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martha: happy friday. gregg, thank you for being with us today. bill will be back on monday tkpwregdbye everybody. jon: brand-new stories and breaking news. jenna: the surviving suspect in the boston terror attack moved to a prison facility as we get new information of threats to the united states from other extremists as well. fisker is on the verge of going broke. are we looking at the next solyndra? a video is released showing the healed of the s seattle police department caught on tape mocking the homeless. why that is important. that is all "happening now." we start off this friday with new information in the boston terror attacks. we are glad you are with us,
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everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: good morning to you, jenna, i'm jon scott. we are learning more about what the suspects were planning after authorities say they set off shrapnel-packed pressure cooking bombs at the boston marathon killing three people and wounding others. the suspect has been transferred to a medical facility in central massachusetts. the suspects, chechens to came to the country about ten years ago. they are looking into how much of a threat chechnya is to the united states. catherine herridge is live in washington with more on that. >> reporter: this morning the chairman of the house intelligence committee who is receiving regular updates on the investigation told fox news that there appears to be a break down at the local level why the information about tamerlan tsarnaev's six-month trip to russia did not get shared among an interagency task force did not get from the cows tomorrow's and border procedure text
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officer to the local fbi rep. >> we are still looking at that. that information didn't get circulated, at least to the best of our knowledge today, and we are -- we have questions about why that would be. i will say in that agent's defense travel alone isn't a derogatory bit of information. you would have hoped that that would trigger at least a secondary at the tpa it facility, at the airport. >> reporter: lawmakers briefed on the russian request to the cia and fbi to investigate tamerlan in 2011 because of his alleged extremist ties says the u.s. government went back three times to moscow asking for more specific data to work with. at a conference in washington d.c. the nation's chief intelligence officer james clapper has publicly weighed in on the boston bombings indicating that to prevent the attack would have required in his opinion the intelligence community and law enforcement to go beyond the stated guidelines, quote, the rules were abided by as best as i can tell at this point, clap eris reported to
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have said. the d do dots were connected. of the house foreign affairs committee is holding a hearing h including talk being about the financing of extrem exextremists in that eggs rao. it explains historic kecks between chechnya and terrorist activity. it reads at the trial of one of the 9/11 plotters it turns oufrt that three of the 9/1 9/11 hijackers were recruited during al-qaida training in afghanistan where they had come to fight the chechens. he said he was disappointed that no one from the government was able to attend but someone representing the russian government interests was there. jon: thank you. jenna: the boston terror attacks brings new attention to the obama administration's policies ace the president faces the aftermath of another deadly terror attack on u.s. soil.
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the "wall street journal" points out we are seeing parallels between president obama and president bush write, quote, mr. obama has built the politics of his presidency, his foreign policy and economic policy around the assertion that he is the u.n. bush. now in the grimmist way possible he is bush. another american president who has come to grips with the aftermath of a mortal attack of islamic terror on u.s. soil televised to the whole world. the editor of the "wall street journal" daniel hennin skwrer joins us now. the debate rages on about policy and how safe we are. what are your observation beings in the last week about how the debate has surfaced? it's fascinating, jenna. my observation in light of the fact that we just had the opening of the bush library this week is nine months into george bush's presidency 9/11 happened. the presidency had just begun. from that point forward bush's
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presidency basically became the war on terror. one of the thirst things he did was pass the day tree at act, it passed within a couple of days. all of us recall how for years the proceed sreugs of the patriot act especially the wiretapping conditions became a pitched battle between the democrats. the left and the bush cheney domestic spying programs and all that. what questions are being asked all this week about the boston bombing? what did we know about the tsarnaev brothers and when did we know it and how many balls were dropped? the tools to track the tsarnaev brothers were created by the patriot act, something that i must say the obama administration has defended in court. but is it being used by these security beauracracies right now in way that it was intended? jenna: we don't know the answer to that. we are still looking into the investigations and reporting to see where the cross over or maybe the miss links are, it's interesting in your piece you have an interesting
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juxtaposition between the outrage of the patriot act and the spying on american citizens that was alleged, and the hypersecurity environment of that boston neighborhood, where swats teams were going into houses, people were being searched and the rights of the citizens some may argue could be more violated in that way than the patriot act. >> i think the patriot act controversy was basically partisanship run ae runamuck. if the american people were asked whether they would approve wireless wiretaps to stop the boston bombi before it occurred they'd probably say certainly. the swaat team going into people's houses, throwing them out. it was the right thing to do. that was the whole point of the patriot act, we can't predict when these things will happen, we have to be able to respond quickly. now the question is, whether the fbi, the cia and homeland security are responding as quickly as they should to the
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tools that they've already been created for them. jenna: you talk about the leadership of both presidents in your piece. let's extend the conversation into the future. what is this telling us about what we need to demand from future american leadership? >> well, i think what -- what we need to demand is pretty much what george bush said at the dedication of the bush library. he saw a threat, and he just decided to commit his presidency to thwarting that threat, and i have to say, jenna, that it's a little unclear what has happened with the pwaour roc bureaucracies, there is confusion in the fbi and the cia about who is responsible for that. i think president obama has to step forward and reassert and say explicit lee to them, your job is to need what you need to do to track these people, rather than worrying about the legal implications of whether you're going to get this trouble if you do something like that. jenna: it seems like the
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pendulum swings doesn't it. you have one side going further in one direction, the other side coming back around. do you think that gives ufrs the opportunity where you've had a republican administration, now a democratic administration deal with a terror attack on american soil that somehow gets us into the right place, not only in policy but for how that fits with our constitution as a nation? >> exactly. after 9/11 we had the consensus that it had changed everything. i think there is an opportunity now after the boston bombing to reform the consensus that we have a threat out there that is not going away, and that weiree going to not be able to bog down in partisanship fights over the nice a tees of this. we have to stop these people when they appear. jenna: let's see if that opportunity does get taken for what it is. >> let's hope so. jenna: great to have you on set as always. thank you. jon. jon: there are some new developments in morning as the obama administration weighs its options on how to deal with the civil war raging in syria. this comes after defense secretary chuck hagel confirmed
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yesterday that the u.s. believes the bashar al-assad regime has used chemical weapons on its own people. something syria's top leaders are now, as you might expect, denying. senior washington foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler live at the white house with more. the syrians crossed the so-called red line laid out by president obama, didn't they? >> well, frankly, jon, folks here aren't sure. they say privately there are different assessments from different u.s. intelligence agencies, and in light of the war in iraq in which we expected to find mobile biological weapons labs and other weapons of mass destruction and did not the folks here say intelligence assessments about syria's use of chemical weapons are not enough. they need proof. the evidence suggests someone used saran gas on a couple of occasions in march. about 20 people were killed. bashar al-assad has denied he ordered the attacks. it's conceivable that he could be telling the truth and that one of his generals did it or
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opposition extremists used the gas to get the u.s. involved. either of the last two scenarios would mean that some chemical weapons are not under bashar al-assad's direct control and that may mean another red line was crossed. jon: what is the republican response to all this. >> reporter: arizona senator john ma chain and south carolina's lindsey gray many ha both say the chemical weapons reports shows the obama administration should have got even more involved some time ago. they've been pushing for a no-fly zone to protect opposition forces in an enclave in syria and to send u.s. weapons to the opposition. mccain thinks the president's demand nor more evidence is an excuse not to act. >> they say we need to have more information, et cetera. it sounds like the british didn't, sounds like the israelis don't and the fact it that should it surprise anyone that bashar al-assad would be using chemical weapons? he will use anything that he can get his hands on in order to stay in power.
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>> reporter: the president meets with mayor philip giordano dan's king abdullah today. one of the tkapgers is that refugees will destabilize jordan. half a million syrians have fled to jordan since the fighting began. jon: wendell goler at the white house thank you. jenna: we'll are talking much more about that story throughout the show today. a new jersey mother with a heartbreaking story turns to her friend for help, except now police say it was all a hoax. how she allegedly bilked loved ones out of a lot of money. plus they look sleek, but they didn't sell. and that is a be proper. electric carmaker fisker on the verge of bankruptcy despite getting millions of your taxpayer dollars. was it a wise investment? sounds like a trick question, jon, that is the question we'll be asking next. we'll take a look at uncle sam's involvement with electric cars next. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness?
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jenna: right now new information on a few crime stories we are keeping an eye on for you here. a third juror has been suddenly released from the jodi arias trial. today is expected to be the final day of testimony. she faces first-degree murder charges nor the 2008 death of her boyfriend. meantime police in new jersey say a mom falsely claimed her son had cancer in a scheme in rake if donations from her friends. the 35-year-old woman faces a slew of charges after allegedly collecting more than a thousand dollars in donations. and a wild scene early this morning in suburban los angeles, police reportedly shot at least one person inside that white truck. the truck eventually crashed into the front of the home, but there is no word on what led to the shooting. the driver is reportedly in the hospital. jon: for years the u.s. department of energy has been sinking your taxpayer money into electric cars.
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now one of its big investments, fisker automotive is on the verge of bankruptcy despite hundreds of millions of dollars beings your tax dollars, loaned to it by uncle sam. some in washington are now calling fisker the solyndra of the car world. so what happened? joseph white is a car guy through-and-through, a senior editor for the "wall street journal," writes the highs on the road column for the journal and knows an awful lot about the electric car industry. $529million i think that was the original federal loan to fisker. how much of it have taxpayers lost, do we know? >> not even thaoeur lee clear. of it could be as much as 190, or $192 million. the government took about $20 million from fisker just in the last week or so. so could be somewhere around $170 million, although it's important to note that at least officially and formally the company hasn't as far as i know yet filed for pre structuring or bankruptcy and so could
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conceivably pay the money back. but it looks bleak. jon: they are teetering on the edge from our reports. we are looking at the fisker karma, a great looking car. it goes for $150,000 and it only goes 50 miles electric before a gas battery kicks in to charge the batteries. >> it runs on batteries for that amount of time and then you get a gasoline back up recharging the batteries so you can keep going. jon: meantime there is another could, tesla, smaller company did not get a government haopb as far aloan, as far as i'm aware. >> no, they did. jon: oh, they did. what is the difference between the two? because tesla seems to be making a go of it so far. >> the simple way to put it is management. testesla has a depth smart
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management led by elon musk the crashing eo that has managed to steer around the rocks and reeves and there was plenty in tesl's path. you can have a debate about whether they have a long future as an independent carmaker, but so far they've made a go of it. fisker has shown an inability to i can ma the ca make the car right for customers. there were fires in the batteries and recalls. you can't sell in car in this market in it doesn't work right. jon: the battery maker nor fisker, a123 that is one of the famous green companies that also went belly-up, right? yeah, they went belly-up and they've been acquired by a chinese company and parts of it are back in operation. but fisker -- a123 was fisker's battery supplier, and a lot of the problems that fisker relate
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to the problems that a123 and vice versa. they basically -- they basically had a coventure to sell the cars and it hit the ditch. jon: so is fisker the solyndra of the electric car world? >> you know, it's tough to make comparisons like that. i think the two are different, but certainly politically, and from a policy point of view the fisker situation is raising a lot of really difficult questions for people who think the government should get involved in support -- and support the development of electric cars. it's caused a debate in washington over whether the government should be in the venture capital business which is basically what this was. it's not the kind of basic research are sending money to a national lab and saying, hey, help us develop a new battery. this is a different thing. i'm not entirely certain that the government could do that gape without a fairly vigorous
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political debate after this. jon: fisker has not built a new car since july and is teetering on the verge of collapse. quite a story. thank you nor being with us, joseph white from the "wall street journal." jenna: the president is speak being at a planned parenthood fundraising gala. he's the first, the very first sitting president to address the group. we are going to i can ta a loo take a look at the politics behind the president's speech. that report is coming up. also country's superstar george jones has died, a look back at his legendary career next. ♪ [sipping. ♪ [singing] ♪
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jenna: live pictures now from washington. we'll bring you in a moment. the president is speaking to supporters at a planned parenthood fundraising event, making him the very first sitting president to address the group. our chief washington correspondent james rosen is here where more. >> reporter: good morning. president obama was originally supposed to address the planned parenthood gala this weekend but travel to texas to speak at the memorial following last week's fertilizer plant explosion there. as we look at live pictures of this morning's event as the president is delivering his remarks to the national conference. those honored was ruthe westheimer and jena dunham.
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they perform an estimated 300,000 abortions per year. g.o.p. nominee mitt romney had vowed to get rid of planned parenthood,ee hrepl nature the moth et cetera funding the group receives. president obama captured 67% of single women voters. >> when governor mitt romney says we should eliminate funding for planned parenthood there ares of women all across the the country who rely on planned parenthood for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. that is a pocket-object book issues for weufpl and families all across the country. >> reporter: the president's historic appearance before planned parenthood also comes amid the ongoing trial in philadelphia of abortion provider dr. kermit goss knell. he's charged with killing four babies said to be born alive by allegedly sniffing their necks and contribute being to the death of a patient who was allegedly medicated by untrained staff. he has pleaded know the guilty and his defense rested this week
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without calling any witnesses. of the most recent fox news poll find registered voters split on abortion with a 5-point edge even void by those calling themselves pro-choice well within the poll's 3-point margin of error. two years ago our polling found pro-life forces solidly in the ma earth jo, jenna. jenna: an interesting confection for us today. as always, james, thank you. jon: some sad news in the world of country muse being. it has lost one of its legendary stars. george jones, dead at the age of 81, his career spanned more than five decades with countless hits. known as the man with a golden voice, and a tumultuous personal life ef was a towering figure in american music. harris faulkner live in our new york newsroom. >> reporter: indeed that voice was no sweet, jon. he was once actually half of a legendary power couple. you may know tammy wynette was married to him for years. it was a tough relationship that often left him canceling his
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concerts. it led to the nickname of "noshow"jones" because of the tumultuous nature of that relationship. when he did show up there were people who called him the greatest every like waylon jennings who said no matter what he did on stage he captivated you. by the time he what us a teenagerrer was singing on the streets and clubs of beaumont, texas not too far away from where he was born in saratoga. he made 150 albums, had a number one hit in five different decades including "he stopped loving her today" a monster big hit. he had been hospitalized recently since april 18th with fever and irregular blood pressure. he passed away on friday. george jones dead at 81. reports jones had announced his final concert would have been november 22nd, 2013 at bridgestone arena in nashville. jon. jon: a huge loss. george jones.
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wow. harris faulkner, thanks. jenna: we are awaiting a house vote on a plan to ease widespread air travel delays resulting from faa furloughs. we'll take a closer look at the plan in which critics call a quick fix for a long term progress. the boston marathon bombing suspect has been moved this morning. the case apparently hitting a snag when a judge halted interrogations. our legal panel weighs in next. ♪ roundup ♪ now roundup has a new sharp-shootin' wand ♪ ♪ just point and shoot, and weeds are gone ♪ ♪ 'round fences, trees, even mulched beds ♪ ♪ 'cause the only good weed is a weed that's dead ♪ ♪ roundup
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jenna: welcome back. the big question today on capitol hill, will congress eliminate the travel woes experienced by millions and millions of travelers, woes created because of sequester cuts and the faa? we're awaiting a house vote on the plan to ease some of those furloughs that caused some of those problems after the senate passed legislation in a single day. mike emanuel is live from the russell rotunda with more. mike, what is the latest on all this? >> reporter: jenna the house is actively discussing a measure that would allow flexibility for the faa to absorb automatic cuts and make sure air traffic controllers are not on furloughs. supporters of this fix, of this repair of this problem say this was an avoidable manageable problem and in the end they had to solve it. >> that's what essentially runs the air traffic system in it country and so there's a lot of public health and safety considerations.
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there are obviously productivity and economic considerations. you've got people sitting on the tarmac for hours at a time, missing flights, it really affects the productivity of country. reasons why we need to fix this. >> reporter: the house and senate are expected to pass it and then in theory we should have fewer flight delays. house democratic whip steny hoyer stood up a few minutes ago he opposed measure he highlight ad lot of other programs suffered cuts, head start, law enforcement, defense. he says this measure does not address that. at white house spokesman jay carney offered this reaction. quote, this is no more than a temporary bandaid that fails to address the overarching threat to the economy because of the see questionter mindless cuts. a senate democrat frustrated with the way washington works. >> basically thursday night might be the key for us passing things. they want to go home. they're on planes and trains to get home.
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they will about agree to anything. this is something that should have been avoided a long time ago. >> reporter: manchin's democratic colleagues upset that aviation got a whole lot of attention. they wish a lot of other programs were also being fixed if you will. jenna. jenna: back to senator manchin's point there, a lot of lawmakers suddenly travelinging mike? is that adding motivation? is that part of this? >> reporter: look, no question they're going home for a week's recess. if you have day after day of flight delays the optics would be terrible. and so that is why we got a sense late yesterday something may be in the works to try to address this before they all went home, jenna. jenna: very interesting, timing of it all, mike. thank you as always. >> reporter: thank you. jon: well the surviving boston bombing suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev has been moved from a hospital to a federal prison in massachusetts. his hospital stay punctuated by some dramatic developments. we now know that a federal judge made the decision to
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cut an fbi interrogation of the suspect short. the officials still had about 30 hours to continue to ask him questions. where does the investigation go from here? let's bring in our legal panel. faith jenkins, is a former prosecutor. arthur aidala a former prosecutor, now a criminal defense attorney and fox news legal analyst. so, he's in the hospital. he is, you know, under interrogation by the fbi. the fbi considered it an urgent investigation because of the nature of the case. and this federal magistrate says, oh, i'm going to go in, walk into the hospital and read him his miranda rights. that is apparently what she did, at which point he clammed up. why? why was it so urgent that he be read his rights? >> first of all, let's not think this magistrate made this decision on her own or that the assistant u.s. attorney did it. these decisions are made at literally the highest levels of government. and basically what the legal mind who are in charge of
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this said, any american citizen send is who is charged with a crime has a right, once you're in custody and there has been a complaint filed against you, has a right to see a judge as soon as possible. and what they did was they followed the same laws and rules that are in place that they teach you in law school your first year basically when you do criminal proper. jon: faith, the fbi is an arm of the justice department. >> right. jon: the fbi is apparently unhappy about this. why didn't they go to somebody within their, you know, chain of command and say, hey, you know, it is not time yet? >> here is what happened. a complaint was filed in the case. had the complaint not been filed they would have more time to question the subject under the public safety exemption. once the complaint is filed, things start moving. he has to be arraigned. there is hospital arraignment. if you want to wit to question him longer you could have delayed the complaint filed against him. once the complaint is filed, hospital arraignment.
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a judge comes in. she is going to advise him of his rights. she will advise him he has the right to an attorney. he will be assign to the an attorney it point. jon: what about the 48 hours that the fbi was supposed to have before his rights get read to him. >> how you see the system works and right hand doesn't know what the left hand does? you know who signed the complaint, right? fbi agent. it is same agency, fbi signs the complaint that triggers the legal process to beginning. one set of fbi agents are doing questioning. then you have another set of fbi agents who are filing the complaint. once faith said, once the complaint is filed, under the laws that thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin and george washington started 200 years ago when you were presumed guilty until proven innocent, that is where this started and gone all the way through from arizona v. miranda. >> once the judge comes in she will do what she is
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obligated to do under the law. advise him of his rights, if he can not afford a attorney one will be assigned to him. that is exactly what happened. he is assigned an attorney, a attorney will tell him in circumstance like this, don't talk anymore. jon: mike rogers is chairman of the house intelligence committee. he is a former fbi agent, he says this case sets a very dangerous precedent. here the fbi is questioning this terrorism suspect. they think they have got 48 hours before they need to read him his rights and here comes the judge. >> as you know, the judge is, goes like this. judge, u.s. attorney's office, fbi. that is the chain of command. jon: but somebody in the administration could have put a stop to this, right, eric holder or somebody? >> absolutely. they made a strategic legal decision based on the law and criminal procedure law this is what needed to be done. you can argue with it but that's where it comes from. >> let's be clear they were not concerned about reading him miranda. they were concerned somehow
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his statement would be thrown out in court at some point later down the road. they don't snead a confession from him to help the case. they just want the information. jon: well, i still don't get it. great explanations. >> here's the problem, jon. everyone is entitled to this right. he is an american citizen. whether we like it or not the best example look at the guy with the ricin. he was accused of killing, trying to kill the president of the united states a week ago. they got it wrong!. jon: right. >> should we strip him of all of his rights? jon: there is little more evidence against dzhokhar tsarnaev against the poor guy in mississippi. >> he is a poor guy in mississippi. luckily we didn't him of his rights. luckily we didn't strip his rights. jon: you're talk like a defense lawyer. >> i done it for 1 years. i'm a big defender of constitution. i'm a big thomas jefferson guy. jon: i'm a big believer we
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want to prevent bombs from being put on a marathon sidelines. >> if he was not an american citizen this would be handled very different. jon: all right. we'll have to bring you back when we find out what happened in that hospital room. arthur, faith, thank you both. general that. jenna: three gunmen burst into a mcdonald's and get away with cash in a holdup lasted 30 seconds. it was all caught on tape. cops no one thing about the suspects that may lead to their capture. growing calls for the u.s. to intervene in syria after they find that chemical weapons were used. what does the intervention really mean. general chuck wall joins us next. [ male announcer ] this is a stunning work of technology. ♪ this is the 2013 lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. andbefore i do any projectsd. on on my own.st at angie's list, you'll find reviews
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jon: a hold-up is caught on tape at a colorado mcdonald's. surveillance video shows three gunmen bursting into a record a fast-food restaurant and ordering customers to the ground and telling store manager take them to the safe. they knew the manager's nickname, leading cops to believe they had been there before. the whole thing was over in less than a minute the gunman got away with cash but good news nobody is hurt. jenna: scary situation. "happening now", there is growing calls for action in syria after the obama administration revealed that our intelligence community believes chemical weapons were used in this conflict. now top ranking lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are saying the red line in syria has indeed been crossed. is it time to intervene in
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the civil war? general check wall, a retired four-star general with us air force and former deputy commander in the us air command. in fact he led the air mission over bosnia. we'll talk about that in a moment. general, you to believe a red line has been crossed here. what are the options? >> well, jenna, i do think the red line has been crossed. red lines are defined by whoever wants to make that decision. in this case our government did but when you start talking about chemical weapons, they are weapons of mass destruction, you've just changed the equation in whatever activity you're involved in. i think as an international community allowing anybody to use chemical weapons is, is a red line and should not be allowed. now, remember, saddam hussein actually used chemical weapons against the kurds back in 1991 in northern iraq and then with intervene there and we stayed there for the last 10 years after that. so, --. jenna: that was a no-fly zone, wasn't it, general
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walled? subsequent years we had no-fly zone over iraq many years. is that a template we should use in syria as people think about what other options we have beside putting boots on the ground? >> i think it is not an either/or. i think for one thing the latter part, boots on the ground which is not appealing for anybody but i think may have to happen particularly if we're talking about trying to eliminate their chemical weapons. there is no way to do that i don't think very efficiently totally from the air. first of all i don't think we know where all of them are but, number two, there is disperal problem if you were to bomb them or take them out from the air. i think you would have to air cover and ground cover. once you start that, you're not going to back away from it. so it is a long-term issue. jenna: the pentagon says we would need 75,000 troops on the ground to accomplish what we would need there. and just keeping that in mind, i want to go back a couple years in your experience, you were a part,
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as you mentioned the air mission in bosnia. just to remind our viewers it took three years for nato to get involved with military. took three years and nearly 100,000 people died until that point. we're kind of near those numbers with syria, general. if you could bring us back, what was the tippingpoint if you will, in your mind, in your experience suddenly got us involved there and is that potentially a template we could use for syria. after we got involved in bosnia, took four months. after military went in took four months for a peace agreement to be signed? >> there is lot of similarities and quite a few different repses. for one thing in bosnia, there was a huge reluctance on the international community to intervene with force. we had a u.n. peacekeeping mission there. it doesn't go to enforcing. many remember the massacre by the serbs of the bosnian muslims was really the tippingpoint. from that point on, the u.n. and nato came to an
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agreement they would agree together and they called it dual key. both had to approve every bomb dropped in bosnia. that model happened to work there. i think a similar type activity could happen in syria. this will be more complex. you're talking about chemical weapons. the pentagon knows what they're talking about when they start planning but you're going to need some people on the ground that can help direct airstrikes and you will also need people on the ground that can take care of the chemical weapons. therefore you have to have a force that can get to that. jenna: what do you make of the lack of immediate action? we made the announcement. we told the international community there would be a consequence. we've been nonspecific about it. what does the lack of action, what is the risk of that? >> well, my personal opinion is, and i think most people would agree is, this is not a trivial issue. once you commit, syria is very, very difficult. the problem with my sir in my estimation is chemical weapons which not only
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complicates matters, but neither side is necessarily innocent. if you talk about the opposition force to the assad regime, they have al qaeda associated with it. al qaeda as we know is the probably the worst terrorist organization in the world. for us to take sides in this would be very difficult. my feeling is we'll probably have to do something. there is probably going to be an air campaign part of it and air policing part of it that assists in any kind of ground activity that would get rid of the weapons. there would have to be, i would vote on, i'm not a big fan of u.n. because of their decision making. it would have to be a you know enabled force as well. jenna: it is a big ordeal. not small decisions that need to be made. general nice to have your perspective. general, thanks so much. >> thanks, jenna. jenna: there is growing controversy over a textbook used in one school district. a group parents say it promotes bias against israeli policies and legitimizes terror groups. so why is the school board
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jenna: well a tennessee debate getting national attention. a group of outraged parents in fash vil want a school district to pull a high school textbook that has bias against israel and legitimizes terror groups. jonathan serrie is live in at -- in atlanta. how did this get started. >> reporter: parents are
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concerned about a textbook on human geography addresses things like terrorism. according to the book, distinguishing terrorism from other acts of violence could be difficult. if a palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozens israeli teenagers in a jerusalem restaurant is that an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against israeli government and army actions. parents say that has anti-israel bias and wants it pulled from classrooms. the anti-he defamation league is not in the business of censorship but the book raises concerns. take a listen. >> i don't think any of us believe this paragraph from the book which includes the controversial question is in any way anti-semitic. it is conceivable it is not even anti-israel but we find the question objectionable and offensive. >> reporter: bill nygetz
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says that question creates a false equivalency between acts of war and killing israeli teens because children are never legitimate targets of war, jenna? jenna: really raises a few eyebrows, that's for sure. what is the school district saying about all this? >> reporter: well in fairness we need to point out that the book does go on after that question to point out the way that pro-palestinian and pro-israeli advocates might answer the question. and because the book is part of an advanced elective high school class, school officials say it is intended to create debate and dialogue so that students graduate from williams son county schools with advanced levels of thinking. listen. >> my view is the book is acknowledging that there are two sides to every story and people come to problems with different perspectives and so i think it asks students to think openly. >> reporter: in an e-mail to fox news textbook author james rube bean stein writes,
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it is important to understand why terrorists attack. understanding is not the same thing as justifying the attack. jenna? jenna: interesting. that context makes the debate even more interesting. we'll watch the story. >> reporter: indeed. jenna: jonathan, thank you. jon: meanwhile israel's neighbor, the assad regime in syria is denying what could be a game-changer in that nation's long civil war. claims from the u.s. that they used chemical weapons on their own people. how will the president respond? plus, the surviving boston bombing suspect moved from a massachusetts hospital where he, we will tell you where he is now as new details emerge. i'm over the hill. my body doesn't work the way it used to. past mprime?
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jon: welcome to the second hour of "happening now." we begin with brand new stories and breaking news. the suspect in the boston terror attacks moved from a hospital to a federal prison. the latest on the investigation and a look at how the mainstream media are covering the story. are journalists too quick to blame america? be. one democratic senator who helped draft the obamacare law now saying its implementation could be a, quote, train wreck. republican minnesota mcconnell calling on the president to address the american people about all of this. and do you ever worry about your own mortality or other existential mysteries? well, if you want to ease your mind, the answer could be in your medicine cabinet.
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we'll explain. it's all "happening now." ♪ muck. jon: big questions, especially for a friday. jenna: very teach questions. if it's in the medicine cabinet, we want to know what it is. we'll have that for you. jon: the boston marathon bomb withing suspect has a new home. thanks for joining us, i'm jon scott. jenna: he's recovering from injuries sustained during his capture one week ago today. overnight he was move today a federal facility. molly line is live in boston with more. molly, we hear about this federal facility, but where exactly is the suspect now? >> reporter: right. the u.s. marshals are confirming all of this for us, that dzhokhar has been moved about 40 miles west of the city of boston the fmc devon. the it's a place where people who need long-term care,
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prisoners who need long-term medical care can be held. so theoretically, he'll be treated there until he recovers. the middle sex county district attorney's office is also confirming for us this afternoon that tsarnaev could feasibly be charged in connection with the murder of the mit officer, sean collier. he was gunned down last week, thursday, april 18th. a spokeswoman says the investigation is ongoing, but they do expect to bring charged. at some point in relation to that murder. jenna? jenna: that's where he sits now in that federal facility. in the meantime, over the last 24 hours we've received some news about where the suspects were heading. tell us a little bit more about that, molly. >> reporter: yeah. a lot of that information coming out of a press conference in new york city where city officials that they had been told by fbi that upon questioning the suspect that had been in the hospital during that questioning who, of course, now has been
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moved to that federal facility, that they had had a, really, a spontaneous plan, not a well-developed plan, they were essentially heading for new york city with the bombs that they still had and were headed for times square. new york police commissioner ray kelly says the suspects were very familiar with times square. take a listen. >> we know that dzhokhar was photographed in times square with friends on or before april 18th of 2012 and that he was in the city again in november of 2012. we don't know if those visits were related in any way to what he described as the brothers' spontaneous decision to target times square. >> reporter: but we know, of course, that the suspects never actually made it out of massachusetts, that after a carjacking, allegedly, and a manhunt the older brother had been killed and, of course, the younger brother now in custody.
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jenna: molly line with the latest, thank you. jon: so as investigators piece together the facts in the bombing which killed three people, injured more than 203 others, there are growing concerns about how the suspects could get away with such an attack despite suspicious activities which should have raised red flags. they managed to avoid attention. our next guest, judy miller, says the attack might have been prevented if they had tried to pull it off in new york city. writing in yesterday's "wall street journal" she knows: jon: judy is a pulitzer prize-winning investigator reporter, an author and a fox news contributor, and she joins us now. we should start by saying this is not a criticism of the boston police department, but you are saying that new york has developed some tools that maybe boston doesn't employ? >> exactly. jon, what's really interesting
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is new york has thwarted at least 16 plots against the city with the help of federal officials, but mostly because it's developed its own model, the model you just referred to. in 2007 the city decided that the target group to watch, the people whom they really needed to worry about were young muslims who were undergoing a process of radicalization. and they issued this report saying home grown radicals were going to be the real problem. and they developed a list of characteristics. and, you know, these two brothers fit that model to a tee. so my argument is that had they been living in new york, the nypd intelligence division probably would have spotted them, never mind that the fbi had already warned local police about these yes e men. jon: but after the associated press wrote about the new york city police department's, you know, programs to infiltrate and sort of keep an eye on some of these islamic mosques, didn't that program have to be at least
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curtailed? >> no, it was not curtailed. the police stood firm because mayor bloomberg stood behind them, and ray kelly said this system works, and we're not going to abandon it. and they did that despite this very unfair, in my view, series of stories by the ap. jon: what happens faye sal shahzad? he tried to blow up his suv in the middle of times square, and if he had a better bomb, it might have gone off. >> right. but he also bought the material outside the metropolitan area. he went to new hampshire to buy that material. and, look, i'm not saying it can't happen in new york. what i'm saying and what i'm arguing is that if these two tsarnaev brothers had been living in the city, they so fit the profile that a they would have been most likely targeted by the police and surveilled. and that would have given us a better shot at preventing this terrible attack. jon: some interesting perspectives there. judy miller, we'll talk with you
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a bit later on in the hour. thank you. >> thank you. jenna: a new snapshot of what exactly our economy looks like. some new numbers show the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5% during the first quarter which is the fist three months of the year, due mostly to a jump in consumer spending. but still it's lss than economists expected, and there is some words of caution here. peter barnes is along with more on all of this, peter? >> reporter: hey, jenna, that's right. the economists were expecting about 3% growth for the first quarter, so this report wuss a little bit -- was a little bit disappointing, but it was better than the end of the last year when the economy was growing at about half a percentage point. so one economist described the economy hat growing just above stall speed. not enough to kick up job creation significantly to get the unemployment rate moving down very fast. the surprise in the report, as you mentioned, was how well the consumer held up in the first quarter despite all of this news coming out of washington. take a listen. >> we first had the fiscal cliff
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and then the expiration of the payroll tax cut and then the noise about the sequester. consumers are still spending. and sometimes american families seem somewhat optimistic, it's businesses that seem more worried. and business spending on equipment, on software, on structures and offices and pipelines, they're really taking a big hit. >> reporter: still have uncertainty coming out of washington, and that's, that's a got businesses worried. but businesses did replenish their inventories which helped to grow the economy in the first quarter, sho did housing and home construction. we've heard about the sequester. now, the commerce department, this is an interesting sidebar here. the commerce department is teeing up a new change to how it measures gdp starting for this current quart wither, the second quarter. for the first time it's going to estimate and add the value of research and development innovation, creativity to our economy along with so-called
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intangibles including entertainment, literary and artistic creations. so it'll add the value of things like these. take a look, the movie ""iron man" 3." beyonce's latest down tubes, the simpsons, the ipad which has helped to increase knowledge, a new way to kind of add the value of knowledge and information to our society, and overall the government estimates this will add about $500 billion or so to the size of the u.s. economy, currently 16 trillion. to start addingto say since the value of television programming, jenna and scott, i think "happening now" is easily worth about five billion. jenna: right up there with beyonce's download, i mean, have you heard jon sing? >> reporter: is that worth -- i'm going to get in trouble. i won't say what that's worth.
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jenna: there's no price tag on it, peter, we'll just let et go at that. jon: singing for free. jenna: peter, thank you so much. >> reporter: you bet. jon: here's a fox news alert and a bit of good news for air travelers. the house has passed a measure that will end those faa air traffic controller furloughs. and the president has said he will sign it. the senate passed it yesterday. it means that the faa will be able to find the money to avoid furloughing 10 -- i'm sorry, 15,000 air traffic controllers one day out of ten. it should end the bottlenecks that have caused so many air traffic delays in this country that have really been costing the economy and individual passengers a whole lot of money. the vote was 335-37. you think government can't act in a hurry when it wants to? jenna: well, we do know they're going on recess for a week with, right? the lawmakers?
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as mike emanuel told us last hour, you know, when every to get on planes and trains -- jon: yeah. funny -- jenna: could be better for all of us. jon: not many of those furloughs affected the washington, d.c. area. hmm, imagine that. i guess the vote is now up to 365-40, but at any rate, pretty resounding victory in the house. jenna: we'll see the timeline when we actually get to see a change back to maybe normal. new fallout over the health care law as it begins to roll out where republicans are calling as the president to do as a key democrat now calls it a train wreck. bob cusack is here with more on that. and many in the media using yesterday's dedication of the bush presidential library to attack his presidency. our news watch panel debates the cover coverage, next. [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief.
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raising eye prows now, and a warning et might be offensive to some people. >> reporter: you know, this is back in the headlines for a reason all these years later, because one of the principal players in the video has just been given a huge promotion: interim police chief in seattle, washington. and when asked if he had anything embarrassing in his past, jim brought up the video which the seattle police department yanked in 1989 calling it offensive and inappropriate. in fact, jim and the others in it were punished. but as you watch it, you decide if jim should be interim police chief right now. he plays one of the homeless men. watch. ♪ drinking our t-bird all through the day. ♪ under the viaduct where the dirt is our floor. ♪ under the viaduct, who could ask for more? ♪ under the viaduct we'll be
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drinking our booze -- >> reporter: it runs more than the viaduct," a trickoff of -- take off of the hit under the boardwalk, of course. some with cuts and bruises that won't ale. they're making fun of -- that won't heal. they're making fun of that, and some pretty graphic shots of that as well, which we left out. it is lunchtime. and at one point the officers who were portrayed look gleeful as they get ready to respond to an open call about homeless, griefful about the fact that they're going to land some punches. jim was 26 years old when he acted in that video, but clearly if he has pointed it out in his recent job assessment for promotion, it could be a problem. we'll see how the seattle pd handles it this time. jon: keep an eye on it for us, harris. thank you. jenna: politics taking a backseat as five u.s. presidents dedicate the george w. bush library.
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jon: a new battle over the health care law. a leading republican is now calling on the president to address the american people on the issue as one of the key architects of the law in the senate is now coming out against it. listen. >> i just see a huge train wreck coming down. you and i have discussed this many times, and i don't see any
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results yet. back you do to help -- what can you do to help all these people around the country knowing what in the world do i do? jon: that was montana democratic senator max baucus. some in the gop are now urging other democrats to follow his lead. in an op-ed piece, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell writes. jon: let's talk about it with bob cusack, the managing editor of "the hill," he covers all things political. bob, he doesn't, mitch mcconnell doesn't seriously expect the president is going to do that, does he? i mean, the president has sold us on the idea that you're going
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to be able to keep your doctor if you want, your premiums are going to be lower, all of that. >> yeah. i mean, jon, there are such high stakes in this because we have the election next year, the bulk of implementation will start on january 1, 2014. i was talking to a couple republicans this week x they think this is going to be a big thing for them. if the imitation of in this is going to be -- implementation of this is going to be a train wreck, max baucus of montana said and who is not running for re-election, that's going to help them. so the administration will have to describe more, i think, in simple terms what the law will mean for evidence americans. there's a lot of confusion on the law nearly two years after it passed, and the stakes are so high. jon: but max baucus isn't your ordinary senator, he's the guy that helped shepherd that bill through the senate. i mean, he knows better than anybody, or should, what's in it. >> no, that's right. he's worried about the implementation. he definitely had a huge role in
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writing the law. now, the administration says that congress is underfunding the implementation, but politically that's not going to work. the administration'oi gng to have -- it's going to have to be a smooth operation. they'll get credit if this health care law is successful, but if it's a disaster, that that's going to hurt the democratic party. now, republicans have been struggling with this, jon. just this week the house republicans try today change obamacare, and a lot of the rank and file republicans said, no, i'm not going to vote for that, i want a full repeal. now, the repeal is not going anywhere in the senate, and the white house, of course, would veto it. but that is the rub right here. republicans want a full repeal, and the base is telling them, keep at it, the u.s. goings to -- it's going to reap dividends. there are going to be butches, no doubt about it, but how bumpy will it be remains to be seen. jon: so many of these state exchanges have not been set up, so many people are being pushed to the federal program. as a result, it just seems like, well, a train wreck is a pretty
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good description. >> well, and democrats also say that republican bs are purposely torpedoing it for political purposes. now, some of the governors have looked at this deal and the money they would get from the federal government, and they've actually done a 180, and they're saying, okay, i'm going to participate in this program. i'm not going to let the feds come into my state and run the program. so that's the politics going on right now. republicans on capitol hill, they say that tear going to try to move -- they're going to try to move this changing obamacare bill next month in the house, but it remains to be seen if there are the votes on that, because democrats are not going for that, and a lot of conservatives in the house don't want that over. jon: it's not over til it's over. bob cusack, thanks. jenna: earlier this week we brought you a story of a u.n. official that made some very controversial remarks. he wrote a men tear blaming the boston terror attack on the united states, the u.n. came out and said hay reject his idea, but they reject his idea, but
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will there be reaction? fox news asked, and you're going to see the answer next. and you may remember this inspiring video of a little 7-year-old boy with cancer running all the way for a touchdown. why little jack now has made his mark on washington. we'll explain next. >> he's got another gear. >> they're not going to catch him. [cheers and applause] to the end zone!
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>> now the president is backed up against the wall. by the way it could very well be that bashar al-assad did this intentionally. a small tactical use of khefpl cal weapons and a set back to see and what we are going to do about it. that may very well be as far as he's concerned permission for him to use it 0 than a mass scale. so, red lines don't work in this business, particularly. jenna: they are out here, right. we had choices ten years ago that we don't have as clearly right now. what should we watch for? is this going to continue on as the media reports we are going to talk about it for a couple of days and kind of forget about it? what should we be looking for here? >> this is a great question. the forensics for the use of chemical weapons are very simp simple. the forensic evidence stays in the soil for up to four or five years in places like the middle east. the type of weapon that you use to deliver these weapons, these
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chemicals are very easy to identify. the soviet markings are very clear. if he used them, and he used it in a grand tactical scale, that evidence will be on the ground and we'll be able to find it. let's wait until we get the evidence, let's see the smoking gun and make those decisions. but i think in my opinion, if there is a smoking gun there the first decision should be to arm the insurgents with modern tank killing and airplane killing weapons and let them night the war. jenna: we know that some of the insurgents are being joined by chechen militant islamists who have come to greater light because of what happened in boston. it's a complicated situation overall. not much resolution, general scales. great to have your perspective. it's a tough topic. thank you so much. >> thank you, jenna. jon: well political arguments were put aside as five living presidents appeared together for yesterday's dedication of the george w. bush presidential
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center. president obama described his republican predecessor as a good man, a leader who showed strength, resolve and compassion. but many in the media just couldn't resist the chance to attack a favorite target. jon security last night calling the bush library the quote, hard rock cafe of catastrophic policy decisions and saying any presidency would look good compared to that of mr. bush. >> i'm sure, listen if want of gw's kids becomes present in 2032 and for some reason invades the moon i'm sure we'll look back at w and go, you know, actually he wasn't so bad either. [laughter] >> a lot less moon deaths in his presidency. jon: well his is a comedy show, on msnbc drawing a comparison between bush's presidency and the ill-fated carnival cruise where passengers were stranded for days with almost no working toilets. she says because people have short memories they are booking
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carnival cruises again. and don't remember mr. bush's time in office. she says she are opening the president bush to the public on the ten year anniversary of the mission accomplished speak, an inside joke arrest or a crisis business school test of the poop cruise and americans have shockingly short memories. judy miller is a pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter and author. rich lowry is a fox news contributor. jimmy carter who has not had a lot of nice things to say about the bush administration, bush 43 was very generous in his praise yesterday. show was president obama who basically built his entire first campaign on being the anti-bush but the media couldn't say very many good things about the president. >> the media scorned george w. bush when he was in office and you can still hear that note of
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scorn and a lot of the -- in a lot of the coverage. according to i believe a "washington post" poll his approval rating is up to 47%. you think someone who is asking him questions or covering this event might have brought that up. the networks didn't. and, jon stewart pointed out, when we have the next republican president he will be scorned and hated by the media. everyone will look back why can't he be a compassionate conservative like the great statesman george w. bush. jon: they have bush 4 #'s opinion approval late inks at 49% when president obama is at 52. pretty much within the margin of error. they are essentially tied. >> the liberal media have explained this phenomenon by saying the american people have no memory, thank you very much. or there is another explanation too, which is that, you know, looking back on it, perhaps the decisions are a little bit more complicated than we thought they
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were, but that explanation is one that you haven't heard a lot of. lawrence o'donnell opened his show, his segment on the bush library by saying, and now here is that little something about the memorial tribute to a man who doesn't deserve one. i mean i think the american people don't like that kind of dissing of former presidents. jon: maybe the msnbc audience does. let's turn to our coverage, the mead kra coverag media coverage of the marathon bombing suspect and so forth. i want to get your take on whether the media have paid enough attention to who niece guys are and what motivates them. this is what tom brokaw said on "meet the press." >> having spent a lot of time over there young people will come up to me on the streets and say, we love america. if you harm one hair on the head of my sister i will fight you ever forever and there is enormous rage against what they see in this part of the world is
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a pr pre shupl shusness. jon: i guess it's our fault. >> the blow back that we have with terrorist -gs attacking them, it's not invading them it's we have drone attacks. for the radical islamist there is no proper u.s. policy except for if we can you recall u curl up and die and we'll never do that. >> we can look a lot and we should look at what would encourage or prompt the tsarnaev brothers to do this. but to begin a long, you know, exploration of why some people hate us out there, or why muslims hate us, and number one they don't, most are still trying to come here and have a positive view of america, but i really think this is -- it diverts us from what we should be looking at, which is how did this happen, why did it happen, who dropped the ball and how can we prevent it again.
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jon: we are going to have to leave it there. you can catch more with my great news watch panel, fox news watch runs this weekend. you can catch our coverage of the week's top stories, that is saturday 2:30 eastern right here on fox news channel. jenna. jenna: and even date now on the u.n. official who says america is to blame for the deadly boston tere or attack. we told you this story earlier. richard faulk will be keeping his voluntary position with the u.n. human rights council this despite calling the victims of the bombings canaries who had to die because of america's foreign policy and he wrote, quote, the american global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post colonial world. after some prodding the u.n. secretary general finally officially rejected falk's remarks. it didn't happen right away. as you can see from this next clip, a spokesman tells us there are no plans for any further
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action. >> a fellow espousess these controversial opinions on a daily basis. he uses the good services of the u.n., is the secretary general willing to just stop it, saying i reject this latest remark and there is no recourse? >> it's for the member states of the human rights council, and i think that you will know which countries are member states of the human rights council, based in geneva. they are the ones to whom you could address those specific questions. it is not within the gifts of the secretary of general. the he secretary general has made his views clear on the comments that mr. falk made in his latest commentary and i would he leave it at that. jenna: so at this point it appears he will remain at his post at least until his term expires next year. a reminder your taxpayer money helps funneled the u.n. the u.s. is the single biggest financial contributor to the u,
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in. although mr. falk doesn't receive a salary he benefits from prepblg tees and travel and platform that the u.n. provides and you support. we'll continue to follow this story. >> gives it to being gentleman, here he goes. he's got blockers out in front. he's running midfield. listen to this crowd as jack hoffman, a young man that as i mentioned has really been adopted by this football team just scored a touchdown. oh, wow what a moment. jon: great, great story. it gives me chills. that is the amazing story of seven-year-old jack, he suffers from brain cancer. his family all huge nebraska football fans. during this year's spring game jack got to run for a touchdown as you saw there. we talked to his dad andy hoffman who has been working to raise awareness of pediatric
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cancer. the u.s. senate as adopted a bi-partisan resolution offered by deb fisher designating this coming september 26th national pediatric brain cancer awareness day. jack's parents calling that resolution deeply meaningful to their entire family as well as the near here 3,000 families who will learn this year that their child has a brain tumor. jenna: he went to the end zone then he went to washington. jon: good for him. carried the ball all the way. jenna: we will keep you posted on the hoff manner and anything they do in the future as well. you've heard a high fat diet can cause heart disease. another study shows that some foods may contribute to heart disease and it might not be because of fat or calories or anything like that. it's remarkable to have a heart doctor joining us next on that. and the old thing in real estate goes, location, location, location, what about president size of your home? coming up, a microapartment, the tiny trend in urban housing. we'll have that next. both maxwell and ted
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jenna: there is no place like home, even if you're new apartment is the size of a shoebox. the city of san francisco will soon be home to some of the smallest apartments in the nation. some critics really don't like this idea, they think that the city should rent them to low-income tenants and keep them in that income range. others say the cozy apartments will be hot commodities.
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open them up for the entire market. 4 claudia cowen has more. >> reporter: in-crowded urban areas around the world developers are getting creative beings he can per meanting with floor plans that give the illusion of space and transfor the tiniest apartment in to an efficient home. at a 280 square foot apartment in san francisco this reveals a sofa and a hydraulic bistro table doubles as the window seat. >> my goal is to get double or triple duty out of every square inch in the building. >> developer patrick kennedy is responding to the booming population of young single professionals by more than trip link the amount of available houses under one raofr. originally designed for six condos this houses 23 microunits each roughly the size of two parking spots. with competitive rents for the area starting at around $1,600 a month, they say that is a
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bargain. this woman having her own place after years of roommates enough space for all they are things and one item she's always wanted. >> i've never had any moan washer and driver in the unit before, so that was exciting. >> san francisco just approved 375 microunits as small as 220 square feet, including the bathroom and closet. take a look at this graphic, 13 could fit on a tennis court. these tiny units aren't for everyone and the trend is know the without controversy. in seattle, for instance one neighborhood group is calling for a moratorium on microhousing saying the influx of renters is only making the crowding problem worse and there is less housing available for families. in new york, mayor michael bloomberg is aggressively promoting the concept and boston just announced plans to add 30,000 microunits by 2020 to meet its housing needs. jenna. jenna: it makes it harder to collect clutter, right? we'll look at some of the -- there is nowhere to put
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anything, right? it looks pretty cool. >> reporter: there is if you don't have a lot of stuff. jenna: that is the key. >> reporter: for some people this kind of living, less could mean a whole lot more. jenna: very interesting look. thank you. jon: there is a new way to reduce anxiety. researchers founding a common over the counts drug probably in your medicine cabinet and it just might take the edge off. man: how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i've made. ones we've all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here's to good decisions. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. ready to plan for your family's future? we'll help you get there.
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what about the hard boiled eggs? what is wrong with these foods and heart disease, doctor? >> it's a real common theme. when we talked about the red meat bacteria in our guilt or in our stomach or in test tins has been breaking down something called caronete and turning it into tano. this substance helps cholesterol attach to blood vessels and blockages in the heart that cause heart disease and stroke. eggs have a compound that is broken down in the gut by the same bacteria to form more tnao. so there is multiple ways bacteria are causing heart disease. jenna: is there anyway to clear out the bacteria that is developing the bad stuff, the tamo? >> that is very interesting. one of the things that researchers are talking about is that could it be that we add antibiotics or probiotics to yogurt so we change the intestinal flora of our incest
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tins or treat people with and the anti-biotics. jenna: i'm still looking for ways to still keep the burger. we'll talk more about it as we get more information. i have to ask you about another study. a couple of weeks ago they said in one journal they were taking a look at tylenol and whether or not taking tylenol may reduce your anxiety of threats. reduce your anxiety about deaths, or your identity, the really big thoughts. somehow tylenol might help quell that. what are your thoughts about this? >> are that was a very interesting study. it was conducted at the university of british columbia in canada, and the thing about the study is they actually compared anxiety levels in graduate students who took tylenol versus sugar tablets. what they found is that it did in factory dues anxiety related
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specifically to thoughts of death and dying, and the meaning of life, and all the things that cause these anxious feelings. we know that tylenol blocks pain signals in the brain and we think that not only physical pain but maybe emotional pain and that may be why this works. jenna: we have to be careful about the dosage, right? this isn't something go out and pop a tylenol if you're feeling anxious today. >> that is exactly right. a who the of folks who suffer from anxiety and depression may have suicidal thoughts. tylenol is dangerous if you take too much of it. it can cause liver failure and even death. we are not saying tylenol is the drug of choice for anxiety but it's very interesting in this study. jenna: great to see you as always. thank you. >> thank you for having me today. jenna: we'll be right now with more "happening now." we can sta- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor?
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>>. >> jon: here is jenna's favorite stories. a daredevil stunt. alexander jumps from a helicopter that wears a wing suited but the best is yet to come. she headed for a landmark in spain. a hole in rock out cropping known as the bat cave. an amazing stunt as gravity does the thing. he spix up speed hitting 155 miles an hour. one wrong move and he'll smash into the wall but his aim so and he goes through the narrow opening.
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video has been burning up the internet. >> jenna: you are next, jon. >> jon: no, i like to have a motor behind my wing. >> jenna: america live starts right now. >> megyn: new fallout and outrage over a decision that cut short the interrogation of the boston bombing suspect just as he was going to give information that could have national security implications. i'm megyn kelly. as sources told your humble correspondent that a federal judge showed up at the hospital where bombing suspect dzhokar tsarnaev was being questioned and informed him of his right to remain silent. landmarks on capitol hill say they were surprised that the judge was showing up. it came as news to them and they were not done with what they said had bee
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