june. he said that won t be happening. a question about the break down of this summit and if it raises if risk of war. he said we will see what happens. i hope they continue on. we re in a strong position, says the president. i think they want to do what is right. it was recently this has taken place. they want to do what right. kim jong-un wants to do what is right. hopefully it will work out. the president calls it a set back for north korea and the world. the maximum campaign pressure will continue. all of this as the world responding to the summit cancellation. we ll hear more from the president and the white house as the negotiations continue. the president says the military is ready if necessary. interesting to get the president s first response since we learned about the summit being cancelled. right now top justice department and fbi officials are briefing lawmakers on classified
creating political doubts out there among the public on, you know, how this investigation was conducted and what it might lead to in the end. yep. the flip side you have democrats saying when you talk about this informant in the trump campaign saying look, the trump campaign does not have any right to learn anything about that. the fbi has every right to use that. you have a couple of different strong arguments. ken thomas with the associated press. thanks very much. thanks, trace. trace: well, the trump administration doing everything they can to prevents another country from meddling in the 2018 mid-terms. that s what the homeland security secretary said after briefing lawmakers on election security. some democrats have questioned whether the administration is doing enough after u.s. intelligence agencies determined that russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. the kremlin continues to deny it. kirstjen nielsen says russia is
negotiation and what we should expect coming out of it is i think there s going to be some type of deal because it would look bad for both sides if they have the grand summit and nothing is accomplished. so there will be a deal to stop icbm testing or something to put a limit on the nuclear program. stakes are so high, what happens if they don t reach agreement, does that mean end of the road of talks? seems as if there s going to be so much build up to this, they want to get somewhere with this. let s talk syria quickly before we let you go. defense secretary mattis and joseph dunford briefing lawmakers on recent air strikes in syria and they actually left some concern. what do you make of some reactions we have been hearing. a lot of members are congress don t believe that the trump administration has a strategy going forward on syria.
stage, isn t as strong he s looks and said his face appeared slightly orange with bright, white half moons under his eyes. comey also wondered how long it must take the president to get his hair done in the morning. here is comey being asked about critics accusing him of cheap shots. watch. i m trying to an author and bring the readers with me into a room and so i described all kinds of people in great detail to try and create a vivid image for the reared. i m not trying to make fun of president trump. i m not trying to make fun of anybody. yeah, so far no response from the white house. we should note today s interviews are james comey s first live sit-downs for the book. all the others were taped interviews. shep? shepard: trace gallagher. thank you, sir. we are keeping an eye on capitol hill. the joint chiefs of staff and defense secretary briefing lawmakers on syria. we will watch to see if anybody talks to reporters after that briefing. we will also head to the pentagon for a
shepard: breaking news and live look on capitol hill. defense secretary mattis and joint chiefs of staff chairman joseph dunford are briefing lawmakers, we believe, right now after the u.s. and its allies launched dozens of missiles against syria. more than 100 of them actually. see the reporters milling about. we really believe it s possible and i stress possible that somebody might come out to the stakeout camera. have a discussion about what they learned. that s why we show you. this maybe we will go there if they come out. a senior israeli military source is telling fox news, hear this now, a senior israeli military source is telling fox news the strikes were very superficial and if the goal was to eliminate the bashar al-assad s chemical weapons capabilities, the source says i m not sure they succeeded. of course, that wasn t the goal. that was never the stated goal. i mean, israel would have