will go to chief white house correspondent john roberts. >> this would be a logical step forward in robert wheeler's investigation. this is something people here at the white house expected. always comes as a surprise when the news of the announcement breaks even though it wasn't exactly an announcement. grand jury proceedings are typically kept secret. department of justice is being particularly type tight-lipped. reports that the grand jury was impaneled in a reuters report that the first subpoenas have been issued. in connection with the june 2016 meeting donald trump, jr. had with natalia veselnitskaya and

chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off. >> good evening. we have talked to people here at the white house that say they've not been informed that the special counsel robert miller has impaneled a grand jury. nor is it likely they would be in form but we are hearing from people about it. ty cobb, the newly appointed member of the white house consul team, dealing struggling with the russian investigation.

maybe we can have a discussion about john roberts. i challenge anyone to find something in john roberts's career, that leads them that he might -- leads them to believe he might overturn roe versus wade. >> let me just take you up on that. when you see has votes in the obamacare cases, that is an institutional type of vote. overturning roe versus wade would be terrible for the republican party, torally.lee. -- elec >> i do not have the view that his votes in the obamacare case were institutionalist. [indiscernible] i believe john roberts voted because he got the government's argument. i think there are issues were john roberts cares very deeply. think about the only dissent he has ever read. i thought he would go along with the majority, but he wanted to be on the right side of history. he had a blistering defense. affirmative action is another area where he is a firm believer. their places when he would be in institutionalist. but not in the years when he care so deeply. >> not to drag us back into the discussion we were having, [ind

john roberts. john, how did this all go down? >> reporter: sandra, good afternoon to you. it did not all go down this morning. it wasn't something that suddenly happened today. this has been in the works for some time. we have heard, via "the new york times" that steve bannon may have tendered his resignation as early on as august 6th. i'm told that that timeline might be a little bit aggressive. but that this has been going on for at least a few days. we do know the chief of staff john kelly has been reviewing, evaluating a lot of the positions at the west wing. steve bannon's was among them. i'm also told by an administration official that the interview that bannon did with the american prospect, quote, didn't help his case, in terms of staying on at the white house. while bannon was definitely a darling of many conservative, he was also seen in the white house as something of a divisive figure. though it was also said to be aoeud logically very much along the same lines as the president. here's official statement from the white house saying, quote, white house chief of

. >> sandra: john roberts, are you good now, sir? >> i thought it was good before. steve bannon is one of the people that's closest to the president ideology if not personally, and the president has said they came into the campaign late that he was clearly a force during the campaign and a force there at

john roberts has that live on the north lawn. john? >> it's a relatively new member of the president's white house counsel team, ty cobb, noted lawyer around these washington parts. he said they have not been notified whether or not robert mueller has in fact empanelled a grand jury. cobb told me "we favor anything that brings this investigation to a swift conclusion." other folks that i've talked to said, you know, this isn't a big deal. it's a routine investigatory tool. but we have seen in the past this these grand jury investigations can go different directions. the white house is accepting this of what they thought the process would be. i don't know that anybody thought that robert mueller would engage in this investigation and not at some point empanel a grand jury to hear some sort of evidence and perhaps testimony on top of that. but folks that i've been talking to have been playing this idea down, suggest that it's really no big deal. something that they expected and again to quote ty cobb saying they favor anything that bring

john roberts is live at the white house. but first we start with doug mcelway live from the department of justice. doug, we understand the administration wants to potentially look at reporters roles in these leaks. what did they say exactly about that? >> reporter: this may not be all that surprising, sandra, given that the president repeated the same for what he calls the quote unquote fake news media. there are many constitutional scholars who will tell you that reporters are protected by the first amendment and that the first amendment is sacrosanct. but there are many cases where reporters have been jailed for refusing to divulge their sources. judith miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to divulge a source of course, demanded by federal judge thomas hogan. our colleague james rosen was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the obama justice department, eric holder. but this treacherous road is one of the reasons that attorney general jeff sessions may have worded this so carefully when it comes to reporters. here

back to john roberts at the white house now. leaving out "on both sides" was that -- that was the controversy. there's not many sides or both sides to nazis and racism. is he attempting to rewrite history? >> that was in fact the controversy. forgive us. we've been living in a construction zone here. more heavy equipment goes by behind me. when the president was recounting his statements last night and complaining that the press did not report or misreported or misrepresented everything he said, he did seem to engage in some selective editing. insisting his comments last night in the aftermath of charlottesville were perfect in their tone and in their content. let's listen to what else he said. >> i said everything. i hit them with neo-nazi, i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacists, the neo-nazi, i got them all in there. let's see. kkk. we have kkk. i got them all. so they're having a hard time. so what did they say, right? it should have been sooner. he's a racist. it should have been sooner. okay. >> the presid

john roberts is alive with more. john. >> good morning to you. live from fort meyer, we will find out what the president is going to do about afghanistan. the decision was made for the most part in that friday national security council meeting up in camp david where all the president's top advisors gathered. if he follows the people like james mattis, h.r. mcmaster, it's likely that we will see a significant troop increase in afghanistan. about 8400 u.s. troops there right now. the talk has been about putting another 5000 men there to try to get the country more under control to bolster afghanistan forces so that they can take over security in the future. the president basically has three options. he can either increase troop levels in afghanistan, draw down and eventually leave afghanistan or another plan that has been floated he can replace u.s. troops in afghanistan with private contractors. if you drew down and pulled out, there is a good chance according to the mls that the taliban and other bad actors would be in control of afghanistan with

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john roberts at the white house again. this is quite a turn. >> yeah, and the leak of the full transcripts served as an exclamation point on what the attorney general said today which makes curious the timing of that yesterday. the director of national intelligence, dan coats, followed up the attorney general by saying that any people in the intelligence community who leak information will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and they will not like the result. but it was also very interesting and disturbing to many people what the attorney general said about potentially going after the media. here's the way the attorney general put it. listen here. >> we respect the important role that the press plays and will give them respect. but it is not unlimited. they cannot place lives at risk with impunity. we must balance the precious role with protecting our national security and the lives of those that serve in the intelligence community beyond forces and all law-abiding americans. >> that brought a sharp response from t

john roberts, yes? >> mr. president, thank you so much. sauli niinisto, i have a question for you but master with president trump. in the middle of hurriance harvey starting coming pardoned former sheriff, joe arpaio. what was both behind your thing and what you say to your critics, even some in your own party, who say it was the wrong thing to do? >> president trump: i let people think it is a right thing to do. in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a friday evening, i assume the ratings would be far higher than normally. the hurricane just starting. i put it out that i had pardoned sheriff joe. he has done a great job for the people of arizona. he is very strong on borders. very strong on illegal immigration. he is loved in arizona. i thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly when he came down with the big decision to go get him right before the election voting started, as you know. he lost in a fairly close election. he would've won the election. they just hammered him before the election. i thought that was a very, very u

let's get together for lunch. >> neil: john roberts, great job. let's get a handle what's going on here. when you heard grand jury and oh, my gosh, what's going on. step back and find out what's going on. former u.s. department of justice official, thomas dupree. what does this mean, thomas? >> i'd say this is a significant but not surprising step. empaneling a grand jury but a prosecutor is fairly common. it gives mueller additional tools with which to conduct his investigation. so he can go get documents, bring witnesses to get testimony before the grand jury. this signifies that muler is not ramping down and it could be that he's about to begin ramping up. >> shepard: it comes at a time when he's been beefing up his legal team. it's 16 members strong. a lot of these people have been leaving pristine jobs in the private sector to help out here. they don't do that willy-nilly. would he give them assurances, well, this is big, this is important. how does that work? >> i think you put your finger on it. some of the people he's gotten are from the j

david: john roberts thank you. >> while president was out west, dc swamp was in an uproar request that lawmakers do their job and help enact his agenda. james rosen report could speaker ryan, and senate leader mcconnell are not sounding cooperative. >> paul ryan rejecting president trump's pledge to shut down federal government if congressional democrats block funding for border wall. >> i don't think a government shut down is necessary. most peep don't want to see a government shut down. reporter: at tuesday night rally in phoenix, president said immigration control is one of the reason that i here. >> we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. reporter: president urged a drastic change to parliamentary protocol. >> we have to get rid of the filibuster rule. we have to. if we don't, the republican will never getting any passed, you are wasting your time. reporter: comments deepen tensions between the president and party stall words eyeing the 2018 midterm election, and new york time report that mitch mcconnell believing that trump presidency doomed has not spoken

still we saw john roberts report about michael cohen, trump attorney, executive vice president of the trump organization emailing with dimitri pesek off to push through this trump tower deal. that was in january 2016. we are told mr. trump signed off on a letter of intent. >> nothing came of it. you will recall michael: was besmirched by many earlier this year because they had the wrong michael cohen. saying he had been in russia. michael cohen said he had never been in russia. he was out with his son when they said he was there. he's already been besmirched once. nothing came of it. no deal was made, no visit was made and when the president says he doesn't deal in russia, watched gas said again and again -- what he has said again and again is that he was there for the miss universe pageant. he has no business dealings there and in this case no deal was made. for the trump towers all over the world, moscow does not have one. >> bret: sure about the deal was being talked about it. there was a push in february, january 2016. you would think nothing at all might not be the accurate state

commander in afghanistan, a white house source tells john roberts this report is overblown. what can we expect is the president meets with national security advisor general h.r. mcmaster at this hour? let's bring in former advisor to for u.s. ambassadors of the u.n. rick, good morning to you. >> is and that this president's style, perform or you're fired and you will find somebody else and get the job done. >> specifically on afghanistan, a lot of americans are frustrated, we've lost our way a little bit. we have to decide what the u.s. policy is. are we going to do nationbuilding or some sort of nationbuilding or some sort of diplomatic program inside afghanistan and a surge capacity, or are we going to just say we went and because there were islamic extremism's having a safe haven inside afghanistan and we have to make sure there is no safe haven. the problems we are experiencing now are because we have had eight years of barack obama weakness in the area. there's no question about it. in light of the failures in iraq to really pull out all of our troops way too fast and n

first up, john roberts watching this along with w us. once again, good evening to you, john. >> martha, bret, good evening to you. i should reveal that about an hour and a half before the president spoke, we had a briefing with a couple of administration officials who put context with the president was about to say andsa the main driving force of what the president p revealed tonight was to try to convince the taliban that i cannot win on the battlefield and that they are all him -- their only hope of surviving's to come to the table and negotiate some sort of political settlement. at the same time, as this be 21 can't win in the battlefield, it looks like the united states can't win decisively on the battlefield. so a political solution may be the only way out of this. listen to how the president put it just a short time ago. >>er someday, after an effective military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a political sediment that includes element of the taliban in afghanistan. but no one knows if or when that will ever happen. ame

john roberts is live at the white house. john, we'll get to the new leaks in just a moment but how is the white house reacting to this sanctions on russia? >> reporter: good afternoon. they're doing some cable work around here. some of the machinery is noisy. the president not lashing out at russia over comments that were made by the russian prime minister yesterday. rather, lashing out on congress. first of all, on twitter and face book said the fact president trump signed the sanctions bill is an indication that the trump administration is utterly powerless. he called them tant aamount to a full scale trade war, ending all hope of a better relationship. also suggesting that congress ultimate goal is to remove president trump from power. rather than hitting back against russia for the sharp language, president trump tweeted his displeasure with congress saying, quote, our relationship with russia is an all time and very dangerous low. you can thank congress. the same people that can even give us healthcare. that prompted a

i gave you a teaser with my comment about saccule owe leto and john roberts. there have been two important cases and i mention them to bring us up to speed with the exclusionary rule and also to end with comments about where i think we're going to go from here. there was a case in 2006 hudson versus michigan which dealt with knock and announce, police have to knock before they enter into the room. what was important in this decision is justice scalia's comments that he thought it was pretty much time to reevaluate the exclusionary rule and one of the reasons he said we should be evaluating it is because ironically the need for it no longer existed because the police had been professionalized and because people were acting professionally you don't need the exclusionary rule. he also suggested there were other remedies that you could use if people had their evidence seized from an illegal search. so criminals could also sue the police or maybe the police can police themselves, and these have been remedies that folks have always talked about and there is proof wh

john roberts from the white house on how we got here. john? >> the president told me specifically this afternoon, neil, that had you not weighed in, he probably would have made a different decision. no, it's what we've gotten used to from this president that as people around him say oh, there's no problem here, everything is

a discussionhave about john roberts. -- anythinganyone in john roberts's entire history that leads anyone to believe he would vote to reaffirm roe versus wade. thatnk in areas like this precedent will matter at all to them. >> you can see all of its own beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span. thursday andage friday on c-span. eastern, a0:30 a.m. q&a about elections. plus, a look at the 2018 midterm landscape. on friday, when a cut p.m. eastern, a discussion on standing up for working families and embracing progressive values. added 2:30 p.m. eastern, a look at how to win back progressive power through organizing. at four clock p.m. eastern, developing mission statements for the type of society progresses want to see. join us for life coverage for the nextroots nation twice 17 nationnce on c-span -- 2017 conference on c-span. manafort's spokesman said that fbi agents had obtained a

john roberts is in studio right now. steve bannon out, what can you tell us? speak out guest, sandra, this is something that that is been rud for an awfully -- >> sandra: that was a bit of a blip. obviously live television, we'll try to get him back. he has conferred this news. >> harris: i want to go back to the question of what sandra was saying. i don't know what he normally would've said, but he saying this is something he says with off the record. >> lawrence: he also cleared his name. people were pegging him as the racist in the white house. >> harris: stronger language on the president was using at that time. >> sandra: john roberts, are you good now, sir? >> i thought it was good before. steve bannon is one of the people that's closest to the president ideology if not personally, and the president has said they came into the campaign late that he was clearly a force during the campaign and a force there at the white house, but they are now controlled by two sources and steve bannon will be leaving the white houses. as communicate with him this morning

back to john roberts. the white house and congress going back and forth over this russia sanctions bill. some were surprised he signed it at all. >> i think so, shep. he was put in a box here. he could have not signed it and let it become law and vetoed it. despite the fact he didn't think it was a good bill, he thought it was better to sign something that slapped new sanctions on russia, iran and north korea to not sign it. i asked sarah huckabee sanders about the comments from the prime minister. we can't turn that piece around for you. but her response was that the president favors tough measures to punish behaviors on iran and north korea sends a signal that he won't tolerate the behavior by russian. there's something in one of the two signing statements, too, shep, that bears illuminating. the president had two signing statements. one was technical. the other was personal. it was in the technical signing statements that the president said "my administration will give careful thoughts to congress." so

i gave you a teaser with my comment about samuel alito and john roberts. there have been two important cases. and i mention them to bring us up to speed with the exclusionary rule and also to end with comments before where i think we're going to go from here. there's a case in 2006 called hudson versus michigan which dealt with what's called knock and announce when people have to nong for a pefrt before they enter into the room. what's important in the decision although it was a smaller part of the decision is justice scalia as's comments that he thought it was pretty much time to evaluate the exclusionary rule. and one of the reasons earned re-evaluate it is ironically because the need tore is it no longer existed because the police had been professional iced and because the police were acting professionally you don't need the exclusionary rule. he also suggested there were other remedies that you could use if people had their evidence seized from an illegal search. so criminals could always sue the police or maybe the mills can police themselves. and the

john roberts at the right house as the president deals with his first natural disaster. meteorologist rick wright move tells us where harvey is and where it's headed. but we begin with steve harrigan reporting from the front lines of the storm in corpus christi, texas. steve? >> we been hearing the governor set the stage for the past day. there is a real danger that the storm is being underestimated. it's so strong so quickly and each hour here in corpus christi we been feeling that same flow with the written and the rain and now we are already feeling hurricane force winds. >> it's the first hurricane to make u.s. landfall in 12 years as it bears down on the texas coast. those who decided to leave have all ready gotten out. >> we used to joke about it because every time they say it's really big, i'm definitely extra cautious just in case. >> those who have decided to stay now will face category 3 hurricane force winds and dust storm surge in some places of more than 12 feet. >> i'm scared, someone to do everything i can to protect our little place down here and hope and

maybe we can have a discussion about john roberts. , anything innyone john roberts entire jus district, hard to believe it is to reaffirm roe v. wade. 12 think areas like this the president will matter at all. >> at a meeting on the u.s. opioid crisis, president trump responded to a reporter's question about north korea. health and human services secretary tom price joined the president at this event in new jersey where the>> president is vacationing. president trump: thank you very much, secretary price, for your work to address the crisis of opioid, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines. it is a tremendous problem in our country and we are going to get it taken care of as well as it can be taken care of, which hopefully will be better than any other country which also has the same problems -- similar problems. nobody is saro

. >> john roberts has our report. >> gregg, the tweets that president blasted out today were tame in comparison with some of what he sent out before. but it was clear this morning that president still has a lot to get off his chest. >> i put out a tweet or a couple of tweets, he? a twitter storm again, i don't do twitter storms. reporter: president trump insisting he does not engage in tweet storms. storm cloud gather over white house this morning as president let loose on a number of topics beginning with mitch mcconnell, tweeting only problem i have with mitch mcconnell after hearing repeal and replace for 7 years he failed, that should never have happened. sources say he will likely present tor fo -- press the senator for another repeal of obamacare. >> making sure that america has good healthcare and health care they deserve. >> given what happened before august recess, have they had a chance. >> we're committed to continuing to make sure we have the best health wear w carhealth care we can. reporter: health care may be least of president's worries, in a speech this morning mccon

john roberts. john, how did this all go down? >> reporter: sandra, good afternoon to you. it did not all go down this morning. it wasn't something that suddenly happened today. this has been in the works for some time. we have heard, via "the new york times" that steve bannon may have tendered his resignation as early on as a

we begin with john roberts and the changing white house staff on a monday. >> good evening. ten days ago press secretary sean spicer stepped down in order to clear the decks for anthony scaramucci to build a new communications team. today the white house cleared the decks again. it ranks among the shortest ten years and white house history after ten days on the job, anthony scaramucci is out as white house communications director. general john kelly, new white house chief of staff, asked for scaramucci to go after an interview scaramucci thought was off the record. >> the president felt anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> scaramucci's removal sharp indicator of how much power john kelly will have. president trump lavishing praise on him after his swearing in this morning. >> i predict general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> as the senior military assistant to robert gates and leon panetta, kelly is well versed

.>> chief correspondent john roberts has that story. >> it's an honor. >>reporter: appearing with sauli niinisto, president trump acknowledged the hardship sections faith praised the response. >> the coordination between the different services has been going well. we we respect to governor. >>reporter: president donald trump a look at rescue and recovery efforts when he and the first lady travel to texas tomorrow. houston, where first responders are stretched beyond thin is not on the itinerary. >> the single most important thing is the safety and security of those still in harm's way including the first responders who have been so terrific.>>reporter: the president made a point of showing how engaged he was on harvey, tweeting about the storm. the white house releasing a photo sharing teleconference.>> i know everyone has been moved by the images and stories of those suffering in texas. we want to make sure that you know we are working to provide assistance as quickly as we can. >>reporter: the amount of money needed to recover and rebuild will be count

first up, john roberts joining this along with us. good evening to you, john. >> reporter: martha, bret, good evening to you. an hour and a half before the president spoke we spoke with senior administration official who's put more context to what the president was about to say. the main driving force of what the president revealed tonight is to try to convince the taliban they cannot win on the battlefield and they're only hope of surviving is to come to to the table and negotiate some sort of political settlement with the government in kabul. at the same time it looks like the united states can't win decisively on the battlefield ever. listen to how the president put it a short time ago. >> some day after an effective military effort perhaps it will be possible to have a political settlement that includes elements of the taliban in afghanistan but nobody knows if or when that will ever happen. america will continue its support for the afghan government and the afghan military as they confront the taliban in the field. >> so the pres

john roberts has that report. >> good evening. nearly 800,000 people in this country illegally were brought here as children by their parents. in 2012 president obama suspended immigration actions against the executive order. now president trump appears poised to roll back that order. sources tell "fox news" president trump is expected to announce as early as tomorrow he is sending the obama air deferred action for childhood arrivals program known as daca. rather than cut it off the present would allow the program to lapse meaning the so-called chambers could stay until their work permits expire for which first stomach said he is lungs to use the president trump is facing a september 5 deadline of daca. that's when texas and nine other states plan to sue the demonstrations if the president doesn't move to end it. the group federation for american immigration reform which oppose daca applaud the idea of letting the program lapse. >> donald trump's to make an effort to end these programs. it's a very good opportunity for the democra

john roberts at the white house. john, thank you. a big day for the economy. employers added 209,000 jobs in july and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%. the dow gained 67 to finish at a new record high for the eighth day in a row. the s&p 500 was up five, nasdaq finished ahead 11. for a week, the dow surged almost 1.5 percentage points. the s&p 500 was up 1.5%. nasdaq was down a third of a point. let's get analysis on why all of this is happening for joining us now from our sister network fox business is liz claiborne. good evening, liz. why? >> chris, that's a great question and an easy answer at the moment. a lot of market experts will give you a myriad of reasons down to, well, this year we had a pink moon. it comes down to three prongs of the stock market pitch fork, and no matter which side of the political aisle you relate to, you've got to point to the donald trump rallies. since election day, notice i didn't say inauguration day. i sit election day. the dow received closing records 51 times. over ten months, it made, three, 3 -- three 1,000-point gain

let's bring in chief white house correspondent john roberts. a lot of fertile ground here, what do you think is going to happen? >> all of the above is probably the way it will go tonight. the president leaving for arizona and the next 45 minutes or so. as expected he will have a very friendly crowd inside the convention center, a place where he has spoken a couple of times before, i was there for one of them and he had a very big crowd. outside the convention center a very different scene. protests are being planned tonight. some people are upset with the president's comments about charlottesville, some people are upset about his immigration policies, other people are upset with the fact that he hold fox news he may be considering pardoning joe arpaio. doug stanton wrote an editorial in "the washington post" on monday urging the president to stay away from phoenix is saying it's too soon after the charlottesville incident to hold a rally in phoenix. also complaining about his possible pardon of arpaio. listen here. >> that was such a difficult

bret. >> bret: john roberts, thank you. the president has made up his mind on the new ban for transgenders in the military. details will be delivered to the pentagon in the coming days. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. >> defense secretary jim mattis will be given authority to decide whether transgender troops can continue serving. he will be given six months to implement the ban. the military will be ordered to stop admitting transgender individuals into the military, considering deploy ability of current transgender individuals and stop spending on medical treatment and surgery. transgender troops like the army's jennifer long who trained as a drill sergeant and deployed three times to iraq were disappointed. >> i have had that experience, being on hormones, being deployed to afghanistan and having to do a top-level high-security job and being able to do that job with distinction and honor. >> the ban on transgender groups listed under president obama last year. a study estimated there

john roberts is live at the white house. john, we'll get to the new leaks in just a moment but how is the