reporting live in arlington ronica cleary "fox5 local news". >> and meantime ronica mentioned 5@630 it's your place for politics and dweet us your thoughts. are you voting and you have been paying attention or don't you care about the gubernatorial look for your tweet on our show coming up next at 630. >> on this memorial day sdrooe community is coming together to speak out against racist height full flyers over the weekend. they look similar to those made by white supremacists group including here in our area. there was a flier with ability eye muslim message and one with hateful words about african americans and another flier promotes facieism and seen flyers similar to these at university of maryland george washington university this year and earlier today we spoke with people who are apald these mess amounts of hate and want to make a positive difference instead. >> i felt really upset and i was really like shocked and sad. and i felt making these flyers is agood way to spread love. >> i feel like we're living in extraordinary times. this is not normal. and where i might be less incl

. >> ronica cleary went out to get the pulse of the people on this. >> what did you find out. >>reporter: a hand ffl reactions. i'll tell you one thing, i did get the feeling that people railroad not really on top of this new headline. one gentleman said there is such an in unsedation of headlines coming out of this administration that you get lost. i also think that there is just a proposal and will we ultimately see cut or stay or get increased fuppedding is not necessarily what was put forth in h this proposal today, the reactions, p you will were a little bit tempered because there is so much uncertainty still ahead. take a listen what people had to say on the treats of d.c. >> we have to pay attention to our budgets. it affects everyone. i think the president has to more as well. i'm concerned what he might cut, things about the epa. those are the things that we worry about, education, stuff like that. >> i recently graduated from medical school so the public service loan forgiveness being cut is very important to me. i'm interested to see how that's going to go in the fu

back to you jim and shawn. >> thank you ronica no doubt people will talk about that. there's reports that 800 million dollars in cuts to medicade and federal pinch hands and other key things folks have a lot to say and a lot of questions how this impacts lives as this budget passes. >> there was a lot of debate. again the budget will change over time. but during the election itself candidate trump said quite a bit i'm the one that will preserve medicade and medicare and the others are the one that want to cut it and we'll transspirz and it seems like budget itself a starting point and what finished products sometimes look more like original. oui see what happens. >> let's talk about the weather it's doomy and gloomy. >> doomy. >> doomy. >> wow. >> i'm stealing that. >> i made that word up. >> i'm going to steal that line. >> doomy, is that not a word. >> it could be. >> i think you need a hyphen in there somewhere. >> gloomy and damp may have been good combination. we ended on drier note and we're not done with rounds of rain. so here are weather headlines just a pass

ronica cleary, "fox5 local news". >> we'll see you then ronica.e nest russia sop in law jared quushner as feds investigate him for alleged aacontacts with russian officials before trump took office he says it's a witch hunlts and calls did fake news. he spoke to the "new york times" and backed son-in-law. jared is ding a great job for country and i have total confidence in him respect bid virtually everyone and work on programs to safe our country billions of dollars. in addition to that and perhaps more importantly he's a very good person. president trump there. recent reports ibd indicate that back in november he kawkdz to people to set up secret communication tunnel to talk about russia and homeland secretary john kelly doesn't know if the reports are true but sgrooibz back channel communications as a good th thing. >> new developments now from north korea back at it again with another missile launch. today's miles landing inside a japanese shipping zone. and it marks north korea third muscle launch in three weeks and twelfth this year. and jap

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when we check in with ronica you'll see why the white house is claiming vic tray. in washington there's no clob organize it's i win, i win, you about this with strategist ateam a contact mar a and brandon spike. >> certainly the president's tweet about a government shutdown, the words were alarming. then we heard the white house do a little clean up. nick mulvaney came out said this was frustration over the democrats and the speed of things in washington. let's listen to what he had to say and then we'll talk about it on the other side. >> they wanted a shutdown. we know that that. they were desperate to make this administration look like we couldn't function. we know a large part of their base, especially their left wing base wanted a shutdown and certainly didn't want them to cut a deal with us. >> are the they he's referring are the democrats? is that what the democrats wanted? is fair to say we scored a vic trincht i don't think the democrats wanted a shutdown. it's never great when folks and the government can't function. that's obviously not the case. in rega

let's bring in ronica cleary right now. ronica, do you have any more details on this?> reporter: hey, jim and shawn. we really got to talking about this. there was a tweet last night from jonathan swann a reporter, he said that he had confirmed that president trump was in fact exploring the possibility of replacing sean spicer. now, as you said that would possibly be filled by sara huckabee sander its the deputy press secretary. it's definitely the talk inside the white house press briefings, what's going on. so, we are asking people what do you just think about the possibility of a new press secretary? we're live at old ebbitt. let's check in over here. what do you think about the possibility of a new press secretary? >> i sure will miss the snl skits. they are something else. let's come over here. we have two ladies over here. what do you think about the possibility of a new press secretary. >> definitely a good idea 'cause there's way too much attention on him than on the stories that he's actually trying put out. >> reporter: he is a news maker. >> yeah. >> so we t

ronica, what's the latest. >> it is packed down here at the white house. protesters started this afternoon at noon at dupont circle and they made their way down here to the white house and to theage at the start of the march and and the main issue in today's and deportations and tell me what your name is and what brought you down here today. >> i'm down on behalf of working class working union local 23. >> are you committed to this issue being talked about reducing deportations or some other issue that brought you down here. >> absolutely, i'm committed to this issue. here working right from the working class and what at the see in the country is workers are under attack. and workers can no longer stand silent and workers can no longer we have to fight back. >> all right. josh, thank you so much. let's come here. we take you to a few of the people that have come down here today. obviously a lot of voices w wanting to heard. what's your name. >> my name is u. it says there is no job and eludes to the immigrants behind every job. >> and do you feel that -- a

ronica clear is out getting the pulse of it.rter: reporter tonight we wanted to find out what is going on with this senate working group. they are tasked with the responsibility of redrafting, rewriting, whatever it may ultimately be, this healthcare bill that did just pass the house and there is undoubtedly some controversial i over who is in the group. some senators you might recognize, senator ted cruz, senator mike lee from utah, but of the 13 people in this group there are no women. so today in the briefing, it was canned of the press secretary would the white house sort of exert the power that they have to change that. take a listen to what was said. i think the more voices that we this done, the better. so to the senate i'm not going to tell leader mcconnell or the white house is not going to tell him how to conduct a panel, but at the same time i think that any voices that be construed as getting a more patient healthcare system put together would be welcomed. but dhas ' in the our call to make. senate leader mitchell mc

ronica. >> reporter: jim, well, i'm having a little 2016 presidential election dÉjÀ vu.illary clinton saying she could have won if one thing changed and the trump administration is responding. we'll have that after the break. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month online, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download speeds. plus get hbo for a year and free multi-room dvr service for two years. and verizon wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, data-free. get the best. go to getfios.com >>> president trump hosted the palestinian president at the

ronica? >> reporter: hey, czar a well, it is thursday night, you know what that means, live at old abbott getting g the pulse of the people. tonight asking how you feel about the possibility of a new press secretary. we will tell you why we're asking the question after the brea >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ today we're gonna be comparing the roll-formed steel bed of the chevy silverado to the aluminum bed of this competitor's truck. awesome. yeah! first, let's check out the aluminum bed of this truck. wooooow!! holy moly. full on crack here. now let's check out the steel bed of the silverado. i'd expect more dents. no holes. current qualified lessees edition for around $249 a month. plus, find your tag and get an additional $1,500 lease cash on select silverado pickups in stock. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. >> good afternoon. >> in addition to all of the big news happening at the white house today, it is also my

ronica. >> reporter: hey, tom.e not heard from sean spicer on camera since monday but today none of that mattered because we heard from the man himself, president trump answered some of your toughest questions after the break. >> ♪ >> plus after countless memes endless twitter jokes and an ice cream cone eating appearance on jimmy fallon joe biden is finally getting an ice cream flavor of his own. we'll have more on that when we return. >> ♪ "tom went to washington to take on the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks... that's what tom perriello is about." progressive causes have been my life's work. and before and after congress i led non-profits to battle climate change, poverty and president bush's attacks on civil rights. now i'm running for governor to reduce economic inequality. because together, we really can build a virginia that works for everyone. >> ♪ >> this is fox5 local news at 5:00. >> here's a look at more of the top stories now. police a

ronica? >> hey, sarah, well, baron and melania trump will make dc home. we have all of the information on the school where baron will be going in the fall. we'll have that coming up next. knew. >> hi, ronica, looks like you're enjoying beautiful afternoon on this monday, perfect temperatures, we're at 77 degrees, not too far from average for this time of year. love this weather. but it is still a little bit on the windy side. you can see winds are sustained at about 24 miles an hour. so, when can we ditch the winds? are you ready for of august in may? we've got that in the forecast as well. we'll take a look at your forecast coming up in just a few minute. come on back. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> tomorrow major new metro safe track surge begins in the morning, five stations completely shutdown. we will be tracking the impact on your commute. >> plus, a nun murdered, priest suspected. a decade's old murder mystery in maryland new crew crime documentary series. we'll talk with the director live on fox5 news morning. ra

ronica. >> reporter: hey, sarah.l, if you recall, that pres ryan had to hold after the first attempt at repealing and replacing obamacare didn't pass, today's energy was very different. there was an impromptu event in the rose garden with dozens of gop lawmakers. it was head lined if you will by the president and vice president really celebrating today's passage in the house of this healthcare bill. take a listen to some of the highlights. >> make no mistake this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. make no mistake about it. mak no mistake. [applause] >>> and i think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming do you think, yes deductibles will be coming down but very importantly, it's a great plan and ultimately that's what it's all about. >> like i said we've got a lot of work to do but one thing is now clear, republicans are committed to keeping our promise to lift the burden of obamacare from the american people better more patient centered system. >> reporter: well, to tell you a little bit about the vote

that does it for me but fitz and ronica taking over.ris wallace about what's ahead on this morning's show, a lot to talk about this morning. >>> thanks for >> have a great weekend. ♪ ♪. ♪ ♪. >>> there is never a slow week tell me what you have on top >> the president on first leg of very ambitious trip oversees. we're going to have an exclusive interview at the top of the had hour with rex tillerson who will break away from the president to talk about what's going on with both the trip and what to accomplish in building a new muslim coalition against extremism. then we'll talk about the foreign policy and the domestic problems with senator john mckaine who this week compared what's going on here to watergate. we'll ask him about that. >> off special guest for your power player of the week, tell us about her. >> we do indeed. judy collinses, the music icon who has been making wonderful music with that remarkable voice more than 50 years, she was in washington last week, we sat down with her, and had such a great talk, and she tells us st

ronica cleary, "fox5 local news". >> meantime a new round of federal court hearings started 2-d on secondt travel ban. appeals court in richmond hearing about immigrant and owe pope enters say it violates first amendment and some say it doesn't hurt anyone because it applies to foreign nationals without visas. it could end up in the supreme court. >> president trump said he supported historically black challenges and university remains unwaiveerring he is trying to clarify suggesting financing may be unconstitutional and singeled out a capital financing for the college as scam preponderance of provision in the funding bill that allocate benefits on the base of race, ethnicity that statement was attached to the spending bill signed to keep the government running. >> president trump star on hollywood walk of fame was vandalized again. this time with golden toilet. it was broken but had the words take it trump brain on it. toilet lid showed a picture of pig with crown on head. this marks the third time the star has been vandalized over the last eight months. no one has been arrested trump re

saudi arabia is rahami in italy. >> here's "fox5" political reporter ronica cleary. >> hey, jim, sarah, there's been a lot of talk about this trip and the talk a lot of it is focused on these seweryess of first the president chose to take on. so first stop on international trip saudi arabia. comparisons have been made to george w. bush first stop mexico president obama his first stop canada presidents always choose to stay closer to home. and so then, not only does he make the first s arabia then he chooses the route from first to second stop to also be a first, take a look at this tweet from sarah huckabee sanders she says another historic moment on the president's first born trip air force one flies direct to tel aviv. so i spoke with matt slat he is the chair of the american conservative union and he is -- that's the organization that puts on cpac political conservation conference i spoke with him about the significance of this one move in particular. take a look at this. >> he did something spectacular and he had a direct flight which has never been done before. there's no diplomat

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fox5's political reporter ronica cleary has more.ictures that the trump administration release today of what they say parts of the wall will look like along our southern border with mexico. this is an unexpected twist after so much was said about the fact that border wall funding was not included in the 2017 budget negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. but today, the room was electric as the director of the office of management and budget nick muscle vein i took to the in that press briefing room. he not only shared news of the wall, but called this budget a victory for the president. now, all this in light of the fact that the president tweeted this morning that what our country needs now is a good shutdown to fix this mess. but director muscle vein i said that the people who really want the shutdown this time around were the democrats. what they really didn't get is this and this is what they wanted. they wanted a shutdown. we know that. they were desperate to make this administration look like we couldn't function like we c

. >> ronica cleary here at the white house today 5@630 and do you believe healthcare is a product or right. of course we have a twitter poll going on. we would love to hear from y you. weigh in, use the #, we'll be back >> put your grossyes down. >> they elected macron who beat le pen with 65% of the vote this is the 39-year-old's first time holding public office. despite conflicting issues president trump congrat macron on twitter. >> to texas governor greg ab so the signed sanctuary city ban. it allows police ask if they're in the u.s. legally after a traffic stop. they're one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. governor abbott signed the law last night on facebook live without anyone or without letting anyone know in advance. >> this scene going on all weekend new orleans and people on both sides are at odds over removal of three confederate monuments. >>. >> stay with us tonight at 6. 18 members of fraternity at penn state ruvrt facing serious charges. we have more details ahead. >> and it sake called break through for balancedness we'll tell what you the secret may

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ronica cleary live from the white house. >> reporter: well, i'm here with omar badar, the deputy director of the arab american institute and you're a palestinian american, we're interested in getting your take and reaction to the meeting. the president of palestine described it as hopeful >> i personally did not think it was anything particularly hopeful in that meeting. i get why president abbas mentioned it was hopeful, grasping at straws, hoping that appealing to donald trump's ability to negotiate that he might get something. but just judging by the current climate and the lack of specifics from president trump i don't think there's anything that -- there's any signs that things will be moving in a better direction, i certainly would hope to be wrong >> let's talk a little bit about president trump, in the press briefing with the secretary, one of the reporters pointed out and said this is certainly not the first time peace has been attempted in israel palestinian peace agreement. what would make this different? and the press secretary said the man is different. president trump is dif

. >> hey everyone, ronica cleary here. we are live at old ebbitt getting the pulse of the people.t do you think about the possibility of a new press secretary. we'll hear from you and tell you why we're asking the question. today we're gonna be comparing the roll-formed steel bed of the chevy silverado to the aluminum bed of this competitor's truck. awesome. yeah! first, let's check out the aluminum bed of this truck. wooooow!! holy moly. full on crack here. now let's check out the steel bed of the silverado. i'd expect more dents. no holes. current qualified lessees can get this silverado all star edition for around $249 a month. plus, find your tag and get an additional $1,500 lease cash on select silverado pickups in stock. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. >> ♪ >> well, after a beautifl wednesday, we are in -- i don't even know what you call this thursday. yuck thursday. >> yuck thursday. >> feels like that time when you're bordering on the last days of fall going into winter andt' zapped my energy.

the entire community came together to surprise ronica and ursala. they came up here to the loft. we had a live d.c., a photo booth to help make it a real party and then they also got another big surprise, free tickets to see chance the rapper and j in concert. and then they were in the limo which took them to thrier high school prom at the ballou center in northeast. they were so happy. they were wonderful. it was so wonderful how many different people came together to get them ready, the limo the family was there, grandparents, all supportive. love to he zoo it. it was fun for us. w with us. >> sorry, we're in.com backseat. >> good night, everybody. tmz is coming up next. we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: so you all know michael bisping, who is the ufc middle weight champ. he's also from manchester and has the strongest view on the political correctness that is getting in the way of fighting terrorism. >> more raids, more raids on t

i'm ronica cleary. welcome tom >> good to see you >> hope you're feeling better >> feeling better.thank you for spending a little bit of your holiday with us this morning, we have a lot to talk about including president trump back in dc, now, after rapping up the first trip abroad. the team is calling his trip a success he comes to questions, ongoing investigation to into the russian involvement in the presidential election as well >> the president's son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner is a focal point, reports say he tried to set up a back channel with russian officials during the transition. national security advisor hr mcmaster responded to the questions on this. >> you be concerned somebody on national security council in this administration were receiving back channel communications with the russian embassy and with the kremlin? we got generally concerned not to address this specifically but in general terms? >> no. we have back channel communications in a number of -- with a number of the countries. so generally speaking, about back channel communications, what that a

. >> just a short time ago we can see folks behind you ronica. what is their message and why are they protestsing here in d.c. >> the march today that ended at th quhit house jinx, shawn, started dupont circle and the point they wanted to bring home they wanted to stop all deportations led by the trump administration. i want to take you here first. this schdz mow it was my understanding mayor bowser has been a voice in support of status in the district as sanctuary city and seeing this sign here took me by surprise and i want to mar from your perspective i think someone was saying to me they feel mayor bowser has not been staunchly opposed to president trump enough. tell me what you try to get the point across. >> that's a lot. my name -- many languages one voice. we have officially put in several requests on behalf of immigrant communities where immigrant sales are entire organization is immigrants and we put in multiple requests for mayor bowser to meet us with and she flat out refused last time. we met her in november and i'm a commissioner fo

is it's hypotheticals right now, wait till it becomes a reality and in what form, let's bring in ronicaleary. you talked to senator tim kaine about this? >> reporter: yes, i did, and of course, we also spoke about james comey and on politicians, the people who are in your area, we spoke with tim kaine about the hot topics, of course, healthcare, i caught up with him after this democratic policy and communications committee hearing, there were a handful of democrat senators, senator tim kaine was one, core re booker of new jersey also been a vocal opponent of this healthcare bilk what they were doing was listening to constituents with their stories of how obama, the affordable care act has been helpful to them. there was one story from a local man from virginia who said that he was diagnosed with cancer, paying for insurance himself and during a window, he would have been uncovered and unable to receive insurance, had that stipulation not been put in to be able to get covered with a preexisting condition. of there were actually a lot of emotions, the senators shed tears. i did catch up w

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