shannon bream, take it from here, shannon. >> shannon: i would never tell you guys because raymond is super entertaining and willing to do anything. >> laura: he falls off of the stage. he does shoulder massages and he's a renaissance man. >> shannon: these are g rated massages, this is all good stuff come aboveboard. >> i'm coming over in the break. >> shannon: raymond, we could use massages. the fox news alert, president trump heading to the southern border as he wants mexico's stop the drug trafficking or faced tariffs on cars coming into the u.s. a live report coming up. breaking tonight, chicago officials say they will sue empire actor jussie smollett for refusing to pay the cost of the investigation into his alleged hate crime hoax. wyatt means bigger trouble now being for the battle director. plus, 202 2020 town hall with a contender potentially howard schultz the starbucks invited h. the future of the democratic party and his views on the border controversy. hello, welcome to "fox news @ night," shannon bream in washington. we begin with chief national correspondent ed henry a

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shannon. >> shannon: trace gallagher, thank you very much. the women going public with stories about the former vice president's touchiness are posing a new set of questions to the #metoo movement in the democratic party. correspondent doug mckelway has that report. >> if you had accused senator joe biden at years ago of being creepy, hands or violating one little stomach women's personal statements he would've been left away. as the sponsor for the violence against women act he was arguing without the senate. championing women's causes. in 20 years later, presidential candidate obama cited that in a campaign at directed to women voters. >> i was always for obama but when he added joe biden to the ticket, it's sweetened the deal because he's an advocate for women. >> former speaker of the house tip o'neill once said that all politics is local. nothing get works so much more local than a hearty handshake, a hug or kiss with the possible exception of president lyndon johnson who routinely violated personal space to win over people. joe biden pe

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shannon bream and "fox news @ night w/shannon bream" takes it away. >> shannon: some of the best stuff is in there. we'll check it out. >> laura: i know. thanks. >> shannon: tonight, a second woman accusing former vice president joe biden of inappropriate physical contact. it follows friday's allegations by a nevada democratic politician, claiming his touching left her confused, shocked, and embarrassed. biden saying he never intended to make anyone uncomfortable. but different standards than democrats in the past. what does the party do now. and will the claims keep biden out of the 2020 race? several 2020 democrats are preparing to hitch themselves to a critical voting bloc the party says they must reenergize if they want to beat president trump. outreach african-american voters by contenders ring through. democrats say it's subpoena time claiming the attorney general can't be trusted and it's time to release every bit of the mueller report. at least one of the loudest voices the same person who insisted the starr report not be released because it would be unfair to president bill cl

shannon? >> shannon: ellison barber, thank you very much. what mueller's investigation of the partisan posturing that is followed were sent russian interference as kushner claimed? let's turn to nelson cunningham and former cia station chief dan hoffman. good to have you here. dan, but about the idea that this was russia's plan all along? that they simply wanted to cause chaos and division? you've got both sides of the aisle at each other's throats. in some way, did they -- we know that there were attempts to directly influence the election, but have they done so, at least this way? >> make no mistake, as the mueller report correctly notes, there was a sweeping and systemic make interference from russia to degrade our democratic process. but it was our self affected partisan wounds afterwards, it is of putin injected a virus into our political process and there was some woeful carriers of that virus, including my old boss, john brennan. he speculated wildly and made unfounded claims about the president and all that i did was drive up the tem

shannon? >> shannon: peter doocy, thank you very much. president trump says congress is being made in his administration's were on opioids while acknowledging that the epidemic will not be solved overnight. >> as a result of our historic economic boom also, we are lifting up all americans from all walks of life, including those who have endured the pain of addiction. we are stopping the drug companies and foreign countries from rigging the system. i know all about working the system because i had the system rigged on me. >> shannon: president trump has declared a national health emergency. opioid abuse claiming nearly 38,000 american lives in 2017. measles cases in the u.s. are at their highest level since 1999. new york city health officials have reported 61 new cases since they last week. experts attribute the measles were surgeons to what are calling this information they see us turning vaccines. eight 2020 democrats peeking out at that she the people forum making promises and some pushing a socialist agenda. >> when your ears are stuf

shannon bream and the fox news at 19 take it from here. >> shannon: welcome back. i hope you had a wonderful easter vacation. >> laura: thank you. >> shannon: we begin tonight with fox news alert. breaking terrorism stories we are following. in california, a terror plot with mass destruction is the end goal. everything you need to know about the plot to bomb the santa monica pure and more. the first alleged appearance of isis leader al-baghdadi and about five years. the near times slammed for another caricature of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today after issuing two different apology statements for its anti-semitic cartoons in an earlier paper. there is a new twist tonight. brit hume weighs in on the rise of anti-semitism next. we will take you to pittsburgh. former vice president joe biden thinks he can turn the state back to blue as he spars with president trump over his first major endorsement. we've got the very latest. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. we've got fox news team coverage night, benjamin hall st

shannon: thank you very much. after getting peppered with questions about releasing donald trump's tax returns for 3 hours treasury secretary steve mnuchin and house financial services chair maxine waters got into a heated exchange over his desire to leave for a meeting set up for officials. >> this is a new way, a new day, a new chair and i have the gavel at this point. if you wish to read you may. >> republicans did not treat the secretary treasury this way. you are supposed to take the gavel and baying it. >> do not instruct me in how to conduct this committee. shannon: is the deadline, the house ways and means committee chairman said, for the irs to turn over the past 6 years of donald trump's tax returns? this is a fox news alert. despite the prognosticators predicting otherwise at a potential indictment, one of donald trump's closest allies is hanging tough in a reelection fight in israel. let's go to jonathan and watching the vote counted nearly mourning in jerusalem. >> in the head to head battle between b

miss shannon. >> shannon: thank you very much. we begin with but the alert. in just a few short hours, america will get some answers straight from robert mueller. what we know, will we don't know at this hour. breaking news about the special counsel's redact report. coverage min devin nunes is her life. will he be among the small group of lawmakers to get a look at a special less redacted version? we've got questions from coming up. democratic presidential hopeful andrew yang is here. he says every american 18 and older should get a thousand bucks a month from the government. how was he going to pay for? brand-new fox news poll says the economy as a top issue for voters so we will ask him about that. and breaking tonight, north korea defiantly test firing the weapon the first tim time. since talks stalled with kim jong un. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. we begin tonight with corresponding kristin fisher as we wait the redacted version of my large report. hours away. good evening, kristen. >> good evening. democrats

shannon. >> shannon: we remember. trace, thank you very much. california banning travel to south carolina and select western longer. having her becerra adding south carolina as the tenth state public employees and college students are not allowed to take tax dollar-funded trips to because of what he says are the state's discriminatory policies. protect the autonomy of faith-based organization. if four people found dead that a proper management company in north dakota including the owner of the company. if police have not released any suspect names are the causes of death but said the general public is not in danger. the state of hawaii buying more than $77,000 worth of upgraded rifles for hawaii law enforcement. only to throw them into storage. a decades-old loss prevents hawaii officers from using any rifle but a cult ar-15. an aging african elephant unable to get up on her own after falling on her side at a colorado zoo. it took 20 workers, including some from the fire department and local rescue teams along with a crane to get her back up on

shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it from here. >> shannon: such a beautiful reminder that it isn't about the building itself. it's about the body. thank you. i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin with fox news alert. notre dame's main structure, including the iconic towers, we are told that it is safe. firefighters working nonstop, finally getting the massive blaze under control. were going to take you live to paris in a minute for all the latest detail on what happened and what's become of the irreplaceable artifacts and sacred treasures housed inside the cathedral. and it's a date. thursday, a redacted version of special because robert mueller's report will head to congress and the public. what can you expect? we are going to dr. former independent counsel kenneth starr and former watergate prosecutor jon sale. we will take you to pennsylvania and give you the fireworks from tonight's town hall. as we continue to get more details about what happened and what what comes next in paris, let's bring in sohrab ahmari, consulting editor for the harold and father murra

that is all we have today, shannon bream new "fox news @ night" shannon. >> shannon: i will listen to a depth of the show, laura's first i have a lot of stuff to tell people, thank you. we begin with a fox news alert, the complicated web of what really happened 2016 presidential campaign. they are rest of leader julian assange leads to more answers. we are digging in. and comey had no idea what attorney general william barr means when he says buying into the trump campaign did happen. federal prosecutor andrew mccarthy to weigh in. also tonight, lawmakers sticking together defending congresswoman ilhan omar in the midst of a controversy this time over the word she used. described september 11 terrorist attacks and critics calling it racist. the attacks on her hello welcome to "fox news @ night," shannon bream m, team coverage on julian assange, catherine herridge and the mueller probe but we begin with kristin fisher on the dramatic arrest -- >> it was quite dramatic and the big question will julian assange come excuse may be extradited to the united states? that hearing set for may 2

know it, shannon. >> shannon: don't try to full lust. thank you welcome to fox news at "fox news @ night." we are celebrating fact from fiction on this long-awaited mueller report. the president says no collusion, democrats say it's not game over yet. the president's lawyer jay sekulow is here. plus expert legal and political analysis you will not find anywhere else. kai benson, pam bondi, and guide to paris. first, fox team coverage, featuring into the 2020 campaign trail. kristin fisher at the white house with late-breaking reaction, and she intelligence correspond to catherine herridge with what's in the report and what's not. let's start with one of the big headlines of the day. the president quoted in the report, he said at one point, this is the end of my presidency. what was that all about? >> that was an episode in may of 2017 and robert mueller had just been appointed and attorney general jeff sessions was delivering the news and that was the response from the president. in effect, this is the end of my presidency. anyone who ha

shannon, they have a little bit of time. >> shannon: not much. >> a few days. >> shannon: emergency appeals happened very quickly so we'll see if that's the plan. thank you. as these changes by outcome of the federal judge striking a blow to the administration's newest laws, let's discuss it all with francisco hernandez a natural border patrol vice president ardell cueto. glad to have you with those. >> thank you. >> shannon: i want to read a little bit from the judges ruling, out of san francisco within the ninth circuit. he grants a preliminary injunction, you can't be sending people back to mexico while they wait for asylum. he said the issue of the case is not whether it would be permissible for congress dr. mike authorize dhs to return alien to mexico as to their admissibility. francisco, he saying congress as a job to do. even if we are saying the administration hasn't gone about the right way, this could be done legislatively, as a lot of things congress could be doing. >> we've been at this for almost 19 years. if at first you don't succeed, keep trying, keep trying, keep trying. gu

shannon. >> shannon: david spunt, thank you very much. federal judge washington state blocking new pro life policy the trump administration that would strip federal funding from any family planning organization that also performs abortion or refers patient to abortion providers. judge stanley peskin and obama obama appointee blocked the policy not only in the jurisdiction he presides over but for the entire country. new text messages from peter strzok with new questions about fbi plans to gather intel on president-elect trump and his team hear the president said they were to infiltrate the white house. scott keller and jason joins us next to break it all down. liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh... yeah, i've been a customer for years. huh... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i switched. we switched. i switched to chevy. i switched to chevy. we switched to chevy. we switched for value. for family. for power. it was time to upgrade.

shannon: thank you so much. we just had a brand-new statement from the new york times talking about the two cartoons we've been discussing. the cartoon that ran in the international print edition of the times last thursday was clearly anti-semitic and indefensible and we apologize for its publication. there has been a second one, we don't think the second cartoon falls into that category. for now we decided to suspend the future publication of syndicated cartoon, also an image of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu but for now suspending the syndicated cartoon at the new york times, so much breaking news, more ahead, a brand-new lawsuit filed by the president and sweeping changes to the assignment rules, we will touch on those and tell you what is breaking, democrats of the attorney general playing a game of chicken and nancy pelosi speaking out. kenneth starr and harry litman join us with all the legal implications. hottest taqueria? and the hottest...what are those? oh, pierogis? and this is the aver

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up next, shannon bream and the fox news at night team take it from here. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream in washington, this is a fox news alert. breaking tonight, a brand new ruling out of the ninth circuit, on a key porpgs of the president's immigration policy. as the president says he's strongly considering transporting illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities and states. stick around, analysis from the u.s. tern who worked along the border in texas and the power plan. panel. and standing by for the mueller report, as they try to get to it congress next week. democrats say he's lost credibility, just doing the president's bidding. will they be saying the same thing when they see the report he delivers? and later, amid peace talks, the taliban announce as spring offensive in afghanistan, what now? veteran johnny jones served on the front lines, joins us live. first, fox news team coverage on the immigration front, leland witters from the ninth circuit, and we start with jess paul in california where name rouse sanctuary cities are placed. good evening. >> good evening. officials within t

shannon? >> shannon: thank you so much. the mueller report sharing new light into the case against our next guest. former trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, author of deep state target, how i got caught in the crosshairs to bring down president trump. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, shannon. >> shannon: i want to take people through this. back in april of 2016 you were approached by a professor, where he's described as -- he had a conversation with you, a suggestion about the fact, i heard the russians may have some emails or something on hillary clinton. a month later you have outreach from an australian diplomat who also brings this up with you. you think he's recording the conversation. it seems odd. september of that same year, a professor, also apparently an f.b.i. informant, he wants to have a conversation with you, you think he may be having recordings, you've talked with the mueller team about all of these things, was there any attempt to kind of link the threads togethe

shannon bream, take it from here. shannon: we begin with a fox news alert. in a few hours america will get answers from robert mueller. what we know, what we don't know about the special counsel's rejected report. kevin nunez will be here. will he be among the lawmakers who gets a look at a less rejected version? andrew yang is live too. he says every american should get $1000 a month from the government but how do we pay for it? the economy is a top issue for voters so we will ask about that. north korea defiantly test firing a new weapon for the first time, denuclearization talks fall with kim jong un. we begin tonight with kristin fisher as we await the rejected version of mueller's report just hours away. >> reporter: democrats are furious about how the timeline will play out tomorrow morning. congress will not get a copy of the report until two hours after the attorney general hold his press conference at 9:30 a.m.. the chairman of the judiciary committee held a press conference tonight accusing bill bar of taking, quote, unprecedented steps to spin the

shannon bream, take it from here. shannon: i will never kill you guys, raymond is super entertaining and he will do whatever he needs to do. >> he does shoulder massages. it is a renaissance. >> these are g rated massagees. we begin with a fox news alert, donald trump is heading to the southern border as he warns mexico stop the drug trafficking or face tariffs on cars coming into the us. breaking tonight, chicago officials say they will sue jussie smollett for refusing to pay the cost of the investigation into the alleged hate crime, it means bigger trouble for the embattled actor. fox news heating up its 2020 townhall with howard schultz, healthcare, the future of the democratic party and his views on the border controversy. i am shannon bream, ed henry, the president heads to the southern border. shutting the southern border down soon is still an option saying he will not guarantee the border is staying open for a year, putting tariffs on mexican cars as a stick and if that doesn't work all bets are off. the presid

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shannon: thank you. dramatic video from middle east where jonathan hunt is monitoring the shaky cease-fire in gaza. >> we travel to the border today expecting as many others did that with israel and the hamas leadership in gaza actively negotiating a cease-fire agreement, it might be a quiet day. it did not turn out that way. what started out as a relatively calm day on the israeli gaza border suddenly burst into violence. a group of palestinian protesters looked at the fence between israel and gaza, attempted to approach that fence. what they do is set tires on fire. that dark smoke comes from one of those tires. and up skewers the view to the israeli defense forces sitting on this side of the fence and the protesters used that opportunity to approach the fence. in this instance a group of from trying to bridge the fence. the israeli army rules of engagement dictate at that point they are able to fire live rounds that those protesters. that is exactly what happened today. burst after burst of live fire

i'm shannon bream in washington. julian assange, captain harris looking into the connection with the mueller probe but we begin with kristin fisher on the dramatic arrest. >> it was quite dramatic and the question is will julian assange be extradited to the united states. that hearing is set for may 2nd. he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in england, was finally evicted for violating the conditions of his asylum. 4 hours later the us government charged him with conspiracy for his role in the chelsea manning hack. 's attorneys say it sets a dangerous precedent for journalists all over the world. >> this means any journalist can be extradited for prosecution for having published truthful information about the united states. >> the justice department argues he went beyond being a journalist by assuming a more active role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in us history. according to the indictment he agreed to cracking of passwords stored on united states department of defense computer

shannon: thank you. today the supreme court will hear arguments whether the trump administration is allowed to include a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire. democratic states claim if noncitizens are not included they could lose out on federal funding. former justice department joins us on why this ruling is so crucial. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. what is at stake here? >> getting accurate data on the population of the us. what the trump administration announced was they were reinstating a citizenship question on the u.s. census and obviously we need that kind of data for everything from redistricting to the distribution of federal funds in a lot of big programs. shannon: why would people not want to include the citizenship question. seems like it would be a given. >> the people challenging this are fearful of frankly getting accurate data on the number of noncitizens in the country and they believe they will somehow get shorted in federal funds and programs that are on

shannon? >> shannon: trace gallagher in l.a. you heard it. 2020 contender bee toe o'rourke comparing the president to nazi germany. former acting ice director fox news contributors. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> so 2020 contender, another one, julian castro agrees with beto o'rourkes, from what he said, this is what he added to that. >> it's very clear that we have a president who's determined to do -- dehumanize people, to create a fear and paranoia about them in order to boost his own political positions. >> that is what he said was one of the strategies the nazis employed. he needs to study what i.c.e. does. in fact, there's a division that's dedicated to the investigation, the apprehension, the removal of war criminals. we remove many nazi war criminals over the past few years and we removed hundreds of who are wanted in their home country for atrocious crimes, human rights violators. we do a lot of work. so you ought to study what i.c.e. does before he says things that are so insulting to the men and women who put t

hey, this is shannon. >> but shannon did it. >> i've been waking up having panic attacks. i can't deal with this. i want to know what happened. can you tell me anything? >> yeah. the only thing, you know, that i know is that a lot of stuff was stolen from the house. >> okay. >> ralph stuck to his story. a deadly home invasion. >> and then i found her. >> yeah. >> and that's, you know -- >> yeah. >> i tried to deal with that. >> shannon pressed ralph for details. >> the one guy that hit me that i saw from the front was taller than me. >> okay. >> and he had a dark complexion. you know, he had marks on his face. >> and then something that didn't sound quite right. >> and i don't know. and that's -- and it felt like a split second. >> a split second? remember, in his letter, ralph said his cap tors held him and abused him for nearly two days. >> in my mind, if you're not going to tell me what happened, and you're going to dance around the issue and tell me different stories, what are you hiding? >> investigators wondering the same thing, tried to find answers in the evidence.

shannon bream, take it from here. shannon: i hate making people clap for me. it happens to all of us, thank you. we begin with a fox news alert, dean and growing for investigation into the investigators as two top players and the origins of the russia probe speak out for the first time since mueller's rejected version went public, when claiming the investigation into russian interference was worse than the interference itself. the issue pushing top 2020 democrats further to the left, giving incarcerated felons including murderers and terrorists the right to vote. an officer shot by the boston marathon bomber response to bernie sanders on that. the brothers implicated in jussie smollett's alleged fake a crime suing jussie smollett's lawyer and jussie smollett directed every aspect of the alleged attack. will be forth all the evidence they gathered in public? i am shannon bream in washington. a brand-new interview with donald trump as he tells the washington post he opposes white house aides who have given hours of testimony in a special counsel probe being forc

shannon: peter buttigieg. a lot of the media in love with him, described him as chicken soup for my soul. you said they want to consume him. >> the whole thing. buttigieg doesn't judge. there was a former flak for jeb bush on another channel going on about pete buttigieg's chicken soup for my soul. it was so nauseating i couldn't resist responding by saying what i did. the sucking up, the finding is so disgusting. francisco rourke - >> beto has this week where everyone worships beto, and then pete buttigieg shows up and all of a sudden beto who? both of them are substance free characters. whoever gets the nomination will be one tough human being. these guys ready for it? i have no idea but watching the media suck up to politicians turns my stomach. shannon: you call it like you see it. come back again soon at 8:00 every day. this is a fox news alert, north korea leader kim jong un and russia president leonard putin holding their first meeting today two month after donald trump's meeting with a hermit kingdom e

shannon, take it from here. shannon: we begin with a fox news alert. democrats upping the ante, another subpoena and facing tough questions about their seeming unwillingness to investigate the steel dossier which the new york times says is full of false claims fronted by hillary clinton and the dnc. the first primary, bernie surging in the polls and says even the boston marathon bomber should get the vote from jail. we wait to see if joe biden makes it official this week, we talked when accuser who says the conversation she tried to start could be derailed. and christians attack on the holiest day in sri lanka by radical muslims and multiple reports government officials new of the potential for the terror attack weeks ago. some in power still unwilling to connect the attacks to their christian faith in. i am shannon bream in washington. let's go to allison barber who has more on the growing criticism of the steel dossier in the week of the report and democrats going for impeachment. we monitor what happened after a conference call. 172 democratic lawma

shannon: thank you. the trump campaign issuing a post mueller warning to obama era doj and fbi officials as 2020 democrats a their calls for mueller to testify and other things as well. we look at how this for years in. >> reporter: no sooner had the mueller a port appeared than the trump campaign rolled out the theme of turning the tables on the democrats including a video reminder of what prominent democrats had been insisting for two years. watch. >> evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> cold, hard evidence, plenty of evidence of collusion and conspiracy in plane site. >> now the trump campaign wants to investigate the liars meaning obama era doj and fbi or as donald trump tweeted today the greatest political hoax of all time. crimes were committed by quick and dirty cops and the dnc, the democrats. attorney general william barr has said publicly he believes the trump campaign was spied on. he doesn't know if it was legal or illegal but wants

shannon: fantastic. have a great show. shannon: we begin with a fox news alert. bombshell from attorney general william barr, the government did spy on the trump campaign, democrats say the attorney general has gone off the rails and the president says he is confident the ag will get to the bottom of what happened. stick around with tray gouty, brit hume and ted cruz, analysis you will only get here. talk coverage tonight, and henry has breaking news on democrats demand for donald trump's tax returns and analyze the media frenzy around the spying charges. we start with kristin fisher with today's revelations from the attorney general that the trump campaign was targeted. >> the attorney general stunning lawmakers by saying he believes the fbi spied on donald trump's campaign. is the moment everyone is talking about. >> i have been spying on a political campaign is a big deal. >> you are not suggesting spying occurred? >> spying did occur. i think spying that occur. >> when asked what evidence he had to back up such a claim, bill barr wouldn't say. >> there is a b

shannon bream and the fox news team now. shannon: we begin with a fox news alert as the gloves are off is a growing list of democratic candidates fight to capture the nomination. the newest one, joe biden, fielding attacks from the left, the right, inside and outside his party and donald trump doubling down on claims the fbi was trying to infiltrate the white house. mike pence is demanding an investigation of her newly uncovered text messages between lisa paige and peter stzrok. george papadopoulos is here live, we learned from the mueller report, he is connecting the dots over potential setup. team coverage tonight, trace gallagher looking into the booming economy and how democrats plan to run against it. new signs the democratic primary could turn really nasty really quickly. >> reporter: a new candidate every day. there are as many democratic candidates for president as there are players on an nhl team. this is training camp and every man and woman must fight for a roster spot in the primary battle. if you want to know ah

shannon: thank you so much. after reports that joe biden would announce his 2020 intentions they a woman's much warming the former vice president that announcing the same day as the sheet of people for would be bad optics, joe biden, not a good idea to upstage the first woman of color forum in houston and announced you are running. there are 6 other days in the week. d joining us, leslie marshall and lauren stone, welcome to all of you. there are so many topics but i want to start with this proclamation. you heard senator booker say if i get the nomination i will have a woman on the ticket. and democratic congressman alsot running tweets this out, spoiler alert. i'm a white man. i can't speak to someone else's experience, and to serve as vp. a lot of thoughts on this. i wonder what yours are. >> it is great that it is no longer remarkable to have women running in front runner positions for the position of president of the united states. that is a good thing. for these white male candidates who keep throwing out

shannon: you mentioned a the actions. he mentioned yesterday as he is working on these reductions he's working with the mueller team in doing that. >> that is important. he needs to make sure he is accurately representing the information in the report and respecting the information and ensuring he causes no legal collateral damage and damage to the intelligence sources and methods. shannon: when it does come out it will be a color-coded system in terms of the reductions but i want to move on to investing the invest investigating the investigators which he talked about and said he would be doing and the inspector general is doing this as well, has been doing it. his report according to the ag out in may or june, that was new information as well. what do you think his investigation will include? >> it is important to assure the public the investigation that took place was done in accordance with the law. there is no reason we shouldn't have that oversight of those conducting the fisa and other investigations. that is an imp

listen, shannon bream, fox news at night team. shannon: my worst grade in college, the only see that i got was philosophy. maybe i need to listen to your podcast. i might learn something. that classroom and my gpa. look at me now. been in shambles ever since. shannon: you did the right thing by getting an a-in philosophy. >> i wish. we begin tonight with a fox news alert. shocking insight into how dire things are at the southern border and breaking news on how homeland security is handling what even the president's critics admit is a humanitarian crisis as the president threatens to shut down the border altogether. with mexico and our own congress don't get something concrete done. two more women come forward with accusations about inappropriate interactions with joe biden sending the democratic party into more turmoil. how they are dealing with growing allegations? under fire for a potential scandal in ukraine, the former vice president got the top prosecutor fired? that man was investigating a company paying his son millions of

shannon? >> the backing of the local government for the nation's first supervised injection site but the federal government standing in the way. and great to have you with us. you filed a suit here. safe houses this, the washington post is safe house argued that its model which will provide sterile equipment, counseling, access to medical care and fda approved drug for reduced overdoses is necessary to save lives in the city. >> philadelphia is on the front lines of this battle. to stop these sites, coming into existence because philadelphia is the closest. we think it is a bad idea for many reasons. it is illegal, a violation of the controlled substance act. the proponents of the sites act like they are above the law and they don't have to follow the law. and whether these will save lives or not, it is not clear they would save lives. there have been a lot of studies in europe and canada where these places exist and very few people actually get referred to treatment, less than 1%, to treatmen

shannon: thank you very much. fox news alert, the ninth circuit taking action tonight temporarily allowing the trump administration to return asylum-seekers to wait in mexico. >> reporter: the administration doesn't normally get new news from the ninth circuit, today they did, the famed ninth circuit, the venue of choice for the resistance trying to stop the president temporarily freezing an injunction issued on monday keeping dhs from sending asylum-seekers back to mexico. in short a rare legal victory for the president in typical hostile territory. all this as a new caravan kids north with hundreds if not thousands of asylum-seekers, the ninth circuit says of those who make it to america can be sent to mexico to wait for a decision on their case. the injunction heads to the court next week so this is far from over. important to point out this is part of the long legal battle by those opposed to donald trump's immigration policies. and to the washington post, so blatant he can change the law by negative fiat. the

shannon: thank you very much. and another illustration of the situation at the border three women and a child crossed illegally from mexico into arizona and walked past a group of 5 congressmen who were there to witness smuggling activity. joining us now, homeland security reporter who was actually there and covered the story and the washington times online opinion editor here to talk about the climate refugees. you have been down there numerous times, you are seeing things firsthand, border patrol telling us they have in the last 6 months found 3000 fraudulent families because people know and the cartels know bringing them in that it is a much different story. >> we didn't see this so much with the caravans that were coming so in southwestern arizona in the yuma sector of border patrol they saw 600 fake family units in the past 6 months which simply means some child that is not related to the parent is being brought together so that the parent can get in and avoid deportation and get released into the us, the dif

shannon: thank you very much. you saw him unloading on mike pence at the lgbt queue event saying he cannot believe evangelical still support donald trump. let's bring in u.s. news & world report and fox news contributor doctor robert jeffers, welcome to you both. i want to play this soundbite david alluded to in 2015 when then governor pence was asked what he thought of mayor pete buttigieg coming out and revealing publicly he was gay. >> i hold mayor buttigieg in the highest personal regards, great working relationship and i see him as a dedicated public servant and a patriot. >> why now candidate buttigieg calling out the press vice president numerous times as if there's a deep between the two. >> is running to try to replace him, to dislodge him from the white house with donald trump but i also think he's providing a contrast, you have 18 democrats in this race at all have to look for a way to grab attention. one way he grabs attention is the first democratic candidate who has run openly as a gay man and he's g

under the new rule -- >> shannon: so pay more. >> eric: under the tax bill come about 18%. and that is really too low. kushner paid zero taxes over the last. i believe that is observed. >> shannon: i don't think anybody should pay zero taxes. >> eric: but you are saying that you think you should cite it, sheds decide for themselves what to send an. >> what i'm saying i don't want to spend more taxes but i paid plenty of taxes but if you feel guilty enough -- >> eric: voluntary tax system and why am i responsible for pill -- paying the military taxes but you are not? where does this money goes? my responsibility to pay salaries. >> shannon: why do you have so much faith in the federal government they will do well by the extra money these people send them? >> eric: let's be clear, the republicans have the tax bill that borrowed $1.5 trillion to give 80% to rich people like me. >> shannon: you know that is happening. >> ericcompanies buying more ma, people at the lower end of the wage spectrum have benefited more than the upper end of the wage spectrum. anti-regulation in amer

shannon? >>. >> shannon: thank you. it's worth noting that in the aftermath of the fire, there's been a great outpouring of help by the three black churches set ablaise in louisiana. the churches raised $50,000. in the wake of the fire in prison, someone set up a go fund me site. a goal of $1.8 million for the churches to rebuild. now it's over $2 million. outrage how one chancellor is responding to assault on a conservative speaker. that speaker joins us live. they're next. >> what you did is alive and well on college campuses as the next guests can personally attest. what about the bigger story for protests and demands on bans of services for campuses across the country. how are millennials feeling? and melissa allgren. thanks for being here. you were the guest on campus when all heck broke loose and a lot of pushback from the chancellor, some said they didn't defend you enough. the chan lore said i'm not trying to break down free speech. but some people didn't feel like you as a conservative should be there? >> the s

shannon: what do you think? the mccain family, there was word yesterday they are going to support joe biden? >> that would be wonderful. i was on the staff in 2008. i know joe biden personally. he's a great guy. what he has got to work on is messaging for the youthful because it is going to be crucial. look at 2016, 41.9% of registered voters sat home. the question is can joe biden deliver a message exciting enough to get those apathetic people out to the polls? especially that crucial youth vote? i'm anxious to see what he has got to say. he has got to deliver. he has the name id and can raise the big dollars but it comes down to that messaging and going after apathetic voters. shannon: interesting he mentioned the youth vote was the latest fox news poll comparing joe biden, bernie and the rest of the 2020 candidates, look at the top of the list here, the youth vote not sure. do you think they will turn out for that? >> i do have to point out it is ironic the party of identity politics seems to be loving old wh

>> shannon: duelling rallies today in chicago on a surprise shannon: dueling rallies in chicago with a surprise decision to drop 15 charges against jussie smollett. how that decision is not only dividing the public but also political leaders. >> palpable anger in chicago outside the office of state attorney kim fox. members of the chicago police department want her fired for her handling of the jussie smollett case, she dropped all charges after police of the grand jury found he faced his own attack. >> our message is we would like him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. we don't want our officers to have charges dropped. >> reporter: counter protesters led by jesse jackson are backing fox. >> glass out of the wound. >> reporter: smallish was a no-show at the naacp image awards where he was nominated but lost. 's name still top of mind. >> what was he thinking? >> the charges were dropped, we will probably never know all of the details. weaver a lot of information. no one was hurt physically. >> the city of chicago with mayor rob emanuel at the helm once $130,000 restitution

shannon: live in the doj with what we can expect. shannon: american taliban fighter john walker linda just weeks form walking free. >> there's nothing stopping him from moving back to america. shannon: time is on brett kavanaugh's item people are not happy, the growing outrage after the magazines is a supreme court justice and his accuser on the same list. rob: "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ rob: not really fun unless you -- got to go out and not have fun without anybody. shannon: unless you have a credit card. rob: the nightlife system is based on that. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. study with a migraine. jillian: thanks for starting the day with us. we have a lot to get to. >> the release of the bob mueller report, battle brewing on capitol hill over how the probe is unveiled. jillian: griff jenkins has more on what we can expect later this morning, a couple hours from now. >> reporter: 5 hours and counting to be exact. the entire country will get to find out. congres

shannon: thank you. to the women going public with stories about the vice president's touchiness posing a new set of questions to the me too movement and the democratic party. doug mcelway has that report. >> if you accuse joe biden 30 years ago of being creepy, or violating women's personal spaces you would have been left away. as sponsor of the violence against women act he was arguably without senate. in championing women's causes. 20 years later, presidential candidate obama cited that in the campaign ad directed women voters. >> when he added joe biden to the ticket it sealed the deal because he is an advocate for women. >> tip o'neill said all politics is local. nothing gets more local than a hard handshake, a hug or a kiss with the possible exception of lyndon johnson who routinely violated his personal space to win over people. joe biden perfected that technique like you politicians but times and cultural standards change, sometimes not so easily. >> what he did was appropriate -- it is not about

shannon: we are back with a foxbusiness alert. facebook records are exposed on amazon's cloud service as the social media giant was caught asking users to share personal passwords. jillian turner has the story. >> facebook caught red-handed asking its users to share their personal email passwords with platform. >> someone has to be going upstairs in mark zuckerberg is going who authorized the center reinforces the notion that facebook doesn't care about your privacy. >> users were interrupted by a prompt asking for the password associated with their facebook profile, uses like e sushi describes the experience as a next step to logon. facebook claims it was a simple security measure, part of a process they call two step authentication and insists, quote, these passwords are not stored. less than the company did admit to storing hundreds of millions of user passwords. in an email to fox news facebook deflected blame saying users have other options. >> it would require the eyesight of a falcon and discern what all the small print was