speaker paul ryan today announcing he has given his support for house majority leader kevin mccarthy took succeed him. a lame-duck speaker not only wants to stay in the job he has just resigned for another nine months but he obviously believes he should have the same prerogative as annie tinpot dictator to choose his successor. we will see. also with us tonight conservative commentator and best-selling author ann coulter joins me on the need to build a wall to safeguard america from the worst murder crisis in mexico with a quarter million mexicans killed in the drug cartel violence over the past threat--decade and now threatening the united states. our stop tour story the justice department's watchdog today releasing an explosive report laying out the reasons for the causes that led to the firing of deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. the former director of the fbi leaked a self-serving story to shape the narrative surrounding his role in the clinton e-mail investigation and then lied about it to his boss and federal investigators. "fox news" chief intelligence correspondent catherine

and silk join us as well and wisconsin senate candidate republican kevin nicholson among or guests. we hope you'll join us. have a great, great weekend. good night from new york >>> from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's wall street. maria: happy weekend. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and positions you for the week ahead. thanks so much for joining us. coming up in a few moments, rogers capital ce oh and semi conductor founder t.j. rogers is my special guest. but first, we're in the fox business newsroom with the big headlines this week impacting everything from wall street to main street. >> hi. the trump administration putting pressure on turkey on friday. the president authorizing a doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum from the nato ally. sending the turkish

republican kevin nicholson among or guests. we hope you'll join us. have a great, great weekend. good night from new york. >> three brothers, one strange picture. >> i always thought, why did we have a painting like that in our dining room? >> it stirs up the sale of the century. >> $750. do have $750 right her. >> oh, my god. i'm thinking, what is this? >> are you thinking that thele g a mistake, or they know something that you don't? >> they know something that i don't.'ll take you $300,000. >> it was a complete shock. >> $830,000. >> he said, "amy, it was a rembrandt." >> not so fast. >> so, it is possible that this thing turns out not to be? >> totally. [ applause ] [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ]

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% support. house freedom caucus cofounder jim jordan receiving 11%. how majority leader kevin mccarthy receiving 9%. joining us now, the top strategist, great america pac, former reagan white house political director, fox political analyst, ed rollins great to have you with us. >> thank up. nice to be with you pld you and the president doing very well yesterday. >> the critical thing is we have great candidates. we have to win the races. democrats have shown they can raise money and they have a very diverse group of candidates. and in some cases that's going to energize and in some cases it's going to turn people off. they have money and candidates ever where and we have to go out and win the races and we've got good candidates that can do that. lou: obviously there were very few surprises on the republican side, or the democratic side. it was an interesting set of primaries, don't you think? >> a lot of money spent, particularly in a place like wisconsin, the senate race and other places. there will be sufficient money for all of the competitive races in the future. now we have to win

not get the 25 billion. not get my bill through. you could use kevin mccarthy's bill. so many ways to get it done. can do it through reconciliation. lou: why five billion. why not 25 billion? >> it should be 25 billion. lou: five billion means it is a 10-year project. idiots could figure it out. you have so many on both parties in capitol hill it is astonishing. >> we should be doing $25 billion. we should have done it six months ago, a year ago, 18 months ago. we have five weeks left. lou: why don't you get paul ryan out before he could destroy the party? why did you let him sit there? i'm just curious? >> look where the votes are, lou. always about votes. where the votes. and i'm one vote. you know. lou: i know. >> the bottom line is, this is, this is the direction that it went. so i'm trying to make the best of a bad situation. lou: no, i understand. you're a good man. >> yeah. lou: and you are principled congressman. that makes you a, in the definitely in the minority. irrespective of the party that is in charge. >> yeah. it is driving me crazy. driving me crazy, lou. lou: it i

steve scalise and kevin mccarthy for joining us to go after the people who have broken the law. paul ryan didn't do that. scalise and mccarthy did. lou: it is not what i would call a passionate defense of this president. >> no. lou: when they get tired of writing letters and do things in that leadership, they may have a chance of recapturing the house. but until then i don't think there's a chance in hell. what do you think? >> you're going to see the democrats do real oversight. they're not going to have the low energy oversight that we had and we'll have to explain why we couldn't get the truth about fisa abuses but the democrats are going to do everything they can to distract president trump. we've got to be focused on our job in the minority, laying out the defense of the president against a corrupt illegal unfounded investigation that, by the way, even comey admitted when he was fired there was no evidence of collusion. lou: your job is going to be -- congressman, i have the it mostt respect for you. i got to tell you, you've got to bring a political fist right across the nose o

thing. yoyou've got kevin mccarthy thought about funding the wall. pretty late. i guess nobody is paying attention to what the president is said to nancy pelosi and summer. >> we're not going to get anytime the senate but i think the president forced the republicans in the house to move forward in the legislation and at the end of the day here, if he has to shut the government down for a couple of days, go do it. i think it's so important to his constituents and so important as the hon done rare run they are s money and we won't cross the border. lou: you have the entitled, misguided, unfortunate central american migrants knocking on the door in tijuana after having been promised by left wing nonpoft that they would be able to march into the united states and get what hay wanted. >they want.>> and if they can'ty want 50,000 dollars. lou: how have the presidents ignored latin america and south america and all of the problems, economic and societal that they have. and now we're looking at the chinese that own both ends of the panama canal. they're now, well, inserting themselves into south

tom barrett. the white house denies that kelly has offered his resignation. kevin cork has our report. >> he did a very good job when he was in the white house and we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he'll have a great career ahead of him. >> the president's comments about rob porter didn't quell the controversy. if anything, he may have ignited a new one. >> as you probably know, he says he's innocent and i think you have to remember that. he said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent. so you'll have to talk to him about that. >> despite porter's repeated red denials and questions about when the white house learned about the scope of the allegations, saying the retired marine general was quote enabler of domestic violence. white house counsel knew about the allegations involving porter for months. the washington post said mcgann first learned of the allegations in january. in june the fbi warned the white house about them. in september the news finally reached kelly but porter stayed on the job until photos of the alleged abuse surfaced this week. >> no questi

correspondent kevin cork is at white house tonight with the latest. >> we mourn for all of those who lost their lives. we comfort the grieving and the wounded. reporter: a day after a gunman killed at least 17 people in a florida high school, trump pledged his administration wouldable. >> we're committed to working with state and local leaders, to help secure our schools, and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. reporter: president did not mention issue of gun control or new gun laws during his address to the nation. his remarks today, attorney general jeff sessions stayed on message saying that justice department would partner with other federal agency. >> student intersection of -- to study the intersection of mental health. reporter: address secretary steve mnuchin appeared to veer away, we said this. >> personally, i think that gun violence is a tragedy what we have seen yesterday, i urge congress to electric oot look a. reporter: his office clear fid the remarks. administration's focus on possible mental state of the shooter is not new, after a texas church shooting, the

distracted by the russia probe. fox news white house correspondent kevin cork with our report. reporter: a digital deluge, i did findefiant president trump's weekend tweet storm ran the gamut. they are laughing their -- in moscow. to twitter verse was his latest attempt to draw a contrast between his refrain of no russia collusion with russia probe. which despite dime of more than a dozen russian nationals is ongoing, today kremlin rejected notion they were interfering with the american election. it looks like accusations have been made. but no evidence was presented. for us these are not obvious. reporter: even a member of president's own cabinet of the not spared from wave of russia criticism. >> you can see with fbi indictment, the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in public domain. >> forgot to say results of 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians, whether or not votes were changed impacted is anyone's guess, the fact that indictment allege that russians have been targetingu since 2014 true this question. obama was president up to and beyond 2016

include seven current committee chairman, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy must deal with the substantial loss of institutional knowledge. mccarthy downplayed the significance of the lawmakers leaving. >> there are more republican members. we'll bring more people in. it will be successful. and that's the uniqueness that we have. the competition makes people better. >> however mccarthy and other california republicans are likely to face some heat and lol deduction in a high tax state. there are also three republican senators retiring, including orrin hatch and bob corker. and democrats continue attacking the tax package. >> the republican majority which conveniently forgot its long history of deficits when passing the tax bill cannot in good conscious turn around and complain about deficits here. >> one veteran house lawmaker in a competitive district worries about holding on to the gop majority in the fall. >> this political climate right now is about as bad as it could be for gop members in moderate districts. we see the future and it ain't pretty. >> democrats are watching these retirem