at book ends in ridgewood, new jersey 7:00 p.m. sharp. and as soon as i unplug my mike i'm heading to twitter to answer all your questions today. tweet me @gretchencarlson using the #gettingreal. can hardly wait to chat with you the next 30 minutes or so. thanks for being part of "the real story today". sleeping with one convicted killer was apparently not enough gretchen. new reports today that the worker accused of helping two murderers burst out of prison actually had sex with both of them. the jailhouse love triangle and the hunt for the killers ahead. plus u.s. forces have taken out an important al qaeda leader. a man who plotted attacks against america. what it means for the terror group's future. and russia's president putin mentioning they're getting a new dozen or so intercontinental ballistic missiles. an aside, tensions rise. was that a veiled threat? let's get to it.

first from the fox news desk this tuesday afternoon, it could be the biggest hit against al qaeda since the death of osama bin laden. the white house now confirms a drone strike took out the terror group's number two leader who also headed up its most dangerous offshoot. officials say that he once was osama bin laden's own personal secretary. he was in charge of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, also known as aqa 3rkz. the white house says he oversaw plots against the united states and our allies. he wrote tips for followers to sneak bombs onto airplanes and led the group during that failed underwear bombing of a flight to detroit back in '09. his death comes after a u.s. strike against another top terrorist, this one in libya. u.s. officials say this guy was behind an attack in algeria back in 2013. dozens of people died then including three americans. the pentagon reports it's still working to confirm his death,

but a spokesman does say and i quote "there is nowhere on earth to hide if you're a terrorist. we will find you and we will kill you." lee gabriel, what else do we know about this lone strike? >> reporter: it sounds like they found him and they killed him. it happened last week in a southern yemeni port city that al qaeda took over back in april. it's an area where u.s. drone strikes have been hitting over al qaeda in the arabian peninsula leaders including the top military commander. a video surfaced on the internet last spring appearing to show nazir alwahishi meeting with al qaeda operatives. the pentagon says he was responsible for the death of yemenis, arabs and americans. "it brings us closer to degrading and ultimately defeating these groups." shep according to yemeni security officials, two other militants were also killed in this attack. >> what does this mean big picture for al qaeda if

anything really? >> reporter: al qaeda has been making major gains in yemen as tutsi hebls have been going across the country. al qaeda has been joining with the forces fighting those rebels. a terrorism analyst says while the latest strike is significant, it's by no means a show stopper. listen. >> right now strategy is very much what we call a counterterrorism centric strategy where you basically take off top leaders or take out top leaders and think the whole thing is going to crumble. unfortunately they're not organized that way. they're organized as a guerilla army with multiple nodes of command. while it's going to be tough to find somebody of his caliber to replace him, they have plenty of leaders on the bench basically to step up. >> reporter: in a video released today, an al qaeda leader says alawahishi's deputy would take over his role and he said they would continue to wage war against the united states that. prison worker accused of helping the pair of convicted killers bust loose up state in new york reportedly had sex with

not one but both of the murderers. according to a number of reports joyce mitchell on the left here told investigators she did indeed hook up with a man known as hacksaw inside the maximum security prison upstate. the same man she reportedly said made her feel special. there's word officials also investigated her for an inappropriate relationship with that other killer and convict, and transferred him out of the prison tailor shop where she worked. prosecutors say joyce mitchell helped the killers escape by giving them hacksaw blades chisels and a screw driver. she's pleaded not guilty. prosecutors say she was supposed to be the getaway driver but never showed up. the clinton county prosecutor says he thinks that was actually plan b and that the killers had a different plot to escape without her. according to some reports, had she picked up the man, the plan was to kill her husband and drive for about seven hours, possibly to vermont. prosecutors say she backed out because she quote loves her

husband. rick leftvinthal is outside the prison in upstate new york. >> reporter: the clinton county sheriff told me he this she is escaped cons would have killed joyce mitchell and not her husband, that they considered her baggage and that she was always plan b and not their primary escape plan. other law enforcement sources agreed with that assessment describing david sweat and richard matt as manipulative and extremely intelligent, using this woman to get some of the tools they needed and discarding her when they got out. they also likely never told her their actual escape plans knowing she'd get caught and talk to the cops. the sheriff thinks the result of this escape will be a reexamination of the privileges given inmates here and across the country. >> there's a lot of lessons that are learned every time this occurs. hopefully this is another opportunity to make the system better than what it is. probably providing all the opportunities that we provide to those that are incarcerated are not so advantageous to society.

>> the prison remains on 24-hour lockdown. already known as little sighberia. now it's more so with no visitors and no calls since the escape. >> anything on the hunt at all? >> reporter: they continue to search 24 hours a day, more than 800 local, state and federal agencies. you have police out here you have federal like the u.s. marshall's office u.s. customs and border protection folks. there's fbi agents out here. aviation and canine units. and they've searched over 13 square miles. that's more than 8300 acres. but the conditions have often been miserable. lots of rain heavy at times. very rough terrain. thick woods, mountains, lots of mud, and virtually no physical evidence recovered that we know of in over a week. the trail has gone cold. according to the sheriff and there is an increasing likelihood or belief among law enforcement here shep, that these two may be long gone. >> rick thanks. let's bring in craig kane a retired inspector for the u.s.

marshall's office and a new york and new jersey regional fugitive task force. he has 30 years experience hunting fugitives here and overseas. >> hi shep. >> i'm hearing that the woman was not plan a but plan b, they had another plan. is it your thinking that they're long gone? >> long gone. they had a plan a, b, c, and maybe even a d, okay? >> why do you say that? >> because just the elaborate escape plan that they hatched and the several months they had to hash this plan out. they're not just going to have this great plan to escape and not have a good evasion plan. >> so she was just there for the hacksaw and the screw driver. >> well she might have been there to give them the initial ride but i think she made a wise decision in bailing, because i think the old saying two's company, three's a crowd. i think she would have been a bag of bones on the side of the highway at some point. >> is it normal lit case they're getting help out there

somewhere? >> absolutely. >> so somebody knows. >> somebody knows. i think once the investigators are doing a great job out there. they're going to uncover a conspiracy plot. and they're going to find out somebody's funneling money to these guys. they could have actually got them out of the country. and i'm not saying overseas in europe because it's a lot harder to do that. you're going to need a lot of resources to do that. but canada is a good choice. they said several hours away they'll be at a particular point in time well it's only 20 miles to the canada border. then hang a quick left and you're already on the west coast of canada. >> yeah. >> where it's a lot less populated and possibly the information isn't getting out there as quickly about these two people. so i also think at some point in time matt is going to ditch sweat. >> you said investigators are doing a great job. i don't have any reason to doubt that. except from what i read in the "new york post," which suggests that they're all running into

each other and acting like a bunch of bumbling idiots. i don't have any information to that effect but that's what i read. >> i work with the state police. and the department of corrections for quite a number of years. they're professionals. they know what they're doing. the thing is they have to decide where from the origin of the escape these guys had several hours' head start, okay? several hours. a human being under great conditions can walk three miles an hour okay? through the terrain, through the woodland cut it down to half of that. they still had maybe a 20-mile head start. so by the time they initiated their search they could be another 10 miles. so where do you draw the line to end the search? they could be in right just over the perimeter, they could be in someone's cabin like some people are saying. people didn't open up their houses yet. or they could have got a hostage. so i believe and i know it's a daunting task but whoever is

running the operation i believe the state police they have to set up their perimeter to where they feel comfortable in terms of miles and they're going to have to go through every house, shep. every house. because littlejohn any could have a knife to his neck in the bathroom and a woman answers the door. oh no nobody's here. okay. thank you, goodbye. they could be right there under their nose. >> hopefully it's a little thicker than that. greg caine, thanks for coming. looks like the escaped killer known as hacksaw also likes to use a paint brush. ryan has the details. i don't even know. the prison authorities knew these people were having sex with this woman. hey, this makes no sense. but he's a painter. that's awesome. >> apparently a paint are. david matt otherwise known as hacksaw. a friend of his is speaking out, a guy who served some time in jail with him. he said in the last few years, hacksaw has been sending paintings of celebrity figures.

marilyn monroe julia roberts. >> he painted this. >> he painted these. according to a friend he painted these. >> angelina jolie. >> blue eyes. yep. >> oprah. the friend says people would be very surprised to learn but hacksaw was a big oprah fan. it's tough to make out he wrote "she changed so many lives. thank you, oprah". >> thank you, hacksaw. >> politicians as well. hillary clinton. >> okay. >> and current president barack obama and dr. king as well. on this he wrote "dream fulfilled." the friend said he understands people seeing this might be disturbing. but people that didn't know hacksaw he had a human side. >> you know who didn't see these paintings? the guy hacksaw hacksawed up in the back of a trunk. you remember that guy? remember what hacksaw did in the first place, right? he had this very old like 80s boss. he thought the boss had some money stashed away somewhere. so he put the boss in the trunk of the car and headed out to where he thought the money was. every once in awhile he'd stop

pull over the car and break a few more bones of the boss. then he put him back in the truck and realized there is no stash. that's when he hacked him up with a hacksaw. that's hack sought painter. and the man who had sex with a prison worker who's now in jail. the national security brief that may be unprecedented in scale this next one. hackers getting info on millions of current and former federal workers. in many cases, detailed background information from security clearance checks. today a hearing on the hill. we learn a lot more about what went wrong and how deep this goes. that's coming up from the fox news desk. tuners... were just as simple? thanks to angie's list now it is. start shopping online... ...from a list of top rated providers. visit angieslist.com today.

the best team in the big leagues the st. louis cardinals now the subject of a federal investigation. a federal law enforcement source tells fox news the fbi is looking into whether the cardinals hacked another team's system. the "new york times" newspaper is reporting that officials for the redbirds may have tapped into the houston astros' database getting access to stats and scouting reports plus internal discussions about trade and players and lots of private stuff. the times first first reports the fed believe the cardinals used a list of passwords from one of their former executives who's now the general manager for the astros. translation, don't use the same passwords ever! it is not yet clear when all this reportedly went down. the two teams were in the same division until a couple of years ago. the executive involved left the cardinals after st. louis won the world series back in 2011. both teams reportedly say they

are cooperating. and according to major league baseball once the investigative process has been completed by federal law enforcement officials, we will evaluate the next steps and we'll make decisions promptly." now it seems the cardinal way may include hacking. the data breach that exposed the social security numbers and birthdays of millions and millions of federal workers was decades in the making. that's what the head of the office of personnel management told lawmakers on capitol hill today. she now says it apparently happened last year but that it was one of two breaches her office discovered this year. in the first attack a federal union reports hackers obtained the private information of every current government employee. all of them. as well as millions of former employees and contractors. in the second breach officials say cyber spies got detailed information on millions of military intelligence and other personnel investigated for

security clearances. all together this reportedly affects as many as 18 million people. another government official says the office of personnel management has a history of problems with security. he said for years the people running it had no background in that field. anybody calling for heads to roll yet? >> reporter: shep yes. because lawmakers did not like the answers they were getting, feeling like they were hearing a whole lot of excuses. kathryn archileta took much of the heat for the breaches. she told lawmakers her agency's aging computer equipment couldn't handle encrypting the personal information of millions of current and former federal employees. after a closed door classified session, here was house oversight chairman jason chafitz. >> reporter: if we want different results it's going to be time for the office of

personnel management director as well as the oci to step down. it's time for them to go. whether the president fires them or they resign. we have to have a change. >> reporter: archileta would not respond to questions from fox news about whether she would be willing to resign. shep. >> this doesn't seem to be a partisan issue at all. >> reporter: absolutely not. you had the panel's top democrat elijah cummings also expressing a great deal of concern, asking what foreign governments could do with the very personal information of millions of current and former federal government employees. another democrat with a background in technology drew this conclusion. >> having been a member of this oversight committee and as a computer science major, it's clear to me there is a high level technological incompetence across many of our federal agencies. >> reporter: part of the anger is the inspector general, the internal watchdog told the government agency to shut down the system after it had been hacked and those warnings were

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for the first time we're hearing testimony from the former psychiatrist of the colorado movie theater shooter, james holmes. investigators say hours before the attack that holmes mailed the psychiatrist a journal in which holmes detailed his, well, meticulous planning. investigators say james holmes went to dr. lin fenton to get

help with his anxiety. earlier today that doctor repeated what james holmes said a couple of months before the shooting. after he broke up with his girlfriend. >> talking about his ex-girlfriend, he did tell her that he hates people after they broke up. >> he said after they broke up he told his girlfriend he hates people. >> he hates people yes. >> prosecutors say james holmes killed 12 people wounded dozens more in july of 2012. he's pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. today the psychiatrist testified that she saw no signs that james holmes was planning to kill anybody. she faces a separate civil lawsuit for not putting holmes on a 72-hour psychiatric hold before the attack. james holmes later told a court-appointed doctor that he kind of regrets that his psychiatrist didn't lock him up so that quote everything could have been avoided. another hearing on capitol hill today. in this one lawmakers were looking into what's gone wrong at the transportation security

administration. woo learned last week the agency failed to notice 73 workers on the terror watch list. but one tsa official said today, investigators conducted a review and found that none of those workers is actually a threat to security. she also said her agency still cannot access the entire terror database. keith lange is a staff reporter for the hill newspaper and covers tsa and transportation oversight issues. that must be fascinating in an exercise in futility. i wonder if your reporting suggests exactly why they can't access the terror watch list. >> this has been a problem that tsa has complained about for a couple of years. they're supposed to be working in tandem with the fbi which is where the secure flight list is kept and the do not fly list is kept. it's come up when there's been issues with passengers suing about their inclusion on the do not fly list. there's been some civil rights violation lawsuits the last couple of years. but in this case it's come back up in the case of the employee vetting. >> and the reporting today is

don't worry about it. everything' fine? >> tsa officials tried to let lawmakers know they are aware of the problems and working on a fix there. were several lawmakers in the homeland security committee today that did not think that was a good enough answer and think this should be fixed right now. lawmakers moved today to pass two bills to address some vulnerabilities that have been exposed in the last couple of weeks at the tsa. >> would those bills give them for instance access to the terror watch list? >> it would streamline the process a little bit. they're still going to have to work with the fbi, but it would speed up the communication between the two agencies. >> what's the level of frustration up there? and is it -- you're reporting that this is more partisan or is this more about the facts? >> there's a high level of frustration on the hill with tsa right now. because in addition to this report there was a report two weeks ago that tsa workers failed to find fake explosives and guns that were -- bombs that were planted on testers in an

internal inspection in 67 of 70 cases. and the security issues go back as farce last winter when there was a worker at the atlanta airport that was found to be smuggling guns in. so this latest report is kind of the last straw. and lawmakers on both parties are calling for big changes at the tsa. democrats have been kind of pinning their hopes on president obama's choice for a new nominee who is likely to be approved before the end of the month probably. >> before we go and i'm out of time i wonder as one who reports on tsa specifically like all the time are you comfortable with them? >> i fly just like everyone else does. i've been patted down in airports and i've been through the x-ray machines. it's been part of the process of flying for the last 15 years or so. so it's just kind of a thing that goes with the package to me. >> you feel safe? >> i feel as safe as any other

passenger. >> i hear that. hey, it's good to talk to you. thanks very much keith. >> thanks for having me. >> keith laing from the hill. jeb bush is hitting the campaign trail just one day after officially kicking off his run for the presidency. we'll check in with campaign carl in new hampshire. plus we're hearing from a form naacp chapter president who it turns out is not african-american after all but is white. she has some trans-racial sort of things going on. we're hearing from her parents who apparently have different memories of her childhood. >> rachel is rejecting her biological family. and she's also rejecting reality.

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jeb bush on the campaign trail for the first time since he made his white house run official. the former florida governor hosting a town hall in new hampshire, home of the nation's first primary. he comes as a new poll that shows where things stand for the republican presidential nomination. according to the monmouth university undecided still lead the pack. undecided a prohibitive favorite

at 20%. actual humans in the race dr. ben carson nuts lead followed by wisconsin governor scott walker jeb bush marco rubio and mike huckabee. this came in before jeb bush's announcement yesterday. with a margin of error the top contenders are all in a statistical tie. carl cameron in derry, new hampshire this afternoon, what came out of the town hall carl? >> jeb bush the former florida governor and now official candidate on day two of his officially declared presidential candidacy came to derry, one of these towns in central new hampshire that all the candidates come to for the opera house. held a town hall meeting. it went about 90 minutes. he took more than a dozen questions. and handled them all pretty add mir

admirably. mr. and mrs. undecided hold sway a week before the primary next february all of them are kicking the tires and looking for who's out there. jeb bush got a pretty good response. when he was wrapping up the event he said wait oops i forgot i made a mistake hold it. i'm kind of new at this. i want your vote and the place went bananas. new hampshire voters love to be courted. he taped an interview with hannity tonight. you'll be able to see this interview. he reiterated sort of re-emphasized his contention that governors because they have executive experience are much better set to be president than legislators talking about those three in the senate cruz, rubio and paul. >> i was touting the fact that governors have to make decisions, senators don't. they can hide behind the collective body. i wasn't calling out any particular senator. but the simple fact is governors have to balance budgets in this country. and they have to make decisions. and they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems. >> so that's a reference to marco rubio because he is a senator and has been a legislator. the bringing together of people is a reference to ted cruz who's

been considered something of a partisan wedge. and then there's rand paul the libertarian who should do well in new hampshire and has said he has to win here because of new hampshire's ability for independents to vote in the primary and sort of the libertarian leanings of the state. jeb bush came here and did the critical thing. he asked people and said he was looking for their vote jeb. >> back to the poll carl what if anything do these early polls tell us? >> reporter: a little bit about name recognition but not much. not only the poll has the margin of error, most of them are. there are clearly however sort of a 2 1/2 tiers. you've got rubio, scott walker the governor of wisconsin who's currently on a trade trip to canada and jeb bush in the top tier. and sort of waiting for other candidates. occasionally rand paul gets a bit of a bump in there, sometimes it ticks back. chris christie they're in sort of the low teens area. chris christie is usually in the high single digits. the rest of the pack is sort of take up the rear between 5 and 1%. this is really important for who

gets to qualify for the first debate in august the top ten will be in one actual debate and those who don't make the cut in the recent polls will be put into a forum that will go earlier in the day of the big debate. and it is very, very important for keeping the buzz going because ultimately if your name is high in the polls it means they can raise money. that's what they're doing right now as they begin to introduce each other to voters. >> all very busycameron, derry, new hampshire. donald trump announced today he's running as a republican for president. he ram billion dollar for about 45 minutes, included the word "crap." despite the tone trump says this is real. of course he also said the current president was born in kenya and vaccines cause autism. many political analysts call today's trump talk a publicity stunt. trump has 30 days to file a financial disclosure. if he doesn't today's declaration means nothing. we're hearing from a civil rights activist who resigned from the naacp after her parents revealed she is not black but

white. rachel dolezal was on "the today show" this morning and telling matt lauer she's identified herself as an african-american since she was a child. >> when did it start? >> i would say about five years old. >> you began identifying yourself as african-american? >> i was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach cray on and the back curly hair. >> it's all in the crayons. the woman's parents say none of that's true. they spoke earlier on "america's news room". >> no. that is a fabrication. that's false. that did not happen. she has never done that anything like that as a child. although she was always attracted to the black people. we had friends from nigeria and different places and african-american friends. >> maybe it's not in the crayons. the mother said her daughter is rejecting her biological family and reality. images show what the civil rights activist looked like as a child compared to how she looks now.

she dives the question today about whether she colors her skin saying only that she doesn't stay out of the sun. of course this story made headlines around the globe and sparked a debate over what it means to be black, white, or any other race. can you be whatever you want to be? trace gallagher on our west coast news hub this afternoon. this woman has a history of playing both sides against the middle really trace. >> reporter: she does, shep. she even teaches a class at eastern washington university called the black woman's struggle. during an interview she once told a student that being a black woman was a burden and that the gaze is so strong in a solid white community like spokane that you have a sense of being on display. but rachel dolezal also once revealed her struggle as a white woman. in 2002 she unsuccessfully sued historically black howard university for discrimination. she claimed that after she graduated from howard she was denied a teaching job because she's white. here's how dolezal responded to accusations of deception this morning.

listen. >> when did you start deceiving people? >> i do take exception to that. because it's a little more complex than me identifying as black or answering a question of are you black or white. >> but she went on to say that she would make the very same choices all over again, shep. >> the parents are on just about every channel out there. but they're not the only ones talking. >> no. she has adopted siblings who actually are part black, included a brother who says that what she's doing is wrong. he claims that she once asked him not to blow her cover. here's the brother on "fox and friends "this morning. >> i don't think there's really anything complex about truth, what's true and what is not true. i don't really know how she's saying that it's really that complex or that confusion because it's really not. >> and it's not just her ethnicity that's being challenged. dolezal also claims she was raised in a tipi for example and hunted for food with a bow and

arrow and she's been the victim of hate crimes. saying she once found an envelope that spokane naacp post office box with pictures of lynchings, except the post office says there was no postage on the envelope. whoever put anytime box had a key. she's being challenged on a lot of different issues shep. >> seems. so trace gallagher in los angeles. thanks. a tropical storm soaking eastern texas today weeks after record segment rains triggered deadly through thing in that state. not a lot of wind with this one but there is plenty of rain. a time we would have said east texas really needs it. not really true anymore. forecasters are predingting a foot in some areas. it will track deep inland about to get this rain in dallas. tornado fears as always. officials in galveston county down on the coast already asked folks to evacuate the low-lying areas. with the grounds saturated from last month's flood that left more than 30 people dead across texas and oklahoma. wasn't that long ago we were

reporting on the years-long and devastating drought in texas. whether it's over or not is news from the future. but steve harrigan is out in the rain today as he so often is. how is it steve? wet? >> reporter: shepard, it's steady here right now in houston, steady rain. people are still out and about. as you can see it hit about three hours ago with 60-mile-per-hour winds along the coastline, about 50 miles per hour winds now. this is not a dramatic storm, but officials are calling it a two-day event. it's really concerns about the rain that's the big problem. we could see anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of rain in some areas. that could produce the flash flooding when people are getting trapped in their cars. that's one thing that this area really hopes to avoid. they've even got some high water rescue teams posted different parts around the city to make sure people don't get stuck in those underpasses, shepard. >> most people remaining calm steve? >> reporter: they are. as you can see the police have set up a barrier here of orange cones, but a lot of people in their four-wheel vehicles simply just ignoring them thinking

they know better. there's some wooden barriers over here water about a foot deep there. i just saw two cars remove those wooden barriers and drive down the road. so people here really still out on the road taking matters into their own hands. and we'll see how this develops over the next 24 hours, shepard. >> here comes another one. don't get run over steve. a couple months from now a buggy will be picking you up and carrying you away. starting to sound like vad minute vladimir putin is looking for a fight. adding 12 intercontinental ballistic missiles. details on an emerging cold war? that's next from the fox news desk.

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missiles to its weapons program this year. u.s. secretary of state john kerry responded saying nobody should hear that kind of announce month from the leader of a political country and not be concerned about what the implications are. president putin made the announcement at an arms show west of moscow. he plans to roll out new long rage ray dan systems and tanks and armored vehicles that he claims are in a league of their own as he put it. analysts warn russia's economy is sinking into recession. the united states is readying for whatever it appears. announcing the military is considering prepositioning tanks and other heavy weapons in eastern europe. so the equipment is there should the military need to move in. it is no doubt a big step. one that the russian army general says would be the most aggressive since the cold war. james goldgyer is a former state department official staff member on the national security

council and now dean of international studies at -- >> i know what vadladimir putin is wanting a lot of attention. beyond that are there real reasons for concern here? >> i think the big concern is that he clearly believes that by talking this way, by taking these types of actions, that he can increase his popularity at home. so i think we should be concerned that that's the way he sees his best move domestically. it also helps him justify suppressing dissent. i don't think it has a huge implication for us in the military sense but it's part of a broader disturbing pattern. >> behind the scenes we've been hearing this move of u.s. military equipment, not people but equipment to eastern europe has been coming. it wasn't about this announcement at all. that repositioning, that's new and different since the cold war. i just wonder if you can give us an idea of what that means. >> it does mean that the united

states and its nato partners are concerned about the broader implications are the invasion of ukraine. putin's continued actions in ukraine. the real need to reassure our allies in eastern europe that will we'll be there for them. we had agreed with the russians in 1997 we wouldn't do things like this because at that time we saw no need, to given that we weren't worried about russia. but after what happened last year in ukraine, this is a natural move for the united states to be considering. >> okay. so we're moving equipment. the russians are clearly moving people. they've already had one big accident. don't you worry about a military oops? >> i think the danger of an accident is very real. and as you've got these planes circling around one another in the baltics and you've got ships on maneuvers and so on, we should be worried about an accident and the potential for awn wanted escalation. so i do think that communications between both

sides is very important. russia doesn't want a war with the west and we don't want a war with russia. >> so are we to assume that there are talks happening behind the scenes that we don't know anything about that maybe this is more calm than the russian president would want his own people to believe? >> i think communications and being knowledgeable about who's doing what is always important. certainly these types of things took place during the cold war. but i think that the key right now for this plan of the u.s. that's under consideration as you point out hasn't been agreed to yet to preposition equipment is designed to reassure our allies that we will be there to protect them in case russia does something more untoward. >> james, as it relates to vladimir putin, is there anything that keeps you up at night? or is this all just a bunch of bluster? >> well it keeps me up at night that this is a leader who sees this as his path to success. it doesn't seem very good for russia long term.

its economy is not going to be growing for awhile. it doesn't seem to be good for russia's relationships with the west that are important to it. so i think that it's a really sad state of affairs that the russian president feels that this is his best vehicle for his own political success. >> hard to argue that. james goldgeier from american university. thank you. big changes coming to america's food spliechlt have you heard about this? the feds announcing an upcoming ban on an ingredient that scientists say can kill you. fit can kill you it's better not to have it around right? or is the government wrongly invading our pantries? we'll report you decide. that's next.

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seven minutes before the-hour. the feds announced today artery clogging transfats need to be out of our foods within three years, out of there. how do they get it out? >> it came from the fda and they're trying to faze everything out with this new mandate. what are transfats? basically, take hydrogen and add it to vegetable oil and makes it solid. you look on your ingredient list says partially hiydrogenated oils and the fda said it's not safe for humans to eat. it's commonly used for shelf life flavor and texture and leadscan lead to heart disease a common cause of death. most have already taken trans transfats out of foods. it used to be a tapele and now only seen in things like frozen pizza, piecrusts, biscuits microwaveable pop torn. >> i've had all that today. >> all the good stuff.

>> the fda says consumption is down between 2003 and 2012 de decreased by 78% but the current intake remains a public health concern and want to get rid of it and giveing companies three years to get rid of it out of their products and after that the companies have to peat the fda if they want to use it. >> so butter. >> margarine sticks one of the foods commonly used in. >> eat butter instead. >> lots and lots of butter. >> that great. butter and bacon. could live on it. thank you. we go back to this day in history and movie that's become one of the biggest cult classics of all time. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla apremilast. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months.

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