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coming up. and democrat senator weighing in on whether the u.s. is doing enough to stop the escalating situation in ukraine. we will also discuss another delay in the keystone pipeline project and the view senators take in the war on coal. "america's news headquarters" starts live right now. we begin with new information regarding the deadly attack in benghazi that killed four americans. speaker of the house john boehner announcing the house will vote on whether to empanel a select committee, but today some democrats are saying they don't want any part of it. fox news has more on what's next. steve. >> hi, shannon. republicans are pushing hard to get answers from the whies on why it says the benghazi violence demonstration was over an anti-muslim video when in

fact it was a terror attack. four americans killed in that attack. house speaker john boehner as you said now calling for a select committee to investigate further. in light of that newly released white house memo some are calling a smoking gun, and republicans say they have plenty of other evidence. >> i have a document in my hands an internal state department document that goes to sheryl mills, hillary clinton's chief of staff, this is on september 12th. the state department had told the president of the libyan congress that it was a terrorist organization that had committed these attacks. so why is it we've told the libyans the truth and told the american people a lie? that's really at the heart of that. >> and senator lindsey graham saying what we saw was not the fraught of war but political smoke screen. and saying they've had enough -- they're not anxious to see yet another one.

>> i think it's a colossal waste of time. we've had four bipartisan investigations of this already. i think it's just a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources. so i hope the speaker will reconsider, but it looks like he has bowed again to those from the farthest right of his conference. >> latest hearing of the diversion, a sub tri fuj. >> joining us to talk about all this is congressman john micah of florida who sits on the house oversight committee. republican congressman, micah, thank you for joining us today. >> good to be with you. >> we know this goes to the house to decide on moving forward with the select committee. i want to play a little bit of what one of your counterparts across the aisle had to say this morning. this is democrat adam schiff on his take on whether or not democrats should get involved. >> i don't think it makes sense really for democrats to participate. i think it's just a tremendous

red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources. so i hope the speaker will reconsider. >> congressman, your response? >> well, if i was a democrat, i might be saying the same thing with the roads memo, which has come out and other evidence that's come out. i'm the senior member of the committee, and all of my time in congress and on that committee i've never seen stonewalling or waltzing around the committees of congress. we have had four committees looking at this. we have stacks of information that they gave us. we've subpoenaed information. and then a private group, judicial watch, gets information which of course everyone's referring to now as the smoking gun which connects this to the white house. a private group under a foyer of freedom of information act gets information that we've been asking for and been denied. so i think with frustration as

speaker boehner and everyone on our side this is a stonewalling. and we've got to have some focus and attention to get to the bottom of it, which we have not been able to do with the four committees. >> okay. you have heard the statements in response from senate majority leader harry reid to officials at the white house at the state department saying this is a colossal waste of taxpayer money, that it's been investigated, that republicans haven't gotten the answers they wanted and so now the select committee. how do you respond to that? and do you think this committee as it moves forward will have powers that will enable it to get to things you haven't gotten to yet? will it make a difference? >> well, initially i'd hoped our committee process could do this, but it's obvious, again, an unprecedented stonewalling keeping information from committees of congress. and then we see surfacing through a private group the revelation that indeed the white house was involved, indeed this

was orchestrated. i know the democrats would like to close it down. they've been trying to close it down, but we had four americans including an ambassador, officials, murdered. what irritates me too is not one of the people responsible, and we have videotapes, we have media interviews of some of the perpetrators, the murderers, they haven't been brought to justice. neither have we gotten the true facts and information about pre-election, national election cover-up, which is pretty apparent right now, nor have the perpetrators of this horrendous act against americans been brought to justice. >> okay. i want to give you another chance to respond to something else bubbling here in washington. democrats say this will actually be a win for them in the end, that it makes it look like republicans are obsessed while they, senate majority leader harry reid, said we're going to continue to focus on economic

growth while republicans go on witch hunts. how do you respond to that criticism and any chance that it winds up backfiring on republicans? >> well, again, they've had a horrible couple of days here with the revelation of the rhodes memo and some other information that has come to light. you have a candidate who wants to be president and someone who is president and they were responsible. and it appears now that at least some of those that were murdered in the attacks could have been saved. no one responded. they don't want the information to come out. it's very embarrassing both for, again, possibly their nominee and also for the president and for their leadership. and today, as i said, even more offensive is we haven't gone after the murderers. so we should thoroughly investigate what went wrong, who

was responsible, hold peopleand. that's very important. >> well, senator -- excuse me, congressman, we continue to hear your name may be in the next for chair in this committee. and there are family members of those four dead americans who say they still don't have the answers that they want. we hope that as things continue on the hill they'll be bipartisan cooperation in getting answers for those families. congressman mica, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. that's what we need to do. thank you. your turn at home. if democrats do refuse to participate in the benghazi select committee, who wins, who loses? we want to know what you think. tweet us and we will read some of your tweets later on in the show. always want to hear your opinions. and tonight we invite you to join fox news for a special program taking a closer look at all the latest developments, benghazi, white house cover-up revealed, the administration explanations of who knew what and when they knew it as well as how the white house story is

beginning to unravel as new evidence comes to light. that's coming up tonight right here at 9:00 eastern. we hope you'll join us. ten people have died in the ukrainian port city according to a report from russian state television. all of this happening as ukraine's prime minister is trying to diffuse tensions in his country. joining us live now from ukraine is leland vit ert. >> reporter: hi, shannon. right now the violence is continuing down southwest of here by about 500 miles in that key port city. the significance of that is just how far this pro-russian insurgency and separatist movement has traveled since it began here. go ahead and take a look at the video right now. we have some pro-russian separatists trying to storm a local police station to get their comrades released. they were arrested after that deadly night of violence back on

friday that ended with more than 40 people dead. the ukrainian police did back down and ended up releasing a number of those pro-russian separatists. we're also hearing groups of pro-ukrainian supporters are now taking the streets for what could be another long and violent confrontation. ukrainian prime minister meantime is squarely blaming the russians and their intelligence services for beginning to instigate this violence now in the port city of odessa. obviously the ukrainians have long said it's the russians behind the insurgency that's seen militias take over a number of buildings all throughout eastern ukraine in a number of cities where they are dug in. yesterday the ukrainian military moved in to one of those cities. and today they ended up withdrawing their armored personnel carriers. they are outgunned and seems as though they were outmaneuvered as well. look at the numbers in the ten days since the ukrainians launched their operation, the

ukrainians have taken back three significant buildings from the pro-russian separatists. the pro-russian separatists have taken over 20 additional buildings. when you talk about buildings, it seems a very micro view here of what's going on. take this to the macro view of the united states backing ukraine, moscow backing the russian separatists, considering these numbers here the ukrainians have between 6,000 and 10,000 battle-ready troops. that's according to to military analysts who say those will be meeting the russians here if they decide to invade. the russians have threatened to invade. and, shannon, they have 40,000 plus troops well armed, equipped, just waiting on the border to invade. those are not good odds for the ukrainians if the russians get the order. >> certainly an imbalance in power and resources there. leland, thank you very much. well, nato supreme ally commander phillip breedlove briefed members of the house and armed services committees this

week about what is going on in ukraine and future russian troop movement. one of the senators in that briefing joins us life. senator joe manchin, good to see you. >> good to be with you today. >> based on what you know, what are your concerns? >> outside of our country that's the hottest thing we have right now is ukraine. and democrats and republicans should be united on this. ukraine's got to have the will to fight. we have to have the will to support them. nato has to have the will to come together also. and then basically our nato allies right there are very concerned. and we've got to show them to support bar none we're going to be there for them, work with them and fight with them if we need. from that standpoint we don't want to be drawn into this thing. ukraine's a very, very -- it's a very delicate situation since basically ukraine is not a member of nato and we don't have the same jurisdiction or same powers or same agreements. with that being said, they need all the help they can to get rid

of -- make no mistake about it, russian influence. the russian-orchestrated, if you will, rebels, whatever you want to call them tharks are well-trained and well-disciplined doing what they're doing. and we've got to be willing to stand behind ukraine to help them do what they need to do to get rid of this insurgency. does that promote russia moving their troops in? i would hope russia would think twice before doing that. >> let me ask you, a number of your republican colleagues have put together the russian aggression prevention act of 2014 to strengthen nato, new rounds of sanctions, do things like force the president to move forward with missile defense in europe which was tabled essentially. could you support something like that? what do you think is the right move? >> absolutely. we all need to find out how -- sanctions are by far the best way for us to go. by far. because nobody wins in these land wars, if you will. and we've proven it's not something we have an appetite for. with that being said we know that sanctions do work. they worked in iran, we doubled

down in iran and made them tighter. i think that will happen. can we force russia to come to their senses because economically they can't stand what we can do to them? can we go after their energy market, which is at the heart of who they are. it's the pulse of what they have going on right now. and they're using that to their advantage. everything and anything that we possibly can do should be done. so, yes, i would work with my republican and democrat colleagues to find the strongest measures we can to curtail this aggression from russia and prevent that. if there's going to be a civil war, it's sometimes hard to prevent a civil war from that standpoint, but if this war is brought on and they want to disguise it as a civil war because of the support influence of russia, then should be reserved for what it is. >> do you think putin has gone so far down this path though that sanctions will or won't get his attention at this point? >> oh, i think sanctions will. any time you get to someone's pocketbook, money is power to them right now. they've been in the press for so

many years and had so much prosperity and some of his friends and supporters, he hadn't done too bad himself. so you look at everything, follow the money as they say. that usually will bring people to their senses, or if they've gone over, they'll be going by themselves, they'll have no support from behind and he'll have to retreat. >> this is international. we want you to stick around. we're going to take a quick break and then we're going to continue our conversation with senator manchin. we'll talk about the stalled keystone pipeline project and the so-called war on coal. later on, one military school fight being blocked from having a charter school they want from being on the base. and a victory for the little guy, a horse with a humble pedigree and a 77-year-old trainer wins the kentucky derby at churchill downs. stay with us. [ male announcer ] hands were made for playing.

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all 45 republican senators plus 11 democrats signed on, still short of the 60 votes it would need to clear a procedural hurdle. one of those senators on board is senator joe manchin. you've been a strong advocate of this. can you corral the 60 votes you need? >> i'm a strong support of having our nation secured energiwienerg energy-wise. we see russia using the strength they have to their benefit. security of energy in the nation such as the united states prevents us from going places in the world that doesn't want us, having to fight and defend in wars we shouldn't be in. so it's a common sense. in west virginia common sense prevails. we can't figure this one out. labor and business, democrats and republicans bipartisans are for it. i know there's a hard group core and i have friends environmentalists but to those friends i would say it's more harm to the environment trying to truck and rail all of that

energy out of that area. it's going down to the refineries anyway. it's much more environmentally friendly to do it through a pipeline. it makes more sense. and why they're not doing it does not make sense to me. can we find four or five or six or more democrats? i would hope so. i would hope that we have that many more that would look at this and say when i go back home i can explain my vote for the keystone pipeline. >> okay. so the white house will say when questions are presented why aren't we moving forward, but it is a state department decision. there have been numerous state department studies. they say they -- the state department now has delayed the comment process on some of this saying it's going to take a little bit longer to make an assessment even though there have been multiple assessments. and a lot of folks say it's tactic tactical, it presses this decision past midterm elections and there are democrats and you may be one, regardless whether or not we don't like the appearance it's tactical and

political, but that's the way a lot of people see it. >> shannon, let me make it very clear. there's no one in this city and no one in congress, 535 of us, that believe that any of these agencies on environmental issues are making their own decisions. this is coming strictly from the white house. whether you agree or not, i respect that. they have the responsibility and the ability to do that. i respect that. i just respectfully disagree. with that being said that's where it lies. if we had the green light from the white house, this would happen. we have put everything that we can into this. last year in march of 2014 we had 62 votes for it. 37 opposed, 62 in favor. i still think that vote is there. i really do. and it makes sense. and we don't want to usurp anyone's power, but if it gives the white house some protection from the environmental community coming after them, sooner or later you've got to give to the will of the people. and we represent the people. this is strong. it's good for our country. it gives us the ability to have

control of that resource. and there's no one refutes that canada being the sovereign nation they're going to produce the oil sands. they're going to produce that. and they have a right to do it. and they have a right to market it anywhere in the world. and there's an appetite around the world that will buy it. shouldn't we have the ability to control that? shouldn't we have the ability to be a player to make our country more secure? to make sure we don't have to go somewhere else looking for oil when we have it with our best friend, our best neighbor. >> there are those watching to wait to get an answer on that. meanwhile a big decision in the supreme court about emissions from power plants. while it came down in favor of the epa, folks say it doesn't matter. the epa was going a different direction as well. the epa and those folks will say we need to protect folks. yes, coal is legitimate and a major supplier of energy this country, you've introduced a bill in the senate and i know

the house counterpart has already passed that would limit the epa's ability to regulate some of these things. how would it work? >> what we're saying is we recognize the epa has the right by court and we recognize it, they have the right to regulate co2, the climate, with that being said don't you believe you should have technology in place to do it? the only thing said it's in the senate right now is this, basically show me six of the best coal-fire burning plant, the cleanest coal fire burning plants in the nation and use that as the standard as what the emission will be. we know we can do it. it's been under commercial for one year. and if you want to drive those emissions down even further, then invest in more technology. here's the thing that they're not really coming to grips with tell the american public, coal is going to be needed as the major driving force of electricity to manufacture energy -- manufacturing for the next two or three decades. if that's the case and the facts

are so, then don't you think you have a right and don't you think you should have a responsibility to do it in the most environmentally fashion way? that can protect the environment, but has a balance between the economy and environment? we've got people, just naysayers, they say are you a denier? i'm not a denier. i think 7 billion people have had a tremendous impact on the environment and we can make it better. i would say are you a denier? you deny that you can go ahead and provide the energy this country needs without coal? you can't do it. if that's the facts, can't we work together? why are you sticking your head in the sand and saying i just don't like it. well, guess what, there are a lot of people that doesn't have affordable, dependable reliable energy that basically keeps down the quality of life or any quality of life. >> we all agree this should be evidence-based. >> an all energy policy, that's all we've said. this country is blessed and we should use everything we've been blessed with it. >> it's not moving in the senate, but we'll keep an eye on it. senator, good to see you. thank you for coming.

>> thank you for having me. coming up, the fallout from clippers owner donald sterling racist comments continues. up next, the latest announcement from the nba. and in a search for answers on benghazi, will a select committee be anymore successful in the investigation so far, or will itof top democrats a waste of taxpayer money? a fair, imbalanced and feisty debate coming up. the latest revelations from the white house really tells us that we need this select committee. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out.

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demonstrators, when a fire tore through the city of odessa. ukrainian authorities meanwhile efforts to recapture buildings. some top house democrats are now calling house speaker john boehner's decision to set up a select committee to investigate the deadly 2012 attack in benghazi a waste of time. boehner says e-mails released this week show the white house withheld documents from congressional investigators. the nba says it's working to appoint a ceo to supervise the l.a. clippers operation. clippers owner donald sterling was banned from the nba for life for racist comments he made. nba officials are also urging league owners to force him to sell the team. sterling hasn't said yet whether he will fight the league in court. and california chrome is the winner of the 140th kentucky derby. california chrome and jockey victor espanoza finished in just under two minutes. the horse was bred for a little more than $10,000.

and its trainer, 77-year-old art sherman, is now the oldest winning derby trainer. those are the top stories right now, shannon, back to you. >> that's great. we love an underdog. a great story. >> i can't wait for the movie. >> and the book. give it about six weeks. thanks, peter. >> yeah. in declaring this week national charter schools week, president obama plays them at "independent public schools with the ability to try innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the classroom." despite that endorsement there's a battle brewing over a proposed charter school that would for military families in florida. something the families say they desperately want, but local school board has concerns and remains unconvinced. joining me the ceo of charter schools usa which is fighting to get that on the air force base in tampa. john, thank you for joining us. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> we want to start with the objection. we did reach out to the school board, we didn't hear back from

them. we'd love to hear from them. but at least one board member has been quoted in the tampa bay times saying charter schools usa in my investigation has had a history of issues. i would have to have some assurances that the issues have been dealt with before considering a second attempt to bring a school to the county. we know the military families are very interested, john, are you going to be able to work this out, do you think? >> i hope so, shannon. at the end of the day we want to do what's best for the students and the families of the military base. the military base there is one of the largest in the country and serves our soldiers and airmen around the world. and these parents, they come, you know, back from deployments overseas, these students are often having to move from base-to-base, oftentimes they're only in a base or an area for a couple years at a time. and right now they have to go to nine different schools. they can't even carpool together. so we're trying to bring a solution together for the base that focuses on the best interest of the parents and the students. and if there's any reason or any

purpose that you could think of for a charter school, this would be one of them. it's actually helping our military families with a quality education. >> clearly the president is supportive of this idea of this concept. there are many getting on board with the charter school initiative and movement. we know that your company runs a number of these around the country now. so i want to give you a chance to respond to some of the criticism of charter schools. there are those who say it is public money, these are public schools. why take that out of the public school system and put it into essentially private hands? >> well, you know, i think the first question we have to ask ourselves is if there wasn't a need for charter schools, there wouldn't be any. in other words, there's a reason there's 2.5 million students today and about another 1 million on a waiting list to try to get into charter schools. and this is all in the last 20 years. there's obviously demand by parents. they want more. they want to be involved in their children's education. and charter schools are just one of many reforms going on in our country today that allows for parents to become back engaged

in public education. i see it as a way to actually make public schools better. i'm a graduate of public education. my dad was a public schoolteacher. i'm married to a public schoolteacher. she's now in our company running the schools. what i see today is public education benefits from having some competition but also collaboration between the traditional system and public charter schools that give new innovations, new ideas, opportunities for parents, quite frankly, to get back involved in their local schools. >> very quickly, i want to ask you about the issue of accountability and critics say some of the issues don't provide for -- and there's accountability in where the money is going. your response. >> here's the thing, public education in general has always had the challenge itself with doing a great job with the resources it's been given. quite frankly in america today we are given almost the most per student funding of any country in the world. and yet charter schools do more for less. they actually receive less than 30% of the same funding as a

traditional public school student yet they're asked to do something better or they get shut down. you know, a poor performing charter school is shut down, a great one should be replicated. and our traditional system too often a school regardless of its performance continues to go on and on and on. charter schools are meant to bring in new innovation, but also to go into markets where students are low performing and really have been left out of the american dream. our goal within charter schools usa, which is one of the highest performing operators in the country where every time we've gone into a low performing area we've brought those kids up into high performing status over time is to give those children, those parents, an option. >> all right. john hage, thank you very much for keeping us updated. we'll keep an eye on the situation. let us know if you get an update. thank you, sir. >> thank you, shannon. with vital information regarding the attack in benghazi withheld purposely? house which i remember oversight darrell issa and john kerry

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says the house will soon vote on forming a select committee to investigate the deadly attacks on the american diplomatic facility in benghazi. also pending, house oversight chairman darrell issa subpoena to secretary of state john kerry. joining us now for a fair and balanced report is president of solidarity strategies, welcome to you both. >> thank you for having us. >> good to be here. >> chuck, i want to start with you. this notion that's been mentioned this morning i think as democratic congressman schiff saying i don't think democrats should take part in this. does that benefit them? or would it be better to say, all right, we'll do it? we'll do a bipartisan look and get the answers you're looking for. what happens if they don't go along? >> i don't think it's good, but i think the whole thing is per postrous. every day we do polling in america and talk to voters. this is not the first thing on their mind. this is a very important issue. americans lost their lives, i'm not taking anything away from

that. but we need to move. benghazi is not on the top of the list. >> for some would say there wouldn't be so much wasted time and money and investigation if the white house would turn over these unredakted e-mails. it took a lawsuit by a private group to get them. where does that leave us? if the white house is more cooperative, does this get resolved quicker? >> shannon, you have four committees who subpoenaed information from this administration regarding this issue, but it's a judicial watch to actually sue the administration to get this information. and the reason why people consider this newsworthy is because we're seeing new information. and the bottom line is there were no demonstrations in benghazi. we knew it was a terrorist attack within the first 24 hours. so why the cover-up? or is it a cover-up? did the president cover this us because of his political viability? >> and just to let people know, with the latest developments this week, there is an e-mail that came to light because of the judicial watch lawsuit, ben rhodes, a member of white house

national security staff -- this is a september 14th, on a friday before the sunday shows in which ambassador rice appeared on all the sunday shows and e-mail with the subject line call with susan at 4:00 saturday, the calls were -- until the private lawsuit. one to underscore they're in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. chuck, we have all kinds of other details about what the community was telling the administration at this point. that doesn't seem to match up with this e-mail. can you understand my people now have questions? >> absolutely. but i don't hear any new information. we've all worked on campaigns, we get talking points before we go out whether with a manager, candidate, representing an administration or congressman, this is what we're talking about today. >> but we're not dealing with people's lives, number one. in the video that came out was in july. so we have these terrorists are going to wait until september to actually act? again, there were no demonstrations in benghazi. the bottom line is it was a cover-up because the president

was running for re-election. and as sean smith's uncle said, instead of acting on a strategy to protect lives, the president put politics over policy. and that's a travesty. >> and he's one of the four -- >> yes. i don't believe with all due respect, that there was a cover-up in my own opinion. i think our president loves our nation just as much as the former president loved this nation. i know that's not what you're lives under president bush, i trusted but disagreed almost every issue. >> even though you're from texas. >> absolutely. i go way back with anne richards. but i trusted him to do that, right? i don't want to see this become a political issue, but i also want to make sure that everything is thought out. when americans lose their lives, first mission is to preblgt our country, protect our freedoms. i don't want to see from either side this turn into a political argument. but i do want to see us not spend all of our time if we're not going to get to the bottom of it when there are americans hurting every day.

>> but congress -- >> congress, can they multitask? >> that's what i was about to say. congress can multitask. >> senate majority leader harry reid said we need to focus on economic growth and this is a waste of taxpayer money. >> the reason why we have these ways and means is because our congress can multitask. it was the administration that blamed us on the video and clearly we had the ambassador and staffers asking for protection and they didn't get it. >> quick. >> there's a reason why -- >> five seconds. >> -- john boehner's less popular than barack obama because of stunts like this. >> okay. we'll have to leave it there. all right. moving onto our next topic. violence and unrest in the middle east continues to plague obama's presidency. is the foreign policy to blame? after the break i'll talk to an expert who says yes, some of the major conflicts in the middle east could have been avoided. we'll find out why he thinks that's the case. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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avoided? author of the new book "the lost spring," joins us now. he says u.s. policy failures to blame for some of the major conflicts in the middle east. doctor, good to see you today. >> thank you for having me. >> now, you had an earlier for. now, you had an earlier book, and several years back we're predicting a lot of what we've seen now, so is this new book a follow-up to that? does it take us the next step of what could we expect? >> actually, my previous book "the coming revolution" i predicted the arab spring. once we need to happen, we need to decide the right camp. those that have values that we have. unfortunately, the administration and the think tanks that back the administration did not do so. we saw those crisis in egypt and libya, benghazi, in tunisia, and the drama of syria unfolding, and this book is explaining why these crisis are unfolding, answering questions that the reader, the lawmakers, and the public opinion immediate to know about. >> can we right the course on some of these things, whether it's syria, libya, egypt?

are there measures that could now stem the tide there, turn the tide? >> well, first of all, we need to understand what the foreign policy has done, and, therefore, we need to hang it. we cannot solve these crisis with the same policy. number one, we have allied ourselves with the wrong factions after or during the arab spring. with the muslim brotherhood in egypt and the jihadists, and in syria we have not acted on time. the two tracks that the administration took partnership with the brotherhood, opening up to the iranians basically led to the disaster that we see, but there is an alternative if the administration decides to change course. >> what would that be? i know it's not easy to choose a horse in these races? there's conflicting allegiances. >> actually, it's about not to choose a horse. what the administration has done was to choose that horse, badly advised by their academic advisors. they chose the muslim brotherhood. the egyptians rose against that. in syria, for example, we didn't have the right choice, and then

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wooechb asking you if democrats refuse to participate in the select committee on benghazi, as some are saying, who wins? who loses? we have a ton of responses. you guys had a lot of opinions today. david said, "the biggest losers are the family members of the four dead. we will never know the truth." peggy thinks, "republicans stand to look like the democrats do on obama care. one-side and political." virginia says, "by refusing to

participate, not only do the democrats look childish, but guilty as well." thank you so much. we always enjoy hearing from you at home. all right. check this out. a happy story. a family who lost their dog in hurricane saent is reunited in the most incredible way. this is one of our most clicked stories. peter is following them all together. >> shannon, i will get to that reunion in just a moment, but, first, at a time when all government agencies are scrambling for more money, the environmental protection agency apparently paid out half a million dollars in unauthorized bonuses to ten e.p.a. officials. that's according to a report by the e.p.a. inspector general. bonuses are supposed to be reviewed annually, but the ig could find no evidence that the bonuses for those ten officials in question were ever reviewed. a small d.c. scandal to tell you about. one that has been kept very secret and is very small. scandal star carrie washington secretly gave birth two weeks ago. a birth certificate that was released on friday shows the couple had a baby girl, isabel, back on april 21st.

season three had to be cut short when washington became pregnant, and there it is. the baby is out. >> congrats. >> one more story. here's that reunion. and chuck, alicia, and 10-year-old alexander james devastated when their dog reckless went missing after the big storm. recently when the family went to the shelter to surprise their daughter with a new dog for her birthday, who did they see? reckless, the dog. their dog. the family is thrilled to be back together and to have their beloved pet with them home where he belongs. >> listen, it's been a while since superstorm sandy. i cannot believe that in all of the shelters and all of the dogs out there that this dog survived that long without either being adopted or, unfortunately, put down. >> survived the storm too. >> yeah. his name was reckless. how great a name is that.7tykytó

>> ten people must get a couple of grand in their bank account. >> for now we're going to continue working right here at fox news. that's it for us. fox news sunday is next. they're talking exclusively to chris wallace about benghazi and more. have a great day. i'm chris wallace. now house republicans will have a select committee investigate benghazi. after newly released e-mails raised more questions about the white house response. >> this document was not about benghazi. >> it was for the -- >> it wasn't her only prep. >> the american people to their credit, want to know the truth. this e-mail is proof positive they were manipulated. >> we'll talk about kelly ayotte, one of the senators leading the harj for answers, and answer schiff, a member of the house intelligence committee. then anemic first quarter economic