>> brian: we should tell you that foreigner will be playing at the mets game. >> we are playing after the mets game. >> brian: how great is foreigner? >> steve: have a great weekend! >> gretchen: happy father's day ! grilled. the acting commissioner stepped down earlier than planned. the woman at the center of the controversy is on paid leave. but when he was asked about the specifics of the investigation that's when things got interesting. martha: good morning, bill, i'm martha mac callum. when he was pressed on some of

the details of this irs investigation. the director appeared to be in the dark on much of this. watch this. >> the irs case is currently under investigation and it just started. >> you started a month ago. what have you told us this. have you found the infamous two rogue agents? have you discovered who they are? >> because it's under investigation i can't give out details. >> can you tell me how many investigators you assigned to the case. >> i may be able to do that but i will have to get back to you. >> can you tell me who the lead investigator is. >> off the top of my head no. >> the most important issue before the united states in the fast few weeks and you don't know who the lead investigator is? bill: some folks wonder what he did know. do we know if the fbi contacted any of the groups targeted?

>> reporter: when candidate these questions director mueller said he couldn't comment on the investigation. when presence on why the fbi might have contacted tea party groups before the investigation strange. >> each investigation is different and i can't comment on what was appropriate without knowing and sitting down and going through the facts. >> that's the point. you have had a month now to investigate. this has been the biggest story in the country and you can't tell me who the lead investigator is? you can't tell me the actions the inspector general took which is not typically how investigation are done, you can't tell me if that's appropriate or not? >> reporter: mueller said he would get back to the lawmakers with some answers.

bill: he also answered questions on the nsa. >> reporter: he defended the nsa to collect data on e-mails and said it was in full compliance with the law. he said if the program had been in place before 9/11 he believes they would have been able to identify one of the hijackers and thwart the plot. >> mr. chairman, let me just finish. i'm not persuaded that that makes it okay to collect every call ... >> reporter: congressman conyers says the surveillance can't be quote anything and everything goes. martha: former new york city mayor rudy giuliani responding to mueller's inability to answer many of those questions. watch this from hannity.

>> i was the third ranking official in the justice department during reagan administration for serious and sensitive investigation. if you asked me who the lead investigator was. i met with that guy 20 times so it would have been on the tip of my tongue. i don't get it. march prr mueller said "not off the top of my head." giuliani referred to mueller as terribly disengaged. bill: edward snowden, the nsa whistleblower, and the government of china, officials are going through his phone call record and text messages and online activity. the british government is telling officials not to allow snowden to travel to the u.k. they will likely deny him entry if he tries. martha: john mccain on the

senate floor after the government said syria killed its own people using chemical weapons. >> i that president for acknowledging that the syrians are using chemical weapons and massacring their own people and i applaud his decision to provide additional weapons. i do not -- every ounce, every bone in my body knows that simply providing weapons will not change the battlefield equation and we must change the battlefield equation. martha: we are glad to be joined by senator john mccain, ranking member of the armed services committee. he traveled to syria in secret and met with the rebel fighters and knows quit a bit about what's going on on the ground. so you believe that providing weapons -- the white house has not defined what the scale and scope of their involvement intentions are.

what do you think needs to be done here? what would satisfy you? >> i think we have to view this situation in the context of a terribly deteriorating situation in the region. jordan is overrun with refugees. the fighting is 93,000 people have been massacred. horrible atrocities are taking place and the russians are providing sophisticated weapons such as missiles and airplanes. hezbollah sent thousands of fighters. the iranians have boots on the ground and are supplying weapons. so it's a totally unfair and unbalanced fight. now the rebels are the freedom fighters, the syrian national farmy are being beaten every place around syria because of the overwhelming fire power and

air power. and air power is the deciding factor. you have got to take their air power out of it. you have got to have a safe zone where they can operate, train and equip. and we have to turn this thing around. anything less than that will be countered with increased russian and iranian assistance and more hezbollah fighters into the region. we have to change the battlefield situation. and just sending arms -- though they need them very body. it's not going to change the situation on the ground and the massacre goes on. martha: hindsight is always 20-20. but a lot of people would feel if we had done this sooner and i know you advocated doing it sooner that it would have been a clearer ally situation. is it too late and if we go in now it sounds like we are in

deep from what you are saying if we can hope to achieve the goal and also tell us what is the ultimate goal here. >> our ultimate goal is to remove bashar al-asaad which the president articulated many times. will it be complicated, difficult and a mess? chemical weapons cache's will have to be secured. every day that goes by and we don't get rid of bashar al-asaad it becomes more difficult. but for to us sit by and watch these people being massacred, raped, tortured in the most terrible fashion. meanwhile the russians are all-in, hezbollah is all-in, and we are talking about giving them more light weapons? it's insane. it's turning into a regional conflict. not just a conflict within syria and the united states sat by and the president of the of the

youth overruling the recommendations of his advisors. if. our present chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. said don't worry, bashar al-asaad. it's inevitable they will fall. these are supposed to be our best and smartest people in defense. does anybody believe bashar al-asaad is bound to fall? of course not. it's is graceful that the united states is sitting by and watching this happen. none of us want boots on the ground. martha: based on what you are saying, we heard the same thing that qaddafi would fall and the french led the way in that situation. now with the russian and iranian involvement, is a regional conflict -- the president referred to this as a civil war

in syria. great britain has said we are not sure we are in at this point. >> the british want in and they stated it, everything but openly. the french want in. they long ago said it was clear that bashar al-asaad used chemical weapons. we determined bashar al-asaad killed about 100-150 people with chemical weapons. how did he kill the other 93,000? what the president did was he gave them a red line but gave them a green light to do everything else. if i sound emotional about this it's because the news out of that country is horrific. and it is about to destabilize and maybe even overthrow the government of jordan. it's about to cause lebanon to become a cockpit of sectarian violence and we have sat there and done nothing.

martha: i hope you will come back. i want to talk to you about the reaction of the american people to all this and how you do all this without ending up with boots on the ground. >> bosnia and kosovo are examples and the president has to explain it to the american people. martha: we'll talk to you soon. bill: third year for that civil war. 93,000 have been killed. some say the real number is much larger than that. 1.4 million have fled the country and the pace of the exodus is accelerating. last summer the insurgency had grown to 140,000 people. when he talks about the region, everybody has a hand in this. there are so many different forces at work to try and figure out for themselves how they can influence the outcome. martha: trying to nudge a regime

in syria. we are just getting started. we have got a lot on the plate. watch this first. it's dark and chaotic. but you are watching more than 100 people after that event were rushed to the hospital after a sports bar deck collapsed. bill: new questions about the extent of government surveillance and what this means for you. >> we don't have proof there are other orders. i doubt the orders have been directed to one cell phone company. my you significant is every cell phone in america is having their data tracked. bill: we'll ask tom ridge is any of that is making americans safer.

bill: republican senator rand paul you heard before the break say he thinks the nsa surveillance is more invasive than we have been told and he wants all americans to join a class action lawsuit against the administration. >> my suspicion is every cell phone in america is having their data tracked. i think everybody who owns a cell known america if they want to protect their privacy need to become a party to these lawsuits. bill: tom ridge was instrumental in developing new intelligence gathering methods and this is the first time he has been speaking publicly about the surveillance program since the news broke. do americans have reasons to be concerned about this? >> i think they have every reason to be diewr was as to how the program has expanded from the time president bush

inaugurated it. i think there is a need for transparency. the real challenges with the revelations the past week are complicated. because the past couple months this administration demonstrated in so many areas with the department obvious is, benghazi, and the irs that they are not to be trusted. this is a program that began under president bush when we weren't prepared and should never be prepared to sacrifice any constitutional protection for security. it's been expanded. i think the real challenge in my judgment is more transparency to the extent they are able to provide it for us. bill: you are okay with the program and you are saying americans should be okay with the program, too. but you are looking for more explanation from the president to explain exactly what they are doing. >> this revelation comes after a

series of revelations. there is no trust. so i think there are just a couple simple questions that need to be answered. to the extent you can do that without compromising the efforts we have undertaken. has the program been expanded. tell us how and why and when and secondly why do you need the metadata instead of surgically going after certain phone numbers. bill: that's the tricky part of this. when you were running the show the big debate was whether you were watching phone calls from overseas into the u.s. now we have gone top e-mails and google searches. how did we get here. >> that's the question. the expansion of the program. president bush set specific parameters. there is testimony that suggests those parameters have been expanded and people need to

explain to us under what circumstances it was necessary to do so. we don't want them to lay out how they are affecting the program. bill: why don't they tell us? put it on the front page of every newspaper and webpage for a week now. >> you have senator paul and everybody getting excited. we had a privacy office and we talked about this all the time. what is it we do as a government to protect our citizens that is consistent with the constitution. there is a law that says you can use the fisa court. bill: nor paul says even if you are going to keep the name private the possibility for abuse is enormous. so we went out to find out what americans are thinking. our poll asked this question, is

it acceptable or does it invade your privacy. that's 62%. how do you strike the balance between the security question and the privacy question. >> it's a question we'll need to ask forever because the nature of telecommunications in the form of electronics has changed how we communicate. that is a question we are going to continue to ask and probe forever. that's why they need to be transparent to tell us how, when and why they are doing these things. bill: robert mueller said had we had this program in 2001 9/11 wouldn't have happened. do you agree with that. >> i'm not certain. bill: tom ridge out of washington, d.c. martha: the nsa collecting metadata from millions of americans. now there are new concerns the data collecting could be used

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i'm very athletic and i swim in the cold water in the ocean. shingles forced me out of the water. the pain level was so high, it was like fire. and i was thinking like, i wish i had that cold water i could go in it. the doctor asked me "did you have chickenpox when you were a child?" i'm very healthy and i do all the best things to keep it that way. all of a sudden i got shingles. it was so hard to accept that pain, it became unbearable. bill: there were 100 people dumped into the bay in the middle of the night.

can you make that out in there, all those people screaming? miami police say a sports bar's patio collapsed. fans were watching the finals nba game when they went tumbling into the bay. >> it was more what we heard than what we saw. first we heard a crack. then it was within seconds that the whole deck collapsed into the water. bill: 24 people injured, two of them seriously. they were lost in the dark. martha: turkey's prime minister tries to end violent protests rocking this key u.s. ally. demonstrations have unleashed

clashes that killed five people so far. leland vittert is live in this story there is stan bull. >> reporter: we are waiting for a memorial service for those five protesters. the prime minister tried teargassing these protesters and tried sending the police in but they are still here. the crowd is continuing to grow. look just over here at the crowd. they say while it's nice that the prime minister offered these concessions and says he's going to wait until there is a referendum or court decision about turning this park into a mall, they say it's about something else. they want justice for their friend who have been beaten and for their friend who have died. they say they want president erdogan to stop acting luke a dictator. the other thing we are seeing as the protest enters day 17, you

are getting a lot more families. you are getting old men, young women, moms and dads camping out with their kids to become part of this process. 10:00 tomorrow morning is when they make the decision whether to stay or accept the prime minister's conditions. martha: there is a gathering of support for the protesters. >> reporter: there seems to be a groundswell of support. doctors, lawyers, dentists coming out to support these people. it starts at 7:30 local when you get thousands of people streaming in here. there are a lot of shopkeepers saying the violence has to end so they can keep going with their business. martha: it takes its toll. leland, thank you. bill: there was a firey explosion at a chemical plant.

one person is dead and dozens injured. martha: fbi director robert mueller facing tough questions on capitol hill yesterday. we'll speak to a congressman who got into one of the most heated exchanges. he will join us live in america's newsroom. >> i point out specifically. >> may i finish. >> i point out specifically -- if you are going to call me a liar you need to point out specifically where any facts are wrong.

bill: there is an investigation into a ground rattling, deadly explosion into a chemical plant. 77 people injured. this plants in louisiana makes highly flammable gases common in the petro-chemical industry. martha: back to washington where a heated exchange over the fbi' handling of the boston marathon suspects prior to the attack. the russians warned us about the older tsarnaev brother years ago and dropped the coverage because they said they couldn't find anything on them. louie gohmert asking director muler why no one looked at the mosque he attended in boston

which was cofounded by a man who is in jail for supporting terrorism. >> your facts are not all together. >> sir, if you are going to call me a liar you have got to point out specifically where any facts are wrong. >> we went to the months income boston. prior to boston happening we were in that mosque talking to the imam as part of our outreach efforts. >> are you aware those mosques were started by al-amoudi? you were not? martha: were a very uncomfortable day. i'm joined by louie gohmert. congressman, welcome. this is an issue that is very important. and i'm curious what you thought about him saying that your facts weren't right.

what are you driving at here. what do you think we need to take away from what happened in boston in terms of this larger conversation about the nsa? >> this fbi, this justice department, this administration has forced the training materials to be purged because cair, which is cited as a front organization for the muslim brotherhood, they forced our administration to purge materials that reference anything that might be offensive to the radical islamists who want to kill us. i have been through the materials. michele bachmann and i have. i know what's in there. we know what they have taken out. you can't do an investigation of radical islam if you cannot talk about what radical islam is and what it believes. the fbi director said that your facts aren't right, we did go to the mosque.

my point was did you go to the mosque to investigate the tsarnaevs. because that had been where they had been going. i get tired of the administration saying they should have given us more information. they said here is a radical islamist who is going to kill people. if we have an fbi that goes out and says we can't find any indication. they didn't even though the mosque the brothers were attending was started by a terrorist who is in prison. martha: after the fbi interviewed the older tsarnaev brother and decided there was nothing there, they weren't concern. their time ran out on these folks. my question was, wouldn't you under those circumstances given the warning by the russians be

able to continue with this nsa surveillance program to keep an eye on their phone lines and wouldn't any judge on the fisa court approve that given the intelligence we had gotten from russia and congressman king said no. >> that would be a far more appropriate search warrant to grant, to continue monitoring them than what they got to go after all the verizon record. this would be an affidavit that i as a judge could accept given all the facts we knew from what russia said. but let me tell you. if you are the fbi and you don't even knee these guys are attending a mosque started by a terrorist, then you might not be able to put the proper facts in the affidavit to make it where it would be granted. martha: it is shocking when you think about where the energy is going.

you look at james rosen case and the amount of effort it went into following his whereabouts and his phones and e-mails. you wonder why would he merit that and a judge signed off on that. why would a judge not sign off on following somebody we have been tipped off by the riewtions to. i say this you -- mistakes happen in the world. but we want to know that the process is where it should be. we are being as efficient as we can be to catch the next guys. i don't know that we have that with this program. do you have confidence we do? >> absolutely not. how are we going to catch people in the future when a country says this guy mass been radicalized, he's going to kill people and we say it looks okay to me. i'll leave my one bullet in my pocket. this is no way to protect the country. as one of our intelligence officers told me, we have blind our ability to see our enemy.

thank goodness most muslims love this country and they don't want to destroy it. but let's at least agree there are radical islamists that want to bring this place down. there are people being radicalized in mosques and the fbi has abandoned the program it had back after 9/11 that brought about dozens of prosecutions. that abandoned that. they will not even go check a mosque when they find out people have been radicalized there. march where we have had so many concerns about privacy and the tsarnaev's privacy was not infringed upon at all and that turned out to be a mistake. >> thank you so much, martha. you are right on track. bill: iranians are going to the polls voting for their first new president since mass protests and charges of proud followed the last election there. how is the vote going, gregg?

>> reporter: iranians are trying to come up with a successor to ahmadinejad. he has reached his term limit. six candidates have been vetted. the opposition was clamped down upon. the supreme leader ayatollah has a say in everything foreign and domestic. also in the running, though, two more hard-line choices. if the current nuclear negotiator and the mayor of tehran. the issues, basically the economy like a lot of other places in the world. but in iran, high unemployment and inflation in part due to the international sanctions slapped on that country due to the suspect nuclear program and also

because of corruption and mismanagement in the government. the nuclear program is also an issue. not that it should be thrown out. but maybe according to some there should be some moderation and flexibility with the west. the voting hours have been extended. we shouldn't get result until tomorrow. we probably won't see a winner until next week. bill: who knew they were voting in the u.s., too. a very intriguing story about iranian americans voting from this election. martha: we have concerns about the data the nsa is collecting from hundreds of millions of americans and how it might be used to influence politics or used against you if they know what you are searching out there. bill: they were just watching a basketball game when the deck of a sports ball collapses into the water and into the darkness.

>> there was a collapse at the waterfront at the 79th street causeway. at the time our units arrived on scene we identified 100 individuals involved in the collapse.

martha: newtown, connecticut is holding a moment of silence

marking six months since a gunman opened fire inside the sandy hook school. >> my oldest was brutally murdered in her 2nd grade class along with 24 other people. 25 other people, sorry. i ask everyone here today if they can join with me in 26 seconds of silence to remember the 26 that have fallen. if we can take that moment now, please. martha: six months but obviously those feelings are so raw for

all of those family members and it is a fitting tribute to stop and to take a moment today to think about those lost in in the. ouin -- that were lost in newtown. our hearts and prayers are with all those families. bill: new concerns about the nsa's collection of metadata that covers awful your electronic communications. the government says it's using that to attract terrorists. now some are wondering whether the government or a political party could use metadata to up influence politics. we'll bring in juan williams. gentlemen, i presume. good morning to both of you. you are going to hear from robert epstein. he studies behavior, research and technology. listen to how he characterizes how people can be influenced. >> you can have an enormous

effect on the voter who are undecided against cushioning the vote one way or another by 15% or more and then there is a second discovery. we discovered you can mask this phenomenon so literally no one is aware, no one is aware that they are being manipulated. >> reporter: he works for the american institute of behavioral technology. 15 per pushing the vote one way or another and no one is aware. should we be concerned about this? >> you bet we should. after the 2012 election the obama campaign was quite proud of themselves that they were able to mine and have metadata on folks they sought to influence. they microtargeted right down to the blocks and targeted the people they thought were the best to go out and exercise

their vote. this isn't going to stop. this is only going to be improved by campaigns as they figure out the best way ways to motivate their likely voters to go to the polls. people don't even know it's happening. bill: brad, i understand the point you are making. juan, what do you think? >> this is paranoia. there is no relationship between the ongoing concern about civil rubber is violations and collecting this mega data and microtargeting. it was targeted in the 2004 campaign. karl rove was given credit for his ability to get voters out by microtargeting. bill: the ability we have in 2012 and 2013 dwarf the efforts of any party and their ability in 2004. >> but this is not a new technique.

we have evolving capability. to make a connection between the ongoing scandals and concerns and civil liberties and politics i think is way out of line. bill: this is david drummond. >> we think users can trust us. our track record has been very, very good. we respect users' privacy and we do our very best to deliver great services. we think that's why users use us and come back to google and we hope to continue to earn that trust. bill: this is more than google. it's everything you do. there has to be a question whether it's democrat or republicans. they use this information to go out and find votes. >> it could go beyond that. this is where oversight comes in. if our government was doing the necessary oversight we wouldn't have had the financial collapse in 2008 because government's job is to prevent bad things from

happening, not merely respond to it when they do. fill disagree with juan in this sense. regardless of how the information is used. if it's used without the knowledge, consent or purpose of the user, then it's wrong whether the government do it or the private sector do it. congress should be looking out for our interests for what the private sector is doing with the information as well. >> i'm not sure brad and i disagree on this. i think the bigger reality is advertisers use it. if you do a google search and you are doing anything online they are selling your privacy to isers. >> you can find a different search engine. you don't have to use google. you have got one government and that's where the concern comes in. thanks to you on a friday. martha: major developments in a serious story.

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martha: fox news alert. the awe nighted states taking action against syria announcing manner to step up military and to help arm the rebel fighters in that country. welcome, everybody. brand-new hour starts now of "america's newsroom" on a friday. a lot going on. i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning, syria crossing what president obama has called the red line. the bashar al-assad regime using chemical weapons. more than 90,000 have died since the uprising began and now besides providing military ailed the white house says press has not made a decision about enforcing a no-fly zone over syria. some think more needs to be done. >> the president has stated in a red line has been crossed. i would observe that red lines

are meaningless unless they are backed pie action. the underlying bill reflects a sense of congress that any red line should be backed with substantive measures. martha: doug mckelway joins us live from the white house. doug, the timing on all of this. when did the administration decide that yes, indeed, syria had crossed over that red line? >> that's a key question, martha. you know, france and britain had already come to that conclusion weeks ago and it has led many to criticize the administration for wasting valuable time. last night at a conference call with reporters, ben rose explained the administration's decision making saying in effect that new developments on the ground have changed the urgency of the situation. here is ben rose. >> it's particularly urgent right now in terms of the situation on the ground in some respect, because we have seen hezbollah and iran increase their own involvement in the

conflict. >> reporter: senator john mccain who has long advocated arming the rebels applauded the president's decision but it concerned it may not go far enough. >> just supplying weapons is know the going to change the equation on the ground and the balance of power. these people of the free syrian army need weapons, and heavy weapons to counter tanks and aircraft, they need a no-fly zone. >> reporter: chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers says the administration's decision may be a case of too little to late. >> i do think it took too long. i think they tried to out source it to the united nations, listen, there is no substitute, you cannot out source u.s. leadership, it just doesn't work. our arab league partners wanted u.s. leadership, and again this isn't about boots on the ground and military action, there is a whole host of other things that the u.s. credibility brings to har hard decisions being made in a place like syria. >> reporter: the administration

has not provided any specific details about what kind of military aid is going to be provided to the rebels. we know that small arms simply will not do the job against bashar al-assad's tanks, on the other hand missiles, which could be launched against airplanes or helicopters could turn up in the wrong hands and used to down civilian airliners. martha: you have iran and russia on the other side of this equation. this is, as john mccain we just spoke to the potential for a large regional conflict is absolutely there. you have other critics from the united states who really fear involvement in yet another middle east conflict. >> reporter: yeah, and we got a little bit of a taste last night in a debate in the house of representatives over an amendment to the armed services authorization bill. listen up. >> ten minutes. ten minutes on a matter that could very easily suck the united states into another war in the middle east. we need time. we need to debate this. we need to under all the ramifications.

the language in this particular section is really serious language. >> reporter: another key point here russia is already voicing its skepticism saying that the u.s. did not provide enough evidence that bashar al-assad's forces are indeed using chemical weapons. lots at play here, martha. martha: lots of blustering language out of syria this morning as well. thank you very much. a little bit of context on syria on its chemical weapons. the bashar al-assad regime reportedly has stocks of several deadly nerve gases, vx, say are rain and blister agents. vx can cause loss of muscle control, problems with the nervous system and death. blister agents cause painful blistering of the skin and lungs and is generally not lethal unless exposed to in high concentrations but these are ugly and violent and dangerous weapons at use here. we will get more on the background in the region from bill.

bill: the whole matter is so complex, syria in yellow. turkey's issue is an influx of refugees who have passed the border and it has been that way for two years. you you have patriot missiles he delivered on behalf of of the united states given to the turkish government. the number of refugees going into the country of jordan to the east you have a long unguarded border with the country of iraq. some reports suggest al-qaida now living in this section of the country stirring up problems there. and then over here you have israel and you know what israel's concern is, the weapons that are in syrian hands could they be transported to lebanon so that hezbollah would be better equipped? and on top of all that you've got iran sitting out here to the east, iran is a supporter of syria, iran wants bashar al-assad to stay in power and now you have the push and pull of all these countries with all the various interests and a lot on the line to figure out

whether they can effect the outcome in that country. you talk about the complexities and see all the players involved and that shows it quite clearly. martha: here is a little bit more perspective on all of this. the bashar al-assad family has been in power in syria since 1970 returning an a authoritarian military dominated government there. 77% of the syrian population has lived under that regime their entire lives. they have known nothing else. the bashar al-assad's belong to the allo ii tes which makes up 12% of the country's population but dominates the top government and military position which of course makes it very tough for them to hang onto that power which they have fiercely done. bill: fox news alert in the collapse of a deck packed with fans in a sports bar near miami. investigators trying to figure out what caused the patio to crash into the bay water below. >> you had more than a hundred people watching the nba finals cheering on their hometown team

the miami heat when they went into the bay when the patio gave way beneath them. dozens injured, two them serious. this is daytime video. as we hear from the witnesses who describe the complete chaos at the scene last night. >> the tables toppled on top of each other. there was one guy with a broken leg, there was a lady that got hit with a table on the head when everything collapsed, and of course panic set in. -frbg just kind of got scared. there were people wet completely from head to tow. they were actually submerged in the water. bill: phil keating is on scene there live in miami. what happened there, phil, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill. the investigators are actually on the scene right now taking a look at the collapsed deck. one concern, a leading theory of course too many people on that deck. another contributing factor likely would have been the deck itself, it's been here for many, many years, built out of wood, sits in the water, biscayne

water, water corrosion could have led the foundations to be not as strong as they should have been. tables and chairs all collapsed and submerged. you can see it was chaos last night and it was packed. its a very popular sports bar and restaurant. of it sits right on biscayne bay and during miami heat basketball games the place is packed. there were about 100 people on the decade loan and probably another hundred inside the restaurant last night. and then suddenly everything went to haywire at about 9:45 right before halftime the heat scored a basket, everyone jumped up to start cheering and the deck collapsed, forcing customers to jump into the water to help. >> we heard like a corpus christi anlike a crack, and then between seconds it all collapsed into the water. >> there was food and drink all over the place.

the crowd is getting more and more excited as this is happening. and suddenly absolute chaos. it literally was chaos. >> reporter: of course the big concern by everybody last night was how many people were actually underneath the deck, underneath the water, fortunately nobody died in this tragedy, and they are all happy that the heat won. bill: you have to figure out that deck wasn't strong enough to hold all the folks especially jumping up and down. no one is missing, is that right phil. >> reporter: everyone is accounted for. the coast guard was out here last night. it was dark, 9:ha, 10:00 at night. the rains came at 10:45. it was confusing and scary for the people here. the injuries relatively minor, cuts and scrapes and bruises and sprains, at least one fracture. two dozen people taken to the hospital, only two reported as serious. one of the big factors leading this not to be a tragedy is the deck was five feet above the

water, once it fell into the water and everybody fell in the water is waist deep. that helped people to stand up and get out of the water to safety. bill: phil, thank you. phil keating is live down there. miami won the game in the end, it's been a terrific series. unfortunately we have this. dwyane wade an absolute class act . here is how he reacted last night after the game. >> i want to share our concerns as an organization for all that was injured tonight shuckers restaurant. bill: a cool move. martha: he had a big night, that with us a gracious way to recognize the people and the fans out there. we hear one of these stories it feels like every summer. you have to be very careful out there, a lot of the decks are old and it feels at least once a year something like this happens. bill: it's quite likely the way phil explains that they hit a bucket, everybody is fired up, they are excited. they are jumping up and down and end up in the water.

martha water. martha: the white house forced to react to one scandal after the other during the course of this spring. the first home lapd security secretary moments ago on "america's newsroom" he believes this administration cannot be trusted. bill: there are new questions about benghazi. senator ron johnson asking the joint chief's chairman why there was not more security in the first place. the answer he received nine months since that deadly day. martha: a massive explosion rocks a small neighborhood, a home blown to pieces. how did that happen? >> i've nevada seen anything to the magnitude of this. it was scary. it shook so hard i thought we were going to be buried alive.

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entireville anales and massacring women and children. he apparently moved to minnesota shortly after the second world war, lying to immigration officials about his past. martha: new questions today about how the white house is doing managing the series of scandals before them. fox news contributor charles krauthammer suggested that the president in his mind is out of the loop. >> where is the president? here is a president who triples the number of troops in afghanistan and doesn't speak about it for a couple of years and is shocked that the country loses interest in the war and he has to in the end withdraw. he did the same on a whole host of other issues, where he simply initiates, like in libya then he doesn't leave. on this issue if it is as important as he says, he should be the one making at least one speech. martha: so according to fox news polls that just came out voters were asked which scandal congress should investigate. take a look at the number. a majority of people chose the

i.r.s. targeting conservative groups. 78% said yes continue the investigation into this issue. 76% say yes, keep going with the doj story, and the surveillance of journalists, benghazi 73% say yes they do not want that issue to die, they want congress to continue to investigate it. so that is what it white house is dealing with right now. let's bring in chris wallace anchor of "fox news sunday." good morning. >> good morning to you, martha. >> . martha: you have to believe that the west wing looks at the numbers and says we have to decide how we'll respond to it. charles says a speech is in order, something public where the president comes out. there isn't any sign so far that that is going to happen. >> i think charles was speaking specifically about the national security agency surveillance program, and i certainly agree with him there. the president says he welcomes a debate on this. we've seen a lot of people very upset at the idea that the nsa is vacuuming up all this information, every phone call

that every law abiding american makes, not the content of the call but the fact of the call. one number calling another number, all of that stuff. and i think that, you know, if the president wants a debate and there is a lot of debate going on in congress, and i know just around people's dinner's tables shouldn't the president makes the case for the nips r- nsa program? in terms much the real scandals, not necessarily the white house but the administration had a very bad day yesterday, i'm sure you played the clip of gym jordan questioning robert mueller. he couldn't name who the head of the investigation was or what they were doing. one could argue in a bureaucrat particular sense maybe he wouldn't know the name of the specific guy running that investigation, but in a pr sense he was very ill served that somebody didn't say to him, hey you're going to get asked about this and you better have the answer. martha: that is my question, chris, when you're briefing the fbi director and he's watching into this situation and there is all this going on you would think that would be to say to

him, look, these guys are going to come at you with guns blazing on this i.r.s. issue, so we need to get together what our answer is going to be on this. very surprising, and very surprising i my point out also to rudy guiliani who said when he was in the justice department he said everybody knew, we all talked 20 times day when there was something going on this hot. >> the point is that people want to sense first of all that the white house wasn'hat this wasn't ordered from the administration, and obviously there are a lot of suspicions about that. they also want to sense that there is an independent, thorough, aggressive investigation going on, and the fbi director certainly did not give that sense yesterday in that hearing by his clear failure to know anything about the investigation. martha: yeah, i mean the president has said this is not right, we will get to the bottom of this. he, you know, acts like it's a big priority. it's very odd to say the least to have robert mueller not a little bit more aware of what is going on at least able to put out some answers that it seems like that they made sense on

that one. let's listen to tom ridge, on with us a moment ago. i want to get your thoughts on this. >> over the past several months this administration has demonstrated in so many areas with benghazi, department of justice, and the i.r.s. that they are not to be trusted, that there are information gaps. i think as general alexander and general hayden have said this is a program that began under president bush when we weren't prepared and should never be prepared to sacrifice any constitutional protection for security, it's been expanded. i think the real challenge here in my judgment is a little bit more transparency to the extent they are able to provide it for us. martha: that's the question, does the administration come forward and say we are going to give you some specific examples of how the program works in order to reassure the american people? >> i think there is a legitimate distinction between the nsa programs which were after all approved by congress, oversight by congress, the courts weigh in on this. you have to go to a judge to get a court order to do this kind of surveillance. there is a difference between

that and the clear scandals that went on in the case of the targeting of the i.r.s., or benghazi, or the targeting of james rosen and other reporters. i think there is a difference between the two, but if you're going to make that case i agree that the administration, this gets us back to our original point, needs to make the case, here is why this nsa program is right, how is how it protects us and here is why it doesn't endanger individual freedoms. the problem of course exactly as governor ridge said people aren't necessarily going to trust this administration right now when they see the scandals, but there is a difference between what is going on in the nsa, which has been approved by every branch of government and what is going on in the scandals. martha: i would agree. you have the difference played out in equal parts on both sides of the republican and democratic spectrum in how people feel about it. we have to leave it there but we will be watching you on sunday. i know you've got a great guest on. thank you so much for being with us. there is former vice about the dick cheney, an exclusive interview with chris wallace this weekend.

boy, don't you want to hear what dick cheney has to say about all this? we will absolutely be watching. our thanks to chris. bill: you'll have a lot to say on sunday. a massive wildfire going from bad to worse overnight, now the most destructive fire said to be in one state's history. a live report from the fire lines as to who is in danger today. martha: and months after the first reports of chemical weapons used in syria the obama administration has now said that, yes, they have decided that red line has indeed been crossed. why that announcement now? >> we've determined that bashar al-assad has killed about 100, to 150 people with chemical weapons. how did he kill the other 93,000? it's just -- what the president did was he gave them a red line but gave them a green light to do everything else. head & shoulders and old spice are now together in one bottle.

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martha: a fishing boat goes down and that set the stage for a very dramatic rescue. the harbor crew near oakland, california rushed in to save a young boy. >> the sad part was the young guy there, i think he was 11, it was the beginning of his summer and he was really looking forward to fishing, so he us was really disappointed, that was a little sald t sad to see. it was great to see them all smiling, back on dry land and nobody hurt. martha: the boat is still submerged. 60 feet of water out there. they'll have to find a buddy to go out on their boat this summer. bill: a raging wildfire already killed two people in the state of colorado. 400 homes have been destroyed with thousands of people forced to evacuate. it's a ferocious black forest fire. it has residents coping the best way they can at the moment. >> i cried for about an hour

yesterday, today i feel a little bit better but then you get to thinking about how it's not over. we've got a long way to go. bill: alicia acuna is back on the fire lines in colorado springs. the people who died, they were trying to leave is that what investigators believe? >> reporter: yes, bill that's what they think at this point. they say that it was a man and a woman and they do believe that it happened on the first day. the reason they say this is that at some point while they were trying to pack up their things to get out they were on the phone with someone else who talks to authorities, and this person told them that these folks said that they could hear crackling in the background and then the person on the phone actually said that they could hear popping and the people said they saw a glow and they were trying to gather their things to get out. here is more from the sheriff. >> it appears as though the individuals were in the garage, car doors were open as 0 though they were loading or grabbing last-minute things and all indications are from the

evidence on scene that they were planning to depart very quickly. >> reporter: a criminal investigation is now underway in this fire that is now not only the most destructive in the state's history, but is now a deadly fire as well, bill. authorities here are also emphasizing to other people, because there are 40,000 people who are under evacuation, and more evacuations could come that this sort of pushing in that point that when those pre evacuation orders come they really need to have everything ready because when thee evacuation hits they'll have to leave at a moment's notice. bill: how is the fight going? just two days ago there was zero contained. >> reporter: we just got an update on that, it's 5% containment. and firefighters say at this point that actually is pretty good news. they will use the cloud cover they have today to their advantage. they'll be able to get the air tankers back up because the wind have slowed down a bit. they are feeling like they can hold some of the lines and if they can do that that is good news. what they've been trying to do is establish some points and

then connect the dots and they are hoping to be able to do more of that today, bill. bill: just look at that wind whipping in those pictures. alicia acuna thanks there live in colorado springs, colorado. tough to see all those homes go up. everything you love just gone in minutes. martha: heartbreaking. as we learn more about the nsa and how much information they collect on americans there are some new questions about why that powerful agency did not pick up on terrorists communications, liker the one that major hasan was having ho*p online with anwar al-awlaki. good question, more coming up. bill: a fiery exchange on why there was not more security in benghazi before the attacks. still looking for answers nine months later. >> inside the main residents the attackers come in here and they ransack the place and then they go for the locked gate. they look inside, it's dark, they can't see anything and then they tried the lock, they can't

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>> the big tee bait over the future of the republican party continues today in washington where the faith and freedom coalition's annual conference is underway right now. carl cameron joins us live from the convention. carl, the conference is dubbed road to majority, but it seems more like the road to the white house, perhaps. what is going on there?

>> reporter: well sure the focus about this is about electing a republican majority to the house and senate in 2016, building on the house and electing in the senate. we've seen a steady stream of potential 2016 candidates. a short time ago we had paul ryan who ran obviously as mitt romney's running make making the case for conservative ideals and promising what americans will see in the next two and a half years of the remaining obama administration is more of the same big government intrusion. earlier this morning we heard from former florida governor jeb bush who really took to heart and has been talking very aggressively about most harshly about the republican party in the wake of last year's presidential defeat. watch. >> we got beat because our brand is perceived to be trarpb eurbd ttarnished, to be reaction nare re, to be too negative rather than hopeful and positive. >> reporter: there are a lot of conservatives here who are quite worried that particularly on social issues they are being, quote pushed to the back of the

bus as ralph reid put it a short time ago, establishment republicans are looking to change the look of the party by being less negative. rand paul spoke to one of the introductory sessions and made it clear that he's positioning as a more civil libertarian-type republican focusing on libertarian issues, when it comes especially to the scandals in the obama administration. >> to lead a nation you need not only legal authority but you need moral authority, and i think this constellation of scandals shows that the president is losing his moral authority to lead this nation. >> reporter: as rand paul positions himself as a more libertarian leaning conservatives we are beginning to see other 2016 candidate, particularly marco rubio, paul is suing the government over the nsa's collection of phone records from the american telephone consumers, mr. rubio has suggested that while it's a valuable counterterrorism tool, and is needed by the government,

martha. martha: interesting. thank you very much, carl. we'll see you later. bill: new questions now about benghazi and whether or not more security could have saved the lives of four americans. listen to this exchange between senator ron johnson and the joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey here. >> i think the assumption would be if we had maybe four times -- 16, which means four people, full time guards at that consulate probably that attack never would have occurred? >> if you're asking me would additional security forces have made a difference in any number of ways the answer is yes, of course. >> okay well thank you. bill: ron johnson, republican senator is with me now to that you can about that. sir, good morning to you and welcome back to "america's newsroom." >> morning, bill. bill: when you think when that answer does it lead you anywhere? >> well, that's been my main point all along here, is i know people have been interested in the misleading talking points

for a couple of weeks, but from my standpoint the reason this administration was misleading us for a couple of weeks is because they didn't want americans to really examine and think about the lack of action, the dereliction of duty, the gross negligence that led to benghazi. there were repeated requests for security. it was well-known that the security situation was deteriorating, and the state department in a cable replied that bore secretary clinton's signature, basically not only denied the request for additional security but said they were going to proceed with a plan to ramp d from my standpoint it's just a sphaeupl. there wer shame. >> there were no fully armed guards, armed at all times. if we could have had just four armed guards, people who were trained i don't think the attack ever would have happened, i don't think four brave americans would have lost their lives. bill: you were trying to figure out whether or not the security request was made and then ultimately what happened to that

request. >> right. bill: now do you know the answer yet? >> well, we certainly know the security requests were made and that they were denied. i mean that we know. one of the points i was making, because this with us a budget hearing is we had a number of democrats senators point to republicans that, hey we are cutting the budget so the state department didn't have the fund. the fact of the matter is the department of defense, upon request by the state department will provide that security. and i will bill, we are not talk that many people, a full-time staff of 16 security members basically with a full time shift would be four armed guards at all times, i think would have prevented this attack and saved those lives. bill: that is one issue it appears to me the security requests made, who had a hand in that decision. the other issue is whether or not you could have troops come in from european he disagreed with your timeline as to whether or not troops could respond and get there effectively. so, those were the two issues you were going for in that hearing. >> right. bill: this is what we found in

our fox news polling, reason why president obama did not order help in benghazi that night a clear majority 56% say they did not want to risk an election. this was september 11th. do you agree with those people? >> it might be a possibility. that is conjecture. the other question i was asking is based on a report by adam housley from fox news where he was talking to somebody from the commander and extremist force based out of europe basically saying that force, they were in a very high state of readiness could have been in benge in four to six hours which would have said an additional two lives. glen doughtery and tyrone woods. my question is why didn't we bring assets into benghazi as soon as possible. we had no idea at the time, nobody knew how long the thing was going to last and what it might have blown up into. so i really question the decision-making. the other question is really what was president obama doing during this entire time.

bill: if is what our fox polling also found out. could the president or secretary of state clinton have done more? again a clear majority think that both could have done more that night, senator. >> that i agree. i think both of them could have been more engaged. if the president would have been more engaged i think would would know about it. the fact that we don't know exactly what what he was doing kind of speaks volumes and my guess is he pretty well checked out of this one. bill: are you moving the ball forward on this? are you getting anywhere? you've been at it for months. >> i know, slowly but surely. unfortunately there is not a whole lot of questioning here in the democratic-controlled senate, so when i had my opportunity in front of a budget hearing where we had general dempsey come in front of it rather than really talk about the budget, i actually did center on questions on benghazi. but it is pretty frustrating being a republican senator here in the minority. we don't get to call the hearings, that is controlled by the democrats. most of the hearing action has to take place in the house where

republicans control it. bill: i under. i'm going to put your answer down is not quite sure just yet. we'll be in contact. senator, thank you, ron johnson. >> okay, have a grit day. bill: thank you and you as well, senator. here you have it, nine months later they are trying to look for answers. i think the last answer is very telling, he's only getting a little bit of progress right now. martha: obviously according to the polls the american people are very interested in this. you think back to greg hick's testimony and you wonder if there are others out there willing to come forward with what they know. there are people that know more about what happened that night. also today there are new questions about a major shift with huge ramifications in terms of our policy in syria. the white house has now acknowledged that, yes, chemical weapons were used. london and france acknowledged it quite some time ago. the red line has now been crossed. now what? and happy birthday to old glory today, it's flag day. you're a grand old flag. the current 50-star version has remained unchanged for 52

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bill: a huge explosion caused by a natural gas leak rocking a neighborhood in westminster, colorado. two homes were leveled. look at the damage there.

debris scattered everywhere. one person listed as missing. >> it actually knocked me to the ground. >> i just heard a big boom and then i woke up and the window that is next to my bed shattered and like all the glass fell on me. >> utility workers searching for open glass lines and maybe they can find it soon. martha: our lead story today, there are new questions about the time being of the white house response to the use of chemical weapons in syria. the first reports, remember about the bashar al-assad regime using chemical weapons on their people surfaced months ago. only now is the obama administration finally saying that syria crossed the red line that the president said was out there as far as he was concerned on this. senator john mccain was on the show earlier, here is how he reacted. >> every day that goes by and we don't get rid of bashar al-assad it becomes more and more complicated and difficult, but for us to sit by and watch these people being massacred, raped,

tortured in the most terrible fashion, meanwhile the russians are all in, hezbollah is all in, and we are talking about giving them more light weapons? i mean, it's insane. martha: steve hayes is senior writer at "the weekly standard" and a fox news contributor. good morning, welcome. >> hi, martha. martha: senator mccain has been critical about the movement of the white house in all of this. the white house still hasn't said what they are going to do. politically this is a very difficult situation for them, very mixed feelings on it. >> it is difficult. i think senator mccain has to feel a certain sense of vindication, because he was making the argument very early that the united states needed to do something, and we often have these debates in the country about intervention and the ko*fss ocosts of intervention, and there are also costs of nonintervention. what we are looking at now is a situation in syria and in the region that is significantly worse and significantly more challenging than it would have been with a rather limited

intervention 18 months ago when the obama administration was sending robert ford as the new ambassador to present his papers to bashar al-assad in damascus. martha: the parameters are very vague in terms of what they said we are going to do. now the president does really need to come forward does he not and articulate, what is our vision? what is our plan in syria and how are we going to accomplish it? >> yes, i think that is absolutely right. i'm concerned that the reporting that we've seen today and what we heard from the white house yesterday suggests that they still don't yet have a very specific plan. i mean we need to know exactly what the administration does and what the administration hopes to gain with this intervention. if that's what they decide to do. i mean we need to know what the end game is beyond just sort of wishful declarations that bashar al-assad must go. martha: you know, there are folks who look at this and say, boy, the white house timing on this is some0 what interesting. they are embroiled in a number of scandals, they've got this

nsa issue that they really need to wrap their arms around and articulate something to the american people as well, so is thissing circumspect as far as throwing everyone's attention in another direction. >> i suppose it's possible. that would be an odd choice. if you look at public opinion polling record less of who is conducting the polls this would not be a popular thing to intervene in syria in i in way. the american people support to some extent some limited humanitarian intervention, but supplying arms to the rebels is all together a different proposition. it would be a weird thing to choose if that's what you were going to choose as sort of a distraction technique. martha: a lot of the debate is going to be about whether or not we waited too long on this whole thing. because al-qaida was not involved in the initial stages of this as far as we know and now there is al-qaida involvement, perhaps on the side that we could be helping. >> right i think that is a huge point here. i mean what you've seen over the course of these 18 months is a free syrian army, webls who we rebels not necessarily

affiliated or associate eld with al-qaida fighting the regime and then losing. as they were losing you had al-qaida r-r an al-qaida and it's sympathizers streaming into the country with big weapons. martha: right, thank you so much. we'll see you later. bill: jon scott is here now. "happening now" is coming up in a few minutes. jon: we are awaiting news on a house briefing on the nsa wiretapping controversy as a prominent republican says it's already caused damage to our national security. today we'll talk with a whistle-blower who went to court to charge that at&t was spying for the feds back in the mid 2000's. whatever happened 0 that case? the politics of web is google and some of the other search engines, are they swaying elections? fox news watch takes a look at the mainstream and social need yeah going gaga over hillary clinton. has the coronation already begun? join us in just ten minutes. "happening now." bill: you've got it jon, you

have a busy day. the government may know an awful lot about your phone calls but what about the conversations of terrorists like the one major nadal hasan was having online before a deadly shooting rampage at a army base? why the surveillance program missed that one. goodnight.

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bill: new details this morning on the nsa leak, edward snowden, the british government saying they do not want warning airlines not to allow him to fly to the uk if he wants to. he revealed some of the secret surveillance programs and that brings us to bya, because you asked, a lot of questions this week. this one from clarence kramer

who writes if this program is so effective why did it fail to detect major hasan when he he was communicating with a known terrorist by way of the internet. good question for the secretary of defense for tee taeup detainees. good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: 20 09d, thi 2009, the program is up and running. how do you miss a guy on anwar al-awlaki's web page? >> they didn't miss him because intelligence collection is only as good as what you do with it. the reason this happened h the guy was a ticking time bomb waiting to happen, that's what his colleagues said after the hearing. that is the name of a report by senator collins and lieberman called ticking time bomb. three things happened here, we had the intelw he was communicating with anwar al-awlaki but political correctness, human error and analytical error take to our not taking proactive steps to get

him. bill: they knew his record in the army, it wasn't good, cully. >> not only was it not good. this was an officer in the military who was saying very disturbing things, his fitness reports dumb that down, number one, number two this is a guy who is e-mailing with anwar al-awlaki, no officers i know email with tere rigses. bill: isn't that a red flag? i mean this is what the program is set up to do, right? i mean robert mueller was testifying yesterday saying had we had the system in 2001 we would have stopped 9/11. make sense of that. >> that is a very interesting point. had we had the system in place in 9/11 we would have picked up signals and other intelligence, but you still have humans. and humans need to analyze it and do something about it. and here with hasan -- bill: you have to profile. >> you have to follow the evidence where it leads and take appropriate steps. two field offices of the fbi knew about this guy's emails, they never interviewed the right

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martha: happy father's day to all the dads out there. dad, i will see you soon and be with you on sunday, and 0 to your dad as well. bill: thanks, martha. martha: have a great weekend. jon: we begin with brand-new stories and breaking news. jenna: explosive allegations from top lawmakers who are warning that leaks about classified u.s. surveillance programs have already put our lives at risk. we've explain. plus jodi arias' defense attorneys are asking for a delay to the start of her second penalty phase, why they say they need more time and how much more time may surprise you. and a dramatic rescue caught on camera, raging floodwaters trap a child and two adults inside a sinking suv, it's all "happening now" " this has been the big story this week and we have new information