An assassin asking another criminal with him to film him committing a murder in broad daylight. Were asking the Veterans Affairs secretary for an update providing faster and better care for our vets. We have details. Well ask him about a government watchdog report, alleging that the va spent billions of dollars on new medical facilities with little budget oversight. Im Melissa Francis in tonight for mcdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Melissa get to Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest developments there. Edward . Reporter defense secretary mark esper expects iran to retaliate. He would like a diplomatic solution but has prepared targets just in case. President donald trump keeping pressure on iran but backing off that those targets will include cultural sites. Listen. Theyre allowed to kill our people. Theyre allowed to maim our people. Theyre allowed to blow up everything that we have and there is nothing that stops them and we are, according to a various laws suppo
Was in a meeting with money and that stuff. Also acting chief of staff Nick Mulvaney said he was in that meeting with perry, reason they were in the meeting together, he said they were talking about energy going over to the ukraine. Exports and imports, that is the reason he was involved. We dont know why the nerve wily secretary decided he would step down. We dont have a time frame. But Going Forward were working to uncover the answers. Energy secretary rick perry telling the president he will step down. David all right. Thank you edward. To the panel Gary Kaltbaum, christine and caroll roth andion burnett. There was an issue of whether or not he contacted rudy guliani. He said he sought out rudy guliani on advice of the president in deals with the corruption in ukraine. Could that have affected his decision t to resign. Time will tell. Follow there is any responsible he has for contacting mayor rudy guliani. He has been there are think over two years. That is the general time frame i
Celebrate the making of an iconic product right here in the usa. We are live in the Lone Star State with the previous view. Break through overseas. Vice president mike pence, sorry, secretary of state mike pompeo reaching an agreement with the turkish president. Plus heading for the exit. Uk and eu leaders know this cant possibly be right. Reaching a deal on brexit . Still facing uphill battle in parliament. The latest on the state of play. Connell not quite there yet. It seemed to help markets with fox team coverage. Gerri willis from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Blake burman at the white house. Bryan llenas joins us on the ground in texas where the president will be an hour from now. Hillary vaughn on facebook beat at georgetown university. Blake, we start with you. Reporter connell, part of the headlines involved president mike pence, who says according to him there were five hours of negotiations in ankara, turkey, earlier today between himself and turkish president er
Jonathan hoenig and john layfield. Oil spiking more than 5 , partly on the basis of the rising tensions in the midpeeeast as t president says whether it was a mistake or not, the u. S. Could take some kind of action. I find it hard to believe it was intentional, if you want to know the truth. I think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it. Well be able to report back and youll understand exactly what happened but it was a very foolish move. That i can tell you. This is a new wrinkle, a new fly in the ointment what happened, shooting down the drone. This country will not stand for it. That i can tell you. David lets bring in heritage foundations jim carafano. Good to see you. How should the u. S. Respond . Well, theres two things here. One is, we have to keep the straits open. We have the military capacity in the theater to do that. We dont have to respond. The second is we got to keep the pressure on iran and what helps with that is building up internatio
Year, the Vice President gave a speech on china which he took issue with basically the entire chinese model, the economic model, the political model, chinas, chinas stance on human rights, that was viewed then as the administrations hardline on china. So, the Vice President was set to give a speech just days before President Trump and president xi are set to have the meeting at g20 in china, however, now the white house is backing off of that. This decision comes just a couple days after of course President Trump and president xi got on the phone, had that phone call, which the president described it as productive, said there will be expanded meeting at the end of next week. The thinking here, neil, the tensions are being lowered between the u. S. And china on the trade front, just a little bit, heading into this Big Conversation next week. Speaking of tensions, completely different feel as it relates to iran, president acknowledging this morning that he had authorized a strike as reta