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Mexico beach home, one out of three was 65 years old or older. The size of the town but two square miles. 20 people were rescued overnight. Today the governor of florida, rick scott, is saying dont even try to go back. Mexico beach or what is left of it is largely inaccessible by land as fox reports this hour. The scene like one resident described it, something right out of a war zone. Nothing left. Foundations and lots of trucks in the roads as they try to get the power back on and see if they can rebuild this Beach Community just east of panama city, just east of Tyndall Air Force base, just east of where the eye wall came ashore and changed the landscape in this tiny sliver of northwest florida. Mexico beach as they knew it is gone. Thats just some of what were seeing the day after the hurricane. Im Shepard Smith in new york and this is Shepard Smith reporting. I want to show you that same canal, the same canal as it looked yesterday. Heres mexico beach just east of panama city. I rotated it. This is that canal where the drone came. Houses on either side. Boats in their docks and in their slips. Then it took a turn, remember, headed out towards the ocean. All of this, all of this is gone. Today teams are looking for survivors while others start the long and tedious process of figuring out what they can salvage and how to some day recover and potentially rebuild. Some more images from the ground in mexico beach are striking, startling. Homes obliterated. So little left standing. Weve heard a lot of harrowing stories from people that made the decision to ride out this monster category four storm almost category five that came ashore with maximum sustained winds at 155 miles an hour. With gusts more than that. So strong it knocked out the gauges which record the wind. We heard some stories including one from a man that says he thought he would be safe in a second story condo. It just came fast. Just came in so fast. The surf came in. When it did, the houses that we were facing on the beach, it destroyed them. Rose up half of the parking garage to the first floor. Busted the glass siding doors. We had to go to the fourth floor. When the storm came, it was so fast, you couldnt see anything. The rain and the wind was so strong. You didnt know what was going on around you. Once it subsided, you saw the devastation. Tears on a sunny day after. To give you an idea what the storm surge was like, look at this. Video from st. George island. Its a Barrier Island off the coast of apalachicola. On the dirty side of the hurricane with the worst of the storm surge obviously. This is someones front yard. Here it looks more like the gulf of mexico. Filled with huge chunks of debris. Take a look at this drone video of a middle school in panama city. Remember, the eastern side of panama city got it much worse. Panama city beach is on the west, this is from the city proper. Can you imagine . The wind peeled open the roof and ripped off the side of the gym, a storm chaser flew a drone inside. The volleyball net is still there. The wind blew the other side of the gym out. Listen to a survivor that hunkered down. We ran to the bathroom. We stayed in the shower. Once the roof ripped off, it pulled us out of there. The wind was like pulling us out. I thought these walls would go next. It didnt. Thank god. Shepard Hurricane Michael was just shy of a category five and go down in the most powerful hurricane in history to slam the florida panel. We have Live Team Coverage with mike tobin. Describe it, if you can. One thing that is staggering is the expanse of the destruction. We had to pull about 25 minutes out of mexico beach so we could get a signal out. Im in callaway right now. You can see roofing that got wrapped around the gas pumps here. You talk about ground zero. Its difficult to say one place got hit harder than the other. Lets show you pictures from ground zero, mexico beach. Yesterday this was someones house. Now following this destructive power of Hurricane Michael is an empty slap foundation. Looking around mexico beach, frankly i cant count the number of houses that have been ripped down to the foundation or ripped off of their foundation that brings up a point. The destructive power of this hurricane looks a lot like what we usually see with a tornado. A tornado is very focused in its intensity. The amount of ground it covers. What were seeing with this hurricane is the destruction, just stretches for miles and miles. The destruction is plain to see here in mexico beach. What is unknown right now is the human toll. The mayor here tells me that some 280 people plus elected to ride out the storm in their homes. Right now theres no way to communicate with these people. Theres no way to account for them. Search and rescue is underway. The other big job is clearing the roads to make that search and rescue possible. Theres a tremendous amount of debris in the roadway. Again, very, very powerful storm that came ashore. One of the things that we noticed driving in with the hurricane, you see the ground gets soft and trees get tipped over because the roots cant hold them up anymore. What we saw driving in here is miles and miles of trees snapped off at the trunk. A powerful demonstration of how much force this hurricane brought ashore. The other big site are the power lines down in the roadway. This is all over this section of the panhandle. We drove in on i10. We saw hundreds and hundreds of power trucks that were staging. They had come in from out of state. Its going to take awhile to get the power lining back up and working and get power restored. It unfortunate. As you heard from the leaders, theyre going to have to be patient, shep. Shepard very quickly. I10 has been closed about 80 miles of it so they can clear out debris. Do we know if its reopened . It looked like they were making progress. I saw it in the Early Morning hours when the it was closed and we had to come over through the local roads. I havent had an opportunity to go back. What you have is an overwhelming amount of debris in the roads. Shepard so far north of the beach, too. We have other new aerials in from mexico beach. In from wjax tv. The pictures are just mind altering. There were homes in all of these locations. Keep in mind, a little less than 1,100 people lived there. A lot of these homes were older and not build up to code. This isnt fancy Tourist Destination like you might see in panama city. Largely these are people that lived here for generations. A lot of people make these their homes year round in mexico beach. Everything they knew and everything they have known for generations is just gone. All of the boats that were there are lifted up on to the land. Roofs are knocked off. At one point in the street, in the main street going through town, a home in the middle of the street. We heard from one man that said theres furniture in my house that is not mine. I dont know where it came from. Remember, mexico beach is to the east where the eye came ashore. The Northeast Quadrant is the very worst of the wind, especially of the waves and the storm surge. So it was the storm surge that came through with the wind. Mike was reporting live from callaway. Callaway is on the other side where the storm came ashore. On the western eye wall. If you were with us yesterday, you could see the eye wall along callaway, which is basically an eastern suburb of panama city. So theres damage in panama city that is extensive. Panama city beach is to the east of there. Thats the economic engine of the entire area. You heard the mayor of Panama City Beach said we were so lucky. One mans luck is another mans horror. Thats the case today. Mexico beach, 1,100 mighty sad people today. The Major Population Centers were largely spared. Theres no electricity. The roads are covered. Theres so much destruction. Thats what a Franklin County chairman told a local newspaper. Hurricane michael slammed the county, which includes the city of apalachicola. East of the storm. The storm surge incredible. About 30 miles south of where the hurricane made landfall. They had an eightfoot storm surge. The commissioner there said it could be a couple weeks before months before they get their power back. Phil keating is there is at east point where he rode out the storm. Phil . Shep, were just across the bridge here at east point. The damage is extensive according to sheriffs. Its worse over here than in apalachicola or st. Georges island. This is an oyster processing facility. Four or five foot storm surge. Breaking the back door and crumbled the walls. The dock was picked up by the water. Heres the family restaurant. Its trashed at this point. It will take months to get that fixed up. The biggest concern is getting laborers around here to help him put it back together. Heres his son in the backhoe. This is what hes been doing. Scooping up oyster shells. This morning you couldnt drive on u. S. 98. It was covered with mounds of oyster shells. After a long eight or nine hours of work today, the highway is passable, at least in part. Once you get further up the road,down cant drive any further. Pieces of lane have crumbled because of the storm surge. Other parts of the highway have buckled making it undrivable. So that stretch of roadway between east point and carabelle will be closed for a while. Everybody will have to take another route to get to tallahassee at this point. It will be a big dent in normalcy, shep. Shepard and you said apalachicola made out worse . Apalach had it worse yesterday for sure. Super powerful winds. Getting close to 90, 100 miles an hour. The storm surge was eight or nine feet where we were. Of course the relentless rains. The water went down pretty fast last night and today. A lot of mud on the streets. A lot of homes suffered some damage. One roof ripped off and hit a building. People are cleaning up over there today. The maybe problem in apalachicola is theres no sewage service, theres no sun is bright blue and hot and 85 degrees today. The cleanup just beginning. Phil keating, thank you. Breaking news now on the other big story were covering across all of our platforms. Here on fox news, the dow has been on a steady dive. Down as much as 600 points at one point. Its continuing to slide. Well get the latest from the fox business network, a washing post columnist missing and feared dead in turkey. Accusations that one of our closest allies that saudi arabia is responsible for his death. Theres word the crown prince himself planned to lure the writer into a trap. 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Today is different though. Let me tell you how its different. Yesterday it was concentrated in technology. We saw lots and lots of tech stocks which lead the mark higher, go lower yesterday. Today is a Different Group of stocks down. So its energy, stocks like exxon, integrated majors. The stocks are down and down hard. Shepard what is that about . Oil prices are down. Shepard were worried about saudi arabia. Its part of it. This idea that Global Growth wont be so growth. What fuels growth . Oil. Shepard oil down is good for the gas pump prices. Good for americans. Everyday folks ought to be happy. And the other thing, big banks are down. This is confounding. We got a positive report on inflation meaning that inflation was not as high as we thought it was going to be. Shepard great. Banks make money in a high inflation environment. Not so much now. You know, the big names, the red banks, the blue bank, theyre all struggling today about 3 down. Im talking about j. P. Morgan chase shepard for people on fixed incomes, theyve been waiting for a place to put money. Treasury bonds, close to 3 over three months. Thats better than weve seen in a long time. So you have to think that the products for sabers will improve as well over time. They havent done that much yet. Were expecting to see more and proper improvement there. Let me tell you, another interesting thing going on today. Some of the techs, facebook and netflix in bear market territory. What does that mean . Down 20 or more from their highs. Google and amazon firmly now in correction territory. Amazon, as you know, has had this stellar performance. So the fact that theyre down 10 is, you know it is what it is, right . Shepard yes. Doesnt stop the boxes from coming. And now down 284, 287. Thats not the direction you want but its better than down 500 what is what it was. Shepard an hour ago, we were down 600 going oh, whats happening now . Recovering. I like it. Great to see you. Same to you. Shepard ahead an update on the washing post columnist who has been missing a week and feared murdered. Reports that the top saudi officials planned to trick him to come in their country so they could detain him or something. Well talk to a reporter covering this for a newspaper as lawmakers saying theyre preparing for the worst. Its possible that hes alive someplace. I hope that he is. I dont have any hope. Very unlikely that he left alive. Its time for the United States to actually lay down some consequences for the saudis. On renters insurance o ce man 1 behind wall yep, geico helped me with renters insurance, too um. The walls seem a bit thin. Man 2 behind wall they are and craig practices the accordion every night says the guy who sings karaoke by himself. Im a very shy singer. Youre tone deaf ehh. Should we move on to the next one . Its a great building youll love it here we have mixers every thursday. Geico®. Its easy to switch and save on homeowners and renters insurance. woman glearned ao playy tsecond language. E applied to college. Applied for a loan. Started a business. Started a blog. Shared a picture. Shared a moment. Turn your wish list into a checklist. Learn more. Do more. Share more. At home, with internet essentials. Shepard the crown prince of saudi arabia had a plan to lure a reporter to saudi arabia so they could detain him. Thats according to the post. U. S. Officials are familiar with intelligence that shows saudi involvement in the writers disappearance. His name is jamal khaishoggi. Hes been missing a week. Hes been a critic of the saudi government. Heres what turkish officials say. They believe a Saudi Security team murdered him at the saudi arabia consulate in istanbul. Theres video of him going in the building but nobody going out. Theres breaking news as i speak. Heather nauert is discussing this matter. Lets listen live. The secretary released a statement earlier this week. The Vice President has talked about this, the president has talked about, this were all concerned about his whereabouts. We dont have any information on his whereabouts right now or what happened to him. As you can see, any time you turn on the news, you open the newspaper, theres a lot of speculation and a ton of rumors out there. Were making determinations and watching this for facts. We dont have the facts yet. So were going to hold back on our comments until we have concrete information that the u. S. Government can share. We dont have that information at this point right now. An investigation is underway and were not going to get ahead of that. The turks and the turkey has announced theyre going to join in or take part in some kind of working group of saudis to shed light on what happened. Is this something that you might be involved in or something you would welcome . Secondly, i wanted to follow up on a question let me take that part. We welcome a thorough and transparent investigation. Weve been extremely clear about that. I can also add another piece of information, that we have communicated with the saudi ambassador to the United States. Its my understanding that hes on his way back to saudi arabia. We have said to him that we expect information upon his return to the United States when and if we have Additional Information to bring you, well bring it right away. Its your understanding did you tell him we did not. That was not at our direction. I cant speak on behalf of that government. I can tell you that im told that hes headed back to his home country and we expect information when he gets back. Have you told him not to bother come back unless he has an explanation . Not now. The u. S. Government is extremely concerned about this situation. This has the highest attention i just want to know, when you getter get back, you better have we would like information. We have not been shy about that. Last one and ill shut up. Yesterday i ask robert and other people did, too, about this reports about intelligence that you guys may or may not reports that you had intelligence that there might be some harm that came to him. He gave kind of cryptic answer at first and said that you had no advanced notice of his disappearance and then when i pushed him and said does that mean you didnt have any advanced notice that anything bad might happen to him, not disappearance necessarily, he said we had no advanced notice. So i want to clarify, does that mean you had no advanced notice of or no intelligence or any information and anything that might possibly could happen to him at the consulate . Almost never do you hear us talk about matters of intelligence here at the state department. Im not going to get into those matters. An investigation is underway. I have nothing to add beyond what robert said yesterday here from that podium. Were going to let the investigation take place. The United States government will continue to offer its support. We will provide information based on facts, based on information that we have and when we dont have facts, we wont bring them to you. Be mindful of the speculation and a lot of rumors out there and lets wait until we can get solid information. Okay . Leslie. Thanks very much. [inaudible] back the riyadh or was he recalled like i said, my understanding is hes on his way back there. We said when you come back, we need a report from him. Right. So the message from the u. S. Is like is from him, bring us what the saudis know or the outcome of an investigation or im confused. Theres no reason to be confused. Okay . Theres an investigation underway. Correct. Were not going to get ahead of that investigation. Well let that investigation play out. I know theres a lot of people that want answers at this point. Understandably so. Were not going to get ahead of those investigations. Bring us whatever information you have when you return. Well go from there. Is that above what the secretary as well as bolton discussed with the crown prince yesterday . What does that mean . Meaning yesterday bolton two institutions in the government spoke to the crown prince yesterday. Were they not satisfied with what they were told . Look, obviously we have multiple agencies and departments in the United States government that are paying close attention to this issue. So i would not make the assumption that we didnt get satisfactory answers and therefore required another level correct. This is obviously an interagency effort. Oka okay . I dont have more for you on that. Were not going to let this go on and on. Im not going to speculate to you. Saudi ambassador left because of this incident or was he planning on going okay. Third time. Third time. We did not request that he would go. Okay . He went over there. My understanding is hes going over there. Any Additional Information on that, id have to refer you to the saudi government. We said when you come back, provide us a report and a read out of what you learned. Who spoke with him from state . I dont have information for you on that we had exchanges at multiple levels. The other question was Reporters Without Borders requested that the u. N. Step in to have an investigation into this. Is that something that the im not aware of it. Youre telling me about that. Thats the first generally speaking im just not aware of that. Some folks on the hill are saying that arms assistance should be at risk because of this. The president spoke about that today. Is it the position of the state department thats not on the table . Youre jumping to conclusions. This is entirely a hypothetical situation at this point. We dont know what happened. We dont have the facts of the case. We want to learn what happened. The president has said that. The secretary state has said that. Ambassador bolton has said that. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Understandably its understandable that congress and others are concerned. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Barbara . The guy is missing. Absolutely. We dont know what happened. Lets wait and determine what happened. Barbara . Republican senators yesterday were going and looking at u. S. Intelligence related to this case. Bob corker said it made the turkish accounts look convincing. Barbara, i would not im wondering if secretary pompeo has seen the same intelligence . Barbara, we dont do intelligence out of this building. We do diplomacy. We try to do intelligence one clarifying question. A lot of speculation or reporting on what mr. Khaishoggis immigration status is. Can you clarify at all whether or not he is a lawful resident, if hes under visa we dont discuss visas. Shepard the long and short of it is, theres no certitude on what happened to this man. You heard the reporter say that bob corker of tennessee said it looks like the turkish intelligence is accurate. Its the turks that say that he walked into the Saudi Embassy and consulate and never came out. Theres apparently intelligence that Heather Nauert didnt want to talk about, she snapped at rich edson about obviously. This is a touchy subject. A man is missing. A permanent resident of the United States is missing. It sounds like a Foreign Government may be responsible for it. As it turns out, that Foreign Government is a close ally. Complicating matters, the crown prince of saudi arabia is very close to President Trumps soninlaw and Senior Adviser jared kushner. The president said the United States plans to get to the bottom of this. Listen. Were looking at it very strongly. Well have a record out soon. Were working with turkey and saudi arabia. What happened is a terrible thing assuming it happened. Maybe well be pleasantly surprised. Somehow i tend to doubt it. We take it very seriously. Shepard this morning the president called in to the morning show and said that relations with saudi arabia are excellent but he said that could be jeopardized if the saudis murdered this columnist. Could be jeopardized in the saudis murdered him. Benjamin hall is live in turkey, about 20 miles south of istanbul. To you now. Shep, we heard the state department down playing everything urging caution before we hear more facts. In turkey, theres a geo political Storm Brewing and a lot of pressure from this side for the u. S. To get more involv involved. We have to look at the evidence. The only evidence that we have available is what the turkish media has released. They released the images of the saudi hit squad, 15 of them that flew in private jet on the day that khaishoggi came in. They checked in to hotels and among them, a forensic expert and one intelligence officer. They arrived at the consulate hours before khaishoggi did. He was there for an appointment to collect divorce papers. They left a few hours after he did. President trump responded today. Something like that shouldnt happen. Its a reporter with the washington post. Something like that should not be allowed to happen and shouldnt happen and we intend to get to the bottom of it. Saudi arabia we must stress denies any involvement. They allowed reporters inside the consulate saying they have nothing to hide. That khaishoggi had left via a back door. They didnt know where he was. However, investigators have not been allowed in there. Saudi arabia claims the turks are trying to drive a wedge between the u. S. And saudi arabia. That relations between the two countries are so good that turkey wants to break it up. Now 22 senators from both sides of the aisle have signed a letter to push President Trump to have an investigation. As a result of the growing accusations, President Trump has been asked if he would consider stopping arms sales to saudi arabia. He said he thought not and jobs depend on it. The crown prince lobbying hard, calling the president personally and speaking to john bolton, secretary pompeo. A sense from the saudis that they need to work on this and theyre worried if this turns out the wrong way, shep. Shepard ben hall live for us in turkey with this controversy that is brewing. Lets go to shane harris now, intelligence and National Security reporter for the washington post. Hes been covering this from them. The state department, you heard the live briefing from Heather Nauert. Theyre in a lets way and see mode. Yeah, definitely. I think that is interesting considering that obviously theres a lot of investigation going on. Certainly by the turks who im and who set in motion this plan to try to lure jamal khaishoggi back to saudi arabia before he was eventually assaulted at the consulate in istanbul. Shepard its the reporting of the post that he was directly responsible for that sort of lure and trap operation. What is the evidence of that, if you can share it with our viewers. As we understand, its been described as intercepts. So communications among saudi officials that u. S. Intelligence intercepted. So were essentially grabbing their calls or seeing their messages if you will. This was described to us by people that have knowledge of the information and what it says. Theres a separate stream of this that is very important. Also during the summer when we think the plan was put in motion according to the intercepts, jamal khaishoggi himself was getting phone calls from senior people in the saudi government, close to mohammed, trying to cokes him to come back, offering assurances of safety and antetokounmpo could be offered a job working for the crown prince. We heard these accounts from friends that were with jamal khaishoggi when he got the calls or shortly after. We can see from the intelligence that the americans have, officials talking about mohammed bin salam wants this plan put in place and the outreach in the summertime period when the saudis were trying to coax jamal khaishoggi back. Shepard its hard to imagine how this saudi arabia has remained as it has, 15 of the 19 hijackers running into our buildings. Its mind boggling. So much we dont know, this is Tyndall Air Force base. These are the first pictures, this is the place where the hurricane a actually struck. This was ground zero. Tyndall air force base was it. This is where the worst of it came across. From here to mexico beach. These are the first pictures. Are these courtesy of dod . These are not courtesy of the department of defense. This is a flyover. So we dont have to credit the department of defense on this. You can see the damage here is widespread. Remember, the f22 raptors were taken out of there. They left some people behind. Just the overturned mobile homes that you can see there, just debris strewn all over the place. A large building with a roof off. Im seeing these for the first time with you. They were just fed in to it. This is Tyndall Air Force base. Home to a few thousand folks there. The vast majority of them evacuated. Most of the Big Equipment got out of there. What a mess along the florida panhandle. The aftermath of michael and the new pictures just keep coming in. Undescribable. Hell. You couldnt see. You look out the windows and pieces from peoples houses flying by, trees flying by. 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We have gotten word from the United States air force, base leaders dont even have an estimate when Tyndall Air Force base will be reopened. Theyre trying a short term plan there. Look at these aerials. Tyndall is a big place. 15 square miles. It opened in 1941 as a gunnery change. Right now before yesterday at least, 2,700 people lived on base. 663 households there. Of all people that lived there, 81 of the households had minor children. Children under the age of 18. So theyre all out those are i believe these jets are the ones on display like as you come in. These were display jets on stands as you drive in to tyndall. Ive been there dozens of times. That was the on display jets. Even those were toppled. The f22 raptors based there were taken out of there. Tyndall is home to the 325th fighter wing, the 44th Fighter Group and the 95th fighter squadron. About 2,700 people live there. If you were with us yesterday, we looked at a groundbased radar that showed where the storm was going to go over. Certainly the worst of the storm surge was just to the eastern eye wall. It always is. That is how hurricanes work with accountser clockwise circulation. Coming on shore from the south on the eastwest beach. So the worst of the storm surge would have been to the right of those walls. Thats over there in mexico beach. Thats what you saw wiped out by the storm surge. The eye wall with the 155 miles an hour sustained winds almost a category five came barrelling through here about two minutes to 2 00 p. M. Eastern time yesterday. Tyndall took the brunt of it all. No estimate on when Tyndall Air Force base will reopen. At the top of the hour, we showed you unbelievable images from a drone in panama cities a it flew through a ruined school building. Take a look at the drone as the drone leaves jinx middle school. Jinx is on the eastern side of town. You can see tornoff roofs and shredded buildings all over there. Similar scenes at ground level. Blocked. Management teams in their message to survivors, stay put and stand by. Panama city is to the east. The 27 city beach are well west of there. It was the city proper that got the worse. Rick leventhal is there. Rick, they started evacuating hospitals early this morning. Yeah, two hospitals. Just in panama city and a bunch more like 35 in total across florida. Nursing homes and urgent care facilities because they have no pow power, no water. The difference between Panama City Beach and panama city is remarkable. We did not have to look for scenes like this one very hard. Pretty much everywhere we went it looks like this. With massive trees down, blocking roads, hundreds of roads blocked across panama city alone. Lines down everywhere. Power is out to all of these next. The water is not running. Theres trees on homes. This one has two on it. A woman just told us she had like 15 trees down in her front yard and seven more in the back. The folks here have their chainsaws out, trying to get stuff cleaned up. You can see vehicles down the road there. Police went down there, rescue crews looking for people that might need help. Shep, a Law Enforcement source here in panama city said theres five deaths in this one county. There could be more. They have not started housetohouse searches. The death toll will climb without a doubt. The cleanup and the issues theyre dealing with her are, as you said, weeks if not months. They are telling people dont come back. If you evacuated, stay out. Its not safe to travel. Theyre trying to clear the roads and keep them up for First Responders and utility crews to get the power back on. This guys house. A tree snapped. Power lines are down. He was on his roof trying to repair it. If you look down the street, its just property after property that has trees down, snapped off, lines down, roads blocked. We cant tell enough about just how bad things are here. Its going to be a long time before its right. Shepard isnt it astounding that ten miles makes, rick . Yeah, its remarkable. It wasnt that bad in Panama City Beach. It was a hurricane. It was blowing us around and knocked signs down and utility poles there. I cant get over how bad it is here. Again, its block after block. Its not just this one block. Its all over this town it looks like this. Shepard just really astounding. Rick leventhal on scene. Remember, yesterday we said the eastern side of panama city, the western eye wall scraped the eastern side of panama city. We said callaway a bedroom community. A lot of young families in there. Get crews to callaway. Well know about panama city when we see callaway. Now weve seen it. Also, kanye. 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She made the comment with abc news. Hes been in Office Almost two years, has he had people that you didnt trust working for him . Yes. Did you let him know . I let him know. What did he do . With some people, they dont work there anymore. Its very difficult sometimes because im so busy with my office, i dont get involved with the west wing. You think theres still people there that he trust . Yes. Still working now . Yes. Shepard throughout the president s time in the white house, theres many leaks and staff shakeups. The president responded to the first ladys comments on a call to fox and friends. We have great people working there now. Are there some im not in love with . Yes. Wed weed them out slowly but surely. Shepard and then there was kanye west that paid a visit to the oval office this afternoon. It was lake nothing really ever that ever happened like i had seen on tv, not in an oval. I never heard anybody say the words mfer. But they were said. Right there. Gave a tenminute monologue that was it was. John roberts heard it. Hes on the north lawn. Do you have words for that thing that was a thing in there . Lets just say it was one of the more unique moments ive seen covering this white house. Ive covered the white house between different administrations for nine years. A lot of times when the president invites friends over like with jim brown, kanye west today, the meetings are private. The president invited in the White House Press pool to witness everything. The president said to kanye west as introducing the session, have something to say, kanye . He didnt stop for ten minutes. Like my hold colleague warner wolf said, lets go to the videotape. There was something about when i put this hat on, made me feel like superman. My dad and my mom separated. I didnt have a lot of male energy. If he dont look good, we dont look good. This is our president. He has to be the precious, the fliest, the fliest plane. He might have a [bleep] like kanye west to support. Youre tasting a fine wine. I love this guy right here. Let me give this guy i love this guy right here. Amen. You know, kanye west does have a lot of critics for President Trump. He got a lot of grief for wearing the make America Great hat on saturday night live. Hes a very successful entrepreneur and has a lot to say, shep. Shepard the president talked about Jeff Sessions as well today. Yes. Its a question that has been asked over and over on fox and friends, what do you plan to do about Jeff Sessions. The president doesnt plan to do anything about Jeff Sessions until after the midterms. After the midterms, its anybodys guess. As to Rod Rosenstein who has been talked about quite often in the last couple weeks, the president said he was surprised that rosenstein didnt show up to testify after the firm denial that rosenstein gave the president that he had any involvement in a plot to take the president out using the 25th amendment. 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Were off over with susan li of the nasdaq who is taking another big hit and about to make his remember. Were outside the nyse on the selloff and investors taking it on the chin. John roberts at the white house with the president taking on the federal reserve. And katherine is in miami to say, you know what . Everybody take a deep breath. We begin with susan li outside nasdaq. I guess were close to