Hundreds of countries. What you can do to safeguard your computer. Eric history making for france as they are not great their youngest president. Americas news headquarters starts right now. We begin with the latest on the job search for a new director of the fbi. The help wanted sign at the Justice Department to replace james comey who was fired last week by President Trump. That process is well underway with the attorney general, Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein interviewing a candidate so far this weekend. Some lawmakers are weighing in on who they say should get the job. Kevin is live at the white house with more on this process. Kevin, what are they saying on capitol hill about the perspective candidates and who they want to see get the position. Reporter two words come to mind when you hear them speak and when you talk to them. They want someone who is high highly qualified and someone who is preferably nonpolitical. That may be a tall order in this environment. As we show you th
Candidates into the department of justice yesterday. How is that process and the job interviews continuing today . You heard a great deal about yesterday and interviews that were ongoing and if anyone suggests to you that the white house has made a decision, thats simply not true. I spoke with senior official who insist that is the president is taking this very seriously and in fact, hes rivalling this to the process of selecting people court nominee. This is that important to the white house and to the president. As you mentioned we heard a number of people that were interviewed by the attorney general as they continue the vetting process to try to find someone who replace director comey. The president for his part spent most of his day at Liberty University on saturday talking to students there delivering his very first commencement address as commander in chief. But before making his way down to lynchburg he was asked how quickly the process might play out. Here is what he had to sa
Interviewing at least eight of them this weekend. President trump said we could have an appointment by friday before heading on his first foreign trip as president. This is happening as the administration is trying to put out a fire storm after james comays ousting. White house counselor Kellyanne Conway said that is not the ca case. Independent of that, his Deputy Attorney general who oversees the fbi, thats his job, he came to that conclusion on his own and made the recommendation. Now, i would also point out that everyone is saying james comey was investigating. No, he wasnt. The fbi was investigating and they will continue to investigate. Laura we have Fox Team Coverage on all of this. Caroline shively is in washington with the latest on north korea. First we go to kevin on the north lawn and we have heard the president would like to fill the post at the fbi by friday. What is the hurry . I think a couple of things. They feel this is a position they can fill with relative ease and
The guessing game is on. Washington pundits and Lawmakers Debate potential candidates to replace fired fbi director james comey. Leland already sunday night here in jerusalem. Good evening. The yours office is firing back at the u. S. Secretary of state. We will have a key member of Israels Parliament to react. Its always true here in the middle east, not for its old moments even on mothers day. Thats right. We are glad you are there to cover up for us. A lot of news out of washington and the world did the skit straight to it. North korea defying International Pressure and criticism, launching an intermediaterange test missile. The white house reacting strongly say north korea has been a menace for too long. This has the later show of course by kim jong uns new president takes office. Caroline shively joins us now with the latest. Reporter the missile flew more than 430 miles before it dropped in to see japan off the east coast. It doesnt appear to be an intercontinental ballistic miss
There is plenty to suggest his team is well on the way toward meeting that goal. A number of big names out there. One of them drawing a little bit of interest. In particular former representative rogers of michigan. He has been endorsed by a group of current and former fbi agents. Rogers himself is a former special agent. For his part, the president spent in lynchburg, virginia but on the way down to liberty where be the way he addressed about 50,000 people he said about this the search that is, he said, it shouldnt take long to wheedling down the list. Before you saudi, before departure . Outstanding people very well known. Before the trip, possibly . Even that is possible. Can we now, in case youre wondering, look, my sources simply say its highly unlikely the president will pick someone solely from a political background arthel, although they quickly add the president is unpredictable. Arthel theres still folks up there on capitol hill floating their own ideas about who they think m