Our Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh and from phoenix is key yong law. Isis taking responsibility but what do we know about the terror groups role in this attack in texas . At this stage, very little and there is scant detail offered in the statement that they put out on their official radio station, thought to broadcast out of Northern Iraq. They said as you mentioned that theyre soldiers of the caliphate in Northern Iraq theyve selfdeclared as ans islamic state, those soldiers as we know from reading media reports were engaged in an exchange of fire in which a Security Guard was injured. None of the detail or suggestion of foreknowledge you might expect in a claim of responsibility and what this sounds like is a bid by whoever wrote that announcement to launch themselves on to that attack. Whats going to be key to investigators is working out whether or not there was prior communication between isis leaders in Northern Iraq or syria and those two gunmen in garland,
You know what im saying . They need it. Fox and friends hour one starts right now. Good morning everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. We can see the temperature when we take this shot. In the righthand corner. Its 79 degrees. 81 degrees. It just went up. Hotter. In that secondt jumped two degrees. Thats how hot it is. At 4 00 in the morning in midtown, it was 77 degrees. You know that because you were up exercising . No. I saw it on a display. 77 degrees. Oh, boy. Shocking. Going to be a scorcher. We begin with a fox news alert. Edward know den finds friends in nicaragua and venezuela. Both countries offered snowden asylum, apparently. The question is how will he get there . We have the latest on this from molly. Tucker, alisyn, clayton, we dont know if there are conditions on the offer. But Nicolas Maduro said nsa leaker Edward Snowden can live out his days in the homeland of hugo chavez who was a frequent critic of the u. S. Maduro made the remarks yesterday which was venezuela
That keeps on giving. A disaster for democrats, watch her in action and vote r. She was a mentor to sergeant johnson. She tweeted niger is the real Donald Trumps benghazi. He needs to own it. Johnson was one of four troops killed in an isis ambush in niger. An investigation continues. All of this as the president gears up for a major push on tax reform and ponders whether to appoint a new chairperson to the federal reserve. Les bring in boris sanchez. What is the president up to today . Reporter hey there, fred. This is the 84th day the president is staying at a property baring his name in virginia. Hes said to return to the white house in a short while. He spent part of the day tweeting, attacking congresswoman fredricka wilson. The white house has not commented on the exchange between the congresswoman and her claim that the situation in niger is the president s benghazi. The white house declining comment on a report from role call that makes the case that the president did not have
Won. In the second instance, a draft letter the president intended to send to comey listing the reasons he was firing him. But his lawyer successfully blocked trump from sending it according to the times. The white house is calling this bombshell report absurd. And its also sparked an angry tirade from the president this morning via twitter. Cnns erica ordin joins me right now. What more can you tell us about the investigation and the status of it . Well, this is really two elements of one investigation. One is the obstruction, the obstruction of justice probe, which is a criminal matter, and the other is this counterintelligence investigation that you just described. The counterintelligence investigation was picked up by Robert Muellers team. The Mueller Investigation has continued to look at that. Its not really clear what the current status of that specific probe is. What may happen is mueller and his prosecutors are now working or will be soon working on a report to conclude their