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for next time, i hope you're learning to be more of "a healthy you." exclusive new information on the doctor who was tortured in jail for helping a cia track down osama bin laden. hello, everyone. welcome to "inside america's news headquarters." fox news. with an exclusive report that pakistan's prime minister has now promised american lawmakers he will consider the case of this man thrown in jail. shortly after u.s. navy s.e.a.ls killed bin laden during a raid inside pakistan. he broke the story and has the latest from the west coast newsroom. dominick? >> gregg, this is being brought around by an extremely rare and private meeting between what is
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effectively a world leader, nongovernmental individual during a closed door official house of representatives event in washington. this happened back on tuesday. the fox news has learned from those who attended that meeting that the pakistan leader shah riff has committed to task his top law officials with reviewing the prosecution process. chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs together with the founder of free cornered pakistan's prime minister into committing to take action on that case. they have told us shariff instructed his advise we're him in that meeting into looking into see how they would review that prosecution process and what could be done to accelerate the case. he said it was only after they talked that the pakistanis realize just how much of a great deal it is here in the united states. >> if he gets this done, really
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impacts the perception of pakistan to the average man on the street in america, it's the one thing that the public is most aware of, getting dr. afridi free. >> i can't underscore how much of a pivotal point this could be in the attempts to get afridi free. the state department and the cia have struggled with this. a note of caution, however, from chairman. he said, i am hopeful that our strong message spurs action on the case that there was nothing definitive from the meeting, the justice is going to be done. well, you know, it's notice pakistani's hands now and he skid for a pardon for afridi but while he does have a power to do that afridi can have a retrial. the court that would try him is under the control of pakistan's spy agency which is at odds with the cia over the bin laden raid, among other issues.
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and you're seeing that from our story on foxnews.com today which we're showing you on screen piptsz going to . it's going to be a tough one to crack. could be positive movements to get this american hero free. >> absolutely. a very, very important story. you broke it. thank you very much. without getting new details on a weapons arrest at jfk airport here in new york city port authority police busting a man this morning. he had two handguns, two rifles along with high capacity magazines in his luggage and one of the rifles, apparently loaded. investigators say he was bound for charlotte at the time. the suspect now facing criminal weapons charges. the air force academy making god optional. cadets no longer have to say the phrase "so help me god" during the honor oath. that decision coming after a civil rights group filed a lawsuit, a complaint. the air force issuing a
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statement saying, quote, after reviewing the cadet honor oath and in the spirit of determining a way ahead enables all to be true to their beliefs, the air force's academy has decided to make the final clause optional. and though god may be vol lun tear, the academy says the rest of the oath is not. germany is sending its intelligence chiefs to washington, d.c. to talk to the national security agency about their surveillance program. the nsa is accused of spying on some european leaders including the german chancellor angela merkel. hundreds of people holding a rally in the nation's capitol against the agency's mass surveillance programs. >> several hundred people turned out for today's march from union station to the u.s. capitol. i shot some video where my iphone as the group was making
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their way just passed the department of labor on third street. you see lots of different signs and chants and outfits. but one main request of the government, stop spying on us. the face of edward snow den was plastered on many signs and banners today. this is a group of big-time snowden admirers and snowden himself submited a written statement to one of today's speakers. >> we've also learned this isn't about red or blue or party lines and it is definitely not about terrorism. it's about power, control, and trust in government. >> today's protesters feel their fourth amendment rights are being violate bid nsa surve surveillance programs so their focus is primarily on the constitution. across town the administration is dealing with the diplomatic dust-up.
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americans have been monitoring the communications of world leaders. now the former secretary of state hillary clinton is saying the snowden's revelation don't paint a complete picture. >> leaked is in bitsz and pieces. it's not in context and it's not clearly explainable or understood. we don't want to cause difficulties for our friends and angela merkel is a great friend as is others in europe. >> today's rally featured democrats, republicans, independents, libertarians. the organizers said it wasn't about right or left, but instead about right and wrong. gregg. >> peter in washington, thanks very much. the president is now promising a stunning turn around for the crippled health care website. he's promising the american people in today's weekly address that a cure is just a few weeks
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aw away. in fact, he's vowing the federal health care portal should be fixed and free of most of what he refers to as glitches by the end of november. as we wait to see the results, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is due on capitol hill finally next week for the first time since the problems became readily apparent, both to the american people and apparently to the president himself. in just a few minutes we're going to be talking with new jersey congressman leonard lance. he will be questioning secretary sebelius when she finally appears before the house energy and commerce committee. martha wallace, the voice of edna on the simpsons has died. the long-time television actress' credits from playing the secretary on "the bob newhart show" to "murphy brown."
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the actress plays who lisa simpson said, quote, cheers to the hilarious, kind, fab marcia wallace who has taken her leave of us. heaven is now a much funnier place because of you, marcia. a massive manhunt for a gunman lasting late into the night. a terrifying ordeal as a bus filled with students burst into flames on a busy highway. the whole thing caught on cellphone videotape. plus, a very real threat of a nationwide cyber attack crippling america's entire power grid. no electricity, cellphone, no gasoline, fresh food, clean water, and no way out. >> looking like a total power outage across the entire country. >> a colossal and history making blackout. >> the likes of which we have never seen before. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?
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it's time for a quick check of the headlines. gunman suspected of a federal immigration officer and three police officers surrendering after an hour's long standoff near sacramento. police say one of the victims in serious condition. a bus carrying high school students bursting into flames on a tennessee highway. they were returning from a field trip. all 33 people on board though managed to escape. the cause of the fire under investigation. a man driving on to the philadelphia museum of arts steps made famous in the movie "rocky." the car caused more than $8,000 in damage there. the driver now facing a charge of criminal mischief. all right. i want to talk about obama care right now. there's a key hearing coming up on problems with the crippled health care website, starring the very person who is heading up the implementation of
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president obama's health care law, health and hue hugh man services secretary kathleen sebelius. on friday she tried shifting the blame of the major glitches on to republicans. >> in an ideal world would have been a lot more testing. we did not have the luxury of that with a law that said it's go time on october 1st and, frankly, a -- a political atmosphere where the majority party, at least in the house, was determined to stop this anyway they probably could including shutting down the united states government. so it was not an ideal atmosphere. >> she's blaming, in part at least, republican in congress. she's set to go before congress next week. our next guest will be on the very panel asking her what went wrong. new jersey congressman leonard lance is a republican on the house energy and commerce commit dee. congressman, good to see you. it's all your fault. what do you have to say for yourself? >> i think that's rich that the
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secretary should say that it's the fault of republicans in the house of representatives. obviously it's the administration's responsibility to build a website that works and that has not occurred. and we had the contractors before us this past week and the secretary will come before us on wednesday october 30th. >> originally she claimed it was a huge volume of millions of people trying to get on the website. that's why it crashed. and, of course, we learned, no, it was a couple hundred people that crashed the site. and the latest she is saying is that she didn't know the website wouldn't work approximately well, those contractors last week testified, we repeatedly told the department of health and human services and she's the secretary. >> that's correct. and she case that the president of the united states was not informed. this is his signature issue. you would think that he would want to be informed. so is this a situation of plausible deniabilitdeniability
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>> the centers for medicare and medicaid service which is run by sebelius, department of health head, decided to take charge of sbe gre integrating all of these complicat complicated systems by the contractors, the government has almost no expertise to do that sort of thing. is that something you want to confront her about? >> absolutely. an outside entity should have been hired to do that. this is really not governmental expertise. and that was not done. and, also, at the last minute it was changed that your couldn't browse the website without first registering. and i don't know about most people but when i buy a shirt, for example, on the internet i browse without first registering and that should have been permitted. >> several days before the launch the president bragged about how easy it would be. you could go on and browse and, you know, pick which plan you wanted. and nobody apparently told the president, mr. president, we killed the browsing thing. >> that's right. and we are suspicious that it was killed internally because of
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sticker shock. >> yeah. the president's former chief of staff bill daley said that firing sebelius, quote, would be like firing captain edward smith on the titanic after it hit the iceberg. that may be the funniest line except it's a sad situation. where do you stand on whether she should be fired or resign? >> i have not signed that letter to have her discharged. i want her to face the music and to come before the committee. my concern would be that if she were no longer responsible, she would not have come before the committee. i very much want her to come before the commit see. >> she had 3 1/2 years to set this thing up and apparently she spent as much as, perhaps $600 million, on this whole thing that doesn't even work. is it your sense that she wasn't overseeing this thing properly, including the money, or these contractors were absolutely fleecing the american tax payer? >> don't know yet but we're certainly going to ask these
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questions and a good question we will be asking is whether or not there is some sort of penalty in the contract because the website did not work. >> yeah, i mean, if i buy a car that doesn't work, i want a refund, right? >> right. >> should we get our $600 million back? >> correct. the whole matter was not tested end to end until the last two weeks in september. >> which seems inexplikable. she said he really needed five years, which is in your judgment? >> why should people be penalized, have to pay a tax for not purchasing a product that they cannot find on a website that doesn't work. >> the white house is now saying, i presume the president, it is going to be fixed in a month by the 30th of november. text experts are saying, are you kidding, this could take months to fix if it can be fixed at all. >> i don't know the answer to that. the president now has said the deadline will be november 30th. we will see, of course, we have concerns that that is not the
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case. >> even if it gets up and running on the last day of november. that gives millions of policy owners who had their coverage canceled because of obama care. 7 to $10 million a scant two weeks to sign up. is that enough time? >> of course not, greg. and moreover, many more people have lost their coverage than have signed up. and the president said you could keep your health care coverage and that is clearly not the case. >> we are looking forward to your penetrating questions this coming week. and she's been dodging congress since august, refusing to testify. finally she's giving in. should be interesting. thank you very much. congressman leonard lance of new jersey. what would happen if a siper attack shut down a country's power grid? a new "national geographic" special imagine that catastrophic event. we're going to talk to a national security expert on just how real this worst-case
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welcome back. what would happen to you and your family if all the power we want out for a long time due to a malicious cyber attack? that's the scary scenario laid out in a brand-new nat geo special. >> texas has appeared to lost its power in a cascading dom knee effect. >> check this out. i never seen our power act like this before. >> oh, my god! >> people are freaking out.
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>> richard is a professor of national security strategy. he joins us now. professor, so how likely is it that a cyber attack could take out the entire national grid? professor, can you hear me? it's gregg jarrett in new york. how likely is it that a cyber attack could take out a national grid? >> i guess i would put it this way, over the last five years or so, we've had a secretary of defense and three directors of national intelligence who warned this is one of the most serious threats the united states faces today. so i think i would say that the probability that this could occur is high. this is something that we're very worried about right now. >> describe what it would be like. we're certainly going to see it in this special, but tell us what it would be like for americans.
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>> well, if an organization was able to take out entire national grid the way that they portray in this movie, it would be a catastrophe. you would lose all communication, electronic commerce would go down. finance would go down. within a few days, you probably would lose water, access to food and as the movie portrays within a week or two, the rule of law might actually start breaking down and you would have chaos in the streets. >> fires, looting, panic everywhere? >> that's exactly correct. >> i was reading that a recent congressional report said that they have constant, almost daily attempted cyber attacks on the power grid. that's a little frightening, isn't it? >> it was a real interesting poll done of electric companies a few months ago. two-thirds of them said that they at that time had malicious software on their systems designed to sabotage them. an awful lot of that software
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was coming from other countries, from the militaries of other countries overseas. so it is a very interesting and evolving situation that's worrying a lot of people here. >> weather storms and the most recent was sandy where we're coming up on that here in the east coast a year ago, 8.5 million people lost all power. i was one of them. we lost it for about ten days. and we got by on a generator, but we had no gasoline either to power the generator. so we really had to ration ourselves. it was pretty difficult. it was a real hardship. but this could be a whole lot worse, right? >> well, in the past, electricity was sort of a convenience. but things have changed. the way we set up the united states today, electricity is a life support system. when the electricity goes out, everything stops working. and when that happens, that means food, water, all of the things that sustain life in the country stop working. so the national geographic film kind of gives you an idea of
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what it would be like to try to live in a world like that when you didn't have access to any of the basic needs of life. >> does the film seem pretty realistic to you? >> the film is a dramaization and a lot of fun. it focuses on individuals. folks are caught in an elevator. there is an expecting mother who is about two days overdue when the lights go out. all of these things are dramatic and they make for a good movie. but the underlying premise that they show does have an element of realism in it and i think -- >> professor, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i'm gregg jarrett. that's it for now. we'll see you back here at 6:00 o'clock eastern time. "the five" is up next. hope you're having a good day.
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i'm eric bolling. it's 5:00 o'clock in new york city. it's "the five". >> kick back, put your feet up and get ready to be informed because we have a jam packede re hour of power, full debate. mother of all web failures -- did you like that? that hour of power? >> yeah. >> kathleen sebelius -- i don't work for you. russell brand showing off his commie chops gutfeld takes an ax to all academia as the liberal colleges advise

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