she became martha washington's closest body slave. though the washington's on a personal level were familiar with judge where she often accompanied her mistress unsocial calls since moving to new york and then philadelphia the first lady's life was filled with socializing and public events. it's important to realize that this relationship between mistress and enslaved person at least in terms of ona is a very intimate relationship. not necessarily in the best of ways but ona was around martha washington constantly helping her with the most intimate responsibilities, dressing, bathing, combing hair and she heard everything that went on in the executive mansion. judge understood her mistress. she knew just how much martha washington loved her grandchildren. she had outlived every single one of her children fathered by her first husband. martha washington had no choice but to look towards her grandchildren for hope and enjoyment and although she was only 27 years old when she married george washington their marriage never yielded offsprin

she became martha washington's closest body slave. all who knew the washingtons on a personal level were familiar for judge for she often accompanied her mistress on social calls. since moving to new york and philadelphia, the first lady's life was filled with socializing and public events. so it's important to realize that this relationship between mistress and enslaved person, at least for ona judge, it was a relationship, not in the best ways, but she was around martha washington constantly, intimate, bathing dressing combing hair and heard everything that went on in the mansion. judge knew her mistress and now how much washington loved her grand children. she'd outlived every one of her children fathered by her first husband. she had no choice, but to look to her grandchildren for hope and enjoyment. although she was only 27 years old when she married george washington, their marriage never yielded offspring. after the death of her son john, martha and george washington welcomed two of his small children into their home, raising th

trump's inaugural gown will take its rightful place among the collection that includes martha washington's pink gown, michelle obama's white gown, and many others. because this is an inaugural gown, it helps underscore our values as a nation. this gown is emblematic of the peaceful transition of power that is the hallmark of this democracy. it reminds us that our ideals still resonate over 200 years later. that for all of our flaws this nation is founded on a government by the people, for the people, and will endure. thanks to the administration, congress, and everyone here at the national museum of american history for helping us in our mission to educate and inspire. now it is my honor to ask you to join me in welcoming the first lady of the united states, melania trump. [applause] mrs. trump: thank you so much. thank you for your warm welcome. it is an honor to be here today. i want to start by thanking director gray and the secretary for the wonderful introduction. the staff here and the smithsonian has been a true pleasure to work with. thank you for everything that you do to preserve

trump's inaugural gown will take its place among the collection that includes martha washington's paint -- pink, hand-painted silk down and many others from our nations history. because this is an inaugural it helpsnaugural gown, underscore our values as a nation. this gown is emblematic of the peaceful transition of power that is the hallmark of our democracy. it reminds us that our ideals , thatte 200 years later for all our flaws this nation was founded on a government by the people and for the people and will endure. thanks to the administration and congress and everyone here for helping us in our mission to educate and inspire, and now it is my honor to join me in welcoming the first lady of the united states, melania trump. melania trump: thank you so much. thank you for your warm welcome. i want to start by thanking the director and the secretary for the wonderful introduction. smithsonian the have been a true pleasure to work with. donk you for everything you to house the parts of our nations history. curators you and have such an important role on behalf of our country. while i

thefather who built wadsworth longfellow house on campus was a friend of george washington, so martha washington sent eliza wadsworth at this piece of hair in 1800. hady wadsworth longfellow the hair placed into a locket and engraving indicating what this piece is and to whom it was given in 1800. this piece we consider one of our treasures of maine historical society. it speaks to the cult of george washington after his death. relics were given, parades were given, lots of honorary activity. revered he was in the united states shortly after the revolution. in scripture and reads, "washington's hair given by mrs. washington to miss eliza wadsworth april 5, 1800." he has inscribed it with his own name and 1850, when the locket was made. this piece is the letter book of benedict arnold on his exhibition to kobach in 1775. it starts with the journal which was a copy. what is very interesting about this piece is that it was presented to the maine historical society by ehrenberg and 1831. burr in 1831. it is certainly easy to not have to qualify that. this piece is one of the treasures of maine histo

trump's inaugural gown will take its rightful place among the collection that includes martha washington's pink gown, michelle obama's white gown, and many others. because this is an inaugural gown, it helps underscore our values as a nation. this gown is emblematic of the peaceful transition of power that is the hallmark of this democracy. it reminds us that our ideals still resonate over 200 years later. that for all of our flaws this nation is founded on a government by the people, for the people, and will endure. thanks to the administration, congress, and everyone here at the national museum of american history for helping us in our mission to educate and inspire. it is my honor to ask you to join me in welcoming the first lady of the united states, melania trump. [applause] mrs. trump: thank you, so much. it is an honor to be here today. i want to start by thinking director gray and the secretary for the wonderful introduction. the staff and the smithsonian has been a true pleasure to work with. thank you for everything that you do to preserve part of our nation's history. as histori

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trump's inaugural gown will take the rightful place among the collection that includes martha washington pink hand painted silk gown, michelle obama white silk chiffon gown. amy: it joins 20 other inaugural gowns in the exhibit. >> it freezes the moment. >> it's now a focal point. >> now my home. d.c. is one of the many great beginnings to the family here in washington, >> at the smithsonian national museum of american history, amy aubert, abc7 news. >> all right. beautiful. >> update now on a little girl effort to make a difference. alison: we introduced to a little girl who now has thousands of cases of water to send to hurricane victims in puerto rico. instead of birthday presents she wanted people to donate to her cause. the goal is 500 cases. now she has 3,000. this afternoon, there you go. loading them up for the transport. all of the donations could not even fit in one truck. >> that is phenomenal. >> this is so great when little kids think outside of themselves. her parents are doing nancy: more adults could learn from her. still ahead at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- even more american

doug luzader brings us martha washington. >> reporter: the white house continues to insist that manyese developments have nothing to do with the campaign or the president. that may be true but investigators are building their case step-by-step. a former trump campaign chairman paul manafort may have gotten most of the attention yesterday as he headed into the fbi to turn himself in. he and one time associate, rick gates, both pled not guilty to multiple charges of money laundering and failure to register as foreign agents for their work in the ukraine. while those charges are serious, they would appear to be unrelated to last year's presidential campaign. >> this is dominoes. you knocked on the first domino and that knocks down the second. ultimately what mueller is aiming for is the domino in the oval office. >> reporter: while special counsel bob mueller continues his investigation, the bigger issue could be this man, george papadopoulos. a former trump campaign advisory. he has admitted to lying to the fbi every meetings he had in attempts to arrange a meeting between candidate tr

caroline shively has martha washington. >> reporter: the president heads to capitol hill for a working lunch where the stage is set for a potentially awkward meeting with senate republicans. a series of tweets this morning from president trump, the latest indication that relationships are tense. one post personally criticized bob corker saying he cannot get elected dog catcher in his own state. the insult coming after the tennessee senator said this morning in an interview that the president should leave -- leave diplomacy to the profession as an tweeted the hashtag, alert the daycare staff. >> i think he has one or two people that don't want to see the ball move further down the field. >> reporter: also invited was senator john mccain. this senator has barred with the president on a number of issues, particularly healthcare. over the summer he cast a deciding vote against the repeal in place. the president has promised to help defeat the other republican senator. the meeting is an opportunity for the president to unite with senate leaders on the fall agenda, particularly passing the 2

they found an old receipt for this bed showing it was ordered a few weeks after martha washington moved in the mansion. >> she likely suggested we need a new bed set to make this a grand vision. >> they have left evidence of what is below the surface. chronological progression of colors, layers of paint dating back to the 1750's. >> we found 17 layers of paint. >> today crews have turned their attention from the blue room to the front parlor using the tiny tools. they look more like dentists, methodically cleaning and examining the paneling and exploring behind the walls. >> documenting through the three dimensional scans. mapping every nail hole and ev information to determine how the rooms were decorated, where the carpets were tacked down or artwork hung on the wall. next they restore the other second floor bed chambers and the mansion central passage, keeping the estate open for 1 million annual visitors. mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. michelle: right now at 6:00 -- [gunfire] how the las vegas gunman turned his rifle into a machine gun. the new discovery fueling the debate over gun

speak up martha, you think washington and new york would be able to communicate. >> martha: you are only in washington. i don't know how much you heard of the victor davis hanson quote. >> i heard and saw the whole thing. i just want to say this about i it. the idea that it is a republican establishment is of the problem with the fact that these measures that the president have been proposing have not passed seems to me to be ignoring the facts. you have this razor-thin majority in the senate where one or two senators can completely unscramble your majority and can send bills down to defeat. you've got people like rand paul whose positions on these matters have been -- particularly on obama here -- particularly incoherent. what would you do in a situation like that? the idea that they didn't work as hard as i could to do the undoing of obamacare is not. that's what happen. what the republican party badly needs now is the unity and they have no reason not to stand with mr. trump on these measures because basically he's adopted their agenda. >> martha: couldn't have sent it better myself.

what we know so far. >> martha, in terms of the markets and what goes on in the economy, is that the markets never steam to take a hit from any of these news. >> no. >> in washingtontory and heads are rolling and people are upset and the market is happy to see it and they go up another 100 points and everybody feels a little richer. >> martha: we're all hyper the ventilating and the market says we have pretty good numbers today. in terms of the performance and what you see as the highs and lows here? >> i have to tell you i feel like we're at a tipping point. 3% growth. you mentioned in the intro, 3% on top of 3%. this is very good news. we thought it would be much lower than that because of the hurricanes. we're on the 50th record close for the s a&p 500 today. fabulous earnings from mile crow soft, google baked in. unemployment at a multi multi year low. you have to think that this economy is speeding up. consumer confidence at a high. things are really turning around. people are getting jobs, it's getting better and all of this happening as washington is about to cut each other's throats. i think actually traders in the market sort of like the fact that washing

dress will be featured alongside others worn by michelle obama, laura bush, jacque kennedy, and martha washingtonyour cnbc news update at this hour. back over to you, michelle >> got it, thank you so much, courtney. >>> all right. markets right now just a few points from intraday highs take a look. the dow jones industrial average higher by 1138 point s&p higher by 11 nasdaq higher by 33. we're checking on shares of the ge, member of the doumw jones industrial average tried to move toward positive territory. gotten very close. still down 4 cents, well off, however, the session low brian, back to you >> reporter: michelle, thank you very much. we're back here at the toyota center with the rockets practicing behind us joined by their owner tilman fertitta. we're pleased and honored to be joined by john arnold, may not be a household name but probably will be down the road. john arnold considered by many to be the greatest hedge fund manager of all time. reaping a report eed 317% return in just 2006 making him a billionaire he has since retired and now with his wife, laura, is running the laura and

martha: there is always criticism to go around. strong words about that. always good to see you, sir. >> you bet. coming up in washingtonsay you don't see this everyday. >> i want to address the main headline that you called the president a moron. >> martha: how does the secretary of state respond to that claim. what's really going on behind the scenes with all of that. also, part two of our sit down with congressman steve scalise. also members on the hill, what the lawmakers think about being targets because of their political affiliation. when we come back. >> you all got a look at the shooter at some point during this. when you heard he had a list of republicans, out there specifically seeking republicans, what went through your mind? >> martha: troubling breaking news, u.s. special forces ambushed in the country of nyger. eight to ten special ops troops were attacked near the bore borf mahi. >> martha: bizarre moment in washington. secretary of state rex tillerson gathering the press to refute his relationship with the president starting with this headline, tillerson intercepted by trump. he fielded questions leadin

martha raddatz in washington with the latest. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, george. the tension between the u.s. and north korea is relentless. every day it seems more alarming news and this morning it's so disturbing. we know the u.s. and south korea have updated war planning in the last few months doing lots of secret simulatings and exercises, but now reports that north korea hacked into those classified plans through the south korean military computer network. this according to a south korean lawmaker who said those stolen plans include details about how kim jong-un would be removed from power, it's called the decapitation plan if war breaks out on the korean peninsula, george repetitively. a way to maintain the pressure and keep them contained. >> reporter: you know, the secretaries of state and defense insist the u.s. is on a diplomatic track, but i would call this coercive diplomacy because we've all heard fiery threats from the president and seen this repeated show of force which certainly does send a st

martha raddatz has the latest from washington. good morning, martha. george.official tells abc news that the mission began as a reconnaissance mission. but the troops were then sent on a much more dangerous mission to kill or capture one of the top terror targets in niger. they never found him and on the way back to base, they stopped in a remote village, a survivor of the ambush tells abc news, the unit knew something was off when the village elder tried to stall them. finally able to leave, 50 isis fighters ambushed the convoy of six to eight vehicles with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. the u.s. forces waited an hour to call for air support. it would take another hour for french air support to arrive and evacuate the wounded and dead. the fourth american killed, sergeant la david johnson would not be found for another 48 hours. the pentagon saying they are still investigating why it took so long to locate his body. george. >> yeah, that is a surprise, okay, martha, thanks very much. >>> now to rocking the world's most famous dogsled race. after

that george washington worked extremely hard to do this and the thing is that martha washington was theho actually freed his slaves in december of 1800 because she would nothis heir do it because of the clause regarding reading and writing being considered illegal in virginia. was -- in colorado. the debate hangs around monuments. the president's chief of staff, john kelly spoke about the civil war and this debate that is happening in the united states and his appearance on laura ingraham's new show on fox news. there is the chief of staff, john kelly from last night. >> robert e. lee was a honorable man. he was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which in 150 years ago was more important than country. it was loyalty to state first. now it is different. the lack of an ability to compromise led to the civil war. men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience have their -- have them make their stand. host: open phones for the next 15 minutes or so. any policy issue you want to talk about, the phone lines are yours. caller: good morning

trace. >> martha, the 60 mince "the washington post" investigation is based on the allegations of thesaw former dea agent who claims he was forced out of the drug enforcement agency because he accused congress of teaming up with drug companies to allow the opioid epidemic to spread. critics say the law called the insuring patient access and effective drug enforcement act makes it nearly impossible for the dea to freeze suspicious narcotic shims from drug companies. in other words, they are saying they claim the feds are handcuffed when it comes to preventing shipments to drugs to corrupt doctors and pharmacies who hand out medications in droves. of course opioid prescriptions years deadly resurgence of heroin use. here is more of the 60 minutes investigation. watch. >> you know the implication of what you're saying that these big companies knew that they were pumping drugs into american communities that were killing people. that's not an implication. that's a fact. that's exactly what they did. >> we should note the dea fought against the bill. the pharmaceutical industry lobbied hard

good night from washington, the story with martha maccallum and her exclusive interview with congressman steve scalise is next. >> martha: breaking news in the las vegas investigation tonight, i martha maccallum and this is "the story" in las vegas. and here on capitol hill. two american cities to struggling to extreme violence. in vegas, chile new video, the shooters were in disarray at mandalay bay, his twisted work coming into focus tonight. his girlfriend is now a person of interest, 45 of his victims are in critical condition tonight. just a short time ago we heard from the clark county sheriff. >> we received a call at 10: 10:08:00 p.m., best of our estimates and video review, he continued to fire at a progressive's excessive rate for a approximately 9 minutes. cameras located outside of the room and inside of the room. currently she is a person of interest. i don't have complete answers here. i anticipate a substantial amount of information to come in and the next 48 hours. >> martha: more on that in a moment and here on capitol hill, a new beginning for shooting victim and majori

. >> martha: an ongoing investigation, here with the back story, chief national correspondent ed henry faisal's live from washington. >> good evening, martha. it turns out an fbi investigation may have found there was collusion and russia. it might be the obama administration is that of the trump administration. the attorney general who might be on the griddle is former attorney general eric holder, his justice department spent four years quietly probing allegations that could be damaging to bill and hillary clinton. this exclusive from the hill newspaper revealing that before the clinton states apartment okay that controversial pact, the uranium one deal you mentioned in 2010, i gave the russians more than 20% of uranium supply. if the hill reported that federal agents "attained an eyewitness account backed by documents indicating russian nuclear officials grouted millions of dollars designed to benefit former president bill clinton's charitable foundation during the time that secretary of state hillary clinton served on a government body that provided that favorable decision to moscow." remember, this was all hap

and our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is in washington with more. martha, what can we expect here? >> reporter: well, robin, in fact president trump called it the worst deal ever but the president is not expected to walk away from the nuclear deal, which lifted punishing sanctions on iran in exchange for limits on and inspections of its nuclear program. instead he is expected to decertify the deal. that would kick it back to congress to decide whether to reimpose sanctions but congress, robin, really has no appetite to do this. >> but it sounds though -- seems like a compromise of some sort. >> reporter: it does because this way he can say he did something about the deal but not completely rip it up which would infuriate the others who signed on to the deal but this will still be seen as very controversial, robin. >> all right, martha, and george will be anchoring abc's live coverage of the president's remarks on iran today starting at 1:45 eastern. >> we'll be back for that. >>> we get the latest on the wildfires in california. winds set to pick up

our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is in washington with more. martha, what can we expect here? >> reporter: robin, in fact, president trump calmled it the worst deal ever but the president is not expected to walk away from the nuclear deal which lifted punishing sanctions on iran in exchange for limits on inspections of its nuclear program. instead he is expected to decertify the deal. that would kick it back to congress to decide whether reimpose sanctions, but congress, robin, really has no appetite to do this. >> it sounds like a compromise of some sort. >> it does because this way he can say he did something about the deal but not completely rip it up which would infuriate the others who signed onto the deal. but this will still be seen as very controversial. >> martha. george will be anchoring abc's live coverage starting at 12:45 eastern. >>> to that deadly prison riot in north carolina where inmates set a fire and attacked officers in an attempt to escape. abc's gio benitez is on the scene in elizabeth city. good morning, gio. >> reporter:

strategist chief steve bannon e off the chain to destroy -- he's the man who finances washington free beacon. >> marthaing off the chain he said. thank you very much. there with mark, jason chaffetz, former house oversight committee chairman. and matt bennett, former assistant to president bill clinton. jason, let me start with you. what you think about that band"? >> look, when you have republicans going after republicans, the free beacon is just doing its background and its research. if there was an actual tie the knot would be one thing, but steve bannon is free to do what he wants. he's in the private sector, he could do what he wants. >> martha: >> martha: matt, in f the milk money that was funneled through the law firm to fund this dossier through fusion gps, many are saying that that's a clearer link to trying to get russian help to influence the election and pretty much anything they've seen on the trump side. >> i don't know who these many are but here's a couple of things that are true, first of all, much of what is in the dossier the u.s. intelligence says is probably true. second, -- >> mar

washington d.c. tonight, i'm martha maccallum. that is where this story begins. chief national correspondent ed henry joins us now with more of the story. hi, ed. >> martha, good to see you. that's the big question. did this dossier funded by republican and democratic opponents of president trump lead to the special counsel probe of the trump campaign? we don't know the answer but getting closer thanks to devin nunes that issued a subpoena for the bank records of fusion gps run by glenn simpson. that led to the law firm perkins couey revealing the firm worked with the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign to fund that unverified set of allegations against the president during the general election. now all eyes are on the fbi and james comey. last october at the end of the campaign, the former british spy hired by fusion gps, christopher steele, approached the fbi with this dirt. "the washington post" said that steele reached an agreement with the fbi for the bureau to pay him to continue his work. there have been reports the fbi ended up not paying steele. republica

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good night from washington, the story with martha maccallum and her exclusive interview with congressmantha: breaking news in the las vegas investigation tonight, i martha maccallum and this is "the story" in las vegas. and here on capitol hill. two american cities to struggling to extreme violence. in vegas, chile new video, the shooters were in disarray at mandalay bay, his twisted work coming into focus tonight. his girlfriend is now a person of interest, 45 of his victims are in critical condition tonight. just a short time ago we heard from the clark county sheriff. >> we received a call at 10: 10:08:00 p.m., best of our estimates and video review, he continued to fire

martha: we end the week where we started. this magic moment that just happened at the washington nationals and cubs game congressman steve scalise out the first pitch. >> [cheers and applause] >> martha: that's less than 4 months after being shot at a congressional baseball practice after several surgeries and intensive rehab. three other victims a capital police officers and an aide and a lobbyist all were at that pre-game ceremony. what a great moment for them. we thank them. that's our story. have a great weekend. we will see you back here on monday night at 7. tucker is next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." almost 5 full days have passed since the horrifying mass shooting in las vegas. just a short time ago police updated us on the latest in the investigation. >> to date, we have run down more than 1,000 leads in this investigation. while some of it has helped create a better profile into the madness of the suspect, we do not still have a clear motive or reason why. >> tucker: as the rest of us try to understand why the gunman did it, the left decided in hours what they wanted

martha. we are. we do need a positive way forward. we need new leadership, new g.o.p. leadership in washingtond.c., and i look forward to being a part of that class of 2019 who was putting the america first agenda out in the forefront, and a policy that we create to secure the border, to stop illegal immigration, to get rid of obamacare, to fix the tax code, to grow the economy, and to make sure our military is the strongest in the world so that we have peace through strength. >> martha: in terms of arizona. now jeff flake has taken him self out of the running. the president won arizona by 3.6% in the presidential race. they wrongly took it by 9% back when he ran. one of the questions is, is somebody going to come into the middle of you and present a threat to your hopes for election? >> i really don't think so. we have got an amazing professional team. we've gotten grass roots support like you wouldn't believe across the entire state. we had fund-raising that has been out of this world. we have everything in place to be able to get the arizona voters what they are crying out for, a strong con

howie: "the washington post" saying meghan kelly was the bride of frankenstein. martha a different audience that watches her on the "today show" than watched her on fox. what do they want? i think they want a little more about what's going on in the world than we saw that first week. howie: that's a good place to stop. and a fair assessment. marisa guthrie, thanks for joining us. til to come, some ruminations on the contributions of "playboy" magazine by one of its initial contributors. [notification tone] ♪ in the modern world, an app can help you find your perfect match. ♪ and with esurance, coverage counselor® can help you find great coverage that's a perfect match too. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. howie: hugh hefner told me the endless availability of x-rated fare on the web has not been good for "playboy" or society because it destroyed the mystery of sex. james rosen. hef built an iconic brand and he gets much of the credit or blame for spurring on the sexual revolution. james: true. the question that's debate in the wake of his death is good or b

martha. - thank you. >> welcome to the next revolution. big news expected in washington after multiple reports this weekend that we'll see the first indictment from special counselor robert mueller's office. this follows democrats funding and lifting the gag order of an fbi informant to influence the clintons over the rhenium. the announcement of two new congressional probes into hillary clinton and a probe into robert miller to resign. and look at robert mueller over his russia ties when he was running the fbi. meanwhile, the democrats and the allies are saying all of that is a distraction from their favorite topic which is trump, rush occlusion. we'll do our best to get to the bottom of it. let's focus on the one aspect that is most important to our national security. it's not getting enough attention. all the talk about the uranium one do we keep your about a committee that approved the sale. i talked about it a few weeks ago and explained why we have to stand up to china. >> all chinese companies should be thrown out of america. and we should use a committee to block

martha. - thank you. >> welcome to the next revolution. big news expected in washington that we'll see the first indictment from special counselor robert mueller's office. this follows democrats funding and lifting the gag order of an fbi informant to influence the clintons over the rhenium. the announcement of two new congressional probes into hillary clinton and a probe into robert miller to

washington recognized that there needed to be a certain amount of protocol. and he wanted to balance the and the republican. and the way he did this was, he encouraged a dialogue with martha. he was able to create parlor perceptions in philadelphia, where he would write to women, asking them for their opinion on how to create a nation of great manners. he was really accessed with this . and this was, of course, during the time when the war is going on. there are rumbles of war between france and england. the french revolution has broken out, and all of the aristocrats are being tilled. and that is a great concern for all of the aristocrats in virginia. and he wanted to know, how far can we really take this? how far can we set up a republic, and still remain aristocrats? and thomas jefferson, who plays the foil, and is a constant critic of george during his first two terms in office, is constantly accusing him of wanting to become the king. and it gets so repetitive, at some point, that you think, he picayng picky human -- une. whense there was one time they are sitting on the couch and the dancers are coming up , and they are bowing to george and martha. andy jefferson is

. >> martha: you raise such a great point, and i think about what happened in washington today with facebook and google and twitter and all of the concerns that were raised about the 2016 election, and that's a separate story. how do we get at their form of communication and of recruiting and of reaching out over social media, which is ungoverned essentially? >> we are struggling with it, to be frank. taking down a physical caliphate for us militarily is easier than actually defeating them cyber. that's the reality we are facing, dealing with privacy rights. right now before the congress is about they are facing on 702, part of the patriot act, so that we can track terrorists were talking to people in this country. and there's people in the congress who don't want that to happen. wake up! we spent in this war for 25 years, these guys are dead serious about it. they are going to keep coming for us and coming for us. i agree you can't just shoot your way out of it because it is an ideology and people are drawn to it, and you have to go out there and undermine that ideology and it's complicated

martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: secretary of state of state rex tillerson today making a rare, impromptu appearance. >> there are some news reports this morning that i want to address. >> reporter: a report rocketing around washington. nbc news reporting tillerson had called trump a moron last july, after a national security team meeting and was then on the verge of resigning. >> the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain as secretary of state, because i have never considered leaving this post. >> reporter: and that report of calling the president a moron? >> can you address the main headline of this story that you called the president a moron, and if not, where do you think these reports are -- >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. i'm just not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration. >> reporter: not a flat-out denial, but his spokesperson later, more definitive. >> he did not say that. >> reporter: the full court press pleasing the president. >> yeah, i'm very honored by his comments. it was fake news. it was a totally phony story. thank you very much. it was made up by nbc. they just made it up. thank you, all. total confidence in rex. >> reporter: but trump a

martha: thank you. good to see you both tonight. so two speeches by two former presidents. both seen as an attack by president trump and the washington press corps ate it up. >> you said at one point big tri emboldens the politics more vulnerable to conspiracy theories than outright confrontations. does president trump agree with this? what does he see as his role? >> martha: summing it up this way with the combined picture. bush-obama. karl rove is here on the odd state of the political alignment. plus obama's attorney general loretta lynch facing questions of her handling of the investigation of hillary clinton. she was on the hill today. did the former top cop put her thumb on the scales of justice? one of the nation's foremost legal scholars jonathan hurley with the big questions that surround loretta lynch. >> attorney general lynch, did you seek permission with anyone from the white house before you took the meeting with bill clinton on the tarmac? patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough p

. >> martha: any moment we expect to hear from president trump, he is speaking tonight at the annual gathering of a major conservative think tank in washingtonc., we will take you there live as soon as that gets underway. first here tonight on "the story," the fbi is confirming former director james comey drafted a letter exonerating hillary clinton in the private email scandal several months before the investigation was even completed. trace gallagher with all the details here in the back story from our west coast newsroom. hi, trace. >> it's unclear exactly one former fbi director james comey drafted a letter regarding hillary clinton's email investigation, but we now know he sent the draft to his deputy director andrew mccabe, general counsel james baker and chief of staff james rybicki on may 2nd 2016, which is more than two months before then-director comey issued this now infamous statement. watch. >> they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. >> at the may 2nd date of comey's draft letter is also wel

martha: here now, rob o'neill, a fox news contributor. it takes my breath away listening to john kelly speak so eloquently. >> he is incredible. chief of staff general kelly is pretty much the classiest guy in washington, d.c., tonight. that was a speech that was given by a general, by chief of staff, by gold star father, by a veteran. that is exactly what they needed to hear, a gold star family is exactly what we need, and playing politics with the family is is unacceptable. hopefully it -- i would like to see a just end. some people said some stuff they hopefully regret and it ends and let the family's grave. the president made a phone call that has got to be very uncomfortable. he asked general kelly what to say and he said it the best way he could. i know donald trump. i had dinner with the president last week. he really cares about the military. he's not going to insult anybody. the way it was politicized, general kelly said it, he was stunned. that got me. i watched it live. it was an excellent speech at the perfect time. >> martha: when he talks about, rob, something that you know the feeling of, to lose friends, buddies, people you are out there with and how to communicate that to their family