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their hands off our guns or we risk it all. chew on that over the weekend. >> the second amendment is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> after a bruising day of bitter partisan victory an 11th hour reprieve and a vote to fund the department of homeland security avoiding to partial shut down but this stopgap measure is only for one week which means the clock is already counting down once again. >> while there is no are resolution in sight for the issue at the heart of the funding fight, immigration we're going to talk to two congress men one who voted for it and one who voted against the measure. >> one of vladamir putin's most vocal critics is silenced nor
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every, boris nemtsov overnight, the russian president calls his death a provocation but others say it is a brazen assassination. we're going to have a live report plus talk to a norm former nay toe ambassador who through boris nemtsov. >> plus an out of this world discovery dien tests finding the largest black hole that they've ever seen in 12 billion times more massive than the sun. it's dazzling scientists and challenging what we know about the birth of the universe and the -- former astronaut tom jones will be joining us. >> thanks for spending your saturday with us, i'm leland vittert here in washington. >> and i'm uma pemmaraju "america's news headquarters" thanks for joining us in the nation's capitol. it starts right now. >> the fallout continues today after a game of late night brings manship, republicans and
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democrats in the house passed a one week funding extension for the department of homeland security, the president signed the bill just minutes before the midnight deadline but last might's political theater means the clock start ticking again for a partial shut down of dhs and the bill does nothing to solve the debate over president obama's execution on immigration. peter do you sayy joins us to sort out what is an increasingly confusing situation. >> the shut down and think crisis that may have come with it has within avoided for one week. all the democrats and republicans could agree on was the seven days of funding for the agency. the rest is caught up in a fight about cutting out money that goes toward enforcing president obama's executive actions on immigration and there are influential republicans in the senate happy that this fight will continue. here is why. >> all over the country republican senate and house candidates told the people if you give us a republican
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majority we will stop president obama's illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. i think we need to follow through on that commitment. >> but democrats counter that argument that by saying that what happened last night not governing. the hours preceding the final vote saw the house and senate volley bills back and forth as long-term and three week solutions failed first and yes it was hard to keep track of the floor of the house, but it also left lois of the tsa border patrol coast guard and fema wondering if they were going to need to make due without paychecks which is what would have happened if nothing was agreed on by midnight. >> this has been a day of confusion both here in this house and for the men and women of the it department of homeland security. >> looking ahead to upcoming deadlines regarding the budget money for the fight against isis and highway funding to name a few the stalemate we saw last night likely not the last close call during this session.
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leland. >> a lot of mid thooit oil burned up on capitol. thanks, peter. >> it took post democrats to help pass this one week stopgap bill in the house and among those democrats california democrat john garamendi who voted for the measure. welcome, great fofr you here today. >> always good to be with you. >> did you decide to support this extension over after my yort leader pelosi gave the green light to reverse course or were you already on board to find a way out? >> we have to find a way out. i think all of us 435 of us are looking for a way out of this. where he got ourselves backed into a your honor coulder no doubt about that. we really need to move on. this homeland security is an essential part of our governmental operations it goes from coast guard to feem ma to tsa at the airports. so we need to fund it. obviously there's some serious controversy over how to deal with the immigration, but also the immigration issue according to discussion today on the floor
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was a constitutional issue. maybe yes, maybe no but that's something since mulberry madison back in the early days of our republic has been decided by the courts and the courts actually do have this case underway. so we have to put that issue aside, get on with depending the department of homeland security to make sure that america is safe. and then the constitutional issue of whether the president did it right or wrong will be decided by the courts. >> but did it take some arm twisting from nancy pelosi to get these democrats to go ahead and back the move? >> well, certainly we want to have full funding for the rest of this fiscal year until the end of september, which is the normal funding cycle that's with a we want. i don't think anybody democrat or republican are particularly happy about three weeks or seven days, but we backed ourselves into a corner. >> what is the difference between the three week extension that went down basically in a melt down and now you just got
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this one week extension? are we going to be back here one week from today talking about this again? stoo i think something very important happened between the two votes and one of the most after dent spokes persons on the floor for the constitutional issue on the conservative republican side was chatting with us afterwards and he said very clearly let's just vote. let's get this thing done. the votes are there for the full funding, get it done, we'll move on and get this thing out of the way. i was surprised by that, but that was said and i suspect there are plenty of votes for the full funding if it is brought to the floor. the assumption last night was that next week probably by wednesday, the full pounding for the remainder of the year will be on the floor, a clean bill and then we'll get on to the next political controversy which isn't they far away. >> all of this underscores a the deep divisions over the way forward senators not only on dhs
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funding but also on the anticipate's executive actions on immigration. the democrats want this stand-alone full funded bill, however, a number of conservatives say they won't vote for a bill that funds what they say is the illegal arcs and conduct by the president with his conversion move to allow millions of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation. where do we go from here? if you are saying there's still a divide that exists and we're talking about just one week isn't it likely that we're still going to be at a stalemate seven days dpr now? >> i certainly hope not. it's very clear that if a clean funding bill is brought to the floor there is a good majority of the house of representatives that will vote for that. the other question is is can you get it to the floor? thus far the speaker boehner has not allowed a clean funding bill to come to the floor. we'll see what happens. i was surprised as i said last night one of the most outspoken
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critics of the president's action who had previously been on the floor saying, who no no, basically said put it on the floor, put the clean funding on the floor, let's get this thing out of the way. and he said it will pass. and i agree with him. it would pass. >> you know, let's hope you get something done because certainly the optics of this does not look good to the public who would like to see both sides working together and avoid this partisan divide that continues to be front and center in congress right now. >> this is the fifth time over the last four years that we've cot um against yet another cliff and the american public clearly does not want us to fall offer a cliff yet again. we really need to work together. we can, we do so many things that are really not noticed by the press and the public that are important. her' small their' not the big controversial stuff but legislation does go on and does pass. we passed a major coast guard reauthorization not so long ago we're well on the way of working our way through had a once
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again. that's bipartisan. my colleague from the sacramento valley, a republican conservative he and i remember working on a major water rob -- project reservoir to teal with the drought in california. so there's a lot of good things going on across the aisle but then we come up against these big ones like this -- >> this is a big one. >> here we go. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us. always a pleasure to have you on the show. >> and now for the other side of the aisle, let's bring hope in republican congressman mark meadows of north carolina who voted against that one week stopgap and the three week extension as well. that failed earlier in the day. congressman, waste the end goal here by voting against this? >> you know, really what we are wanting the senate democrats to do and really the request and one of the things that's not widely reported is actually last night on two different occasions we said all we want the senate democrats to commit to is to go to conference. let's get together, let's bring hope republicans from the house
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and democrats from the house republicans and democrats interest the senate and go to conference and harry reid said no. and so if you've got harry reid still in control saying that we're not going to allow the two sides to get together to at least come up with a workable solution i don't know where we are and so that's one of the reasons why i voted against it. the other, i think is that we do immediate a longer term solution. the american people are tired of us kicking the can down the road and having one deadline after another, you know i know it's been asked if we're going to have this same fight over this week. i think the answer is obvious. it is yes. it's going to continue to happen. >> if we admit that these fights are going to continue to keep happening we're kicking the can down the road at one point it was three months now one week. why do the optics never seem to work for the republicans and in their favor in the sense that speaker boehner keeps talking about harry reed and some democrats, you have as well,
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sir, yet it seems as though if you look towards the american people and how it plays out it always seems to be that the republicans are being blamed for mucking things up for lack of a better term. >> you know if we start to focus on who gets the blame and not doing what we have been elected to do, the people back home in north carolina and across the country have said we want to send you to congress not only to find solutions, but to represent us. the speaker said he was going to fight this tooth and nail. we need -- >> did the speaker fight hard enough in your opinion? >> the speak sr in a tough spot. he is fighting this fight but obviously when we start to look at this if approximate approximate we cave on this tick lawless action by the president, you know, what's going to be next is this is the president just going to use his executive power to bypass congress all together and the very institution that our founding fathers put forth is at stake. >> in that sense is when you talk about trying to go after
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the president on the issue of the executions of immigration and that's what it battle comes town to there's the balance between what republicans in congress want to do and what sort of the rules and politics have proven you can to over time. how do you balance those two things because so far it hasn't worked very well? >> you have to balance it with one under guttering foundation thand that's called fairness. is it fair? the president is taking execution action and taking dollars which are fees for legal immigration and using them to promote the amnesty of illegals. that's not fair, you know even -- even those who are college graduates coming out of college having to compete now with 5 million new people, is that fair? so i think you have for an under gurting of fairness and fight for what is fair and right. >> you make a point that you're standing on principle. there's one other issue and it's
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something that i haven't heard a lot of discussion about it's the 250,000 price of the department of homeland security you've got everybody from folks who are manning the airport for the tsa on the other side you've got members of the coast guard who are out risking their lives the border patrol, are we -- or i should say -- is congress is doing enough in keeping the promise to them in terms of what america owes them for their service. these are people who are worried i'm going to be standing at a post with a gun my life is on the line but i may not get a paycheck neck week. is that fair? >> certainly they would have gotten a paycheck. i want to make sure that we looked into that. those paychecks are already on their way and regardless of what happened last night they would have gotten paid. >> had he would have gotten paid for this week but may not have gotten paid going forward. >> i will agree with your point our men and women who are protecting our borders and certainly are out there risking their lives for the rule of law, we must make sure they're compensated and we're committed
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to to doing that. the speaker has been very clear on that. but the other part of that is if the very laws that they are there to defend and up hold are thrown to the side and said they don't really matter because the president can just with the stroke of a pen say enough then what are they really defending? we need to get back to the rule of the law and the respect for the rule of law. >> and we'll see if that happens coming up next week. congressman meadows, we appreciate it. we also appreciate your wife giving you a hall pass to stib around until 12:40 we'll talk to you then about the new e-mails coming out in the lois learner targeting investigation that you've been instrumenting and we thank you for your time. >> now that you've heard from the congress pan when weigh to hear from you. the dhs shut down was averted this week, but what about the next why do you think congress can't make a deal? you can send your tweets to @uma pemmaraju, @leland vittert or @anhqdc and we will read your
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thoughts coming up later in the show. >> turning our attention overseas and the latest in that brutal murder of a key opposition leader highly critical of vladamir putin. boris nemtsov gunned down in an area normally tightly policed. he died hours after appealing for a march for support against the war this ukraine. amy kellogg joining us with more. >> reporter: hi, uma. people are in shock in russia and still there been any arrests lots of accusations but nothing more at this point. boris nemtsov actually gave an interview to the financial times on monday in which he said that now is the worst time ever in russia for the opposition with all the restrictions that they are under, they have been reduced to a mere band of dis a dents rather than a serious opposition that could effect real change in russia. now, boris nemtsov was much
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loved for his dead kag to the principles of human rights and democracy. he had been a champion of liberal causes since the fading days of the ussr where he had trained as a physicist. friends remember him as fun and warm and these times have which happened up patriotism in russia. it is certain some would have seen him as a trader. he was cap putted into prom sense under the late president and he was spoken of as a likely heir to yelt sent. instead that became vladamir putin. one of the ways that he thought he could in fact strengthen the opposition would be to prove to the russian public that their country is wage ago war on ukraine and that putin it is to blame for the economic problems. ukraine's president said he was killed because he was about to disclose new information about russia's involvement in the war. now, nimt sof was go gg to lead a march against the war in
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ukraine tomorrow and just hours before his killing he had gone on radio to urge people to attend that parch and instead as we know he was gunned down with the domes of saint basil's cathedral looming behind him not far from the yes, ma'am lynn in a brazen attack by people in a car. they treated miss killers bumped four bullets into boris one for each child he leaves behind. russian president vladamir putin promised to nemtsov's mother that he would do everything to bring hope the organizers of this vile and cynical crime to punishment. uma. >> all right, amnesty, thank you very much. in just a few minutes we're also going ogt who are reaction with the former ambassador to nato kurt voluntarily kerr stand by for that in just a few minutes. >> there is much more ahead on
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welcome back. and joining us now with more reaction on the murder of outspoken russian opposition leader boris nemtsov former nato ambassador kurt vehicler who knows a great deal about the opposition leader this are rugs is that. great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> start with this murder comes as a shock to russians nemtsov was one of russians economic reformers and was deputy prime minister under boris jelt sin. what duts us about him? >> he was a character charismatic figure very well liked figure in the opposition, very charming, as i said. he has become increasingly irrelevant in politics in russia because putin has created an authoritarian system that has marginalized any opposition but he was a consistent critic, someone who have always willing to speak out and gave hope to
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some people that after putin things could change. >> this has all the make ng of a contract hit where there were lots of surveillance videos. putin taking charge of this murder investigation can anyone trust that he will conduct an investigation above board since it was no security memt sof despised putin and was arrested many times the last time in 2012. >> yeah, i don't think we're ever going to see the bottom of this investigation. we've seen other political murders in russia in the past journalist achl nn. a politskia and they have always escaped punishment. whether you can point a if i think after the vladamir putin and say he ordered this killing or created a climate am which anyone who criticized the yes, ma'am lip was viewed as an en she of the state and then either state run or state supported
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thugs went after him because of his criticism. kremlin we'll they ever know but it is attribute to the environment that putin has created. >> apparently nemtsov felt that the threats against him would actually materialize as he continued with his anti-putin activism. said in an interview on february 10th quote, i'm afraid putin will kill me. i believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in ukraine. i couldn't dislike him more. how do you think this is going to impact the investigation? >> well, the investigation is a sham. i mean, let's not kid ourselves. especially with vladamir putin taking personal charge because virtually everything we hear from the kremlin is dis information and miscommunication rather than getting at the truth. and nemtsov you're absolutely right he did fully realize the risks that he was tasing in putin's russia being an outspoken critic and i can he was reconciled to that because he felt it was important that someone continue to carry that
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role. >> with the world watching what kind of pressure do you think mr. putin will be under as russians wait for news on who is responsible for this assassination? >> well, they will go through the motions of an investigation and already he's taken some of the right steps of expressing kond lenses to the family and saying that he's going to take responsibility and get to the bottom of it, but no one can take those assurances seriously any more than we can take seriously the assurances of russia when her not invading ukraine. >> there's a report from the bbc saying there might be some investigators to believe that the suspects could be other opposition leaders in russia who wanted to make a martyr out of nemtsov to further destabilize the done re. what do you make of this theory? >> right. it reminds me of that slow began from the cold war days which is admit nothing deny everything, make counter accusations. they're denying any
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responsibility and actually in a perverse way accusing members of the opposition of a cass nagt nemtsov rather than really looking ats who the killers might have been. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us, we really appreciate your insights. you're also now running the mccain institute for leadership and we really appreciate you joining us today. >> great. thank you for having me. >> an illegal immigrant sits in an arizona jail at this hour accused of brutally murdering 21-year-old store clerk grant ronabek over a pack of cigarettes. the suspect had been out on bond and now the victim's uncle is taking on federal immigration authorities over the incident. adam housley joins us live from los angeles with more on this. >> reporter: the victim's uncle and pear both taking on immigration officials and politicians. there's a lot of problems on the border there's still significant issues with drug busts as well as issues with
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illegal immigration. grant was 21 years old when he was murdered now his father says he was robbed of his son and of his best friend and he's blaming that not only on politicians but immigration officials. we have a mugshot of the money accused of killing run en back. he will an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of a violent burglary here in the u.s. three years ago, he was released from federal custody on bond. on the two years he has been awaiting a deportation hearing for two years there has been twomúbav÷ protective orders put up against him by woman who said that this man accused them of doing things and threatened to kill them. nothing happened. instead he was accused of murdering grant at a quick trip clerk after he dumped the change on the counter at 4:00 a.m. and demanded a pack of cigarettes according to police. now run enbek and his family he wants his son's legacy not to be
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one of a senseless tragedy. he says he helps his death will lead to a change in government immigration policies. >> how are you going to keep it from happening again? that's the answer i want. how do we know this won't happen again? somebody else's son or daughter. >> reporter: now as that goes on with illegal immigration situation on the border the second largest drug bust ever was at the border here in southern california. take a look at this. it was originally this was supposed to be a truck full of mattresses when they went through a scanner these were mattresses this was dope. more than 15 tons of marijuana lid hidden in this cargo shipment. again, the driver was pulled over said edema tresses inside, they have the special scanner that they take a look at the trucks and right away they could tell that was not a mattress. when they opened up the back they found 15 tons. second largest bust ever in u.s. history. can you believe that? back to you guys in new york. >> the old mattress excuse. never works.
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adam housley live in los angeles we appreciate it, sir. >> and still ahead a tribute to a television legend a man who inspired so many with his wonderful for trails of mr. spock including the astronauts from nasa. you will hear from ast thought tom jones with his thoughts on the legacy of leonard knee knew. >> plus presidential hopefuls gathering in florida and that's where we find our own john roberts. >> reporter: deep pocketed conservative donors gather here in the sunshine state to kick the tires on some of the potential presidential candidates. who do they like? we'll tell you.
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. young conservatives spent the weekend listening to speeches here in chilly washington at the c pac contention well-healed members of the conservative club for growth is hosting potential 2016
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republican presidential candidates in florida. those courting support include wisconsin governor scott walker and louisiana governor bobby jind dal among others. john roberts has more from the breakers at palm beach. >> reporter: leland, good afternoon. right inside the room with indiana governor michael pens scott walker scott walker touted his record in wisconsin to these deep pocketed members of this elite club, citing the battles that he has faced there and how he would take that ideology and how he would take that sort of fortitude forward if he were to run for president. walker is under fire this week for saying at c pac that he's equipped to take on isis if it he becomes president because he took on union protesters in wisconsin. former tk governor rick perry whacked him hard for that in an interview here. walker told me he wasn't equating unions with isis he was talking about the importance of leadership. >> some people ms. took that, i
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don't think the people in the hall did, but others did as i was comparing the unions to isis. no way no how. i have been tested under fire. i have had incredible circumstances to deal with and i persevered with each of those keeping the promises i made to the hard working people of my state. if given the chance if if i chose to run i would make that same case to the american people. >> reporter: walker told the crowd here that the most important foreign policy decision that president ronald reagan made was firing the air traffic controllers because that showed the world that when he said something he meant business. walker has also been taking meet from the media for ducking questions about evolution and whether president obama is a christian. i asked governor walker about that. >> some people say scott walk sr ready for prime time others say you're not going to get into a game of rope a dope. >> i talk about things that matter to every day citizens first in my state and if i chose to run for president it would be in this uncountry. i'm not going to get off on
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other issues. some in the media don't like that but i think most of the people i've heard from say it's about time somebody said enough is enough. >> reporter: a poll out this week showed that in the state of iowa the first caucus state scott walker has a commander lead. he told me that he believes his next-door neighbor has been watching that's been going on in wisconsin, likes a guy who's willing to fight and win. >> we'll see who comes out in the next year or so. john roberts we appreciate it down in palm beach. tough duty there. and be hour to tune into fox news sunday tomorrow. chris wallace has an exclusive interview with 2016 presidential contender, wisconsin governor scott walker. >> spring may be just a few weeks away, but much of the nation still poised for yet another dose of wintry weather as snow and freezing rain are in the forecast for parts of the
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the actual hard drive after it was determined that it was dysfunctional and with experts no e hails to be retrieved was recycled and destroyed in the normal process. >> was it physically destroyed? >> that's not understanding. >> halves irs commissioner john koskin claiming e-mails interest lois learner were lost forever. well, what a difference a trip to west virginia can make. that's where a treasury department inspector general found 32000 of her e-mails on taped backups at a data storage facility. congressman mark meadows member of the oversight committee and a man that was at the hearing where this came out joins us now. it seems stunning to me that all of a sudden the irs said we can't find these e-mails and all it took for the treasury department to do is get on the floor and drive a couple couple
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hours and say do you have these tapes. >> time after time where congressman trey gowdy congressman jim gordon have said where are these tapes? they've been delaware roid. to have it found so close to washington, d.c. with such ease is very surprising. >> congress being lied to? >> it's right now the possibility of a criminal investigation, the first time we have ever heard that. when you hear those words it's really about what should have been told that hadn't been told told. so we're going to start to look at that. >> the irs at some level was trying to get everyone to believe that this was more about incompetence than it was conspiracy and that all of a sudden it just wasn't just people not really being dumb rather than being criminal. is it leaning now more towards criminal? >> i think the facts would suggest that it certainly wasn't too rogue agents in cincinnati. we found inn believable
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coincidences as they would put it, but today what we do know not only have we found more e-mails when they said there were none, we know there's the possibility of another set of e-mails coming up with over 400 other backup tapes we found. >> do you feel like the investigation that started slowly is now picking up steam and on the right direction with the right people or is there still delay tactics going on. >> into chairman clay miss is committed to getting to the bottom of it. are there delays? yes: the department of justice where have they been. the inspector general finding things that our doj conditioned find shame on them. the american people and even people within the irs want this over with let's restore confidence let's get to the bottom of it. prosecute those that are guilty and restore the trust in our government. >> do you think that's possible at this point in terms of as far as this has gone or somebody going to have to come in and really clean house there?
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>> i think there will have to be people that are pros do you telled, others to lose their job and once we start to see that then we'll be able to start to restove confidence. >> we'll see if those things happen. we know you're going to keep looking for more e-mails. we'll see where else there's tapes around congressman mark had meadows we appreciate you sticking around. >> thank you. coming up, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu set to visit washington, d.c. next week. amid a flurry of controversy. we will take a look at the fallout. also we are going to talk to scientists who have made a new discovery that 12 million times more massive than than the sun, an enormous black hole is challenging what astronomers thought they knew about the laws of physics. we'll explain when former astronaut tom jones stays with us. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the
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>> here is a black hole which we're familiar with from science fiction and movies, but it's a massive black hole, very early in the age of -- in the birth of the universe. only the 00 million after the big bang. how something can get so massive and so big so fast is what's challenging astronomers and we're getting back to the place where we can see the births of the first gal ax yees. >> this obviously is not the first black hole discovered. do you think that we're -- i guess have we actually sent
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probes into some of these black holes to find out what lies beyond and are we waiting for information to come back? >> our probes are telescopes, we don't have is any machines that can travel over these kind of distances 6789 we're looking back 13 billion heirs yooersyears in the past. we're probing them with big light gathering telescopes on the ground. they will be able to see the first stars forming which coalesce into the gal has yees. unraveling in early age of the universe is what this is all about. >> i want to talk about tomorrow's space walk which was rescheduled to take place because there were some concerns about the space suit that our to take place because there were concerns about the space suit that our astronaut was wearing in the midst of trying to embark outside the space station
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laying cable. tell us about the concerns and the fact that the problem can be fixed. >> a year and a half ago, the one astronaut almost drowned or choke when a lot of water got in its his helmet. they thought they got to the bottom of that problem and repaired the suits. another astronaut was out on a spacewalk on wednesday and had 15 ccs of water after the spacewalk was over. never a threat his health or safety. but mission control is worried about this water perhaps getting worse on a future spacewalk and endanger another astronaut. giving them the clearance to go ahead but keep a careful eye on any leakage. they have absorbant pads in the helmet and a way for him to breathe if more water come out. keeping that suit healthy for the years remaining on the space station is the long term ken. >> i'm sure they are relieved. >> for the next spacewalk and preparing the station for a new
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set of docking ports for these new commercial vehicles coming up. >> amazing when that happens. we have to now get your reaction the passing of the sci-fi legend and someone who was a visionary and had many fans at nasa including a number of astronauts like yourself, the passing of leonard nimoy. talk to me why so many people in the space program were so inspired by his example. >> he's an actor with a "star trek" cast that came along as most of us were entering high school. they inspired us to look at the future of space travel and what could it be in terms of the "star trek" vision. then we were looking at following up on some of those visions with the real space program. >> the picture there for our audience the cast of the "star trek" show standing outside the debut launch of the spaceship enterprise. >> first prototype shuttle was renamed enterprise.
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>> ice so amazing people like yourself and buzz aldrin was saying he was saddened because he thought of leonard nimoy as a fellow space traveller because he helped make the journey in the final frontier accessible to us all >> he set goals for space travel so much beyond what we can do today made us redouble our efforts. we think we want to get humans out to the edge of the solar system. it's just the vision that the "star trek" folks put out cooperating together do this. >> really got a lot of folks inned in space to begin with. young people and a whole generation of folks committed to space travel. >> they want to be a part it like me. >> you dit. one of the few in that elite fraternity of those able to travel to space. >> it will be more widespread in the future. >> me too. thank you, tom. good to see you. still ahead a defeat for isis in an area where the islamic state captured dozens of
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christians. plus russian investigators say there are several possible motives for the killing of opposition leader boris nemstov, most observers say the man behind the assassination is president vladimir putin. we'll ask former u.s. ambassador to the united nations bill richardson coming up in hour two of america news headquarters right after the break. craig's experience is completely different than mine. yeah. yes, mike has used truecar. at truecar, we'll show you how much others paid for the car you want . . . because i used truecar there was no haggling about the price. they treated me so well, and it was just such a quick, easy experience. get your car, and get back to the life you love. welcome to the future of car-buying.
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thanks for staying with us. welcome to hour two. >> here's what's making news right now. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu getting set to make trip to washington, d.c. amongst critics. >> on both sides there has now been inject ad degree of partisanship which is not only unfortunate, i think it's it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship. >> you will hear from former israeli ambassador about the prime minister's controversial visit and impact it may have on the future of u.s.-reallyre -- u.s.-israeli relations. >> coalition forces are pushing into an islamic state stronghold and cutting a key isis supply line. but the fate of those christians
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is unknown. we'll have a live report from the middle east. plus when a routine procedure leads to a medical nightmare. two people now dead and others getting ill from a superbug they received from infected medical equipment. how can this happen and is there anything you can do to better protect yourself? dr. mark segal will be joining us. feelings and outreach and sympathy coming from around the world following the murder of boris nemstov. he was shot in the back as he cross ad bridge near the kremlin just a day before he was to lead an anti-government protest march. president vladimir putin offering his condolences and calling the death a provocation. world reaction flowing in with many calling for a thorough investigation. arizona senator john mccain a friend of boris nemstov releasing this statement. saying in part, boris is dead because of the environment of the impunity that vladimir putin
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has created in russia where individuals are routinely per se cut and attacked for their beliefs, including by the russian government and no one is ever held responsible. joining us now bill richardson. great to have you here today. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >> you know, on this day we are looking at the life of boris nemstov and in recent days he was concerned about threats to his life and even offered in an interview recently that he thought that vladimir putin would be killing him because of his criticism of what's taking place in the ukraine. the fact that mr. puting+5[(eósleeding this investigation do you think anyone can trust he's going to lead an above board investigation at a time when suspicions are running high against that government? >> i'm very concerned about that investigation, whether it's going to be fair and impartial.
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my main concern is the agency said they are looking at various causes for the assassination. but they didn't include the possibility that it was done by the government. so awfully suspicious. the fact that the president of ukraine said boris nemstov had some information about russian involvement with the russian separatists in ukraine, a demonstration taking place very soon in moscow of opposition figures. this is going to be a real problem for putin because this guy, boris nemstov, washçt the main opposition figure. at one point he was going to be boris yeltsin's successor. the suspicion of him being killed without his guards without his security, he was walking the street there's a lot of suspicion. you can't finger putin directly but, you know, the smell of this whole thing, opposition figures disappearing, being killed,
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repression, press repression this is not a good period for putin. this could be a bigger problem for him than some of the economic problems of the russian economy falling apart. >> which sets the stage for the fact that the world of course is going to be paying close attention to what happened given the fact that boris nemstov was a high-profile opposition leader. what kind of pressure do you think putin will be under at this time knowing that so many people are watching his moves and other world leaders are expressing outagency at the death of this man. >> the big concern that putin has is what europe will do what germany, what angela merkel, the french will do saying look this has reached the point where the repression and the rule in the ukraine, expansionist move has reached a point of no return. whether additional sanctions take place, which would be
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already harmful to the russian economy. but i think this is an internal problem for putin. he's 80% popular because of crimea. but when the russian people realize that there may be this repression going on an.rmt l$le< and further destabilize the?$ putin regime. >> well, this is why a thorough investigation is need. i would hope that maybe the u.n. gets involved with an
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investigation of its own that it not be the russianq &?jsáñy?i3 ña-ry that putin is going to have a lot of not just domestic russian problems but international credibility problems that he may not be able to overcome. i'm not saying he's going to be displaced but this could be a real turning point in putin's leadership and the perception internationally of him especially with europe.
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he has to fear the french the germans. the united states too. >> very interesting. we're taking a look just to let you know for our viewers live pictures of moscow where they are laying flowers and all kinds of memorial tributes at the site where boris nemstov was gunned down, a place high-profile area indeed with cameras and lots of police going on there. has narcoticings of a contract killing. we appreciate you sir for joining us. ambassador bill richardson. thank you for your insights. common sense legislation that would protect our democracy from the egregious example of executive overreach we saw in november. it actually in my view, deserves broad support. >> how many times can we narrowly avert catastrophe just so republicans can get a gold star from radical pun departments. >> this is really, really amateur the hour the nth degree. >> those were the politicians
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describing last night's vote in donetsk fund homeland security for another week. earlier in the evening a three week extension failed when house speaker john boehner couldn't get enough republican votes. conservative republicans want to make a stand over president obama's executive action on immigration. fox news senior capitol hill producer burneded the midnight oil last night and joins us for an after action report. as crazy as it seems. >> the last moment when they went to vote the second time on the bill that passed. the congresswoman from california got up and said this has bean day of confusion. when the first bill failed nobody had any plan whatsoever. we were just about 6 1/2 hours from the department of homeland security losing funding and nobody had a plan. then what got very disturbing was that the hauls were almost vacant. what was weird was mcconnell went down the floor almost
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unilaterally after getting clearance and passed the short term bill. >> this is the one week bill that we now have. are we going to be right back here next friday night. will you be stuck on capitol hill -- >> remember old bat man, same time same channel. people don't know how inwill end. house minority leader nancy pelosi seems to have the card. they said to the republicans if you provide some of the votes we'll pass a bill for the of the fiscal year until september 30th. one of things that struck me nobody thought the three week bill would ever fail. speaker boehner went down personally voted for this. 50 republicans didn't vote with the caucus 50 people that weren't listening to speaker boehner when he said go vote yes. what does that hasn't for him? >> that's the problem. you have this group of 40 to 60 over the past four years in his speakership who have voted no on major things. that number grew from 52 to 55
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on the bill that passed. there's a lot of members who say look you guys are caving in. i talked with a couple of members saying we're tired of this. very close vote for speaker earlier. it's a tenuous grasp he has and republican leaders have on this conference right now. we don't know what they can get people to vote for. >> while dhs fund cigarette important it's not the biggest ticket item that's coming up. you have the debt limit coming up. highway trust fund coming up. budget coming pup stuff on medicare coming up. is this the appetizer or will things get worse. >> this sets the stage because those issues, dhs has to be funned but we'll get into this series of cliffs month after month, week after week. i said to somebody the other day what can congress pass at all. they have these high minded ideas of passing tax reform. if you don't pass a budget makes it very hard to do tax reform. >> at this point it's hard to keep the doors open.
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>> they have to fund the entire federal government come september 30th. that's going very challenging. a tough summer. >> hope you're not looking for any invitation. we appreciate you coming in on a saturday. turning now to the fight against isis we have reports kurdish fighters scoring a victory over isis reclaiming a key town in northeastern syria. turkey and u.s. signed a deal to arm and train thousands of syrian rebels in that area. joining us now john huddy. what can you tell us about this news. >> reporter: the training of the syrian rebels will take about four to six weeks according to u.s. military officials. but today as you mentioned those kurdish fighters won a big victory in syria this as a major ground offensive continues in iraq.
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let's start there. let's start in iraq. iraqi forces are battling isis for control. the city of samarra. between tikrit to the north and baghdad to the south. those iraqi ground forces are making headway and retaking critical ground. now losing control would be disastrous as this is really the dividing line. samarra is a dividing line between tikrit and baghdad, major transportation corridor. they are really fighting for control. in syria, as we talked about, kurdish forces have taken control of a town called tal hamis. it's been isis stronghold for a now. because of its location this is key, along the borders of iraq and turkey. so it's been again a
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transportation corridor for isis shuttling militants across artillery and also vehicles. so taking back control is a very key victory, strategic one for those kurdish fighters. this is also the area, we talked a lot about this that isis militants early monday abducted 250 syrian christians. by the way i'm hearing that number could even be higher than that. we're talking about men, women and even more distressing children and according to one of my contacts with the syrian human rights group all of these people have been split up. the men have been tine a mountainous region the women and children divided among the clusters of towns and villages in the northeastern region of syria as i mentioned. so far there's been no communication with or from any of these people so at this point their fate remains unknown. >> such a tragic situation and
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one that we hope the world will really stand up against and hopefully we'll get some resolution to what continue tubes desperate crisis out there. thank you so much, john. by virtue of the invitation that was issued by the speaker and the acceptance of it by prime minister netanyahu on two weeks in advance of his election is on both sides there has now been inject ad degree of partisanship which is not only unfortunate, i think it's -- it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship. >> i couldn't disagree more. american people and both parties in congress have always stood with israel, nothing and no one should get in the way of that. >> fall out over prime minister benjamin netanyahu's speech to congress next week continues. top u.s. officials are sharpening efforts to under mine his visit as tension mounts as
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the prime minister attempts to stop a deal with iran. joining us now former israeli ambassador. welcome. great to have you on the show again. thank you. >> thank you. always good to be with you. >> some observers are saying the white house now sees the prime minister as a serious threat to president obama's efforts to reach an agreement with iran to limit its nuclear ambitions. do you believe the prime minister's visit will further erode the already icy relationship with the white house? >> well, i very much hope not. let's face it, uma this whole affair maybe could have been handled better. could it have been handled more diplomatically, more tactfully. the end of the day the prime minister is come touring capital. your best friend.
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your closest ally. your strategic partner. this is the country that is at the forefront of the fight against terror and islamic extremism. i think that the reaction by the president, the white house and others is very unfortunate because even if they regard this as a mistake they must realize that the prime minister is doing it out of true anxiety. the prime minister is awake at night because of his anxiety and worry about iran becoming a nuclear power. he feels that by talking to the two houses of congress, he can maybe make a difference. and i think that he's at the point where he feels that the bad deal is approaching and that the light at the end of the tunnel could indeed, be iranian train coming the other way and he's doing everything to do to stop it and every freedom loving person including the united states of america and especially
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its president should be more helpful and understanding in welcoming the prime minister of israel to the united states. >> we just heard from national security adviser susan rice going as far as saying his visit is destructive of the fabric of the relationship. is the prime minister at this point gambling on the congress and not the white house as the best place to leverage his sway on u.s. policy on iran? >> first of all, i think the statement by the national security adviser is very unfortunate one. i think that susan rice could have chosen better words to describe the relationship. you know, it's very strange but secretary kerry is hugging the iranian foreign minister. the president is exchanging letters with the supreme leader of the main perpetrator harborer of terror of the world of this evil regime in teheran which is
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threatening to wipe israel off the face of the map and denying the holocaust while preparing the another one. and to say the prime minister of israel's address to congress is destructive. what's destructive. therefore, i believe, that at the end of the day the american people realize that and the president of the united states elected by the american people and reflecting their inging their will, will understand he has to stand by their ally. even if he's not happy about this visit he needs to realize israel is the only ally. it's a very dangerous and vicious neighborhood. >> is he trying to sway, use his leverage now more with congress as opposed to the white house. he placing his bet that a hearing in congress will impact the current debate in a greater way than anything he could do at
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the white house? >> well, i believe the prime minister knows that congress will have eventually to approve any deal and to fund the consequences of any deal and therefore he feels congress may have a lot of leverage when it comes to approving a deal with iran, which i hope will only be reached once there's a good deal on table. i don't think the prime minister is trying toby pass the president. he realizes at the end of the day it's in the oval office where decisions are made. i believe he deep down believes that this president will see the real reason why this is being done and this crisis which is -- it is a crisis of confidence and of trust between two friends at the moment but we had our disagreements before. they were always ironed out as you do within family and with friends in total trust and total discreet discussions and i believe that once this is over
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the relations between two people and the two countries will prevail. i don't see this as a major crisis and i'm sure we will overcome it. >> all right. the stakes remain quite high. we look forward seeing how all this drama unfolds. mr. ambassador as always thank you for joining with us your insights from tel aviv today. >> thank you. still ahead police score a victory against one of the most brutal drug gangs operating in the country. we'll tell you how. plus an explosive new chapter in the saga of lois lerner and the irs targeting conservative groups. remember those lost each males? well someone found them. >> are you investigating any potential criminal activity >> the entire matter cosmopolitans to be under active investigation, yes, sir. >> for potential criminal activity? >> yes.
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went on the head the knight templar cartel. he's wanted in the u.s. on drug trafficking charges. remember all those emails from lois lerner. irs said they were lost forever but just this week more than 30,000 missing emails turned up and there might be more. joining us now for inside revelation the irs targeting conservative groups senior writer at the weekly standard. are these emails as significant as they seem. >> we don't know yet. there's a possibility that many of these emails can be duplicates for other emails we've seen so far. big revelation is these emails existed in the first place. the discovery of these emails contradict the testimony of the irs commissioner. >> the irs commissioner said the hard drives have been destroyed, we don't have back up tapes. the inspector general calls down
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a back up facility and says do you have back up tapes. absolutely. come on down. he drives down to west virginia and picks the tapes up. does this lead one to believe this is merely incompetence or a conspiracy to cover things up? >> it certainly looks more like a conspiracy. in the sense that at a minimum it looks like congress was misled by the irs commissioner. and that just never looks good in retrospect. >> it begins to have sort of a different feeling to it when people sort of say we made a mistake you take it at face value and realize they were not truthful or completely truthful. as you are looking at this is the investigation moving on at reduced speed or speed bumps putting in by the doj to slow this down. >> absolutely. this is like the zombie scandal for the obama administration. every time they want to wish it away some little thing flares up and back in the news again. again, i think that you know, this is a situation where irs
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came out and admitted they were at fault in a press conference. since then lois lerner has lawyered up, pled fifth and now we have a situation where we see again and again they put up road blocks and not doing any due diligence to show they are being accountable for it. >> you don't get the feeling this is a full and fair airing of all the dirty laundry here. has there been a smoking gun yet? >> i don't think there's necessarily bean smoking gun. the smoking gun is how we learned about the scandal. irs came out and admitted they inappropriately targeted these groups. once they said that, it seems ridiculous for the president to then turn around there's not a corruption. >> it's hard to say there's not a smidgen of corruption when you don't know, when the investigation hasn't been finished, when you haven't read all alternative males, when there's emails missing. >> that's right. if they were concerned about what they had done wrong there would be a much more forceful
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and open attempt to account for this. we simply have not seen that. >> mark hemingway we know you'll stay on it. we appreciate it. thanks. uma? congress buys itself one more week to come up with a plan to keep money flowing over to homeland security. that doesn't mean the fireworks are over. partisan fight continues and house speaker john boehner, can he get a grip on the house. our panel helps hash it all out after the break. don't go away.
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all is quiet right now on capitol hill. lawmakers passed a late night stop gap to extend homeland security funding for one more week. so they get the weekend off, come back dynasty all over again
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next week. i want all came down the house. the bill passed 357 to 60 but as you look at those numbers speaker bone had to rely heavily on democratic votes and as we reported the speaker filed whip enough republican votes to pass a three week extension just hours before. let's bring in our fair and balance panel to discuss. angela, let's start with you. what do you make of the fact that the speaker the first time through couldn't get enough votes pass to get a three week extension. >> you have republicans who don't want to vote against their principle. they believe the president is breaking the law. you have the fact dealing with amnesty if it's constitutional it's in the courts. if they were to pass that bill actually stand for that they support the president and amnesty. basically they were making a political stance and one thing i want to say congress did do their job. january 15th the house did pass a full funding bill for the
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department of homeland security. the senate pass ad bill february 27th but one had funding for the president's proposed amnesty and one didn't. >> mark are the democrats sort of gleefully watching this as republicans in fight and going we'll just sit back and watch it unfold. >> majority democrats want to govern the country. i think bone does as well. the majority of republicans do not. they want to play political games. >> 50 or 60 within the caucus. >> 52. >> it wasn't just the 50, more didn't vote for the three week extension. bone doesn't have enough in his caucus to rule without using democrats because you have these republicans on the far right, tea party playing politics. they rather destroy obama. there's a thing. we need terrorist funding and transportation funding. we need secret service to protect our borders. all americans support this. >> what does this mean, angela for trebs going forward. they have the largest majority
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that they've had in almost a century. they control the senate. still can't get much done. that doesn't look good heading in to 2016. >> republicans are clumsy communicators. you had a congressman earlier they want to go conference. they should take the stance that bone is a great speaker because he got democrats to come and help him. so basically they -- >> we'll go through this whole thing next week. >> groundhog day. it doesn't look good for republicans because they will take the blame. >> they certainly have been taking the blame as much as they have been trying to cast it off. as we talk with our chief producer up on capitol hill who does a fantastic job, mark he pointed out debt limit coming up. highway trust fund coming up. budget coming up. you got issues for tax reform coming up. does this give the democrats a lot more power now as angela points out the speaker needs some democrats to come over. >> this is the third time the
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republicans have almost shut down the government. they almost shut down the government so many times i can't count. five sounds about right. they shut it down twice. most recently a couple of years ago. the american people want government to function. they want the parties to communicate with each other the way ronald reagan and tip o'neill did. >> ronald reagan was the great communicator. he was the last great republican communicator and i wish john boehner would take some steps from ronald reagan but i wish obama would take some steps from clinton. >> ronald reagan was willing to compromise. he didn't want to shut the government down. >> tip o'neill was willing to compromise. >> absolutely. the democrats said just fund the government. in terms of immigration reform we could have comprehensive immigration reform. how many times has president obama invited republicans to put forward a bill. >> we'll see if there's any bourbon. everything for next week.
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>> senate is doing its job. >> we'll see if everyone does or if we're right back here next week for a day of deja vu. thank you. uma. when we come back tragedy falls a teen's relentless texting situation encouraging a young friend commit suicide. that tragic story coming your way. also we'll tell you why these baby eagles are working hard to fly right. ♪ if nothing fly right ♪ ♪ straighten up and fly right ♪ ♪ straighten up and fly right ♪ ♪ slow down papa don't blow your top ♪ once when you buy and again as you pay. it's cash back. then cash back again. and that's a cash back win-win . the citi double cash card. the only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided.
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birds back in the wild by the end of march. switching gears now in a big way. massachusetts teenager is facing involuntary manslaughter charge for urging a friend kill himself. police are accusing michele carter to help the 18-year-old research how to die. we have more on the tragic story. brian? >> prosecutors say michele carter knew nor than a week that conrad roy iii wanted to kill himself. in fact they say she urged conrad to take his own life right up to his very last moments and now they are charging her for his death. on july 13th conrad was found in his truck parked behind a k-mart dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. police searched his found and found 1,000 text messages between him and michele. according to court documents,
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the texts show that she helped him choose his method of carbon monoxide and several texts while he was triangle he told michele he was scared and didn't want to leave his family but still police say she continued to encourage him to go through with it. at one point conrad even got out of the truck in which michele replied get back in. >> instead of attempting to assist him or notify a school official counselor family member, anyone miss carter is alleged to have strongly influenced his decision to take his own life. >> michele's lawyer says the text messages are being read out of context and being used as a scapegoat. he told me this over phone this morning quote it was not a death caused by michele carter. it was a suicide not a homicide. mr. roy has had a history of wanting to take his life and he finally accomplished that and he did that in his own free will.
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that, though not a good enough explanation for conrad's grandmother. >> if she really loved him as she said she did why didn't she try to persuade him not to. you wake up and think you know, why? why? why? >> since his death michele has tweeted heart felt messages about conrad and has even spoken out against suicide. now one legal expert told me this is unheard of saying it will be tough to convict someone of manslaughter through texting. michele was 17 and is being charged as a juvenile. such a tragic story indeed. thank you so much for that update. now remembering a battle that was one of the worst of world war ii. it's been 70 years cities in bloody battle of manila and the month long fight that ended in 1945 saw american forces fighting to liberate the philippine capital from
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occupying japanese troops in the closing months of that war. for folks in manila, the city called the pearl of the orient they remember the scars of the battle leaving it in ruins. for many the horse errors of that war is still fresh. >> i was taught to forgive but never taught to forget. we can never forget. that's what the whole purpose of we're doing is for people not to forget and for people to learn. >> it's amazing courage there. that battle left more than 100,000 civilians dead and killed more than 1,000 u.s. troops. >> when you look at that picture of them walking back into manila that douglas macarthur left there a few years before and japanese had come through and final tlis said all right we're back at it and pushed them all the way back out. >> survivors still bring us some amazing stories. >> unbelievable storie coming up a crucial new tool in the fight against ebola which
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a test will allow doctors to diagnose and isolate patients early on before they unknowingly infect anyone else. it treatment centers faster. and get them out of the situation where they can transmit the virus to somebody else. >> now, the new test uses a drop of blood from a finger prick and produces a result in less than 15 minutes. two patients died, at least five more got sick from a routine procedure because of a medical scope infected with a superbug. two lawsuits have been filed now against the maker of the scope linked to the superbug outbreak at the ronald reagan ucla medical center. how does someone get an infection from a scope in a
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hospital? dr. marc siegel has an answer to that and so many more questions. doc, how does it happen? >> well it's because the scope they used actually -- it goes down into the stomach and then it makes a right hand turn into the pancreas and there's a lot of bacteria and it can cause contamination. if it's not properly sterilized, then it can be transmitted to other patients. it's not just deadly bacteria but all bacteria we worry about. this one in particular because it's hard to treat. >> when it comes to something like this superbug infecting on this scope, is this an issue of the scope not being sterilized in the right way and in the sense that the superbugs are really hard to kill when they're on the scope? or is it the issue that the superbugs are hard to treat or both? >> well, first of all, it's a great question. it occurs because the scopes aren't in my opinion being properly sterilized and the scope i describe has to be sterilized much more than any other.
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because it gets into dirty areas. the second problem you pointed to is we're not disinfecting our hospitals properly and we're overusing antibiotics which causes bacteria to mutate and become superbugs. because they're like looking for the combination to the vault. the more we use antibiotic, the more they figure out ways around it. millions and millions of colonies of bacteria are going to cause superbugs to occur if we overuse the antibiotics. >> in that sense, of all the things that you think will go wrong when you go to the hospital, how do you protect yourself in the sense? i'm going in, i have to have one of the scope procedures all of a sudden, you say by the way, did you use bleach this morning? did everybody wash their hands? what can patients do to protect themselves? >> this is a pretty rare problem. but i think patients should be aware of these things and be reassured we are calling them superbugs but they're treatable and we have antibiotics that
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work against them. but we need more made and drug companies don't have incentives to make more antibiotics because they're not big profit makers. we need a push there and we need incentives for drug makers to make the kind of antibiotics that will get rid of something like cre without causing the side effects of the antibiotics we have. i'm not telling the patients to go to the hospital and say what about this superbug because it's still pretty rare. it's more of a wake-up call than it's an emerging problem we have to anyone in the bud. >> i guess what i'm asking though, as you head to the hospital and you realize that all of these unknown, unknown risks that as patients we have no idea about, as a doctor you do. anything you can ask your doctor, anything you can talk about before you have one of these procedures or do you have to trust that they're disinfecting these scopes in the right way they should be? >> hear my points on this. ask if your scope has been properly disinfected, absolutely.
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make sure the doctor seeing you is washing their hands and wearing gloves and see if proper hygiene is being followed. number three, if somebody is prescribing an antibiotic for you make sure it's necessary. and if aware of the fact that maybe someone is just prescribing it because they think they have to you know knee jerk something. ask for an explanation. doctors have to be willing to talk about why are they using antibiotics? what bacteria they're treating and whether things are being properly disinfected. >> to your point, you phone in a prescription and don't explain why you need one. thank you, dr. marc siegel. >> good to see you, leyland. up next, we have your twitter responses on congressional gridlock over dhs funding. plus, a welcome arrival. what this baby's birth means for a pod of orcas off the coast of washington state.
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you know, i think about money kind of a lot. money is freedom. money's always on my mind. car insurance. credit cards. preschool. debt. cell phone bills. it's complicated. it's not easy. i am not a good budgeter. unfortunately, i'm a spender. i would love to learn more about finances. savings. investments. retirement. man: the more educated i am, the better decisions i can make in the future. we asked for your thoughts on the following question. the dhs shutdown is averted this week. but what about the next one? why do you think congress can't make a deal? a lot of twitter responses out there. here's a few. ashley says congress can't make
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a deal because the democrats will take only what they want. elections have consequences don't cave. david says congress can't resolve the shutdown because many feel upholding the constitution is far more important. and joe says partisan politics out of control. homeland security will probably be shut down this time next week. we shall see. and finally, take a look at this special video of a precious baby baby orca swimming with his family. they frequent the waters off the coast of washington state. we understand that this is a third baby born to pod in recent months. researchers say it's an encouraging sign for the endangered puget sound population since the killer whales have been struggling to survive with less food in the ocean and pollution. but things are looking up. biologists saying this baby orca is active and looking great. >> a big baby. all right. that's all for us here in washington.
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"the journal editorial report" is up next. thanks again for spending your saturday with us. >> i'm uma uma pemmaraju. see you next time. this week on "the journal editorial report," the obama administration steps up attacks on israel's benjamin netanyahu ahead of his speech to congress next week. are they smart to elevate this fast? and plus, three are arrested for aiding isis as the fbi warns that radicalization is happening in all 50 states. and from the internet to obama net? what the fcc's new rules mean for the future of the world wide web. welcome to "the journal editorial report," i'm paul gigot. tensions between the obama administration and benja

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