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make your own kitchen food, all of that. it is near flat from when it opened. it opened at 10 bucks. nicole, just about a penny higher. there we have it. nicole. thanks. closing billion rings] nasdaq looks to -- [closing bell rings] david and melissa, take it for "after the bell." melissa: dow logging a 290 point swing, ending 100 points off the session lows. s&p lower, but tech-heavy nasdaq getting hit worst of it, down more than 1%. i'm melissa francis. david: that is the best you can say. it could have been a lot worse. i'm david asman. glad you could join us. this is "after the bell." more on market movers on a huge market day, here is what else we have covered for you this very busy hour. keeping americans safe. the house set to vote on two immigration bills. one to crack down on sanctuary cities, "kate's law," creating
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harsher penalties for criminal illegal immigrants who keep coming back and back and back. we'll bring results as soon as they happen. senate scrambling to build a new health care bill by tomorrow. we'll tell you where they stand right now. we're hours away from the beginning of that partial travel ban with new rules defining whose now allowed in, who isn't, leaving a lot of lawyers scratching their heads. details straight ahead. melissa: back to the selloff, the dow ending well off session lows but still down 167 points. let's go to nicole petallides down on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, what is driving the selloff? >> a few things are happening. the concern overall of the trump agenda and business-friendly plans he has, that they're being delayed. that gives a bit of a speaking to the market from time to time. plus the fed going forward, not not only the fed, but abroad. mario draghi, ecb, bank of japan
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talking about unwinding balance sheets much like what we see with the fed, that speakings the markets. nasdaq was a big story, at one point it was down 2%, erasing losses for the month. a big selloff we hadn't soon. we're down 1.44%. monday we dropped 1.6%. we had real gyrations in that area. big losers of the quarter would be bed, bath & beyond, mattel, viacom, mattel. end of the quarter, it is interesting, i talk to some of the traders, they say a lot of portfolio managers are moving money around, last day of the quarter, window-dressing it is equaled. you have a lot of cash on the sidelines. if you have a winning quarter, you don't want to be left
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showing cash the we'll see if cash is there, yeah i held that position the whole month but really didn't. makes them look good. melissa: thank you, nicole. good point. david: for more on today's selloff and partial comeback, 32 advisors, fox news contributor, robert wolf and heather from sunamerica funds. heather, 257 was low. ended 17. that is not good news, it came back when mr. mnuchin, our treasury secretary, came at presser at white house started talking about tax cuts again. did he soothe the market. was he responsible for a partialcom back? >> it appears that way based on the chart. you see there was buying action after he spoke. markets definitely want to see that. initially this morning we were worried health care is not going to get passed, not only before the july 4th recess but also the august recess and then when
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mnuchin comes out says tax reform will be done before the end of the year, that reassures the markets something is going to happen. we like that. david: robert, we're focusing on the dow but it was really the nasdaq had a huge move, down over 1 1/2% at the worst point. were tech stocks responsible for bringing the dow down? was it central banks, was it the health care bill, what is your best guess? >> david, nicole and heather were spot on. we had double-whammy, with euro and hawkish tones and legislative agenda that seems to be on hold and tax credit is now in limbo. lastly with the nasdaq stocks, repatriation is key. if tax reform is stalled not surprising that the nasdaq is going to get hurt. >> david, it is not surprising that the nasdaq will get hurt as well because it is a leader year-to-date. nasdaq technology is up over 16%. so it is not surprising, you're
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right, robert, to see money come out of tech go into financials an energy for sector rotation. melissa: great point. oil keeps on climbing, ending he higher for the sixth straight day, the longest winning streak since mid-april. it is at 44.93 a barrel. still on track to end the month down more than 7%. look at that wow. david: keeping with energy an oil unleashing american energy, president trump pushing to start new energy revolution, to start production on american soil. fox business's blake burman at the white house with the very latest. hi, blake. reporter: david, president trump is expecting to be back in the white house shortly. he made a short drive over to the department of energy to cap off what his administration is calling energy week. the president made a couple of announcements. for example, he said his administration would open up more offshore drilling. he talked about the sale, natural gas sales deal with south korea. the south korean president
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headed here to the white house from a couple hours from now. what you saw from the president in this speech was laying out his vision as it relates to energy policy, especially for those who work and make a living off of this sector. the president said at one point, and i quote, the golden era for american energy is now underway. in this speech the president touted many of the decisions that he has already made. for example, he talked about the keystone xl and the dakota access pipelines. he also talked about how the, his executive order or one of the actions he made to open up federal lands to coal leasing. president championed the decision that he made as it related to pulling out of the paris climate accord. >> the money that we had to pay was enormous. it was not even close, and maybe we'll be back into it some day but it will be on better terms, on fair terms, not on terms where we're the people that don't know what we're doing. we'll see what happens but i will tell you we're very proud of it.
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when i go around, there are so many people that say, thank you, you saved the sovereignty of our country. reporter: however, david, that decision today was absolutely slammed by the german chancellor angela merkel. as you know the president is headed overseas next week to the g20 summit. america kill made these comments in relation to the president's trip. she said quote, one shouldn't expect any easy conversations in hamburg, speaking about the paris climate accord and u.s. pulling out. merkel said to gloss over the disagreement would be disingenuous. david, back to you. david: i think she needs a drink. needs a beer. blake, their very much. melissa: robert and heather still with us right now. you know, i don't know, robert, what do you think? >> i would respectfully disagree with the president, twofold. one that carbon energy is our future. i'm much more bullish on reyou renewables. and then secondly with respect
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to pulling out on paris accord. where i agree with him wholeheartedly the idea that we should be exporting lng much more than we have in the past. i like part of what he said. there are other parts i would disagree with. melissa: heather, i see it as part of whole america push first. we have to buy american, keep factories here. that sort of thing, i only like that if it makes economic sense. we can't make products expensive for our own citizens, part of that is having cheap energy. what do you think? >> you're right, melissa. ahead of july 4th, patriotic spirit, we want u.s. manufacturing to thrive here. the economic impact will be great if terms of jobs. 2/3 of the jobs created since the recession came in the energy sector but i'm also concerned about what it will do to the price of oil. oil has been down about 15% year-to-date. and although it is catching a little bit of a bid today, the
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oil price in general, if it breaks $40 a barrel because of all this fracking and new technology and now we're going to just drill even more, can we still be profitable, the oil companies, can they still make money? we'll be exporting more than ever. melissa: but that is cheap for consumers true. hard to see that as a bad thing. thanks, guys. david: talking about 1/6 of our economy, the talk is ticking on health care. senate republicans scrambling to produce a new health care bill before the july 4th break as fears mount window for repealing an replacing obamacare might close. mike emanuel live in d.c. with the latest. hi, mike. reporter: senators are under intense pressure to reach an agreement ahead of the independence day holiday. mike pence is back here on capitol hill, meeting with leadership, moderates and conservatives. pence a key player trying to get to 50 votes to pass a bill.
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times are tense. fox news confirmed that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and ohio senator rob portman argued this week what portman told fox were differences of opinion on medicaid. they're typically close allies. any calculation to get to 50 votes must include rob portman. $45 billion are added to the bill to address the opioid problem but portman is still non-commit tall. mcconnell urging colleagues time for action. >> mr. president, senators in the white house are continuing discussions on path forward to bring to obamacare and its collapsing markets. we'll made good progress and we're keep working. we work on obamacare problems that continue to hurt americans all across our country. reporter: senate republican sources say most likely gop nos are susan collins, rand paul, a conservative, and dean heller up for tough re-election next year in nevada. the problem for leadership is,
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they can only afford two republican nos an still pass a bill. >> i still sense that we're at impasse. i said that yesterday at lunch with our republican caucus. everybody kind of laughed because, yeah there is still quite a bit of disagreement. and there is basically two factions. reporter: sound hopeful the gop struggles will allow some talks that will give them some leverage. >> president trump, i challenge you to invite us, all 100 of us, republican and democrat, to blair house, to discuss a new, bipartisan way forward on health care, in front of all the american people. reporter: for how there is intense pressure on conservative and moderate republicans to get to yes. david? david: mike, thank you very much. while fighting for an agreement, among republicans, republican senator mike rounds questioning the gop health care's bill elimination of certain taxes he says keeping obamacare's tax on
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investments for people making over 250,000 a year could help millions of americans, take a listen. >> some of them will stay n i think there is one may not. that would be the tax on investment returns for families that make over $250,000 a year. that is about $172 billion over 10-year poort, which when taken, put back into the system would allow us to, would allow us to make improvements in the some of the coverages moving forward. david: robert is with us. this is 3.8% tax. listen to the senator's comments. let's be honest. these are not checks made out to poor people. this is money that will be taken away from the private sector, from world of investments, put into the public sector in world of bureaucracy in which place do you think that money would be most helpful to the american economy? >> you know, tough question. i remember when the president, president obama did that.
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it was held to offset cost of rising premiums which is did over last five years. we've had slower inflation of premiums, that being said, i understand why the republican senators are struggling with this one because they don't want their health care vote to be a tax reform vote. that being said, they really need this for the tax reform plan coming up. david: yeah. >> so -- david: i want to get you back to the tough question though. you and i think have a heart. we want poor people and sick people to get what they need as a safety net but we don't want entitlement society that depends on a huge bureaucracy that wastes tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of tax dollars around doesn't make this place either healthier or better. >> i think right now i would be not supportive of changing investment tax credit. i would be supportive of changing the medical device tax credit though. but i think we should really focus on health care side. tough question you asked me.
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i know i hedged a little. david: we give nothing but tough questions. you can certainly answer it. thank you, robert. appreciate it. all right. melissa: this was the scene at airports across the country the last time the president's travel ban was in state. what can we expect tonight? we're less than four hours away from new partial travel order leaving many confused who will be allowed in and who won't. david: victory for president trump. details on changes announced by nato. he made progress. melissa: house set to vote on two major immigration bills in moments on cutting federal spending to sanctuary cities. the other one creates harsher penalties for repete illegal entries into the u.s. texas congressman brian babin joins us right before he heads to the floor to vote how these bills will protect american lives. >> did you know this is named after kate steinle, who was murdered two years ago in san francisco by an illegal immigrant who had before
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david: the house is volting on two immigration bills. "kate's law" would impose new laws on criminals illegally reentering the country and policies from cities that shield illegal immigrants. we have republican congressman brian babin from texas. i guess there is no question of the outcome, right, congressman? whenever republican congress done this before they overwhelmingly voted for it? >> it is no-brainer for me, david, good to be with you. this is something i've been talking about for two years. i can't wait to get in there and cast a vote.
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this is absolute common sense. time to put american citizens first and local and state politicians have got to be called to account on both, on both of these issues. this young lady, kate steinle was murdered, at the age of 32 by a five-time deportee and a seven-time convicted felon. shouldn't never have been here to begin with. so i think -- david: just wondering, congressman, when you talk to democratic colleagues in the hallways and stuff, must be victims, people like kate stein lee, people like spencer, who was stopped at traffic light. his killer, victor reyes was previously deported four different times, you can go on and on, these victims don't they haunt congresspeople who will vote against this? >> you know i have talked to many of these families. i've become friends with many families who lost loved ones to
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criminal aliens we turn loose on the streets or their home countries don't repatriate them. it is high time to remedy the situation. david: i can understand, our viewers well understand agony, victim's parents go through. i can't understand, and you deal with these people every day. how can democrats deal with the same families and vote against "kate's law"? >> i can not understand that myself. it is inconceivable how some elected official the welfare of criminal aliens ahead of safety and security of their own elected, our own citizens who elected them. i just can't understand that. david: let's briefly go to the sanctuary laws, no sanctuary for criminal acts t would withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that prohibit their own police from communicating with i.c.e. agents. i was unaware they actively
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prohibit their officers from contacting federal officials if they know where criminals are located. does that happen anywhere in texas? >> i hate to say it but travis county, texas, austin, texas, is one of those sanctuary cities. it is not just austin. several others ones in texas as well but travis county is probably the most egregious example of ignoring federal immigration law to the absolute disadvantage and harm to their own citizens. david: yeah. >> so it is high time that this was passed too. i can't wait to get down the hall to vote for this here in a few minutes. david: thank you for taking time out to talk to us first, but again chances are pretty darn good, i would say 95% it is going to pass, president just said earlier today, as soon as arrives on his desk he will sign it. probably becomes law soon. >> a reason mr. trump was elected. a big reason why he was elect
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the. it wouldn't be happening if not president trump were in the white house now. i'm thankful for that. david: congressman, thank you for being here. appreciate it. melissa. melissa: nato plans to boost defense spending by 4.3% this year. this is due at least in part because of intense pressure from the president for nations to pay their fair share. total spending from other 28 nations comes to about $300 billion. that is still less than what the u.s. spends all by itself. david: it is but he has made progress. melissa: right. david: remember those looks, the sneers and snickers from the europeans when he was over there. melissa: now they stepped in and did it. remember during the election, or during the debates he kept talking about this again and again, it will never come to anything. there you go. david: it has. fighting fire with fire, how other heated exchange between the mainstream media and the white house is disrupting economic agenda. that is not good.
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david: here is another look where markets ended the day. we're glad the day, trading markets ended. markets making a nearly 100 point comeback. that is the good news. the bad news it still ended down 167 points. s&p down as well. tech-heavy nasdaq getting hit the hardest, closing down 1 1/2%, melissa. melissa: splitting the bill in two. they could go dutch with it. kentucky senator, rand paul, one of toughest holdouts on the top health care bill. proposing one way in the senate. >> what about dividing the bill in two. repeal, which no democrat votes for, repeal taxes, repeal regulations fix to medicaid,
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help everything to reform medicaid. put it in spending that bill democrats vote for. now you have two bills. melissa: here is vince colonase. thanks for joining us. i remember they talked about something similar to this not too long ago. the catch you depended on republicans for the first part, democrats for the second part. if republicans were peeled and democrats didn't cooperate, then americans would be out in the cold and democrats could point say look what republicans did to you? isn't that the problem with this plan? >> right. ultimately, here is the thing, republicans will always lose the debate in the press offer whose fault it is for anything but whether it comes to this legislation, ultimately this will force democrats to have to come to the table to give replacement. they could be obstinate. look, we don't want to work with republicans at all to wait it out. rand paul is pushing this repeal line, when the house bill came out, he said this.
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this is only thing republicans agree on is repeal portion. pass the thing we agree on? he is pushing that again now as this thing works its way through the senate. i think it is the thing that base really likes because one thing that is popular. melissa: i'm confused by your answer. >> i'm sorry. melissa: at that point it wouldn't really work though because if you do repeal. get to that point, there is tremendous temptation for the democrats to really torpedo the whole thing. they have ultimate leverage. if you don't sit down agree to their terms on the second part, they know that republicans took away your health care and threw granny off the cliff and let people in the street die, all that kind of stuff. they will have a gun to the head of republicans. >> right, whereas republicans thought in the process they have a gun to the head of democrats, they force them to the table. you're right, i don't think they will. especially closer to 2018, democrats see this as political play. the further these health care
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bills get towards next year, less likely they will look anything like what a conservative voter wants which is to say moderates will continue to influence the process. at the end, the bill will not be popular thing, decreasing likeliness we see anything get out of the senate. melissa: at the same time, better is better. it is not going to be perfect because everybody wants something different. there is no way to make everyone happy. >> yes. melissa: isn't better better? >> typically, but republicans have had a difficult time selling what is better, right? they need to be really clear with the american public which they haven't been. if you ask the average trump supporter, why would you support the republican clue they would not have a clue. melissa: there may be a insurance provider in my state but they are all fleeing highlands. everybody's premiums go up 200%. if it is collapsing, if we fix it is better. >> the only argument that is
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current foothold, that is one president made over and over. i could let it collapse. i don't want to let it collapse and stop it. that is only thing working. vast unpopularity around the bill, what do people want with health care, cheaper health care, better access to health care and increases across the board in terms of what they can purchase and what to get out of it. it is not clear that the republican bill approaches that. they're sort of talking about things. yet you will see premiums rise and deductibles. >> vince, hard for me to accept it is unpopular for the american people. they don't know what is in it. >> my point. the messaging has sucked on this. that is part of it. melissa: thank you. >> my pleasure. david: we have breaking news. nike reporting fourth quarter results. let's go to nicole petallides at nyse with the numbers on nike. nicole? reporter: david, a beat all across the board, top and bottom line. earnings per share even beat highest estimates for nike co, so go nike.
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estimates ep s6 0 cents versus 50 cents. blowing it out of the water. revenue at 8.7 billion versus 8.63 billion. they did well geographically around the globe. people do want to know future orders for future. what would help is jordan running, jordan brand, one of the favorite parts going through this report, converse, good ol' converse which saw 2 billion in revenue. that was up 6%. there was a lot worries over the last year adidas and stan smith made a comeback, how that grabbed a little bit of market share. couple other quick points, amazon deal there are concerns about counterfeiters there. no word on nike on amazon deal to sell products there. something we're watching very closely is overall how they do going forward. so we'll watch for that as well. david: nicole petallides, thank you very much. melissa.
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david: here is another live look at the house floor where vote something about to begin any moment on one of two major immigration bills. the first one is going to bar federal funds from going to sanctuary cities, and then they will do "kate's law." that will install harsher penalties for repeat illegal entry into the u.s. we'll bring the votes as soon as they happen. melissa. melissa: we're hours away from president trump's temporary travel ban going into effect. dug mckelway live at dulles international airport where protests are underway. doug, what can you tell us? reporter: no protests as of yet. that may happen later tonight when the ban takes effect full time. we're not seeing it, if there is any confusion here at dulles
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airport it is not happening with our view. look at crowds. this is area of airport outside of customs in the baggage claim area. the people are waiting for loved ones and friends to arrive from overseas flights. one reason for calmness, the travel ban has we know guidance of the supreme court of united states until at least temporarily the court hears broader legal issues in october. the administration imposed this 72-hour pause before it takes effect. it take effect after the supreme court decision on monday and takes effect at 8:00 tonight. innings had may change at that point in time. it affects arrivals and refugees from six countries desis nated as 120 ban for refugees. and bans for syria, iran, libya, sudanso-so mule yaw, yemen.
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people that have parent, son, daughter-in-law or sibling in the united states. people that already had visas in the travel ban and applied for journalist, business visas with the proper documentation. that said, a lot of people see this as defacto ban against muslims. >> he describe ad see ban on refugees coming this country. refugees have tightest security of anybody coming from anybody in the united states. reporter: also part of what the administration sees as a multipronged approach fighting war on terrorism and protecting americans. he already talkinged about two bills house is voting on this afternoon. in addition to that, yesterday homeland security chief john kelly announced new measures to it prevent a laptop bomber downing a plane. stop the short of outright lap ton ban but worrier airlines and
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airports at 200 locations around the world to beef up k-9 units at screening facilities. beef up bomb trace die tex kits. and under, screening airline personnel. here is john kelly. >> make no mistake. our enemies constantly work for designing new explosives, and hijacking aircraft. reporter: those airlines that do not meet that standard could face a number of sanctions including a suspension of flights to the united states. but the travel ban formally takes effect tonight at 8:00. we'll see what changes then. melissa: no protests. heavily-crowded airport behind you. miserable travelers. they look like protesters. almost the same thing. doug, thank you. david: here is walid phares, fox news national security, foreign policy expert. and lisa an attorney who joins
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us with legal implications of all this. walid, security interest. this thing has been held up for four months. any number of possibilities of some bad people entering the united states within that four-month period. i hope and i pray that we are guarding all of those entries from these countries carefully, those who came in past couple months. >> we are guarding. and this measure will increase these other measures that we have already. jihadi terrorists can come from liberal democracies, france, britain, but the measure itself, that is what the public needs to understand better has to do with the situation on the ground. if i give you within example, applies to the other five examples, libya, example area cold by daesh, air controlled by al qaeda, air controlled in tripoli controls airport and area that has jihadists. the government needs time to clarify, because iraq, which is
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off that list had a similar situation. we have an area with the kurds have airports. area in baghdad which is with whom we have a relationship. then an area in the middle. we have organized with iraq, the government of iraq, two governments actually in iraq, kurds and shia on the south. we have now a system. so that time is needed to be able to get a system with these countries. david: these countries are not even countries. as you described libya, you think of syria, i mean, there is no vetting that can take place in the country, no secure vetting that can take place in a country like that. lisa, the fact that the supreme court decided unanimously to allow the president to reimpose the ban, that had been held up by these lower courts, that says a lot about lower court decision and how they were not following the law, right? >> they didn't base it in the rule of law or even in the historical case law, which is an issue, right? we really saw a court that made a decision based on really politics.
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that was unacceptable. the court kind of spanked them when they came out unanimously. they didn't have a leg to stand on. everything that was asserted, if you recall couple months ago, ninth circuit judges got together gave a scalding decision what they did not agree with in their own court, a lot of that talking about and seeing from the supreme court. the supreme court came down and basically said the president has the ultimate authority. there is no constitutional violation, at least temporarily. david: right. >> and now, if they hear it in october, that is going to be the question because they're asking for motions -- david: headlines of all the papers were very big when the lower courts when they disagreed with the president but very small when the supreme court agreed with the president. walid, this ban is not absolute ban. we can put it on the screen. some people are allowed in, some are not.
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based on grandparents or siblings, daughters in law. why not have an absolute ban or as opposed to something that can be misinterpreted? >> the government is efforting to understand the issue. we don't have yet a super vetting system, used to be called extreme vetting system. we don't have it. government needs and administration and congress need that time. by the way the supreme court as well, would need to understand these facts. we don't have a full system that would insure every individual coming through our, you know, ports of entrance are not jihadists. that is not yet the case. david: walid, lisa, we have to leave it there. thank you both very much. melissa. >> thank you. melissa: fast-moving flames across the southwest. thousands of people fleeing their homes. the latest on those massive wildfires. that's next.
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loss this quarter last year. micron citing strong demand and improved pricing for memory chips used in computing systems and smartphones. nike up 2% after strong beat on revenue and earnings per share. saw higher demand in western europe, china, emerging markets. david: americans are being forced to flee their homes. more than a dozen large wildfires currently burning across the southwest. emergency crews are working round-the-clock to try to contain the flames. fox news's claudia cowan is in l.a. with the very latest details. reporter: we're getting to hear what it was like when one of the biggest fires started almost two weeks ago in southern utah. the brian head fire has burned 91 square miles and taken out at least 13 homes. a man was using a torch to clear weeds around his cabin. listen to his anxious call to 911. >> 911. what is the status of your emergency? >> hi, i have a fire getting out
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of control. >> what size of area is burning? >> it's a forest. >> well, how big is fire right now? >> it is big, like 50 feet, by 50 feet. it is big. we need help. reporter: that man could be on the hook for a million dollars in damages. the fire just 15% contained. firefighters should get a break with calmer winds and cooler temperatures. state of emergency in arizona where a forest fire burns 100 northwest of phoenix. the goodwin fire has torched 30 square miles. unclear how many homes have been lost but the thousands of residents had just minutes to grab what they could and evacuate. some tense moments yesterday afternoon in the los angeles suburb of burbank as flames raced down a canyon and came right up to a number of homes. quick work by fire crews saved them all.
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other fires are burning in washington, colorado, and idaho, many sparked by lightning. some minor injuries were reported mostly to the heat. back to you. david: claudia cowan in l.a. melissa: the mainstream media losing its focus. another contentious press briefing at the white house this afternoon but sarah huckabee sanders is setting the record straight. next fox news radio's john decker who was at today's briefing sounds off.
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melissa: blocking the president's gender today, sarah huckabee sanders pointing finger at the press with slowing down president's agenda with quote, merciless attacks. >> the president has been attacked mercilessly. i don't think it is surprise to everybody that he fights fire with fire. shows that every day in the decisions he is making, focus and priorities he laid out in his agenda, but he will not sit back to be attacked by the liberal media. melissa: my next guest was at that briefing. here now is john decker, fox news radio white house correspondent. i watched that briefing today and when people make arguments about why they need to have the press briefing, that the white house needs to be transparent and need to face questioning about issues, about what is going on, what the administration is doing, i watch that, it was a million questions in a row about the tweets this morning. which i understand, you know, is a topic of interest but once she answered the same question for like the 24th time, you do
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start to wonder how productive are these things? >> well, as you know the media, fox news channel, fox business network, fox news radio, we cover every tweet. we cover everything that president puts out there on twitter, and today was no different. when it came time for me to ask my question to sarah, i asked simply about is this hurting the president's legislative agenda. i didn't focus so much on the tweet but whether this is hurting him passing this senate the health care bill and hurts him in terms of trying to win over nine republican senators who remain opposed to the senate health care legislation. melissa: right. and i guess it is a fair question but it is sort of like, i mean, you're kind of relating the tweet to today's news as opposed to asking you know, where are we on that? are we really going to get a draft before the weekend? you know, i mean like steve mnuchin made a ton of news at the top, and things that really impact the american people.
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you know, for example, he said, what about health care? it was our own reporter that asked about health care versus the tax plan. he said, basically like i have 100 people chained in the basement of treasury and we are going to get that we'll get tax reform done. health care i hope so, but committed to tax reform this year. that is news really impacts everybody out there. it gets lost. >> well you know, i asked steve mnuchin a few questions too during his portion of the briefing, and i think his portion of the briefing lasted 20, 25 minutes, for business reporters in particular, there was a lot of news out of his portion of the briefing. >> yeah. >> and they're covering it, no doubt about it but let's face it, what the president put out there today on twitter is arguably sexist and i think there are people that want to cover that. melissa: sure. >> i also face it, a lot of republican senators and lawmakers are putting out their own statements distancing themselves from the president in terms of what he put out there
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on twitter, melissa. melissa: right, do you really think that impacts health care? they're sitting there saying -- >> i do in this sense, i do in this sense, because it distracts from the president's legislative agenda. it makes it more difficult to pick up susan colins' vote from maine and lisa murkowski's vote from alaska. they're not going to be open idea of siding with the president after he puts out this kind of tweet which is offensive to some people. melissa: it is without question offensive, but i don't know if they're that genteel. they want to be reelected. they will do what gets them elected. we'll have you back. got to go. david: very different topic. iphone turning 10 today. do you remember what life was like without it? looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock: a realization that often reveals a better path forward.
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