when you look at rod rosenstein he was approved by the senate, 94-six. huge bipartisan support in the senate. furthermore, he served as the us attorney for the state of maryland and was appointed by both presidents bush and obama. these are two individuals that are longtime professional and will do a good job leading the agency. guest: i want to continue the conversation forward to because we brought you that fox news alert that special agent adam lee out of richmond will be arriving at the doj. i want to move the conversation so when we look at potential candidates, whoever does get the job, needs senate approval. who are you looking for in that candidate was mark are you looking for someone like the acting fbi director who is currently working the investigation and been there the whole time. do you want an outsider? what you want #. we have heard some interesting names. , first when i want to make is we need to get a new director in there. it could be enter mccabe as you mentione
city, the very same view president trump will have in just about a week. elizabeth: good saturday afternoon, i m elizabeth prann in washington where there is no shortage of news this weekend. and there s a lot of activity at the department of justice as the search intensifies for james comey s replacement as fbi director. fox news has learned at least five candidates are being interviewed today. our own allison barber is standing by at the department of justice as those candidates arrive. hi, allison. reporter: that s right, elizabeth. we were expecting initially this morning to have four candidates come here to the department of justice. just a little while ago we found out that there was another one added, his name is adam lee. lee is a special agent with the fbi. he heads up their division in richmond, virginia. we re expecting him to arrive here within the hour. president trump spoke about this entire process on air force one a little while ago. i want you to take a listen to tha
elizabeth: if you live on the east coast you may have been hoping for sunshine on mother s day weekend but will you get it was mark meteorologist is that the fox weather center with the very latest. hi, adam. that sunshine is few and far between. showers abound. here s what it looks like across the east coast. some research from the southeast all the way up into the northeast at this point a couple areas are seen some of the heaviest rain to stop in georgia and portions of upright. these are all very heavy showers lifting you up the coast and this is the larger area of that system now includes portions of philadelphia up towards new york slowly going to lift its way up into the northeast. this is a steady, consistent rainmaker throughout the rest of the weekend.
if you re in the path of this you re talking a good one, two, 3 inches of rain. this just slowly moves up on the coast. there s the hour by hour timestamp. this runs in the sunday times frame. lifting if you re back in the mid-atlantic by sunday, it will clear up a little bit but this is a slow mover for the northeast. they ll continue to see rain here in the next couple days. that warmer air is on the way, liz, when people the middle of the country are experiencing it. this is forte. 86 degrees in fargo. the next couple days that warm air begins to shift east. some are seen nice weather this weekend. elizabeth: look at that beautiful weather in denver. adam, thank you. we appreciate it. welcome to the us be in tel aviv. the israelis would like it in jerusalem and as a candidate, president trump promised to move it there. now, things might be changing. will tell you why it matters when we come back.