. >> dana: john roberts is live at the summit in france. saw you there, getting the first question. why don't we start with china. where do things stand?

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mean john roberts because was his money and his family came in and sort of took over, they thought he was an idiot for getting involved in the first place. his father was a miserable character actually. and john died a few years ago and once he made the commitment, he saw it through. so after the festival we had a the bankith the bank had sorta financed unwittingly the weekend. and wanted to make sure they would be covered. we were not mature enough to handle things. they read odds with each other. we reckon in a buy them out and they were gonna buy us out.

john roberts reporting live from the white house. john. >> good afternoon.und of the president's visit in el paso and dayton are going to remain off the record. white house not giving away any details as to exactly where the president is going to go. there's a lot of debate over the visit, president trying to tamp down some controversy with his statements on twitter. the president tweeting today: "i am the least racist person. repeating the presence denunciations of white extremism. one member of congress is urging the president to stay away. congresswoman virginia escobar, democrat, 16th congressional district in texas includes el paso. here's what she said about the president's visit. >> he's not welcome here. he should not come here while we are in morning. i would encourage the presidents staff members to have him do a little self reflection. i would encourage them to show him his own words and his actions at the rallies. >> el paso's republican mayor who has quarreled with the president in the past earlier this winter over crime statistics in el paso sa

john roberts is on the north lawn. >> and past incidents as likely as there has been a morning.efore politics takes over the spotlight. but literally from the very moment the first shot rang out on saturday morning, politics has permeated these tragedies. as president trump on the first lady travel to convert victims of dayton and el paso, the politics surrounding the mass shootings and the president raged. the president today insisting that he has not emboldened to white supremacists. >> my critics are political people, and in many cases they are running for president and very low in the polls. >> today they are doubling down on the charts. >> the president fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. >> the war of worry showing no signs of easing despite the republican from both sides backing off. >> senator ted cruz today said that people on both sides of the political i'll need to tone down the rhetoric. do you agree? >> i do agree but i think we have toned it down. >> at dayton's miami valley hospital, critical of the president for not supporting new gun-control mea

so john roberts said maybe this is not as good of a profession as i thought. but actually he did continue to major in history but he also added courses that would help you prepare for a law school. speak. >> how have your books contributed to your personal success. >> david rubenstein: i think if you read a lot, you learn more than you wouldn't if you didn't read a lot. i learned relatively well. i don't have a photographic memory i wish i did but i love reading books and until people went to make speeches about reading, that is important to read. i read a lot of newspapers and magazines but the book books observe the mind and focus the mind much more. these much more important to read a book and go through the gaining of about two the middle in the end and take that with you for some time a week or two or whatever it takes to read a book. you get more out of that because you have to focus your brain for longer period of time. i think it's made me a better person by having the knowledge i get from reading books and much more informed about the world that i was

john roberts was there. 29 minutes. john? >> you know, the president clearly had a lot on his mind today, shep that he wanted to get off. we saw ilhan omar give that press conference yesterday with tlaib. he said that it's ridiculous to consider changing the aid they need the united states gives to israel, which is due to some $3.8 billion a year. that was something that was done during the obama administration. of course, there's a lot of personal things that fly back and forth between all sides. it's not surprising that the president would take them on personally in the way that he did. i asked a question, specifically, about afghanistan and the tele- man there are a number number of people that believe that if the united states cuts a deal with the taliban, within a very short period of time, the taliban will be back in control in afghanistan. we'll go back to a pre9/11 posture. the president was clear in saying that the taliban cannot be trusted. you wonder exactly how the negotiations are going to go. the president did s

john roberts reporting live from the white house. the latest tweet from the president, the latest official statement is a clip of lou dobbs railing on cnn. is anybody talking about this trade war? >> yeah, and we are about to talk about it, shep. the president will likely respond as well. he is leaving for a big rally and fund-raiser in cincinnati tonight. the secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin, trade representative robert lighthizer return from talks with the chinese in shanghai. they brief the president before noon today. while more talks are scheduled with the chinese for september, the president's sensing that china is trying to slow walk a deal here, so he has tried to light a fire under president xi, tweeting: "trade talks are continuing entering the talks the u.s. will start on septembel tariff of 10% on the remaining $300 billion of goods and products coming from china into our country." the president have threatened tariffs as high as 25%. he is starting slow. the president is not happy that china went, as he said, 98

chief white house correspondent john roberts has been traveling with the president in france, joins usonight. good evening, john. >> good evening, bret. for most of the weekend here, the other g7 leaders were sweating the global economic uncertainty caused by the escalating trade war between the united states and china. one that saw the dow dropped a 600-point clip on friday but is monday dawned here in france, a new sense of optimism over this summit. the final day of the g7 was dominated by what appeared to be an about-face in china's position on the trade war. vice chairman leo hard telling chinese media china is willing to resolve its trade dispute with the united states through call negotiations and resolutely opposes escalation of the conflict. the statement came as markets in asia took a nosedive this morning and while it is too early to tell whether this represents a sea change in china's attitude, president trump is optimistic. >> you trust that they are sincere? >> i do. i think they want to make a deal very badly. i think they very much want to make a deal and the longer the

it's going okay, john roberts live on the north lawn. thank you. the homeland security department is barring some democratic staff members working for the house oversight committee from visiting customs and border protection facilities at the u.s.-mexico border. sources telling fox news the action comes citing staff behavior during a previous trip that reportedly interfered with law enforcement operations, including refusing to leave one site, skipping some doors and being rude to officers. the democratic committee aide says the letter making the claims is "riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations." there is significant movement tonight towards what could be the end of american involvement in this nation's longest war. a national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon there are also significant concerns about what might happen after that. >> after 18 years of war, the taliban announced they are on the verge of a deal with the u.s. government, a deal that critics fear will result in a complete retreat of u.s. force

improved respect shown to the united states can really help get al-jazeera the white house well john robert clemmensen joins me now from copenhagen he's an associate professor at the royal danish defense college thanks for being with us on the program from purely strategic perspective does it make sense that donald trump wants the u.s. to buy green and. well it would make sense for the u.s. to be very interested in greenland because as as your reporter just mentioned the u.s. has a strategic. strategically important base in northern greenland that's part of the missile defense system but the u.s. has been caught netting over the past decade it has noticed that russia and china have have have looked at greenland as we'll and have seen a weakness in the us alliance system so china has been chinese companies have been investing in greenland and the fear in washington is that that will give china some leverage over the green agenda government which can be used to undermine the u.s. on the island at the same time russia is currently building a an airbase in the arctic that can be used to to knoc

john roberts live at the white house. john, thank you. president trump defending his position on the trade war saying he won't back down to china. >> this isn't my trade war. this is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago. i am the chosen one. somebody had to do it. so i'm taking on china. i'm taking on china on trade. >> the president's comments come after he sounded off on his predecessors. gerri willis reporting live from the new york stock exchange. gerri? >> i can tell you down here nobody expects this issue to be resolved any time soon. they say maybe this year, maybe next. the crystal ball murky and they feel like they've been promised a lot and very little has been delivered. as you know, we have tariffs from our country on $250 billion worth of chinese goods. they retaliated with tariffs on $110 billion of our goods. it's the next tranche of tear riches that will be so costly. it goes at consumer products expected to go in place about december 15, most of it. according to j.p. morgan, they say the cost to u.s. c

john roberts starts us off with what the president said before he left washington. >> the trump administrationoday moved to indefinitely detain families who cross the border illegally to license federal facilities to house them. the dhs secretary. >> the new rules establishes a high national standard for care of children in custody. >> children can only be detained for 20 dayings. after that they are separated or the whole family is released into the united states. this new rule would allow families to stay together in custody. the president's critics say separating families is awful. they complain that detaining children for long periods of time is armful. >> very much i have the children on my mind. >> certain to be challenged in court, the white house hopes the detention plan will be a deterrent for people aiming to get released into the united states. president trump may seek changes to the 14th amendment which confers citizenship to children born on u.s. soil though he did not say what changes. >> we are looking at birth right citizenship. it's ridiculous. >> and president trump doubled d

so john roberts said maybe this is not a lucrative profession as a thought. he did not change his major he majored in history but took courses that might prepare for law school. >> how have you reading habits in the book that you have read contributed to your personal success? >> i think by reading a lot you learn more than you would not if you do not read a lot. i've been privileged to read quickly and absorb relatively well what i read, i don't have a photographic memory but i wish you did. i love reading books and i tell people, i make speeches about reading that it is important to read and i read a lot of newspapers, magazines but books absorb the mind and focus the mind much more, is much more important to read a book they go through the beginning, middle and end and take that with you for some time angel get more out of that then reading a newspaper or magazine because you focus your brain for longer period of time and i think it is made me a better person by having the knowledge i get from books in a much more informed about the world than it was when

fox's chief white house correspondent, john roberts, has more on the president's g7 summit from france. >> reporter: lou, good morning from france. for most of the weekend, the other g7 leaders were sweating the economic uncertainty caused by the escalating trade war between the united states and china, uncertainty that saw the dow plunge off a 600-point cliff on friday. but as monday dawned here in france, a new sense of optimism over the summit. the final day of the g7 was dominated by what appeared to be an about face in china's position on the trade war. the vice chairman telling media china is willing to resolve its trade dispute through calm negotiations and resolutely opposes escalation of the conflict. markets in asia took a nose dive this morning, and while it is too early to tell whether this represents a sea change in china's attitude, president trump is optimistic. >> do you trust that they are sincere? >> i do. i think they want to make a deal very badly, i think they very much want to make a deal, and the longer they wait, the harder it is to put it back. >> reporter: on

i'm john roberts in washington.m is on. >> martha: hello, everybody. democrats have one goal for candidates. they want to make president trump a one termer. if you've noticed, the light of attacks that passed several dave's has quickly shifted from this, not long ago... because there are quick instances of obstruction of justice. >> what is in the report is enough. >> beyond the shadow of a doubt, collude with the russian government. >> martha: now to this sentiment, really almost overnight. >> speak of the president is a white supremacist. he is.

john roberts reporting live at the white house. hn, many have called on the president to condemn white nationalism. he reresponded. >> he did. he looked at both shootings. the motive of the dayton shooter is unknown. the nation was watching and waiting to see what the president would say about the el paso shooting around whether he would condemn the white extremism that his own fbi director has said is significant, persistent and pervasi pervasive. here's what he said. >> the shooter in el paso hosted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. in one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. the sinister ideologies must be defeated. hate has no place in america. hatred devours the soul. >> as you alluded to, shep, in his morning address, the president outlined a number of proposals to try to prevent the next mass shooting why trying to identify people. lindsey graham and richard blumenthal would propose red flag protection order legislation which would give grants to states to deal with people that are sho

john roberts is live from the north lawn. john? >> reporter: dana, good afternoon. the doj's inspector general, michael horowitz, taking a blow torch to james comey for his decision to leak information from memos that he had written about his interactions with president trump. one of those memos, the so-called memo number four, comey shared with a friend of his, daniel richman, with instructions to share the contents but not the actual memo with "a new york times" report. he khaft taoeuzed the former director saying, quote, comey violated fbi policy. comey made public sensitive investigative information related to an on going fbi investigation. comey was not authorized to disclose the statements that he attributed to president trump. the inspector general concluded that comey showed poor leadership writing, quote, what was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information obtained during the course of fbi employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. that personally desired outcome, of course, being the appointment o

roberts will get a question. in johnmorning, meanwhile. >> we will keep our fingers crossed. steve: meanwhile bring in stuart varney host of varney and company on fox business. john roberts set it up perfectly. the question is the sincerity of the chinese. they say let's get back to the table. the president said china has been hurt very badly. they have got to do something. >> i would imagine so, yes. look, this is a very fluid and fast-moving situation. what was 10 minutes ago might not be true now. might not be relevant at the moment. the bottom line is this. president trump utterly dominates this g7 meeting of world leaders. he has put trade front and center and he is dominating onged that and making deals. he has a deal with japan worth billions of dollars. steve: 7 billion. >> opened up negotiations with germany, angela merkel. they are talking car tariffs. america wants to do a big trade deal with britain after brexit and now have you got this chinese situation here. the president says china called him twice. china

but the young john roberts and i don't really care. i want to do this because i really love history. so sure enough he was a good student he went to harvard and he majored in history. as he was coming back i think from his sophomore year from home in indiana, he landed in the logan airport and in boston and got into a camp, it's into the cab driver can you please take me to cambridge massachusetts. the cab driver said i going to harvard? yes student yes what is staying at harvard question mark setting history. the cab driver said well that's what i study when i went to harvard. so john robert sought will maybe this is not as lucrative of a present profession as i thought. but he actually did continue to stay with his major. and he did add courses that help him prepare for law school. >> peter slen: health yet have your reading habits contributed to your personal success? >> david rubenstein: i think i reading a lot, i think you learn more. i am privileged and being able to read relatively quickly and absorbed relatively well what read.

summit amid heightened tensions between tehran and washington, chief white house correspondent john robertssouthwest france and he has the latest, john. >> molly, good evening from saint-jean-de-luz, france, away from g7 leader and leader of other nations invited to the summit by french president emmanuel macron have gathered for lavish dinner biarritz, the body language between president trump and macron appearing to be fine this evening despite the fact that macron blindsided delegation, you mentioned at the top of this, invited the iranian foreign minister to biarritz for talks in the sidelines of g7 as he met with macron, macron saw fit to invite him here, president trump simply said no comment. the president did have a lot more to say, though, about the agreement in principle for new trade deal with japan, the president hoping to sign that deal at the united nations' generally assembly in new york city late september. the deal will see japan see increase agricultural products like corn, beef and wine, listen here. >> we are hard down the line, we agree today every point and now we are

john roberts reporting live out on the north lawn. high, john. >> shep, good afternoon. this idea of reprogramming, moving money around from one agency to another, depending on the need, is something that has happened in each of the past four years in regards to the border going back to the obama administration. a little less than a month ago, dhs notified congress that it went to reprogram a total of $271 million to address the crisis on the southern border. of that, $116 would be reprogrammed to put up more single adult detention beds. here's the point of controversy here. $155 million of that would go to temporary immigration facilities on the southwest border under the new migrant protection protocol that money would be reprogrammed from the fema disaster relief fund. now, fema told fox news that that money will come from what is called the disaster relief fund base account which covers predisaster declaration surges. that surge has already occurred in puerto rico where famous prepositioned a lot of supplies. there was $602 million left in that accounts. fema says ta

>> chris: john roberts reporting from the g7 in france john thanks for that.oining us now for an exclusive interview from the summit treasury secretary steven mnuchin. mr. secretary i want to ask you first about the president's comment this morning that he has second thoughts about the trade war with china, which set off some confusion which i hope you'll clear up. which is it? is he regretting how far the trade war is going? is he thinking about holding off on another round of tariffs, or does he wish he'd been even more aggressive? >> well chris it's great to be here with you. the president is determined to have fair and reciprocal trade with china and this morning's comment to back that off it was meant to say that he's determined as ever on this issue he wants a good deal. he wants free, fair, and reciprocal trade. >> chris: president trump tweet ed this on friday about american businesses. i want to put it up on the screen. our great american companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to china, including bringing your com

john roberts from the white house with reaction from the president. we have details of this report. >> the fbi director is held to a high standard because he set the tone as the nation's chief law enforcement investigator. michael horowitz said james comey set a dangerous precedent but despite the findings, the justice department has declined to prosecute. >> in the long-awaited 83 paged report, james comey violated his own employment agreement in his handling of mentalist document taken part private conversations with the president about the russia investigation "we had previously faulted to comey for caring unilaterally and inconsistent with department policy. what was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information obtained during the course of fbi employment. in order to achieve a personally desired outcome." comey later told congress he believed his memos were his property to share. >> i understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president, as a private citizen i felt free to sh

is done and probably will be signing around the date of -- >> chief white house correspondent john roberts on french coast of g7, john. >> molly, good evening from south of biarritz, deal months in the making, when we were in tokyo at the end of may the president said he would make push for it during month of august after elections in the upper house in japan, those negotiations were true, prime minister of japan and the president announcing agreement in principle, pen has not been put to paper just yet in terms of signing on a deal that the president says will be great for american agriculture, japan has agreed to buy more things like corn, beef, even wine, this on what the president said earlier today. >> we are far down the line and now we are papering it and signing at a formal ceremony and i want to thank prime minister abe and the japanese people, you've been fantastic friends and we very much appreciate it, this is a tremendous bill for the united states. >> the second day of g7 summit the president creating media speculation after answering questions with uk prime minister boris jo

john roberts is at the white house for us this afternoon. striking contrast there, john. >> yeah, no question about that. beto o'rourke we should point out releasing his own picture of himself with a victim of the el paso shooting as well. you know, this is a day when people in el paso and dayton are still mourning the dead. there's memorial services, viewings and funerals still to be had. the politics is flying back and forth. the president on his way out of the white house talking about sleepy joe biden saying his lost his fastball. the press pool was kept away from the president and first lady's visit at the miami valley hospital earlier today. that appeared to be by design. the white house was trying to not make this look like a photo open but the social media director tweeting out awhile ago, pushing back against senator sharrod brown who had criticism of the president. the white house was there videotaping the whole thing. so we'll see what comes out of that and what they try to release from that visit today. on the way out the door thi

john roberts has not part of the story tonight. good evening. >> president trump move to unify the nation against violence calling for a bipartisan solution saying he is open to any and all ideas. across party lines their main big differences over how to best address what appears to be an epidemic of mass murder. >> president trump condemned the shootings and dayton and el paso and after what was seen as a slow response to white extremism in charlottesville two years ago, today he made a statement of the nation. >> the shooter and el paso hosted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. in one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. >> president rob pitched a number of previous proposals to keep guns out of the hands of people were either mentally ill or show violent tendencies. >> we must make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms and that if they do those firearms can be taken through rapid due process. >> the so-called red flag protection order w

john roberts thank you. authorities in ohio and texas are trying to piece together what happened and why during the weekend carnage. the back-to-back shootings, 130. we continue our coverage with jeff paul in el paso. >> "amazing grace." >> they started their school year like no one imagined with the loss of one of their own. >> it's unfair. he was too young. 15 years old, he is the youngest murdered in the el paso shooting who was shopping with his uncle when the shots erupted. >> he had the chance to kill me but he didn't. >> speaking from the hospital, he was hit in the foot, the gunfire that struck his nephew was fatal. >> he was right in front of me. i won't go into details. it was a horrible image. i hope nobody ever goes through that. >> we are learning about the shooter's behavior. he drove more than ten hours from the dallas area before getting to el paso. that's when authorities say they suspected shooter got lost in a neighborhood and ended up at walmart because he was hungry. >> lumbar detail ser

john roberts has the rundown. >> is the united states headed towards a recession? according to a new survey, the answer is yes. either next year or 2021. president trump insists the answer is most definitely know. >> i don't see a recession. the world is in a recession right now and i don't think we are having a recession. we are doing tremendously well. our consumers are rich. i gave a tremendous tax cut. >> the president's optimism comes with a caveat, the economy could take a downturn but it would only be because he is fighting for new trade deals that would ensure long-term economic growth. >> we can do a lot of things but if that slow down that's because i have to take on china and the mother countries. if i wanted to make a bad deal and settle on china the market would go up but it would be the right thing to do. i'm not ready to make a deal yet. >> as an insurance policy the president wants the fed to dramatically cut interest rates calling for 100 basis points with some quantitative easing as well. there is also some chatter of a white house staff of a poss

john roberts, live from the g7 in france, on this evening. thank you so much, john. >> thank you. >> shannon: let's bring in fox news chief of the quaker bret baier and anchor of social report, great to see you today on this fine monday morning. it's been a busy weekend. now onto a busy monday. so much talk about president macron prelet's talk about this sparring with china. the president has said repeatedly they are having their worst year and decades and has brought them to the table. he is standing by the stars and says, "it's been painful. my life would be easier if i didn't take this on but i'm doing it for the american people." that's the cell. >> he is standing firm include making the chase down my case that china is feeling it. we don't often see a lot of that reporting about how much china is feeling the pain of this. in if the conditions are right, his message on the run. on the china front, it was interesting to see reporters pressed to see if there really was this call. the treasury secretary, as john mentioned, standing up and say

chief white house correspondent john roberts was at the impromptu press conference. >> almost a full blown press conference. we were in the oval office for about half an hour. one of the questions that i have for the president, he seemed to back off on his earlier support following the el paso and dayton shootings for enhanced background checks, perhaps not universal background checks but at least closings and loopholes. the president leaving bedminster, new jersey, over the weekend, appeared to back off on that a little bit and now we have learned from nra sources that the president called wayne lapierre this afternoon and told him that universal background checks are off the table. without mentioning background checks, wayne lapierre tweeted "i spoke to the president today, we talked about the best ways to prevent these types of tragedies. president trump is a strong second amendment president and supports our right to keep and bear arms." the president's position on background checks was one of our number of topics that we went over with him today. the actual first topic we discus

more on that on a moment before john roberts is in france with the celebrant says he believes china iseing sincere. john? >> yeah, we will get to that and just as i can. first of all, let's go to what is happening in china now. president trump believes that the get tough policy is that he has enacted against china in terms of his trade war that has been going on now for a number of months which is good on friday with both sides of saying that they are going to increase tariffs on billions of dollars in each other's goods it finally came to a head. china realized that it supply change and its economic stability is beginning to waver just a little bit. markets in asia worried way down earlier this morning when china seemed to do a little bit of an about-face. president trump says it's because of his get tough policies that china is finally waking up to see that it has to do things different them. listen to what the president said at a press conference earlier today. >> i had people say it make a deal, make a deal. they don't have the guts. and they don't have the wisdom to know that you

john roberts is at the white house on what we can expect minutes from now. john? >> neil, good afternoon. this is a ceremony that launched the space command, which is short of a space force. general john raymond will be taking the reins here. the mission is war-fighting in space. yes, this is the next frontier where the space command will be looking at monitoring missile launches, satellite surveillance, space command, other tasks. here's how mike pence described it in a speak at the smithsonian air and space museum in dulles on the 20th of august. listen here. >> as the president has said, we all recognize, frankly true for decades, in his words, space is a war-fighting domain. the u.s. space force will ensure that our nation is prepared to defend our people, to defend our interests and defend our values. the vast expanse of space and here on the earth with the technologies that will support our common defense from the vast reaches of outer space. >> the space command will be held at the peterson air force base in colorado springs. it will be moving sometime afte

john roberts to be an this. thank you. this sunday, afl-cio president richard trump sits down with chris wallace for an exclusive interview. they will likely talk about how union workers feel about the trade war with china. most of the impact he could have at the ballot box in 2020. fox news sunday, you don't want to miss this one. coming up on "outnumbered overtime," the doc is recommend to key changes i want caucus. how much will impact the numbing contest? does this ruin any of the campaign strategies? joe biden under fire after a report accuses him of botching the details in a moving anecdote. it will latest gaffe to any damage to his white house bid? to go general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. i got up here, and to god's truth, my word as a bite, he stood at attention. i went to pin him and he said "sir, i don't want the damn thing." s c, i felt i couldn't be at my best for my family. in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. but in only

>> melissa: thank you for that, john roberts. for more on all of it i'm joined by her public and comics men roger williams of texas. the congressman is sponsoring legislation to secure america's schools. he was also at that virginia baseball field when a gunman opened fire on congressional republicans two years ago. sarah, thank you so much for joining us. a lot to get to hear. let's talk about some solutions. there is legislation in the house that has passed on background checks. do you think that is something that could pass in the senate? >> i'm not sure. background checks, we do have now and folks by their guns at gun dealers. i would be willing to look at anything, like anybody would. i don't know whether it'll pass the senate or not, but one thing we have going -- >> melissa: that bill in particular preview of exposure to it and i think it addresses the universal background checks. democrats are saying if the senate would take that up it would be a great solution. you've seen it. do you think that's a good solution connecte

i'm john roberts in washington.ght now. >> mitch mcconnell declaring victory as twitter reverses its decision to lock his campaign's account, because it posted this shocking video of protesters calling for mcconnell's death. >> he's in there nursing his broken arm, should have broke his wrinkled ass neck. >> stab the (bleep) in the heart. >> good evening to you, i'm jon scott in for martha maccallum, this is "the story." athlete-day saga over the threatening video once again viewable on mcconnell's campaign account ended after the trump campaign, the republican national committee, and top conservative groups v

chief white house correspondent john roberts is in there where he got to go and he's got the latest. john? reporter: good evening to you actually, that one of a number of headlines of the day let's start first of all with this pending trade deal between the united states and japan this is an agreement in principle. it was negotiated over a number of months president trump had called me back at the end of may we talked about it while we were in japan, and he said he was going to wait until after japanese elections in july to really push for it. looks like the talks were fruitful. there still has to be more work done in the language but the president hopes to be able to sign this trade deal with the united nations general assembly toward the endoscopy of september in new york city. the press also held his first meeting with boris johnson, since johnson became the new uk prime minister and the president is eager to sign a new trade deal with johnson looking at the possibility of a hard exit from the european union, at the end of october and there was some disagreement though in the presi

first, john roberts has the latest on the president's trip. . >> good afternoon to you from just a short distance away from where the g7 summit is being held, and escalating trade war between the united states and china really taking center stage here at a breakfast meeting with the new u.k. prime minister boris johnson. president trump asked this morning if he has any reservations about where the trade war is headed. >> might as well. might as well. i have second thoughts about everything. >> after president trump's comments were interpreted as regret for the trade work, the press secretary later said of the president regrets anything it's not raising tariffs higher. president trump did say he has no plans at the moment to invoke emergency powers to force american companies to stop doing business with china, also insisting he is under no pressure from g7 allies to end the trade war. >> allowed them to get away with taking hundreds of billions of dollars out every year and putting it into china, so the answer is nobody will tell me that. >> in

i want to going out to chief white house correspondent john roberts, they're on the north lawn. this went on and on and on. these were hot topics. let's start with israel. >> first of all, let me just say that between yesterday and the oval office -- i was there with the president spoke for 30 minutes, and 37 minutes and then to degree heat. we had an awful lot of access, one-on-one, to this president. to ask a lot of questions. they are both like -- not even many press compasses, almost full-blown press conferences. as you mention, harris, a lot of questions got asked and answered. in terms of israel, and the statement the president made yesterday oval office during that first conference, he said that any american jew who votes for the democratic party either shows a lack of knowledge or is disloyal. the president doubling down on that today. saying that if you look at what he's done for the state of israel, in terms of declaring jerusalem the capital, moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, and recognizing the golan heights as fully a part of israel, what democratic president ha

john roberts, thank you for that. i'm joined by republican congressman lance goodin of texas. i have a lot of questions for you. let mr. with that one since that's where john finished. there's a lot of debate about what there is an appetite for and not for among lawmakers. what do you think? >> i think the appetite seems to be a lot more serious read after one of these crises. after time passes, we find that it's difficult for congress to agree on anything. the appetite is one for protecting the second amendment. but also, realizing that we have a crisis in this country. we have a mental health crisis. we have these events happening that have been happening for many years. long before president trump came along. i think it's unfortunate that the discussion has now turn into who we are going to blame, and the democrats are pulling the present for whatever this beacon. that's crazy to me. >> melissa: in terms of a solution, there's a lot of ideas out there on the table. whether it's the red flag laws, whether it's the idea of universal background checks. is there anything you ar

. ♪ >> welcome, i'm david asman for neil cavuto, john roberts, it's all going down, john. >> david, goodnoon to you, president trump just finished lunch with emmanuel macron, bit of a surprise, we weren't expecting him to have lunch with the french president, we didn't expect him to do anything until tonight. the two leaders did sit down and the president saying that despite recent tensions including france's decision to tax american tech companies which may result in president trump's slapping tariffs on french wine, the relationship continues to be strong. listen to president trump here. >> we actually have a lot in common. we get along very well. special relationship. >> bilateral meet negotiation g7 sessions, president trump will be driving progrowth message talking about what he has done in terms of cutting taxes and regulations to keep the economy humming. in lunch meeting macron said that european countries are talking about cutting taxes and the president will urge reform in world trade organization because he's complaining that china has totally gamed the system. and hanging ove

and it was on fox, with john roberts, and he talked about the protester from with the entire segment. and i said is not a shame, one guy stood up and he took the whole thing away one person. it was not like gee, we have 25,000 people going crazy. it was one person. and i say, that is preset. >> we cover your rallies in their entirety. we will be with you thursday in cincinnati. when you're standing behind the podium looking at that crowd, what are you thinking? >> for one thing i'm thinking that never in the history of politics has that happened. and you understand what i mean. i have never had an empty seat. i do not believe from the beginning i came down the escalator, because you do cover really well paired one of the reasons i am doing the interview is respect for you and also the fact that you do a really good job of covering the rallies. and others cover the rallies too. i do not think we have had an empty seat. where thousands of people are outside, and sometimes we take ads or we communicate, please don't come. think of it, we will have a 22,000 seat arena including a basket w

john roberts, thanks so much for the reporting. : and you can hear the waves behind john, and from that elegant dinner now ongoing at this hour to, yet, another blastoff by kim jong un. north korea does it again, firing two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea of japan on the heels of the u.s. and south korea wrapping up joint military exercises, those objected to by the north. this marks north korea's seventh weapons test since just late last month and comes one day after the country vowed to remain, quote, america's biggest threat in protests against u.s.-led sanctions. mark never death is -- divot is live with more -- never is live with more. >> reporter: north korea fired two of these short-range ballistic missiles early saturday. now, this appears to be the latest in a string of weapons test. as you mentioned, there have been seven since july, and while speaking with appropriators friday night, president trump did not appear to be upset with north korean leader kim jong un over the test. >> he likes testing missiles, but

profile three-day event will likely include issues like global economic downturn and climate change, john robertse on the summit of the protests. weather is guests are fantastic. >> reporter: in the wake of escalating tensions in the middle east, the amazon rain forest burning and the global economy trembling, world leaders are coming together for three days of talks. >> everybody is getting along, we are going to come was a lot this weekend. >> reporter: president trump and french president emmanuel micron having a private lunch ahead of the summit. mccrone, hosting the summit, says the leaders have many foreign policy issues to discuss however the pressing topic seems to be the global economy in which many of the powers stems from the u.s. china trade war. >> how does the situation evolve? >> on friday, president trump announced an increase in tariffs on chinese goods in response to trade war retaliation, and goes on to say the u.s. economy is still in great shape. >> i think we are doing very well, our economy is doing great, we are having a little spat with china and we will win it. >> report

john roberts asked the president to comment. >> do you have any information that osama bin laden's son has been killed? >> president trump: i don't want to come interest on that. >> u.s. intelligence agencies viewed hamza as an emerging leader of al qaeda. after the attacks the c.i.a. says he and other al qaeda members fled to iran. they were detained but then let go. he released audio and video messages on the internet calling on supporters to launch more attacks on the u.s. and allies around the world.to be t 19 >> a video of his wedding was found in the compound >> the c.i.a. continues to hunt down the current leader of al qaeda. the state department has a $25 million reward for his head. the c.i.a. and u.s. special operations forces have decimated al qaeda over the past 18 years. >> bill: more to come as we get developments. >> sandra: in a matter of hours president trump will be heading to the battleground state of ohio for a big campaign rally just one day after the second round of democratic debates. the parties divide on full display last night as joe biden spent a lot of time

trump with the right wingers although at times they have done the right thing particularly when john roberts is more concerned about the legacy of the court than pandering to the right wing's so stay tuned indeed author and professor marjorie cohen thank you again for your time here and for your context and perspective on this important story. thank you holland coming up scam stars of come up with a new way to rip you off and if they succeed you will be the last to know how to avoid synthetic to the theft next this is the big picture on our team america. why a paradise with some. turned into a round the experimentation feels that agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major here tell us there's no question otherwise why would the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the. they did experiments but also in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals