hillary vaughn is on capitol hill for the very latest. what the is early read, hillary?r: voting is underway for a few minutes. they're deliberating or voting on white house budget deal that would raise spending caps or suspend the debt ceiling for the next two years. the president earlier today, trying to rally the house gop behind this bill, telling them today, quote, i'm totally with you, not everyone in the republican party is convinced that they want to vote in favor of this trillion dollar deal. they're also not convinced that is the best they can negotiate. house minority leader kevin mccarthy admitting earlier today that this deal has its flaws. >> i need half the conference to support this. look our conference our fundamental principle to make sure we have a fiscal house in order. we understand we live in a house that has to find compromise. this is not the bill that we would write. we're not in the majority. reporter: not just the house that is having their doubts there is bipartisan concern here on the senate side about this budget deal as well. >> i'm very co

hillary vaughn joins us live from washington's reagan national airport. llary. reporter: thank you, susan. we obtained this tsa internal memo that came out this week following right on the heels of a major exclusive report that we reported exposing a food truck loophole. this internal memo sent out this week by the tsa is now instructing that the inspectors internally, come up with changes to catering trucks screening processes. last week we reported on a trove of internal tsa documents that show catering trucks roll through our airport gates unchecked by tsa. instead they farm out security through airlines. they pay private contractors to stop them from explosives going airborne on catering carts. our investigation revealed that tsa had internal audits that these private contractors failed to follow it. sa protocol in 2018. the tsa ought deaded flying food catering company that served planes at jfk international airport. 95% of the airline security contractors failed to check the catering carts correctly in the new memo. they recommend include tsa employe

only hillary vaughn in washington with the details. ng, hillary. >> good morning lauren, and cheryl part of senator bernie sanders 2020 pitch is this. no premiums, no copays and no deductibles that's key to his strategy to convince voters in america to support medicare for all. >> what had the debate that we are currently having in this campaign and all over this country has nothing to do with health care but it has everything to do with the greed and profits of the health care industry. senator sangd percent former vice president joe biden have been dualing over health care plans biden wants to build on obamacare while bernie wants to titch it for medicare for all biden in iowa yesterday took his shot at sangd percent plan. that means building our obamacare with a public option. look, now there's a lot of people running in the party who want to get rid of obamacare and start over with sympathetic something new but folks i'm not for that but they're all good people. later this month sanders will take bus from detroit to ontario request

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connell: thanks, hillary vaughn at the white house.issa: joining us now, bruce clinger from the heritage foundation. he is also a former cia deputy chief for korea. we're happy to have you on today given everything that happened over the weekend. what is your takeaway? >> the historic dmz visit was really a photo-op but in the subsequent meeting with kim jong-un, the north korean leader did agree to allow his diplomats to meet with his diplomats. that is a god guess ture. he made the same -- good gesture. he made the same promise in singapore in 2016. had six months where his diplomats refused to meet with the u.s. they hope he will allow diplomacy to proceed. even last week north korea was threatening to take stronger measures if the u.s. didn't soften its position. melissa: all that said, everybody has tried everything else. it seems like anytime there is a first, maybe that is a step in the right direction, what do you think? >> well i would have held back the reward of this first until there actually had been some progress. since s

hillary vaughn in detroit. we begin with john. >> good afternoon to you. the fed expected to cut interest rates for the first time since the collapse of the late 2000s. tomorrow, quarter-point drop was expected but the big question is will jerome powell continue to cut interest rates or will tomorrow's cut be it? the president has criticized powell and complained long and loud that he raised interest rates to quickly last year which has put the united states in a competitive disadvantage by causing an overvalued dollar. the president says the united states can weather the current environment but that he wants more cuts. listen here. >> fortunately i've made the economy so strong that nothing's going to stop us. the fed could have made it a lot easier. i would like to see a large cut and i'd like to see immediately the quantitative type being stopped. >> the quantitative tightening. saying that if powell had followed the same monetary policy is during the obama administration, the dow could be 10,000 points higher than it is right now which led to our blake

story this hour 2020 democrats facing off and sounding off in detroit, economy, jobs and trade, hillary vaughn live, good morning to you, hillary. >> good mor

story this hour 2020 democrats facing off and sounding off in detroit, economy, jobs and trade, hillary vaughn there, round 2, part 1 of democratic debate, she joins us live, good morning to you, hillary. >> good morning, maria, well, gang of moderates teamed up against prominent progressive senator bernie sanders and senator elizabeth warren at the debate last night tackling topics like climate change, tariffs and trade. >> you outcompete them and put chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure we rebuild the manufacturing base, we have to fill the factories, we have to fill them with workers that are making batteries, charging stations, making sure making solar panels. >> senator warren's plan basically that she would put out we would not be able to trade with the united kingdom. we would not be able to trade with the eu, it's so extreme. >> thank you, congressman. >> what the congressman is describing as extreme is having deals negotiated by the american workers for american workers. american workers want those jobs and we can build the trade deals that do it, people want access to ou

hillary vaughn has this exclusive report. reporter: the tsa screens 5.5 million carryon items for explosive every single day but every day around the country , aircrafts catering trucks, drive through our airport gates unchecked by tsa. former federal air marshall and whistleblower tells fox news that the tariffs and airport police at d.c. area airports are giving out special exemptions to food trucks serving planes headed to the middle east. he was blocked from searching a food truck during a random search operation because it was "specially blessed." >> and a police officer said that the specially blessed airline meals in these trucks have already been searched by an off-site private security company. regional supervisory air marshall in charge clyde porter and in a mediation meeting i had with him, he told me that the reason why we don't break these seals and do open and look checks is because the public has religious rights under the first amendment. >> the tariffs the office of the special counsel and the senate homeland

hillary vaughn joins us tonight.hillary. >> we just learned the tsa sent out an internal memo this week following our report exposing the food truck loophole, telling tsa inspectors, changes need to be made to the food drug screening process. last week, we gave you a trove of internal tsa documents that show catering trucks roll through our airport gates unchecked by tsa. instead, they form a security to airlines who pay private contractors and trust them to stop explosives from ending up airborne and catering cards. but our investigation turned out tsa internal audits that prove these private contractors repeatedly failed to follow protocol. in 2018, the tsa audited flying food catering company that serves planes at jfk airport. 95% of the airline security contractors failed to check the cargo correctly. speak at its security theater we are spending all this manpower and hours patting down children, elderly, veterans in wheelchairs, but the airport workers, who could be motivated by greed, can smuggle whatever he ne

shep. >> shepard: hillary vaughn on capitol hill. thank you. beginning. hail to the chief. here we go. ♪ [applause] >> president trump: thank you. thank you very much. great to have you and i hope you all had a truly wonderful independence day weekend. despite the heavy rain and it was really heavy. we had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. incredible. standing on the steps of the great lincoln memorial and looking out on the crowds, these incredible big, beautiful crowds braving the weather all the way, back to the washington monument. we celebrated freedom and all its magnificence while saluting our great military. it was something really special. i will say this. he was a wonderful day for all americans, and based on its tremendous success, we're just making the decision. i think we can say we've made the decision to do it again next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future. [applause] as we celebrate our nation's founding, we are reminded once more of a profound obligation to protect america's extraordinary ble

hillary vaughn with the latest. hi, hillary. >> hi, neil.ween the top democrat and the top republican on the house oversight committee, chairman elijah cummings and ranking member, jim jordan, trading barbs over what is happening at the border. >> what does that mean? what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? can't take a shower? come on, man. what is that about? none of us would have our children in that position. >> they denied the resources for 2 1/2 months. then when the problem gets so bad, it's your fault. they send the money but put limitations on it because they want the political issue when we talk about kids. we care about the kids. >> dhs secretary kevin mcaleenanis not just asking for more money. he wants to amend the floor's agreement to prevent law enforcement for detaining children longer than 20 days. that restriction has triggered a surge at the border. people at the border know they won't be held long enough to see a judge but will instead be released. >> it's been very clear from this administration t

for more on this, washington now, hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with the latest for us. connell, the u.s. women's soccer team saying no to the white house but yes to capitol hill. senate minority leader chuck schumer on the senate floor extending invitation to the u.s. women's soccer team, getting political points out of it, saying that irvisit here underscores the need for the senate and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to take up the amendment that the house passed, that relates to equal pay. >> wouldn't it be great if we could pass that bill while women's national team was visiting the chamber? wouldn't that send a powerful message of our commitment to rooting out discrimination everywhere? reporter: democrats on capitol hill trying to push republican colleagues into a corner over equal pay, using the u.s. women's soccer team win as leverage but not every republican is divided on this issue. i talked to several republican lawmakers on capitol hill today saying they are not opposed to taking a closer look at the issue. even the president himself said he would lik

hillary vaughn on capitol hill, is it just building, hillary? reporter: melissa, all the companies making their case today, they do have competition, they went so far name drop some of those to lawmakers. facebook or google saying they compete directly with amazon, yelp, microsoft and travelocity for competition in search. facebook saying they compete with snapchat, skype, tell gram, youtube, ticktock. they offer video and messaging services and connect users to each other. that is their direct competition. amazon listed alibaba, kroger, other grocery stores as people they are, companies that they are competing directly with. even when it went further to explain why, brick-and-mortar is their competition. >> the notion that two products exactly the same, do not compete with each other, simply because one was ordered online and one was bought in a brick-and-mortar store makes little sense. reporter: facebook was asked about killer acquisitions. the idea they're purchasing apps and start-ups to shut them down, facebook says anytime they purchased

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more.ter: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez one of those democrats that really nailed secretary mclean nan over culture at cpb. she tried to tie the president's policy of separation to dehumanizing culture at cpb, tried to say that is what really caused the facebook group with thousands of cpb agents that involved several racist and sex it attacks against herself and other female lawmakers. >> so you don't think that having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes members of congress voiced to dehumanized culture? >> those posts are unacceptable. they are being investigated. i don't think it is fair to apply them to the entire organization. reporter: the secretary was asking congress for still more funding. he wants there to be amendment to the flores agreement that prevents law enforcement detaining children longer than 20 days. that agreement triggered a surge at the border. >> you want to keep them longer. it last been very clear from this administration, you wa

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with the big take-away. hillary?orter: well, really, republicans and democrats both agreeing in these hearings that the conditions at the border need to be addressed, and that republicans are asking democrats for more funding to build more facilities and fix these conditions, these as secretary kevin mcaleenan today facing off against congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she tried to tie president trump's policy of child separation to a larger culture at cbp. >> do you think that the policy of child separation could have contributed to a dehumanizing culture within cbp? >> we do not have a dehumanizing culture at cbp. reporter: secretary mcaleenan also wanted more money, but in addition to that, he really wants congress to fix the border agreement that prevents law enforcement from detaining children for more than 20 years, saying this has triggered a surge at the border because people crossing the border with kids know that they cannot be held longer than 20 days. that's not enough time to see a judge so they kno

hillary vaughn is at the capitol.eporter: the meeting between top democrat and and and freshman congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez were meeting. >> we had a good meeting. the congresswoman is a very gracious member of congress. we had a positive conversation. like you're in a family. and a family you have your differences but you're still family. we just had a meeting to clear the airport port the morning meeting lasted half an hour. pelosi came out of it moving forward to embrace differences in the party. alexandria ocasio-cortez seems ready to do the same. >> it was a positive meeting, and productive. i think that the speaker respects, you know the fact that we're coming together as a party, that unity and i'm looking forward to us getting back to the summer. reporter: pelosi summarized the face-to-face meeting on twitter by posting this picture of them smiling together but ocasio-cortez hasn't. the millenial congresswoman known for pretty much broadcasting anything on social media has not talked about her meeting

. >> let's get to hillary vaughn at the capital. hillary? >>ly, a former vp and presidential candidateio bind is blasting his fellow democrats saying they are like republicans because they are running on eliminating obamacare but for different reasons. >> i knew republicans would do everything in their power to eliminate obamacare. reporter: he would not scrap obamacare in favor of a medicare for all plan. he rolled out a plan that would be a lot cheaper than medicare for all. the cost of biden's plan would be $750 billion over 10 years. under the plan, a medicare for all-like public option would be available. they would negotiate prices with providers. prices would be capped. it would allow patients to buy drugs from other countries as long as the hhs determines the drugs are safe. senator bernie sanders is not backing down on his idea. his campaign releasing a statement blasting biden as a middle ground proposal. the campaign manager saying in a statement a public option would be a policy and moral failure at a time when the american peopl

hillary vaughn is in detroit where the debate will be held. >> voters will get a chance to see the mostf popular progressives in the democratic party. sanders and warren have similar policy proposals. they are also friend. but their progressive idea might get them into trouble by other candidate on stage, hoping to capitalize on the attention. one of those candidates is congressman tim ryan. >> i don't think you can care the insurance. reporter: beto o'rourke told supporters he admits there is a lot on the line tonight. he's not the only one stressed about iting big idea into their time limit. marianne williamson said she is, too. >> we are not going to put in a sound bite. reporter: mayor pete beaut judgr pete buttigieg has taken one of his most of controversial positions mixing salsa with ranch. he says he enjoys the player of mixing the two. congresswoman rashida tlaib was attending a protest and she was asked by reporters to comment on what's happening in baltimore. but she repeatedly dodged questions saying she is from michigan and doesn't want to comment on baltimore. liz: tonight

hillary vaughn has the fight today at a house hearing with amazon, apple and google.t's all about if these guy are too big to be trusted. reporter: senators on the senate banging committee had serious concerns about facebook's plans to start a crypto currency called libra. they worried facebook has so many internal privacy issues, they grilled the head of the company over and over. >> you are response is trust us. trust is something you earn. and facebook certainly hasn't earned it. so it's not enough to say you will keep the calibra data separate. would i like to know how you will keep it separate from your personal data. reporter: talking about the trillions of transactions globally. he adds that they will keep the data separate. the senators unimpressed stressing there is massive public distrust with this company. >> what facebook is good at is figuring out how to monetize people's personal data. i am not reassured by your statement that you can't see any reason right now why there wouldn't be data sharing between these platforms. reporter: it was republicans also

let's go to hillary vaughn who is at the house anti-trust hearing. hillary, can you tell us, what do you know? reporter: this is an interesting hearing. these companies are trying to convince lawmakers that their competitors are competitive with them. so they are hyping up their competition. we heard from google executives who say they face intense competition for companies over their search functions. facebook says they have competition from snapchat, skype, and ticktock over their idea video sharing. but not every lawmaker on the panel bought the argument that these companies are in a position to defend their market share and fight for user competition. >> i think you are in a unique chair in a unique position among those seated at the table. each one of you occupy a unique and dominant position. but facebook is -- stands alone in terms of social media. any other social media platform that can compete with facebook? >> there might not an identical competitor to facebook but there is significant competition in advertising. reporter: amazon says their

hillary vaughn is here with the latest.eporter: president trump says kim agreed to take back up nuclear negotiation. the president tweeting thank you to president moon of south korea for hosting the american delegation. good things can happen for all. the president says they are delegating a team to head up the restarted talks between north korea and the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo will lead the u.s. side and the time shine could move quickly. president trump: speed is not the object. we want a comprehensive good deal. the teams will start working to see if they can do something. big stuff, pretty complicated. but not as complicated as people think. reporter: a nuclear freeze is on the table. but administration officials are publicly pushing back. national security advisor john bolton tweeting, i read this "new york times" story with curiosity. we have not heard of' any desire to settle for a nuclear freeze by north korea. the president saying that north korea still has not drawn down any of their nuclear power nor

hillary vaughn on the labor secretaries handling of jeffrey epstein's plea deal. reporter: federal reserve chairman jerome powell made a case for a rate cut. he made the case he because of muted inflation. >> we see the economy as being in a good place, and we are committed to use our tools to keep it there. reporter: powell highlighting that we are in the 11th year of an economic expansion, and uncertainty would be cleared up if the usmca was passed and other trade tensions were be'en. he feels it should be dealt with. >> our generation is entitled to spend whatever money we think we need for ourselves during our lifetimes, but we ought to pay for it rather than passing the bills along to the next generation. >> reporter: he says consumer spending is up and that, 70% of the economy of and the driving force behind it. powell indicated that we could see a rate cut coming the last day in july. the market thinks it's going to happen. liz: let's get to gerri willis at the big board. what a day for our money, gerri. gerri: the markets with all three major averages flir

here we have kristin tate and hillary vaughn. hillary, you're been following the story.oughts about the politicization of this? >> it is becoming very political. obviously the democrat are trying to use this pushing equal pay legislation through the senate, pressuring senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to take up the amendment that the house passed. what is interesting, we've been talking to lawmakers in the hallways all day long. i talked to several republican senators who say they don't have a problem with looking at this equal pay issue for the u.s. women's soccer team, making sure they are being paid equally, for equal play time compared to what the men's team is bringing in but one important fact about all of this, it is really hard to figure out how much revenue the men's soccer team brings in versus the women's soccer team. not only do you have different pay scales, the women's team is paid based on salary. the men receive bonus, based on wins and losses for each game. you have sponsorships sold as bundle. they are not divvied up between the women's team and t

and we have hillary vaughn with the details going after the 2020 democrats. >> president trump is hopping mad at house democrats. he made stark comments on how he thinks they handled the mueller hearing wednesday. president trump: they are doing everything they can with the impeachment nonsense. we had no obstruction or collusion. these people are clowns. the democrats are clowns. they are being laughed at all over the world. >> democrats had a puzzling press conference on whether they should impeach or not impeach. i tried to get charity from jamie lufkin and eric swalwell of california. >> are you saying -- how is this not not binary. >> when you look at different kongs and the way they addressed it, it was done in different ways. what we are suggesting is this court filing is the first time you are seeing us telegraphing to the court is one of the remedies we have is impeachment and consider whether that should be used. >> the republicans say impeachment is not a formal thing. you want to establish your own narrative during the summer recess. confusion about impeachment is a problem fo

joining us live from the white house, hillary vaughn help us out here, hillary?r: president trump hinting good things can happen following the face-to-face meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un. kim agreed to pick back up nuclear negotiations that both parties walked away from. the president tweeting, thank you to president moon from south korea hosting american delegation and me following the very successful g20 in japan t was great to call president xi president xi -- president kim of north korea. secretary of state mike pompeo will lead the u.s. side and the timeline move pretty quickly. >> she had is not the object. we want to do a comprehensive good deal. over the next three weeks, teams will start working whether or not they will do something. pretty good stuff, pretty complicated. not as complicated as people think. reporter: "the new york times" report that a nuclear freeze is on the table which would essentially allow north korea to maintain the status quote instead of drawing down nuclear power. administration officials are publicly pushing back

to hillary vaughn at george washington university where he's making that pitch. hi, neil. bernie and biden are duelling over healthcare plans. bernie right now is making his case for medicare for all after former vice president joe biden says he wants to build on obamacare instead of dishing it. >> that means building out obamacare with a public option. look, now to a lot of people in the party that want to get rid of obamacare and start over with something new. i'm not for that, folks. they're well-intended. they're all good people. >> today sanders is calling out biden and his fellow 2020 contenders tell -- challenge them not to take donations from big pharma and the healthcare industry. sander ts making a pledge that he wouldn't accept any donations from drug makers or health insurance companies. >> the bait that we are currently having in this campaign and all over this country has nothing to do with healthcare but it has everything to do with the greed and profits of the healthcare industry. >> reports show that former v.p. joe biden has received thousands fr

we've got hillary vaughn with more from capitol hill. d morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. the president wants to drive drug prices down so he is weighing an executive order to make that happen. congress has been holding hearings on capitol hill, talking to pharmaceutical executives about the problem of rising prescription drug costs but the president doesn't want to wait for them to act so he is considering pushing through a favored nations claus clause tht would let the u.s. pay the same rate as other countries for the same exact drug. the president yesterday pointed out his drug glair who ha czar n working to fix the pharmaceutical industry. >> second alex azar, i'm proud of you. >> reporter: the president says the time line for the executive order will be, quote, very soon but no details on if this would apply to every drug on the market and how it would be enforced and also if this action would throw a wrench in congress' efforts to push forward their own reform plans to reduce drug prices. lauren and cheryl. laur

. >> tucker: last >> tucker: last week in an exclusive investigation for this program fox's hillary vaughnlowed a major security loophole to exist at major airports. food catering trucks enter and leave airports without facing proper to securities screening, it's an obvious problem one that could be exploited by terrorists. now we are happy to report our investigation has an effect. >> we just learned the tsa sent out an internal memo this week following a report exposing the food truck loophole telling its inspectors changes need to be made to the food truck screening process. last week we gave you a trove of internal documents that show catering trucks roll through our airport gates unchecked by tsa, instead they farm out security to airlines who pay private contractors and trust them to stop explosives from ending up airborne in cateringds carts.s tsa internal audits prove these private contractors repeatedly failed to follow protocol. in 2018, the tsa oughtot to aua company that served jfk at 95% of the security contractors failed to check the cargo correctly. >> its security theater.

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hillary vaughn reporting live on capitol hill. hillary? seen republicans and democrats fight back tears, tears of frustration and outrage, looking at the conditions that children are being kept in at the border. congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez testified as a witness subscribing what she saw in these detention facilities. ocasio-cortez says the dehumanizing conditions are a manufactured crisis because of the trump administration. congressman gerald connelly looked at the republican lawmakers and said they are enabling and rationalizing the trump administration's policy of separating and detaining children at the border. >> children without soap. any child in our case is our children. >> i'm not call on you. >> of course not. >> you're not at the border. >> this is ridiculous. you're not there. you're in a hearing room. it's my time. >> former acting ice director tom holman unloaded on lawmakers blasting them in a delay that he says is needed to help reduce the humanitarian crisis that is happening at the border. he stood up for cdp

hillary vaughn live on capitol hill with the expensive details. hillary?ter: ashley, joe biden actually blasting his fellow democratic candidates that want to completely ditch obamacare in favor for "medicare for all." >> i knew the republicans would do everything in their power to repeal obamacare. they still are. i'm surprised some democrats are running to get rid of it. reporter: like "medicare for all" with public auction, caps for middle class family was 8.5% of their household income to pay for their public option. the plan has cost controls for new specialty drugs, allowing hhs to essentially decide what is reasonable price for consumers t would let patients buy prescription drugs from out of the country as long as the drugs are considered safe. as biden hones in and attacks fellow democrats like bernie sanders who have advocated "medicare for all," bernie sanders is is hitting biden back, he knows where he stands on health care. he stands with a "medicare for all" type option. bernie tweeted video with president obama calling "medicare for all" a q

hillary vaughn joins us live from capitol hill with the latest. hillary?eporter: charles, we're expecting the hearing to get you know way in less than an hour -- underway. we expect execs from google, facebook, amazon to face the house judiciary antitrust panel. they will have to argue they do face plenty of competition for consumer choice with other companies, and defend their dominance. today's hearing is not meant to be an investigation into each individual company or put pressure on one over the other. really, this is an open hearing so that these lawmakers can get a sense of, what competition these companies do face. one house judiciary committee aide tells me there is not bipartisan agreement. that there should be a critical, targeted investigation into one tech company over another but this is kind of a fact-finding mission to hear their perspective. so facebook also we're expecting them to address or at least lawmakers to ask about the ftc fine for $5 billion over what happened with the cambridge analytica scandal. google is going to face a lot of

let's go to hillary vaughn live on the scene with more on this speech. hillary?eporter: connell, bernie sanders still speaking and making his case for "medicare for all," he and former vice president joe biden continue to dual over health care plans. bernie sanders wants to ditch obamacare in favor of "medicare for all." so he is is on the stump defending that but biden wants to keep obamacare and build on it. in iowa today he took his shot at "medicare for all." >> that means building on obamacare with a public option. look, but now there are a lot of people running in the party who want to get rid of obamacare, start over with something new. folks i'm not for that. they're well intended. they are all good people. reporter: today sanders calling out biden and his fellow 2020 contenders to not take donations from big pharma or health care industry. sanders moments ago making a pledge not to accept donations from drugmakers and health health insurers. >> the debate we're currently having in this campaign and all over this country, has nothing to do with health car

here's hillary vaughn with more. >> the tsa says trucks are driving through the gates without being checked. robert mcclain tells fox news that the tsa and airport police are giving out special exemptions to food trucks serving planes headed to the middle east. mcclain says he was blocked from searching a food truck in a random search operation because it was specially blessed. >> a police officer said that the specially blessed airline meals in these trucks have already been searched by an off-site private security company. regional air marshall in charge, collide porter in a mediation meeting i had with him, he said the reason why we don't break these seals and do open and look checks is because the public has religious rights under the first amendment. >> the tsa and senate homeland security committee are all investigating the matter. the former air marshall testified that he was told by tsa leadership to stand down. follow the local airport police authority and to not open or look in the cargo hold of the food truck. the tsa says they can't comment on the case because it's an ongoing in

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. hillary, things have been moving all day.o they stand right now? reporter: david, sources familiar with the negotiations are telling us that they are winding down, the talks between house speaker nancy pelosi and the white house, over spending caps and a debt ceiling. in fact, a nearly final budget agreement was reportedly put on the president's desk last night, waiting for him to sign off on what treasury secretary steve mnuchin and acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney have been working out with democrats. today, the president didn't seem to signal that budget talks were over yet. >> we're talking about it. secretary mnuchin is talking about it. we're having very good talks with the speaker of the house, with nancy pelosi. we're having very good talks with chuck schumer and of course, with mitch mcconnell and kevin. kevin mccarthy. reporter: as the deal stands now, the white house is getting an increase in military spending, but not nearly the amount that they wanted in cuts to offset that increase in spending, a

hillary vaughn in detroit. we begin with john. >> good afternoon to you.es for the first time since the

hillary vaughn will lead us off with a live report from capitol hill. hillary?eporter: charles, democrats on the house judiciary committee are celebrating their hearing that wrapped up earlier this morning with special counsel robert mueller because they think it convinced the american public that maybe didn't read the report but saw the testimony that they need to proceed with impeachment. >> so for people who have read the mueller report or who followed these issues, this hearing was not surprising. for people who did not, this should have blown their minds. >> the broad consensus of caucus, is time. i think the speaker will reflect that. reporter: the special counsel is already making connections from his testimony earlier. in the appearance before the house tell defense committee happening right now, robert mueller said he needed to correct something he told congressman ted liu in response to his question. >> i want to add one correction to my testimony this morning. i want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by mr. liu, who said, and i quote,

fox business network's hillary vaughn is in the middle at the debate site with the latest. hillary?nell this, debate will put prominent progressives senator bernie sanders and senator elizabeth warren in a head-to-head match up for the very first time but put a target on their back for "medicare for all." congressman tim ryan will be on stage with them, teed up one of his attacks on the idea moments ago. >> well, i mean i don't think you can square taking private insurance away. that is a big problem. you can be for universal coverage, public option, figuring out to make that happen. when you get into the business of taking people's private insurance away from them that is bad policy because a lot of union members already negotiated these contracts, and gave up wages in order to get the good health care. reporter: 2020 contenders are running around detroit testing out debate lines with the staff and talking points with targeted audiences. sanders took a break from his prep to meet with rapper cardi b. sanders and card didi had a 30 machine conversation at a nail salon. other contend

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with the latest on that meeting. hillary.ter: charles, house speaker nancy pelosi is getting her house in order before heading out for summer recess. she is embracing differences in her democratic party by embracing congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who has been a ringleader, pushing a progressive agenda on pelosi. today they're looking forward to moving forward. the speaker comparing their inner party squabbles to sibling rivalry. >> i would never even say it was a hatchet, we sat down today. we had a good meeting. the congresswoman is a very gracious member of congress. so we had a very positive conversation. again, it is like you're in a family. and a family, you have your differences, but you're still the family. we just had a meeting to clear the airport port the meeting lasted around half an hour. the reporters asked alexandria ocasio-cortez if she felt like pelosi respected her opinion in the meeting. alexandria ocasio-cortez said absolutely. >> sorry, we're running to a meeting. >> looking forward to -- [inaudibl

hillary vaughn with the latest. hey, hillary. reporter: neil, the house judiciary committee, lawmakers sitting on the committee heard a lot of this today from robert mueller. >> i'm not going to speak to that. i'm not going to speak to that. not going to get into that. i'm not going to answer that question, sir. reporter: democrats trying to dig up new information but special counsel robert mueller has been sticking to the script, his report as planned. part of the democrat strategy has been to walk mueller through his report, detail ways they think the president threatened or tried to obstruct justice and obstruct the investigation. mueller's investigations, but miller did not play ball. congressman ted lieu asked mueller based on evidence they detailed today, if a reasonable person would conclude that the president did indeed obstruct justice. mueller replied saying he does not want to go through line by line and try to cook up a case that he did not determine in his special counsel report saying he does not subscribe to what t

fbn's hillary vaughn with the very latest. hi, hillary.eporter: blake, joe biden is calling out his fellow 2020 contenders for president wanting to ditch obamacare in favor of "medicare for all". >> i knew the republicans would do everything in their power to repeal obamacare. they still are, but i'm surprised many democrats are running to get rid of it. reporter: democrats want to expand medicare, biden want to build on obamacare instead. opting a modest medicare plan. the biden plan would have public option negotiate prices with providers, reduce costs for families by capping costs to 8.5% of household income. the plan has cost controls for new specialty drugs, allowing hhs to decide a reasonable price for consumers. the plan would allow patients to buy prescription drugs from other countries as long as hhs determines that these drugs are safe but biden's -- people like candidate bernie sanders, senator bernie sanders who want to ditch obamacare in favor of "medicare for all." senator sanders is not backing down. he is at a rally advocat

hillary vaughn is there. reporter: hey, neil.sident trump made history, taking a step into north korea, the first sitting president to do so, as north korea takes a fresh step towards denuclear sayings. president trump saying he and north korean leader kim jong-un agreed to pick up nuclear negotiations and says the goal is not a fast deal but a good deal with kim. the president tweeting this morning thank you to president moon of south korea for hosting the american delegation and me, immediately following the very successful g20 in japan. while there it was great to call on chairman kim of north korea to have our very well-covered meeting. good things can happen for all. the president says they are delegating a team to head up the re-started talks between north korea and the u.s. the "new york times" is reporting that a nuclear freeze is on the table which would essentially allow north korea to maintain its status quo instead of drawing down their nuclear power. but administration officials are publicly pushing back on this repo

hillary vaughn. reporter: negotiations between the white house and house speaker nancy pelosi are winding down and we're pretty close to a deal. we could see something announced as soon as today but definitely earlier this week if the house wants to get this deal through, sources tell fox business's blake burman and i details of deal including spending caps, debt ceiling increases for two years each. spending increases would be for defense and non-defense spending. souths close to the negotiations it would put no restrictions on reprograming money for spending items like a border wall. the deal would effectively table concerns about a government shutdown or sequestration until well after the 2020 election. by july 31st, 2021. fox news is learning that the deal would permanently end the sequester. that is a win for both party, something republicans and democrats both wanted. the package on the table includes spending increases around $75 billion. but those final numbers, neil could shift. right now bo

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the latest. congress has been holding hearings addressing the drug price problem, at least trying to get into the details of it, but the president is looking to take action on his own, teasing on friday that he would pursue an executive order that would include a favored nations clause that would essentially let the u.s. pay the lowest price for drugs that are available to other countries for the same drug, they would pay the same rate. the president tweeting this. quote, last year was the first in 51 years where prescription drug prices actually went down, but things have been and are being put in place that will drive them down substantially. if dems would work with us in a bipartisan fashion, we would get big results very fast. the president describing the order, saying it would essentially take effect very quickly. he would roll this out through executive order. he thinks that other countries are getting a better deal on drugs and we've heard from drug executives here on capitol hill explain

hillary vaughn is live on the scene with details. hillary?least republicans are trying to reboot negotiations over the debt ceiling and spending caps. treasury secretary steve mnuchin, acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, deputy omb director russ vote will head to capitol hill to meet with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house minority leader kevin mccarthy. nancy pelosi is sending encouraging signs to leadership she may be willing to come to the table after budget talks blew up in june. pelosi talked to mnuchin yesterday. she had talks with him today. after the spending cap meeting with mcconnell and mccarthy, we expect there will be some movement, the bottom line they are trying to get all republicans on the same page. not everyone is aligned over how much to give up for defense spending to the democrats in order to make sure they're not raising the debt ceiling for other priorities as well. we'll see what happens after today. melissa? melissa: hillary, thank you. connell: doug holes -- douglas holtz-eakin. he had thi

thank you, hillary vaughn.are getting some more details on what the president has cooked up with the premier of qatar. they plan to buy a number of boeing aircraft, we don't know how many or whether these are the 737 max, or the 777, the general boeing 777. regardless, an order for boeing planes but we don't know much more than that. >>> meantime, major league baseball seeing a home run surge, maybe because it's fixing baseballs? the all-star with the accusation, after this. ♪ limu emu & doug what do all these people have in common, limu? [ paper rustling ] exactly, nothing. they're completely different people, that's why they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual. they'll only pay for what they need! [ gargling ] [ coins hitting the desk ] yes, and they could save a ton. you've done it again, limu. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ neil: all right. china talks are back on. we don't know exactly when but they're back on. the fears are still on, too. jeff flock at a

hillary vaughn has been following it for us from washington. hillary, there have been some very heated exchanges this afternoon. tell us what you've seen. >> very heated, david. also very emotional. alexandria ocasio cortez and congresswoman talib appearing before the committee as witnesses describing first-hand accounts of what they saw down at the border in these detention facilities. they called the conditions inhumane, but even acting -- or former acting i.c.e. director tom homan said that the things he has seen down on the border first-hand haunt him to this day. he still has nightmares about things he has seen. a lot of lawmakers pointed their questions and their anger at homan for what they say is enacting the child separation policy, they blame him for putting it into action. >> you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation. >> that was alexandria ocasio cortez explaining that she is pointing to a memo that was released in april of 2018, detailing from homan to then secretary nielsen options fo

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with what's going on.ell, the bill made its way out of the senate finance committee markup session, and this bill would reportedly save taxpayers billions and also patients, a lot of money too. >> making sure that the consumer has more market power. that's really the driver. these monopolistic companies guard their patents like gollum guards his ring. >> what senator wyden and i have worked out is a sensible, particularly commonsense approach that maybe a lot of people will be looking for if they want to get anything done at all. reporter: the cbo says the prescription drug pricing reduction act could save taxpayers and patients billions. taxpayers would save a combined $100 billion over ten years through medicare and medicaid savings. patients would save $27 billion in out-of-pocket costs and $5 billion in premiums. some of the changes include modernizing medicare part d with an out-of-pocket spending cap including incentives to negotiate between prescription drug plans and drug manufacturers. the white h