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Six or seven years in this area. Were thrilled. Were about 12 feet in and were just getting started. Great to be with you this saturday for a special edition of americas news headquarters. Im Leland Vittert in washington. Hi, liz. Elizabeth hi, im Elizabeth Prann on the east side of detroit home to milton manufacturing corporation, which you can see behind me. Leland to the very point of manufacturing in america, President Trump tweeting out just last night. Quote, time to Start Building in our country, with American Workers and with american iron, aluminum and steel. It is time to put america first. Elizabeth of course, you can add coal to that list as we find out. Before we get to that our top story of the day. President trump is spending a working weekend at his golf club in new jersey, leaving a washington those reeling from former fbi director james comeys testimony. The president said he would 100 testify underoath. Kristin fisher is tracking from new jersey and joins us live, hi, kristin. President trump is spending a relatively quiet weekend in new jersey. No Public Events planned today, but what he said at that press Conference Left plenty of work behind in washington for his legal team. At the top of their list, President Trumps unequivocal answer to the question of whether or not he would be willing to testify under oath to counter what comey said on thursday that, among other things, the president had asked him to take a pledge of loyalty. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of 100 , i didnt say under oath. I hardly know the man, im not going to say i want you to pledge of allegiance. Who would do that . Who would ask a man to pledge of allegiance under oath . So, somebodys lying, either the former director of the fbi or the president of the United States. But this he saidhe said could all be cleared up if there are indeed tapes as President Trump has hinted at. He was asked that question directly at yesterdays Rose Garden Press Conference and all he would say is ill tell you about that in the very near future and youre going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. So, read into that what you will. He then tried to shift the focus back to the more substantive policy issues of the day. No collusion, no obstruction. Hes a leaker, but we want to get back to running our great country, jobs, trade deficits. We want them to disappear fast. North korea, big problem, middle east a big problem. So thats what i am focused on. Thats what i have been focused on. And today hes focused on whats happening in afghanistan. Reports of two u. S. Soldiers killed by an afghan army soldier. The White House Deputy Communications Director said this hour that someone from the National Security council is here here in to brief the president about that issue. Elizabeth kristin, thank you so much. Leland the House Intelligence Committee wants all the memos fired fbi director james comey has on his conversations with President Trump along with any tapes if they exist of those conversations in the white houses possession. Lets bring in california congressman John Garamendi to talk about it. Appreciate you being here, sir. Thank you. Good to be with you. Leland a couple of days ago from your interview on msnbc, the president is clearly obstructing justice, you said. That, sir, is a crime. The question, arent you innocent until Proven Guilty in this country . Well, thats certainly true, but theres an awful lot of smoke here and an awful lot of concern that americans have. We really want a presidency that we congressman, you just accused of president of the United States of a crime based only on smoke or do we have hard facts . Well, lets say this, weve got the former director of the fbi who has laid it out very, very clearly that the president tried to turn off the investigation. Thats obstruction of justice. Now, can that be proved in a court of law . Were going to find out because we do have an independent Investigation Underway by former fbi director mueller. Well see where that goes. We also have to get all of this out of politics, out of the congress, into an independent n in because of the issue of obstruction of justice and involvement in the campaign, but just as important, the election process itself was attempted to be compromised by, apparently to be compromised by the russians. So we need to understand all of these things. Leland okay. Its critically important for the democracy that we want to have and want to believe in. Leland so, ill take that as perhaps, rather than saying he did commit a crime he might have committed a crime. Its interesting you bring up fbi director, then former director james comey, in what was a recitation of his side of the story against mr. Trump. He also gave a recitation of his version of events back in july of 2016 when he gave a press conference highlighting his investigation to Hillary Clinton and the email server. Im sure you remember that. It was compelling to say the least, in which he said, mrs. Clinton exercised terrible judgment, didnt know if it rose to the level of a crime that he would prosecute, but certainly laid out a lot more facts than the former director did against mr. Trump and despite that this is what you posted on facebook about Hillary Clinton less than a month later. Patty and i are blessed to count bill and hillary as some of our closest friends. I look forward to working with hillary as our nations first woman president. So, why the double standard if after mr. Comeys statement about President Trump he committed a crime and after his statements about Hillary Clinton she should be the nations first president. She should be compared to where we are today. She should be, but thats not where we are. I do believe in Hillary Clinton. I think im not asking you. No, i understand. Leland im not asking you whether or not you believe in Hillary Clinton. Im asking you the same layout of facts of misdeeds by one person by the former fbi director, isnt the same. Is it different because shes a democrat and you believe in here. You said it yourself. You said director comey said it does not rise to a crime. To this indicates whether President Trump did. He said its a crime that no one would prosecute. Thats a substantial difference. We can go back and look at the words, but that there was no crime committed. Here he said in his estimation, that comeys estimation that the president did try to stop the investigation. And he used the president s own words with regard to the firing of comey. I think we have two very different situations in which in one case, he said it was not a crime, and the other, at least something that could be prosecuted, bad judgment, yes, but not prosecutable. And in the second situation, he said very clearly, that he was fired because of the russian investigation. Now, is that going to be a crime . Well, well see how it turns out. We do have an independent Investigation Underway with mueller. Leland congressman, i want to get this in very quickly, what james comey said about Loretta Lynch. Take a listen. At one point the attorney general had directed me know the to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me. Leland that could certainly also be the attorney general trying to interfere with an investigation, yet, i didnt hear you calling for a special prosecutor about Loretta Lynch either. Well, first of all first weve heard of that was a couple of days ago during the Senate Testimony. Secondly, the investigation did go forward. The question whether its a matter in investigation, as i understand it, wasnt an attempt to stop it, but rather, simply how to label it. And that seems certainly interference, okay. Well, i dont know, its a label of whether its an investigation or not. But here is the bottom line of all of this. We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to understand if the president. Leland so youre fine with the special prosecutor looking both into i want to button this up before we leave. Youre fine with the special prosecutor getting into the issue both of what President Trump might have did and also if perhaps there was interference by the Obama Administration into the investigation into Hillary Clintons email server youre fine with both of those for a special prosecutor . Put it all out there, everything. Weve got to get to the bottom of all of this, its got to be made public. The American Public must know and we also to to have an independent investigation. Leland ive got a hard wrap and give equal final as we always do to a Republican Congress woman coming up in a couple of minutes. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Leland good to see you. Elizabeth and well get to that interview, but first, a fox news alert. An afghan official says two u. S. Soldiers have been killed and two wounded after an afghan soldier opened fire on them in eastern afghanistan. We heard this initially from Kristin Fisher reporting the afghan soldier was killed in the incident according to the official. A similar attack occurred in afghanistan in march when an afghan opened fire on forces in the hellman province. Leland right now, dueling marching across the country around the issue of sharia islamic law and police are preparing for possible conflict as counter protesters have come out as well. Bryan is at one of those in new york city. So far, any clashes . Hi, leland. Yeah, there have been some clashes. Police around the country have fear there would be because of the dueling protest actions in 28 cities in 19 states. On one side antisharia law people, that believe sharia and islamic law is a threat to the constitution. On the other side, you have those who believe that this movement is antimuslim and they are antitrump, antifascist, and they believe that this is they believe that this is all a racist thing. So, you have two different sides. The police did everything they could to split them up across the street. Theyve been crossing the street and now youve got a mix of protests, theres been some pushing and shoving, and you have extreme elements of both side. Its apropos of the policies of our countries right now. The ncpd is doing a good job making sure that one protest stays there and the other antisharia law stays there. And what the disconnect is. One side believes the antisharia law side believes theyre antimuslim. And and we spoke to protesters who are pro trump who say its not about being antimuslim. This is america, that we need to do for ourselves, we do, we have to look out for each other. Im for islam. I dont, you know, discriminate against anything or religion or anything, its just extremism part of it that is sort of like, you know, makes everything so bad. So, these grass roots marches are happening again. The marches against sharia law organized by act for america. A large National Security organization is how they characterize themselves. But the other side of it, the antifascists and those that are against this movement say that the act for America Group is actually antiislamic and they believe that it is a veil, essentially, for people to be racist and against muslims. Listen to one of the supporters of the other side that we spoke to today. Thisser not for our right or freedom, theyre for the freedom of just a very small percentage of this country. So, again, leland, well be watching the protests throughout the entire day here. 28 cities in 19 states, dueling clashes expected throughout the day and considering what we saw in portland, oregon on sunday, all eyes are on this protests. N. Y. P. D. Doing a good job of keeping everybody in check so far. Leland before you go, give us a sense of what the folks are looking for. One of the people who you interviewed looked like to have on a combat helmet. Are they looking for a fight, but pushing and shoving and name calling . The acts for America Group, the antisharia law group, a lot of the guys with the helmets, they came prepared for fight given what they saw in portland, oregon, the radical left side. They felt given what they saw there, having a pro trump or conservatives agenda in the middle of new york city could incite violence from the left. And of course, the left is bringing people here essentially saying that we need to defend dependence racists on the other side. So, both sides have come armed and ready just in case, leland. Leland weve seen that before with not great results. Bryan llenas on the ground in new york. Back to you and around the country as news warrants. Thanks, bryan. Elizabeth all right, leland, more on a huge week in washington d. C. Lawmakers have been taking sides after james comey testified on thursday. We heard from congressman garamendi from california. Lets reaction from the other side of the aisle, marsha blackburn. Good to be with you, thank you. Elizabeth so we heard congressman garamendi say an awful lot of smoke and americans want answer and he felt that the president was efforting to turn off the investigation. I want your reaction to that, not only to his words, the president was efforting to turn off the investigation, which were his words. But when you went home to your constituents just last week, is this what people want to be talking about, americans want to talk about and learn more about . First of all, i will tell you with my constituents, even those that were in d. C. This week for family vacations, very few people mentioned the comey testimony and the situation, russia, things of that nature. Theyre talking about jobs, economic development, getting rid of the Affordable Care act and putting the focus on how we grow the economy and get things moving again. Thats what they want to see done. And when it comes to the testimony yesterday, i think that it was very clear that there was not a request from mr. Trump to turn the investigation off, if you will. I do believe that as you listened to direct comey, what you heard was someone who contradicted themselves a little bit. When it came to the timeline, which when he sent the memo, how he used that memo, why he did. The curiosity that arose was the conversation with former attorney general lynch and the fact that she made a direct request to not refer to the investigation as an investigation or criminal investigation, but as a matter. Elizabeth okay. So we didnt hear the president respond on thursday. We heard the president come out pretty strongly on friday. Were you pleased with that response is this is that what you wanted to hear from the administration, as far as him responding to former feb director james comey on thursday . I think that what the president did was to make it clear that if he is needed to provide clarity, he will do so and he disagrees with mr. Comeys recollection of their conversation. And you know, were into a he saidhe said. And i think what we all want to know is what transpired between the two of them. I think we also want to know what has happened with russia and ive got to tell you, elizabeth. I find it so interesting, finally after decades of the russians meddling in our business, finally people are saying, oh, there is an issue with russia. Russia has not wished us well for decades. We have all known that. Putin is a bad actor. So yes, and you know, now with bipartisan support thats right. If i may, i want to interrupt you, its a big week and the president spoke at the faith and Freedom Coalition conference. I want to play a bite from that. You participated as well. I want your reaction, take a listen. We know that the truth will prevail that gods glorious wisdom will shine through and that the good and decent people of this country will get the change they voted for and that they so richly deserve. Elizabeth if im not mistaken, the participate participated, his fifth year annually. I want your reaction from the conference this year. Its going on today. What principles and goals do you want to accomplish and the movement. The evangelical movement that continues to grow. Weve seen this organization and Coalition Grow in just a few short years. Youre exactly right. The coalition is growing and it is grass roots leaders who choose to come to washington and really get armed with the facts and as i speak to them. I was delighted with the way they were taking notes and they were engaged and the room was packed and they were seeking that information. I really appreciated the president s remarks, and his commitment to delivery on the change to see American People voted for this year. It wasnt a partisan, it was something that said, this is what people, whether youre a democrat, republican, independent, these are the things you wanted to see done and this is what im going to deliver as your president. Elizabeth okay, congressman blackburn, thank you, we appreciate it. Have a great day. Good to be with you, thank you. Elizabeth coming up on this special edition of americas news headquarters. In detroit, were going to talk to the owner of the milliken manufacturing plant. Hin Highland Park. Its have the jobs in good times and bad. Why they havent given up on this neighborhood in particular. And going down to the mines as coal miners get a promise to fill. Welcome to detroit coming up. So the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. With accident forgiveness your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Switching to allstate is worth it. My frii say not if you this protect yourself. Ary. What is scary . Pneumococcal pneumonia. Its a serious disease. My doctor said the risk is greater now that im over 50 yeah. Yaha. Just one dose of the prevnar 13® vaccine can help protect you from Pneumococcal Pneumonia an illness that can cause coughing, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and may even put you in the hospital. 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One that keeps you connected to what matters most. In highland, park, michigan. A neighborhood on the east side of detroit. One could argue was one of the hardest hit. Milliken began in a small garage during world war ii making parts for the aerospace industry. The darkest days for detroit did arrive. They could barely keep their doors open, ten employees. Instead of giving up they persever persevered. Today were surrounded by 300,000 square feet of the da derelict business and now, i walked through the plant and i saw a lot of products being made. These products are saving our own men and women on front line. You do an array of products. At one point you could barely keep your doors open and you were here. How do you go from one to the other in a city when odds are stacked against you . You have to persevere and keep fighting for what you really want. Elizabeth the secretary of labor was here, really, a few short days ago, jim, you have big news, youre headed to washington d. C. On wednesday. Do you feel youre getting support from the administration in the fact that theyre listening to you . Theyre listening to Small Business owners and manufacturers. He listened when he was here, accurate and intelligent questions. He was concerned and he made attention to what we were responding with. So, he was real. Elizabeth when we first arrived we saw that you have about 15 acres of what we saw was a manufacturing plant and a lot is surrounded by gardens. You once told me it was rundown homes, a horrible neighborhood to be in, in fact, you could barely get engineers to work here in your darkest days. Why didnt you just pick up and leave . Why did you continue on . Because we believe in detroit. We believe this is where we want to be, where mr. Milton started it in the 40s and his father bought it from mr. Milton and we bought it from him. We dont want to leave we want to build. Elizabeth it would have been easy to leave. It would have been easy, but were not easy people. We fight about what we want. Elizabeth the men and women, what do they like . A lot have worked here for years. You had a group of ten and thats it before you got to 200 . The secretary of labor here, we had eight or nine folks in their 60s have 35 to 45 years seniority. People retire from here, 1946, a lot of generations that have worked here, its hard working uaw folks. Elizabeth what about when youre hiring the next generation . What are you hearing, people to work . Were looking for somebody who wants to work and well take care of the rest. Show me youre going to come every day and with a positive attitude and well train you to do the rest. Elizabeth whats that like in detroit . We talked about urban Development Programs trying to expose kids to in and out and obviously, getting an education, perhaps not in college, maybe not a fouryear degree with specialized education. Are you both pushing for that . Thats with the apprenticeships were big in the 50s and 60s and kind of went away in the 80s and 90s. We need apprenticeships, the ability to gather our employees from surrounding areas, not from miles and miles away. And thats what we want. Thats what the secretary emphasized. Elizabeth when you look at the vehicles, what were producing is saving men and womens lives every day . When you get a letter. Going to tear up. It says thank you for saving my sons life. He was in one that blew up and survived. Theres nothing better. Nothing better than that. Elizabeth thank you, guys. Thank you for joining us and for what you do. Were proud of you guys. Thank you. Thank you so much, were glad youre here. Elizabeth leland. Leland a new coal mine opening up for the first time in years. Were going underground with why investors are willing to take more risks than ever as President Trump promises big spending. This speaks to the economic message. 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We traveled to Trump Country rural pennsylvania, to find out what support from the white house means. The spinning grinder is the sound of money and jobs returning to southwest pennsylvania. Three years after the bottom fell out of the coal market, the theyre celebrating the first coal mine in years. 150 per ton. Thats up, doubled from where it was a year ago. Leland corsa coal ceo george says its changed. Fossil fuel is encouraged and thats for our economy, talking tax cuts, and possible infrastructure spending, all of those are great for our industry. Leland although the president didnt come, even the governor of pennsylvania delivered a message. When i campaigned for the president , i said that we would end the war on coal and put our incredible miners, thats what you are, youre incredible, back to work. Leland this coal seam is only about four feet thick, so, eventually men will spend an entire eight to ten hour shift miles deep with just this much clearance. It is dark, dangerous, tough, would, telling the economy in pennsylvania, that for the 70 jobs in this mine, they had more than 400 applicants. Its a hard days work every day and, but its worth it. Leland at the coal miners cafe in town, betty remembers the boom time and knows one mine opening wont bring them back. We probably had 700 guys working in the area and theyd come in and get their thermoses filled and lunches to go, three different shifts. They always, you know, it was a stop theyd make and then when the mines started closing, that was all gone. Leland lets bring in rj harris, 580 on your am dial in coal country, harrisburg, pa. Great to see you. Great to be here. Leland how bad are things still in pennsylvania . Is it still as bad as it was when President Trump was running or is it slowly coming back . Its slowly coming back. In fact, the unemployment numbers continue to get better and Governor Wolf is obviously embraced that as well. I think theres a real optimistic tone and this is a great shot in the arm for us. Leland interestingly enough, this comes during infrastructure week, when the president really wanted to focus on bringing jobs back, at the same time you had most of the media here in washington certainly focused on the comey hearings, the fallout from the comey hearings. Which one are your listeners focused on . Really infrastructure and daytoday living. Most the people on thursday went to work as they always do, and do what they do for a living and really didnt see one bit of the comey hearings. Leland something that struck me on the story up in coal country. They had 70 jobs at the mine, 400 applicants. They think theres going to be about another 4 or 500 trickledown jobs from the economic shot in the arm, word you used. They have a big problem filling those jobs because so many of the applicants cant pass the drug test. How do you solve this crisis . In order to solve the Opioid Crisis, you have to have jobs. In order to be jobs you have to be clean. As the rest of the country, the Opioid Crisis in pennsylvania, and one of the things you referenced in your report its a backbreaking job literally and a lot of folks have issues and addiction because of the problems that the coal mining takes out of you. I dont know how you fix that problem. Leland the great part of being a journalist, we just have to have the questions not the answers. Were looking at the coal mines right now coming back online. Why dont you play what senator schumer said just as President Trump talked about this plant and pulled this us out of the paris agreement. Future generations will look back on this decision as a failure of historic proportions. President trumps decision to withdraw is also a sucker punch to American Workers, who should be building the next generation of Wind Turbines and solar panels. Now, other countries, including china, our economic rival, will seize the mantle of innovation and green energy away from america. Leland im guessing most of your listeners dont feel sucker punched . Not at all. In fact, i believe that hes wrong. Im in all of the above kind of guy and i think that senator schumer cant be serious. All you have to do is look at the real numbers and know that we are decades, if not longer, away from being dependent, not dependent on fossil fuels. Wind and solar is a dream at the moment. We have some wind in pennsylvania and it just, its not going to get us anywhere near where we need to be in terms of energy output. Leland or in terms of jobs, depending on what statistics you look at. This brings up an important political question. Pennsylvania has always been coal country, but its also been Democrat Country for a very long time. President trump changed that. Are democrats winning any hearts and minds with their current policies and current sort of view towards the president s infrastructure and jobs plans . Even though im a republican, my great grandfather was the 9th ward party boss for the democrats in reading, pennsylvania, and he would be a republican today. The Republican Party left people, the hard working conservative people years ago and thats who the trumpers are and they voted, older ones voted for Ronald Reagan and this is history repeating itself. The Democrat Party and liberal views left those people a long time ago. Leland always appreciate your insights here. We listen to you online and as well as on the radio in coal country. Good to see you, sir. Now to liz back in detroit. Elizabeth detroits comeback. We are going to get an inside look when we come back at one company who is proud to call detroit home. 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One detroit woman suffering an unimaginable loss in 2007 when her twoyearold son was killed by a hit and run driver in Highland Park not far from where we are now. Instead of standing idle while her neighborhood crumbled, she wanted to give the kids a place to play, learn, and live. She transformed her detroit suburb one home at a time. She joins me now with more on this unbelievable undertaking. Thank you. Elizabeth its hard to put into words. Some people have seen you on National News and some on ellen and recently brought a home to your neighborhood. I want to know, i want to start with your motivation because its hard for anyone watching now to understand how you suffered from some great loss and now youre not just helping out your neighborhood, but youre helping out other families, other kids, so they can live and play. And why do that . Well, one of the things my motivation, thank you for having me. My motivation is basically to help to build up my community. One of the things that this project has brought me is a deep healing over the years, nine years of healing from the loss of my son. He was two years, one month and six days old when he died and i just, you know, i needed to have a journey, something to do to make the grief good. Elizabeth why dig in . If we show video of the neighborhood, you see what was once gorgeous homes, beautiful homes. Yes, beautiful. Vacant, blown out videos, spray paint, just really unsightly, and people left. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people left. You not only stayed, but now youre rebuilding and youre getting a ton of support. Youre getting volunteers, young men. Yes. To tear down the homes. How are you doing that . One thing about, we got involved, got them involved years ago, its just that we are there to serve the community, were there to resurrect and resto restore. I worked in the School System for 27 years and so i had contact with children all the time in the neighborhood and the schools that i worked in. I worked with the guys at Detroit Rescue Mission and all of them wanted to see a good thing. They wanted to see the neighborhoods look good and see what it is that i saw in my vision, which was to bring Avalon Village to life and they helped and supported them and showed them love. A lot of the throw aways, people dont want to deal with them, but theyre worth dealing with and they can actually help. Elizabeth what have you done so far. We look at the neighborhood, youve taken down and purchased how many homes . You plan to have a basketball court, volleyball court, tennis court. What have you done so far . Weve started on the homework house, and its the center for everyone, a space for children to come after school to do their home, would, have a meal. Wash their clothes and take showers, too if their lights and gas is cut off. Were working on that. It has a solar roof and Geothermal Heating and cooling. And the marketplace for women. And thats made out are shipping containers. Thats for women to make money. A lot of women are heads of house old in Highland Park in a lot of spaces and they have crafts and things to do to allow them support and also the brook and mortar or building to actually do it. Elizabeth if people want to help out, they go go, and ill put it on the screen. Its Avalon Village. Avalon village. Avalon village. Org is website. Elizabeth we have it on the screen there. A lot of people around the nation heard your story and want to help out because this is the next generationen youre doing so much and its incredible. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Elizabeth when we come back, remembering a tv icon. What the family of actor adam west is saying about his death. Plus, theyre just six years old, but theyre making a big splash. 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President donald trump says hes willing to give his side of the story after fbi director james comeys testimony. What that could mean after the break. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version . 100 . I didnt say under oath. I hardly know the man. Im not going to say i want you to pledge of allegiance. Who would do that . And we go back to detroit to a spot that welcomed then candidate donald trump in opened arms. Elizabeth and then he came to the Faith Ministry in detroit and spoke with millions of people one saturday afternoon and also speak with bishop jackson. Well speak with him after the break. If you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture. I can tell you prolia® is proven to help protect bones from fracture. But the real proof . My doctor said prolia® helped my bones get stronger. Are your bones getting stronger . Do not take prolia® if you have low blood calcium, are pregnant, are allergic to it, or take xgeva®. 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Marches in cities across the country protesting sharia law. Are they meeting resistance on the streets . As you know we are in detroit, more on the rebirth of the motor city with americans putting thousands of people back to work in the industrial heartland. Leland washington this saturday still reeling although some celebrating james comeys Senate Testimony in the president s response which disputed parts of that testimony. Now two hill committees, one senate, one on the house side seeking answers in the form of memos and details on any reporting if they exist. Garrett tenney with the latest, but news evolving on a saturday. Reporter these memos are the focal point of two questions lose did the president try to interfere in the fbi investigation of Michael Flynn and did james comey break the law by breaking his personal memo, fbi agents put out the fbi in plymouth agreement bars the disclosure of records gathered on the job and applies to every employee. Here is law professor Jonathan Turley this morning on fox and friends. I believe this was fbi information. He signed the form of all federal employees do that states clearly that material like that generated is part of an investigation, presumed to be fbi information. You cant just hand it to the media. To leak into the press is professionally amatic. There is even a federal law that makes some forms of theft of documents to be a crime. I dont think he would be prosecuted under that that when i heard him say that i was floored. Reporter lawmakers on both parties have not been shy expressing their frustrations with the memos of comeys meetings with the president , not only the New York Times that information about them in the president s meetings, but even now after repeated requests coming yet to see them for themselves. There is a fullcourt press to remedy that. On friday the heads of the Senate Judiciary committee reached out directly to comeys friend who received at least one leaked memo. Their letter reads in part mister comeys memoranda are relevant to the ongoing investigative efforts, mister comey himself has encouraged you to release them. We ask you provide the Committee Topics of all memoranda you received from mister comey by no later than june 9, 2017. Leaders of the house intelligence can be sent letters to comey requesting letters and white House Counsel tom mcgann for any record the white house has of the meeting including any recordings of those conversations if they exist. Leland donald trump said we may get those soon. Reaction from a good friend of the show, former assistant director of the fbi, appreciate you being here. We see a lot of you these days. We will get to the substance of what mister comey may or may not have done in a minute. Back to the big headline, the president saying 100 all go under oath. Do you think he consulted with his lawyer before saying that . No. Difficult to me believe given the totality of the circumstances and complexity of all the issues that any lawyer would advise him to submit to tough questioning by a professional prosecutor under oath. Leland there is so much partisan gamesmanship and spin. You thought there were two different hearings almost. There is what matters politically and there is what matters legally and it seems those two things are different. Yes. Very accurate characterization. What matters legally coming from my background is no surprise to you is paramount. That will play out over a long period of time. As bob mueller launches his investigation, taking over an existing investigation, professional staff of agents and prosecutors and this is going to be a very very thorough, very exhaustive, professional and lengthy investigation. One thing i am sure of is there wont be many leaks blues not a darling of the press. Leland this is what a respected columnist said about the testimony of the former director. We had a former fbi director who presents himself as the last honest man in washington, makes the point elaborately, he felt pressured, not giving into the pressure, he blows the whistle now but didnt at the time. Has the former director, meeting mister comey, put himself in a little bit of the box . I am not certain of what you do in his position when dealing with the president of the United States why would he offered to resign q the ultimate honorable thing to continue the investigation in an aggressive and fair manner. That might be the ultimate professional, ethical and moral thing to do. Resigned to what effect . Who do you go to when dealing with the president of the United States, to complain, to raise an issue . He chose to memorialize his experiences which i think any person in that position would do and back to his office to continue the investigation. Not so sure that is the exact right thing to do under the circumstances. Leland we are in uncharted territory. We are in uncharted territory. Leland means a lot to have you back to talk about it. Elizabeth in 2 dozen cities across the country marchers are participating in antisharia law demonstrations was Law Enforcement officials are bracing for possible conflicts with counter protesters. In one of those locations in new york city. We are in front of city hall in manhattan in new york city and it is the site of protests across the country, on one side, against sharia law and on the other more radical left saying those groups are racist and antimuslim. We just had an arrest of a protester. You can see the nypd positioned itself, a man tested by the nypd. Uncertain if there will be any more arrests but this is happening now just a few agitators, the only one we have seen all day, we have been here since 10 00 am. This is the product when you have these joint protests, ask for America Group is a large National Security Advocacy Group and they are doing protests in 28 cities in 19 states and as a result of their moves to go against sharia law which is islamic law they believe sharia law, something indoctrinating people to become extremists, they believe it is antiwoman, antihuman rights and that is why the initial group across the street and ask for america decided to march against sharia law. Once other groups heard they were doing it they showed up and plan on showing up to all these protests across the country. It is a dichotomy of two mind, one says we are not antimuslim, we are antisharia law. Antiextremism. The other side says you are antimuslim and antiislam by virtue of being antisharia law. That is what we are having here and it is an example what we are seeing around the country in terms of one side is legitimately the proton pro trump site across the street at the other side which is the side where the Police Officers are, the antitrump side. There are multiple things being discussed here besides sharia law. Antisharia law but also pro travel ban and pro trump and on the other side, socialist groups and proimmigrant groups that you, the other side, completely racist, this is the kind of dichotomy we will be seeing around the country. The nypd has been doing a good job if you can see it but we will keep an eye on it for you guys. Elizabeth thank you so much. One of the largest muslim populations in the country, those antisharia marches today will be, quote, total failures. Still stand by that statement . What they are trying to do is divide the country by fear and hatred and communities come together, freedom of religion, freedom of speech are the pillars of the constitution. At this point in my life i would not think i would have to defend freedom of religion in this country. I have good friends, my next door neighbors are muslims, my city is the largest population of muslims in the country. Lawyers, Small Business people, farmers and doctors and dentists. We cannot let people divide us with fear and hatred and in a way, getting people to come together more. Reporter we saw one arrest take place. Young kids are the next generation we want to organize. And and many who had never participated. And who we are as american. And one of the worst moments in the state history, Michigan Mission and oklahoma bombing. And you cant target anybody. We are focusing, at milton manufacturing corporation. And we are seeing stories that hurt our hearts, they are cutting 1400 job. And out of gm. We have a lot of work to do. I love michigan. I am proud of it. Manufacturing is the background of the american economy. Everybody talks about silicon valley, we are at the forefront, and we are staying at the forefront. And educating the next generation, we are seeing softening in sales. And what we do need and i will say to everybody, is a stable economic and political environment. We believe it at that. That is all the time we have today, thank you for coming by today. Leland fox news alert. An afghan soldier opened fire not on the tell a ban, american there to help, two us soldiers died, john huddy, hi, john. The telegram claimed, it happened and when an afghan soldier started spraying killing two soldiers, and the afghan soldier was killed by return fire. A white house spokesman told reporters, the socalled green on blue attack, and those by the afghan military, affiliated with us, nato and civilian contractors, and afghan soldier opened fire on us soldiers that were Training Afghan soldiers on base in the kandahar province of afghanistan. Wounding three us soldiers and they were killed as well. And the taliban operative overall looking at the numbers, to give you perspective here, since january 1, 2008, there has been 154 Coalition Troops and affiliate security forces, that have been killed in green on blue attacks. And 195 affiliate and coalition things, have been wounded and this comes as the president is weighing deploying up to 5000 more us troops to afghanistan to join the roughly 8400, and leland, overall very violent in afghanistan, and a truck bomb in a diplomatic district, and 150 people and half a mile in the us embassy. Leland it should be noted the us military dropped more bonds in april than any month since 2012. Truly aware how violent things were in afghanistan. Elizabeth coming up on headquarters, fair and balanced debate over a law that helps democrats prevent another great reception. And republicans say it stifles the economy. We will debate. The mayor joins me to talk about the Great Companies helping turn around motor city. Plus. I will be catching up with someone who posted candidate trump in september. We will find out if he thinks donald trump is keeping the promises he made in this conversation. I want to help you build and rebuild detroit and we can do that especially with people like bishop jackson. I accept i take easier trails than i used to. I even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. But no matter what path i take, i go for my best. So if theres Something Better than warfarin, ill go for that too. Eliquis. 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We are in our leather manufacturing operations. On this particular line we are walking down and we are making leather straps. The leather straps begin, in the pressing room, taking the side of letter and we are cutting the parts for the leather straps out. The parts come and start right here where they have been assembled and cutting them down to size, punching the holes on the other side. Applying the branding right here. This particular press are you good . You can see this press stamping the shine all the logo into the back of this. This strap, in chicago. Which is one of the oldest familyowned and operated. What i see when i walk through this level, every single detail is touched by a human. It is not going through an assembly line. That is part of your story. It is the people. This is a story much bigger than the brand or these machines. This is a story about the people i work with. Reporter with talk about victory automakers a decade ago. A lot of people in detroit. Why is it important to give them an opportunity here . We are a small part of what is happening in detroit. It is important for an opportunity in general to people, and show what is possible. You see what is possible, we are producing products that i would put next to any product on the global market, competitive from a quality point of view and that speaks to the people of detroit and what they are capable of. That is across the board in the United States, equal opportunity to show them hope and give them training and equipment, the tools to make things. We will succeed. Reporter anything that is your favorite . This is all this is all my favorite. This is where we work and play and eat together. These operations here are incredibly difficult and they all have a level of importance. These are the final touches of making a strap, a sewing operation, applying the stitching to the edges of the strap and this is one of those touches of quality we put into each and every strap out of here. It is labor intensive and cant be replaced by robots. We have to see the straps through. This is an art, working with natural product, natural material being leather. It is an art and this is something that takes patience, training and skill and a lot of dexterity to do what they are doing. Reporter you can see on the product, all these are handmade, really great. Also on the campaign trail then candidate donald trump visited detroit in an effort to reach out to africanamerican voters, visiting business and church leaders. Was not without controversy, in september protesters who fell the candidate was racist stopped at some of his stops and disrupted his visit but Bishop Wayne Jackson welcomed then candidate trump into his congregation as well as the impact network, he owns it, the largest African American owned and operated tv network which he now president appeared on. I had a chance to speak with him about the memorable encounter. Thank you for joining us. The president was here in september, spoke to a packed crowd behind us. What was the reception like when he was here and after he left. September 3rd, candidate trump, he came to be interviewed by myself. I have a network, the president came to be by myself and after this he came to the church to enjoy our worship service. The reception was good. I was very surprised people of color welcome him. When you sit down with the president , candidate trump, we meet him one on one. It is a very different comparable to television. Reporter it is early in the presidency but there were promises when we heard him speak at requests in your community. Do you feel the bridge is coming together and needs are being met. We just passed 100 days and a lot of things going on in washington and we need to give him a break and give them a chance to do what he says he is going to do. The community is waiting, what is going to happen, there are a lot of promises, he mentioned detroit and stood in front of the congregation and made promises he wants to do something in the urban community. When we look at this situation, we are faced with so many things, lack of jobs, our prayer is the money can come from democrats and republicans. A big event in january, what is it like . Cant leave without asking you that. It was you did great. The former president , barack obama, joe biden, bush, cheney, clinton. Then you had the Supreme Court justices, so many people in the world watching you. It was intimidating but that brought me to it. Reporter it was a moment in history. Thanks for having us here. We appreciate it, love being here in the city. Leland seven years ago sweeping financial regulations were signed into law this week. Republican house votes to roll them back. Fair and balanced panel to weigh in on that and whether donald trump is delivering on his promises to end regulation nation but first, more arrests and new details about the london terror attack. Investigators say it could have been even more deadly. Message from the International Fellowship of christians and jews. There is an emergency food crisis for elderly Holocaust Survivors in the former soviet union. These people live on pensions so small, they must daily decide between buying bread or firewood to keep warm. For just 45, well rush an emergency survival package to help one desperate elderly person for a month. Call right now. Call the number on your screen. In ukraine, theres no support network. 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Elizabeth two more rest in connection with the terror attack on London Bridge the took sweet lives one week ago. Investigators are releasing new details that show the violence could have been worse. Live in london, the very latest. Reporter as we look at evidence from the attack, one thing is clear, the attackers had a mission for greater bloodshed, one week ago, the attack on the London Bridge, one attempted to ride a truck, 71 2 tons, selectable truck used in the attack in nice one year ago which killed 86 people. But the attackers credit was declined and they rented the smaller van. They had more than a dozen molotov cocktails made from wine bottles and rags and there was gravel. Investigators suggest that might have been protraction. An office chair might have been a divergence of the attackers could claim they were renting the van for removal is all three attackers are dead but investigators continue to conduct raids believing the attackers had help. Two or more people arrested in east london overnight. We have seen 18 people arrested, various parts of london, that is trying to understand whether they assisted or supported these attackers, i fully expect further searches to continue. Reporter it is filling up with partiers and diners tonight. The red cross working with local businesses as well as cab rides, how londoners respond in the face of adversity, the head of the metropolitan police is dont give into the terrorists, dont change your way of life. Elizabeth thank you so much. Leland back here in washington, democrats trying to score political points with former fbi director james comeys testimony, at the same time the house passed a bill this week getting obama era financial regulations. It was a Trump Campaign promise which Kevin Sheridan and the washington director of moveon. Org. Nice to have you. Is this a notable victory or something republicans are taking the box on. Eight years, we got 20,000 new regulations. Donald trump has a long way to go in unwinding the stifling economic regulations that he put in place, 80,000 pages of new regulations in the registry. He has a long way to go. You are seeing it in the stock market, the stock market responded positively to this. 3 is the goal. If they can get that, this other scandal stuff will fade into the distance because that will get us out of this. Leland and important point, when republicans come together and agree on something at least in the house they dont need democrats. They can pass it if they want. They should be thanking their lucky stars for the comey testimony because the number of americans that want Goldman Sachs to be more powerful and less regulated is can fit in a Trump Administration cabinet. I came up with it just now. I appreciate it. The public doesnt want to see wall street get more powerful. They saw what happened last time they did that. Regulations made wall street more powerful. That is the irony. We should regulate more strongly the answer of going backwards is a disaster. The Trump Administration another financial crisis. A worse day for the americans and administration. Reporter an important point as relates to regulation. We are seeing this debate play out, government and more regulation is the answer or it is not the answer. Donald trump was speaking at the department of transportation on friday, met with some people building a road in american 18 miles long and met some folks, found some roadblocks. Take a listen. They spent 29 million for and environment report weighing 70 pounds and costing 24,000 per page. I am going to show it. Does the president have a point . Hard to argue with that point. We need smart regulation to protect the public instead of special interests. There is an important point, Elizabeth Warren and donald trump make. They bought off the regulatory process to benefit them instead of benefiting the public. Whose fault is that . Eight years of barack obama, didnt get anything through after obamacare, one legislative achievement, did everything through legislation, we saw the impact on it and got european style of slow growth, a continuous period of job growth. The only eight your period ever where we didnt have a quarter above 3 . That is the effect, every part of the network, in the family. Cant deny, the stock market rocketing after donald trump was elected in large part, based on hope and promise of less regulation. The guy who owns the company runs the company, you cant deny less regulation helps create jobs. Wall street loves regulation, and afterwords, it is at risk when you dont have protections, to prevent a bubble that takes everyone down with it. Appreciate you guys being here. Elizabeth the motor city is making a come back and who better to talk to than its own mayor. 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In the meantime lets keep talking about the Success Stories we hear out of detroit, hoping the hard times are behind them. The city is on a roll. Unemployment is down and the number of businesses investing in the motor city is up. One of the men leading the charge, the mayor of detroit, thank you for joining us. Appreciate it. You came on in 2014 after the chapter 9 filing, the largest municipality to ever file that charge, some saw it as an opportunity, others were critical. What did you see it as . That was three years ago. We are about to finish this fiscal year with our Third Straight balanced budget. In detroit bankruptcy doesnt get talked about much anymore. We are focused on the future. Reporter how did you do that . We saw a lot of headlines that made National News in 2013. I dont recall seeing headlines in 2016 you said it was something that should be celebrated but a lot of people celebrate. This is the Third Straight surplus but we are establishing an expectation in the city of detroit, the ambulances show up timely, the buses run on schedule. That just provides the basis of people who want to move back and businesses who want to invest. 3 years is not a long time. We have a great team. We are managing in a very efficient way. A lot of times we have two people doing the job, three doing it before and we watch every penny. Reporter what was most important . The streetlights come you want crime down, or left attract local businesses to get the job done, what came first . If you had been with me the first few months we had to go in all directions, half of the streetlights in the city were out, buses to be ran an hour behind schedule. A quarter of the city depends on the buses for the jobs, the groceries and ambulances didnt top for an hour. We had to go in all directions at once and my first couple years the team focused on service. Now services are in good shape, we are National Standards for most of them and it entirely recruiting businesses, 5000 Housing Units in the city of detroit. We havent seen that in 60 years was people went back and have been here at the same time. You are attracting companies, trying to get 14500 companies are you trying to get it all . You see is a traditional what are you going for . Detroit will come off of one strategy and in april we had the lowest Unemployment Rate in 50 years but we landed fortune 500 companies, moving headquarters from milwaukee, we landed the Amazon Microsoft michigan headquarters here, major supplier, but also hundreds from brooklyn, chicago, detroit, starting businesses here. Combination of those strategies. Reporter you are bringing back the jobs but they need to fill those positions so you have to bring back the people. The initial step is get the folks we have here to stop bleeding and we have changed. People were leaving because they didnt have hope but you look now at our data and we have 40,000 more occupied residents than we had 12 months ago. The next census numbers will be the first growth in detroit population in 60 years so it is a good time. Reporter which we had more time, really inspirational. I would be scared to work for you, put the pedal to the middle and get it done. I appreciate it. I mean that in a good way. I appreciate it so much. Leland life pictures in milwaukee, wisconsin awaiting Vice President mike pence, Small Business owners, their topic healthcare, possibly among other things, back to milwaukee and the Vice President when it happens. Because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months im accident free. Because i dont use my cellphone when im driving. Even though my family does, and leaves me all alone. Heres something else. I dont share it with mom. I dont. Right, mom . I have a brand new putter you dont even know about its awesome. 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Millennials one two think of the first is to live in a city where they can feel they are part of a social fabric figure them themselves and the second thing is they want to feel their work is contributing towards the betterment of society and in detroit, handsdown best place to do things, quicken loans we pride ourselves in Offering Team members opportunities to make detroit a better place and that helps them make their work better as well. Reporter when you get through detroit, sort of unsightly scenes but you drive through midtown and you are in an area where there are coffee shops and young people and their dogs and their friends so it is a tale of two cities but this is an opportunity for millennials, you are capitalizing on that. You see the coming to the city . Yes, they are coming and we are on the precipice of getting even more millennials to come to the city of detroit. We are getting the word out that detroit is a cool place to be, this Amazing Foundation of art and history and culture and what an amazing opportunity to take that foundation and build towards helping to solve the needs of detroit which you heard over the course of today are substantial needs. It is a brilliant opportunity for millennial to feel impactful. Reporter millennial can be idealistic, they want to save detroit but you have to make it appealing because it is affordable because la and new york are so cool and how are you doing that . First of all, detroit, as one city, a tale of two cities, to us it is one city and without the downtown, the heartbeat of the city and attracting jobs the neighborhoods cant thrive and without the neighborhood of the downtown cant thrive. We have 3400 team members living in the city of detroit and pretty much every neighborhood across the city of detroit and sue us it is about making those team members have a great experience living in all the neighborhoods across the city of detroit. Reporter taking homes, remodeling them. We are working with detroit lands making authority and home depot to rehab houses in the public inventory and what we do is rehab the home on the front end, sell the house on a traditional sale and not only do you get a rehab house you also get a family there for relatively low price because we take a loss on these houses and you also get that effect that affects the rest of the neighborhood because then they can the rest of the house and start to equate their value to what you just did and they get equity back themselves which is a win win. Reporter appreciate you coming in, thank you so much. Leland michigan to wisconsin, it was a key win for donald trump and mike pence, the Vice President coming back to chat about healthcare with Small Business owners there, back to milwaukee as it happened, as we celebrate a proud american moment. Isnt this fun, living like the pioneers of olden times . I hate the outside. Well, i hate it wherever you are. Burn. Burn. Is that what the kids are saying now . Im so bored, im dead. You can always compare rates on progressive. Com. Oh, thats nice, dear. But could you compare camping trips . Because this one would win. All i want to do is enjoy nature and peace and quiet its not about winning. Its about helping people find a great rate even if its not with progressive. Ugh. Insurance. When i said peace and quiet, did you hear, talk more and disappoint me . Do do do do skiddly do do camping with the family [ flame whooshes ] well, there he is. A surprise of a lifetime. As you can see he got a little help from the nationals baseball team. Wife and five kids took the mount to be honored the military family of the month but was thrown a curve ball when dad appeared and fatigue on the field. For all the folks watching them, i can tell you that they were probably only caring about each other. Liz, great show out there in detroit. Thank you, i can want get over that. Ive watched that family reaction so many times. Its just it absolutely melts my heart. Thank you so much. Thank you for watching today, we greatly appreciate. We appreciate all of the support for all those here in detroit, we wish them the very best, we will be back from dc tomorrow. Fox news alert, two u. S. Soldiers are killed and two more wounded after afghan soldier goes on shooting rampage, the afghan soldier opened fire on u. S. Service members in eastern afghanistan in the district of mangahar. Hello and welcome to a brand new hour, im kelly wright. Julie and im julie banderas. One of their own had infiltrated the afghan army. 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