leland?edicated as they took the plunge to show support, they say. a group of people swam across the border yesterday to show their support for immigrant and human rights. swimmers from the united states, mexico, israel and south africa were among the 12 athletes to make the swim in the pacific ocean from imperial beach, california, to tijuana. if you're counting, that is 6.2 miles. how do you carry your passport when you're swimming? elizabeth: maybe you get a waterproof case. leland: yeah. that guy's happy. elizabeth: all right. coming up after the break, a father of five killed in a random act of violence in las vegas. >>> and the gop bill to repeal and replace obamacare is on its way to the senate. but what's in it? we're going to break through the partisan spin and get down to some facts for you coming up next. >> i think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down. yes, deductibles will be coming down. but very importantly, it's a great plan. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> people with pre-existing

leland.e to fame during the royal wedding and now her wedding is being dubbed the society wedding of the year. maybe the decade. the marriage of duchess kate middleton's sister pippa to james mathews. more of the pictures coming up. ♪ going to the chapel and we're going to get married ♪ for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ >> now for royal news. duchess kate middleton's sister pippa tied the knot outside of london. kitty logan is live with more of the grand celebration. >> hi, elizabeth. this wasn't quite a royal wedding, but had plenty of royalty in attendance and one of the most talked about society weddings in the u.k. this year. pippa middl

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leland? >> leland: great, candid conversation.s we told you president trump touched down in brussels ahead of the nato summit. the fourth stop after the meeting with pope francis. the president called it an honor of the lifetime. kevin cork in brussels, correct? >> reporter: that's right, my friend. 7:30 and a beautiful day and a spectacular scene with the president and first lady in brussels and you know, it is not all business because the first lady is here. but the president is talking about economics and security cooperation and has a specific message, leland for fellow nato members. only if they do their pay share and two percent of the gd, p. he grated with the first lady greeted by the king and queen and the prime minister here in pellingium. it is not all just fun and games. there is a lot to talk about. most notably nato. we don't consider nato obsolete, but he believes they should contribute two percent of the gdp and that was shared today by the secretary of state. >> he really wants to persuade nato members to step up

his daughter, namely. >> leland: jared kushner on the left as well. he has been omnipresent throughout this whole trip, we saw ivanka standing for the president at the conference in saudi arabia, we said jared kushner with the president. we saw them both with the president throughout their meetings in israel. this is vatican television giving us a tour of some of the various sites within the vatican that they are looking at. what are we looking at right now? >> these are the paintings within these rooms at the apostolic palace, it is magnificent, it is overwhelming. they are religious themes of christian history, themes of the bible and they are trying to convey to people who come in there that this is a sacred precinct in which you are entering a house of god and reminded of god's action in history. the beauty of the vatican is meant to inspire people. this is a case where people use their wealth and richness to give glory to god through the visual arts. it's a beautiful place to be, i'm sure the party accompanying president trump will take advantage

. >> leland: nice to be with you, nice to be with you at home, i'm leland vittert.tt and jenna lee have the day off. president trump visiting arlington national cemetery a few hours ago. this is unusual for a president, made an unannounced stop at section 60. the final resting place for members of the military who have been killed in the war on terror since 2001. those families have gathered there to be with their loved ones. had this young than ma, president trump and vice president pence, speaking with the families of fallen soldiers. you can see sharing a moment with a young boy whose father is laid to rest there, who he was there to visit. the president also laying the traditional wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier on his first memorial day as commander in chief. >> president trump: words cannot measure the depth of their devotion, the purity of their love, off the totality of their courage. we only hope that every day we can prove worthy. not only of their sacrifice and service, but of the sacrifice made by the families and loved ones they left behind. >

back to you. >> leland: greg palkot a manchester. it's inspiring how resilient and defiant the brits are in that defiance goes all the way back to world war ii with the blitz when churchill so doggedly said we will not give up. you see that now through the attacks on the subway in london and out to the manchester attacks as well. >> heather: we look at that memorial which has grown so quickly. upwards of 23 children, 23 children dead as a result of this. still to come, we are going to talk a little bit more about that attack. a former marine bomb technician is here with experience and crowded venues just like this and what it takes to protect them. we'll talk about it. was a victory and an apology in montana from a republican who will take a seat and congress, despite facing charges for decking a reporter. >> when you make a mistake, you have to own up to it. that's the montana way charmin ultra soft gets you clean without the wasteful wadding. it has comfort cushions you can see that are softer... ...and more absorbent, and you can

leland.ranter as you point out, they've affected a lot of change for the better for the past 30 years for veterans and the adobe is. thank you. we will see a little bit later. >> what keeps you awake at night? >> nothing. i keep other people awake at night. leland: when a secretary not his favorite lines. the threat against aces in the state of the u.s. military with us here, iraq war veteran policy analyst and contributor for the hill. chris, pretty fair to say after we heard from president trump yesterday as he was in italy and today from secretary mattis, there is a new sheriff in town. >> absolutely. he was a marine. there's that mindset is very aggressive and from a leader, military commander, that's all we need at this time in our history. leland: it is striking when you were here, just over my right shoulder were so many from the war on terror are buried. some of those who served with. there is a price for keeping people up at night. but as the balance for this administration? >> this

leland. leland: allison, thank you.o many questions though. >> i suggest the question apparently the new york times is selling is that you asked comey, whether or not you had his loyalty was possibly inappropriate. could you say how they would say that mark i read that article. i don't think it's inappropriate did you ask that question? >> loyalty to the country, loyalty to the united states is important. it depends on how you define loyalty. number one, number two i don't know how that got there. i did not ask that question. >> what about the idea that in a tweet you said there might be tape recordings. >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest and i hope he will be. i'm sure he will be. speak you can catch the full interview with president trump on a special justice with judge team tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. it certainly is a topic of conversation this weekend. for more on the follow-up from comey firing and what's next for the senate intelligence committee. let's bring in north dakota john h

leland? leland: aren't we all?- say that three times fast -- are getting increasingly bold and creative when it comes to transporting product into the united states. our william la jeunesse with more from the border. >> on a typical day a few months ago, you would see three, four, five rafts full of people coming across. now, as you can see, there's not very much going on. >> reporter: but a few miles away, smugglers are busy with drugs. in texas smugglers float fully-loaded trucks filled with marijuana across the rio grand. this one got turned back by the border patrol, forcing the driver to ditch it in the river. coworkers tried to swim the bot back to mexico. and when we were there, it happened again. so moments ago this pickup was on the u.s. side filled with marijuana. border patrol gave chase. they turned around, dumped it in the rio grand. we got about half the marijuana, the other half went back to mexico on a raft. most pot is backpacked over the border. by contrast, 81% of hard drugs cross at the ports of

leland: it is a start or sure, brett.t's got to be amazing to watch this unfold and how these leaders react to president trump. there is nobody at this network who's gone on more foreign presidential trips then you have take away from president trump's first couple days different than any other u.s. president or in some ways it's all the same. reporter: now, this is different, leland in its first foreign stuff he chose here, saudi arabia. no other president has made that choice. you are going to hear from the president at this forum about engaging on social media against extremism which is something if you think about it from canada trump to president trump using twitter as he does so prolifically. some of his aides wish he didn't use twitter as much of the debt that he will talk about that combating terrorism. this is a unique trip and they are so happy this is the first out. by the embrace of president trump, changes the dynamic for the short-term that people in the u.s. are talking about something else. i doubt that so

i negotiated -- >> leland: is there a plan? >> i'm giving you an answer. we narrow the gaps that we used to have in the pass between us and the palestinians, but we did not bridge all the gaps. eventually, we did not achieve peace, but they gaps are narrow now. they exist, but they are narrow on the core issues and therefore, if we start not from zero, if we start by having something that relates to the core issue, not with all of the gaps, not from zero, this can be the basis for negotiation as long as the arab states would support saying to israelis that this with the palestinians is not just with the palestinians but the entire air world. this is very important for israelis and can also give the power and strength to the palestinian president to make the decisions that he needs to make and the compromises he needs to make in order to achieve peace. i did not say it would be easy, it is comp located but doable. >> leland: it is not easy, that is for sure. i have to tell you that i admire your optimism. from tel aviv, thank you. >> julie: -- >> we need so

so when i -- >> leland: hold on. we may not be in a cold war, but at the pentagon they will tell you they have never seen the russians be as aggressive, even during the cold war, that now they're flying combat bombers near u.s. shores. now they're challenging nato more than ever in the former baltic state, and that's why nato needs to focus on russia. >> i don't think there's any disagreement on that, but it's a question of whether that's the only area or whether you look at other areas. that's what president trump and his team are looking at, yes, we still have threats. it's different in nature. you don't have a soviet empire, all the satellite countries in the same way as he did before, but you also have this new threat of global terrorism that really is something that's emerged in the last few years. that's clearly a threat to our security. so when he -- >> leland: it is, but there's an irony in the sense that the only time of article five, the cornerstone of nato, collective defense, only time it was invoked was

>> leland: we will talk about that over the next couple of hours and then this. president trump's marathon trip abroad takes him to rome for meetings with pope francis, the president and the pope meeting in just a couple hours live throughout that at the vatican for the very latest. >> julie: in the meantime, england and the entire world still trying to make sense of the brutal bomb attack that left 22 people dead. many of them children, women, mothers, chaperones attending a ariana grande concert in manchester. at the very same time, britain must also with the possibility that another attack may be imminent. let's go live to benjamin hall in manchester. benjamin, how is the investigation into the massacre progressing and why the concern another attack could be at hand? >> good morning here for manchester. you are absolutely right. the big question is, was this attacker acting by himself or part of a larger network? quickly at the moment the police do not know, which is why they raised the terror level to critical. this is the third time in history it's been this

hi, peter. >> hi, leland.ut, the treasury department is not getting tax money as fast as they thought they were going to get. to date. that's why the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin came to capitol hill to say basically, that they need more money right away. as soon as possible. and under pressure from democratic lawmakers this week, treasury secretary steve mnuchin said he wants it raised even if there are not accompanying cuts. >> i worry that people have played politics with this in the past. are you on record as saying this needs to be a clean bill, focused just on raising the debt ceiling? >> my preference has been that it gets passed as quickly as it can. however, the house and the senate want to pass it. my objective is to get this done quickly. >> conservative house freedom caucus out with a statement that says this, quote, we oppose any clean raising of the debt ceiling. we call for the debt ceiling to be addressed prior to the august recess and demand that any increase of the debt ceiling be paired

thank you. >> leland: great reporting there.ore on that in the next hour of "happening now" and this. president trump meeting with the belgian leaders today ahead of a critical nato summit that could determine the future of the north atlantic alliance. something president trump was critical of during the campaign. pictures coming in there. plus, the white house budget director is on capitol hill, selling the president's budget plans. we got the health care, the budget, tax reform, and he is facing some skeptical lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. >> leland: all's well that ends well. at newark airport in new jersey back opened now after a minor emergency on tuesday. a757 was preparing to take off from san francisco when air traffic controllers of spotted fire from one of its engines. the passengers and crew evacuated the plane by the emergency slides. it sometimes happens. a couple were injured. would you like to hear that radio call? we were on fire. >> jenna: i'm curious where it came from air traffic control and not the

leland.com is a beautiful show they are putting on and what was an old hotel. combating extremist ideologies still appears very much a work in progress. the select ticketmaster at the very beginning there with saying we are developing myth and developing not in the system is not quite online at you have to wonder as well how focused are they going to be on this? is this going to be a make work project or will it start to root out based on social media to my based on fears on the ground for these hotbed of islamic extremist ideology are coming from. the president said in the arab islamic american summit faerber did not extremist ideology is the key to defeating terrorism. he said that there is nothing glorious about being a terrorist and terrorist do not worship god. they just want to kill and anybody who pursues that lifestyle is certainly not going to go to heaven as many of those people who will be martyred are but eternally condemned as the president with what melania is going here to a tw

leland has more.more on what this means for the united states and our foreign-policy. let's bring in tom rogan. he just wrote a great piece and the review for the washington examiner and mild gardener from the heritage foundation. margaret thatcher center correct welcome back. tom, to you. much has been made about the selection, a huge amount of discussion about what would have happened if marine le pen had one. she didn't win. rb essentially in the same spot we were 24 hours ago? >> to some degree we are. the movement she represents has grown in the sense of where her father was. >> almost double. >> the critical element will be what happens in the next year. is emmanuel macron able to get legislative reforms to the parliament and of course parliament role will be critical as they have elections coming up at the same time, will she be able to foster this unity for the counterterrorism crackdown with the threat been significant and the idea that the french colonies for example, are able to find more.

hi, jennifer. >> hi, leland. u.s. pacific command tracked the launch at 9:59 hawaii time on the 20th. it involves the ballistic missile, traveled 310 miles, reaching a height of 347 miles before landing in the sea of japan. what made this launch different is that it used solid, not liquid, fuel. which makes the missile more mobile and hard to detect. it comes one week after the north koreans launched a longer range intercontinental ballistic midmissile that influence 1,000 miles higher than the international space station, re-entered the earth's atmosphere and splashed down 60 miles from russia's coastal city. u.s. ambassador nikki haley had this warning today. >> because this is the same movie that keeps playing. all options are on the table. >> what does that include? >> that means we have made it very clear we don't want to start a fight, so don't give us a reason to have one. >> experts say they're trying to get president trump's attention, hoping to restart bilateral talks. jim mattis suggested china played a hel

. >> leland: it appears as though the door of the meeting has opened. we are seeing the back of the first lady, the president and the pope standing there together. is there any sound coming from vatican television? can we listen in a little bit? [inaudible] [inaudible] >> leland: these of the first pictures coming just after the president and the pope finish what was about a 30 minute closed-door meeting, they seem to certainly be all smiles as they came. you see rex tillerson meeting pope francis, it is tough to get the audio in here. they don't have boom microphones out there. father jonathan pointed out there was some type of religious object given to the first lady, that the pope blessed. very interesting note, from john roberts who is talking about exactly what has been going on here, there is talk in the vatican, we don't know for sure yet, the pope could give the president and all of the branch as opposed to the peach e medallion that we talked about earlier which would set a tone for this meeting. we don't know what happened inside the meeting,

. >> leland: nice to be with you and nice to be with you here at home. this is a climactic day for president trump's overseas trip as he pushes the agenda with nato and european leaders that our allies need to pay more for shared security and sump pump their fight against terrorism. the >> nato members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligation obligations. 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying for their defense. >> jenna: john roberts is live in brussels this morning. >> a call for unity this afternoon at the unveiling of the new building in that memorial. new tensions between old allies today over another matter, british prime minister, theresa may will be meeting at the sidelines and just a little while. at that point, she is expected to have words with him about leaks that have been coming out of the manchester investigation. this is the leak of the bomber's name before u.k. authorities were ready to release it. it was published in the unit

it's sort of like working with you, leland.o have a photograph of your mother today on this mother's day. leland: well, talk about not existing, it's pretty easy as a kid when you grow up, and then you come home, and your mom really doesn't care about you. we figured we'd show a picture of my mom with what is undoubtedly her favorite child, and that is doughnut, the newfoundland, and we often wonder what doughnut did in a past life to have won the right to win my mom as a mom and win the doggy lottery. there is one mom who's involved in all in that has not gotten a shout-out yet, and i think we might have one thing left to do in this show. roll it. elizabeth: all right, let's see it. >> happy mother's day. i love you, mommy. >> i couldn't have said it better myself. we love you for all that you to do and all that you are. happy mother's day. elizabeth: oh! you get me every year, leland. those two people are my most be favorite people on the planet. it's mother's day, you're going to make me cry. how could you do that to me? lel

leland: all right., while we keep you on the line, we want to put up some video of marine le pen giving an acceptance speech. it looked like a large hall that she was giving her speech, it was pretty short, only five or six minutes in which she basically said i vow to continue to be the op to decision and -- opposition and telling her supporters that we are picked as the opposition. elizabeth: and, greg, i want to ask you one more question. we had an expert on a little bit earlier in the show, nile gardiner, he had mentioned that the folks in france were fairly unhappy with, actually, both of those choices, that the plans were vague and the promises big. and i'm curious, when you talk to people in france, what sold them when it came, when it came to macron? was it his plan for the economy? was it the globalization platform? what was it that grabbed these voters? >> reporter: i must tell you, elizabeth, yeah, there was some attraction to the macron program, but there was just as much -- and we heard it t

hi, gary. >> k., leland.ead the town hall square voters not at all happy about the passage of the american health care act. in idaho, a heated exchange with the woman said she works in an emergency room and charged congress at reading people's lives at risk by changing medicaid. [inaudible] [inaudible] nobody died because they don't have access to affordable health care. >> he later said he could have responded better and was pushing back on the idea the gop help lance will cause people to die in the streets. health care with all talk this morning on the sunday shows as well. a number of senators from both parties made it clear regardless of what the house passed, they are starting from scratch. but abc's "meet the press," diane feinstein defended obamacare of inside the senate will not be rushing this through what she believes the house did. >> i am really very worried that in the rush to judgment, we create a major health care problem for people at and we lose a lot of jobs in so doing and we create a whole

that's what you see there. >> leland: it brings up an important point. this bombing happened outside the security court. typically you go into a concert, you are screened. it brings of the fundamental question, it's impossible to protect everywhere. >> security is not cookie-cutte cookie-cutter. we can't establish something. what happened here was they had preoperational surveillance. they knew the timing, they used the transit systems they could avoid detection. there were people going in. the target was the people as they were leaving. the challenges the current security mindset. >> leland: we don't know and aren't going to speculate on exactly what happened here, but we put this together, suicide bomber who had to be radicalized, clearly a bomb that was well-built and well constructed, well thought out. as you just pointed out, pre-operation surveillance and timing to think about this concert at this time and front of exit. that tends to lead one to believe that this was more. >> they may have had training. pick this but because it's the best place. a

. >> leland: there is a replay of the u.s./saudiy relations. you are watching the reset of israeli and u.s. relations. when president obama was there in israel. the coverage and words of the two leader and you saw from president trump and netanyahu the uniting on the issue of iran and there is much discussion of whether or not there can be a deal between the palestinians and the israelis. the israelis and the muslim world, they are united that iran is the real problem. you talked about the tour of the home and giving everybody a sense of what is happening there. we talked on something president netanyahu. this is will describe what happened here a couple of thousand years ago. it is a poignant and a deeply political statement. this is what israelis point to, this is their home land. there is great symbolism and at the same time personal momentses between the leader and their wives as well. >> jenna: the bible is a best sell is -- seller as we know. and again, they are going to have dinner together and we are waiting for remark

i'm leland vittert. >> and i'm molly lion. is back in seas after his overseas trip as commander-in-chief. the memorial day ceremony just getting underway there. the president speaking soon. ahead of his remarks, he will perform one of the president's most solemn duties as we witnessed laying the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. >> this is the president's first wreath-laying as president. he was there the day before his inauguration. people will tell you who know the president well that that moment and the successive moments as he entered office of taking on duties of commander-in-chief changed him as have our previous presidents, especially president bush and president obama. obama war-time presidents themselves. let's bring in lucas tomlinson from the naval academy. good to see you. what i'm struck by in talking to veterans like yourself on today, everybody you see on a street says happy memorial day. veterans will tell you, today i have a duty to my friends who never made it home. >> that's right, leland. it's not

good morning, i'm leland vittert.e have new information on the cargo plane that went off the runway in charleston, west virginia. according to the n.t.s.b. the crew of the plane that carried cargo made no distress call and went down hard enough into the runway and into a hill. bad weather was apparently not the factor. crayola revealing a blue crayon for the retired dandelion yellow. it was accidentally discovered by chemists at oregon state universi university. it doesn't have a name. crayola is asking for one. now back to cashin' in. eric: so what's next on president trump's agenda? here is something no one has seen or heard yet. president trump revealing his next big plan. >> we will give democrats an infrastructure and they want that as much as republicans. we're almost finished. every the next two weeks or so we'll have a massive 1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan. eric: so, richard being a democrat, will you support the 1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan? >> he won't have a problem with that, but the hawks

i'm leland vittert. we have some new details about the u.s. navy seal killed in somalia. officials say he was on a helicopter helping somalia troops in a raid against al-shabaab, the terror group linked to al-qaeda when the entire assault team came under fire. the first american combat death in somalia since blackhawk down in 1993. and major drama ahead of tomorrow's election in france. a watch dog saying a significant amount of data has been leaked online following a hacking attack against presidential candidate emmanuel macron, only 36 hours before voters go to the polls in a runoff sunday pitting macron against nationalist candidate marine le pen. i'm leland vittert. now back to forbes on fox. >> i join those who believe that the actions taken by the fbi did, in fact, have an impact on the election. >> but there's no question that that had a great effect? >> it had occurred to you that the public chastisement put secretary clinton in a negative light. >> democrats, of course, including hillary clinton

leland is calling in from new york. leland, you are on the air. we are listening. >> caller: yes, hi, peter. thank you very much. hi, gary, congratulations on your new book. my question, i guess, is kind of simple. you know, i had an idea a while back about having an all-good news news channel about america. if you were to offer some all-good news about america, i don't know, a good news channel about america, what would it be? and i am not trying to downgrade the important topic you are discussing but it seems we need more happiness in your life if you know what i mean kind of thing and i will leave it at that. >> guest: well, i mean, if you take the example that i just gave that this country was the first in the world to elect someone from an oppressed minority and went straight from there to elect donald trump. whatever you think of twhees candidates reflect the nation's thinking. there are good candidates. i lived in america and covered american politics for 12 years and throughout that time i saw lots of good people doing lots of great things

as you mentioned, leland, this was very well orchestrated almost down to the second and although it's running late in terms of the optics, people coming together to change the document. i think what would be interesting to watch, tomorrow, when the president gives the speech on iran to the summit, he's got a speech written by steve miller. and we all know that steve miller has conservative views when it comes to american security and lockstep with the president in terms of the campaign trail, we understand from a briefing yesterday that that language has been smoothed out and dialed back a little bit. and a little less strident. he's talking tomorrow before 50 leaders from arab and other muslim countries. we don't know at this point how well that speech will be received. but i think that will really be a key moment for saudi arabia. >> just sitting there john, any surprises so far in this? is it pretty much gone as scripted? >> well, one of the big surprises for a lot of the people when the president touched down, when the king came forward and shook the hand of the president and firs

people in this room know there was a long profile of the new york times a couple weeks ago by john leland as part of the series called, lyons of new york, which leland sat down with you and discussed this vanished world of the new york intellectual that the family and the outpouring, enthusiasm about the world that evoked in this world peace. it was 10000 times more powerfully. the bookwas such that a friend of mine who is a movie producer sent me a text saying -- can we talk i happen to be in the san francisco airport at the time waiting for a bag and i said sure, call me and i have five minutes. he calls me and says, i was just texting this young movie star a and young movie star a read this piece in the new york times and he is very excited about the possibility of making a tv series out of this world where people are arguing about books, drinking, they're having fights, it's like madmen with books. [laughter] when i was a teenager, one day at my sister's apartment, we sat down and we wrote out this immensely long cast list of characters should play parts in the film version of "making

this is the first american combat death in somalia since 1993. >> leland, thank you.l is here. sarah linty, from the national security council under condoleezza rice. and david defury, a former state department official. good to have you both. sarah, this is interesting because what happened yesterday was actually kind of a leftover in terms of authorization from the obama administration. but definitely what happens going forward, president trump is taking a very different path in places like somalia. >> he is. he turned military operations over to the pentagon, to be left to their discretion. in my humble opinion, this is a good thing. when it comes to difficult tactical operations, i think decisions are best made in the hands of military professionals like secretary defense mattis. it's a pivot. >> harris: what is interesting, david, president obama, formerly, was often criticized for not being clear about what his brand of foreign policy was with regard to some of these nations and certainly fighting isis and others in that part of the world. we heard him spill out

leland: well, you know, i think the tears are with good reason. darren was so excited to be able to do that. elizabeth: thank you. leland: what a great weekend, huh, liz? elizabeth: yeah. see you next week. chris: i'm chris wallace. today, the comey controversy. inside the president's decision to fire his fbi chief. ♪ ♪ >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply. >> mr. president, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake. first question the administration has to answer is why now? chris: we'll drill down into james comey's dismissal, how and why the president made and decision and what's next for the russia investigation. this hour we're joined by two key senators. first, mark warner, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee that's investigating possible collusion between the trump campaign and the creme lip. >> president trump's -- kremlin. >> president trump's actions this week cost us an opportunity to get at the truth at least for today. chris: then, republican senator mike lee

i'm leland vittert. now back to forbes on fox. >> i join those who believe that the actions taken by the fbi did, in fact, have an impact on the election. >> but there's no question that that had a great effect? >> it had occurred to you that the public chastisement put secretary clinton in a negative light. >> democrats, of course, including hillary clinton herself blaming the fbi director for her loss in the election, but sabrina says they'll keep losing as long as they're not addressing the needs of working class americans, explain. >> working class americans and goes beyond that, it goes on connecting on a human level. lawmakers on the left and right forget that politics is personal and a challenge for hillary clinton was showing people that she connected with them. there was a lot of talk about hillary as the first potential female president. there wasn't a lot of talk how do i connect with you on a human level. she didn't bother to visit a lot of the states where some of these people are really hur

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as part of this series calls lions of new york in which leland sat down with you and discussed this banished world of the new york intellectual and what you called the family. and the outpouring of enthusiasm about the world that was evoked in this piece which is evoked 10,000 times more powerfully in the book was such that a friend of mine who is a movie producer sent me a text saying, can we talk? i happened to be in the airport, i happened to be in the san francisco airport at the time waiting for a bag, and i said, sure, call me. i've got about five minutes until i have to go to the rental car station. he calls me and he says i was just texting with young movie star a, and young movie star a read this piece in "the new york times," is and he is very excited about the possibility of making a tv series -- [laughter] out of this world where, you know, people are arguing about books, and they're drinking, and they're going and they're having fights, and it's like mad men but with books. [laughter] so when i was a teenager, one day at my sister's apartment we sat down and we wrote ou

leland?>> great perspective allison, thank you.liz?om the vice chief of staff of the military and fox news analyst. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> we heard secretary of state rex tillerson say that he feels that could be acting out there feeling but then we also hear that they also launched their most successful test missile to date one week ago. what is your reaction to this? >> the north koreans continue to pursue, they're very aggressive testing program. despite diplomatic efforts, despite our pressure and sanctions. despite joining the chinese to help. i think it is this time that probably has something to do with donald trump's visit to the middle east because kim jong un, the history is he wants attention, the world's focus is somewhere else. i think eventually they will have to come to grips with is china really helping here or not? this is what i'm saying. china has said that we are going to not accept their cold products anymore. the fact is, after the statement they made, they did accept some. secondly, they, chin

news alert, i'm elizabeth prann, welcome to a very special edition of news headquarters along with leland vittert. we've been listening to vice-president pence speak to grove city college. there was an inspirational tone in the speech, trust the dreams in your heart and never let go of those dreams and trust god. he spoke personally about his life lessons and his life journey. he said hold onto your calling and never let it go. an inspirational speech, 30 minutes from a commencement speech to the class of grove city college, a christian university in western pennsylvania. david: no coincidence where the college was. western pennsylvania key to the pence-trump victory in november. it was a different tone to the class than president trump. this was deeply personal, talked about failures running for office and what is needed persistence was the words that he used, to follow the dreams in your heart. so, we've got the vice-president in pennsylvania right now. >> a lot going on. >> and we've got his boss, the president, overseas right now. these are live pictures coming in from saudi arabia, r

. >>> leland melvining one of only five people to travel to space. his path sets him apart.de receiver at the university of richmond. >> the detroit lions drafted him. that makes him the only person to be drafted by a pro football team and fly in space. he tells husband story inis new book "chasing space." avail reader's edition. leland melvin, great to have you here. >> it's great to be here. >> how did you do this sf. >> there were a lot of people who had my back when i failed. my mother and father said you can do anything you put your mind to. >> one friend said you'd make a great astronaut and i thought, yeah, right. and then a fren got in and i thought if that knuckle-head got in, i could get in. >> you never thought you could be a astronaut because you never saw black astronaut. >> '69, buzz aldrin. that wasn't me. i wanted to be arthur ashe. he had character, he was intelligent, athletic, he was a great person, i wanted to be him. >> science was a favorite subject of yours since you were a child, >> because my mother gave me a science kit and i created an explosion in

you know, one went so far as to say, i think this was john leland, a baptist, that there should be no political establishment at all, that only the relationship should be between the individual and god. this was a complete disruption, but on the other hand, a sort of, the solution to the problem of people leaving their families, leaving their communities, going away into the woods starting afresh. and not having those hierarchies to depend on anymore. so they eventually established their own churches, methodists, baptists, and presbyterians. for a time it was a very well moment. then in the cities, the last thing i will say about this, is that the new england anyway they were real reformers. the evangelicals began programs who cared for the indigent, for immigrants. they started the public school system in this country, and, indeed, they were the first mass base for abolition. people were always, always said that william lloyd garrison was responsible for this, but he was very too radical for the religious people and he was an anarchist and a feminist at the same time. that was going

. ♪ i'm like a bird i don't know where my soul is ♪ ♪ i don't know where my home is ♪ leland: what aeekend, huh, liz? elizabeth: yeah. see you next week. chris: i'm chris wallace. today, the comey controversy. inside the president's decision to fire his fbi chief. ♪ ♪ >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply. >> mr. president, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake. first question the administration has to answer is why now? chris: we'll drill down into james comey's dismissal, how and why the president made and decision and what's next for the russia investigation. this hour we're joined by two key senators. first, mark warner, the top democrat on the senate

. >> leland: and with that, a fox news alert.ter police just arrested a fifth suspect in the concert bombing and investigating a package he was carrying. >> jenna: the bomber's younger brother was taken into custody in libia. we are covering all of the news, "happening now". from the halls of the vatican to the corridors of nat theo, president trump will make the case it america's allies that they should spend more on common security. plus, a phoenix highway shut down with mother nature.

leland: political leaders from both sides of the aisle today on the russia investigation.or james comey is planning to testify before an open net

leland: what a great weekend, huh, liz? elizabeth: yeah. see you next week.controversy. inside the president's decision to fire his fbi chief. ♪ ♪ >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply. >> mr. president, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake. first question the administration has to answer is why now? chris: we'll drill down into james comey's dismissal, how and why the president made and decision and what's next for the russia investigation. this hour we're joined by two key senators. first, mark warner, the top democrat on the senate

leland: our nation will never forget this weekend we remember all the men and women who paid the ultimateour country safe and free. elizabeth: proud americans across the country taking part in parades, church services in the wilds of holiday week including her in washington were rolling thunder motorcyclists are making their way to the lincoln memorial across the potomac river from arlington cemetery. ♪

leland you spent many years reporting out of jerusalem.entioning a little something about the hospital itself and the significance. >> it's sigenes to be visiting this hospital. you see the woman they're meeting with there. you have melania trump in the white, sara netanyahu in yellow, the woman in red based on her head scarf would be arab. the hospitals throughout israel, not only israeli-arabs, but palestinians, whether they get injured on the west bank, in gaza. the best. >> some the best medical care in the world at these hospitals. there are palestinian kids next to israeli kids all being treated by israeli doctors. >> it is so important to say, as some one who visited jerusalem, visited israel, haven't lived there as you did, leland, sometimes the perception israeli-palestinian relations is different than what you experience when you're there on the ground.