Calls for them to respond to congress and there is Lyndsey Grahams letter. Theyre going to be a lot of questions that have to be answered why wont the fbi just tell somebody with the clearance. I get that they are not telling us. We dont have that kind of clearing. Francesca on the subject of why it is happening. You sit there in the briefing room. Last night we said if it looks like a walk back and it sounded that sean spicer was turning out a walk back. Today, he seems to walk back which was unusual. He said the president was confident and right. The thing that was interesting about yesterdays walk back was that he claims when the president says in his tweet wiretapping, he did not mean president obama had the Justice Department listening to his calls or monitoring his calls. Donald trump did say specifically that obama was tapping my phone. He did not mean necessarily that obama was tapping his phone that there is a broad range potential surveillance and a hole host of surveillance.
Speaking out about challenges headon. The menace and reality of global terrorism threatens all our nations. Under President Trump, well continue to support increasing information sharing and security efforts to protect our people and our way of life. Across this region and across the wider world. Bill we have team fox coverage from around the world. Benjamin hall reporting in london today. Chris stirewalt in washington we begin at the white house with john roberts. What is the white house saying about the array of International Matters they face as of this morning . Its something that is keeping them busy. In an ironic way it is putting wind in the president s sails after being siem stymied so many times. The Vice President has been talking tough against north korea. Today paul ryan in london on a tour of nato countries saying its not to be tolerated for north korea to get a longrange Nuclear Missile that could hit the United States. And again, this idea north korea rattling the saber
Anticipate will be answered in the next few days. Shepard how anger and heartbreak. A community looking for answers. Lets get to it. Announcer now Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox newsdesk. Shepard good monday afternoon. The White House Holding an offcamera briefing with reporters right this minute, its been going on for the better part of 20, 25 minutes. We will be able to play the sound for you as soon as it wraps up. The white house is apparently trying to change the subject from the russia investigation and understandably so. But President Trump is still tweeting about it. The white house today kicked off a made in america week as it calls it. The president right now set to take part in a product showcase featuring items from each of the 50 states. He spent the weekend at his golf club in new jersey. Last night he tweeted, heading back to washington, d. C. Much will be accomplished this week on trade, military, and security. But this morning, the president was back on the
Keep it quiet . Plus the gop plan to repeal obamacare down for the count. And trumpcare let healthcare millions of americans rely on let it fail. Lets get right to cnns chief National Security correspondent, jim schuitto. Nika anderson, and mika philips. Jim lets start with that second meeting were learning about between Vladimir Putin and President Trump at the g20, what happened . Lets be clear at International Sum mits you have pull asides, handshakes and conversations in addition to formal one on ones. In addition to the the putin tru slsh putin trump one on one at the table were seeing it now. Whats interesting about this is that the other people present at the g20 dinner, u. S. Allies, leaders of u. S. Allies in europe theyre the one that is found it unusual, strange at this dinner for the president to stand up, go sit down to the russian president and speak at that length of time. Unusual to them, american allies. And then not disclose it until and this is in a series of meeting
He didnt want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as i think weve made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of these individually but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. All staff will report to general kelly including ivanka trump and Jared Kushner which is a change in the chain of command at the white house because it used to be that ivanka and jared had their direct line of communication, scaramucci had a direct line of communication, bannon and chief of staffs office. That will all change. As to what will happen with scaramucci, we understand that he asked to return to the Export Import Bank to his previous position. No word yet from the white house as whether or not that will happen. When asked about it yesterday Sarah Huckabee sanders says he does not have a job in the Administration Currently but going back to xm. Shannon you have been rung down the repor