living the dream, his dream. now the successfully swum the entire length of the will amet river. he is battling two types of cancer swimming 9 to 12 miles every day to 0 swim the entire river. congratulations. hello, everyone. i'm kelly wright. welcome to a brand-new hour inside "america's news headquarters. topping this hour, iraqi forces going on the offenses, backed by helicopter gunships as they try to take back the northern sit of tikrckritikrit. one is proposing a bounty bill in an effort to recover the missing irs e-mails. we'll 0 have the new developments in the scandal. plus, florida's governor signing a bill that legalizing the use of a certain kind of medical marijuana. for the treatment of a specific

illness. the potential impact of that move, my live interview coming up. first let's get right to 0 it. our top story today, the suspect accused in the deadly benghazi terror attack is now on american soil in the hands of u.s. law enforcement. his name is ahmed abu khattala. he was captured two weeks ago in libya. until now, he's been under interrogation aboard the "uss new york." owe 0 officials say now he's being held under tight security at a federal courthouse 0 in d. where he will answer to charges for his role in the september 11, 2012, attack in libya that killed four americans, including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. our national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live outside the direct courthouse in d.c. right now. how, jennifer, was khattala brought to the courthouse today? >> reporter: well, kelly, u.s. officials tell us that he -- the

"uss new york" came into the chesapeake bay and a u.s. helicopter brought him from the ship to a base, a national park service helipad over in an acos acosta. he was brought by vehicle by land to the courthouse behind me. he's inside the courthouse behind me. he's been there since about dawn this morning. right now we are waiting to hear when he will be presented before the judge. kelly? >> you know, jennifer, this was not the mastermind of the attack in benghazi, as we understand. he was more or less a muscle man. so what's next for him? >> reporter: well, i think we'll know are a lot more about the charges being brought against him once he appears before the judge and once he's actually indicted. remember, it was only a criminal complaint that was filed against him last july. that was unsealed after u.s. army special operations forces delta forces captured him on june 15th in benghazi at his

villa south of benghazi. now what we know is that the charges against him will be read to him today. he will be assigned a court lawyer. and from that criminal complaint last july, here's what we know. there were three counts, quote, killing a person in the course of an attack on a federal facility involving the use of a firearm and dangerous weapon and attempting and conspiring to do the same. >> it's funny. you know, within an hour of us saying that we got him, the questions we were getting, why did it take so long and how could this very dangerous guy be sipping mango juice at a cafe g up? now we're getting asked, well, wasn't he just low hanging fruit? and why does it matter? he matters. we believe we've got a$(x"(÷ st case. >> reporter: by law, khattala will have to be given a hearing in court within ten days. there will be a grand jury

called of 23 people. and he will be formally indicted. we're waiting for all of that to sort of make its way through the system, but now he is in u.s. law enforcement hands. he is no longer in -- he is no longer on board that "uss new york." that ship is now on its way become to florida. kelly/. >> jennifer griffin, we'll be following you throughout the day as more developments take place in this first appearance there at the court. thank you. fresh violence in ukraine a day after the government signs a deal for closer ties with the european union. at least one soldier reportedly killed in the eastern part of the country. the free trade deal angers pro-russian separatists as well as the kremlin. moscow meantime also accuses the u.s. of encouraging ukraine to challenge russia. meanwhi meanwhile, ukraine's president suspended the cease-fire for three more days. despite new health concerns, pope francis resuming his busy

schedule, meeting with the president of madagascar, appearing tired but there the same. he skipped a visit to the rome hospital yesterday, the third time he has canceled or postponed the event. the vatican said he suffered an unexpected illness but he is over wise okay. new developments in the crisis in iraq. with the country's military launching an offensive in hopes of taking back the northern city of tikrit. it is one of two major cities captured by isis. john is reporting live from jerusalem with the latest. hi, john. >> reporter: mossul is the other one. tikrit could stop isis from getting closer to baghdad. iraqi military forces say that they're using military officials say they're using helicopter gunships to basically hone in on and attack the sunni-led

militants, along with special forces already on the ground, setting up basically a perimeter around the city and trying to push those isis militants back to the north. now, air strikes have helped the iraqi military stop isis from taking control of the baiji oil refinery. this has been an important fight. tikrit has been among the bloodiest battle fronts so far, because it's where the al qaeda inspired insurgents reportedly executed 160 people just about two week ago. at this point, iraqi officials are reporting that the military has regained control of the city, though we're waiting for more confirmation about that. to give you an idea about not only the location but why kick tikrit is important, it's just south of mosul and about 100 miles north of baghdad, pretty much right in the middle of both cities. you know, that's why iraqi military forces want to stop

isis from going any further south towards baghdad. not only does the fight for tikrit have important strategic military relevance but historic as well. because as you mentioned, it's saddam hussein's hometown and kelly and julie it's also where u.s. forces captured him back in 2003. so the fight continues. back to you. >> john, thank you very much. one republican lawmaker wants to put a bounty out on those missing irs e-mails. that may shed light on the agency's targeting of conservative groups. louie goe mert is proposing the bill to give $1 million to anyone, anyone, that can recover the e-mails and $500,000 for information on who deleted them. molly joins us from washington with more on this story. new developments, huh? >> reporter: that's right, kelly. republican congressman louie goem ert says the missing e-mails are, quote, out there,

someone has them or access thome. maybe the reward money will encourage that someone or someones to come forward. where is the $1.5 million in reward coming from? goem ert says the legislation he's proposing would take it out of the irs' budget. >> it doesn't increase the amount of spending for the government because it comes right out of the irs' own spending. receive accurate and complete information ain as timely as

manner as possible. kofkennen said he wanted to sent it sooner but it's being verified. heavy rains causing severe flood in da phenomenally national washg park in alaska. hi, janice. >> hi, julie. unfortunately we're looking for the threat of not only flooding but severe weather today as well. let's zoom in and i'll show you where we're dealing with the potential. the potential for hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes and heavy flooding across the

central and southern plains, and that's the area where we have our river gauge observations in the purples and reds. that's where we're dealing with moderate to major flooding. any more rainfall is going to cause a worse situation for these folks. now, the threat for severe weather today, including flooding, occurs across the central u.s., all of these big cities included, where we could see hail, damaging winds and even isolated tornadoes. some of those tornadoes could be large and dangerous so we will be tracking that threat in the afternoon and evening. your future are radar, see that line of storms? that's 11:00 p.m. saturday. that will continue overnight. when folks are sleeping, make sure you have your noaa radios on and working because this is going to be an area of severe weather not only today but tomorrow, even into monday. sort of summertime weather and the severe threat continues. also, we are watching the potential for tropical development right here across the southeast coast. the storm prediction center, the hurricane center, is predicting a 50% chance this could develop

over the next five days. we'll be watching it. we will see the potential for heavy rain certainly off the coast and along the coast. so those areas are going to be monitored throughout afternoon and into the overnight and tomorrow, of course. back to you. >> janice, thank you very much. coming up, firefighters in eastern arizona struggling against mother nature as a fast moving fire jumps the containment lines. and one man crossing an ocean to honor his late brother. we're going to update you on his amazing journey. >> amazing indeed. plus, could the mystery of the vanishing irs e-mails be solved soon? irs head john kofk annan says they could be handed over as early as next week. our political panel is here to talk about that and more, next. >> i did not say i would provide you e-mails that disappeared. if you have a magical way for me to do that, i'd be happy to know r loan didn't start here.

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time for a quick check of the headlines. the libyan militant charged in the connection with the benghazi attack is now in federal custody. ahmed abu khattala is being held under tight security right now

at a courthouse in d.c. crews fighting a wildfire in arizona's white mountains losing ground there. strong winds pushing the flames past containment lines. firefighters expecting lighter winds today, which could help their battle. and an american man trying to row across the ocean to honor his late brother has reached the caribbe caribbean. victor mooney is getting some much-needed rest now in a st. martins hospital. well, now back to the irs scandal. irs head john koskinen is promising to produce key e-mails to the house ways and means committee. in a letter obtained by fox news, koskinen tells dave camp he expects to hand over lois lern lerner's e-mails by the end of next week. but is it too little too late? our political panel joins us. fox news analyst angela mcglouen and chris caffeine is and former chief of staff to joe manchin. we fresh you joining us.

i'm holding that letter in my hand to actually show you the letter to show you we do in fact have it. it is written or typed by and signed by the commissioner john koskinen. he says he's going to produce the e-mails next weesk. >> it remains to be seen. it's so sad a member of congress has to offer a $1 million bounty to people taxpayers pay their salary to be a whistle-blower. so the bottom line is this, kelly. the truth will rise again. a lie will never stand. now we know there's more than a smidgeon of corruption at the irs. >> chris, what do you say about all of this? how do you characterize this entire scenario we've seen where members of congress have been very upset with what's going on with the irsor and we've seen mr. koskinen be very defensive as well and sometimes very combative. >> well, it definite live has not been a shining moment in

american governance. i think it just kind of reinforces a lot of the anger, frustration the american have toward government. it's obviously become very politicized. >> politicized! >> i understand why. i would say a lot of it has been justified. the commissioner in his testimony in front of the committee, i mean, i think that was incredibly tone-deaf. at the end of the day, listen, do i think that anything happened here that was some kind of grand conspiracy? no. but nonetheless, you cannot give the kind of answers he gave -- >> well, 76, chris -- >> really is going to take that with a grain of salt. they're going to be incredibly skept skeptical. >> only 12% of the american people believe that the e-mails were accidentally lost. 3 of 4 americans believe that the congress should continue

this investigation. >> angela, i'm not disagreeing with you. i'm not disagreeing with you. >> you both are agreeing on how this was perceived. >> no. you said the republicans have politicized this. >> hold on a second. >> yes. yes. >> now, as we move forward, this is a mess, no matter how you look at it. the question that the american people really want to know, even though they're upset about it, how congress and the irs is going to clean up the mess so that if you or i have our e-mails missing from the hard drive, that we don't get the same kind of treatment they're getting, which is to say, ah, cei la vie. >> it's a double standard. go ahead, chris. >> it goes to the heart of what we have in the country right now, which is a really credibility problem with the irs. the irs -- the commissioner's really got no choice. he has to be either very humble

and very direct and honest. combative attitudes do not play, given what i think is going on right now here. in terms of getting to the bottom of the truth, i agree with angela, i agree with anyone who believes we need to know exactly what happened. what i would hope and what i mean by politicizing it, we should try to be as objective and matter of fact about this as possible, not try to necessarily come up with conclusions but with the political motivations without knowing what happened. the key is finding out what happened. that's where we can be united. >> chris, the e-mails have been missing since 2011. we're in 2014 right now. so it takes that long -- i know the government is slow. i know the federal government is very slow. but it doesn't take that long to find e-mails. so now after -- >> i'm not making excuses for it, angela. i'm not. what i'm just saying is let's focus on the fact we need to get to the bottom of the truth and let's wait to see what e-mails are produced next week. if the e-mails are produced --

let's say they're not produced or it's not a full fact or accounting of what actually happened. then i think we have both republicans and democrats and american people have a justified position to say, we need to get to the bottom of the truth here. the irs is clearly not being forming coming. >> the comments i'm hearing from both of you, chris and angela, is that you want to get to the bottom of this, but angela, as you rightly point out, it's become very politicized on both sides of aisle. i think what chris is saying it's time to move forward. let's bury the partisanship and get to the root of the problem. where are the e-mails? why have they not been produced? how can we move forward in terms of how do we make sure we protect all americans from being targeted by any member of the irs? >> well, i think you're right, kelly. >> exactly right. >> but i don't believe that iticizing this, and i hate that a republican member of congress offered $1 million. we don't need to go there. with the fbi being able to find

missing hard drives and e-mails, also with an outside company that actually is suppose 0ed to have an archive of the irs e-mails, why can't we find them and why has it taken so long? you don't need several committees to hold a hearing on the same issue. >> right. >> absolutely understood. >> wasting the taxpayers dollars. >> if there's something good that can come out of this is that next week, hopefully we will get some more answers. if we don't, then i think people, like angela, can get even more irate and justifiably so. >> i'm not irate, chris. come on. >> not too irate. >> i thank you both. very intelligent conversation about something that's on many american people's minds. just doesn't make sense. angela, chris, thank you. be sure to tune in tomorrow morning, by the way, when marie 0 area bart roma sits down with utah congressman jason chaffetz to talk about the irs scandal and the mystery of those missing e-mails.

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to libya and three other americans. a ceremony under way in sarajevo, the first two shots of world war i were fired exactly 100 years ago. the hungarian crown, the prince was assassinated by a teenager in 1914 setting off world war i. nasa plans to launch a flying saucer into earth's atmosphere to test technology that can be used to land on mars. the attempt off the coast of hawaii will test the disk-shaped vehicle and a giant parachute. well, the only limits there are in the world are the ones we put on ourselves. usually because of fear. that's what dante cunningham believes. that's how he lives. the young entrepreneur from washington, d.c., is determined to show young men and women everywhere, particularly young african-american boys, how to live their lives beyond the

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i never knew that would actually unlock the entrepreneurship spirit in me for the rest of my life. it gave me the force and the drive and the determination to be something more. >> from that moment on, dante embarked on a life of building success, earning it. he began working for the fbi at 17. in that role he learned valuable skills that eventually helped pave the way to launch his own executive security firm, which specializes in providing security for various high-level clients, celebrities, dignitaries and diplomats. just 26 years old, dante's success speaks for itself. his clients include notable celebrities like jordan sparks, the backstreet boys, and moore. dante credits his success to network for teaching entrepreneurship. a program that teaches children how to create jobs. as an alum of nifte, through his

program purple highlighter he goes into schools and encourages students to complete not only their schooling and education but to create wealth. >> the reason it's called purple print is because we're leaving that touch on your heart. that touch and that print and that legacy will always be with you. it's okay for kids to go to college. it's okay for them to go to different franchises and work. but let's talk about the aspect of, you can be your own boss, and you can run your own company. and when you achieve that success for yourself, you create a platform not for you but for everybody else. so now we not only -- you not only have a business, but you employ employees. business owners have to give back. you don't have to be rich to give back. you could spend five minutes with a kid at a school and change the kid's life. five minutes. >> dante says he draws his

motivation from faith in god and doesn't believe his dream 0 is fully realized as long as there are so many young people succumbing to negative lifestyles e.'s working very hard to make a difference. like he said, julie, five minutes. if you can give five minutes to a child, you can change their life. >> you can. change the life of a child and change your life. i believe we benefit almost more than the children do. >> the more you give, the more you get back. >> certainly. well, the u.s. economy shrank in the first quarter, the commerce reporting the gdp plunged at a rate of 2.9%, the worst quarter since the great recession. so could the economy get back in shape this summer? we have a financial and business analyst and former investment and bond manager at barclays capital. those statistics are alarming when you think about it. first of all, this is greatly affecting small businesses. explain some of the problems affecting small businesses. >> good afternoon. let's start with a staggering,

ridiculous number. in the united states this past year, small businesses spent $7.6 billi$77.6 billion hours trying to comply with the u.s. tax code. this is not just under the current administration, but this is a problem for a couple decades now. small businesses have suffered because they have not been able to deal with the complicated tax code that we have. facing a difficult tax code and an environment where it's very difficult to get a loan to start a business, very difficult to start a business in general where you have a tremendous amount of regulatory burdens. small businesses have really suffered. and small businesses have really been the reason for most economic rebounds. we just haven't seen that in the u.s. >> you blame the government for helping big business and neglecting small businesses. and some of the problems that you point out here are that regulations that raise the cost of doing business and the tax code that actually penalizes

small businesses. why would the government penalize small businesses? >> well, it's not really me blaming the government, but most economists will tell you that basically when you it keep interest rates low you're finishing savers. when savers can't put money in the bank and save money and get a decent return, the banks don't have money to lend to small business businesses. so keeping interest rates low has fueled the stock market, it's helped the real estate industry, but it's not helped the small businessperson. that person who's out there trying to start a business. so it's a pretty difficult environment if you're a small businessperson to start a business today. >> in the world of the unemployment that we live in, a lot of people who cannot get hired by larger businesses are starting small businesses and starting new careers. obviously we need to have incentives out there for people who want to become entrepreneurs, midway through their careers. let's talk about some solutions. for example, waive all fees to start new businesses and tax reform that includes reducing

the corporate income tax that currently exceeds 40% in some states. talk about that. >> yeah. most people don't realize, but the united states has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. >> right . >> it's higher than even high tax rate countries like sweden, france. we have the highest it's actually pretty ridiculous. if you want corporations to succeed, you certainly don't want to be the least competitive country in the world to start a business. and that's what we are, having the highest corporate tax rate. that's a big problem. the other thing is, you want to let companies get started easily. you don't want to have lots of up-front fees. for example, i'm a real estate are developer. if i want to build a building, i have to pay municipalities millions of dollars in up-front fees before i start construction. >> too much red tape. >> way too much red tape. absolutely. >> and you say one of the problems is the lack of skilled workers and that, in fact, immigration reform increases the pool of skilled workers and

potential new entrepreneurs could be a solution? >> immigration reform has long been sought after. many people have thought of it was a great way to get the economy back on track. we have sml millions of people working in the shadow economy who are undocumented illegal residents. if we bring them into the economy, make them taxpayers it will have a huge boost to the economy in the medium term. short term it may be difficult, but with the right fees for bringing people into the country, into the tax system, that would really help. the other thing is, you look at all our great universities across the country. we have millions of phd students and masters students in highly skilled areas who graduate every year and can't stay in the u.s. and can't work in the u.s. so they go back to their country. so we're losing the most important people. >> uri man, thank you so much. all the time we have. a good point. uri man, thank you very much. another u.s. state has passed legislation on marijuana, a specific strain of the drug. it could make a big difference

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huge chunk of the country. where is all of this potentially leading? let's talk about it with retired general jack king, chairman for the institute of the study of war, former u.s. army vice chair and fox news analyst. always good to talk to you. please, if you will share your insights and perspective on what is happening now with our response to iraq. >> well, certainly. we've put some people in there to provide some intelligence architecture which they desperately needed. when we left in 2011, those screens went blank for malaqui and others who were in the mill tier and the iraqi security forces. we got some planners in there to help them deal with consolidated defense of baghdad and conduct counter offenses. we have advisers down to the units. i would think we have special ops folks also who are looking at the potential for more special operations being deployed to take down high-value targets and also to take down

leaders. so a lot of that is looking toward the future, some of is current to be sure. the most significant thing i think we're doing is you mentioned it, we're flying isr, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, unmanned as well as manned flights in the target area and we're acquiring targets for eventual use of air power. >> and that target acquisition and intelligence we receive, general, will no doubt help influence our air -- enhance our air power, but going beyond that, you mentioned something just a moment ago about special ops. that means the potential of putting more american troops in harm's way to conduct those special ops, or would they stand back and train? >> well, i think we could do both, but i've always believed from the beginning we should insert them clandestinely to take down high-value targets, they would know where to pick a location that ae's relatively secure for them and do things we do every night in afghanistan, we used to do every night in iraq, and that is go after key

leaders and also key infrastructure that's very vulnerable to us. >> do you think this president is already planning along with this pentagon some covert operations such as that? >> well, i'm certain the pentagon would plan it. whether the president would make the decision to execute it i don't know. i mean, i already believe that we're way behind in terms of what we could be doing to address the problem. and the real problem is the threat of isis and what it means. >> exactly. >> not just to iraq but for the entire region. >> because as you know, sir, they definitely would like to conduct some sort of strikes against the united states and even our allies, which the most immediate ally there would be jordan. that would be extremely severe to the makeup and framework of the middle east. >> yeah. this is the new face of al qaeda. this is what the 9/11 al qaeda always dreamt about before they overreached and attacked the united states and then lost control and went on the defensive as a result of it,

they lost their sanctuary. this is the new face on the move, taking two vast pieces of territory from syria and iraq. they clearly want to dominate and control muslim lands in the middle east. they don't care whether those muslim lands are run by shia or sunni. they want that territory so they impose their ideology on those muslim lands. >> all right, sir, u.s. army vice chief of staff general jack king, thank you for talking to us more about this important topic. always appreciate your comments, sir. by the way, you can watch general jack king talking more on this topic tonight, tune in for fox news reporting iraq and the rise of a terrorist state, anchored by chris wallace, tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern and sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern time. well, a new law in florida legalizes marijuana use but not for everybody. a special strain of the drug can now be used by people suffering from conditions like epilepsy. i spoke with a family of a young boy who suffers from dra vai

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last week florida governor rick scott signed an important bill. it allows the use of noneuphoric strain of marijuana to treat conditions like epilepsy and lou gehrig's disease, including in children. earlier i spoke to some people who could be greatly affected by this new law, a pediatric neurologist, a young boy struggling with a rare illness and his amazing mom. joining me are dr. eric sa gal, director of pediatric epilepsy for northeast region group. and brook parsons, the mom 0 to justin parsons who sits to her right. justin has dravet syndrome, a

very rare form of epilepsy. he was diagnosed at a very young age. and you have a dr. miller who takes care of you and has been taking care of you for a long time. he's a nice guy. what's he like? >> he's cool. >> he is cool. that's right. dr. segall, tell us what dravet syndrome is. >> dravet syndrome is a rare form of epilepsy, a chronic seizure disorders where people can have seizures for a few years or for their whole lives. dravet syndrome, typically the way it presents is a child is developing normally and within the first year they start having seizures with fever. they can be prolonged. the children develop multiple types of seizuress and are refractory to the medications. >> there are behavioral and development delays, movement and balance issues, orthopedic conditions, delayed language and speech issues. these are all worsened with every seizure. with little justin, brook, talk

to us about the first time that he experienced a seizure, because it was your worst moment. >> he was 3 months old. my first son. i have three daughters. life was wonderful. my second daughter was holding him in my bedroom and i was cooking in the kitchen. it's all pretty much a blur, but at that moment i felt like i was losing my child. we had to wait 12 minutes for the seizure to stop. the medics got there within 8 minutes, and they tried to get a line. but he was so small, a 3-month-old infant having a full-blown seizure, shaking. at that point, it was just a blur. >> he has since experienced seizures his entire life. at 1 1/2 he years old he experienced a 1 hour 15 minute seizure. dravet syndrome tends to last locker, the seizures. the abnormality is there are

very few medical options out there. that's why i want to talk to you about medical myrrh marijuana, some 23 states including d.c. have approved this. florida the state you live in now has just approved a certain strain of it. why do you feel so strongly medical marijuana needs to be approved? >> i believe -- i really hope floridians think of it was a poe 0 terrible option to help someone that they may love. it may be their child. it may be their parent. but it can -- i want the full plant accessible for research. you don't want to be limited in a treatment for your child. you wouldn't want to get half of the prescription from the drugstore. you want to be able to have full access to the entire plant to research it and find out what is going to help. is it cbd? is it thc? >> doctor, that's the problem. the research hasn't been done. but there's research done in england that has actually shown for case fz epilepsy, possibly

dravet syndrome, it can worked if approved. we just need the government to cooperate. >> i think part of the problem is we need the studies we do for any other treatment to say how safe it is, how effective it is, what is the right combination, the mixture of the different chemicals from the plant, as we were just talking about. there are many parts of the plant. these are called kanab anoids. these are components specific to the marijuana plant. there's over 80 of them actually. the two most neuroactive would be cbd and thc. thc is the psycho active form, the kind you hear about in terms of the street drug for marijuana. and cbd from the animal studies seem to be very effective for treating epilepsy. it's possible that a high dose of cbd can be very effective in terms of treating seizures, but we need the studies to prove it. >> if anyone has ever seen a seizure, let alone watch your child have repeated seizures, multiple seizures every day, you would not want to be limited in what you could try to do to help your child.

but because marijuana is a schedule 1 substance and is illegal in our country, we don't have the option to try it. >> dr. segal, are you optimistic that if this were to be approved nationwide and that the limitations are lifted by politicians, that there's hope for people like justin? >> i'm hopeful that we will be able to help these patients more than they are already being helped. anything we can do that can be helpful and safe i'm very interested in. we need more information to make sure that's the case. >> kelly, only 1 in 20 to 1 in 40,000 people actually have dravet syndrome. for more information, go to epilepsy group.com and dravet foundation.org. >> julie, thank you for bringing that to our attention. my mother had epilepsy, but never anything like this. i can only imagine what a child goes through. >> and a mother and father. and three wonderful sisters. >> so good of you to bring it to our attention. >> raising awareness is really part of getting action in

washington. that will do it for us. i'm julie banderas. i'll be back. >> i'm kelly wright. the journal editorial report is coming up next. i'll see you next week. ♪ ♪ ♪

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