is going to probably primary roger wicker in mississippi. now, the thing about mcdaniel is that i'm not sure that this is necessarily him thinking that this is a winnable race. wicker has $4 million in the bank. he is in pretty good standing in mississippi. so it's going to be hard to paint him as some, you know, a swamp creature which is what he is going to try to do. this is more about mcdaniel trying to position himself for another shot at thad cochran or the event thatted that cochran more in line for that seat. >> dana: can i imagine that president trump might think this is a real waste of republican dollars if you are going to have to gonsd a fight a primary there in mississippi. before i let did you go. i want to hear about in arizona. what's happening with that open house seat? >> so, the primary is today for this special election to preplace trent franks arizona 8 u it's west valley. have you seven republicans, two democrats running. the favorites on the republican side are two former state senators both of whom have had allegations

senator roger wicker has just been elected to serve as the incoming congress' chairman of the national republican senatial committee, also a member of the senate armed services committee. sir, good to have you on the program. welcome. >> good to be back. thank you. >> let me begin on what you hope to accomplish come 2015. what is on your agenda? >> in 2015, first of all we need to get the lame duck behind us, but we'll turn the senate to the great delivery body that was intended by the founders. and we had democrat and republican leaders in past decades. we will work into the night, work on fridays like other americans have to do. and send legislation to the house and on to the president for his signature. >> so based on what you've seen so far from the president and what you've heard from the president, how easy will be to work together and push through legislation? >> well, it hapsn't looked good over the last 10 to 12 days. the president has chosen to get a mess he age from people who dt vote rather than the people who went to the polls and said we want change in washington. and thi

mississippi senator roger wicker is the senator of the senatorial committee and also serves on the armed services and budget committee. glad to have you on the program. >> glad to be back. >> what are your thoughts on where we stand in these talks with iran? >> i remain very, very skeptical about the talks and wary about having any confidence that the iranian regime is a group that will comply with an agreement that we might make. this is one of the most consequential agreements that we will have in my lifetime. it does seems like the congress of the united states or the treaty ratifying branch of the congress the united states senate should have a say in this i'm skeptical, i don't think the iranians have complied in the past with the minor agreements they have made, and i don't have much confidence, but i remain hopeful and am listens. i ayatollah is pushing back calling the americans bullies, and the president is actually speaking directly to the iranian people. what if a deal does not happen? what are your thoughts on the consequences of that? >> if a deal doesn't happen, the sanging

roger wicker. the investigation turned to another man in mississippi he. james everett dutschke, he's a one-time republican candidate for state office. he reportedly had an email feud and long running one with the former suspect, the man whom authorities released yesterday. at the same time the fbi and law enforcement agencies searched the new guy's home and took items with them. he claims he didn't send those letters. >> my family knows i don't have anything to do with this. the people that actually know me know i don't have anything to do with this. quite frankly the people that don't know that this is just crazy. >> shepard: james everett dutschke, his attorney tells fox news agents are searching his tae kwon do studio but still no arrest. with us, david katz from the fbi academy and special agent with the dea and founder of global security group. this is all very weird. first you have this elvis impersonator who is mentally off, according to the family, who is in this feud with this guy, who used to be a republican candidate in mississippi and i don't

wicker and a local judge. now he is a free man. let's start with the senate majority leader reid there's been another incident. >> ent know a whole lot. the story is moving in number of different directions at the same time, if there is another letter, not a surprise. if it's connected with the original three letters, during an initial appearance for kevin crore tis, u.s. concerns were saying there may be a fourth letter out there. apparently, according to senator harry reid was at bolling air force base, just south of washington, dc. here's what the senator said. >> we have had another incident today, i'm told, at bolling air for barracks they sim nuns. so -- same substance. >> her is what is going on with kevin curtis who was brought up on charges on thursday of threatening the life of the president. he is out on bond now. his attorneys are saying the fbi made a huge move stake here for claiming their client is 1,000 percent instant and may have been framed. this would fit the narrative of a conversation i h

wicker. the mail set off alarms at a screening facility. never came close to the white house or capitol hill. but a season source is telling fox news the substance in the letters is absolutely, unequivocally, ricin. police and neighbors describing the guy as a paranoid loner who thought the government was out to get him, trying to ruin his reputation. as for the body part conspiracy there was word he was deeply disturbed from his time working in a hospital. both letters saying, quote to see a wrong and not disclose is it is to become a partner to its continuance. it ended, i am kc and i approve this message. john roberts is live in mississippi. what can we say about this now today, john? >> we're learning all kinds of things about this fella and the possibility as well learned in court, overhearing conversation between the u.s. attorney and the judge there may be -- not confirmed -- a fourth letter out there some one. kevin kurtis had the appears, official charges, threatening the life of the

wicker. today the white house press secretary jay carney asked about this, said investigators are now conducting more advanced testing on the content of these letters. here is carney. >> the f.b.i. has a lead for determine building a suspicious powder is a dangerous substance, such as risin. those take place at accredited facilities and they take a certain amount of time as the f.b.i. has indicated. these procedures are in place. the procedures are effective and in operation now and we are in the midst of that process which the f.b.i. is undertaking at this time. >> bill: what we do know, both letters said to be postmarked in memphis, tennessee. mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill for a very busy day. what more do we know about the letters there, mike? >> bill, fox news has obtained an f.b.i. operations bull finish that ties these two letters together. it says it was determined they were related based on their u.s. government targets, the postmarks and identical language in them. both maile

targets include dean heller in nevada, roger wicker in mississippi, nebraska's deb fischer and jeff flake from arizona, who abandon gases could avoid a challenge by retiring like tennessee senator bob corker. >> they take a look at who's potentially running and i think guys like flake are going to do some polling and they are also going to throw in the towel. >> but flake sees alabama's primary result is a different kind of opportunity. one for incumbents to condemn the winter judge moore. two previous comments about sexuality and a op-ed word representative keith ellison shouldn't serve in congress because he is a muslim. >> try to apply a religious test? that's not right. republicans should stand up and say that's not right. >> also desist >> i would say we don't agree wh those comments. >> regardless, the leader of the senate leadership fund believes out outsiders have all the leverage. "the republican congress has replaced president obama as the bogeyman for conservative g.o.p. primary voters was cool. and officeholders are in peril. >> if you get tagged as a candidate in the leadersh

. >> senator roger wicker told fox if the president gets to make the decision he will accept it amid all of this, a group of 8 bipartisan bicameral lawmakers are concoct ago backup plan and pitching it to their respective caucuses, the thinking is if it passes president biden will not veto anything that comes from congress and they would rather see a bipartisan deal get done. and, bret, fox has brand new information signaling that the white house may reject the g.o.p. plan to use unspent covid relief money, a source familiar with the administration's thinking says about 95% of that $3 trillion is already spent or allocated, including for ppp and unemployment and remaining 5% is for rural hospitals and small business disaster loans. that signals a impasse ahead and republican senator roy blunt told me tonight hind knows that the g.o.p. is not going to sign on to any kind of a deal that undoes the 2017 tax cut and there is about a week or so left of these talks before he says the democrats will likely have to see what they can accomplish on their own. bret? >> bret: jackie, i know you

senate budget committee republican roger wicker says smarter cuts are fine but is skeptical of the predictions. >> not only would it not go to those jobs but also it's not going to happen. if there's one thing that we're committed to, we're committed to keeping the overall budget savings that were negotiated in the budget control act. and to lose that would be to lose everything we worked for. >> reporter: critics note this is the same cbo that predicted president obama's 2009 stimulus package would produce three million jobs and fell short. ahead of the budget office release, leading democrats talked about the effect of the sequester. >> the sequester was an economic punch to the cut for transportation, housing and development programs. >> reporter: while the cuts have had an impact on people in terms of furloughs and some reduced benefits, experts say they have not led to the predicted massive breakdowns in critical services. though democratic senator patty murray held out hope that congress will stop the cuts. >> the impacts of sequestration, like the furloughs of 650,000 defense workers no

mississippi republican roger wicker is a budget conferree. >> i'm thinking about the end of the week we'll have a deal that gets us some sequestration relief and we'll there to pay for it. if it is just like the sale of spectrum, that won't be much of a victory. with were going to do -- we were going to do that any way. >> democrats have been hoping to restore funding for medical research and education. the pressure is on patty murray and republican congressman paul ryan to finalize a deal to fund the government beyond january 15th. a new push from democrats in recent days has been a $25 billion unemployment extension which is due to run sought december 28th. >> right now more than 1 million of americans are poses to lose a vital lifeline, a few days after christmas, if congress doesn't do something about it. >> unemployment benefits have been extended five times at a price tag of $226 billion and some conservatives argue more extensions are not acceptable. >> they are causing them to become a perpetual part of the unemployed in our economy and while it seems good, it does a disservi

capitol's off site mail facility in washington it was sent to roger wicker from mississippi's office. as they are coming. in this testing was at pa libertily sent-out letter was then sent to a lab we are just confirming in fact it was -- it was ricin. talking to me in my ear now on another breaking development. and that is that we have the new pictures with bill hemmer and this is a picture believed to be something they are looking at as a possible explosive device or at least the suspect explosive device that may have been one of the areas of explosion in the boston bombing. there on the spot shadow that bag, that area right there may have been a trash can. you can see that bag right there. they are looking closely at that apparently we're being told by authorities that is what we are getting from 7 news and authorities on the ground. that's whdh. two breaking stories now. that's the boston development. and, again, the ricin development is back here in washington, an envelope sent to senator roger wicker's office confirmed positive the poisonous ricin. we'll follow both of these. we'

and just now a few minutes ago in the hallway we spoke with roger wicker. he said a slight delay is okay. >> well, it may be necessary. yeah, in my mind, i'm satisfied that judge kavanaugh should be confirmed. but it may be necessary to give some people a comfort level. but, the leadership is deciding that right now. so i'm going to get a little more work done. >> and we're in a spot right now where we are hoping to intercept jeff flake a few floors beneath his office after that meeting with leadership. it's going to be interesting to ask him exactly what made him change his mind because first thing this morning flake put out a statement that said he was going to support the kavanaugh nomination. a few minutes later, i was in a group of reporters when chris coons, a democratic senator and a friend of jeff flake was shown that statement he was so upset with jeff flake was going to vote yes, he was almost moved to tears he was choked up. tried for 30 seconds to react to it and he couldn't. he said no comment and he walked await a minute coons is one of the on

a man who always does well is senator roger wicker. roger, he's been a great friend of mine from the beginning. and representative greg harper. thanks, greg. [applause] this is really an incredible time for our nation. we are respected again. we are respected again, like we haven't been respected in many, many decades. we have the best economy and our history. the stock market today just hit another record high. that is -- i think 103 times since i've been president that we've hit a new high. and hopefully next year at this time we will hit many more. but that's not a bad number, right? up to 103, and if i'm off just a little bit, like 102, it will be headlines. trump exaggerated. that's why i always say, i think. with republican congress, we got 4 million new jobs since election day and lifted 4 million americans off of food stamps. those are tremendous numbers. [applause] jobless claims are at a 50 year low, and the stock market as i just said is at an all-time high today. african-american, hispanic-american and asian american unempl

roger wickers is likely to lead the commerce committee and oklahoma's jim inhofe will chair the armed services. they're looking forward to getting to work. >> it's orientation day and we had a good meeting this morning with the leader. and we spoke about not only issues but personnel matters and leadership matters. >> reporter: one race still to be determined is the senate seat and the incumbent is here and republican rick scott is expected to travel here later today. scott hoping to be prepared if he is declared the winner. shep. >> shepard: mike emanual reporting. >>> there's a test to avoid a government shutdown. fox news senior producer reports. >> reporter: the house senate and president trump crafted bipartisan practices agreed to an interim problem to run everything else through december 7 but they could face the shutdown then. the flash point, president trump's demand for a border wall. >> we intend on having a full-fledged discussion on how to complete the mission of securing our border and we will have a big fight about it. >> reporter: border wall money falls in the purview

wicker of mississippi, marco rubio of florida and row blount of missouri. all voicing against the president along with every democrat. it is a strong bipartisan rebuke of president trump's plan. congress has overturned the national emergency declaration that would have provided funding for the president's proposed border wall. he asked the house for the house said no. then he declared a national emergency. now congress has said no again. but next, the promises he will veto. we have team fox coverage. john roberts reporting from the white house. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. mike? >> there were attempts by some senate republicans to cut a deal with the president to see if they could limit future national emergencies. sources say they were noter into where the president stood in some of these proposals offered to him. so here's why utah senator mitt romney was a no today. >> i'm voting in favor of the resolution. it's not about the balance of power. it's not about the president or border security. i support border security. i support the cons

still mississippi's senator roger wicker thinks the party can get to 50 votes by the end of the week. in that case, president pence would break the tie, when it comes for a vote sometimes before the break in august. senator wicker says he's optimistic because his colleagues are determined to get something done. mike emanuel live with more. what are we hearing from mitch mcconnell? >> he's saying they can't afford to delay any longer. he says they must deliver for the american people and he says he's fellow senators will have a chance to offer input. >> senators will have more opportunities to offer their thoughts as we work towards an agreement and every member will have an opportunity to engage in robust debate out here on the senate floor. if one thing is clear, it's this. obamacare is a direct assault on the middle class. a direct assault on the middle class. it's getting worse and we have to act to finally move beyond its failures. >> so the time line at this point, try to get a deal by friday and send it to the cbo to analyze over the fourth of july recess and in theory, senators

wicker and a judge as well. somebody sent all of this, and only the judge actually got the letter. the president and the judges were both -- i mean the president and the politicians were beth enter -- both intercepted. the prosecutors recommended a 25 year sentence. today, this man, who was charged with sending this poison letter, is in a court hearing in oxford, mississippi now, where they're about to have a change of plea agreement. we assume he is about to plead guilty to something. the 25 year prison sentence, we're not sure. >>> first, the parents of a 21-year-old girl say they were shocked to discover a worker at a fertility clinic they used is actually the biological father of their child. and now they're warning other families who use that clinic to check their children's dna. this image shows the work as a young man. and look at this photo. shows the girl when she was younger. decide for yourself where you see a re semblance. the girl's parents recently learned of the whole thing. they thought it would

republican senators kelly ayotte and roger wicker have been fighting cuts for those under age 62. a $6 billion cut after cost of living increases and the senators want it fixed. jean shaheen suggested a bill that would close corporate tax loopholes instead of going after military benefits. it's one of the ideas being floated and john cornyn says the issue should be addressed now. >> i don't have any doubt whatsoever if we were able to come up with an appropriate paid for and of substitute for this cut in military pensions, that it would pass like a hot knife through butter in the house of representatives when they reconvene. >> reporter: senator patty murray says including disabled retiree benefits in the cut was a mistake and she says it will get addressed after the bill is passed. >> mike emanuel, thank you. >>> breaks right now. the harvard university sophomore accused of making bomb threats to get out of taking his final exam is at this moment appearing in court. the feds say he faces up to five years in prison for this. investigators say he almost got away with it and would h

the mississippi senator roger wicker telling "the hill" newspaper, "cleveland is the last place republicans in tough races want to be," especially if there's going to be what he calls a brouhaha over the nominee. and senator john mccain apparently agrees. the 2008 presidential nominee says no thanks, not me. i'll be somewhere else. not at that convention. for the first time in years. house speaker paul ryan is pushing his colleagues the other way. he's like, show up. it's your party. you should be here. come to cleveland. cleveland is lovely in the middle of the summer -- oh, wait, that's not his argument. speaker ryan will be the convention chairman. so he'll have to oversee the whole thing. jeb bush says he won't be there either. let's bring in shelby holliday, video reporter for the "wall street journal." there are divisions all over this party, and now there's divisions over whether people inside the party sheen come to the party party. >> should even show up. there's a major conflict of interest here. on one hand you have speaker paul ryan saying this is our party, you've got to be her

senator roger wicker, a republican, asked the committee, the senate commerce committee, looking into this. we obtained a copy of the letter he's sending to the faa with questions on this. so this sort of throws a wrench into the whole progress or lack of progress that is being done right now. so wicker has said that the faa may have been notified about these sufficiencies as early as august 18. the stock is barely moving today. that seems to be something that people will be talking about with the stock, shep. >> shepard: we're still waiting for a report. >> yeah. that's right. so from indonesia where awaiting a report. we expected it to common. they're doing their investigation into the cause of the 737 max jet crash. we have not gotten it. we're told it may come this week. that is also playing into the delay for the software patch. boeing says we need all the information available to make sure that we covered every possible problem with the 737 max jet. i would add though that it's been five months since the first crash and presumably they've been working on that patch all the time,

>> harris: let's bring in more on this, roger wicker, good to see you on the program. thank you. >> glad to be here, thanks for having me. >> harris: you are watching history be made, the first woman in your state to ascend to where she is now, just a response first today. >> cindy hyde-smith has been a good senator, she was a great statewide official and a state legislator. i think mississippi knows her and they know she's going to be in the mainstream of conservative action here in the united states senate. it gets us to 53-47 which gives us a little cushion, a little leeway. all in all a good victory and glad to have the entire two year behind us. >> harris: no doubt in the last couple of weeks, it's been tough for her, tougher the stage, people of color in the state who felt like her comments were made were not inclusive of everybody, how do you see her going forward now? does she need to address that in any way? >> i think she probably will, let me just say, there's been a lot of mock outrage about this statement she made. there was nothing at all racial about it.

let's bring in roger wicker of mississippi. he's a member of the commerce committee and will be questioning mark zuckerberg tomorrow. great to have you, what will you ask? >> i haven't completely decided what i'm going to ask him. i am going to read the testimony, i'm glad to know it's already out. i just hope it's not a bunch of lecturing. this is a fact-finding hearing and so i am hoping we are able to find out what violations of the law took place, did it violate other privacy laws, where the regulations complied with and also the internal procedures and regulations put in place internally by facebook. we'd like to know his take on whether new rules need to come down or whether they simply -- the ones that already exist are sufficient as long as they are abided by. >> harris: i would ask him, what do you mean when you say you're going to take blame for russian manipulation of your facebook platform? what did you do that allowed the russians and? i would also ask what is the penalty going to look like for the future? i am goi

. >> but he's right now filed to run against in a primary senator roger wicker, a conservative senator from mississippi and doing a great job what he said after the retirement of thad cochran, if this is an easier race for me, i may switch. i may get in against somebody else that the governor would appoint. the problem is, the race is a run-off. if you have two or three republicans in there to split the republican vote against somebody like mike espy who will unify a democratic vote, i'll be darn how to lose a state like mississippi. >> that's an interesting point. >> to the larger question of what is going on, i was taking to brewster kell who said the power of personalities on both sides. you have bernie sanders and president trump out there as really unlikely characters to lead their party and to have that much support behind them. it shows you again that you can't run against something successfully. there has to be a dynamic person in front. perhaps less so in the local races where there's a few choices and you're talking about battling back against the larger scene. in terms of de

so i want to thank roger wicker, representative diane black, kevin brady, what a warrior. kevin, come on. stand up. mike kelly, my friend and jason smith, our great republican members of congress work night and day to score this landmark victory. this really was a landmark victory for their constituents but much more importantly for the country. unfortunately, every single democrat in the house and senate, every single one voted against lower taxes for the hardworking americans. and you see what's happening. it turned out to be something very special. the tax cuts and jobs act/income taxes all across the board. we nearly doubled the standard to deduction and the child tax credit which ivanka wanted very much. stand up, ivanka. he's got a bigger hand than the politicians, you'd better be careful. that means you're all in troubl trouble. the typical family of four earning $75,000 will see an income tax cut of more than $2,000 and in some cases more. slashing their tax bill in half. we cut tax bills for businesses of all sizes to make this the best place on earth to start a b

sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and roger wicker, republican of mississippi. we have seen this. and now the vice president -- who is the president of the senate, as we know -- is going to wrap up saying a ceremony or traditional process at this point. we may or may not get back in if there is something for us to see and hear. right now they are just kind of doing some housekeeping things. >> melissa: which is fun to watch! >> harris: i love watching it, i'm a geek. i can't force my geek hood on the world here. the producers are saying to wrap it up. >> leslie: they might do a mic check! >> harris: the house leadership vote is next. when we come back, we watch a parade this is democracy. we hired these people, people. >> mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. if you're a veteran homeowner and need money for your family, call newday usa. a newday va home loan lets you refinance your home and take out 54,000 dollars or more to pay credit card debt, or just put money in the bank. it even lowers your payments by over 600 dollars a month. as a veteran, you've earned the powerful va home

senator roger wicker said, this quote: i don't think that sort of speech is helpful. i disagree with those quotes. i don't see any need to further stir that pot, end quote. senator jim inhofe saying of flake who is not seeking re-election, i think we all knew that. he hates him. he doesn't like the president. and it gets closer to the end of his time here, i think he is going to accelerate his rath against thwrath againstthe president. end quote. the white house had this. >> he is not criticizing the president because he is against oppression. he is criticizing the president because he has terrible poll numbers. and he is, i think, looking for some attention. i think it's unfortunate. >> harris: well, i guess you can get attention by lambasting the president when you vote with him 92% of the time. >> yeah, look, i don't think that what jeff flake is doing is primarily about attention. i think he does have these concerns. i have talked to him about it i think he does have these concerns. i think some of his concerns are legitimate. i wouldn't suggest that the president

however, what critics are saying when it comes to biden and this isn't just roger wicker who's of course a republican come about you having tim kaine the democratic senator saying when you take any kind of armed effort and troop movement off the table, then what are we talking about here, it doesn't really speak to the power that we might have. again, we are trying to avoid a hot war, but strategically ukraine truly is important. howard: molly, this is a national view jim garrity what he called a word of praise for president biden. tucker carlson as we just heard it said some conservatives here and elsewhere are trying to push biden into a senseless war with russia. when you say some people have not thought it through do you think they really want this military action or is it just sort of television bluster? >> does seem we in this country have had a portion of our foreign policy establishment that seeks intervention and when we get out of one conflict they are looking for another. they should think through the consequences. one of the problems we had in the previous intervention is we

with me now, mississippi senator roger wicker who joins us from oxford. senator, thanks for being with us. >> glad to be with you, judge, thank you. >> senator, at what point does this administration totally loss its credibility? >> that may have already passed and by the way, i think you are a little tough on your mom. she might actually do a pretty good job there so. i don't know her but i look forward to meeting her. >> judge jeanine: i was going to say mom i mean no insult when i say you could do a better job. thank you, senator. what we know is the president is saying he is going to let somebody go it was leaving anyway who wasn't there at the time this happened. and what he is going to do is have the person that was in charge run obamacare. what is going on? >> i tell you, the more we he have hearings and the more we bring officials in and about put them under oath and they realize what the consequences are of not telling the truth the more information we will get. we learned some things yesterday we didn't know. we learnd that mr. miller thinks the

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senator roger wicker and a local mississippi judge, said did i holland. in a court hearing hearing yesterday for dutschke an fbi agent testified a dust mask like a carpenter might use had his dna on it. they were watching dutschke when they saw him remove items from a martial arts studio he used to own. he watched him walk down the street and throw the items away in the trashcan. the dust mask was one of the those items there is proof that dutschke made three separate online purchases of castor beans. you can't make ricin without castor beans. you may remember elvis impersonator, paul kevin curtis was the first person charged with sending letters and he claimed he was framed. he fingered dutschke as someone who might have framed him. still no word on a motive, arthel. the local magistrate says there is enough probable cause to send the case to a grand jury. not clear when that will happen. meantime james dutschke sits in jail. arthel: bottom line, scary stuff. rick, thank you very much. jon: well, the video doesn't lie and reese witherspoon is apologizing

senator roger wicker of mississippi as well. and senator joni ernst of iowa says she hopes it comes up in the senate republican policy lunch. a good chance that somebody will ask the president about that. we're getting an indication that there could be repercussions as a result of the leak that told the world about kelly sadler's comments. it was interesting that in the early going people were only too happy to tell fox news what she said. sarah huckabee sanders, the press secretary, said that that leak should have never happened. now it seems that the white house retrenched and is not going anywhere near the distance of a public apology on that. the president tweeting out last night, the so-called leaks out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration put out by the fake news media in order to make us look as bad as possible. with that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards and we'll find out about who they are. there was about 30 people in the room for that meeting, a defined group of meeting from the press show. sa

wicker, steve scalise, kevin mccarthy, deb fisher, they have all signed on. 's donald trump, is the party establishment warming to donald trump? >> there is a process of coming together and it shouldn't be unexpected. i think trump handled the meeting well yesterday, the tone was exactly right, it was one of confidence, i am the presumptive nominee and we have work to do to bring the party together and that is exactly the right tone to hit. i appreciate joe's comments about 41 and 43 not attending the republican national convention but they didn't attend it in 2012 lose the last republican national convention george hw bush who is now 91 years old attended was in 2004. both parties are being disrupted this year. both parties are going to have difficulty uniting. both front runners, both presumptive nominees are taking steps yesterday to unite their parties. you saw it with trump making a visit to washington and letting people get to know him which is an important thing. you saw the democrats with hillary clinton adopting a bernie sanders provision basically u

wicker of mississippi in which send wicker said what are you going to price out? what is the price tag going to be on the president's proposal to avoid the sequestration in and elmendorf said we don't have a proposal from the president. wicker said i guess you can't figure out what a speech is going to cost, you have to have a proposal and the administration has yet to provide a proposal. this is a bad idea, but it was the president's bad idea. absent this bad idea, however, the question is are we going to make any progress on beginning to restore our fiscal balance? the president last night said, oh, we've already cut $2.5 billion out of future deficit -- excuse me $2.5 trillion out of future deficits puts us more than halfway to our goal ever $4 trillion in cuts. i've been talking today to budget experts on the hill and they say the real number is closer to 500 billion, lens one fifth of what the president said last night in his speech, that the real budget cuts, the real deficit reduction in the next ten years is one fifth of what the president was saying last

was dutschke actually threatening the live of the president and senator roger wicker and a judge in tupelo or this an a elaborate plot to set up somebody as part of a long running feud. his attorney, curtis's feud, look at this guy dutschke, he has a long running feud with our client and may be trying to frame him. that is the rode the fbi and u.s. attorney's office is going down. the complaint, affidavit against him has been sealed. we hope it will be unsealed today and we find out exactly what they have dutschke on. jenna: you have yourself a story, john. >> reporter: we do. jenna: we'll continue to watch the story. jon: a lot of twists and turns in that case. to the hot button issue of immigration reform. florida senator, marco rubio, one of the bipartisan "gang of eight" who crafted a overhaul off the legislation is opening a new page on the his website called, help us improve the bill. it invites not only lawmakers but ordinary citizens to make suggestions. more than a thousand have poured into this point with a big chunk taking a critical and mostly negative view. joining us now, byr

he is accused of sending poisoned letters to president obama and mississippi senator roger wicker. rick folbaum live in the newsroom with more on that. >> reporter: well, jon, this is a bit of a surprise. today was supposed to be day three of pretrial court hearings. instead we've just learned that today's hearing has been canceled and, instead, a news conference has been scheduled for later on today. we're trying to find out exactly what's going on, why the switch. curtis, as you mentioned, the mississippi-based elvis impersonator who prosecutors are saying sent letters lace with the the poison ricin to the president, wicker and a local judge. no one was hurt. so far there's been absolutely no physical evidence linking him to the crime though. no poison in the his home, no incriminating internet searches on his home computer, and his defense lawyer says that cu disis -- curtis is being set up, possibly by an old business associate. apparently, investigators zeroing in on curtis who's 45 years old based in part on his initials. the letters that were sent all contained the line i'm

wicker. jon roberts has that story live from oxford, mississippi. john. >> reporter: good morning to you. we do know that kevin curtis is in jail at the lafayette county jail in oxford, mississippi. he is probably going to have a first appearance in federal court next door some time in afternoon. he can potential ale lee face very serious charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction, terrorism charges, as well as an attempt to commit murder for allegedly sending three letters one to senator wicker, one to president obama and another one to a district court judge in tupelo, mississippi, sadie holland. that was the first letter to be received on april the 10th. haoerp is what we know about this fella. he lives near the border of tennessee. ef is a part-time musician, an elvis i impersonator by trade and seems to sur scribe to various broad spreur theories when it comes to trafficking in body parts. this whole story may go all the way back to city 99 when he was working as a maintenance

senator roger wicker of mississippi. another u.s. senator also the target of a suspected letter although it has not been confirmed that second senate letter contained ricin. continuing our discussion with former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., john bolton. ambassador bolton, there have been concerns over the years, you know, that some of these states that don't necessarily see eye-to-eye with the united states, countries like iran and or north korea, might try some of these relatively crude methods to sow the seeds of disruption in this country to cause chaos and panic. do you see any indications this kind of thing is happening in this case? >> i don't think we have any evidence of that here but for many, many years, biological and chemical warfare has been called the poor man's nuclear weapon. it's not nearly as expensive to put together these programs. there are more states that have chemical or biological weapons perhaps than have nuclear programs. of course the risk is the perfect storm, putting one of these weapons of mass destruct

senator roger wicker. roger! [cheers and applause] thank you, roger. great job. and a man that did so well recently, it will go down for a long time, you will be seeing those words, they were beautiful words and they were needed very desperately at that time. brett kavanaugh was being treated very unfairly, very, very unfairly, and lindsey graham got up -- [cheers and applause] and he hit a chord that you hit very rarely in the world of politics or anything else, he said things that were said not only so well, the meaning of what he said really changed the course of that event and now we have a great, great supreme court justice, brett kavanaugh. lindsey graham. lindsay, thank you lindsay. thank you. thank you, lindsay. he really did, that was very special. we are all here tonight to support an amazing leader and a tremendous champion for this great state, a woman -- >> sean: of the president goes through his introductions, and i assume that he will next be introducing cindy hyde-smith, we go really quickly -- we will get back to that in a second as he gets back

senator roger wicker. [applause] thanks, roger. thank you, roger. and somebody i'm calling up, believe it or not she just ran with me. she just won and she said i have to do it again. she's running in 2020. cindy hyde-smith is incredible. she's tough, and smart and strong. she is with us the way. >> is this guy incredible, or what? he has got -- we have got a president we can be proud of. and let me tell you something, this tuesday, mississippi can send a message to the entire nation. we can let the liberal democrats with their socialist agenda no it may be alive and well in the heart of nancy pelosi but it is dead in mississippi. we can let them know, we don't want open illegal borders for drug smugglers to come through them. we can let them know that, to kill an unborn baby is not a human right, it is a human life. this is a great crowd tonight. next tuesday let's go out and vote. let's support our governor tate reeves and let's support these mississippi republican candidates. go out and vote and let's show the president how much we appreciate him

now to the ricin letters sent to president obama and senator roger wicker. the mississippi man last night making his first court appearance. paul curtis facing charges, threatening the president and others. his lawyer says curtis denies sending the tainted letters. and senator ricker saw him working as an elvis impersonator at a party he had thrown. stay with us for a second live rain shower of "on the record." we'll be right back. c-max two. that's a super fuel- efficient hybrid for me. and a long range plug-in hybrid for you. now, let's review. introducing the ford c-max hybrid and the ford c-max energi plug-in hybrid. say hi to the c-max hybrids. ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. everybody has different ideas, goals, appetite for ri

the other senate race we have chris mcdaniel challenging roger wicker. what i would love to see is we are not going to have a messy primary. i'm going to appoint daniel to cochran's seat and avoid what we saw in alabama, a very messy fight between conservatives and establishment. - would be my hope but based on some reports, chris mcdaniels is on the list as the potential replacement. i was a smooth run, let's not have a messy primary, give democrats another alabama. >> to keep another boy more situation out of this. thank you for your time. 19 minutes after the hour. refusing to give her own deputies rifle resistant vests. putting illegal immigrants ahead of her own department. >> what i got the invitation i couldn't resist. >> did somebody say resist? jillian: moving her way onto the runway, nancy pelosi's big debut. ♪ so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com". who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com bp is taking safety to new heights. using drones and robots off

. >> west one of those where roger wicker should win that overwhelmingly. another state where donald trump did really well. the democrats had to put a good candidate even though runoff was tomorrow. rob: we skipped south carolina. rob: i missed south carolina. >> donald trump endorsing henry mcmaster and folks were nervous because he didn't get the majority of the vote, wound up being a runoff but he has the ultimate republican endorsement today and the president henry mcmaster down at south carolina, he will dominate media coverage. jillian: lots to look out for, thank you so much for joining us. rob: 18 minutes after the hour, terror threats reaching fever pitch in the uk right ahead of visit from president trump, high-tech security measures that are being put in place to keep the president safe. jillian: maybe you can handle the truth but can you afford it, how much "the new york times" says you're willing to shell out for this t-shirt, we will be right back. jillian: good morning to you, welcome to "fox & friends first". restaurant owner who kicked sara

the systems will be installed by february according to mississippi senator roger wicker who served on the armed services committee so any t 45s lacking those modifications are being grounded, the navy developing a new backup oxygen system that will be installed in the future. t 45 crash in october killed an instructor and a student pilot but it is not known if oxygen deprivation played any role in that incident and while the navy has unaccompanied to review the overall problem has yet to be nailed down. the air force is seen similar issues in their f 35 and t6 trainers and donald trump's $700 billion military spending plan has several provisions to try to get a better handle on this problem including up to $10 million prize for anyone who can get to the bottom of this cause. >> you have covered the story since it began, you were an instructor in a t 45, refused to fly last april. why is the navy just now figuring this out. >> a t 45 instructor pilot refused to fly because of the problem, they went on strike. i went and spoke with the navy's number 2 admiral about this issue and why it