the. jon: good morning happy friday. i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. the president starting a two-day campaign today, a two-day campaign swing through virginia, a very important state. with 13 electoral votes at stake it is one of the most hotly-contested battleground states this november. the president visiting one staunchly conservative area he won in 2008 but they're up for grabs this year. governor romney is reaching out to conservative republicans by appearing with former vice president dick cheney at a fund-raiser as there is new buzz who potentially mr. romney might pick as a running mate. no such thing as a quiet summer friday when we're this close to elections. campaign carl cameron live from washington with more. so, carl, we're hearing a lot, a lot of talk about, well, let you say the name. who is everybody talking about?

>> reporter: condoleezza rice, condoleezza rice. four or five months ago i mentioned her as one. people look at. people said no, it will never happen. back in tech mitt romney said he would not pick a running mate who is pro-choice. and condoleezza rice, the former national security secretary, and the of course, secretary of state in the bush administration described herself in 2006 as mildly pro-choice. she has said over and over and over again she is not interested in the job. she doesn't want to get in elected politics but nonetheless "the drudge report" last night suggested she is now on a short list and a frontrunner to be mitt romney's vice-presidential pick. of course she would have to therefore rocket ahead of the likes of rob portman of ohio, marco rubio of florida, and a host of others and there hasn't been any talk from condoleezza rice confirming or denying this. the romney campaign has signaled that they are not going to talk about names but it is worth remembering that mitt romney, the

nominee now, said in february of this year that he would not be picking pro-choice running mates. jon? jenna: reminder we should listen carefully to everything you say during every report. you called the name. >> reporter: yeah, look, she is a very important voice in the republican party the she knocked it out of the park at the recent romney fund-raiser in park city, utah. mentioned yesterday on rush limbaugh. got a lot of attention. ann romney suggested they were looking at woman and liked idea of female running mate and vice president that got people thinking she must be talking about condoleezza rice. we don't have any indication of that right now. jenna: an interesting story. one we'll continue to watch but it hasn't really drowned out all the noise about bain. tell us about the battle of bain and escalating and or has been. >> reporter: this in many ways swift boat attacks the 2004 campaigns and george w. bush and republicans tried to prevent john kerry from using his perceived asset, military

record against the incumbent president then was a wartime election. much the same seems to happen to mitt romney. incumbent democrats are trying to take away his business background as asset and make it a liability. this is not something that plays to key issues of the american public and ad war continues. here is little bit of the latest obama attacked a out today, back with bain capital headlines from the press. and there is a new response ad from the romney campaign which is very telling. in it, you see video of the president talking on the campaign trail 3 1/2 years ago. and mr. obama says if you don't have a record to run on, then you paint our opponent as someone people should run from. obama said back then, that this is an example of once again, a candidate who doesn't have much because you don't have any fresh ideas you use stale tactics to scare voters. romney campaign argue that is exactly what obama is doing now, and failure to deliver on hope and change he promised. jenna: something we'll talk

a lot about the battle coming up on the show, carl, sthaur thank you very much. jon: just in, some new information on iran's military buildup. media reports says the gains this month feature missiles with improved accuracy and firing capabilities. the stated goals of those games show iran has missiles capable of hitting israel and bases in the middle east. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with a look at that jennifer. >> reporter: hi, jon. the headline from this report. this was a declassified report delivered to capitol hill on june 29th this seems to jive jibe with what the iranian revolutionary guard is raving about. that iran's missiles are increasingly accurate and they may have a longer range than previously expected and that range could extend as far by 2015 to become an intercontinental ballistic

missile. here is a quote from the report. iran has boosted the lethality and effectiveness of existing missile systems with accuracy improvements and submission pay loads. they are force increasingly mobile missile launchers that are not tethered to physical missile launch positions. iran may be tech clay capable of flight testing a intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015. this is significant, because prior to now the longest long rage missile iran had could reach israel but it was not long enough to threaten the united states or the continental united states or even europe but these recent missile tests that iran has been carrying out as part of a war game effort, they were practicing on mock bases that were similar to us air bases in the region. and now, this, secret report to con congress that has

been declassified that congress is concerned about the range by 2015 of these longer range ballistic missiles, jon. >> are they learning themselves or does the pentagon think they have gotten help? >> that is a good question. there is long been a debate how much help or how much information-sharing there had been between north korea and iran. it has gone both ways in terms of information sharing about ballistic missiles. the russians had long been helping the iranians. so it is really an open question how they are obtaining this technology. today we understand on capitol hill that, excuse me, that the treasury department is tightening up existing sanctions, increasing the number of front companies that have been used so that iran has been able to get some of these missile parts and missile technologies through and keep their oil industry running. the obama administration has exempted 20 countries from, from the oil embargo and so

there is increasing pressure on capitol hill to tighten sanctions, tightening the existing mechanisms to basically strangle iran's not only ballistic missile program but also its oil industry. here is former weapons inspector david albright. >> this report talking about a intercontinental ballistic missile being flight tested possibly as early as 2015 just adds another reason why we need to settle this sooner rather than later. >> reporter: there is also an interesting report out of britain in the last 24 hours. the head of mi6, who rarely, rarely speaks publicly, said that there are certain efforts that have been made by british intelligence services to delay iran's nuclear program. he suggested that, that iran would have had a nuclear weapon by 2008 if the certain measures taken by british intelligence services in conjunction with the u.s. and israel had not

delayed that program. but again, increasing concern not only at the pentagon as well as western intelligence agencies that iran is continuing its march, not only towards nuclear weapons but also to these ballistic missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles that would allow them if they are successful tested in 2015 to deliver a nuclear payload down the road. jon: that is quite something to be building missiles while they're supposedly under sanctions. general fer griffin, thank you. jenna: speaking of information, there are questions for search of answers how very key national security secrets got leaked to the press. the republican chairman of the house judiciary committee, lamar smith, who held a hearing on the matter this week, is expected to speak shortly. will his committee hold a formal investigation and what would it mean if they do? chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more. so, catherine, what are you expecting? >> reporter: jenna, thank you, good morning. just an hour from now we're expecting new details from republican congressman

lamar smith is who is holding a news conference in texas. the smith wants to interview the president's inner circle as part of a proposed investigation by his committee into the national security leaks. the list includes seven current and former administration officials among them national security advisor, tom done lynn, and deputy director of national intelligence, james clappers, john brennan, former white house chief of staff bill daly and others. in a letter to the president, smith writes, quote, these individual should be prepared to discuss to the full extent much their knowledge, how, why and by whom each. following classified matters was leaked or otherwise payment public information accessible to america's ennis and right now we're working on a response from the white house to that letter, jenna. jenna: a response from the white house. what about the democrats as well? we know lamar smith is republican. as we mentioned the head of this committee. what about the democrats. what are they saying? >> reporter: yesterday the house minority leader weighed in she would defer to the administration's investigation by the justice department which is being led by two u.s. attorneys.

>> i believe right now the administration has put in place a look at how these leaks occurred. it is not in anybody's interest, as i said to you before, intel room, loose lips sink ships. so nobody wants these leaks. but i think that, let's look at one remedy and that is the investigation. >> reporter: many republicans in the house an senate argue that the u.s. attorneys can not be independent because they are too close to their boss, the attorney general, eric holder. jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch developments on this story. catherine, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: there is a break in a search for a missing millionaire. we've been telling you about this story. he vanished after going out on his boat off the florida coast. so what investigators are learning from the gps data on board. and an update in the case of a man accused of murdering his own daughters in one of those so-called, honor killings. what the detective who

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jon: right now, updates on some crime headlines we're keeping an eye on. washington state authorities release a chilling video made by a survivalist who killed his wife and daughter. in it peter keller shows off the bunker he built in the woods and how he will be able to live off the grid. he later killed himself as sheriffs deputies closed in. a florida teen accused of nearly beating a female acquaintance to death, kicker her with steel towed boots. he is claiming insanity suggesting that the teen set him off with a text message suggesting that he should commit suicide like his

brother. a clues for the search of a missing florida millionaire. he may have taken off in his boat and switched to another boat while at sea. the guy's empty boat washed up in fort lauderdale without him on board. now his mother and wife are fighting in court over his $100 estate. -- $100 million estate. jenna: new information in the case of a texas man accused of murdering his two daughters in a so-called honor killing. shorts say yasir said shot his two daughters in 2008 because they were becoming westernized and dating american boys. he has been on the run ever since. now a new development. the private investigator handling the case is asking the justice department to get involved and take over saying local authorities botched this job. the man suspected of killing his own daughters may never be caught. gregg jarrett covered this story from the beginning. he has done special reporting on this, greg.

let's talk a little bit about this. why did the private investigator come forward now and raise some red flags? >> my understanding she was hired by the local newspaper to take a second look at it and as a consequence, she has now suggested that doj, the department of justice, jump into the case, which i think by the way is a very, very good idea. let's put some fresh eyes on it because yasir said is still out there and he is quite a dangerous man. jenna: there's been some questions about the mother of these two young girls, also the wife of yasir, about whether or not she knows where he is. you actually asked her that question. let's play the sound for our viewers. >> yasir vanished how? >> i don't know. i ask that question every day. how could a person that shot two people 11 times, vanish?

there is no way. >> you have had no contact with yasir said since the murders? >> no. >> no messages or communications? >> no. jenna: you're looking at this now. did you believe her then. >> i believed her then and now. i don't believe she was knowingly complicit. she did help lure the girls to his taxicab where he, you know, killed them, executio execution-style, 11 bullets and of course in the infamous audiotape you can hear her describe her killer, her father and say, i'm dying, i'm dying. jenna: so you said at the beginning of our interview that you think it is a great idea for the justice department to get involved? >> yeah. jenna: what can they do now? we're four years away from this. why do you think they're going to make a difference now? >> well i always suspected that he fled to egypt where he had some property and if the feds are involved, there is more leverage than irving

police department in texas. so that's, that would be good. and second of all, a larger manhunt, he could be out here on sixth avenue driving a taxicab in new york city. in fact there have been all kinds of stories recently he fled to new york city. i tracked down his yaert yassin said who is in westchester, new york. they were very, very close. it was a profanity-laced anti-semitic tirade as he kicked me off his property. he had to have help to getaway. at dallas airport he abandoned his car. he had to have had help. infamously in these honor killings, 5,000 a year according to the united nations, always, it is a family member who helps and, one wonders was it a family member who helped yasir

said? jenna: what will be your follow up on this? >> we plan ad trip to egypt and the next week the arab spring erupted. we had a bead on where we thought he might be and we were getting some assistance. we had to call off the trip because of the --. jenna: obvious reasons. >> yeah. revolution. and, so, you know, i would still like to go back to egypt, see if we can find him. jenna: i think a lot of people would like to find him at this point especially hearing those 911 calls. gregg, thank you for the follow-up on this. >> sure. jenna: a story we'll continue to watch and hopefully we'll find this man. jon? jon: jenna, hard to imagine a tragedy in the snow in the middle of summer but that is exactly what happened following a massive avalanche high in the mountains. new details for you on nine climbers who died in the french alps. plus president obama reveals what he thinks was his biggest mistake in his term thus far and governor romney's response. we have a fair and balanced debate what it all could

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jenna: right now an update on a story we first told you about yesterday. authorities are now speaking out about the death of nine climbers in a massive avalanche in the french alps. harris is with us today and she is on the story. harris? >> reporter: the authorities there, jenna, have really had to get right on this and people are angry about this and seem to be arguing now they have the deaths in the alps if you will. the mayor in the town where this happened, and mont maudit. the mountain they went up is called the cursed mountain. the mayor of the town saying no way they could have for seen this. there was not in the forecast there would be avalanche conditions. on the grounds of anonymity

a local official is saying something quite different. everybody knew what the dangers were. other experienced climbers who turned back before the people went up the mountain and said the situation was dangerous before anybody went up. everybody should have been turned away. the interior minister is siding with mayor of the town saying unavoidable circumstance. we knew it was windy and snow but there way we knew there were avalanche conditions. what is happening with memorial for the victims they're scheduling tomorrow afternoon. the investigation will continue as everybody is speaking with lots of different take what is happened. clearly this was a bad situation. a lot of snow, a lot of melting. they will get to the bottom of it but meantime nine victims, three of them from britain are being remembered this weekend. back to you. jenna: harris faulkner at the breaking news desk. thank you. >> reporter: sure. jon: the reaction is coming in now to a new admission by

president obama that is heating up the campaign trail. in a new interview mr. obama says his biggest mistake was not doing a good job communicating with the american people. >> the mistake of my first term -- couple of years was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. and that's important but, you know the nature of this office is, also to tell a story to the american people that gives them a sense of unity, and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times. jon: his opponent, governor romney, wasted no time jumping on that assessment saying president obama believes millions of americans have lost their homes, their jobs and their livelihoods because he failed to tell a good story.

being president is not about telling stories. be president is about leading and president obama has failed to lead. fox news contributor julie roginsky is a former political advisor to democratic senator frank lautenberg of new jersey. amos snead is former press secretary of former congressman roy blunt. you are a spokesman for a would you have told the president to trot out the line the biggest failure is not tell the story. >> i don't think he said the big ill failure was not the telling the story when the health care debate heated up he had never really known or found out how to use the bully approximately pit. you have politicians out there, chris christie, republican from new jersey comes to mind somebody who knows how to use his bully pulpit to put forward his policy and get his policies passed. the president unfortunately never really learned that.

he is starting to learn that now. i'm wondering it is a little late to be learning that today. you know, for the first few years i really thought despite his many policy successes he was not able to communicate them. he was not able to use the bully pulpit the way the president should normally use the bully pulpit way other presidents in the past, bill clinton and george bush to get their policies done and also explain to the american people why the policies are the right policies for them. jon: amos, especially early in his term seemed like you couldn't turn on the television one night without seeing president obama making an address from the oval office or the east room. in the first year of his term he was a on a pace to pass both bushes and president clinton in terms of prime time addresses you have 23 million americans across the country asking where are the. lori:,? they're not asking the president to tell them a new story. i find this shocking. pub bes are saying where are

the jobs and president obama saying where is the story. seems totally tone deaf. jon: you talk about the bully pulpit, julie, works if you have achievements to tout. chris christie has done pretty amazing things with the budget in new jersey, for instance, but if you don't have accomplishments to sell getting up there using the bully pulpit might not be so successful. >> the president has come plash thents to sell. talk about health care, aspects of the health care reform plan popular wirth voters. the fact you can stay on insurance until you're 26. can't deny you insurance for preexisting conditions. the fact you can't get kicked off your insurance policy if you get cancer but that was not communicated effectively. he allowed the opposition to dictated the terms of what the debate will be he realizes now belatedly that was a mistake. there are successes. successes that are very popular with the american public but unfortunately they were not communicated effectively in the beginning

so others are able to hijack the message. for those of us who have done this for a living i was communications director for a few senators you need to salvage the message yourself. you need to put the message out there otherwise somebody will define it for you in terms you don't want to be defined as and that is exactly what happened. jon: amos, the president was propelled ultimately into the senator's seat and white house because of that speech he gave in 92 at the democratic convention. he is a great speaker. pretty hard to believe that he is now saying that he failed to tell the story. >> yeah i think you could list a whole lot of failed failures of this administration not just story telling. jon, where i think this will hurt him the most is the youth vote. 2.7 million young people graduating college who can't find jobs because the jobs aren't there. they are swept in the hope and change and thought this would be a new administration and completely failed the young people. i don't know if there is any story-telling that can change the outlook for them

between now and november. jon: we'll have to leave it there. amos snead, julie roginsky. oh, boy. i'm not telling the story very well. thank you both. jenna: like brangelina. it is different, for our panelists make it easier. jon: give me the benefit of the doubt on that one. jenna: of course we will. we will look at the 2012 campaign, another possible issue for the president's reselection team. is the president targeting certain small groups at the risk of alienating some very big voting blocs? is that part of a bigger strategy. we'll look at the president's campaign and what it will look like moving forward. a red light camera capture as crash. hard to even watch it. why police want to take a closer look at this video. we'll tell you coming up. [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters.

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sort of an appeal to a broad swath of the electorate was tired of the iraq war and maybe tired of eight years of the bush administration. >> and he is trying to recreate that, if not the enthusiasm at least the same numbers of voters because he really did well. very, very well, among black, african-americans. did well among hispanics. jon: pulled 9% of the republican vote. >> that's right. the problem he is doing much less well this time among political independents, for example. he is doing worse among whites who don't have a college degree, who are the most economically stressed. so he is trying to mobilize specific groups of voters with specific policies and political appeals. for example, young people, we'll hit them on the student loan rate that they're paying. we'll try to mobilize them that way. african-americans, he sent eric holder to talk about opposition to voter i.d. laws this week at naacp convention. they want to get that african-american turnout up again. and they're wore remembered

it won't be. jon: gay marriage, for instance. all of sudden the president comes out in favor of gay marriage. >> that is about, not so much gay voters. in part it is. gay donors in particular. still a relatively small portion of the electorate who are actually gay americans but appealing to the liberal electorate to make sure they're mobilized. if you have trouble among the broader electorate you have to go with specific groups. jon: that is what i was going to say. what is the danger if you're microtargeting small voting blocs, what is the danger? >> you can alienate larger groups if it looks like that is who you're appealing to, a larger vision, a larger narrative what a second term would be like or a record you can defend, you're not going to have the same kind of optimistic appeal. it is more, it is narrower and in some cases based not so much on hope but on fear. and that tends to be not as uplifting a message. jon: paul gigot from "the wall street journal" the editorial page editor. >> thanks, jon. jon: thank you. you can catch pal tomorrow,

he will host the "journal editorial report" at 2:00 p.m. eastern time here on fox news channel. jenna: this big story. pressure is growing on treasury secretary tim geithner. a new report is suggest that he knew banks were lying how well they are doing in 2008. at that time as you recall the economy was plummeting he, timothy geithner, was head of the federal reserve bank of new york. at issue is what actions he took with respect to a benchmark interest rate called libor. now libor isn't a word we use a lot but it is how much changes charge to lend to each other and banks are lending money to each other all the time. because of that, libor trickles down to affect us, affecting interest rates of all kinds of loans we need. in fact, more than $800 trillion in securities and loans are linked to libor and that includes basic needs for every family like the interest rate on your car loan, on your home loan. in fact if you have an adjustable rate mortgage, that mortgage is also likely

tied to libor. about half of private student loans are also tied to that rate. so that rate, if libor, isn't set correctly, the effect is massive. and there are now allegations that the big guns in london, guys who were setting this rate, were manipulating it to make banks look better. as banks began failing, geithner allegedly reached out to those people that set this rate and some want to know how much he really knew and when. our chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us from washington with the details on the next steps potentially to this story. james? >> reporter: jenna, good afternoon. this is it still breaking. documents released minutes ago by the federal reserve bank of new york indicate that employees of barclays bank in england notified regulators over four years ago that the willful misreporting of data was quote, prevalent. in the banking industry when it came to the london interbank offered rate, or libor, as jenna just explained is the average

interest rate in london set to charge to other banks look to borrow money. a number of british and american banks are under investigation by regulators after barclays, a large british bank, paid a $450 million settlement and several top officers resigned amid disclosures that the bank misreported data in order to fix the libor rate. the focus of these investigations go all the way back to 2007 and 2008 at which time treasury secretary tim geithner was president of the new york federal reserve. and it was on june 1st, of 2008 that geithner e-mailed a memo to the governor of the bank of england, sir offeria number of recommendations for changes how the libor rate could be set, changes as geithner put it to eliminate the incentive for banks to misreport data. first uncovered by "the washington post." obtained by our sister network, fbn the geithner memo memo suggested that king worked with the british bankers association it quote, improve the accuracy of the rate setting process. specifically geithner's idea

included that bba work with libor banks to establish and publish best practices for calculating and reporting ranges. that bba require internal and external auditors confirm adherence to the best practices and attest to the accuracy of banks libor rates. that bba would provide more specific guidance as to the size of the transaction referenced in the reported quote rates. and lastly regulators randomly select a subset of 16 banks which the mean would be calculated. senate democrats yesterday issued fresh calls for wide-ranging probes for u.s. and foreign bank regulators n short, jenna, we will be hearing about the libor scandal for months and months to come. jenna: lots of questions about the effects potentially of europe's economy, on the big banks on heads of those banks and what this potentially means going forward for our banks as well. big story, james, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you. jon: caught on tape, take a look at this, a driver running a red light.

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economy? jenna: some shocking new video out of new jersey that we want to show you where a driver runs a red light. you can see it right there. and then the median and then takes down that pole. you car as you can see launches into the air before knocking over that light pole. police say the 29-year-old driver suffered only minor injuries and is facing dwi charges. the driver in the other car was not hurt. that is one of the reasons why we can show you a video like this, basically, at this point everyone is okay despite what you're seeing on your screen. the police chief who released the video says he wants other drivers to realize when someone run as red light. a good warning for everybody. jon: or drinks too much. big concerns over syria's latest move. a new report says the regime is pulling huge stockpiles of chemical weapons out of storage. as we get word of another massacre in a rebel-held

strong hold. now the u.s. wants to know what president assad plans on doing with those chemical weapons. leland vittert has details for us from jerusalem. leland? >> reporter: hi, jon. there are two come beating theories here. syria has one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons in the middle east and they have a very powerful army capable of using them. in their war games they launched missiles and art tellry shells capable of using these chemical weapons. one theory, is president assad may end up using these chemical weapons on his own population, particularly the sunni muslim populations rising up against him leading this 18-month long revolt and kill tens of thousandses in the process. theory two, equally as frightening president assad and his army is worried about losing control of the chemical weapons stockpiles and are moving them from different storage facilities to a place where they can better control this

situation. either way, it is a very, very, frightening situation both for the united states, for israel and for other allies. this comes as we are getting word of yet another massacre. also this time in the province of hama the brutality continues there. by president assad and his troops. we're told they shelled one village. brought in helicopter gunships. amateur video shows this shelling going on. what has become a newfound technique of president assad sending troops on the ground to kill citizens in these cities family by family. the latest death toll of this massacre at 220. obviously both these chemical weapons reports and this new massacre will lead the world to have a greater sense of urgency to figure out what to do to end the violence. but as we know it has been going on for 18 months. there has been a lot of attempts to try to stop it and so far there is nothing concrete that seems to bring

this to an end. back to you. jon: it is just unbelievable sitting here in this country watching a government do that to its own people. leland vittert. thank you. jenna: more on that story as we get it of course. a discovery also just shout of the border. police uncovering a elaborate drug smuggling tunnel. how they found it and how long it was in operation. we'll tell you about that. plus, what it's really like to live in iran. we'll speak to an irania iranian-american woman who was once imprisoned there all because of what she wrote in her diary as a teenager. we have her amazing story and why she says the united states needs to get more involved when it comes to iran next.

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jon: just in, some new information on the potential threat iran poses to our servicemen and women overseas. iranian media reporting war

games held earlier this month in the desert used targets that were models foreign military bases. the message? that iran's missiles with improved accuracy and firing capabilities can hit israel and u.s. bases in the region. this as the u.s. closely monitors iran's movements with tensions high over its nuclear ambitions. the pentagon beefing up its naval force in the gulf. that includes deploying the uss ponce. that is the new mothership for special operations forces in the middle east. it is a 544-foot long ship recently upgraded from austin class transpour ship into floating command base. it can reach the speed of 20 knots. the official designation is float forward staging base. it is deployed to the fifth fleet. it comes equipped with helicopter landing deck, field headquarters and for hospital for large contingents of troops.

jenna: from a woman that knows first-hand what it is like to live in iran. she was born there and grew up there and was only in high school when authorities picked up her personal diary and put her in prison because of some of the things she wrote. she left iran and now lives in texas where she is a cancer researcher but she stays very active writing about her experience in iran and about what she thinks about the way forward especially when it comes to america. she joins us now on set. nice to have you here with us. >> thank you, thanks for having me, jenna. jenna: let's talk a little bit about your story. what was it like growing up in iran? >> being in iran under the current government, it's very hard. it is very hard for men and women, especially for women. as you mentioned i was writing in my diary. i wasn't taking up arms against the government to do anything. i wasn't practicing freedom of speech. i was practicing speaking in

my personal diary. jenna: when you think about in high school one of those little pink books with a locket on it at home. how did they find the diary? >> they have routine searches every day because they were so afraid, they're like in the '80s they were so afraid of all the happenings happening in iran. so they were trying to find anybody who have anything against the government. so they picked up on my diary and kept, reading it and then i was to be kicked out of high school. jenna: what did you say in there? >> i said like, women should have more rights. i was doing research --. jenna: day dreaming almost. >> things you want to improve for your own country. jenna: i want to ask you a little bit about what is going on today but first we mentioned you were put in prison for this. what was at that like? >> it is very tough. i was in prison, in confinement when i wasn't seeing anybody, wasn't going out to see the sun or

anything. i was like a teen ager in prison and my only wish was, that i see my family one more time. that was my wish back then. and my wish was granted. and i saw my family more than once. but, i promised myself if, i do anything in my power to help people who are in prison, who don't have a voice, i want to be their voice and that's why, you know, i've been active since i left prison. jenna: we'll have to fast forward a little bit because we're short on time. you come to the united states. you develop this amazing career. you have a family. you're an american citizen. now we're in situation in iran about this nuclear program and there are sanctions in place and one of the things that comes up with these sanctions, critics say, listen, this will hurt people like us in iran, your family and friends still there, these sanctions. it will not affect change in the government. i wonder what your thoughts are since you're in touch with people in iran what the ultimate effects of the sanctions are? >> jenna, we have to look at sanctions against government and against people also.

but, when people are poor, you know, it is mathematical model. you can't get more poor than you are. but when the government is rich and is supporting its mercenaries in syria and iraq and revolutionary guards in iran to suppress people, the sanctions will hurt government more than they hurt people. but, i am saying sanctions by itself is not going to work because sanctions have been in place since 1979. you know, but what is going to help, it will make a difference in the regime's behavior helping iranian people and helping iranian opposition. because when i was in prison i realized only thing the iranian government is afraid of is the opposition. it is not afraid of the united states. not afraid of israel. it is not afraid of other countries. it is afraid of its opposition. that is why i said they have been active and i just few weeks ago i attended largest gathering of them in paris. jenna: so good to have you

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jon: a fox news alert and three americans reportedly dead after a private jet crashes in southern france. the plane crashed and burst into flames at the end of a runway, apparently it was not able to stop in time as it barreled down the runway. the americans were onboard the plane, no other passengers onboard. it crashed at the airport between marseilles and to loan, the reason for the crash remains unclear, authorities have not released the identities of those killed except to say the 60-year-old pilot, a 24-year-old co-pilot and 30-year-old flight

attendant all die inside that crash in the south of france. jenna: well, it is a political slug fest breaking out over governor romney's record as head of bain capital. we're glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. "happening now," a lot of finger pointing, name calling and charges of outright lying. the sparring centers on mr. romney's involvement with bain capital during a two-year period that the obama campaign tries to blame him for outsourcing some companies run by bain during that time. president obama himself weighed in during an interview that aired this morning. >> when some people questioned why i would challenge his bain record, the point i made there in the past is if you're a head of a large private equity firm or hedge fund, your job is to make money. it's not to create jobs. it's not even to create a successful business, it's to make sure that you are

maximizing returns for your investor. now, that's appropriate. that's part of the american way. that's part of the system. but that doesn't necessarily make you qualified to think about the economy as a whole because as president my job is to think about the workers, my job is to think about communities where jobs have been outsourced. jenna: says the president. so far governor romney swatting aside these attacks, telling our own neil cavuto he'd rather stay on the offensive while pointing out independent fact checkers have found the claims by the obama campaign to be false and misleading. jon: but the former's defenders are keeping up this line of attack, including former president clinton who told an audience why romney's entire career is fair game. >> he said, basically, i'd be a better president because i know how to create jobs, because that's what i did. and he's going to take credit for running a successful olympics, for example.

so when all your work life before you run for president is relevant. jenna: well, republicans agree says governor romney's business record is pretty good while attacking smears by the obama campaign, that's the republican. here is virginia's governor, bob mcdonnell. >> of course it's part of his record. he was the ceo of bain capital and was incredibly successful in that role for some 15 years, helped to create over 120,000 new jobs by putting capital into the small and start-up businesses. of course that's part of his record. what's not part of his record is the misrepresentations coming out of the obama campaign that says that jobs were being outsourced. jon: well, it's an issue that is sure to keep coming back, but the romney campaign is determined to fight back. they say they want to set the record straight. jenna: back and forth, that's the way we go in these campaigns, isn't it? you just heard from former president clinton and golf mcdonnell, but they were also talking about a little bit about

extending the bush tax cuts. president clinton calling on congress to let them expire for wealthier americans. >> if we're going to have long-term debt reduction, we're going to have to have some spending cuts and some more revenues, and that's the fairest place to get it. what the republicans are trying to do is to put him in a position of giving all that up for another year, which i think would be a big mistake. >> this is a president that's focused now on raising taxes as part of his solution for what ails the virginia and america. it's the wrong prescription. jenna: well, governor mcdonnell is hosting the annual gathering of the national governors' association in virginia today, and that's where we find our own peter doocy with more. peter? >> reporter: and, jenna, it's a bipartisan group of governors meeting here. there are 26 in williamsburg today, and we've heard them talk about sequestration, the defense cuts, we've heard them talk

about energy policy, but most of all they're talking about health care and specifically the expansion of state medicaid programs. i spoke to our host -- i'm not a governor, so he's not my host, but the host of the conference, virginia's bob mechanic donnell -- mcdonnell, a republican, and he didn't specifically say virginia is going to opt out, but he also didn't sound too supportive of the idea. listen. >> the supreme court now has given us an option. i want to make sure we cover people and have a decent safety net, but i'm not doing it unless you give us vast authority to reform and implement some creative things in our state, and you can guarantee you're going to pay for it. you promised to pay 90% of it, but you're broke. you're $16 trillion in debt. how are you going to pay for it? >> reporter: and like governor mcdonnell, a republican, at least seven democratic governors have said that they're not so sure that expanding medicaid in their state is such a good idea with montana's brian schweitzer saying, quote:

>> reporter: but there are certainly others in the democratic party who are here in williamsburg who think it's a good idea. >> if people respect covered, if -- aren't covered, if they don't have access, they're going to get sick, they're going to go to the most expensive place possible, the emergency room, and that's going to cost the rest of us who do have insurance. we pay for the cost of uncompensated care. so when we look at it for the folks of delaware, we believe that it's a good deal for us to expand, expand medicaid. >> reporter: and nebraska governor john heineman, a republican, says he thinks there will end up being 50 different state solutions to questions about health care. jenna? jenna: peter's at the governors' conference, the president was also going to be in virginia today, so it is the state to be in, peter. thank you very much, peter doocy. >> reporter: yep. jon: there's a new poll out showing president obama with an edge over governor romney on several major issues.

the president also holding on to his lead in a head-to-head matchup. the national survey by the pew research center gives the president a seven-point advantage, putting him ahead 50-43% over governor romney. stephen hayes is a senior writer for the weekly standard and a fox news contributor. that number, first of all, surprised me, stephen, because it's a bigger spread than i've seen in other polling. what do you make of that? >> well, the pew had a very large sample, you'd rather have likely voters than registered voters, likely to give you a better answer. but i think the fact that the sample was is so large suggests that it's a trustworthy poll, and pew generally is thought well of among people who do polls. i think that's a pretty big spread. that was surprising to me. it's bigger than we've seen in surveys over the past several weeks, suggests that if it's accurate, that president obama has not only not been damaged by the very difficult several months we've had here

economically, but, in fact, seems to be holding on to his lead or maybe even growing it slightly. jon: there were some interesting numbers and one in particular that seems to conflict, and i want to see if you can help explain this. mitt romney gets supposedly enthusiastic support, strong support from 34% of those who back him. on the other hand, president obama gets 64% of his supporters saying they strongly back him. suggesting that mitt romney maybe doesn't have exactly the base of support, that people aren't fired up about him as much. but on the other hand, in this other statistic came out from the same poll that suggests that romney's supporters are more engaged, and 70% of them say they have given quite a bit of thought to the election, only 62% of president obama's supporters said the same thing. does that make sense? >> yeah. u t a large group of peopleat

who are against president obama but not yet a corresponding group of people who are for mitt romney. so you've got republican who are very enthusiastic, very energized about getting rid of president obama, and i think a good number of independents as well. what they haven't seen or where they aren't yet is enthusiastically supportive of mitt romney. now, you've got some who are, 34%, but that number, i think if you're mitt romney's campaign, needs to grow in the coming three-and-a-half months in order to insure that conservatives turn out, that they turn out not only to oppose president obama, but that they feel excited and feel good about their own candidate. jon: we just had up the number among independents. independent voters are said to be key in every election, and right now these two candidates are tied, 46 for mitt romney, 45% for the president. >> yeah. i mean, i think if you're team romney, you want that number to be a little bigger, but remember, this is a national survey, and what really will matter is what independents in states like ohio, wisconsin,

iowa perhaps, virginia, north carolina, florida, the key states, what independents in those states think rather than what independents across the country think. jon: i suppose the romney campaign could take heart in a couple of the key statistics about the economy. when asked who would do the best job reducing the federal deficit and improving the jobs situation, romney wins 50-36 on reducing federal deficit and 46-42 improving the jobs situation. but then in what seems to be a contradictory poll number, which candidate would do the best job improving economic conditions, the president wins 48-42. and in dealing with health care, 49-41. if the economy is the most important issue, that's got to make mitt romney's supporters feel pretty good there, steve. >> it does. although as you point out, jon, the numbers are mixed. i think the fact that 48-42 people give an advantage to

president obama when they're thinking about who would improve the economy suggests to me that mitt romney has some work to do in that respect. i mean, he's talked about his 59-point plan, he laid that out during the primaries, but just in talking to voters around the country myself they don't have yet from mitt romney is, you know, if you were to ask a voter in, say, ohio what does mitt romney want to do with the economy, they sort of have a vague idea that he wants to get government out of the way, maybe lower taxes, but they can't give you two or three or four sentences and say this is the direction that mitt romney is going to take the country on the economy if he's elected. i think they need to be able to do that. jon: it's going to be a fascinating process to watch as we work toward november. stephen hayes from the weekly standard -- >> thanks, jon. jenna: one of our big stories this week, how much did you hear about it in the mainstream media? our news watch panel is going to tackle that topic about whether or not it got enough coverage. jon: that's right. plus, new coast guard cadets arrive for training in new

london, connecticut. laura ingle is there. laura? >> reporter: and unlike other college students, these cadets have one less thing to worry about after graduation. ill tell you what it is coming up after the break. a party?

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jon: some new video to show you of a drug tunnel running beneath our border with mexico. harris is live with who put it there. >> reporter: yeah. well, jon, this tunnel is getting a lot of attention right now from our border protection experts because of two things. it's sophisticated, and it may be connect today a powerful drug cartel. they have been deadly. first, about the tunnel itself. and the problem is the opening begins in an ice plant in mexico, and it runs underneath the u.s./mexico border ending up inside a one-story, nondescript building in arizona. it was, it has lighting, ventilation systems, it's reinforced with 4x6 beams whichs

used to store drugs. they followed a man in a pickup truck. they discovered 39 pounds of methamphetamine inside his truck. he led them back to the building, they entered, found the tunnel. they suspect it's been out of commission for a while because there's not a lot of marking on the floor, but it does point to the increasing number of these tunnels being dug and the resources that are being united statessed for them because the -- being used for them. the estimation is it takes six month toss a year to build something like you see here. workers use shovels and pick axes, slowly digging through the soil, sleeping in empty buildings near the dig site until the work is done. jon: you wish they would put that work to better use. >> reporter: yeah. jon: thanks, harris. jenna: new recruits are hoping to join the coast guard, and they're seeing the most competitive training seasons in recent history, and the reason

is simply lack of jobs. fewer officers are retiring which means fewer openings as well for potential cadets. laura ingle's live in new london, connecticut, with more. laura? >> reporter: hi, jenna. well, the coast guard academy is now at the end of week three, and a class known as swamp summer, you can see these students are hard at work going through drill practice and manual bombs which is just one of the many components of the seven week course. now, this is the coast guard's version of boot camp, designed to prepare these incoming students for their new life in the corps of cadets. the class is the smallest since 1999 and the most diverse in the academy's history with 36% women and 35% minority students. competition to get into the economy has been fierce because so many who are already in the service are holding on to their jobs for as long as possible. those who do fake cut at the academy are also more likely to stick around.

>> we'll graduate you with a bachelor in sciences degree and a commission in the united states coast guard with a guaranteed 100% employment rate w a job so you have the free education followed by a guaranteed job. that's an incredibly attractive package for a young person nowadays. >> reporter: 85% of graduates choose to serve beyond their five-year commitment after graduation. in fact, military retention rates are at record rates with more choosing the assurance of a job with the military over competing in the private sector. >> i definitely hear stories about my friends back home who are worried they can't find internships for the summer, and when they graduate, they can't find jobs after they have their degree. so being in the coast guard and having that guaranteed job, that guaranteed paycheck as soon as i graduate, that's a very nice thing to have. >> reporter: and some more stats for you, about 58% of coast guard academy graduates will remain with the service for 20 years or more. jenna, back to you.

jenna: are you going to join them with any of those exercises we're seeing, laura? >> reporter: you know, i was thinking about it. yesterday they were out on the sailing course. i liked that part of it. jenna: i think that sounds good to me too. get on the water. maybe none of the stuff on the land. >> reporter: exactly. jenna: laura, thank you very much for that. we can't forget the u.s. coast guard has some really important jobs they're doing on a daily basis. they just announced tough new security measures to protect the republican national convention in tampa. several maritime security zones around the center will be set up because the convention hall is near the water. governor mitt romney is expected to accept his party's nomination for president at that convention which runs august 27-30th. it's coming up. jon jon you know, jenna and i have pretty good jobs. jenna: we do. jon: it's hard to call this work. jenna: not sitting next to you, never. [laughter] jon: well, that's very taxing, trust me. but do you ever find your job stressful?

that's why it's called work, and one colorado woman is suing her former boss because her job was too hard. does she make a case? our legal panel takes a look. plus, heavy rains triggering severe flooding in one part of the country while many states experience a drought. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with the weekend weather coming up. ♪

jon: extreme weather to tell you about now, historic drought conditions choking much of the nation. the united states department of agriculture declaring 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster ever in the u.s. but in houston the problem is just the opposite. the rain refusing to let up for days, causing severe flooding there. listen to these residents.

>> it's kind of incredible. we've had about a week's worth of rain here. just every day's been rain, rain, rain. >> it's pretty stunning. this is the second time i've seen it this high. we're on an elevated trail, but there's another trail that's probably another 0 feet below -- 10 feet below the edge of the water right here. jon: chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is in the fox extreme weather center. texas is a huge state, i know, but they were having severe drought there. is this covering all of texas? >> let me tell you, last year texas had one of the worst draughts they'd ever seen. that is largely gone. still some across west texas, but there is no more drought here across the southeastern area. see these amounts over here? that's about 10-12 inches of rain falling right here in this kind of southeastern corner towards houston, port arthur, beaumont. that area getting pummeled, and

there's still more there. this is a look at the last 24 hours of your radar, and you can see very heavy rain has moved through here, and that is the latest image. so there's still more rain falling across the houston area, unfortunately. the majority of this moisture is going to very slowly pull off towards the east, though, so i think the worst of what we'll see is going to be areas just to the east of houston, around beaumont, moving towards lake charles and this southern part of louisiana. no more drought there, but there certainly is a lot that we have across portions of the south, spotty in the south at least. there's going to more rain across louisiana, as well as up towards west virginia. this is through the weekend. so a big area of rain here. there's a light drought going on here, it's not too significant. this will help. the worst of the draught, unfortunately, is on the other side and to the south of it, and that's not the area that's going to be getting very significant rain. one other story we're dealing with today, a slight risk of weather across parts of wisconsin and minnesota, down

towards iowa. a few downpours could happen in the later afternoons as well. jon: rick reichmuth, thanks. >> reporter: you bet. jenna: we're going to file this in the category of, potentially, bizarre lawsuits. we'll see what you think. a colorado woman who was fired from her job as an accountant is now suing her former employer. her name is tammy armstrong, and she claims the job was too hard and caused her to have heart problems because of all the stress. in fact, take a look at the complaint from her. a quote: >> reporter: is there a case here? doug burns is a former prosecutor, and jennifer bonn jean -- first of all, you guys

are well rested, you're not overworked or anything? [laughter] >> i think i'm going to file a complaint now. my job's too hard. >> we can convert it to a class action. jenna: a slippery slope, certainly, with some of these cases, and we'll get into that. jennifer, verbal abuse, assaults, massive amounts of work. the massive amount of work doesn't necessarily connect with verbal assault or verbal abuse. where do you even start with this case? >> it's hard to say what the actual allegations are. you have to look at the facts underlying the complaint, and ms. armstrong has alleged that she was required to work these tedious, long hours and was not compensated fairly because she wasn't being compensated overtime. and while the federal fair standards labor act does require that certain employees do receive over time, certain individuals are exempt from that. usually salaried employees, people with a professional type of job. and while on its face it seems that a senior accountant --

which is what she was -- she would be exempt labels themselves do not necessarily rule the day. so it's kind of hard to know. of. jenna: interesting, though, that your eyes as a lawyer goes to these overtime work hours and, doug, you agree with that. >> yeah. i litigated a case like this just last year, a domestic, live-in worker sued my client, and she was considered exempt because she lived in. that's another one. the exemption in this case is it's a three-part white collar one, and she's an accountant, so it seems as though she meets a number of those labels. she's a professional, she's an executive, and the point is to keep it in single english, if she is in one of those categories, then she's not entitled to overtime. jenna: what about the verbal abuse? >> that's a separate issue. a hostile work environment, there's no exemption from abusing your employees. jenna: what kind of proof, because there's tough bosses, and then there's tough bosses. so what kind of proof would she

need, a recording? >> hostile work environment, correct me if i'm wrong, a lot of times comes up in the area of, you know, sex discrimination and the point is -- >> harassment. >> yeah. they have, like, posters and crude behavior, you know, and things like that. so basically to answer your question, no, you need proof that people were, like, screaming obscenities and acting crazy. jenna: she did say she went to the hospital, twice, in fact. she's having a heart problem, and her employer knew that and did not change the way that that employer was treating her. what about that part of the case? >> the american disabilities act does protect workers who have disabilities, and employers are required to make a reasonable accommodation so that those employees get a fair opportunity. not preferential treatment, but the same opportunity that someone without a disability. so if she can establish that, then she may have a claim. but it's not clear. and, you know, this complaint while we don't know how meritorious it is on its face,

it does raise some interesting questions about the labor standards in this country in this stay and age where we are working harder than ever, our office is in our phone. jenna: is it? she says she works more than 40 hours, but we don't actually know how much overtime -- >> in well, no, that's what they're going to have to work through in discovery. the first thing that's going to happen is they're going to ask, how many hours did you work? jenna: we're definitely not a sympathetic bunch. all of us are walking around with blackberries all the time. >> you never stop working this day and age. jenna: a case like this does get a lot of attention, there is some sort of settlement, then a lot of people might have a case. and we think maybe that's why this case should go forward. but then if you have the opposite, you could see some egregious -- >> legally it's funny because it's kind of a kitchen sink claim. you have the disability claim, an emotional distress claim, but the role core of -- real core of the case is, is she entitled to

overtime. jenna: all right. we'll leave it there, and maybe we'll leave our blackberries alone a little bit this weekend? >> i am definitely not looking at i. laugh. jenna: thank you very much for the time. jon, are you on your blackberry? you're working. jon: i'm thankful for the air-conditioning. this job is so tough. >> i want to give you my card. [laughter] jon: yeah. i need it, doug. hey, you'll likely remember this story, the head of jpmorgan chase revealing a rogue trader who cost that bank billions of dollars. jpmorgan, though, just reported earnings, and we have learned that loss was much bigger than we originally thought. you might be surprised, though, what it means to the firm's bottom line. plus, the vote by the house of representatives this week to repeal the president's health care overhaul. yes, it was symbolic, but what kind of coverage did it get in the mainstream media? we'll hash it out. >> for those who still support repealing this harmful health

care law, we're giving our colleagues in the senate another chance to heed the will of the american people. >> this majority needs to stop working, to put american families at risk, start working to make our economy healthy.

jenna: right now we're going to take a look at the latest reading of consumer sentiment, a very important data point, and it dropped in this month, in fact, to the lowest levels since december. today's number is just a snapshot of the economy, but for

a look at the big picture, our chief national correspondent jim angle's with us from washington. hi, jim. >> reporter: hello, jenna. it is a troubling sign for the economy this morning. consumers whose spending drives economic growth are worried. a widely-followed index of consumer sentiment fell this month to its lowest level in more than six months. listen. >> part of the consumer survey is looking forward, what do consumers expect over the next 3-6 months or maybe a year? and what they're telling us is their expectations have really diminished to the point that overall consumer sentiment has weakened. so they're not expecting a very good future. >> reporter: which tells us that consumers are not in a mood to keep up the good pace of spending even compared to the last six months. sylvia says there are multiple signals the economy has slowed down and is unlikely to pick up soon. >> you are getting multiple signals that the economy has slowed is not likely to pick up

very soon. you see consumer sentiment being disappointing, you see the national federation of independent businesses, the small business survey being fairly disappointing, capital goods orders slow down, basically a slowdown in employment, a slight uptick in unemployment rates. all of them suggest that there's risk on the downside on the u.s. economy. >> reporter: now, one factor is the fiscal uncertainty hanging over the economy, jenna, because of the expiration of all the bush tax cuts at the end of the year. president obama's been proposing an extent only for those with family incomes below $200,000 a year and though several democrats have been pushing limits of $500,000 or a million dollars a year. now there are first signs that the president is losing democratic support. now democratic senator james webb and independent joseph leishman who caucuses with the democrats both say they will vote against the president's proposal, and until the fate of some $4 trillion in tax hikes is

resolved, consumer sentiment, employment and the economy itself are unlikely to recover. jenna? jenna: also linked as well, jim. thank you so much, jim ankle in d.c. today. another big story we're watch anything the business world is this one that has to do with jpmorgan chase, one of the biggest banks in the world. now jpmorgan is upping its estimate of how much a bad trade cost the firm. now the estimate is nearly $6 billion. almost triple the original estimate, again, of this single trade. ceo jamie dimon saying the news has truly shaken the company to its core, and an internal investigation shows traders may have tried to conceal this mistake. the bank says managers linked to the trade have been let go without severance pay. in fact, the bank is also planning to take back two years' worth of pay from those executives. despite all of this, the banking giant reported a profit in its latest quarter, in fact, the loss did not greatly impact the company's profits as jamie dye

monowho you're seeing on your screen has repeatedly said. the question remains how much damage has been done to the firm and how that will effect it going forward. jon: you know that saying that goes something like men should not observe how laws or sausages are made? this might be an example. a strange sequence of events in the senate and how it is handling the house bill that would repeal the health care overhaul. you know the house voted to repeal the president's health care law. well, late yesterday that bill actually made it to the senate. senate majority leader harry reid attempted to put the bill on the floor calendar using a special rule that allows him to bypass normal procedures. sounds good, right? well, then, get this, senator reid objected to his own request. that has the effect of blocking the repeal bill from getting on the senate calendar at all, basically that means it's dead in the united states senate. meanwhile, this week's house vote to repeal the health care

overhaul getting zero coverage on the morning shows of the big three networks. on the nightly network newscasts, the reporting seemed to have a regular -- rather negative focus. joining us now on our news watch panel, judith miller, investigative reporter, kirsten powers is a columnist for the daily beast. both are fox news contributors. this thing that senator reid did we kind of had to dig through the records of the senate to find out about it. they actually spent a minute and a half in the senate considering or not considering or dealing with, um, this obamacare repeal that the house had worked on for two days and five hours. judy, should that get some coverage? >> well, it did get some coverage, jon. i mean, it was covered on the nightly news, and it made a small, mod connection story on the inside of many, many papers. but i think most people will think that this is largely a symbolic action, and it's

definitely what one calls inside the beltway. that is, if you really want to know how the senate makes sausage, you should look at this. but no one thought this was going to go anywhere. it does highlight the continuing divisions within america over obamacare, and i think what hasn't gotten enough coverage is the what's happening to obamacare itself on the ground. we've now had double the number of cost estimates. it was supposed to cost a trillion, now it may be two trillion. we also have a lot more questions being raised about whether or not the states will go along with some of the provisions. i think that's what is not being covered sufficiently. jon: kirsten, judy said it was a symbolic vote in the house, and maybe it was. maybe the republicans are trying to symbolize that they don't like this thing, and they would like to get rid of it. but the networks have been known to cover symbolic votes before. there was a symbolic vote back in 2007 about the gulf war, and

opposition to george w. bush's troop surge in iraq. that got all kinds of coverage. >> well, two things. first of all, as judy said, it did get coverage by the evening news. i don't, frankly, expect the morning news to cover hard-hitting news. i don't watch the morning news that mop, but it generally isn't the most serious subjects. that said, this was the 33rd time that they've had this vote, and they knew that it wasn't going to go anywhere in the senate. they don't have the votes in the senate to repeal it. so it really is political theater. and i don't know how much you are obliged to cover political theater, especially for the 33rd time. jon: well, is that accurate though? i mean, i just wonder whether there might not be a couple of potentially vulnerable democratic senators who wouldn't want to vote in favor of obamacare, especially after as judy said the cost estimates have been going through the roof. >> i don't think there's anybody even in the house who would say that they think that it could

get through the senate. it's not, this is pure political theater because americans are unhappy with obamacare, and they want to keep registering they're the ones who oppose it, and you need to reelect them and get them in control of the senate and, of course, give them a republican president as well. jon: so where do we go from here in terms of the coverage of this issue? i guess, well, it's settled law, but are there going to be any more of these repeal votes? where do we go from here, judy? >> well, i don't think what's important are the repeal votes at this point because as kirsten said, this ain't going anywhere. it's political hijinks, it's theater. but we can't cover enough to the extent to which the concerns that 18 million americans have, the 6% who say this is a very important issue for them. the concerns they have about this program. is it going to raise health care premiums or lower them?

are states going to provide better health care or less good health care? will doctors withdraw from the program? will they stop taking insurance? all of these are criticisms that have been raised of the program. we need to watch how this program plays itself out on the ground, how it's implemented. that's very important. jon: and the press has to cover, too, the new scoring from the congressional budget office. they're going to come up with new estimates on the cost in a couple of weeks. thank you both, judy miller, kirsten powers. join us tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. eastern time, to hear for about the big stories of the week and how they were covered. we'll be right back. you? yep. the longer you stay with us, the more you save. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right well, we have something. show her, tom.

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jenna: in a split second a speeding car changed a rookie officer's life forever. now his brush with death is inspiring a company in arizona to help save the lives of other heroes. adam houseley has more. >> reporter: it's truly an

inspirational story about this police officer who's dealing with an unspeakable tragedy, but his battle, his fight did help motivate an arizona company to develop a product that's now saving thousands of lives. jason was living his dream just 14 months into a career with the phoenix police department when tragedy struck. his patrol car was rear ended by a car traveling over 100 miles per hour, causing his gas tank to explode and the car to burst into flames with him trapped inside. >> the initial burn was something that nearly took my life. i spent five months in the hospital, two-and-a-half months in a coma and several years just trying to get past those injuries. >> reporter: jason has become a hometown hero, even inspiring an arizona company to develop a technology that stops gas tanks in vehicles from exploding on impact. the fire technology is now being used in tens of house of police and emergency vehicles across the u.s. as well as over 30,000 military vehicles in iraq and

afghanistan. >> if there's something that we can do to make their jobs easier, to help bring them home safely, i mean, there's no better feeling. we get letters from parents and sometimes from soldiers saying your technology helped save our life. >> reporter: military vehicles are designed only to resist the explosion from an attack or ied, so when a convoy's hit, the gas tanks often rupture. same goes for some police cars. but there are still over 300,000 emergency vehicles on the road without the technology, so jason is currently lobbying cities across the country to get the fire panels. >> the impact that that had on me, it made me realize what i needed to be doing. >> reporter: jason has recently started a foundation called beyond the flames, trying to inspire others who have been through tough tragedies. he says he wouldn't give up day in his life and considers himself the luckiest man in the world.

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jenna: well, you've certainly heard of it, hundreds of millions of people around the world use twitter. it's a social networking site that allows us to tweet each other. jon and i read your tweets, send you messages as well. but the truth is most of us will probably not meet face to face, even though sometimes it feels like we know each other s. that's what's inspired one film maker to embark on a cross-country journey to meet some of her followers for real. >> what do i really know about these people aside from a two-sentence bio and the occasional 140-character tweet?

why do i trust them? and would i even like them if i met them in real life? so here's the plan. i'm going to drive 8,000 miles around the u.s. to meet 140 of the faceless strangers i interact with every day. that's right, 140 characters. you're welcome. jenna: it's a great idea. erin falling is the perp behind this film -- person behind this film, so how many people have is you met so far? >> oh, no -- jenna: a dozen? two dozen? >> 60 or 70. jenna: i was a little wit worried about -- a little bit worried about you when i heard about this. this nice girl is traveling around the country meeting strangers. is she going to be okay? >> my mom was worried, too, i'm not going to lie. [laughter] but i have a crew with me, they're all really manly men, so they protect me -- jenna: and they watch out for you. >> yeah. of but mostly we're smart about it. i don't have specific location tagging on all of my tweets, so you don't know what block i'm

standing on all of the time, and as it turns out everyone's been as advertised. jenna: really? >> yeah. they're really genuine on twitter, and, um -- jenna: i mean, you have a lot of followers, so how did you find the people you want to meet along the way? >> when we were in the planning stakes, i kind of made up a list of i have to meet these people. i talk to them a lot, i love them, i want to meet them. other than that, it's organic. someone recommends someone on twitter on friday, i take a look at it, so at each interview i ask follow friday, who should i be following, who should i find, and it's led to meeting new people all along the way. jenna: ironically, it's friday. [laughter] so where are you headed to next? >> we're here in new york for a few days, actually, and then we're headed to chicago and then points west. jenna: so 28 days of this whole entire journey across the country. i'm just curious what you've learned about the country. it's amazing to see it when

you're in a car meeting all these people. >> i've learned that los angeles has the highest gas prices i've ever seen. [laughter] yeah. we've learned that it is hot. hot everywhere. we look at the news and see, like, oh, man, those poor people. and then you drive through it, and you're like, oh,y. jenna: i only have 30 seconds, but have you met people that you think are going to become real friends? not just twitter friends? >> absolutely. yeah, absolutely. dozens. jenna: and are you following jon and me? that's really the number one question, right, jon? >> i'm following you, but not jon. jenna: that's good. you can just leave it that way. [laughter] we're going to have to run, but everyone can follow friday the dill m,.com, if they're not on twitter. good luck with your journey. we're going to check in with you. >> thank you. jenna: nice to have you here. and we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's four course seafood feast,

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