They dominate our streets. Getting physical with the Vice President. A persistent little boy who felt he was owed an apology. Freedom freedom the helicopter, we are looking toward the sunrise in the new york city area. The images courtesy of channel 5, the fox station in new york city, beautiful start to a beautiful friday, thanks for joining us on the number one cable morning news show. Lots of news to talk about including the interview with donald trump. Sits down with lester holt at a network that has not given them a fair shake almost from day one. He chooses to go to the people, if you watch 5 minutes of the network or their Cable Network they dont deserve the president s quality time, going to the lions den so to speak, he spoke to lester holt, a man that would speak to president obama and interrupted once every 29 minutes would interrupt this president nine times in two minutes. The question of why you fired james comey, the president said this. I want to find out if there was a problem within election having to do with russia or anybody else, any other country and i want that to be so strong and so good and i want it to happen and i want a confident, capable director. He is not. He is a showboat or. He is not my man, he was appointed long before me but i want somebody who is going to do a great job and i will tell you candidates right now who could be spectacular and that is what i want for the fbi. That was one of the highlights of the interview at the top of the show he called comey a showboat or, grandstand or in the president was going to fire james comey before the deputy ag recommended that at the dinner they had together at the white house and how james comey promised him you are not under investigation. That is the problem. I believe the president does what he wanted to do, that is the way he always acted whether in the real world in business or the political world but he had his Deputy Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders say when the president received letters from the Justice Department that prompted his move. Now he says something different. That gives an opening for the critics. Is that with the president did which he had reason to do if you were to read the wall street journal, it is the fact that they were not able to explain it correctly, coherently immediately. It is a big story and everyone is in a hurry to get it out and Sarah Huckabee sanders said i havent talked to the president but we did find out what is interesting i havent at the time. She explained it wrong in a way that was inaccurate. The way it is explained today, with the new Deputy Attorney general, he came in. The letter he wrote did not specifically say fire james comey, why he had done a bad job. There was a family a story yesterday that said he was so upset that he was being portrayed as the spark plug forgetting of comey he said you got to correct the record or im going to quit. Later in the day it was revealed he never said i am going to quit. It is an evolving story we heard a lot from the president , you heard from lester holt. They released at nbc a two minute and 34 seconds clip. During that, donald trump was interrupted at least nine times. We put together a montage to give you a flavor of what the interview was like. What i did is i was going to fire comey. My decision. You made the decision. I was going to fire comey. There was no good time to do it. Accepted their recommendation. I was going to fire regardless. This was an excuse for having lost an election. Are you angry with comey because of his russia investigation . You told me that. I heard that from others. Did you meet facetoface . I had dinner with him, he wanted to have dinner, we had a nice dinner. Dinner was arranged, very nice dinner and at that time he told me he was not under investigation which i do anyway. Did you ask him . I asked him. We interviewed the president and you will have a certain time and want to get as much as possible but he did interrupt him a lot. After everything the president said lester holt questions him. What about this . Seemed like an interrogation. If he had the same approach with president obama whose answers are longer, more drawn out than for many people who only get 5 minutes with the president very frustrating and when bret baer interviewed the president , he jumped in a few times and id want to follow up, he was criticized, let the president finish, youre being disrespectful. How disrespectful with that . People obsessed with the processed, with the going to fire him before, after and like james comey said he has the ability to do that. Communication matters and like the travel ban that is what he ran on, we will have extreme vetting on these he got into office, a lot of people said that but how do you communicate what you are going to do has everything to do with whether it will pass or not or work or not. The Communications Team should sit down in the oval office and be on the same page. This is unprecedented. I will wait until the end of the weekend get everyones idea how to communicate best, there is no good time to fire and fbi director in the middle of an investigation, we hear counterpoints and i have a press conference. The president or the attorney general has to have a press conference. Let us know what you think. You dont have the dollar pundits making up conspiracy theories on three networks and 12 newspapers. The white house was caught flatfooted on the media response, democrat hate comey, republicans hate him, the president can fire him, what the president is looking for since he was elected president of the United States looking for any excuse to pilon donald trump, this is a big story. The press wants to jump every day, we dont say it is not fair, we deal with the fact that everything we do is going to be scrutinized. I think they were surprised at the reaction because of what he wants him out, got rid of him, now suddenly he is a martyr. That was one of the soundbites. Moving on to the next story, the next few weeks, who will take the place and that could open a whole new can of worms for Hillary Clinton, the statute of limitation, to reinvestigate her and it will be interesting to see the new director do that. It would not be just affecting Hillary Clinton but 5 of her top aides got immunity deals and if they did not live up to the agreement they could be held to a higher standard. Her husband, estranged husband had secrets on his laptop. And why she got a street deal, allowed to be in the room with mrs. Clinton at the time and the interrogation had taken place on 4 july weekend when the investigation was concluded. A lot of stuff to talk about. On our friday telecast. On friday. Happy friday and good morning to everyone, fox news alert, russian highspeed cat and mouse game is escalating, fighter jet coming within 20 feet of an u. S. Navy surveillance plane, Navy Officials and the interaction was safe and professional but on the heels of a series of provocative actions from russia over the next several weeks. Longrange bombers a common site off the coast of alaska. 6hour stand up coming to an end after three people are killed including a sheriff deputy. Kevin maineguns down near little rock, arkansas. The accused shooter taking off and barricading himself inside a house with a hostage for surrendering, Police Believe he is connected to the double murder of two women was a convoy of officers reporting the body to little rock. Congressman Tom Macarthur met with an uproar at a town hall in his home state of new jersey. You have been the single greatest threat to my family in the entire world. You are the reason i stay up at night. You insists that i pay before you will save me. That is immoral, sir. You came from my wife. I will not forgive, i will not forget. Very tense moments, a protester showing up with signs wishing death on republican lawmaker who played an instrumental role passing the new health care bill. Macarthurs daughter gracie passed away at the age of 11 motivated to fix the system. I want to go back to my daughter for a moment. I would say i will say shame on you right now actually. Congressman macarthur joins us to talk about his personal tragedy behind these changes. Donald trumps ice cream consumption is a National Crisis, Mainstream Media freaking out over an interview with Time Magazine, donald trump got one scoop of ice cream at the white house, he got two skips, reeling over the fact the president was given a diet coke when everyone else got water. The bigger question is what kind of ice cream, the Mainstream Media is making those questions. When youre the president you can have a diet coke whenever you want. Dont think he would have a problem of one of the guests said i can have a diet coke too. This friday donald trump, Mainstream Media, firing james comey was the right thing to do, what is wrong with that, debate coming up. High school confiscate all your books because of a quote from the commander in chief. A chance to get away this is what i say a good time how can i resist Liberty Mutual stood with us when a fire destroyed everything in our living room. We replaced it all without touching our savings. Yeah, our insurance wont do that. 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Joining us to answer that question, tom fenton joins us from colorado springs. Good morning. You have not been a fan of the fbi investigation email situation. We are using to that point the fbi was using freedom of information documents uncovered by you, afterward. They were. From what i recall documents show Hillary Clinton was warned about using a separate system to conduct this and she did it anyway. This idea they didnt have the intent, didnt need to show intent but wanted to they could have. And the law did not allow her to be indicted, she was not indicted, nominee for the Democratic Party for the presidency. Obamas Justice Department, mister comey as political is any other, put his neck on the line. The only major obama holdover, did not remove maybe a Serious Investigation where politics is taken out of it. We just need someone who is sensible and independent, and say that person should have a fair, competent investigation. And interest in protecting hillary because Administration Officials implicated as well. You are saying mister comey had his thumb on the scale . No doubt. When he is talking the fbi giving immunity agreements to five top officials in the Obama Administration and the fbi director signed on to that to participate in such a charade i dont see how anyone could say he was a disinterested party. Now we learn despite what we heard to the contrary that not everyone in the fbi agreed with him. Why were we fed the line out of the fbi everyone signed on to, not to recommend the prosecution comey tells us the Justice Department, he will trust something that happened. To announce the conclusion of the investigation. The statement that he made, there is a lot there but someone has to make a decision to see if it benefits everyone to do that. What are the chances it will happen. 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Donald trump telling lester holt he doesnt care how the firing of james comey looks because he is only concerned with doing the right thing for the American People. Did you think through the optics of the way this would look . I never thought of that which im not looking im looking to do a great job, looking to create jobs, create strength and security, have strong borders, im looking for things like that. If you are talking about james comey you are not doing other things. Here to debate it, republican strategist lisa booth. Anything wrong with ignoring the optics and focusing more on substance . Donald trump said correctly last night one of the most important things he can do is move this forward and get it off his plate, spend a lot of time considering the challenges the American People put on his plate focusing on these political sideshows but it is important to reiterate what you said in the last segment about the best thing he can do now is have more Communications Team, make sure there is consolidated message Going Forward otherwise you just have confusion, there were a lot of questions to the president last night but a lot of that comes from because there are a lot of different answers from a lot of different voices from the administration and that creates more inquiry. In order to make it more of a fluid process to get back to the work the American People expect, that would be a good first observation. Is the blunt approach the right approach given as a constituent. You are asking pablo. The president has moved forward with other stuff, economic opportunities, we see that, by america, high american, hasnt moved forward or simultaneously been doing other stuff. If he was trying to do this is the worst coverup in history, fbi director comey, he said comey lost confidence, the party has been trying to spin and drive this narrative of the timing that somehow donald trump firing comey is a way to appease the investigation but the acting fbi director through cold water, the narrative, the fbi investigation is going to continue, even susan collins, no fan of the president , suggest the fact the president s firing of comey will somehow force the investigation. Everything you said is backed up by fact but at the same time, people out to cut your legs out and you not only give them something to talk about, firing james comey, even if it was the right move, they doublecross you and release the picture, that will be the story whether it is right or wrong. A messaging perspective this blunder was a gimme for the democrats. My party is in a crisis of confidence at the moment. Not going to disagree with you. This will be a temporary thing. Thomas perez, the new chairman of the Democratic Party is an incredible guy in terms of turning things around, it will be slow going, a decade of losing elect