sandra? tough stuff. >> broward county deputy sheriff jeff bell he is also president of the broward sheriff's office deputy's association. sheriff bell, thank you for coming on with us tonight. take us through your thoughts when you first heard this audio as we are now hearing it tonight. >> i'm shocked at the audio because the audio 100 percent contradicts what former deputy peterson said, that he did not know where the shots were coming from in the beginning and that his lawyer even sent him a press rethought the shots were outside in his own words is he describing where the gunshots are coming from inside the 1200 building. he is calling that out multiple times. for the life of me i cannot understand why he would tell the responding deputies to stay at least 500 feet away. his commands at that point should have been we need to get units in here a sap and form a team to get inside this building to stop the loss of life. >> sandra: had he responded differently that day, we would be looking a

sandra?> sandra: trace, thank you for that here now alli stucky, conservative review tv host and jessica tarlov senior director of research at bustle.com and also a fox news contributor. thank you both for being here. alli, let me start with you first, people are wondering what the heck is going on here. and now the latest for them, this leaked memo. it is circulating not all around silicon valley which it did first but all over the world people have seen this thing. and it's basically saying people get killed. people fall in love. either way, we are connecting people. and that's our mission. is that okay? >> i'm not really surprised by. this and i actually think he is being a little bit too kind about facebook. facebook cares about growth not because they care about connectivity or community but because they care about money. i think we have seen that pretty blatantly over the last couple weeks. the way that mark zuckerberg became a millionaire. the way that facebook has a market cap $400 bi

sandra? >> sandra: bret, great to see you and great to have you back. we pick up "the story" from here. a fox news alert. we are awaiting what president trump trump says will be a major announcement from south korea. south korea's national security advisor is expected to come to that podium at any moment. let's bring in chief white house correspondent john roberts with what to expect here. an unexpected evening and announcement, john. >> well, you know, it's just typical here at the white house, sandra. i have got to put it that way. every day when you are feeling like you could pack up and go home some other piece of breaking news happens. we are outside the west wing poritco here. a location you are familiar with when people come out and talk. unfamiliar location for us to broadcast from. we are expecting that in the next few minutes the south korean national security advisor will be coming out here to brief us on a couple of things. first of all, he will give us sort of a rundown what happ

. >> sandra: good morning to you, bill. i'm sandra smith. we have new reaction from the white house in regards to the meeting. kim jung's outreach comes ahead of a planned summit between the north korean leader and president trump in may. the commander-in-chief saying he received message from xi jinping from china that the meeting went well and kim looks forward to his meeting with me in the meantime maximum sanctions and pressure must be maintained. >> bill: kevin corke watching white house reaction and starting in london with greg palkot and wa we know what was said at the meeting. >> reporter: we've been speculating two days and now it's official. it's described as an unofficial visit from kim jong-un to meet with chinese president xi jinping. there were mystery trains and secret motorcades but the red carpet was rolled out for the north korean leader and his wife. it's the first time kim jong-un has met with a foreign leader of state and it makes sense china is the key economic allie. the first topic is the commitment to denuclearize and

sandra? >> sandra: interesting stuff.ridge, thank you for that. >> you are welcome. >> sandra: here now is tammy bruce and adrienne elrod strategic communications director for hillary clinton 2016 presidential campaign. thanks to both of you for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> sandra: we will get to those text messages between the lovers in just a moment. first, andrew mccabe because this decision could come down at any moment. a decision is in the hands of attorney general jeff sessions. will andrew mccabe be fired and lose his pension, tammy? >> well, he certainly should be fired primarily because the fbi says he should be fired. this is not jeff sessions deciding he needs to do something fun for the weekend. he is looking at the recommendation which is highly unusual. this is from the inspector general's report. they looked at what he was doing. and the issue was not only did he leak something to a network, but he then lied to the inspector general about it. so you are looking at a man who prosecutes people for

sandra. >> sandra: as you mentioned a lot going on in washington today. john, what is the latest on the stormy daniels drama facing the white house? >> reporter: well, she is suing the president, as we know, because she wants to get out of the non-disclosure agreement she signed with michael cohn in the weeks preceding the campaign. her claim is the president didn't sign that non-disclosure agreement or the pseudonym and sarah sanders denied allegations against the president and indicated there was an arbitration that michael cohen had already won in this. >> what the president addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true. this case has already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that i would refer you to the president's outside counsel. >> reporter: what sarah huckabee sanders is referring to an arbitration clause that can be exercised if the president fears a possible breach. they went to a judge and sought a restraining order against her. rosen saying the designated judge from the arbitration tribuna

sandra. >> sandra: marcia blackburn joins us now. congresswoman, good morning. >> good morning. >> sandra: as we await the attorney general to officially make this announcement a short time from now, your thoughts. >> well, i think the attorney general is doing what we ought to be doing. i want to you think about this, sandra, what they have done in california is basically say to citizens, we're going to take away your right to report people that you think are here illegally or people who are bad actors. if you're an employer and you have someone that you think is a bad actor, they're going it take that right away. what we learned during the schumer shutdown is that a lot of the democrats think a lot more about defending illegal immigrants than they do about protecting citizens and our military and i will tell you, i think this is astounding, they're saying, okay, we're going to prevent having workplace raids to make certain workplace safe and say okay, federal government, you have to allow state officials to come in and monitor your

." >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. despite the video there's no clear motive leaving many dead and others wounded. the confession shows the 23-year-old going into detail about his method. >> on this recording the suspect described the six bombs he constructed with a level of specificity he identified the differences among those six bombs. we have told you all along that they all had similarities which they did as far as specific components but there were also differences and on the recording he described what the differences were. >> sandra: homeland security committee chairman michael mccaul is here but michael -- jonathan hunt is live. >> reporter: they're going over every inch of this non-descript house you can see. part boarded up. the a.t.f. truck still outside. we are told by the police that inside that home they found components for bomb making. components that matched those used in the spring of attack that terrorized austin. they would not define the house as a bomb-making factory. they're also going over toda

sandra, good morning. >> sandra: good morning. authorities say the passengers apparently never had a chance because they were trapped inside the sinking and upside down chopper strapped into their seats. even as the pilot scrambled to safety. a witness now describing the horrifying scene. it >> landed sort of sideways. it was a red helicopter. the whole minute, no one came out, nobody knew what was happening. >> there were six people on the helicopter. the pilot freed himself. the other five did not. so police and fire divers entered the water and removed the other five. great tragedy that we had occur here on an otherwise quiet sunday evening. >> bill: what do we know about the investigation, laura? good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill. the national transportation safety board is sending a four-team member go team. they are in route now to find out why this helicopter reportedly lost power sending that chopper into the icy cold waters and trapping all five passengers inside. we have the dramatic video of what took place.

sandra? >> sandra: trace, thank you.rmer saints cheerleader bailey davis and her attorney sarah blackwell. bailey, sarah, thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: bailey, first of all have you an inif a sta gram account a private one that you have to actually invite somebody to join and look at those photos. so you think you are only sharing this with a certain grouch people. you post a picture. i believe it's a one piece swimsuit and what happens next. >> after i posted it, i was immediately called in to h.r. and they fired me as soon as i sat down. they said it was distasteful. it violated our code of conduct. and i had a dirty face which made it seductive and inviting players to contact me. >> were these rules that you were made aware of beforehand? >> no. the social media rules were not in place at the time. all of our accounts were open. they were not private. they were not made private until i was accused of being at a party with a player and they asked me how the players were able t

." >> sandra: everybody was up late and we're up earlier, i'm sandra smith. and connor lamb currently leads rick saccone by less than 600 votes meaning the final result will come to the absentee ba ballots and saccone vows the fight is not over. >> its took longer than we thought but we did it. the job you're running for is the house of representatives. so if you get down there, do the job. okay, i will. mission accepted. >> we're still fighting the fight. it's not over yet. we're going to fight all the way to the end. you know i never give up. >> bill: we're live in pittsburgh, aleghenny county. tell us what's happening this hour. >> reporter: good morning bill and sandra. well, it is not yet over. connor lamb conceding the absentee ballots when they come in could turn the race to the republican opponent and it looks good for the young democrat. there's 1,000 absentee ballots counted in washington county. that could be a key to the race because the county is evenly split between republicans and democrats and lamb took 60% of the vote over his opponent. that'

." >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. that bridge was a new pedestrian walkway at florida international university and not even open yet officials still looking into why it collapsed. and crews using dogs and high-tech listening devices into what is a delicate operation. >> you have to understand this say very slow process. they're still working away at the concrete. engineers have told us last night it has to be done very carefully not only because we have to preserve evidence and there may be possible victim under there and we have to treat it delicately but for the safety of the rescuers as well because the unstableness of the bridge. >> bill: as we wait for more information steve herigan leads our coverage. >> reporter: this is now a recovery operation and the numbers could change through the morning as the work continues here. they've been out all night. the numbers stand at six dead and one on scene and 10 wounded of those two seriously wounded. we heard from people at the red light 1:30 in the afternoon yesterday w

sandra. >> sandra: first, another important story.s after hurricane maria devastated puerto rico, 100,000 people are still living without power. our fox cameras have been following the efforts to get electricity back to the island. brian yennis is live with the latest there. >> reporter: that's right. 100,000 americans still without power six months after hurricane maria. they had been without power and an energy crew is energizing the neighborhood for the first time and companies have come to help. 1500 linemen are working day in and day out replacing wood beams with steal beams and rewiring a system 80% destroyed. >> after six, seven months without power and to feel like they're grateful we're here, we talk about it every night. some guys may think they're rough tough lineman but some go back to their room and cry at night. >> reporter: we were there when josÉ rodriguez' family received power and they were taking care of the 82-year-old father-in-law who suffers from parkinson's and alzheimer's. >> you have air conditioner and tv or

." >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. it follows kim jong-un and north korean officials saying they would spund -- spend nuclear tests. >> bill: what to believe and not believe. john roberts reaction from the white house but we begin with craig palcot with the reporting on what is happening today. hello. >> reporter: hi, bill. hi, sandra. real authentic is what is be described as the author of north korea but warns the devil is in the detail. probably the most significant thing to come out of kim jong-un is the suggestion they're willing to discuss giving up their nuclear weapons if there was a guarantee of the security of the regime and an agreement towards a summit next month amid assurances they will not target the south and it's the first time kim jong-un has raised the possibility of getting rid of nukes and the freezing of testing nuke and missiles during talks. our contacts are saying it's just talk and there's a lot of questions. for example, what would constitute a guarantee withdrawal of u.s. troops from south k

." >> sandra: good morning. >> bill: easter colors. >> sandra: i'm feeling the pastels. good morning, i'm sandra smith and shulkin called out the d.c. swamp and those who have been attacking him. the move's the latest in shake-ups tapping ronnie jackson as the new secretary of veterans affair. >> bill: straight to the white house lawn. kevin does not sleep. >> reporter: i'm await and here just four. first, lets me tell you about ronny jackson taking over. he's been reduced to that press conference he had in talking about the president's health but the truth is if you look at his record even with a cursory glance you can see why the president may have a great deal of confidence he'll be able to get the job done. he'll be replacing outgoing v.a. secretary dr. david shulkin. a widely respected physician. dr. shulkin has been kind to us in explaining the thought process in what is happening at the v.a. but now it will be in the hand of dr. ronny jackson. by the way, dr. shulkin was a hair obama holdover. and dr. jackson served. a navy admiral and served in the iraq war and n

." >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. here's what we know. the suspect killed 20 miles north of austin. police are not releasing his name but said he's a 24-year-old white male. the motive also still unclear. >> bill: police are saying the suspect is likely behind five explosions in central texas going back to march 2. three died and four seriously injured in the blasts. >> sandra: police warning other package bombs cowl still be out there. >> we don't know where the suspect has spent his last 24 hours and therefore we still need to remain vigilant to ensure that no other packages or devices have been left in the community. so as we go through the day today, we want the community to remain vigilant. we need your community to remain vigilant and if you see something that looks suspicious or out of place or something that gives you concern, call 9-1-1. >> bill: that press conference happened three hours ago and now with chief correspondent jonathan hunt. give us a sense of what's around you. >> reporter: we've had a night of high drama and a morning of great relief. we are in round rock,

." >> sandra: how you doing? i'm sandra smith. good morning. nearly two other dozens countries taking action after the u.s. made its move to expel 60 diplomats at the washington embassy. the message to the kremlin is clear. >> with the steps the u.s. and allies and partners make clear to russia action have consequences. we stand ready to cooperate to build a better relationship with russia but this can only happen with a change in the russian government's behavior. >> sandra: kevin gork is at the white house. is this the only move in response to the nerve agent attack? >> reporter: that's on the table. white house officials tell us this may not be the only action. in joining this more than one dozen countries around the world and telling the russians indeed actions do have consequences. we heard as much yesterday morning and from officials here at the white house. >> this is one response since the administration took office more than a year ago. you can always criticize any action and say somebody could have done more but this is an unprecedent

. >> sandra: love st. patrick's day. good morning, i'm sandra smith. all coming in the wake of president trump firing rex tillerson as secretary of state this week and now reports h.r. mcmaster and david shulkin and chief of staff, john kelly, could be on the way out. >> bill: the president announcing his pick to replace cohn a week ago and larry kudlow would be the next economic adviser. a big supporter of his economic policies. >> the tax cuts are working, the deregulation is working. we'll get on to infrastructure and as we always does, not only does he explain stuff he's thinking but asked questions and he asks good questions. >> sandra: our correspondent john roberts live outside the white house. what are we learning? >> one of my favorite david bow bowie songs is changes and i'm told there may be a change but it may not happen until after the november elections. so we can probably put some change on the side and a leading candidate to replace kelly would be mick mulvaney. the president has a terrific relationship with mick mulvaney and you mentio

sandra, good morning to you. >> sandra: studio and in our new newsroom. >> bill: few months. >> sandra: we will give it a try. >> bill: and blast off whole new space and it will be even better think is what we get for now. >> sandra: welcome to our contemporary new home. santa smith, investigators are not ruling out a connection to the previous three bombings which all involve packages left on door steps. authorities calling for vigilance and urging families near the blast site to stay inside. >> we now need the community to have an extra level of vigilance and pay attention to any suspicious device, whether it be package, a bag, a backpack, anything that looks out of place and do not approach it. again, do not approach items like that. but, instead, call 911 to report it so we can go out and make sure that it is, in fact, safe. >> bill: casey stegall is live in austin. an active scene where you are, good morning, yeah, bill, very much an active scene. good morning. nearly 12 hours now since this blast and the people who call this part of austin home are still locked inside of heir hom

sandra. >> sandra: meanwhile, fox news is learning stunning details regarding the critical moment outside the florida school while the shooter was still inside. we are hearing deputies responding to the scene were told to stage outside by a commanding officer instead of being allowed to rush inside. we have live in parkland, florida. the broward county sheriff's office is under fire again. >> reporter: as are a lot of people and agencies. the florida republican-controlled house subpoenaed the broward sheriff's office and the coral springs office and the palm beach county sheriff's department. the lawmakers will look at whether this horrific tragedy could have been avoided. plenty of flags went up about the suspect, nikolas cruz to the fbi and police department and once he turned 18 he started amassing guns. there's a court date dealing with him today but not related to the shooting. it's a probate hearing to see how much inheritance he's due from his mother and father and reportedly worth about $800,000. yesterday, today and tomorrow all about comforting the more than 3,000 students who g

i'm sandra smith. if you want just flying by. >> sandra: i interrupted you. here. >> rick: devon nunes sending a letter to jeff sessions, claiming the fbi may have violated criminal statutes, as well as its own internal procedures to obtain a fisa surveillance warrant on on the carter page. we are live in washington on this. >> thank you. i obtained it late yesterday by fox news, chairman of the house intelligence committee says that carter page appears to be a clear violation of fbi rules for submitting evidence to the fisa court and may also violate criminal statutes. the strict set of internal rules and procedures, and instituted by then fbi director, robert mueller. it is of utmost importance. the letter also questions how the unverified trump dossier compiled by christopher steele meets that standard for the original documentation. at least three subsequent renewals. the justice department has until march 8th to explain whether the rules have changed, went further and told the attorney general that use of unverified information could also be a violation

sandra. >> sandra: coffee with a side of concern?t as if if you needed sometg more to worry about. why your daily morning jolt and why one state could make it come with a warning label. and enjoy. super poligrip. but how do i know if i'm i'm getting a good deal? i tell truecar my zip and which car i want and truecar shows the range of prices people in my area actually paid for the same car so i know if i'm getting a great price. this is how car buying was always meant to be. this is truecar. >> bill: defense secretary james mattis welcoming the incoming national security advisor at the pentagon, john bolton. general mattis, they are the are the two of them. a handshake. general mattis showed a bit of a sense of humor. a healthy one. >> questions can i ask you a question? >> sandra: at least we can end the week with a little humor. >> bill: mattis and bolton, coming up next. speak to a cup of coffee in california may soon come with a health warning. a judge ruling that coffee sellers in the state must post cancer warnings, due to a ch

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hope you had a lovely weekend. >> bill: it was. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. stormy daniels offered little new evidence of that alleged affair, but she says she stayed quiet until recently because she feared for her safety. >> i was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter taking seats facing backwards in the backseat, diaper bag, getting all the stuff out. a guy walked up on me and said to me "leave trump alone, forget the story." . then he leaned around and looked at my daughter. "beautiful little girl, shame if somebody had to her mom". >> daniels received a $130,000 payment from trump attorney michael cohen as part of a nondisclosure agreement. >> cohen's lawyer is responding to the interview issuing a cease and desist letter and calling on daniels to apologize for insinuating cohen ever tried to threaten her. howie, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> bill: size up what you heard last night. >> stormy daniels came across as a no-nonsense businesswoman. it's an unseemly story for the president, let's face it. in every other re

. >> sandra: it's one of those fridays. i'm sandra smith. how will wall street respond to the terrorist news. the dow plunging 700 points in yesterday's session. we'll watch the stock market open in half an hour from now. meanwhile, mcmaster is out. former ambassador john bolton is in. the former fox news contributor is seen as a hawk. >> bill: the trump team facing big decisions on israel, saudi arabia, iran and north korea. >> i've written i don't know how many articles and op-eds and opinion pieces. i can't count the number of speeches and had have had countless interviews on fox in the last 11 years. they're on the public record. i've never been shy about what my views are but frankly what i've said in private now is behind me. at least effective april 9th. the important thing is what the president says and what advice i give him. >> sandra: first, breaking news at the white house where doug mcelway is. >> reporter: in the past minute, literally, the president has delivered up a new treat and is it an important one, he said i'm consideri

it's only hours old. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the bill's impact on the military. we begin with doug mckelway live on the north lawn outside where everything went down. doug? >> what another whirlwind roller coaster here at the white house yet again. it began around 8:59 a.m. when the president tweeted unbut knownst to the staff here that he was threatened to veto this bill. all the staffers were caught blindsided by that. the president went ahead and did it anyway. in the interim, the fascinating period. we understand that at some point jennifer mattis and perhaps jennifer griffin can shed light on this, general mattis called the president and suggested that that would be an unwise decision because it was threaten the military funding that the white house has so craved and general mattis has needed. so the president went against his instincts. he called this press conference. it wasn't really a conference. but he met there with general mattis, the secretary of homeland security and others

thank you. >> sandra: and we have our fox news editor.e pompeo will need to be confirmed and go through a hearing before he becomes secretary of state and that is confirmed. >> we confirmed it with the constitution of the united states. this say big big bigly job. this is the number one cabinet position. this is the no question about it. this is the big deal. rex tillerson and the president had this frenemy thing going on. i'm told as this spools out and as tillerson finds out why, that part of the rationale will come back to the tariffs. tillerson, an international business man, a conservative free market guy from exxon that he was probably not on board with what the president wanted to do in terms of a trade war and that stuff and this was perhaps a breaking point inside the white house for tillerson knowing he was not going to go out and sell it. >> sandra: very interesting. we did not hear anything about that from the president when he spoke outside the white house on his departure to california. what he did talk about was the timing

she said she would cooperate sandra said it was okay. one of the lessons of this book is sandra meant a lot more to her than some stranger, right. and a lot more to her than anybody in her professional life, and so my friends put me through to sandra, and i was sitting in my home office like all writers -- in my bathrobe covered with cracker crumbs, we all have and my cell phone rang, and i answered it, and i took out a voice said linda, this is sandra o'connor my sister playing a joke on me, right. and it was and call thing to tell me why she would not cooperate. that was not a happy moment. what kills you makes you stronger. i thought that up a minute ago -- and, in fact, i had to work so hard to get the information, the hard way, so found all of this or material and people started answering my phone call why are they taking my phone calls if she won't cooperate. it made no sense, right, but you would think they would call her and she would say they were not cooperating. chatty kathy. i'm writing my book. about a year ago i went to the

i have been there. >> harris: sandra, you and i are just hungry. >> sandra: always.all force a special counsel. house republicans sending a letter to attorney general jeff sessions. they want answers on the obama justice department's decision to end the hillary clinton email probe. and on alleged government surveillance abuses, as well as the launch of the russia probe. this comes as republicans have been stepping up questions about potential anti-trump bias within the justice department and the fbi. >> there are too many fbi agents and too many doj officials that need to be investigated, whether it's strzok, ohr and, of course, steele. fbi mi 6 formerly. all of those people need to be investigated and, you know, the fbi and the doj can't investigate their own top people. >> sandra: i will let the judge answer to that. >> i think that's a very good argument that he makes. i don't want. nobody wants another special counsel. these special counsels have a mandate and then they expand it and expand it and expand it. >> sandra: and it costs. >> they are not accountable or

i am sandra smith. harris faulkner, katie pavlich, fox news analyst marie part of, and congressman sean duffy, republican from the great state of wisconsin, and he is outnumbered. glad to have you back. >> sean: great to be here. >> harris: all right, our work is done here. >> sandra: all right, let's get started. we could be looking at history in the making, kim jong un requesting a sitdown with president trump as soon as possible. the when and where have yet to be decided, but the potential milestone is already drawing praise from republicans and democrats alike. sean spicer reacting earlier today. >> kim jong un is coming to the table, he is going to have a discussion with the present. that is a huge won for the south korean people. huge won for our allies in asia, and for this country. so we have got to stop trying to figure out what is going to happen next and it just let the process unfold. so far, he has shown that he can be very successful in a moving in this country forward. >> sandra: but some

. >> sandra: has there been a connection made to the package found in san antonio to the recent bombings in the austin area? >> i don't want to get ahead of the facts. there'll be a news conference shortly and i'll let officials make announcements but we are monitoring the situation closely. we want to ensure the people of austin and the rest of texas are safe. and we are working with our brothers in law enforcement on the matter. >> sandra: a busy day in washington and capitol hill. the president has now decided to beef up his legal team as the mueller investigation continues. raj, what can you tell us about the timing of the decision by the president? >> this is the president's personal legal team and that is different from the white house legal team. what we've said all along still holds the president maintains there was no collusion, no obstruction in the matter and once a special counsel's vths -- investigation is completed there will be no wrong doing. there'll no changes to the white house legal team. we're continuing to cooperate with the special counsel's probe. there's been no

sandra smith, lisa booth. they're all waving, i love when they do that. goodness gracious, so much information. former director of strategic communications adrienne elrod. lieutenant wave. put your hand in the air and wave! commentator and ed core in chief of campus reform.org, lawrence jones from the great state of texas is here. >> sandra started a movement. >> and a cough drop. >> i will remove it shortly. >> very happy to be here again. second heim. >> harris: i like the new look, the fashion with glasses, i know you're bringing it. >> thank you. >> harris: he's based in d.c. let's get to the news. the war between the white house and sanctuary citys is heating up. yesterday president trump host aid round table at the white house. attorney general jeff sessions and homeland security kristin neilsen were there. also present the mother of slain officer brandon mendoza killed by an illegal immigrant in a 2014 drunk driving incident. here's what came out of that meeting, at least some of it >> sanctuary cities in states like california put innocent america

. >> sandra: president trump leading the way, telling 60 russian diplomats that the administration is calling the most aggressive move yet in response to the poisoning of a kremlin spy in the u.k. almost a dozen european states are following suit in a coordinated effort to punish russia and the russian saying they are considering a response. i'm sandra smith, here today, harris faulkner, republican strategist and fox news contributor lisa boothe. former deputy spokesperson for the state department, marie harf and joining us on the couch today, fox news contributor and coauthor of "let trump be trump" david bossi is here and he is "outnumbered" ." >> harris: never before have we seen that more applicable, i can't wait to get your take. >> david: i'm feeling outnumbered. let's get started. >> sandra: the explosion of dozens alleged russian intelligence officers. 12 were working at the united nations in new york city. a russian consulate in seattle was close, administration saying it was troubled by its proximity to u.s. submarine space. they said the russians have seven days. the move i

>> sandra, 90 republicans voted no. so republican leadership had to rely on 111 democratic house votes to get this bill through over on that side. this is a package that democratic leaders feel like they got a lot out of. >> we democrats are happy with what we were able to accomplish on a number of priorities that democrats have fought for all along. infrastructure, education, opioid relief and more. this is a bill that puts the middle class and those struggling to get there first. >> conservative republicans don't like when their majority agrees things that make democrats that happy. republicans have been stressing the benefits of the military from the new money in this bill. the conservative house freedom caucus is asking president trump not to sign the bill. administration officials do expect him to sign the bill. >> can the senate pass it in time to avoid a government shut down? >> senators that i have spoken to say it depends on what rand paul ends up doing. i have reached out to paul's spokesman and asked whether

we'll be right back. >> sandra: many things to former congressman jason chaffetz.s glad to have you on the couch. >> melissa: he was on fire today. we are saying that at the rake. he went any parting words for comments? >> jason: no comment. he went there you have it. there's a lot of news to get to. we are going to be back tomorrow and our other studio, new studio where event, not a new studio. here is harris. >> we begin with breaking news. a school shooting, police in maryland saying a student opened fire in a hallway. this time, a school resource officer confronted that shooter was a student that would be killer instead. this is outnumbered over time, i'm harris faulkner. right now beginning comeback awaiting a news conference from law enforcement when they said they may tell us more about the gunmen. it's expected to begin at any moment and as that happens, we will take you there live. fbi agents are also working the case on the ground at great mills high school in southern maryland. the grounds of the school on the right of your screen. the sheriff's office s

. >> sandra: a fox news alert, we are awaiting possible remarks from the president. he's expected to make a major announcement on combating the drug epidemic across the countr country. we are watching to see if he says anything about the firing of fbi director andrew mccabe and where the white house stands on robert mueller. it's just monday morning. town hall editor and fox news contributor at katie pavlich, host of "kennedy" on fox business, kennedy. in joining us on the couch, chris bedford. he is "outnumbered," good to have you. >> chris: great to be back, happy monday. >> harris: you are one of my favorite accounts on twitter, so creative. >> chris: thank you. >> sandra: this is a big deal. new developments today after a busy weekend at the white house and all of washington reacting to jeff sessions firing fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. mr. session says mccabe was terminated after an extensive and fair investigation, which found that he leaked to the media and did not tell the full truth about it. at first the president's personal lawyers reacted by calling

i'm harris faulkner, here's today's sandra smith. trish regan, joining us in the center seat, donald trump's former campaign manager, cory lewandowski is "outnumbered." hello. >> corey: how are you today? >> harris: fantastic, and how about yourself? >> corey: #oneluckyguy today. >> harris: the special election i mentioned, in a deep red district in western pennsylvania, being viewed by some as a test of president trump's influence on voters ahead of the midterm election. the president won that district by nearly 20 points over hillary clinton and he was back there saturday night touting republican candidate rick saccone will going after his democrat competitor conor lamb, watch. >> i really feel strongly about rick saccone. i know him. i feel strongly about him, he is an incredible guy. conor lamb, he's trying to act like a republican. he won't give me one vote. there is no way. it rick is going to vote for us all the time. all the time. >> harris: lamb has on the backing of powerful local union unions. watch. >> i do not believe as

," i'm sandra smith. here today, lisa boothe, coanchor of "after the bell" melissa francis, democratic strategist on fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and joining us on the couch today, david webb is here and he is "outnumbered." as far as i can tell you are ready to roll. >> david: i'm ready to go. i didn't learn my russian today. >> jessica: melissa disapproves. >> sandra: happy friday, let's get going. new followed over the response of , yesterday russia heading back hard. expelling diplomats, closing the american consulate in st. petersburg, here's the u.s. response. the state department spokesperson. >> i want to remind you that there is no justification for the russian actions. our actions were motivated purely by the attack on the united kingdom. we reserve the right further to any russian retaliation against the united states. >> russia is choosing to further diplomatically and economically isolate itself, not just from the united states but from the world. russia should not be acting like a vi

only great energy." >> sandra: they both knew each other's positions going into this.ary cohn made it very clear that he would be against any of these tariffs, he goes way back on wall street, way back to a metals trader, very inside baseball with this, and he went into it knowing that the president planned to do this. so when you talk about how the president likes this conflict and likes to work through these arguments, that is one thing. and now the question is, what is next? who is next? who fulfills the role and who has close lists, closely aligned with what gary cohn was trying to do? steven mnuchin? that could be an ideological splint, because the deregulation and champion the tax cuts and he sees the steel and aluminum tariffs as being in opposition to that. that is different. >> lisa: i'm not married yet, but isn't that like getting married and discussing if you want children? >> harris: not exactly. >> lisa: i'm not married yet, so i don't know. >> harris: you had a quick thought, what is it? >> guy: we can let it lie, but i was just thinking that the problem

i'm sandra smith. live fox news coverage in new york.chor of "special report" and shannon bream fox news at night host joins us as well. shannon, may i start with you first. what a special ceremony we have been all watching this together, starting out with one of his sisters and we heard from many of his children, all with incredibly sentimental thoughts looking back at their father's life. >> yeah, it was a beautiful ceremony. i had a chance to hear him in high school in the 1980s in tallahassee, florida. he came and for days filled up the football stadium at florida state university. he attracted great crowds, but he always said faithfully through the end of his life it wasn't about him. it was about attracting people to jesus christ u i had a chance, too, to visit over at the capitol rotunda this week where he was lying in honor. i didn't see one person of all the people cued up and waiting in lines. not one person with tears. they were all with smiles believing as you noted there with graham franklin his son said don't grieve. he is

best sandra dee ever! >> oh man. >> jimmy: best sandra dee ever!not on the show. but you've been here -- cause you're friends with sterling k. brown. >> yes! that's my best friend. >> jimmy: we love him. >> yeah, man, he's amazing. he's going to be -- i just found out he's going to be here. >> jimmy: he's going to be here this week. >> i was like, "huh, okay, that's fine. all right." [ laughter ] and he's doing "saturday night live," which i'm like, "man, like big ups to you, man." >> jimmy: no, he's great. but how did you guys meet? >> we met almost over ten years ago. we were doing this workshop with sundance. sundance has this theatrical lab. and tarell alvin mccraney, he wrote "moonlight," you know? >> jimmy: yeah. >> he's a classmate of mine. he was doing a play up there. and we were doing this play where we had to play drag queens. and i had a beard at the time. and i had never shaved my beard off. cause he used to come in like -- what i call taco meat. you know what i mean? something like -- like ground beef. [ laughter ] anyway. anyway -- >

i'm sandra smith. private service is being held at the billy graham library in charlotte, north carolina, . president trump and the first lady are there right now along with what is expected to be thousands of others whose lives have been touched by the reverend. watching as the proceedings unfold, let's go to steve harrigan live in charlotte, north carolina, now. >> the presidential motorcade has just pulled up, we are waiting to see the president and the first lady as well as vice president pence. 2,000 people gathered for what is likely to be a very carefully organized funeral. billy graham was known for carefully organized crusades and festivals, things planned down to the minute. 82 minutes of the same combination of things he used on those crusades, namely preaching from scripture and also music. some of that music has begun here. about 2,000 people in attendance, they are under canvas tent. a very modest setting for a billy graham. it's really how he started back in 1949. he rented a canvas tent

>> sandra: beautiful mommy. >> bill: nicely done. >> sandra: beautiful pictures. congratulations to both of them. steve: we are going to mowsy. zita, well done. see you later, okay? >> sandra: that's it for us. thank you for joining us. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: we begin with a fox news alert. string of deadly package bomb explosions rocking the texas capital after another suspicious blast last night as we await brand new information, a news conference scheduled to begin imminently. good morning to you i'm jon scott. >> melissa: good morning. i'm melissa francis. folks in austin warning folks not to touch unexpected packages after two people were injured last night in an explosion detonated by a trip wire. police say that shows a different level of skill but they are now to see if this blast is linked to the three other package bombings around the city this month. >> jon: casey stegall is live for us in austin right now. casey? >> yes, we should also point out that we are at the scene and just to the left of our camera is where that press conferenc

sandra bullocs gone took 500 hours to make.important thing is the lighting. >> dim it so i can go back to 40s. 39, 38, 35. that's the sweet spot. thanks god i'm not presenting with gal gadot. it will be like she was looking in amirror. >> i w at elton john's party last night which raised millions for his aides foundation. the topic turned to harry and meghan's i dos. >> sir elton postponed his vegas show the weekend of the wedding. that means he got his invitation. >> nothing. not yet. >> jane see more attended the charity bash. she met harry. thinks meghan wie splendid. she's beautiful and carries heelf well. >> allison janne is now oscar royalty. >> i have to take my shoes off.t william and kate last month at the baftas. that's not exactly royal etiquette. >> i didn't know kate was so tall. she's my heht. >> i regret i didn't have my shoes on when i met her. you don't meet royalty without your shoes on. they're pretty relaxed. "e.t." learned meghan will soon be baptized. her mother and father are expected at the private cerem

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sandra osborne, kpix5. >> thank you, sandra. lerts get a check of traffic and -- let's get a check of traffic and transit with jaclyn. >> yeah, we've got 46 trains in service and all running with no delays. one off to a good start as well. everything on time and in the green so far. different story on our roadways and may want to use mass transit to avoid the slow downs and new accident near crawl hollow blocking one lane with an earlier problem creating 580. big backup on westbound 205 and folks trying to get out of tracy and into livermore. heading into the pass, you'll be tapping those brakes and speeds that slow down below 15 miles per hour. your drive time just below 30 minutes from 205 over toward 680. give yourself a few extra minutes through the stretch. castro valley 208 and steady line of cars developing and monday morning commute and we're in good shape. east shore freeway getting a little congested and we don't have metering lights yet but the backup is developing and getting closer and closer to the food of the maze

sandra osborne is live with a look at a bill set to make that happen.er: and if passed, this bill could radically change the land skip around transit hubs in the state of california including this one in palo alto. the goal of the bill is to help put a dent in the housing crisis, in traffic, and also take aim at climate change. the goal of the bill 827. the bill would take control out of city jurisdiction, out of the hands of local elected official when is it comes to things like deciding building height near transit stations and high frequency bus services and instead, the state how would allow denser housing in those areas and buildings 4-8 stories tall. a map of the places in the bay area that could be affected by the bill are portions of marin county and down to cities like palo alto. feelings on this are mixed. >> i'm in favor of it. i understand people are protective of their views but we need more housing in the east bay. >> i feel like severing too congested as it -- everything is too congested as it is and will cut out the natural light and i d