james rosen washington. also today, abc settled with a south dakota meat producer over a two billion-dollar defamation lawsuit lawsuit. the network report on the finely textured beef product lead to critics calling it pink slime. the defamation trial started earlier in the month. no details on the settlement. real-life movie actor claiming responsibility -- and in the end it was the latest bazaar development in the ongoing and deadly political crisis in venezuela. steve harrigan with the picture pictures. >> the government of venezuela's is a rogue police officer launched a terrorist attack tuesday afternoon, dropping four hand grenades from a helicopter around the supreme court. firing 15 shots at the interior ministry. there were no reported injuries. >> the president nicolas maduro called the violence and attempted coup. backed by the united states. >> translator: this is the kind of thing i've been denouncing. i have activated the army. you can be sure sooner rather than later we will capture the helicop

but a lot of people in p the wall street times and james rosen in fox news are digging in and showingied on and his civil liberties violated by eric holder and president obama. obama himself is now perilously close to being immersed in the scandal. with the addition of samantha power to the unmasking subpeonas as a person of interest. this is getting broader and perplexing that suggest that we are a long ways from understanding what really happened in this administration when it comes to surveillance of u.s. citizens? >> you are right. quite frankly president obama is in the front end of the questions. 2011 he changed the rules that made unmasking easier for the intelligence committee and set in motion what we are seeing play out. john brennan and susan rice and sais mantha powers have access. did the president benefit from that and i am sure we'll get questions like that and answers. >> lou: upcoming as well is the interrogation and the testimony of the former director of the fib be fib. >> sure. >> lou: as one looks at the record of director comey, the first question that should sho

joining us not to explain, james rosen, who is not a robot, he is a human being, and he does not havejames, good evening. >> i am subject to glitches from time to time. whether a universal basic income would replace the social safety net already provided by state and federal governments, or what a supplement that, it's just one of the many critical aspects of this plan that arouses debate, but the concept of a guaranteed income is undeniably experiencing a revival of sorts. facebook founder mark zuckerberg endorse the idea and his harvard commencement address last month and tesla ceo elon musk has spoken in favor of it twice in recent months. with some credible projections forecasting 40 to 50% of all jobs in the u.s. today will be eliminated due to automation within the next ten to 15 years. futurists, labor market analyst, and leading ceos are asking, what will become of all of those workers displaced by technology? whether the society at large, seeking stability in such a radically transformed economic environment, might not benefit from some orderly redistribution of wealth? an ad

. >> jon: james rosen joins us now from the state department. >> good afternoon. how to handle it exactly? formulating his response to the death of otto warmbier, the trump administration must now navigate the imperatives of u.s. policy toward north korea, not to mention china, but also the growing and specific response to this specific incident from within congress and elsewhere. otto warmbier, an american citizen was murdered by the kim jong-un regime. the final year of his life, he lived the night where in which the north korean people have been trapped for 70 years. forced labor, masturbation, systematic cruelty, torture, and murder. >> we could bring this regime down with chinese cooperation, we need to convince china it's in their interest to end the north korean regime and the nuclear threat that it poses across east asia. the >> president trump appeared visibly moved by the death of warmbier, following a one hour trial on convictions of subversion. he was returned to the united states in a comatose state. one diplomatic recourse that could potentially be p

bret. >> bret: james rosen, thank you.residential son-in-law jared kushner is in the region to try to jumpstart peace talks there. kushner met with ives israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. west bank city, president trump has passed kushner the ambitious goals of laying down the ultimate deal. there is a new future king in saudi arabia. a major shakeup in the line of success in their has allies such as the u.s. wondering what other changes may be in store for the oil-rich kingdom. the story from our middle east newsroom. >> study of saudi arabia, shocs through the middle east when he reversed decades of tradition and appointed his son, mohammed bin solomon as crown prince. the former air to the throne, mohammed bin solomon pledging his loyalty to the future king. addressing his loyalty should be smooth. 31-year-old crown prince has some internal divisions among saudis ruling families and the conservative sunni arab nation done several controversial paths. bin salman, instigated the move to diplomatically isolate the

james rosen will take the helm. thanks for watching.hat's it for "special report." >> it is june 1st and it is t." decision day. donald trump announcing in just hours whether the united states will stay in the paris climate accord. democrats already up in arms over this decision. we are live in washington. heather: hillary clinton hitting the road to blame her collection loss on everyone but herself. >> the use of my email accounts was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. i inherit nothing from the democratic party. heather: she has a brand-new conspiracy.. rob: shocking - cam video showing tiger woods slurring his speech struggling to keep his balance. "fox and friends" first starts right now. ♪ ♪ everybody is working ♪ everybody is working for the weekend ♪ heather: look at the shot of central park on the avenue of the americas in new york city, looks like it will be a beautiful day. you are watching "fox and friends" first on thursday morning, looking forward to the weekend. rob: in a few hours, donald trump will an

lou: james rosen, for example, knows what it's like to be spied upon and to have his civil libertieslated by a justice department. that of eric holder, we should point out, and president obama. obama himself is now perilously close to being immersed in this scandal. i mean, with the addition of samantha power to the unmasking, if you will, subpoenas as a person of interest -- >> yeah. lou: -- this is getting broader, and it is getting perplexing which suggests that we are a long ways from understanding what really happened in this administration when it comes to surveillance of u.s. citizens. >> you're right. and, quite frankly, president obama is really at the front end of these questions, because in 2011 he changed the rules that made unmaasinging and deminimization much easier for the intelligence community. and it set in motion what we now are seeing play out in public. at some point when you know john brennan, samantha power and susan rice had access to unmasked americans' intelligence, the next obvious question is did they brief the president? did the president benefit from tha

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.s up to the highest court of the land for the president trump's so-called travel band will be the law of the land. placing a temper -- has lost in the district at the appellate court levels. all this comes out where after the president delivered on another major campaign promise by withdrawing the u.s. from the paris claimant accords. corresponded kevin corke is live with all this and more on the north lawn of the white house. >> -- set to wait whether or not the president -- let's call it "fiery campaign rhetoric" can be used as evidence that the real intention for the travel ban was to discriminate against muslims. after lower coat , court setbacks, the white house is following through on its pledge to take the fight for its temporary travel ban all the way to the highest court in the land. >> we have a supreme court to hear this important case and are confident that the president's executive order is within his lawful authority to keep the nation safe and protect our committees from

chief washington correspondent james rosen has the report from the state department. >> reporter: following the first session of a new ministerial dialogue with china held by the trump administration held mostly behind closed doors, rex tillerson deems north korea the top security threat to the united states and he told it to the chinese visitors. >> they have a diplomatic responsibility to exert much greater economic and diplomatic pressure on regime. if they want to prevent further escalation in the region. >> reporter: the session followed the death this week of otto warmbier, young ohio native held hostage by china's client state north korea and returned to u.s. soil last week in an unresponsive state. >> this is going beyond any kind of understanding of law and order, of humanity. >> it's a disgrace what happened to otto. >> reporter: president trump visibly moved by the case tweeted out that america's effort to rein in north korea's behavior said it has not worked out, at least i know that china tried. >> read it with the april 11 tweet where he said if china cannot solve north korea

chief washington correspondent james rosen has the report from the state department. >> reporter: following session of a new ministerial dialogue with china held by the trump administration held mostly behind closed doors, rex tillerson deems north korea the top security threat to the united states and he told it to the chinese visitors. >> they have a diplomatic responsibility to exert much greater economic and diplomatic pressure on regime. if they want to prevent further escalation in the region. >> reporter: the session followed the death this week of otto warmbier, young ohio native held hostage by china's client state north korea and returned to u.s. soil last week in an unresponsive state. >> this is going beyond any kind of understanding of law and order, of humanity. >> it's a disgrace what happened to otto. >> reporter: president trump visibly moved by the case tweeted out that america's effort to rein in north korea's behavior said it has not worked out, at least i know that china tried. >> read it with the april 11 tweet where he said if china cannot solve north korea the united

james rosen is at the state department.ing. >> it was during this afternoon's state department press briefing that president trump tweeted out what could prove to be a major shift in the u.s. approach to the entire complex of problems presented by north korea. "while i greatly appreciate the efforts of president xi and china to help with north korea, it has not worked out. at least i know china tried!" the tweet comes following the death yesterday of otto warmbier, the 22-year-old ohio native held hostage by the regime in pyongyang for 17 months. returned to u.s. soil last week in a comatose state. let us state the facts plainly, said senator john mccain. otto warmbier, an american citizen, was murdered by the kim jong-un regime. in the final year of his life, mccain added, he lived a nightmare in which the north korean people have been trapped for 70 years. forced labor, cruelty, torture, murder. does this administration agreed? >> i am not going to comment on what senator mccain said. i'm not familiar with what he said i'

james rosen is president of the national constitution centre. . thanks for joining us.oining us. from what you've been able to hearfrom comey‘s joining us. from what you've been able to hear from comey‘s testimony, do you think donald trump's words, do you think donald trump's words, do they amount to obstruction of justice? we don't know any more than we did before, the crucial meetings where the president said, i hope you can let this go, is the crucial thing. comey was asked directly and he could not go further than that. the legal standard for obstruction is precise, the person has two intentionally aim to impede an investigation, so a lot depends on president trump's motive, was he trying to shut down the best occasion or was there something else in comey‘s conduct that irritated tim cross jamaat it is complicated further by the fact that some people feel that the director can be fired for the purpose of shutting down an investigation because that is part of his costa juice no authority. it isa of his costa juice no authority. it is a mixture of legaljudgment that

chief washington correspondent james rosen live tonight with a look at both sides on that issue. james, good evening. >> bill, good evening to you. the latest appointee to donald trump's integrity commission says it's bizarre that democratic secretaries of state are vowing to defy the committee's request for large volumes of state voting data. >> the information that is being asked for by the commission is public information. in fact, there is a federal provision international voter registration act that gives the public the ability to access this information. >> the commission has written to all secretaries of state requesting they turn over the full first and last names of all registrants, their addresses, dates of birth, political party, last four digits of their social security number, their voter history from 2006 onward, active, inactive status, canceled status, information regarding felony convictions, information regarding registration and other states, information regarding military status, an overseas citizen information. the vice chair running the panel is kansas public

i'm james rosen sitting in for basketball. in an, expressed doubt whether robert mÜller responsible for investigating ties to russia and related matters can possibly be impartial. president told aimsly air hart he is worried about muller and the man fired as fbi director. all this as the president signs a law giving more power to leaders at the v.a. to tell employees not cutting it, you're fired. john roberts has all of that for us. good evening, john. >> good evening to you. with the democrats licking their wounds from some biggie electrics losses this week, the president found some running room to go back on offense. in the east room today president trump keeping his commitment to the nation's veterans, signing a bill to dramatically increase the v.a.'s ability to hold bad employees accountable. >> our veterans have fulfilled their duty to this nation and now we must fulfill our duty to them. so to every veteran who is here with us today, i just want to say to very simple words. thank you. >> reporter: v.a. reform was a key

cohen has denied colluding with the kremlin, issuance of up seen. >> thank you, james rosen reporting. >> out of washington, ousted fbi director james comby is expected to testify. before the senate intelligence commit behis conversations with president trump, regarding the michael tblin investigation. a source close to comey says that former director will confirm some accusations that president trump pressured him to end his investigation to flynn, that is an escalation of allegation, a date for comey's testimony has not been set, timing remains unseernl. lou: joining me now to discuss the expectations testimony from james comey. late-breaking developments on subpoenas, and unmasks spying scandal, now with three officials names from the obama administtion. rnc national committee man, former chairman. randy evans joining us, great to see you, they came out guns blazing. sending their subpoenas to agencies. fbi, nsa, the -- it is a sight to see today. >> it is reestablishment of the plants of power with congressional oversight of his agent, all they do is run among. i would not be surp

jamie: i'm james rosen, great to be with you, arthel.ort that mr. obama was aware of moscow's interference for months but failed to take swift action. kristin fisher is live now at the white house. good evening, kristin. >> reporter: today president

come on in, james rosen. who has been taking a close look at this. is face, even when dealing with nonsense idea like universal income. go at it, james. what would the world look like? >> this is not the first time this concept has been faxable. in fact in his first term, president richard nixon, briefly fallen under the sway of bow tied liberal advisor, daniel patrick moynihan. proposed something like this, family assistance plan t was moynihan called guaranteed income. it died in the 19 senate in 1970. it is undergoing a revival nowadays. with perhaps as 40, 50% of the jobs currently exist in the united states right now, will be gone due to automation within 13 years, 2030. so the question is raised, what will become of all those workers displaced by technology? thence from some ceos, like zuckerberg and musk, is that seeking stability society would be well-advised to guarranty an income for these people in such radically-transformed, economic environment. we'll look at it on "special report," with bill hemmer in for bret baier at 6:00 eastern. stua

in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> so in theory i get the concept and i understand it but i don'ton't see it working. i mean, that's something taxpayers would that probably end up having to pay for it. >> lawmakers are never going to vote for that. i just don't see it. >> they're right we have the technology, it's just changing things and it's trying to get people trained for those jobs and it's hard to the past with the jobs that we had if they're not going to be there unfortunately. >> we have to plan and figure out what comes next. >> yeah. >> all right. seeing double these days? they say we have a twin or a doppelganger. a side by side comparison that might have you doing a double take of well, a politician. we'll be right back. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> all right, live look at the white house tonight. it is a hot steamy day out there. >> yeah. >> and sue palka says it's going to get a little more humid tomorrow. the temperatures are going to get a little bit warmer, so get ready for it as we head into i guess what will be the holiday weekend. >> yeah, yeah. everybody's going to be heading

james rosen. come back again when eric shawn is out. james: you bet. arthel: stick around.ommon ground on a healthcare bill, president trump is slamming its predecessor over russia's interference in the election. i'm kelly wright in for julie banderas and this is the fox report. president trump visiting his golf course in virginia after answering questions in an exclusive interview with fox news to air tomorrow. the president accuses president obama of knowing what russia was up to, and quote, doing nothing. it comes as a report from the washington post says the former president was slow and cautious in responding to russia's meddling. now, even some democrats are piling on to mr.

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.urt of the land for the president trump's so-called travel band will be the law of the land. placing a temper -- has lost in the district at the appellate court levels. all this comes out where after

and the justice department of course spying on journalists, including our own james rosen and the associated and it goes on and on. we are talking about a rancid stinking swamp that grows. it's not drained yet. joining me to discuss the fallout from today's hearing, olympic media managing editor, katie fratus and matt schlapp. katie, how did in your judgment did the attorney general do today? >> i think jeff sessions was fantastic. he was fired up, aggressive, passionate. you don't see him raising his voice and that force coming from sessions. that speaks from a man speak with a clear conscience standing by his convictions and refusing to be bullied by people in the senate he has known for decades. lou: they are not precip pro kaight. his colleagues for 20 years, he was one of the most respected senators among the 100. they didn't give a darn. and they attacked like the hyenas they are. and it was awful to watch. matt: i thought john mccain and marco rubio were particularly disrespectful and rough on him. i'm waiting for a democrat to step forward and say there is no there there. lou: dianne

james rosen is outstanning and stood down the obama administration which was trying to put him into jail, which is an incredible violation of freedom of the press. charlie savage from "the new york times," is excellent. i also rely havely on the new york review of books, people like david cole, was at george town, now at aclu. as for wikileaks, i'm torn because i think julian assange is such a strange character and was obsessed, like put defeat of hillary clinton and a definite link between the russian hacking and then the laundering of the material to get it to julian assange in a way he can say i didn't get this from the russians. that's my own personal opinion. so i. a sympathetic when wikileaks was started, it was to challenge the government and i think assange has become an anarchist and his target is the united states he has no other target. so, are we -- we have exhausted the subject? thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

chief washington correspondent james rosen is here with details.onfirmed that the fbi and cia and national security agency were all served today with subpoenas issued by the house intelligence committee. sources said

james rosen is live from our d.c. bruro with more on this. james. >> reporter: the so called unmasking probe run by the same committee the house intelligence committee. the chairman the california republican who signed the three unmasking subpoenas issued by his panel yesterday told fox news this month that there is a legislative function to his probe of the unmasking actestify. >> people in one party looking at intelligence and request be unmasking on another party we are the beginning stages of that. i remain concerned about it. because i think that at the ends of the day we'll have to have major changes to federal law. >> reporter: the unmasking subpoenas were served at lunch yesterday on the fbi, cia and national security agency of the 3 agencies committees say the ns approved minimally responsive to the request for documents that had ground to a halt. thus the subpoenas. names referenceod the subpoenas are well known. national security advisor susan rice denied improper unmasking. a john brennon declined comment and samantha power. pulitz

james rosen has more from our d.c. bureau on that. en president trump set up this commission, even some republican secretaries of state reacted skeptically. now democrats are vowing to defy the panel under the executive order that established the commission. mike pence held an organizational call with members just ahead of the vice chair. sending a letter to all 49 of his colleagues requesting, among other things, the full first and last names of all registrants, addresses, dates of birth, political party, last four digits of social security number, voter history, active and status, voter registration and other states, information regarding military status, kinetic secretary of state said connecticut will ensure that the privacy of voters is honored by withholding protected data. virginia's democratic governor unsurprisingly said -- the white house remains firm that the commission will move forward with its work, ultimately producing recommendations designed to protect and preserve the principles of one person, one vote. >> heather: it

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.t court of the land for the president trump's so-called travel band will be the law of the land. placing a temper -- has lost in the district at the appellate court levels. all this comes out where after

. >> one of ourus favorite reports here, james rosen got sur veiled by the last administration.he person i felt saddest for in addition to 325 million americans having to watch this was kathy griffin's mom. apparently she has a mom and she's not in step with her daughter. here's what kathy griffin said about her. >> fox news got nothing on me. i think you should know my mother who thinks fox news is real is not speaking to me because she's in love with carlson. don't worry, everyone hates me. >> you think that's the real reason herer mother's not speakg to her? >> i couldn't hear that. >> she said that her mom watches this show and it's made her so mad. >> your show? >> yeah. >> everybody watches your show. how about m that. >> imagine if you were kathy griffin's parents, not her parents, i don't want to be mean. someone around kathy griffin you would say you're a good person, i like you, don't continue to humiliate yourself in public. >> i'm particularly doing that we were all wondering i mean, she must have had now we see there's a whole video of photographers, make-up artists

james rosen has details on this. james, democrats on the house intelligence committee are making clear they're not okay with the chairman signing off on these unmasking subpoenas. tell us a little about the drama that's emerged. >> good afternoon. democrats on the house intelligence committee tell fox news that the unmasking subpoenas were sent by chairman nunes asking separately from the russian collusion investigation, from which nunes stepped aside on april 6th to confront a separate house ethics probe focused on his public statements about classified data. the democrats claim that should constrain nunes' involvement. but nunes told me recently he is an active chairman. >> what i have done because i thought it was appropriate, as long as there were bogus charges against me, i was going to set at least the russian investigation aside 'cause i didn't want to become the face of this investigation. but everything else i'm still in charge of. >> including the unmasking inquiry? >> especially the unmasking. >> judicial w

james rosen tonight tells us wh why. >> senator bernie sanders refuse multiple times to answer questionsrom fox news producer carol rowland about the fbi investigation reportedly come to focus on his wife jane. >> where are you from? >> fox news. a cds is reporting, politico. do you believe it is politically motivated? >> i am glad you are interested in the fact the republican leadership is proposing legislation which would throw millions of people off health insurance. >> the case centers on jane sanders tenure as president of vermont college. published reports allege the claimed 2.6 millions in pledges. the college spiraled into bankruptcy. burlington college. campaign chair in vermont asked regulators to investigate bank fraud. >> i have seen public documents that show an investigation has been started. the records were with the vermont apartment of education. prosecutors were asking the department of education to preserve records. >> senator sanders campaign manager did not respond to requests for comment but he told politico the couple has hired richard cassidy, a well-regarded lawy

chief washington correspondent james rosen has the inside story. >> in a tense meeting at national security agency headquarters that forced me last friday, majority staff lawyers from the house intelligence committee received what they considered disappointing answers from the nsa's lawyers about documents in the unmasking controversy. sources told fox news devin nunes had been seeking nsa's cooperation. >> it's slow, it's a slow process to get the i see to get us the documents. >> and decided after friday's impasse to move forward with the subpoenas. the nsa, fbi, cia. named as figures of interest, cia director, u.n. ambassador, adam schiff of california limited what he called a pattern by nunez of secret meetings and unilateral action. >> i don't know what the chairman has in mind. picking these people apart. if there's a problem getting information from the agency's, i'm not aware of it. the problem hasn't been shared with us. the necessity of subpoenas hasn't been shared. >> did disagreements underscore the partisan rancor that has hampered the probe. allegations that the term campaign

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier. good night from washington.story" with martha maccallum is up next and you won't want to miss that.

james rosen. come back again when eric shawn is out. james: you bet. arthel: stick around. kelly wright is up next with the fox report. >> republican senators struggle for common ground on a healthcare bill, president trump is slamming its predecessor over russia's interference in the election. i'm kelly wright in for julie banderas and this is the fox report. president trump visiting his golf course in virginia after answering questions in an exclusive interview with fox news to air tomorrow. the president accuses president obama of knowing what russia was up to, and quote, doing nothing. it comes as a report from the washington post says the former president was slow and cautious in responding to russia's meddling. now, even some democrats are piling on to mr. obama saying his administration could have done more. meanwhile, an uphill battle gets steeper on capitol hill as a fifth republican senator has come out against the healthcare bill. nevada's dean heller saying he can't support the measure the way it is written right now. mitch mcconnell hopes to bring the bill up f

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thank you for watching special report, i'm james rosen. the story with martha maccallum is up next. >> breaking tonight, the obama white house was deeply concerned with evidence that russia tried to pull levers in the 2016 election and yet they let them go with a slap on the rest. the question now is why. that is one of two very big stories this friday night as the russia investigation now swings the spotlight onto the obama administration. good evening everybody, i martha maccallum. the other parallel story is this. did loretta lynch provide assurances that hurt justice department would not lift the investigation go too far. new letters from the senate judiciary committee today revealed that although those emails may or may not have been fake, that has yet to be determined, they do want to speak directly with ms. lynch. chief national correspondent ed henry here with the latest on the report date the obama administration spent months debating in the white house over how to respond to russia and in the end it did very little. >> it's one o

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier. good night from washington. martha maccallum is up next and you won't want to miss that. >> martha: breaking tonight, secretary of state rex tillerson says in no uncertain terms, north korea is to blame for the death of this young american college student. this is his statement, released just moments ago, "we hold north korea accountable for otto warmbier's unjust detainment." these are the americans whose lives are still in jeopardy. one of them, obviously until the weather on the right-hand side. this statement was sort of part of a 1-dupont this evening. before that, we heard of the president. he was calm but defiant. watch this. >> i just wanted to pass on word that otto warmbier has just passed away

you know, we saw this with james rosen when he was with obama administration really going after him.ly put the brakes on how much we want to investigate. look, i think the government needs to get to the bottom of the leaks, and it's easy to do that. you put out misinformation, figure out who leaked that information, and then you nail the person. charles: yeah. >> but you can't start going after journalists. charles: bob, how confident are you that we will get to the bottom of this? >> i think that these investigations are going to go on for some -- charles: you mean like years. >> definitely a year at least from this point forward. and i think that, you know, we're going to find out a lot of information we don't -- and i think there's been far too much speculation about what could be in the final investigation report or not. we don't know. so i think that are we going to find out everything? no. but i think that we're going to find out a lot, i think. bob mueller picked as the special counsel was a very good choice, and the problem for the administration that mueller and james comey,

certainly there are critics in all this and james rosen has a look at that this morning.r a universal basic income would replace the social safety net already provided by state and federal governments or would supplement is one of the critical aspects of this plan that arouses debate. the concept of a guaranteed income is undeniably experiencing a revival of sorts. mark zuckerberg endorsed the idea in his harvard commencement address and musk has spoken in favor of it. forecasting 40 to 50% of all jobs in the united states today will be eliminated due to automation within the next 10 to 15 years. futurists and labor market analysts are asking what will become of all those workers displaced by technology and whether society at large seeking stability in such a radically transformed economic environment might not benefit from some orderly redistribution of wealth and whether federal agencies like darpa, should be using taxpayer funds to pursue robotics, the projects that will displace those taxpayers from their jobs. >> the challenge, i think for public policy, is to make s