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it was a messy commute for atlanta this morning. an overturned truck spilled 42,000-pounds of watermelons on the road, and they're so stick y. took more than an hour to clean it up. that's it for us, you guys. thank you for'ing here, over to shep. up next with greg jarrett today. >> now been one week since two convicted murders broke out of a prison in upstate new york and vanished into thin air. now a new search after a possible new sighting. investigators say a prison employee provided the fugitives with some sort of contraband before the daring escape. also another arrest in connection with last week's shooting of a suspected radical and what cops call a terror plot in boston but this time another state. the latest in a live report just ahead. mitt romney once again the center of attention in the race for the presidency, but this time it has nothing to do with him running. so why is the former governor
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back in the spotlight surrounded by g.o.p. candidates? plus the huge defeat for the white house and president obama's trade agenda. i'm freeing jarrett in for shep. seems the escaped killers are still this hour on the move, and a step ahead of police. folks living along a quiet country road report spotting two strangers climbing over a stone wall there. this was near a thick patch of woods and not far from the prison where the killers escaped, and it's just a few miles from where cops said search dogged picked up their scent yet. prison worker joyce mitchell gave the killers banned items before the escape. among those items she brought them hacksaw blades. white a gift for two cold-blooded killers, one of
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them actually nicknamed hack saw for using one to slice a man to pieces. david lee miller is live in new york. what are we learning about joyce mitchell? >> reporter: the district attorney sad that if charged and convicted for bringing contraband in prison she could get seven years behind bars. during this brief remarks the district attorney would not be specific would not detail what type of banned items she may have brought into the prison. he did say it is a broad list of items that are not allowed. ranging from, in his words toothpaste to cocaine. he did get specific when he said that authorities do not believe -- let me repeat that dish authority does not believe joyce mitchell brought power tools into the prison. it is believed that the two fugitives used power tools to make their escape and this is what the prosecutor had to say how they might have been obtained. >> if power tools were used,
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which we believe had to have been utilized, that there are many avenues that they could have obtained those from where l they were from contractors in the facility that had followed proper procedures in locking up their equipment when they would leave. >> reporter: a source now confirming to fox that joyce mitchell agreed to provide the two inmates with transportation. once they emerged from the manhole just outside the prison, but at the very last moment she apparently changed her mind. we also learned from the prosecutor that authorities are looking into the possibility that joyce mitchell's husband might have tried to bring contraband into the prison. the husband is described now quoting, as a person of interest. back to you. >> any other clues at the moment in the manhunt the search for these two killers? >> reporter: one of the newer developments is authorities are now looking at two sets of
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footprints, not far from the prison at a gas station. what is interesting is there are no foot paths in the immediate vicinity so that raises the question why i would there be two sets of footprints in this area. authorities have been trying to look at surveillance video. so far what they have seen has not produced any results. folks in the region drawing increasingly nervous. the police chief of nearby platsburg says the fear factor in the community is on the rise. >> friend and family call me all hours, there is anything going on? everyone is afraid. my neighbors are afraid. >> reporter: so far authorities say they have received more than 700 leads and to follow them up they have hundreds and hundreds of searchers in the area. they have sniffer dogs. they now have low-flying helicopters. so far nothing but greg in the words of one law enforcement official it could all change in an instant. greg?
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>> david, thank you very much. let's bring in a former supervisory deputy u.s. marshal. thank you sir for being with us. does it sound like they're closing in on them or no way to tell? >> there's really no way to tell. it's just a matter of time, though, before these guys get caught. >> really. why too you say that? i well remember the olympic park bomber, eric rudolph, who lived as a fugitive in the woods of the appalachian mountains and he managed to evade authorities there who were scouring the area for a very, very long time. five long years. and the only reason he was caught was just dumb luck eventually. wasn't suspensional -- wasn't intentional. >> sometimes imtakes dumb luck wimp the manpower and resource being used to bring these two guys back to justice, i really think it's just a matter of time.
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>> yeah. look, the terrain is incredibly rugged up in. i go up to the adirondacks every super with my family. i always avoid june because the black flies there are just devastating and they're as big as a buick. they'll drive you crazy not to mention a mosquito. so it's not going to be easy for those guys out there. >> i'm certain they're out in the elements and used to being in the comfortable confines of the state prison there. so they'll probably want to come home before long. >> let me ask you about joyce mitchell. she was supposed to drive the getaway car say authorities. she didn't show up. is that why authorities think hey, they're probably not in canada probably not no mexico. likely still nearby. >> well, really, how far can they good on foot? in just a matter of six days.
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there haven't been any reports of sitings of them. there hasn't been any reports where they tried to come manneddeer a vehicle and chances are they're in foot and probably in a three to five mile area in the area. >> if it's true she provided hack saws to these guys on the inside that has to be aiding and abetting the escape and any other crime committed therefrom. >> she would be charged as co-conspirator for any crimes committed. >> even though sheback out of the alleged plan to be the driver of the getaway car doesn't matter. right? >> that's correct. it's not an attorney, but once you do something in furtherance of the conspiracy, you are officially a coconspirator even if you back out before the act was committed. >> so you say they're going to
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get 'em. we'll wait and see. thanks very much. the fbi is confirmed yet another arrest in connection with a terror plot up covered in boston. you recall a knife wielding man shot to death outside a pharmacy after police in federal agents confronted him. federal authorities say the boston resident plotted to attack police. cath cath has the news live in washington. what are you able to learn this afternoon? >> reporter: a review of the 21-page fbi affidavit confirmed what we were first reporting here at fox news, that the online profile showed he was a follower of isis and violent jihad. the you tub page showed links to who using his facebook account to promote violence and accused of radicalizing the men who beheaded a british soldier on the streets of london in 2013. and the of david states he had this how-to guide to make power
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tools. on may 31rovinsk i along with david right and usaama rahim met and hander out their plan to behead a high profile victim in in state. this plan was adon don'ted in early morning hours in june at 5:00 a.m. on he morning of the shooting at the cvs. the affidavit says rahim told write he was going on veining that day which was code for jihad, and a plan to behead the boston cops. >> have you learn anything more specifically about the target? >> according to the same fbi affidavit the target was a well-known blogger but there's no evidence in the court papers the men took con treat steps to attack pamela geller who organized the draw hugh ham mad cartoon contest in garland texas, last month. the fines of goaler in papers as intended quote victim one search
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seems like wishful thinking or what law enforcement calls as aspirational plot. and they were fixated on a -- geller was called a pig for organizing the contest. in the same conversation the fbi of date states the men used more coded messages, including thinking with your head on your chest. which was clearly a reference to the isis beehead othe american journalist and aid workers. >> pretty chilling stuff. thank you very much. going to have a lot more on the two terror suspects who are now in police custody. i'll be talking to a former federal prosecutor who says the government could rely on everything from social media to wire taps to make its case. that's coming up on the fox news deck.
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continuing coverage of new charges announced today against two suspects accused in that terror plot in boston. the feds are saying these two men conspired to provide material support to isis. let's bring in a former federal prosecutor now a criminal defense attorney. good to see you. conspiracy to assist a terrorist group to murder americans. talk to us about the charge of conspiracy and the level of proof. >> what a conspiracy is it an agreement to too something wrong attempt government has to show
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is there was a meeting of the minds and that more than one person came together in an agreement to materially help a terrorist group, in this case isis. >> is that that easier to prove than the commission of a crime. >> absolutely. prosecutors love conspiracy. off you heal to show is an agreement and one act in furtherance of the agreement youch don't have to show the actual act was carried out. >> the first time they busted was david wright. >> yes. >> look like he flipped. >> absolutely. based on the reports he cooperated almost immediately and i think his cooperation led to this new arrest. >> might rovinski's defense be -- well, what would it be? >> there is a defense to conspiracy. >> is was just there. >> i was merely present itch heard stuff going on. i listened but never did anything to agree to carry out these acts. that's his -- >> tough sell. >> here's why it's a tough sell. you have wright cooperating. i believe you had interceptions of communications.
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i think wire tapps here. and plus you have evidence probably obtained in a search warrant as well. >> what's social media? can that be some evidence? >> the theory was that this guy was actually the one behind the plot. the one that radel radicalized a rahim so has to be some trail of social media. >> what about the search and seizure of the home of rovinski last week and walked out with apparently some stuff. >> i'm sure they searched his house up and down and his computers, and those are the building blocks of a conspiracy prosecution. >> hang here for just a second itch want to ask you about something else. the family of the dead terror suspect is now calling on the feds to investigate remarks from a u.s. congressman who said fbi agents tried to arrest the suspect without a warrant. that congressman is the democratic steven lynch of massachusetts, attorney for the suspect's relatives say quote the family looks forward to
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issuing a subpoena to question congressman lynch. good luck with that. in an effort to precisely the source of his information. so far no response from the congressman. back to john. when i first read the news release by the two lawyers ronald sullivan, their lawyers for the family, rahim family, i sent out an e-mail saying, who are these lawyers? are they really lawyers? because one thing they say here is the supreme court has affirmed an arrest without benefit of a warrant violates the constitution. the supreme court never said that. >> listen. the first thing i learned as a lawyer, whatever you've say pass the laugh test. this does not even pass the laugh test. it's ridiculous. a federal agent can arrest somebody without a wind if they have probable cause to believe a crime is committed. that's what the supreme court said. i don't know what the lawyerers talking about. it's nonsense. >> i thought they were in a coma
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for three years while in law school. then they also say this, that they look forward to issuing a subpoena to question congressman lynch about classified information. >> here's the thing. family lawyers don't have the power to subpoena, so good luck with that as well. >> plus, it's classified information. >> flankly what a congressman says is irrelevant. >> john laurel, a good lawyer. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> democrats hand president obama a stunning defeat on a major piece of legislation. what about the drama? what was that all about and why the president couldn't seem to get even his own party on. even after a rare visit to capitol hill this morning. and a major step on the road to recovery from secretary of state john kerry after he broke his thigh bone while cycling. that's next.
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>> welcome back. a french court acquitted strauss kaan of pimping charges more than four years after a hotel maid in new york city accused he october sexual assault. he was head of the imf and prosecutors said he took part in sex parties with prostitutes during the financial cries. -- financial crisis. he denied knowing the women were prostitutes and said, the parties were, quote recreational sessions to relieve stretch. really, he said that. strauss-kahn was answer a leading contender for the french presidency. he stepped down from the imf after being accused of sexual assault in 2011. he denied those charms as well and me prosecutors eventually dropped the case. to politics. house dem crams dealt a staggering blow to the white house today even after
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president obama made a very rare trip to capitol hill to try to win them over. lawmakers blocked a bill to give the president so-called fast track authority to get trade deals through congress but in the white house insist it's just a temporary setback. >> to the surprise of very few another procedure snafu emerged. these kinds of entanglements are endemic to the house of representatives. >> there's a 20-buck word. endemic. the president made a surprise trip to the capitol this morning, last-ditch effort to try to convince democrats to vote yes. but hours later on the house floor democratic leader nancy pelosi announced she would not be voting for the bill, saying slow down the fast track. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more on this. mike how all did this go down? >> reporter: as you mentioned president obama came up here to capitol hill, made his pitch behind closed doors to house democrats and got high marks from some democrats but clearly
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not enough. the president needed to convince people like house democratic leader nancy pelosi to support his trade agenda. this deal was democrats needed to provide most of the votes on trade assistance money and republicans would give most of the votes on trade promotion authority. pelosi slammed on the brakes. >> today we have an opportunity to slow down. we all know we have to -- want to engage in trade promotion and the rest of that. but we have to slow down. whatever the deal is with other countries we want a better deal for america's workers. >> the vote was 302-126 with only 40 democrats voting in favor of trade adjustment assistance. >> is it over, mike? >> reporter: well, i talked to some key republicans and they say they're willing to give it a weekend and try again early next week to see if there's a change of heard but they're saying it will require a full court press from the white house.
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>> now the president has some work yet to do with his party to complete this process. this isn't over yet. and we hope that they can get together and make sure that we finish this so that america is back leading. >> reporter: bottom line, with 302 votes against it will be difficult to overcome in a matter of a few days. >> i'm not sure he has any juice left on capitol hill, if he ever had any to begin with. is this going to really change anything between now and let's say, next week, mike? >> reporter: you're right. a lot of people note that the president has never been known for having very warm, close relations here on capitol hill, and so even some folks who are typically his allies on many issues sound totally opposed on this one. >> only reason we're here to support it, the only reason we have been lob yesterday by no less then the president and three top cabinet officials because they know it paves the way to trade promotion
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authority. >> reporter: some democrats sounded offended by probe reason's pitch this morning, in the end they voted with the union over their president. >> quite a day of drama on capitol hill. mike emanuel, thank you very much. secretary of state john kerry betting ready to leave the hospital after surgery on his broken leg. a state department spokesman says secretary kerry will stay in boston to recover from it. he broke his right leg last month when he crashed his bike in france. he was riding near the swiss alps during a break in nuclear talks in march. the state department reports that secretary kerry will take questions from reporter when he his released. that could be within the hour. former secretary of state hillary clinton about to hold the biggest event yet of her presidential campaign. and former florida for jeb bush getting ready to formally kick off his run for the white house. we'll have details on both of them straight ahead.
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mitt romney is getting involved in the white house race yet again. this time he is hosting some of the 2016 republican contenders at a ski resort in utah, and top doctors are there as well. the guest list includes marco rubio, carli fee recent narks senator lindsey fray ham and potential candidates, governor chris christie, john kashich scott walker, john roberts i has more. john, this is a closed door event i gather. from a candidate standpoint what's the purpose? >> reporter: it's a closed door event as far as cameras go but we have been allowed in to listen to the speeches of the candidates. a lot of focus on leadership at the submit, which we -- summit which we like to call camp ram ram. this is a gathering of the big
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mitt romney campaign money machine and it's clear there's still a lot of cash on the sidelines even with so many candidates in the race. so there really is a race for cash here. another candidate likely to jump in, by the way, john kashich ohio governor. won re-election in 2014. he has the sort of moderate policies it takes to win swing states senate runs are concerned about this brusk and somewhat outspoken style. win saud kashich could be the nominee of the party if hoe quote, stops acting like a jerk. i asked kashich about that. >> sometimes when you carry out policies you have to push. we don't need marshmallows. we need toughness but kindness, and what i say is my policies reflect the kindness of conservatism, so i might have to sit down and have a cup of coffee or drinks with fred to straighten him out. >> kashich says if he decides to get in likely won't be well into july. i learned from talking to scott
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walker last night when he a nouns -- and it's expected he would -- probably would be about the second week of july. so a lot of candidates still to announce in their very near future. >> jeb bush, though, john, is not there. right? >> reporter: he is not. he was invited last year. couldn't make it. invited this year but cooperate make it because he-on-the european trip. he wound up in estonia today and will be heading home. he has his big announce. on monday in florida, and gave the press a preview of what he will talk about when he was talking to them in estonia. let's listen. >> i had the opportunity to be governor of a state where a lot of things happen. some people liked it, some people didn't but the needle did move. there's no question that you ask friend and foe alike that florida changed by my leadership. i think it changed for the better. >> reporter: he says he is going to talk about that. while he was on his trip to eastern europe he had very tough talk about russian president vladimir putin.
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this morning at camp romney, camp mitt, should i say marco rubeover said that putin was downright evil. don't believe he'sphone that far in the past but i asked him about that a little while ago and he said, he is aligning himself with evil people, he is absolutely evil and needs to be treated that way. >> john roberts in a sifting in deer valley. thank you very much. jeb bush, as john munged, laurenings his campaign on monday and hillary clinton is relaunching his white house run this weekend with a speech here in new york city. she put out a new campaign video previewing that event. >> every day americans and their families need a champion, champion who will fight for them eave single day -- every single day and i want to be that champion. >> it will be secretary clinton's first big rally after sticking to smaller events since kicking off her campaign. chris wallace is here. is this a launch, relaunch, do
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over? what's the deal? >> i think it's another phase. i don't think it's a relaunch in the sense that they didn't like what she was doing so far. they always wanted to start small. the so-called listening tour. very small stage pack wantinged events. now she is taking it to another level with a big public rally where she will knock bigger, broader terms why chev is running for president and what her vision is for where she would like to take the country. still not taking questions from voters but it's another stage in the process. and the first time she is going to be there with bill and with hillary and speaking in broad terms about her campaign. >> with chelsea. clinton claimed she is the champion of, quote-unquote everyday americans. to some poem that may be a tough sell since she and her husband made 30 million in the last 16 months. but is that perhaps the reason why she is going to be invoking
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the memory and image of her mother sort of hard scrabble life during the great depression? >> absolutely. what she is trying to say -- and the fact you make a lot of money doesn't mean that you can't care. fdr was a rich man. john f. kennedy was a rich man and votershold that against him. so i dope think they -- don't think they object to people being rich. the question is what is she going to do for us, where is she going to take the country? and clearly the fact she is speaking on roosevelt island and invoking the idea of fdr and an active role of government in trying to lift people up a talking about their very middle class background, and in fact kind of a hard-scrabble background for her mom will be an attempt to break through the very rarefied life she leads and say i understand and care about people like you. >> roosevelt island, you can take the tram but not an easy
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place to get to. let me did you about jeb bush. going to formally announce on monday. several media reports, including the "washington post," allege that his campaign is struggling. is that true? >> well, struggling is probably too strong a word. hasn't gotten off in a sense hasn't even begun but has been out there raising tens of millions of dollars since last december. hasn't gotten off to a rousing start. the hoped by invoking his name and raising this money and putting together the bush coalition and organizers they might scare people out of the race. we're talking about 15-16 people' and in all the national polls he is tied for the lead at a very low level. at 10, 11% long with scott walker and the latest fox poll with ben carson. i don't think that he has gotten quite the bump he expected to
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get and certainly hasn't scared anybody out of the race. orbed, as i say he hasn't leally even gotten into the race. we'll see what he has to say on monday in terms of his vision as to where he wants to take the country. his campaign obviously not only formally beginning but also going into a whole new level of him trying to express the vision thing, if you will. >> i'm almost out of time but i have to ask you about what happened over the course of the last hour, hour and a half, on capitol hill. here president obama makes a rare appearance on capitol hill to lobby in support of his trade agenda and it wasn't just a narrow defeat. i mean, it was a dramatic, stunning overwhelming defeat, and even the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, voted against the president, and she is the one who greeted him today on capitol hill. how stunning a defeat is this for the president? >> i'd say two thing about it in terms of what happened today it was a stunning defeat. it was humiliating. use whatever adjective you want
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to use. the idea the president goes up there, expends that personal capital, and gets a fish across the face. so that's not good. on the other hand, i've been around capitol hill long enough to see that nothing is ever permanent on capitol and nothing ever gifts nailed down, and -- ever gets nailed down, and die think it's fire say at this point that the president's trade deal is dead, that this can't be resurrected? maybe even in the ickes next week? no. it's still up for grabs and you can be sure the republicans and especially the white house will be trying to find some accommodation that can turn nancy pelosi and house democrats around. but having said that, to the degree that we're always looking for signs that this is a lame duck president this certainly was a sign of that today. he was rejected not by republicans help was resqued by his own party in the house. >> a fish across the face. a memorable image chris. thank you very minute. chris wallace. going to have more on hillary
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clinton's campaign on "fox news sunday" with her senior spokesperson karen finney. also going to be talking 2016 and more with the former republican vice-presidential nominee, wisconsin congressman paul ryan. that is this sunday on your local fox stations. check the tv listings. the number of anthrax packages that the military sent out keeps greg, -- growing and now defense official says a laboratory in japan also received a shipment. that bring the new total to 9 labs across 19 -- 69 labs across 19 u.s. states and d.c. and five different countries. the feds warned last week the number will probably grow as their investigation continues. some u.s. military facilities shipped inactivated anthrax samples so labs around the world to help research biological warfare but was we have been reporting now, pentagon officials are saying some of the samples were not properly
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investigation. a bus slamming into a group of girls and dragging one of them a few yards. this is from austria at the european games. doctor says the girls should all be okay. officials are investigating the crash. and get this. about two dozen letters written by albert einstein just showed for more than 4 -- sold for more than $400,000. they cover topics from the atomic bomb to einstein's life in god. there's also a letter from einstein to his son telling him to study harder in geometry. greg? >> thanks very minute. the head of a federal union says the social security numbers of up to 14 million government workers apparently were not encrypt end when hackers stole them. but a spokesman for the office of personnel management says encryption might not have stopped the breech. he add opium does utilize
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encryption in some instances and is increasing the types of methods utilized to encrypt data. the white house said earlier it is still investigating. morgan bright joins us, cyber security analyst who says his information was in the system and is now likely in the hands of hackers. really? yours? >> greg, right here. this is my fs86. i had 32 pages of my entire life filled out for people. medical records. i had to sign releases for everything, back in 2001. sitting there. not only in the hands of hackers but most likely in the hands of the chinese. >> i would suspect you're a little bit angry about that. talk to us about what you think is perhaps incompetence on the part of the government? >> that would be the kindest word to say right now. we have had since 2002 an act called the federal information security management act. we have spent hundreds of boundaries dollars and you're telling me after all of this time you can't even encrypt all
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of my data? at this point heads need to roll and people need to be held accountable. people need to be fired. if this happened in the private sector and has after target, the ceo and cio were let good. where is the accountability? until you get that you will not make a change how we address cyber security in our nation. >> how could you not encrypt in this day and age such vital information for millions of people many of whom have access to all kinds of things. they could be the subject of extortion and blackmail not to mention theft, and so forth. >> look, when i went through my security clearance i signed my nondisclosure agreement they've told you about the things that the reason they want you to be truthful tell us everything so you can't be blackmailed. that doesn't always work. people north always truthful. my biggest concern is it can expose people involved in sensitive operations, sensitive investigations to ongoing danger to peril but the biggest
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thing it's just not this. the interior business center hosted data center for over 150 different agencies and organizations. if people thinking this is just about opm this is just the tip of the iceberg. it's going get far worse buff we get to the bottom of it. >> and the thing morgan, is these hackers from what i have been reading, were actually into the system for the better part of a year. hanging out in the system, you know for a year, and correct me if i'm wrong but didn't dhs spend about $500 million on a system that apparently didn't even detect that year-long breach? >> if you consider 12 months real-time intrusion technology. they're talking about new and improved i'm stein 3 advanced. rebranding under under management will solve the problem. you can throw another billion
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half billion dollars at this, it doesn't get solved until you replace the people in positions of power making policy. they have to go. we have to could something different. maybe even getting the private sector involved happening cyber security. for all the billion wes spent evenly george steinbrenner put together a world championship time -- team with enough money. >> late assume heads on the block, congressional investigation other investigations. you know what these people are going to say? they're going to throw the blame on congress and the president saying you didn't give us enough money to undertake proper cyber security. its that just main mon nonsense. >> absolute nonsense you. have -- you're the only -- these folks work for the only place where you can print money where you can authorize the creation of money to pay for is this stuff. you can throw more money at it. not going to solve the problem. it's getting back to accountability and being more -- we thought he acquisition
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process is so broken, by the time you in bid out stuff it's 18 to 24 months behind. are we're still the colonial army fighting with musket loader. we're outclassed and outmatched with cyber defense. we have to change thing. >> it's outrage just and pathetic but in the context of the government that's redundant. >> prosecutors in germany dropped this investigation into claims the united states tapped chancellor angela merkel's cell phone. they say they could not find any evidence that would actually stand up in a court of law. well a german magazine you may recall broke the story back in 2013 citing documents from the national security agency leaker, ed snowden. the accusations had strained relations between president obama and the german leaders. heavy rain and flashflood watches sending people scrambling to protect their homes and cars in colorado, and louisiana. that is coming up next on fox news deck.
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syracuse area. so folks in the area need to watch this carefully. but you're talking about this flooding. that's kind of our bigger story. we have been watching for weeks across parts of texas and oklahoma and kansas and over the last few days more rain across the central plains. again we're seeing it move in across parts of oklahoma and texas, places where we have seen flooding and we have current flashflood warnings going on across parts of colorado and again here parts of the red river valley and the wichita area where we'll see more rain. already because of the rain we have seen we still have rivers in major flood stage and anymore rain there is going to make that very, very rough and over the next number of days, we see some rain very heavy moving back in across oklahoma, and texas. so the flooding threat will continue for us. >> rick, thank you very much. incredible video to show you. this is the boeing dreamliner, a passenger jet watch as it takes off. the plane almost appeared to be perpendicular to the ground.
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boeing reports this is a glimpse of what people can expect at the paris air show. i do not want to be onboard when they pull that stunt. we're going to be right back.
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on this day in 1962 one of the most notorious prison breaks in american history came to light when guards discovered three prisoners missing from alcatraz. investigators say the inmates cut through think back of their cells using responses and set up a work shop in the area behind the walls building a raft and life preservers out of old rain coats and made dumbies out of cement paint and human hair in their bed from or two decades the feds tried to figure out what happened the inmates. investigators say they probably downed in the rough currents of san francisco bay. to this day there's still a mid-but the guards noticed the rock was short a few prisoners 53 years ago today. you can take a tour of alcatraz,
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which i recommend. see the cells and i they tell the story it's fascinating but it's cold there so take a coat. i'm greg jarrett in for shep. your "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> americans should not have to compete wife starvation wages and environmental destruction. >> how can we have an agreement that doesn't require everybody to play by the same rules? that's just ridiculous. >> if we want to change that, then our job today is to vote down this bill. >> sadly i would vote against the taa. >> these guys are in the president's party? there you have it, my friends democrats -- i repeat democrats -- telling the president he i can take the trade deal and shove it. despite his pleading, despite hit cajoling, his own party just helping send the deal reeling