martha. >> martha: trace, thank you very much.and ex-nfl player chris mumphrey. i'm going to ask you the tough question first. did you sexually assault this woman? >> no, ma'am. >> martha: what happened that night? >> she invited me over to her room. i actually met her through tinder. she invited me over to her room. sent me a few pictures. she told me wanted me to come over when her roommates leave. i came over. roommates left. it was me and her there as soon as i got in there she started undressing me. she basically made it known, you know, what she wanted to do. so fast forward a little bit, we got to a situation and the situation was about the condom. i told her i did not have sex without a condom. so that's when she flipped. everything just went south. so i basically, you know, told her like hey, it's time for me to leave. i don't have time for this. i basically said i'm going to have to leave. i'm black and you are white. i told her that. and i left. and that was the end of that. >> martha: so you never had sexual intercours

martha? >> martha: trace, thank you. my next guest knows firsthand how foster care can turn around a child's life. she was removed from her birth family at 5 years old and placed with another family in michigan several families in between and finally faced with this family through the catholic charities. this is a quote from her piece shoe she wrote. saint vincent rescues children from the most vulnerable, most disadvantaged back grounds like mine and gives them a chance to be a part of a loving family and have a normal, healthy, happy childhood. sham enter flore joins me now good osee both of you at night. shamber, you say every night gun fights were my lullaby. i was exposed to drugs abuse before most kids learn their abcs. that's your story. >> yes, it is that is all very true. i was exposed to all that very unfit circumstances. i'm so grateful to saint vincent because they saved my life. and i think every foster kid should have that exact same opportunity. and i'm just hurt and confused as to why anyone would want to

and martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: welcome to the story, big stories and breaking news tonight. first, was there an undercover agent or a mole inside of the trump campaign? catherine herridge with late- breaking developments on that fascinating story. and a industrial scale nuclear program. that is the threat from the iranian regime. we'll get to that, but first, hostages freed. and the iran deal jettisoned and high hopes with an unprecedented meeting as the president speaks big in a classic art of the deal strategy kind of week that he employed for years. that is not going over too well. >> you have dozens was photographers and i worry that they were exploited a bit. >> what was donald trump doing there as a leader and a want to be reality tv character. >> it is about donald trump and the ratings. >> this was a staged production meant for television. meant for the cameras. >> martha: trace has the changes that we saw this week and the response, hi, trace. >> reporter: in his foreign policy approach. president trump it appears swings from the fences at all time and he d

eastern for fox news at night, "the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: thank you, shannon, we will see you later tonight pretty retracted story from nbc about michael cohen and now a pitched battle by the president to fight back against the mueller probe in a way that we have not seen. >> this has become a witch hunt to like president said. the truth is defined by james comey. james comey is the biggest liar of 2016-2017. the basis of the case is dead. they should step in and close it and say enough is enough. >> martha: a lot there, good evening, everybody, i am martha maccallum, this is "the story," now pretty clear that the first meeting between the president's new attorney rudy giuliani on the special counsel robert mueller likely did not go all that well. because if you look at that meeting and what came right after it, that is when the whole thing became a brand-new ball game. ty cobb was out, 49 questions leaked to the press and the new man on the team everywhere pressing new lines of attack. >> it is not campaign money. no, no campaign finance violatio

martha? >> martha: trace, thank you so much.general jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman of the institute for the study of war. general, this has already been quite an interesting roller coaster to watch. mike pompeo, the secretary of state has been twice now to north korea. so i guess on this round they said, you know what? you're going to come to us in new york. we're going to talk there. while another delegates has gone over to discuss denuclearization and exactly what that looks like. where does this all stand in your mind? >> well, i think the visit of the north korean envoy here is something of that stature who clearly has been all the major negotiation points, he is obviously carrying a message. and i think first, that message is that kim jong un definitely wants the summit go forward. the president definitely hasn't made that final decision yet. he stunned the chinese and north koreans and south koreans as well when he staged the summit. lack of seriousness on the part of the north koreans unduly in

"the story with martha maccallum" starts now. >> martha: breaking tonight the inspector general respect on the fbi and doj handling of the clinton email case is imminent. a leak says that the report finds potential crimmial misconduct. we will have more in a moment with jonathan turley. first tonight president trump in deal maker mode trying to smooth over tensions with north korea as the world waits for the next move in this fascinating play that is going on that leads to this historic summit. the president today reassuring kim jong-un that he won't end up like the deposed libyan already muammar gaddafi who was killed and dragged through the streets after denuclearization. >> in libya, we decimated that country. there was no deal to keep gaddafi. this would be with kim jong-un something where he will be in his country and running his country. his country would be very rich. his people ever industrious. we never said to gaddafi we will give you protection or military strength or all of these things. we went in and decimated him. we did the same thing with iraq. >> martha: we begin tonig

here's martha. >> martha: thank you, bret. breaking tonight, a new report just moments ago says north korea, according to state media is saying the decision to scrapping the summit is not in line with the world's wishes and they are willing to resolve the issue. that's the latest after the summit was skutd -- scut ald and north korea blamed in part our interview. >> they reached out and said they would suspend nuclear testing and suspend the ballistic testing and be willing to achieve complete denuclearization through talks in exchange with a meeting for president trump this president readily said yes. they asked for the meeting and we continue to be open to it. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum and this is "the story." >>> it is clear that a sequence of events and break downs in the discussion over the recent days including that comment which led to the discharging remarks led tie decision -- led to the decision. the president cite the tremendous anger and open hostility from north korea as cause nor cancellation -- for the can

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: a fox news alert to start tonight. melania trump in the hospital this evening. president trump leaving her bedside just moments ago and just a few minutes from now we will hear from kellyanne conway, counselor to the president. but first, kristin fisher has the latest this evening from the walter reed medical center. >> it's raining so hard right now that president trump arrived by marine one but he had to leave by motorcade because it simply wasn't safe to fly. as for the first lady, we are told that she is recovering. we are told that she's in very good spirits and she is expected to be in the hospital for about a week. while this was a fairly routine procedure, any time you are in the hospital for about a week that's obviously pretty serious. we all found out about this and were surprised by the statement that came from the white house just a few hours ago. it want to read it to you in full. "this morning first lady melania trump underwent a procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. the procedure was successful

here is martha. >> martha: great stuff, thank you so much. breaking tonight, will north korea summit actually happened? and the president demanding answers from the intel community and the obama administration now amid stunning reports about an fbi informant with leading questions and odd outreach to some members of the crime campaign. i martha maccallum and this is "the story" tonight. my from our nation's capital. earlier today i sat down with the vice president, got his take on all of these big developments here in d.c. today in our exclusive interview and right as we sat down and actually we learned that both the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and the fbi director christopher wray were both on their way to the white house to sit down and speak with the president just a day after the president tweeted this morning. i hereby demand and will -- look into whether or not the fbi or doj infiltrated or surveilled the term campaign for political purpose and of any such demands or requests were made by within the obama administration. so w

>> yes. >> martha: okay. last night was interesting that neither one of your opponents really went after you about that at all, but here again if you do win the primary it will be front and center and i know that you believe that you were falsely imprisoned, but do you think that will be a liability for you if you get into a head-to-head matchup with senator manchin? >> first of all, i don't believe that i was falsely imprisoned, i know that i was falsely imprisoned. the reason they don't attack me as they are both attorneys and they know what and 302s are and they know from the filing that was made that ten of the 12 to 302s that should have been provided to my defense from the lead witnesses were not, and they know that there was in fact 61, for your legal community out there, 302s, dozens of emails that had extremely exculpatory information, so the case more likely, if there's any justice, will be invalidated before the general election anyway. >> martha: thank you very much for answering questions here to

good evening. >> good evening, martha. blagojevich serving as 14 years in 2012, he was arrested in december 2008 while still serving as governor of illinois and was impeached and removed from office in 2009. then convicted in 2011 on a total of 17 counts of corruptio corruption. including trying to sell president obama's former u.s. senate seat. a central piece of evidence was this secretly recorded clip of a blagojevich phone call. >> i have this thing. and it is [bleep] golden. and i am just not giving it up for [bleep] nothing. >> president trump referenced that phone call when discussing commutation. a saying board for air force one "is a a foolish statement, plenty of other politicians have said a lot worse." president trump says that he does not know blagojevich, other than his appearance on "the "celebrity apprentice"" in 2010 when he awaited trial. >> so governor, you have a hell of a lot of guts. they crawl into a corner and they die, you are out there punching. so i respect that. >> i appreciate that. >> presiden

martha. >> martha: thank you very much.was granted asylum is captain niloofar rahmani and her attorney, good to have both of you with us today. you are such a simple of what everyone wants for your country and i know that women and families in your country support you so much. but you tried to pursue that dream. when did you start to realize that that was going to be extremely dangerous for you? >> i knew it would be a risk because in afghanistan as a woman you are not allowed to go to school, but being in the military, of course, it's not an easy thing and i was very lucky to have the support of my famil family. in each step of my life and they supported me to be where i am. and i knew it would be a risk and i accept that risk for my life but not for my family and unfortunately when that risk went to my family life it became a big problem for us and i couldn't tolerate that anymore. >> martha: how did you find the strength and the courage to do what you did knowing that the taliban, who rules the country in many ways, woul

harvey: martha stewart, good in the kitchen, kick-ass in the board room. martha stewart. how do you do? what's crack a-lackin'? ( laughs ) everything. ( laughs ) thank you so much for doing this. i am fascinated by your journey. how you got to where you are today. - great. - and that's what we're gonna do today. great. well, it's the american dream. it is the american dream. and nightmare. ( both chuckle ) i get it. let's start. - okay. - okay. tell me what this is. well, this is one of my precious bowls. but it's a special bowl because it was given to me by my next-door neighbors in nutley, new jersey, mr. and mrs. mouse. they were german immigrants who were fantastic bakers. and when they retired from their bakery, they started a bakery in their basement. and this is one of the bread bowls. and they gave me this. your dad, um... had a big impact on you. - tell me a little bit about it. - he did. my father was a very handsome man, very tall, actually, he could be called "beautiful" i think. blond hair, blue-eyed, looked more nordic than polish, but he was 100% polish. my

"the story" with my friend martha write down the hall. >> martha: good to have you in new york tonight. it is election night and we are now less than one hour away from the first bold closing as voters are casting their ballots in four different states. one of them critical for democrats if they want to win back control of congress. and as the president ready to make some changes at the white house to stop the latest round of leaks? sean spicer has some thoughts on all of this for us tonight and he's coming up next. but first. this fox news alert is kim jong un calling president trump's bluff tonight. we are waiting for direct word now from the president if he chooses to speak in response. at what is his next move now the kim jong un appears to be threatening to call off the summit if the united states doesn't stop military exercises with the south? hears heather at the state department responding. >> they are exercises that are legal. they are planned well, well in advance. we have not heard anything from the government. >> martha: this comes on the heels of huge concessions that bega

contributor, great to have you here tonight. >> hi, martha. >> martha: was at a game changer in theom? what is your take away from what happened? >> i think the president is going to add that come on man to the future telling of the story. this is the first time that we have any indication that a judge is upset with anything that the mueller investigation is doing with its size, scope, what it is doing. paul manafort has been trying to make the case for months, because he said the special counsel has been assigned a task of looking for any coordination between russia and the trump campaign. and of paul manafort laundered money in ukraine in 2006, that is not part of that. and it is unrelated to that, as a matter fact, the mueller argument that it was the justice department investigated dad two years ago decided not to do anything about it, and the case was essentially sitting on the shelf and mueller took it off. which means that he cannot say that it arose from this russian investigation. so manafort's people are pretty happy tonight. >> martha: what is fascinating is that this jud

martha. >> martha: mike rogers was one of those. he felt that that was not conclusive in terms of whether or not they were trying to help trump over clinton. a former nsa director. thank you very much. joining me now with more on this tonight, john solomon, opinion contributor to the hill who has dug into the story very deeply over the past year. good to have you with us tonigh tonight. interesting timing how this piece dropped and sort of shed light on all of these things. what do you make of this story and what it aims to accomplish? >> there's a lot of speculation that maybe this is an effort by brennan to burnish his image or corrective story or the new york times to get right with its early reporting. i have a different theory. next week or the week after the ig report is going to come out and it's going to excoriate the fbi's handling of both the hillary clinton case and the donald trump initial russian case and i think there's a lot of effort here for the fbi career people to get some of their narrative out in between all of

martha. >> martha: we heard a lot of that. thank you very much. go over to the democratic senate primary in ohio where fox news correspondent ellison barber is live at the headquarters in cleveland. hi, allison. >> there has been of course a lot of concern in places like west virginia among republicans concerned that perhaps one candidate might be too far right and perhaps they won't be very electable, the general election. to some degree that exact same concern exists here in the ohio gubernatorial primary but on the opposite side of the political spectrum. that is the concern in many ways for democrats here. richard cordray is backed by the more establishment side of the democratic party. he served as the top consumer watchdog under the obama administration. former congressman is backed by the more progressive bernie sanders wing of the party. there are other democrats in this race but they are very much considered to be the top two candidates at this point. on the republican side in both the gubernatorial race as well as the senate primary race

>> as the president often says, martha, we will see. what i can tell you is that from the early days of this administration president trump made it clear that this time, in this administration it would be different from prior administrations were north korea found a way to get concessions from the united states and from countries in the west in exchange for illusory promises about abandoning their nuclear weapons program. president trump from early on initiated what we call the extreme pressure campaign. he marshaled the resources of the world community to bring economic and diplomatic pressure while keeping all options on the table to achieve the objective of a nuclear-free korean peninsula. we have stayed on that present course, we have never wavered from it. but when kim jong un threw the south koreans reached out and said he he would suspend his nuclear testing, suspend his ballistic testing and be willing to achieve complete denuclearization through talks in exchange for a meeting with president trump, this president readily said y

bottom line, martha, it may be getting back on track. >> martha: wait and watch, so fascinating.hn, thank you very much. here are now in a story exclusive, newly confirmed ambassador to germany, ric grenell. ambassador, great to see you. do you think this singapore summit will happen? >> i think as president trump said, wait and see. this is an issue that has frustrated many administrations before the trump administration, and i'm very pleased to see the action that we have seen over the last couple months. this all started from president trump doing really tough diplomacy with the chinese. we have seen the chinese raised their hand for sanctions at the u.n. multiple times, and yet, not really implement those things. what president trump data early on in his administration was signal that diplomacy was going to be tough, and he pressured the chinese to actually implement the sanctions that they had voted for previously, in consecutive years. so what we saw pretty quickly was, once the chinese decided to implement the sanctions, we saw action. we saw the north koreans feel the squ

i martha maccallum.just a preview of what we can expect over the coming months and weeks as we watch this all play out across the country. it will be a battle to the finish line as republicans try to hold onto their majority in congress and democrats try to sway voters by countering conservatives and the trump white house. west virginia is just 1 of 4 states that is heading to the polls this coming tuesday night. may 8th. indiana, ohio, north carolina, all have big races to watch. bret and i will be covering for you that evening. all of those states carried by president trump in 2016. so here in west virginia, the fox news power rankings say it is a toss-up between democrats and republicans and tonight, this race really just got a whole lot more interesting. >> i have the conservative west virginia values. if you look at the congressman, he actually has been very liberal if you go obamacare, checkbox, he supported. hillary, he went and rallied for hillary. nancy pelosi, john carey. planned parenthood jus

but the reconstitution of the court changed everything. >> martha: who do believe killed martha?utely convinced of it. i sat through the trial every day. i heard all the evidence. the only thing that i don't know that i suspect is that his brother tommy and perhaps his cousin jimmy know what happened. i don't think his younger brothers know what happened. i think they were innocent. that's why they are standing by him today but you never see any of his older siblings. >> martha: as you look back on this whole thing and you think about the involvement of the families. obviously this is a family that has a reputation for circling the wagons and protecting each other. how much of that came into play here? >> a lot of the family wasn't there. there were some staunch supporters. their brother, their cousin. if you are not going to stand up for your family, who are you going to stand up for? but they certainly have a lot of practice. >> martha: you believe that tommy may have been involved? >> yes. >> martha: what are you going to do now? what is your next step now that this is been ov

. >> martha: i am martha maccallum, you will hear from the candidates taking on joe manchin in novemberesident trump won here in 2016, and republicans believe that this seat may be ripe for the taking. >> bret: we will meet the candidates, first we have evan jenkins, representing the third district of west virginia. then west virginia attorney general patrick morrisey, and finally former ceo don blankenship. welcome. >> martha: the rules of the debate are simple, candidates will have 60 seconds to answer the questions, 30 if they are given a follow-up after that question and they also get 30 seconds if their name is mentioned by one of the other candidates. >> bret: if the candidates go over their allotted time, they will hear this. [bell sounding] we do not like to do that, because some of the dogs at home thinking that somebody is at the door. let's try not to use the bell and get going. >> martha: as you all know, the opioid epidemic has hit the country hard. we will talk about that in great detail, but let's get started at the top of our questions. >> bret: grossman jenkins, you are

>> i do actually, yes i do. >> martha: interesting. kellyanne conway, always good to

martha saxton. martha: thank you so. much for that kind introduction it is just such a pleasure to be here and to see such a wonderful audience to celebrate women's history month. it is a great honor for me to be here. i have been back and forth for many years, but this is my first time trying to get back some of what mount vernon has given to me. i came across mary ball washington as i was researching a book. i was surprised to find that george washington, like many sons in 18th-century virginia was aggravated in his dealings with his widowed mother over dealings with money. i was surprised because he was so wealthy and he was so famous for being well behaved. i didn't know a great deal about what washington and certainly nothing about his mother. this just sort of the not seem the picture, it did not seem quite right. in looking for more context, i quickly came across a handful of incidents that come from washington's documents and have, until recently, constituted just about everything biographers of washington say ab

martha saxton. she earned her ba from the university of chicago and her phd from columbia university. she is currently a professor of history and a professor of women and gender studies at amherst college where she teaches courses on women, native americans, american history before the civil war and recently, a course on the history of human rights. entitledt book is "being good. that was published in 2003. seeks to shareok new research about and understanding of the intriguing marybelle washington, george washington's mother. that is what you are going to hear her talk about tonight. please join me in welcoming dr. arthur saxton. martha: thank you so. much for that kind introduction it is just such a pleasure to be here and to see such a wonderful audience to celebrate women's history month. it is a great honor for me to be here. i have been back and forth for many years, but this is my first time trying to get back some of what mount vernon has given to me. mary belloss washington as i was researc

. >> martha: they certainly have some egg on their face for that headline, which happens. i want to play some of the video that we played earlier in the evening here, the siren sounds that are blaring. incoming missiles from syria. they have been deflected by the iron dome we understand, but this is clearly a concern i'm sure to the president because the move that he made yesterday in ending the iranians deal may have ramifications that might be very difficult and this might be still glowing something about you will have to deal with there. >> this just further shows that the iranian regime cannot be trusted. israel absolutely has a sovereign right to defend itself and we support them in whatever efforts they have in order to defend themselves. but again, i think this activity and this action is just further demonstration that the iranian regime cannot be trusted and another good reminder that the president made the right decision to get out of the iran deal. >> martha: i want to play a moment from the president's statement on the iran deal the other day with regard to the

. >> martha: do you expect personnel changes as a result? >> i do actually, yes i do. >> martha: that was tantalizing. kellyanne conway here on "the story" last night. comes in the wake of several major leaks that if white house hard and sent them scrambling on defense to put an end to this flow. a man joining me now, former white house press secretary sean spicer. also the author of the upcoming book, the briefing, which we are looking forward to talking to him about as well. while matt, sean. people using the media to she shiv shiv each other. it sounds like there are going to be some people who will get fired. >> might once have started to heal so i feel pretty good. she's absolutely right. it's an absolute honor to be able to work at the white house and serve the american people and help implement the president's agenda and anybody who goes there and leaks really undermines both the honor that the president has bestowed upon them and the agenda that the president is pursuing on behalf of the american people and i think kelly anna's absol

it's a different approach, martha.e'll see results that tell us about democrats position themselves nationally approaching the midterms. >> interesting. karl, what about you? >> i'm watching the same race, for much the same reason. stacey abrams season says i ca, and stacey evans says i can put it together. in order for her to win -- she'd have to take 94% of the vote among minorities, millennials, unmarried women. she says she can expand the pool, but she'd win nearly four out of every five in order to win the general election. interesting to see who wins tonight, the woman who says i need democrats to vote with independents and republicans, or the one that says all i need is the far left of the democratic party. >> fascinating. john blankenship is black, back. juan, your thoughts? >> i think this is a problem for republicans. you have a situation where blankenship lost, and lost even though he claimed to be a trumpian, you know, candidate, lost handily, and. >> he told neil cavuto he can win, karl. >> he's a lunatic.

and martha stewart. she served five months in prison after her conviction in 2004 for obstruction of justice and perjury, did an "apprentice" spinoff shortly after getting out of prison -- trump listed as an executive producer. >> i'm looking for "the apprenti apprentice." >> reporter: the president today cede stewart was treated unfairly, adding, quote, she used to be my biggest fan in the world. this comes as the president today issued a pardon for dinesh d'souza, a controversial conservative writer who admitted making illegal campaign contributions and was sentenced to five years probation, including eight months in a detention facility. d'souza, the president said, was "treated very unfairly by our government" and should have had "a quick, minor fine." d'souza, whom the president said he had never met, is a trump supporter. he was heavily criticized recently for his tweets on the parkland school shooting, including re-tweeting this image showing studenting reacting to a failed gun control vote, writi

of martha stewart, quote, i think martha stewart was harshly and unfairly treated. he said of scooter libby, i have heard he was treated unfairly. and of sheriff joe arpaio, he racially profiled latinos, but the first pardon he gave out, quote, i thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly. unfairly, unfairly, unfairly. the question, is president trump preparing to pardon others? maybe people he knows better than "apprentice" cast members for being treated unfairly by special counsel robert mueller? jeff has more on the presidential pardon parade. >> reporter: president trump sending more signals than ever today. he's in a pardoning mood. out of the blue, the president announcing a full scale pardon for desouza. flying to houston, the president telling reporters on air force one, i called him last night, first time i spoke to him. i said i'm pardoning you. i felt he was unfairly treated. he pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign laws by asking women who donate $20,000 to the campaign of an old college friend running against kristin gillibrand in new york. he

martha saxton. dr. saxton earned her ea from the university of chicago and her phd from columbia university. she is a professor of history and a professor of women and gender studies at amherst college, where she teaches courses on women, native americans, american history before the civil war, and recently, a course on the history of human rights. her most recent book, which was terrific, even my undergraduates like it, is entitled, "being good: women's moral values in early america." it was published in 2003. her upcoming book, the widow washington seeks to share new research about mary ball washington, george washington's mother. that's what you're going to hear about tonight. join me in welcoming dr. martha saxton. [applause] saxton: thank you for that kind introduction. it is a pleasure to be here and see such a wonderful audience to celebrate women's history month. it is great. it is a great honor to be here. i have been back and forth for many years. this is my first time trying to get back what

martha stuart traded shares before corporate event.es of inclone, a biotech company that her friend, sam waxal owned and it looked like when the sec looked at all of the trading patterns it was all these friends including sam waxal himself who traded stocks before this big event which imploded the stock so they made a few bucks on it. she was one of the people that traded it. now here is where it got interesting. sec investigates, u.s. attorney investigates, and she comes up with a real weird story about why she traded. she said she had some pre- existing sell order when she didn't obviously. she basically had no pre- existing sell order with the brokerage firm. she had a piece of paper that said sell at, like it was actually a different color ink than all of the other writing. liz: people. charlie: so it was so obvious she made it up and obvious to me sitting in the courtroom, obvious to the jury she's found guilty of obstruction and lying. now the whole question was did she do insider trading? the sec said she did on a civil basis ju

thank you, martha.ou can follow all of the races right here on on fox news chanl and on our website. foxnews.com. click on the hq map, very cool and the upper right hand of the page. and you can find this interactive map that started yesterday, all of the details on all of the hot contest around the country as candidates battle for control of the senate, the house, this november. check it out, it is a lot of fun. you will be there for a few minutes. up next we are live at the border where some asylum-seekers have crossed into the u.s. here are some of the fox affiliates around the country. fox 10 in phoenix where they are keeping up the pressure on lawmakers by extending a teacher walk out into wednesday. the walkout actually started here in west virginia. what educators have been gathering at the capitol for sel days protesting low pay and school funding in arizona working on a budget. fox 35 in orlando, in the neighborhood dealing with yet another sinkhole, a major one adding to one dozen holes that h

martha: it might never catch up with him. there is a different between legal jeopardy and political consequences. you heard brian kilmeade say trump supporters don't care about this and he's right. but at some point he needs to go to the american people and the world and say here is the crisis and i need you to be with us. philippe: it might be an attack where the fbi other cia giving a judgment after two years of him saying they don't know what they are talking about. howie: there is a bubble many journalists live in, and that bubble, president trump has trouble telling the truth. we have so little credibility with much of the country that is not universal across america. emily: probably about 30% of the country is impervious. there is little that can be done to chip away their support. howie: sarah huckabee sanders did take a lot of heat at the briefing after rudy's appearances. >> he denied and continued to deny the underlying claims. i gave the best information i had at the time. howie: the question was from jim acosta, w

-- letters from martha that are very pro-confederate and sentiment. in nearly drove him mad. he wanted to do something about it, but it took the unlikely intervention of his brother, clay. -- caches he says i figured to overlook her secession is him, because it is a virtue and a woman to go with her husband and all things very so don't think about her politics, don't take the politics that seriously, what's important is she is deferring to her husband, let's honor that marital relationship read -- relationship. that's exactly how u.s. army major from vermont approach his own situation in -- situation. willard may be filled -- familiar to you. like to stay in high-end hotels, you know the willard hotel. the was named after joseph and his brother, who were owners of the hotel during the civil war. course is where the lincoln stage, before lincoln's first inauguration, it was also the site of so many visits and meetings between union political and military notables during the war. joseph did not begin the war he left ite hotel, behind in the hands of his

david. >> martha raddatz tonight. martha, thank you. >>> closer to home tonight the showdown on the u.s. border. the caravan of men, women and children from central america arriving at a u.s. border post. the question tonight, what happens next? abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman on the border tonight. >> reporter: tonight, that standoff at the mexican border intensifying. some scaling to the top of this border fence, but not crossing. customs and border patrol claiming some migrants have now illegally entered the u.s. they had made the 2,000 mile, month-long trek from southern mexico on buses, train and on foot. mari martinez said her family of nine has been pursued by the gang ms-13. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: she said if i stay in my country, i'll be killed. president trump tweeting the migrants are openly defying our border. >> are you watching that mess that's going on right now with the caravan coming up? >> reporter: but the migrants here say they won't give up. david, by far the longest part

we've been talking about blagojevich and martha stewart. rod blagojevich had a moment on "the apprentice" years ago. i know we lost, we did not win. but if you were looking at this like a baseball team, we're making progress. >> but you're making progress and you're running out of people. >> understand. >> so he sat in the hot seat. back to 2005, martha stewart had her own apprentice-like show, so there's that. on these two, the connections if you really start digging between also the fired fbi director james comey and the current special counsel robert mueller. >> what's very fascinating here is that james comey was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york at the time that they prosecuted martha stewart for lying to investigators looking into her stock sale. his best friend prosecuted blagojevich. the other interesting thing is that the special prosecutor that looked into valerie plame's claims and that led to the prosecution of scooter libby, who was pardoned earlier this year. >> this is bizarre. >> it's an attack on the i

blagojevich and martha stewart. >> just your average day. stuart: just your average day. the dow is down 164 points, 24,000 five. our time is up. big day for you, neil. neil: president arriving what will be a closed-door meeting with parents, friends, family members of those santa fe victims and santa fe students in general in santa fe, texas. we'll keep you posted on that. keep you posted on the fallout from the president going ahead doubling down on tariffs that affect many more countries than china fact the real pinch will be felt on europe and could be affected in canada and mexico. for those markets it is dicey for products that come out of those countries, it is dicey. for products we have go into those countries is is dicey save for steel which is getting a lot of support from the president of the united states at a time they argued they needed to play fair and square. blake burman from the white house on all of this. hey, blake. reporter: neil, major headline out of the trade front today the trump administration decided to slap 25% for steel, 10% for aluminum tari

and martha stewart. she was prosecuted and ultimately charged and convicted for lying to investigators. wolf, they seem like separate cases but they're actually not. rod blagojevich and martha stewart actually appeared on "the apprentice" with candidate donald trump even before he was running for office, and there's also perhaps a bigger similarity. james comey, of course, the fired fbi director, was involved in the prosecution of all of these with the exception of rod blagojevich, but his best friend pat fitzgerald in illinois was the prosecutor in that case. so, wolf, it seems to be that the president continuing his assault, his fight with james comey here trying to undo the legacy that he had in many of these very high-profile cases by talking about pardons. >> yeah, he seems to be sending a clear message at the same time to others who may be witnesses, may be involved in the russia investigation. and that's causing some concern, jeff zeleny in houston traveling with the president. we're going to get

man, martha!'t think these edibles are working. so it was also martha to the rescue last week, and while snoop was visiting her home north of new york city as he was enjoying the property he took to instagram to show his followers something he found. >> i'm a naturistic [ bleep ]. someone tell me what this is. that's a pine cone? strictly, sticky green. >> what? is he wakin' bake too? snoop may be interested to know that there is an entire annual pine cone festival not two hours away from his home in l.a. by the way. >> has he never seen a pine cone? >> i guess he never has. >> right, he can't smoke those. >> i think he has tried. >>> coming up, yanny or laurel. >> the official answer is in. yep, we got it. you're watching "world news now." >> stick around. now." >> stick around. gives skin the moisture it needs and keeps it there longer with lock-in moisture technology skin is petal smooth after all, a cleanser's just a cleanser unless it's olay. i'm lucky to get through a shift without a disaste

turns out comey was the one who built the case against martha stewart.rump would like you to believe that he is writing moral wrongs. but the real question is, are these pardons really about himself? >> i'm fighting a battle against a horrible group of deep-seated people. drained the swamp. they're coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me. >> phony charges, the swamp. are these pardons about sending a signal to trump's allies? people like michael cohen, michael flynn, paul manafort, all facing the possibility of decades behind bars if convicted, that the president is saying, i'll pardon you if you just remain loyal to me. see what i've done to these other high-profile people? jeff zeleny is traveling with the president today, he's live in houston. look, we've got five pardons from this president. at this point in the prior presidencies of bush, clinton, obama, we had not had a single one. what is trump doing here? >> reporter: erin, it is exceedingly unusual. something that most white house aides were not expecting at all today. when the pres

martha stewart, rod blagojevich. the president just had sylvester stallone to the white house the other day. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin, but is it improper? >> well, it is legal, there's no question about that. as you said earlier, the pardon power is within the institution. there is no check on it, there is no judicial review, there is no congressional review, it is just something the president can do and that is the end of the story. there is always the debate about whether it's appropriate, and that's a political question, that's a moral question. we have -- the blagojevich pardon is actually much more consequential because he's still in prison. whereas martha stewart is long out of prison, john jackson is long dead. rod blagojevich is still looking at a number of years in prison. and that -- you know, so the pardon would have an immediate, very practical benefit for him. and as to the political issue of his allies awaiting trial or possibly awaiting indictment, you know, they watch the news, too, and they

martha stewart is my favorite person who cooks, i'm going to pardon her.doesn't follow protocol. i mention that because it goes to intent. i's not minnesota who automatically did something. he does what he wants when he wants. the department of justice is bad. the fbi is bad. anyone who supports me is bad. if it's a fact i don't like, it comes from fake news. it's hard to make that argument in light of who is in the white house. >> the president tweeted this morning, and i'll put it on the screen, not that it matters, but i never fired james comey because of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to push that narrative, but they know it is not true. we know what he said in that interview with lester holt. >> yeah. he said it, not only to lester holt, but to sergey lavrov and kislyak in the oval office. you have to wond fer this is a mind game. we have it on tape, we have the video and the reporting. it's not just what the president said. we have follow through over the last year since he had been fired from sources close to the president. that had been

he will pardon filmmaker dinesh d'souza and he's considering pardoning martha stewart and blagovevi blagovevich. for blagovevich, it's 18 federal charges and it begs the question what kind of message the president is trying to send and, more importantly, who does he hope is listening. with me dana bausch a-- bash an walter schaub. remind us who is dinesh d'souza. >> he is a well known conservative writer. he was convicted and admitted to making up names in order to give more money than was legally allowed to a republican senate candidate in the state of new york. he violated campaign finance laws in a pretty brazen way. he was, as i said, convicted. he didn't serve time but he has that very big blemish on his record and, more importantly, because of that he couldn't vote. he did not vote in 2016. so this is obviously a very important cause to a lot of conservatives. apparently ted cruz is among those who have been asking the president to either commute a sentence or pardon and he decided to do that today. now, the question that you asked is about the politics and about the message sending. it's

here now, co-anchor, martha raddatz. >>> good morning. thanks for joing us onhi t president trump pushing that unproven claim that the fbi had a spy inside his 2016 campaign despite no evidence. he has repeated the claim again attempt to undermine the russia investigation. outside of washingto t nfl is cracking down on players who protest police brutality by taking a knee during the national anthem, and now the league is facing criticism that it caved to pressu frothm e es captured the world's attention, those on again/off again talks jong-un has certainly come a long way. the president who once mocked kim as little rocket man, stoking fears of a nuclear showdown has recently been flattered by calls for the noben historic meeting with north korea's leader. but that summit in singapore planned for june 12th seemed to fall apart this week after vice president pence once again mentioned the libya model. north koa suis statement, attacking pence and saying, whether thu. encounter us at a nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon

martha: ¡seguridad, seguridad!, manito, pues ponte uno de estos para que no parezca. carmelo: ¡yo exijo que alguien me explique qué es lo que está pasando aquí! lucha: pues su nieta, que es una buscona. carmelo: ¡más bien su hijo, que es un degenerado! ¡mentiroso! lucha: no me diga. carmelo: sí, señora, sí. lucha: si usted mismo dijo que sabía lo que él estaba haciendo aquí. carmelo: ¡Él es un mentiroso embustero! albertano: no, carmelito, déjeme, yo le explico. con calma. lo que pasa-- no, no, por favor. ¡suélteme! ¡suélteme! ¡yo no hice nada! ¡suélteme! jefa, jefa, yo no quiero ir a prisión. ¡yo no quiero ir a prisión! los bañan a manguerazos. lucha: ¡alto ahí! señor oficial, si usted se viera en la vergonzosa situación en la que está mi hijo, ¿le gustaría que su madre lo viera cómo lo arrestan con la "cauliflower" de fuera? ¿verdad que no? así que, señor oficial, si es tan amable, espérelo afuera. mi hijo albertano se irá a entregar a las autoridades competentes cuando se vista, porque es un hombre cabal. ahora

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reveals that he may also offer a reprieve to celebrity ex-con martha stewart. is he sending a signal to robert mueller's witnesses? >>> steve bannon blasting intelligence insiders as he weighs in on mr. trump's debunked spy conspiracies. stand by to hear from bannon in a new interview. >>> kim jong-un's ex-spy enforcer is headed to washington to deliver a letter. is the summit back on. vile and vicious. the white house condemns a vulgar remark about ivanka trump, samantha bee is apologizing. is there comparison on the president's daughter and racist tweets that got roseanne barr fired? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. new york's top law enforcement official accuses trump of using pardon power to thwart justice rather than advance it. issuing another pardon to a conservative author and filmmaker, and floating the pablt that he will pardon other high profile convicted felons, including martha stewart. i will get reaction from the houd judiciary committee ted lieu. and corresp