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♪ well elizabeth, congratulations. you're tougher than i. >> i'm just doing what every mom does. get in a bathing suit you don't want to in a pool you don't want to all so the kids can have fun in the summer. fox news alert what's being described as a major haz-mat situation in pennsylvania. crews are fighting a fire at a major warehouse and telling those in the area to stay in place until it's under control. heather: the fire broke out at the miller chemical plant shooting huge flames and plumes of smoke into the sky near hanover. gregg: eric shawn is live from our newsroom. what do we know so far?
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>> reporter: the blaze broke aught at 3:30 this morning. it's at the miller chemical and fertilizer warehouse. it's in a commercial district of the town. the company says it specializes in manufacturing agr hurricanes chemicals. they say the chemicals are not hazardous and can be used in organic gardening. there have been explosions at the scene throughout the night. two workers did escape without injury. officials say the smoke is not hazardous. they admit it may bother some people with lung conditions. folks around that area are told to close their windows and shut
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off their air-conditioning because of the smoke. haz-mat crews are there at the scene monitoring that air to make sure it's safe. the smoke and fumes are deemed not toxic. right now there is no word on exactly what caused that blaze overnight. heather: we have breaking new details in the manhunt for two murderers who escaped from prison in new york. police say they cut through a steel wall, broke through a brick call and tore their way into and through a steam pipe. at the scene this.
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a note taunting police officers saying "have a nice day." all while authorities urge the public to be vigilant. >> these are very dangerous individuals. take no chances and take no efforts to apprehend them and report suspicious activities. if you see something say something. heather: david lee is live at the correctional facility. what do we know about the outside help? >> reporter: this is a bus outside the correctional facility. there are a few dozen corrections officers entering this bus. presumably they are among the many who have been searching nearby areas for these two fugitives. we have seen and lot of activity the last few minutes.
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let's talk about the latest developments. in the new york post, a female worker at the prison has been questioned at length. she has been removed from her job. she is not a corrections officer. there is concern she may have been an accomplice to the fugitives. the state troopers i spoke with said there is growing speculation these two men did receive help because they had with them power tools that made this escape possible. take a look at the video when the governor toured the prison. you can see how the tiewj toughs were able to cut through steel. they were able to navigate a catwalk system and they shimmied through a pipe before exiting through a manhole removing a
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chain and lock. the prison is continuing to be under lockdown as the massive search continues. while the authorities are searching nearby, there are numerous checkpoints set up. the prison is only 20 miles from the canadian border. it's possible they may be in canada. that's just speculation. they could also be in a radius hundreds of miles from here. some believe if they did have help the help might have involved some type after car that would have aloud them to leave this car immediately. heather: that area surrounded by thick forests as well. can you tell us about these two killers? >> reporter: these men are considered armed and dangerous.
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one was convicted of torturing and killing his former boss in 1997. he then fled to mexico. he got into a bar fight. he killed an american. he was extradited back to the united states. he's serving 25 to life. other fugitive, the younger of the two is 34 years old. he's convicted of killing a new york state deputy. he fired at the deputy 22 times. the deputy was struck 22 times. the new york state authorities are offering a reward. this is virtually unprecedented in this case.
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$100,000 for information lead together captainture of these two men. the authorities not commenting on any reports that they might have received some type of help from the inside. gregg: this is just the latest in high-profile prison escapes in prevent history. three inmates escaping through the tunnels at a prison in indiana. august 2008, 8 inmates broke out after prison in new mexico using handmade tools to cut through the roof. all westerly eventually caught. and in 2009 two murderers escaped after crystalling a hole -- after cutting a hole in the ceiling. they were caught two days later.
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the g-7 is meeting in germany. the president is talk about the war with isis with the iraqi prime minister before heading back to washington. kevin, the president as we understand it has an awkward moment with the iraqi prime minister this morning. what can you tell us about it? >> reporter: sometimes the optic overshadow what is said. the president was sitting down having conversation with other world leaders when the iraqi prime minister saddled up behind him waiting to get the president's attention. after a certain while he looked at his watch and interpreter raised his palms to the sky and say, what gives.
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we look forward to the president's explanation for what can be perceived as a snub. gregg: why is climate change on the agenda with so many other pressing issues. >> reporter: when you figure all that's happening in the middle east and elsewhere globally. angela merkel. the big conference coming up in paris. and beyond that the big story is still russia. everybody is talking about russian aggression in ukraine. vladimir putin missing from the summit the second year in a row. the president said he wants to make sure all g-7 participants stay vigilant and keep the pressure on the russians. >> it will require the
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transatlantic partnership and the world stay vigilant in upholding territorial sovereignty and integrity. >> reporter: some of our expert say if you leave things as they are that's a negative not just for the u.s., but for the global community at large. >> the underlying dynamic on the ground are changing at a time when i think the use the should be considering additional sanctions on top of the renewal. gregg: it looks like a sound of music background you have got there. heat will be president obama -- heather: president obama is set to hold his own news conference
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at 10:00 a.m. eastern time just before boarding fair force one for his return trip to washington. you can watch that right here live. gregg: the president is meeting with the iraqi prime minister on how to roll isis terrorists out of iraq. heather: chaos at a pool party and it's captured on tape. a police officer throws a teen anger to the ground by her hair and pulls out a gun. how this situation turned violent very fast. gregg: -- >> don't be running around
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america dividing americans. don't be saying we are trying to keep people from voting when her own state has less opportunity for voting than my state. and she is going to sue my state? that's just silly. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta and fires up free wi-fi, with a network that's now up to 5 times faster than before you know what he can do? let's see if he's ready. he can swim with the sharks! book your next stay at lq.com!
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people tried to force their way into the soldout show by jumping the fences. new jersey state police making hundreds of arrests. thousands of concert-goers who paid hundreds for their tickets never made it inside. gregg: president obama is talking about his strategy for defeating isis. iraqi's prime minister al-abadi says they need for help from the u.s. the president is playing up the number of terrorists who have been killed so far. >> it will be a blow of a sense. destroying an iconic leader under mines confidence. but you can't play a numbers game you can't count how many team you killed or how many
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leader because they are replaceable. what you have to do is destroy the fabric of the group and that takes more effort. gregg: kt macfarland served in the reagan administration. saying how many isis members we killed does that fall into the category of "so what?" >> yes. the u.n. said 25,000 have come from 100 different countries in the past five months. if we killed 10,000 and 25,000 have joined, i wouldn't say that's a success. gregg: at the say time the u.s. commander in iraq, i want to
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quote him. he said, my assessment is that isis has been halted. is that credible? >> it's a joke. in the last year isis has taken three major cities in iraq. every time isis has come up against the iraqi army, the iraqi army has had 5-30 times more troops than the isis fighters. and guess who wins every time? isis. the iraqi armory every time it sees isis takes off it uniforms, throws down its weapons and runs away. the iraqis will say we need more raining and competent weapons and state of the art stuff because we lost all our state of the art stuff to isis who picked
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them up off the battlefield. gregg: what should the president of the united states be saying to them as they meet. >> president bush and president obama all said we'll stand down when you stand up and fight. that's backward. what we should have said from the beginning is you stand up first and we'll help you. but if you don't stand up to fight we won't stand up in your place. gregg rrg is there any evidence these guys are standing up for themselves? >> no. the dirty secret is the iraqi army is not the iraqi army anymore. it's the see. >> it army. -- it's the shiite army. and guess who's calling the shots in baghdad. not president obama. it's the iranians. gregg: the "new york times" in an editorial was urging
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president obama to provide military ais answer to the iraqi fighters and the peshmerga. >> it probably would stop isis but the president is not going to do that. they have had a love affair with the iranians. so the whole anything middle east you don't understand it news realize it's a fight between the shiites and the sunnis. iran is the shiites and everybody else is the sunnis. heather: the obama association pushes for a final deal with iran. an american journalist held against his will in tehran on spief charges and the regime is refusing to open his trial to
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gregg: some terrifying moments along the florida coastline when a shark suddenly attacks a boy in the what the materials off cocoa beach near cape canaveral. the victim said to be 10 years old was airlifted to a local hospital after receiving a bite to his right calf. a witness says she saw that shark moments before the attack. >> the shock bit released, bit released. real island is he was not fish.
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it was his right lower calf. he hand it the best way he could. >> was the worst we have seen in years. or emts went out there to stop the bleeding top limit the loss of blood. gregg: the victim is recovering at the hospital. heather: a trial resumes in iran for an american journalist that has been cloaked in secrecy. amy, are we any closer to learning his fate? >> reporter: no, unfortunately we are not after a succession in the closed revolutionary guard's courts in iran. his mother says he's very tired. very distressed and that
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certainly is understandable given he has been in tehran's prison for 10 months. the 39-year-old washington bureau chief from the "washington post" is a dual national. he's an iranian american an has been accused of espionage. by all accounts of friends and family jason loves iran and was trying to humanize the iran story when he was pea rested. he was arrest of along with his wife and two other journalists. his mother has traveled to iran more than once to be there at her son's side. but as she told reporters the iranian authorities are not honoring her request. >> my son is innocent. as his mother i wanted to come and show my support. six months ago i was here and
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they told me leave, and come back for the trial. i came back for the trial but they are not per misting me to see it. >> reporter: two of the reasons iran quoted for the espionage charge is he wrote a letter to president obama and he tried to get his wife in the consulates at dubai. the consulate said he did write a letter in 2008, he was interested in work for the obama regime but he never did go to work there. these hearings are closed so there is very little information leaking out. gregg: treasury secretary jack lew heck manied by a jewish group for defending the president. >> we continued to negotiate on
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a long her term deal. at that time some denounced that understanding. gregg: we'll show you the part of the speech that driewft biggest -- drew the biggest boos. heather: a texas police officer put on leave after this video surfaces. the chain of events that led himmb to slam this teenager to the ground and pull his gun. ♪ those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life.
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he claims he killed steenkamp after mistaking her for an intruder. >> the texas police officer put on leave after videotape surface of an incident at a pool party. take a look. keep in mind that's a pool party. the officer pulled his gun on this group of teens. we are not seeing what happened before this tape began. casey, what happened here? >> reporter: this happened in mckinney texas a northern suburb of dallas. police say they were called to the pool after reports of kids fighting at that community pool. the uniformed officer throws a 14-year-old girl to the ground in her swimsuit. pins her down with his knees and he draws his gun on the teen.
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the officer has been identified. he has been placed on administrative leave while an internal investigation plays out. >> it's something we'll have to look into with the officers and their actions on the scene. any time you confront a group of people it's a dynamic situation and tensions can rise rapidly. >> reporter: what has bent reaction to all of this? the videotape is being shown just about everywhere. how do people react? >> it went viral over the weekend. it's interesting because emotions have been mixed. some people are supporting the officer saying the officer did what he had to do because you don't know if there is danger when you have get in a situation
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like this. others say there are racial under tones because the officer was white and most of the teens were black. >> this is the time now not making a mockery. hands up, don't shoot, all lives matter. >> reporter: maybe mckinney says he's disturbed by the police actions depict on that video. heather: treasury secretary jack lew defending the u.s. nuclear negotiations with iran. skeptics booing him as he suggests this administration has
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done more than any other for israel's security. >> some said iran would cheat and our sanctions would fall apart and this program would allow iran to move closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon. but none of that came to pass. heather: former new hampshire governor john sununu was chief of staff to president bush. what did you think about what transpired here? >> it boggles the mind that the obama administration thought it was smart to send jack lew to this pro-israel group to talk about iran. i can't imagine a white house so dim and insensitive. heather: a large portion of the speech was to sell this deal to
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israel. is that possible? >> the problem is not just selling to israel. it's selling to it any of our allies in the region. the saadies and our friends in the emirates don't like it. this administration is tone deaf. and he's creating a relationship with our allies that's extremely difficult to deal with. heather: we heard phrases before when it comes to the obama administration and their relationship with israel. jack lew went on to say the simple fact is no administration has done more for israel's security than this one. we heard this before. >> this administration thinks that sweet rhetoric by their own definition will make up for their horrible across or -- horrible actions or lack of
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actions. they have no idea how disappointing their actions a been to our allies and dangerous for the world. >> i cannot believe they believe everything they have been saying. >> i constantly get phone calls from overseas wondering why the united states seems to be on this strange track of just look at the iranian deal as the key to foreign policy and why we disengaged. it's mind boggling. >> incompetence. this is the most clumsy can administration we have had in the white house in years. heather: gregg? gregg: le bron james living up
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to his nickname as the king of the nba finals. his trip will double as they tie the series. the cavs winning 95-93. james carrying the team on his back going along with 16 rebound and 11 assists. they are rallying from 11 point down. the series goes on to cleveland. it's been a good one so far. martha: the smart money in the belmont stakes. >> american pharaoh has won the triple crown! heather: why are people who have those winning tickets holding on to them instead of cashing them
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in? gregg: hillary clinton getting to meet pushback over voting rights. >> why are you suing me? why county go sue your own people and take your business at home before you run around the country using these demagogue statement that we don't want people to vote. then smash it into a tree. your insurance company's all too happy to raise your rates. maybe you should've done a little more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance.
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the latest potential 2016 contender the latest to slam hillary clinton on her comments on voting right saying those who are trying to push laws on voter fraud are really trying to disenfranchise voters. but he says she is clueless. >> she don't know what she is talking about. we have early voting. i don't want to expand it and increase the opportunity for fraud. maybe she took some questions some places and learned some things maybe she wouldn't make such ridiculous statements. gregg: mary anne marsh, former senior advisor to john kerry. katie, is she playing the race
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card. >> let's not pretend hillary clinton doesn't know exactly what she is doing here. she needs black voter turnout in 2016 to win. the way she'll do this is by perpetuating this bogus race-baiting narrative that some how voter i.d. laws disenfranchise black voters. first of all it's not true, and 70% of the country believe voter i.d. laws should be in place to protect the votes of americans. she is hurting her votes at this point. gregg require wasn't just governor christie, it was also governor kasich. listen to this. >> if she wants to sue somebody, let her sue new york.
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in joe we have 27 days of early voting. a couple hundred hours. in new york the only early voting there will be is none. the only voting that occurs is on election day. what is she talking about? i like hillary. but i have got to tell you the idea that we'll divide americans and use demagoguery, i don't like it. >> the fact is any day the republicans are talking about voting rights is a bad day for the republicans because it's republicans across this country many of whom are these republican governors running for president are specifically enacting legislation that makes it harder for eld derlly, minority and young voters to vote. voter fraud is an urban myth perpetuated by the republicans. 31 cases of credible voter fraud
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her identified in the last national election. june kerry was caused the presidential election because of the lines inio. m -- the lines in ohio. gregg: hillary clinton is endorsing a union effort to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour. let me quote her. she says we need you out there leading in the the fight to to organize collective bargaining for fair pay. gregg: 14 nobel laureates sent a letter to congress saying if you raise the minimum wage you will cost a lot of minimum jobs. the cbo says half a million jobs and you will raise prices for
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consumers. what about it? >> hillary clinton will change her position on anything to go with the whims of what's popular. it's not necessarily the workers at walmart or the fast food restaurants. unions paying people to do so. i want to go back to the voter i.d. issue of. the fact is that the states that implemented voter i.d. have seen voter turnout increase. and there is a study from congress showing 700,000 illegal immigrants have voted in our elections. gregg: let's stay on minimum wage. arguably a lot of consumers. you know, maryanne, bill clinton's chief economist at the labor department is warning against doing this.
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i assume he's not going to be the chief economist what's your take on raising the minimum wage? is she guilty of pandering? >> here is another issue where republicans are on the wrong side. walmart raised its minimum wage. and walmart is running ads bragging about it because they are trying to lift everybody you have and give everybody a chance. hillary clinton is right. if you work a full-time job and work 40 hours a week and you still don't make enough money and you get food stamps. >> what about other small businesses that have to raise the bin mum wage? they have to fire people because their margin is so nail oh. >> everybody said the same thing
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about healthcare and that hasn't happened. walmart and the republican party used to be the best of friends. when walmart is bragging about raising their wages that tells you how far away the republican party is from the rest of america. walmart raised the minimum wage by choice because they had the budget to do it. they didn't do it galls of government force. gregg: got to leave it at that. you guys are feisty today. some people are slow on mondays you guys a quick. heather: new concerns about border security after a u.s. customs officer is shot at and forced to land.
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gregg: american pharaoh racing into the record books and become the first triple crown winner in 37 years. the payoffs weren't exactly hefty. a lot of people holding on to their small stakes tickets thinking they will be more valuable as collectors items. some uncashed tickets already listed on ebay for more than $100. heather: authorities say a u.s. customs helicopter was shot at
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in laredo, texas and forced to make an emergency landing. >> reporter: the helicopter was on patrol in south texas at 5:00 friday along the bored in laredo tracking six or seven individual they believed already had dropped their drug load, most likely marijuana when criminal gangs in mexico fired at the helicopter hitting it twice. one hit the blade one hit the side lodging itself in the bulletproof vest of the pilot. he's a veteran of afghanistan * and iraq *. they believe it came from an ak-47 but that is under investigation. the suspects did make it back to
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mexico. heather: is this a rare thing to happen? >> reporter: armed confrontations with the cartels are rare considering the violence in mexico. begun battles are bad for business on the u.s. side. not long ago one agent could stop and apprehend a dozen illegal immigrants. but this new generation you have rock throwing and running and fighting. for agents that's dangerous. this year there have been three shooting incidents and six in the past three years. one agent was shot in 2012. this kind of thing is happening more off be in terms of the armed confrontations. it's unlikely they will catch the individual who shot at this helicopter.
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heather: we have a live look at the g-7 summit. president obama is walk up that road as we understand it. he's been meeting with the prime minister of iraq. lot on the agenda. we'll have live kofng of the news conference when it begins. heather: the dragnet widens for two convicted killers. >> over 250 corrections officers and law enforcement officers are involved in the region. and additional investigative services are being applied statewide and nationally. sure can. so i could get a faulty light switch fixed? yup! or make a backyard pizza oven? oh yeah. i can almost taste it now. tastes like victory. and pepperoni...
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the g-7 summit after talking about russia problems. today they are switching the focus to global issues. welcome to a brand new hour of america's newsroom. i am greg in for bill hemmer. >> climate change and terrorism are topping the agenda. the u.s. and france are on agreement to keep sanctions on russia and keep iran from developing nuclear weapons. >> brett hume is here who has covered a lot of news conferences. on the left hand side of the screen in a moment, we expect to see the president moving along to the location of this solo news conference. terrorism, russian aggression the nuclear deal with iran, there is a lot on the agenda. would you expect all of those
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subjecks to be broached by reporters? >> i expect the president will open with with noting what are the achievements he believes of the summit. any and all of those subjects could come up. and there will be questions from the media and you know it is a pot luck deal so you don't know who is going to get called on. but those are the ones on my mind if i was doing those things after three our four days of being exhausts and jet lagged. >> no kidding. and he began meeting with the iraqi prime minister about an hour ago we understand the pm wanted more weaponry more air power in the fight against isis. would you expect the president to address that? >> it will be interesting to know what he says about this.
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this is a problem that the administration faces. there are elements that are resist resisting isis with the kurds being the best example who are clamoring for weapons and proven to be capable fighters. the iraqi army has shown itself to be a feeble fighting force and the call for more weapons is difficult were the administration because of the worry if they don't fight they end up in enemy hands as we have seen. so you can understand why the president would be unsure about going along with a request. and he doesn't seem prepared to infuse many more u.s. forces to buck up the security forces. that is a delima and tough call. >> are these summits -- and we are just waiting for the
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president to step in front of the camera -- are these summits productive generally? >> one thing they do greg, is while you can look at the long list of hopeful agreements that don't come to pass they do in a sense force the allied leaders to harmonize their differences so you don't have a situation at the summits where they are beating each other's brains out and the divisions among them become obvious, apparent and embarrassing. what tends to happen is the dis disagreement disagreements and problems get worked out ahead of time. it is kind of an invisible achievement. you don't need a big written
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groement agreement saying we are going to embark on x and y. >> we have gotten the two minute warning so he should be making his address to the media shortly. but i wanted to squeeze in -- we will not play the sound byte but over the weekend former vice president dick cheney was asked about president obama and in particular about iraq and the former vice president saying his heart isn't in and if he said i tried to understand what makes president obama tick and frankly i don't know. what do you make of that? >> i think it is an understandable reaction from the former vice president. his world view is very different than president obama's. cheney believes american power has been and continues to be a force for good in the world even up to and including military
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power when applied properly and he doesn't spend a lot of time worrying if people in some places hate us. these things do preoccupy president obama, however. he believes american power is dangerous and must be applied with care and caution. and maybe more likely to make it worse. so they look at the world and the united states in a very different way. it isn't surprising the way the president looks at it puzzles the former vice president. >> no kidding. and the has been a lot of trading of accusations back and forth. supporters of president obama blaming the bush administration to isis and the bush administration former advisors blaming obama for what they call
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prematurely putting out of iraq. there is a lot of back and forth on this. >> these are issues that will find their way into the election. a lot of republicans believed there was a steady iraq and by pulling troops out sooner than what was believed wise by many in the republican party and some democrats as well that he opened the door to the advance of isis and opened the door to the collapse of the iraqi military and he is the one to blame. and you turn around looking at that saying if we had not been in iraq in the first place, where the republicans and president bush and cheney took us we would not be having any of these problems. >> i think you are right this is going to be a subject in the upcoming election. and the presumption democratic
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candidate isn't saying anything. >> well she will have to. i don't how she can take the coming in of the e-mails and clinton foundation and leave it unanswered. it is taking a toll and we are seeing that in the polling. and it is very unusual to see this. but we will see how much longer it last. >> i think it was bill clinton's former labor secretary to over the weekend said look some of these issues, these alleged scandals are serious. and they could weight her down. it is interesting to see democrats coming out and saying that. >> it is. but you know everybody is looking at the same numbers we are seeing now and the various polls from different polling organizations show her trust numbers down. here he is. i will pipe down.
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>> let me begin by thanking the people of germany for their hospitality here at the g-7 summit. my stay has extraordinary and i wish i could stay longer. one of the pleasures of being president is scouting out places you want to come back to where you don't have to spend all of your time in a conference room. the setting is breath-taking. our german friends have been absolutely wonderful and the success of this summit is a tributetrib ute tribute their outstanding work. g-7 summit represents some of the largest economy and we embrace our strongest allies and closest friends in the world. we are here to stand up for the principles we share for
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democracy freedom, peace, for the right of nations and people to decide their own destiny, for universal human rights and the dig dignity of every human being. and i am pleased we showed on the most pressing level challenges america and our allies are united. we agree the way to recover from the economy is jobs and growth. friday we learned our economy created another 280,000 jobs in may. the strongest month of the year see far and more than 3 million jobs over the last year. nearly the fastest pace in a decade. we have seen 12.6 million new jobs created over the last five years. the unemployment level is near the lowest level for seven years. wages for american workers
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continue to rise and the united states has cut the deficit by two thirds since i took office. in the global economy america is a source of strength. we recognize while the global economy is growing it is not performing at its potential. in europe we found a path to allow greece to carry out cairo form and return to growth. i updated partners on the trade promotion authority so we can move ahead with the agreement. agreements with high standards to protect workers, public safety and the environment. we continue to make progress toward a strong global climate agreement this year in paris. all of the g-7 summit countries put forward the post--2020
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target do is reduce carbon emissions and we will encourage others to do it. we continue to meet the climate finance commitment to help developing countries transition to low carbon growth. as we have done in the united states the g-7 summit agreed on the need to integrate climate risk in programs across the board and increase access to risk insurance help developing countries respond to and recover from climate disasters. and the g-7 summit will work to mobilize more money for clean energy projects in africa. we continue to support ukraine with economical support and technical assistance to transform their economy and strengthen their democracy. russian forces continue to
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operate in eastern ukraine violating ukraine's sovereignty and integrity. this is the second year in a row the g-7 summit has met without russia and every member of the g-7 summit continues to maintain sanctions on russia and their aggression against the ukraine. the russian economy has been weakened. foreign investment is down. the russian central bank has lost more than $150 billion. their firms are locked out of the market and they are struggling to implement the technology they need for complex energy projects. russia is indeed being punished. we agreed even as we topcontinue to
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seek diplomaticings positions the sanction will remain. the eu is extending existing sanctions beyond july and we are making it clear, if necessary we stand to put more sanctions on russia. in europe we talked over iran's nuclear program and remained united. iran has a historic opportunity to resolve the issues about the nuclear program and we agree iran needs to seize the opportunity. the talks with the president of
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iraq tanesia and nigeria were a chance to discuss the dangers of isis and boko haram. as many of the world's leading partners in global development joined by leaders of ethopia liberia sin gall and the african union, we agreed to continue our land mark initiative to promote food security and nutrition. part of the effort to lift 500 million in developing countries out of hunger by 2030. we will continue to work with partners in west africa to get ebola cases down to 0. and i am pleased the g-7 summit made a major commitment to help 60 counties over five years to achieve targets to better detect and respond to future outbreaks
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before they become epidemics. and i want to thank the chancellor for making sure the summit included expanding education and training for girls. we will expand training in our own countries and technical and vocational training in all of our countries. i want to thank the people of germany for their hospitality. i leave confidant when it comes to the key challenges our of time america and our closest allies stand shoulder to shoulder. i am start with questions starting with jeff mason from rioters. >> thank you mr. president. you mentioned greece in your opening statement. did you believe the europeans are being to be tough on greece in the talks? and what else needs to be done on both sides to insure there is a deal and not the undo harm to the markets you mentioned?
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and on a separate and somewhat related topic, the french told reporters that you said to the g-7 leaders you are concerned the dollar is too strong. what did you say exactly and are you concerned the dollar is too strong? >> first of all, don't believe that. i did not say that. i make a practice of not commenting on the daily fluxing of the dollar or any other currency. with respect to greece, i think that not only our g-7 partners but the imf and other institutions feel a sense of ur urgency of finding a path. it will require greece being
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serious about making important reform do is satisfy creditors and create a platform by where the greek economy can grow and prosper again. the greeks are going to have to follow through and make tough political choices that will be good for the long term. i think it is going to be important for the international community and the international financial agencies to recognize the extraordinary challenges that greeks face and if both sides are showing flexibility i think we can get the problem resolved. but it will require some tough decisions for all involved. we will continue to consult with all of the parties involved to try to encourage that. >> do you think it will happen before the deadline?
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>> i think everybody wants to make it happen and is working hard to get it done. >> thank you, mr. president. how frustrated are you that after raising concerns about cyber security with the chinese presidents that a massive attacks on u.s. personal files seemed to come from china? was the chinese government involved? and you have give us your reaction to the fifa violations? >> with respect to fifa i cannot comment on a pending case by our attorney general. i will say that in conversations i have had here in europe people think it is very important for fifa to be able to operate with integrity and transparency and accountability.
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so as the investigation and charges proceed i think we have to keep in mind that although football soccer depending on which side of the atlantic you live on is a game. it is also a massive business. it is a source of incredible national pride. and people want to make sure it operates with integrity. the united states by the way, since we keep getting better and better at each world cup, we want to make sure that you know, the game is conducted in an upright manner. i don't want to discuss, because we haven't publically unveiled who we think may have engaged in
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these cyber attacks. but i can tell you we have known it a long time there are significant vulnerabilities and these are going to accelerate as time goes by. both in systems within government and within the private sector. this is why it is so important that congress moves forward on passing cyber legislation cyber security legislation that we have been pushing. over the last several years, i have been standing up new mechanisms inside government for us to investigate what happens and start finding more effective solutions. part of the problem is we have very old systems. and you know we discovered this new breach in opm precisely because we initiated this process of inventory to andreasddress
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existing vulnerabilities. we are going agency by agency and figure out what we can fix with better practices and hygiene by personal. where do we need systems and infrastructure in order to protect information not just of government employees or activities but most importantly where there is an inner face between government and the american people. this is going to be a big project and he will keep on doing it because state and non-state actors are sending everything they have got at trying to breach the systems. in some cases it is not state actors engaging in criminal activity and potential theft. in the case of state actors they are programmed for intelligence or in some cases
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trying to bring down systems in pursuit of their various foreign policy objectives. in either case we will have to be more aggressive and attentive than we have been. and this problem is not going to go away. it is going to accelerate. we have to be as nimble, aggressive and well resources as those trying to break in. justin? >> thanks mr. president. i want to ask about two things on the agenda at the g-7 summit this weekend. the first is the islamic state. you said yesterday ahead of the meeting with prime minister cameron you talked about what is not working and what is. i wonder what is not working. and are you planning to include additional u.s. personal? and on trade, the chancellor
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said she was pleased with the fast track authority and i wonder if you gave her and other leaders the word it will go through the house and if it doesn't what does it say about your getting along with the house m for the rest of the term? >> i am not going to talk speculate if it will pass. it needs to be done. we are made progress pushing isis back from areas which they occupied or disrupted local populations. we have also seniors like in ramadi where they are displaced in one place and come back in another. they are nimble aggressive and take advantage of the opportunities.
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one of the areas we will have to improve is the speed in which we are training iraqi forces. we have trained them directly and equipmented them and we have a train and assist posture they operate effectively. where we haven't, morale lack of equipment, etc may undermine the effectiveness of the iraq security forces. so we want more forces trained, fresh, well equipmented and focused. -- equipped -- and we are reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that essentially accelerating the number of iraqi forces that are properly trained and equipped and have a strategy with good leadership. and when a finalized plan is presented to me by the pentagon i will share it with the american people. we don't yet have a complete
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strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well about how recruitment takes place and how training takes place. so the details of that are not yet looked at. >> additional military personal are part of the consideration? >> i think what is fair to say is that all of the countries in the international coalition are prepared to do more to train iraqi security forces if they feel like that additional work has been taken advantage of. one of the things we are still seeing in iraq is places where we have more training capacity than recruits. so part of my discussion with the prime minister was how do we get more recruits in. a big part of the answer is
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outreach to sunni tribes. we have seen them prepared to fight have been successful at rebuking them but it hasn't been happening as fast as it needs to. so one of the efforts that i am hoping to see out of the prim minister and the iraqi legislature when they are in session is to move forward on a national guard law that would help to deget the sunni tribes involved more rapidly. this is the what helped stop the precursor of isil during the iraq war.
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without that it is hard to hold those areas. the other area where we have to make a lot more progress is on stemming the flow of foreign fighters. you will recall i hosted a security council meeting specifically on this issue. we made some progress. but not enough. we are still seeing thousands of foreign fighters flowing in the first syria and then often times ultimately into iraq. and not all of that is preventable but a lot of that is. if we have a better cooperation coordination, better intelligence, if we are monitoring what is happening at the turkish/syria border more effectively. this is an area we have been seeking deeper cooperation with
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turkish authorities who recognize it is a problem but haven't full reached the capacity they need. this is something we have to spend a lot of time on. if we can cut off the foreign fighter flow then we are able to isolate and wear out isil forces that are there because we are taking a lot off the battlefield but if they are being replenished it doesn't solve the problem over the long term. the final point i empicized is the political agenda of -- emphasis -- inclusion remains as important as the military fight happening. if sunnis kurds and shiite all feel their concerns are beingdries -- being addressed and operating in such fashion we
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will have a good time. the prime minister is committed to that principle but he inherited a legacy of a lot of mistrust between the various groups and he is having to take political risks and there are efforts to undermine those efforts in some cases. we have to continue to monitor and support those who are on the right side of the issue. >> thank you, mr. president. you mention that the u.s. and european allies reached an agreement on extending the sanction on russia. is there an agreement on what russia russia -- they will do if russia continues the behavior? and separately i wanted to ask
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you about the possibility of the court battle over your action on immigration could extend late in the your term? do you think there is anything you can do for the people who would have benefited from the program and how do you view your term ending without accomplishing your goals on immigration? >> on ukraine and russia there is strong consenus we need to keep pushing russia to abide by the terms in the agreement. we need to continue to support and encourage ukraine to meet its obligations. and until that is completed sanction sanctions remain in place. there was discussion about additional steps we might need to take if russia working
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through separatist doubled down on aggression inside of ukraine. those discussions are taking place at a technical level not yet a political level because i think the first goal going into the a european council meeting that is coming up is just rolling over the existing sanctions. but again technical level we want to be prepared. our hope is we don't have to take additional steps because the agreement is met. i want to give credit where it is due to those who have shown extraordinary patience in trying to get that done. ultimately this is going to be
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an issue for mr. putin. he has to make astition if he continues to wreck his country's economy and continue -- decision -- russia's isolation in pursuit of a long headed desire to re-create the glories of the sevoviet empire. or does he recognize that russia's greatness doesn't depend on violating the sovereignty of other countries. and you know as i mentioned earlier the cost that the russian people are bearing is severe. that is being felt. if may not always be understood why they are suffering because of the state media inside of russia and propaganda coming out of state media in russia and to
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russian speakers. but the truth is the russian people would greatly benefit and ironic one of the rational putin provided by going into the ukraine was to protect russian speakers in ukraine. their are bearing the brunt with the economy failing homes may have been destroyed and many displaced. they are suffering. and the bes way to them to stop suffering is if the agreement is fully implemented. with respect to immigration, i am frustrated by a district court ruling that is running through the appeals process. we are being as aggressive as we
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can legally to first and foremost appeal the ruling and implement those elements of executive actions that were not challenged in court. obviously the center piece and one of the key provisions was being able to get folks who are undocumented to go through a background check, pay back taxes and have a legal status. and that requires an entire administrative apparatus and us getting them to apply and come clean. i made a decision which i think is the right one, that we should not accept applications until the legal status of this is clarified. i am absolutely convinced this
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is well within my legal accordi accordian. if you look at the rules, i am convinced what we are doing is lawful and so are our lawyers. but the united states is a government of laws and separations of power and even if a district court judge is making the determination we have to go true through the process to challenge him. until we get clarity there, i don't want to bring people in have them apply and jump through hoops only to have to deferred and delayed further. there is one great way to solve the problem and that would be congress going ahead and acting
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which would take away the need for executive action. the majority of the american people still want to see that happen. i suspect it will be a major topic of the next presidential campaign. and so we will continue to push as hard as we can on all fronts to fix a breck n immigration system administrateiveadministratively we will be prepared if and when we get the ruling we should have in the first place to go ahead and implement, but ultimately this is never fully replaced the need for congress to act. my hope is that after a number of other issues we are working on get cleared that there is quite conversations starting
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back up again particularly in the republican party about the short side of the crux they are taking when it comes to immigration. okay. christy parson. >> thank you mr. prose. the growing number of states are looking for a system for the health care as they face the loss of subsidies. yet your administration has given little to no guidance on how states can prepare. what can you tell state leaders and advocates who worry that health care markets in half of the country might be thrown to the chaos? >> what i can tell state leaders is under well established precedent there is no reason why
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the existing exchanges should be overturned through a court case. it has been well documented those who passed this never intended for folks going through the federal exchange not to have citizens get subsidies. that is not just the opinion of me democrats but it is the opinion of the republicans who worked on the legislation. the record makes it clear. and under well established statutory statutory approaches that have been repeatedly employed not just by liberal judges but by conservative judges like am on the carped supreme court you
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interpret a statue based on what the intent means and the structure of the statue provides for. and so this should be an easy case. frankly it probably shouldn't have been taken up even. since we are going to get a ruling pretty quick i think it is important to assume the supreme court is going to dowhat most legalal scholars who looked at this would expect them to do. but look i said before and i will repeat again. if you have a contorted reading of the statue that says federal run exchanges don't provide subsidies for folks who are participating in those exchanges
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that throws off how the exchange operates. it means that millions of people who are obtaining insurance currently with subsidies suddenly are not getting them any more. many can't afford it. they pull out and the assumption the insurance companies made when pricing the insurance is thrown out the window. it would be disruptive not just for folks in the exchanges but those in the market in general. it is a bad idea. it is not something that should be done based on twisted undering of four words as you were reminded repeatedly in a couple thousand page piece of legislation. what is more is the thing is
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working. part of what is bizarre is there is not a lot of conversation about the horrors of obamacare because none come to pass. 16 million people with health insurance and the majority are satisfied. it hasn't had an adverse affect on people who had insurance. the only affect it had was they have an insurance they will not be prevented from getting care if they have a pre'-existing condition. the cost have come in substantially lower than our estimates ebon. health care inflation has continued to be at the lowest levels in 50 years. none of the predictions about how this works have come to pass. so i am -- i am optimistic that
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the supreme court will play it straight and i should mention if it didn't congress could fix this whole thing with a one sentence provision. but i am not going to go into a long speculation anticipating disaster. >> why not handle it the same day? >> i want to just make sure that everybody understand that if you have a model where all of the pieces connect and there are a bunch of scenario not just in relation to health care but all kinds of stuff i do where stuff
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to recover it and this would be hard to fix. it doesn't need fixing. all right? thank you very much. >> and so president obama at the g-7 summit respopd -- responding to a variety of questions. at the end you heard him say obamacare is working and working wonderfully which might be news to people who lost their policy doctors and saw their premium going up. and he did weigh in on the pending decision of obamacare saying it is an easy case. in iraq, the state that might haunt him is we don't have a complete strategy. we will have more on the
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breaking news from boston. we are expecting a news conference at 11 a.m. following the deadly shooting of a terror suspect last week. we are hearing video tape of the shooting will be released. so when that happens we will bring it to you as quickly as possible. >> we are waiting for new details on the massive manhunt for two convicted killers locked up for murdered escaped from a prison in upstate new york using power tools to cut through a
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steel wall in their cell and crawling out through a sewer tunnel. brad miller is a former homicide detective. thank you for joining us. >> good morning, heather. >> hearing the details of the plan how do you think they made it happen? inside help? outside help? both? >> i think it is combination of both. i am not sure the master mind is behind thee two when you look at the way they conducted this sophisticated break out you have to ask yourself maybe someone from the outside broke into the prison and allowed the individuals to get out. that is what the authorities are trying to investigate. there has been new information coming out today that i thought was interesting and i am not sure if the viewers know this but the authorities at the correctional institute are
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interviewing a couple employees one particular female they think might have had to something to do. there is a dragnet across the northeastern united states including canada and they are trying to track these two violent individuals down as fast as they can. >> watt about the power tools they were able to use in their escape? how do you think they got their hands on them? >> i think someone planted to tools so they could get to them or someone from the outside came in through the building and provided the tools that way. not exactly sure. but however they got out of the prison they had to have help from someone from the outside and someone from the inside because it was a sophisticated plot. this wasn't something where we woke up and broke out of prison. they had to be planning this for a period of time. >> and absolutely consider this men to be armed and dangerous.
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will talk about that in a bit. the president in terms of isis in iraq also said that we do not have a complete strategy. and he said the iraq security forces and military needs to step it up. judge androw -- andrew napolitano joins us. the president said he is frustrated by a district court decision that put a halt to what the president is doing on immigration. >> it is unusual greg, for a single federal trial judge to stop the president from doing what he has been doing before there is a trial. this is a preliminary injunctio injunction. he concluded the state of texas and the other states suing will win and probably is exceeding
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the authority under the constitution. that was upheld or not interfered by by the court of appeals that supervises the judge. >> the president said i had discretion not to deport people. >> he does. but that goes to specific individuals particularly hardship cases that are so expenses the government lacks the resources. >> not a whole class of people. >> correct. for him to see five million people you are here illegally and if you don't do a, b or c you will not get deported. he made up the a, b and c also. and congress specifically
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rejected this. >> he is refusing to enforce existing laws specifically a 1996 law passed by congress is signed by the president then who said if you are here illegally you have to be deported. >> under the constitution it is the i-word that no one in congress has the spelling for right now. >> it is good to see you. thanks very much. heather? >> we are expecting a news conference at 11 a.m. eastern following the deadly shooting in boston in last week and we are hearing video is going to be released lit we will have that moments away. keep it here.
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29-year-old began her trip yesterday leaving from tokyo and hopes to finish her journey by late september. gregg: we wish her the very best. heather: "happening now" starts right now. jon: we begin with the latest on a manhunt for two killers who escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate new york. patti ann: a manhunt searching for what is called an he lab rant extraordinary escape. they are look at whether someone inside the prison helped the men break out. david sweat and richard matt are both in prison for murder and officials say they are very
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