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they will all be back as older versions of their original roles and some new faces as well. this picture you're looking at, this was taken from the first cable read with director jj abrams. bill: you dressed up as fences leah one year. heather: not last week. bill: can't wait to see a picture of that. we have to run, "happening now" starts right now. have a great day. ♪ jenna: we start with brand-new polling on the president, his foreign-policy and obamacare. jon: president obama getting slightly better marks on job performance with a new "wall street journal" poll showing 44% of those surveyed approve of job performance by the president. more still disapprove at 50%. a slight uptick of the record low of 41% last month.
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there are other trouble spots. we say, david, it is an uptick. it is kind of inside the margin of error. the president is tied as sort of his lowest in terms of job approval ratings as president. >> i don't think because of a three-point uptick, which is the margin of error, you will the democratic candidates flocking to the president. i don't see a huge shift on the issues. he is still in the 30s, foreign affairs not doing very well either. looks, he will probably be in the 40s all the way up until november. unless something drastic, world event changes that. the difference between 41-44% i
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don't think, it is very disheartening as a democrat. jon: obamacare remains unpopular. 46% say the thing is a bad idea, 36% saying it is a good one. how does the president change that perception? >> i think it is very difficult, that is the fallacy behind the democratic and liberal arguments. we will run on obamacare. not in the senate races i am watching. you don't see mark prior or others wrapping their hands around obamacare doing tours around the state focusing on obamacare. i think this is why when 36% of voters approve of that, and that is an uptick, this is hitting
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better, still not a good number and it will be a loser for the democrats. jon: talking about foreign-policy. americans don't elect the president based on foreign policy items, but only 38% approve of the president's foreign-policy moves, 53% is approved, those are the lowest numbers also the presidency. >> 47% want the country to pull back from foreign affairs, which is striking to me because republican argument against obama is he has not been active enough, has not done enough with an active role in the ukraine crisis. americans are saying they don't necessarily agree with that approach either. what is rooted in the tough
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number on foreign-policy is a mix. some people say he is too involved in foreign affairs not focused enough on the economy because headlines coming out overseas talking about russia, and some people saying get out, we don't want to be involved at all. that talks about rand paul's popularity within the party. jon: is it that reflected in the domestic economic situation? when people are feeling like the economy is not going their direction like the opportunity to get jobs are not there, the united states interest entanglement if you will in other nation affairs is of a whole lot less interest. >> there is some bleed over, on an asian tour just over the last week, when i see him talking about and focusing on issues that aren't their primary
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concern, bread and butter kitchen table issues, they say why isn't the focus over here on our jobs, on our economy, on wages and stagnation on that front. the president has to be able to handle multiple arenas at one time. of course there is bleed over from one sector of the polls to the other. jon: david, thank you for your insight. our live chat is up and running. recent polling shows president obama losing ground among the millennial generation. can the g.o.p. captured this key voting block? go to foxnews.com/happening now and click on america's asking. jenna: one of our other big stories of the day. a huge problem from florida to
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upstate new york following a deadly tornado up break criminalize of 35 people. live in alabama with the latest for us from there. jonathan. reporter: many residents had feared a wave of the destructive tornadoes that came through this area on monday, but instead heavy wind, the issue now is heavy rain. this video from closer to the coast there has been flooding in the low-lying areas of coastal alabama straining people in their homes and vehicles making some streets impassable crating a nightmare for first responde responders. county authorities are concerned about the foundation of bridges over swollen rivers and streams because of the rushing trend. governor rick scott declared a state of emergency and 26 florida counties to support the emergency response. listen.
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>> earlier this morning we had 32,000 homes without power. at 5:00 a.m. reason i found out 28,000 who had evacuations, 211 of those vanquished honored happened. we are continuing to get request for things and we will continue to make sure they get the help they need. reporter: back in tuscaloosa, mourning the loss of a champion swim team member. seeking shelter in the basement of a local home during the tomato when a retaining wall collapsed on him. he was named to the sec academic honor roll. also other stories of survival and help. many of the people and the cruise have come from maryland and other states throughout the region to help people with the recovery effort, and looking at
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the mobile home, the family here survived because whe we tornado warnings were issued, they sought shelter at a local hospital. back to you, jenna. jenna: what a blessing. encouraging whether developments. thank you. jon: it was an execution at did not go as planned and oklahoma. no information on it now. a drug cocktail left this inmate on a gurney shaking uncontrollably. even though the execution was stopped after the first drug was given the inmate died of a massive heart attack less than an hour later. the first time oklahoma use this particular combination of drugs. we're joined now live from los angeles. what went wrong, have they figured it out?
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>> you mentioned the new drug combination, a three drug combination. oklahoma was using the first drug. that was something being looked at as well. basically what happens is the first drug is used knocking the patient unconscious. the second drug paralyzes them and the third drug stops the heart. in the second and third drug being put into this patient when all of this seems to go south. they put the curtain down because the patient was unconscious, but there was obviously some major issues happening there eventually he would die of a heart attack. here is how the state explained it. >> there was some concern the drugs were not having the effects, so the doctor
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determined the line had been crossed. reporter: the inmate being put to death eventually died of a heart attack 38 years old, being put to death for shooting and raping an 18-year-old girl and watching accomplices bury her alive. jon: so is this case in any way affecting the death penalty there? >> absolutely. if you go online, following the debate as we have, california has put death row inmates on hold, the execution on hold because of the controversy over using a three drug combination. others have gone to a one drug usage. lot of the drugmakers are based in europe against the death penalty, they do not want the drugs to be used for that, lots of states don't divulge where they get the supplies so it is stoking a lot of controversy as you might imagine. the second inmate supposed to be
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executed last night a two-week stay for him, as the governor and everybody looks at what happened here and tries to come to some sort of conclusion of what should take place now. aclu and many others are using this to basically bolster their argument. jon: at them, thank you. jenna: new details in a lawsuit against two men with the university students before she disappeared after a night of partying never to be found. and the latest on a new paper trail exposing information on the 9/11 benghazi attack that left four americans dead. ♪
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james holmes defense attorneys of deliberately publicizing his offer to plead guilty in exchange for life sentence in order to sway potential jurors. under colorado law, single juror is enough to block execution to making a plea offer public could help homes lawyers find a juror who would refuse to impose the death penalty knowing the accused massacre shooter had been willing to plead guilty did a may 2015 trial date filed by the parents against a man last seen with her on the night she disappeared. the indiana university student from new york who went missing in june of 2011. he said i did it, just arrest me. a fatal knife attack on the high school student sanchez. arraigned and charged with the murder, prosecuted in a court and not as a juvenile. if convicted, he could face up
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to 60 years in prison. jenna: more on the benghazi revelations on e-mails exposing senior white house advisor urged susan rice to focus on the youtube video during her appearances on sunday night news programs after the attack. what are we learning about today? >> the e-mail was provided to congress, but all of the names were redacted so there was no way to know who wrote it, and the president's communication advisor empathized the video should be blamed for the attacks, not a broader policy failure. the administration consistently portrayed the attack as old news and there was nothing new to say, but the house government oversight committee has recently received thousands of e-mails and multiple subpoenas are outstanding.
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>> we have roughly 3200 new documents in just the last 30 days. the white house has been telling the white house press corps this happened a long time ago, we have given them all this information. 3200 new documents in the last 30 days. >> the documents show the most senior levels of the white house it was intense interest in the reporting of fox news of benghazi. strategic administrations advisor and then deputy cia director michael morel. a fox news report that said u.s. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours it was a terrorism attack and this one incomplete conflict with the narrative given out by the white house.
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they reinforce the message by the leadership on the night of the attack. at 10:00 p.m. on september 11, 2012, when the attack is not even over and the cia annex was still threatened, mrs. clinton's office issued a press statement reading in part we condemn the attack on a mission in benghazi. they have it as a response or inflammatory material posted on the internet. but me be clear, there is never any justification for violent acts of this kind. we don't know if the e-mail was following the state department's lead or vice versa. the administration has never offered the specific intelligence was that asked them to connect the video to benghazi. jenna: the timing of it all is significant. thank you.
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jon: in the meantime have a clinton's replacement, secretary of state john kerry weighing in on escorting crisis in ukraine. why he says russia's role is being driven solely by president vladimir putin. and new information on the amanda knox case. what a court is saying about the night of the murder. the role knox played in the death. if i told you that a free ten-second test
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now you could have done it twice. this is awkward. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. jenna: zakaria state john kerry: the crisis a wake-up call and reiterating one man and one man only is to blame. vladimir putin. >> what russia's actions in ukraine tell us is that today is putin's russia is playing by different set of rules.
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the destabilization of eastern ukraine, russia seeks to change the security landscape of eastern and central europe. jenna: reports made during the one-on-one interview, the guest comedians the now. i am struck by the first line in your column saying secretary kerry grasping for words. why does it seem kerry is grasping for words? >> i think it is kind of astonishing to him and the rest of the world in some ways this seems to be vladimir putin policy as opposed to russian national policy. i think the extent to which the russian president seems to be driving personally to secretary john kerry. whether it reaches the point it
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is counterproductive for russia but he pushes ahead anyway. this is certainly harmful to ukraine, on the edge of being harmful to the russian people because of the economic pain they are going to endure. how do you explain that? jenna: that is interesting part where you almost sense as a reader he felt sorry through all of this. i wonder how that might be impacting our decisions on sanctions, whether to be more aggressive. >> i think it was more in the context where close to having to go much further on sanctions, that will hurt the russian people. i simply individuals or single firms. he says were inches away from that. that is the one that has water
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impact inside russia. i don't think it was a sense we cannot go there, it is where close to having to go there, that will create greater harm inside russia. he seems determined to do it. what of the european allies willing to do. it lies in the impact in europe and unwillingness of some european allies to go along with us. jenna: an interesting comment was raised today saying we now live in a world of webs rather than a world of walls like we did during the cold war. his point was if we start raising these sanctions and be more aggressive, we could be impacted in a negative way. what you think of the calculation of that, did he discuss what the impact could be
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on the united states if we are more aggressive with russia? >> it is an interconnected global economy more than 20 or 30 years ago. that is one of the problems. european economies more connected to the russian economy than the american economy is. that doesn't mean we are disconnected. there's a price to be paid on both sides of this transaction. what if vladimir putin play next to absorb pain is greater than a willingness to absorb pain on those opposed to sanctions, where will that leave us? we may discover the answer to that question. jenna: it goes back to how one man is setting one policy for entire nation. some may suggest one man does set a foreign-policy. our desire to be involved in a
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crisis, debates we what the "wall street journal" nbc news poll said was in a change for fm the past decade half of those surveyed want to be less active on the global stage. do you think that is a reaction to our leaders and what they are saying in terms of foreign policy, or we are leading the leaders so to say in that emotion. >> there's a little bit of a schizophrenic element to say they are in a retrenchment mode. they're also critical of the administration for president obama not leading or stomach. i don't want to get involved in engagements overseas. that's the difficulty if you are policymaker how do you reconcile those impulses or do you ignore them and move ahead?
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jenna: you talk with the cemetery of state on the phone, who do you talk to next week on the phone? that is the big question to leave you with. >> i'm open to suggestions. jon: a group of world war ii veterans finally getting the honor they deserve. why it took 70 years for the award ceremony today. we are live at the pentagon with that. the nba banning clippers owner donald sterling for life after his comments were leaks. reaction to the punishment and why this scandal shows technology could be making privacy a thing of the past. we will go in depth. avo: wherever your journey takes you the expedia app helps you save with mobile-exclusive deals
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jenna: a good lesson it is never too late. a group of world war ii veterans got the recognition he deserves with the pentagon just awarding the prisoner of war medal. more than 70 years after they were shot down while fighting hitler's forces. they were initially denied status because they crash landed in switzerland, and neutral country. live at the pentagon with more on this incredible story. >> there was not a dry eye in the auditorium. the chief of staff could even
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get through remarks without breaking up. it was quite a ceremony. the bomber planes were shot down by german gunfire landing them until what was concentration camps in neutral switzerland. they refused to honor the lieutenant and these american heroes with a prisoner of war medal. false u.s. military reports suggested the aviators were deserters trying to delay further comment by landing their planes in neutral switzerland. among the remaining eight survivors all in their 90s honored by the air force given these long overdue pow medals at the pentagon moments ago. he escaped from the prison camp run by not see sympathizing swiss guards were servicemen were started for us to live in
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center ignitions. >> these survivors preyed on a fallen comrades rarely seemed to recommends and was ousted these men have that courage. >> their stories never would have been known without the tireless work of one of the imprisoned aviators grandson. a war hero himself, west point historian whose grandfather was held at the swiss camp. a 15 year fight and finally rectified last year by congress when they reversed a law that had said pow medals could not be given to those who were held in a neutral country. congress passed that law part of the national defense authorization act.
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150 lost pows were honored today moments ago. it was a tireless and relentless pursuit of justice by a grandson that caused this day to happen and these medals finally to be given to these incredible pows. jenna: you have interviews with some of these recipients that we will see a little later today? >> that's right, at 6:00 p.m. >> wonder how this was for them. thank you so much. jon: very much deserved. threaction to the nba decision n l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. the harshest penalty ever issued by the league with the commissioner banning sterling by life all in response to the racially charged comments and the scandal highlights the new age of almost no privacy. technology like smart phones lowing customers to tape conversations almost anywhere.
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so interesting, his actual wife had filed a lawsuit last month against the woman at the center of all of this, and it appears this may have been some sort of revenge from stiviano. >> stiviano recorded don sterling. the thing about don sterling, it has been long known this guy is a racist. a slumlord who would not allow blacks. it took a recording for the nba to act, for everybody to learn who this guy really is and a pattern i am seeing. look at the two biggest stories this week. he was secretly recorded over at "the daily beast." all they care about is what he
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said, so they show no conversation is private. jon: it would have been illegal under california law because you have to notify the other person you are recording. >> you know you are recording it. let's look back at history. this is happening more and more because of smart phones because you can record anything at any time. mitt romney, secretly recorded, if that doesn't happen, are we looking at president romney considering that really put him in a hole he could not get out of? we are seeing it in social media as well. we could have mayor carlos danger. he gets in trouble because of twitter and instant gratification. a p.r. executive going to africa and said going to africa, hope i don't get aids, just kidding, i'm white. when she landed she was
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ridiculed, fired and has not worked since. jon: in the book about the 2008 election. >> "game change." the president had a negro dialect he could just turn on and off. harry reid only apologized for two years later after the book came out, but do we see the backlash with donald sterling? no. an analyst for espn where was all the outrage over harry reid? jon: why is there the selective outrage? >> sums it could be bias, senate majority leader, maybe he gets to get away with it because the party he belongs to. i can't answer that question. jon: maybe looking for more research. this whole conversation has been recorded.
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i hope i did not say anything defamatory. jenna: i can vouch for john that he tweaks responsibly so they can follow him no problem. we will have to check that out. we will also have to check out what is ahead at the top of the hour. >> it is day three fo four outnumbered. who is the man in the hot seat? you are just going to have to wait and see. we will be talking about the fluttering economy and an unlikely culprit. young boys. >> plus the new trend of students selling themselves to pay for college. men are being glorified for doing it. women are ostracized. is that fair? >> lipsticks, eyeliner and blush.
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every girl has to have it, but we will tell you why less could be more. >> "outnumbered" starts at the top of the hour. join us. >> and apparently now the wounds reveal about her murder. and the latest conviction, explosive details from italian court documents. our panel coming up on that. how to increase tornado warnings from minutes to an hour. we have that technology coming up.
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jenna: some new details release explaining the amanda knox guilty verdict. 337 page t timecard report says amanda knox slashed her roommate's throat with a knife and had help from two assailants that restrained and also stabbed the victim. the report was written before the january conviction of amanda knox and her boyfriend. defense lawyers have 90 days to appeal to italy's high court,
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but taking our first look at the report, i want to talk about it with experts. doctor, let's go to you first because there are some interesting references to some new forensic in this case, what strikes you most? >> the indication is there are some finger marks on the body, there is evidence to people were holding her at the time of the stabbing and cutting of her neck, two or more knives used to indicate they are interpreting two or more people involved in the stabbing. that is persuasive in the italian court. that in itself isn't persuasive that they are necessarily more than one person.
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one of the interesting things is the motives presented are not sexual assault gone awry, but it was because the decedent accused amanda knox of stealing money from her. jenna: that is what i want to talk about with the attorney. what do you think of that? that is new information, they were having some sort of argument about money the night of the murder. >> in addition to having different verdicts for the conviction and acquittal, you have different theories in the case. now they are saying this history of fighting that escalated. talked about the different rulings about the dna evidence. the appellate court said it wasn't, now this court is saying it is something that should be relied upon for a guilty verdict. jenna: one of the things we don't have in the introduction of the nice theories that we don't have the other knife that
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the judge says is key to this case, how does that impact the case? >> i think it impacts whether or not she will be extradited. we get into this double jeopardy and if it applies because of the system, but if you are introducing new evidence, new dna evidence, you are making into a new trial. >> the dna evidence has been controversial in this case, in the case of the knife they do have, the dna that is tied to meredith is too small to even tested how reliable are they? >> there are problems with the dna in italy, but the presence of dna can develop a relationship, but it doesn't mean she wasn't present at the scene. one of the problems is in part
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italian judicial system handles homicides in different ways than the u.s. the people in italy feel she is guilty, that will be very interesting for the extradition treaty with italy. >> is it because of the double jeopardy? >> the people in italy, lot of europe believe she is guilty and believe she has to be dropped back. at the same time here in america she has public opinions behind her, they will fight against the state department agreeing to activate her. it will be a real political issue as well as legal. jenna: again in this report the judge says amanda knox is the one who delivered the fatal blow. yet the evidence for that one wonders where it has been for the last several years.
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>> it is hard to see what evidence it is based on. it is also different than the prosecution theory. extradition is going to be very difficult issue to resolve. the question if they ask for it, the legal question of the justice department can extradite her if they try. >> does that give credence to the possibility she is extradited? >> you talked about it, it is unfair. we can deny extradition if it is an unfair process. it is more likely to argue double jeopardy. when you introduce new evidence. >> answers in this case are still not there. great to see you. great to have your expertise as well. jon: a fascinating case to cover. a broad section of the country continues to recover from a line
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comcast business built for business. jenna: a line of powerful storms leaves a trail of deadly destruction across the country, we wanted to highlight how some critic minds are looking to increase the warnings of such storms to an hour rather than minutes. aerospace and engineering professor at oklahoma state university and right now the average warning on the ground for tornado coming is just 14 minutes. you say you're looking at a way to increase this to an hour. how so? >> we would like to use unmanned aircraft to search for an early fingerprint of what the super cell is going to produce, and
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how do we know one storm will produce a tornado when another will not. jenna: so you are building drones that you fly up into the tornado. how would it work? >> the goal is to provide data what happens before a tornado developed. less about what the tornado is doing and more about what the meteorological and thermodynamic parameters of a super storm form that help form the tornado or cyclone. as part of that storm. jenna: i am imagining "the wizard of oz" mentality going into it like storm chasers try to do to get to the center of it. you say you want the early warning signs to give people a real heads up. >> that is the goal of noah. if they can get through a network of ground base for most
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systems to unmanned aircraft this can actually happen. jenna: how safe is it? if you send something up into the sky, how sure are you it will not get caught in the storm and the ripped apart or cause damage itself? >> that is why we want to use unmanned aircraft. the aircraft is going to experience strong straight lined wind, perhaps even lightning. this has been done before. a group of scientists that flew through a downdraft in 2010. they demonstrated this can be done. jenna: how close are we to getting the longer warning signs? >> this could happen. if we are able to develop this system. jenna: a little heads up is always helpful. being in oklahoma. we look forward to having you back and looking forward to your
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research as it develops. thank you. >> thank you very much be at jon: now that george clooney is heading down the aisle, another bachelor back on the market. we are talking prince harry. he has called it quits with his girlfriend of two years. >> prince harry and his girlfriend have broken up but remain friends according to sources who tell the magazine this is an amicable decision and they're still the best of friends but have decided to go their separate ways. the couple dated for nearly two years recently even speculation she might be headed toward an engagement. no dice. a sad end to the life of bob hopkins. famous for his roles in mona lisa and who framed roger rabbit. he passed away after suffering from pneumonia. he leaves behind a wife and four children. they say we are devastated by the loss of the loved bob.
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john. jon: he was great. >> and four children he leaves behind. jon: julie, thank you. >> sure be at jenna: new stories we are bringing you in the second hour of "happening now." a second suspect charged in a strange and mysterious disappearance. our authorities in a closer to finding out what happened to this young nursing students? and we will talk to one man who says the g.o.p. follows the plan of ronald reagan, the party is a shoo-in for the white house in 2016. coming up at 1:00 p.m. vo: once upon a time
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to participate in the chat or you can tweet me. jon: that's right. we will see you back here in one hour. jenna: "outnumbered" starts right now. ♪ >> welcome, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i am sandra smith. phase hashtag, one lucky guy back by popular demand. we got a lot of remarks to cheerleading. back to talk with you, save it. we wants to talk to you about it. hold that thought. the reaction on benghazi from furious lawmakers as explosive whiteout
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