>> do you want a hit, man? >> more on this after the show show. cameras are everywhere america. face to face with the crisis on the border happening today. governor perry set to meet obama in dallas on the flooding of immigrants across the border. this is "america's newsroom" and i am bill hemmer. >> i am martha maccallum. how are you doing, bill? >> terrific. >> good. i am glad to hear that. the governor and the were will get together with religious leader and after that the

president is going to do two fundrais fundraiser. what do we know about this meeting? >> we are told it isn't going to be a one-on-one. we need to inform you it is no secret there has been a battle between president obama and texas governor rick perry especially on the issue of immigration and perry has sent several letters asking the president to visit the area. the white house responded to

greet perry and his original plan was to go to fundraiser but perry declined saying a tarmac hand shake wouldn't cut it. so they extended an invitation for a round table with civic and religious leaders and perry accepted. >> we thought it would make sense to extend the invitation to perry and talk about this in a constructive manner. we are looking forward to governor perry participating. >> the president will be in austin tomorrow with more fundraising. no border visit has been added to the schedule.

>> it will be interesting what perry says after the meeting. we wanted something of substance to discuss and we will talk about that. the question of where everyone is being housed and there is opposition in the town you are in to do that. >> reporter: a lot of people have been bused and taken to places around the country. leaders in dallas countcounty announced they would be taking in some 2, 000 of these people. local officials say the feds will be paying for it and it seems this notion isn't sitting well with some folks. >> bringing illegals to dallas doesn't come under duty of

dallas county commissioner. >> reporter: dallas is expected to take them in by the end of the month. interesting day as perry and obama come face to face. >> dallas isn't alone either. leaders in league city, outside of houston, have voted to keep undocumented children from their county. council members say they were left with no other choice. >> we are forced into crisis management. what about veterans? homeless? we are not taking care of them and the money we spend on them is taking away. >> our city is almost $200 million in debt. >> the president asking congress for $3.7 billion in emergency

funding to deal with the crisis. a request that is met with criticism from republicans. >> what disappoints me with the president's request is it is a blank check and no reform. and i know and he knows what he needs to do in order to address this problem. but he apparently, as a result of political calculations, is refusing to do that and that is sad. >> where we see now? chris sty wall is here. will the president get the money to pay for this? >> probably not. or at least not in this form. the concern that senator corner pointed out there was the president wanted a couple

billi billion, they doubled it. most of this is going for the care, housing and feeding of the unaccompanied minors. the main concern about the president's request is the underlying law that grants asylum to the kids that was designed to block child trafficking -- people want to see the law change so the beacon isn't lit to encourage children to come to the border. >> you know house republicans will push for more border security. why not go to the border when you are in texas? we are told the white house doesn't want to be bullied. >> i cannot fathom the amount of arrogance it would require to send the president on a

fundraising trip through colorado and texas while this was going on. no one can see this. they have had long time heads up on this problem and in the recent weeks they were going on. they could not tell the president we will send you another time. i cannot fathom they think they can pull this off without the president seeing what is a h humanitarian crisis that is stretching the military and communities as they try to stretch and house the kids. >> but if you go there and get the picture you own it. >> you remember for hurricane k katrina -- when do you go? for the president this wasn't a

natural disaster and whether it was unavoidable who knows. but this is a man-made circumstances as a result of the government. if he is in the hangers of the kids it will stamp this as his problem and something his administration hasn't been able to deal with. >> thank you, chris. tonight, sean hannity will go to dallas and sit down with perry and it will happen after the face to it face feet meting with obama and it will be interesting to see what he thinks about that. it is almost too late for the president to go to the border for just the reason you and chris were discussing because the optics that don't much to people on the ground.

but it might have been appropriate to go a week or two ago when this started happen and he could have jumped ahead of. >> governor perry is the one guy you want to talk to. his strong language saying i have written two letters toite . our question is will anything come from the meeting between perry and obama? prime time tonight,. witnesses describing a harsh reta retaliation at the va. whistle blowers speaking out about the va. one was placed on leave after

speaking out about the hospital spending millions on obama ads. others covered up wait times and mistreatment of the veterans. >> the va has intimidated any employee that brings forth information that is against what the va wishes to project. i submitted a complaint about the va system and ten days after they received my report i was put on leave for a month. the deficiencies were obvious at the er and the actual mistakes and misses sky rocketed. strokes, heart attacks, blood infections and other serious issues were routinely missed by inexperienced nurses or nurses that were overwhelmed by the

flood of patients hitting the er. >> that did make that woman unpopular with her superiors and now she is speaking out in an incredible way. catherine mitchell, the va whistle blower who worked at the phoenix va emergency department. what a story she has to tell us. israel launching its largest defensive in two years against targets inside the gaza strip. israel saying the strikes aimed to stop hamas once and for with a rocket fire into southern israel. hamas firing back. fighting going off during a

wedding ceremony as you can see here. that wedding party sent scrambling. no word on whether or not anyone was injured during that. more coming up on that this morning. as the crisis on the border continues to grow, women and children being shuttled into different areas and kept overnight in places like this, one lawmakers wants to go see these conditions existing in the united states of america and he is not allowed to go into the facility. the red tape he has been put through just to go view where the women and children are being held is an extroidinary story. >> and a vile of small pox found

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deadly storms slamming the northeast killing at least four people in upstate new york.

the town of marion, east of rodchester, was one of the hardest hit areas. people say their neighborhood looks like a war zone. >> it was raining, then windy and then something was here. >> it was insane. looked out the window and saw blankets of rain and trees. >> that trampoline flew about a hundred feet. this tree came from that pine. the windows with broke on the side of the house. >> these storms are being linked to the death of a child in maryland where a tree fell at a summer camp. the obama administration

taking heat over the access it is giving to immigration facility or the lack of access. my next guest is heading to one of the centers on saturday. he is oklahoma congressman and member of the house committee. good morning. you were turned away on the 1st of july and you will get access on saturday at fort sill. >> that is correct. after being rejected and told i could come back on the 221st. they are doing a media day on the 10th but the rules are stringent. you cannot ask questions, there can be no recording devices, you can't talk to the staff, you

can't talk to the children, you have you cannot talk to the medical staff. and if you have a question you can send an e-mail. after the tour they will send pictures to you. but not during the picture. this isn't what we expect in the united states of america. and certainly the media needs to stand up for itself and a number of media outlets in oklahoma have said we are not attending giving those restrictions. >> that is a lot of rules. i am left to wonder what you will be allowed to do. >> that is the question. what would a member of congress go for if the things we need to know are being restricted from finding out? and now the president is saying he needs us as members of congress to spend $3.7 billion to expand the program but will thought give us access to

facilities or ask questions or interview the personal. >> it will be interesting to see if reporters go in on friday. you are talking about reporters from tulsa and oklahoma city. are they trying to protect the kids or hiding something? >> they are saying it is to protect the children. but why can't we talk to the staff or medical providers or hear the stories of the people suffering? there are stories of young folks streaming across the border. you cannot tell me to border is secure when 10-year-old children are streaming across. but abuse and human trafficking is some of the story. and this is a direct result of having an open border on the south side of the country and a

result of the president advertising he would like to give you citizenship if you are in the country and now the president wants $3.7 billion and it seems like it will expand the program and there is not a dollar to secure the border. the security act of 2006 said you have to have hundred percent operational control of the border. >> i know you have a big problem with the rules. regardless of the rules, will you still go? >> i am going. i am absolutely going. >> you were turned away the last time? >> i was told to wait until the 21st after going on the 1st.

now they say i can come on the 12th which is still too long but we need unfeathered access. when a representative of congress wants to show up we should not be turned away. this should be transparent and open. if you are a foster parent you have visits from professionals unannounced. >> we will keep in touch with you, jim, we will bring you back on monday so we can know how the visit goes. >> thank you, bill, appreciate that. and how about this? she wrote in her journal if you reading this i am missing or dead. police are searching for this washington teen teenager.

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>> reporter: police are not sure if this is a run away situation but dean's mother believes the daughter is the victim of a secretary trafficker. she wrote the journal entry two weeks before she left. the day she was last heard from she sent her boyfriend saying she was afraid because people she got involved in were threatening to kill her and her family. the 17-year-old was telling people at school she was involved with bad stuff and in over her head. the national coalition of female e exiployitation is involved in the case. when they searched the room they found a cellphone the mother didn't know she had.

>> do they have any clues who the people are she is involved with? >> very sketchy. dean was last seen leaving on june 23rd around 9:00. a neighbor saw her coming home getting out of an older volvo. they said it was filled with people and the driver was a black male between 25-35. she was last seen wearing black exercise tights, shoes, and might have been carrying a backpack. she was involved in drama and art and was in cheerleading. trouble case here with not many leads. why the critics in colorado are saying this is a radio active presidency.

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i started recording the cases of mistakes or misses to the change of command and 20% of the er nurses would retaliate against me and stop doing orders, refusing to answer questions and the administration was made aware of this but declined to stop the behavior. >> that was catherine mitchell a former director of the va emergency department. she blew the whistle among overcrowding and many other grieveious things going on under her watch. she said she feared for her patient's lifes in many cases

and was met with retaliation from nurses and her bosses for what she thought was doing the right thing. welcome to "america's newsroom," doctor. >> thank you for having me. >> your story is extraordinary. you were in a leadership position and started to express what led to overcrowding and people were over taxed and you were concerned about suicide and patient care. were you surprised when you first started to talk about these things that other people didn't say you are right? thanks for speaking up? >> no, i wasn't surprised because in the history of the 16 years i had been there in general the management doesn't like to hear bad news. the manager shoot the messenger is alive and well.

their response has been unpredictable. so when you approach these things you have to do it in a politically correct form that you can reduce retaliation. >> it sounds like most people were trying to cover themselves. get there, work, go home and come back in the morning. >> i would not say it was many of them. there were a few in position of power. the majority of the employees do a fantastic job and almost everyone in the er with the exception of those nurses were disturbed by the situation occurring there. i was in the position of leadership so i took their concerns and my own and brought them forward to management.

>> you filled a report that you not was going to be private and that was leaked. tell us about that. >> i filled an iog complaint in regard to multiple situations. when i filled it, i went to every friend i had in the va system and said tell me your life threatening issues and the things that can't wait for the slow process of change and i will put them forward into my complaint because i wanted it to have the biggest chance of making a positive impact. names have been leaked when i filled it in the past and i knew there would be a good chance my name would be leaked so i told friends to give me information that could not be traced back to them so i could make myself the only target. i didn't want to lose other employees because of the

retaliation. >> tell us how you were personal retaliated against? >> part was described last night in the meeting in that nurses would impede my care and not handling questions like who is the charge nurse. my proficiencies dropped and my ethics are whatever is barely passing and the same thing for my medical skills and administrative ability. i worked unlimited hours. because i am title 28 employee i am considered a 24/7 employee. i was exhausted and the understanding i have is it isn't legal. you can only be scheduled for 80 hours but your work day can extend past the 8 hour day.

working that many hours is dangerous. it wasn't legal to make colleagues to do that so i absorbed the split shifts and unusual shifts. >> are you convinced that any good will come of this? or do you think this story will end up going away and things will carry on as they have been at the va hospitals at the expense of our veterans who fought and risked their lives for this country? >> what happens next depends on the public and veteran reaction. in general, the other scandals in the va once the politicians turn off the lights and everybody goes back to life, everything is turned off. i am hoping this issue can't be ignored. it has to be addressed now or

the entire va system is going to employed. >> all the way back to lincoln the foundation of the system was to serve the veterans and make sure their family gets the care they need as well. and you feel that has failed in so many ways. thanks for coming forward and talking to us today, doctor. >> thank you for having me. 22 minutes before the hour. stunned, silence at the stadium at the world cup. germany scored five goals against brazil in five minutes. in route to a shocking 7-1 victory in the semi finals. 7-1! >> what happened? >> that is the worst defeat in the history of the country. >> you know those people in the

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the epa is claiming they have the right to garnish your wages without a court order for anyone violating their rules. they are trying to fast track the rule and put it in place by september unless people speak out by august. but the fines have doubled over the months. top democrats in colorado skipping the president's speech today. all democrats are facing reelection and distancing themselves from the president. brit hume was discussing this. >> he is politically radio active and has a bad set of woes

and troubles as any president i can remember. >> alan combs and tony sage is here. both are fox news contributors. are you ready for the breaking news? this could decide the power of balance in the senate and mark udall isn't attending the fundraising that is hosted by the president in his state. he is staying in washington, d.c. to head up a vote on urban development. >> this is the cause and effect of having your president under the water. the economy, health care, obamacare, iraq -- president

obama is hurting democrats nationwide and looking at a state like colorado where you have the governor and a swing seat in the congress there where you have a democrat -- >> this was the arrival on the plane and this was 2014 and flashing back to 2008 during the n n nomination convention and there is 70,000 people in line. >> this is about understanding the reality that democrats don't want to be associated with the president if they don't have to. >> this is the list that hume picked off. democrats need to step up and defend some of the things the president said.

i think obama is too tough on immigration. i don't think we should be sending troops to iraq. i am not here to defend him on all of these issues. but he has done more to deport people, used executive order less than other presidents and he is being unfairly characterized as not stepping up. you have boehner wanting to sue them. the republicans are overplaying their hand with the president. >> that would be a fair argument if there wasn't overwhelming disapproval ratings. the president is loosing support among this own case. african-americans have dropped 20 points in support of the president and latinos dropping

30%. >> that is the economy there. iraq and syria, va, russia on the march, the horrible situation on the border. >> you cannot blame the president on all of those arguments. >> without bringing up bush we are going back there are alan. but the ability to shape these events in any favor for the united states. >> each event isn't a negative stain on the presidency of obama. the va scandal is something we should be in front of. syria, iraq -- he should be going to the border with rick perry in addition to the fundraising going on. you cannot say everything he does is wrong.

everything is his fault. >> just for the record there was a fair and balanced comment in there. >> rick perry played it smart saying i don't want to meet you at the airport come to the border with me. >> rick perry is the only politician who wants to meet with the president on this trip. but this is poetic justice because we heard him blame bush for everything but you cannot blame him for every because there is not one single thing but in the six year of his term it is difficult for the president to pretend he is a by-stander to chrrisis and even that prove he is a failing president. even chuck todd -- >> make it quick.

>> you can not say he is wrong about everything. failing president and radio active terms are not things that apply to this presidency. >> and then there is george bush. thank you alan and tony. how about this for something that is potentially awful? how did vials of small poxs, supposed to be in two places in the world, show up in an unexpected length. >> and one pilot going to great lengths to build moral on a ground plane. ground plane. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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health officials are scratching their heads at a startling discovery. six vials of small pox were found in a storage room near washington, d.c. there is no specific treatment. only vaccines to prevent it. it killed 30% of its victims. the disese has been erased world wide. the last case goes back to 1949. the last global case was in 1967. we have an assistant professor at nyu school of medicine. how does this happen? there is two specific places it

is kept. who left the vials there? >> it is concerning they have been sitting there are the whole time. we are lucky people didn't check it out or throw it in the trash. i am not sure how it happened but it is disturbing and makes you wonder if something like this could happen at other locations and disesases. >> no body gets vaccinated for this anymore, right? >> there is more risk than people getting the vaccine than leaving it alone. over the thousands of years it has killed hundreds of millions of people. >> in an awful way. >> it is disfiguring and people

get confused between small pox and chicken pox. but chicken pox is mainstream as opposed to small pox when we don't think about. so it was eliminated by the vaccine campaigns that took place over a hundred years or more. the idea it could come back now and people are not vaccinated is disturbing. >> you think it is such a threat it should not exist in the united states at the cdc and in a lab location in russia. why are they around? >> they say if small pox were to come back we would have the samples to study again and try to fight it again. but the thing is there is more risk potentially that let's say they got into the hands of terrorist or something and they could be used against us. so i personally have a concern

of the deadly viruses. >> would you need that sample to create a vaccine again? >> not necessarily. but because people are not getting vaccinated for this there is no protection. it would take a long time to vaccinate people if it were out there. >> some are calling for a congressional investigation saying someone should pay. >> whoever stored it probably wasn't trying to harm someone. when people move they see things they haven't seen since the last move. >> small pox hanging around in the attic. >> it is like having a hoarder with a deadly disease. how bad is the president's decision not to visit the border? we will tell you. >> we are awaiting a court

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martha: fox news alert. busy day today on capitol hill and on the boredder in texas. right now we're waiting to hear from house speaker john boehner. expect him to step in front of the podium any moment now. the border and crisis immigration should be at the top of the agenda when he begins to speak and take questions. we could learn more about his plan to sue president obama over his alleged abuse of presidential power. we're monitoring this. if news is made we'll certainly bring it to you. meantime there is a senate hearing about to get underway over the growing crisis along our southern border where a human tragedy is unfolding. president obama is headed for texas today. he will do fund raisers there. he will not visit the actual border. he will meet with governor perry and religious leaders and local officials as well.

welcome, brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. a texas democrat is warning the decision to stay away from the border could become president obama's katrina moment. as governor rick perry agrees to a meeting rater today with the president but that meeting is in dallas. that is hundreds of miles from the border where thousands of children are crossing illegally. a bit earlier last hour oklahoma congressman jim bride den stein, told us why he believes this crisis is the direct result of the administration's fail ture to first secure the border. >> you can't tell me the border is secure when 10-year-olds are streaming across it. but some of the stories are abuse and human trafficking. the story of these kids coming here is tragic. interestingly it is direct result of having an open border on the south side of our country and direct result of the president advertising to the world he would like to give you citizenship if you're in our

country i will really. martha: jonah goal berg, "national review on-line." >> hello, martha. martha: a lot of talk about is this president obama's hurricane katrina. people remember president bush flying over katrina in initial days, looking out the window. that is not good for him in terms of optics as we say. what do you think about the comparison? >> i understand the white house is afraid of optics having them down at the border. i don't like the katrina analogy for lots of reasons. it gives short-shrift what george bush actually really did that the media did not give coverage to. more importantly, unless you're spike lee or tinfoil hatted psychopath who writes in comments section on youtube in all caps, no one thinks that george bush created that hurricane. that was a man-made, that was a natural disaster came out of nowhere. this is disaster is entirely

man-made, building and developing for a very long time, that the white house, like isis taking over iraq, the white house tells reporters, hey, we had our eye on this but this really came up and took us by surprise. what took them by surprise because they don't know how to do their job. to compare this to katrina makes sound if they're not culpable in this. it is really, i understand the political point. people are saying they don't want, obama doesn't want a photo-op at the border that presidentializes this crisis. i get that but to me it is more like the bp spill. this is something, obama didn't cause that, but his inaction became a huge problem. martha: yeah. this, notion of sort of being caught off-guard by things is becoming sort of familiar mantra from the white house which a lot of people find very troubling. in terms of optics, we have, the picture that was sent out last night is one of the president playing pool and yucking it up

in denver while he is there. how does this play out? >> i think, this is very strange. i think this is a sign that the bubble around the white house is much thicker than people think. obama's always likes to cultivate the idea of no drama obama and maybe they think this shows him as everybody, as an every-mankind of thing. martha: when you look at these pictures, think about the fact that the white house wants to avoid picture at border, this is the picture we've got. no doubt there will be more pictures from fund-raisers when they happen tonight, why wouldn't they cancel some of these appearances? i get not wanting to go to the actual border and reasons to think that really wouldn't be the most ebeing effective use of his time, this optics, looks like the bubble is extremely thick. >> i agree. it's bizarre. the white house is telling reporters that they don't do theatrics. that is not their thing. which is absolutely bizarre when

you consider this is guy with greek pillars and campaigning in berlin. so much of his presidency is about theatrics. the problem is they can't get the theatrics right now. martha: the other side of this, jonah, you're supposed to believe there is come pack. that the president's compassion for the people at the border is the reason that they're having a difficult time figuring out what to do here because they don't want to just put kids back on buses to send them back home because they're worried about their situation back there. >> right. martha: none of these images are presenting that feeling on the part of the president. >> no. it's, in terms of pr, it is a catastrophe. i don't mean a catastrophe and incredibly incompetent and weird. that is the fundamental thing. it is just weird and these guys have not been able to get control of any story for months now. basically the only way they get off of one scandal when it gets replaced by another scandal. they got of irs because of va. got off va because of

bowe bergdahl. they got off bowe bergdahl because iraq was retaken by insurgents they were supposed to keep an eye on. that got out of the news because crisis of border. this is not a team in control of events and they're playing catch-up and doing it really badly. martha: they were not concerned about the optics and that is apparently the case. jonah, thank you. see you next time. bill: the president is asking for 3.7 billion to work on the current crisis. it includes 1.8 billion for health and hewlett-packard services. 1.6 would go to the department of justice and homeland security and state department would get 300 million. that is in part. stuart varney host of "varney & company" on fox business network. getting ready for his show. good morning to you. that is a partial breakdown of the money, correct? >> it's a partial breakdown, that it will take billions of dollars to deal with the situation, but most of the money on the screen is going to humanitarian causes.

humanitarian, taking care of those who have come across the border. very little of this money is actually going to secure the border. a couple of examples, bill. a billion dollars will be used to house these children, take care of them. 100 million to transport these children. 300 million going to central american governments to persuade them to persuade their own people not to come up here. $45 million to new immigration judges. $5 million for a media campaign, saying hey, don't come. we're not going to have you. that is all humanitarian assistance. i found very little of this 3.7 billion that is actually being used to secure the border. i found $364 million for overtime and temporary postings. by a stretch you could say that that is towards border security but that is a stretch. bill: even on that issue, especially on the republican side of this, they have been pushing for border security for some time now. you know, the money's one thing, we know how tight things have

gotten in washington and rightfully so. but can you get enough people to street for this the way it is lined up? >> probably not. you have to bear in mind, this is just the bill now. another bigger bill is going to come down the road, depending how many more people come into the country. if you look way down the road. by that, maybe six months to a year, who is going to pay for the education and health care of these youngsters that are coming across the border? are they going to be paid for by the local communities where they settle? enormous amounts of money are involved. billions and billions of dollars. i'm not sure that america is ready to pay that money and vote for it. bill: might be just the first ask, 3.7. >> it is. bill: stuart, thank you. catch you in 50 minutes over on fbn. >> thanks, bill. martha: we have pictures coming in from the senate homeland security committee hearing. the topic is the crisis unfolding on the southern border. testimony is expected to focus on the increasing numbers of illegal immigrants that have

been pouring across this southern border, including tens of thousands of unaccompanied children and what it means for our homeland security situation. a lot of questions have arisen, bill, who else might be sneaking across that border. governor perry talked a lot about list of other than mexicans crossing the border. some who are from places that don't like us very much. that is a big concern. bill: we'll see if that comes up, governor perry and president obama, couple hours away in dallas. martha: meantime the irs commissioner john koskinen back on the hill today. he will answer questions from lawmakers on poor record-keeping from the agency concerning more than $100 billion in alleged improper payments made by the government last year. chief political correspondent carl cameron. carl, is the big question, we ask a lot. where is all that money going? >> reporter: follow the money and where is it, yeah. this is not just accounting errors. some people got money they shouldn't have.

$106 billion. of people got unemployment benefits when they were working. cases undue social security benefits paid. tax credits for families who didn't deserve them. half of it, $50 billion from improper payments in government health programs like medicare and medicaid went out to folks. koskinen will be asked about another major issue. the ongoing issue of the lost emails to and from former irs official lois lerner in the investigation of the irs's improper targeting of conservative groups when they are seeking tax-exempt sat stars a couple years ago. can couple of weeks ago, koskinen thought told the ways and means committee said that he thought lerner took proper precautions to save emails. republicans simply don't buy that. irs deliver ad separate batch of document the on july third to lawmakers. we know investigators have been pouring over them on the holiday weekend. if there was anything found in the last couple days the new information and whatever the developments are in the lost

lerner emails, that will be put in front of koskinen and public and we're likely to get earful in couple hours, martha. martha: he is on the hot seat again. carl, thank you. bill: one of the more powerful liberal groups of women in the country targeting catholic nuns. why would that be? why would sisters be added to the list called the dirty 100? we'll tell you. martha: an american marine sitting in a mexican jail is finally getting his day in court. could andrew tahmooressi, the sergeant, go free today possibly? >> the mighty mississippi spilling over its banks. why forecasters say it might only now be just the beginning. >> the hardest part is, not knowing, you know, how long you have to wait, what to pack. you know, when are we going to come back home. >> people say why, don't you move out, why don't you move out? this is home.re any questions? can i get an a, steve?

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gasoline to try to take long detours to get to work. martha: so president obama is asking congress to sign off on $3.7 billion in emergency funding that would go to help the influx of immigrants at our southern border right now. but the critics not so quick to jump on board. they say the aid request doesn't actually do anything to secure the border. congressman ted poe of texas a member of the house judiciary committee and vice chairman of the subcommittee on immigration and border security. welcome, good to have you here today. >> thank you, martha. martha: what do you make of this $3.7 billion request? >> it is misguided in the sense, assume we're in a sinking ship, there's a hole this ship. we need to plug the hole. we need to fix the border. rather than do that, we're just bailing out the ship full of water. that is what this bill does. it offers more pails to bail out the water. so it is misguided what the real problem is and what we should do about it. martha: 3.7. we just listened to, sort of a detail were the money goes.

a lot of it is into facilities and judges, that kind of thing. that is interesting. we looked back this morning at latest investment, most recent estimate what it would have cost to bid the fence across the border. that is $6.5 billion. now you have a $3.7 billion request to basically, you know, plug the hole and take care of the people who came through it, right? >> well, it is not going to plug the hole. what we need is the national guard on the border. i introduced legislation to put 10,000 national guard members on the border with the governor's request. we have to stop the problem of people coming into the united states illegally first. and then deal with the folks that are here. and so the bill is misguided because it doesn't deal with the problem. it deals with a symptom. martha: sounds like the president is not going to get his money. >> well, it, the bill will come of course to the house. i hope we adjust it to add the national guard on the border, reimburse states like texas who

have already spent a million dollars a week protecting the united states border. with the national guard. also deal with the issue of immigration judges. but long term we need to have a plan for these people who have come to the united states to reunite them to their home country. that should be the plan. martha: it is a mess at the border. everybody can agree on that. the picture you're seeing, you saw a moment ago on the screen is ongoing hearing on the hill in the homeland security department as they talk about what's going on down there. we're keeping one eye on that as well. you know when you look at this overall situation that is going on down here and you remember what president obama said bit in the past, i want to go to a sound bite we have from president obama talking about what a great job we're doing on the border. >> thanks to the outstanding work of janet, alan, everybody who is down here working at the border, we have answered those concerns. under their leadership, we have

strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible. they wanted more agents at the border. we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at anytime in our history. martha: so this administration claims they have done more than anybody to stop this problem? >> they may have done some but issue is, is the border secure and it is not. the president is absolutely incorrect when he says the border is secure. you can stand on the texas side and watch people cross in from mexico. with are people there to stop them? they're not. they're missing in action. why doesn't the president go down to the texas-mexico border while in texas raising money for the democrat party to look for himself to see a real crisis that is occurring because the border simply is not secure? martha: another thing i find really surprising is the irony in this. we have illegals coming across the border going into these facilities. so the illegals are welcome into these facilities.

yet congressmen who want to figure out what is going on with the situation are not allowed anywhere near it without very strong stipulations. here is congressman bridenstein who was on with us earlier. want to get your thoughts on what he said. >> i'm a federal representative of the people. this is a federal facility, on federal property. and they're saying i can't come for another three weeks. now we finally got them to capitulate i can come on the 12th which is still too long. here's the thing. we need unfettered access, when a member of congress, a representative of the people wants to show up at one of these facilities we shouldn't be rejected or turned away seemingly for political purposes. >> why on earth would that be, congressman? >> once again, they want to make sure that the public and members of congress get scripted version. same thing occurred at lackland air force base in san antonio. we were allowed to go down there, you can't talk to anybody. you can't talk to the staff. you can't take any photographs. you can't do any audio recording. you can't do anything. you have to follow us along the trail and we will show you what

we want you to see. why are they acting this way? because they have something to hide. and that is very unfortunate. congressman bridenstein is right. >> i think everyone can understand wanting to protect the children in this situation which i think is what the administration would say is reason for that. why you can't talk to staff, people heading up operations down there? that is completely undemocrattic on any definition that you can think of. these are pictures that we have so far. we're working to get more. congressman poe, thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you, martha. bill: 20 minutes past now. operation "fast & furious" back in the spotlight today. there is a group talking to a judge asking for critical information. will they get it? we'll talk to a leading plaintiff behind that lawsuit in a moment on this. plus? martha: no more mr. nice guy from george clooney. he is pushing back what he said about a new report which has something to do about his soon to be bride in a major newspaper. we'll talk about that.

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martha: george clooney fighting back after a report in the "the daily mail" his future mother-in-law, that is the new fiance. the other one was the old girlfriend i think, one of the old girlfriends. he has impending marriage to amal alamuddin. he claims this article, slammed his family, his future family for religious reasons. the article said women who marry outside of her supposed faith have been victims of violence but clooney telling "usa today," quote, the irresponsibility ever this day and age to exploit religious differences where none

exist, is very least negligent and more important dangerous. we have family members all over the world. the idea that someone would inflame that part of the world for the sole reason to sell papers should be criminal. no far from "the daily mail" in response to clooney's comments. we'll see what they have to say about that. bill: sticking up for his lady. good for him. 25 past the hour. story about "fast & furious." a group is asking a federal judge to allow access to what could be critical documents. the justice department argued that these documents were put under seal by the president that involks executive privilege. my next guest argues against that. he is president of judicial watch. tom what do you want? >> we want the documents that the government, the federal department of justice is withholding from congress and eric holder has been held in contempt over the refusal to turn over these documents. these are documents about

"fast & furious" lies to congress. and congress and the federal government, excuse me the obama administration are fighting in court for years on this. separately we asked for the documents unr the freedom of information act. and the justice department came in and told the judge, 16 months ago, you should hold off on judicial watch's request and lawsuit until we resolve this issue with congress. well guess, what? it is 16 months later. there is no resolution in sight. even if that fight is settled one way or another, we still have a right to these documents. yesterday in court -- i'm sorry. bill: just a point on this what do you think these documents will prove, tom? >> i think the reason administration is w rolling these documents. it will show a cover-up. they knew what was going on in "fast & furious." gun running in mexico, causing violence in mexico, leading to the death of border patrol agent brian terry. they knew about it and they lied to congress about it for months.

we want information on that. congress wants information on that and the administration yesterday in court, the lawyer for the department of justice suggested we should be able to wait if necessary, two more years, even before we get a list of what documents they don't want to give us. bill: what is your best argument for winning today? i know you feel a bit optimistic that you will win. your argument is what? >> the law allows to us get access to these records. we have a right under the freedom of information act to get a access to these records to force the administration to explain to the court why they're withholding them. they don't even want to do that. they want to bypass the freedom of information act while they fight with congress. the american people should not play second fiddle to a political fight with congress about documents. bill: will you win today, tom? >> i don't know. the court said he is going to rule in the near future. he expressed skepticism yesterday. we won't get an answer for at least a few weeks. but we'll see. i think we'll start getting more information. we have a record, as you know,

bill of getting info from the government and from this administration that congress can't get. bill: tom, thank you. tom fiten, president of judicial watch. we'll be in contact. we'll see what happens. thank you, tom. martha? martha: israel's military pounding gaza as rockets rain down over central israel now. [explosion] incredible images coming there. israel's prime minister is instructing the military to intensify their assault. troops get ready for a possible ground invasion. bill: big story there. rosie o'donnell is going back to "the view" america. what brought that on, huh? talk to hasslebeck and get the inside story. martha: talking about it this morning. ♪ veggies you're cool... reworking the menu. mayo, corn dogs...you are so out of here!

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evidence on his own behalf. one thing that may be entered is this video. this is sergeant tahmooressi there, video shot by his political team, went down through the border gate and showed how difficult it can be in some respects to get in the wrong lane and cross into mexico, which is exactly what sergeant tahmooressi insisted happened when he was taken into custody by mexican authorities with weapons in his car. he got into the far left lane going into mexico and got stuck. you can see how easy that can happen. greta van susteren's team shot this same type of video showing that. his legal team went back into the exact same thing. that could be entered into evidence. when you talk to his legal team, he says there is 50% chance, emphasize could be released today. he said they will not leave him down in that mexican jail. take a listen. >> it is important that we don't leave our veterans behind. that is what our foundation does. as we know andrew got a

diagnosis of ptsd. it may have some relation to what happened. yeah, we should cover it. we should care. >> reporter: another piece of evidence that could be entered is this video showing an ambulance basically veering across lanes to not go into mexico. gives you again the example of what it is like down there at border. we crossed it many times. it is very con tuesday fusing if you haven't done it the first time. his team believes ptsd they believe he suffers on caused him to get in the wrong lane. his defense team said it is all about that. the judge a little different than the state. the cases are not all one case. they're broken up into sections, there is a chance albeit however slight he could be released today. martha. martha: as you pointed out, he changed attorneys several times. is there any suggestion there may be last minute changes as they go in there today? >> reporter: he has american advocates this side of the border based in malibu working

with the mexican attorney who is doing a much different job than had done in the past. seems like they have a very good case going forward at this point. at least they're very confident. they seem to be much more on the same page. when you talk to his report attorney, he is obviously very confident as well on that side of the border they can get andrew tahmooressi released. take a listen what he said last week. >> the crime andrew being charged requires intent. you can't stumble on that accidentally. it is a crime of intent that has to be proven. >> reporter: they're focusing on whole idea of intent, martha. it was never intended to bring weapons from mexico. that was very clear. he at very beginning when he got stopped at mexico border i got in the wrong lane. he did not want to come into mexico. martha: he alerted them he had weapons in the first place which he didn't need to do.

>> reporter: absolutely. martha: we've cover any breaking news that happens. adam, thank you very much. bill: fox news alert now. there is chaos yet again in the middle east as shown here. [shouting] hamas unleashing dozens of rockets again overnight into israel sending these wedding guests running for their lives in the central part of the country as israel launches its largest offensive in two years against several targets inside of the gaza strip. israeli defense forces releasing a video showing militants trying to invade israeli territory from the ocean. they were taken out a short time later and did not succeed. ambassador dennis ross, foreign affairs analyst and counselor at, institute for nearest policy. thank you for coming back today. good morning to you. i will talk about the wider region in a moment here. when you look at all these battles and all these wars over time between the israelis and palestinians, you know one thing

is true. the technology gets better with each conflict. now these rockets are flying further and farther than ever before. the question then becomes, how far is the prime minister netanyahu willing to go to wipe out the threat in gaza? >> you know, it is absolutely the right question to ask. no country in the world would tolerate a country, land next door to it launching rockets indiscrimminantly into the country and hitting cities and obviously the prime minister of israel is under a lot of pressure to take steps that would be definitive. the problem is, it is very easy to get into gaza. it is not so easy to get out of gaza. i think that he is, clearly sending a message that he is prepared to take very decisive action against hamas. by the same token he is reluctant to send israeli ground forces in a big way into gaza. gaza is an area with the greatest population density in

the world. it is teaming. it is very inhospitable place to carry out any military action. hamas inbeds itself in civilian areas so civilian casualties would be high and israeli casualties would be high. having said that, mobilization of 40,000 reservists. buildup of ground forces along the border, intensification of airstrikes israelis carry out. these are designed to send a message to hamas, if they keep this up, even if israel is reluctant to go in and in the end hamas will be biggest loser. bill: remarkable thing, mr. ambassador. when you think of a story like this would make international news every day and be major headlines. when you scan the region, whether war in syria, what is happening in iraq, what happens in afghanistan, it goes on and on and on. would this be happening if the rest of the region was not in free fall? >> you know it's a very

interesting question. there is no doubt that hamas today in gaza is being squeezed by the egyptians because they're choking off the tunnels which in the past egyptians have not done. no one is paying attention to the palestinians in the region. that creates some level of frustration for them. but i think what precipitated this was, first kidnapping of the three israeli teenagers, the murder of the three israeli teenagers. the israelis holding hamas operatives for being responsible. that triggered what was the beginning of rockets out of gaza into israel and hamas in a sense trying to show they would respond to what israel was doing in the west bank. i suspect this would be happening regardless of what else is happening in the region, only because you have a very unstable situation that's there. even if you can restore calm, it is an unsteady calm. you don't know how long it is going to last. i think one of the israeli aims right now, will be even if it isn't to go on the ground, to

hit hamas infrastructure hard enough on the air it will be very difficult for hamas to rebuild. because egypt is choking off smuggling tunnels, it will be harder for them to acquire materials. to get rockets from outside or build them within laboratories in gaza. bill: we'll examine our own policy. we'll leave that question for another day. dennis ross keeping an eye on it from washington. martha. martha: here is a you. why is a powerful women's group going after catholic nuns dedicated to caring for the elderly? >> they are trying to take their religious beliefs and impose them on their employees. they can opt out. they can just file a form with the government and say, we opt out and then -- >> but if they do that they have to cover their employees. martha: the women's group now going after the little sisters of the poor. that is their target, these nice, young nuns in the habits. that is who they are going

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>> so fired up over the hobby lobby decision the national organization of women is taking the opportunity to launch a list that they call, the dirty 100. of course it hasag, dirty 100. of course it does. they are refusing to provide complete list of birth control of obamacare. one of the targets of the dirty 100 list is the little sisters of the poor, can you believe it. the catholic nuns care for elderly, very poor, and who have absolutely nobody in the world to take care of them and do it cheerfully and consistently across this country. a former now president defended the list last night with megyn. >> dirty? dirty? you stand by that? >> i think that when they, first of all, it is a takeoff on "the dirty dozen." maybe we should have have called it dirty eight dozen plus four. >> maybe should call it groups with whom we disagree.

>> dirty trick is that they are trying to take their religious beliefs, and impose them on their employees. martha: imagine that. jehmu greene, former president of the women's media center. al d'amato, former senator from new york. both are fox news contributors. senator d'amato, let me start with you. what do you make of this story? >> i think it is abhorrent and i think that it is dirt that they throw on themselves. now should be ashamed of itself. to say they should be called the dirty 100 or listed there is incredible. it is stupid. it demonstrates a byers and a prejudice that goes beyond whatever i've seen. you're talking about people who have dedicate their life, to help the elderly, the poor. they're reaching out. they are doing the lord's work. i don't care what religion you are but they're doing the lord's work. martha: may backfire.

>> you may disagree with them. but to call them and list them with the dirty 100 is a bomb minutable. they should be. now should be a shamed of themselves. issue an apology, say they were wrong. by the way you can fight for your principle but you don't have to label people as they have. i think they're whackos. they're extremists. and in their position. martha: i hope this has good publicity for the little sisters of the poor. >> that's true. martha: and they are doing fund-raising off of it because it is a good opportunity for them. they are an extraordinarily consistent and well-meaning and hard-working group. they do terrific group. jehmu, why would now get tangled up in this? this is pr nightmare for them? >> it is. i have no idea what now was thinking when this liz and i know that some folks want to characterize this as bra burning feminists versus sweet little nuns in their habits. i absolutely agree with senator

d'amato that the work the little nuns do is so critical. their fight for social justice is so important. in my opinion the nuns are the best things that catholicism has going for them but the little nuns did allow themselves to get caught up in this right-wing fervor which is trying to use them to use religion to turn it into basically a corporate tool for not -- martha: why would you think that, jehmu. >> they have their religious beliefs and they are espousing their religious beliefs. they are completely consistent. they do not provide forms of birth control for their employees because they don't believe in birth control. don't they have the right -- >> that is the exact point. martha: don't they have the right to do that? making sound like they got swept up in something. this is their belief system. >> they do have the right under affordable care act. they never were going to be required to provide contraception. the right-wing pulled them into this lawsuit to kind of put them

front and center and bamboozle them into this. they shouldn't be on the list. martha: i would think they want to be where they want to be consistent with their beliefs. >> they are consistent with their beliefs. martha: i also want to point out, general attack, senator d'amato, by the left on these catholic organizations? they went after priests for life and 12 catholic diocese that are on the list? >> it is simply wrong. we ask respect for one's religion. the courts have said, if you do not have to follow a law which really goes against your religious belief. let's talk about tolerance. let's talk about understanding. understand, these nuns, they take care of over 13,000 elderly poor people who otherwise would be a cost on society that goes beyond, not to mention, the horror that so many of these people would be living. and what kind of life would they

live without, without this work? i think what it is, sometimes you get fanatics on both sides. the fervor, which they have done, to list them and to list catholic diocese who disagree and say this is against our moral convention. that's wrong. and it should not be tolerated. and they should be ashamed of themselves. i hope people do find ways to contribute to the nuns. >> it shouldn't be tolerated on both sides. >> correct. >> when you have nuns on the bus protesting paul ryan's budget, going around the country fighting for the poor and disenfranchised and tea party with signs calling them bums on the bus. martha: got to go. they're consistent in their beliefs. >> if you want to attack the tea party or a political party, fine. but not, but not religious groups and particularly these nuns who do such great work. martha: people, have a great day. thank you, guys. bill: jenna lee coming up next. "happening now." quick look at that. >> have you payed highest price

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the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. bill: so a familiar face might be going back to "the view." reports that rosie o'donnell has signed on to come back to that show. laura engle live in the new york newsroom on this. laura? >> bill, we're certainly working on getting these reports confirmed. "tmz" reported that o'donnell inked a view deal with "the view" that would put her back with a second go round with one year, seven figure deal. she would be have approval to other co-hosts and stipulated reportedly there will be no other reality stars on the show allowed. o'donnell has always been a

lightning rod as we know and share her controversy an fiery fights. while on the show, her first run, donald trump in her cross-hairs. "tmz" cites the sources saying there will be official announcement of the new show's lineup soon. there is buzz that producers are looking for latina an conservative. we'll have to wait and see, bill. bill: you also have what kind of reaction are you getting because of this so far? >> oh, yes, there is a lot of fans and foes of o'donnell taking to twitter. some voicing excitement. others disappointment, even disgust. our own "fox & friends" anchor and "view" host, elisabeth hasslebeck weighed in calling into her own show while on vacation. her is what some of elisabeth had to say today. >> talk about not securing the border. in comes to "the view" the very woman in the face of our military, been in the face of her own network and in face of

person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time she was there, coming back with a bunch of control, ready to regain a seat at "the view" table. not surprising. i think that has been in the works for a long time. >> once we get it confirmed we'll let you know, bill. bill: hassleback and o'donnell head-to-head, right? i'm buying tickets for that thing, laura. get in line. see you later. >> thanks. >> as you know president obama will be flying over texas as an alarming humanitarian crisis unfolds far below along the southern border. air force one will land hundreds of miles away with no plans for the president to see this himself. in the nation, it's not always pretty.

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that is that. >> we will see you on the radio. >> goodbye, everybody. >> the crisis along the border growing every day, but the president will not see it in person, at least for now. eric: welcome this hour of "happening now." tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with 35,000 per month have been pouring into our country from central america as we have been reporting. among them, many mothers and kids making the journey by the cells. jenna: holding a hearing on the crisis and the impact on operations overall as the president and texas governor rick perry