fox 5 political reporter ronica cleary is live at the white house now with more. ronica? >> reporter: hey, shawn and tony, the announcement seemingly came out of nowhere. just with three tweets from the president this morning. let me show you each. it started with this, after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow then goes on to the second tweet. transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. maryland. our military must be focused on ci then the third tweet -- victory, and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. thank you. in today's press briefly, sarah hackabee-sanders fielded so many questions on the topic that at one point, she suggested ending the briefly, because she said she shared with us all the information that she had about this morning's announcement. take a listen to what some of what she had to say. >> the decision is based on a military decision. it's not meant to be anything more

fox 5 political reporter ronica cleary joins us with the latest. ronica. >> reporter: shawn and marina, the president signed an executive order to investigate and look into voter fraud across the country to create a commission to do so. it has some states responding and basically saying not so fast. some reports say as many as 44 states will not comply with at least part of the commission's request. we obtained a copy of the letter that was sent to each state. the request is vast. it first starts with open-ended requests for information about the current situation in state, current potential instances of voter fraud that may or may not exist, but then it goes on to ask for specific personal voter information. now, to be clear, the letter a explicitly states that it only want this information if it is currently publicly available. some of the information it rests, let's take a look, asks for your first and last name, birth date, last four digits of social security number. your voter history and the party that you identity with. whether or not you hav

. >> ronica cleary working this story tonight. m, czar, a the president airbeds the greer answers from inside the white house. we're going to take a look at who might take his job. if he decides to give him the axe. coming up. >> and responding to the criticism. the bow scouts of america issuing a statement tonight after president trump's controversial speech to a group of boy scout, that got some parent kind of angry. >> and caught on camera. a brazen burglar breaks into a home and gets away with items including a flat screen tv. now comes to search to find the suspect. that's a nice grill. we're back after this. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> this is fox5 local news at 5:00. >> all right, here's a look at your headlines. a man from southeast was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer. authorities say 25 year old adrian smith approached an on-duty police officer a lock dick street northeast. moments later he pulled out a gun and opened fire. the officer returned fire, hit the suspe

>> well, fox5 ' political reporter ronica cleary white at the white house with a look at the fall out, another rather amazing day at the white house, ronica. >> reporter: it is never dull, tony, marina, it is never dull. let me tell you, the news broke this afternoon that anthony scaramucci would no longer holds the position of communications director. i want to take you behind the scenes. >> this picture right here, this aisle that you see there is area called upper press. it is the space just outside of the press secretary's office, where we all gathered once the news broke, trying to get some information, trying to get something confirmed. lindsey walters, she's a deputy press secretary, she came out. she red us the brief statement that the white house eventually released just seconds after she red it that just basically said that scaramucci wanted to give general kel a clean slate, the chance to build his own team, as you know, general came on as the chief of staff officially starting today. now, when the press briefing occurred after this, sarah huckabee sanders characteristicall

>> well, fox5 ' political reporter ronica cleary white at the white house with a look at the fall oute, ronica. >> reporter: it is never dull, tony, marina, it is never dull. let me tell you, the news broke this afternoon that anthony scaramucci would no longer holds the position of communications director. i want to take you behind the scenes. >> this picture right here, this aisle that you see there is area called upper press. it is the space just outside of the press secretary's office, where we all gathered once the news broke, trying to get some information, trying to get something confirmed. lindsey walters, she's a deputy press secretary, she came out. she red us the brief statement that the white house eventually released just seconds after she red it that just basically said that scaramucci wanted to give general kel a clean slate, the chance to build his own team, as you know, general

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new details on what happened but first ronica cleary is live. >> reporter: hey, jim and sarah.. what is going on inside the com shop at the white house? we'll break it all down coming up after the break. >> as these great american heroes step forward to receive the medal of valor. >> stopped a gunman from going on a shooting rampage are being honored. real life heroes at the white house coming >> ♪ >> ♪ >> this is fox5 local news at 5:00. >> here's your headlines at 5:30 now. we now know the name of the man found dead near a dumpster outside of a cvs store in warrenton. the victim was the manager of that cvs on blackwell road recognized at 64-year-old rex olson. his body was found early this morning but no word from investigators on how he died. >> water service almost back on to people in alexandria. crews were working through the night to fix three broken water mains and the water gushing from a huge crater on north morgan street knocked out water service to more than a dozen buildings in the woodmont park apartment complex. there are still three buildings without water. the

the commission is facing significant push-back from the majority of the state's fox 5 local news ronica cleary with more. ronica? >> reporter: hey, jim and marina. the president's executive order to launch a commission to investigate voter fraud, it has some states saying not so fast. now, some reports claim that 44 states will not comply with the commission's request. at least in part for voter information. letter that each state received. now, it first asks open-ended questions about the current state of voting in that state. any potential for voter fraud. any information like that. but where states seem to be taking issue is when they ask for personal information about the voter. to be clear, the letter explicitlily states they would like to see the information if it is already publicly available. let's take through some things the commission would like to see. first and last name, birth date, the last four digits of your social security number, voter history, whether or not you are are felon. again, the letter states, if this information is currently public, then it goes on to say that it

. >> and the president hey may not have always practice whad "fox5" ronica cleary is live at the courtouse with more on that story, hey, ronica. >> jim, sarah, it's made in america week at the white house and to kick it off the white house hosted a made in america showcase where they invited companies from all 50 states to show off their product if they're made in the usa. national flag company, their flags fly at the white house from maryland eastern shore he'dy heats crab pot and supply company and setson manufactured in texas. they spoke with us about the uniqueish ease and challenge these face. >> mostly cost. especially in this area. are much higher than companies that improperty china are indz nearbyia. labor raids with biggest problem. other thing definitely tax reform. for a small business with less than 50 employees, it's tough. you know? it's a lot of taxes that would be nice if they were lowered, not out but lowered. >> it's challenging like most companies overseas influence and you know we buy roverfelt and we try to keep everything egg in house. but it's challenging to com

ronica cleary live at the white house, this was a topic today, ronica?reporter: yes, a it was, jim and sarah. it seemingly came out of nowhere this announcement, started with three tweets that the president posted this morning, let's take a look at them. which seem to outline his plan. the first after consults with my generals and military experts please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow now going on to the next, transgender individuals to serve in any capacity it must be focused on decisive and overwhelming and the final tweet, victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical you costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. thank you. in today's press briefly, sarah hackabee-sanders fielded so many questions on this topic that at one point she suggested ending the briefing, because she said that she shared with us all of the information that she had on the topic. take a listen to one of her responses. >> the decision is based on military decision. it's not meant to be anything more tha

to be tremendous uphill battles before they can point to anything that reassembles a victory >> ronica clearyng ronica. >> reporter: the election integrity committee created by the president, led by the vice president. they've hit a tremendous amount of roadblocks, they requested that public voter data from all 50 states, they got so much push-back they actually cancelled the request until a federal judge weighs in on whether or not they can force states to hand it over. even with that be today they hosted their first public meeting. members of that committee, they weighed in on some pretty surprising and shocking things that they claim are going on with elections across this country. take a listen to what they had to say. >> they're recurring indications that individuals are getting registered to vote. even though they're marking the voter registration forms no to the question are you a united states citizen? we do have problems that need to be fixed. we have vulnerabilities in the system and a history of voter fraud in this country, the supreme court said in 2008 when it upheld indiana's la

knox 5 political reporter ronica cleary is looking at who is willing to work through the summer months. ronica. >> jim, srah, after today there are 14 working days left before the august recess. and because of that limited amount of times there's a lot of buzz on the hill about whether or not that august recess should be shortened or just cancelled altogether. now, president trump weighed in on it this morning via twitter. take a look at his tweet. he says i cannot imagine that kongs greing gress would dare to leave washington without a beautiful new healthcare bill fully approved and ready to go. ten senators in the gop already have gop on the record saying they're worried about more than just healthcare. they isn't a letter to mitch mc connell out lining five issues they think need attention that will require either short eping or canceling that august recess and those issues are health care and also the budget appropriations bills and debt limit and tax reform. senate majority leader mitch mc connell has not officially responded to that letter and he also has not changed the schedul

today our ronica cleary landed a really tough assignment. e told her, ronica, go out play with puppies. the pups are more than cuddling, they are helping wounded warriors. happy fourth of july, i'm at warrior k9 connection. you're not going to believe how adorable these puppies are. look at these cute little guys. matt, you work with warrior k9 connection >> i do >> tell me what you do. >> i am the veterans outreach order. my j to guys like me. tell me how old these little adorable puppies are. about ate weeks old. how are these puppies going to help wounded warriors. >> they're are going to be trained at forth belvoir. if someone wants to help out where should they go to learn more >> you go to our website and you can also find us on instagram and facebook. there you have it, the most adorable little puppy that warrior k9 connection. i like the name pup kateors, too good stuff. next on the final five, have you ever considered the president president's tweets poetic. a website that's making his tweets a little more artful coming up here we co

the president called them out on twitter questioning whether the states were hiding something >> ronica clearyore on this. ronica? >> reporter: shawn and jim, hearing the introduction is a reminder of how many different line items there are to this story and components there are to it. what's come out just now, there was letter that was sent out by this commission that was created by the president's executive order asking for certain information, first asked for open-ended information and open-ended questions on the current state of voting in each state. and then asked for specific voter data. the letter says that the information is public. that they only want the information if it is already publicly but states are responding saying that it's still illegal to provide it. one in particular, maryland's attorney general, now, we told you a little bit about what the attorney general said in the 5:00 and 6:00 r that he feels this is illegal and that it could create a database of voter information. the white house has denied that. they say that is not the case. but the attorney general went on to s

fox5's ronica cleary has the story. i'm here with matt meers of war whether or k9 connection.r story is more than one of working warrior k9 connection. you came in connection with this organization because they actually helped you. my tank was destroyed in an ambush. eventually i made it back to walt walter reed and i was hooked up with a k9. these are about ate weeks old. these guys will be service dogs for disabled veterans. what makes your organization different than other organizations that do good as well. >> all of the organizations that raisin train service dogs are wonderful. what makes us different is that involvement, giving purpose to people they didn't have one anymore. this gave me a mission again. it gave me a sense of pride and purpose that helped me recover. i know that dogs don't have names yet. tell us why. tell us why they'll be named. it really gives us a meaning. these will all be named after fallen service members. my dog is named after a helicopter pilot who was killed in afghanistan. what is special about p this program is building the community, bringi

. >> fox5 political reporter ronica cleary live with a look at some of the stories tonight. m and sarah. president trump when he was on the campaign trail he actually said he was going to rip up the iran nuclear deal. the news broke that the administration decided to recertify iran's compliance with the deal. now, the question is did he letdown his supporters by doing this? well, i spoke with dr. sebastian gorka deputy assistant to the president and he says the answer plain and simple is no and to really understand what happened yesterday that's going to help paint the picture and make it clear why not. take a listen. >> what we did is we stayed unequivocally that this is a bad deal and that we have imposed a whole new package of sanctions because iran is not in compliance with the spirit of the original agreement which we inherited. nevertheless, we have to technically recertify it because as the bad elements, the weak elements of this deal are concerned, iran is complying with those technical aspects but the most important thing is this administration is in the middle of a

. >> let's check in with ronica cleary. she skoyns us now. ronica, what are folks phone the streets saying about this. >> reporter: jim, shawn, i'll till i was fascinated by variety of kvrps and responses i had with people on the street whether made in america product affects if they will buy it and so first i'll tail you inside the white house. today was a made in america showcase. there were 50 company there's. one from each state with made in the usa products. we spoke with some of the local companies from virginia, flag company, national capital flag company from maryland eastern shore. this one is a bit of tongue twister. eddie heath crab pots and supply company and then set son hats the iconic stetson hat. first let's give insiders a look at changes they say they face. take a listen. >> mostly cost. i mean our cost especially in this area are much higher than flag companies that import from china or indonesia. the labor rates are biggest problems. other thing is trying to make sure that everybody good goes into the flag and is made in ma

reporting live in northwest, ronica cleary, fox 5 local news. >>> coming up. president trump's nominee for fbi director takes the hot seat on capitol hill >> what is your view on independence of the fbi generally but more importantly, as you as director head up that organization? >> fbi director nominee chris wray strict independence we'll tell you what he says when questioned about those donald trump junior e-mails. >> and a deadly accident in prince george's county. a construction worker killed after a trench collapsed. matt >> sarah, do you know where this statue is located? it really does look like so many in dc. but coming up, there is a plan to change the way future statues here in the district look. you'll be one. that's coming up in a live report. hi, sue >> hello. matt you look like you're keeping your cool. glad to see it. you know what is helping is a little deck of clouds that's around today. but even with those clouds, we're still in the low to mid 90's in many areas, maybe a little bit cooler in the northern suburbs, hate to tell you the heat wav

. >> political reporter ronica cleary live at f.b.i. too, hey, ronica. >> reporter: hey, jim, sarah. well the j edgers hoover fbi headquarters building is the building behind me, reportedly has some inside worried about their safety because of the building physical state. many fbi employees, they don't even work here, because there is not enough space. well, even so, the general services administration, or the gsa, that's an organization that manages federal office space, they couldn't get enough money from congress to move the headquarters. they asked well, congress came in nearly $900 million short. now, leading up to this day, there were three finalists locations, two possibly take over the new headquarters. two of those were in prince georges county. now, prince george's county executive, baker, now, he suspect that this decision may have been made in part because the trump administration may have wanted to punish the fbi for their strained relationship. i want you to take a listen to more of what bake her to say along with what mar

. >> ronica cleary talked to lawmakers about this and join us now with the response. . >> i talked to i lot of gate keepers today. shawn, jim. you know, this was quite a task that we took on here at "fox5". you may be familiar with the fact that ten gop lawmakers they sentence a letter to mitch mc connell saying we have way too much to get done to good on all or part of august recess. and in that they listed more than healthcare as part of concerns. they listed tax reform. debt ceiling. handful of issues that they think need attention and require them evenlyer partially through the month. let me show you what we uncovered today. we reached out to other 4 gop lawmakers offices and i was pretty surprised only 7 of them were willing to go on the record with me and say, yes, our senator is willing to stay partially or fully through the august recess to continue to do the job they were hired to do. two of those offices westbound a little close to the investigate. they say look we'll work as long as we're supposed to work and basically my interpretation is saying if mitch mc

ronica cleary has more on this one tonight. ronica. >> reporter: jim, shawn, when the president uses his golf club in sterling, virginia, it's picturesque the potomac flows by his side. that shared border has local citizens and veterans very worried. >> susan what are you afraid of losing. >> the riff, period.. the way the regulations are written and we have a lawyer working on this with us. she does river access issues. the way the regulation is written they can close the river any time they want to for as long as they want to even permanently and the coastguard is telling us verbally they're only close it when trump is playing golf. and he played golf at that course 11 times since president so this is not a once in a rare while saying. >> now that was susan shared of the cruiser association he was speak about this proposal by the court guard to block two miles because of security guards and senior white house officials are using that golf club in sterling, virginia. the video you're seeing now is actually shot by susan. it's t

healthcare vote looming protesters are doing what they can to get the attention of lawmakers, here's ronica cleary here in the district. >> reporter: just checking in with some updates on different way that is people are protesting efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. earlier today, campbell went to the hill and brought this right here with her. this is a stack of 7,000 signatures from catholic nuns, she brought with her a little pope doll and said senators let's have a come to jesus moment and later this afternoon, there was a protest called a die-in where people actually brought cardboard cut-outs of tomb stones laid along the grass, and they shouted kill the bill. don't kill us. so certainly different styles and ways of trying to get the message across to what may be a vote coming up this week. back to you, jim. >> thank you, ronica, back after this. . >>> we're back doing this again tomorrow, we've learned anything can happen in see you back here at 4:25. she's just pointing up the time, it is 4:25. good night, bye. [vo] one moment can change a life. intelligent technology can help protect

. >> ronica cleary outside the russian embassy in northwest. >> reporter: hey, jim and marina.one's mind, will president trump address this issue of russia's meddling in our 2016 election when he meets for the first time with president vladimir putin. no press conference in poland when the president was with the president of poland and there it did open for just a few questions. when someone from the american press asked the president about whether or not he acknowledges if russia meddled in our election the president said that while he does, he also points to other countries that may have meddled and individuals who may have meddled and said that it is likely been going on for some time. and at the end of the day he put the blame squarely on barack obama when it comes to the 2016 meddling by vladimir putin. take a listen. >> he was told in early august by presumably the cia that russia was trying get involved or meddling pretty strongly with the election. he did nothing about it. the reason is he thought hillary was going to win. and if he thought i was going to win he would h

ronica cleary is out and about and i know this has been a hot talker, a lot talking about this, ronica are you hearing tonight? >> that's right. jim and shawn, you know, we always love to give you reaction from the people. one of the first people i want to give you reaction from gregory the president of log cabin republicans. if you're not familiar, they represent lgbt individuals and their alleys who also identity as conservatives, i was curious that as republicans, where do ey announcement. so basically, tangelo does not support it. i asked him was he surprised by the tweets? take a listen >> didn't just surprise me. today's announcement surprised republicans in the house of representatives. republicans in the united states senate. many of whom have actually vocalized their opposition to the tweets this morning, people thus far haven't been what i would call advocates of the transgender community but who nevertheless felt compelled to stand up. john mccain, joan me erin, or inhatchet. it if i think in the pentagon by surprise, we're talking about three tweets from the president. ther

ronica cleary with some more. >>reporter: campaigns are always trying to catch our attention in different ways. today i saw soggy have never seen before. lieutenant govern or ralph north a.m.'s campaign, a happened lful of staffers, they sat down and they read the s 42 page version of the gop senate proposed healthcare billion to replace the affordable care act. they read it on facebook live to a cardboard cutout of north a.m.'s opponent ed gillespie, the republican nominee. they had to take matters into their own hands because they say that they don't know where gillespie stand s on what they're calling trump care. i reached out to gillespie's team fr a response. in essence, the communications director says it's funny they have time to do this but they don't have the time to accept gillespie's proposed ten debates leading up to the election. so the real question is, do you think something like this works well, it's difficult to say with certainty, but i will tell you this, the last i checked the facebook live vid

ronica cleary has the scoop. >> reporter: i'm here with ed gillespie, the republican nominee for virginia'sernor. and we're starting out talking today about this ad you replaced in light of the 4th of july about legalizing fireworks or more types of fireworks. tell me why that's important to you >> consumer grade fireworks in the commonwealth of virginia would create thousands of jobs. we could use, and six other states loosened the restrictions on consumer grade fireworkses in past five years beneficial effect for the citizens >> one of the tweets i almost immediately could not ans response was somebody pointing to, not just injuries but deaths as a result of some higher grade fireworks, and more intense fireworks, why make this an issue or a rallying cry, if you will when there is tt danger >> in the six states where they have done this the past five years they're not been a significant or notice he should increase in danger. there's been a lot of progress made in terms of fireworks safety over past decade. i'm looking for every possible way we can to create jobs in virginia. we've been s

ronica cleary went out to get the pulse of the people on h >>reporter: jim and shawn. yeah, you know, the president has really made it a tradition, if you will, a new tradition to fire up a lot of tweets p in the morning and they sometimes blend together, if you will. this would be part for the last part of it. i think we have it to just pull up one more time. the end of that tweet we ook to the streets and we reddit to pep and the part that we really wanted people to focus on was this last part of it that says next up 11 year old barron trump. we asked people if they agree with that sentiment. take a listen. i didn't get to see jared kushner 's testimony so i'm not sure how well he did, but i'm a little disturbed that he's using his kid that way. you mean barron. >> yeah. generally the media takes the position that we should leave the president's children out of politics, so it strikes me as weird that the president would bring his young son out of politics. i think donald trump should leave his son out of anything to do with politics. he's a child. he doesn't need to

fox5 it's ronica cleary is live at the white house with more on this war of words and the crackdown oneaks tonight. ronica. >> reporter: that's right, jim and shawn. i was just thinking maybe part of the reason that donald trump selected scaramucci is because he seems to like twitter just as much as he does and jim, you just pointed out to the tweet that just came out but let's take a step back to help paint the picture of how this all started. it started about last night. i didn't realize when i screen grabbed the tweet it would have been important to have done so because it was soon deleted. look at this. it says in light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony and as shawn said we've learned that that information was actually public record i will be contacting the fbi and the justice department #swamp and then he includes reince preibus in it. now, that, you know, raised a lot of you eyebrows and had people asking is he tagging reince preibus to sort of suggest that he is the leaker? well, he deleted the tweet and early this morning around 12:45 he posted this

with sent fox 5 ronica cleary out to get the pulse of the people and find out what you guys think, ronica. >> reporter: we're at station 4 in southwest. chatting with a couple people. too little too late? caitlin you and i were chatting before. do you think with the president weighing in today on the repeal and replace of obamacare is that too little, too late for the republicans to have a victory? >> frankly i think it's kind of and replace as some viable option, this is the 21 it's option, we've seen how humans without proper care will not survive and i think it's time for us to be sure that everyone has access to healthcare. it's not an option and i don't think aside from a fear of losing seats that really matters, it's about being irresponsible with humans, i wish frankly that news would stop talking about if a politician is saying the right thing or posting the right thing, especially a president who seems to flip-flop and listen to people, we're the ones who will be covered or not. >> reporter: thank you so much. that's what we're doing here, come on in, david. we're getting the pul

it's sunday july 9th >> i'm ronica cleary >> i'm tom fitzgerald >> president trump and russia's presidentputin pivotal meeting, dominated the news the past 24 hour, they met more than two hours. >> president putin and i have been discussing things, it's going very well. we've had good talk, we're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. we look forward to a lot of positive things happening between should go and the united states and for everybody concerned. it's an honor to be with you. >> thank you. >> president trump addressed allegations of in the elections, president putin denied involvement. >> he asked questions. i explained them. i think he was satisfied with my answers. >> president trump top administration officials have publicly refuted the denial in the involvement. the two leaders agreed to work together on cyber security. >> president is rightly focused on how do we move forward from what may be an intrackible disagreement at this point >> the two leaders agreed to a ceasefire in southwest syria which is underway at this moment. >> joining us to break this d

we sent fox5's ronica cleary out to get the pulse of the people today. nica. >> hey, jim and shawn. it on my mind. it's going to be -- the meeting is going to happen around 9:45 eastern standard time, so the world will undoubtedly be watching if president trump decides to confront or address russia's meddling in the 2016 election when he has his first meeting with president vladimir putin. now, we first took it to the experts. we asked matt wentworth republican strategist what he thinks the president should do. take a listen. >> oh, i think he should. the speech today in poland even though it was for technically the polish people it was a precursor to the meeting tomorrow so i think he did a great job with his speech he walked a fine line. he was forceful enough that i think he wanted to set up in the meeting that foreign policy under president trump is different than it was over the last eight years and that america if it does draw a line in the sand is going to protect its interests. >> reporter: now, it wouldn't be 5 at 6:30 if we didn't get the pulse

. >> we brought in ronica cleary, we sent her out today to get the pulse of the people and find out whatveryday folks think about this whole thing. i hear from people who say they're fed up because congress is not doing its job and they want everybody to work together. >> reporter: that's right, and you know, when the decision to delay the recess for 10 days occurred, you know, some people weighed in on social media much social and said whatare they going to 0 days that they have been able to do yet. there's a ton of frustration no matter where you fall on this line of speed up the process get it done or slow down make sure we do this in the best possible way so take a listen to what people had to say out on the streets of d.c. >> well, i think we've been slowing down long enough its time to just take it and repeal it and let's move on to something that benefits [laughter] >> well, i would say slow down and take their time. >> i think you slow down, take your time. that's something that's a little bit too big to just push through. >> reporter:. >> i think they should slow down, take thei

. >> ronica cleary getting ready for 5 at 6:30 where we like to bring you the pulse of the people.ident trump confront president putin about meddling in our 2016 election? we're going to look at it on 5 at 6:30. >> ♪ >> rainy yucky for most of the day. boy, the sunshine is starting to peak out all over the place. >> it's causing problems severe thunderstorms. we briefly had a tornado warning. it lasted about six minutes and then they canceled it but that doesn't mean that will be the last one down there 'cause there's still a very strong storm. you can see here we've had a little bit of late day sunshine that helped to get the temperatures up. they had more sun to the south and southwest and that's further destabilized the atmosphere with warmer temperatures so we have a round of severe thunderstorms down here to the south. radar will show that we're dry now but we're waiting -- see what this is building so this has still got to come across down here to the southwest is where we've had the problem. this yellow is a severe thunderstorm warning and this going to be in effect until 6

headquarters, ronica cleary, fox5 local news. >> the controversy over russia's involvement in the 2016 election has a fresh focus tonight. donald trump, jr. at issue is a meeting he had with russian attorney, last summer. today the president's eldest son defended hills actions, hired an attorney and in a surprise move released batch of emails that led up to the meeting. they revealed the meeting was set up with the hopes of getting damaging information about hillary clinton. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on jr. to testify before their committees investigating the russia issue. >> i think what's important here is that we're at day 200 or so of no evidence of russian collusion. >> this is the first time the public has seen clear evidence, that senior level officials of the trump campaign met with potentially an agent after foreign government to try to obtain information that would discredit hillary clinton. >> vice president mike pence released a statement distancing himself from the controversy. it said he was not aware of the meeting, and is not focused on stories ab

. >> meanwhile, bring in ronica cleary.e in the press briefing moments after the news broke. describe the scene to us. >> you know, jim, sarah, it is never really dull in that room. i ' tell you for the few weeks they turned offer the cameras, of the energy sort of died down a little bit. but when those cameras were on, and you have news like you do today, the room is electric. it is really on fire. i want to tak the scenes. this is something we often save for the final five. but i just thought so goody want to share with our viewers earlier today. this is a photo from upper press, you can only get up there if you have a hard pass, in the white house, that gives you more access as part of the press, this is right outside of sarah huckabee sands err's office. and we're all just waiting, trying to get something, at this point the white house had not confirmed a scaramucci departure, so linsey waters comes out, deputy press secretary, she reads us the statement, just basically, you know, saying that scaramucci wanted to give g

another edition of on the hill is coming up next with ronica cleary.everybody. >> happy sunday. at ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. and... who's there? hey. a boy? oh, on the bed? you never told your dad and i about any... wait, what's going on now? move the flag. ♪ ♪ at ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. and... who's there? hey. a boy? oh, on the bed? dad and i about any... wait, what's going on now? move the flag. . >>> good morning and welcome to on the hill. it's sunday july 2nd. topped politics this week, house republicans who campaigned on promises to get tough on illegal immigrants got big wins passing two bills. crack down on illegal immigrants who commit crimes in the united states in cities that shelter them. the legislation would increase prison sentences for those reentering the country illegally and give sanctuary cities a choice. follow federal immigration guidelines or lose federal funding. democrats argue that punishing sanctuary ci

reporting live in great falls virginia, ronica cleary, fox 5 local news. >>> they play an important role for parents and children in the district. dozens of community groups care and even care on the chool- weekends. today, dc mayor mayor bowser announced 40 of these nonprofits will receive grant money for next school year. overall $2 million when be distributed. they serve more than 21,000 students. mayor bowser is committed to helping every child reach their full potential and proud to partner with these community groups to achieve that goal. >>> coming up, they're calling it a bit of a beach blunder >> why contracts contracts is under fire and being ridiculed for a photo with his family at the beach. >>> that's venus williams getting be emotional during a press conference. she walks out, talk about the question a reporter asks that apparently hit a bit of a soft spot with the tennis star. >>> making a come back, a congressional aid shot by a gunman during a congressional baseball practice takes the field again, the heart warming and celebratory moment coming up. ing up. did he have li

it's sunday july 9th >> i'm ronica cleary >> i'm tom fitzgerald >> president trump and russia's president past 24 hour, they met more than two hours. >> president putin and i have been discussing things, it's going very well. we've had good talk, we're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. we look forward to a lot of positive things happening between should go and the united states and for everybody concerned. it's an honor to be with you. >> thank you. >> president trump addressed allegations of

sunday july 16th >> i'm ronica cleary.tinues to deal with fall-out from a probe into whether russia interfered with the u.s. elections. the latest focus is on donald trump junior's meeting last summer with a russian lawyer. >> that meeting has become the center of the current crisis between president trump and his administration as they continue to dealwi donald trump junior jared kushner and the president's son-in-law and former campaign manager, paul manafort met with the russia lawyer last year. why? the explanations have changed from day-to-day. >> but the overall debate over possible collusion by russia in the u.s. elections is at the center of the justice department's special investigation. the president defended his son and the meeting. >> my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer, it was a short meeting. it was a meeting that went very quickly. very fast. two other people were in the room. one of them left almost immediately and the other