griff jenkins is live for us in washington, d.c. with what is coming up next. good morning, griff. >> good morning, welcome back. students don't class back until later this week but returned to stoneman douglas as teachers and staff prepare to get back to business as usual as the nation's governors gather in washington for their winter meeting, president trump will be joining today with the safety of our children at the top of the list. >> we will be talking about parkland and horrible event that took place last week, i want to thank governor rick scott of florida, rick, please stand up, you're doing a great job. [applause] >> i think that we will make that first in our list because we have to end the country of what's happening with respect to that subject. >> all eyes will be on governor scott who led the way for more to be done to secure the schools, governor scoot, calling for violence prevention plan and holding everyone accountable from the fbi to broward county sheriff's department. >> the fbi, what happened, the local sheriff's department, they have bee

griff jenkins here with that up next. heather: a bipartisan immigration plan fails in the senate after donald trump threatens to veto it, it destroys their ability to remove illegal immigrants from this country but the house is moving forward with their hard-line bill. griff jenkins is live with a look at what is happening. what is happening? >> reporter: not much. the finger-pointing begins, the senate failed to pass all four bills to protect dreamers including the bipartisan one that had the support of eight republicans and most democrats but faced a white house veto. the white house placing blame on democrats. today the schumer democrats demonstrated again they are not serious about daca or immigration reform or homeland security. schumer democrats chose to filibuster because they are held hostage by the radical left in their party which opposes immigration control but senate minority leader chuck schumer says the president is the one to blame. >> i regret that the only partisan effort of the group of moderate senators

griff jenkins standing by in washington dc with the latest developments. lots happening. i don't know if i had that right. >> reporter: totally right. an exciting morning. if you are a federal government employee you wonder if you got the day off, going into work, with steve scalise, the house whip, if you are a government employee you are coming to work. the procedural vote as we head into debate, let's quickly address the sticking points. on the republican side, conservatives who are fiscal hawks like rand paul are saying can we add this $400 billion? can we raise these spending caps? on the democrat side as we saw from nancy pelosi who went on that record-breaking stand in the name of daca and the dreamers, will enough democrats get on board? paul ryan cannot get this past without democrats. the magic number is typically 217. it varies on the number of members voting, you need to get certainly some democrats against steve scalise. we will see as the debate plays out but we will see certainly some resistance from members of the republican side and the democrat side as t

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jenkins live from us in washington, d.c., griff, thanks. jillian: white house blasts release of democratic memo calling it a total bust for failing to report fisa abuses. >> lawmakers on the left insists it clear it is obama administration of any wrongdoing. kelly wright live for us in washington, d.c. as well with reaction to both memos, kelly, good morning. kelly: todd and jillian, good morning to you both. this is the memo that i'm looking at, ten pages long. a case of dueling memos you should say in washington, ten-page democrat document is partially redacted. it disputes republican claims the fbi and justice department abused their powers to conduct surveillance of trump campaign aide carter page. devin nunes the chairman of house intelligence committee responded to the democrats. >> you have a political party in this country actually saying, don't worry american public, it's okay, we do this all of the time, we will dig up dirt on opponent, get it from russians, get it from the brits and we will take it to the fbi and open up an inves

lauren: griff jenkins, thank you. connell: more throughout the day on the republican retreat. we shift to the markets when it comes to earnings from the big tech companies. facebook and microsoft reported last night after the valid we will hear from apple, amazon and google's parent company alphabet later today. we are joined by kitty mcgrew president, fox news contributor gary b. smith. good morning. >> good morning, connell. we cannot play word association. you can talk about the stocks. facebook was interesting. stock additionally initially sold off. how much time users are spending on the site but that abounds. your take on facebook. >> i think you just summed it up right there. facebook being the preeminent social media platform depends on the use. i've always thought it's kind of a trendy stock and dad i mean i think it is easy over time to create another social platform just like instagram did until facebook.instagram and the user views go down on that. it is solely dependent on that, not unlike the tv networks of many years ago when they used to be the big three and no

jenkins live covering it all for us, hey, griff. >> hey, good morning, lauren and cheryl, listen, here is the deal f you are a government employee and you're up all night wondering whether or not you're getting the day off, chances are you better hop in the shower and start getting ready, it appears now as we look at the numbers reaching over 220 that the house has the votes to pass and they will pass this bill, now, that wasn't without a lot of drama and we see the house there obviously as they get this about ready to move and ultimately it will have to go to the president for signature and the government will reopen, it was essentially just closed overnight so not actually affecting the government employees but again it wasn't without drama, what was at play here and we saw house speaker paul ryan and minority leader pelosi making passionate speeches, pelosi who was part of the negotiations on this bill voted against it and she continued to hold out for the dreamers and for a deal on daca from speaker ryan and then on the conservative side we saw the deficit hawks, the conservatives

jenkins is live in maryland with what we can expect today. reechange the man of the hour is donald trump. he spoke for the last time as a sitting president and returns for the second time leading a new conservative revolution in the vein of ronald reagan and there are other speakers to like rick perry and ryan stinky and we will hear from laura ingram as well as kelly and conway but the person that brought the house down yesterday was mike pence talking about the economy and taxes, taking a shot at nancy pelosi. >> any leader who says $1000 in the hands of working families is crumbs is out of touch with the american people. >> undoubtedly the topic everyone is talking about his school safety and gun control and what can be done. we had a surprise visit from the floor for the nra talking about how to stop these. >> evil walks among us and god help us if we don't harden those schools and protect our kids. to stop a bad guy with a gun. it takes a good guy with a gun. >> we also have a rousing speech from sen. ted cruz a crowd favorite, i caught

jenkins has the latest on that, she must be tired today. >> reporter: senate leaders reach an agreement to stave off the midnight shutdown deadline. in a two your budget deal, $165 billion more for the military, $131 billion for domestic programs, debt ceiling increase through march 2019. and keeping the government open through march 23rd. it does not do anything for the so-called dreamers. nancy pelosi let it be known, taking to the floor for eight hours and 7 minutes demanding a deal on daca from speaker paul ryan. >> republicans moral cowardice must end, members of congress are trustees of the people and the nation. why are we here if not to protect the patriotic young people who are determined to contribute and strengthen america. i'm going to go on as long as my leadership minute allows. >> ryan says he wants a deal on strzok but the entire house should support this budget deal that will make americans safer and stronger but ryan's real problems lie more with the house's conservative freedom caucus. >> i don't know if we have enough votes among the members to stop this legislation.

griff jenkins joins us live with what to expect, so we can expect the deal? >> we will see if saint valentine can bring the charm they need today, to start introduce competing builders democrats blocked republicans from setting up votes yesterday, got a little encouragement yesterday from donald trump sounding optimistic. >> we wants to help daca, you don't. i'm getting, i am sure you do, you are working very hard on daca. everybody in the room once daca. it would be a great achievement. >> secure and succeed, requires the president's framework that would need democrat support to reach the number 60, senate leaders seem to agree it is worth a try. >> if we can come up with a bipartisan compromise, let it rip, let's go. >> no reason if there is a core 60 votes to support something we can't achieve it in the next few days. >> reporter: speaker ryan says they will whip up a bill to find out if it can clear the 218 votes needed for passage. it is thought to be more conservative than the senate bill. the difference between a two bills, senator find a path to citiz

griff jenkins joins us with what we can expect today. >> from bump stocks the background checks donald trump is working to respond to the tragedy. >> we must do more to protect our children, we have to do more to protect our children. school safety is a top priority for my administration. >> reporter: front and center, moves to ban bump stocks that were used in the massacre. >> the deadly shooting in las vegas i directed attorney general to clarify whether certain bump stock devices like the one used in las vegas are illegal under current law. we must move past clichÉs entire debate and focus on evidence-based solutions and security measures that actually work. >> keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people, whether we are republican or democrat we must focus on strengthening that background checks. democrat senator dianne feinstein who led the effort on gun control issued a statement saying words are one thing but we want meaningful action, call congressional republicans and tell them to stop blocking our bill. whether they have the will to act, it is worth noting congress rece

griff jenkins joins us with the latest on that and moscow's response to the russia investigation. >> russia is responding. this may come as a surprise but they are denying any involvement, there is no proof moscow interfered in the election. the president was tweeting again, the administration when the appearance began in 2014, obama was president up to and beyond the election so why didn't he do something about russia meddling? several secretaries of state met in washington to discuss the russian middling. >> that was $1 million a month operation. that gives me an idea the resources we are working against. >> the biggest threat seems to be the american public be leaving the many false stories that were told during the last election. >> official gathering at a meeting of the national organization of secretaries of state many from the 21 states believed to have been targeted by the russians and with lack of information being shared about their systems, some even suggesting the answer lies in returning to paper ballots but george's secretary of state reminding us what that could entail

this as the all-out war on transparency reaches a favor pitch, griff jenkins live in the nation's capital with the democrats new crack to discredit the report. there has been a lot of back and forth but today may be the day. >> welcome to memo friday, democrats, the waiting game may be over in the president is expected to -- americans deserve transparency, allegations of fbi abuse, republicans breaking up democrats complaints, and its author, devon nunez who alleges in the memo that fbi officials misled a court to get a size award to spy on the trump campaign which ultimately led to the mueller investigation. house speaker paul ryan saying it is their job to find out. >> what it is is congress's legitimate function of oversight to make sure the process is being used correctly and if it wasn't being used correctly that needs to come to light and people need to be held accountable. >> congressman jim jordan offering a preview of what americans can expect from the release. >> when this memo comes out the american people will see very clearly what the fbi told the court and what they didn't t

griff jenkins has the story -- griff perkins has the story. >> you don't mind if i go off script because it kind of boring. permit in a second consecutive address at the concern action conference delivering a rallying cry to the gop. >> we know it we need more republicans. >>> using the opportunity to tell republican achievements after his first year in the oval office. >> for the last year with your help we put more great conservative ideas into use than perhaps ever before. in american history. >> in an off-the-cuff moment seeing his image on the monitor he drew laughter when he admired his own hair. >> i try like hell to hide that bald spot. i work hard at it. >> government in school safety a key theme, the president vowing to take action after 17 killed in schools -- and for the school shooting.>>> when we declare our schools to be gun free zones it puts our students in far more danger. >> the president's remark coming a day after the head of the nra delivered a speech on the same stage pushing back against democrats calling for more gun control. >> to stop a bad guy with a gun, it t

that train carrying gop lawmakers and their families colliding with the truck, griff jenkins is in virginia where all this happened. what is the latest? >> reporter: the latest as you see the railway crossing behind me, the latest is we know the identity of the one fatality, christopher foley of louise the county, a neighboring county to albemarle, 28 years old is the train shortly after 11:00 am came across the crossing behind me and collided with a trash truck, three were on that truck. one fatality, one seriously injured and one able to walk away from it. we spoke to some of those dozens of lawmakers that were on the train. here is what they say happened. >> jarring sound like an explosion but then the train kept going normally. >> instantaneous, we attempted to resuscitate him but i don't think he suffered. >> is seen you don't ever want to see. >> what was remarkable was several of those lawmakers, doctors, 7 or 8 of them jumped in, gop members became first responders. paul ryan talking about their efforts. >> so thankful for the people who sprang into action today. so thankful the fir

. >> highlighting all safety, griff jenkins in national harbor maryland with what you can expect today. >> reporter: we are outside cpac was the man of the hour is coming, donald trump making his second appearance, he has an interesting job, striking that fire and brimstone base, and a tone with the nation looking at school shootings and a lot of other speakers, the secretary of energy, rick perry, ryan ziggy, kelly and conway but yesterday vp mike pence brought the house down talking tough against north korea. >> the united states doesn't stand with murderous dictatorships. we stand up to murderous dictatorships. >> reporter: school shooting, gun-control very much being talked about in the hallways and they got a surprise visit by the head of the nra, wayne lapierre who weighed on for the first time of the story. >> evil walks among us and god help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids, stop the bad guy with a gun takes a good guy with a gun. >> north korea, gun-control all being talked about yesterday but had a chance to talk to a crowd favorite, sen. ted cruz, and a

griff jenkins live in washington breaking it down. griff, get us started. >> good morning, guys. it's shocking. it raises serious questions and reflects a deep disdain for not only the president but republican voters. let's get right to it. in one exchange strzok ridiculed virginia voters voted against andy mccabe wife's jill senate seat she lost. disappointing but look at the district map. lowden is being gentry find: these texts are being released by senator ron johnson along with a report entitled the clinton email scandal and the fbi's investigation of it the messages shed some light on the timing of the discovery of hundreds of thousands of emails found on anthony weiner's la laptop. got called up to andy's earlier. hundreds of thousands of emails turned over to andy's attorney southern district of new york includes a ton of material from spouse human abedin. sending team up tomorrow to review. this will never end. raises serious questions of timing because it wasn't until a full month later on october 28th that fbi director james comey informs congress that he is reopening

steve: griff jenkins is live once again on this friday morning. he is across the potomac in national harbor, mearmd. griff, what can we expect today? >> listen, this is what they came for. the second time. the president trump will address this crowd and it will be interesting to see what sort of tone he strikes. he has to bring the fire and brimstone rhetoric but also strike a national consoling tone as look forward to gun control. let me tell you yesterday it was vice president pence who brought the house down talking about the economy and taxes. and he took a shot at one of this crowd's favorite targets nancy pelosi. take a listen. >> any leader who says that a thousand dollars in the pockets of working families is crumbs is out of touch with the american people. [cheers] >> but, you know, i have been talking to a lot of folks, i talked to students from hofstra walking around. what's everybody talking about? we're talking about gun control and what the president is going to say today and how he is going to secure the children of this nation. and

griff jenkins joins us to tell us about. technically the government is shut down until what happens? reporter: until the president signs it. steve, if you got more than six hours sleep you probably missed this thing. government employees, hit the showers, because congress passed a two year budget bill and stopgap fund the government through march 23rd. house passed it shortly before dawn, 240 to 186. 67 republicans against it. with plenty of defections by fiscal hawks because of 400-dollar increase in spending. democrats held out for the "dreamers" got progress for daca. afterwards speaker ryan called it a victory for the men and women in uniform and man who whipped the vote, steve scalise, had this to say. >> minority leader pelosi was that serious about it, she would have handled this more directly when speaker of house. prior to them losing the majority they never brought a bill to the floor to address the immigration problem. reporter: pelosi a key architect of budget deal voted no and tweeted this, republicans are celeb

griff jenkins is there. >> reporter: history will be made when rev. billy graham comes to receive one of the highest distinctions, only the fourth in history to do so. the first two were jacob chestnut and john gibson, killed in the capital behind me in 1998, the third person, civil rights pioneer rosa parks, certainly a day that is very special. here is what speaker paul ryan had to say. >> if there's any american whose life's work deserves to be honored by laying a martyr in the capital it is billy graham. it is an honor for us in the capital to receive rev. graham epps casket and greet his family. that is something we are proud to do. >> reporter: he spread the gospel in 185 countries. just a little different from lying in state which is reserved for past presidents. at 10:00 am the motorcade will arrive at the east capitol widgets and:through the graham family will gather at the east front. 10:45 the procession carrying graham's casket up the steps will occur at 11:00, service begins, the president will lay a wreath, a day reached in history so we

griff jenkins live in washington with the very latest, good morning, griff. >> we now know the meddling began in 2014 according to allegations in the indictments and democrats like adam schiff admits the obama administration deserves some of the blame. >> i thought the obama administration should have done more but none of that is an excuse for this president to sit on his hands. it is inexplicable that the president of the united states continues to sit on sanctions that congress passed, that congress once enforced against russia over the interference. >> and while schiff says this doesn't vindicate trump administration and the president took to twitter defending that russia didn't med until the investigation or the investigation itself was a hoax but rather saying the russian hoax was that the trump campaign colluded with russia, it never did. as for sanctions, lawmakers on both sides of the i'll have criticized the white house for missing a congressional deadline in january but treasury secretary steve mnuchin tells the senate committee, finance committee in the senate last wednesday

rob: griff jenkins has the latest. >> reporter: the white house says the president will hold a bipartisan meeting with members tomorrow to discuss several pieces of legislation on gun control, pool safety and if we learned anything donald trump does not intend to allow this motion to take action. he surprised many in the meeting when he revealed he met with the nra and they are ready to work with him on background checks. >> had lunch with wayne lapierre, chris cox, they want to do something, very strong background checks, very strong background checks. if you see a sicko i don't want him having a gun. >> reporter: the president said he's willing to take on the nra if necessary accusing some of being too afraid. the idea of arming teachers, the democratic governor advised the president to do less tweeting. >> i listened to first grade teachers who don't want to be pistol packing the first grade teachers, listening to law enforcement who said they don't want to train teachers as law enforcement agencies which takes we 6 months so we need less tweeting, more listening and take that off the

steve: we'll be watching for that right now griff jenkins joins us in washington, d.c. with what's happening next. griff? griff: good morning, guys. they are trying to get back to normal as best they can in parkland as the nation's governors are gathering in washington for their annual meeting. president trump is hosting them at the white house later this morning with school safety is a top priority. >> we will be talking about parkland and horrible event that took place last week. people make that first on our list because we have to end our country of what's happening with respect to that subject. griff: all eyes on florida governor's rick scott who has led the calls for more to be done from hardening schools to gun control measures. response to the shooting holding everyone accountable to the fbi to the broward county sheriff's department. >> the fbi what happened? >?>> the local sheriff's department have got to be completely transparent. whoever didn't do their job has to be held accountable. there is no one i talk to that is not disgusted that the local sheriff's d

steve: griff jenkins is live in d.c. with all the latest. griff, the democrats' hair is on fire they don't want that coming out but it sounds like it could come out later today. >> good morning, guys. apparently they are not happy about this. but the president is expected to sign off on the memo's release saying americans deserve answers top ranking officials using fisa law to spy on the trump campaign in 2016 ultimately leading to the mueller investigation. house speaker paul ryan saying it's congress' duty to get to the bottom of it and take action, if necessary. >> what it is is the congress' legitimate function of oversight to make sure that the fisa process is being used correctly and if it wasn't being use you had correctly that needs to come to light and people need to be held accountable. >> lashing out at the memo's author devin nunes echoing warnings by the justice department that relet'sing this memo could harm national security. the ranking member of that committee, adam schiff saying it's misleading. >> this memo is really a spi

pete: our own griff jenkins live with what comes next to make it official. good morning, griff. >> we shall call it the greatest government shut down of 2018 thanks to rand paul. if you are a government employee, you need to take brian's advice and ple

griff jenkins, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> a top u.s. diplomat in north korea is stepping down from his post. he's retiring on friday. he's been the special -- he told the washington post this was his own personal decision. but according to someone familiar with diplomatic issues, the departure reflects widespread frustration over in a moments' lack of power in the trump administration. >>> monica lewinsky is weighing in. the me too movement has her questioning her affair with former president bill clinton. she says there was an inappropriate abuse of authority between her and clinton. and even though he maintains the relationship was consensual. the me too movement has forced her to reexamine the power dynamics in their relationship. for first time, women are apologizing to her for the fact she had to go through it alone. >>> a stylest accusing ryan seacrest of sexual misconduct. he is accused of groping her and making inappropriate comments. she worked with him from 2007 to 2013. and she was fired after complaining about his behavior t

jillian: griff jenkins live in the nation's capital with what we can expect today. what can we expect today? >> reporter: we can expect a rare open-ended debate on immigration playing out. it is rare because there is no specific deal trying to craft out of the open, something they can all agree on on education as the president weizen. >> i did not want daca in the budget. i wanted daca separate so we could talk about it and make a deal. democrats want to make a deal, really up to them. we want really tremendous border security but we have to have democrat support for daca. >> reporter: chuck schumer wants to narrow the focus to just those dreamers brought here illegally as children. >> now is not the time or the place to reform the entire legal immigration system. this is a moment for a narrow bill. >> reporter: whatever they come up with if they come up with anything the president has to be on board. a group of gop senators feel their plan stands the best chance for success. >> if you can't get it through the united states senate it doesn't do much good. we start w

griff jenkins is live for us in washington, d.c. with what we can expect, did you have a good weekend, griff? >> i did, heather, great weekend. now time to get busy because the white house will have a busy morning later this afternoon, the president will hold infrastructure meeting where he's meeting with state and local officials which is important because they they are going to change infrastructure, now here are the four goals of the plan, stimulate 1 and a half trillion dollars of investment, shorten to one authority, invest in rural infrastructure and improving the workforce training, the rollout of 2019 budget mick mulvaney says it'll focus heavily on new infrastructure plan and help rein in the deficit. >> take the money that democrats want to put to social programs, if it does get sent, gets sent to the right places. >> a plan by a bipartisan that addresses objectives by republicans and democrats but initial reaction from democrat members like pete they are far from on board. >> it would cut existing transportation programs

brian: griff jenkins is at the scene. behind shut wreckage. >> that's right. the identity of that fatality christopher folly. 28 years old. look at this debris field behind me. you see the trash truck, the trash strewn all along the embankment as you work your way up to that rail crossing. the cab of that truck smashed with mr. folly along with two others were in there. one critically injured. one with minor injuries. and the ntsb working hard on this seen as they have all night. we went to the press conference last night and spoke with the spokesman earl wanier. here is what he had to say about the investigation. >> we expect which to take several days of unseen work followed by months back at headquarters. if we find anything that indicates that this was intentional, we will turn that over to the fbi. >> amtrak says, guys, far too common wrecks and crashes and railways just like this. the real remarkable story those g.o.p. congressman turned first responders when the impact happened. guys? steve: exactly right. all right. griff, thank you. ainsley: lots of g

griff jenkins in washington >> bill: questions to the f.b.i. too right now feeling the heat over the massacre in florida failing to investigate warnings that cruz had guns and wanted to kill. steven hayes editor in chief of the weekly standard. good morning to you. we'll get to the russia matter in a moment here but there are two incidents that we know of for the f.b.i. when an american citizen calls the f.b.i., that is quite a step. you think about local police or the superintendent or the principal. in addition police were called to his house 20 times. who knows what the school knew or anyone else in that community? really stuns you. and i think it leaves you asking the question what can we do when something is so obviously disturbed in society? >> this really is sort of a wake-up call. this was a kid who seemed to be holding a red flag himself and was waving it at every possible minute. you have this slogan if you see something, say something. and in this case many, many people did say something. then it's up to the authorities to actually a

jillian: that's right, griff jenkins with what we can expect, good morning, griff. >> good morning, jillian and rob, what the president calls crumbling infrastructure and later today he's meeting with state and local officials who will share the burden on paying for it. it's aiming to fix what the white house calls a broken system of funding for infrastructures, here are the four goals of the plan, first, want to stimulate 1 and a half trillion in new investment, shorten the permit process to two years under one authority, he wants to invest in rural infrastructure and fourth, to improve the workforce training, improving -- excuse me in previewing the new 2019 budget omb director mulvaney says he'll focus on things like the new infrastructure plan. >> take the money that the democrats want to put in social programs, move to opioid relief, things that are if line with the president's priorities because if it does get spent, it gets to the right places. >> addresses objectives of both republicans an democrats but initial reaction from democrat members like pete suggests otherwise. >> it would

griff jenkins joins us live with exactly what to expect with this bizarre immigration situation we have here. hey, griff. >> good morning, rob, welcome to daca day two but what's different today is they'll try and get the vehicle for an immigration bill out of park, senate leaders seem to agree it's worth giving it a shot. >> if we can come up with a bipartisan compromise that looks like it's right in the ballpark of 60, let it rip, let's go. >> there's no reason in the world if there's a core 60 votes to support something we can't achieve it in the next few days. >> the president sounded optimistic talking to round table of sheriffs how this will help them enforce the laws. >> right now we are working on daca, we are working on immigration bills and we are making them tough so you people can enforce the laws but we want securing the border and a wall, ending chain migration and canceling the visa lottery. >> and over in the house speaker ryan says they'll start whipping a bill by congressman, more conservative than the senate wanted to hear, senate one provides path to citizenship whil

rob: griff jenkins with bombshell revelations, very interesting story. >> trying to keep up, the president can decide as early as today whether all the democrats memo, yesterday with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to review it as chief of staff john kelly says, the president has a better understanding of it. >> i hope the president understands the difference between the first memo and the second memo, just like the first memo where he received it, the doj, fbi team. >> some republican lawmakers like trey gowdy morning this could be a trap. >> democrats are politically smart enough to put things in the memo that require either the bureau or the government of justice to say it needs to be redacted, therefore it creates this belief that there is something being hidden from the american people. >> reporter: this is chuck grassley and lindsey graham release a less redacted version of their previous referral of british spy christopher steele to that part of justice, more information about the fbi's reliance on steel's dossier to get that fisa warns, on march 17, 2017, the chairman and ra

cheryl: griff jenkins live in washington with the latest. good morning, cheryl of mourning. the president can decide whether it released to block some or all of the democrats counter memo. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein as jack kelly says the president gets a better understanding now. >> a greater understanding what the differences between the first memo, second memo where he received it late last night. the doj, fbi team -- reporter: some republican lawmakers like trey gowdy warns it could be a trap. >> the democrats are politically smart enough to put things in the memo they require the bureau at the department of justice to say it is to be redacted and creates this belief that there's something hidden from the american people. reporter: senator grassley released a less redacted version of their criminal referral by christopher steele at the department of justice giving us more information about reliance to get a fisa warrant in a letter they write on march 17, 2017 provided copies of the application, which requested authority to conduct surveillance of carter page

jillian: griff jenkins live in washington dc with how leaders are responding. >> reporter: after the president learned of the tragic shooting, florida's governor took to twitter to offer condolences and prayers to families of victims, adding no child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an american school, first lady melania responded on twitter saying my heart is heavy with the school shooting in florida, keeping all affected in my thoughts and prayers. as the tragic news hit capitol hill the conversation turned to calls for gun control, democrat senator chris murphy blaming in action. >> this happens nowhere else other than the united states of america. it only happens here, not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our in action. we are responsible. >> reporter: of leader nancy pelosi renewing her calls for action saying congress has a moral responsibility to take commonsense action to prevent the daily tragedy of gun violence in communities across america. enough is enough. half a dozen democrat lawmakers joining the call, governor

griff jenkins there. my next guest patrick mchenry introduced the resolution to allow billy graham to lie in honor today. what does this day mean to you and the folks you represent? >> quite humbling and wholly befitting a right that a man who had a relationship with every president since truman, was the pastor to presidents of both parties for over 70 years, that he lie in honor here in this building. he had relationships on both sides of the aisle in the capitol right behind me for generations. he preached the gospel globally. everyone has heard this. over 200 million people did he speak to live and in person in over 185 countries. what he did here to minister to folks on both sides of the aisle, politicians, to have some unity of thought around the gospel, i think that is what we really desperately need here as americans today. and i think that's what my constituents are reflecting upon more than just about anything else. >> bill: i wonder what sort of context his passing brings to the issues and the d

jillian: griff jenkins with new details unfolding at this hour. >> reporter: let the memo battle begin, the committee voting unanimously to release the democrats memo with 60 counter -- the republican memo detailing surveillance abuses, whether or not it becomes public will depend on the president who has 5 days to decide to go to the same review process as a republican memo, top democrat hopes this countermemo will better inform the public if given a copy of it to the doj and fbi and calling on the white house to make predictions based on partisan politics. >> sources and methods, we want to make sure does not redact on that and that is a thing of concern. >> reporter: the chairman of the intel committee, devon nunez reminding americans why all of this matters. >> this is what the fbi used to cooperated dossier which is very dangerous to take political the dirt paid by the campaign and use it against your political rival and open an investigation. >> reporter: in ohio the president says the nunez memo exposed democrats. >> did we catch them in the act or what? did we catch them in the

griff jenkins joins us from washington dc with what we can expect today. >> reporter: the president is responding to the tragedy with gun-control measures vowing to take swift action. >> we must do more to protect our children, we have to do more to protect our children. school safety is a top priority for my administration. >> reporter: he is moving to ban the bump stocks used in last year's massacre. >> after the deadly shooting in las vegas i directed the attorney general to clarify whether certain bump stock devices like the one used in las vegas are illegal under current law. we must move past clichÉs and tired debates and focus on evidence-based solutions and security measures that actually work. >> reporter: under the obama administration the devices do not violate federal law but the doj says they are acting quickly to propose regulations, democrat senator dianne feinstein who led efforts on gun control he should this statement saying words are one thing but we need meaningful action if you want divisive off the street. congressional republicans, tell them to stop blocking our

lauren: griff jenkins at the live with what we can expect. good morning. >> good morning, lauren and cheryl. that's just than drilling in the building. nevermind that. this plan is direct did not america's crumbling infrastructure as the president called the denny's meeting later today with state and local officials because they are going to share this plan. they want to fix what they see as a broken system of funding for infrastructure. first they want to stimulate 1.5 trillion investment. second they went to have one authority. next they want to invest in rural infrastructure and lastly they want pre-workforce training and proving the new 20 night in budget. mick mulvaney says it's going to focus heavily on things like the new infrastructure plan. >> take the money democrats want to but the social programs and move it to infrastructure, opioid relief, things in mind that the president's priorities so if it does get spent on this ticket into the right places. reporter: the white house says it's bipartisan and addresses republicans and democr

griff jenkins is live with the latest. >> melissa, the lawmakers springing into action turning first responders an amazing part of the story. i want you to have a look. this is the first full day the ntsb has been able to get on site. the train colliding into the trash truck you see behind us shortly before noon. a massive field of debris of crash and behind them the ntsb had an organizational meeting this morning breaking into multiple teams so that they could address the truck component, the train component, the human operator component. early this morning we saw the f.b.i. out here with a total station digital mapping system. it is a tripod you see over here on the right side. you might not notice it but the highest tech piece of equipment out here allowing them to build an entire map replica of the scene. earlier we saw the drone flying to get aerial optics on this scene to try to determine what has happened. much of the activity, melissa, in the last hour has been around -- you see guys around that guardrail, the signals team as it is called trying to determine if indeed one of

griff jenkins is at the national resort and convention sense teln national center, maryland. who knew you would be the opening speech? >> reporter: this is the 22nd one i've been to. this is the largest gathering of conservatives ever. and take note of this. two years ago, donald trump didn't come. he was worried that he wouldn't have a big enough audience because they didn't think he was a conservative. now he comes back as president for the second time, coming for first time as a sitting president since ronald reagan. i talked to the president of cpac about the significance of president trump and the vice president coming to this year's. >> to have the president back and vice president back two years in a row, this is history. donald trump ran as a conservative. some conservatives were dubious about how he would govern. clearly his agenda is conservative. he's gotten more accomplishments that conservatives have seen in a decade. >> reporter: accomplishments, tax reform, they'll be talking about that. it's a packed day today. you have vice president 3450eube pence, senator t

rachel campos duffy and griff jenkins. griff: we are colluding over here. rachel: we are colluding. pete: they have been colluding against me all morning i'm going to file a complaint. griff: look at those faces we are guilty as charged charged. pete: you are. griff: you bring up a good point. don't get dressed. stay in bed. bring you the news. if you only hear one thing, hear this. that is this shows that the trump administration did nothing wrong. it goes even farther saying that no american, knowingly participated in any collusion. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the united states political system. including the 2016 presidential election. there is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant. there is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election. rachel: didn't change the outcome of the election. if you are a democrat and you saw this indictment come out,

griff jenkins is live in washington. what is the fbi informant saying? >> reporter: dana, his name is douglas campbell. in a statement submitted to the senate intel and reform committee, he claims that russian nuclear officials told them moscow hired an american lobbying firm for $3 million in hopes of influencing then secretary of state hillary clinton through contributions through her husband's foundation. campbell writes, quote, the contract called for four payments of $750,000 over 12 months. apko was said to give assistance to the clinton's global tpheurb kwreufrb in their effort to ensure the obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from uranium one to u.s./russia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. but, in a statement to fox news apco called campbell's assertions false. a clinton spokesman said this is all a distraction from the real russia probe. >> dana: what is campbell's attorney saying today? >> so his attorney said the russians told his client about a stra taoepblic plan to take over our uranium reserve with the comm

steve: to connect all the pieces, griff jenkins joins us now from d.c. with the scrutiny about the first responders, griff? >> good morning, guys. disgusting you and a disgrace is how the president describes the actions of broward county sheriff's office saying he would not have sat idol while a killer murdered 17 students and teachers. >> you know, i really believe. you don't know until you are tested. i really believe i would run in there even if i didn't have a weapon. and i think most of the people in this room would have done that, too. >> the attorney for scott peterson the deposit deputy assigned to protect the school. the allegations that mr. pertson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue. peterson has resigned. in the calls for scott israel to resign are growing louder as florida lawmakers investigate all the agencies that responded. accused of blocking mayor midwest dicks from entering to treat victims as florida speaker of the house weighs in. >> what

steve: griff jenkins live in d.c. with what comes next. they had four different plans, the senate said no, no, no, and no. >> 0 for 4. batting a thousand. great job, senate. the house take as another shot at this. they had a shot with this bipartisan bill that had the support of 8 republicans. the president was calling it total catastrophe and threatening to veto it the white house now placing the blame on democrats saying in a statement today the schumer democrats in the senate demonstrated again that they are not serious about daca, they are not serious about immigration reform. and they are not serious about homeland security. but senate minority leader schumer says the president is the one to blame. >> i regret that the only bipartisan effort of the group of moderate senators to come up with a bipartisan compromise couldn't get the necessary 60 votes. there's only one reason why the senate will be unable to reach a bipartisan solution to daca. president trump. >> three democrats controlled the aisle on the grassley bill, the last failu

brian: this is just a lead-in to griff jenkins because he knows all this already. right, griff? because we asked you to do this. >> that's right. good morning, guys. the informant name is douglas campbell. obtained by the hill newspaper. campbell claims russia nuclear officials told him that moscow hired american lobbying firm apco worldwide for $3 million in hopes of influencing then secretary of state hillary clinton contributions to her husband's foundation. campbell writes, quote: the contract called for four payments of $750,000 over 12 months. apco was expected to give assistance free of charge to the clinton global initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to enviewer the obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from uranium one to the u.s.-russia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. campbell's attorney victoria toensing said this all began in 2005. >> then my client was told that the russians begin to plan strategically how they could take over uranium, particularly in the united states. and one of the key elements of th

griff jenkins? on the east base of the u.s. capitol where thousands are expected to file in and bid their respect. thank you very much. ainsley: anyone else who deserves to lie in honor it's the reverend billy graham. changed some lives. steve: what a legacy. meanwhile talk about liberal arts. one university is offering a class on impeaching president trump. a student from that school says they aren't even trying to hide their bias. he joins us live next. brian: speaker maxine waters. ainsley: and one little girl is making it her mission to thank police officers. >> the main gift is you. and i love you. ainsley: how she is spreading her love nationwide coming up ♪ you got a friend in me ♪ you got a friend in me. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com. ♪ ainsley: san diego state university is now offering a course that is dedicated get this strictly from removing president trump from the white house. one credit for a course called tru

griff jenkins is in washington with what we can expect today. >> the president is responding to the tragedy at stoneman douglas aiming to take actions to end the senseless violence. >> we must do more to protect our children. we have to do more to protect our children. school safety is a top priority for my administration. >> first, is he moving to ban the rapid fire bump stocks used in last year's massacre. >> after the deadly shooting in las vegas, i directed attorney general to clarify whether certain bump stock devices like the one used in las vegas are illegal ungts current law. we must move past cliches and tired debates and focus on evidence-based solutions and security measures that actually work. >> under the obama administration the atf concluded the devices could not be regulated but now the doj says they are acting quickly to propose new regulations. democrat senator dianne feinstein, excuse me, who has been a voice on gun control issued this statement saying words are one thing, mr. president. but we need meaningful action. if you want these devices off the street, call congres

griff jenkins live from washington d.c. in new york city rachel: good morning to all of you get your coffee, join us we've got a lot of news today. pete: it's sunday morning. we tell you to stay undressed maybe put on a reason if you want. lay on the couch but don't get out of bed just enjoy the morning with us. be lazy it's sunday. church doesn't start for a few hours there's no more football just kind of be lazy. griff: but do pay attention because we have a fox & friends weekend olympic update for you and that is a political princess from north korea has solved the crisis on the korean peninsula after more than 50 years. rachel: we can really explain that, that political print sense is the words of the american media, the dictators it's not sarcasm it's what they wrote. griff: it is so the media is just absolutely fawning head over heels over this beautiful princess. pete: sister of kim jong-un there she is 30 years old in the center of your screen, and the media has basically gone wall to wall infatuated with the fact s

griff jenkins live on the scene in virginia this morning, he has the very latest, griff. >> maria, good morning, we know the identity of one fatality, christopher foley, 28 year's old. look at the scene of the crash happening before noon, you see the debris field the trash truck, trash all embankment, the three passengers, mr. foley with two others. we talked to some of the members of congress aboard the train, here was their reaction. >> jarring type of sound and explosion but the train kept going normally. >> we attempt today resuscitate him but i don't think that he suffered. >> it's a scene you don't ever want to see. >> the remarkable part of this story, the gop members who are doctors that led into action, members of congress turned first responders and house speaker paul ryan applauding the efforts he witnessed. take a listen. >> i'm just so thankful for the people whose sprung into action today. i'm so thankful -- [applause] >> for the capitol police and members of congress who sprang into action, thank you so much for what you did today. kind of reminds you how fragile life to