she won four gold medals and she is now under going therapy at a colorado hospital. we wish her well. she is a brave woman. we have to run. >> terrorist advance toward baghdad. another big news day. i am jenna lee. >> and jon scott. secretary john kerry made it clear we are weighing the process. >> nothing is off the table. we are intensely vetting each of the possibilities. >> secretary kerry said whatever

assistance comes from the u.s. is not aimed at shoring up iraq's prime minister as pressure mounts to form a new government without him. militants control the largest refinery and a top official insist the government is still in charge. f-18 american military jets are flying over iraq and they make a lot of noise but as one official said it isn't so much about looking as it is being scene. lots of moving parts and heavy pressure on the obama administration. and we learned that president obama will make a statement on iraq at 12:30. let's bring in john mccain. senator, we heard the secretary say all options are on the table but yesterday the news from the

white house was airstrikes were not going to be employed here. what do you think should be the way forward if military is used? >> we are all opposed to ground troops but we need airstrikes. that is a critical capability when you look at the fact that these people have traveling long disstances over roads. we need special forces people and port air control capability to help direct the airstrikes. and we need in my view to send generals over to baghdad to explain there that is to be a transition. but for us to do nothing all all of this time -- the president of the united states is fiddling

while iraq is burning. if they have control of the largest oil refinery it will impact the price of oil as you know but most of all this is turning into an iraq-syria enclave of the richest largest, terrorist territory ever and they are intended on attacking america. >> outs you said it is time to tell malky a transition is time to take place and it is time to go. >> yes, but we need leverage now because he is dealing with syria and there are reports of iranian troops coming in. so we need leverage and if we say we are going to doing but

fly airplanes over, which after a while have no effect on anybody, and the leverage will be nonexistent. >> iraq was largely peaceful after the surge. what happened? >> that is the thing the critics and liberal media failed to point out. we had it won thanks to the surge. and i was one in 2006 when failing said donald rumsfeld had to go. we had it won. they were under control and united. and the then president made the decision not to have a with drawl force and the fact is we could have. anybody that tells you we could not have a recidivism force there isn't telling the truth. we know we would have agreed.

but unfortunately they never gave him a number, the number casca cascaded down to the point it was meaningless. >> if there is to be air support you would advocate striking some of these terrorist targets that are over there and in concert with whom? do you get together with the government and say we want you out but for now let's work on dealing with the situation at hand? >> i think we have to deal with the situation at hand and we have to make it clear that very soon he has to have a transition government in place that can unify the country. the sunni has been discriminated against by the government and there has to be the reconciling we saw with the ann awakening

and took al qaeda to a powerless organization. now we have to do the same thing. >> senator john mccain. thank you for being with us. and the president will be making a statement on iraq at 12:30 p.m. eastern time and we will have that for you live on fox news channel. >> in the meantime, we will turn to other news from washington, d.c. house republicans are gearing up for a crucial meeting with they will vote for a new majority leader. kevin mccarthy appears to be the favorite. steve is live in washington with the latest on this side of the story. >> the election is this afternoon and they will decide the leadership lineup on capital hill and they'll pick number two and three. the front runner is kevin

mccarthy of california. he is a one-time deli own and state legislative. he is conservative, but not as conservative as cantor. to the right is raul labder and he is tea party favorite but some republicans oppose him because of his immigration stance. he thinks he has a chance. >> we are close. we have a lot of work and they are excited to have someone challenging the establishment. it is important to show we need a new direction in the party. >> three people are in the running to proceed. there is an illinois leader, and

then a louisiana leader and if any of the incumbents are beaten in november there could be another round of them. >> we will watch the story throughout the day. the midwest hit by severe weather again. a powerful tornado tearing through a small town in central south dakota destroying farms, businesses and nearly 4 dozen home. mike toben is live in western springs where it all took place. >> reporter: let me give you a look around. this is a module home you cannot see it was hit on the other side by a neighbor's house and knocked six feet off its foundation. this is kelly, the owner, where

were you when the tornado hit? >> we were sitting at home and my mom was watching tv. she said we need to get out of the house. >> and you knew to go somewhere with a basement? >> correct. >> where did you go? >> we went to the our pastor's house across the street. >> what did you see? >> it was muggy and we didn't feel much. we watched the tv. lights out. big bang. wind blowing and it was all over. >> that is amazing. >> reporter: speak of basements, this is the home of dennis mackle downy and he was under the basement stairs holding on to his wife and he was convinced they were going to die. he heard the home rip away. he is grateful he is alive. very grateful to the first responders who gave around the

warnings. an rv belonging to him is laying right over in that direction to show you how powerful the storms. the number of homes damaged is increasing as light is shining on the town. the number was 11 it is up to 43 now. 23 homes are absolutely unin habitable. but officials are grateful there was no loss of life here. >> thank you, mike. well she sparked outrage after taking the fifth and now a new firestorm with lois lerner and why her missing e-mails may never be found. a routine traffic stop was nothing but routine after dogs wept on the attack. what happened to this police officer next.

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a missing florida teen found with a man who led police on a high-speed chase in louisiana. the police noticed the girl stabbed in the back of his car and she is in critical condition. a police officer gets attacked by three dogs after pulling over

a truck driver to speeding. he managed to run away but not before getting bit three times by the dogs. his injuries are not considered serious. and more dash cam drama with a police officer caught on tape jumping into a revene to save a man n burning truck. so there is a new twist in the case of lois lerner's disappearing e-mails. first congressional investigators looking into the irs targeting scandal are told two years worth of her e-mails are lost in the crash. a report that her hard drive was recycled and the e-mails maybe gone forever. where do we go from here? we have our guest here, nina,

from the daily caller. you have her hard drive being recycled in 2011 which this inappropriate investigation of some tea party and conservative groups was at its peak. >> that is right, jon. darrell issa had it right saying e-mails from a prominent official like lois lerner don't dwi -- go -- missing unless there is intent. >> they want to keep me records for seven years. they keep e-mails six months? >> anything is possibility. peter pan could be non fiction but this is hard to swallow. the irs lost lois lerner's

e-mail and six other people tide to the investigation. i perused reddit before coming on and someone posed the question is this plausible -- could you lose these e-mails. and a whole host of it experts weighed in and not one weighed in saying it was possible. it seems unlikely these e-mails can't be found, and it not it sounds like someone made sure cannot be found. count me unsure. >> they could be recovered from the hard drive but now the news is the hard drive is recycled and thrown out in the garbage. that may put an end to it. >> that is a possibility, i suppose. i am not a computer expert. but some suggest it might be scored elsewhere if they use microsoft outlook you might get.

it isn't clear from there this is for good. it raises questions on if this was a deliberate move to make sure it could not be find. >> you suggest this isn't getting the coverage it deserves or would get in a republican administration. >> imagine if this happened in the george w. bush white house. this is going to get legal traction from republicans looking at whether criminal laws were broken. but they need public support and outrage. it isn't just a matter of not covering it because it is obama but you have the white house in crisis after crisis on the foreign policy front. we went from terrorist to iraq employeding and those are the headlines of the day. i think it will be hard for

republicans to get the public traction they need to get the muscle they need and get the documents they need. >> who investigates this, jaime? eric holder and the justice department to go after them? >> one would hope not. maybe a special prosecutor will be appointed or should be appointed. you have darrell issa and dave camp who are looking into this but there is a lot of suspicious things going on not least the way this has been unfolding. we learned this whole scandal began with a planted question to an irs official on a friday and then learned about the e-mails on friday in a midst of other news. there are a lot of people that don't want you to ask questions. >> my recollection is it was lois lerner herself who let this out of the bag and said sorry

for doing this we should not have done this. >> hoping it would go away. >> on a friday, exactly. we will stay on top of this. this is one bizarre coincidence. america is asking if you think the e-mails will ever be retrieved? log on to foxnews.com/happeningnow and chime in. illegal immigrants, many children, pouring in from central america. but the question remains why are they coming now? what people on both sides are saying and what one big board of state governors is doing to cope with the crisis. >> we are doing our part but the federal government is failing. we have an in ept administration or they are in on this.

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has consistently deported 1,000 people per day. >> that is the voice of our next guest. vice news has a series called immigrant america. roy, you looked at this from a lot of different views. and the next chapter you are looking at is what this flood of immigration from a central america. tell us about what you learned. >> i talked to people in honduras where a a lot of the kids are coming home. they are saying it is desperate. there is a lot of violence, economic reasons people are long beachi -- leaving -- and rumors that guides are saying it is easier for children and mothers with young children to get into the united states. there are a lot of kids that are long beach leaving to reunie

with the parents. >> one thing that struck me in the part we saw on the screen ask how little the conversation has changed since the 1990's. >> it is amazing going back and looking at what it was. it is similar than today. we did a documentary about a goy who was deported from the u.s. and ray came up at 15 and he was fleeing many of the same things people are fleeing, violence and poverty. he was looking for opportunity. we heard in the united states you go go to school, you can get a good job, you can start a business. there is social mobility in the united states. and in places like honduras there a certain amount of

families that control the villa village. >> is the cost of deportation is what i think is interesting. a flood of 50,000 people coming and one question is why don't you send them back and there is a lot of sides and the cost of deportation is something you looked at. tell us how much that cost? >> $12, 500 to arrest, deport and detain someone on average. ray was a business owner, a taxpayer, father to five american citizens and has a wife and when he was deported the family was broke because ray had a good business. his family went on medicare, food stamps and ssi. and when you take into account

the lost tax in come and the cost of sending home and all of the money the taxpayers paid to support his family it was about $100,000 to get rid of guy who contributed and loved his kids. so you have to ask yourself who benefited from that. if you stand by for a second, i am joined by a border patrol agent who have been dealing with this. chris is from the rio grand valley sector. chris, there are a lot of different personal stories of why people are coming into the united states. what are you border patrol agents confronting today? >> we are having huge numbers of women and children turning themselves in. yesterday, i think we had one group alone which was 290 people

walked up and turned themselves in. >> they walked up? do they walk across the border and wait to get picked up? >> well they get brought across by a smuggler and he points them in the direction of where to stand so the border patrol comes across them. >> the governor in texas is putting additional resources on the ground to help assist border patrol. what does that mean? >> they don't have the power to enforce laws but they will be able to help us cover the areas we are not able to cover now due to the fact of where we are bring drawn in. >> these seems like a significant issue to deal with, chris. but we are not on the border hike some of your guys dealing with this. can you give us context as to how desperate and important the

situation is? especially were your team but in general when you look at immigration? >> you know it seems that the numbers are climbing every day. we are bringing them in and don't have the space to hold them in. it is very sparse conditions. concrete floors, no bedding, no showers and no hot meals. it is difficult to house these people. especially the women and children because they are so fragile physically and emotionally. it puts a strain on the agents especially with the government is cutting our hours in the field and our pay. we are not able to cover the outlining areas and that is where the drug smugglers and criminals are coming through. >> what solves this, chris? >> policy change. if you start sending people back

hundred percent removal immediately then the well dries up and it stops immediately. >> chris, it is great to have you on the program. thank you for that. that is a unique and important perspective. raul, what do you think solves this? >> investment in the neighbors. i talked to a girl who has a 1-year-old and she has no clue how to get to the united states and i said are you scared and she said yeah, but what do i have to lose. >> the vice president is down there now trying to fix things. why you could be paying more for gas just as the summer driving season gets underway. plus a mommy bloger accused of a crime and how social networking about her child ended in trag y

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>> right now a young mother is charged with murdering her five-year-old son accusing of poisoning him with an overdose of sodium and documenting her crime with the rest of the world in a blog she kept on a social media website. patti ann browne with the latest on that. >> was born 2008 later put i feeding tube after his mother claimed he had trouble eating.

she was hospitalized repeatedly during his short life suffering from seizures and bleeding from his eyes, nose, mouth and ears. he and his mom relocated several times from alabama to florida and new york. at one point lacy was investigated by florida department of children but the case was closed. in the close-knit community in new york, residents were perplexed by the feeding tube and say they saw him eat solid foods through his mouth and he had a good appetite. but generally 17th, he was again hospitalized for seizures. two days later doctors found extreme unexplained levels of sodium in his system. five days after that, he died at five years old. lacy called a friend asking to get rid of the bag she used with the feeding tube, the friends told police who tested the bag and found it contained an extreme concentration of sodium. in april the medical examiner

ruled the death was a homicide and base on a grand jury indictment, she was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. prosecutors say 26-year-old lacy became obsessed with the attention she got from blogging about her son's illnesses and was actually causing the injuries herself. lacy has pleaded not guilty, being held without bail. if convicted, she faces 25 years in life tto life in prison. jon: a criminal defense attorney, tania miller is a former prosecutor. there is this thing i have done stories on from time to time, a parent usually gets attention by making their child ill and then recklessly healing them were somehow providing them some sort of care. if this woman has that, if she

has that, cannot provide the grounds for an insanity defense? >> it can. she would have to show she was operating under such a delusion to caused by such proxy or whatever prognosis chance of getting wer or diagnose she endp getting, that overcame her will to properly mother her child. that is the defense wants to go with the mental health defense. the alternative is to say in fact it wasn't the mother or the child wasn't poisoned, it may have been some natural reaction this child had or suffered from another disease but they will go one of two ways, mental health or she didn't do it. jon: what about this phone call? police say after this little boy was lying there dying in a hospital, she called this cooperative where she lived and asked a friend to throw away one

of his feeding bags. the friend called the cops, the cops test of the bag and it was loaded with sodium which is what poisoned him. doesn't that show some sub consciousness of guilt? >> absolutely. you have hit the head on the nail. this would blow any legal insanity defense out of the water. if somebody is legally insane and don't realize what they are doing are wrong, they don't try to cover it up, they don't ask people to throw away evidence. the fact she called a friend and asked a friend to throw away the feeding bag just so happened to have traces of sodium in it, the thing that poisoned her baby to death, i think it is clear evidence she knew what she was doing and was trying to cover up her tracks. jon: what about the fact people in florida, she was investigated by child neglect, child welfare authorities and cleared because the child apparently once

investigation started, the child was driving. >> that would be something for the defense to save his mother was watched and she didn't have any problems or the child doesn't have any problems. it is possible the child came up with some sort of mental trouble later. that would be helpful for the defense. i will say i don't know how much stock jury put into investigations by child welfare authorities given the problems they have all the time that they don't seem to be getting their offices together. i know my experience would be the other child welfare agency, there is a lot of competency left to be desired in those agencies so i don't know how that will play. it may help the prosecution. >> it will help the prosecution and here is why. this is what happens, the child presents extremely ill, and the

minute they intervene, the child is miraculously better. when this child was being watched and watched closely, he was healthy and in the moment they took their eyes off the child, he presented again with all of these unexplained illnesses with the poison in his body that cannot be explained in any medically reasonable way. it will prove the prosecution's case she was the one poisoning her baby and it was when they were watching her. >> they wer for watching her ate end and he still died. jon: charged with murder and manslaughter, faces 25 years to life. a cute little five-year-old boy is dead. very sad and strange case. thank you for helping get into some of the legal aspects of it, thank you both. jenna: court action for a man

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jenna: let's check what is ahead in "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. >> hey, jenna, good to see you. hey, everybody.

we are waiting a statement for the president in the in iraq. he has been weighing a range of options including the possible airstrikes. they are sending a small number of forces into the region. >> plus the redskins are feeling the heat as a superstar speaks out and a major paper refuses to print the team's name. >> this story is really hot right now. an 11-year-old golf phenomenon teeing off at the u.s. women's open. you see too young for such a big stage? jenna: and our one lucky guy on "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. jon: police say a man arrested at sandra bullock's home owns an arsenal of weapons. the oscar winner accused stalker pleaded not guilty to make additional felony charges. among them, multiple counts of possession a machine gun and other heavy weaponry.

accused of climbing a fence to get onto her west l.a. property. she was reportedly home at the time and locked herself inside the room. jenna: now back the crisis in iraq, we are waiting the president making a decision on the way forward about 12:30 eastern time. this amid word terrorist affiliated with the state of iraq and syria or isis as it is now known is in charge of iraq's largest oil refinery. as we have learned a lot about isis, an article on how isis wins the hearts and minds of the population that ends up occupying by providing social services like food kitchens and fixing potholes and investing in electricity. joining us now, the director of the program with washington institute for policy and for middle east advisor to donald rumsfeld. tell us a little bit about that. we have seen the pictures of the executions and how brutal this group is, but what about this other side, why is that important?

>> these guys do not like al qaeda. they hate shiites, they go and kill and terrorize local populations but when they get into a town they have a bureaucracy that goes with them, and they have a resource of money that they can access even before they took over the central bank and took $400 million, they would come into a town, they would set up courts and provide services. al qaeda never did this. this is something that if not gaining them a whole bunch of favor on the ground, at least making people a little more tolerant. jenna: why specifically in this population of iraq with the people be open to that? is it because of the way they feel about the central government in baghdad and how

they have been treated or provided for? >> that is sexy right. he has been seen viciously secretary and favoring development in shiite areas, favoring appointments, and the sunni areas have been underserved and treated in many ways a threat to the central government. these people, the sunnis whether they be people that rose up to kill al qaeda, in 2005, these people in many cases are joining with isis, with this group that is taking over northern iraq. jenna: they see it as a better option than the current government in place. i have to go quickly here, we have the announcement by the president at 12:30, we have heard reports from john mccain for the prim prime minister to p down.

what you'd like to hear from the president, what would you like to hear from the president about going forward in iraq? >> he is not going to reform. we should encourage him to step down. we should also think about not making the secretary and problems in iraq degenerate, they should be encouraging and taking steps to help iran say out of the conflict. no iranian involvement in iraq at this point. jenna: we will see of the president anything to say about that. david, grace to see you, thank you so much. >> thank you. jon: the chaos in iraq is creating pain at the pump here at home, but there is a new bill on capitol hill to get things under control. we will tell you about that. plus, one of the men involved in the death of border patrol agents moving a step closer to

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that is important. chris murphy is teaming up with republican bob corker from tennessee on this. it's rare to see a republican coming out for higher taxes of any kind, but the political timing here can't be ignored. neither one of them is up for reelection in the fall in the midterm the neither one of them is on the ballot, may be easier for them to propose something like this. they want to propose a tax $0.06 bringing money in for the highway, they say. some people do like this idea be at the unions are on board hope it leads to more work on the road, more jobs for their members. they quoted somebody from aaa saying there was a poll of the people, majority wanted higher gas rates if it meant better roads. the bottom line is this is a really tough sell in congress. especially in an election year. senator corker as a republican,

but a number of conservative groups are already out against it, their argument is one they have been making for years. you raise taxes at the gas pump, it will hurt growth, economic growth because people have to pay more to fill up the car. if we were to ask if you higher gas taxes, but corker is going to try to sell it as a trade-o trade-off, lower taxes and other things, businesses and individuals may be offset this with a tax hike coupled with tax cuts. again, a long way to go, but still paying a higher precedence because of iraq. you can't really win. jenna: connell, thank you. jon: we are awaiting a vote on capitol hill to see who is going to replace eric cantor and house majority leader. plus, we want to know what you think. do the irs e-mails missing, will they ever be retrieved? log on to foxnews.com/ask now

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jon: we will be back here in one hour, see you then. jenna: watch out for the president. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> fox news alert, we're waiting to hear from the president on the growing crisis in iraq. at the bottom of the hour we expect president obama to make a statement at the meeting with defense secretary chuck hagel and members of his national security team. the u.s. is weighing what to do with the militant force sweeping through iraq taking overseas and towns on a march toward the capital of baghdad. iraqi government forces seem to be holding onto control of the country's largest oil refinery after it was stormed by sunni insurgents, the group called isis, who planted the flag on the ground at that refinery. we are hearing the president is coidering whether to send additional security forces to assist the iraqis.