a man so disliked by the obama white house, he was banned when secretary clinton tried to hire him to work for her at state. she found a way around that. trace gallagher has the story of how blumenthal is at the heart of the newest clinton controversy. >> sydney has long been known for his loyalty to the clintons and attacking their opponents. blumenthal was accused of defending the president by smearing monica lewinsky calling

talk to the press, it's best you take the suggestion. >> here he is the press secretary for the obama white housequestion. how do you think the obama administration feels, she was told she couldn't have this guy working for her, and she did it anyway off the books, taking advice from the guy they didn't want working for the administration. >> i think the obama administration down to every single person in the cabinet knows there are people outside of the white house who are friends, who are going to continue to send in their advice, whether it's warranted or not. you should see the advice i sent to jen sakki over the last few weeks. >> you were sanctioned she was told we don't want him to be a part and there she went with this guy who is considered shady, and he's getting -- he's conflicted -- he's dealing with these libyans who have an agenda and he's pushing that agenda directly to the secretary of state, which raises questions about her judgment and her connections. >> i have to say, i read that story, if you can link something that sydney blumenthal said to something he was trying to make mon

the point the white house makes is the people who are here are important the saudi defense minister and the saudi foreign minister they are here and that's important. barack obamaill be leaving the white house shortly, short helicopter journey to camp david here in maryland and he'll go straight into session. they will discuss what is going on in yemen and the battle against isil and the continuing negotiations with iran. they are concerned about the growing power iran has in the region. and in an interview, barack obama said we know iran is involved outside of its borders, we know they are involved in yemen, helping hezbollah, and they are still involved in syria, but think about how much more powerful they would be if they had a nuclear weapon so that's why these talks are so important. he will tell the gcc that they will remain an important ally but the gcc want to hear love coming from barack obama. and also barack obama wants to see from them that his message is getting through that he publicly won't go ahead and krit sighs what he is doing until they see the details of the deal. >> what if anything alan do we expect to come out of these talks? >> well, th

i'm told he's talking to obama white house behind the scenes. >> do you think the obama white house isng with the hillary clinton campaign? >> i don't think they're directly coordinating but i think there's conversations being had. >>> dana's top stories of the week. one is rand paul who dan and a half thinks is making a huge mistake. >>> no more water pistols for boy scouts. "factor" is coming right back. .yea dulcolax tablets can cause cramps but not phillips. it has magnesium and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives. for gentle cramp free relief of occasional constipation that works! mmm mmm live the regular life. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] tora bora fallujah argonne khe sanh midway dak to normandy medina ridge the chosin reservoir these are places history will never forget but more important are the faces we will always remember. ♪ ♪ >>> "personal story" segment. ms. dana >>> let's bring in ms. dana perino who's book has become a best seller. congratulations. >> thank you. >> every week we ask you to bring in two stories you believe affects all americans. first is the gop gran

what, how -- >> i've always felt that the obama white house is never paranoid enough right? you have to be thinking what are your critics going to attack you on. in the white house they were probably thinking republican won't attack us, that's fine. they forget the people they're arguing with the trade bill are not republicans. it is actually democrats and peel on left. this is one they could have caught. when they found out yesterday there were questions about it they probably wished they had done it better. i'm sure josh earnest had strong words for the team but, they had to stick with it. they had to make the most of it. melissa: go with the spin. how can we get minimum wage in here. i know how we can spin this this will raise labor standards in asia, because that is what people in america who aren't working are really worried about, can we raise minimum wage in asia. >> i'm an asics guy. i don't have a dog here. where you have the liberals and tea party conservatives, including folks like the heritage foundation siding against the president here. look at the end of the da

. >>> let's go to the white house as the obama administration stands next to the original standing about osama bin laden. a walk in asset from pakistani intelligence told the cia where the 9/11 master mind was hiding. and those two sources plus a third say the pakistani government say they knew where bin laden was hiding all along. the u.s. government has said they had cure yours. the official story constructed to protect the assets. nbc has been following leads but both assertions were reported this week. the story raises other questions about the raid including that the u.s. told pakistan about the seal team six operation before it launched. a story other officials deny. the nsc insists it was in a small circle of senior u.s. officials. >> the obama white house is not the only one to observe that the story is riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods. the former department krerkt of the cia has said that every sentence was wrong. >> as for what pakistan knew nbc news sources say the pakistani intelligence service were aware of his location. another says the u.s. harbored long suspicions

reports started surfacing the obama white house was not just coming to terms with the fact congress was never going to relent on this issue, in october 2014 came the first reporting of the somewhat mysterious prospect that maybe the obama white house could figure out a way to close it on their own. forget congress. october 2014, that was 2 weeks before the midterms. that report in "the wall street journal." we had the elections. congress got more republican. anything through congress got even more remote. then two weeks ago it surfaced again. tucked away at the very end of this "washington post" piece. "white house officials are exploring options for the unilateral closure of the prison." and even that seemed a little unbelievable, right? who are these sources? who's telling the "washington post" this? and what could they possibly mean? but then this happened yesterday. >> the president has indicated a willingness to use as much of his executive authority as he can to try to take the steps that he believes are consistent with the national security interest of the united states, and that

we know right now that hillary clinton made an agreement with president obama's white house saying she wouldn't take foreign donations. she did. in the case of algeria they got $500,000 and at the time algeria was lobbying the state department. come on. >> bob mcdonald virginia governor under a lot of scrutiny some would say a lot less. >> i don't know if we can make that align -- >> one story says the governor's mansion may have had some accounting problems. >> but who wrote the book we're talking about the clinton cashbook. he said he's not alleging any illegal activities. harper collins said they're not alleging any illegal activities. they depend on the media to investigate things. i don't know why we need to get the fbi. >> because we can't subpoena stuff that the fbi can subpoena. >> well here's part of the problem, john that hillary clinton decided she was going to scrub her e-mail servers so we'll never really know unless we do get someone like the fbi involved. >> yeah but eric if you stuffed a turkey under your jacket and tried to walk out of aldi you would get investigated.

. >> by the obama white house. >> they said no you cannot hire him. >> in an official capacity. >> this is hillary clinton thinking the rules do not apply to her. i think deserving of a criminal investigation as to whether sidney blumenthal was being paid by foreign governments. >> and she was taking those memos and distributing them to the state department sometimes by stripping out the providence where they came from. >> right. >> her real chief of staff was saying yeah, this is interesting, follow up. >> i don't think this was weird, as you say. i think it's very logical -- >> you think the rest of the government normally works this way? >> listen. this is standard operating procedure. i think if you step bam -- they always suck us into these debates who is sidney blumenthal working for, did they report this speech. the larger thing here are the mechanics are the message. she went into this job determined to use private e-mail put it on is server in her living room. the clinton's personal wealth, and other goals of the clinton foundation. it's all a mix. and i think they deliberately

. >> by the obama white house. >> they said no you cannot hire him. >> in official capacity. >> in official capacity. so again this is hillary clinton thinking the rules do not apply to her. and deserving of a criminal investigation as to whether sidney blumenthal was being paid by foreign governments to whisper in her ear, to write memos. that is worthy of investigating. >> and she was taking the memos and distributing them to the state department sometimes stripping out the providence where they come from. and here real chief of staff was distributing them yeah this is interesting. follow-up. so forth. >> i don't think this is weird. i think it's very logical. >> you think the rest of the government normally works this way. >> no for the clintance. this is standard operating procedure. they alwayssuchus suckalways suck us into the debates. she went into this job put it on a server in her living room. and there is pa reason. it has do with the reason for intertwining political ambitionbigs and it is all a mission. and they deliberate built a structure that allowed them get away with these

. >> we haven't heard much about poverty from the obama white house over the last four years. >> virtually no emphasis on families. >> why not focus on poverty? >> i remember five or six years ago, president obama making this one of his main talking points-- i'm going to fix the structure of the african-american family. >> jon: where did that go? and while the president has been addressing those issues his entire presidency, good point. ( laughter ) in fact yesterday, president obama sat down for a 76-minute discussion at georgetown university in which he explained all sorts of things about personal responsibility and the debate between government assistance and personal responsibility as being a false choice and families, et cetera. >> a free market is perfectly compatible with also us making investment in good public schools public universities investments in public parks. if we do those things, the values and the character that those kids are learning they're less likely to get pregnant as teens and less likely to engage in drugs and less likely to be involved with the criminal justice

footprint as possible. >> he's the most talkative candidate in the race. >> do you think the obama white house is openly disdainful of the military brass, as i think robert gates stated in his memoir? >> i think there are probably people in and around president obama who have never been in the military have never appreciated the military and have never understood it. i think gates is one of the best public servants we've had in a long, long time. >> gates seems to like dunford. issue two. hillary's cinco de mayo declaration. >> now, this is where i differ with everybody on the republican side. make no mistakes. today, not a single republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. not one. when they talk about legal status, that is code for second-class status. >> hillary clinton made her first visit to nevada, as a declared 2016 presidential candidate, this week on cinco de mayo. the date in 1862 when an outnumbered mexican garrison defeated a superior french invasion force at the battle of puebla. at rancho high school, in las vegas, t

will the obama white house prevail? the past few moments it has been abundantly clear on capitol hill from talking with tenant democrats that they will be able to block their own president and not allow him to move forward with this fast track to legislation in the senate which would pave the way for the transpacific partnership. this is a big blow to the obama administration. clearly, the white house was hoping for success today for top they thought enough democrats would join with republicans and move forward with this legislation. it did not happen in part because of tenders like arbor boxer on the floor. in 1988, i voted to allow the ministration to negotiate the north american free trade agreement. then, five years later, i saw the deal. it was a bad deal. i voted no, but it was too late. thati saw the deal, i knew i couldn't six it because that is what fasttrack is. peter: reality what happened, even though the democrats are with the president on trade promotion authority and the specific trade bill, many of them

relations with russia, the worst since end of cold war, and obama white house declarations that u.s.ions are crushing the russian economy, secretary of state traveled to sochi, russia, hat in hand. his mission? to beg for a reset in u.s. and russia relationship. and to kindly ask president putin to curb his engagement in ukraine, and plead with putin is -- with president

perhaps china has taken some note of how empty obama white house threats red lines and ultimatums havebeen over the years. we'll see. what will be the consequences of another reckless obama foreign policy decision? we'll be asking general jack keane. >>> and the clinton foundation's pay to play scandal keeps growing. worsening it seems each passing day. this time, a czech supermodel paid out half million dollars to get former president clinton to accept a lifetime achievement award. a supermodel, a half million dollars and bubba. the clinton foundation scandal gets better and better. ed rollins among our guests tonight. after the united states will not be responsible for iraq's security the islamic state claimed responsibility for bombings at two hotels in baghdad. and in russia vladimir putin taking advantage of mr. obama's flexibility. conducting surprise military exercises and the sea as nato is holding its own military exercises. >>> joining us to discuss the consequences to the president's decisions former army advice chief of staff fox news military analyst general jack keane gen

kate: i didn't get any cooperation from the obama white house. e only people who would talk to me were people i knew from having covered it. the closest i got was a lunch with michelle obama in the old family dining room. that made me think about doing this book. this butler was coming in and out of the room and serving her. it was a small luncheon with her. it made me think of this other side of the white house. but i never got into the inner sanctum myself. i'm even more intrigue. i would love to go there. these resident staffers told me some wonderful things. i can visualize it. brian: who are the thick lens? kate: they are an incredible family. nine members of the family have worked at the white house. i interviewed james jeffries, the only current part-time butler who i didn't get to interview. he works every week at the white house. nine members of his family worked there. his uncles were maitre de;s which is like the head butler. they brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration. he is still working t

reporter: despite meeting with more than 30 pro business democratic lawmakers it at the white house president obama for the first time in his six-plus years in office faces the likelihood of a stinging rebuke by his own party on capitol hill. the white house bid for so-called fast track authority is this jeopardy and with it a top obama right, the trans-pacific partnership. the provision would allow the president to submit trade deals to congress for straight up or down votes with no amendments but in a letter to the president democratic senators elizabeth warren of ptsd and ohio brown slammed the idea saying it favored expediency over prudence writing fast track is currently written would preclude congress from a mepding any trade agreement submitted to this congress or any future congress through 2021. and it's not just the senate opposition to the proposal has also been fierce in the house. in an online political ad california congressman alan grayson compared the trade deal to nafta, critics say the agreement signed by president bill clinton in 1993 dramatically widened the u.s. trade imbalance

and other gulf arab states but keeps him out of a planned one-on-one meeting at the white house with president obama. we get more from cnn's becky anderson. >> it is the gold embossed invitation seldom refused. a dinner date at the white house. yet, of the six arab countries invited to sit down with the president, only two are sending their heads of state, qatar and q 8. ill health was always going to keep oman and the aue sheikh ka alisha fa away. the biggest no show is saudi arabia's king salman aziz. saudi officials say he's staying in riyadh to oversee a cease-fire supposed to go in effect in yemen tuesday. the white house has sought to downplay any rift with riyadh or the other gulf countries, noting that saudi's crown prince and his defense minister would be at the meetings but that hasn't stopped speculation that monarch is snubbing the president, but a closer look at those who will be in the room may paint a more nuanced picture. the gulf region is currently undergoing a generational transfer of power. meaning leaders like the saudi crown prince mohammed defense minister mohammed bin sallman

relations with russia, the worst since end of cold war and obama white house declarations that u.s. sanctions are crushing the russian economy, secretary of state traveled to sochi russia, hat in hand. his mission? to beg for a reset in u.s. and russia relationship. and to kindly ask president putin to curb his engagement in ukraine, and plead with putin is -- with president assad. we'll tell you how that is working out. we'll take out worldwide challenges to america from russia iran, and china with our special guest. also here, president obama's own rebuffed his efforts to move ahead with what until now was a secret trade negotiation with 11 pacific room countries and asia, and latin america. negotiating secretly with china to sell it advanced nuclear reactors and advanced nuclear technology. president's prospect on that looking loudy if part because senate democrats voted to block legislation that would have granted the president authority to fast track international trade deals. we'll take that up with pulitzer prize winning journalist michael goodwin, and julie roginsky. and tom

this is more evidence that the obama white house recognizes that isis is a legitimate threat to u.s. national security. >> catherine thank you. >>> california regulators have adopted sweeping and unprecedented water restrictions amid the ongoing drought. they will force cities and homeowners to let their lawns die. governor jerry brown has proposed $10,000 fines for serious offenders and wants water usage cut 25% statewide. it took more than 100 days but the nfl is finally saying what it thinks happened to those deflated footballs in the afc championship game in january and fans of the new england patriots are not going to like it. >> reporter: hi bret. a search of tom brady was at least generally aware of inappropriate activity. the accusations that the patriots intentionally deflated footballs during the afc championship game against the indiana colts this past january, to make them easier to handle cast a shadow over the season's end and the super bowl win. the investigation is over but the conclusions may fall flat for football fans especially for pat supporters. in less than def

white house, number white houses, and this is a really hard case. there is a tendency to crisis manage. and crisis management theory of the case leads you to the things obama said about syria. assad must go or there is a red line. he said we're going to destroy isis. that is the monumental task i think there also is a difficulty here in how you apply the military, what's the lesson from world war ii and vietnam? you can't do it just from the air. we have essentially an air-only campaign. i think it's quite likely obama is going to have a general dempsey problem who is the chairman of the joint chiefs who said if we need ground forces i'll ask for them. we now have a ground force war going on. so what's going to happen -- >> do you see obama increasing the number of u.s. forces or changing the mission there on the ground and in iraq? >> only with great difficulty. he does not want to have another major ground force war. probably most people would agree with him, but he stuck his toe in the water here when he said we're going to destroy them. that is a giant task. there's going to be the two sides of obama as we see on many issues. >> let's talk about the ot

the obama white house is obviously relenting. fox news national security analyst k.t. mcfarland astronomy now and my first question to you tonight, is the president's reversal -- is it really that bad in iraq? >> yes and it is not a terrorist organization, it is the islamic state. it's getting recruits by the day, joining the islamic state from around 100 different countries. 25,000 foreign recruits have raised from syria to iraq to fight for this. it's a 70% increase over last year. lou: we are hearing a number of former generals and amongst them stanley mcchrystal. talking about how isis is organic and has been organic i don't know what that means. but isn't it about time that this country's general starts talking about how to win wars and quit sounding like sociologist and dilettantes of intellectualism? it is becoming embarrassing to this country and it's also extraordinarily dangerous that the lead warriors are acting like it's some kind of humanities major. >> the problem is nine months ago when the president put down a red line and then couldn't do it, and why c

and what did the obama white house do in response? out of our the president response?not respond at all. instead today he chose to focus on climate change. and described climate change is the greatest proximate threat to the united states declaring it an immediate risk to our national security. the risk assessment and priority on climate change comes as the islamic state continues to seize territory in iraq and syria. whatever you think of his priorities, his timing could hardly have been worse. radical islamist terrorist creeping into the desperate city and raising concerns about the fate of one of the world's most magnificent remnant of intrepidity. we take up the president and his foreign policy challenges with k.t. mcfarland. and house arms services committee member ron desantis. the house committee investigating the 2012 benghazi attacks issuing a subpoena to bring blumenthal. all of this one day after she tried to downplay the sidney blumenthal's influence. and we began with the many profound foreign policy challenges facing this country and examine whether the g

best perplexing but a few thoughts on what has become a bizarre exchange of public remarks by obama white house senate majority leader and of the house. the tpp a proposed free said treaty for pacific rim countries countries. accounting for 40% of the world's economy. majority leader, mitch mcconnell said that senate plans to debate legislation to give president fast track trade authority as he put it very soon. praising the president on the issue. >> at the risk of having some of you faint i want to compliment the president for the way he is handling the trade issue. i thought what he did last year and speaking the truth, to his face was welcome. it shows he ask intent on working with us. lou: intent on working with us? us includes -- well big business. but not so many middle class working men and women. senator mcconnell described working closely with the house as a quote almost out of body experience. the appearance is this it seems to me, that the big business republican majority leader is trying to shove congressional constitutional power ofure constitution down the throat of president oba

earlier this week, president obama hosted an event at the white house for the teacher of the year. he introduced this year's winner and another top educators from around the country. this is just over 15 minutes. president obama: welcome to the white house, everybody. please have a seat. this is one of my favorite days because it gives us a chance to acknowledge some folks who so often are giving so much and let's face it, aren't always getting a lot in return. every day, the teachers behind me, they give their students their all -- their knowledge their creativity, their focused attention, their love. they empty the tanks for their kids. then they get up the next morning and they do it all over again. and today is our chance to say thank you. to let these educators know that we see how hard they work, we know the difference they make in their students' lives and they are, at the same time, making an incredible difference in the life of our country. today is a chance to reaffirm how important teachers are to our nation -- not just these teachers, but all teachers. and we are joined

here's the press secretary. >> the obama white house is not the only one to observe that the story is riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. the former deputy director of the cia, mike morell has said that every sentence was wrong. >> reporter: what in there could be true? what about this possibility that somebody within pakistani intelligence knew that osama bin laden was at least in pakistan? well even the former cia director and secretary of state have long said that yeah that could be true. what about this assertion as hersh says somebody within pakistani intelligence walked into the u.s. embassy and said i know where he is. cnn sources aren't ruling out that at some point somebody walked in and did give some kind of information that may have been helpful. but they insist it was not one person or one piece of evidence that cracked open this case. alisyn. >> okay michelle thanks so much for that. we'll talk about it much more in the program. >>> meanwhile, a stern warning from the director of the nsa, isis is increasing its already successful efforts to spread its messa

he has engaged in talks with the obama white house on climate change, and closing guantanamo bay. >>n my view the democrats and republicans work together too little snp hostage. and when it came to radical islam, i would go after them before they come back here. >> he said the united states should send 10,000 troops and advisors back into iraq to help government troops launch a counter offensive against isil including the areas of anbar province. graham will be something of a long shot. he doesn't have the money or national organization of other campaign rivals. however, he is an engaging sort of guy. plus the south carolina primaries are one of those early crucial nomination contests and that is graham's home turf. >> oh yeah. who are the other republicans that will occupy the same lane as graham on foreign policy. >> if you were looking on this on paper, he has a gau va tas in talking about issues better than his younger colleagues. >> david thank you. >>> more protests in seattle. hundreds of activists spend the morning trying to stop work on a huge floating oil rig. plus harsh wo

relations with russia, the worst since end of cold war, and obama white house declarations that u.s.onomy, secretary of state traveled to sochi, russia, hat in hand. his mission? to beg for a reset in u.s. and russia relationship. and to kindly ask president putin to curb his engagement in ukraine, and plead with putin is -- with president

the obama white house is obviously as of today relenting. former pentagon official fox news national security analyst k.t. mcfarland is joining me now and my first question to you tonight, is the president's reversal. why now, is it really that bad in iraq? >> yeah. isis has gotten much more powerful. it's not a terrorist organization. it is now the islamic state. it's getting recruits by the day. there are 25,000 new recruits that are joining the islamic state from over 100 different countries so 25,000 foreign recruits have now raced to the region syria and iraq to fight for the islamic state. that's a 70% increase over last year. >> we are hearing a number of former generals amongst them stanley mcchrystal talking about isis is organic, isis has been organic. i'm not sure what the heck that means but isn't it about time this country's generals start talking about how to win wars and quit sounding like a sociologist? it is really becoming embarrassing to this country and it is also becoming it seems to me extraordinarily dangerous that our