5-4 if i recall. close. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, please tweet it to us. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and for all of you watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. congress going down to the wire avoiding partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. with the house voting 356-60 with two hours to spare before a midnight deadline. lawmakers passing a seven-day stopgap funding extension to keep the agency up and running. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. >> i'm julie banderas. the one-week patch underscoring deep divisions over the way forward with some gop lawmakers split on reversing president obama's immigration policies as a provision for the funding.

those who want a stand alone full year measure. so peter doocy, explain why some are happy about the one week extension and why some are not? >> those who are happy still want to cut money at dhs that goes to the enforcement of the executive actions on immigration from president obama. >> all over the country republicans senate and house candidates, told the people if you give us a republican majority, we will stop president obama's illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. i think we need to follow through. >> other republicans on the other side though with senator john mccain telling the hill newspaper, i think we ought to move on to other things. i'm not sure how it helps for the american people to have the perception that republicans in the senate and republicans in the house are at odds with each other. and there are going to be plenty of opportunities in the next few months to see if republicans in the house and the senate can come together get on the same

page because they're going have to vote on money for the fight against isis and on a new budget. just in the next few months. >> so how are democrats responding to the shutdown drama? >> we are hearing national democratic groups allege that republicans are using first responders as a bargaining chip to damage the president politically and that the new republican majority is not governing. >> this has been a day of confusion, both here in this house and for the men and women of the department of homeland security. >> so now with the one week extension we are six days away from the department of homeland security shutting down. which means that most of the 240,000 people working at secret service, tsa, coast guard, border patroller who considered essential are six days away from finding out if they need to work without pay for some unknown period of time. julie? >> all right. peter doocy, thank you very much. the stop watch begins yet again with the funding bill lasting

only one week. what's the way forward as congress faces a new deadline? our political panel will debate the road ahead in a few minutes. kelly? kurdish fighters backed by u.s. led warplanes are making life in the fight against -- making headway in the fight against isis, retaking a strategic town from the terror group in northeast syria. meanwhile, the u.s. and its partners also conducting 11 air strikes against isis in iraq. jonathan huddy joining us live with more. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, yeah kelly a major ground offensive continues with help as you mentioned from the coalition air strikes. let's start there. let's start in iraq where iraqi forces are battling isis for control of a very key city. strategically located city called samarra. isis suicide bombers reportedly attacked this city and its outskirts earlier today as isis

militants also shelled iraqi ground troops there that had been locked in the bloody tug of war for control. but as mentioned aided by the coalition air strikes, those iraqi forces are reportedly gaining -- regaining critical ground. you know, losing control of samarra would be disastrous because it's essentially the dividing line between tikrit to the north and baghdad to the south. now, let's switch over to syria where kurdish forces have retaken control of a town called tal hamis. it's there in the corner this is an isis strong hold because of the location. this is key. it's along the borders of iraq and turkey so it's been used to shuttle, to transport artillery and vehicles back and forth between syria and iraq. so taking back control for those kurdish forces is a major

victory. kurdish fighters with help from christian militiamen. this is the same area -- it may sound familiar, because it's where isis militants abducted more than 250 syrian christians earlier this week. we're talking men, women and children when the militants basically went storming into towns and villages clustered together in the norts eastern -- northeastern part of syria, pulling families out. and at this point, kelly their fate remains unknown. back to you. >> john, thank you. well as the fight against the islamic state continues in the middle east, german police are also on edge. they are warning of a potential threat in a northwest earn city after they received a tip about possible islamic extremism

activity there. they're not releasing other details about the threat. across europe meantime, officials are on high alert due to the attacks in copenhagen. and officials in iraq reopening the national museum in baghdad after terrorists destroyed rare and ancient artifacts. isis released video this week which appears to the show them using sledgehammers on priceless statues in the northern city of mosul. the group also reportedly sold them in the black market. and the prime minister is trying to quote prevent peace. benjamin netanyahu has made it clear he's skeptical about the on going negotiations and doubts tehran can be trusted. the israeli leader is scheduled to address the u.s. congress next week. many are protesting that. iran's foreign minister saying that bullying and scare mongering will not stop iran and world powers from reaching a final nuclear deal.

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and oklahoma overnight turning roads there into skating rinks and canceling hundreds of flights. it was nice while it lasted. gas prices they're jumping all over the place. up over 12 cents in the last few days. that's still a dollar less than this time last year. but experts say we can expect a jump of another 15 cents by next week. well, funding for the department of homeland security has been extended, but only for a week. just one week. so democrats and republicans of course were unable to compromise on a larger bill by about midnight deadline last night including language stopping the president's executive action on immigration. but passing the spending bill only buys very little time until yet another showdown next week. so are we going to repeat this whole process again? joining me now cal thomas, a syndicated columnist and richard goodstein, former adviser to

hillary clinton for president. this stems of course from president obama's november announcement of a program to grant legal status work permits and social security numbers to as many as 4 million illegal immigrants. 55 conservatives voted against the one-week bill along with five democrats. so with conservative republicans steadfast, what's going to change between last night and right now? >> probably not much julie. we'll see more reruns than on tv during the summertime. look, what you have here is a fight between the two wings of the republican party. the capitulation wing and the principled wing. the principled wing those who got elected last november believe they were elected to slow down or stop the obama agenda. they campaigned against the president's executive order on immigration but they don't have the votes to override and none of them are talking about impeaching the president. so i don't know what they're going to do other than either

shut down as they say which is not really a shutdown anyway. it's all political theater. the department of homeland security. or go ahead and vote and fund it and then campaign on this in -- for the next election. >> some conservatives argue against a short term bill because it would allow funding to flow to obama's deportation amnesty. richard, are democrats willing to budge? do they not realize who's in control of the senate and the house? >> of course they do. but i think -- >> this won't get them anywhere. >> what cal calls the capitulation wing is what most people call the governing wing of both parties in congress. and that's frankly what they thought they were voting for was for people to govern properly. you have to feel sorry for john boehner. we had this big majority, the biggest republican majority in the house since 1929. the feeling is oh, he can lose a bunch of the tea party folks and

still basically govern sensibly. we know that the tea party has a veto. and if there's one thing that unites democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives is that the primary interest of government is protecting the homeland. yet, we see there's this contingent in congress who are prepared to say you know what, maybe we're actually not prepared to fund border security. these are the very people incidentally who insist when it comes to immigration the single thing they want is to protect the border and yet they're voting against border agents and everything else that goes under the department of homeland security. finally, i'll say this. the fear is that this whole mindset carries over to funding the whole government. when that ends in september, or protecting full faith and credit of the dollar and the economy when the debt ceiling needs to be raised. this is kind of troubling. let's hope by this time next week we can move on. >> cal you pointed out obviously the president is not going anywhere for next 22 months and with the white house vetoing anything the republicans come forward with, i mean, the whole world is watching right now.

what kind of message is washington sending? >> well, i think that the republicans, julie should do what they said they were going to do. mitch mcconnell said he'll do it, and john boehner suggested he'd do it, send one bill after another to the president and let him veto it and then run on that next year. look, with e -- we know what works in this town. >> continue to politicize, because that ends up happening. >> it's not politicizing when you operate out of conviction. this president's popularity continues to sink. it is rarely above 50%. most of the time it's been below 50% but you have cpac, you have the republicans coming through with different messages. the republican party has to decide what it believes in and run on the convictions. i'm reminded of will rodgers, i don't believe to an organized political party, i'm a democrat. now that applies to republicans. >> richard, you point out how the house speaker went about the

whole issue. what does it mean that john boehner didn't speak with mcconnell for two weeks while the clock was ticking down to defunding the nation's efforts to protect the homeland? >> well, look it wasn't encouraging. frankly in the tables were turned an that was harry reid not speaking to barack obama or whatever people would say, come on, how is that a way to kind of do business in washington that's not right. but to boehner's credit i think this was all a ruse because he needed to say to his kind of the rambunctious tea partiers, no, i'm not capitulateing to mitch mcconnell and those in the senate, i'm going to hold fast. he can say by not talking to mcconnell he was holding firm. you know, is that kind of wise governing and frankly, are we going to have that next week and the week after, whatever the issue is. i just think somehow or another that's not a way -- for the republicans controlling congress to think that's an appropriate

message to the public that the two leaders aren't speaking. >> cal, go ahead. >> i wish if the circumstances were reversed which they had been in the past and harry reid or george mitchell before him slowed down everything that the republican president wanted to do, i doubt we'd be hearing this from richard right now. >> i have to go. >> bye, julie. >> i have timers in my head. being our producers. thank you very much. >> thank you. for more on the on going battle over funding the department of homeland security be sure to tune in to sunday morning features with maria bartiromo. that's tomorrow 10:00 a.m. only here on the fox news channel. >> should be good watching. a strong new study examining the effects of marijuana versus alcohol. researchers say it's no doubt one is much more harmful than the other. so the question is which one is worse? the doctor is in with the results. and a big relief for a small nascar team. police recovering their stolen

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but they're just glad to have their car back. next up for driver travis kvapil and team extreme las vegas next weekend. a new study suggests moaking marijuana is safer than drinking alcohol. the question is how much safer? more than 100 times? looking at a variety of factors, researchers say in terms of mortality marijuana is low risk. and alcohol is high risk. dr. david samati is a member of the fox news medical a-team. how much marijuana do you use versus how much alcohol would one use and what would be the harmful factors of both actually? >> this is a study that came in to scientific reports. it's a very deceiving paper and it's also extremely confusing with a lot of flaws in this particular study. what they're basically using is a lethal dose of marijuana heroin, cocaine, and pot and they're putting them all in the same category and saying since

alcohol and heroin can kill you faster then pot is perfectly safe. that's a bad logic. and they're also extending this to the whole medical marijuana. and once you get into the medical part which is where i'm coming from as a doctor to legalize it and have access to a lot of people out there it's a very dangerous situation that we're getting to. now, long-term effect of this kind of marijuana on brain, cognitive skills, memory loss, psychosis, there's a five-fold increase of heart attack when you're on marijuana for a long period. pregnant women in colorado are smoking pot and it's affecting kids. now we have crack babies being affected as a result of this marijuana. we don't need this. this is not necessary. if you want to go for medical marijuana, go for the drugs that the fda is looking in to it. it's approved in europe. but to basically legalize this

and use the word medical followed by marijuana i don't think this is a good service to the society. it sets a bad example for teenagers. it lowers the iq of our teens by long prolonged use of this. it's all bad all around. >> you impact a lot there, but i want to get back to the one thing that you mentioned for women who are pregnant smoking marijuana that it produces crack babies, aren't the substances totally different? >> well, what it does it basically goes through the blood to the children and there are receptors in the brain which is affected by this thc what it does, it affects their memory. we may see attention deficit kids or a lot of children affected by this now. there's 13 kids been admitted to the icu and for all this overdose so now -- >> you mean the results could be the same as if it were a crack baby. >> absolutely. you're endanger this kid and children as a result of smoking. the same we say pregnant women should not touch smoking or alcohol, same thing with this,

it's just not healthy. and i think, you know, it really opens a whole big can of worm. state after state are basically going after this medical marijuana that can easily fall into this creational ones and set a bad example for everyone. >> why, then, would they release this kind of report knowing that there's some in the community who be blindsided by this or perhaps encouraged to do more medicinal marijuana and even recreational? >> i'm not why it got accepted but my job is to bring it to the surface. >> what is your concern? someone comes in to your office using medicinal marijuana, what would be your advice? >> i'm concerned because it's not being regulated. the key word regulation is always a bad word but every one has a different level of thc. over time it's going to cause addiction. you're going to build tolerance and it's just not a safe drug over a long period. yes, short term heroin and alcohol is much worse than this. but also jumping from the

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hello, welcome to america's news headquarters. >> topping the news this hour a nail-biter in congress. lawmakers unable to agree on a long-term funding bill. passing one-week extension to keep the doors open at dhs. what happens at the end of the week? plus, sadness and suspicion surrounding the murder of a prominent opposition leader and critic of russian president vladimir putin. ukraine's leader said he had damaging eveld about russia's involvement in the uprising. a pay hike for workers at t.j. maxx and walmart but could the bump in wages put smaller stores out of business?

we will debate. so while cpac wraps up in maryland another high profile conservative convention is heating up in florida. the cluck forb for growth is hosting mike pence wisconsin governor scott walker and louisiana governor bobby jandindal scheduled to give a keynote address in 15 minutes from now. national correspondent john roberts joins us live from the event at the breakers in palm beach, florida, i love that hotel. >> reporter: it's very nice, but it's pouring outside julie, so you don't want to be here right now. indiana governor mike pence who is a favorite of the club for growth and has been for a long time told a room full of big-money donors this could be the first election since 1980 to turn on foreign policy. pence who was considered to be a dark horse candidate for 2016 wants to dramatically increase spending on defense insisting that america needs to restore its position of power in the

world. and in an exclusive interview pence who traveled to israel back in december told me that he's disappointed with president obama's approach to israel has been for years, as well as president obama's attempts to undercut israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's address to congress next week. >> you know capitol hill well john you know there's very few issues that are more broadly or unanimously supported on capitol hill than america's relationship with israel and i think the white house would do well to reflect that this week. >> reporter: earlier today wisconsin governor scott walker addressed the conference. walker is the front-runner and first in the nation iowa. he's up by about 14 points. but he's taken some darts on a number of fronts recently from recent comments about unions and isis to his lack of a college degree. something he and i share. >> one of the great regrets in my life was to not finish and get a degree. how do you feel about that? >> i would love to have it but

people can appreciate it i left in my senior year to take a job, i had a job offer. my friends a year or two older were out of school with a degree but had no job. >> reporter: if there was a knock at all here, it that he hasn't fully formed his public policy ideas but i think it's pretty safe to say he can be given a break for it being very early in the campaign. in fact, it's not even a campaign yet. >> they start talking about it right after your president's elected. incredible how soon after the elections we're talking about. >> reporter: jeb bush really pushed the schedule here and i think it's left a lot of other people really scrambling to get up to speed. >> totally. now they have to play catch-up, john roberts, thank you. hope the rain stops and you get to enjoy the lovely area. >> reporter: you're not the only one. >> i grew up there. >> i know. >> you know everything. >> i don't know everything. i don't know who will win the straw poll but this afternoon we'll learn who will

win the cpac straw poll 17 names appear on this year's poll. wow. with an option to choose none of them. kentucky senator rand paul has won the cpac straw poll for the past two years in a row. we'll have to wait to see how he does this year when the official results are announced around 4:30 eastern. okay. a scheduled rally in moscow protesting russia's actions in ukraine was canceled following the murder of prominent opposition leader, instead becoming a tribute, who was one of vladimir putin's most outspoken critics. in fact, he was fatally shot last night just hours after a radio interview denounceing putin's tactics in ukraine as, quote, mad and aggressive. sad story. amy kellogg has more from london. >> there are lots of theories being bandied about because he was a fierce critic of the kremlin, some people speculate

the government was behind his murder, because he was a fierce critic of the war in ukraine some think that possibly ukrainian separatists could have arranged his assassination and they've come up with some lines of its own including one suggesting someone inside the opposition could have orchestrated the murder to, quote, destabilize the country or that islamic extremists could have been somehow involved. former chess champion gary kasparov, said he was gunned down and mh-15 was shot of the sky and now boris is dead. as always the kremlin will blame the opposition or the cia or whatever. there's a question whether or not business might have been in the gang-land-style killing but it doesn't seem that he'd amassed a fortune. he'd been set to lead a march against the war in ukraine tomorrow and instead a memorial

to his life will be held. he was 55 years old and been in politics for two decades as someone who knew him told me, he had heart. he was not cynical. he was gunned down by assailants or assailant in a car when he was walking close to the kremlin with a female comepanioncompanion. vladimir putin said the murderers will be punished. he said in the past he feared he could be killed one day but he also said his mother feared that much more. julie? >> amy kellogg in london, thank you. while this 21-year-old store clerk we're going to show you right now was shot over a pack of cigarettes in arizona. the suspect in his murder is an illegal immigrant with a criminal history and now the clerk's grieving father is using his son's death as a catalyst for change in the federal government's catch and release policies.

we've got the latest from our west coast bureau, good to see you. >> there's a lot of things going on the border in the southwest. the fact of the matter is there's still a lot of issues and this is another one that has people up in arms especially in the phoenix metro area. you are talking about a 21-year-old really young man gunned down by a guy who at this point seemed to have several strikes against him yet was not being held. his father says that he's been robbed of his son and his brother and his friend and u.s. lawmakers, immigration officials, are to blame for this. this is the accused gunman here, 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 but in the two years since he's been on bond he's also had several different things against him including two protective orders by women who say that he threatened to kill them, yet he was still out and about. now, instead of being behind

bars, he's now accused of murdering a quick trip clerk, a quickie mart clerk after he dumped a jarp of change on the counter at 4:00 in the morning and demanded a pack of cigarettes. now, they want the legacy not to be one of tragedy but a force for good and he hopes that the death will lead to a change in government immigration policies. take a listen. >> we want change. and the best way to honor grant is hopefully to get the change. 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. >> and that's a recurring theme for a lot of people victims in the southwest that are dealing with deaths caused by people that are not here legally. in the meantime, there's still more problems along the border despite you've been told the

border has gotten better there are still significant issues down there. and on thursday a massive drug bust. take a look at this. 15 tons the second largest bust on the border in u.s. history happened at otey mesa. a truck came through and the driver claimed he was carrying mattresses and the agents put it through basically an x-ray and when they did, didn't look like mattresses inside so they opened it up and found it filled to the top with dope, with marijuana, of course, that was seized. the driver is now in jail. this goes to show this is an ongoing issue down there, kelly still people coming across the border illegally and a lot of drugs coming across the border illegally and a lot of problems for the agents that comment to face it each and every day. >> adam, you did say 15 tons? >> 15 tons of marijuana. the entire back of a semi. >> wow. >> adam, thank you for the update and our condolences to the family.

thursday's shooting rampage in missouri leaving the region in shock. the gunman identified as joseph jesse aldridge killing seven people in four homes before taking his own life. the motive unknown but the sheriff said this -- >> start locking your doors, you know. the world's changing. you know, you got to be safe. >> four of the victims were cussens of the gunman. he was found dead in his car. when authorities went to his home, they found his mother dead of natural causes. republicans kicking the can down the road avoiding a partial shutdown of homeland security at the last minute. setting themselves up for another crisis next friday. so what happens if the money runs out then? and out of this world tribute to leonard nimoy, how astronauts on the international space station are remembering the man who played spock.

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avalanche in ave gan stan. it hit northeast of kabul. rescue crews say 186 people are confirmed dead but they expect the number to rise as they reach villages that had been buried for days. a french court sentencing eight men to prison for a double jewelry heist in paris. the crooks made off with gems and watches worth more than $140 million. their terms ranged from 9 months to 15 years for the robberies in 2007 and 2008. and in north america, hyundai is recalling about 263,000 cars over a problem that could disable power-assisted steering. the company says dealers will fix the problem at no cost. if you were watching a tense night on capitol hill. lawmakers passing a one-week bill to prevent a partial shutdown of homeland security as the midnight deadline approached. after conservatives blocked a three-week extension. the stalemate highlighting the

difficulty in reaching common ground in congress and now there's another deadline for next week so what happens if they can't cut a deal and the money runs out? a national reporter from "the washington post" joins us now to weigh in on this issue. good of you to join us today. >> thank you. >> you know, a lot of republicans are not happy with any of this at all. congressman peter king of new york, for example, tweeting there are terrorist attacks all over the world and we're talking about closing down homeland security? this is like living in a world of crazy people. but as you know, there are other republicans who are against this measure because of president obama's executive order about immigration. so, what's your best guess of how all of this plays out next week? >> well, viewers at home are probably having a little bit of deja vu, because this is a similar break we saw in the fall of 2013 over the larger government funding which led to a government shutdown. you had republicans like peter king charlie dent from pennsylvania saying we need to

govern. we might not agree with president ob doesn't help anything or anyone to shut down the government. we're seeing that obviously on a smaller scale now with this homeland security fight. and the optics as peter king said politically are just terrible for the republicans. the republicans especially when we're talking about isis and all the homeland security threats, even though if the homeland security funding did get cut off most essential personnel would still work, some 80% of homeland security workers would go to work without pay. they'd eventually get backpay. but for americans at home to hear we're not funding our homeland security department, it doesn't look good. >> you are right on all the fronts. i think that's what congressman pete king was talking about and you talk about the optics of all this, charles krautheimer said the republicans have already lost this issue, he said to go on with this again and again would not be good at all for the gop and he adds that democrats have won the pr campaign in this already that everyone will blame the republicans for this.

do you agree? and if so what should the republican-controlled house and senate do to ensure the department of homeland security is properly funded? >> right. so, my colleague, chris cillizza wrote the republicans are their own worst enemy. this is what the democrats were hoping when the republicans won the senate. part of them were happy that the republicans were completely in charge of the legislative branch and could just infight and the democrats could step back and obama and the white house could step back and let them tear themselves apart. fast-forward to the fall and we have another debt ceiling fight and another government funding fight on our hands. we'll be in the beginning of the presidential campaign. you'll have republican candidates being asked on the stump about whether we should fund the government. then they're going to have to decide if they want to appeal to their conservative primary base, worried about general election voters. republicans are in a bit of a pickle right now. >> the other person who is in a pickle is the house speaker,

john boehner, his leadership is being questioned as a result of this. >> yeah, absolutely. and that was the same conversation in 2013. you know, there were many conservatives that voted against him for speaker, again, this year. he's got a lot of friends, though, that back him, but there is this small pocket of conservatives and there are enough of them to buck him to make him look really foolish and really silly when he brings these votes to the floor. it happened several times in the last congress. he thought he had the votes and he'd bring a vote to the floor and it would fall apart before our eye. so, speaker boehner needs to figure out how to get his caucus together and he's not figured out how to do that yet. >> strangely and oddly watching it from all the sidelines not saying anything is the president of the united states and the white house. >> yeah. and that's what i was saying before. obama, the white house, democrats, they're quite happy right now to be sitting back and watching this unfold. obama has said repeatedly, listen, you send me a bill that

overturns my executive action on immigration, which is what this fight is about i'm going to veto it. so republicans in congress know that and it's one thing about being principled and sticking to your campaign promises. it's another thing to face reality which is as long as obama is in the white house republicans are not going to get exactly what they want. what they should be doing is focusing towards 2016 and hoping to put a republican in the white house then. >> thank you for join us this afternoon, good for you to have us -- to be with us. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> all right. well have more on this tomorrow steve scalise appeared on "fox news sunday" you can check your local listings for air times. now for astronauts paying tribute to actor leonard nimoy from outer space posting this picture of his character spock's trademark vulcan salute. take a look nimoy died yesterday in los angeles sparking a flood of tributes. he was best known for his iconic

role of half human, half vulcan in the "star trek" movies. he was treated for lung disease earlier this week and he was 83 years old. let's talk about america. it's a country that believes in the spirit of volunteering. we volunteer for active duty in the u.s. military. we volunteer to donate blood, walk, or even run for a cause. and in today's "beyond the dream" we focus on a volunteer who envisioned how he could use his talents and skills to help people in need. ♪ paul ferguson served his country for 13 years in the united states army, the proud veteran now spends a great deal of his

time performing patriotic songs and entertaining people around the world. he is considered to be a guitar virtuouso who performed with the late donald byrd and george benson and more. he's produced several cds stars to raise funds for charitable causes, but paul says his greatest accomplishment is bringing a smile to those who are often stuck in a hospital bed, alone and in some cases fighting a terminal illness. >> when you're playing for someone that's in the bed, that can't move all they can do is move their eyes, and then when you start to play and you get close and personal and some that can't hear or can't -- they feel the vibrations of the guitar and then you see the joy or you might see a tear coming out of his or her eyes. you know you've got into that soul. >> paul founded yes, we care, a

nonprofit organization on long island, new york, to raise money and awareness for people who are considered to be forgotten, the sick and the homeless. through, yes, we care, a volunteer grassroots movement have begun. they are encouraging people to roll up their sleeves and pour out their hearts by getting involved and providing helping hands to those in need. >> there's good in humanity. paul and i try to teach everybody that comes into our little domain about that that that's what's really important. tugs your heart changes your life. >> knowing that music therapy can be very helpful to those who are sick paul has developed various relaxation videos along with photography and original music designed to offer relief from the stress of battling an illness. having survived two bouts of prostate cancer himself, he knows how comforting music or a smile can be. >> we want them to know first hand we are with you. we all suffer. we walk the planet.

we're all the same. but at some point each one of us will have been or will be in that same position. >> so, paul, you seek to live your life to inspire others. i'm curious, who or what inspires you? >> the love that you see when you help someone less fortunate. when with you look in someone's eyes that's laying there that can't move, and you see the tears coming out of their eyes but you see also and feel the joy of what you have done for them and them telling you thank you in that way. that's the inspiration i get. it tells me to keep on going. i'm doing the right thing. never stop. never give up. ♪ >> and never stop making that great music that helps so many people. paul ferguson yes, we care and letting people know they are not forgotten. >> music is definitely a healing way of calm. i mean i tell you, anytime that you pick up an instrument if you are suffering from anything or a personal struggle, if you pick

up or learn an instrument, it's amazing -- >> it's true. >> -- how it helps you focus and gear that energy towards something positive. >> seeing or playing an instrument is always helpful for people in need of musical therapy. the boston marathon bombing trial now slated to start next week and our legal panel is going to take a look at what we can expect from the defense and the prosecution. a tricky trial. and a high drama on capitol hill israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gearing up to address congress about iran's nuclear program. how exactly will this impact the negotiations? next. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car.

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team to move the trial out of boston. they argue the jury pool would be biased by strong emotions in the city after the 2013 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260. how is this trial going to play out? our fox news legal analyst and robert schlock is a defense attorney and former prosecutor. robert, do you believe the first circuit was right here in denying the defendant's request to move his trial? >> i think it was the right decision. they always do defer to the trial judge's discretion in making that determination. there's a number of famous cases, high profile media tacecases, it's not like there wasn't any precedent for it. and his lawyers are protecting himself rights and filing all the appropriate motions and for whatever reason this is going to be an appellate issue if he loses. >> it will be an appellate issue but i don't think they'll win on appw++ examples that they've moved i can give you those who haven't,

the american sniper jodie arias, many cases the judge said if we try to move a trial for every high profile case we would be moving -- >> it would be terrible presence dent. >> and that's not the standard if you've heard about it or in the community. the standard is even though you've heard about the case you've read about it seen stuff on tv about it, can you still be fair and impartial? that's the standard. if they say yes, that's it. >> okay so now the question is finding these jurors. every one of these jurors obviously knows about this case. >> right. >> the defense is going to argue they're biased. and over 1,000 people have been called into the jury pool. how, then, do they select a jury? and they need to decide who leans on what side regarding the death penalty. >> right. >> because a lot of people want this guy put to death. >> exactly that. what they have to do is get a panel that is death penalty what that means if this jury

were to find him guilty and,m! come on, you know, itm> absolutely. the great thing about it the judge is doing a great job because the appellate issues are coming up. he's individually questioning the jurors and he's giving it over to the prosecution and the defense to question him, so they're going to be able to find enough people to say we can be fair and impartial and make that decision. >> what about the issue of jurors coming into contact with the outside world? that's áh!possible because anytime the jurors go into the courthouse there's a sea of demonstrators out there and the last thing they want is a mistreelmis mistrial. is there anything that could harm the trial? >> there's a couple of things that could happen. they could be sequestered.

it's very expensive and it's a hardship on the jurors, that's one choice. the other is less than sequestration, have them gather at a place outside the courthouse, not at the courthouse, and have a bus or a transport take them to the back. that happened in the scott peterson case before they were sequestered, they were taken &"t9pfrom one place to the back of the courthouse and brought in by guards. >> a guilty verdict is pretty inevitable at this point. >> i would say so yes. >> does that mean the trial will not drag on or is this -- >> you know the defense lawyers. >> it seems like the trials no matter what if it's a slam dunk case or not they'll want to make it go on forever. >> the defense will wantep it to go on forever. >> what leg do they have to stand on? >> the judge could make a mistake along the way. will the prosecutor. will the jury be tampered for. >> there's not enough witnesses that could come in and fall apart for this case to fall apart. a witnessó the stand and the prosecution is

not going to care. >> it's so overwhelming. >> it really is. >> they need juror misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct. >> they will look for loopholes and -- >> i think they'll try to make the defendant look human right? >> yeah. >> yeah, because that is -- if you're playing the game towards the death penalty, what you want to do right now if you're the defense is humanize him. what i want to do as a prosecution is demonize him. >> how do you humanize a terrorist? >> you can't. this is a very difficult job. >> that's impossible. >> they're looking for people on that jury with kids who are the same age 19-year-olds they make mistakes, how can we kill a child? he's a young kid being influenced by his brother. >> the other thing with the sniper case way back 12 years ago in d.c., the older man and the younger -- >> malvo. >> that's exactly what they tried to do there. >> this boy is much younger. >> exactly. but that's the kind of thing i

think they're talking about. they can't reallyzííw go for the insanity defense. at least there's been no endcation of that so that's really all they have. >> thank you appreciate you both coming in. >> you got it. a teenager now facing charges in the suicide friend. prosecutors charging her with involuntary manslaughter for failing to get help and encourage him to kill himself. we've got more on this. >> last summer 18-year-old conrad roy iii was found in his truck parked behind a kmart in fair haven massachusetts, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning when they searched his phone they found more than 1,000 text messages between conrad and 18-year-old michelle. according to court documents obtained by thek;vt fair haven noibl news, the text showed that she helped him choose his method of carbon monoxide poisoning. in several texts while conrad was in the act of committing suicide, he told michelle that he was scared and didn't want to

leave his family but stillku8jt prosecutors say she continued to encourage him to go through with it. at one point conrad got out of the truck in which michelle replied get back in. >> instead of attempting to assist him or notify a school official, a counselor, a family member, anyone, miss carter is alleged to haveqe k ñ strongly influenced his decision to take his own life. >> michelle carter's lawyers said the text messages are beingaóy= read out of context, telling me this morning it was not a death caused by michelle 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. one legal expert says it will be very difficult to charge michelle with manslaughter. >> you can't interpret what somebody means all the time via a text message, number one.

number two let's compare this to some of the cases where someone's on agñ]z ledge and there's a crowd below and they're screaming jumpi) that should also be illegal, but nobody's ever been charged with the actual death of a person who's jumped inp&( that situation. >> well, since conrad's death, michelle has tweeted heartfelt messages about him and has even raised money for suicide prevention in his name. michelle was 17 at the time of the crime an d is being charged as a juvenile. kelly? >> thank you, brian. >> no problem. israel's prime ministerfu entering the lion's den coming to washington to talk about iran's nuclear program, so why the white house is dead set against it? find out. plus the mysterious winner's missing dress? ♪ going to find her going to find0 her going to find her ♪ your daughter has a brilliant idea for her science project.

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welcome back. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu set to address a joint meeting of congress next wem6t putting a spotlight on iran's nuclear program.!34 iran's top nuclear negotiator accusing mr. netanyahu.tí of fearmongering, saying the speech won't stop a final nucleari between the west and "xiran. a mideastb$k journalist and fox news contributornv joins us now with perspective on this very dicey,op+ú touchy issue between the white house, the u.s. congress, and the israeli leader benjamin netanyahu. what do you think his message will be when he addressesndlñ congress? >> obviously netanyahu t7d0xfeels, correctly so, thatd the nuclear power will be an existential threat to israel. now, the question is do we actually need bebe netanyahu to come in to congress to tell us

that the iran deal is a bad no, we already have bipartisan support. meaning lawmakers in this country already are expressing fear that this is a bad idea, sanctions are brought -- are what brought iran to theér negotiating table and pressure, economic and otherwise, is what will keep iran at the negotiating table. what we have is anheezuhp &hc% administration that wants to strike any type of deal with iran and in the process have marginalized not only bebe netanyahu but other powers in the regionrqñ including egypt which thinks it's a bad idea to allow iran to do this. he's marginalized both sides including democrats and more importantly has really marginalized the iranian people. the big threat to the iranian regime1ñ is not the p-5 plus 1. it's not israel. it's not any of these countries that are putting its feet to the fire. it's really the 75 million iranians at home and in 2009 they came to the streets and they=

remove this regime and that's what i think is the biggest foreign policy blunder that the obama administration is responsible for.> ó >> because no one responded to that. >> they needed -- they needed -- >> someone to help them.nif÷look back at 1979 and president carter he was integral in helping the -- the -- the behind the ousting of the shah and bringing khomeini to power and now we would have had the same opportunity to really remove the mullahs from iran. that was the real start of an arab spring the iranian people telling the world what they l0d9 wanted. >> what do you make of the speech that prime minister netanyahu will make and is -- too late to turn that around now. and what do you make of the fact that the white house is not even entertaining him when he arrives here? >> right. this is not the first time that the white house has snubbed bebe netanyahu. it's a long time coming obviously. it's a climax because it's in front of the world stage but israel will be has been and will be, our biggest ally, our strongest supporter and ally and

friend in the region particularly now when we see the world is really being swallowed up by thisno-! radicalism and we can separate the sunnis and shiites and iranian regime they are all on the same list because they all have the same goal. there's a one-to-one correlation when israel is safe, secure and thriving that will mean the same thing for the region and national securitynwbn for/ñzañ the u.s. . >> let me ask you, then on that point is mr. netanyahu actuallyssgo going to be inducing fear or is he actually going to be giving us a wake-up call? and that is going to be that iran having a nuclear deal will be a bad deal for everyone. the region -- we can go from micro to macro. what would a good deal for iran -6á be, bebe netanyahu and everyone in the region wouiz$k be on boardl with a good deal for iranian. behavioral changes and stopping of the executions.é( human rights abuses including four americans that are not

beingp this deal. we're talking about their tentacles in the region, the hand in)cn syria, supporting of hezbollah, supporting of hamas and going all ther/v=j&u(v back to the nuclear deal the way that they're still exporting terrorism. none of this behavior has changed. they're not complying with the iaea, and yet5pçg we are changing our behavior vis-a-vis iran in order to push this->i;& through and netanyahu will make a very cogent argument against this deal. the same way that we've seen law makers again on both sides of the politicalvñ aisle make the same very strong case. >> thank you fordih insights on this with perspective on it. >> absolutely. >> we will see this in living color next week. >> yeah it should -- >> it should be quite an event. thank you. >> of course. all right remember the beautiful í14gddpearl-covered calvin klein dress worn by lupita nyong'o, it was óld-q' by pretty stupid thieves=u5 apparently.

they returned it. get this tmz is reporting the thieves tried to sell the dress but they were unsuccessful because, get why, the pearls were fakes. so, they actually brought it back to the hotel. brilliant. police still searching for whoever took the oscar winner's dress, kelly. >> wow. and tonight on fox business network, jamie covey learns about thee inheritance that a rock n.cht rock 'n' roll legend left his sons. ♪ from you i should ♪ >> i'm crying. okay? ♪ i pray that you are here uéi b@!n ♪: ♪úxn anything you want you got it ♪lkp ÷ >> ah, that looks good.

that's tonight at 8:30 eastern and hopefully jamie will join in and sing and at 8:00 how comic booäf/ heroe s are helping those devastated by hurricane sandy. the murder of russian oppositionj4oñ leaderuxvkñ boris nemtsov putin was involved. he expressed concerns for his safety last)/o% week. and two retailers going head to head in a wage war, boosting minimum wage foreú4@ employees. sounds like good news, but is it? can your favorite small businessq7ñ compete in this battle? find out next. ♪

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now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. it's never been easier with so many networks all in one place. get live tv whenever you want. the xfinity tv go app. now with live tv on the go. enjoy over wifi or on verizon wireless 4g lte. plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. a wage war could be brewing between some of the nation's largestáretailers. less than a week after walmart announced it is raising its minimum wage the parent company of t.j. maxx announced it will raise its starting wages, too. many hourly workers will now receive $9 an hour. while that may be good news for workers in big money companies, can small businesses compete with the higher wages?

we have the managing partner at chapwood investments. the pro union group, our walmart, is not only taking credit for the initial pay hike but is promising to keep fighting until hourly wages are $15 an hour. how can small businesses compete with that? >> well, it's a great subject because remember, money -- or people will go where they are being paid more money. obviously walmart, most people don't realize this already paying way abovew!ztt minimum wage. now what's happening is other companies are going to be forced to match mé t, but in a slow economy, because if they don't match it then they are going to lose workers to other places and other businesses. they're not going to have the workers and that's going to hurt those businesses. in a slow economy this is not natural. you want to have natural wage increases because the economy is going higher and doing better not because it's being forced or mandated. >> that's a good point. >> by government agency or union. >> all of this is happening as the labor department reports consumer prices are falling.

so then how do small business owners keep up and let's not forget small business owners make up the backbone of our economy, and during the recession, they suffered the worst so then what should happen? >> well, again, because it's so unnatural and the economy isn't strengthening you will see more and more people leave to go wherever the are. a lot of small business owners don't hire people who are really getting minimum wage but think about a retailer who isn't doing well that competes with a walmart or t.j. maxx. it is then going to have a ripple effect and it will start to accelerate maybe their bad numbers, because ceos are judged based on profitability so if you are having to pay more money out to get or keep employees, guess what, that cost is going to trickle down to you and me and everybody else watching right now. so when you hear stories like this, everyone needs to know these stories impact how much they are going to pay for goods and services and it is going to

hurt small businesses and it is going to hurt without any question retailers that aren't doing very well. >> so how might it further impact our economy overall, then? >> well you will see prices going higher, you will see people not making as much money or having much more money to be able to pay on consumer goods so it will then have again, more of a ripple effect of slowing things down. if the economy was growing, i have no problem with people making more money. i want everybody to make a lot of money. but doing it in a way that is natural. >> and safe for our economy. some are looking at walmart's move as proof that the private market removes the need for the government to raise the minimum wage. what's to stop walmart from lowering its wage back down on new workers in the future? >> they can. i don't believe walmart for a moment is listening to any union or to government. they are doing it because they want to do it and attract good people. i went into walmart the other morning. that place was packed at around 5:30 in the morning with people

really happy working hard stacking the shelves. these people are proud of their company and enjoy it. part of that is because they're paid well. guess what? that's america. america, pay more money, people will go there. you do better, you will then be rewarded for it. that's natural and i keep saying that because i don't like being forced, anything being forced down someone's throat. that's what this minimum wage hike from the government is. >> ed, thank you very much. appreciate you coming on. forget about binge watching "house of cards." there's real life drama on capitol hill. the congressional agenda at a standstill. details after the break. >> i'll be back at 7:00. hope to see you then.

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