[applause] were coming to your city going to play our guitar and sing you country song ainsley good morning, guys. Pete good morning, ainsley. Ainsley its great to have you guys on the curvey couch. Pete steve and brian are out but we have tv todd piro. Todd remember the first time you bought me a coffee had had all sugar. We landed from iowa i got two hours of sleep but im ready to go. We had an awesome time. Wait until you see the stories we did in iowa. Ainsley when will we see them . Todd one tomorrow with the field of dreams and one that makes the plates that go in armor. Amazing guys and amazing story. They were recognized by trump one of the made in america top 50. Meet them in a few weeks. Ainsley the president was in ohio yesterday yesterday speaking to a grouch union builders. Here is a clip if you missed it. I love the smell of a construction site, right . There is something about it my administration is fighting every day to protect and defend and grow american jobs. We are keeping our promise us and the results are in. 3 million new jobs since election day. We are knocking the hell out of ice sis coming out of syria very soon. Did you see roseannes ratings . Mark how big were they . They were unbelievable. Over 18 Million People. And it was about us. America is a nation of pioneers, a nation that accepts no limits, no hardship and never ever gives up. Anything we can dream, you can build. Pete that was as usual President Trump in usual form. It felt almost like it was infrastructure rally felt like a Campaign Rally as well. Very, very well received. This is a guy that can go from 3 million jobs to roseanne. Ainsley i know. He talked about jobs. He talked about building. How building is his strength. He said better than being a president i was always really good at building. He talked about Roseanne Barr and the ratings. This is his element. Its a campaign tile rally. He loves it. The crowd loves it one thing i want to mention its all with the wall when it comes down to it we go to the diners and talk to the people. Whats their number one focus we ask them about jobs and the economy. They say we need the wall. He does need to deliver that. Thats why you heard him talking about his big beautiful wall. Pete defoe can you say on it and put out tweets this week showing the beginning of his portion of the construction of it and even saying the Defense Department could be part of funds it congress has not gone the way on building the wall. Thetics tent i stays focused on talking about tax cuts and jobs and bringing them back and staying laser focused on that will be the key to translating with voters. Ainsley he talked but the wall yesterday and said we have already started building the wall. Do you Like Campaign style rallies . Do you wish he would do more of those . Pete we started the top of the show with that. His ability to talk about what happened throughout the week. Im guessing if you are looking at another channel they are probably talking more and more about investigations. Probably not this side of the investigation u of course, the first part of the year was all about russia, russia, russia. Now we are getting information that Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, will be appointing a todd, you kind of described a special counsel light. Diet special counsel. Pete he got a letter from senator grassley and goodlatte and gowdy a month ago have you done enough to look into investigating the investigators, the fisa abuse . And he finally came back with a response yesterday. And this is the attorney generals response. He appoints he is appoint ago man by the name of u. S. Attorney general john huber. This is the statement. He said mr. Huber is conducting his work from outside the washington, d. C. Area. In cooperation with the Inspector General. And upon the conclusion of his review, will receive his recommendation as to whether any matters not currently under investigation should be open, whether any matters currently under investigation require further resources or whether any matters merit the appointment of a special counsel. Ainsley people wanted a special counsel because the ig investigating the doj saying livin this guy might be a great guy is he fair . We need somebody outside of the doj or outside of the fbi to investigate. They were investigating Hillary Clinton was the first investigation. The second one is this fisa abuse. So republicans were asking for a special counsel to do this. So the attorney general has said no, no special counsel, there is this guy who you trust, who is going to be an outside source or outside individual who is very fair, who was appointed by obama but has worked for both administrations and for from what we have heard, he seems like a solid guy. Todd solid guy, right. Ainsley many republicans are still complaining because they are saying we still need a special counsel and this is missing the mark. Congressman mark meadows was on with laura last night. Listen to. This we need to have the special counsel, i disagree with the attorney general. I can tell you tonight. I went through and reviewed some redacted things that were given to our committee. And on seven pages, there were 12 material facts, material facts. Not just names, material facts that were omitted by the department of justice. Its time they come clean and give congress what they need. Todd one of the situations where the Republican Party is split shocker. People like peter king agree with what sessions said. Mark meadows disagrees with it and the i couldnt know lying premise of what the meadows camp is saying. Hubers boss is rod rosenstein. Pete thats a big concern. They look at the fake russian collusion narrative that drove entire special counsel still going on with bob mueller. Then you look at all the things that have happened from andy mccabe and lisa strzok and bruce oer and james comey we have more evidence we will show new a second. That doesnt merit the special counsel. That seems like inside fbi and doj at the top not rank and file and you are going to investigate yourself . Still feels like folks are going to clamor for more. Looks like a half measurable from the attorney general not going to satisfactory people. Ainsley imagine if this happened at your place the work. If you had to investigate your boss. Would you be fair and could do you that . You want to believe you could but thats tough. Pete you are poking around whether your boss was doing things the wrong way. Ainsley whether or not you get paid or not getting food on the table and paying for your kids college it would be important. Would it be hard to investigate the agency where you work i think it would be. Pete it would be. Yeah u another guy is representative jim jordan. He came out last night with an exclusive set of information that he knows based on what he has seen that Andrew Andy Mccabe actually lied four times in talking about his leaking to the press. Listen to what jim jordan says. Well, we dont know what will come out of that we do know about Andrew Mccabe he didnt lie just once. He lied four times. He lied to james comey. He lied to the office of professional responsibility, and he lied twice under oath to the Inspector General and, remember, this is Andrew Mccabe, Deputy Director of the fbi. This is Andrew Mccabe the Text Messages between peter strzok and lisa page and insurance policy against donald trump being president of the United States i it wasnt once or twice or three times, it was four times leaking information to the wall street journal about the fbi. Ainsley if thats true, he lied four times and now he is begging you for money. Because, remember, he got fired a few days before he was retired. Well, his spokesperson, i dont know anyone who has a spokesperson that doesnt have a job. His spoke spokesperson on social media has said go to his go fund me page and give him money to pay for attorney fees. Todd i saw pete earlier on the website donating. Pete fake news. Todd fake news. Pete 340,000 already raised. Ed to odd if you believe mr. Jim jordan mr. Mccabe is accused of bad stuff. Pete he is a cause celeb of the left. James comey feel like they are part of saving the nation just like bob mueller. Thats where this support is coming from. But, you look at a guy like jim jordan saying that. You dont say those things lightly and saying that because he has seen things that people need to see. The Inspector General cant ask james comey and andy mccabe questions. Is he looking internally. Huber doing special counsel light. How much power pull information out of people making decisions at that time and do it under oath . Thats what matters and will actually get us to the bottom of whether or not the Trump Campaign was spied on by political opponents. Todd someone no longer with the campaign. Who can do what and when. Lets go over to jillian mele with the headlines. Jillian happy good friday to you guys and to you at home as well. Lets get you caught up on some of the stories starting with a fox news alert. Coalition troops hurt and five others hurt after a roadside bomb explodes in syria. No word on exactly where this happened but it came shortly after a roadside bomb exploded in the town of man bij. It came hours after President Trump said this in ohio. By the way, we are new yorking the hell out of isis. We will be coming out of syria like very soon. Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon. Jillian there are about 2,000 troops fighting isis in syria. To another fox news alert now a massive manhunt for a cop killer combing to an end overnight in tennessee. Officers shooting and killing james in clarksville north of nashville. Police say he shot off duty kentucky officer 38yearold Philip Meacham. See him right there after initiating a fake traffic stop and pretending to be a cop. Officers are never off duty. I dont know what im supposed to say. I just ask for everybodys support. Were here. And we will get through it thats what we do. Jillian meacham leaves behind a wife and two kids. A planes landing burst into flames plane speeds down a runway to land. See the fire and smoke coming from the delta jet heartsville airport. Flight from ecuador forced to turn back due to electrical issue. Going up in flames. All 19 people on board got off safely. First Lady Melania Trump making a surprise visit to a florida Childrens Hospital spreading easter cheer ahead of the holiday. Meeting with patients at st. Marys Medical Center at West Palm Beach and handing out Easter Baskets filled with toys. Also spent time speaking with parents and thanking the nurses and doctors on staff. Thats a look at your headlines. Dont you love seeing that . Ainsley could you imagine being down on your luck and in the hospital and todd very cool. Russia retaliates after President Trump kicked out its diplomats. What happens now . Are removing closer to war with the kremlin . Ainsley pulled off incredible nose down landing and how this pilot celebrated . You got to see it. Dont stop believing hold on to that feeling streetlights people directv now gives you more for your thing. Your letting go thing. Your sorry not sorry thing. Your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing. Get the live tv you love. No bulky hardware. No satellite. No annual contract. Try directv now for 10 mo for 3 months. More for your thing. Thats our thing. Visit directvnow dot com if yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. 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Russia is further isolating itself following the brazen chemical attack. Russia should not be acting like a victim. The only victims in this situation are the two victims in the hospital in the u. K. Right now. Pete Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced yesterday that russia with a woo expel 60 u. S. Diplomats from russia for the expulsion of 60 Russian Diplomats this week. Does it mean we are in a cold war standoff with Vladimir Putin . We turn to retired colonel jim reese. Thanks for joining us this morning. What does it mean about the escalation about our confrontation with russia . Well, pete, good morning. What this really means is we are starting to get in this tat for tat political arena that starts to happen when these issues go to bear. From the u. S. Side, what i find very interesting, really in the last year with President Trump, all four elements of National Power, the diplomatic, the informational, military, and economic wings of our National Power are all working together on this issue. Its really the first time all four elements are working together. But for me, at the end of the day, as this thing starts to move down the road, if we get more and more tension, i do believe that the at the end of the day the relationship between President Trump and president putin will figure this thing out for both sides. Pete the accusation of this president has been that he has been soft on putin and soft on russia. Maybe even coincluding with them what you are saying the last year renewed focus on pushing back. It has. I think what President Trump is looking at, just like all good commanderinchiefs do. They take input from their staff. This is the state department. Its treasury, its the military, dod. Its the cia, everyone is coming to the president saying heres what we need to do. The president is being a good commanderinchief and sitting back, agreeing, pushing those forces out. Pushing those issues out. Making, literally putting the pressure on russia. So, again, the our government is really working all together for this russian piece. Its a good piece for us. Pete certainly indeed. You mentioned military as one of the lines in operation in this. In syria we have diversification interests than Vladimir Putin does. Any concern this eventually leads to an aspect of a shooting war or shooting conflict. Well, i think we also dont yes, there is syria and i have been over there a few times and you know, we have got folks over there working to try to put the Syrian People back in their cities. So we see these i. But we still have the ukrainian issue where we have forces and other kinds of with the syrians. Syria will still continue to be this tinderbox we have to watch. At the end of the day, the russians and syria are really adults at the table that will make sure this thing continues to go down the road that we dont have conflict. But it is there is a lot of tension and especially with the turks up there. Russian also keep things in set. Pete we are seeing consequences of it now. Hopefully the stare off pays off in the end. Thank you for your time. Yes, sir. Pete you got it a middle school class assigned to Lobby Congress to change gun laws. Does that sound right to you . Well, an outraged parent joins us live coming up next. And, Hillary Clinton just doesnt understand why people want her to go back to the woods. I was really struck by how people said that to me, go away, go away. They never said that to any man who was not elected. only tena intimates has Proskin Technology designed to quickly wick away moisture to help maintain your skins natural balance. For a free sample call 1877gettena. 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