buddy on a Monday Fox's alert now only days before a confirmation hearing to
lead the CIA this morning there are reports that Gina Hass fell president
Trump's nominee offered to withdraw her nomination so we're looking to figure
that out today on a Monday I'm bill hemmer I hope you had a great
weekend welcome to America's newsroom Sandra's got a few days off it's been
some time yeah happy Monday you always bring a smile to my face
especially on a Monday morning I'm Julie van Dara's in for Sandra Smith this
morning so reports saying hostile eventually decided to move forward with
her nomination after a weekend phone call with President Trump the president
also showing his support publicly this morning on Twitter tweeting my highly
respected nominee for CIA director Gina Hass spell has come under fire because
she was too tough on terrorists think of that in these very dangerous times we
have the most qualified person a woman who Democrats want out because she is
too tough on terror win Gina Wow Kevin court for the White House
leads our coverage brand-new week Kevin how you doing good morning to you what
what's doing on this Hospital thing what's behind it listen a couple things
first of all she understands that the temperature in the room I think it is
fair to say bill when you're here in Washington you have to understand that
you know that your past behavior even if it was lawful even if it was questioned
severely could open the administration to even more criticism and so Hospital
clearly went to the White House and said listen I don't want to make it tougher
for you but White House officials did go to her and say absolutely you can do
this and indeed you should do this let me take you back to Twitter Sarah
Huckabee Sanders echoing the president sentiments and saying the following
thing about Gina Haskell there is no one more qualified to be the
first woman to lead the CIA than 30 plus year CIA veteran Gina Haspel any
democrat who claims to support women's empowerment and our national security
but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite Haspel as mentioned lots of
experience although she was involved at the very highest levels at a time when
the CIA was apparently engaged in behavior including waterboarding and
other behaviors deemed inappropriate and in violation of some international norms
and law General Michael Hayden had this to say
about the nominee we can relitigate the past of CIA we've done that before but
if you want to do that then it should be directors and Attorney General's and
members of Congress and president with a president who does not always attach his
decisions to the real world to data to evidence Gina Haspel is the
one woman I want in that room when everyone else will be going into
north-south auto Bob and saying you're right boss Gina Haspel won't and that's
precisely the sort of Intel that the White House is reliant upon as they make
this election of Gina Haspel however there is a great deal of pushback as you
can well imagine over on Capitol Hill a lot of Democrats are quite concerned
about her role in waterboarding and other enhanced Terror interrogation
methods and that is why they are in opposition of her nomination this should
all play out very interestingly this week bill sure certainly will Kevin Rudy
Giuliani was talking over the weekend to what what seems to be the emerging legal
strategy I want to be delicate in how I present this to the folks at home
because I don't want to overstate perhaps the strategy I would just say it
this way Trudy Giuliani person has been doing a bit of cleanup if you will bill
after the rollout where he came out and sort of fumbled on his very first carry
to use a football expression and so now what the administration is doing is sort
of following his lead which is to say get it all out there whatever happened
admit to what happened make sure that the public and indeed the special
counsel understands that there was nothing nefarious about perhaps payments
to people like stormy Daniels and others Becky had this to say over the weekend
about whether or not the president might reject a chance to speak before the
special counsel are you confident the president will not take the fifth in
this case oh how could I ever be confident of that when I'm when I'm
facing a situation with the president and all the other lawyers are in which
every lawyer in America thinks he'd be a fool to testify I've got a client who
wants to testify please don't he said it yesterday and you know Jay and I said to
ourselves my goodness I you know we I hope we get a chance to tell him
the risk that he's taking so he may testify may testify may not all sorts of
constitutional questions around this and whether or not the president can't be
compelled to do so the precedent is out on Twitter as you can imagine once again
I just want to share one more tweet again in a series of tweets we've seen
the president sort of roll out on this topic the rush of witch-hunt is rapidly
losing credibility House Intelligence Committee found no collusion
coordination or anything else with Russia and so now the probe says okay
what else is there how about obstruction for a made-up
phony crime there's no Oh as an obstruction that's called fighting back
that kind of day already here at the White House bill should make for an
interesting press briefing today but for now at least the sun's out right thank
you Kevin thank you the UK making a last-ditch effort to convince President
Trump to stick with the Iran nuclear deal ahead of his meeting this afternoon
with vice president pence British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson making
his case for the agreement this morning on Fox and Friends watch this without
just throwing the baby out with the bath water without scrapping the whole thing
because if you do that you have to answer the question what next what if
the Iranians do rush for a nuclear weapon are we seriously saying that
we're gonna bomb those facilities at calms and Fordow and Natanz is that
really a realistic possibility or do it or do we or do we work with what we've
got and push back on Iran together what do we do Griff Jenkins is live in
Washington so Griff will Boris be able to convince President Trump to remain in
the deal good morning Julie I don't know he certainly charismatic isn't he any
knowledge is that the Iran deal is deeply flawed and needs to be remedied
but the challenge that he faces like Francis McCrone and Germany before him
is that the president has not wavered in his position that he will pull out of
the deal on May 12th unless there are substantial changes in Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo has indicated that we are simply not seeing those necessary
changes that would strengthen the deal meanwhile Iran's president Hassan
rouhani says he's not even open to renegotiation and over the weekend
chairman of the House Services House Armed Service
committee Mac Thornberry suggested maybe what the president should do is delay
his decision take a listen what happens next if the u.s. pulls out
do the secretary matt has talked about the inspectors that are in there does
Iran kick those inspectors out so that we lose what visibility we have there
the Europeans are not going to reimpose sanctions so where does that leave us
and an Iran so I'm not necessarily opposed to sticking with this deal
forever but you need to have a clear idea about next steps in secretary
Pompeo has a press event later this afternoon Julie maybe we'll learn a
little bit more than where the administration stands on it Griffin what
do we know about reports a former Secretary of State John Kerry is
actually getting getting in the middle of this he's actually trying to work
behind the scenes to save the deal very interesting now according to a report of
the Boston Globe Secretary of State former Secretary of State John Kerry who
was the lead negotiator and that original deal has been engaging at what
some are calling shadow diplomacy to try and save the
deal Kerry's allegedly been talking to former contacts he had in his old post
including Iranians foreign minister Javad it is a reef whom he met with at
the UN recently and he's facing a lot of criticism for it from likes of former
Senator Joe Lieberman here's what he says John Kerry is not negotiating on
behalf of the US government I hope everybody he's talking to knows said but
in my opinion what he's doing is inappropriate and he shouldn't be doing
it so far no comment from secretary Kerry maybe we'll learn more Julie all
right Chris Jenkins thank you let's bring in Barbara your to political
correspondent Washington Examiner Fox News contributor good Monday Byron T
you-you-you think this Kerry news is a big deal to meetings recent days how
come well it is a big deal because well while we know that former Obama
administration officials of course they oppose the Trump administration undoing
some policies but we did not know until now that some of them were meeting with
foreign governments in an attempt to undermine the current US administration
that is a pretty big deal you will hear a lot about
the Logan Act which is a law that prevents private citizens from
conducting foreign policy problem areas it was passed in 1799 and has never
successfully been used to prosecute anybody hasn't even been tried and
wounded 150 years so it likely does not apply here
okay second time in two months I should say not second time and in a couple of
days but you're right they think the Trump folks are gonna screw this up and
they think this is a bill that the way to stability in the Middle East is with
Iran I'm not through Saudi Arabia which is the difference now late on Friday
Paul Manafort case was in court before a judge by the name of T s Ellis the third
great name and said the following on screen you really don't care about Mr
Man afford the judge said you really care about what information man afford
can give you to lead you to mr. Trump and an impeachment or whatever and quote
that struck a lot of people as something that we frankly haven't heard from the
bench well what do we done about that Byron well this was important because
it's the first time we've seen questioning by a judge in a court
questioning about the scope of the robert muller investigation because paul
man afford of course has been charged with lots of crimes that don't have
anything to do with the 2016 campaign or the Trump campaign and what this what
Manta Ford has been arguing in court saying that Robert Muller does not have
the authority to prosecute him on these things and so far man F Burton had not
made any progress until Friday when this judge said to the Muller lawyers look
you got to tell me what you were authorized to investigate there's a
secret document most of it's been blacked out and the judge says I want to
see it no redactions I want to see it in my chambers doesn't have to be made
public but you're gonna show me why you had the authority to do this yeah the
scope of the investigation it's very interesting you know does it fall
outside the the definition of a special counsel do you have the do the
opportunity to do that don't know how the judge is gonna rule but it certainly
was interesting here a Thank You Byron good to see in a Monday
thank you Bill you bet a lot of different legal minds have a variance of
opinions on yes you can imagine and well talk the judge next hour coming up a
little bit about that too all right well one of president Trump's former lawyers
bashing the robert muller investigation the tactics the in terrorem tactics that
Muller has used against Michael Cohen against mana for demonstrate a lack of
good faith we're gonna discuss why many think a sit-down between Trump and
Muller simply isn't going to happen also are the lines moved in down with North
Korea with a new warning for the US Senator that much anticipating meeting
is that summit now in jeopardy will tell you what we're hearing from Pyongyang
and lava laying waste to homes in Hawaii what folks are up against now next all
you can do is pray and hope because you know and try to get all the information
you can that's very hard we don't I say we don't have televisions here I'm gonna
go out and try to get even a newspaper
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