if >> john roberts live in south florida, we just got, from russia's u.n. envoy warning of negative consequences should denotes its carry out this military attack which has not been carried out, we have to think about negative consequences. negative consequences in all of the responsibility of military action occurred will be on the shoulders of those who initiated such doubtful and tragic enterprise. if that's the first word from the russians, that was in the minutes before this launch took place. since then nothing official. but from a serious state television reports the u.s. missile strike on a number of military targets and calls the act and aggression. if the president of the united states says it was a message, a message for syrian dictator, stop slaughtering your people. the united states is here and if we want to, we will take you ou out. of course the syrian dictator along with the russians could x collate and if they do, we shall see. this is a sean hannity sauer on fox news channel, he is live with us tonight, good evening. >> sean: this is a fo

the court did what john roberts fought to do years before, and weakened the voting rights act. so much for judicial restraint. so much for just calling balls and strikes. a justice and a court devoted to judicial restraint with an understanding of the separation of powers never would have ignored congress acting at the height of its constitutional powers and its fact-finding capacity. yet chief justice roberts and the narrow conservative majority on the court chose to act, to reach out and to gut one of the core protections of the fundamental right to vote. we now know that congress got it right and the supreme court got it wrong in its judgment about the continuing need for section 5 of the voting rights act. immediately after the shelby county decision, numerous states previously covered by section 5 immediately passed onerous voter i.d. laws and other barriers that affected the right to vote of millions of people. some of these laws were even enacted with discriminatory intent, not just discriminatory effect. in other words, they were blatantly meant to discriminate in votin

john roberts come up who has infuriated -- john roberts, who has infuriated democrats, who was ducking and dodging through -- allfirmation hearings of a sudden, when it came to obamacare rulings, john roberts cited with barack obama and the democrats on those rulings. point get to a historically now, where every justice sees their vote process turn into a 59-49 world -- maybe that skews their worldview themselves as to what their role and duty is. host: richard is on the phone on the democrat line. richard, go ahead. caller: i think the democrats should go ahead and do their filibuster. the republicans should go ahead and do their "nuclear option." is --all, the situation if this of -- if they control the supreme court, the house, the senate, the presidency, fascists -- we will have a fascist right-wing dictatorship. that is all i have to say. host: richard is expressing views that are consistent with what democrats were expressing a few years ago. guest: there are a handful of senate democrats who swore to me and other reporters back in 2013 that they believed in a simple majority rul

john roberts running the late-night oil in south florida. thank you. we just got this from associated press. syrian official tells the ap that the u.s. missile strike they had a number of military targets in central syria has left a number of people dead and wounded. the governor of holmes providence did not say how many. when the missile garage, the governor says in the evacuation and transfer of traffic to matt casually's is ongoing. he called the airbase which is about 45 kilometers, 28 miles east of hom for terrorism. militants operate in the central homs province. rebels say that it's her to one of the government's most active launching pad for air strikes on all verbal areas in central and northern syria. it's government calls all armed groups terrorists. i should tell you that that is the very base for which it is believed, excuse me. it's been a few hours. it's believed that syrian forces launch that sarin gas attack, which ended up killing some 80 people including 27 children. it is from that base that the terror attack was launched that presi

back to john roberts. republicans could not be clearer. it's not as if they're doing verbal gymnastics. many of them, leadership have said 15%, the answer is no. >> it's an opening offer as far as i can ascertain, shep. the house leadership said they want 20% on the corporate tax front. the president during the transition said 15. well, maybe 20. i think it's that thing where you ask for the moon and you ask for the stars and settle for the moon when the moon is all you want. so the president will probably go up and settle at 20%. it really is though about getting the corporate tax rate down because the president believes the united states tax rate for corporations is the least competitive anywhere in the world. he's willing to give people like democratic senator debby stabenow from michigan a bone saying not only will we cut the corporate tax rate but for small businesses as well and throw in tax cuts for lower and middle americans. they settle on the fax tax brackets of 10, 25 and 35% that we don't know how that will break out in terms o

john roberts at the white house. the white house wants a vote as soon as possible but they don't have the votes. >> exactly. they say when they get to 216 on the whip count, they will call a vote. what i'm being told is that a vote will come later on today to set the rules nor consideration of the healthcare bill. spent time with mark short. he's the director of legislative affairs here at the white house. he says he believes they have 80% of the freedom caucus on board. the freedom caucus as a rule, shep -- this isn't in all cases, but is in a lot of cases, that when 80% agrees, it's unanimous. so maybe that's why mark short was saying they have 80% of the people on board. they could get a vote as early as tomorrow, maybe saturday. certainly next week is looking very good for a vote. here's what sean spicer said at the briefing a short time ago. >> we feel positive about the work that's being done to get to that and the reaction we're having. as you recall, a lot of membered that initially had some problems and were

john roberts on the north lawn. this week, we are bringing you a five-part series on president trump's first 100 days. the segment debuted in our 5:00 hour. available on the "special report" homepage, tonight's report by kevin corke about the controversies president trump has weathered has already been posted. you can see previous stories by kevin, john roberts, and james rosen there as well. what do you think has been the president's biggest controversy and his biggest success over his first 100 days? let me know on twitter, @bretbaier, use the hashtag #specialreport, or at facebook, facebook, facebook.com/bret baier sr. the hole just keeps getting deeper for former national security advisor michael flynn. that investigation is continuing. chief intelligence intelligenco herridge is here. >> house democrats released records to bolster their case that the national security advisor michael flynn concealed his conflicts with the russian government. on october 2014, the agency told flynn, a former director, that he cou

john roberts of fox, please. >> mr. president, thanks so much. i hope you'll forgive me for asking you a three-part question. it's been awhile. in the last few minutes, while you were meeting with the prime minister, there was a shooting in downtown paris. it's being the ebb scribed as a potential terrorist attack. do you believe the leader of kim jong-un is mentally unstable? is that one of the reasons why you're so concerned about these latest developments? is he a man that can be reasoned with? and iran, do you expect they're cheating on the jcpoa? mr. prime minister, you talked about your commitment to nato. president trump would like to see all nato members contribute 2% of their gdp. your contribution is slightly less than 1%. will you commit to committing 2% of your gdp to the alliance going forward. >> first of all, i love the question you asked the prime minister. i look forward to his answer. i'm going to answer him very soon. first of all, our condolences from our country to the people of france. again, it's happening. i just saw it as

john roberts welcomed him, wishing him "a long and happy career." admirers of antonin scalia, who was known for his disdain of legislating from the bench, might have enjoyed what followed. in oral argument over which court should hear former fired census takers discovered lawsuit, gorsuch engaged opposing lawyers for time and exciting statute as his guide. "by what authority does a district court ever have the power to cure a civil service claim?" gorsuch was so persistent, he apologized saying "sorry for taking up so much time." it was a process oriented case full of dry details that new justices are often tasked with writing opinions four. wednesday promises a bigger test of gorsuch's judicial philosoph philosophy. >> justice gorsuch won't really have time to settle and quietly because there are some hot button cases that are just on the doorstep of the supreme court sprayed >> including a controversial church-state dispute. trinity lutheran church of columbia versus colmar, a school is challenging the state's denial of a grant to resurface the sc

so what did chief justice john roberts of the u.s. supreme court say of the gorsuch decision? here's what he said and i quote him. when all is said and done, a student offered an educational program providing, quote, merely more than de minimis progress, gorsuch's words, from year to year could hardly be said to have been offered an education at all. the supreme court sent a strong message when they released this opinion in the midst of judge gorsuch's hearing. the court unanimously said that judge gorsuch's standard ways inconsistent with the law so on this issue, judge gorsuch, the nominee, is somewhere to the right, even if justice clarence -- even as justice clarence thomas. this case is not an outlier. in fact annal sills of his decision -- annal siz of his decision showed he ruled against students in eight out of ten idea cases. there was also a consistent pattern in judge gorsuch's record on discrimination and retaliation involving employers. bloomberg b.n.a. analyzed judge gorsuch's record and found that he ruled for employers ought out of 12 times. for example, he rul

john roberts is on the north line. is the white house -- what is the white house saying about the budget battle? >> they're working hard, shep, to try to cut a deal with the democrats to avoid a government shut down. that i have 4 1/2 days left to do it. midnight friday. portions of the government will run. the president doesn't want an exclamation point on the end of the first 100 days. two things he wants in the spending bill, $30 billion in additional spending for the pentagon for military and a lot of money for border security. some of that money will go to border patrol agents, some ice agents and $1.55 billion will go to the wall. the democrats, as you pointed out, don't want to put any money into that. you showed nancy pelosi's reaction. she went on to say that the border wall is a sign of weakness. at the end of the week, the omb director says he will have a deal that avoids a government shut down and those sentiments were echoed awhile ago. listen here. >> the work that director mulvaney and those have made in

john roberts will administer the oath of office. that will happen in a private ceremony 9:00 a.m. eastern followed by the second month in a public ceremony at the white house about two hours later. google accused of paying women less than men for the very same word. the u.s. labor department says investigators found systemic pay inequality throughout the company. google says it strongly disagrees with those charges. here's a look at u.s. stock market futures now. dow futures higher by 13. it can be higher by two. nasdaq higher by three. that's what happening now. lauren. lauren: after missile strikes in response to chemical weapons attack, what happens next? michael durant a former national security council senior director under president george w. bush. good to see you, michael. >> good morning. is this your missile strike a one and done event or just president trump made to be more involved militarily? >> i don't think it was one and done. it was meant to put the world on notice that the united states is back, that the kind of passive posture of the obama administration is over.

we begin with chief white house correspondent john roberts and a familiar name from the obama administration surfacing in yet another scandal. >> james, good evening. two weeks ago, chairman of the house intelligence committee announced to the press and president he had uncovered a disturbing trend of intelligence collections on trump officials, some of which was made public. others remain known to administration officials. to date we learn more about the how and who of what's going on. multiple sources tell fox news president obama's national security advisor susan rice was the one who requested the names of trump officials be unmasked in the intelligence reports collected during the campaign and transition. the white house which has access to logs that show rice was behind the unmasking was playing coy today. >> does this white house look at what she allegedly requested as a national security issue or political issue? >> well, that's a nice back door into a line of questioning. i think until there is a finding, i don't want to start getting into motives because we still haven't. me getting

john roberts at the white house tonight. thank you, john. meanwhile president trump today signing two executive orders to reduce the trade deficit just days before holding his first meeting with the chinese counterpart. the first order gives the commerce department 90 days to write a report on what drives the trade deficit and the second one tightens import rules to ensure that the u.s. is collecting the duties that have been slapped against trading partners. now, the president today saying he's seen how bad trade deals can hurt american people. >> trust me the jobs in wealth have been stripped from our country. thousands of factors have been stolen bringing manufacturing and jobs be back to our country. tom: joining me now to discuss the trump agenda, the flynn immunity request and all things washington, the executive editor for the weekly standard and fox news contributor fred barns. let's start with all the russia gate, flynn gate, whatever you want to call all of these various things. where are you on this? john roberts, you know, i'm as

in 2009, we asked chief justice john roberts about new members joining the court. >> to some extent, it is unsettling. you quickly get to view the court as the court, as composed of these members. it becomes hard to think of it as involving anybody else. i suspect it is how people look at their families. but you do get new arrivals in both of those situations. it is a tremendous sense of loss. justice souter is just a wonderful colleague in so many different respects and we will miss him in our deliberations and we will miss him around the court, but that is part of the process of the evolution of the court. we will welcome the new member with open arms and the court will be richer in the course of history because of the gradual turnover. seeing do get used to the same people every day, having lunch with the same people every day. it will be an interesting part of the changeover. justice whitelways used to say when the court gets a new member, it changes everything. it changes everybody. simple changes. we moved the seats around in the courtroom. the seats are in order of seniority.

chief justice john roberts. the president at the rose garden at the white house coming up after this. more on that after this. ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident free. silence. it's good to be in, good hands. >>> this morning a possible truce in a white house turf war that has gone pretty public. on one side jared kushner whose portfolio of responsibility seems to be growing daily. on the other side, steve bannon who helped steer him to his big win in november. a forced sit down over the weekend at mar-a-lago and the message from the president to both of them, work it out. cut it out. get along. here to discuss, cnn political commentator a former south carolina state house member and cnn political commentator kevin. what do you make of this? different than white house infighting because normally one side isn't the son-in-law of the president. i mean, can steve bannon ever win out in that kind of fight? >> certainly an advantage there. look, i think tension within white

in 2009 we asked chief justice john roberts about new members joining the court. >> to some extent it is unsettling. you quickly get to the court as composed of these members and it becomes hard to think of it as involving anyone else. just as people look at their families. this is the family, how could it be different but you do get new arrivals in both of those situations. it is a tremendous sense of loss. justice souter is a wonderful andeague in semi respects we will miss him in our deliberations and miss him around court but it is part of the process of the evolution of the court. we will welcome the new member with open arms and the court will be richer because of the gradual turn. you do get used to seeing the same people every day. you get used to having lunch with the same people every day and it can be an interesting part of the changeover. justice white always used a when the court gets a new member, it changes everybody and everything. simple changes, we move the seats around in the courtroom. seniority by order of so there will be a shift to there. more fundamentally, i t

john roberts, thank you. ahead more on the trump tax initiative, including a live report from capitol hill where peter doocy asked the president about the resistance he could face. you'll hear how ivanka trump handled questions and a few boos about her father during a ceremony in germany. that's coming up as we reached the bottom of the hour. next, the top of the news. >> shepard: news coming now from the white house. play-back of the president just coming in as he's signing an executive order regarding agriculture and rules and regulations to help the agricultural sector. let's listen in. >> the white house is a special place for america's farmers and ranchers. i want to congratulate secretary sonny purdue who was just sworn in as the secretary of agriculture. [applause] supported by justice thomas. he was -- it was a beautiful ceremony and we're going to celebrate a little later. that's great. we're very happy. you had a good vote, too. >> yes, sir. >> you didn't have one of those 51-49. a very big vote. th

breaking news right now on healthcare, let's get to john roberts. what do we know, john? >> reporter: sandra, good afternoon. we're learning there's a lot of significant movement on the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. this is the measure that didn't come to fruition before the easter break, but there's a lot of work that's been done over the past few week. here are the two players who are involved. chairman of what's called the tuesday group, tom mcarthur as well as mark meadows the chairman of the house freedom caucus. we're told they have reached an agreement in principle on new language that will go into the american health care act. it will be a new amendment. here's a couple things it will do. it will maintain provisions for essential health care guaranteed issue and community rating. that's coverage for people who are pregnant, that sort of thing, preexisting conditions will be covered, keeping your children on until the age of 26. and the community rating guarantees what's called premium parity. it means people who are sicker than others do not have to pay mo

john roberts joins us live from the north lawn. john? >> reporter: certainly no shortage of things for the president to talk to with the national security adviser about. iran, north korea will be at the top of the agenda. the president holding that meeting with the national security adviser just before he spent some time with the prime minister of italy. you see members of the ceremonial guard behind me, preparing to welcome here to the west wing of the white house. at the same time, new saber rattling from north korea, promising a, quote, super mighty strike against the united states. in a statement in the worker's newspaper north korea saying that that attack will completely and immediately wipe out not only u.s. imperial invasion forces in south korea and its surrounding areas, but reduce the u.s. mainland to ashes. clearly, north korea does not have the capability of reducing the u.s. mainland to ashes, though it does maintain the capability to strike out hard at south korea. possibly japan as well. certainly though the real worry is

thank you very much, john roberts. helicopters flying over the syrian air spice destroyed by u.s. tomahawk missiles overnight. it is unclear though who they belong to. and now fox news has learned that a russian warship has entered the mediterranean sea and is headed towards the two u.s. navy ships that launched the air strike against syria. national security correspondent jennifer griffin join us live from the pentagon. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: we were just given a background briefing. the pentagon said it is investigating whether russia played a role in the chemical weapon attack on april 4th. u.s. officials say a russian or syrian drone was seen flying over a hospital where the victims of the saron nerve gas attack were taken shortly before it was bombed. the suggestion was that either the russians or the syrian regime was trying to destroy and cover up evidence of the chemical attack. administration officials say that russians were present at the air base when the chemical weapons were loaded onto the syrian plane. last night pentagon officials say there were 1

>> bret: john roberts traveling with the president in palm beach. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story tonight from the pentagon along with the latest on that russian warship. >> just hours after the uss porter and ross launched 60 tomahawk missiles at a syrian airbase from the eastern mediterranean, a russian war strip crossed through the strai strait, saying the admiral grigorovich was heading towards the navy destroyers earlier today. in the meantime, pentagon officials announced today they are investigating whether brescia played a role in the chemical weapon attack on april 4th. u.s. officials say a russian or syrian drawing was seen flying over a hospital where the victims of the sarin nerve gas attack were taken. five hours later, that hospital was bombed. the suggestion from pentagon officials with either the russians or the syrian regime was trying to destroy and cover up evidence of the chemical attack. senior administration officials say that russians were president at the shayrat airbase when the weapons were lo

john roberts. but first we go to national security correspondent jennifer griffin with new details on the pentagon's response to all of this. jennifer, what are we learning about these russian bomber jets that approached alaska? >> well, as you mentioned, sandra, for the second consecutive night, russia flew two bear bombers off the coast of alaska, this time coming within 36 miles of mainland alaska flying north of the alucian islands. they were spotted by u.s. military radar at 9 p.m. eastern, 5 p.m. local time. unlike a similar incident monday night, this time the u.s. air force did not scramble any fighter jets. instead, it launched a single e-3 century early warning aircraft known as awax to make sure there were only the two russian bombers flying near alaska and not flying underneath the large bombers. u.s. territorial waters extend 12nautical miles from shore. a day earlier these russian jets approached alaska's kodiak island. >> sandra: jennifer, where is the u.s.s. carl vinson? >> that's l

chief justice john roberts said the policy could lead to prosecutorial abuse. >>> look at the markets now. dow closed down 21 today. s&p 500 dropped one. the nasdaq dropped a fraction. >>> this will make you angry. did you know some of your tax dollars may be paying rewards to the family of terrorists who kill americans. that's right. your money becoming blood money for people who murder your countrymen. the parents of one of those slain americans wants this to stop. here is senior correspondent, eric shaw. >> reporter: taylor force was a west point graduate who served in afghanistan and iraq, and was pursuing his mba at vanderbilt, his future was bright. >> taylor was stabbed to death while in israel by a palestinian. >> reporter: the 28-year-old was savagely knifed to death last year. his killer, a pass stin ylestin terrorist. >> all dads and moms are proud of their kids. taylor basically did everything right, but he was humble about it. >> reporter: taylor's parents, robby and stewart, says their grief was compounded that the terrorist's family is making money. they pay the jihadis

chief justice john roberts administered the constitutional oath of office in private monday morning before a public swearing-in at the white house which was administered by justice anthony kennedy. in a 2009 documentary, some of the current justices talked about their first experiences on the court. here is some of what they had to say. >> the court is about to welcome a new associate justice. how long does it take? you talked about walking into conference for the first time. when you've watched new justices come on board since you arrived, how long does it take before they get it? >> oh, i don't know. i think we all learn at different paces, but when i came to the court, i asked that same question, because it was very important to me to figure out when would i get my sea legs. and the common number was five years. and justice white would often say it takes about that long to go around the full horn of all the cases, kinds of cases that we get. that was their number. and that may be about right. it doesn't mean you can't do your work, it just means that things are sitill new for the first

>> chris: john roberts report from the white house. john, thanks for that let's talk with syndicated columnist charles krauthammer with all of this. let's start with mike flynn, his lawyer seeking immunity for any testimony before congress or the fbi and then donald trump's tweet saying that's exactly the right thing to do. seek immunity. where does that take this case? >> well, it's not going to depend on trump tweet. although i think it's not a very good idea for the president to inject himself into this. it's not going to help. if the fbi or any of the committees think that flynn can deliver trump, they will grant him immunity. there's no reason to think he will. if it's just protecting himself, i think they won't be interested in granting him immunity. in other words, is he only useful to the extent that he gets the big fish. that's how it is in all of these investigations. so, i think it has to do with flynn's own exposure, not having agent of the turkish government. perhaps some dealings with the russians that predate his involve

john roberts, president trump believes susan rice committed a crime in the unmasking of officials cooped up in those intelligence reports. vice president pence is latest to call on rice to say he believes the american people have a right to know. >> surveillance of any private citizen in this country and identity of the citizens was revealed people should know why and the fact that it involved our campaign and transition should be deeply troubling to anyone. >> reporter: one lawmaker, peter king, sits on the intelligence committee, says he is familiar with this. and could include, quote, every day details. will she testify, will she plead the fifth, >> >> people in charge, susan rice asked for, and if she takes the fifth, that would be stunning. >> utilize intelligence reports, we hear from sources, and we are cooperating with these investigations a little later. >> the question remains who asked her to do it. >> susan rice to testify under oath, democrats still refuse to take these unmasking allegations seriously, eric's wallwell telling martha maccallum he thinks donald trump is making

bushr nominated john roberts as chief justice.. there was no filibuster attempt against that nomination. president bill clinton nominated ruth bader ginsburg and david prior to the supreme court. president george h.w. bush nominated justice souter and clarence thomas to the supreme court. either just a face to filibustes even though 48th in the voted against the thomas nomination. they did require a cloture vote when a group of democrat senators attended to block a vote on the confirmation of justice alito's nomination. es 72 and back to invoke cloture,e, or preserving the bipartisan u.s. of filibusters against supreme court nominee is. among those who reject bid the alito filibuster in 2006 with the two democrat senators from my state, senator robert c. byrd and senator jay rockefeller. 72 senators voted to invoketing cloture on justice alito's nomination, but only 58 ended up voting for the final confirmation. the senate has a very clear history of rejecting the use of the filibuster proof court nominations. there's no justificat

john roberts at the white house tonight. thank you. joining us now with reaction, the author of "the new york times" bestseller treason, former speaker of the house newt gingrich. let me ask you the same question i'm asking john roberts, the promise by vice president pence, the era of strategic patience is over. general mcmaster's saying it's clear the presidents determined not to allow this kind of capability to threaten the united states. we know they have nuclear weapons. we know they don't have capability. if you take those words literally, it sounds like they feel that they have to take out any capability they have. how do you interpret it? >> i think that's right because you can have a nuclear weapon delivered by a ship. he can do a variety of different things. doesn't have to be an icbm. doesn't have to fit on a missil missile. you put in a cargo container. i think this is a serious, serious problem. also a great danger to north koreans selling nuclear weapons to terrorists. i think that we've been through a long strch here wher

back to john roberts at the white house. what more are we learning about the legislative agenda, john? >> they're quickly finding out even if you control both sides, getting things done is not easy. a lot of discussions about this continuing resolution for the budget next week because the government does run out of money on the 29th. at the center of that as you mentioned is money for the border wall. the president is insisting on $1.4 billion in the funding for the construction of the border wall. the beginning of it. he needs democrats in order to pass the funding measure for the government to continue operating and democrats have said they're not going to put one penny to the construction of a border wall. so a big fight looming. that may be one of the questions that the president gets at the press conference this afternoon about 45 minutes from now when he appears there with the italian prime minister. and also, there's a lot of movement on healthcare. tom mcarthur has been having meetings with mark meadows, the chairman

john roberts life at the white house covering all of the bases, but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel lived on capitol hill were a major showdown is about to begin. >> good afternoon. today is a critical step in judge neil gorsuch just nomination on the way to the supreme court. expected to be approved voted out of the senate judiciary committee, republicans are praising judge gorsuch for his qualification to sit on the high court, saying he has the right temperament to do so. republicans suggest the controversy is not about judge gorsuch, it's because democrats have not got over the 2016 election. and they noticed historically that that senate did not filibuster supreme court nominations. >> i find it ironic and sad that we are going to change the rules over somebody who has lived such a good life. who has been such a good judge for such a long time. this says more about the senate than it does george -- judge gorsuch. >> let's take a life look inside the senate judiciary committee. emma katz have complained about the treatment of president obam president o

roberts. after the vote, senate judiciary chair chuck grassley spoke with reporters about the confirmation of judge neil gorsuch. he was asked about the changing of rules for supreme court nominees and what his committee will be working on next. this is 10 minutes. >> hi everyone, i just got 30 seconds so i'll be glad to answer your questions if you have anything on this subject. thanks everybody for being here. there are a lot of significant events that brought us to this point of adding a new member to the supreme court. but i thinkthat we just witnessed one of the most important votes that a member of the united states can have . judge gorsuch will be an independent voiceon that supreme court , he proved that very much through the hearing and certain questions . he's proved he's a judges judge once interpret law and not stretch the intent of congress. so finally i am honored to be a part, to get this exceptional jurist elevated to the supreme court, a person we now call justice gorsuch. any

john roberts had 79 votes. when you see that go in one direction versus now, that there will literally be the first filibuster of a qualified judge, we have come a long way. i think democrats are setting a very dangerous precedent when it comes to how they want to do this. because this isn't about voting against somebody or having an issue with them. it is trying to stop using the filibuster for something it was never intended for. never has it been the >> what is president trump doing

>> bret: john roberts john roberts, thank you. the president's top diplomat went to the united nations to lay out the case for a global campaign against north korea that involves the use of economic, not military, four-speed senior correspondent rick leventhal is at the u.n. tonight. >> with each successive detonation and missile test, north korea pushes northeast asia and the world closer to instability and broader conflict. >> secretary of state rex tillerson says the time is come to step up the pressure on kim jong-un, telling the united nations security council, business as usual is no longer an option. >> for too long the international community has beeg north korea. those days must come to an end. failing to act now on the most pressing security issue in the world may bring catastrophic consequences paid >> tillerson says pyongyang has been thumbing its nose at the u.n. for 20 years, and recent new contests and ballistic missile launchers and the regime's threats to attack america have prompted the trump administration take

i'm assuming you more than anybody than john roberts and he's good. >> after the health care defeat he was thrashing around, tweeting and i'm told by three different advisors to him not currently in the white house saying he's started to call a lot of them and reached out to newt gingrich and chris christie and said putting aside some anger. now it's time to get to work and the aide said this is vintage trump he suffers a blow and then retools. he did it three times in the campaign. >> bill: what's the white house staff have to do with the failure of the new obama care? >> chief of staff, reince priebus and others told him he has the votes. >> bill: are you sure? >> i've been told by several people close to the president. >> bill: we know ryan did but priebus also told him along with speaker ryan this is going to pass. nobody likes to get bad information and look silly. >> i've been told over the next couple weeks we should expect more changes. how quickly, how high up, we simply don't know yet or want to speculate but the advisors are saying there's chatter among the white house staff

and this is what john roberts wants to destroy. and actually what george bush wants to destroy as well. now why do they want to destroy it? i think they want it destroy it, not because they dislike watching the yukon women's hoops team. they want it destroy it for the -- they want to destroy it for the same reason that they want to overturn roe versus wade. they want to destroy it for the same reason that they're actually trying to roll back everything that a previous generation, ali's generation, won in the streets. and i think for that reason alone it's worth fighting for. but it's also worth fighting for because it represents an attack on all of us. nobody benefits. and they trot out all of this garbage about it. oh, it's just funding teams that don't need to be there. look at the men's crew team, they had to be eliminated. look at the men's wrestling team. just two facts for people to leave with. one, is that the number one budget-eater in all of college sports, is football. men's football. the budget for men's football destroy

. >> john roberts levitt mar-a-lago with the president's tonight, john? >> i would expect we would likely hear from the president, this is the first such military action that he has taken, the only other military action >> i'm sorry to interrupt, what's happening now is fox stations across the station from our broadcast partners are going to judge this is a major developing for u.s. foreign policy around the world. good evening from fox news headquarters around the world across the nation around the world. the united states tonight has taken military action in syria. the pentagon informs us that tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from the united states navy, off the coast, at least 43 to 47 tomahawk cruise missiles striking sites inside syria, at the airbase listed on your screen. this is a base from which it's believed that the syrian military launched a sarah and gas attack on its own people. those pictures too graphic to show him this time of the evening on network and cable television, the truth is it killed dozens of syria and civilians incl

john roberts has the details. >> good evening to you. over the past couple days, the president has used different words to describe the gas attack in syria. unspeakable, an affront to humanity, unacceptable. the question is, what will he do to respond? president trump today said the image of innocent civilians, particularly children and little babies killed and suffering so badly in the syrian gas attack, hit him very hard. in a press conference with jordan's king abdullah, the president said his entire approach towards syria may be changing. >> the attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me, big impact, and i will tell you it's already happened that my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much. >> white house policy had been that regime change in syria was not a priority and that pushing aside president bashir al-assad could result in more problems than syria currently has. in 2012, president obama famously declared it would cross a redline if syria used chemical weapons. today president trump was even more strident

lou: john roberts reporting. our first guest says the syrian strike's a wake-up call around the world for honoring agreements with the united states. and joining us tonight, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, american enterprise institute's senior fellow, john bolton. ambassador, good to have you here. first, your assessment of the strikes, the president's decision to order those strikes. >> well, i think it was based on a limited but important rationale about american national security when weapons of mass destruction are used by a rogue state like syria. it was a limited and precise strike. it doesn't foreclose possible additional strikes, but it by no means guarantees that the united states wades into the syrian civil war. and even though precise and limited, i think it's already had profound impacts around the world for the signal that it sent our adversaries and our potential adversaries in china and russia, in iran and north korea that the obama era of american foreign policy is over and that the

our chief white house correspondents john roberts is live with all of it. >> the president will be meeting with the hr investigator. that's ahead of his meeting with the prime minister. no official statements from north korean leaders, but certainly in publication, a statement and publication promising a supermassive strike against the united states. north korea is saying it will completely and immediately wipe out not only u.s. invasion forces in south korea and its surrounding areas, but the u.s. mainland and reduce them to ashes. no capability to hit the united states with any significant weapon though it appears to be heading in that direction and that is what is driving all of this. in the past few days, it has been the vice president warning north korea not to launch any type of strike. today, it was the speaker of the house, paul ryan, visiting england to set up that morning. also indicating good cooperation from china on the north korea issue. listen here. >> racing toward the ability to deliver a long-range new peer weapon, that is not an acceptable outcome. we have to do whatever

john? >> john roberts, thank you. our own martha maccallum sat down with president trump before he hits the 100 day mark. he weighed in from north korea to the healthcare fight. >> are you disappointed with how the republicans have handled the issues? health care went down. there was a suggestion it would happen today but it's not going to happen. >> i'm disappointed that it doesn't go quicker. i like them a lot. many of them, like the freedom caucus came, they say we love our president, we're doing this for our president. you look at that and look at the moderates, the same thing. paul ryan is trying very, very hard. i think everybody is trying very hard. it's a very tough system. >> jon: you can catch the full interview on the first 100 days with martha maccallum less than four hours from now, 7:00 p.m. eastern time. more from president trump including what he misses most since he took the job. i'm talking about it with chris wallace next from "fox news sunday." my goal was to finally get in shape. not to be focusin

peter doocy has more on the tax reform plan, but we begin with john roberts. >> good morning. i just got a briefing, it lasted about 40 minutes. the white house is confident that they can avoid a government shutdown. however, it looks like the president is going to compromise on his top priority to get that deal for the border wall. he's giving up on funding for it this week, the president pushing back in a tweet. don't let the fake media tell you that i have changed my position on the wall. it will get built to keep out drugs, human trafficking, et cetera. the president was asking for about $1.55 billion in the spending bill for construction of the wall just to begin construction. he's prepared to take less than that, but -- also adding some new fencing and then he will insist on more money to actually build the wall that will come in the fall, he plans that for the 2018 fiscal budget. here's a kellyanne conway set about the budget. >> having that while funded as an important priority to him, but we also know that that can happen later this year and into next year and in the