you re not off the hook yet. you need to be paying close attention to your local forecasts and your local officials. there will probably be evacuations all up and down the southeast coast. howie, back to you a monster storm, janice, thank you very much. president trump has been ripping media reports virtually every day this week. the washington post said he privately offered pardons in connection with getting his wall built. this was made up by the washington post only in order to demean and disparage fake news. axios reports that in at least two meetings trump asked for research on whether nuclear bombs could be used to stop hurricanes. tweet: joining us now to analyze the coverage, molly hemmingway of the federalist, a fox news
there was reporting last week that he was offering pardons potentially for people to break the law to get this wall built. he focused on it because as there are concerning signals about the economy, that this promise is especially important to his base. what do you think? do you believe that? where else would his base go? reporter: that s an interesting question. where else will they go? and the answer to that, which is the problem that this administration is facing, is they might stay home. they might be sufficiently disenchenched about the di n disenchanted about the promise. there s the economy and building a wall. you could pick a third thing but those will be the issues that this president runs for re-election on. his base very much wants that wall. they still chant it at as far as i can tell every single rally that he has. all of his re-election rallies. you know, he s he has not bl built, by the way, a single new mile of wall or of fencing. they ve up until now been ab
break the law to get this done, i will pardon you. so frankly, everyone is saying it happened right now. the distinction is i haven t disputed that it happened. there you go. not even you are disputing it i think if there is someone is that took it, is there is someone in the meeting that took it to be an offer of the pardon if you broke the law so it s not a hypothetic hypothetical, it mhappened, wha would they say to the administration official? that s not right. don t take it literally. that s exactly don t do it. you would say don t do it? don t break the law. you would say don t break the law no matter what the president says. of course you would say that. of course you would say that do not break the law and that person that s coming to you, if they are coming to you and asking was he serious about that? the answer is likely to be no. he wasn t serious about that. but what he is serious about is breaking through the red tape in order to get this wall built.
there you go. not even you are disputing it i think if there is someone is that took it, is there is someone in the meeting that took it to be an offer of the pardon if you broke the law so it s not a hypothetical, it happened, what would they say to the administration official? that s not right. don t take it literally. that s exactly don t do it. you would say don t do it? don t break the law. you would say don t break the law no matter what the president says. of course you would say that. of course you would say that do not break the law and that person that s coming to you, if they are coming to you and asking was he serious about that? the answer is likely to be no. he wasn t serious about that. but what he is serious about is breaking through the red tape in order to get this wall built. i ll note likely isn t definitely in this case but there is another issue here that s serious, as well. david, i want to put this question to you, reporting, the president is
also fox news @ night is investigating allegations of campaign finance violations by a member of the squad, congresswoman ilhan omar. shocking claims of a hospital forcing a catholic nurse to perform an abortion after she told them she was morally opposed. humor at the hospital says and hear from the trump administration official. welcome to fox news @ night. i m shannon bream in washington. we go straight to trace gallagher. big news on immigration as the president pushes back on allegations about his efforts to get a wall built and the confusion about the citizenship policy. the initial announcement which didn t come with a lot of detail had immigration activists and the media pretty worked up because it appeared to smack down birthright citizenship saying children of certain government employees and service members born abroad abroad were no longer