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>> it's cool how that works. i love to see it on different venues and i'll take it. >> you were on the pepsi can last year. >> yeah, that was so surreal. i never thought i would see myself on a diet pepsi can. >> we look back and find out who laurel actually went to the prom with. breaking news this morning as tensions are continuing to mount at this hour. ukranian forces sweeping in to gain control in cities in the east that have been taken over by ukranian separatists. they have reportedly killed five of these pro-russian militants and that has prompted a response, as you would expect, from vladimir putin who has warned of the consequences to those actions. good morning, everybody. martha mccallum in america's newsroom. >> good morning, everyone.
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all of this, of course, is threatening to overshadow president obama's trip in russia where he is threatening broader sanctions over russia if moscow does not pull back. >> we'll continue to keep some arrows in our quiver in the event that we see a further deterioration of the situation over the next several days or weeks. >> so the president says he will keep more arrows in the quiver. what does that mean? chief white house correspondent ed henry traveling with the president. he joins us live from morning from seoul, south korea. good morning, ed. >> good morning, martha. bottom line is the president trying to play some offense but also having to play some defense in a news conference here in seoul. this situation, the crisis growing worse in ukraine, the president making clear the u.s. is getting closer to a new round of sanctions but trying to coordinate with new world leaders. the president in seoul on a
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conference call with four world leaders including angela merkle, the chancellor of russia, going back and forth with vladimir putin. they have also been going with -- defense for the president was he was pressed on whether he misjudged vladimir putin throughout his presidency and he tried to explain that foreign policy is not perfect. listen. >> i think that's self-apparent. i think that there are no guarantees in life, generally. and certainly no guarantees in foreign policy. >> it appears they may be inching closer to a nuclear weapons test. the president basically threatened there would be a firm response from u.s. and its allies if north korea went
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forward with that nuclear weapons test. tells you how tense things are in this region as well as the ukraine. martha? >> he's got a lot on his plate. thank you very much. we'll see you later. >> now we have a fox news alert for you. a strange hijacking scare that they said was caused by a drunken passenger that shook up a virgin australia flight. the airplane was traveling from br brisbane, australia to bali, indonesia. katie, is everybody okay? >> everybody is fine, eric. all 137 passengers and the seven crew are safe on the grounds in bali. but they certainly had a scare. as you described, this passenger began banging very aggressively on the cockpit door. the pilot was then prompted to declare a flight emergency. the flight was able to land as normal at its intended destination in bali. the crew were able to detain this man and handcuff him.
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they restrained him. but of course once on the ground, there was a major alert in place. troops surrounded the plane, the airport was closed for two hours. an airport manager has now confirmed this passenger was just simply drunk, and local authorities have arrested him. but certainly a lot of those passengers had a serious fright, eric. >> certainly. and katie, the tensions must be really high because of the missing flight 370, the malaysian flight. >> that's right, and we still don't know what happened to malaysian airways mh-370. the search for that plane is ongoing. it hasn't been found. we don't know what made it go off course. was it a hijacking, was it a mechanical problem? still, ships are searching the area where it's believed that flight went down, and under water we've seen that blue fin probe looking for it, but we simply don't know. what if it was a hijacking, what if there is more to come? certainly edgy, especially given
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the fact it was in the same region, but we simply don't know what happened to mh-370, but in this occasion, the virgin airlines flight was simply a drunken passenger. >> thank you, katie logan live from london. well, as we learn more about the american doctors who were killed at that hospital in afghanistan, one victim's wife offering forgiveness. pediatrician jerry humanos was one of the three doctors who was gunned down in cold blood by an afghan security guard who was really there to protect them at the hospital and that happened at the early hours of the hospital here. humanos' wife making an emotional and heartfelt plea. >> our family has suffered a great loss. our family and friends have suffered a great loss. our hearts are aching. while our hearts are aching for our loss, we're also aching for the loss of the other families. as well as the loss and the
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multiple losses that the afghan people have experienced. and it will take time for us to adjust. >> strong woman. we are told that the other two americans killed were a father and son visiting humanos. another american worker, an american woman, was wounded in that attack. more to come on that. wow. emotions also boiling over for the families of the people still missing in the deadly ferry accident in south korea. frustrated relatives questioning that country's fisheries minister and the coast guard chief. and a heated and emotional confrontation that stretched late into the night. take a look at those poor family members. they say the recovery efforts are not moving fast enough. investigators are now looking into the possibility that the ferry had thousands of tons of cargo to see if that weight may have contributed to the accident or possibly shifted the ship. many of the surviving crew members, as you know, have been arrested. it has so far left at least 200
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people dead. many of those are high school students. so four major tech giants including google, apple and apple are settling a multi-billion-dollar class action lawsuit, charging that they conspired to prevent more than 60,000 technology workers from getting better job offers in order to drive down salaries. stewart varney is the host of varney and company. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> how does this work? >> the tech companies apparently had an agreement. we won't poach valuable staff members to each other. we won't offer them more money to leave that company and join ours. obviously that would depress wages and prevent promotions. so 60,000 workers sued. well, the tech companies just said, okay, you got us. we're going to pay. we're caving. we will pay you. why did they cave so quickly? it turns out it's all about e-mails, specifically e-mails
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between the late steve jobs at apple and eric schmidt at google. it turns out google had fired a recruiter who tried to poach an apple staff member away. he was fired. and when that firing came through, steve jobs sent an e-mail with a big smiley face. that's the kind of evidence you don't want to put in front of a jury. that's the kind of evidence that makes you look very bad, so they caved. they settled. and they just settled as of this morning. >> it's really surprising. i mean, every other industry, to a certain extent, that's fair game. people have the freedom to move from one company to another if somebody offers them a better job. how much is this going to end up costing these companies, and i would think they've got enough to afford, to pay people more, probably. >> here's where it gets very interesting. according to the wall street journal, a source close to the case, apparently, the payment is going to be just $325 million. now, that sounds like a lot of money, but these 64,000 tech workers, they were suing. they wanted $3 billion.
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they're only going to get, according to the journal, 325 million and that's before the lawyers take their piece. as to the latter part of your question, martha, yeah, these tech companies are wildly profitable. they could easily afford 3 billion or 10 billion. apple, for example, makes approximately $800 million pure profit a week. 10 billion every 13 weeks. that is an awful lot of money. they could afford to pay. they're not going to pay very much. >> boy. that's quite a story. stewart, thank you. we'll see you on the business channel. talk about trying to get a job. did you see this? the little girl making a touching job pitch to first lady michelle obama. >> my dad has been out of a job for three years and i wanted to give you his resume. >> oh, my goodness. all right. i'll take it. >> well, it's a little private, but she's doing something for
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her dad. all right? got it. >> the first lady giving her a hug and saying i'll take it. the little girl sees an opportunity at a white house event for a take our sons and daughters to workday. it was just one of the questions michelle fielded from branch workers. when it ended, she gave the little girl a hug and took the resume with her. we'll have to see if the little girl's father ends up with a job. >> where did she get the resume? did dad hand it to her in the morning when he heard she was going to the white house? >> hope it does the trick. this terrifying scene after a school bus filled with kids jumped a curb and nearly split in two. details on that dramatic rescue coming up. homeland security's former inspector general put on leave following a scathing report that says he was hardly independent. that's the allegation. and that he allegedly hid the administration's embarrassing missteps. the senator behind that report,
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ron johnson, a republican from wisconsin on why going on leave will not silence the white house critics. an outrage after allegations at the va is covering up an appalling situation that has caused the unnecessary death of some of our veterans. >> it's unforgivable and it's unforgettable. unforgivable for the va to ever decline someone and throw them to the curb like i could have got better care if i took him to a veterinarian hospital. . or that she maxed out her card during spring break. when the satellite provider checked his credit, he found out his daughter didn't pay her bills. but he's not worried. now he checks his credit report and score at experian.com, allowing him to keep track of his credit and take a break of his own. experian. live credit confident.
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>> i feel lucky. eric:ed driver had to be cut from that wreckage and pulled out through the windshield. they say he's in critical condition as well as two of his fellow students. martha: homeland security putting its former inspector general on administrative leave after a scathing senate report that showed he tailored his reports to suit senior obama administration officials. the senior senator behind this report sit on the committee and he joins us now. how did you start to pull on this thing? how did all this begin? >> for me it began with the may 2012 hearing on the secret
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service scandal in colombia and i wasn't satisfied with the answers. i was the ranking member on the oversight committee. we started looking into the matter and during the course our investigation we found out that the inspector general was compromised and we can't rely on it. our new chair committee was chaired by claire mccaskill and she joined us to get to the bottom of what was wrong. the secret service we still haven't got to the bottom of. martha: you learned there were time when he was delaying some of his you finding so it appears when somebody would sit before a hearing they wouldn't have information on those findings, that he had a cozy relationship wining and dining with the very people he was supposed to be the inspector general over, right? >> the original report
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investigation came out in september 2012 and it wasn't made public. there were certainly alterations to the report because we reviewed the original september report. we believe it was done for politic. as whistleblowers came forward we found out this inspector general charles edward had cozy relationships with senior officials in the department of homeland security, totally inappropriate for the inspector general. we continued to look into that and we are pleased claire mccaskill joined us in the efforts. i'm also pleased jay johnson looked into this. secretary johnson put charles edward on leave. complete' repair the office of inspector general but let's also get to the bottom of what's wrong with the secret service.
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martha: most people would be encouraged that there is bipartisan interest in cleaning this up. this is all under janet napolitano. do you know who was pressuring him to move these deadlines and change these reports? >> in our initial investigation from september, may of 2012 until the past election we just hit roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. those folk are gone. they got out of dodge as the posse was coming. charles edward resigned three days before we had a scheduled hearing on his office's performance. these people resigned ahead of our investigation. i'm suspicious of their activities. martha: can you give us figure examples from your report of what you found particularly troublesome? >> in the original report
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investigations there were people involved in that prostitution scandal. the secret service knew that but it wasn't reported to us in congress. that was the most political which is why they would have altered or delayed the report until after the election. martha: was it part of yourer to see who was pressuring him in this way, whether it was the white house or dhs? >> we need to find out what's happening in the office of the inspendinger to general and we need to find out what is wrong, how widespread is the type of behavior within the secret service. i met with director pearson and secretary johnson. i think they are dedicated to get to the bottom of that. but it's been two years. 2 years before the events in cartagena, and amsterdam we had
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a secret service agent passed out drunk in a hallway in a hotel. i'll give secretary johnson some space to do that. he seems pretty dedicated. martha: senator, thank you very much. >> thanks for your interest. eric: it could be a potentially huge day in college sports. not because what of what's going to happen on the field, but what's going to happen off the field. players deciding whether to join a union. martha: growing calls for investigation into recent deaths at va hospitals. veterans dying reportedly because they had to wait too long for their treatment. we are trying to get to the bottom of it and see if someone is covering it up. >> i was screaming. how dare you.
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martha: measles are on the rise across the country. the cdc says it's the worst they have seen so far. california has seen the most. part of the problem is the growing number of parents who are intentionally opting out of getting the vaccine for their children. eric: were dozen of our country's veterans denied a doctor and then died a recent
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report shows they died waiting for treatment at a va hospital in phoenix. >> what happened was in february 2013 they started a secret waiting list, a paper list. so when you would come in for an appointment they would tap your information into a computer, and rather than save they would print it and there was no record you had been there in the computer. they would take that piece of paper up to administration services and enter that on a secret paper list and shred the other document. eric: is this really possible? the ceo of concerned veterans for america. how offensive. a family says those who served for bureaucrat is bonuses at the
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v sarks. >> it did happen. the nationality commander of the american legion calls it one of the most abhorrent. it did happen. this isn't the first time. she fudged suicide numbers in spokane, washington. eric: she fudged suicide numbers? >> they have only -- they reported less number of veterans who committed suicide in spokane, washington than they knew about. then she land in phoenix. the reason they are doing this is to make it look like their performance is better so they get the bonuses they want and they keep the heat off them. in the process veterans wait and veterans die because they don't get the appointments they need.
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eric: how widespread to you think this is? >> anybody who follows the issue closely and doesn't think this is widespread and indem knick the va as their head in the sand. wait times, backlogs, preventive deaths, secret lists, fudging numbers. the department of veterans affairs needs to be fundamentally reformed because there is a calcified bureaucracy. it's more obsessed with the process than the outcome of veterans who deserve the best this nation can provide. the north has called for the director to resign. >> he ought to resign because his soldiers who served nobly and are in the care of the veterans administration are not getting the care they deserve
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and need. >> our organization concerned vets for america was the first group to come out a year ago. but the problem isn't just about the secretary. it's nearly impossible to fire bad employees at the department of veterans affairs. there is a va management accountability act that would give the secretary the ability to fire bad managers and get at the root of the problem at the va which is an unresponsive bureaucracy that hit wall after wall after wall and they try to cover it up, the va does. it's a national outrage. the more people know about it the more they will be outraged. >> it could be a growing scandal that's horrific. >> there need to be more and more.
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thanks so much for joining us. martha: house speaker john boehner mocking members of his own party. the tough talk he dished out to fellow republicans when he went home to ohio over immigration reform. eric: former secretary of state hillary clinton speaking out again about the deadly benghazi terror attacks and the impact her remarks could have on a potential race for the white house. >> it's very painful and it was certainly the biggest regret that it had as secretary of state.
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>> a big day for college athletes. everybody will be watching the decisions that come out of northwestern where the football players are voting on whether they will form the nation's first labor union for student athletes. huge ramifications for college athlete nicks this decision. mike, tell us about what's going on there. >> reporter: it could change college sports as we know them. they are casting their ballots whether they want to be reclassified as employees and form a union.
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they have agreed to hear the university appeal from the original nlrb. until the appeal is heard the ballots are impounded. all we'll know today is the university is going to throw everything it has into this fight. >> reporter: northwestern will fight this to the very last breath of the fight. they will take it as high as it has to go. will the united states supreme court become interested in this case? it's a real possibility. >> reporter: coachs are discouraging a pro-union vote. but the nlrb laid down the decision that players can form a union. that means sooner or later some team will march rar what do the players hope they will get if they vote yes in this? >> reporter: there is a long
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range of changes, extended health benefits and extended scholarships. it will drive up the cost of college athletics. that will affect sports that depend on college for their funding. sports at university are proving ground for olympics. eric: new comments from former secretary of state hillary clinton on the benghazi terror attack. you will recall four americans were killed in that attack on the diplomatic compound. she reiterated it was her most significant failure. >> it would certainly be the attack on our facility in benghazi and the loss of two state department personnel and
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two cia contractors from the terrorist attack and the terrible consequences of that. it's very, very painful and it was certainly the biggest regret i had as secretary of state. eric: so what does this mean? former ambassador to the up snvment john bolton joins me. it appears she has gone from angry defines, "continues does it make," to somber reflection. >> this is the political spin doctors sat work. she can say as i said before i regret it. that's an answer 300 million americans could get. it's the way we all feel. it's not the answer of the secretary of state and a
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would-be president. the answer has to explain the failures of security that led to the attacks, the failure to do something on september 11. i think most important, in a place where clinton could distinguish herself from obama why in a year and a half since the attack has there been no retaliation and retribution and the terrorists paid no price. eric: and no arrests at all. can she widen the gap between herself and the president. >> she was shoulder to shoulder with the president for four years while she was secretary of state. that's when the problems in libya arose. i don't think the american people will be confused by the political spin doctors. they will want to know why an ambassador was killed and terrorists around the world haven't been taught a lesson.
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eric: do you think she head have accountability? >> that's what the spin doctors will try to get people to forget, that emotional outburst in the senate, "what difference does it make?" >> i think the american people feel deeply about americans being killed by terrorists and nothing being done about it. eric: during testimony mike morell the former deputy of the cia said the talking points, it wasn't us. could susan rice be subpoenaed to testify before the senate or the house? >> i think she could be in her capacity as u.n. ambassador. the question that's people have, whether this was all more political spin just a few months from the 2012 elections, one that's not been answered.
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more realms answers were the d mor --morell's answers were thaa bureaucrat. eric: the white house says it wasn't us. how do you get to the point to say no it was her. >> i think it's a big mistake for the cia to write talking points. eric: the cia or the talking points are political. >> the talking points are political. they can look at them for protecting intelligence but that many all. the real place accountability has to be felt is the president. he's not faced that accountability. eric: what do you think will happen in the end? >> i wish congress would get its
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act together and have a select committee. a year and a half after the attack where is the retaliation. the terrorists think under barack obama you can kill an american ambassador and do it with impunity. >> she has a book coming out. >> what's your answer as a would-be president what you would do to prevent it in the future. martha: house speaker john boehner taking a dig at some members of his own party. see what he says about the battle over immigration reform. justin bieber detained for a while at l.a. airport. everywhere he goes this is what it looks like. we'll be right back.
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eric: pop star bieber sparked a mob scene at the airport where customs and immigration agents detained him for some time for questioning. his ongoing legal problems sometimes to blame. martha: has john boehner had it with some of his fellow republicans. boehner appearing to take a dig at his colleagues and some of his frustration about immigration reform came out saying in a mocking tone, pretend like i'm john boehner. oh, don't make me do this. this is too hard. juan williams and mary katharine
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ham. we didn't have the video so i had to act out the role of john boehner. you guys aren't brave enough to take on immigration reform. what do you think about that? >> i love it and thought it was theatrical and fun. i think it speaks to a heartfelt frustration on john boehner's part. he wants to see something get done. there are several windows of opportunity he outlined as speaker. he's trying to set up the chairman of the house judiciary committee saying we have to go now. he wants to get it done in june or july. he doesn't want obama to do some executive order on deportation that mr. cement the hispanic vote for the democrats for the future. we need to do more outreach and
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talk to hispanic voters and let them know who we are. the republicans were saying. how is that going? boehner is obviously frustrated with that effort. >> here is the problem. what he said makes getting anything done much harder. it's so current productive it makes me wonder if he was self-sabotaging. i don't understand the impulse where you go out and you treat the people you need to convince with as little charity as possible then come back to them and want them to work with you. i know he's frustrated but i don't think that gets you anywhere. what he's saying dismisses concerns about immigration reform. i'm not somebody who is a super hardliner on immigration. obama care has shown us the obama administration will decide not to enforce parts of a law they find inconvenient. when a deal comes down on
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immigration, anything that comes through will have to have enforcement as part of it. that's the part they would feel inconvenient. boehner can go about convincing people otherwise or he can make fun of them. martha: let many pull up a couple other meetings. he said we get elected to make choices. we get elected to solve problems and it's remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don't want to. they will take the path of least resistance. one last one from john boehner. i have had of brick and bat and arrow shot at me over this issue just because i wanted to deal with it. if i don't -- i didn't say it was going to be easy. my mind when i look at this, it goes to jeb bush. a potential presidential candidate, a potential republican juana be who has said these issues deal with an acts of love among families.
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this is clearly an issue that the gop is going have to hash out. >> i think there is a struggle, especially among people in the chamber of commerce, the business communities. they are strong saying we need immigration reform. we need to stop demonizing up grants. it's -- demonizing immigrants. you hear talk of amnesty, the kind of objection mary katharine raised can we trust the obama administration to enforce. at some point if you want to get something done you have to move forward. what you are hearing from the jeb bushes and the john baners of the world, they want republicans to get something done. one of the things you didn't put up as a quote that i would have. he says he doesn't have any problem with the tea party. he thinks 80% of them are upset about various issues. but there is a group who wants
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to raise money by demonizing leaders. he's trying to show leadership so they get out of his way so the republicans can claim credit for getting things done in washington. martha: can he succeed, mary katharine? >> there was a chance you could get piecemeal reforms through. like i said, you still have this trust problem which is very real and based on the fact that the obama administration has been untrustworthy. so that is a real concern. >> when you are talking about the issue of getting things done, getting something through. republicans when it comes to the mid-terms will want to say look, we are willing to work across the aisle. we got something accomplished we wanted to accomplish. you can't on of issue sit back and say what if we pass it and then they change the and we don't like it anymore.
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>> getting something done and getting sock part and responsible done are two thing as we have seen where obamacare. i don't want to pass things just for the sake of passing them. when you look at polling. i think the political class thinks it's inevitable and necessary that you deal with this this year. i'm not sure the american people agree. that's the tension you are dealing with. but you have got to win trust. martha: thanks, mary katharine. eric: have you heard about another growing irs scandal? this one has one lawmaker hopping mad. what jason chaffetz is doing to make sure all federal workers pay their taxes. we'll explain when he joins us straight ahead. ♪
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martha: some connecticut lawmakers think milk does your body bad. they are thinking of banning whole and 2% milk at daycare centers to curb obesity. the critics argue the information is outdated and that milk fat is not harmful to children's health as once thought. eric: hundreds of people have been forced from their homes in new jersey. raging wildfires have torched hundreds of acres. the firefighters say they are making progress thanks to calmer winds. rick, they might be getting the upper hand?
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>> reporter: it's been a frightening time for residents. more than 2,000 acres. most of the fires are contained but some continue to burn. high winds are major factors. some towns are hit hard by hurricane sandy. one massive blaze forced the evacuation of 600 homes. firefighters dug trenches and set backfires. remnants continue to burn in berkeley township. it started in the town much beechwood. some residents were told to turn on yard picklers before pack up and getting out. >> just being able to see the heavy smoke so close to the house. with the winds being as close as they are there is no telling what can happen. >> we expect a tbleafg an hour
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on that one. eric: is the region under fire watches and warnings. >> reporter: low humidity levels create the conditions for the rapid spread of those fires. warnings were in place a couple days before this happened. the extreme heat forced firefighters to fall back self times. in tom's river officials closed their middle school and then moved into that school and set it up as a fire department command post. eric: luckily no injuries. martha: an obamacare debacle asking the fed for help after people who tried to sign up found themselves in glitch after glitch when they tried to sign up.
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>> back with a fox news alert. an obamacare disaster in oregon where we are learning the state's health care website is broken and the state may let the feds take their exchange over g overing. a final decision is decided on that today. i am martha maccallum. >> i am eric sean in for bill hemmer. the government is preparing to come to the rescue of the oregon site. you might were the big advertisement they got?
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>> long live oregon. we are free to be healthy. chris stywell is here. and once we get over the feel good of that, how is it going in oregon? >> i think i have a contact high from watching that. >> so what if there is a problem, it is going to be okay. >> seriously. in the tune of more than a $100 million down the tax hole. oregon was an early adopter on obamacare and they got a lot of funds and were going to be a showcase state for the program. well it has been the opposite. that money is gone. and we expect to hear to state
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is going to scrap the site and divert everybody to obamacare's federal website. the point here is, sometimes the president liked to say it was more than a website, but sometimes it is about the website. and in a state like oregon, this is a democratic, blue state and people were eager to participate in this. >> they were not the only one with a state exchange. what are the ramifications of the others? >> kentucky has had great success. but ironically democratic states, particularly maryland have a similar catastrophic
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issue with their program. taxpayer are mad. people are mad. these are states where the democrats thought they would show great success. and what this tells you is you have to democrats in oregon. you have the governor and he thought he was safe and this might put him in tribouble. and this democratic senator is up against a tough candidate. i support what happened in obamacare but what happened in our state was wrong is what they are saying. if you get into an investigation on this, people will be entangled. >> loosing a $100 million on the program in oregon alone and there maybe investigations into
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what went wrong, where all of the money went and why it would cost that much in the first place to build a website and run that ad. thank you very much, chris. lots to talk about. >> i think the ad looks like the beetle's yellow submarine. there is another delay in obamacare. for people that are sick and have preexisting conditions have to wait until june 30th to enroll in a plan on the obamacare website. coverage is back dated to may 1st if you sign up. there is the number. since november 2012, there have been 38 health care delays so far. meanwhile, the crisis in ukraine is intensifying amid fears that russia could invade. this is after ukrainian lost the
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ability to drive the separateis out. putin is ordering troops to start drills near the ukraine border and the president is warning any more action means more sanction. leland vivic is streaming live. you just got back from the pro-russian stronghold. are they digging in? >> reporter: they are digging in for a real fight. they know the ukrainian movement is trying to take a stand but it seems they are just taking baby steps. the ukrainian's have been flying their helicopters over all day.
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they have checkpoints along the highway and you can see men checking the cars. the question is do they have the order to contain the pro-russians or are these special forces going to move in and try to remake a number niece cities. so far the russian military hasn't gone into any of the cities which would be a brutal fight if they did. we made it in one area but they remember jumpy of foreign media. they said they are ready to protect till death to protect how far have come. >> how are the russians handling this? >> reporter: they are doubling
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down with 40,000 troops on the ukrainian border and they will they will use force to protect russian citizens and russian interests. there have been drill conducted close to the ukrainian border clearly threatening moves by the russians as they try to flex their muscle. president putin said he reserves the right to use force but the question is what is the pretext he needs to move in and whether this is enough or if he is waiting for a fire fight to give the order. >> seems like a tense situation with no signs of letting up. israel suspending peace talks in what could be a fatal blow to reach an agreement. this comes after the palestinian
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leader reached a militant deal with the group hamas who is calling for the end of israel and he said this makes negotiations impossible. >> it is blow to israel and peace. they took a huge step backwards. the only way we can move forward is to have partners who are committed to living with israel and not killing israel. conner powell is live. where does this leave the peace talks? >> the reality is the ongoing talks were at a standstill already and were not going anywhere and that was before the palestinian deal with hamas was announced but with this announcement all talks have been
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suspended. the palestinian government has been called unhelpful but john kerry says he is not willing to give up on the peace >> if they are not willing to make the compromises as well it makes it >> reporter: they tried to reach an agreement a few years ago and it fell short. there are a lot of issues before the unity government comes to form >> was a long-term peace deal every possible with the palestinians? >> reporter: probably not. the u.s. leaders were pushing for the pal sestinian authoriti to reconcile but israel has
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taken the stand that the talks are useless if the palestinians were divided and now in theory they are united but talks are suspended. hamas is refusing israel's right to exist and is using force. whether or not they will come around to a more palestinian approach where they recognize israel's right to exist is very much to be seen. given the history it is unlikely. we talked about hilary clinton running for hour and now the bush dynasty. does it still have legs? that is the major question for jeb bush as he is getting new support from his family. we have dana here who worked in the bush white house and she
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shares her take. >> and an rv burning serious rubber down the highway. >> and another irs scandal in the works. irs workers who don't even pay their own taxes are being rewarded. jason chase is here with the controversy. he says it could have been avoided in the first place. >> i had a bill that sailed through the house and harry reid never picked it up. i want to make him the senate minority leader because he does unt pick up the important stuff. unt pick up the important stuff. i've got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. ♪
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the chase lasted half an hour. the wheels of the rv were on fire. it ended after the driver ran the vehicle over stop sticks and crashed. a man and woman running up the hill with their hands up. they didn't get very far. police were right there with their guns drawn and waiting. both suspects were arrested at the scene. sounds like breaking bad. there is growing support for jeb bush to run for the white house for 2016 from within his own family. you were his mom saying we had enough bush's and later she said it would be okay. and now there is word this father is supportive of this move. this brother, neal, jeb's brother, saying if you ask dad the same question, should jeb run, he would say yes.
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we have a former white house press secretary. good morning. >> glad to be on fox before news. >> everybody is happy. we are happy to have you. tell me about this. when you look at this situation, there was talk about jeb bush running before his brother ran even. does it seem like the family is gathering around him and supporting him? >> i think the family has always been supportive but i understand two parts of what barbara bush was talking about when she suggesteding another family. i think a lot of families feel that way. but do they feel that way with the kennedy's and the carter's or the clinton's? there is bush fatigue and i think if jeb bush runs he has to understand that. but the other reason i think she said that is no one understands
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more of what it does to a husband and son and to watch the husband and son watch the cri criticism of them as president. i got to do an interview with 41 and 43 together. and both said before going into the cabinet room that it was harder to be the father and son of the president than to be the president. so barbara bush is expressing the concern of what it does to a family. it is important to have your family support. but this is a decision that can only be made at the last-minute by the individual. that is true for hilary clinton as well. she has the full support of her family. her husband and daughter very much want her to run but she is going to have make that decision to run at the end of the day. >> what you are saying is so right on.
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the scrutiny these people come over. and it affected so many people in one family. and we have to ask ourselves are we willing to go there again and it is up to him in the end as you say. it is clear he is testing the waters. he said in the clearest way he ever has and that is i am thinking about it. >> barbara bush said in that interview if you are asking me if he is qualified, he is the most qualified in the united states. let's just say it is down to jeb versus hillry which might be the first first-name presidency we talk about. if people get past another bush or clinton. those are the choices, though. if you look at the direction of hope and change for the country, i think on paper jeb bush
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definitely wins. in a campaign contest with demographics. this biggest concern isn't going to not be support from his family. he is going to have to work hard to win over republicans as well. >> you look at what he is saying on immigration. >> i should say also, i am a friend of the family. okay. i am now in a position to be an analyst. i try to be as objective as i can. i don't know jeb as well as i know 43 obviously. but i admire this family that is producing successful people and remained close. and same can be said about the clinton and the carter and the nuns. we don't need affirmative action in sir names >> it seems both parties need
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the best person possible regardless of the name. >> and rand paul is having to do with things his father said. it will happen with hillary, it could with jeb, they have to distance themselves from decisions their family members made when they were in office. and that can feel uncomfortable for us as viewers watching but a strong family understands that. >> they know he has to define who he is and they do. they speak about it differently. jeb is involved in education and immigration. you know -- >> and he can win florida and sometimes it comes down to who is the best conservative candidate that can win. if he decides to do it he said he wants to do it with joy in his heart. >> we know how hard it is to hang on to that. >> but you have joy in your
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heart every morning >> we do. can you feel? thank for coming on this friday morning. >> thanks for having me. great to see you, dana. chelsea is saying she might run. a police raid with hundreds of people arrested and taken into custody all at the same time. we will tell you what the police said they were all doing. >> huge day for college sports. are student athletes really employees? the vote that could have a huge impact across the country. i am so interested to see whau what happens with this next. >> the case has provided the university and its voters with a clear path to become the trail blazer for positive and forward thinking policies.
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>> cock fighting ring busted in florida. hundreds of people were participating and hundreds of people arrested, dozens of drugs, firearms and does of roosters in cages. quite a party going on. all of that con taken away we are waiting for a vote on the football players deciding if they will unite and join a union. it is labor that battle that is drawing intense scrutiny because there could be effects for school and some thinking it
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could be the demise of the ncaa. they ruled that players on scholarships are employees. what can this cause? >> it can cause so many consequen consequences that i don't know if the people that ruled on this understands. if the guy fumbles the ball on saturday, can he be fired on sunday night? and who is going to tax the scholarships. they will owe state and federal tax. in addition, there is so many unintented consequences of this. the ncaa is slow to reform. they are slow to respond. their rules need to change. and they are trying but they waited 30 years too long
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>> how do they make the leap because they get money for study they are employed? >> they are bringing in so much money for the ncaa basketball tournament and football games and because they are bringing in so much revenue it is billions of dollars that the television networks are spending on this. and everybody is allowed to touch it. the coaches, the sneaker companies are profiteering. there are so many people getting money besides the people that make it possible and that is the players. a lot of these people going to school are not student athletes, they are athlete students trying dream of the nba and nfl. the fact that is not possible doesn't come into consideration because they are generating so much. >> and the players, some say they go hungry at night.
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it is multibillion dollar business when you have these kids out there. shouldn't they or should they benefit in the incredible honey pot see we the universities benefit from? >> the head of the ncaa spoke extensively at the last tournament. he wants to reform. the members have to go along with this. they will give unlimited meals after the comment. that should have happened a long ago. >> we are talking about billions -- >> if you cannot afford a pizza -- >> given meals? they are making billions >> and they will change some of the safety concerns, the health concerns, academic tutoring. if you go to school and play football and don't complete your education you should be allowed
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to go back after chasing your dreams. the time when the education isn't as an important they can have it later on. >> 76 of the wild cats are voting. we will see how it goes. >> why george cloney got into words with a casino mogul >> and thousands of irs workers don't pay taxes, violate the law, and they still get a bonus. >> it is sickening. you have about a hundred thousand federal workers who owe a billion in back taxes. the argument is we should not fire them because we cannot collect money because they'll not have the income. that drives me newtowns. that drives me newtowns.
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we have been telling you about the raids, the drone attacks in yemen. on official is telling us that they have been conducted against several al qaeda hideouts including more raids that happened today. they have information, they say, that very dangerous targets have been hit. they didn't refer to these hits as high value targets. there was talk the bomb maker
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might have been among the people targeted. but so far it is dangerous individuals have been taken out. you remember the video that surfaced earlier this week that was the likes of what we have not seen since 2012 in terms of the ability to identify. sources telling catherine heritage in washington they have become too relax and that allowed the strikes to take place. did you pay your taxes? if you didn't, does the irs give you money? that is what is happening with irs employees. benefiting for those that fall down on the job. a watch group says between october 2010-november 2012
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employees received $2.8 billion in bonuses and more than 11,000 those didn't pay taxes. a senator is here that is sponsoring a bill that is saying if irs members don't pay taxes they should be fired immediately. what is going on here? >> 69% of the workers got a bonus. americans are scrambling to figure out how to deal with obamacare and hurting at home and these people are getting bonuses. even the most nefarious of characters are getting bonuses. it is so wrong. >> i think most americans would never expect that you get a bonus working for the federal government or the irs.
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what is this bonus? to get more performance? why do they do that? >> they had 300 people involved in travel card scandal. those people got businesses. when you hand out bonuses to 69% of your employees it is wrong. i introduced a bill that passed in the 112th congress that said the irs and other agencies wouldn't hire someone if they had delin taxes and if they do have that and are working there they should be fired. what does it take? we keep handing out the bonuses in washington, d.c. it is city of no consequences. it goes in the totally wrong
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direction. the uniounions are putting pres to put the bonuses out there but we are fighting against it. >> what happened to the bill? >> in the 112th congress it passed. and harry reid, being harry reid, never took it up. that is why i want to make him my minority leader. we brought it up in the 113th congress but dozen of democrats bailed on the bill. i talk today chairman isa and i hope to bring it up again. we will have to tighten up the language about the bonuses. you are taking money from somebody's pocket, pulling it out and giving it to somebody else. should you give it to someone who hasn't paid taxes and has disciplinary action?
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>> $92 million in 2011. $86 million in 2012. anybody gone through all of the federal agencies to see about the amount of bonus money that is going out there? >> at the irs, they gave out 460,000 hours of free time off. what is shocking -- >> say that again. how many hours? >> 460,000 of additional time off. and the irs statistically is the best agency in the federal government. if you look at it government-wide, there are more than a 100,000 federal workers who didn't pay about a billion in taxes and they are paid by the taxpayers. >> up to you, what happened happen to those 100,000 that owe us money? >> if you are on the trojectory to make the call and pay it off. nothing is going to happen to
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you. but if you continue to thumb your nose at the american people they should be fired. there are too many good americans who want to do the right thing. fire them. don't hire them in the first place. and don't give money to the contractors. contractors who have not paid federal taxes are getting contracts. we give contracts to people who are not paying taxes >> some people run into financial hardship and you can deal with that but this is astounding. especially with the agency considering what they do. good to see you. thanks so much. this is the talk of the day. a verbal smackdown between george cloney and steve win. they were having a dinner and the conversation turned to
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president obama and the affordable care act. win was spoking at cloony trying to get him going knowing he is a fan of the president. he referred to the president as a certain body part and cloony called him the same thing and it ended with cloony storming off and leaving the dinner. the husband of beautiful cindy crawford was there. >> look what happens when you are one of the beautiful people. >> it is so rough. >> good think i am not one. have you heard about this? two poems ascending to statehood on the same day. why at the vatican will be like no other sunday that has come before. >> good transition from las
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pope franc we are back and this sunday for the first time history two popes will be canyonized on the same day and millions of people are expect today flood in the vatican city. john xxiii on the right and pope john paul ii on the left. pope john xxiii who was the youngest pope since 1670. he restored the vatican counsel in 1962 and called for peace
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during the cuban missile crisis. and pope john paul ii made his first visitt to america in 1979 and what a huge welcome and response he received. he went to yankee and chase stadium. many call pope john paul ii the great for inspiring millions of catholics. he was the longest serving pope and the first non-italian pope in 450 years and he is the holding the record for the fastest saint to be cannonized. he met with reagan, and thatcher and helped with the cold war. john moody has written about him extensively and he is the executive president and editoro. thank you have being with us.
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tell everybody why now and why doing this at this moment? >> pope francis the current occupant knows there are two wings. one is a more liberal wing and that is affiliated with john xxiii who tried the modernize the church. pope john paul tried to turn that around. he is taking the two popes that represent the different end of the spectrum and push them together and solidify the church. >> there is a lot of talk about that and recent history that needs to be dealt with the the catholic state. a lot of people look at these individuals saying what makes them a saint?
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>> they lived their life the way god wanted. a lot the bitterness is from people that couldn't make it at catholics. >> in terms of the miracles and the test and the vatican council is what pope francis determined was the secretary miracle of john xxiii. tell us about that? >> the vatican council he called was a complete surprise. he has a surprising a figure in church history as the current pope has been in his rein. john believed the church was falling dangerously behind the times and not able to interact with the real world. and of course, he had the cuban missile crisis, the cold war to worry about, he had many other modern-day problems that church doctrine was equipped to handle.
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he brought together the cardinals and bishops and said we have to look at what is going on around us and respond. >> millions of people pouring into the vatican. and this pope has been effortly faceting public relations. it appears effortless to him to send visual messages that are so powerful. what do you expect to happen on sunday? >> it might be an anti-climax for some people. this is a formal recognition of two people who lived their right way. i don't expect the clouds to part or hit the light at
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different people. this is pope francis. he is canny how he does events like this. john xxiii was the pope francis of the 21st century. someone asked him holy father how many people work at the vatican and he said about half of them. pope francis has the same common touch. and john paul the second was supporters were shouting make him a saint at his funeral. it will be very interesting. >> you can watch all of the coverage live on this sunday. it picks up bright and early at 4 a.m. you have to get up at 4 a.m. if you want to watch it live. it will be something special.
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we will look at the speech hilary clinton gave in boston that is raising eyebrows. and the developments happening in eastern ukraine. >> as a reminder, you can see on the bottom of the strong there is changing. "happening now" airs at 11 on monday and it will be back >> you will pay taxes to the state of illinois and that money will come back and create a huge amount of tourism, visitors and economic development and you will make that money and more back as a city. >> hawaii where the president sent a good part of his childhood and his family goes every christmas for vacation is expected to be a contender and new york may make a push >> what are republicans saying in illinois about the mayors
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wanting to use public funding? >> they say if hit helps the south side of the city but they don't think illinois can afford it. >> this isn't about not wanting the obama library. my wife and i would be the first to donate to a foundation that helps this. the history is we have always have private funds to build this. and now in illinois they want to put $100 million into something that is a want not a need. >> reporter: republicans say let the president and his team, prolific fundraisers, do it with private money. a highjack scare forced an emergency landing in indonesia. what happened when a passenger tried to force his way into the
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engineers at nissan say they have the first self-cleansing car. using high-tech paint that repels water and oil. the won't, could be available in the after-market. watching all that go over windshield. eric. great to have you here. have a good weekend. "happening now" starts right now. bye-bye. jenna: our to story this friday, the obama administration is getting ready to pick up the pieces of oregon's broken health care exchange. hope you're off to a great day so far. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. this comes after federal officials say several state-run marketplaces may be too defective. here is the commercial for the cover oregon website. that was supposed to get folks all excited about signing up for health care coverage in that state. originally, oregon embraced obamacare. but after more than six months and $300 million of taxpayer money
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