This was going. They are very upset because mike pompeo, first in his class in west point and top at his class at harvard, a brilliant and great guy and someone i get a long with very well. They thought they had him stopped. The democrats are obstructionists. Theyre not approving them and taking them out to the maximum 30 hours. Thats a lot of times. 30 hours to interview people that will be approved. 30 hours and people will vote. It is a disgrace. Sandra it is a big day for President Trumps cabinet on capitol hill. Jeff sessions and epa chief scott pruitt going before congress in what are expected to be a series of contentious hearings. We have Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Peter doocy following those hearings on capitol hill. Charlie hurt standing by for reaction. We begin with chief White House Correspondent john roberts reporting live from the north lawn this morning. When was this decision made . Good morning to you. It was during an Oval Office Meeting with the preside
Jillian good morning. A nice chillier than usual monday morning. Youre watches fox friends first. Im carlie shimkus. Rob it was a nice weekend. Im rob schmitt. Carlie, welcome to you. Happy to be here. Rob three people arrested after a scare at an Air National Guard base. Authorities firing one shot at a car that breached a security gate at the air refueling wing in milwaukee. No one was injured. The base was on lockdown for hours. Two vehicles involved have been removed as an investigation is underway. Also breaking right now, another violent weekend in chicago sees 27 people shot, two of them killed. Police say they are getting almost no cooperation from witnesses. This coming just over two months after the deadliest weekend in city history which saw 74 people shot, 12 of them killed. So far this year, there have been nearly 1900 shootings, 430 of them deadly. Rob big story here, National Geographic revealing shocking details of a foiled assassination plot against President Trump by
Economy hostage over the mueller investigation. If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesnt work that way. And 2020 vision. The field of democratic contenders remains the same. At least for the moment. Senator Amy Klobuchar not so coyly inviting people to an announcement on sunday while in an interview with Oprah Winfrey are, beto orourke looks for a divine sign. If i can play some role in helping the country to do that, by god im going to do it. By god, when are you going to know the answer . The serious answer is really soon. The serious answer is really soon we begin this morning with President Trumps state of the union address, of course, a speech that left democrats and republicans as divided as ever. The president sending mixed messages calling for unity as well as an end to sfl ridiculous partisan investigations. I have a great team to break it down. First, just in case you didnt stay up for the entire hour in 22 minutes,
Down. Youve got to bring them down. Our economy is doing great. Number one in the world. Were number one economy right now in the world and its not even close. Leland for more on this, lets go to allison bar deer fro barb. Reporter after President Trump made the remarks about opec, there were reports he had not spoken to anyone at the opec secretariat in vienna. Sources told the wall street journal President Trump did not talk to the opec secretary general or the saudi energy minister, talking about oil prices. Sarah sanders said the white house is in regular contact with the Oil Producing nations. Last week, white house officials met with a delegation from the saudi labor ministry. In washington, they discussed global oil markets, ensure Global Demand is met after all iranian oil is removed from the market. President trump began his day playing golf with shinzo abe. U. S. And japanese teams spent the past couple days trying to negotiate a bilateral trade deal. The u. S. Wants japan to
Reporter theres going to be a lot of news coming out the rest of today from these, dana. We got the transcripts literally a few minutes ago. We are poring over them with a fine tooth comb. Well be bringing you all the new breaking details. We wanted to quickly right now bring you a couple of the key highlights. Ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. Were going to bring you excerpts from his transcript. Asked about a quid pro quo between President Trump and ukraines president. Sondland said i believe what mayor giuliani passed on or what i heard from volker likely coming from giuliani. The president never made that statement to me or anyone to, the best of my knowledge. Is that whatever the ukrainian was going to promise in any context, he wanted it public. Now, sondland also said after bill taylor texted him on september 9, 2019, that, quote, i think its crazy to with hold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. Ambassador sondland called President Trump and in response