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strangest? >> i will wrestle an alligator next week. that was pretty strange. we got it all. >> fox business all weekend. we've got to run. happy to be with you jamie. "happening now" starts right now. happy passover. jon: fox news alert. looks like surrealist crain lifting something outside the dallas of museum of art and the crain tipped over. we don't know exactly what happened here, or whether any works of art have been damaged. we'll find out and get back to you. as far as we know though, no injuries there in dallas. stuart: well, a framework for a nuclear deal with iran now a reality. before the ink is dry, the deal faces obstacles not here at home but iran as well. good morning on this good friday. i'm jon scott.
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jenna: maybe a crane is met for for this story some of the big stories teetering on the edge. jon: toppled unfortunately. jenna: i'm jenna lee. certainly a lot of analysis taking place over the last 24 hours about this deal. key players in congress are skeptical of the deal. they want to see the fine print which we do not have yet. many details including when sanctions would be lifted and what type of nuclear research iran could still conduct. all of that is still unknown at the time. president obama already lobbying law makers to lie low until june deadline for a full deal to really see what this is all about. many of our allies are also skeptical. israeli prime minister bejnamin netanyahu warning this morning that agreement only would, quote, pave iran's path to the bomb. kevin corke live from the white house with more. kevin? >> reporter: jenna, good morning to you. you hit the nail on the head. there is plenty of skepticism to go around but there is plenty of hope at least there is a broad
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framework somehow the two sides, iranians and americans and international partners will be able to could a less and create a comprehensive deal by the end of june. if you listen to josh earnest, white house press secretary who was on fox news today you get the sense white house is hedging their bets a bit. listen to josh why americans keep saying if as it relates to the deal. >> what we have done through this agreement if we complete it and iran lives up to it, we'll verify that iran is not able to acquire a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: if if, and if. plenty of skepticism we talked about around the world but one person who seems to be somewhat encouraged by the deal is iranian president hassan rouhani said this underscores iran's right to enrich uranium. we will follow along the framework if other powers do the same. but it is not sitting well in israel. here is bibi netanyahu.
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>> it will legitimatize iran's illegal nuclear program. it will leave iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure, a vast nuclear infrastructure remains in place. the deal would lift sanctions almost immediately. and this at the very time that iran is stepping up its aggression and terror. >> reporter: well to be clear the sanctions would be lifted sort of piece by piece. meanwhile, chuck schumer among many critics on capitol hill expressing caution. he seems very skeptical about this deal. he says we will take a very close look at it. not signing off on it by any stretch of the imagination which might probably surprise some people when you consider he has been a very consistent ally of the administration. we'll have a lot more throughout the day on fox news channel from the white house, but for now jenna, back to you. jenna: as you point out kevin senator schum hears been with the white house on many issues but with this issue about iran joins many democrats on this issue. nice sampling for us today,
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kevin, thank you so much. jon: as you might imagine critics are slamming this deal with iran in part because it does not address several americans currently held prisoner there including american pastor saeed abedini. a former marine arrested visiting iran to visit his grandmother and a reporter for "the washington post." robert levinson a resider fbi agent believed kidnapped there in 2007. here is what secretary of state john kerry had to say when asked if these men were brought up during negotiations? >> no meeting, no date, when we come together has been without conversation about our american citizens. i will not go into any details except to say to you that conversation is continuing. we have a very specific process in place to try to deal with it and we call on iran again, today, now, in light of this, to
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release these americans, let them get home with their families. jon: the state department which kerry heads says it is working with the families of all four men to try to bring them home. jenna: some details of the framework of this nuclear deal will take time to work out. other details and other reaction is more immediate. the price of oil fell as news of the deal broke yesterday falling nearly 2% to close under $50 a barrel. that is roughly 50% cheaper than this time last year. going forward some experts say the end of sanctions could lead to higher oil output from iran that would potentially mean cheaper prices globally. but again, windfall for iran who hasn't been able, the country hasn't been able to do business on the oil market as easily as it once did. oil markets by the way are closed today in observance of good friday. jon: allegations of homegrown terror in new york city. two new york city women appearing in federal court in brooklyn. they're accused trying to build and detonate homemade bombs.
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also in court on terror charges a texas native flown back from pakistan where he apparently joined al qaeda for training. michael balboni former homeland security advisor for the state of new york. also senior fellow at the homeland security policy institute at george washington university. the authorities say with regard to these two women that american citizens were never in any danger, michael, but you say you don't like many of the aspects of these arrests. tell us about that. >> jon, when you take a look at the time that this evolved, this is not something that just happened overnight, over, after a week of thinking about it. this is a thought process these two women according to the complaint have had for over several years. when you take a look at the timeline as evidenced in the federal cop complaint what you see is, that they have been taking steps getting propane canisters what we saw in the
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times square bombing attempt. this, when you look at what boston marathon bombing showed that this is a real threat, this is something that can be done in these united states, and it is done by two women. women who, essentially had not really been on anybody's radar screen beforehand making it very hard for law enforcement and federal authorities to be able to track them. jon: and the fact that they are women, you know, very often we look for these jihadists to be young males but the fact that they are women and apparently targeting, considering targeting law enforcement funeral? that has got to be tough to stop? >> so many existing decisions that we make about terrorism. we have this view it is, as you said the male jihadist. we see so many women american women, british women, who are actually trying to get over to syria to get into the fighting, to be able to join isis. so what we really have to focus on is that the message, whether
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it is to "inspire" magazine which these two women apparently viewed or through the efforts of isis globally they're having impact not only on americans but american women as well. this is, more and more a concern because we hadn't really thought in this way before. jon: it's just crossing our urgent wires. as you and i are speaking that a 30-year-old philadelphia woman keona thomas has been arrest arrested today, charged with trying to provide material support and sources to a designated foreign terrorist organization namely isil. how do we stop this? these recruits seem to be coming out of the woodwork. isil for whatever reason, seems to have attraction to these women and young men. how do we stop it? >> the difficulty jon, as we've discussed before is that there is this global media campaign. we have to come to grips with that. in addition to which there is so many information on the internet how to make a bomb.
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we've seen the attempts, time and time again to try to get into the american fabric, and hit places that you don't necessarily think as a target. the fact that they would talk about police funeral, that is chilling. but i will tell you that the police funerals, the police also know that they could possibly be a target. so there is lots of things they do to prevent that from happening. jon: security you wouldn't necessarily see from the outside? >> you wouldn't see at all. they have lots of undercovers out there, counter snipers and countersurveillance. all things designed this is not a target people might see because they see a sea of blue. more important here is just what the fbi and local law enforcement are doing out there in the media chat rooms. looking at different media platforms. watching what folks are saying. there is this very very difficult line they have to be careful of. when it is aspirational goes to operational, that is a fine line moment n this case again if the federal complaint is correct,
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these two women took that step. they were going operational. which is exactly the time you have to go get them. jon: two women from new york and apparently just this morning another from philadelphia. michael balboni thanks for sharing your expertise. >> thank you,on. jenna: more details on the breaking news out of philadelphia. meantime let's talk a little bit about the economy now. the pace of hiring slowing down in march according to labor department although the unemployment rate was still 5 1/2%. the economy only created is 26,000 jobs, breaking a streak of monthly job creation above 200,000. peter baron's is live from washington. peter? >> reporter: job creation in march came in about half of wall street's expectations. the labor department that the economy created 69,000 fewer jobs in january and february than it initially reported. so the jobs numbers are now aligning with a raft of other indicators that suggest first quarter economic growth stalled. economists are looking for clues
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what is causing this slowdown and some of the sectors in the march payroll numbers, for example construction lost a thousand jobs. that may be due to the bad wither in march. manufacturing was down as well. that may be due to the strong dollar which hurts u.s. exports because it makes u.s. products more expensive overseas. leisure and hospitality companies added just 13,000 new positions last month a huge drop-off from hiring in february with 70,000 jobs that could be related to the bad weather as the president's top economist said that the weaker first quarter, is likely due to temporary factors like bad weather and the west coast ports slowdown. >> think there are a lot of special factors in the first quarter. i think there is volatility from quarter to quarter. but if you look over, you know a longer period, six months a year you can see that the u.s. economy has had a good friend.
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-- trend. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner was critical of the report saying, while it is welcome news more americans found jobs last month. millions remain out of work and middle class families continue to struggle. economic growth is uneven at best. jenna? jenna: peter, thank you very much. don't miss peter barnes reporting on our sister network f you're not sure where to find fox business in your area click on fox foxbusiness.com/channelfinder. jon: a five-year-old boy was found dead day as after he was reported missing. police charge ad suspect in his death. we'll tell you about that. 2016 candidate senator ted cruz taking shots at his potential rival, senator rand paul. is this the start of a big battle for the nomination? we want to hear about today's top story who comes out on top in your view of the iran nuclear agreement? our live chat is up and running.
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jon: we may be seeing the beginning of the battle for the g.o.p. nomination as presidential hopefuls take shots at their potential rivals. declared 2016 candidate texas senator ted cruz now criticizing kentucky senator rand paul for voting against reform of the national security agency. what's going on here? jamie is senior editor for the daily caller. kevin is a reporter for the hill. ted cruz, kevin, says this thing only failed by one vote and that rand paul's vote could have put it over the top. take us back to that time and give us your explanation as to what the legislation was all about and why it's such a big deal for ted cruz. >> well senator rand paul said that the legislation didn't go far enough in correcting the nsa bulk data collection and it actually technically failed by
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two votes though senator cruz says that the leader's vote was just a procedural hurdle. there's that element to this. bottom line is that the 2016 bickering and positioning has already begun, just days ahead of senator rand paul's expected presidential announcement here. jon: ted cruz said he's not going to be slinging mud but he does want to take pains to point out votes of his potential rival rand paul is expected to announce within a week or two he wants to make sure everybody knows what his potential rival has voted for and voted against. >> well, he said that before he's not going to sling mud right before calling people like to mean coburn part of the surrender caucus so he said those things and then does another. what's interesting here is that ted cruz is trying to position himself like the goldilocks candidate. on one hand he wants to come across as less hawkish and more
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libertarian than someone like marco rubio while more hawkish and less libertarian than someone like rand paul. what's interesting in this debate if he's positioning rand paul as the more libber -- the less libertarian here that he was trying to preserve the fourth amendment rights. in reality rand paul voted against that legislation. not because he wanted more data collection but because he thought it didn't go far enough to reverse the patriot act. so ted cruz is playing a very clever game here in trying to paint rand paul as someone who was not sufficiently fighting for libertarian values. jon: one of the dangers, i suppose and republican leaders thought it happened last time around was that there were so many candidates who wanted to challenge a first term president barack obama that they all tore each other to bits in the primary season you know trying to score some political points. is that a potential danger here? >> well you have to look at what's happening here. if you look between the political lines, if you will, just a little bit, you have an
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example of senator rand paul's perceived policy strength with his base among those libertarian leaning tea party voters in the grassroots. he's strong on issues like more transparency for n.s.a. and drone use and senator cruz hitting him on his perceived policy strength. so i think it kind of opens up criticism to senator cruz to many republicans and democrats too, kind of point as the guy who was responsible for the government shutdown in december of 2013. jon: you say that senator cruz is trying to position himself as the goldilocks candidate. aren't these two guys sort of fighting for the same slice of the republican party? >> absolutely. you can say they're in one brk et together. they're fighting to be the conservative challenger to what some will call the establishment candidate, whether that is marco rubio or jeb bush. they want to be that challenger to them when it comes down to
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just basically two candidates so they're fighting for that space. as nice as it is to think that oh, we could all be nice and friendly during this contest, they have to try to distinguish themselves so it could get a little nasty. jon: let's put out some republican brackets just like you know getting down to the final four. we'll set up brackets and you guys can fill in the blanks and we'll see who wins at the ends of it all. thank you both. >> thank you. have a good day. jenna: iran may be getting some of what it wants in the nuclear deal including sanctions relief. that would be good news for tehran's economy but what will happen to that money that suddenly can come flooding in? will there be any additional safeguards to keep the cash out of hands of terrorist groups with ties to the iranian regime? plus authorities spring into action, helping a mom give birth in less than ideal circumstances. >> that one contraction where you know it's about to happen hit me and i went down to my knees and he was coming.
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jon: the parents of a 5-year-old boy found dead now charged with abuse and neglect. noah thomas' body was discovered inside a septic tank five days after he was reported missing. a marine veteran to stand trial in the murder of a fellow marine's wife with whom he allegedly had an affair. christopher brandon is pleading not guilty to killing 19-year-old aaron caldwin who was pregnant and we know the name of the police officer this man allegedly shot in memphis yesterday. officer robert armor was following up on reports of drug activity when he was hit in the leg. suspect now in custody. officer armor remains hospitalized but memphis police say he's stable and, quote, in
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good spirits. jenna: jaingz -- sanctions in iran how soon could money, particularly from oil, start going in iran's coffers? will there be any way to make sure none of that cash is then sent to terrorists? joining me now is a treasury department investigator. good person to talk to about this. nice to have you back on the program with us. >> good to be back. jenna: this is a framework deal. we're waiting for specifics but can you bottom line from what you see what this would mean as far as sanctions in iran and what the impact is? >> sure. there's generally two categories of sanctions. there's the sanction that the united states imposes on iran and then there are the sanctions that the united states imposes on other countries that do business with iran. and to the extent that this
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framework agreement is going to do anything, it's really going to be those secondary sanctions, those extra territorial sanctions, the ones we impose on other countries that do business with iran. so for iran that means it's going to make it easier for them to deal with currency. it's going to make it easier for them to trade oil with mainly asian countries. for the united states, u.s. businesses persons, it means we're turning sanctions down from 11 to eight. most u.s. companies won't be able to do business with iran and most foreign companies that do business with the united states won't be able to do business with iran either. jenna: interesting. so there's talk of snapping these sanctions back in place. so let's say iran doesn't follow through on their commit manymentscommitments, if there is a final deal. president and others have said we can snap the sanctions back s. that true? >> yes. certainly. we've done it in lots of other places. when we started easing the sanctions on burma one of the things it is administration did
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was it kept the sanctions in place but temporarily suspended some of them. and if you look at the joint plan of action which is sort of the current deal that has been on the table leading up to this framework agreement that has the same sort of structure where all the sanctions that might be eased can remain on the books but be reactivated as a moment's notice. part of the reason they do that is to sort of keep a sword hanging over the other party and keep the pressure on. so the snap back is for real. we've done it in the past and it's been a pretty effective deterrent against cheating. jenna: iran isn't burma and we have other sanctions in place because iran is a state sponsor of terror. those sanction haven't deterred iran from the mischief in the region and specifically sponsoring terror groups which is why they remain on the list. so are sanctions effective at all when it comes to iran or have the iranians gotten so good at living under some form of sanctions that they're virtually in effective? >> i've currently got a pro bono
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client who has fled the iranian government and the iranian secret police so i know exactly what this regime is capable of and we need to be clear eyed about them. that being said iran always puts its own interests first. they have a tremendous amount of domestic instability because of a large youth population that can't find work and isn't connected to the outside world and in that kind of a domestic context these sanctions really have had an effect. look. iran wouldn't be at the negotiating table with the united states germany you know, our allies in europe unless they thought they could get something and unless they needed something. so keeping the pressure on is a way to make sure they change their behavior. it's not perfect but if the alternative is war, try this approach first. jenna: we don't want that. no one really wants that. or maybe i should say most everyone, chris. there's always a few. let me just ask you this briefly if i could. >> sure. jenna: sanctions were described to me in a recent conversation
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as permanent sanctions relief as part of this deal. permanent sanction relief for temporary constraints on the nuclear program. do you agree with that? >> well it depends. look. if we look at the entire universe of u.s. sanctions on iran, there are at least five different statutes. there are six different sanctions programs. there's probably a dozen or more executive orders that are out there and they're spread across the treasury department and the state department. so if i look at the entire universe of sanctions, the change that we're going to see is a dial down from 11 on a scale of one to 10 to probably eight on a scale from one to 10. whether it's permanent, i'm not sure that's the case because we have the snap back. if you look at the entire universe of aid earlier, most u.s. companies that do business overseas will not be able to do anything with iran and most foreign companies given the way the justice department and treasury department enforced the sanctions, most foreign companies that do business with the united states won't be able to do business with iran
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either. we're talking about a marginal shift here one that's very important for iran and their economy but not one that fundamentally changes or upsets the balance between the united states and iran vis-a-vis the economic sanctions policy. jenna: it's a complex issue and very key, we should mention, to what happens at the end of june and whether or not a deal actually does get done here. chris, great to have your expertise as always. >> great to be back. jon: top democratic senator accused of corruption. how did the news media cover this political bomb shell and who was the first to drop it? also more disturbing details from the german wings crash. what investigators say the copilot did as he was taking down that airplane. new fallout from the terror attack that left people dead at a kosher market in january. who the survivors are now suing. know your financial plan won't keep you up at night.
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jenna: a chilling new information about the final moments of german wings flight 9525. investigators say the plane's data recorder shows copilot lubitz repeatedly accelerated the aircraft before crashing it into the french alps killing everyone on board. kitty is live from logan with more on that. >> as you know investigators already learned a lot from that first black box that was found. that was the cockpit voice recorder. yesterday the second black box was finally recovered. it's very badly damaged.
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it's burned but crucially french investigators were able to analyze new data from an initial reading of that box. this is technical information and it shows that the pilot deliberately set the plane to descend to 100 feet and then increased the speed several times during the crucial final minutes of that flight. now you can see from these pictures of the recovery effort how small the pieces of wreckage are. very little left intact of the plane. the plane smashed into the mountains at 430 miles an hour. now, that's much faster of course than any normal descent. all of this new information adding further weight to the evidence that the pilot crashed that plane deliberately. we already heard how he knocked the cockpit door from the inside and gentlemened, german prosecutors say they discovered he made online searchs about cockpit doors and how to commit suicide. all of this indicating this crash was preplanned. now, today prosecutors have also
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searched officers of five doctors he went to to seek medical treatment and investigators will be analyzing his medical records to see if there was any other reason for his motivation for this crash. jenna: thank you. jon: united states senator bob menendez pleading not guilty after his indictment on corruption charges. the new jersey senator accused of taking nearly a million dollars in gifts and campaign contributions from a friend in exchange for political favors. with a look at how the story played out across the news media, a pulitzer prize winning investigator reporter and ellen, both fox news contributors. the fact that a sitting u.s. senator from a very populated state and a powerful senator at that gets indicted should be front page news everywhere judy. nbc last night didn't even
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mention the fact that he had pleaded not guilty. they seem to have moved on from his story. the other big two networks did make some mention of it. does that surprise you? >> it does actually. i think that this is a very important corruption case because it's the first case that really relates to the super pac vehicle. you can give unlimited amounts of money to them so there's a lot at stake in this case. and the justice department was burned with its earlier cases. john edwards, citied -- ted stevens. you're alluding to the suspicion that perhaps mr. menendez has been targeted because he has opposed administration on a number of crucial issues. i find very little evidence to support that but given how political the administration has been and can be in particularly
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the justice department, one can't rule it out. jon: chris wallace said the same thing when i spoke to him yesterday. yes, he's been a vocal opponent of the democratic president on the iran deal cuba deal immigration policy and all of a sudden, he finds himself under indictment by the obama justice department. >> you know this is not actually new and i do fault the news media for not making a bigger story of this. on the other hand, iran connection is very interesting. a guy that works for us went to prison because, in my view there was quote unquote, corrupt but he also was the only member of congress that spoke the language and did some back door communication with iran that he had gotten and suddenly the bush administration went after him. so this is not terribly surprising and i think it has to be looked at through this lens
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as well. jon: also interesting on the very same day that the corruption charges, the big indictment of a sitting u.s. senator is announced we get word that the justice department is not going to prosecute lois lernor the one who many wanted in content for lying to congress. is there -- is it a little curious that those two decisions come out on the same day? >> it is a little curious and i think it does give rise to questions about whether or not there were politics involved in the decision to prosecute senator menendez. on the other hand i have to say this investigation has been going on for three years. the record is pretty clear. senator menendez did not report these gifts and his defense is that he did this out of friendship and wasn't influenced by the $1 million in contributions to a pac that the eye surgeon who was also named in this affair, gave him. he says it was just a question
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of friendship. that's an odd defense. so look. the timing is -- this is a long standing investigation. can anyone show that the justice department was motivated by politics? so far, no. this is where the media has to just keep digging and digging to see whether politics played a role. jon: one of the charges in the indictment is that senator menendez is alleged toave tried to get visas for three of the girlfriends of this man. meantime, harry reid was trying to get visas for hundreds of people who were investors in his friend's casino and nobody seems to be indicting harry reid over that. >> he's also a senator from nevada so he has to do things that help people out in nevada. getting visas for people as i'm sure judy will agree with me on is bread and butter for members of congress. you're often asked to do that whether they're close friend or a distant friend from your state. jon: we'll keep an eye on both of these stories and see where
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they go from here. judy miller ellen thank you. jenna: six survivors of a kosher market terror attacks are suing. their location was disclosed. they were hiding in a cold room after a gunman stormed the market killing four people. he was later killed by french special forces. interesting side story out of france today. jon: so will a nuclear deal with iran, if we have get there, really stop tehran from building a bomb? our next guest says maybe not that and tehran may be conducting secret nuclear research well beyond its borders. plus some are calling it the great wall of sand. territorial despite in the south china sea becomes more heated adds china begins building man made islands.
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jon: let's check out what's ahead on "outnumbered." what do you have? >> three u.s. citizens charged in terror plots and in one day breaking news a philadelphia woman was also charged with planting to martyr herself for isis. is the administration doing enough to fight homegrown threats here in the united states? on the eve of the final four, yeah, that starts tomorrow, the ncaa under fire for saying education not our job. sorry, friends. so is admitting the idea of the student athlete as a total sham? >> employer gets more than it bargained for when a guy hands in a doctor note who slams a company for wasting his time. is he right? >> we're going to ask our hashtag one lucky guy who knows all about that and all things medical on "outnumbered" at the
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top of the hour. >> stethoscope as well. jon: we know you won't waste our time. see you at the top of the hour. jenna: iran and the world power work to cement the nuclear deal. there are new questions over whether iran has some sort of secret program in north korea. next guest says iran and north korea has been cooperating on nuclear research for years. if iran today were to agree to adhere to additional protocol, it could continue conducting research there or buying north korean technology and plans. the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. tell us about this gordon. you wrote this piece before we had the framework of this deal. you raise an interesting point about what iran is doing elsewhere. what is the relationship with north korea? >> these two countries have been in a joint nuclear program since
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the turn of century, perhaps longer. it's not only the uranium program but also the plutonium program as well. there's been an exchange of personnel so for instance, you ever iranians on site in north korea since october of 2012 at a military base south of the chinese border and every time that north korea explodes an atomic device, iranians are on scene. north korea has sold iran enriched uranium and each year iran pays north korea somewhere between $1.5 billion to $2 billion for missiles, nukes and other weapons. jenna: that statistic was interesting because north korea is such a closed nation. iran has the money. could they actually be constructing a weapon of mass destruction in north korea rather than in iran? how realistic is that? >> because north korea is closed off and because we we don't have inspections we don't know what'ow there are a number of iranian
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and north korean personnel who fly over china and essentially means that iran has substantial operations in north korea. we don't know the full dimensions of that but there have been too many reports to suggest that this close cooperation to -- you know it's just so clear there's something going on there. jenna: china was part of the deal. not only talking about sanction because china is a big customer of iranian oil but talk to us about potentially china's role in iran's nuclear program and why we should watch that. >> china used pakistan as a surrogate to transfer nuclear weapons technology and when the u.s. rolled up the network in 2003 and 2004 a couple of things happened. first of all china started to sell materials and technology to the iranians directly and also north korea started to proliferate to iran. basically taking over pakistan's role as the proxy. you know china's role has sort of diminished over recent years but i think that's largely
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because iran now has almost everything it needs for the bomb. so i do believe that they are very close, just one or two months away from actually fielding a weapon and they may very well have it in north korea right now given the extent of the cooperation between the two countries inside north korea. jenna: something to consider because as we've been talking about, the inspections and a lot of their requirements for iran to fulfill as part of the framework would happen within the country and not necessarily deal with some of the questions that you're raising. speaking of china, i have to ask you about the other story. we're so focused on the middle east. there was a med line recently that was taking a look at what some say is a buildup of sand the great wall of sand. talk to us about this. we have animation to show the viewers what this is about. it's around the disputed group of islands that we talked about but we have some pictures of what it looks like china is doing which is building up sand in the sea. what is this about?
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>> spratly island chain. china claims the entire south china sea as its own territorial waters and in the last few months, it's been building eye randz, about 1.5 square miles of islands which has been dredged up from the sea. so basically they're killing a lot of coral, putting sand on top of it and then cementing it over for air bases and other military facilities. jenna: literally building islands. >> they're building islands in the south china sea and they want to be able to keep the u.s. out of that area and they also want to keep other countries out. so you know basically china is saying, this international water, no. it's not. it's ours. jenna: that's so fascinating we have these interesting pictures we were just showing viewers. a lot of focus on the middle east but we don't want to forget the pivot to asia which the president has talked a lot about. good to see you as always. jon: scary stuff and dramatic moments in an l.a. courthouse. baby boy making a big debut on a
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jon: meet a kid who certainly knows how to make an entrance. a bouncing baby boy coming into the world in the middle of an l.a. courthouse. we have the story from our west coast news room. william? >> jon everybodying -- jon, babies are born anywhere they want. the courthouse in l.a. was not something that she planned. the mop mother is two days overdue. contractions 15 minutes apart. she thinks she'll get in errands before going to the hospital. she's paying a bill at the courthouse when the baby decides to enter the world, ready or not. >> that one contraction where you know it's about to happen hit me and i went down to my knees. and he was coming. >> she was in the hallway.
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she came out of a door and literally she made some sort of a sound and she just dropped to the ground. >> i removed trousers like a good deputy would. i didn't look. and i put my hands down there and the baby's head comes out and then the rest of the body just slid into my hands. >> i was like oliver, catch him. i was able to get some paper towels and help him a little bit about that. >> mother and child are fine. dad missed the birth of his third child but hundreds of others didn't. it's a day they won't forget. >> when things have gone wrong for people to be there when they're beginning a beautiful journey, it was overwhelming and just very very cool. >> my god. you cannot describe seeing life being born in front of your eyes. >> after he came out, there was a huge crowd. >> it was over in five minutes. they didn't even have time to put up cardboard to protect her privacy. jon: william, terrific story.
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welcome little malikay. jenna: what a cute little baby. the baby goes into law later on. jon: i think this childbirth thing is easy really. jenna: on the floor of a courthouse. congratulations to the mom. what a sweet little baby. here are the news stories we're working on for the second hour of "happening now." eighth grader and her older boyfriend accused of murdering the girl's mom. prosecutors say they have text messages to prove it. but should she be tried as an adult? something we're going to talk about with our legal panel and his family reported him lost and now he's found. how a rescued sailor survived 66 days at sea. also as we observe the start of this religious holiday weekend we want to share a quick programming note for you. if you weren't one of the millions to see "killing jesus" based on bill o'reilly's best selling book, you can catch it tonight on the fox news channel and also watch it again on easter sunday at the same time.
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jon: we're going to work on the second hour of "happening now." a great show ahead. see you back here then. jenna: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> this is "outnumbered." here with us today -- and today's hashtag one lucky guy, a member of fox news medical a-team and a professor of medicine at nyu medical center, dr. mark seigel and he's outnumbered so a good friday. we have the good doctor. what else do we need? he eat my apple a day so -- >> happy april. take an antiobiotic. >> after the show. >> that's great. i told you beforehand i'm a hypo conned

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