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figure out to staple biden's mouth shut. >> jon: thanks to our panel. i'm jon scott. we'll see you again next week. fox news, extreme weather alert. a devastating situation in oklahoma again. deadly tornadoes a path of destruction killing nine people and injuring more than a hundred others. these numbers could rise. take a look at videotape. storm chaseers capturing the sights and fear as the tornadoes barreled in. >> we are going to have to move, brother. >> oh my god, back up. >> oh my god. >> it's right there.
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it's coming straight down. >> rapidly rotating. it's right next to us. it's about 200 yards. >> gregg: incredible pictures. hello, i'll gregg jarrett and welcome to a brand-new hour. >> heather: i'm heather childers. thank you for joining us the tornadoes rolling in from the prairies and leaving this a trail of ruin. debris strewn everywhere as emergency rescue teams fan out across the ravaged area. the threat, it isn't over yet. the weather radar, it shows the storms are on the move ready to strike again. we have team fox coverage for you. janice dean is tracking the latest weather warnings but
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we begin with will car. what is the latest from the scene. >> this is an area that took the brunt of this storm. i want to show you what we've been seeing. this is technology center. people come to study here. there were 15 students inside this school yesterday when the tornado came through and ripped the siding off of the school. i spoke to one man that is studying to become a gun smith and he knew things were serious when an administrator came in told him to get to safety. >> at what point you were realize in the tornado's path? >> when all the windows bursted, it's an entire wall of glass. >> what went through your mind? >> i thought about the movies to see glass imploding. we calmly went down into a locker room area and it got
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dark. just waited it out. >> reporter: thankfully nobody was hurt here as the storm raced through. nine people were killed in the storm including two children. we just heard again that about 90,000 people are still without power. so still a lot of work to be done in the wake of tornado in moore. heather, back to you. >> heather: i would be thinking, oh, oh. will, thank you. >> gregg: more dangerous weather in the wake of the deadly tornadoes, heavy flooding is a major concern. submerging homes under several inches of water and causing huge problems for rescue teams who were trying to survey the damage. meteorologist janice dean is in the weather center. >> we are getting more damage survey. 25 tornadoes, that is not including the five in oklahoma. preliminary reports of ef-3 damage, winds up to 165
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miles an hour. also seeing ef-3 damage in st. charles and st. louis counties. 25 reports of tornadoes. going back to this time around 24 hours ago. these are the cells that brought the ef-3 damage to el reno moving close to oklahoma city where the storm started to weaken. thankfully it would have been tragic if it had gone through oklahoma still. you can see the line of storms that moved up to missouri and illinois toward indiana. as you saw, not only were we dealing with tornado damage and hail the size of grapefruits, but incredible rainfall. anywhere from four to six inches in a matter of hours. you saw the pictures, flooding is a huge concern across these regions. we have flash flood watching watches and warnings. maroon area is where we're seeing flooding across portions of arkansas and even into oklahoma yet again.
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there is very slow moving line of storms. you can see ahead of the front we're starting to see more thunderstorms erupting. through the afternoon and evening hour, slight risk for severe weather including isolated tornadoes stretching from texas all the way up to the great lakes. then this storm is going to be on the move and up to the northeast. this time tomorrow, hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes in areas that don't typically get tornadoes. very warm and humid across the eastern seaboard. if i could just point out, this is the first day of hurricane season. june 1st runs to november 30th and an area of concern in the gulf of mexico. a lot to watch and we'll keep you posted. >> gregg: tornadoes and hurricanes. janice, thanks very much. >> heather: triple-digit temperatures in california. a stubborn brush fire. this is the scene the powerhouse fire is burning
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in northern los angeles county. 900 firefighters are tackling the flames from the ground and air. so far the fire has burned 3600 acres. it is only 15% contained. two firefighters suffered minor injuries. some evacuations have been ordered. >> gregg: we are learning more about the four firefighters killed in houston's deadliest fire in more than a century. it begin in a restaurant and engulfed the entire building along with the motel. four firefighters died when the roof collapsed as they searched for people inside. three were veterans and one was a rookie that just graduated from the fire academy in april. five other firefighters?9+
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they were risking their lives to save our community. unfortunately the buildings had much more fire than originally thought. >> gregg: the cause of this fire is still under investigation. >> heather: the f.b.i. looking for answers in recent ricin attacks. poison laced letters have been sent to several politicians including president obama and michael bloomberg. the investigation leading officials to texas and washington state. molly is live with the
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latest on this investigation. >> reporter: the f.b.i. and the u.s. postal inspection service are working several different and dangerous cases trying to track the dangerous poison ricin to numerous public officials as you mentioned president obama. let's start in texas. federal law enforcement officials have confirmed to fox news that a new person has been questioned in connection with three letters, to the president and mayor bloomberg and the another person. they tested positive for ricin but at very low concentration. the man has not been charged but officials confirmed they were acting from a tip from the man's wife alleging suspicion pictures activity. five different letters were sent and three contained rici. they were mailed to the
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president, a judge and air force base and to the central intelligence agency. letter addressed to the c.i.a. has yet to be located. this man, matthew ryan beckett. 38 years old has been charged by a grand jury indictment for mailing threatening communications. he has been arrested in the past and convicted of a sex crime in the late '90s. they are actively searched for the letter addressed to the c.i.a. and these two investigations follow the arrest of a mississippi man in april charged with mailing ricin laced letters a senator and a mississippi judge. >> heather: molly, thank you. >> gregg: attorney general eric holder wrapping up a week of damage control. he reached out to the news media expressing regret over the seizure of phone records and emails from journalists including fox news correspondent james rosen, but the bigger
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problem may come from congress itself. it's demanding answers about what appears to be his contradictory explanation about the leak investigations. molly henneberg is live in washington with more. >> molly: the house judiciary committee wants to know if eric holder was telling the truth when he assured that committee earlier this month that he would not favor going after reporters in leak investigations. holder told the house committee, quote, with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that i'd ever been involved in, heard of or think would be a wise policy. then the press got a hold of 2010 search warrant that he signed, allowing federal investigators to track fox news correspondent james rosen in a leak investigation and named rosen as a co-conspirator in the case. the justice department says it never tried to bring charges against rosen and therefore, quote, the
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attorney general's testimony concerning the potential prosecution of a member of the press was accurate and consistent with the facts. two republican members of the house committee want holder to testify again and clear up how he was involved in this leak investigation. political analysts on both sides say this could be trouble for holder. you may be able to slip through legally, but can you slip through in terms of your overall built to keep your position. the court of public opinion is out right now. >> think it will be a kiss of death for the attorney general. he is the top law enforcement official in the united states of america. it certainly appears that he selectively changed the truth, but he misled congress and that is not okay. >> molly: a congressman told the hill newspaper that holder should resign or president obama should
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fire him for this and other scandals. >> gregg: molly, thanks. >> heather: another controversy hitting the internal revenue service. tax agency handing a new video over to congress. here it is. yes, irs employees at a conference as part of a team building exercise. here is thing. this video, it cost us and taxpayers, $1600. that is nothing compared to this, remember this two other films the agency handed over. star trek and gilligan's island that cost $60,000. claiming they were needed for a effective employee training, gregg. they plan to hold a hearing on what they are doing the wasteful spending practices at conferences. do you think line dancing team building? >> gregg: i'm trying to
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figure that that out. and hot feet getting hotter for eric holder as he tries to reassure the media and public about the report snooping scandal. >> heather: facing new questions using deadly force involving a man that was involved with the boston bombing suspects. was it justified? >> and cars caught in the path of a deadly tornado, no match for the forth of nature. coming up we'll talk about the mayor of el reno, oklahoma as the city struggles to recover. e verizon share everything plan for small business lets you connect up to 25 devices on one easy to manage plan. that means your smartphone, her blackberry, his laptop, mark's smartphone but i'm still on vacation. still on the plan. nice! the intern gets a tablet? everyone's devices. his, hers-- oh, sorry. all easier to manage on the share everything plan for small business.
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♪ ♪ >> gregg: welcome back. time for a quick check of the headlines, thousands of protestors clashing with riot police in istanbul. government plans to build a mall in a square that has long been home to political gathering. >> violence in baghdad, more than thousand people were killed in the month of may in iraq. that is highest monthly toll in years. and military official in yemen claims that u.s. drone strikes have killed 7 suspected members of al-qaeda. official did not identify the victims.
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>> heather: attorney general eric hold esh attempting to reassure the media that she committed to improving how the justice department pursues leak investigations involving reporters. in an off the record meeting. hold every acknowledged the need for changes to his department's guidelines and need to have a more rigorous review. but how much changing the public really expect? susan is a chief correspondent with washington examiner joins us now with a little more insight. thank you for joining us. susan, the attorney general he calls for this off the record meeting. i immediately think of this. >> let me say as simply as i can, transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. our commitment to openness means more than simply informing the american
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people how decisions are made. it means recognizing that government doesn't have all the answers and that public officials need to draw on what citizens know. >> heather: here is the question: does an off the record meeting coincide with the promise and how do you reassure the media or anyone if you aren't willing to talk about it openly? >> it didn't reassure the media which is why about half the people were invited didn't show up including fox news and "new york times." what it did do produce as much after a backlash with the justice department and forced them to allow the media to report broadly about what happened in the meetings over the past two dies. what we learned the justice department isn't really liking the reception they got when it was revealed they were snooping on reporters. there is no guarantee this isn't going to happen again. the only thing we can count on is legislation and holder did say he was open
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to legislation, but he doesn't have much of a choice because president obama has endorsed passage of federal shield law. >> heather: he didn't like the response to the media and not liking the response of congress right now either. this is the question everybody everyone is asking. do you think that holder lied under oath when he told the house committee that he was not involved in the potential prosecution of the press that being james rosen. we know the attorney general had personally signed off for rosen's records. is he obstructing justice that he was sworn to uphold? >> i think he needs to clarify for his own sake what he met meant when he answered hank johnson's question. they were talking about the espionage act. he answered a question that suggested he has never participated in any kind of discussion that would involve criminalizing reporting.
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at that point congress further carried about that. they wanted some clarity. he said that but it turns out he not only signed off on the affidavits but had discussions about it. he needs to say what the difference between telling a member of congress that you have never doing conversations like this and signing off on warrants and having discussions about it. is there a difference in what the question he thought was being asked versus what he did. that is where you will find him trying to split hairs on it. >> heather: i mentioned it because in the first warranted the f.b.i. called him a criminal co-conspirator, there is probable cause that he did violate federal law. after agreeing to allow the meeting to speak in broad terms, whatever that is supposed to mean, we know that was one of topics discussed, using labels and describing journalists in an investigation like co-conspirator and circumstances under which the doj notifies these
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organizations about an investigation. the issue ui answer and phone records -- do you expect any real change to come from these meetings? you mentioned the federal shield law? >> it needs to be legalize through an act of congress. it needs to become law. even under a federal shield law, there would be exceptions and it would open up a whole new area who exactly is afforded these protections. any journalist? bloggers? you have congress trying to weigh in on this. this came up in 2009 when was talked back then. president obama talked about it and it stalled in the senate. and do we allow bloggers under the federal shield acted? this opens up a whole confusing area and for the time being, there is no guaranteed for reporters right now. the justice department is going to be spying on them. >> heather: thank you for joining us.
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42% of people that were asked in a poll holder should resign. they say yes. we'll see what happens next. >> gregg: americans facing tough times facing high student loans and useful tips that everybody can use. >> heather: stay tuned for that and more on the deadly twister is and dangerous flooding hammering the heartland and severe weather threat is not over yet. janice dean has the latest for you and we'll speak to the mayor of one hard hit area. 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? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve,
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the intended recipients. this is nothing new but they are reporting an uptick a case of copycat attacks. >> heather: one firefighter is still in the hospital after house's deadliest fire in centuries. the roof caved in on a burning motel. >> gregg: demonstrations turning violent in london as rival group protested the killing of lee rigby. this is one of the heated demonstrations since the murder. yesterday rigby's family issued a statement calling for peace. >> heather: back to our top story. a fox extreme weather alert. a deadly repeat in oklahoma. tornadoes killing at least nine people injuring more than 100 others. adding to the misery, major flooding. meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox weather center with the latest.
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>> the floodwaters continue to rise across the midwest and the plane states where in some cases we have seen over a foot of rain in a couple of days. so that is going to continue to cause problems over oklahoma up to missouri, illinois, indiana, iowa and even arkansas. these storms move over the same areas. we'll continue to see the flood threat into the workweek. there is the radar over the last six hours. slow moving storms now pushing across the tennessee and mississippi river valley. we have a severe threat from texas all the way up to great lakes, damaging wind and hail and isolated tornadoes into the overnight. then we're going to watch these storms slowly move eastward up to the northeast. this time tomorrow we could be talking about severe weather for millions of people across heavily populated areas. tomorrow severe threat across the southwest, portions of new mexico into southwest texas, as as the
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front moves eastward, potential for hail and isolated tornadoes all the way up to maine. that is for sunday. then we, of course, are continuing to watch the weather in el reno where they had the ef-3 tornado moving in with winds up to 165 miles per hour. calmer skies for saturday, sunday and even monday, but tuesday and wednesday, the chance for more strong to severe storms. we'll keep you you up to date. >> heather: we are in the season. we're going to talk more about that. >> gregg: we are getting a new look at some of the damage from that deadly tornado outbreak in oklahoma. violent storm system ripping through oklahoma city suburbs during rush hour trapping commuters on a major highway. several twisters touched down killing nine people including a mother and a baby in the town of el
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reno. that city's mayor joins us now live. mayor, i know it's been a tough 24 hours for you and your community. describe what it was like when the tornado or tornadoes struck your town and the damage it caused? >> well, gregg, i tell you what happened we got a pretty good, local media does a great job. we got a pretty good warning it was coming. and to the west, it came right over between 6:00 and 6:30. all chaos broke out after that. >> gregg: a mother and child as i mentioned were killed. they were either in or near a vehicle in the el re november area. can you tell us anything about that and some of the other casualties? >> the town of el reno didn't get hit itself. it was outlying and we're
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30 miles west of oklahoma city. our stock yard got hit. main corridor is i-40 and that is where a lot of deaths occurred on i-40 between el reno and yukon and also highway between el reno an union city. it was one of those things, most people took shelter but the vehicles, as we are hearing, those were the ones that had the most trouble. >> gregg: we heard so much about moore, oklahoma and the lack of basements and shelters under ground there. what about your town? >> we have in oklahoma and overall because of all the storms and stuff. there is going to be something done and something addressed about more basements and more space for people to go under. i had a basement below our
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building. we had a lot of people from all walks of life. a i think they opened that. the main thing is we were ef-3 and moore had a lot more damage. the rural areas, we are industrial community, a lot of ranchers and farmers, a lo of the houses and livestock were completely wiped out. >> gregg: we spent an awful lot of time in oklahoma. you are right there smack dab in the middle of tornado alley. what is it like for oklahoma residents there to get hit time and time and time again with twisters? >> i think there is a lot of media attention on this. it's good that there is some because people need this. you know, most of us in el reno were fine. we are resilient about this. oklahoma is good about
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rebuilding. we haven't had any problems. just like if you live in florida, the hurricanes, in california, earthquakes. it's something you have to deal with. the meteorologists work hand and hand with the governor's office to hopefully get a first response and first warning out to them. that really kind of unique for us. we feel pretty good about that. >> gregg: mayor matt white, our begs wishes to you to to people in el reno, oklahoma. >> heather: still to come, you want to talk about that --. >> gregg: it's got to be so hard to live there and have this happen to you over and over. >> heather: and i was looking last night at statistics. ef-5 the strongest tornado
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hit moore last monday. an ef-5 has only hit 60 times since 1960. seven times in oklahoma alone and seven times in alabama. >> gregg: i lived a couple years in kansas. as the mayor said it's at way of life. we understand that, i live in california and seen plenty of earthquakes. we got hit with hurricanes in the northeast and south, just about everywhere has its risks. >> heather: coming up. graduates may be ready to leave school behind but are they prepared to join the work force? we'll have advice that not just graduates can use, good financial tips. >> gregg: anger from a parent of a man that linked to the bombing suspect. he was shot and killed during the questioning. was this a proper use of force? we'll take a look at both sides of issue with our legal panel in just a moment.
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♪ ♪ >> heather: don't forget. we are here with your weekend newscast throughout the day on saturday and sunday. these are extremely difficult economic times to be graduating from college. grads are facing record high student loans and high unemployment. so new graduates have a tough time making a go on it. how do they start off on the right foot? patricia powell is ceo of powell financial group and she has tips for everyone
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out there the work force. thank you so much for joining us. important information in light of the economic situation going on in the country. i actually teach a course in financial literacy? >> i do, i teach a college course. we are teaching this in college and thank goodness because the kids, they don't know how to do this. >> heather: what is number one priority? >> for a college graduate, that is number one priority, get a paying job. we're talking about graduates but not an unpaid internship, a real job that is going to pay something to you. you have to be careful because people make simple mistakes, i worked so hoard hard, need take the summer off. by the time you get the resumes out the fall you will not have the best pick. >> heather: even if you need a job and you are not a recent graduate, don't take the summer off. >> your job is to find a
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job and by the time paycheck. >> heather: number two priority is health insurance? >> absolutely. you have to be good -- whether or not you get a job, depends on whether you have health insurance. if you don't have health insurance you can stay on your parents through your age 25. you really want your parents to like you and be willing to do this for you. even if you get a job and have health insurance you may three-month window where there is an elimination period. you really need coverage if. you can't get coverage through your employer or parents you have to get it yourself. don't be fooled, it's either gone already or gone in august. >> heather: and obamacare, less employers are offering health insurance. priority number three, reduce or eliminate debt. >> this good for everybody.
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reduce or eliminate debt. these kids are 18 years old and we let them borrow a boat load of debt. two out of three graduate from college on debt that is almost $27,000. they may be 10 percent graduate with two or three times that debt. it's a huge problem. you can't wipe this out with bankruptcy. so the kids start their working career with a boat load of debt on payments. little things can really help you. if you have like a $20,000 loan you are probably 6.8% interest, paying $230 a month. if you skip a cafe latte once a week you can knock off a whole year by adding $20 to your payment. >> heather: been then a pattern of behavior and those that are not recent graduates that have all this added debt and aren't
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paying it off. >> absolutely. it's important for graduates, graduate school not to get further in debt. you can borrow it unlimited amount of money whether you go to graduate school. i seen people have $200,000 worth a debt, it's like having a mortgage. >> heather: priority number four learn to budget and do your homework? >> learn to budget, get the education and learning to budget, but how you get control of everything. whether it making good decisions. you look at every decision and financial element to it. if you are buying a car, by a used car not a used car. it's most financial choice almost all of the time. look at every single thing. look at your cellphone and bank fees. i'm a recent graduate, do not twitter away your money. >> heather: that is good
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phrase. and don't by a fancy car. >> everybody is ready to lend your money. its trap at the end of the day. if you fall into the trap, your credit will own you. you are living your life to pay for last years expenditures zbleeth. >> heather: thank you so much. >> a man killed in the middle of an f.b.i. interview concerning an earlier set of crimes. now there are growing questions whether federal agents were justified in using lethal force against a friend of tamerlan tsarnaev. our legal panel is here to weigh in. >> my son doesn't have any weapons. questioned him for eight hours, eight hours! that is an entire working day. you question a person eight hours and you can provoke
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>>. >> gregg: f.b.i. is reviewing the death of a chechen immigrant that was shot during an interrogation. bureau says he was killed after initiating a violent confrontation. the man was a reported friend of tamerlan tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the boston bombing and he allegedly helped tamerlan tsarnaev carry out an unsolved triple murder before the boston terror attack. let's bring in kesha and doug burns former prosecutors. doug, it's standard operating procedure, you convene a shooting incident review board to determine
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appropriate level of force, excessive level of force. what is troubling to some people that the f.b.i. is changing it's a story. first they said he was armed, he wasn't really armed not with a gun or with a knife and he was shot six times. >> ground rules, number one you have to investigate it obviously. get the forensic evidence. look where the shots were. see whether he was armed. although, i think what they are going to find, he was about to confess to be involved that triple homicide so they know he is a dangerous suspect but to charge an f.b.i. agent is really a stupid move swinging broom handle at him. the reality you are going to have a lot of criticism you need commensurate force, swinging a broom handle doesn't mean you kill him. >> gregg: let me put up the
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law in florida. florida law on self-defense. person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if he reasonably believes such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily injury to himself. when a guy who is an expert fighter comes at you with a metal weapon, a blunt force object, doesn't that fit the legal definition of reasonable force? >> definitely. coupled with the fact that he is go about to confess to a triple homicide. one of the things makes it justified. it wasn't like he was interrogation room or f.b.i. office. they don't know what weapons he may have had. it made it more justifiable, let me draw my weapon. this guy is charging me. i believe he knocked an f.b.i. agent down. >> gregg: lacerations in the head that caused injuries.
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arguably that makes eight violent confrontation. >> other thing i thought was foolish the decedent's father was offering opinions, second guessing this. he was shot in top of the head. i have been in self defense cases. what do you me meen shot in head. for him to prejudge that is totally foolish. they need to look at it closely but exactly the way you put it the man initiated a violent encounter. >> there is not a lot of sympathy for a guy writing out his confession to a heinous triple murder. these guys were just executed in an apartment up in massachusetts. >> right. like you said, he was confessing to this triple homicide. he is a mixed martial arts
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fighter and the police officer, the trooper, f.b.i. agent, he is getting agitated, be careful. >> gregg: there was a warning? >> right. >> gregg: look, it's going to be the word of the f.b.i. agent who pulled the trigger, also the one witness which is a state trooper who was there. >> and whatever forensic proof can establish "a" the order of the six shots and "b" where he was located. it's going to be determined this was reasonable to determine that there was serious violent problem. >> gregg: the other thing, let's assume that some charges are brought, maybe manslaughter against the f.b.i. agent. florida is unique because he can go to a judge and invoke the so-called stand your ground rule in which the judge then holds a hearing and makes a decision as to whether or not there is even a trial. he could throw out the
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charges. >> right. >> that was the exact hearing was waived in zimmerman because they would lose that hearing. here he would probably win it. i think are right. >> gregg: that was shrewd tactical decision by the zimmerman team. in the end. we take our hats off to the f.b.i. agents who do tireless work saving our lives and protecting our safety. >> and split second situation you have to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> i think it was very intense situation. also, the metal pole. >> gregg: all it takes is one blow to the head to kill somebody. good to see you both. that is going to do it for us. "cavuto on business" is coming up next. >> heather: we'll be back tomorrow. we will continue to follow the threat of tornadoes and severe weather. we'll be back tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern.
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>> neil: nice and easy you can do it nice and wrong. i'm neil cavuto and on top of it. administration going over the top. this little tweet, from some twit, criticizing all the media companies in the off the record meeting with attorney general eric holder to discuss this secrecy thing. ag to review how leak investigations are done but some the media refuse to meet with him kind of forfeits your right to gripe. after reading a threatening tweeted like that, show up or shut up. so many opted out.
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