Valley, tminus 12 hours, all systems go. Seven candidates will be on the stage. Critical moment in the campaign. Every one of these debates are critical. The first vote only months away and Team Fox Coverage with Kellyanne Conway and bill melugin coming up in a matter of minutes from california. Stand by for that. Meanwhile there is this from last night. What we have tonight is a bunch of criminal opportunists take advantage of a situation and make an attempt to destroy our city. Bill it is being called a coordinated attack. Anarchy and chaos in philadelphia last night. Swarms of teenage looters ransacking multiple stores taking virtual control over the city of brotherly love where we start today. Bill hemmer live in new york. Dana joins us next hour from california. Welcome back to our friend the dream in washington, d. C. , how are you doing, shannon . Shannon my dream is i get to work with you, bill hemmer. Bill you are sucking up. Shannon for the next two hours, more of that. Great
enforcement seized 15,000 pills disguised as candy. halloween is right around the corner. d.e.a. warning the deadly rainbow fentanyl could end up inside of a candy bag of your kid. the dea administrator joins us now. tell our audience why you came to new york to deliver this message. first of all, we believe that thethis. we just finished a four month operational effort, 10 million fake fentanyl pills off the setst that look like real pills like oxy, or others. we look almost 1,000 pounds of fentanyl. why that s important. the work of the men and women of
fall. obviously, you were acting d.e.a. administrator when the trump administration came to the fore. you stayed there for nine months before you announced you were leaving. why did you leave? the first part is easy. i was asked to serve by attorney general lynch under president obama. i have great respect for the men and women of d.e.a. when someone asks you to do something and you can do it, then you try to do it. the reason i left is more complicated. but i was uncomfortable. and i didn t want to make it about me, rachel. the worst thing that i can do as a leader of an organization like the dea is make it about me. and so when the president condoned the mistreatment of criminal defendants in a speech that he gave in new york, i sent an e-mail to all the men and women of dea. it became public, that was not my intent or my goal, but it became public. because you disagreed with the way the president had we don t mistreat defendants. we respect their civil rights, we respect the
your decision to stay on into the trump administration, and then your decision to leave this fall. obviously you were acting dea administrator when the trump administration came to the fore. you stayed there for nine months before you announced you were leaving. why did you leave? the first part is easy. i was asked to serve by attorney general lynch under president obama. i have great respect for the men and women of dea. when they ask you to do something and you can do it, you try and do it. the reason i left is more complicated. but i was uncomfortable. and i didn t want to make it about me, rachel. the worst thing that i can do as a leader of an organization like the dea is make it about me. and so when the president condoned the mistreatment of criminal defendants in a speech in new york, i sent an e-mail to the men and women of dea. it became public, that was not my intent or my goal, but it became public. because you disagreed with the way the president had
they are human beings and we will treat them as such. we don t condone police brutality. but i was concerned this was becoming about me, and that s not fair to the men and women of dea. and so it s time to go. when the new york times characterized you more broadly as having lost confidence in the president s respect for the rule of law, was that an accurate characterization? it was. would you did they ask you to stay or did they offer you a different job when you made clear you would like to leave? no, it was pretty clear they were going to make a change anyway, and that s fine, that happens all the time, i get that. and so i figured, let me clear out, let me go do something else. you were chief of staff to james comey when he was the deputy attorney general and also when he was fbi director. and we were colleagues before that. we were both assistant u.s. attorneys together in the eastern district of virginia. given that long relationship, can you describe your person