Meeting. When the president speaks, hes expected to speak after the meeting, we will bring you those remarks. Good evening. President trump pushing House Republicans to get this done, passing Immigration Reform plan this week. Foxes learned the compromise bill that the house leadership has crafted would take steps to address the parent and child being separated at the border issue, what is become the critical topic here on capitol hill. If you happen to be a poor person, were going to yank that baby out of the mothers arms. Democrats blasting President Trump for blaming congress over parents being separated from their children. That is a load of crap. It really its just wrong. Give me a break. Everybody knows that. Senator Republican Leaders are hopeful they can address the narrow issue as soon as this week. We are going to fix the problem. The president says we need to act. Democrats say we need to act and we say we need to act. When that happens, we act. On a democratic leader sas the president should handle it. Him mr. President , i will lend you my pen, any pen. You can fix it yourself. Orrin hatch circulating a letter calling for a pause on family separations until congress has time to pass a legislative fix. Hatch argues family should not have to suffer while Congress Takes the time to get this done right. Border state republicans say that the answer is handling families in a sympathetic way. We need to enforce the law but do so in a way that keeps Families Together in a humane, compassionate way. It is a complex problem. Not enforcing the law is not an option, at least for me. There is at least some bipartisan agreement. If you detain them, detain them as a family unit. If you send one back, send them all back. Senate judiciary says President Trump must be on board with any legislative fix on immigration. The leader will not bring up any immigration bills that the administration is not committed to signing. Even if we got 60 60 votes ande president wont sign it, its not going to come up. In hearings, the issue remains a dominant topic. Are you not shaken by the voices and faces of the children torn away from their families . Of course i am but i am also shaken by the stories i hear about parents dragging their little kids do the desert. Are you aware there is a political component which could put democrats up for reelection in red states in jeopardy. Senate democrats have signed onto a bill bill offered by californias Dianne Feinstein who admits it would not allow arrests within 100 miles of the border. If that bothers susan comeau will take it out. And a house hearing, the Top Democrats meet this appeal. We need you to join us and telling him. This mean policy. The timing of all of this heading into Midterm Campaign season makes it a redhot political issue. As you know, not easy to solve. Bret the feinstein bill, does it have a chance of getting through . Politically. Joe donnelly and Heidi Heitkamp and jon tester in all these red state democrats up for reelection, to sign onto that bill, that is potentially politically jeopardizing. I have talked to republican sources who say they think the democrat senators were looking for an exit ramp from the issue. It will be interesting to see how much this is played over and over again. Bret thank you. To the white house where President Trump was earlier today railing against the democratic plan. He says it would infest the u. S. With Illegal Immigrants would vote against republicans. The president s words. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is there again on the north lawn. Good evening. The president will spend his time on capitol hill twisting arms in support of the two immigration bills before the house, talking with republicans tonight about the importance of getting at least one of those measures through. Officially the white house supports both of them but the compromise bill is the one they would more likely like to see past. The president thing these bills, at least one of them come are needed to end the crisis of families being separated on the border. President trump will need all his dealmaking skills to pull this one off, leveraging the horribly unpopular idea of separating children from their families at the border in order to get congress to move on immigration form. As a result of democrats supported loopholes in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors from Central America who arrived unlawfully at the border cannot be detained together. The president is blaming democrats but it was his administrations decision to invoke a zerotolerance policy of the border. President trump insisting that years of Previous White House is not enforcing the law has had a profoundly detrimental effect on the nation. Roughly half a million illegal immigrant family units and minors from Central America have been released into the United States since 2014. Act unbelievably great taxpayer expense. The president is pushing congress to make changes to the law to allow children to stay with her parents during the prosecution or deportation process. He also wants a 25 billion commitment to build a border wall and broader Immigration Reforms. We want them to come in through the process, through the legal system, and we want ultimately a meritbased system where people come in based on merit. In a Conference Call this morning, officials from Homeland Security at health and Human Services said 2,342 children have been separated from their parents in the month between ma. They insisted the children are being well cared for but they contradicted the dhs secretary who said the zero tolerance policy was not adopted to discourage illegal immigration. We expect that the new policy will result in a deterrence effect. We certainly hope that parents stop bringing their kids on this dangerous journey and entering the country illegally. 21 of the children removed from their parents are mexican. The zerotolerance policy drew an official response from mexicos Foreign Relations secretary today. Calling it cruel and inhumane. President trump firing back that mexico is only too quick to allow migrants from Central America to pass through mexico as long as they are bound for the United States. Mexico does nothing for us. You hear it here. They do nothing for us. They could stop it. They have very, very strong laws. Try staying in mexico for a couple days. See how long that lasts. The majority of families subject to separation are from honduras, guatemala, and el salvador. President trump today said in the same speech that hes going to go to congress for authorization to withhold u. S. Aid from countries that dont take steps to curb the flow of illegal migrants. Bret the white house had an announcement on health care today. This was well received by the National Federation of independent business, the body to which the president was speaking, saying hes taking steps to authorize Small Businesses to band together and Health Care Associations which would allow them the purchasing power of numbers to buy Health Insurance at lower costs. Listen. For the first time ever, sole proprietors will be able to come together and buy lower cost Group Insurance instead of getting ripped off by this disaster that we all know as obamacare. While Small Businesses seem to appreciate the effort, there are critics who say this is going to lead to Substandard Health Coverage for people who are in Sole Proprietorships or Small Businesses and only seek to further weaken obamacare. Bret we will follow it. Thank you. The administration getting pressure from virtually all sites tonight to end the practice of separating children from their parents at the border. National correspondent william la jeunesse is in san diego again tonight. We are going to end catch and release. From the campaign trail to the oval office, trumps rhetoric on immigration always seemed like a winner but now even his supporters say hes gone too far. No one wants to see family separated. I think President Trump said he doesnt want to see family separated. See or hear. [sobbing] republicans support trump in reforming laws but when it comes to ending catch and release which in this case means separating and detaining children apart from their parents, pictures and sound of them crying as political dynamite. I have not talked to a Single Person who looked at those images and said its necessary. Thats the only way were going to succeed in slowing down the inflow of immigrants. Republicans, even immigration hawks who complained for years for lax enforcement, abandoned the president on this issue. Speak live zerotolerance for anything that separates familie families. Clearly, utah has strong feelings. This practice at the border is inhumane, and we which it which would stop. 10,000 clergy signed a letter urging the white house to back down for the church of latterday saints says they are deeply troubled by the zerotolerance policy. Across the country, rallies against trump. The governors of massachusetts and new york will no longer send their National Guard to the border. Today the governor of virginia recalled his. Utahs governor called the policy inhumane, while in colorado, no state funds can be used to shelter immigrants. The amount of trauma that these people have endured is unspeakable. And to make them go through that even more is just actually the worst thing i could imagine. While the administration blames democrats, two new polls show many voters blame the president. 75 . When polls talk, politicians listen. Bret william la jeunesse. Let me tell you. We are hearing all kinds of things from different folks. What are the Border Patrol agents telling you . How do they feel about it . They want to see consequences. They want to see someone send a message if you come here illegally, you break the law, they want to see those consequences. Otherwise there is no disincentive for the next person not to try the same thing. Bret william, thank you. Up next, new trade tensions between the u. S. And china sends World Markets into a nosedive. Is this the beginning of the fullscale trade war . We will look at it. Heres what some of our fox affiliates are on the country are covering. Fox 2 in detroit. More than 120 Sexual Assault victims of former sports dr. Larry nassar demanding university of michigans governing board remove the interim school president. They say he has reinforced the culture of abuse at msu. He is a former twoterm republican governor of michigan. Fox 9 in the twin cities. A dam on the Tamarack River causes flooding. One person has died in the flooding in northern wisconsin. The 75yearold mans body was found 60 feet from his pickup which had been swept off the road into a ditch. Live look from st. Louis. The big story there, Missouri Democratic Party suing to block the appointment of mike kehoe as lieutenant governor. The suit reopens a longstanding legal debate for with the governor has the power to appoint someone to the second ranking executive position. The Lieutenant Governors Office was vacated june 1 when the republican became governor after the resignation of eric greitens. That is tonight live look outside the beltway from special report. Paradox here inside the beltway, we continue to watch the doors outside the meeting with republicans and President Trump. When they come to the microphone, there is one set up, we will bring it to you live here on fox. Stay tuned. Insurance that wont replace the full value of your new car . Youre better off throwing your money right into the harbor. Im gonna regret that. With new car replacement, if your brand new car gets totaled, Liberty Mutual will pay the entire value plus depreciation. Liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. I kept putting it off. What was i thinking . Ok, mr. Jones. Were all done. I told you it was easy. With life line screening, getting screened for unknown Health Conditions is so quick, painless and affordable, youll wonder why you hadnt done it before. So if youre over age 50, call now and schedule an appointment near you. For just 149 a savings of over 50 youll receive a package of five screenings that go beyond your doctors annual checkup. 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President trump insists hes china calls his latest move blackmail. Correspondent rich edson has more tonight from the state department. Trump Administration Promises a second round of tariffs against chinese imports and is threatening a third. Global markets dropped with losses across asia, europe, United States. The president contends hes correcting a structural problem in u. S. Trade policy. You see what is happening with china. We have no choice. That shouldve been done many years ago. Directing the United States trade representative to identify 200 billion in chinese imports and apply a tariff of 10 . China retaliates to me says his administration will raise tariffs on an additional 200 billion in chinese goods. That is on top of the tariffs sit in movement of last week on 50 billion in chinese imports. China retaliated and says its not afraid of a trade war with the u. S. We advise the u. S. To remain rational and stop such words and moves that harm itself and others. It is the only viable way out. The Trump Administration has also enacted tariffs on global steel and aluminum imports. Russia announced today it will soon release a list of American Public products to target. American allies say they will retaliate. The state department claims arguments will not affect other aspects of international relationships. Encouraging you not to conflate the two issues. We have complex relationships with so many countries around the world where we have things with are in total disagreement over and areas where we are working to develop better agreements. Some analysts disagree especially on china and its involvement with north korea. They are not without leverage on this. Why imposing tariffs on this on them will make them more cooperative, i dont see. Less than a week after the singapore summit, north korea dictator kim jong un is in china again. His third trip there to meet with president xi jinping. The state Department Says the United States and north korea have continued conversations since last weeks summit in singapore, and now to u. S. Defense Officials Say north korea is expected to transfer the remains of 200 u. S. Service members killed during the korean war. Doing so to u. N. Command in south korea. That was announced by President Trump last week at the summit. Bret interesting, the third trip by kim to china. Trump administration announcing the departure from the United Nations made human rights body. Calling it a shameless defender of hypocrisy. The secretary of state mike pompeo joining u. S. Ambassador nikki haley here about an hour ago, saying it had given the u. N. Human Rights Council a year to reform itself. It failed to do so, said the u. S. Is leaving. We take this step because of our commitment. It does not allow us to remain part of a hypocritical and selfserving organization that makes him mockery of human rights. We could have withdrawn immediately. We did not do that. Instead, we made a goodfaith effort to resolve the problem. Secretary pompeo says the council has membership on some of the worst human rights defenders, china, cuba, venezuela while it mistreats israel and lets other violators go. Chris coons says its a mistake for the United States to leave and its better to be part of the conversation. Bret rich edson at the state department. Thank you. Big change coming to to a coupe iconic american institutions. General electric, an original member of the dow jones industrial, is to be removed from the index. G. E. Will be replaced by walgreens. Up next, did the fbi bias during the clinton email investigation bleed over into the russia collusion probe . We will look into that. Beyond our borders tonight. The u. N. Refugee agency says 69 Million People who have fled war, violence and persecution, are classified as forcibly displaced. Turkey is the country with the most refugees. 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At issue, what part politics and prejudice played in the fbis investigation of the Hillary Clinton email scandal and by extension the ongoing probe into russia election interference. Catherine herridge is watching. They prejudged the outcome of the Hillary Clinton email investigation before the investigation ended. These exact same fbi agents and attorneys prejudged the outcome of the russia investigation before it even began. During a second day of testimony, lawmakers pressed Michael Horowitz over what republicans described as political bias at the fbi impacting the president ial campaign. They point to an august 2016 text between peter strzok and lisa page saying that they would stop trump from being elected. I wonder who the we is and we will stop it. A Broader Group beyond that . We have found three additional fbi agents. Some transition to the Russia Special causal investigation. Do they still work for mueller . My understanding is no. Agent strzok pivoted from the Clinton Emails to collusion. Do you believe the political bias shown in this text had the effect of the russia investigation . Its under review. A forensic review of the phones uncovered the explosive texted me. Congress wasnt immediately notified. At we sent it to the office of the Deputy Attorney general. Mr. Rosenstein. His office. Mr. Rosenstein decided we couldnt get it until your report came out. He sat on it for a month. A lawmaker questioned why the report was talent on allegations that the clinton server was hacked. The president weighed in. When you read the ig report about how she got away with what she got away with, its a disgrace. After reviews and investigation, democrats blame james comey and accused republicans of refusing to knowledge that a clinton prosecution was never justified. The howling about lock her up was bogus. It was baseless. It was unsubstantiated. James comey decided to play judge, jury, and executioner. On october 28 come he executed the Hillary Clinton campaign. The hearing concluded after six and a half hours of testimony. Inspector general horowitz confirmed he is following up on allegations that fbi interview summaries were altered. Bret there was some late news this afternoon on fbi agent peter strzok. In a statement, strzoks attorney confirmed his client has been fully cooperating with an internal fbi review which included recently being escorted from the fbi building. The statement said at least for now strzok remains in fbi employee. Bret thank you. President of timeout today from and investigation talk to mark in american innovation. He signed the 10 millionth patent. Its issued to defense contractor raytheon for a device invented by one of its employees. The patent is for a type of laserbased object detection used in industries such as autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, and space and see explosion. Where waiting for the end of the meeting. Q a continues over basically the zerotolerance immigration policy. That is intensifying. The president started by saying dont worry about the trade issues with china. We will get reaction from the panel on all of this when we come back. Wish we got money back on gym memberships. Get money back hilarious. With claimfree rewards. Switching to allstate is worth it. Red lobsters lobster shrimp hesummerfest is back with lobster and shrimp together in so many new ways. Like new cedar plank seafood bake, roasted to perfection. Or new caribbean lobster and shrimp. But hurry in. Lobster shrimp summerfest wont last. Billions of problems. Dry mouth . Parched mouth . Cotton mouth . Theres a therabreath for you. Therabreath oral rinse and lozenges. Help relieve dry mouth using natural enzymes to soothe and moisturize. So you can. Breathe easy, theres therabreath at walmart. Yeah butch growls at man . Hes looking at me right now, isnt he . Yup. butch barks at man butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. laughs vo you can never have too many faithful companions. Thats why i got a subaru crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. President trump the immigration system has been a really bad, bad system. We are going to try to see if we can fix it. Most illegal immigrant families and minors from Central America who arrive unlawfully the border cannot be detained together or remove together. Only released. Give us a third option which we have been requesting since last year. The Legal Authority to detain and promptly remove Families Together as a unit. The president alone can fix it with this pen by signing a president ial order to end the agonizing screams of small children. Bret it is all the talk on capitol hill. You are looking live outside the meeting. A few people breaking away. We expected to come to an end soon. When it does, you will see it here if they talk about this. You heard the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer say today that democrats were not going to sign on to any republican piece of legislation, even a narrow fix on this very issue, saying there could be poison pills in it and saying and conceding they want to keep the pressure on President Trump who, as he said, could solve it with a flick of the pen. Lets bring the panel. Jonah goldberg, Senior Editor at national review. A. B. Stoddard, real clear politics. Steve hilton, former advisor to british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron and a host of the next revolution on fox news channel. Clearly both sides are positioning here and when schumer admits, concedes that democrats are not signing onto any piece of legislation even if it moves this week, its pretty telling. That same mistake, obviously. There are about 12 senators, i think there might be more by now, a bipartisan list from imploring the Trump Administration to do that. To end the policy on their own without legislation. But if the congress is willing to sort of give cover and pass legislation, if its going to be narrow and is going to be, the president is asking for a kitchen sink. He doesnt want piecemeal. He wants the whole thing. If they are women, republicans, to codify him for men the president needs to stop lying about this. The policy needs to end. They should remain as a unit. If republicans are smart, they will urge the president and the meeting, apparently talking among other things, to end this as soon as possible. Bret we just saw mark meadows, congressman from north carolina, coming out and talking briefly to reporters. Steve, its pretty sad, the whole images and what we are hearing from the border. But its also sad that washington cant get its head around how to fix it quickly. Obviously the president can do what he can do but congress can do it too. You are right. Its worse than sad. Its horrifying to see whats going on. Its not enough to be horrified. We need to sort the problem out because this immigration system has been creaking under strain for decades now. In the short term, youve got to have this fixed. I think there must be a way to keep the zerotolerance policy but to stop the family separation. Thats what needs to be passed. In the longer term, and by that i dont mean years. I mean months. They need to ramp up the resources and an overall the whole system. The ted cruz bill was a good start. More resources, more efficient, more judges, beefing up the court so you can handle peoples claims quickly. And deport them if they are going to be deported, together. Thats what needs to happen. The crisis has been building for years. This migration issue is one of the biggest problems facing governments all over the world. You see it in europe too. The response has been completely inadequate. Bret democrats finding the camera. Jonah. I am pretty grateful to Chuck Schumer because its nice to know that washington on a bipartisan basis is living down to my expectations. This white house has handled this issue in terms of messaging and politics about as badly as ive seen any issue be handled. You have some cabinet secretaries bragging about how this is their preferred policy, their choice. You have President Trump say no, no, no. Its the democrats. The head of dhs taking offense at the suggestion that this would be the policy of the white house almost at the same time you have the attorney general saying this has been their plan all along and they are bragging about it. Whatever you think about the moral horror at the border, this isnt messaging issue. Its a hot mess. Its great to see that the democrats are coming forward and saying no, we dont want to do anything that would solve the problem. We want to focus on trump at all times. Bret standby. Mark meadows walking out, joining us. Thanks for being here. Give us the inside scoop. Obviously it was a long meeting where the president was talking about not only the agenda on immigration but what we have accomplished and what we need to do from here. Its all about getting it done. He really wants us to make sure we put up 218 votes on the house floor this week. He said he is behind us 1000 . Obviously wants to deal with this separation issue with children at the border. Both bills do that. The compromise bill or the leadership bill is certainly the one that seems to have the most, the highest probability of getting two to 18. Bret the president walked by. Democrats chanting about getting Families Together. Did the president say that he knows that he can do a change himself . How did he play it with the legislation . He didnt do that. He had secretary nielsen there and obviously she was there the room and talking about the fact that we have got to find a real solution to this. This is more a legislative solution. This is something we have been dealing with a long time. When you look at production of children, thats why this degree came down originally. They believe its best we get a legislative solution. I think there are some narrow bills in the house and senate that will address this issue. I am hearing Chuck Schumer is not supportive of any legislative effort. Bret we report about and thats what he said today to reporters. There is not a republican legislative solution that democrats will sign onto. Your reaction. My reaction is read the bills. We have introduced a bill, senator ted cruz has introduced a bill. Is he saying that there is no legislative solution . When you look at that, i think the American People want us to solve it. Ive been getting calls all day long. At the same time, they want us to come together, democrats and republicans. A number of us are giving them the opportunity to do that. Bret i want to listen in and see if the president says anything as he is with the House Majority leader, mccarthy. Reporter mr. President. Reporter mr. President. President trump these laws have been broken for many years, decades. We had a great meeting. Bret reiterating what he said going in, that the laws have been broken for decades. I had a great. Did he talk a lot about immigration or was it a mixed . It was a mix. He started with immigration. He came back to immigration at the middle and an knackered we talked about regulation, we talked about the association of health plans to bring down premiums for health care that he is signing with the secretary of labor. Bret is their urgency here or is this an issue both sides are playing politics with . Our side is not playing politics with it. I had my staff working for the weekend, but a legislative fix. 77 pages that we worked around the clock to get introduced today. We did that at noon. Its about getting the job done right. Unfortunately, its been a political football back and forth and when youre dealing with peoples lives, youve got to make sure you get it done right. Hopefully we well and i believe we well this week. Bret were republican saying we need to do a narrow bill or the president has to change the dynamic . The focus was on the comprehensive bills. There was discussion about a narrow bill. The separation issue did come up a couple times, and the president was very compassionate about it, talked about his daughter bringing that up, ivanka. When you look at that, its not lost on him that weve got to fix this. But at the same time, weve got this for week. The pressure is on us from the American People to get it done this week. I believe we will. Bret we appreciate you stopping by. A. B. , your thoughts. Its going to be a huge challenge to either get the good let bill or that moderate leadership bill over the finish line even though both have been reworked to include provisions to stop the separation of families. We are looking at the senate side where you have the majority leader creating a united front saying we are in support of some kind of very narrow legislation piece that we cannot fix at all, that just deals with the separation issue. Different response from different chambers. If the president does not do this, administratively, which we know we can with one phone call, Congress Needs to fix this and fix it fast. Bret inside the sound bites, inside we heard congress trickle congressman meadow say, what senator schumer is saying, is that its a political leverage tool. Both sides are seeing the upside for fighting the battle. Its ridiculous. Makes people so angry, rightly so. The compromise bill, as its described, as a. B. Said, it addresses the immediate emergency. Issues on the table from Chuck Schumer. The changes they made are pretty reasonable. I cant understand why theres a consensus that cant pass. I hear that and im sure its correct. But why cant it pass . People want something done. Its a reasonable compromise. Bret jonah, before break. Its worth pointing out one of the reasons why democrats have hardened as they want to support Dianne Feinsteins bill and her bill is insane in its provisions about what it would do. Basically it suggests democrats have bought into this idea that they can bet on the democratic c wave and they dont want to let go of the issues. The republicans are in real trouble. This issue splits the Republican Party at a moment the blue wave seemed to be dissipating. The economy was going gangbusters. Looked like the republicans could hold on to the house. All of all of a sudden, this puts all of that in doubt. Its a precarious situation. Bret precarious with both sides. The red state democrats who signed onto feinsteins bill which says you cant arrest any Illegal Immigrants within 100 miles of the border, i guarantee you that will be in an ad somewhere in a red state by a republican. Next up, from border work to a possible trade war. We will bring in the panel on that. Vering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, lucy could only imagine enjoying a slice of pizza. Now its as easy as pie. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . For allday, allnight protection. We just switched to geico and got more. More . Theyve been saving folks money for over 75 years. A company you can trust. Geico even helped us with homeowners insurance. More sounds great. Gotta love more. Right, honey . Yeah geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. You see what is happening with china. We have no choice. That shouldve been done years ago. We have no choice. Operating against the rest of the world. We want a constructive relationship with the government of china. In order to do that, we need to repair, make some progress on some issues related to trade. We advise the u. S. To remain rational and stop such wars to harm itself and others. This is the only viable way out. Bret the threat of 200 billion of additional tariffs against china sent the markets reeling not only here but around the world, especially asia. The dow dropping 400point. Down at 270 at the end. It made things rocky and there were a lot of people on capitol hill weighing in on all sides. Back with the panel. Jonah, what about the strategy, and can the president and the administration forced china to buckle . And pretty skeptical. China has a long history of china has a much bigger nationalism problem than almost anything else in the idea of investing their National Pride in being seen as losing face to the west or to americans is a real problem politically. But also, its worth pointing out that the dow is down, negative for the year. The dow used to be the administrations favorite talking point about the indicator of how well things are going. They now pointed better ones like unemployment and whatnot. Trade wars are not easy to win and they are very hard to end. Right now, still prices in the United States are up 40 . We have a lot more people employed by firms that use steel and make them. This could go south very quickly and it makes me very nervous. Bret trade representative Robert Lighthizer running point on this. What we need for the American People is unenforceable, accountable systematic change structural in nature so we can have free, fair, and balanced trade not just with china but with the rest of the world. We are looking forward to that day, but that is not this day. Ive never been a big fan of peter navarro. The president himself is, is kind of going along with it. I think that president has got to wake up and realize thats not the way to go. Bret a lot people say its shaky ground. They dont know, as jonah said, how its going. Theres others who say this needs to be shaken up in the world order of things. I am one of them. I think orrin hatch needs to wake up. He and the other members of the consensus thats been building around china ever since the late 90s that we need to engage and be open all the rest and it will improve their behavior, its proved to be completely wrong. Ever since weve been engaging economically with china, their behavior has gotten more and more authoritative. They have set out a plan for world domination, economically and militarily. They have a plan to beat us. We need a plan to beat them. I think its great where standing up to them but frankly i dont think these measures go far enough. I would say we need a complete economic boycott of china. Thats the only way to face down this threat. If the world is run according to the values of the authoritarian communist dictatorship led by xi jinping, its not a world we want bret what happens to all the companies they do business with china . The workers would fill in on the back end customer ive heard this argument i made this argument. Theres a world of opportunity beyond china. Africa, south america, india, the greatest democracy. Thats where we should be putting our party. To suck up to china has been a complete disaster. Bret a. B. , how does it play politically . Strange bedfellows. You have democrats applauding the moves from including senator schumer. You have democrats like the one in ohio owning the tariffs saying he has been in the Bernie Sanders wing on the far left. In unison with trump on this for a long time. You have other republicans in states with farmers. I read yesterday that the hit to soybean farmers in iowa alone will exceed 600 million. All the planning has to happen now. Whether or not we can determine or the market can determine or their poor republican congressman running for reelection can determine what trump is really going to finally do, all of the planning thats taking place now, disruption is underway domestically and in a nationally through ports, people planning their inventory, its all rippling out. The poor members of congress who think they are going to get an answer from President Trump and whether its a tactic or definitely a trade war thats going to be easy to win are going to be sitting around waiting to see the market response and the voter response. Its really scaring them. They wont bring it up with him. But as you know its all the talk. Bret thats what he started with in the meeting. Quickly, jonah, tend eventually you have china working on the north korea issue whether they are helping are not and it factors in as well. It does and its one of the questions we dont know. Its in china and north koreas interests to run out the clock as long as possible on these negotiations. I think is what china wants to do. I think north korea is still essentially an unruly vassal state of china and how you negotiate this trade war stuff while at the same time figuring out how you keep north korea on the path through this elegy to do localization seems to me its very tricky. Bret thank you very much. When we come back, a couple very special reunions. Growing up, we were german. We danced in a german dance group. I wore lederhosen. When i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasnt finding all of these germans in my tree. I decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. The big surprise was were not german at all. 52 of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. So, i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt. Ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. Get started for free at ancestry. Com. That you dont think about is very much. Counties its really not very important. I was in the stone ages as much as technology wise. And i would say i had nothing. You become a School Teacher for one reason, you love kids. And so you dont have the same tools, you dont always believe you have the same. Outcomes achievable for yourself. When we got the tablets, it changed everything. By giving them that technology and then marrying it with a curriculum thats designed to have technology at the heart of it, we are really changing the way that students learn. And i cant wait for ten years from now when i get to talk to them again and see, like, who they are. Bret finally tonight, some have said that all the partisan bickering in congress, congress has gone to the dogs. But we can report we can celebrate a couple happy reunions. A dozen dogs separated from their families in puerto rico following Hurricane Maria are headed home. The owners were forced to relocate leaving their pets and children as they are or to be cared for by families, friends or family. The Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team brought these animals to the mainland. Since Hurricane Maria, the organization has transported more than 100 dogs separated from their owners. They are my family. They are like my babies, my kids. People asked me what i do, whats better reward then saving this little guy . Bret i was sure that dana was going to to do that tonigh, but we are happy to bring that to you. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. This story was guest hosted by sandra smith who is on it seems every hour now, and it starts right now. At least for a couple of days. Good evening and thank you. Tonight President Trump not only remains defiant, he is digging in and standing by his zerotolerance policy at dem academic policy at the border, vowing to stop Illegal Immigrants from quote discussing our country. Good evening everyone, im a sandra smith in the four martha maccallum. The present just wrapped up in a closeddoor meeting with republicans in congress and of the way he sees it, thats their problem to fix. President trump we can either release all illegal immigrant families and miners who show up at