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because nobody was shooting at him. well, this has been fantastic. >> it really, really has been. >> my first summer sidekick. >> i really, really appreciate it. by the way, the bear story, i think there was an update on that, but too late. >> well, it's too late. we'll tell about it later. i'm gretchen. >> and i'm charles. here's faulkner in for shep. she's next. hi, guys, i am harris faulkner if for shepard smith and this is the fox news desk. ahead, the bowe bergdahl prison swap. new allegations that he once declared himself a holy warrior for islam. and we'll take you live to qatar, the new home of the guantanamo bay detainees who are exchanged for bergdahl's release. also, 70 years after allied troops storm the beaches of normandy, we are remembering their heroism and their sacrifice. we'll take you there for the ceremony, the memories, and a look back at a day that changed the course of human events. the taliban official says
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sergeant bowe bergdahl will not complain about his years in captivity. the militant group is claiming they held the prisoner under good conditions, gave him fresh food and books to read, even let him play soccer. that actually matches up with secret reports fox news has obtained from a private intelligence firm, which does work for the government. the reports indicate sergeant bergdahl's relationship with his captors changed dramatically over his five years in captivity. according to that report, sergeant bergdahl even declared himself a warrior for islam and was allowed to shoot guns during target practice. it's worth noting his alleged conversion to islam happened only after the taliban locked him inside a metal cage for trying to escape. still, the reports are fueling critics of the prisoner exchange, who say the price to get him back was too high. the swap traded, as you know, by now, five top taliban leaders, for a soldier who military officials say walked off base. president obama is defending the exchange, saying the united states leaves no soldier behind,
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no mcircumstance, but some of sergeant bergdahl's fellow soldiers say, he did more than just wander off. they say he's guilty of desertion. pentagon sources say bergdahl walked off base at least twice before and later came back. so it's still unclear if he was planning to leave for good. as for the note that sergeant bergdahl allegedly left behind, which we've been reporting here on fox news, saying he wanted to renounce his american citizenship, there is now a big disconnect over whether it exists. some fellow soldiers say that they saw it and others say they never saw it. sources say nobody has a copy of that alleged the note at this point. military officials have vowed to review his case and say they will not ignore potential misconduct. but we're still waiting to hear sergeant bergdahl's side of the story, of course. we have live team fox coverage. james rosen has more details from that secret report on bergdahl's captivity in just a moment. let's begin, though, with jennifer griffin, live with the
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news at the pentagon. jennifer, tell us about sergeant bergdahl's health, at this point. >> harris, according to pentagon officials, who are in touch with the doctors in germany, bergdahl is making significant progress. he's now speaking english, but has still not asked to speak to his parents. if he did, defense officials say they would not bar him from doing so. here's the latest statement from germany. quote, sergeant bergdahl is conversing with medical staff and becoming more engaged in his treatment care plan. according to doctors who said, sergeant bergdahl is also resting better and showing signs of improvement. there is no date set for him to return to the u.s., harris, but it could happen at any time. he will be reintroduced to his family in san antonio, texas, at the u.s. military hospital there. >> well, and in nearly the week that we've known about this whole thing, jennifer, there have been critics who have said, we need to look for any signs that the trade that has already emboldened the taliban. sol we're looking. have we found any?
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>> well, certainly the statements coming out from interviews being conducted with senior taliban leaders suggest as much. a senior taliban commander told "time" magazine's reporter in the tribal areas of pakistan the prisoner swap has made it more appealing for their fighters to capture american soldiers and other high-value targets. quote, it's better to kidnap one person like bergdahl than kidnapping hundreds of useless people. it has encouraged our people. now everybody will work hard to capture such an important bird. that's in the words of the taliban commander to "time" magazine. and then there was the suicide bombing today in kabul and the attempt to assassinate abdullah abdullah, afghanistan's leading presidential candidate, who has said he will sign a security agreement to keep 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan, after this year. that, certainly, is a sign that the taliban is feeling emboldened, painting all of this as a victory to their recruits in the wake of the guantanamo bay prisoner swap, harris.
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>> very much not an enemy on the run, as we have heard the administration say on occasion. jennifer, thank you very much. now more on the secret reports that a private intelligence firm gathered on sergeant bergdahl's time in captivity. james rosen was the first to get an eye on those reports and he's live for us in washington. james, what have you learned from these documents? >> harris, good afternoon. these documents consist of realtime dispatches, from a pentagon subcontractor call eed the eclipse group. it's a group whose sit reps offer for the first time a detailed timeline of sergeant bergdahl's five years in captivity. we start with bergdahl's capture by the hakani network on june 30th, 2009. within 90 days, his captors began exploring a prisoner swap. by may of 2010, negotiations for bergdahl's release were said to have collapsed. on june the 5th of 2010, bergdahl was observed at a bazaar in north waziristan and was said to be not tightly controlled by his captors. guess what, 12 days later, bergdahl escaped.
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on june the 22nd after five days, he was recaptured, returned and observed collapsing in ill health. his captors then put him in a specially constructed metal cage. by august of 2012 in the last sit rep that we obtained, bergdahl was allegedly observed having converted to islam, carrying himself a mujahid, which means warrior for islam, and was observed firing ak-47s in target practice with his captors. harris? >> james rosen, what's the response now from the white house before i let you go? >> well, top obama white house officials said yesterday, they hadn't heard any of that. the same from the state department today. >> well, i've seen mr. rosen's story. i haven't seen the actual documents which i think were put together by a private security company outside of the government. we've seen, this included such accusations as that he did think
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that he had declared and things that he had done in captivity, and i've seen no evidence to support the notion that are outlined in those private company's reports. >> how much the obama administration knew about these eclipse reports remains unresol unresolved. however, the firm's president told fox news he forwarded these sit reps in late 2010 to the private e-mail address of then brigadier general robert ashley, who was the director of intelligence at u.s. central command. ashley hasn't gotten back to us. general james madison told us he never received the sit reps as described and there was no evidence that bergdahl was a collaborate. however, one former senior intelligence officer who read all these reports confirmed to fox news that what i reported was consistent with what he had read. >> james, ahead, because i know from your reporting as well, there's that major classified investigation that of course we hadn't gotten our eyes on. it will be interesting if that gets to be classified, if we can look at those documents and see if there's any cross-referencing
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and similar facts. >> and hopefully all going to be reviewed with open eyes. thank you, harris. >> absolutely. thanks, james. fox news sunday anchor chris wallace joins us now, right on time from washington, to talk more about this. chris, we know about leave no soldier behind, but does this begin to get a little bit tricky for the obama administration? with all the news that's coming out that this person was hanging out, it would look like, if these reports are right, like buddies with his terrorist captors. >> i'm going to be a little careful about that. first of all, these are reports from an eyewitness through a private contract, and we don't know whether or not bergdahl was trying simply to ease the terms of his captivity, which had gone on for five years. he wasn't so much of a buddy that he didn't try to escape multiple times and get put in a cage. and there's also the possibility of stockholm syndrome, where a captive, a hostage ends up trying to, in effect, take the ideology of the beliefs of his captor. so i don't think it's fair to
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say he was buddies with the taliban, but it certainly does complicate the whole narrative. look, the narrative has been complicated from the moment that president obama came out with the bergdahl parents and acted as if this was a victory lap, and then susan rice, the national security adviser, went on a sunday show and talked about bergdahl serving with honor and distinction. we already knew, at the very least, that he had walked away from his post and was possibly a deserter. and now these latest reports from james rosen certainly, at least, raise the possibility that at some point during his five years of captivity, he became somewhat sympathetic to the views of the taliban. so, yeah, this is a very complicated narrative for the white house. >> and i would imagine, you mentioned stockholm syndrome, that that's one of the things in the sort of integration period, this medical period, that they look at him, that they'll be looking at as well. i want to talk about what's next with you, chris. defense secretary chuck hagel, who's day greed to appear at a hearing next week to discuss
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lawmakers' questions on the trade for bergdahl, are you getting a sense as to whether there's much more to come out at this point? >> well, i think one of the things that the secretary and the white house is going to continue to be on fire, under fire on, is the question of an investigation. they've certainly implied, we'll look at the facts in this case. but it will seem to me that hagel might ease some of the concerns. he said, look, we want to bring this guy home. we're not saying he's a hero, we do believe in the military credence of leave no soldier behind, but we are going to investigate this case fully, completely, and then, as james rosen said, with eyes open, and if he needs to, be subject to military justice. i think that's one of the things that might ease a lot of the concerns about him. as far as the trade for the five taliban, you know, that horse is out of the barn. those guys are all in qatar and the nerms of their, quote,
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detainment there, which is that they basically can do anything they want as long as they don't leave the country, that's already been set. >> while i have you here, let's change topic for a moment and get personal a little bit with you. it's d-day. and i know because of your father's service through the navy, your dad, mike wallace, legendary journalist, that you grew up with military in your background. what does this day mean to you, chris? >> well, yeah, certainly. i mean, anybody who's served in world war ii, there's a reason that tom brokaw called them the greatest generation. they were. and for me, personally, i was with ronald reagan, i was covering him, when he went to the normandy beach there at point dehawk, for anybody who hasn't been there, and really should go, is a sheer cliff. and army rangers came across the wide, unprotected space of normandy beach and had to scale that cliff. and i just want to read you what
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reagan said that day, because i flipped it out of the paper today. he said, these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped the free a continent. these are the heroes who helped end a war. and at that point, 40 years after d-day, these were men in their 60s. now most of them, who are still alive, are in their 90s. they were boys, they were men, they were champions. they were heroes. and 70 years later, we owe them an indelible debt of gratitude. >> absolutely. i get chills, as you read that. and your father, i want to let everyone know, served as a communications person with the navy during world war ii. your perspective and your reading just now, really, really meaningful. chris wallace, thank you very much. >> thank you, harris. >> well, chris will have much more on sergeant bergdahl's release on fox news sunday. don't miss it. i never do.
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he'll talk with former attorney general, michael mukasey, and fox news military analyst, general jack keene. also, a mom and a stepdad who said their son was killed while searching for sergeant bergdahl. the pentagon has not confirmed that any soldiers died during any search for him, when he was left base. that's this sunday on your local fox station. check the tv listings in your time and area. >> well, i mentioned, and chris and i were just talking about it, 70 years ago today, american and allied forces engaged in one of the most pivotal battles in our history. and on this friday, world leaders and veterans join together to mark seven decades since the d-day invasion of normandy. we'll take you there, next. stay close.
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president obama today joining more than a dozen world war leaders and a thousand veterans in normandy, france, to mark 70 years since the d-day invasion of world war ii. on june 6th, 1944, more than 150,000 american and allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy during operation overlord. thousands of soldiers died that day, but the battle would prove a major turning point in the war. months after the d-day bloodshed, allayed forces finally marched into paris, breaking the nazi's grip on france. the president attended a
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memorial located just off omaha beach. they paid tribute to the day with a wreath laying, tapps, and a 21-gun is a lawsuit. the president also greeted veterans who fought in the d-day invasion, shared a moment, a personal moment, it seems, with one of those veterans. we don't know exactly what was said, but the veteran certainly had president obama laughing. president obama later spoke about what this day represents. >> we come to remember why america and our allies gave so much for the survival of liberty at this moment of maximum peril. we come to tell the story of the men and women who did it. so that it remains seared into the memory of a future world. >> the ceremony, just one of many held across the world. ed henry is live with more from the american cemetery at omaha beach in normandy. and ed, i followed your
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reporting at first today on instagram. pictures that you sent all around the world, just beautiful. give us your perspective and reporting on this. >> harris, what i want to note, i'm glad you mentioned that, early this morning, we took this bus ride from paris. it was middle of the night, it was dark, sun was just coming up when we finally made it to the normandy area, about 3, 3 1/2 hours on this bus. that's when i finally started taking pictures. and one really struck me. it was this crucifix, along the french countryside and it had two simple things near it. it was a french flag and an american flag, as to say it was the americans who came in here and helped liberty europe and helped, literally, save the world. and there's actually more than 9,000 people, 9,000 americans, buried in this cemetery, right behind me. all those greystones you see, lined up. what the president said today is that we can never forget their legacy, as this greatest generation fades away. let's listen.
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>> america's claim, our commitment to liberty, our claim to equality, our claim to freedom and to the inherent dignity of every human being. that claim is written in the blood on these beaches. and it will endure for eternity. >> and the president talked about one veteran who was here today, harry cokeowitz, who had lied his way into enlisting many decades ago, so he could fight for america, fight for his country, and he was told by the white house, having lunch with the president, you can have anything you want, lobster, whatever it might be, and he said, he wanted a hamburger. the president said, what's more american than that, harris? >> my kind of guy right there. i understand the president today compared those troops to the ones who fought after 9/11. >> yeah, what he was trying to do, because you were talking about this with chris wallace, you see the statistics, unfortunately, of how many world war ii veterans are passing away every month. and the president was noting in
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general that this may be one of the last commemorations, 70th anniversary. we're going to have so many of the actual survivors of this historic day. and so he was talking about passing the torch to the 9/11 generation, the folks who are coming of e 9/11 terror attacks, men and women now, who are volunteering to serve in the military, u.s. military, serve their country, fighting terrorism around the world, and he said, he believes that that legacy from the greatest generation is now in good hands. >> and before you go, would you e-mail us that picture you mentioned of the cross? we'll try to put it up. >> i will. sure. >> all right. thank you very much. ed henry reporting live today from omaha beach. when a man walked into a college building and started blasting away with a shotgun, at least one student did not, did not run for his life. he ran toward the gunman, tackled him, took him down. an incredible story. stay with us. okay ladies, whenever you're ready. thank you. thank you. i got this. oh, no, i'll get it!
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police say a quick-thinking student saved lives during a shooting at a college campus in seattle. one person is dead, two others are still hospitalized. this happened yesterday at seattle pacific university. police say the gunman, who was not a student, entered through that building, armed with a shotgun and a knife. according to police, he confronted at least three people and then opened fire. when he stopped to reload, a student who was working as a building monitor pepper sprayed him. this is the student here. police say he then put the gunman in a choke hold, before others jumped on top of him and helped pin him down, until police got there. >> regular citizen stepped up and tried to do the right thing and in this case, i believe they prevented a more horrible tragedy than it was today.
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>> well, can you imagine how much praise is being heaped on that young man. his roommate tweeted this. i'm proud of the selfless actions my roommate, jon meis showed today, taking down the shooter. he's a hero. dan springer live. dan, he is a hero. sounds like these students, at least that one, was really prepared for something like this. >> they all were. jon meis has been a hall monitor here for about 2 1/2 years. he's gone through many campuswide lockdown drills yesterday. we have video of him just after his heroics. mais is a senior engineering student. when the suspect began reloading his gun, his shotgun, meis ran and tackled him and disarmed him by shooting him in the face with pepper spray. other students then pitched in and detained the suspect until police arrived a few minutes
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later. and he's being hailed as a hero by the seattle pacific university president. >> it's an urvel act of courage, of braver, of assessing the moments and acting. >> reporter: a 19-year-old male student was killed, a 20-year-old female student is still in the hospital, in critical but stable condition. right now on the campus, there is a prayer service for all of the victims and we understand, it's so full in there, they had to turn people away on this small christian campus in seattle. harris? >> dan, what about the guy, the suspect that police have in this. what are they saying? >> we don't know a lot about him. we know he's a 26-year-old from a nearby suburb of seattle. we know that he is not a student here at spu and apparently has no connection to the school or his victim. aaron ebarra lives in a suburb of seattle. his neighbors and friends describe him as being quiet and socially awkward. we've learned he had been a student at a local community college. police are not releasing a motive, but cairo tv, a local
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station here in seattle is quoting a source in law enforcement who said ebarra was obsessed with the columbine massacre and wanted to shoot up a school. he has his first court appearance in a couple of hours on a charge of murder. now, classes have been canceled for the day here in seattle pacific. finals are set to begin on tuesday. and we understand the graduation ceremony is still on for saturday. a criminologist told me that while we have seen a lot of these shootings and they all get a lot of play, college campuses are still safe places. they've had 20, on average, over the last ten years. compare that to about a thousand suicides by students on campuses and another thousand deaths by overdose, so, the number of deaths by shooting are still relatively small on college campuses. >> dan springer reporting today from seattle, thank you very much, dan. now, ed henry, our chief correspondent from the white house who's traveling now with the president in normandy beach
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on this d-day, commemoration date, we were talking about that picture he had on his instagram page and what an impact it has had on those who follow him. i wanted to share with you and his words that he posted today, heartbreaking. a comrade in arms known but to god. is what this says there. you see the two flags, france and the u.s. together at that cross point. this made such a huge affect on ed henry. he wanted to share it with everybody, so there's the picture he has. moving on, the feds say there is a chance the five released gitmo detainees will return to terrorism. well, that's what statistics show. now we're learning more about what they can and cannot do in their new home, the country of qatar, where they apparently are free to roam. and officials in north korea say they've thrown a third american behind bars there. this time, it all reportedly had to do with a bible. that's coming up.
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i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report. more of today's headlines from the fox news desk. police have arrested a man they accused of killing three fellow officers in the eastern canadian province of new brunswick. they report the 24-year-old suspect was no longer carrying his weapon when they captured him in a wooded neighborhood. this ended a massive manhunt and lockdown after wednesday's shooting rampage. the deadliest attack against canadian police in nearly a decade. a pair of bombs exploded near a convoy, carrying the leading presidential candidate in afghanistan. security forces report the attack killed six people. and you can see here the candidate, the man in the brown shirt, he made it safely to his next campaign rally. and an asteroid the size of a football field is expected to buzz right past earth this weekend. scientists say they spotted it a couple of months ago, but they say it won't get close enough to pose any danger. we'll have much more from the
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news desk with harris faulkner right after this.
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now, more on the five guantanamo bay prisoners the u.s. exchanged for sergeant bowe bergdahl. according to the director of national intelligence, u.s. officials confirm or suspect that nearly 30% of former detainees have reformed to terrorism. that's a big chunk of number. but one former defense official says the number is actually much higher than that. he says that's because the u.s. only knows former detainees have gone back to the field of battle, when somebody catches them or kills them. >> garden variety criminals who are career criminals, here in the united states, who have a longer rap sheet, you never know whether they go back to criminal activity until you catch them. and they say that they do a lot of other kinds before the one time they're caught next. the same is true for terrorists. it's no different. >> and u.s. officials have said they sent the five released
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taliban terrorists to qatar after it helped the broker the prisoner swap. let's take a look at our wall now. "the washington post" reporting that qatar has decided to ban the men the from fund-raising, in addition to a one-year travel ban. but a state department spokeswoman says it's possible somebody could see the men roaming the streets. well, how is that possible? amy kellogg is live in qatar's capital city, doha. amy, how is that possible? >> reporter: hi, harris. and it's possible that they won't even be recognizable, because it's believed that they're not going to go around in black turbans, et cetera. listen, they are going to be living in the country, harris, that is the richest in the world if you look at the citizens and their per capita wealth here. they've got the seaside, they've got the sand dunes. this is a cultural hub of the region. basically, they've got to proverbial golden handcuffs on, except those handcuffs aren't chained to anything except for this emirate and they'll have to stay here for a year.
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now, qatar is a virtual boomtown. the real gdp has shot up exponentially in a decade. it's the biggest exporter of lick we anied natural gas. it's a very interesting place. it's home to a u.s. centcom base, al jazeera tv. the u.s. is the biggest investor here. and qatar was practically the first arab country. it was the first arab country to get involved in the military operations, to remove colonel gadhafi. at times, our interests with qatar intersect, at times they diverge. these five prisoners, one afghan connected to the government will be in a residential compound. no one knows exactly where. they're going to be united with their families, and they can move about. they can't fundraise or get involved in political activities, but back home the taliban are certainly using their release as a major victory. now, qatar has done this, hosted these guys to appease the u.s. the u.s. uses these guy s as a
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bridge to radical groups. some people refer to qatar as the arab switzerland. now, qatar does not, harris, have a stellar track record, when it comes to keeping an eye on militants. they lost track of the 9/11 mastermind, khalid sheikh mohammed, in 1996. he slipped away, and another guantanamo detainee, who was transferred here in 2008, showed up in london. he was supposed to stay here. but people who believe this deal was a good deal, connected to the united states government, believe that this time they have firm assurances that these taliban former prisoners are going to stay put in the emirate at least for the year. harris? >> i wonder what the pushback would be if that didn't happen, though? let's hope it doesn't, but, hmm. we'll be watching. amy kellogg, thank you very much. north korea has announced today it has arrested yet another american tourist, bringing the total number of u.s. citizens held in north korea to three. officials say jeffrey edward
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fowl entered the country on april 29th as a tourist. they say he broke the law, but did not give details. south korean media are reporting it was because he left a bible at the hotel where he'd been staying. remember kenneth bay, an american missionary, who was arrested in november of 2012, charged with hostile acts against the state. his sentence, 15 years hard labor. and as for the third american, officials say he's 24 years old, arrested in april for, quote, rash behavior. jordan chang joins us now. he's a foreign affairs columnist and author of "the coming collapse of china." gordon, always good to have you. why this person? why fowl? and why now? >> i think because leaving a bible is something that christian missionaries have been doing with some regularity in north korea, and so they suspect that he is a missionary. and that is a grave offense. but why now is fascinating. because he was detained in mid-may and they're only
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announcing it at this particular time. and it could be related to a number of events in south korea. they've signed or are about to sign an information sharing agreement with japan and the united states. that could be it. or it could just be because they've got some internal problems inside the regime and now's a good time for some general to announce what is going to be a politically popular thing in north korea. >> even -- and i've heard you say this on occasion. you said, even if the white house would try a full court press to win fowl or really anybody else's release, it's unlikely that that would do any good. why is that? >> because i think right now in the regime, in north korea, you have a lot of disarray. you have the generals starting to take over, the hardliners are in control. and for them, it's not going to be a good thing to do something nice for america. but even so, you know, when you have this sort of disorganization and uncertainty, nobody wants to do anything good for america. so it's going to be very hard, i think, to get fowl released. and at some point, you know,
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we're going to probably try to do that. but i don't think we're going to be successful, unless we get extraordinarily lucky. >> you know, can you talk to me about this time of the year? because it seems like we report these things around spring, when north korea begins some sort of yearly cycle of provocations. what's going on there? >> well, last year, this cycle, which was really quite terrifying, began in early february. this year, we've seen a number of provocative acts, but they haven't been spaced so closely to each other. and i think that something is going to pop, because the north koreans are going to try their fourth nuclear test, so this could be the start of the cycle of provocations for this year. we just have to wait. i think a lot of this has to do with internal disunity in the regime, and so whenever they decide it's good for them to do it, they will start the cycle of provocations. and they could use the detention of an american as the excuse for this. >> interesting. well, we wish the best for our three people who are held there. gordon chang, thank you very much. a court hearing today for
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the california man who's accused of possessing materials to build a bomb inside his apartment. prosecutors say he should stay locked up, because he's a threat to the public, but his defense attorneys claim he does not need jail time, but a mental health exam. a former prosecutor will join me in a moment. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™.
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in georgia, one man is dead after he got into a shoot-out
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with police outside a courthouse. during the standoff, the sheriff says the suspect threw gas grenades, pepper grenades, and had a lot of ammunition. it happened this morning in a town about 40 miles northeast of atlanta. investigators say he was ready for some sort of battle. the sheriff says the suspect drove up to the courthouse, throwing homemade spike strips out of his suv. he says it looked like he was trying to drive through the front of the place. a sheriff's deputy happened to be there at the time, so the gunman apparently tried to run over the deputy. officials say he started shooting at the officer through his windshield and he said the deputy got hit in the leg, but he's expected to be okay. other deputies and a s.w.a.t. team showed up. one witness said the suspect jumped out of the suv, rifle in hand, and unloaded on the officers. he said the officers then unloaded on him. investigators say he was apparently trying to get inside the courthouse, potentially take hostages, and they say he may have gotten in, if not for that wounded deputy.
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well, the man from california accused of possessing materials to build a bomb inside of his apartment was in court today. and police and federal agents arrested ryan chamberlain on monday near the golden gate bridge after a nationwide manhunt. we were reporting this as it was happening on fox news. on wednesday, a judge ordered him to undergo a mental health evaluation. well, today in court, defense attorneys asked the judge to release their suspect to a hospital for that exam, but prosecutors say he should, instead, stay in jail. the judge has not ruled on that, but today's hearing is set to resume less than an hour from now. certainly we're watching to see what happens. according to the court documents, the fbi found a green powder in the suspect's san francisco apartment, along with a model rocket motor and a circuit board. ball bearings, screws, and batteries as well as an electric igni igniter. according to the fbi, these are all materials for a remote controlled bomb, designed to maim or kill. agents have not said yet what they think he planned to do with all that stuff, but friends of a
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social media consultant say he worked on a political campaign in california a few years ago. don't know if that has anything to do with it. ann marie mcavoy joins us. she's a former prosecutor and current adjunct professor here in new york. and ann marie, you and i were just talking off-camera. you said this really just comes down to one thing, and that's what? >> what the fbi actually found. what are the materials? what is that green powder? is it something that it was actually something that could have been exploded? and apparently, from what they found and what they wrote, they do believe that it could be exploded and, in fact, they took some of the materials out of there and did explode them. >> what about this case, do you think, his attorneys could use as a defense at this point? i mean, they're talking about mental exam, doing everything -- well, that's their job, to keep him out of jail. but what catches your eye? >> they're going to say, look, he didn't do anything. he didn't actually take anything and explode it. he talked about saying good-bye
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to people, but he didn't take his own life. he had put out a facebook message saying that he had had it, things were too difficult for him, and said good-bye to everyone. and they didn't take any action to follow through on that. and he could have had those materials there for other purposes, that's what the defense will claim. >> how does the law see this? if we keep things in our house, but don't act on it, how does the law have jurisdiction to intercede? >> it depends on what you have. if you have, apparently what was described was the nails and the ball bearings were in a glass container with the green powder in there, that sounds like something very different than what you or i would have in our home. >> maybe, maybe. one of the neighbors tried to interfere on his behalf and said, well, that green powder was green fuz, it wasn't anything. >> well, what's going to be decisive here is what do the tests show? what do the fbi experts on these issues show? it is something that put together the way he had it could have been detonated or not?
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and apparently what he had there could have been actually remotely detonated. he had the circuit board there and he could have done it from a distance, so he wouldn't have even gotten hurt in the process. this is not something that people would normally have. but he would claim, i had a remote control there, with i had a toy, or i had it at one point, i don't have to toy, but i still have the remote. that doesn't mean i intend to blow something up. but it's going to be a difficult case. i mean, they're not charging him with having exploded anything. they're charging him just with having materials. >> real quickly before i let you go, today, we'll go back to this when it happens later this afternoon, they resume after a break, bail. >> very unlikely here. certainly, at this point. the first thing they're going to want is to get a mental exam to make sure he is not going to trial. what they're going to look at is, is there a risk to himself? >> because there's a note. >> because they said good-bye and that's normally what people do before they kill themselves. is he a risk to the community and is he a flight risk? so first, they have to determine all of those issues. and at this point, he could well
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be a risk to himself. certainly, he had explosives in his home, and they also said it could have been set up the way they had them there. they could have very easily made a boopy trapp, so if cops came in, they'd get hurt. so there are a lot ofhurt. very unlikely he'll get bail. >> the nation knows his name and picture because they hunted for this guy before they found him. >> good thing they did. >> and we will follow this. thank you very much. >> thank you. great days for the dow and our 401(k)s. wall street heading into record territory. what it all means for your money, for your bottom line, though, next. (mother vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born.
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have you heard, employers added 217,000 jobs in may, the fourth straight month of
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substantial job gains. that's according to the labor department. unemployment held steady at 6.3%, the lowest rate in more than five years. investors seemed happy about this news on wall street today. let's take a look at the dow now. 16,903. it's been a healthy day. we're closing in on 17,000 it would appear. gerri willis joins us now, host of "the willis report" on the fox business network. the markets seem to like this. >> the markets seem to like it, editorial writers seem to like it. you should have seen the coverage of these numbers, all upbeat. and why? because we're now back to employment levels of 2008, this is precrisis. this chart shows you where we've been and where we've come back to. so people are celebrating that fact today. >> all right. so i'm looking at that chart and that looks good. so why is it that americans in whole when you look at fox news surveys and others say that people feel bad about this economy. here's another one for you.
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19% unemployment among teenagers? what is there to feel good about this? what's the disconnect? >> i think there's a big disconnect. washington and wall street think that the economy is on fire, everything is wonderful, right? look at the polls. it's a totally different story. this fox news poll out last night, two-thirds of americans believe we're either in a recession or in a downturn and for the very reason you're describing. teenagers can't get jobs, people can't trade up, they're not making more money, they're very frustrated with this economy. people believe the economy is not growing. they see a different world than the pros. >> yeah, it's interesting. the disconnect between wall street and main street is as wide as ever. >> it's as wide as ever. we'll talk about this very thing on my show tonight at 5:00 on the fox business network. >> 5:00 eastern, 2:00 p.m. on the west coast. gerri willis, fbn. thank you. we'll be right back. oney du thik you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last.
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on this day in 1939, two teams faced off in the first-ever little league game in williamsport, pennsylvania. a local man had drawn up the rules and field dimensions a year earlier. the league started out with just three teams. nearly two and a half million little leaguers around the world hit the field each year now, hoping to make it all the way to williamsport for the world series. but america added a little something extra. look at those guys. to the national pastime 75 years
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