the left. he made a statement on monday and now he will spend the week cleaning up his statement even though he condemned both sides and there is responsibility on both sides. how the police responded or did not respond. breaking news from the white house. long time aide, assistant with the president will be the interim communications director. i don t think it will be a traditional white house communications director position. she is very close to the president and knows how he operates. it will be interesting to see how she works with john kelly to get to the president and to make sure the messaging is on par. it s a big week and she has a lot of work to do with everything that we ve just talked about. they re all big weeks. thank you, katie. shannon, what s next. shannon: conservative reaction to the president s comments decidedly mixed. he made some points that
customers don t like whatever the president is doing, that s fine. that s his fiduciary responsibility. leave your feelings at home and go to work as the ceo to turn a profit to your shareholders. that s your one and only legal responsibility as the ceo of that company it is outrageous to see them behaving this way. it s inappropriate. they re supposed to do what s right for the people they work for, the shareholders. they better not forget that. shannon: wal-mart comes out on thursday. he better light it up as that one shareholder said. bill: fox news alert now breaking news from hawaii. the u.s. coast guard and u.s. army responding to reports of a downed helicopter on the coast of oahu. the president blaming both sides sparking a tense debate between two of our own. our panel takes up this debate next.
tomorrow it s children s with downs. then it s middle age people with diabetes. where does it stop? shannon: we have a quote from one of the counselors who works at the hospital. they admit testing is not foolproof because there are occasionally people that have a down syndrome baby that weren t expecting it. that raises the questions about whether there are babies that don t have downs are being aborted because their mothers are told they have downs. this is what we hear from one of the counselors. we don t look at abortion as a murder. we ended a possible life that may have had a huge complications preventing suffering for the child and family. that s more right than seeing it as a murder. that s so black and white. life isn t black and white. life is gray. she said mothers have a right to choose what their life is going to look like. look, here in the united states unfortunately we have a problem not to this degree but we still see a large number of
civilizations that have risen and fallen across the centuries and religions are still there. dictators see religion as a primary threat to their authority and regime. shannon: do you think things have cooled off a bit as it appears in the surface in north korea. the president tweeted kim jong-un made a wise decision. the alternative would have been catastrophic and unacceptable. him backing off threat to basically release a ring of fire on guam. for now we have an intermission, an interlude between the acts. that s a good thing. anything that cools down the tensions is welcome. we re a long way from the end of this play. china again is, as always, is playing two sides of this. they re sort of feigning cooperation with us. the reason china is even
opposed to a racial generation. we re still a long way from healing those wounds and they were ripped open this weekend. donald trump is 34% approval ratings. you wonder he is horrified of giving up this bizarre base he was able to coble together in 2016 and feels he needs these fringe groups in order to maintain any level of wait a second. the base attracted to donald trump is not the people that we ve seen in charlottesville, it s not. what we had in charlottesville is a super minority of fringe people that doesn t represented the majority of americans. shannon: i think it s important that the people who are his base, the millions of people who voted for him, don t want to be lumped in with these people and find it very offensive. the people in wisconsin did not vote for him because he is a white nationalist. shannon: you have some points of agreement. thank you for the conversation. bill: hot stuff. the race to fill a critical