singled out border patrol agent for bravely returning fire,

. >> ellison barber live on the lawn of the white house. >> white house is defending this idea but acknowledginghat it initially was shot down, white house press secretary sarah sanders told fox news sunday, the idea of busing migrants apprehended at the u.s.-mÉxico border into sanctuary cities was initially raised as staff level and then pushed back on, sanders said the president decided he we wanted to explore it again and she says they are now doing a complete and thorough review. >> we have to look at all options across the table so that the towns right there on the border aren't taking on the entire burden and that we are shifting some of that burden to place those who constantly claim to want to have open borders and want to have an open city, again, nobody thinks that this is the ideal solution, but until we can fix the crisis at the border, we have to look at all options, this is one of them, whether or not it moves forward, that's yet to be determined. >> sources told fox news the white house asked the department of homeland and immigration and no, we think this is likely illegal, viola

. >> ellison barber tells us, democrats want to take a closer look at the unresolved issue of obstructionce. >> reporter: democrats do not believe the mueller report cleared president trump of wrong doing, instead they say the special counsel's own words made it clear that congress has more work to do. on monday, democrats are set to hold a conference call to discuss the report and plan their next steps. in a letter to her democratic colleagues, house speaker nancy pelosi wrote as we continue to review this document, we will have more to report and will update you on the next steps that must be taken. the caucus is scheduling a conference call for monday to discuss this grave matter which is as soon as our analysis and this holy season's religious traditions allow. she went on to quote the special counsel's report and added congress will not be silent. in the past, speaker pelosi has said she's not for impeachment, but now that the mueller report is hot, some are calling for it. congresswoman talib renewed her calls to begin impeachment proceedings immediately, and alexandria ocasio-corte

let's begin with ellison barber who is live on the north lawn of the white house. , ellison. >> hi, eric. yeah, not only is this an idea that we are hearing was bounced around and then decided against, but this is also an idea that the white house according to sources took to the department of home land security and i.c.e., immigration customs and enforcement and they were told by i.c.e. that they thought this would be illegal. we were hearing from white house officials that this idea, it was bou bounced -- bounced around but ultimately a decision was made not to move ahead. but on friday the president said it is an idea he is strongly considering. >> that discussion that occurred was mostly between advisors, conversations we had between the white house and the department of homeland security. in speaking with the president, the president said let's look into this. you know, at the end of the day, the president of the united states is the one who is going to determine what our immigration policy is. >> president trump and his advisors say the situation at the border

shooting and the hero rabbi of the synagogue spoke just moments ago we have fox team coverage, ellison barberponse but we begin with william la jeunesse live in poway, california. william? reporter: well john, rabbi golds tein just gave us a terrible rendition of really a recount of what happened yesterday when he came face to face with a man who shot him who took his finger and took the life of one of his very close

eric: will they be changed to mac we talk to peter king but first let's go to ellison barber who is live in the north lawn of the white house. reporter: one of the things president trump tends to talk about and point to as what he sees as a major flaw in the us mission system are asylum us. he often talks about asylum loopholes say it's one of the biggest issues leading to the problems going on at the border. one of the big things he wants congress to step up and deal with. senator lindsey graham is nothing he is planning to move forward with some sort of lets that a package in order to address those issues and mainly issues with asylum loss. all of this is happening in the white house and president trump continue to talk about immigration in the issues going on at the border and continue to talk about and push the presidents controversial idea of busting migrants the border or sanctuary cities. one idea bounced around but dismissed and then brought up publicly by president trump says he's strongly considering it in a tweet that the us has been absolutely no right to have apprehended ill

correspondent ellison barber reports it is part of the effort to tap into the vote for big labor and teachers unions >> teachers on average will pay at least 10% less >> 2020 presidential candidate kamala ha proposal to give american teach0 raise to close the so-called teacher pay gap, the american federation of teachers, aft quickly praised it. >> this is her way of trying to say, let's help figure out how to help states solve this. >> the national review editorial board calls adventure and logrolling. expert site teachers unions play a pivotal role in the democratic party since 1970s, particularly in primaries. >> they became much more important and much more powerful once they practice collective bargaining. >> ellison: today millions of members and a lot of money. according to the center of responsive politics, teachers unions picks $36 million during the 2016 election cycle and 93% of their contributions went to democrats. but some say their power is a weakening in part because of the 2,018th supreme court that said government workers cannot be forced to pay these two unions eve

ellison barber joins us now from our washington bureau. reporter: the offers for 12 members of congress to view a list but not totally unredacted version of the mueller report. the lawmakers permitted to see it would not be able to discuss it with other members of congress. even those with security clearances. people who are approved to see more sensitive material and democrats say that is unacceptable. there are six lawmakers that have now sent a letter to attorney general, william barr, telling him that their current proposal is simply not workable. the letter says this in part quote - as a special counsel stated, the conclusion that congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president, corrupt exercise of powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law. the department now has a duty to submit the full report and underlying evidence to congress so it can fulfill its constitutional responsibility. republicans say that democrats are essentially throwing a

david: ellison barber has been standing by and he has a report for us on the latest on joe biden. go ahead. reporter: hi david yeah former vice president joe biden seems to be inching closer to announcing a presidential run he told reporters yesterday he is very close to making a decision and is putting everything together, he also angered some by seeming to down play and make light of allegations he's behav ed inappropriately towards some women, and in his first public speech since the allegations surfaced biden addressed a roomful of union workers and twice, he joked that he had permission to hug and touch others on stage, the first woman to come forward and say that biden's behaved in a way that made her uncomfortable, criticized the former vp saying that to make light of something as serious as consent degrades the conversation, women everywhere are courageously trying to have. biden did not directly apologize not seven women who have come forward who said they felt uncomfortable during interaction s with him but he said he feels badly if he made anyone uncomfortable. >> the f

ellison barber at the white house with the latest.eporter: neil, yeah yesterday in the roosevelt room president trump said he is considering moving migrants who crossed the u.s. mexico border illegally into sanctuary cities there are a lot of questions about whether or not he could even do this, but let's take a listen to the president first. president trump: we'll bring them to sanctuary cities areas and let that particular area take care of it whether it's a state or whatever it might be we can give them a lot. we can give them an unlimited supply and see if they're so happy. they say they always have open arms let's see if they have open arms. we are giving very strong consideration to having people after a 20-day period because again you're not allowed legally to hold them for more than that. we will move them into sanctuary cities. reporter: the president does not appear to have the legal authority to do this. we know the white house already asked the department of homeland security, dhs, and i.c.e., immigration and customs enfor

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let's get to that well -- with ellison barber. >> that they deliberately distorted parts of the reporte house judiciary committee issued a subpoena for it and told the justice department that they must comply by may 1st. >> and barr has revealed himself as an agent of the president not the attorney general of the entire american people. he said that they found no collusion, where specific-- whereas the special prosecutor specifically said collusion is not a legal term and he didn't make any findings, that he hadn't reached a finding on criminal conspiracy. we have to hear from mueller and ask him a lot of questions and we have to hold hearings and hear from other people both on the question of obstruction of justice-- >> within the 400 page report, the special council counsel, under article 2 of the constitution. krohning has the authority to prohibit the corrupt use of authority in order to protect the administration of justice. democrats are pointing to that particular line and saying, they, not the attorney general has to find the answer when it comes to obstruction of justice. >> t