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the president is there working and not to evacuate seems odd. >> many many more questions. keep is right here on fox. henry, thank you once again on your great reporting. join me on the rest of the show for a facebook q & a. we're going to have a lot to talk about, right? the news and my new book. i'm answering questions right now. join me. the islamic state releasing a new video with a threat on baghdad. this comes after the terrorists of christians in this case were taking on the terror group and a possible move to ramp up training inside iraq. did the escaped killers in upstate new york get help from a woman who worked in the prison? mana live. wait until you hear the circumstantial evidence. we'll tell you who investigators are reportedly eyeballing right now as we get word of a possible break in the case. but is this really the last video ever recorded of the famous pilot, amelia earhardt?
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do you buy it? let's get to it. breaking news shepard smith reporting live from the fox news desk. >> well it's that time again. there has been a rule for reporters, you do not report on bomb threats, because when you report on bomb threats, you get more bomb threats. you report on bomb threats when it's confirmed there is actually a bomb. it would appear that rule is now suspended when the threat is to the white house briefing room as witnesses here and everybody else has poor cover. secret service agents evacuated the west wing. this after they say somebody phoned in a bomb threat targeting the white house. it happened as press secretary josh earnest was giving his white house briefing. you can see all the reporters then shuffling out of the room. security officials minutes ago let reporters back inside. josh earnest has since resumed the briefing as you saw, and said the president was in the
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white house during the evacuation. a live look here as you can see. check out the map here you can see how close the briefing room is to the oval office as was being discussed in the last hour. that's public knowledge and available on line. we wouldn't put it on here if it weren't. meantime police also cleared a suspicious package in the courtyard of the dirksen senate office building. they report they did not find anything dangerous and that it turned out to be nothing but a lunch cooler. all of this said one other thing on reporting a bomb threat is when it is happening in front of your face like you cannot ignore it for instance suddenly the george washington bridge is shut down in all directions and people are curious why is the george washington bridge shut down and it's a bomb threat then you report it's a bomb threat. that said every news organization i know about, including the associated press and us reported there was a bomb threat at the white house. all of that said news from the future now -- work with me -- more bomb threats at the white
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house. right now the former republican speaker of the house, dennis hastert, is due to federal court, his first appearance since the feds accused him of giving hush money in a cover-up. we have video of hastert's arrival and it was brutal at the federal courthouse in chicago within the last hour. they allowed cameras outside, and what a skirmish it was, but no cameras inside. the former governor lied about bank laws to pay somebody to keep quiet about misconduct. however, according to many public reports, the former speaker of the house was trying to cover up his sexual abuse of a teenage boy back when denny hastert was a high school wrestling coach decades ago. after those accusations came out, we learned of a second woman. she said denny hastert sexually abused her brother, who was the
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wrestling room's equipment manager. his sister said he stayed silent because he thought nobody would ever believe him. the brother died of aids in 1985 and she said denny hastert showed up at the funeral. denny hastert was stunned at the accusations. he had a squeaky clean image. he took the job after bob livingston resigned after admitting he cheated on his wife. this was after president clinton and the monica lewinsky scandal. it was quite a time. speaker hastert later presided over president clinton's impeachment proceedings. they looked the other way when mark foley was accused of sending sexual messages to pages. he resigned. at the time he told reporters, quote, our children need to be protected and we're going to do everything we can to protect them. now denny hastert finds himself
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facing criminal charges from the feds and from his critics, accusations of hypocrisy and much more. mike is live in the federal courthouse in chicago. tell us how this is unfolding, mike. >> reporter: the arraignment for the federal speaker should be under way soon. no lack of chaos where he made his way to the federal building where he's now assuming the role of defendant. he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief after he got through the metal detectors and past all the cameras. he will have the opportunity to enter a plea. most defendants at this stage of the game enter a plea of not guilty really as a matter of procedure, and the motions are saved for discovery. there has been no special treatment extended to the former speaker of the house, so we anticipate he will exit publicly one more time. you can see behind me what the officers of the department of homeland security are trying to do is get the cameras to line up
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in even rows to try to get them to behave and prevent the chaos we saw just about an hour ago, shep. breaking news now, and seconds ago as mike was speaking the former speaker denny hastert did plead not guilty in court. we suspect it's over or just about over. mike what about these alleges of sexual abuse? what are the details we'll be getting? >> >> reporter: well as far as the allegations of sexual abuse, the only person who has come forward and spoken publicly is the sister of steve reinbold. he was the equipment manager. she said he was abused by the teacher back when he was working at yorkville high. even the indictment talking about hush money going to an individual that individual has only been identified as individual a, shep. >> when denny hastert comes out, we'll be watching the cameras to see if he has anything to say.
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we'll go back out there live. our legal analyst is here and the associate editor of the wall street journal. john watching this come together, of all figures in my adult life so for the last 70 years, i can't think of anyone where you could put this kind of irony together. >> yeah. >> the prosecution of the president in an unprecedented way. bob livingston preceding him, all that we've just reported and now denny hastert is said to have been an abuser of children? >> it's just allegations at this point. he's not guilty. we're now about to find out the details. if they are true what you point out is correct, and that's what has kind of shocked everybody, which is that -- why they're shocked, i'm not so sure. seeing the history of these issues play out in washington as you point out, bob,
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livingston rose was going to be the speaker of the houtsse but he had to resign the day they impeached the president of the united states for having an extramarital affair. you see this in congress. i wonder if the public is more concerned about this case because he was a teacher and a coach, and parents feel very vulnerable about that as opposed to he was somebody in washington. we've seen this happen, where family values have extramarital affairs. all of the contradictions that kind of play out in washington i think to a certain extent the public is beginning to get unnerved. >> i know you well you wouldn't consider those two things to be in any way similar the idea that somebody might be gay and somebody might be an abuser of children. i know you did and that's why i said it. >> it's the legislators who come out strongly for anti-gay
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legislation. or leading a different life. or that's come out strongly for family values and almost kind of a holier than thou position. it turns out they're having extramarital affairs. that type of behavior i don't know the public has kind of me tab tabolized them at this point. >> they got him on rico got him the same way we got the mob mobsteres mobsteresmobster mobsters. >> that's exactly what i'm thinking about this. if you had called me, john as your attorney and said hey, look i need to take out $3 million in cash, is there anything wrong with that? i would say, no you've already paid taxes on that you've already put it in the bank. what i instruct people are when
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they put $3 million into the bank so they don't have to pay taxes on it themselves and they don't have to disclose where the money came from. once the money is in the bank why is it the government's business how much money you take out of your already taxed earned money and where it goes? why is that a crime? >> what you're suggesting is they're punishing him for something they can't punish him for because it was so long ago, and they're going to get him on this bank thing instead? >> correct. i spoke to two other feds and asked, have you ever heard on structuring of withdrawal? it's always structuring on deposits. is this terror money, is this dirty money, or are you trying to avoid taxes? if you're american and you put your money in the bank you know if he had written a check for $3.5 million, he couldn't charge you? >> but the person who wrote the check has to pay taxes. >> right.
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>> the allegation is as follows. one, who was a child at the time went to denny hastert at the time when i was a little boy you abused me and now you're going to pay. denny did pay and he didn't get caught doing anything else. so this agreement is the one -- go ahead. >> well the fbi says he also lied to them when they interviewed him. that's something you just can't do. i think this is going to come back to his behavior as a teacher, that that's going to loom large. >> the lie was, according to the allegations, that the fbi said what's up with this money and he said i don't trust the banking system so i'm taking the money out and putting it under my mattress or something, and that was a lie and that's how they got him, on the lie. wait a minute. how did they get the former president of the united states? how did they get him again? they got him on the lie. they got martha stewart on the lie. but you're saying they shouldn't get denny hastert on light
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because -- >> not on the lie. a lot of people go to jail because of lying to the feds. but the structuring for withdrawal? >> but what they got him on was a lie, wasn't it? >> it's two things. they're saying the withdrawal of the money is illegal. it's structuring. you're trying to hide something from us. >> which he was, according to the allegations. >> i would like to say to the government go take a walk. i paid my city taxes, my state taxes, my federal taxes. i can do whatever i want when i'm withdrawing the money. don't tell me i have to tell you what i'm doing with this money. that's a federal crime? that has nothing to do with me. while it's structuring, while it's going in they want to make sure you're paying taxes. but going out, i have no idea how 12 jurors on that particular thing convict him. >> i know you're saying the government can't get denny hastert. the government says denny hastert did what he's accused of doolg doing, and this is the only way to get him.
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>> we just rattled off some examples but structuring on withdrawals, very rare. >> it doesn't really matter at this point what happens. i mean it does what happens on the law for denny hastert. the legacy issue for denny hastert is decided. it's a little sad because there hasn't been a trial yet so we haven't seen all of the information play out to know whether he's guilty of anything. but the legacy of denny hastert is now glommed into that huge pool of legislators who have been hypocrites at one time or another, and at this point -- >> haven't they already taken his name off of buildings and scholarships? and he just got arraigned moments ago. >> in fact just moments ago the judge said his passport must be relish kwishd re relinquished
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relinquished and that he must pay $4500 bond. >> that's going to keep him in the country? >> i don't think denny hastert is going anywhere. >> what a sad state of affairs. we'll be right back. hey, hey, the duke of deals! i know a few guys in the rental car biz. let's go, 'wheels'. rental car deals up to 40% off. across america people, like basketball hall of famer dominique wilkins, are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza. he said victoza works differently than pills and comes in a pen. victoza is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c.
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told the judge that another juror was reading about the trial on facebook. anybody who has ever been a juror, who has been part of a process of this type of thing knows you can't read about what's going on, you can't talk to other jurors you can't talk to others outside thecourtroom, you have to listen in court and to nothing else. the juror said this person didn't do that. the juror then repeated what she read to other jurors which is really a major breach of trial rules which bans jurors from reading trial news and discussing the case and especially not reading it and sharing it with the other jurors. alicia kunye is live in our newsroom. what happened? >> shep this actually has to do with smoke breaks. when the court went on break, there were five female jurors who went to take a smoke break together on the patio.
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and it was during these breaks that all of this occurred. according to what we heard in court, there was one juror, juror number 872, who is the center of all this who took a phone call from her husband, she says and put him on speaker where he discussed things that he was reading on facebook or somewhere else on line saying that the, quote, idiot d.a. -- and that's a quote -- posted something on twitter about the case. that is true that he did post something and he was reprimanded by the judge. she had this on speaker and then turned around to talked to other people about it. that's one version. the version that came from the juror who actually told on her was that this woman said she had read on facebook that there was a possibility of a mistrial and that somebody -- one of the attorneys was in trouble for tweeting on twitter about the case with regard to the videotaped interview that we heard from one of the psychiatrists who interviewed james holmes. so then the judge brought in five of the jurors who are on
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that patio and kicked off three of them mostly because he didn't believe any of them. >> that's interesting. i'm sure we'll get more out of there as the james holmes trial moves on. islamic state militants have released a brand new video in which they claim to be ready for their biggest operation yet, the capture of baghdad, and they say it's going to go down soon. do we know whether to believe any of this? does the u.s. have a specific strategy to stop them? also i've just gotten an urgent crossing or red alert from roiters news agency. there's just been a massive explosion in iraq. more on that after this. are you sure you're not ignoring them in your body? even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. and if you ignore
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breaking news in iraq an explosion that has killed at least 20 people so far. this coming in just minutes ago from the roiters news agency. we have not confirmed this. this came from the roiters news agency after terrorists say they're ready to take baghdad. this is the propaganda video from the twitter account linked to the islamic state. the group plans to liberate baghdad soon and that's a quote. in iraq dozens of christian men and women are now in the hands of islamic state terrorists i'm told. it is confirmed that the militants pulled off a mass kidnapping pulling nearly 60 christians. it happened near tripoli. an independent newspaper there first reported that an ambulance took over a convoy, smuggling
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them. it showed them gunning them down or slicing off their heads. our chief correspondent, based on your sources, how credible was this video? >> the kridvideo was on a twitter account associated with isis and they claim they have taken baghdad. they claim isis as you mentioned, will quote, liberate the iraqi capital. a source that tracks social media for the u.s. government says they remain vigilant in the face of efforts to bring out the coalitions. tribal leaders in the northern iraqi town have pled allegiance to the terror group who they say failed them.
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before that temporaryie evacuation at the briefing the u.s. strategy is taking the long view. >> this is not a short-term proposition. and we are in a phase now where we are very focused on degrading isil in their capacity to operate inside of iraq but that over the long term we're going to need to build up the capacity of the local government and of the local security forces. >> fox news is told that the mosul posting is very important because this apparent loss of the tribal leaders is a major blow given how much the u.s. had worked during the surge to earn their support. shep? >> the kidnapped christians what more do you have on that if anything? >> isis in libya is by far the most advanced and the most connected to the isis operation in iraq and syria. and we're told there is evidence that dozens of christians from the tiny african nation of
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eritria, mostly immigrants and there is fear of a massive beheading when they kidnapped egyptian christians and there was also an execution of ethiopian christians just some months later. an envoy said a teenage girl who was abducted are being used as a kind of bait to recruit foreign fighters in that country, and in some cases they're being sold in the markets for as little as a pack of cigarettes. the top u.s. military official defending america's strategy to define the state of iraq saying this is no surprise at all. the president said the united states did not have a complete strategy for training and equipping of forces to combat isis. >> when a finalized plan is presented to me by the pentagon then 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 identity rack i -- of the iraqis as well. >> in other words the iraqis are not doing their part. the joint chiefs of staff says president obama is considering other steps, including other iraqi forces considering more u.s. personnel. a u.s. defense official says there are 3,000 forces in iraq and 2600 iraqi security forces being trained. here again, 3,000 american forces total and being trained are 2,600 iraqi security forces. ambassador nicholas burns is with us. he's a state department under ds undersecretary undersecretary.
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nice to see you again. >> thank you, shep. >> is the slope getting more slippery or does it just appear that way to the naked eye? >> there's no question that the strategy put in place by the arabar united states can no longer be sustained. shep there aren't enough forces on the ground to contest the rising power of isis. isis has -- it's a brutal evil organization. we've just seen that in your report. but it does have a charismatic leader it has a revenue stream it has tens of thousands of people who want to fight for it. we need to do what we can to help rebuild the iraqi army certainly more than the 2,800 people the figure you just cited. we also need to strike if we can, by air and by honoring rebels in the face of strike itself. we don't have enough to feed
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them the next year. this may go on for quite some time. >> mr. burns, do you remember ever hearing as much double speak as we're hearing? in the beginning they said we can't defeat them militarily that's not possible then they said we're going to use moderate syrian rebels none of whom i've ever seen. then they said they're going to troun a train a thousand of them something that isn't happening. then on the ground iraqi forces immediately melted away and on every subsequent occasion they melted away and now no strategy is working. i don't understand why any one of us who sits here and does this sort of thing is even able to repeat what they're saying. it is so demonstrably untrue. >> well the strategy is not going to work right now and it needs to be adjusted. i think president obama was right a year ago to put american air power back into iraq. we had no choice because the
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isis had taken mosul, the second largest city in the country. now they're threatening to take baghdad, although i don't think they have the military capacity to do that. air power alone is not enough and the pitiful performance of the iraqi military in the last year. losing romadi and losing mosul, but i don't think it's realistic to think we can help rebuild that army in a few short months. it's going to take a while, and i think the administration can work to try to unite a stronger arab coalition, unite the gutteries and the saudis and try to get the turks to do more. i think the administration is right to keep focused on this but clearly the strategy as to be refined to be successful. >> mr. burns, it's nice to talk
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to you and it's another sad state of affairs. appreciate your time. thanks. >> thank you. i just stopped this discussion because we have breaking news and it's important. we have word that the police may have cornered the two cons 40 miles from where they escaped. this is from the daily news a large tabloid in new york city which has been all over this story and whose reporting has been very good. their specifics are many and we're pulling them together ourselves and working to get our own confirmation here on the fox news desk. the latest word is these two who have killed and dismembered, who apparently escaped, it's believed with some help and some power tools and are very much on the run and extremely dangerous may now, according to the reporting of the new york daily news they are cornered. we'll work to get the rest of
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continuing coverage of breaking news. it appears the initial reports from the news are the two suspects from the escaped upstate new york prison the two escaped killers were cornered in a small town. now the reporting is they have been tracked to a town about 40 miles south of the place from which they escaped. this reporting has been updated in just the last few minutes. their names are richard matt and david sweat. they've been tracked to the small town of willsborough and police are now working to find them. the reporting of the daily news is that state police are stopping all traffic in and out of this town. the search for these two men one of the highest priorities among lawmen in all of the united states at this moment. they are to be considered extremely dangerous. it now appears that police are on the hunt and our breaking news coverage continues at the
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bottom of the hour right after this.
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breaking news now, word that the cops have tracked the killers in upstate new york. this is from reporting of the new york daily news newspaper, and sources are telling that paper that busloads of heavily armed police and prison guards have swarmed the town and have really for the better part of the day. this is the town we're talking about. it is a tiny little place, willsborough new york. never heard of it. lived here 18 years, never heard of it. you see how close the canadian border is. and look here this is of significance according to the reporting of the daily news. this is an enormous wooded area. and the word is these two were spotted not far from here as long ago as 2:00 in the morning. listen to this. >> you immediately yelled something at them. >> so i go look at them and i ask them what the hell are you
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doing in your mimy yard? get the hell out of here. he said sorry, i didn't know where i was, i'm on the wrong street. >> and now that you know who it was that you saw, what are you thinking? >> lucky to be alive now. >> since then this new development from the daily news reports say that the cops have tracked these fugitives to this town in upstate new york. we have a producer on the way to the scene where the initial report was -- the initial word that they used was cornered. but they've since taken that word out of their reporting. at any rate our folks are on the way there. there is also word that the fugitives may have sweet-talked this woman into helping them out. you got it right, sweet-talked this woman. that's according to the reporting of the daily news as well. and we have confirmed it. we have now confirmed that the woman is a supervisor in the tail tailoring department at the prison where the two fugitives
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made uniforms for transit employees. again, the two people who escaped working with this woman making uniforms frankly, for the metro north railroad. according to the newspaper, her husband also works in the prison and the cops have questioned them both. we learned a while ago from the union she belongs to that the woman is still on the job and has not been placed on leave. further, we learned on the day the two men escaped, she called out that she had a case of bad nerves and she didn't come to work. and they were suddenly escaped with the clothes left in their bed to make it look like they were still there, with the hole cut in the wall with them escaping out of the manhole cover, and now fox news has just confirmed ourselves that police have tracked them to this small town upstate. david lee miller is outside the prison. david lee, i guess the confirmation has just come. what do you know about what's
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going on 40 miles south of there? >> shepard, these two men were reportedly noticed about 2:00 last night. according to the town's supervisor he told me a resident saw these two men walking down a road specifically middle road which is state 222 in willsborough in a driving rainstorm. a car approached and the two men ran into the woods. the town supervisor said as far as he knows, neither of these two men have relatives in willsborough. it's about 40 miles away from the prison from which they escaped. getting there no easy task. someone said the two men were in a vehicle and the state trooper approached them. they then fled and broke into a house and stole a firearm. increasingly now, it does seem
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likely that they are in wills willsborough. take a look at this videotape. there was a massive manhunt less than two miles from the prison. and i assume the same type of manhunt is taking place in willsborough and has been for several hours. according to the supervisor there, the state police department of corrections, the u.s. marshal and now the fbi have descended upon this tiny town of 2,000. we're waiting for confirmation that perhaps this manhunt is finally over. >> the manhunt may be over but david lee, we have nothing to indicate they're in custody, and from your reporting, it sound like they may have gotten access to a weapon. >> this is according to one report that we have not been able to independently confirm. there are different versions of this account that took place last night that are being distributed, but this much seems
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almost certain. two men were cited in willsborough and their behavior highly highly unusual. >> david lee, i can't think of a situation that's more difficult for authorities, and for residents, for that matter. after all, there is only one end now for these two, and i guess if there's ever been a case of they'll do anything authorities are working under that presumption in this one. >> that's right. one of the inmates was serving 25 to life. i don't think his parole date was until 2032. the other inmate who shot the deputy sheriff, was convicted of that was serving life without parole. you're right, shepard, they may feel like they have absolutely nothing to lose. if they did get their hands on a weapon that is the concern of so many especially here at the prison. back to you. >> david lee miller at the prison. here's what's happening now. our crews are working to get to
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this exact location where it's believed all of this is going down. we suspect they will be there moments from now. there is much more to report on this woman who police are now questioning about whether she had some involvement. they are being extremely careful not to call this woman a suspect. however, wait until you hear about all we've learned about her. our guest joins us and our breaking news coverage continues, next.
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continuing coverage of breaking news on fox newschannel, and there is an enormous manhunt happening at this moment. the two escaped prisoners in upstate new york are said to have been tracked to a small town about 40 miles south of the prison in a wooded area. these are the two escapees and as we continue to follow the police's efforts and our crews work to watch them we're learning so much about this woman who is a person of interest if you will in the case. her name is joyce mitchell and
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here's a picture of her. she is an employee of the correctional facility from which they escaped. both inmates worked with her, according to the prison, at a tailor shop. as part of the work of the inmates, they make uniforms for metro north railroad employees. so these two prisoners worked with this woman, who is clearly not an inmate but an employee at the tailor shop. among other things on saturday when they escaped, joyce mitchell checked herself into the hospital with a, quote, case of nerves. when -- when the inmates were discovered missing. lots of questions for her. he directed the task force unabomber and is live with us now. when one of those suspects checks into a hospital with a case of nerves and ends up in the hospital i guess you have to ask a few questions.
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>> you're absolutely right. the case of the nerves and the idea she had a relationship with them in the shop all of those things would make her a person of interest even if it was something less. you want to have any contact with somebody who is having contact with them. >> what do you know about the kind of contact that they are alleged to have had? from what i read it sounds like the theory at least, is that they sweet-talked her? >> well of course like you i know what i hear and what i read. that wouldn't surprise me at all. sweet-talking her or any kind of relationship they might have had, and at the same time as we both know there have been cases in the past where we thought somebody might have been helping, but in fact it was on the fringes of they weren't helping someone at all in a situation like this. so it's going to be very interesting to see how this develops because you can bet they're going to be doing continuous questioning of her until they get this resolved. >> this woman, her last name as i told you, is mitchell joyce mitchell. they call her tilly.
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and in addition to that she is also a public official the town tax collector of dickinson, new york. she was questioned by prison officials on sunday. when doing this sort of questioning, i wonder where one begins. >> well in the case of the people that are questioning her, they start at the beginning of what do you know about these people and they ask right away were you involved in any way in helping them escape because they want to try to get this resolved as quickly as possible the obvious public and law enforcement safety aspect. but to take you back many years ago, you probably remember the hunter rudolph in north carolina. george was a long-time family friend. hunter went to him and got food stole his pickup truck and ended up in the woods. it prompted the same type of thing we're seeing now. we thought nordman was involved but it turned out he didn't know
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what rudolph was up to. there are so many ways this thing can go. all these questions that come with more questions. >> it's really good to talk to terry turchie live with us. i wanted the information on this woman, tilly. it's rich. there's a lot on this round with her, which at some point become important. at this moment at least she's not been arrested and has not become a suspect. in a world after the o.j. simpson trial there are no 13k9s. there are only persons of interest. the two men have spent, quote, a lot of time in the shop where this woman worked. she called into the hospital with a case of nerves and checked herself in as the two escaped the prison. should flight crews have access to shotguns to keep
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a federal air marshal told lawmakers on capitol hill that order to protect americans on passenger jets each flight crew should get a shotgun. he said the gun should be loaded with pellets instead of bullets and come with an emergency lock switch. this is one of several ideas offered during a senate hearing today. repeating, a senate hearing today,s on the transportation security administration. in the meantime the homeland security department inspector general said quote, deeply concerned about whether tsa can do its job.
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>> our audit results show that tsa has significant damages with goods and services. our testing of certain systems resfleeld resulting improvement. >> billions of dollars and no resulting improvement. billions of dollars, no improvement. not new. not new information but interesting to hear. lea gabrielle is here with concern of tsa workers. >> that's right, they say there's a culture of fear and distrust. one was critical of the tsa precheck program saying they're more concerned with keeping down lines of security than security. >> tsa is handing out preflight status like halloween candy in evidence to expedite service as quickly as possible. the tsa precheck enrollment program did not meet the expectations in terms of volume. therefore, precheck expanding say matter of efficiency is a
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