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that's the smart part. if you drink alcohol, once in a while, socially, they get in your sweat and the mosquitoes -- especially beer is a big deal. it gets in the sweat and moskeetos know where to point. they are a smart species and look for beautiful women for the most part. [chuckles] >> stay inside and watch fox newschannel irksz on that note, see you next week. >> thank you. have a great week. >> caller: we jump back to the royal baby watch. it is heating up. we are live outside st. mary's hospital where the media and the world are anxiously awaiting the arrival of britain's next king or queen, third in line. good morning. welcome to america's news headquarters. great to have you here. >> eric: hello, everyone. the dutchess of cambridge was
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due to give birth last week. but now insiders are saying that kate middleton's mother among them, are suggesting that the baby may arrive for days from now. we go live outside st. mary's hospital in london. any sign, smoke signal, anything that the baby is about to be due? >> reporter: no. no. there isn't, eric and jamie. great to see you again. we talked a lot about the due date being mid-july. kate herself even suggested once when she was online that it was mid-july. but sometimes the first-time moms are anxious to have the baby and they sort of speak as if it's going to happen really soon. i would be inclined to go with her mother's date, towards the end of july. it would have been nice if they told us this last week.
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when she does go into labor, she will be taken to this hospital. there are a lot of ways to get into the building. we know she came in last monday for an appointment and was able to slip in and get out without the press knowing she was in the building. so after the baby's born, we understand that prince william will make a phone call on his encrypted line to his grandmother, queen elizabeth to announce that the royal heir has been born. after 24 hours, assuming all's going okay, kate and william are likely to walk out to the steps over my shoulder and pose, just as william -- as a baby did with his mom and dad, diane and and charms and kate is likely to go 6 weeks back to her mom and dad. and william gets 2 weeks off raf dutiy and will go back to work, so he is taking a typical break
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for a rescue helicopter pilot, which he is. that's the plan, jamie. >> eric: well, you know, market aall new moms need a baby nurse. if you have your mother, that's terrific. martha, is there a possibility that they could induce a royal airr heir if this continues? >> reporter: only if it's medically necessary. if the baby goes late, the doctors we spoke told back this up. there aruations you would want to induce. interestingly, princess diana said much after the fact -- long after william was born -- that she was induced because she felt the pressure to have the baby and she requested that she be induced. but normally, you wouldn't do that. one other thing about when princess diana had prince william, they pushed the due date to the press, 10 days. so when she gave birth, it was
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before the press thought she was going to give birth and everybody had to scramble to getn into position. so a totally different situation. >> eric: it's hard to keep track of the royal line of succession. but where would this baby -- in terms of the line -- where does the baby stand? >> reporter: so, of course, have you queen elizabeth ii, who is 87 years old and shows no signs of ill health. her mother lived to be 101. so the family has very good genes. phillip is 92 right now. charles is 64 years old right now. it could be sometime before charles takes the throne. then william, who is 31, would come after disma. then this baby. so it could be a long time before this baby sees himself or herself on the throne. of course, a look back at history tells us, things don't always go as planned. but it could be quite sometime
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before this baby gets to sit on the throne. any word on names? alexander has been leading the list. >> reporter: alexandra has been leading with the bookies over here. i think victoria is a very good bet. queen victoria is a much loved female leader of the country. if it's a girl and she will be first in line in her generation for the throne, no boy, no brother can bump her out of that position, i think victoria is a likely name. the queen is elizabethaxexandra mary. and prince charles is charles arthur george. if it's a boy, i think it'sdá] likely to be george, phillip, arthur and charles would be in there, as a tribute to william's dad, charles. but look for the family names and the history that the name connotes is a really big indicator. >> eric: great analysis and insight. if there is any news popping, we
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will get right back to you. >> reporter: i will let you know. >> caller: president obama adding to the debate in the verdict over the george zimmerman murder trial. he made surprising remarks on friday about the outcome of that case. listen. >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said, this could have been my son. another way of saying that is that trayvon martin could have been me, 35 years ago. >> caller: washington is reacting this sunday morning to the comments. and steve centanni is live in washington. what are they saying, steve. >> reporter: yeah. mixed reaction in the wake of the comments. some republicans, like john mccain said that president obama was very impressive in cawing for more conversation about race. others suggest the president's
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comments were not that helpful, listen. >> those of us in leadership positions need to be looking for things that we can take out of this situation that will be helpful, not things that enflame the situation that. doesn't mean that we shouldn't look carefully at all of our laws, we shouldn't look carefully at this verdict and this outcome. make sure that everything has been done correctly. >> reporter: as for the democrats, they are mostly aline who had feel justice was not done after the killing of trayvon martin. they are calling for the justice department to file a federal civil rights charges to hold george zimmerman accountable for the killing and are pointing to what they see as widespread racial profiling. >> dr. carson -- >> it depends -- [overlapping dialogue] -- >> excuse me, if i could finish, i would appreciate that. may i make a comment i. i told say, dr. carson, you can not ignore the fact that our young
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black men are profiled. i have a young man who worked for me, you know, he's a college graduate. three times in this last month, he's been stopped by law enforcement going to work. >> reporter: the justice department has not said whether it will bring charges and the president said that such charges are by no means, guaranteed. >> caller: thank you so much. we are going to talk about that. while the president avoided making direct comments about the investigation, that the d.o.j. is undertaking, the timing has raised a bit of concern. his remarks could influence what the d.o.j. does in some way. the chairman of the civic forim and outreach director for john mccain's presidential campaign. julian epstein is a former chief staff director for the house oversight and government reform committee. welcome, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> caller: interesting choice, julian, and an opportunity to
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speak to you. in the inner workings of the d.o.j., i noted that the president said that he hopes that the nation will have realistic expectations about what they will do. what is their obligation nterms of looking at this particular case? and what do you think the future of stand your ground might be? >> i think it's first of all to separate the president's comments, which i think were constructive and helpful and cathartic and the second question about the department of justice getting involved. i think there is very, very little chance that the department of justice will get involved and bring a civil rights suit, even though many would like it because they felt that the verdict was unjust. i think they won't because these cases when are 241 and 242 are generally brought when you have a hate crime in a local municipality and a local prosecutor doesn't want to bring a case. but here, when you get a jury verdict on self-defense, even if
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you have a problem with the verdict, i think it's very likely that the justice department will countermand the verdict. that's not to say that there are not other things we ought to be looking at, like stand your ground laws and the most permissive gun laws in the country that create a blood bath with 11,000 americans killed, murdered on the streets of america, every single year. >> caller: ford, the president didn't mention gun laws in this particular speech. it's easiener floridda to get a conceal. but sticking to the issue of race, there definitely does need to be a discussion in this country about discrimination in general, but this particular case, most legal scholars would say did not involve race. so the president injected and raised the discussion, we had peaceful protests for the most
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part, which is fantastic, that no one was hurt and the violence didn't erupt. but what is the impact of having taken that step to the podium, unannounced and given the comments, relative to trayvon martin? >> i give the president kudos for jaking him. but i think he is contributing to the unrealistic expectation that the department of justice should bring a civil rights case against zimmerman. i am glad that julian separated the law from opinion. my problem, seriously, is that pipe don't know the law. they don't know what legal justice is. they equate fairness and morality with what they perceive the law to be. if president obama wants to take the lead here, we have to be honest. prejudice and inequality exists. can white america do more? can black america do more? hopefully, we can lead to a real discussion on this, not just having people go along with black america and white america, saying, hey, this is injustice.
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frankly, the zimmerman verdict was not legal in justice. it was at this time right verdict, given the evidence. if there is new evidence, maybe d.o.j. should bring a case. >> if i could respond to that. i appreciate the sentiment that ford is articulating. i take issue with two things, the setup, your question to him in which you suggested that it's the president who is injecting race into the discussion. i think anybody who was watching this trayvon martin case understood that race was a big, maybe "the" major issue that was going on, in addition to the evidence -- >> julian! hold on one second. i agree with you! but not everyone is the president of the united states and not everybody is a harvard trained, legal, lawyer. as such, he has to recognize as a black american, a president and a lawyer, he has to know how his comments can be perceived. most of america works on
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perception, not reality. >> let me address that -- >> caller: legality me ask you this. the president gave credit for the judge running a fair trial, the jury doing their job and the jury instructions being correct. he knows how it works. and the system, he said, worked. whether race had anything to do with the caiss twasn't an element of the crime, it wasn't an element of the result. but it was an element of his speech. did he have the impact of bringing our nation together so that things may change, not just for african-americans, but for anyone being discriminated against t. seems that may have been what he was trying to accomplish. or was he trying to influence the d.o.j.? >> there is a lot to chew off there. first of all, while it wasn't an element of the jury instructions, it certainly was a
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major element in the case, according to everybody on both sides that was watching this. certainly the issue about african-americans and the extent to which they are profiled in their own neighborhood it's. >> julian! hold on -- can i finish without being interrupted? >> i think the idea that the president is interjecting is foolish and wrong. the issue of whether the president is kays ago [overlapping dialogue] >> julian! >> caller: the president did say, hold on. for one second. >> hold on. >> caller: i listened very careful tow this and i have read the transcript. the president said that if the races were reversed for the most part, the outcome might have been different. >> i think what he said -- >> hey, this is my turn! jamie is absolutely right. what jamie is saying if the roles had been reversed could martin have stood his ground, legally speaking? let me statistical tell you, the
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president left that up to doubt. that's the doubt in the minds of most americas. most americans don't know the law. a lot of ways, he is stoking the possibility that the d.o.j. should bring charges. the question is, how everyone is going to take this. all three of us up here are lawyers. we know that most people don't know the law and their opinion of the law is what they perceive legal justice to be. that varies for everyone. let's be honest here. >> caller: i have to wrap, guys. you know how this works. i'm up against a break. ford, stand your ground was an option for the defense. they did not take. they didn't raise it with the judge. the judge would have been able to decide the case without the jury, had they. it was a self-defense case, which the jury said they believed. last point, ford. >> i do think we need to look at self defense and stand your ground. stand your ground in the state of florida. it seems that african-americans have a greater success rate than
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white americans. we should look at all the laws to make sure that legal fairness should all treat each other fairly. >> do i get a response to that. >> caller: not today. gotta go. but i appreciate your insight. i think we understand where you stand on this. >> thank you, jamie. >> caller: take care. thank you. >> eric: the irs scandals and new revelations this week. the top attorney's office for the tax agency may have been involved, the iremarks is not commenting about this. but a member of the house oversight committee will. we will look at what this could mean and what investigators want to know. so then the little tiny chipmunks go all the way up... ♪ [ female announcer ] when your swapportunity comes, take it. ♪ what?
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>> that extreme heat remains in theee. but there is cooler weather that has helped firefighters battle a massive wildfire in southern california, close to palm springs. but now they have thunderstorms in the area and there is concern that the flames that have forced more than 6,000 people to leave their homes is threatening a
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popular park in san jacinto. >> reporter: they wanted rain and last night they got the rain. it has helped them to get the upper hand on the fire. at the same time, this is comes with a $12 million price tag because there is so much damage. i am standing in a maintenance shed for a nearby camp. this is a golf cart. the fire destroyed this shed. there is another golf cart right there. it raced up and burned any and every fuel in the path, including trees. you can see this tree here, the bark is charred, it is black. but the director of this camp tells me that they prepared for fire season for quite sometime. they cleared large trees and brush. check out her house. it is still standing. she says those preparations probably saved her home and helpeds of homes in the area.
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>> that's why most of our area is... you know, secure because we have a great landscaper and he has been doing an amazing job. a lot of that has to do with why some of the instructs were up. and the firefighters -- respect and honor them. whenever they tell to you go, go. >> reporter: thousands of people did just that. they went when the evacuations came down. good news is some of those evacuations have been lifted because the fire's now 50% contained after it burned about 28,000 acres. we have also learned that the cause of the fire was not from lightning, it's human. it is unclear if it was arson or started on accident. but firefighters firefighters al politicians are asking us to be cautious because the last thing they want right now is another fire. >> we will check back with you. we hope that make more and more progress. be careful.
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thanks. >> eric: there are new developments in the irs scandal. carter hall, a retired tax law specialist for the irs is tying the chief counsel's office, headed by a president obama appointee, to the targeting of tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status. wilkins is the irs counselosh. his office was included in meeting in which hall was given instructions on how to handle the applications. >> i recall attending two meetings regarding to tea party applications. in july 2011, i attended a meeting with miss lerner, and someone were chief counsel's office. miss lerner instructed everyone that the application should be referred to as an adadvice application and not tea party applications.
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>> eric: a republican here and the member of the house oversight and government reform committee is here from florida. congressman, good morning. >> good to be with you. >> eric: what do you think this new information mean, according to the testimony that the office of chief counsel, apparently was involved? >> well, cart or hall, again, located in washington, would normally handle some of these. he had more than four decades of experience... he testified that again, miss lerner's office was involved. and there was a specific link to the chief counsel, counsel wilkins. he's one of two political appointees bithe president to the irs. you know, lerner tried to choreograph a scenario, before the report by the inspector general came out that this was just rogue employees in cincinnati.
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we have reviewed most of them. we had one who testified if -- an employee who said she had a tea party patriot 912 application that went to hall and hall made the connection to lois lerner and the white house appointee of irs office. it's a pretty direct link. but we have to thoroughly and accurately uncover the facts, depose the people involved. >> eric: hull testified that the office knew about this. how about mr. wilkins himself? there doesn't seem to be any evidence -- yet that mr. wilkins was part of this -- or was there? >> well, we don't know. mr. issa, myself, the committee, we want to proach this and -- to approach this and get facts. we have seen that one of the
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star witnesses and one of the reasons we are trying to find this out, it is person at the center of this, lois lerner came in and first, again, have you to go back to where she tried to close this down, use the media to pooh-pooh what was going on. mr. hull and others -- the inspector general said, i'm sorry, she was the one that admitted that the irs was targeting conservatives. she has taken the fifth. we may call her back. she may... very well be held to answer responsibly. in the meantime have you to get to the people that she pointed to, which we have done. now we are getting people pointing to higher up in the cha¡ñ of command with the irs. but have you to be thorough, do a good job and be responsible in the process. >> eric: you know, it seems this is step by step. first they say, no targeting and then they admitted that there was and apologized. they said there were rogue
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agents and they said, no, irs bosses knew about it and washington wasn't part of it. and then, oh, yes, washington knows and up and up. mr. wilkins -- do you expect to call him? he's been the lawyer for president obama? and for the trinity clurp, the pro bono lawyer when the church tried to invite candidate obama to speak there and mr. wilkins won that case, defending the president and the church. >> he's been involved in working in the tax-exempt organization cases, particularly the wright case. knowledgeable about this process. he's one of only two political appointees, now the testimony has led to the door of his office. we will listen to the employees that were involved there, call him in. they will be deposed. you know, have you to go to where the faces are in this...
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>> eric: do you think -- you can subpoena him? >> if we have to, certainly, he will be subpoenaed, i can assure you if he fails to cooperate. again, our job is to be responsible. people have tried to close down the investigation. we are not going to have it closed down. people have tried to turn offer the investigation and accused the chairman of -- of certain things and tried to deflect. last week, you saw this by the ranking member, to try to discredit the inspector general. yeah, exactly. all of that is -- is just diversionary tactics. we have a responsibility to investigate. but one of the most important agencies that dweels everybody out there who pays taxes involved, is the revenue agent of the united states... to act responsibly, whether it's
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a conservative, liberal or any group, they need to be treated fairly and squarely. >> eric: we're out of time now. >> we will. if he takes the fifth or if he does testify. >> be assured we will. >> we will take another look at london and st. mary's hospital with the rumoreded due date come and gone. and a former chef for the royal familiarly there, sharing insider details and some amazing photos. i can't wait to show them to you. that's next. man: the charcoal went out already? ... forget it. vo: there's more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford original charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill.
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on social media. everybody's standing by, including darren mcgrady, a former royal chef and all-around expert on the royal family. great to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> how excited are you? >> i'm just thrilled to pieces. i am just back from london. royal baby fever haser the whole country and indeed, the world. >> we have talked about diana, who you knew very, very well. so well, i was very touched by this note that you shared with me that she wrote you after your baby girl arrived -- this is on her stationary, congratulating you on your new little lady. tell me the experience when you brought your baby to the palace to see diana. >> that was a card atoochd a huge bouquet of flowers she sent to my wife, wendy. when kelley was born, she insisted that we take her to
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cendzing ton palace. she desperately wanted a little girl. she adored the princesses; william and harrow's cousins. she would be thrilled if she was here and william and kate were having a little girl. >> i imagine. i want to show this photo, with you and the royal cooking staff, of which you were a part of. we have a group photo, with all the chefs. what preparation do you think is going on? it is said she will go back to her parents' house, initially. but obviously, there will be a staff waiting to attend to this child's every need, right? >> well, kate says she doesn't want any staff. but she is moving into the apartment, at kensington palace. you know, we say apartment, that's a four-story building with 50 rooms. it won't be long before she has
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a chef, the maid, butler and housekeeper and everyone come n. i spent 11 years in the royal kitchens of the palace. obviously, the nanny and mummy take care of the royal baby. but it was my job to provide the purees and then to the vegetables. as the royal baby got older and older. >> so the boys ate home-prepared baby food. it is even said that kate wants to breast feed. did diane -- was she very specific about what she wanted her boys to eat? do you think kate will be the same? >> well, it's interesting seeing the royal princes, the heirs to the throne, over the last of the three generations. prince charles was brought up in a victorrian era. the queen very rarely had much to do with the bringing up of prince charles. he was more left to the nanny. and princess diana, she just
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couldn't quite get used to everyone taking over. even the royal baby will have its own footman when they go to the queen. and princess diana would come to me in the kitchen and say, let me know when there is a barbecue, so the family will go to the hills and i want to spend me time with prince william on my own. now looking at kate saying, i am going to spend all of my time with the new baby. i am going to cook for him and everything else. it is not going to happen. >> it is nice of her to want to try. i have seen her pushing the shopping cart. they sent you, diana, that note, when her baby was born. what do you plan to send this couple? >> i want to -- well, i want to send them my best wishes first of all. i am thrilled and excited. we have another heir to the throne, even thothis future king or queen won't be on the throne
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until 2070. i will probably be long gone by then. i want to bake something special and send it to them. >> that's so wonderful. it is great to meet you. thank you for sharing some of your memories. >> my pleasure. eric? >> eric: jamie, the presidential race, 2016 is 3 years from now. but a lot of people are talking about the potential candidates. for a look behind the news. here's liz trotta. >> don't let your thoughts wander too far from the nation's politics. the mid-term and governor's elections await us in theqtqç f. but the attention of those who play professional politics is already fastened on the big one, namely who succeeds mr. obottom a. for democrats, there are the every present hillary and ever patient joe biden, which republican has the stuff to run the country is problematical.
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even if the heat has left you comatose. you know the names -- bush, paul, rubio, cruz, ryan and chris christie, already seen as a probable favorite. the governor of new jersey, who is part sherman tank, part tony soprano, has caught on as every man. the new york times intellectuallyized his perm, saying he is schooled in securities and a? >> they left-hand compliment. when the pressure was on him to be mitt romney's runningmate, the 50-year-old christie said, i don't think there is anybody in america who thinks my personality is best suited to being number 2. sounds like arrogance. most call it vintage christie. he test the store of ajectives. the essence of the christie story is that he's a very popular, pro-life,
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anti-same-sex-merge republican governor in a very blue state. when he stands for re-election in november, the pros predict a landslide victory. democrats do like christie and support him. in fact, it is his in-your-face bipartisan appeal that could be the answer to the g.o.p.'s serious identity problem. it won't be easy. can his rough grace withstand the formidable clinton money machine? in a message to hard-line republican conservatives who disdain him, the governor said pointedly, compromise isn't a dirty word. they still remember how he hugged president obama during a tour of the jersey shore just days before the 2012 election. for conservatives, the kind words were not compromise, but flat-out pandering. others saw it as practical
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politic, a mafia emprais. how this will translate with hillary in the list 3 years from now is a popular parlor game. a recent quinnipiac poll gave hillary clinton 46% and christie 40%. but a national gallup survey found that 52% of americans have a favorable view of christie. the former prosecutor has kept his word, roughing up the teachers union, cutting taxes and taking complete charge in the aftermath of hurricane sandy that virtually wrecked the jersey shore. it was giuliani and 9/11 all over again. christie's controversial weight of some 300 pounds or more is slowly shrinking since he had laparoscopic surgery last february. he insists he did it for his wife and four children. now he looks like a panda instead of a grizzly said "the
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economist" magazine. no comment could ignore his celebrity, his many television appearances and a stint on equality saturday night live." he is set for the michael j. fox show in the new season. can he become as big a celebrity as hillary? his profound obsession with rocker bruce springsteen, definitely not a republican, is the stuff of serious political analysis. he dances at springsteen concerts. who could forget what christie said in the 2009 campaign when he ran against jon corzine, an illinois-born, manhattan democrat, who once headed goldman sachs. quote: i saw jon corzine leave a bruce springsteen concert early one time. you cannot be from new jersey and have left a bruce springsteen concert early. christie won, of course. he's really from new jersey.
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>> eric: prosecutorrings say that 58-year-old richardsson, a veteran cincinnati poll worker, voted repeatedly in november and over several elections. she was accused of casting ballots in his sister's name, even though her sister's been in a coma for a decade. how could this happen? how could this be preventd? joining us is a member of the board of elections and the county republican chairman. alex, welcome. i must say, it's unbelievable,
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an election official doing this. what was your and the board's reaction? >> reaction is, disappointment that a poll worker would engage in this kind of behavior, but satisfied that justice was served. the sentence was appropriate, given the conduct that you have described? in terms of the description, the prosecutors say she voted not just in the name of her sister, but for other relatives. lou could the board have known about this? what type of precautions near place, so if someone's in a coma, someone doesn't steal the vote and cast the ballot? is there any way that the board should have known? who's responsibility is it? >> we caught this individual, the board caught it through an investigation that has been ongoing here in this county since the beginning of this year. so, you know, we are taking more and more precautions. one of the precautions is to do a better investigation with our poll workers and to find better poll workers. notably, she had been a pole
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worker almost 30 years. this is something where we had to do a better job of rooting out the people who are doing this. we did that. we will continue to push to do that. >> eric: in the presidential election, the votes counted in 2008 and 2012. are presidential elections held to a higher standard than other elections? >> we get the highest turnout, so you get the highest opportunity for shenanigans. that's what occurred occurred is last election. we are going to redouble our efforts because this pernicious conduct is going on, all over the country. we are leading the fight here in southwest ohio and in cincinnati, particularly. >> eric: some say that voter fraud is not widespread, but some say, this doesn't matter, it's only 6 votes, maybe, in november, wouldn't change an election. >> i think that's outrageous when people say that. i think that this kind of conduct undermines our democracy t. undermines the integrity of
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the process. again, a the love our friends will say, these are so few instances that we ought not care. that's not appropriate. we ought to care about every vote. we ought to count every vote that is legally cast. when there is illegal, criminal conduct, we ought to prosecute? >> the judge was very strong, saying she was the lifeguard of the position and used the position of trust to vote illegally and was very perturbed and she will serve 5 years in prison. we are out of time. we will continue to follow these cases if they continue. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yos. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does!
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>> a new study showing that americans are living longer than they did two decades ago. that extended lifespan is not a sign of better overall health. we have someone live in new york with more on that. >> the 20-year study by the institute of health metrics and evaluation shows americans are living longer, but are living in poor health. the study in the "new england journal of medicine" measured data in 187 countries, showing life expectancy in the men and
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women in the u.s. rose. but while americans are living longer, they are spending more years suffering from non-fatal chronic disabilities like depression, anxiety, bone and joint diseases and chronic illnesses, like diabetes and alzheimer's. the combination of the conditions means that spiel people are spending more time with chronic disorders. that's something we need to deal with, both as individuals and for the health care system. >> doctors blame obesity, which has over taken smoking as living a long life. alcohol drinking il-- increases the possibility of being unhealthy as you age n. last 20 years, the u.s. has spent more per capita on health care than any other country, but during that time, america dropped in life expectancy from 20, two
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to27 among wellingy nations. >> individual responsibility becomes more important in other nations. have you to show up for your appointments. you have to take your medication. you have to follow the instructions when it comes to lifestyle issues. >> caring for chronic disabilities and obesity accounts for nearly half of the cost of u.s. healthcare. >> thanks. we are keeping an eye on the royal baby. more when we return. man: the charcoal went out already? ... forget it. vo: there's more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford original charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill. what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support gularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'.
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