With george washington, former president barack obama has largely remained out of the political fray. Today, two months before the mid terms, that changed. Leading to a bareknuckles brawl between the former president and his successor. It did not start with donald trump. He is a symptom not the cause. It was the first time president obama used trumps name and his party in an outright verbal attack. He told university of illinois students they grew up in a time of economic upheaval that wiped away many jobs. The result anlt bitterness came to roost in one political party. Over the past few decades the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party. Hours later also speaking in the midwest, President Trump fired back. Im sorry, i watched it about the i fell asleep. But i fell asleep. I found hes very good, very good for sleeping. On a day when the latest numbers showed 201,000 jobs added in august, unemployment near an 18year low, and the largest increase in worker pay since the end of the recession mr. Obama said republicans should not be taking credit. Suddenly republicans are saying its a miracle. I have to kind of remind them, actually, those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015, and 2016. President trump if the democrats got in with their agenda in november, almost two years ago, instead of having 4. 2 up, i believe honestly you would have 4. 2 down. You would be negative. Mr. Obama said he inherited an economy that was losing 800,000 jobs a month and turned it around. By the time i left office, Household Income was near its alltime high and the uninsured rate hit an alltime low. President trump the weakest recovery weve ever had. Barely a recovery. Now this is called not recovery, this is called rocketship. Mr. Obama leveled attacks at the trump environmental record. Theyre sub si siding corporate polluters. On foreign policy. Undermining alie answers. And attempts to dismaptle obamacare. Sap tajing the Affordable Care act, it cost more than 3 million Americans Health insurance. President trump we wiped out the individual mandate, the most unpopular part of obamacare. Isnt this much more exciting than listening to president obama . Because we get things done. In illinois to accept an award for his ethics, mr. Obama accused trump of numerous ethics violations and abuses of power provoking this retort. He said in my d. O. J. We didnt protect our friends. False, Loretta Lynch bill clinton before Hillary Clinton was meeting with the fbi. He said he complained about fox news but never threatened to shut it down. But in 2009 he threatened to remove white house from White House Pool duties. When the White House Correspondents Association defended fox that threat was lifted. Bret thanks. President trump says his embattled attorney general should find out who wrote an op ed piece alleging a Resistance Movement within his administration. As you can knowledge ma, thats causing quite a stir in washington. John roberts joins us tonight, from the north lawn, a little rainy tonight. Good evening, john. Rainy, we have thunderstorms, lightning, and a lot of loud bangs around here. If you hear one dont be surprised. President trump has said on many occasions that he believes the Justice Department should be investigating the myriad bad actors who have in his administration. Add one more name, the name anonymous to the list. In an offcamera session with reporters aboard air force one, President Trump took his outrage over the anonymous op ed to a new level revealing that he may want the Justice Department to get involved. President trump i would think jeff should be investigating the author of that piece. I really believe it is National Security. Is there action taken against the New York Times . President trump im looking at that right now. I am looking at that. [inaudible] what about treason, are you serious about that . President trump well look at what he had, what he gave, what hes talking about. Also where he is right now. Sources outside the white house say a short list of prime suspects has been compiled. Though it may be a preexisting list brought up months ago of people suspected of leaking. Its unclear whether there would be any basis for an investigation. The author of the op ed did not appear to disclose classified information, President Trump believes it reveals a potential National Security threat if the writer was in any high level meetings. Supposing i have a high level National Security meeting and he has got a clearance. We talked about clearances a lot recently. And he goes into a high level meeting concerning china or russia or rsdz not kree or something. This guy goes in, i dont want him in those meetings. Democrats seized on the allegation in the op ed in the early dafts Administration Cabinet members considered whether to invoke the 25th amendment and remove President Trump from office. If Senior Administration officials think the president of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th amendment. Aboard air force one, President Trump weighed in on the mueller investigation. Fox news reported on wednesday that the president s attorneys were nearing an agreement to have him provide written answers to Robert Mueller limited only to russia and collusion. Theyre still weighing whether to allow mueller any face time with the president. President trump indicated hes skeptical of sitting down with the special counsel. President trump i dont want to be set up with a perjury trap. Number two, there was no obstruction. And there was no collusion. Would you do an interview . President trump id do it under certain circumstances. Its a big waste of time. Rudy guiliani told fox news the only way hed allow the president to sit down is if Robert Mueller made a significant concession, such as agreeing to bring the russia investigation to a close just days after a facetoface meeting with the president. Brett . Bret john roberts, thank you. This is another fox news alert, syria on the brink. Urgent concerns that u. S. Forces and Russian Forces could get entangled in a shooting war possibly on the ground in syria. Syrian Government Troops backed by troops from russia and iran may be about to launch a final offensive designed to crush the remaining opposition in the country seven years civil war. The u. S. Is warning of dire consequences if that assault happens. It has mobilized. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest from the pentagon. A dangerous armed standoff in southern syria with u. S. And Russian Forces warning each other to stand aside n a rare show of force a company of u. S. Marines carried out an air assault backed by artillery in the southern Syrian Desert in what u. S. Offense officials call a stern message to russia to back off. That message ignored as the leaders of iran, russia, and turkey met in tehran, a lastminute effort to hammer out a ceasefire failed as russian president Vladimir Putin teamed up with irans president rue hanie who said the fight in syria should continue until all extremists are uprooted and called for the u. S. To leave the country. The illegal presence and enter mention by america and syria which led to the continuation of instability Must Immediately end. We consider any assault to be a dangerous escalation of the conflict in syria. Air strikes by russia and the regime have already begun against civilian areas. The province is the last remaining rebel stronghold, home to 3 million people, nearly half of them displaced from other parts of syria, along with 10,000 al qaeda fighters a russian backed assault has International Aid groups and the pentagon warning of massive civilians casualties and a flood of refugees into turkey. President trump tweeted a warning on monday, quote, the russians and iranians would be making a mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Elsewhere in syria, a separate military standoff, twice in the past week russia has notified u. S. Forces of its intent to enter the american controlled zone around a u. S. Garrison used to train antiisis fighters. The u. S. Has warned Russian Forces not to move closer to an agreed line of demarcation. The u. S. Military is prepared to back up its warning. Last february u. S. Helicopter gun ships and jets killed roughly 300 russian mercenaries as they approached another base in syria. The u. S. Still has 2,000 troops in syria. Bret Jennifer Griffin, thank you. Back here in the u. S. , a Massive Wildfire near the californiaoregon border keeps a stretch of interstate 5 closed through the weekend. California Transportation Department says that blaze began wednesday, its still burning out of control along the highway. Its destroyed thousands of trees that could fall on to the roadway. The highway traverses the west coast from to canada. The confirmation hearingtor Brett Kavanaugh is over. The final day seemed more like an after thought. Kavanaugh wasnt there, he wasnt supposed to be, his testimony finished last night. Chief Legal CorrespondentShannon Bream is where a wrapup of what we saw and heard. Shannon his supporters feel like theres almost no way he wont get confirmed. His critics have a tough job ahead to flip two republicans to vote no. Theyre keeping an eye on these two senators, senators collins and murkowski. Both have been supportive of abortion rights. That was easily one of the top two issues he was asked most about this week. Again and again he cited the Residential Authority of roe v. Wade. The other big issue is the mueller investigation, whether kavanaugh will be fully independent from President Trump. Several democrats asked kavanaugh multiple times to pledge publicly that he recuse himself from criminal and civil matter involving the president. He repeatedly declined saying he wouldnt take any position on any issue that he may have to rule on as a justice. Also today, senator corey booker continues to say hes putting his entire Senate Career on the line by releasing documents in violation of senate rules after making a show of doing so late thursday morning, only for Committee Staffers to reveal shortly after he did that the documents had been cleared for public release and booker was notified of that hours in advance of his big reveal. Since then, booker has continued to release additional documents not cleared for public consumption. This is a fight, this is unjust sham rowell, i am try to try to prevent documents being seen by the american people. I am standing on this hill, if they want to kick me out of the senate, so be it. Shannon i asked about bookers actions and those of his democratic counterparts on the judiciary counterpart this week. The senate as an institution is a joke too much of the time. And those hearings were a circus. It was just so much nonsense, consistent dishonesty and the way people ask their questions. Shannon so heres where we go now. The committee should vote around september 20, the full senate a week or so after that. The term starts on the Supreme Court october 1. Theres a timeline. Amazing. Bret today they had john bean testifying, the minority did. He said if this president shot somebody on fifth avenue in cold blood judge kavanaugh would say that he couldnt be charged. Theyre trying to extrapolate from a law review article he said you have to think deeply about whether civil or criminal sessions should proceed against a sitting president. Bret but he didnt say that in testimony. Shannon he never said any president can get away. He repeatedly said no one is above the law. When he was pressed about President Trump. He said congress has the power to impeach anybody that they feel is no longer able or worthy to be president. Bret we will follow it all and see you tonight at 11 00. Thank you. Up next, is a new administration effort to put your Healthcare Information on the cloud a good idea . Heres what some of the fox affiliates are covering. Dallas has an offduty Police Officer shooting a man after walking into the wrong apartment in her building. Police say the officer entered what she believed was her own apartment. When she saw a man she didnt recognize she shot him. Police would not say whether he fired her weapon because she thought the man was an intruder. That investigation is continuing. Q123 fox in seattle is a heavily armed gunman wearing body armor is shot and taken into custody after taking hostage at the used car dealership. Police say the hostages escaped. The gunman exchanged fire with deputies and took a bullet to the chest which was stopped by the armor. And a live look at chicago from fox 32, one of the big stories, 3 alarm fire and the south shore neighborhood on the south side of chicago leaves six people injured including a firefighter. 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The American Government has been trying to force the American Healthcare to go digital when the Obama Administration mandated they needed to use the healthcare system. The Current System is failed and wasteful. Today the majority of medical records are still shared by fax not knew Electronic Medical records system. Critics call the end goal a 30 billion unicorn. Cyber Security Experts echo concerns. My concern is building one massive system, never works. If it was easy to do and could have been done it would have been done with the 30 billion thats already been spent. When it comes to the governments new partnership with the tech sector, expert ring alarm bells about patient data privacy. According to the federal government there are 2. 2 million entities that can have access to our information. The patients are not involved in that at all. Cyber experts are concerned about data security. 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In a cnn interview before sentencing, he said he brought up the possibility of a photo op. Looked candidate trump directly in his eyes and said can i do this for you if its in your interest, and in the campaigns interest. The collective energy in the room seemed to be interested. The cluj concluded he had no desire to help the russians and hurt u. S. Security but he was blinded by his loyalty to the president and his ambition to secure a job in the Trump Administration, brett. Bret what can you tell us about the grand jury proceeding involving the former fbi Deputy Director . The lawyer for Andrew Mccabe called it a procedural step. He called the disclosure of the secret proceeding a sad and poorly veiled attempt to distract the american public. We remain confident a fair review of the facts and circumstances related to this matter will demonstrate theres no basis on which criminal charges should be brought. As you know earlier this year, the Justice Department internal watchdog found he lied to federal investigators about his role to the wall street journal about the Clinton Foundation investigation. Mccabe claimed that former director comey knew about his contact with reporters but comey wants to distance himself because mccabe believes comey is also under investigation for leaking, brett. Bret thank you, catherine. Whatever happened to segment tonight . The 9 11 Victims Compensation fund. It has already spent billions to help First Responders to the disaster. The program will soon dom to an end. Rick leventhal reports from manhattan. When two hijacked passenger jets smashed into the twin to youers on 9 11, 2001 the result was death, destruction, and chaos on an almost unthinkable scale. 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If you or anyone you know was here that day or lived through the aftermath in Lower Manhattan youre encouraged to check the website, vcf. Gov. Well put on it the website, too. Thank you, rick. Bret the president continues the search for anonymous as part of a controversial and troublesome week for the administration. The former president weighs in. Well get reaction to all of it from the panel after a break. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. Where people go to learn about their Medicare Options before theyre on medicare. Come on in. Youre turning 65 soon . Yep. And youre retiring at 67 . Thats the plan its also a great time to learn about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company. Heres why. 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Pment he was trying to take credit for this incredible thing thats happening to our country. It did not start with donald trump. He is a symptom not the cause. Hes just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years. President trump im sorry, i watched it, but i fell asleep. I found hes very good, very good for sleeping. Bret former president obama getting into the Campaign Swing as current President Trump responds almost realtime. Lets bring in our panel. Jason riley, wall street journal columnist. Holly hemingway, Senior Editor at the federalist. And charles lane from the washington post. It was former president obamas first kind of going out, specifically targeting President Trump. Your thoughts on his messagend how it translates . Might be the best thing the democrats have going for him. Hes extremely popular in the party and in the country, frankly. And hes going to give it everything hes got for the mid terms. So im not surprised to see him do. This it is a little bit out of the norm, previous administrations tend to stay quiet. Obama has chosen not to take that path. I questions thats another example i guess thats another example how norms are off the table, whether you talk about how the media is going to treat this president or talking about how former president s treat the president. Politically . I just want to say that is an important point. Were told that donald trump is the only person who violates norms or does anything differently. We have a norm that president s usually speak well of their successors. George w. Bush did that. Or theyre silent. George w. Bush did that three eight years of the obama presidency. Its a free country and people are free to say what they want but people notice that people seem to be breaking a lot of norms along with President Trump. And it good for the democrats to have some one like obama coming and trying to rally the vote. In the same way that President Trump seems to excite both his base and his opponents, the same is true for president obama. People in the Democratic Party love to hear him speak. People in the Republican Party are reminded why they voted for donald trump or what they didnt like about president obama. Chuck . Well, the catch22 in a way for president obama is that if he were to go out on the campaign trail and not mention donald trump no one would be interested. Because the whole election is a referendum on donald trump. And the most motivating Campaign Theme for democratic voters is resistance to donald trump. So, in a way, theres no point campaigning unless you break this longstanding norm. Its the only issue in the campaign. I tend to agree with both of my colleagues, that its possibly a net plus for the democrats to have them back on the trail particularly among africanamerican voters who are going to be a key part of the coalition in some of the southern states. I think were going to see more of him. Bret here he is talking about the media. I complained plenty about fox news. But you never heard me threaten to shut them down. Or call them enemies of the people. Bret now he had some interesting lines there, jason. This is not what about it, it is truth. His attorney general called one of our report areas coconspirator, james rosen, and a flight risk. And there are Different Things here that, you know, you have to fact check. We are trying to fact check to the current administration. But that speech, there was some interesting moments. Well, i guess the biggest pushback i would have to what president obama said, was that he didnt have to worry about criticism coming out of fox news. He had every other network in his pocket. For eight years. Just like previous democrats have had. So the idea that he wasnt overly concerned with what fox was saying to the extent it was true, you said its not entirely true, when you have every other major News Organization in the country on your side, yes, you dont to have worry about these things. Bret that doesnt exclude the enemy of the people rhetoric from the president. Look, coming from a newspaper thats taken its share of blows, fair and unfair, from mostly unfair i would say from this president , i would say what i think independently of what he said about fox here and there, it is a fact, can you look it up, that barack obama repeatedly told audiences that they should read both the New York Times and the wall street journal editorial page, he said you should watch this network, you should watch that network, get both sides, you should get outside of your bubble. He told student groups i believe Howard University was one, rebukeed them for not permitting certain controversial speakers. He supported the idea that conservatives should have free speech on campus. Repeatedly stuck his neck out. So i dont really think theres any comparison on that point. That does not is not my recollection of the eight years under president obama. Including he blamed many bad things in the country on people watching fox news. He claimed it was on every bar in the country why democrats were hurt. He tried to freeze out fox news in multiple instances. He spied on reporters. One of the worst when it comes to action when it comes to the media. Donald trump speaks against free do. Press specs against the press in a way that does not live up to what we want to hear. But when it comes to actions taken against the mediate Obama Administration was bad and the media didnt care. When donald trump lightly consider it sideses the press of course the media cares. They boycotted him, they freak out about the press dinner. It is that difference in how they rereacted to president obama. I believe when fox was quote unquote frozen out of the white house correspondence, the rest of the media came to foxs defense. Yes, as fox did to cnn. When it comes to actions taken and attempts to spy on reporters, the Obama Administration was very bad. The media didnt have the same reaction to it that they do to the Trump Administration. Bret i want to turn topics, really quickly, the president saying that the attorney general should be investigating who the author of this op ed anonymous op ed is. Jason . No, i disagree that the attorney general should spend time doing this, brett. I think that the president is legitimately concerned that some one supposedly in his inner circle has done this. Its something, id be upset about, too, all of us would. Whether it rises to the level of an investigation by the attorney general, i dont thats the case. But the attorney should be investigating all of the likes coming out of this administration for two years that go against the Trump Administration. And thats something we havent seen any evidence theres been any investigation of the criminal leaking against mike flynn offense. Poor Jeff Sessions cant get a break, the president keeps on trolling him, harassing him, giving him more impossible things to do. Bret he said hes going to make it through the mid terms at least. Next up, the friday lightning round, the economy, winners and losers. Motorcycle revving 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 . woman learned ao play second language. 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. I decided that i wanted to go for Electrical Engineering and you need to go to college for that. If i didnt have internet in the home i would have to give up more time with my kids. Which is the main reason i left the military. Everybody wants more for their kids, but i feel like with my kids, they measurably get more than i ever got. And i get to do that. I get to provide that for them. President trump wages are growing at the fastest pace in nearly a decade. And what happened this morning . Did you hear that . 2. 9 . Its like the best wage number that weve had in many, many years. You got to add that to the growth in hours worked. Do you follow me . When you do that, you got 5 , quote, wage proxy, wage income proxy for working folks. Bret the jobs report today, very positive at the administration, at the white house. The jobs report, Unemployment Rate 3. 9 . Jobs added 201,000. According to the bureau of labor statistics. The hourly wage up 2. 9 from a year earlier. Which is really something that had been talked about as not happening for some time. Now its happening. Were back with the panel. Lightning round, jason . More evidence that faster growth is flowing to workers. More evidence that 2 growth was not the new normal as some people claimed or this wage stagnation was here to stay. It walls not the case. The best news in this is the increase in the raises. People are getting pay raises after a long time. The labor market is now so tight that the only way employers can hang on to workers is to pay them more money. This is what we want to see. Bret chuck . Im going set this will argument and say that both President Trump and president obama deser smv credit for this. Deserve some credit. In different ways their policies contributed to the recovery and the growth were seeing now. We have to leave a lot of credit for the Federal Reserve who did the right thing in the wake of the collapse in 20082009. Its going to be on them to make a very important and ultimately politically charged decision how fast to let growth keep going. Right now seems like theyre on course to raise rates a few more times this year. I think this report will not do anything to change that strategy. We could be looking at 3 growth for a full year. Bret in syria, could be a big weekend. And there could be a situation where u. S. And Russian Forces get entangled. Take a listen to the u. N. Ambassador. We consider any assault on idlid to be a dangerous escalation of the conflict in syria. If assad, russia, and iran continue the consequences will be dire. Illegal presence and intervention by america in syria which has led to the continuation of instability Must Immediately end. Bret there is the deal, idlib would be this weekend. Huge humanitarian crisis people have fled there from other areas in syria, assad is going to try to take this place. There are so many people that could be hurt. Our problem is that we dont have good relationships with russia, we cant do anything to get them to back off, theyre helping out assad. We dont have good relations with turkey. We need to work and support turkey and they try to keep idlib from falling prey. Bret u. S. Force on the ground. Winners and losers . My winner is chuck grassley, who has somehow managed to keep his cool this week as democrats have made circus of the Supreme Court nomination process. Loser is nike, the new ad featuring Collin Kaepernick is hurting their brand with consumers i according to recent polling. Bret bin winners a and loser . I like representative billy long, he handled the protester well, hald the background as an auctioneer and he began doing his trade. Bret we played that. Great way to diffuse the situation. The loser is the never trump resistance, they went public in New York Times, openly admitted theyre engaging in unconstitutional, nontransparent antidemocratic actions, and it confirms everything trump says about the swamp. Poorly thought out stunt. Bret winner and loser . My winner would have thought was obvious, judge Brett Kavanaugh, came through this very intense and at times unruhly process. Pretty much unruhly process intact. May have had a tight corner but basically unscathed seems to be on his way to being confirmed for the Supreme Court. My loser, republican candidates around the country. We are looking at recent poll results that show andrew gilliam, the democrat lead governor in florida. Stacey abrams, the democrat, tied with brian kemp in georgia, the georgia republicans were very confident about that. Brian donnely, the democrat leading for senate in indiana. I dont think you have the graphic but phil is leading in tennessee. The republicans in the south and midwest in a little bit of trouble. Bret we will have more all of those races coming up as we take special report on the road across the country. Panel, thank you. When we come back, notable quotables. Before discovering 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. Take us downtown, waze. Waze integration seamlessly connecting the world inside. With the world outside. Making life a little. Easier. Introducing the wellconnected lincoln mkc. That everything sticks to stefon diggss hands . Ieve it. No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. Cool, huh . Yeah. He plays football, huh . Yeah. Believe it. Geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Billions of problems. Morning breath . Garlic breath . Stinky breath . 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Not going to stop the United States senate from completing its business. It is unprecedented for a Supreme Court nominee to be named by a president who is an unindicted coconspirator. Have you ever discussed special counsel mueller or his investigation with anyone . This is about the closest i will probably ever in my life to i am spartacus moment. Im spartacus. Im spartacus. Is he running for president. Votes from people that are going to vote for us, because, without that you will lose a lot of the things we have won over the last two years. Consequences of any of us sitting on the sidelines are more dire. I dont like what nike did. I dont think its appropriate recently we failed our intended impartiality. Wizard of oz pulling all the levers. We have very inaccurate book, thats too bad. I dont blame you entirely. The failing New York Times has an anonymous he will toler, i couldnt believe it . Anonymous, meaning gutless. Anonymous. So bad. Not going to see you lens me. Please help us, mr. President. Four and a quarter, four and a half. Selling a cell phone. Four and a quarter. I yield back. So good. One week. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and still unafraid. The story guest hosted by my good friend Harris Faulkner starts right now, hi, harris. Thank you very much. We will start off with a fox news alert. We were anticipating a letter from the state Department Official to be handed from kim jong un in north korea to our president. It has now just happened our own rich edson of fox news can confirm that part of what President Trump talked about o. Board air force one today has happened. The secretary of state pompeo has received a letter from kim jong un to give to President Trump. Remember, the course is still Going Forward after their meeting. That summit. Denuclearization is the goal. And now a letter to the president from their chairman. Well cover the news if this happens as more details pop on this. Also, breaking right now. To deliver a simple message and that is that you