With a team on the investigation and heres nunes last night win oreilly. Weve known about this long before trump sent his famous tweet out about the wiretapping at trump tower. We knew there was additional unmasking of americans names and had sources for that information. I needed a place to find the information and review it. Shannon chief White House Correspondent john roberts kicks off our coverage. Good morning. Good morning. As pressure mounts over the russia investigation as to what they were doing during the campaign trying to influence votes the president is returning to a familiar theme from the campaign trail taking another page from the book clinton cash that while secretary of state clinton approved the sale of a Canadian Company to a Russian Company and they owned onefifth of the uranium reserves and new revelations john podesta may have failed to disclose stocks he held at a company when take job at the Obama Administration and tweeting why isnt the House Committee looking into the deal that allowed big uranium deal and the praise of russia by hilary or podesta and the trumprussia story is a hoax. Make America Great again and it comes as calls for devin nunes to recuse himself from the russia investigation after the ainformation appeared to partially vindicate the president s claim of a wiretap came from a visit influence made to the white house the day before he released the information. The white house said they dont think nunes did anything improper. Listen here. Weve asked the house and Senate Intelligence committee to undertake the review so its partially at our request and hes said from my understanding on the record he did not meet with white house staff. In fact nunes said he met with an intelligence official and he couldnt look at the information on the computers on the house system in capitol hill. White house officials insist theres still something out there that may come in the form of series of requests to look at certain people and unmask them. We havent heard the last of the it, shannon. Shannon and President Trump will push forward on something else, new repeals of obama epa regulations. Hell sign an executive order to rollback obama era rules on Climate Change and the Clean Power Plan as well. It will allow more existing coalfired power plants to stay in operation and allow more to be built. The president putting on the coal miners hat campaigned hard on bringing back coal jobs to the country and the epa administrator scott pruitt said the executive order will help do that. The Clean Power Plan under the Previous Administration was not about clean power it was about picking winners and losers and they had an antifossil fuel mentality and cost us jobs in the sector. Its going to be about Energy Independence again. Its unclear how many jobs this executive order may save because the move from coal has been because of cheap natural gas and increased automation in the existing coal mines. Its a promise and one the president made on the campaign trail. Well see if it can come to fruition. Shannon john roberts live at the white house. Thank you. Bill with me byron york and fox news contributor. Lots of tweets from the white house and i had a tweet yourself i caught an hour ago trump has two numbers of success, how many jobs created and how many wages go up and to you thats back on message. Occasionally the president veers on message and tweeting this morning praising Ford Motor Company for investing in new plants in michigan. You talk to strategists and theyll say look the reason President Trump was elected was to create more jobs at higher wages. The two measurements of his success will be how many jobs are created and how much wages go up because there was a lot of job creation during the obama years unemployment went from 10 in 2009 to 4. 7 today but Household Income is lower than it was ten years ago. People are not costable not comfortable and making enough. Bill this russia things not going away. How do you shake this little dog . He cant shake it but maybe he can stop agitating it himself and wants to stop the ties those are legitimate subject but on capitol hill theres momentum and speculation where devin nunes went at this or that moment and what can stop a lot of that is if nunes shows what hes got and presents what evidence he has it could, if its what he says it is, change the conversation. Bill good point there. Back on the tweets from this morning. Heres two on health care. The Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat and after so many bad years they were ready for a win. The democrats will make a deal with me on health care as soon as obamacare folds. Dont worry were in good shape. I dont know how you read that but is the discussion the possibility of a deal is not dead yet . Thats the only way to read it. Look, republicans have been running against obamacare for seven years and theyre just supposed to stop 60 something days into his presidency . That wont happen. Also everyone says and this is actually bipartisan obamacare has lots of problems theres fewer and fewer plans being offered. Rates are going up and premiums and deductibles are sky high. Theres Serious Problems with obamacare that wont go away because the republican plan failed. Something will have to be done in the future about obamacare. Bill thank you. Byron york, back to shannon in washington for more on this. Shannon in the midst of that, bill, theres plenty of health care news. House gop leadership will hall a News Conference at the top of the hour and we learned there was a meeting last night at the white house with the Vice President chief of staff and pet peter doocy has this for us. Its on to item number two on the legislative checklist and thats tax reform. Tax reform was always going to follow the repeal and replace effort as part of a 200day plan laid out by leaders in the house and senate and he said Health Care Reform is not did forever but the calendar is expected to change now that the American Health care act is not front and center. That means we which items for 2018 may have jumped the line now that lawmakers have unexpected free time. An infrastructure is another package and something speaker ryan teased last week while conceding defeat on the Health Care Bill and something Republican Leaders plan to Court Democrats for and theyre still not sure if the conservative house Freedom Caucus plans to play ball with their legislative priorities. Something that wouldnt wait for a coalition of democrats or republicans is the debt ceiling. The government will run out of money april 28 and need to pass a measure to borrow more or there will be a federal shutdown and theres talks about the potential for a Government Shutdown because the spending bill is not something that can be withdrawn if there is not enough support. That is something looking ahead we expect to hear more about the strategy for making sure that passes and the strategy for making sure republicans can deliver or at least try to deliver on some of their Campaign Promises but were going to hear from the house leadership here at the top of the hour and its going to be the first chance to hear from ryan since friday and well hear from him again before hes had a chance to address the members and the thing fell apart friday. Shannon peter doocy, thank you very much. We understand over the weekend there were several meetings and conversations the speaker and president have had and publicly the president says listen, hes got my full backing i dont blame him at all for what happened. Bill sounds like everybodys catching their breath for a moment and well see what comes next. Republicans are getting together on a Health Care Meeting of their own and share that with you when it becomes available. Trump administration putting sanctuary cities on notice. Last may the department of justice Inspector General found the policies also violate federal law. The president has rightly said disregard for law must end. Bill thats the a. G. Warning cities to comply with immigration laws or risk losing millions in federal funding but guess whos already lining up against the plan . Is there a legal showdown now looming across the country . Shannon former Vice President dick cheney sounding off on russia saying President Trump clearly won but if moscow was part of it it would be war. John bolton will weigh in. Bill also there is this now, two undercover cops in what is called an ambush on duty and the manhunt is on for the attackers. We have two officers shot. We have two officers shot. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. Get the recipes at walnuts. Org. When someone told me i had colon cancer. We had the follow up, cat scan which showed that it had gone to her liver. It was pretty intense and we needed to move pretty quickly. We needed a second opinion. Thats when our journey began with Cancer Treatment centers of america. One of our questions was, how are we going to address my liver. So my doctor said i think we can do both surgeries together. I loved that. 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After Additional Information that came forward to me that had nothing to do with russia and has everything to do with whether or not americans were masked properly or unmasked and im very concerned. Im sure the democrats want me to quit because im effective at getting to the bottom of things. Bill this is catching fire House Committee chair devin nunes under fire from democrats and some say he should step aside in relation to russia. He went to the white house grounds a week ago to look at evidence and what that is we dont know and we have a fox news contributor, marie, good morning to you. Good morning, bill. Bill are you jumping off the bandwagon. He has shown himself incapable of running an independent investigation. Bill of what . I was heartened by the hearing he and adam schiff held a week ago that seems like decades ago now but the problem is the republicans have asked for the question of how people are unmasked in intelligence reports and how things are leaked to be part of the Russian Investigation so its one big investigation now and instead of sharing information he learned with his fellow Committee Members information he got from the white house he made a big public show the next day of going back to the white house. Bill hes clarified a lot of that already. Number one, he said the evidence he looked at had nothing to do with russia. He told oreilly that last night and other thing he said if they have to go to the executive branch once or twice a week for intelligence because they cant get documents to the house. Theres a secure room at congress so im not sure why he couldnt read them there. Bill thats what he said unless youre calling him a liar thats what he said. Im not. First of all hes provided zero evidence beyond his statements to back up the accusations people are now making off what he said. The bigger problem is the issue of unmasking and how the Intelligence Committee deals when americans are picked up incidentally in collection and its part of the larger russia investigation. John mccain said he never heard of a situation where a Committee Chairman has gone to the white house which is the subject of several ongoing investigations. Bill he didnt go to the white house physically. He didnt go to the west wing and meet with the president. These are important distinctions. He has a reputation of respect. He went to the white house grounds and they dont just let anybody on the white house grounds. He went to the white house grounds and met with somebody who has access to White House Computers and the next day made a big public show of going back to the white house to brief the president instead of briefing his fellow Committee Members calling his credibility into serious question. Bill we can concede since no other republicans or democrats have seen the evidence perhaps it would enlighten the story and situation to allow them to see exactly what he saw, i grant you that. In the meantime trey gowdy said the following last night. Watch here. I wish senator schumer and some other democrats would be more interested in the authenticity and reliability of the data whether its white house or waffle house what difference does it make if the information is reliable and authentic. Bill what difference does it make . I care about the underlying evidence which is why its disturbing chairman nunes hasnt shared that with his committee and only seen it himself and shared it with the president. We have a lot of questions and those need to be answered and answered in an independent investigation. Trey gowdy led the effort to get a select committee on benghazi. I think americans can agree the russian interference is serious as any issue in congress. Bill adam schiff can go to the white house grounds and look at the same evidence. Marie harf thank you. Twenty minutes past the hour. Shannon the father of a teenage rape suspect arrested himself and the latest developments and the measures the town is take as the story unfolds in the national spotlight. Plus. Bill this is that time of year and the turn of the south to get the violate wind and hail passing through and good size too and show you the damage left behind and who might be in the path next. upstate new york is a good place to pursue your dreams. 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There were pummelled with baseballsized hail damaging cars and smashing several windows. Funnel clouds spotted as well in the area unlike this one in the town of walnut, mississippi. Another round of storms expected to slam the Southern Plains and in texas its another cold rainy day with the cold front moving in from the west and its downright dreary. Day after day it looks like this. Hows washington . Shannon we had Stormy Weather and lightning and thunder not the capitol hill stuff the actual stuff. Its been stormy here not much better than nyc. Bill we wait a day and maybe it changes or maybe not. Shannon were following a story in washington. The father of a High School Student facing charges of rape has now himself been real estated being arrested for being in the country illegally and henry millian was arrested. Both suspects are in the country illegally. Were joined from rockville with the latest. God morning, doug. Good morning. And ice is now taking a more proactive stance in the arrest of illegals. We learned Adolfo Sanchez the father of Henry Sanchez millin was arrested after ice reviewed his immigration history and found him to be unlawfully in the United States. Ice said in a Statement Released yesterday. In addition last night in the in the meeting after the Jeff Sessions comments saying those not in compliance will not receive federal funds and this would make this a sanctuary city. Heres a taste of what we heard last night. The city of rockville is deeply concerned what is report to occur. Were fully supportive of county Law Enforcement and the School Districts investigation. A student representative please do everything in your power to keep the Community Safe and not enforcing racial immigration orders making our surroundings more hostile. That 15minute long Comment Period was supposed to run just 15 minutes and went on for an hour. Not a Single Person spoke out against sanctuary cities during the hourlong city and i tried to interview the city councilwoman and refuse to talk to us and when i tried to schedule an interview later this week she refused that and mentioned all five Council Members in rockville have received threats including death threats. Shannon a new development in the case were hearing about Text Messages that involved the younger of the two suspects. What can you tell us . Tthe Washington Post the 14yearold claiming to have been raped said she sent compromising images of herself from a defense attorney to the 17yearold defendant montano and intended to partake in sexual act the next day and they believe their clients to be innocent. Its taken an important twist and has really changed the narrative here, shannon. Shannon yeah, we will see what happened that day because thats whats critical. Doug, thank you very much. Bill we heard from the white house yesterday. The white house cracking down on sanctuary cities. Countless americans woul be alive today and loved ones would not be grieving today if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended. Bill the white house making the case these communities are making cities less safe and forcing their hand on federal funds. That in a moment. Shannon President Trump teasing a big Job Announcement for the job industry hinting ford could be making a major u. S. Investment. Bill and controversy around the College Class assignment. Try to see the 9 11 attacks through the eyes of the terrorist. That was the assignment given to students. So whats that all about . The original way to fuel your day. I was thinking around 70. To and before that . Re . You mean after that . No, im talking before that. Do you have things you want to do before you retire . Id really like to run with the bulls. Wow. Hope youre fast. I am. Get a portfolio that works for you now and as your needs change with Investment Management services. Touting a major announcement from Ford Motor Company expected to invest in the states of michigan. It comes three weeks after President Trump pushed Auto Executives for more u. S. Jobs and plants in the states. Theres no plans it was already in the works or part of the influence and this tweeted today big announcement from ford today major investment to be made in three michigan plants. Car companies coming back to u. S. Jobs, jobs, jobs, end tweet. Shannon the Trump Administration taking aim at sanctuary cities threatening to pull funds. The attorney general Jeff Sessions making the announcement yesterday at the white house. It could result in withholding grants, termination of grants. I strongly urge our nation states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. The people want and deserve a lawful system of immigration. That keeps us safe and one that serves the national interest. Shannon a former communication director for thenvirginia governor tim kaine and strategist at 270 strategies and ed lowry a fox news contributor. Welcome to you both. When a poll on states should be penalized 43 say yes. Whatever the polling says its a common sense moves. The cities should not be allowed to forbid federal law which is what theyre doing when they keep their officers and police from sharing information and it will be a long fight as jurisdictions go to court and ultimately theyll be on the losing side you saw miamidade buckle and say its abandoning its sanctuary policies. Shannon and los angeles yesterday said theres no way theyre going along with this and Rahm Emmanuel said its unconstitutional and another saying my sofs will continue to ensure local governments have the tools they need to legally protect their immigrant xhunths and we wont stop fighting the trump immigration policies and the law says local authorities have an obligation to report to report when someone is here illegally by law they have to inform the feds. The federal government sets immigration laws and localities have the obligation to comply with federal law but part is what is concerning people is the larger people is we havent done anything on comprehensive Immigration Reform and states and localities have a patchwork solution in their communities so theres a larger issue going on. The other piece of this and what should be clear on this is yes, about federal law but its also a specific pivot from what has been bad news for the administration over the last several days. First you started off with issues in the defeat around the Obamacare Repeal effort then you have ongoing shannon sticking is the sanctuary city thing during the campaign he put everybody on notice and not a surprise the attorney general said youll lose federal money if you dont start following federal law. Not a surprise but theres a red herring because theres scapegoating of undocumented people are criminals and they commit crimes less than citizens. Shannon a red herring . The Cato Institute is not part of it and the answer during eight years of the administration was they encouraged the sanctuary policies and loosened programs that enhanced cooperation when it came to enforcing the laws so the first step to any meaningful comprehensive Immigration Reform if well ever get there has to be enforcement not just waving people in the country and then saying its fine you can live here unmolested. We must have borders. We must enforce our laws and thats the first step to any broader reform. Shannon would you agree with that . Lots of groups that want to see Immigration Reform some agree on that part make sure were enforcing what we have now and the borders are secure and then we can get to the bigger overhaul. Both sides agree something has to be done. Theres broad consensus to your point but i would pushback respectfully on what rich said on the obama policies. What we heard from attorney general sessions was the reiteration of a similar announcement made by the Obama Administration its about federal law and making sure people comply at the local level. Shannon all right. Well see because we know how some cities are responding and several lawsuits have been threatened so well track all of those. Great to have you both with us. Bill. Bill 22 minutes before the hour. More on the sanctuary city crackdown in a moment and former Arizona Governor will join us and well talk to her in the next hour and why dick cheney said russia may have committed an act of war. Ambassador john bolton is next to react on that. Theres a serious effort made by mr. Putin and his government and his organization to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic process. S shannon top gop leaders will hold a News Conference at the top of the hour. You see the empty podium there. We expect theyll talk about tax reform next on the list. Top of the agenda after the failed Obamacare Repeal and replace efforts and expect theyll get questions from that and russia and other things. Were following it closely and take you there live as soon as we get the very latest. Not any argument at this stage that somehow the election of President Trump was not legitimate but theres no question but there was a serious effort made by mr. Putin and his government and organization to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic processes. In some quarters that would be an act of war. Bill strong words from former Vice President dick cheney. My guest, ambassador john bolton. Good morning to you. He wasnt saying the election wasnt legitimate but russia was meddling. Its unacceptable for any foreign actor to meddle in our election and getting to what the russians did is important so we have a common database. Whatever else they were doing i think they were trying to undermine americans faith in their Democratic Institutions and thats serious business. Bill do you find moscow does that in the u. S. And other places . Are western democracies the targets of such influence . No, i think its all over western europe. Theyre very concerned. I was just in albania last week and throughout the balkans the threat of russian interference in their election was taken seriously and across europe as well. It would not be surprising this is the active Operations Campaign in the days of the cold war the soviets did all the time and i think it requires a very vows very serious american response. Bill what do we do about it . We should make them pay some prices and other consequences to build up the structure of deterrence so they dont try this sort of thing again and it should affect our relations across the board. Theres a lot of misinformation on what the russians did which is why getting to the bottom of it is critical. Bill do you think congress will get to the bottom of it . Will we know . They have an opportunity if at the stop fooling around about process arguments in who talks to whom and so on. If we have the information we acquired. Bill i would not underestimate the weight we assign to the russian attempts to interfere with our political processes. Thats a big comment there. Its supporting argument for the active war point. You cannot you should not anyway be allowed to interfere in our elections and get away with that. Bill consequences being sanctions . We build our Technology Better than it is now . Stiffening our response to things like russian violations of the inf treaty, redoing the new treaty the Obama Administration negotiated with them. Id have a number of major changes and policies towards the russians motivated in part by the mistakes obama made. Putin think he can get away for almost anything and for eight years under obama he pretty much did. Bill nikki hailey is making waves at the united nations. Good for her. Bill shes gone in with a strong opinion from day one and now shes lead boycott of u. N. Talks to ban Nuclear Weapons. She has 40 countries behind her saying they will not attend. What do you think of that . I think its exactly the right thing to do. The fact so many countries are boycotting these fake negotiation clearly the right thing to do. We have a Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty and this is a fantasy to ban the treaty of all Nuclear Weapons. Its not going anywhere and its a good sign we dont and 40 other countries dont give it a hint of legitimacy by not showing up. We should carry that through and get off the u. N. Human rights council. I have a long list of things like that. Its an excellent step. Bill does this administration do that . I hope they do. They should. Bill who comments from nikki haley is there anybody that think north korea would join the ban on Nuclear Weapons and anyone joining the talks do they understand the threats we have, end quote. Wow. The problem with north korea and iran they would agree to a ban and then violate it. Thats what north korea has done and iran is doing with obamas Nuclear Weapons deal. Thats the problem internationally. These countries are agreed to almost anything. We pay scrupulous attention to our international obligations. Most of our adversaries have not. Bill she made it clear north korea is her number one prior. John bolton, good to see you again. Shannon outrage in the classroom as a College Professor asks students to write a paper from the speperspective of the terrorists on 9 11 and the school is defending it. Plus this. Bill reporters on the ground inside mosul get firsthand look at the terror tools being use isis and the many civilians caught in the crossfire. Shannon a college assignment on 9 11 causing an uproar. Because students were asked to consider the attacks from the terrorists perspective. In other words, how might alqaeda or a nonwestern historian describe it and dont worry about not agreeing with it the point is to see a did in perspective. You guys get all kinds of interesting reports on things going on at College Campuses did this one surprise you . The weird intersection of the universities and 9 11 is something we see. A few years ago the university of Minnesota Student government voted down a resolution on having a moment of remembrance on increasing incidents. Shannon we have a quote from iowa state university. They said its similar to the vital work being done at our diplomatic at such as the Central Intelligence agency and say its about critical thought and getting inside the head of they wouldnt say the bad guys, most americans would say the bad guys but seeing it from their perspective. Is there value in that . The idea to put yourself in the shoes of terrorists to see what strategies theyd use is a valid idea but this assignment said things like use your imagination. Its a 500minimum word writing assignment not what is alqaedas perspective and where do you think theyll strike next. Its an assignment to perceive how historical perspectives can perceive the same event but its silliness. Shannon youll end up with a paper where if youre writing from the perspective where america is the great satan and i hate them what american student will want to write that paper. Was there a way for people to optout and i imagine some said im not doing it. The assignment did not appear to count that much as part of a students grade. It was early in the semester and why it was a 500word minimum and it was to get outside of your comfort zone but you wouldnt see this assignment on the pulse nightclub shooting because its too recent. You wouldnt see that kind of assignment. Shannon what big saying if you want to historically think about whats going on in nazi germany i cant imagine being asked to write a paper on the holocaust. Or the Tiananmen Square master. Shannon theres so much going on in education on the speech issues and the left taking a specific view point and they say thats not what they were doing you must have more material than you can actually sift through on a daily basis. Actually at the Leadership Institute campus reform we published more than 1300 story and we had a story from the Loyola University of chicago and i was for selfidentified white students to discuss racism. We have better job security covering liberal views. Shannon this is real stuff and its always interesting and sparks a good debate and conversation on what conversations we should be having in higher ed and the purpose. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. Shannon bill. Bill shannon, were only minutes away from Republican Leaders laying out their strategy for what is next. Speaker paul ryan House Republican said to hold a News Conference and well carry that live for you when it begins. Health care, russia, tax reform expected to be hot topics. A break here and back in a moment on americas newsroom. Shannon paul ryan and house Republican Leaders set to hold anus conference any minute. The first after a busy week in which paul ryan was force to abandon a vote to repeal and replace obamacare. And new questions being raised about the russia investigation that presser is sure to be anusy one. Welcome to a brand new hour of americas newsroom. Im Shannon Bream in washington for martha maccallum. Bill im bill henry. We have a split broadcast this week in new york. Good morning. Paul ryan calls for devin nunes now defending his visit to the white house grounds with a source gave Sensitive Information about incidental information on the trump Transitional Team and how it was explained to bill oreilly last night. We go to the executive branch once or twice a week. Its not unusual. Theres intelligence products we dont have access to in the house of representatives but have the clearances to see them. There was no sneaking around. I walked onto the grounds, said hi to people, did not go to the west wing. Did not talk to the president. Bill Catherine Herridge picks up the story. Democrats think nunes should recuse himself from Matters Regarding russia and Top Republicans are coming to his defense. Where is the story now . What we heard consistently is they want the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee devin nunes to take himself from the investigation and a senior republican in the senate said the issue had become a distraction. I would leave that decision to the leadership of the House Committee excuse me of the republicans in the house probably paul ryan but theres no doubt its dominating the news. Its an issue of utmost importance and it has to change or theyll lose credibility. The minority leader took to the senate floor. If speaker ryan wants the house to have a credible investigation he needs to replace chairman nunes. He seems to be more of a partisan for the president than an impartial actor. Hes not been cooperating like someone interested in getting to the unvarnished truth. He voiced his confidence in the chairman republican devin nunes and his vote is the one that matters here, bill. Bill what is the status of the hearings . They were going to happen today and they will not happen. Why and whats the explanation . The republican chairman of the house Intelligence Committee recalled two key witnesses after last weeks public hearing. James colmey and the head of this nsa admiral mike rodgers. He planned they would appear today and then told yesterday that was canceled and rescheduled in the future. Devin nunes explained what happened in the oreilly factor. We hope theyll show up in the future but clearly last week there were over 100 questions they couldnt answer in an setting and wanted a classified setting to set the foundation for the investigation. Republicans on the House Committee want to hear from the fbi director and nsa director again before they hear from three key witness whos served under president obama in the Intelligence Community and at the justice department. So they want to in many respects get their ducks in a row but democrats say by cancelling a hearing that had already been agreed to with the former cia director and director of National Intelligence and Deputy Attorney for the Intelligence Department they missed an opportunity. Bill Catherine Herridge thank you for that reporting in washington. Shannon has more. Shannon for more steve hayes is editor and chief of the Weekly Standard and a fox news contributor. The new development and twists and turns every few minutes in this case but lets talk about the fact chairman nunes how he got the information. He said he had to go to the white house grounds which could be the executive Office Building crass the street because its a specific kind of Information Available through the executive branch. The democrats are saying the fact he was at the white house shows it came from the trump team but thats not true. Thats legitimate questions being asked he took information from the executive branch and took it public and took it to the president of the United States and it may end up back there and theres legitimate questions of separation of powers. What we heard from devin nunes he had to go there to get the information in an expedited fashion its not available in the congressional skiffs but as he said to bill oreilly he had the clearances so he wanted to see it. The reason he couldnt share it with his republican and democratic colleagues on capitol hill is because he doesnt have the documents. Hes given a disruption of the document and spoken openly what he has seen but doesnt have the documents and may have been a contributing factor in the cancelling of the discussion. Shannon he says the nsa is cooperating and sounds like the documents he needs is from them and expects them at some time. Where do the other agencies figure into this the nsa and fbi and other intelligence agencies . Nobody knows. The fbi has an investigation on specifically russia whether there was collusion between the trump team and theres a separate investigation we believe from the fbi about the leaks and whether the leaks of mike flynns name and the fact that appeared in the paper was a coordinated campaign. Who leaked the information as republicans have said repeatedly through the process. We know theres one crime committed and thats it. James comey in his testimony seemed to downplay the leaks and potential leak investigation. I believe in private settings hes been much more frustrated about the leak investigation and has been more outspoken about the problems involved with leaking names. Shannon were told the entire time chairman nunes has kept the speaker up to date and he still has full confidence in his ability to carry the investigations into russia and whether theyre leaked and otherwise. Well hear from we believe speaker ryan momentarily. Were watching the empty podium there. Do you believe it comes up today . Theyve had a long relationship. He worked with paul ryan on reform when he was a lonely soldier and cosponsored it and im sure hes keeping him up to date. Shannon i havent known dev devin nunes to be a showboater and hes quietly gotten work done. We have a piece in 2014 that laid out what devin nunes did as an Intelligence Committee members because he was frau frustrated with the leadership with respect to the benghazi investigation. Mike rodgers, the former chairman of the house Intelligence Committee wouldnt do things like pay for the travel for the benghazi heroes the people we came to know as the heroes who wrote the book and he took the issue to john boehner and he sat down with the three gentlemen in nunes personal office and that became the benghazi committee. We learned a lot of what we learned in part because of devin nunes. On the Osama Bin Laden documents hes been a oneman band and has gotten information out to the public in a way thats helpful. The question is with his new role as a trump transition official and supported the president was it proper to take the information from the white house or executive branch and channel it back in to the branch. Theres separation of power and theres questions to answer on the process when he next appears. Shannon steve hayes always good to see you. Thanks, shannon. Shannon bill. Bill were awaiting the briefing and when it happens well take our viewers there and theres a lot going on and well gauge the mood in the room and the reaction as to what they do next. Theres reports suggesting the white house, President Donald Trump would pursue two fronts at the same time including tax reform and infrastructure concurrently. That would be a massive lift and well see if thats the shifting strategy in a moment from Republican Leaders in the house. So stand by for that. In the meantime, President Trump calling on Auto Companies to invest here at home. Now one companys apparently looking to pour money back into its roots in the state of michigan. Also, mr. Trump about to sign an order that wipes out president obamas Climate Change agenda and the name of Energy Independence. Question, will that bring jobs back and will it bring jobs back to places like coal country . We made tremendous progress while at the same time growing the economy. The past administration didnt do that so its good to see the president come to the epa to set a new course to be pro jobs and pro environment. Bill what is next for the republican strategy in congress now awaiting Republican Leadership in front of the microphone scheduled for 10 00 am eastern time a little bit behind but not by much. A lot of things could be on the agenda. What do you do next about health care if anything and tax reform or an infrastructure possibility . All this is thrown in the mix and when speaker ryan comes out well take you live to capitol hill. Meanwhile, 10 15, shannon. Shannon theres new video to fox news capturing the desperate fight in mosul in a battle to reclaim the city. Check this out. One reporter from our Sister Network sky news was with iraqi forces. Heres part of the report as the battle continues to rage on. The soldiers are launch bombladen drone they found in islamic state. The bomblets can fall off. Were watching the command and there are shouts and people run and i jump inside. Are you ok . Sfwlu can see the whole place is covered you can see the whole place is covered in smoke. This is the islamic states own drone pictures released on social media. Shannon joining us to talk more about this fox news military analyst jack keane. Always great to have you with us. Your reaction to the video you have seen war up close and personal but it seems mosul is reduces to rubble in many cases. Extensive damage there. Its classic urban warfare its the most difficult warfare you can see and if theres a hel on earth the soldier involved in the war this is it and for the civilians trapped by the conflict. Isis will not let tens of thousands of civilians go and this is literally, block by block, building by building and room by room to clear the isis out of mosul. Meanwhile, isis keeps the civilians there, uses them as human shields and if the family resists in any way particularly the male part they mow the children and wives and anyone associated in front of the male resisting bending to isis will. Its brutal for the people experienced this at a human level. Something that will traumatize them the rest of their lives undoubtedly. Shannon as theyre going door to door and en engaging in this how big of a blow is this to them . This is the last major piece of terrain inside of iraq and they can safely say they reclaimed the territory isis holds. The challenge for the future will be isis will still conduct terrorist attacks inside of iraq. Secondly the last three years has camouflaged the real problem that iraq is facing. Certainly the military campaign is critical for them. Also critical is political unity in side the country and they do not have it among the kurds, sunnis and shiias. If the baghdad government does not enfranchise the kurds and sunnis therell be a major problem in iraq and it could lead to a civil war. The last time we had that political unity is when george bush ordered the surge in 2007 and 2008 and the political government then enfranchised the sunnis and kurds and the United States politically disengaged in 2011 when we militarily disengaged. It remains to be seen if theyll go back to a political unity. Shannon will the u. S. Have to play a key role . Do we step back and let them stabilize on their own whats the rule on the International Community they within their own house can come together . Many people just want to give up on iraq and i dont think we should. We made a heck of our commitment there with our own troops the leverage is wa we gave up in 2011 when the troops out we dont need them to the degree theyre there but we need to keep troops to keep political and diplomatic leverage to move them towards political unity and hopefully we get skilled diplomats. We have not had that and the trump government has to make the commitment with iraqis we want to see political unity as a strategic objective and less influence from iran than what weve been seeing. While i wasnt in the meetings with Prime Minister alabadi i have a sense we know what to expect from the iraqis. Shannon the pictures from the video speak in a way a million stories couldnt otherwise and your account, general. Always good to see you. Thank you, sir. Bill remarkable reporting inside there and let you know how progress goes in northern iraq. In the meantime awaiting house Republican Leadership in front of the microphones. Were now 20 minutes behind but paul ryan will be there and theyre wrapping up a gop conference behind closed doors so the big topics and the questions will follow. Live to the hill in a moment. Shannon. Shannon plus the Trump Administration is renewing efforts to end sanctuary cities in the u. S. The attorney general threatening to strip federal funding. Well speak to former arizona govern jan brewer live. She knows about the hot topic. The American People are not happy with these results and when cities and states refuse to enforce immigration laws our nation is less safe. So youre having a party . How nice. Ill be right there. And the butchery begins. What am i gonna wear . This party is super fancy. Lets go. Im ready. Are you my uber . [ horn honks ] hold on. The biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ] partay Xfinity Watchathon week starts april 3. Get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. Bill 10 24 now and ford expected to make investments in michigan plant factories. Detail are murky but were told the investment is significant it comes after President Trump called on the Auto Industry to create more jobs. Melissa francis cohost of after the bell. I said its significant is it . Look at it type of plants. These are plants that make selfdriving cars and electric cars and some of the most important vehicles ford makes. Its the future of the Auto Industry and theyre talking about investing in plants that make vehicles here. Thats a big deal. Its a lot of jobs in a concentrated area. Its significant. Bill unions were pushing for this two years ago. Same thing or not . Thats the knock. It appears to be. I havent seen the contracts but if you look at reports then and now it seems like were talking about the same thing but you know why that doesnt matter because unions get sweeteners and contracts all the time and Companies Say heres what well do down the road and it doesnt mean theyre obligated its just a promise. They can say the Economic Conditions doesnt support that so we made the plants in mexico instead. That will be the criticism but its on trump to make it a reality and on the president to create a federal and local environment where the plants come to reality and stay here and support the jobs. Bill so see it through. I see President Trump going to the area, persuading local lawmakers and being the deal maker and bringing together the unions and workers and say were all going to work on this. Were all committed. Were going to create an environment where local people are trained to do jobs of the future alongside robots, by the way. These will be highly automated factories so workers will need new skills and ford is training people for the jobs of the future but we need support from local government in term of tax incentives in terms of cheap energy and in terms of bureaucratic help to get this done. Dont put up regulatory road blocks so everyone has to do their part but its an environment of saying no, we dont want this to happen everybody is saying yes and theyre clean energy vehicles. Bill two quick points. Michigan i think you have 4. 5 million votes cast in november. Id say that was won by donald trump by 10,000 votes. It was that close. We led our show with byron york saying you can sake the russia stuff and shelf it and health care and shelf it. Hell measure success on how many jobs are created and wages go up. I believe that firmly. Thats what people in america at the end of the daycare about. All the other stuff is noise. Is my family doing better than before. Can we pay our bills without a pit in our stomach. Can we put food on the table isly there a hope my children are a Better Future than me thats what drives peoples political choices. Hes right. Bill were waiting on comments. How many shows are you doing today . Three. Im with bill oreilly and fox business. Bill thank you. Back to shannon in washington. Shannon President Trump getting ready to sign a new executive order he says to move america towards Energy Independence. Well break down the plan, bill. Bill and shannon, does the media give the president a shake. Neil cavuto said its all negative all the time. Our panel will debate. I have no axe to grind but the media does when it comes to the president or anyone that says anything good about the president. Shannon busy day in washington. Were awaiting two live events. First, paul ryan will walk up to that podium any moment and well take you live when that happens and later today the president is going to move forward on a Campaign Promise to make America Energy independent. Hes going to sign an executive order to review Energy Regulations put into place by president obama. Ed henry has more and in washington. What can you tell us about the new executive order . Good to see you. This will be the president s first trip to epa headquarters. In the campaign he targeted the epa and talking about big staff cuts and budget cuts because he think its time to push back on a lot of Obama Administration regulations the president believes went too far in terms of hurting the economy medium and long term with excessive regulations you see him on the trail promising coal miners he would push back on the president obama Clean Power Plant and scott pruitt was on fox friends saying therell be big changes. It will create jobs in the oil and gas and Energy Sector and coal sector across the country. For too long over the last several years you had Certain Industries and sectors of our economy within the crosshairs of the epa. These Industries Like the coal sector were under assault. That is not going to happen anymore. The key is the white house is saying today they plan to strike a better balance. They believe they can leave some environmental regulations in place but make it more fair to have economic growth. Shannon what about the other side . I imagine theres been reaction from the left from democrats. Democrats will be all over this and theyre very frustrated and feel back it will roll back and hurt the environment and see whats in the executive order. Among other things they say it will increase our Energy Dependence and directing them to review it and still up hold the law with the Clean Air Act and focus on more prosperous autonomy and a moratorium on coal from the obama examination and president obama pushed through all kinds of regulations. The shoe now on the other foot. Shannon ed henry thank you for the update. Bill. Bill thank you, shannon. Now to neil cavuto taking reporters to task claiming theres clear bias to President Trump and the unhinged rage as he calls it keeps the press from being fair especially after the failure of the Health Care Bill. This is what he said yesterday. The president doesnt like me or come on the show but thats his right. This over the top negative media response to everything he does is not right or fair. Take just today. The same media thats all but ignored the stock rununsince the election calling it this now the trump slump or the front page, trumpcare fiasco or the headline the Washington Post the blame game. Bill liz smith served for martin omalley. Good day to you. Trump slump, blame game. Is there truth to cavutos point at the moment . Yes, its like saying is water wet or the pope catholic. Its so blatant and obvious with some journalists its comical. That said, thats where donald trump has been able to use social media in two ways to get his media out and expose reporters that are for more political operatives than journalists because what they tweet and put on facebook is so overtly partisan and antithe president it clouds what they try to report. Liz, i dont think you agree but start the conversation. You heard what he laid out and believes some people just want the president to fail. Look, if President Trump thought this could be a cake walk and the media would roll over welcome to the nfl and the person to blame is the person he sees when he looks in the mirror. Bill how come . Lets check the tape. He had an immigration executive order twice struck down by the courts. He said he would repeal obamacare on day one. Its day 68. It went down in a ball of flames. He cant get out of his own way. He had a well received joint address before congress and then subsequently torpedoed the coverage with selfsabotaging tweets falsely claiming president Obama Wiretapped his office. Its not just the media criticizing them. Bill i want david to respond to that because youre trying to make the case trump is to blame. David, is he or not . The easiest job in america right now is the headline writer for the New York Times because every day you come in to write a headline that question the ability of President Trump to govern or as we saw the past weekend his whole agenda is up in the air because of what happened last week with health care. Nothing really about the number of jobs that have are being created in america, or what hes trying to do to make america more secure or nothing about the increased defense spending and no positive headlines on the infrastructure bill hes looking to do. None of that. Bill, let me say this bill its remarkable. Thomas jefferson would be proud of his Democratic Party because he had to go by a newspaper but has political operatives to report on the president. Bill you see this absolutely 180 degree different from the other person. Thats a remarkable thing. Liz, i ask david this question hang on for the question. There are some who want to see the administration fail. Would you agree . No doubt. And many wanted to see Barack Obamas administration fail and Mitch Mcconnel said his number one job was preventing barack obama from getting reelected bill he just did not believe in the policies of the Previous Administration. Look, in the first days barack obama was able to do and signed into law the stimulus bill and the fair pay act and signed into law expanding Health Insurance for lowincome children and donald trump has nothing like that to point to and at some point the playing the victim needs to end. Hes the president of the United States. Bill there are some in the media you agree who want him to fail, correct, liz . I dont know in the media. There are partisans what want bill you just said there are reporters that want him to fail. I said there are some who want him to fail in the Democratic Party. The best story for the media would be and what they would cover with glee is a trump comeback. If he wants to start focussing on his Campaign Promises of making jobs and renegotiating trade deals theyd be happy for that narrative. Bill we announced that too in the state of michigan. Thank you. Back to shannon in washington. Shannon here in washington we are awaiting house Republican Leadership statements theyll make and questions to take at the podium. Were watching live. Theyve had a closed meeting at the gop conference this morning so when they want to go public and come out and share well take you live when it happens. Bill in the meantime a new warning for sanctuary cities the a. G. Jeff sessions making good on a Campaign Promise. Former Arizona Governor jan brewer is live with her take on the crackdown. Thats next. When cities and states refuse to help refuse immigration laws our nation is less safe. Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk especially jurisdictions that protect perpetrators. Shannon Jeff Sessions setting his sights on sanctuary cities and states telling them to cooperate or risk losing federal funds. Former Arizona Governor jan brewer. You know what the complications are with illegal immigration and the impact on cities and states and maryland is considering becoming a sanctuary state. What do you make of that . Its outrageous. We all know the department of justice has a responsibility of immigration and federal law trumps state or city laws and regulations. Weve all been to the Supreme Court and we realize it is the responsibility. Shannon, it teams to me that Law Enforcement in itself these mayors and governors too that have a political agenda they are moving forward not to protect and to serve the people of their states or cities and seems to me that 80 of the people according to all the polls want our borders secure and want our public to be safe and they are pushing their fingers in peoples eyes. Im so grateful to attorney general sessions we will do the job weve seen neglected the last eight years. Shannon how ugly do you think its going to get. Los angeles said well never cooperate with this its never going to happen and new york saying well do everything we have to protect our immigrant community. Chicago calling the plan by the doj unconstitutional. They say theyre going to court and win. Theyre not going to court and win. Weve all been to court on these issues and they rule in the favor of the federal government. I know that Jeff Sessions has the responsibility to dole out the to grant dollars to these cities and to the state in regard to the situation and i hope that they refuse to send it and hell win on that one too and its only right. People want to feel safe. Theyre making our cities and states dangerous. Releasing these criminals, murderers, rapists back in the streets. What are they think theyre harboring and protecting criminals. Its unbelievable that they would get away with this. Shannon how do you respond . We had a guest on earlier who said there are multiple studies that show the people who come here illegally actually have a lower rate of committing crime than people born in the u. S. Are we just looking at isolated incidents that capture headlines but dont tell the whole story when we talk about the heinous crimes done by people not here illegally. We have tens of millions crimes going on by legal but Illegal Immigrants that have been to court and released back to the community because of a political agenda is wrong, absolutely wrong and 80 of the people agree that they ought not to be doing that. Law enforcement across this great country of ours should be working together to protect us and keep us safe and theyre just turning a blind eye because of their political agenda. It makes absolutely no sense. I dont even think it makes sense to them other than they want to poke people in the eyes. Its unbelievable. Shannon the president go ahead, governor i hope Jeff Sessions, attorney general sessions takes money from them and it will probably be more unsafe because they wont have the dollars. I dont know what they can do to them personally but something needs to be done. They took an oath to uphold the law and theyre not doing it. Shannon well see how tough it gets. The doj responsible for 4 billion plus in grants that they say wont go to the cities and states and counties that dont comply. Thank you so much. Thank you, shannon. Bill to jenna lee and happening now coming your way. Whats happening behind closed doors . Were awaiting the presser from gop leadership as theres new fallout for house intel chair devin nunes hes under fire as calls for him to step down to continue after interference with russians in the election. Well look at the biggest protest in russia in years and whats behind it . And ford announcing a big investment and well talk to the ford president of the americas on jobs, jobs, jobs. I got that quote from somewhere. Bill see you in 11 minutes. Elon musk has helped perfect electric cars and now hes backing a new project how it can make your brain one with your computer. Bill as promised House Speaker paul ryan at the microphone. We have more choice and competition. We dont want a governmentrun Health Care System we agree on these things and we wont retrench to our corners. Today we broke down the dividing lines within our conference. Theres too much at stake to get bogged down in all of that. Were going to move forward on the things the American People sent us here to do. The house will act on another measure to reduce bad regulations. So far congress has sent ten measures to the president s desk. In the 20 years before this congress did one of these. Were also commit to securing our border and rebuilding our military and building our infrastructure and we want this to be the last tax season americans have to put up with this broken tax code. Since i became speaker i have talked about the need to go from being an Opposition Party to being a Proposition Party and governing party. It may take a little bit more time but were certainly listening and are going to get there. The way id describe the meeting we just had with our members is were going to Work Together and listen together until we get this right. It is too important. Obamacare is a collapsing law. Obamacare is doing too much damage to families. And so were going to get this right and in the meantime were going to do all of our other work we came here to do. I want to convey what the speaker just said. We had a very good conference. A conference from the microcosm are people on all sides and the discussion is what the American People are talking about. We promised wed repeal and replace obamacare and thats what were going to do. Friday the time line wasnt there and the votes were not there yet. It doesnt mean were not going to get there and thats what the conference was about and what were working towards. In the meantime well go back onto the floor as the speaker talked about for our regulatory reform. As you watched prior to the congress only one has ever been signed into law. Well, well take the ftc privacy regulation up. That will be the 15th one that will have passed the house. The president signed four others into law yesterday again surpassing the total. This is the part of the plan of putting america back to work. Bringing common sense regulation back and continuing on our path to repeal and replace obamacare and coming out of that conference i have more confidence well get it done. After this morning the resolve of our conference to repeal and replace obamacare has never been stronger. Its been positive the openness members have to get there and its important to point out the vast majority of our conference was already there in support of the bill we want to put on President Trumps desk. To my democrat colleagues who were celebrating fridays action i think theyre celebration is premature because i think were closer today to repealing obamacare than weve been before and closer than we were friday. Were going to keep working. The issue isnt going away. Obamacare continues to fail the American People and youll continue to see double digit increases in premiums because obamacare doesnt work. The fact that our conference is more resolved than ever to repeal the law is encouraging and were not going to stop until we get it done. Coming out of the conference i remain very optimistic about our agenda. From the beginning weve known its a very aggressive agenda we have and we remain committed to a Better Health care future to every person in the country and get to tax reform, keeping america safe and rolling back resolutions. Putting people back at the center of the government. Were fully committed to rethinking this government from top to bottom because if theres one thing that last week taught us is we are united around shared goals. Now, how we go about implementing our vision is sometimes where we differ but im confident in our ability to come together, unify around shared goals and improve everybodys lives in this country. More freedom, more opportunity for everyone in this country. Does anyone have any questions . Casey. Reporter two questions, if i may. Two . Reporter should devin nunes recuse himself from the russia investigation and do you know the source of the information . No and no. Reporter can you talk about exactly what you mean by getting it right . [question indistinct] i wont tell you the time line because we want it get it right. We have an aggressive agenda and we want to make sure we get it right. We had a very constructive meeting with our members. Some of those in the no camp expressed a willingness to work on getting to yes and making this work. We want to get it right. Were going to keep talking to each other until we get it right. I wont put a time line on it because its too important to not get right and put an artificial time line on it. Youre right, the insurers thats why im worried. The law is collapsing. If obamacare stays asis its unacceptable for the American People. Its not what we said wed do. Were going to figure out how to get this done and i think whats confusing so everybody is we have to use senate rules. We call them reconciliation. That means you cant pass the bill you really want to pass in the house because it gets filibustered in the senate. You have to pass a bill that can get through and prevent a filibuster and its that frustration our members are grappling with. What is your name . The lady behind you . Who are you with . Reporter theyre calling on republicans we reconciliation is a tool because that gets it to law. Thats the way to go. Ill give you one more. Reporter any sign the Freedom Caucus members are willing to compromise . I dont want us to become a facti factionalized majority. That means well sit down and talk things out until we get there and thats what were doing and we saw good overtures to get there because we all share the goals and well have to figure out how to get it done. Thank you. Bill boy, it is pretty clear what the topic of discussion was behind closed doors. Weve been waiting for this News Conference for almost 50 minutes or so and my colleague Shannon Bream in washington, d. C. Waiting along with me now. Shannon, based on those responses, health care is still front and center. Theyre trying to figure out a way. Part of the difficulty is explaining it to the American Public is part of the answer from paul ryan. Shannon he said people that were nos are working towards a yes so it doesnt sound like its been put to yes and something within their conference saying were used to being a party of no and learning how to govern is something were still doing and getting our sea legs underneath us and it sounds like there was mending of fences. Bill i would agree. And the politics at play cannot be overlooked. When you run a campaign and talk about for seven years for repeal and replace you cant just turn your back on it and move on to the next issue entirely or completely and when you have a republican president the white house said theyd do the same thing. At this point they had to take a pass. What theyre able to negotiate and what theyre able to convince other members to do is something that remains to be seen. That was the headline from that News Conference there. With that weve got to run. I do believe we have to go. See you at 6 00, right shannon. Shannon right here sitting in for bret. Bill happening now starts now. Jenna we are going to canoe following that breaking news. Im jenna lee, welcome to happening now. A really exciting way to start our show to get an idea from republicans. At one of the things we heard from paul ryan, if i can switch to camera one now, their efforts and what they want to look forward to it as a front. They say that theyve never been more optimistic about the future when it comes to repealing obamacare. One thing that speaker ryan wrapped up on with the press or that there are some roles that come to the senate to go back and forth between the house in the senate to get to the end goal that they want to. Its confusing for us, so well talk about it in a moment. One of the things im watching for is the reaction from the Freedom Caucus members. You heard from the leadership that there i