Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer And Sandra Smith 20180706

Went into effect today and china immediately hits back. President trump talked about trade at length yesterday in montana seeming to try and convince supporters to just stick with him on this. Chinas retaliatory tar ifs target things like poultry, soybeans, pork. Critics on both sides of the aisle warn a trade war could hurt American Consumers and the global economy. President trump talked to his supporters about that in montana. Take a listen. President trump they say we are going to do something about it and ill get calls from some politicians, its terrible. I said you dont understand. I respect china and i respect president xi but theyve been killing us, 507 billion in trade deficits last year. 507. Who the hell can lose well win the war because we have all the cards. Sandra will President Trump be talking to any Supreme Court candidates while he is in new jersey this weekend . Thats the other big thing on everyones mind here. He does not plan to. Reporters asked him that exact question yesterday. As far as we know, no meetings planned for this weekend. President trump started with a list of 25 potential candidates. He says that he can now count his favorites on one hand. On air force one he says i think ive narrowed it down to four people. Of the four people i have it narrowed down to three or two. I will have a decision made in my mind by sunday. Sources tell fox news the president spoke with six judges and is sdon with the interview process. Sources say the top contenders are Brett Kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge and Amy Coney Barrett. Chuck schumer called the president and asked him to nominate merrick garland. But republicans wouldnt allow a vote on him. A source tells fox news that schumer told the president it would be a good way to unify the country and bad for the country if he were to nominate someone who overturned roe versus wade or did anything against obamacare. Sandra thank you. For more on this lets bring in Daniel Halper contributing standard to the Washington Free standard. The president could make up his own mind by sunday evening. For we all know he already has it made up in his mind. He likes the suspense and to draw it out. Everybody is buying into it. The suspense is full on and everybody is curious who he will decide and how he will announce it monday night. Sandra lets start with Raymond Kethledge a michigan resident considered the least known of the leading contenders for the president. I think a lot of his supporters seem to suggest that he is an outsider. I find that a little hard to believe that you can be such a prominent judge and be an outsider. Im not sure such a thing exists really. He is an outdoorsmen. Friends with neil gorsuch and thats what a lot of supporters say will push him toward the finishing line. It may have a lot of sway with the president. I dont know. He is a sound judge who did not come to stay in washington and try to advance his career here. Sandra Brett Kavanaugh is the wellconnected d. C. Insider. Correct. He, of course, worked in the george w. Bush administration, a staff secretary there and he also worked on the starr report. He worked with ken starr. Now that President Trump is under investigation by special counsel perhaps thats a strike against him because he made arguments in favor of a special counsel before, that he might not side with President Trump in these issues. Again, we dont know what President Trump is thinking. We will find out, of course, when he makes that announcement and gives his reasoning for selecting a judge. Sandra finally amy barrett as politico puts it this morning a grassroots favorite but lacks experience. She has been on her Current Court for a year. She grew to prominence when she had a capitol hill hearing last year and attacked for being a committed catholic basically by senator Dianne Feinstein and some other democrats. She is you know, she is, i think a little bit of a wild card in that she doesnt have much experience but people do seem to like her especially President Trumps base because of her social conservatism. It is not really clear whether that is where President Trump wants to go. I would say with judge barrett, selecting her it would seem that it would put emphasis on social conservatism and make this i think it will be no matter what but make it more so an abortion fight Going Forward. Is that a fight the president and republicans in the senate want . I dont know. I think they will have it regardless but probably especially with judge barrett. Sandra President Trump says he narrowed it down to four. He is down to two or three. He spoke broad by about that list and said pretty much he could win with any of them. He sounds very confident that any of these choices is going to be a winning one for him. You would think. The republicans for now have the majority in the senate. In theory if all the republicans ban together he should be able to get somebody through. You would think he would take this list to some of the swing voters. I know senator rand paul has expressed privately its been reported some doubts on bret kavanaugh. Other senators have expressed doubts on others. You would think he would take the list to the swing voters in the senate saying who should i pick . Who are you game with and try to get support so he knows Going Forward he has the support to get this nominee through all the way. It would be nothing worse for President Trump, i think, to have a Supreme Court candidate go down, long contentious fight and go down and perhaps galvanize the democrats and who knows what the composition of the senate will become next year. So this is something i think he wants to get right because it will be very bad and difficult for him if he gets it wrong. Sandra interesting. Some republicans inside the loop that theyve been talking about kethledge, kavanaugh, barrett. Knowing the president he could go in a completely different direction than anybody is anticipating at any moment. We all believe that to be the case. Definitely. I dont think he will go fully off the reservation and pick somebody off the list. He will be committed to the list as he said himself a number of times. Just because were talking about these three doesnt mean these are the three or two in President Trumps mind. Sandra you dont know. He possibly have his mind made up sunday, big announcement on monday. Daniel, thank you. Leland a fox news alert. Already the middle of the night now in north korea and that is where secretary of state mike pompeo is. The goal to make sure kim jongun keeps his promise to denuclearize. Pompeo is attempting to work out specifics on the commitments made by kim during his summit with President Trump. These are pictures from his visit. Rich edson joins us from tokyo. We talk about details to work out, there is a whole lot of them. There are and thats part of the conversation that the secretary is having in pyongyang right now meeting with Senior North Korean officials for three hours today. Those meetings will continue. This is the first facetoface meeting that the secretary of state has had with north korean officials since the singapore summit last month between President Trump and kim jongun where they agreed to that broad framework. The goal of this trip according to the secretary of state in a statement saying seeking to fill in some details on those commitments and continue the momentum towards implementation of what the two leaders promised each other and the world. Last month President Trump and kim jongun signed a statement broadly outlining an agreement. These discussions are trying to secure the details like accounting for how many Nuclear Weapons north korea has, how it would dismantle them and what north korea would receive in return. There are other issues that the u. S. Is pressing like the return of the remains of u. S. Service members all the way back from the korean war, leland. Leland those are some of the issues on the table. Interesting to note that the secretary of state is staying in north korea overnight. Negotiations continue tomorrow. Multiple days. How is the schedule . Thats the thing. His first overnight trip. He has been there three times the first night he is spending in pyongyang right now. More discussions tomorrow. Then he travels here to tokyo where he consults with top u. S. Allies. Top japanese and south korean officials in tokyo. While he does that north korea is consulting with chinese officials, its top ally. Leland rich edson in tokyo where the secretary of state will end back up. Evidently he was carrying a president for kim jongun from the president of the United States, a cd with rocket man on it. Did they burn this or what . Do they sell cds anymore . Sandra wildfires ravaging western states. More on what is being done to keep the fires contained. Plus. Leland President Trump talking about the economy in montana last night. The june jobs numbers just out this morning. Well talk about what it means for the homestretch before the midterms. President trump wages for the first time in 18 years are rising again. People can go out. They can actually choose a job and they have wages that are rising. Guaranteed, when he books direct at choicehotels. Com. Or just say badda book, badda boom. Book now at choicehotels. Com. Motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. And just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. Are you in good hands . Sandra this is a fox news alert. A carjacker gets taken for a wild ride. When he tried to steal a texas moms car, she shot him in the face. This all happening at a dallas gas station on wednesday. The accused carjacker getting in her car with her two sons in the back seat. The mom rushing over, grabbing her gun from the glove box and opening fire. I should have emptied a whole clip but i didnt. I just wanted to give him a warning shot. That was it. Im not a killer or anything like that but i do believe in, you know, defending whats mine. Sandra the suspect is in the hospital facing kidnapping and carjacking charges. Leland dont mess with mom in texas. I love the warning shot hit him in the face. Sandra yeah. Leland what if she really tried to hit him . Sandra see what happens there. What a story from the hospital. Leland you have to do what you have to do. President trump if these people got elected you would have gone down like you never saw anything go down. They wouldnt have taken the regulations off. They wouldnt have given you the tax cuts, the democrats. You would have had an economy that was going to crash and burn. It was ready. And now weve got something thats a rocket ship. Leland President Trump weighing in on the economy at a rally last night in montana. Lets look at the june jobs report just released. The Unemployment Rate has increased to 4 , 213,000 jobs added. Conceivably that means there are more people heading into the labor force. Congresswoman dianne black, she is also running for governor there. The president calls it a rocket ship. I assume you agree. I do agree. Im excited. Ive been in congress the last eight years and we were happy to see the 2 gdp growth and many times not a growth. To see where wereing now and 4 gdp growth. Im exciting. Im hearing it all over the state of tennessee. Job creators are looking for more employees. Were looking at solutions on how we can make sure they have an educated workforce that can keep their products moving. This is a good problem to have and one that we can certainly find solutions for educating workers by putting people back to work is great. Leland there is often the story now mcdonalds are offering hiring bonuses, not just incidental. It is happening in reality. Question, though, so often that we hear from republicans that the economy is on a rocket ship to use the president s words and at the same time we must crack down on immigration because immigrants are taking jobs away from americans. How do you swear that rhetoric. This is how i square it and i learned when i got to congress. You dont just look at the Unemployment Rate but workforce participation rate. We find when we look at that we still have 30 of the people are not working in our country and you say what where is that . Is that maybe people aging out . Is it people that are just not deciding to get a job because perhaps they are getting some form of government assistance . When you have a third of the people out of the workplace you have to take a look at that and say perhaps what we need to do is look at our policies that we did in our last farm bill. If you are an able body person you should be working. We need you and you need to have dignity of life and working. Able body people should be at work. If we can change our policy as well as educate our workforce so that those manufacturing plants in particular who now are more sophisticated than ever before, that they have what they need. Leland im glad you brought up the issue of manufacturing. One part of President Trumps Economic Policy has been tax reform. The other part has been tariffs and cracking down on china among others. A map on the screen now as the trump tariffs take effect against china and the reciprocal tariffs take effect from the wall street journal. As we looked at it, every county in your state was far more hurt by the tariffs than helped as you looked at the industries in the counties in tennessee. And this from the governor republican governor that you are here running to replace, the additional cost of a lot of manufacturers we have particularly the Automotive Industry could be harmful to us, the tariffs. You worry about reciprocal tariffs that could effect a lot of items we export out of tennessee, a lot of whiskey distillers who are worried about the tariffs. Do you share their concerns . I share them. I represent tennessee first but i will tell you that i believe that we need to do something about this president has been saying he will address our deficit in our trade. It is a half a trillion dollars every year. Thats a lot of money for the United States to give away. He is a tough negotiator. I stuck with the president giving him the space to be able to negotiate. We are seeing some countries like germany, we are seeing changes there. We have also especially on our ways and Means Committee weve also met with our trade ambassadors and secretary to say please target the bad actors like china. At the same time, im a tennessee and i will let the president and his folks know how it might damage some of the great things happening in tennessee with automobile manufacturing. We have a lot of automobile. I was with nissan. Leland i have to cut you off. I need to get in one more question. There is a balancing act. I have consistently said lets get this right. Lets not hurt my state. Leland if you listen to the governor your state is already being hurt. How concerned should republicans be that for whatever good comes from the tax cuts as weve heard the president say the economy is on a rocket ship that there will be equal bad coming to the economy from tariffs . So it is a balance. Look, any time you are negotiating you are disappointed. Leland do you think the president has the balance right . At this point in time im still giving a little latitude here. Im at the point saying i think we are outside of that balance but i know in negotiations that when you are a tough negotiator you push it all the way to the end. You push it as far as you possibly can and yet at the same time as ive said before, i am from tennessee and i will stand up and tell the president this is hurting our state. Leland maam, we are going to a break. Well have you back to talk about your concerns sometime. Sandra out of control wildfires carving a path of destruction in the west. Dangerous conditions crews are facing on the ground. Prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. You shouldnt be rushed into booking a hotel. With expedias addon advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. Addon advantage. Only when you book with expedia. Leland the woman accused of climbing the base of the statue of liberty on july 4th says she is not guilty. Here she is leaving a new york city federal courthouse thursday after being released without bail and in the middle you can see her climbing the statue of liberty. She has been charged with a misdemeanor december passing and disorderly conduct. She says she doesnt believe if President Trumps immigration actions. His policy on immigration has to go. In a democracy, we do not rip children we do not put children in cages, period. There is no debating it. Leland if convicted she would face up to six months behind bars. Sandra hot and dry conditions continuing to fuel fires out west. The largest one is burning in southern colorado. The spring creek fire has damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes. This morning its 35 contained. We are in the los angeles bureau. There is a lot to cover. What is going on in colorado . Good morning, sandra. Of all the states, colorado has the most separate fires and also the largest one named the spring creek fire where crews on scene describe a tsunami of fire 300 feet high. The Third Largest in state history chewing up more than 100,000 acres, 250 homes destroyed. Yesterday the fire took unexpected turns creating problems for firefighters. Today rain is in the forecast. Thats good for helping knock down the flames but officials are now concerned about flash floods. Colorados governor is expected to visit the area today as well as the Lake Christine fire near the snow mass in aspen ski areas. A number of homes have already been lost. Firefighters are trying to limit further destructions. Residents are thankful for the help. The smoke, the anxiety, the danger. The rocks they have to climb and go up and down, its nonstop appreciation. Take a look at this high 10,000 feet high in the colorado mountains, a tornado, no damage but close enough to grab attention, sandra. Sandra what does it look like elsewhere . Here is a map to show you what it is looking like out west. Colorado is where most of the action is taking place but right now there are at least three dozen significant fires across the west. In utah it is the dollar ridge fire east of provo that has already destroyed 90 homes and threatens more. A new fire popped up in the last 24 hours shutting down parts of interstate 5, the main north south right along the west coast leaving california gerry brown to call a state of emergency and throughout Southern California record high temperatures are expected in many locations today and tomorrow. Sandra thank you. Leland secretary of state mike pompeo holding new meetings in north korea spending the night there tonight following the president s historic summit in singapore. Well tell you how the administration is looking to move the ball down the court on disarming the regime. Sandra the mission to save a soccer team trapped in a flooded cave now turns deadly as rescuers warn that time is running out. We can no longer wait for all conditions because circumstances pressing us. We originally thought the boys could stay safe in the cave for quite some time but circumstances have changed and we have limited amount of time. Mitzi Psoriatic Arthritis tries to get in my way . Watch me. mike ive tried lots of things for my joint pain. Now . Watch me. joni think id give up showing these guys how its done . Please. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are changing the way they fight it. Theyre moving forward with cosentyx. Its a different kind of targeted biologic. Its proven to help people find less joint pain and clearer skin. Dont use if you are allergic to cosentyx. Before starting cosentyx you should be checked for tuberculosis. An increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. 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The death of that diver trying to save the young boys and their soccer coach trapped in that flooded cave in northern thailand just underscores the danger of this rescue effort. 38yearold saman kunan was a retired elite Thai Navy Seal and volunteered to reach the trapped boys but he died running out of oxygen underwater in the cave as he returned from his mission. Basically what people are saying swimming and diving their way out is deadly dangerous for experts, how can emergency teams expect young boys who dont even know how to swim to manage . Increasingly thats looking like the most likely option for escape from two weeks on in this crisis, leland. Leland seems like the options are running out for the rescue operation, where are they in the planning process now . Exactly, leland. It is zeroing in on principally one mission, officials are now saying this is a quote there is a limited amount of time to get the boys out. Apparently oxygen is running low in the space where the boys are some 2 1 2 miles undergrowth. Efforts are trying to get an oxygen line to them as well as communication line to help coordinate an escape effort and to allow the boys to speak with their desperate parents who are on top. Again heavy rains approaching in the next couple of days. The pumping of water continues as International Help continues to come from all over the world. The latest entrepreneur elan musk offering to send his staff there to help. Leland greg, thank you. Sandra the secretary of state is in north korea working to nail down specifics how the regime will comply with the denuclearization deal. Its the first time mike pompeo has been back since the historic singapore summit. Dan hoffman joins me now. A big couple days coming up here. To remind everybody the third time pompeo has met with kim but it is the second time theyll be having a oneonone. What do you expect to come out of this . First i would just caution everyone to manage our expectations. This is an extraordinary complicated diplomatic challenge. It is a good thing that secretary pompeo has such experience at c. I. A. And the House Intel Committee and brought with him the cia commissioner manager andrew kim. Whether north korea will give up its Nuclear Capability in return tore food and Energy Assistance and integrating its economy potentially into the world. Sandra now that the broad framework for denuclearization has been achieved at the singapore summit he is there to hash out the details of how to get that done. Exactly. Whats missing and whats left to the negotiators, certainly makes strategic and tactical sense to do it this way, is to have a timeline for denuclearization and then account for north Koreas Nuclear sites. Thats an extraordinary challenge. Many of the sites are secret sites. We have to look at not just the Nuclear Facilities but north koreas icbm capability and lets not forget their chemical and biological weapons as well. Theyre armed to the teeth and it presents great challenges for our negotiators. Sandra intelligence something you know well. How will we use our intelligence to determine if kim is really truly moving in the direction of denuclearization . Well, i think sometimes well ask him questions to which we know the answer. And well see whether he is double dealing. Well rely on counterparts, the south koreans. One of their lawmakers just yesterday provided some satellite intelligence indicating that the North Koreans were seeking to build a Nuclear Capability to launch from one of their submarines. They have 70 submarines in their arsenal. So well do all of those things and then we also need to track on russia and china nefarious actors already talking about ratcheting down the sanctions. Thats very much against our strategy. Sandra as we know the economy in north korea is in free fall. What role will the economy there play in kims strategy and what he is willing to agree to with the United States. Its a delicate balance for him. He knows his economy is very weak and threatens his regime security. At the same time, he is certainly aware of what some economic reform has brought to dictatorships in the past like the soviet union. If you allow too much economic and political reform you could be toppled. He also knows the value of his Nuclear Deterrent and the results of those countries like iraq, and qaddafi who didnt have the deterrent and were toppled. For our intelligence community, were not only kernld of north koreas Nuclear Capability and proliferation. The nuclear site the israelis destroyed in 2007 was built by north korea and loose nuke scenario in the event kim jongun miscalculates and his regime falls from within. Sandra interestingly enough the president weighing in at the rally last night. The situation in north korea and his strategy said at first they thought i was being too tough especially with his rhetoric and that he was going to cause war with that rhetoric. Now he says people are saying he is being too nice. Listen to him last night. President trump during the Obama Administration it seemed like a missile a week. A lot of missiles going up and rockets up and nuclear testing. We had tough rhetoric. Remember they said he is too tough. He is going to cause a war. It is too tough. Now they say he is too nice. He is too nice. Sandra your reaction to that, dan. Ill go back to what i said at the beginning to manage our expectations. Negotiations with the soviets under president reagans extraordinary leadership took years and what i think the president did at singapore was establish a broad framework from which secretary pompeo can take the lead in these negotiations. Lets look ahead over the coming weeks to see whether they have working groups designed to drill down on some of these key issues like the inventory of north koreas Nuclear Weapons and were still remaining for the remains of u. S. Soldiers killed during the war. Were in the early days and lets see how it shakes out in the coming weeks and months. Sandra a tough challenge lies ahead. Two days of meetings at pompeo and kim begins today. Dan, by the way, we said that you are the former chief of station at the c. I. A. Not the chief of staff i think we said leading into you. Wanted to make that clear. We appreciate having you on the program. Great perspective. Thank you. Thank you. Leland all right. Stop looking at me but look at the video. A teen is okay after driving into a sinkhole. The 16yearold from minnesota accidentally steered his car head first into the opening. His seat belt and airbag saved him. He walked away unharmed. The sinkhole caused by recent heavy rains and flooding. Try explaining that to mom and dad. Its not my fault. It was a sinkhole. Video to prove it. Sandra Tropical Storm no more. The first hurricane of the season gaining speed in the lat particular. More on where it is headed next. Leland why is special Counsel Robert Mueller gathering even more resources for the russia probe . Alan dershowitz on that next. And had twin boys. But then one night, a truck didnt stop. But thanks to our forester, neither did our story. And thats why well always drive a subaru. Leland first hurricane of the season is making its way west brewing in the atlantic. You are looking at hurricane beryl. It is 1,000 miles from the lesser antille islands. It is supposed to weaken into a Tropical Storm and hit those islands by the end of the weekend, monday at 2 00 a. M. As you can see from the track. Sandra special Counsel Robert Mueller beefing up its resources tapping more prosecutors to work on the russia probe using staff from u. S. Attorneys offices, the Justice Department and the f. B. I. Joining us is Alan Dershowitz harvard law professor emeritus. What add resources and beef up the number of prosecutors on the team . It proves my point we never needed a special counsel. There are enough resources within the Justice Department, within the various u. S. Attorneys offices. He is using all of these resources. Why is he necessary . Why do we need somebody to come in and have targets on the back of people, violate Civil Liberties, try to squeeze people to sing or even to compose . The special counsel is a very dangerous phenomenon to democracy. We have in place investigator general, inspector generals and congressional oversight committees and u. S. Attorneys offices all over the country. That is enough. Why do we have to staff the Prosecutors Office . I suspect he is bringing the investigation to an end. That in the end he will probably indict some lowhanging fruit. He will try to get them to talk against people higher than them and probably end up by writing a report. The report itself will be very onesided. It will present only the prosecutors side of events. He will not hear defense lawyers with opposing arguments. We ought not to be cutting off debate, we ought to encourage debate about the impact of special counsel on the Civil Liberties of all americans. Sandra i want to get your thoughts. Bloomberg is reporting that he is prepared to step away from the probe and leave it in the hands of a larger team of prosecutors. What do you think about that . He would vindicate me completely. Thats what i said from the beginning. Mueller should not be in this probe. It should be left to existing professional Civil Servant prosecutors. People who have served republicans and democrats alike. People who have been in the u. S. Attorneys office some of them 20, 30, 40 years. Let them do the investigation. We dont need a special counsel. Bloomberg is right and if he steps away he proved my point. Sandra at a time when everybody is saying wrap it up. You heard that in the testimony last week in that hearing. It is time. You heard that from trey gowdy. It only looks like the team seems to be growing. What does it tell us about the time frame ahead for this investigation, alan . You know, its reading tea leaves. You can make the argument both ways. By increasing his staff he is trying to bring the investigation to an end. Most americans want to see it end or he is expanding it and going into different areas, areas we arent aware of. Perhaps president s Economic Activities before he became president. That would be well beyond the scope of his mandate but he has already exceeded the scope of his mandate. Weve already seen judge ellis in virginia say that we shouldnt need a special prosecutor. That they do things that raise serious questions. Here we have a Judicial Authority making the same argument ive been making and it is about time it is taken seriously. We dont know what the addition of prosecutors means but i hope it means that the investigation will either be turned over to professional prosecutors or come to an end quickly. Sandra weve seen quite a bit of you in the news lately about things other than just talking the Mueller Probe and the law. It is about talking about the treatment that you have been receiving by some far to the left particularly your experience on marthas vineyard. Yeah. Well recently a woman at a party said if i were at this party, she would stab me in the heart. This is a radical leftist woman who will resort to violence because she doesnt agree with my defense of President Trumps Civil Liberties. It is very akin to the way lawyers lawyers were treated during the mccarthy period. The victims of that went to jail, lost their jobs. But the Civil Liberties lawyers who defended accused communists were ostracized and shunned in an effort to associate their defense with the policies of communist. Im not a trump supporter politically. Im a supporter of all Civil Liberties. I would be supporting her Civil Liberties if she was being unfairly attacked as president. The attack is by a mit professor who believes you should only hear one side of issues and come up with a theory that it is boring to listen to both sides and he would like to have a newspaper that only presents one side of issues so that people could only hear what satisfies their worldview and he is trying to bring this brave new world to marthas vineyard. Fortunately he is failing. The vast majority of the people in the vineyard, even liberals, are completely supportive of me. Only people on the hard left. Many of them very antiisrael. Part of the campaign against me has been for my support of moving the embassy to jerusalem, part of the reason has been because i have supported the israeli government. One of the people who led the campaign focused on my proisrael activities. It is spreading beyond donald trump. Only my point of view should be heard say these people. We dont want to hear dershowitzs point of view. Shut him down. It wont work. I will not be shut down or intimidated. Sandra what is this country without hearing both sides and open debate . Good to have you on the program this morning and hear your side. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Leland we already saw the Trump Administration tweet parts of the Affordable Care act. Now the democrats are proposing new legislation. That around the corner. Motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. And just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. 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Obamacare made insurance much more expensive. Doubled the cost of insurance for many, many people and what the democrats are doing is trying to double down on that talking about a government takeover, governmentrun insurance. This is Bernie Sanders and so many of the democrats who are looking to run for president are doing. Theyre cosponsoring legislation like that. Leland the House Minority leader nancy pelosi says medicare for all should be considered if democrats win back the house in the midterms and healthcare is becoming a Huge Campaign issue. Democratic house and Senate Candidates have already run more than 9,600 ads backing obamacare according to cantor media and now democrats are trying to frame the fight over the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy as one about insurance coverage. Will republicans and President Trump nominate and vote for someone who will preserve protections for people with preexisting conditions . Or will they support a justice who will put Health Insurance companies over patients. Or put the federal government between a woman and her doctor . Just because the full repeal and replace effort failed doesnt mean that the fight over whats left of obamacare is off the table for the midterms. Leland. Leland democrats see it as a potential wedge issue. Peter doocy in washington peter, thanks. Sandra fox news alert. President trump expected to pick his Supreme Court candidate on monday. Former Deputy Assistant attorney general Thomas Dupree will join us at the top of the hour to discuss this. Get 10 to 20 percent below msrp on your favorite chevy models when you finance with gm financial. Thats over ten thousand dollars on this silverado ltz. This 4th of july, discover why chevy is the most awarded and Fastest Growing brand the last four years overall. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. 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Now lawmakers are pouring over the information that was handed over to see if it meets the demands of their subpoena. Sandra Catherine Herridge is live in washington with the breaking details. Good morning. A source close to the process tells fox news says the new records dont comply with all the subpoenas and do not meet the House Resolution deadline. Three House Republican Committee Chairmen requested the records. Fox news is told that house staffers reviewed records on thursday with most lawmakers out of town for the holiday recess. Subpoena was issued in april for a key set of records focused on f. B. I. Activities before the f. B. I. Russia case officially opened on july 31, 2016. The Justice Department and f. B. I. Have not provided all records or information about this critical time period. F. B. I. Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein face new pressure to comply with the passage of after the passage of a nonbinding House Resolution since fox news is told that records previously limited to congressional leadership known as the gang of eight are now available to committee lawmakers. Fox news reached out to the Justice Department to ask for an updated comment. A former Justice Department official said the impasse right now reflects a lot of deep distrust on both sides, sandra. Sandra thank you very much. On those d. O. J. Documents the deadline. Lets bring in tom dupree former assistant attorney general under george w. Bush. Great to have you on the program this morning. So here we are. Here is the deadline for the d. O. J. To turn over those records. I have to say while im happy they turned over additional documents i cant say im surprised by the fact that at least the initial reports are that they arent fully in compliance. This isnt a battle not going away. This is a fractured relationship between House Republicans, senior d. O. J. Leadership and anyones guess where it will end up. The House Republicans are determined to get these documents and determined to take whatever steps they need to insure they get them. Sandra all right. By the way we have a lot more breaking details coming in on the Mueller Investigation and the president s pick for the Supreme Court. We want to get to all of that. Leland now its three days until President Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee. Speculation is growing over who he is going to pick. The president spoke about his big decision at a rally last night in great falls, montana. President trump there is now a vacancy on the Supreme Court. And if you tune in monday at 9 00 i think youll be extremely happy with the selection, right . [cheering and applause] and theyre all great. Theyre all great. And i want to thank Justice Kennedy for his lifetime of truly distinguished service and he had confidence in me. He left because he said you will pick somebody great and so nice. So nice. Great man, great gentleman. Leland choosing a new justice could be the easy part. Whoever gets the nod will face a fierce battle in the senate. Democrats have said no matter who is picked. Short time ago we got word that Vice President mike pence has met with three candidates largely thought to be the top three picks. Brett kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Raymond Kethledge. With that we bring tom back. I know youve studied the buy ago graph east of these among others on the president s short list. Is there really a material difference between how each of these three judges views the law . There are differences among the three but i agree with the president that all three are fantastic candidates. And i am i think conservatives, constitutional conservatives will be happy with whoever the president chooses and i agree it will be a big battle. You thought the gorsuch confirmation was controversial. You havent seen anything yet. We need to strap on our seat belts and get ready. I think in the end the president will get his choice confirmed but there is a long way to go before we get there. Sandra give us an idea what sort of hurdles does the nominee face . The hurdles are this. Right now the republican majority in the senate is essentially one vote depending on what happens with senator mccain. Given that there is really no margin for error. Weve already seen both republicans and democrats targeting potential senators who could go either way. Conservative democrats, liberal republicans. I think the confirmation hearings will take on increased importance. Youll see a lot of questions of roe versus wade and respecting precedent. A code word for what they will do with roe versus wade. As i said there is a long way to go. The confirmation hearing will be fascinating television and i can hardly wait to see it. Leland Amy Coney Barrett who is the top woman it appears in the list. The wall street journal has an oped out says if she is the nominee get ready for a vicious anticatholic smear campaign. You talked, tom, about these confirmation hearings. Why does the left seem so particularly focused on barrett . We saw a little bit of a preview of this line of attack in her confirmation for her court of appeals judgeship where liberal senators were basically saying that we think you are too religious. Your faith is too strong. You cant separate your dogma from the law. I think that line of questioning really galvanized a lot of conservatives who really supported what judge barrett said in response. Look, the duty of a judge is to put aside his or her personal leland is she seen a a little more conservative as the other two. A little bit more hard line . You refer to Dianne Feinsteins questioning of her. There is that perception out there. I have to say i dont know whether its fair to say she is more or less conservative than the other two candidates. From my perspective i think its fair to say all three candidates are conservatives. All three candidates will apply the rule of law faithfully and the constitution faithfully. I will say this about amy barrett. She has a shorter track record than the other two. The other two have been federal judges for a fairly long time. Judge barrett is relatively new to the bench. Sandra moving on to the Mueller Investigation and now that were learning that Robert Mueller is hiring more prosecutors to handle the russia investigation, why throw more resources at this now . That is one Intriguing Development i have to say. I think what it reflects is the fact that bob muellers investigation covers a lot of territory. He is fighting numerous cases on numerous fronts in numerous states. It doesnt surprise me that he needs to bring in additional resources. I dont think this is a signal that mueller is about to wrap things up any time soon. I think the fact he is reaching out to additional d. O. J. Lawyers is really a reflection of the fact he has a lot going on and needs help rather than the fact that he may be wrapping this thing up. Leland does it mean if he has brought on these other attorneys and other d. O. J. Prosecutors from other parts of the country, is there a way to spin off parts of these investigations if he has found wrongdoing that doesnt relate to russia collusion, does he give those back to the d. O. J. Or does he sort of keep accumulating Different Things he is looking into . It could be the former. It could be a signal these are pieces of his broad investigation that are distinct from russia to be broken off and handled in the ordinary course by ordinary d. O. J. Prosecutors. He seems to have done a similar thing with the Michael Cohen investigation. He broke that piece off and gave it to federal prosecutors in new york. My guess is mueller looked at this and realizes his core area is russia. Anything that is peripheral to that he can break off and give to the Justice Department. Sandra we know this investigation has come under attack by the president for expanding too far. Costing too much, going on too long. Well see the reaction from the white house. Adding more prosecutors will cost more money and leads us to wonder when it will wrap up . This has been going on for a long time. It is true that independent counsel investigations in our nations history can span years if not decades. This has been going on for a while and i think the president has a fair point that mueller has yet to show his cards and yet to show his hand as to whether he has any evidence of collusion between President Trump and the russians. Leland you know mueller from your time at the d. O. J. He is a wellknown figure. Any tea leaves you can read based on this . Is he trying to in some way insulate himself or is this a man who is following the evidence . I think mueller is a man of integrity and following the evidence. Look, like Many Americans i wish that he would move more quickly on some fronts here. At the same time i dont see bob mueller as someone who is playing political games or someone who will reach a conclusion not supported by the evidence. As i said, i think and i hope he will wrap this up quickly. I think its possible that he will break off pieces of his investigation. Leland the issue, though, of Rod Rosenstein, he has been widely criticized, a partisan actor unlike as you said nice things and honorable things about bob mueller. Do these people also fall under rosenstein or is there a different reporting structure for these guys . You know, unless there is Something Else going on that we dont know about they would fall under rosensteins jurisdiction. He oversees the Justice Department as does the attorney general. So i think the question is whether these things that are getting broken off are characterized as part of the russia investigation which would fall under rosensteins jurisdiction. Sandra mueller adding prosecutors to his team. Good to have you on this morning. Thank you. China now accusing the u. S. Of starting the biggest trade war in history. As the u. S. Hits beijing with tariffs on 34 billion in imports. What will this unprecedented commerce battle between the worlds two largest economies look like . 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China accusing the Trump Administration of violating global trade rules as they fire opening shots if their longfeared trade war. The u. S. Putting a 25 tax on 34 billion worth of chinese imports starting today. China swiftly retaliating shapg levies an 34 billion of american goods, soybeans, pork and electric cars along other things. President trump isnt afraid of upping the ante with beijing. President trump i respect china and president xi but theyve been killing us 507 billion in trade deficits last year. 507. Who the hell can lose then you want to do something about it and you get attacked. Thats not nice. Thats not free trade. The war was lost on trade many years ago. You know when they are saying not a free trader, no, the war was lost, now we are going to win it because we have all the cards. Sandra lets bring in our ateam david asman from the Fox Business Network. Adrienne elrod and james freeman, assistant editor of the wall street journals editorial page and fox news contributor. What a rally last night. I was covering it. He has really mastered the art of switching from a written script to ad lib beautifully. Sandra got off the script for quite a bit. Meanwhile, this trade war seems to be heating up and china responding calling it the biggest trade war in economic history, david. It is rich to hear china talking about breaking the rules. China has been breaking the rules for decades ever since it was let into the wto in 2001, december of 2001. The fact is we have to be honest about it. China lies, they steal, they steal our intellectual property and they cheat on the wto, which they signed. All the time they lie about the statistics. James and i have been trying to figure out exactly how much the economy is growing for years because they just lie about it. You arent supposed to enter into an organization like wto, the world trade organization, unless you adhere to raou. S it is a communist government. They arent used to playing by the rules. When the president says that they are liars and cheats he is absolutely right. The question is how you go about changing that. I dont like all of his bluster but he is very much limited to what he can actually he says he wants to pull out of the wto himself, the u. S. He cant because congress has to approve of that and they never would. Sandra david said you are digging into the numbers here. What do you make of these opening shots . In this case the president has a lot more of a case than he has with aluminum, steel, with the auto tariffs where he is making questionable National Security arguments and fighting with a lot of our friends around the world. For china its specifically for the intellectual property violations and stealing our technology. He has a case here. I think the wto that he is kind of attacking and thinking of leaving is actually been pretty good to the u. S. When we brought cases. He couldnt leave it without approval of congress and they wont give approval. We tend to win there. Some of the cases take too long. He ought to be working a little more getting the whole world to get together on what is a recognized problem in china and bring the cases there and resolve them. Sandra how far will this go . We dont know where the end is, right . We were in a fullfledged trade war here and the real losers in this are American Consumers who will see the cost of their products go up. Leland to that point the wall street journal an evidently fair and accurate newspaper have agreement among the panel. Full disclosure, david and i both work there. Leland why do you think i brought it up . The gdp and Industries Hurt by chinese tariffs. The way they map this out was where the predominant effects of these trump tariffs would be felt. It is in the heart of trump country. Tennessee, we had dianne black running for governor there. Industries will be more hurt by tariffs than helped. The politics of this, david, are going to get very real very quick when adriennes they already have. It is not just the consumers that are going to be paying more for some goods. It is also the supply chains are right now being interrupted. The supply chains we dont often think about the supply chains when we buy a car or buy some kind of toy from china or whatever. But they are very critical to all our imports and exports. A lot of these exporters and importers are throwing up their hands saying what do we do now . They arent sure what the new rules are and how to apply them. It will affect commerce in the whole world. Leland that affects politics. One of the big things the president was talking about was how the economy is a rocket ship. All of a sudden the tariffs come in and people get hit in the pocketbook it will have a different effect than the rocket ship. The map is enlightening. The voters, the people who will be hurt by the tariffs are the ones who voted for donald trump in the red states and thought he was going to improve their economic conditions, bring back jobs, they put a lot of trust and faith in him he would do this. I dont think igniting a trade war is what they were hoping for. They wanted disruption to the system but not want a trade war that would hurt them and their families. Sandra we know where this is going. It is set the u. S. Will impose 25 tariffs on another 16 billion in chinese exports later this summer. As far as the actual economic impact, emotions run high when we have these discussions. How big is it really . So far thank goodness not huge relative to the power of the trump tax cutting and deregulation. Thats why we are getting all these good economic reports. Trade is a drag. We see it in the fed reports where it is limiting some investments. Postponing some investments. To this point the rest of the trump agenda is so powerful that the economy seems to be thriving despite this kind of cloud of the trade wars. It is really a question of who can withstand the most pain. It is more economic pain in china. You look at trade thats half their economy, 12 of ours. On the other hand the communist dictator doesnt have his Party Running for reelection in november as mr. Trump does with the congress. It will be an interesting thing to watch over the next few months in terms of the political and economic pain threshold. To that point, chinas stock market is in the tank right now. Chinas stock market has been killed. You look at our stock market it hasnt done much in a couple of months but it hasnt tanked. Today were down 23 points which is insignificant considering all of the worry that we hear in the media about the trade wars. The point is, this is donald trump and i think the markets realize that he stakes out a position when he is making a deal. He stakes out a position that is far more severe than what you end up with. You look at the endgame here as i mentioned before, he is talking about pulling out of the wto. He cant pull out of it. Congress has to do it. You look at the jobs numbers today, which are spectacularly good. Thats one thing keeping the market from going down further. Sandra the investors and their expectations and you see that price into the market and to be fair the u. S. Stock market has turned negative for the year after record after record. Still up significantly since election day, 33 or so. From 18,000 to 24,000. Sandra for american businesses that do business in china, there is a lot of fear there, right . If you ask any ceo that does a lot of business off the record theyll tell you they get a horrible deal and mistreated by the government there and they arent happy about it. But do they still get nervous about this kind of trade escalation . Yes, absolutely. We despite all the problems we do get benefits and we buy a lot of stuff from china for a reason. We like the low prices. Sandra the president s tweeting when a country usa is losing many billions of trade with virtually every country it does business with. Trade wars are good and easy to win. We were down 100 billion with a country and get cute and dont trade anymore we win, its easy. You know, again, ultimately American Consumers are the ones who will lose in the trade war which were fully in right now. The bottom line is what you end up with. You look at the proposed tariffs on cars coming from europe that the president is threatening to throw in there. On the other hand we could all go to zero tariffs. If we end up with lower tariffs, that would be good for everybody. As you mentioned, james, there are a lot of business that do business in china that are furious at the fact that china is loading the company with communist Party Officials refusing to allow American Companies there to own more than 49 of the company. So the Chinese Government controls every u. S. Company that has a division in china. That has to change. Sandra all right. Ateam, thank you very much. Good to have you guys. See more of you. Leland the president teed off yesterday about trade and montana senator jon tester that at the Fiery Campaign rally in the Democratic Senators home state and scott pruitt has handed in his resignation amid the investigations. The ateam is staying out here and their thoughts when we come back. Leland fox news alert as President Trump is expected to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court on monday and then the fight in the senate begins. Battle royale. Were back with the americas newsroom ateam. David asman, Adrienne Elrod and james freeman. Nice to see you. Happy friday. That is the first and last time the panel will all agree. All right. Adrienne, fair to say that any one of the three judges on the panel, doesnt matter who the president picks in the top three list, the top six list, democrats will just lambaste. Absolutely. First of all, all three, six, everybody on that list of 25 people that has been floating around the last few weeks would be a threat to roe versus wade. The single most important issue to democrats when it comes to picking a Supreme Court justice. So we will get people like Susan Collins, Lisa Murcowski who said we wont support anybody who would overtake or overturn, rather, a precedent case law such as roe versus wade. You have moderate Democratic Senators as well. Heidi heitkamp, john castor. Who voted for gorsuch. The point is, what about gorsuch . People said the same mostly democrats said the same thing about gorsuch. You get gorsuch in the Supreme Court and you have roe versus wade overturned. I havent seen roe versus wade overturned. There is much more at stake now. The deciding swing vote. You look at people like kethledge and hardiman on the list there. I dont think there is any more danger that they would overturn overturn roe versus wade. All those people are unacceptable for what they do with roe versus wade. It would take a lot to overturn accepted law. Im not saying it wont be or those people agree it was a good decision to begin with. But i dont think i think thats a false charge. I dont know. What you would probably get is a tightening or an allowance for states to tighten the rules which is where most americans are on the subject. They think it out to be legal but have some restrictions. Late stages, this sort of thing. I think thats where given the list of people who very much respect precedent, they would probably end up not tossing it out completely but evolving toward what i think is generally what people want, which is states able to make more decisions on regulating it. You hit the nail on the head. Susan collins said i will support somebody who is prolife as long as that belief doesnt inflict on the courts on their Decision Making on the courts. To her she said roe versus wade is the law of the land. We should not overturn precedent law. That is where she is saying. Sandra the president said he hit a home run the neil gorsuch and he took on the democrat in montana last night on this issue. President trump jon tester voted against neil gorsuch. The justice who supports our constitution. Thats a hard one to vote against, isnt it . Tester opposed many of our amazing judges and yet i see jon tester saying such nice things about me but he never votes for me. He doesnt share your values. He showed his true colors for his dishonest attacks on a great man, a friend of mine. Sandra gives you a sense of the politics that we are oef about to see when the president names his nominee. Leland it is a spectacular moment for us to cover as journalists to cover this whole process. There is a lot of interesting beyond the politics itself, a lot of interesting discussions about what you do with case law like roe versus wade, etc. Even if you disagree with it. It will be spectacular. I do think that in the end the president , by the way, also we were talking about democratic opposition, he has to deal with Republican Opposition but ted cruz has said that at least one of the picks he doesnt like kavanaugh. He says he too liberal. He could be the kennedy swing vote. The president really has to balance among republicans the concerns of collins and other liberal republicans with the concerns of ted cruz and other conservative republicans. Leland precisely one vote needle thread there. To the United States house with a race for the speakership coming up. Jim jordan is having to deny he turned a blind eye to sexual abuse claims while he was an assistant wrestling coach at ohio state university. Here is jim jordan. The timing is kind of interesting. It is right after the big hearing with mr. Rosenstein, it is right when there is all this talk about a speakers race. The law firm who is doing the investigation said they tried to contact us and we didnt respond. We have no record. What we got from them yesterday was they sent a correspondence to an email address that doesnt exist. Leland the doctor involved in the abuse allegations committed suicide in 2005. Impossible to know whether or not these were true. Now you have the accusations going back more than a decade against jim jordan. How do you prove whether any of this is true . You think the timing is coincidental. Well, i think it is unfortunate timing for him and i understand he is obviously earned a lot of enemies in washington often for good reason where he has been quite persistent demanding accountability out of federal agencies. But we will learn more when ohio state completes its investigation. You have a number of wrestlers on record. None of them directly saying that he was present for any abuse. There was one reference to discussion in the locker room which i think might have been taken different ways. So we may learn more but to this point i dont see a rock solid case against him. He has flatly denied with no hedging there. Leland the one wrestler who claims that he directly reported this to jim jordan also reportedly had just gotten out of 18 months in jail for bilking investors out of 2 million. Credibility issues . Credibility and timing. Jim jordan has got a pretty stellar reputation. You are inside the beltway. Ask anybody what they think of jim jordan they think he is a great guy. Leland his character has never been called into question. Plus he has the president on his side. The president was also on Scott Pruitts side so who knows. Leland its almost as though you knew we were going to bring up scott pruitt. We have to let the investigation play out. Sandra the resignation of scott pruitt came in yesterday. Looking back at Scott Pruitts scandals. The president standing by him when he accepted the resignation and said he did a fantastic job. Its a tale of two cities. I think he did a great job in terms of rolling back regulations stifling a lot of businesses, not just businesses in the Energy Community directly but all kinds of epa rulings with regard to water, if you had a bad rainstorm in your backyard you couldnt use your backyard because it was a waterland. There were a lot of regulations that went far too far that were put out by the epa he helped turn around. How could he do some of the things that he did . Leland that was the short list of some of his problems. It is really not understandable. For me how somebody who was trained inside the beltway and knew the president s agenda would do such swampy things. There is nothing that the hardearning taxpayer workers of this country dislike more than when they feel their taxpayer dollars are being abused. That is what scott pruitt did time and time again. Whether it was turning on his sirens to get to a restaurant faster or a number of other things. Trying to get his wife a chickfila franchise. So many ethical problems that he put into play but thats something that American Voters dont stand for. Those hard working taxpayers a lot are thanking him for this revival. He is a big part of the trump deregulatory effort and the reason we have seen this rebound. You look at it especially in a state like West Virginia but i would say nationwide in terms of the manufacturing economy, i think this is a big reason were seeing this added investment is finally people feel like this epa regulator in washington has been reined in and go to sound science and not following an extreme environmental agenda anymore. A big part of the economic rebound were having. I hope given these problems that he is leaving that his agenda stays behind. Sandra thank you very much to our ateam. Good to have you all here. David, first time in the studio. I love it. I used to do forbes with fox in here. Sandra thank you. The numbers are in as the june jobs report shows hiring remains steady in the u. S. Fears of a trade war with china continue to loom with beijing putting tariffs on billion else billions in american goods. What impact could it have on our economy here at home and American Workers . Well discuss that next. For my joint pain. Now . 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If you look at on the flip side the positive you had the Labor Participation higher. More americans entering the job force. Thats a positive. The question is not all of them are getting jobs yet. There is still a gap. That gap is why youre seeing the Unemployment Rate increase ever so slightly to 4 . Thats a big question is why arent these people getting jobs . According to Small Business there is one Small Business federation saying there is weakness in skills. Employees, the workers looking for arent up to par. That begs the question do we have to Start Talking about education and vocational programs. Leland especially as the skills relate not to a College Education but a lot of the trades, welders, electricians, plumbers, all the light manufacturing. They shouldnt be overlooked. Leland a lot of well paying jobs. Crane operators make over 100,000 a year but not enough people with the skills to do it. We saw manufacturing climb higher, 36,000 jobs were added. That was a huge increase compared to may. Another one that we dont talk about trucking. Trucking normally in june is very low but they added 2500 jobs, sounds like not that much but they cant find truck drivers. Sandra the big one weve been watching for a while because it did not budge even when the overall situation seemed to be improving was wages. Wage growth was stagnant for quite some time. In this report the average hourly pay moved up 2. 7 from a year ago. It went up but thats not a lot of movement there. Thats the concerning part. Why arent businesses increasing pay to retain employees . So they must be doing Something Else to retain employees. But right now you would expect that wage growth that you are seeing on the screen of 2. 7. You want it to go higher than inflation. When you go to the Grocery Store you see your box of cheerios and milk go up a little bit with inflation. You want to make sure your salary can pay for the increases in food. Thats the small concerning part that we arent seeing that wage growth climb high enough. Leland with a jobs report this strong you would expect the market to be on a tear this morning. It is not. Up 40, it was down 20. How much of that is because of what did china call it, sandra, the biggest trade war ever . Sandra they released that today. Weve already priced in a lot of this trade war. The market is optimistic about where the some people get angry if you say trade war. Whatever you call it. What i said to a viewer just previously this morning. But they are pricing in right now. There is still optimism. The jobs report ticked higher. The bond market is a concern. You could see a shortening. The yield curve is flattening. The difference between the 2 and 10 year bonds and thats a big concern. The fact wage growth isnt higher these are small factors that play in with markets. Sandra as far as the president s plan he said the u. S. Could ultimately impose tariffs on more than half a trillion dollars of chinese goods. Thats a big number. That will have a negative effect. Farmers, earlier on fox business we had a soybean farmer saying you are seeing orders drop like crazy shifting to brazil. What is the government going to do . Provide them with more aid and subsidies . It comes at a cost to taxpayers. I asked would you drop the aid . Would you take no subsidies if we had no tariffs and no trade war . His response was well, china has they have heavily subsidize their market and so does canada. Another debate he didnt want to get into. Sandra thank you. Leland all right. Ahead well tell you why elton john may be a subject of conversation as secretary of state mike pompeo is in north korea to continue talks on ending their nuclear program. Can you think of the song . Maybe. You shouldnt be rushed into booking a hotel. With expedias addon advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. Addon advantage. Only when you book with expedia. Rocket man leland name that tune. Elton john could be taking a globe on the global diplomatic stage after mike pompeo is giving kim jongun a rocket man cd during his visit to the country. I didnt know they still sold cds. Sandra let me know they do. Sandra they come up on amazon. Leland what are you buying on amazon that they also show you cds . Sandra taylor swift. I have a marketing machine. Mug, tshirt, cds. The details here. South korean newspaper is reporting that say the president mentioned the little rocket man nickname during his meeting with kim jongun in singapore. Kim jongun said he had never heard the song so President Trump as the story goes asked mike pompeo to give kim jongun the cd. This time around. If youre at home going that might not pass a smell test i think you are completely right. But the president does have a very unconventional relationship with kim jongun and trying to appeal to his sense of humor in some way. Critics might say its a little odd. My initial concern when i heard this wait a minute. What is this song about . We know kim jongun likes western culture. Will he have the song translated and will it be lost in translation . I dug around a little bit. I thought rocket man was doing drugs. It was the 70s and thats what i hear everybody was doing. It is based on a short story about a guy who had to leave his family behind to go to mars and now when you hear that its sad. But there is you can listen to the song over and over. Its a fully different. Sandra you hear the song one time and it is in your head the entire day, agree . When you get in front of a computer later google rocket man William Shatner if you want to enjoy the song. He did a whole redoing of it, a cover. One of the most interesting things to come out of the summit, President Trump showed kim jongun that moviestyle trailer of kim jongun in two different scenarios, either the villain or hero whether he signs onto denuclearization or not. There is a strategy to appeal to his senses of liking western culture as brett said. Maybe its true, who knows . The only western who would have a cd player in north korea is kim jongun. He is stuck in the 90s. Leland hairstyle especially. Sandra happy friday. Leland fun to talk about. Sandra ahead the latest on operations to rescue a group of boys. They are still trapped in the flooded cave in thailand as we get word that one rescuers has died. Well have an update next. Motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. And just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. Are you in good hands . Sandra President Trump narrowing his list of candidates to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court as the white house moves full steam ahead with the vetting process. Welcome to a brand new hour of americas newsroom. Im sandra smith. Leland im leland vittert. The administration is prepared for three possible announcement on monday. The three names that appear to be the top three. Evidently were told they will now work on a fourth possible announcement. Chief white house john roberts. You had the top three of the list yesterday. Who is the fourth option . Do we know and perhaps why . We do know and we will tell you in a second. Well build some suspense here. Lets go through the latest moves at the white house on the Supreme Court nomination. First of all, we are told by sources that the Vice President mike pence met we naval observatory with Brett Kavanaugh and considered by many people to be the frontrunner for the nomination. Were also hearing that another nominee is rising quickly. In indiana monday and tuesday the Vice President met with Raymond Kethledge and Amy Coney Barrett and he has not met with any other candidates. Pence has now had a meeting with the three leading contenders and will have dinner with the president in bedminster tonight to compare notes. The president is mulling over his decision, the white house staff is preparing for the rollout on monday. They have three rollout packages ready to go for kavanaugh, kethledge or barrett depending who the president picks. Sources say theyre also preparing you mentioned this at the top. The fourth rollout package in case. Sources tell fox news the fourth candidate is Thomas Hardiman of the third circuit. He has a lot of fans on the conservative side. Whoever ends up being the nominee the president promised last night in a rally in great falls, montana, his base will be happy. President trump if you tune in monday at 9 00 i think you will be extremely happy. Theyre all great. Theyre all great. I want to thank Justice Kennedy for his lifetime of truly distinguished service and he had confidence in me. He left because he said you will pick somebody great and so nice, so nice. Leland the fact the president is having supper with the Vice President tonight suggests the decision wont be made after that meeting. Outside groups have told me they want the president to make the decision sometime today. The timetable to get a nominee through the visiting process up on capitol hill with all the senators and through the hearing process and then to a confirmation vote is extraordinarily tight. There is literally no room for error here if they want to get this done by the last week of september because if they dont and it is likely will get pushed until after the midterm election. There is a lot of pressure on the president to make a decision today but he is saying he wont going to announce who that person is until monday at 9 00. The white house staff have been working hard on this ready to go regardless who the president picks. Leland they have a few different rollout packages ready to go as the weed whackers are in full force behind you there on the north lawn. The idea of the tariffs. We have the job reports and also have the impact of the tariffs now on the market. How is the white house spinning both . The white house is staying away from any talk about this being the opening salvo of a trade war. At midnight last night the white house put a 25 tariff on chinese goods and china did the same. China in its typical rhetoric accusing the president of launching the biggest trade war in history. On air force one the president didnt back down at all. He has an additional 16 billion goods ready to target and 200 and 300 bill after that with a total of half a trillion in chinese goods he is ready to tax. In montana last night the president said he is tired of the u. S. Getting ripped off on trade. Listen here. President trump i respect china and president xi but theyve been killing us, 507 billion in trade deficits last year. 507. Who the hell can lose 500 then you want to do something about it and you get attacked. Oh, thats not nice. Thats not free trade. The war was lost on trade many years ago. And the president looking for a new epa administrator after scott pruitt resigned. He cited attacks on him and his family as the reason for stepping down. He was facing more than a dozen ethics investigation with new allegations that he deleted meetings from the official record because they would look bad. That may be in violation of the official records act. Pruitt is being replaced by a former lobbyist for the coal industry who shares pruitts commitment to role back regulations. Even though the president is playing golf today in bedminster there is a lot to talk about. Leland john roberts, thank you very much, sir. Sandra lets bring in hugo gurdon editorial director for the washington examiner. Good morning to you. What is going to be the central issue when it comes to the president s Supreme Court pick . The central issue beyond any doubt is abortion rights. That is what both sides particularly those people who focus less on a judges qualifications than on the political outcomes they want they all focus on abortion rights. All of the judges who are on the list that the president is choosing from, even if we dont know what their actual view on abortion, theyve all been vetted by the Federalist Society and all of them look at the terms of the actual law and they look at constitutionality. All of them will therefore regard roe versus wade as a badly argued piece of juries prudence. That means anybody on President Trumps list could be a threat to restrict or even overturn roe versus wade. Sandra do you get the sense the democrats will fight any one of the president s picks . Absolutely certain. They want to inflict a defeat on the president no matter who it is and want to inflict defeat through legislation and on regulation and they want to inflict defeats on not confirming nominees. It wouldnt matter who the pick was. Theyll fight it. But roe versus wade is the sacrament of the secular religion that dominates the democrats and so this is going to be a tie tanic fight. They want to try to prevent anybody who might overturn roe versus wade. It doesnt matter who it is. Theyll be advertising like mad to get Susan Collins and Lisa Murcowski to vote against. They will try to hold their own ranks together to prevent people like senator joe manchin from defecting and voting for the nominee. The trouble is they have a lot of they have several senators who are defending their democratic seats in red states that President Trump won and several of them already voted for amy comey barrett. I think that would be the dramatic and most highly controversial pick and i wouldnt be surprised if thats the one the president chooses. Sandra i have to ask you about this move the u. S. On china slapping 25 tariff on 35 billion on chinese goods. The president sounding very confident in his strategy behind this. Listen. President trump the war was lost on trade many years ago. When they were saying not a free trader, i said no, the war was lost but now well win it because we have all the cards. [cheering and applause] sandra because we have all the cards the president said. Do we . I dont think we do. This is somewhere i think the president is going wrong and i think trade tariffs have generally depressed an economy which is perhaps not what the republicans want going into the midterms. If you satisfied the Political Considerations it is not great economics. When you have a trade deficit of 500 billion you have a trade investment surplus of 500 billion. And china knows is looking at the politics of this. It has put the tariffs on farm equipment, on farm produce. It is hitting the United States on exports from states that the president won. So it also has the elections in mind. Sandra how will it play for republicans come midterms . It depends on the underlying strength of the economy. If the economy is booming and things dont look bad at all for republicans. Weve seen the stock market wobbly since the president started talking about tariffs in midjanuary. If i could predict that i would be a millionaire many times over. But i would say that this will not help him going into the elections and not help the republicans. Sandra well see. Great to have you on this friday morning. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Leland and a fox news alert as rescue teams are racing right now through the middle of the night to determine the best way to free 12 boys and their soccer coach from that flooded cave in thailand and the danger for these kids continues to grow. A former navy seal who was there to help with the rescue effort has died trying to swim out the 2 1 2 miles in that cave. Oxygen levels are dropping where the boys are and there is more rain on the way. Greg palkot live in london with the latest. Hi, greg. Hi, leland. The death of that veteran diver trying to save the young boys and their soccer coach trapped in that thailand cave just underscoring the dangers that this whole rescue operation, 38yearold was a retired elite Thai Navy Seal who volunteered to help reach the trapped boys. He died running out of oxygen underwater in the cave as he returned from his mission. He couldnt be resuscitated. What people are saying is swimming and diving their way out is as dangerous as that to experts, how will these kids do it . Many of them, were told, dont even know how to swim. But increasingly that is looking like the only option. Two weeks on remember. Officials are now saying today there is a quote limited amount of time to get the boys out. Apparently oxygen is running low in the space where they are some 2 1 2 miles underground. Efforts are being made to put an oxygen line into that area as well as Communications Line to help coordinate rescue efforts and again to connect these poor young kids to their families, worrying on top. Heavy rains are approaching. The pumping of water out of the cave is continuing, and help from the u. S. And all over coming in and trying to rectify this situation. It has the whole world very much focused. Back to you, leland. Leland all right. Greg palkot in london. As greg outlined there was an idea seeing if they could build a sanctuary for these kids for a couple of months and wait out the rainy season and that is now off the table. Sandra very difficult situation. What just happened gives us great perspective on how difficult it will be the rescue effort. Well continue to watch that as it develops. Time is up for the d. O. J. Today is the deadline to hand over documents related to the russia investigation. Will house lawmakers get the information they are looking for . Leland plus President Trump sending americas top diplomat to north korea. With secretary of state mike pompeo get any commitments about denuclearization from kim jongun . Sandra President Trump not backing down on his tough immigration policy even after the outcry of family separations. The numbers show the president s policies are working. President trump we believe in coming into this country legally. 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I think its important to consider that as you said, theyve dropped nearly 20 , illegal border crossings have, down 10,000 in just 30 days. That is a victory for the zero tolerance policy and leland its in line with what the American People want. None of us want to see family separations and why the president signed the executive orders but americans want to see Stricter Border enforcement. Leland the president didnt want to see family separations. The administration viewed it as leverage point. American public didnt seem happy about it. Trump handling of immigration 39 approve, 58 disapprove. Handling of family separation reborder, 60 disapprove. Based on this polling the American Public, which was taken after the executive order, that the American Public is equating the family separation policy with the president s policy on immigration. Im guessing you dont think thats fair. I dont. And i know its a very complicated matter and just to quickly review the facts. As Kristin Nielson said family separation was a byproduct enforcing immigration law. Because of the flores Settlement Agreement these policies are from long ago. When you enforce the law it meant families had to be separated. He knew it was a temporary fix and congress had the ultimate fix to family separations and did it nevertheless. It is important to point out the poll that just came out that said 70 of voters want Stricter Border enforcement. No one wants family separation, the president included and why he signed that. But americans want stricter enforcement on our borders. Leland the question is, is the political cost of stricter enforcement if you believe Kristin Nielson and others the byproduct can become family separation. Is the political cost of that worth the political gain of stronger enforcement in the midterms . I dont think there is a political cost in the long run. You look at the most recent poll that came out. Economists poll that came out amid the family separations happening on the immigration pollz. It has democrats ahead by 4 down from 16 in january. You look at the fact that the president s numbers are up 10 among hispanic voters. That was polled during this happening. I think americans are looking at the broad picture of the Trump Presidency. Safer borders, safer protections for the American People and the sorg economy. Leland it is clear the president thinks its a winning issue for him. A vote for democrats in november is to vote to let ms13 run wild in our communities, drugs pour into our cities and take jobs and benefits away from hard working americans. Democrats want chaos. Republicans want law, order and justice. Im guessing you are with the president he hopes that the democrats keep running on abolish ice. Leland, thats the ultimate point. The president s tweet was spot on. I cited that 70 number of people wanting Stricter Borders. The same poll showed 69 dont want to abolish ice. You have some of the democrats saying lets abolish this. They are running so far to the left. American people dont want open borders, they want safety and thats what the Trump Presidency is giving them. Leland mark meadows of the Freedom Caucus signing onto the letter to dhs. Well see how it plays out from the congressional standpoint. Thanks so much. We appreciate it. Sandra its deadline day for the Justice Department. The house demanding documents related to the russia probe by today. How the department is now responding. And you wont believe how much the post office has to fork over after putting the wrong image of lady liberty on a stamp. We all want to know about the new thing. You know, the new, new thing. With xfinitys retail stores, you can now see the latest. Want to test drive the latest devices . Be our guest. Want to save on mobile . Just ask. Want to demo the latest innovations and technology . Do it here. Come see how were making things simple, easy, and awesome. Plus come in today and ask about Xfinity Mobile, a new kind of network designed to save you money. Visit your local xfinity store today. Leland to Postal Service has to fork over 3. 5 million after putting the wrong image of the statue of liberty. A las vegas sculptor sued over the stamp design. It pictured the replica lady liberty he made for a las vegas casino. The post office said the design was too much like the original in new york harbor to claim copyright. A federal judge sided with the artist. It had a more contemporary face. Can you spot the difference . New york city on the left, vegas on the right. That stamp brought in more than 2 billion before it was discontinued in 2014. Sandra wow. Decide for yourself. Can you tell the difference . Is it worth 3. 5 million . To the artist it s. Sandra it will cost the post office. Leland we know how much the president loves the post office, too. Sandra all right. This is a fox news alert. Today is the deadline for the department of justice to turn over documents detailing the f. B. I. s russia investigation. The house giving the department a week to do so. Lawmakers looking over those records seeing if it meets the demands of their subpoena. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live in washington with the latest. A source close to the process tells fox news that the newly available records do not fully comply with congressional house subpoenas and barring new developments they dont meet the House Resolution deadline. Trey gowdy and nunes and goodlatte requested the records. House staffers viewed the records thursday at the Justice Department because lawmakers were out of town for the holiday recess. Subpoena was issued in april for a key set of records focused on f. B. I. Activities before the f. B. I. Russia case officially opened on july 31st, 2016. The source said the Justice Department and f. B. I. Had not provided all records or information about this critical time period when the russia collusion case was opened. A former official said the records go to the heart of the issue. What put all of this into motion and, of course, was what put all of this into motion something that was politically motivated or based on legitimate Law Enforcement evidence . Based on the hearing and the back and forth weve seen over the last few months were in an unusual and disturbing situation where there has been a complete breakdown and fracture of trust. Christopher wray along with Rod Rosenstein were on capitol hill last week and face new pressure to comply after the passage of a nonbinding House Resolution. The next step will unfold when Congress Returns next week and find out whether lawmakers are serious about moving forward on contempt. Sandra were learn that Robert Mueller is hiring more prosecutors. A source close to the matter confirmed that more lawyers and employees from the Justice Department as well as u. S. Attorneys have been brought on to the special counsel case but they cautioned against drawing conclusions that this signaled an expansion of the russia case. They saw it more as an effort by mueller to parse out parts of the investigation unrelated to russia that will live on once the special counsel case is closed and pointed to the Michael Cohen case handled by the Southern District of new york, the case where we have yet to see the direct connection to russia during the campaign period. Sandra thank you for your reporting. Leland congressman jim jordan denying claims he knew about sexual abuse of athletes by a team doctor when he was at ohio state and how the Capitol Police are now getting involved. Sandra Chuck Schumer wanting a say in who the next Supreme Court justice is and who he suggested to President Trump. Improve our workflow. Attract new customers. 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Before the big reveal senator Chuck Schumer trying to get a word in. He called the president asking him to nominate merrick garland, president obamas nominee back in 2016. Joining me now Marc Thiessen from the Washington Post and fox news contributor. It doesnt hurt to make the phone call. Yeah, thats going to happen, chuck. Good luck with that. Sandra he is not staying out of this. One of Chuck Schumers most recent tweets. Raymond kethledge having passed the litmus test on overturning roe versus wade and striking down people with preexisting conditions in the aca. It looks like democrats are desperate to block the president s nominee. They are desperate to do it and powerless to do it and why theyre having the liberal freakout and nobody to blame but themselves. There is a 15year history of democratic miscalculations that led to this. Back in 2003 it was the democrats who did something unprecedented in judicial history. Up until that point most nominees for federal courts have been approved by bipartisan majorities. No one had been filibustered they did it to 10 of george w. Bushs. Then when they took back the senate and obama was president when republicans filibustered some of their nominees they invoked the Nuclear Option and packed the courts including the d. C. Circuit with liberal judges and then when the republicans took power back and trump appointed neil gorsuch instead of letting him through they filibustered gorsuch, somebody who was praised on the left and the right as a person of perfect temperament and intellect and integrity and so they lost that allowed republicans who didnt want to change the senate rules to have to do it. Now if they had not filibustered gorsuch they would have a lot of say in whats going on now. Instead they blew it on the Gorsuch Nomination and now republicans dont need to convince their senators to eliminate the filibuster and they can confirm him with 51 votes. It is all the democrats own fault. Sandra as you conclude your piece democrats are upset. Too bad. They should have confirmed miguel estrada. Were now being told the president has narrowed down his list for his nominees and the announcement comes monday night. How do you think the president is making his final decision, marc . I think any of the people that are on his list would be terrific Supreme Court justices and it could be somebody that could be somebody were not expecting. Of the three judges i know Brett Kavanaugh well. He is a fantastic conservative judge. Kethledge is very similar to gorsuch. Not as wellknown but has a solid judicial record. Amy Coney Barrett is very appealing for a couple of reasons. Number one, she was just confirmed by the senate. She has been thoroughly vetted and 55 sitting senators voted for her just last year. Including three democrats and including both collins and murcowski, the republican swing votes. The other thing that she has going for her she is only 46 years old. She has the longest potential tenure on the court. Donald trump said i want somebody who will serve 45, 50 years. She could serve for four or five decades on the court if she was confirmed. Sandra having written your piece about democrats desperate to block the nominee. What do you expect next week to look like after the president names the person monday . This is going to make the bourke hearings look like a kumbaya session. They are already going after her. The anticatholic bigotry on the part of the left. She is the one theyre the most worried about. Its unbelievable. And it will only get worse whoever the nominee is because they understand when trump appointed gorsuch it was basically just confirming the status quo, keeping a conservative majority. Now he is replacing a liberal swing vote who voted with the liberal block a lot in anthony kennedy. He is shifting the court potentially for 40 to 50 years with this thing. Theyre going to take everything they can. It puts their democrats in a really tough position in these red state democrats running in states that donald trump won by double digits because they will be caught between their liberal base who will be in a froth over trumps nominee and their conservative voters in the state who elected donald trump by 20 or 30 points in some cases who are going to say you vote against trumps nominee you are going down, buddy. Sandra it will be a big weekend as we anticipate the president s announcement on monday. Marc thiessen, thank you for coming on this morning and have a great weekend. Leland the Capitol Police are investigating some emails that were sent to ohio congressman jim jordan. Those emails from a former College Wrestler claim that jordan knew about the sexual abuse of athletes by a team doctor. It goes back decades to when jordan was a coach at ohio state. The congressman has denied all of the accusations. Mike emanuel, more day two of this story from washington hi, mike. A fourth former ohio state wrestler said congressman jordan knew about sexual abuse when he was a coach more than 20 years ago. One of the emails to jordan. May 6 he wrote to jordan and former Heisman Trophy winner archie griffin. 250 of my vo brothers who were raped and or sexually preyed upon daily under the buckeye banner. Then on june 15th he wrote to jordan and former ncaa official. Reverend james, the congressman who doesnt recall systemic sex abuse and never heard agent orange tell a lie and wants to be speaker of the house. Jordan continues saying he was not aware of sexual abuse allegations against an Ohio State Team doctor and says there are politics involved here. The timing is interesting. It is right after the big hearing with mr. Rosenstein. Right when there is all this talk about a speakers race. The law firm who is doing the investigation said they tried to contact us and we didnt respond. We have no record. The former wrestler says the doctors inappropriate behavior was common knowledge. It was an uncomfortable joke that the doctor wanted to give you a genital exam every time you saw him. Congressman received support from President Trump who told reporters on air force one late yesterday jim jordan is one of the most outstanding people ive met since ive been in washington i believe him 100 . The doctor at the center of the scandal died in 2005 ruled a suicide. Investigators cant ask him who knew what when, further complicating getting to the truth. Leland questions about the background of some of these accusers. More on that for sure, mike, thank you. Later tonight congressman jim jordan will speak about these accusations exclusively on fox news. Tune in as he sits down with bret baier on special report at 6 00 eastern only on the fox news channel. 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Has overwhelming leverage over north korea and their big power sponsors russia and china. The question is whether trump is willing to use that leverage. We can disarm the North Koreans peacefully but well have to do some things thought to be politically impossible. Go after chinese banks and the rest of it. Whether leland so far it seems as though while the president has talked about doing a lot of tough things as you know going after the banks, really cracking down on the chinese, putting massive military force back in south korea and putting nukes back into south korea. None of those have happened. It is right for President Trump to give kim a historic onetime shot as the president talks about. Maybe kim has made this historic decision to give up his arsenal but we shouldnt give him very much time because it has been a month since the summit. There has been a lot of negotiations before the summit. Weve had all those indications the North Koreans are continuing to produce material at an increased pace and the rest of it. This is make or break for the secretary of state. Leland do you think he needs to come home with real deliverables or they should be ready to walk away . Absolutely. We should be willing to go back to the maximum Pressure Campaign. Sanctions the North Koreans, russians and chinese. Leland the state department and others would say maximum pressure is continuing but in name only. It is not. The administration did not designate 36 russian and chinese and other entities at the end of may. Its important. North korea changes it Front Companies all the time. If you dont designate the new Front Companies the sanctions are hollowed out and because of the suspension of the military exercises. Leland fair to say the United States has taken its boot off the neck of north korea a little bit. Yes in so many different ways. Leland we have got nothing in return. Not since the end of may. Weve given all the concessions since then and kim has gotten a lot and not giving up anything yet. Leland if you want to use the food metaphor. We know how much kim jongun enjoys his food and wine. He continues to build more missiles and ill go on a diet, i promise. Going on Weight Watchers soon. He hasnt. Thats because the president has given him this opportunity of trying to create an atmosphere of goodwill. Unfortunately the North Koreans dont react good to goodwill. They say thats a sign of weakness and try to press the advantage. President trump will have to go back to the maximum Pressure Campaign and get better results after he does that. Leland why would he get better results the Second Time Around . If you follow the administrations logic maximum pressure is what got us to singapore. Why would we need round two and expect a different result . First time we were signaling the North Koreans, chinese and russians we could do. We took steps and convinced the North Koreans they had to move in a better direction. And now they said it is the cookie jar. We can go back to the maximum Pressure Campaign and do it better this time. We have the tools to do it, leland. I think the president has the political will. In the long term im optimistic. Right now it doesnt look good the way things have been going over the last several weeks. Leland its midnight in north korea now. Secretary of state pompeo will wake up in eight hours for them to begin round two of negotiations. Rich edson is in tokyo reporting on it. Gordon chang, always appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Sandra 10 minutes away from outnumbered. What is coming up melissa and kennedy . Big news on the economy. More jobs added than expected. Trade deficit in may down to the lowest in 19 months as china and mexico hit back at President Trumps tariffs. Will his America First move pay off . I hope so. The president reportedly narrowing his Supreme Court picks to just three candidates. A very short list. Democrats vowing to fight whoever it is. Will that be too risky for democrats running in red states where trump won . All that and one lucky guy. Outnumbered at the top of the hour. Sandra happy friday. New evacuations out west as raging wildfires destroy homes and shut down highways. Crews fighting flames spreading fast in windy, hot weather. We all want to know about the new thing. You know, the new, new thing. With xfinitys retail stores, you can now see the latest. Want to test drive the latest devices . Be our guest. Want to save on mobile . Just ask. Want to demo the latest innovations and technology . Do it here. Come see how were making things simple, easy, and awesome. Plus come in today and ask about Xfinity Mobile, a new kind of network designed to save you money. Visit your local xfinity store today. 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Colorado dealing with the most and the largest, the spring creek fire as it is called where crews on scene described a tsunami of fire 300 feet high. This is the Third Largest in state history with more than 100,000 acres burned upwards of 250 homes destroyed. It has been moving so quickly firefighters have had to follow it. Rain is in the forecast today which helps. There is a concern about flash floods. Colorados governor is visiting the area today. As well as the Lake Christine fire near the snow mass in aspen ski areas. A number of homes have already been lost. Firefighters are trying to limit further destruction and residents are grateful. The smoke, the anxiety and the danger, the rocks that they have to climb and go up and down and its nonstop appreciation. In utah the dollar ridge fire is moving fast east of provo and burned 90 homes and threatening 1,000 more. Along the california, oregon fire. Jerry brown declared a state of emergency. Going back to colorado. 10,000 feet high in the colorado mountains a tornado near the town of fair play. No damage but close enough to the fires that it did get crews attention and everyone else who lives there. It is so rare. Sandra thank you. Leland President Trump had a rally last night. You saw it here live talking about his Supreme Court pick. He will make the announcement monday night and says, quote, were all going to like it. So more on the short list and a fourth name recently added coming up. No matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. Call one today. Are you in good hands . Todays Senior Living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. And theres never been an easier way to get great advice. 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Thanks. Its been great. Have a wonderful weekend. Outnumbered starts now. Fox news alert for you. The economy, the Labor Department reporting employers added 213,000 jobs in june. Its higher than expected. On the same day, the Trump Administration started imposing new tariffs on chinese imports, the jobs gain shows the economic expansion is on solid ground. Im melissa francis. We have kennedy herself. Also from fbn, dagen mcdowell. We have jessica tarlov. And sirius xm host, david webb. Hes outnumbered on this friday. You ready . Im