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>> i have answers. >> and some tips how you can save on your summer rental car and larry the cable guy with a special surprise. thanks for being with us, everybody. don't miss our after the show show. see you tomorrow. thank you very much. great show. and this morning, president obama vowing to wield executive power one more time and this time it is on the issue of immigration. he says the congress' lack of action is forcing him to go it alone on this one. i am martha maccallum here in "america's newsroom." >> good morning, everyone. i am eric sean in for bill hemmer. the republicans are accusing him of overstepping his authority yet again, but the white house said there was no other choice. >> the failure of house republicans to pass a bill is bad for our security, economy and future. today i am beginning a new
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effort to fix as much of the immigration system as i can on my own without congress. within my existing legal authorities to do what congress refuses to do and fix as much of the immigration system as we can. if congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours >> speaker john boehner said it is sad that president obama won't work with us but is intent on going it alone. michael warren is here. good to have you with us today. >> good morning. >> earlier this week, the president had his hand slapped in terms of executive power and came forward in the rose garden saying he wants to try it again and this time on immigration. what is proposing to do? >> it is a little cloudy. he is going to send resources to
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the border and some people think that means more security or lawyers to process what is going on at the border. he is going to direct people on his team to figure out ways to fix the immigration issues. i am not sure what exactly that means. but what it comes down to is he is trying to get something done within his executive power. i would think the supreme court ruling would make him think twice about the overreach but this is business as usual and the way he does things. >> it will be interesting to see what he does. he has said i am going to assemble a team and i want a report back on what things i am allowed to do. we will see how that goes. what about the talk of the gop and the president's charge that he has no choice and they will
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not for forward and do anything on immigration? >> right. he has no choice and it is something everybody agrees on so why isn't the house republicans doing it? there is two things he probably hasn't considered and one is there are legit reasons that republicans and some democrats oppose the immigration form as it is constituted or at this current moment in time with an economy that is stagnating and unemployment where it. the second thing i don't think he's considered is it would do him good to engage his political opponents on this and i think speaker boehner is right there is no effort to work with the house. it seems more -- the president is interested in demagogue and
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saying i have to do this >> meanwhile, you have hundreds of kids along the border and this could be a bad visual over the course of the summer with all of these kids in the holding areas on the border. how is that going to play out? >> your guess is as good as mine. it is interesting he is assembling a task force. this could be something that blows up over the next few months. you hear about how urgent it is congress pass this and then the president isn't doing anything until the end of the summer except sending the resources down maybe. it is a little confusing. there seems to be cognitive disance on this.
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>> the pictures are not pretty and they will continue to dog the administration throughout the course of the summer while they put together their team. there is new fox news polling, 67% of americans want those who are here illegally to stay and for the government to find them a pathway to citizenship if they qualify. a deeper sense saidip them home put them in a guest worker home. we have a fox news alert. israel hitting back hard at hamas. the military is launching airstrikes in the gaza strip overnight on southern israel. the missiles coming hours after
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the three missing teenagers discovered who were murdered by hamas. john is live and this is crushing and outrageous. what are the funeral plans? >> reporter: first of all, in terms of the strikes against hamas targets it happened overnight and 34 were hit. the calls continue to grow for more action. this is going to be a high security funeral and i will explain why. but first let me show you what is going on behind me. this is hundreds, if not thousands, of people showing up in the village to pay respects for the three teens. the actual funeral will be around 5:30 p.m. local time and that is 10:30 a.m. eastern and
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the teens will be buried side by side and this is around the same time when the bodies were found outside of the west bank city yesterday buried under a pile of rocks in an open field. last night as the news spread about this, there were numerous candlelight vigils throughout israel. today's event is high security and that is because the israeli president's and the prime minister are planning to be in attendance along with other heads of state. this is the calls that continue to grow for more action against hamas. >> that is understandable. what about the airstrikes? >> reporter: there were 24 against hamas targets and no one
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claimed responsibility, but the israeli military is searching for those two militants with connects to hamas who are expected into the abduction of the three teens and the prime minister plans to reconvene an emergency cabinet meeting later today to talk about the further action that will be taken. >> and there are reports that the ambulances carrying the bodies were actually stoned. with israel bringing their own harm down, john bolton is here to talk about the rise of islamic terrorism and the response. the hits keep coming for general motors. gm now announcing six new recalls. more than 7.5 million more
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vehicle and bringing the total to all cars and trucks that have been recalled to 25 million. that is roughly how many cars gm builds in two years. the company said the cost of fixing the recalls is starting to add up to the tune of $2.5 billion. charles gasper is here, senior correspondant with the fox business. if they are recalling more cars in their building that is pathetic >> i have seen a number showing they have not sold that many since 2005. this gives you an indication of the scope of this thing. and i am not saying that gm should be put out of business, but the justice department has put companies out of business for a lot less. arthur anderson didn't kill
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anyone and neither did enron but they were put out of business. people died at a large clip. this isn't like two mistakes. there is a pattern here and this company still exist. we should point out gm was bailed out by the federal government and the government loves to put companies out of business that employ people and that is why they are doing this. the scope of this thing keeps getting worse. the board of directors at gm has reached out to attorneys and they feel the litigation cost could be damaging where the company isn't out of the woods. the stock price is stable through all of this. ken was brought in to pay off the people that were hurt and he
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did the bp oil well spill and gives out money but protects the corporate asset as well so the market is saying that is positive. but the size and scope has trouble written all over it and i know the board of litigation is worried. >> you have $2-7.8 million payouts. that was to a 10-year-old who is left a paraplegic. and now a second one. they say the death toll was 13 and climbing up to seven more. what should the company do? what does the department of justice do? >> here is the thing. the obama administration loathes to put companies out of business. following enron when arthur anderson was deemed to aid them
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in fraud, the justice department hasn't gone after businesses themselves but you never know when it starts heating up. if you could show this ignition think occurred significantly before the bailouts, what does that mean for the way gm was forced into bankruptcy and bailed out? can that get unwound? this starts opening up -- i am not a lawyer, but i do know the board of directors of gm is worried and reached out to counsel because they see a potential neverending stream of litigation depending on how far it goes back. >> they should be worried. it is astounding. thank you very much. there is a new report that outlines new problems being found with obamacare months after the botched launch. is the administration running a
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billion insurance program basically on the honor system? we will show you the report that came out and you decide and we will talk about the site and if it is working as it should. >> you know the windy city? it was keeping up with its night. lightning here hitting. a storm down south could make it a 4th of july that is wet. >> we will clear up the misconceptions and readings of what the supreme court said yesterday and why many women think this is a win for their team. >> today is a great day for business women who run family businesses. a third of the plaintiffs in the case are women in business. thank you court for standing up for the right of women business owners.
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rejects on religious ground. here to clear up the controversy and the misinformation is kathy ruse who is a council for legal studies family. thanks for being here. i was listening to a variety of cable networks and shocked at what i was hearing. they were discussing the fact that this is an attack on all forms of contraception and it prevents women from getting the care they need. let's take a look at this descent because i want you to respond. she said this decision would deny legions of women who don't hold their employers beliefs coverage that the aca would normally care. what is your response?
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>> my response is look at the majority of what is said. they can get their free abortion and contraception but the government has to pay for it. the government already does this to the tune of tens of millions of dollars every year through the title ten program. they give out free contraception and abortion pills all over the country. stop making people violate their views. you may for it yourself. it is an easy solution >> she talked about ied's and said they were expensive and it could take a months worth of someone's salary to pay for one. >> and no one is saying they have to pay for it out of their salary. the government can pay for it.
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this is a white house project. for employers who have objections, they should pay for it themselves. this is a great day of celebration for religious freedom, conscious rights and freedom in general. this is the court saying no to the heavy hand of the government, no to obama, another overreach and you have gone too far. it is a good day and that is why there was so much celebration at the court. >> the other thing you are hearing from critics of this is that it confirms that corporations are people and that idea is part of this and that corporations scream and yell are not people and shouldn't be treated like people. a corporation cannot have a religious belief. what do you say to that? >> another misconception. long ago the supreme court said non-profit corporations can have religious beliefs and they said
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individuals gaining a profit can have religious beliefs and put them together yesterday and said corporations in the business of profit can also have religious beliefs. it isn't far-fetched. they had religious beliefs in a non-profit capacity already. >> they point out this decision doesn't apply to a narrow scope. it is for companies that are held where more than 50% of the shares are held by 5 individuals. that is a huge group they are saying with companies like toys r us and dell and the coke industry. what do you say to that? >> before obamacare the vast majority of all companies provided coverage for contraception. we are talking about closely held businesses with sincere
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religious belief and the obama administration is saying i don't care what your religion is saying you to supply people with theset things that violate your religious views or we will fine you. and they said you are going too far government. there are other ways to do this than script business that have objections. we are not talking about every corporation but sincere family businesses. a third of the people in court were women. women are bringing these lawsuits. women in america oppose the mandate in greater numbers than support it, surprise, surprise. and women judges, most of the ones ruled on this, women judges, ruled against the mandate. so this is -- when you look at
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fellow members of council. >> did that do the trick? he thanked reporters for leaving him alone while he was away. he will see how he does. good luck to him. a new report for parents who are afraid to get their kids vaccinated analyzing 67 research studies and finds the benefits outweigh the risks and saying the serious side effects are very rare and the study finding there is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. dr. marc siegel is here who is a fox news business and our partner on sunday house call. great to see you during the week. this is amazing. a lot of parents, some parents, are afraid to immune their kids because of autism link is there
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proof? >> no. but we need more evidence because parents worry when they have an infant. this study looks at 67 studies and it is from the rand corporation and harvard and pediatrics today and it shows that vaccine complications are rare and we are talking rashes and an occasional rare seizure not anything worse than that. and no evidence of a link for autism. i like to say fear of the disease should be much worse than the vaccine. vaccines are the number one public health accomplishment. >> but you hear the toddler was fine, got the mmr and affects started happening like not speaking and this sort of thing. any evidence of that? >> that is another study showing
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delaying vaccines -- which parents ask all of the time -- this study shows delaying vaccines doesn't have a different in terms of complications. in fact, when people delayed the mmr vaccine it led to more seizures. to your point, i am aware if you look at a child with autism, parents want to understand why. but i feel the money from researching vaccines is taking away from more likely causes. it is because we are injecting they are the bad guy. but we have studied and studies and haven't seen a link. >> there is a big spike in measles. what brought that up? >> 530 cases. 35 times more likely in the
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people without vaccine. >> so you support vaccines? >> very much. >> great to see you, mark. sunday at 12:30 with the doctor. the government has a new report on obamacare that finds that months after the rollout there are plenty of technical problems with the website. big reaction to that coming up. >> and do you think this is a war memorial or religious monument? this cross is at the center of a 20-year long battle and the supreme court is responding to hearing the case. >> the cross isn't going anywhere. not know and we believe not never -- now --
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call liberty mutual for a free quote today at see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. two stunning new government reports are out today on obamacare's botched insurance exchange rollout. the inspector general reporting problems with online security and millions of website inconsistency involving things like people's citizenship and income. jerry moran blasted to white house on this saying we are provided with further evidence obamacare isn't working and the administration is relying on nothing more than the honor system to run a billion dollar program. bob beckel and here and rich
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lowry. they got you to look over everything, bob, and they are government reports that show the obamacare system lacks internal controls to verify information for people enrolling. is that a problem? >> sure. but it will take a while to work it out. medicaid took a good decade >> what did they do for the first two and a half years before rolling it out? >> this has nothing to do with controls. we rely on people with the honor system to pay taxes and a lot of people do. i think most people are going to be straight and you will have a percentage that doesn't. >> don't worry, these things happen. >> this isn't the way the system works. you put in your income and information and exchanges verify
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it, reconcile inconsistency and the first time the federal government was going to run a system like this it was a disaster. in the initial meltdown when they could not sign up, there were desperate for minimal efficiency and let this stuff go. >> i have been thinking about this a lot lately. we have been hearing that the government has lousy systems and the computer systems don't work. i remember this after 9/11. the fbi said we have computers from the '70s. and then we hear the irs has a terrible system. and now you have this new system. defense, health care and the irs
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and we are being told the government can't handle the technology. >> there is a lot of information coming in and out. for the most part it works. >> where does it work, bob? >> the irs. >> no, it doesn't. cannot keep track of e-mails. >> you take hundreds of pieces of data the irs uses and there is going to be breakdowns. they could use better technology -- but >> you are apologizing. we are the greatest nation on earth and we are supposed to say things happen. >> what the government is good at is cutting people's checks. if it is more complicated than that it isn't good. most people in america can't get rid of their e-mails. if there is an embarrassing e-mail they want to destroy
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cannot do it. only the irs can use thousands of e-mails. look at the veterans administration, bob. sgr a national commitment to care for veterans and you have to a bureaucratic system that is taking care of itself. >> let's break it down. you don't want government. i think government serves a purpose. who is going to be the air traffic controllers? who is going to take care of the veterans? >> give people a tax credit to buy their own health insurance and you don't need this. >> that is ridiculous. >> why is that ridiculous? >> bob, why don't you demand it work? say this is an embarrassment. he created this system. it is something that democrats feel passionately about and don't stand for it.
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>> we insist it gets better but i don't think the capitalist system works well. >> we throw the hands up on both sides. >> you are talking about 315 million people. it takes a lot of technology, a lot of work. you know, you want to turn it over to the free market system which has proven to be a total embarrassment when it comes to dealing with savings and they put us through the greatest recession. >> without the capitalist system we would all be on dung heats poor as the day. this is the greatest system and lifts hundreds out of poverty. >> that is what winston chur churchill said. >> it is a fallen world and
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everything is flawed. >> better than a dung heap. thank you, both. happy 4th of july. the supreme court is staying out of a two decade fight that is a cross here for veterans and say say it is a religious icon with no place on the land. >> reporter: the case isn't over, they decided not to hear it as a matter that needs to be here. it goes back with hundred years when the cross was first erected. the 43 foot cross is on federal
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land and dedicated to veterans. they claim the cross endorses christianity and must come down. a federal judge disagreed ruling a secular symbol. a panel reversed it saying it represents government endorsement on federal land. yesterdays supporters rallied to save the landmark visited by veterans each day. >> that isn't about religion. it is about something more important than that. it is about liberty and that is why you are seeing veterans from all over coming to support the memorial and the case. >> reporter: there is a stay in the case currently so the cross stays where it is right now. >> william, with the two stays, how will this ever be resolved? >> reporter: well, two likely scenario. the case goes back to the 9th
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circuit before a full hearing. if supporters lose, the cross would be moved to private land or the federal land it is on could be sold or transferred to a private entity. >> william, thanks so much. let's look at the markets this morning. up about 88 points. investors reacting after gm announced another recall. doesn't seem to be hurting the stock with the second half of the year starting today and the new june numbers come out before the 4th. the dow closed at 16, 826 and down 25 and a quarter. we will tell you how markets are doing. >> how about that?
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especially with those recalls. meanwhile, to iraq. will more american boots on the ground stop the winning islamic militants? the militants are on the march aiming to create their own islamic state. what can we do? ralph peters will weigh in. >> and in just a few short hours, team usa takes on one of the toughest teams in the world cup. belgium hasn't lost yet but the united states is in it to win it. now we like soccer. >> we want it more than anybody else on the field. and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs.
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straining a hamstring against ghana. belgium is plagued with injuries with four players could be out including the team captain. today's winner plays argentina or israel. waffle house is getting rid of belgium waffles today. >> that is not fair. have you had the smothered stuff? >> i have heard it was amazing. >> it is. they put gravy on it. >> if you can get to waffle house, my advice is go. speaking of support. we want to know should president obama be at the world cup? this is controversial. everyone is responding. should the president be there cheering on the red white and blue. tweet us at martha maccallum and
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eric sean. other huge venues usually the president represents the united states of america at one point. what do you think about it? >> what if the game doesn't go so well? >> you have to be to support the team either way. >> that is true. now back to the more serious news that has to do with the situation in iraq and overseas. the islamic terrorist have been expanding their flueninfluence. the president sent troops tos to back up the embassy and airport. there are about 750 forces on the ground now. what can they do in the face of extremist, if anything? ralph peters is here. colonel it doesn't look good.
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we will have 750 brave men and women on the ground. >> there is a little problem and big problem. the little problem is protecting our personal at the embassy and that is important to do. it appears to have dawned on team obama that, oh, my, gosh, this could be benghazi. we have forced to protect the embassy and the airport so they can get out. >> do you think that is enough? what the islamic extremist try to overrun? >> that is my point. if they flood the streets of baghdad and get to the embassy, you have an alamo situation suddenly. i am behind the president in sending protection for the embassy but it doesn't solve problems. and the problem that the obama
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administration, eric, is unwilling to address is that islamic fanaticism is on the march and they declared the rebirth of the caliphate, an islamic state. and i heard on npr, juan coal, who has been wrong about everything in the middle east over the years, welcome to npr, right? but he was saying the caliphate doesn't matter because it will not resound with the urban people. that is like saying christianity doesn't matter because hipsters don't worry about it. we think they will be the agents of change but the islamic fanatics who hate us, brutalize people and engage in the real
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war of woman and are changing the map for the middle east for the much worse as the president does nothing. >> what can he do? you have the caliphate and islamic movements all over the world like boko haram. is he going to be the new head of the islamic world? >> he may well be. for some radical muslims he already is. this is hard. because the obama administration has insisted islam is a religion of peace and no threat. but jihad isn't just about a peaceful, inner struggle. and the situation is so bad from nigeria to pakistan and centered in this earthquake that there is not only an easy solution, but there may not be a solution because he let it metastasize
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menacing winds blowing through the midwest. >> see that tarp unraveling and injuring people at a minor league baseball game in iowa. and in chicago, lightning, look at that! striking the willis tower, formally known as the sears tower. it canceled hundreds of flights from o'hare. and in the atlantic you have the first hurricane of the season
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brewing off the coast of flor a florida. jannis jean is here. >> i am getting e-mails on what does the weekend look like. if you live along the east coast you need to pay close attention. we have storms, this is the disturbance that should be come our first named tropical system of the season. it will be arthur we think and we saw severe weather in the midwest and chicago area overnight. hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornados pushing across the east toward the tennessee river valley. but of course the big story is what is going to happen with this thing off the coast of florida. we do anticipate this becoming the first named storm and even a hurricane. there are the models for thursday and friday. we think remaining offshore for
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the most part but the outer banks could be getting hit on thursday and friday and the northeast coastline needs to watch it through the weekend. new information at 11 and we will keep you up to date. people want to know what is is going on this weekend and i will keep on it. >> i like the one where it goes all the way out into the ocean. >> if i could move it, you know i would. >> blow on it. there are now new concerns that the terrorist who carried out the attack on in benghazi may have gotten way with important government data. we learned two computers might have been swiped during the incident. >> what the white house is asking congress about providing
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♪ >> israel vows hamas will pay the price for the murder of three teenagers including an american. meanwhile, israel military launched airstrikes overnight pounding dozens of targets across gaza has not inspired as many as 20 rockets from southern israel into the palestinian territory. welcome, brand-new tensions as we start a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," glad you're with us. eric: hello, everyone. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu offering condolences
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the families of those teenagers who are unarmed kids just leaving school, kidnapped more than two weeks ago and then murdered in cold blood. the former u.s. ambassador john bolton joins us now. 16 years old american brutally murdered, what should we do? >> i think we should be working with the israelis to strike a really strong blow against hamas. the pattern israel has followed his it responds in kind of a one-on-one answer to hamas. hamas fires rockets from the gaza strip into israel, israel attacks the place with the rockets were kidnappe launched . israel responds proportionally. it does so because the pressure by the united states and europe not to do anything more substantial and that simply perpetuates hamas' ability to
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commit these kind of heinous crimes. instead of calling on israel to exercise restraint here as the state department did yesterday, i think we should support a really strong response by israel that goes to hamas' basic ability to carry out these kind of strikes. hamas is at war with israel. this is in a robbery or a kidnapping or a murde murder of, they should choose even if they choose to destroy hamas. eric: how about what we can do in terms of the financial aid to the palestinian authority? at the same time on the website they call these three kids soldiers. soldiers? they were walking home from a religious school. >> we should cut off all of them
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years ago. this whole thing is a rated, the palestinian authority, no legitimacy whatsoever. they demonstrated their real interest is maintaining themselves in power, that is why they have been negotiating to form kind of a coalition. this whole thing, this charade of trying to create a palestinian state needs to be discarded. other ways of dealing with the problem of israel and the palestinians, but the idea hamas is not waging war on israel and the palestinian authority is a realistic alternative is delusional. eric: what is so heartbreaking about this is the dual american citizenship, family in new york city, family lost in the holocaust. we see what is happening with isis and potentially islamic state, we see iran on the march,
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we see these, are they winning? >> it is certainly moving ahead at this point, and i think they will continue to do so for the next two and a half years as long as the obama administration big news to pursue policies they have been pursuing for the past five and a half years. this is why my view we need to react. the whole range of other issues. right now we don't have a national debate on foreign and defense policy. we suffer as a consequence, our interest and our friends around the world are suffering too, it will only continue unless that changes. eric: ambassador john bolton, always good to see you, thank you. martha: president obama offering his deepest condolences condemning the murders of these three teenagers. calling it "a senseless act of terror." the foster echoed across the administration. >> we obviously condemn the
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terms of violence that takes the life of innocent civilians. >> the kidnapping and of course any harm that has been done to these teenagers is a tragedy. martha: president obama encouraging israel and housing authorities to restrain from further action to stabilize in or interfere with joint efforts to find the boys killers. eric: there is heartbreaking reaction from the relatives of the american victim as we said he held the dual citizenship. understandably his family is devastated. >> my 90-year-old mom is a great aunt of one of the boys, and had ó he down. lost so many family members while an american, family will receive schismatic they killed
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in the holocaust, now would ever 60, 70 years later to go through something like this. eric: it continues. funerals for teenagers will take place later this hour. thousands of people as you can see live pictures are already gathering. they will be laid to rest side by side in a very deeply meaningful joint ceremony. the eulogy offered by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself. martha: so there are growing concerns that terrorists who struck in benghazi got away with some very important government information. sources are now telling fox computers were stolen during that attack on the american consulate. this is no classified information was lost however the information is still considered "extremely valuable." catherine herridge's live in washington. what do we know about these computers?
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reporter: good morning. three sources tell fox news the computers were stolen from the state department consulate in benghazi during the 2012 attack. fox news understands some local employee staff got death threats by text message on their cell phones. a source familiar with the investigation says the computers are believed to be unclassified adding they were used for document, e-mail processing and the hard drives were contained a history of usernames. experts explained the potential ramifications. >> sure it will be asked him a valuable because there is a tremendous amount of information of people in contact with that particular installation, the personnel, there's a lot of information still connected. reporter: they also confirmed to fox news there wasn't meant access, secret internet network which they used by the defense department to transfer classified information, martha.
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martha: what is the state department's response to this, catherine? reporter: the state department is looking into th at the statut insisted all be classified computers were recovered. >> information from our computers is largely pacified. but i can say during the evacuation, computers were safely remove by agents, no classified information was compromised. reporter: but he is the key thing, her statement that they consulate had classified computers conflicts with mrs. clinton's account where she seems to have. the of security "because there was no classified processing in benghazi, no marines posted there." we asked for threats of locally employed staff, they said they were not aware of any but seemed to minimize it saying it was not uncommon for local staff to be targeted for working with the u.s.
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martha: interesting inconsistencies, catherine. reporter: pretty significant. martha: thanks. eric: the white house this morning reactants the supreme court hobby lobby decision calling on congress to continue providing abortion related drugs. a small number of women who work for catholic employers. ed henry live on the west lawn with the latest on this. the white house is trying to push back because they are trying to rein in the executive powers. reporter: this a president seeing his wings clipped a bit on the executive power. you had 9-0 decision, this contraceptive coverage and what is particularly interesting is josh earnest sang the constitutional law professor in the oval office disagrees with the supreme court and wants congress to fix this in terms of contraception coverage. that is the opposite of what they said when he backs the law.
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this is settled law, republicans should not be trying to repeal obamacare. now that the court has done something the president does not like, they are offering the opposite. this is not the final word and we want to see congress tweaks this. eric: they see a silver lining in this? >> the great fear is ahead of the critical midterm elections in november. liberal base is not fired up right now. they think this decision yesterday you can see family des saying this is war on women again. taking away women's rights, so a critical midterm election already very interesting, just got a little bit spicier. eric: thanks so much, as always. martha: new fears terrorists are working to build a stockpile of
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unrecoverable bonds. eric: and a fast-moving wildfire forcing people from their homes. coming up we will tell you how that battle is going. martha: plus president obama saying he will bypass congress once again this time on immigration. lou dobbs is here with his take on that. >> 140,000 illegal immigrants pouring across the border next year, it is completely out of control, and to help all americans, what we need is a moratorium both legal and illegal.
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eric: cruiser battling a fire in san jose, california. two firefighters have been hospitalized with heat related issues. temperatures have hit the triple digit mark yesterday. about 10 people have been forced from their homes as a precaution. they were allowed to return back home and officials said the all clear a few hours later. they say the flames are 75% contained as of today, and thankfully lower temperatures forecast so they should be able to handle it. martha: security measures could be getting more strict at our airports here and also overseas because increasing concerns terrorist groups were working in syria and yemen are developing bombs easier to smuggle onto planes. one of these al qaeda offshoot this responsible for the underwear bomb that failed to
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detonate in 2009. for more on this, texas, rissman michael mccall, chairman of the house homeland committee, welcome, good morning to you. good to have you here. while the rest of us are doing our jobs every day, these guys are working on a better bomb and try to come up with things that get through our security. what do you know about it? >> they did this before 9/11, they have been working hard since 9/11 to blow up airplanes. they really have a technology that have been developing through advanced creative bomb making technology. it is in yemen. i think the troubling thing you point out is the concern we have is the potential nexus between the al qaeda affiliates in syria.
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isis have established their own, they have gone off on their own, the leader of the radical jihadist movement and now you see this weird challenge between poor al qaeda, tied with syria. isis is a dangerous game because it ups the ante and the challenge that is there. our challenge with the region, that region, is there are many americans, many europeans, australians with legal travel documents so they have the manpower if you will. what w we're concerned about is the manpower meeting the technology that could come out, and that with legal travel documents present a grave threat to the homeland. martha: i think i understand
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what you're saying, that is a a can you top this game between the incredibly dangerous entities. little to do with time on their hands other than work on this. we all wait in long lines and go through security and pour shampoo into little bottles, what is next on that front to prevent whatever they're working on to get through? >> nobody likes going through that process. i will say this threat if you can call it that emanates from overseas. this would be inbound flights in from the region of syria and iraq to western europe, it is not a great deal of alarm to be had at this point in time. looking at precautions for overseas travel that could be inbound flight.
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that is what they want to accomplish. that is where we are targeting our focus and resources to stop it. martha: how specific is this threat? >> it is a general threat in terms of the possibility. the concern is the technology of the bond making capability where they tried to get past screenings that it does exist. he mentioned the underwear bomber. that is a concern we have coupled with these jihadist movements going on in iraq and syria with them all over the world, legal travel documents to travel anywhere across the world including into the united states. my number one concern i have said repeatedly on the talk shows this this is the number one threat to the homeland.
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this is primarily why the idea of a bomb that can be made that can get past screenings on inbound flight to the united states. martha: you're talking about the screening that happens overseas, how much influence, if any, do we have over that process and how good are those that we are looking for to be involved in this? >> that is a great point. identifying these individuals, putting them on the watchlist. we're working with forme governs to work on safety guidance. i feel confident we are moving forward in the right direction. don't want to see it fit the
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united states. martha: thank you very much, thank you as always. >> thank you be at eric: white house and top democrats over the unhappy in the ruling against hobby lobby. some calling it a war on women. how it is being turned into a campaign issue on both sides. martha: messing with the guys on mad men could do with mark. the new marketing opportunity on the red planet. how would they sell it? think about it. we will be right back.
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delaying a much-needed first step trying to form a new government there. as embattled prime ministers shows no willingness at all to step aside as demanded by some. all of this comes days after islamic militants have any state in iraq and syria that they have controlled and now captured. jennifer griffin at the pentagon with the very latest. what went wrong today? reporter: there were a lot of speeches but the iraqi parliament adjourned until next week after failing to select a new speaker of parliament. the first step in choosing a new united government. last hope of fighting off the insurgents that have swept the country in recent weeks. the prime ministers showed no signs of being willing to step aside and the parliament decided to adjourn until july 8. they have placed a large emphasis on the parliament session to give the elected leaders a chance to unite but the iraqi legislatures failed to
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deliver. according to the constitution, they have 45 days to settle on the prime minister. it does not seem to have a sense of urgency despite splitting into three. eric: what about sending more troops to iraq above the advisoradvisors to protect the ? >> late yesterday they announce the president had authorized and informed congress an additional 200 u.s. troops help guard the u.s. embassy in baghdad were being sent, that is one of the largest embassies anywhere in the world. that brings the total of troops in iraq to now more than 800 u.s. troops. the pentagon has deployed helicopters and aircraft coming a day after the fight has declared simply as the islamic state and ring around the world. they are carrying out beheadings and on saturday they even
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crucified eight rebel fighters from a rival fraction in the eastern part of the area. eric: said situation. thank you. martha: back in washington president obama saying he will go off on his own and use executive powers once again. as he will take unilateral action to deal with the crisis at our border. we will talk to lou dobbs and thinsee what he thinks about th. eric: and team usa will kick their way into the next round of the world cup. facing belgium, it will be kind of tough. we will take you live to brazil for a preview. ♪
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president obama announcing plans to use his pen and telephone yet again this time viewing to bypass congress on immigration reform. this coming after john boehner declared any reform for immigration is off the table. they say it was the president's policy that created the problem but the president blames the gop. lou dobbs is here. it is a mess with the kids coming from central america thinking they can be american citizens. >> the reason for that is this president made a mess of that.
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he sent a message to central america and mexico that he is going to ease all immigration standards and laws. he has been fighting for immigration law for three years and continues through executive order to create a public advocate for illegal immigrants, releasing families from detention, he has effectively invited what is no on our border and that is tens of thousands of young people who have been told go to america and mr. obama will ignore the laws, he will refuse the enforce border security and you can cross in and if you follow these instructions you will be granted asylum and special privileges. >> but the white house will say they have been fostering this and increasing the budget and
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saying they are trying to enforce the law as well as blaming the house gop for not agreeing to the senate bill. >> that is an interesting thing because his statements attracted the people on the border creating what he calls a humanitarian crisis. that is on him. you would have to be naive to think his administration wasn't working in concert with the governments of honduras and mexico to move the children 1800 miles away through the heart of mexico to our border. that doesn't happen by accident. >> do you think any parent would send their 9-year-old up to america alone? >> i don't have to think it. we are witnessing it. they are using human smugglers
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and the drug cartels who run them to move the children up to the border. it is absurd there is a debate in the country as to whether or not this president is responsible. >> what do you do about it? what about the kids? look at the faces. some maybe here illegally but you are dealing with fellow human beings that come in like this? send them back? >> that is what we do for our closestneric neighbors. under canada and mexican law we are required to return them. there is an exception for countries like central america where instead of the custom and border patrol for deportation they are sent to the health and human services department where they are provided for and thus begins a long process that ultimately and all practicality
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results in them being left in the country. >> you have 13 million plus illegal immigrants here and you cannot put them in a box and throw them back. and the polls show 67% that there should be a pathway to citizenship. it is one of the great issues of our time. what do you think we should do? can this actually be solved? >> i think it can be and with intelligence and wisely. a path to citizenship? there is no way that should preempt the rights of those that entered legally but that is what the president is doing. de facto amnesty is what he is creating. there is a rising backlash against this president for what he created and political expl exploitation of tens of
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thousands of people cannot consciousable. there is going to be consequences and i don't think the president has thought this out. >> great to say you, lou. some folks in colorado want marijuana users to say nee taxes. they are claiming the payment of marijuana sales tax violates the right of self in-incrimination. who is behind this? >> some businesses in colorado that sell marijuana is involved in this. the owners are saying by paying taxes they are con fes to a federal crime. attorney rob cory says forcing recreational marijuana businesses to pay taxes violates the u.s. constitution. he filled a lawsuit on behalf of
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clients that say taxes could be used as evidence of prosecution >> they are open records and admitting to a federal crime. it is still a federal crime to sell marijuana. >> reporter: colorado citizens voted to approve marijuana on the fact it would be taxes for schools and the federal government even gets a share. >> that is part of money la laundrying. >> reporter: the irs just wants its money. >> if they can collect tax on growth income from whatever source is derived. they don't care if it is legal or non-legal. >> reporter: last summer the justice department said it will
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not interfere with sales in colorado and washington state for now. one thing we were reminded of is in 2016 we are getting a new president and that administration could decide to enforce federal law which would impact any state that has legalized marijuana. and the tax attorney said it is safer to pay the taxes either way. >> interesting conflict there. an advertising plan that is out of this world. a group called mars one is offering product placement on the red planet. the non-profit company is sending payloads up to mars -- mars 1 is aiming to send missions to mars by 2018 and they could include the first inter-planetary advertisements.
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they want to build a human colony by 2025. martha, would you like to live on mars? >> i would like to go visit. i would like to know what they are advertising? it is like go see this movie but you have to go here. >> mars bars? >> i think they make those up there. they should have plenty. you are hearing about this again. the so-called war on women and this is brewing up to be another hot topics. democrats blasting the supreme court decision and why it could be good for democrats in the mid-term election. >> and a lot of us are addicted to our phones. every try to walk down the street and people are walking right through you paying no attention? you will never believe how attracted some of us are. the items people would rather go
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folks in this apartment complex got a rude wake-up call in austin, texas when an suv plowed right into their building. the owner of the unit was at work luckily. he is happy no one was home. >> they said a car crashed in my bedroom. i said let me go home. i got home and saw a disaster. good thing no body was here. >> police later did arrest a suspect but since the witnesses couldn't identify him positively he was charged with public in x
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intoxication instead of dwi. big new questions about the democrats reaction to the hobby lobby ruling. outwardly they are blasting the decision but are they preparing to campaign on it using the so-called war on women issue that was successful in the last round is in the november mid-term? here is the press secretary josh ernest. >> president obama believes women should be able to make personal health care decisions for themselves. we believe the owner of for-profit companies shouldn't be allowed to assert their po opinions on employees. >> and nancy pelosi chimed in as well with this statement: david
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web and emily susman is here. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, martha. >> emily, what freedom was taken away by this ruling yesterday, do you think? >> this is a bad ruling for women and working people in general. the court allowed to further the concept of corporate personhood where the corporation has religious freedoms. this is in addition to giving corporations free speech. this isn't protecting the individual religious liberty. >> how is this woman described by josh ernest and nancy pelosi lost any liberty? >> she lost the liberty to not have her boss' religion imposed on her. that is part of religious freedom. >> she can go out and buy
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whatever she want and get it for me from planned parenthood in many cases and potentially from the government. >> part of the mandate is that this birth control is coming without a copay because you put the work in the same way you earn health insurance. this is considering contraception as part of health insurance which it should be. >> david? >> i don't know where to start. let's say emily helps make the argument willfully ignoring the supreme court and the democrats will lie if they need to to sell to the american public that republicans have a so-called war on women. this is about closely held corporations, that is an important part of this, not all corporations, to the religious freedom act removes you from the undo burden being imposed by government so the supreme court made the right decision. you are right. women can go out and get this.
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they chose where they work. no one is forced to work at hobby lobby and the owners have built a closely held corporation for their purposes they have sundays off and people know what they are going into. we are talking about four methods they have a right to object to. emily does what the left does -- they omit. it is willful destruction of public debate. >> i think this is going to be used in the election. there will bow a message that something has been taken away from women. it is hard to understand, you have 20 forms of contraception that this company says they will still provide. there are four they will not provide and many of these companies that are under this plan will go ahead and provide
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them. they don't have religious issues at the corporate head. >> a lot of what david is talking about is a lot of the rhetoric. >> these are the facts of the case. >> it is like a family business like they are holding it in their garage. they are a corporation. >> did you read the decision? >> david, i let you talk, let emily talk. >> these closely held corporations are about 90% of the corporations we have in the united states. hobby lobby themselves has 17,000 employees. when people looking for a job they are looking for, you know, whats the compensation and hours and now they have to wonder what is the religion of their top boss? >> no, they don't. emily, they don't. they have the freedom to get whatever kind of birth control. some comes from the company. if they want one of the four kinds that is not available they can get it for free from planned
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parenthood. what is the problem? >> corporations are allowing what they feel for moral and religious reasons is something they can provide. in this case it was four types of contraception but they are not connected in any legal or medical way to ending pregnancy. >> i reject the idea -- i don't know who you think runs the corporations w corporations. who started the company and runs the corporation? i don't care if you are big company, shouldn't you be able to say this is our belief and how we run the company? >> the irs holds companies with five or more less people who have stakes in the country.
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they didn't get rid of contraception anywhere in the country. it is funny the democrats including emily and nancy pelosi talking about this saying taking away freedom but that is not happening. >> we have to go. we following the nba, nfl, and now they are coming down with a case of soccer fever. we are live in brazil for the big game straight ahead. big game straight ahead. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs.
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>> be honest. if you had to go a day without your phone could you do it? 47% of adults say they can't last a day without their phone according to a consumer study by bank of america most say it is more important than coffee and tv and millennials consider it more important than toothpaste and deodorant. >> stick to the deodorant. big game in five hours. team usa against belgium on the battle to reach the next round of the world cup. with millions of fans watching from thousands of miles, our team is ready. brian is live in brazil.
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big news about a star player that could help the usa pull out a win? >> reporter: that is right. the entire country and world with world cup fever and you can feel it here. the united states has a chance to move on to the quarter final for just the third time in their history. the last time they played belgium in the world cup was 1930 and they won 3-0. perhaps a sign of what to come today. the guy that scored goals is available to play and he was hurt during the first game and that is good news for the coach and the team that is friday the big game today. >> now it is really down to every player getting their job done. >> we want more. >> there is no feeling of satisfaction at the moment. we want to be here for another
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few games and continue to push and push and see how far we can take this. >> >> reporter: the united states wasn't supposed to get out of the group of death and they did and now all hope is they will pull off another upset. >> you are seeing a lot of fan spirit in this game? >> reporter: that is right. everyone has been talking about how this world cup seems different. when you talk to the fans on the ground, it seems different. they can can't explain it but when you see the fans in brazil they have travelled with the team through many areas and now here and that is over 10,000 miles of traveling and the fans have been with them all of the way. we went to a party and fans were
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risking loosing their job and getting in trouble by staying another day or two. >> i had to workout some significant things with work to make sure i could stay. but you know this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. i think they will win and advance through the tournament and i need to be here. i think being so close and go home when i had a chance to see that happen. >> reporter: the biggest game of their lives for team usa and the fans are ready and they are ready here in salvidor and from seat to new york city to chicago where up to 20,000 people are expected to watch the team in soldier field today. it should be quite the site. go team usa! >> go usa! thanks brian. all right. as hilary clinton considers the run for 2016 some are comparing her to another front runner.
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>> thank you for being here, eric. we will see you back here tomorrow morning. >> absolutely. >> in the meantime we have "happening now" ready to go. >> take care. ♪ jon: we start off this morning with this, israel prime minister vowing hamas will pay for the murder of the three israeli teenagers. good morning to you, i'm jon scott. shannon: launching airstrikes against dozens of targets deep in the heart of hamas controlled gaza strip following a rash of rocket attacks. jon: retaliation for the death of the three teens. their bodies were found last night in the west bank. john hardy is live in israel area did john.
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