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serve you a beautiful barbecue breakfast. >> let's bring the sound up and listen. ♪ >> welcome. good morning, everybody, on a monday. the supreme court's back at it, . well done. injection. not quite same-sex marriage or obamacare, but we expect big decisions in about an hour and as soon as that happens we will bring it to you live. the man hillary clinton is over -- man is over. a hero state police offer spotting the convict chasing him down and shooting him twice. sweat is now in the hospital listed in critical condition, but a lot of relief being felt today. hope you had a great weekend i'm bill hemmer welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: good morning, everybody
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i'm martha maccallum. dramatic new details about how this thing actually all ended. a police officer ended up coming face to face one-on-one, with david sweat yesterday amp. just two days after a federal agent shot and killed the other fugitive, richard matt who he was with. here is governor cuomo. >> the nightmare is finally over. as you know mr. matt is decease ised, and the other escapee mr. sweat, is in custody. he's in stable condition. bill: laura laura ingle's live outside the hospital. what about his condition now laura? >> reporter: well a hospital spokesperson tells fox this morning and confirming he is still in critical condition at this point and we should be getting another update on his can be in just -- condition in just a matter of hours. sweat was transported here to the albany medical center which was better equipped to treat the escaped convict's injuries than
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that local hospital near the site of his capture yesterday in constable, new york just a few miles from the canadian border. as sweat was shot twice in the torso by new york police sergeant jay cook who spotted him jogging on a road. when sergeant cook asked sweat to stop he took off for a field headed toward a treeline. now, one law enforcement official says sweat has made some comment. he is talking. he spoke at the scene of his arrest and at both medical facilities, but what he said is not being released for obvious reasons. while hospital staff here work to keep sweat alive, they are also working on keeping him contained with law enforcement. >> the difference in this case is the coordination of the nonclinical pieces so security, of course, being paramount to be sure that we have the situation controlled and that we're able to provide the care in a way that's safe not only for our staff but for everyone around us. >> and you can really feel it up
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here, a very relieved community and, of course in upstate new york as well. richard matt shot and killed friday by authorities and now his partner in crime detained. bill: what happens next, laura? >> yeah, you know, he's certainly going to be facing more charges, and while law enforcement anxiously awaits asking him more questions, how he and matt were able to escape if they did receive other help aside from the two prison workers that we do know about beyond those two prison workers, sweat still needs to be charged with at least escape and burglary and other charges. >> he'll be turned over to the department of corrections after he's appropriately charged and arraigned and put back in custody. and, of course, we have a lot of questions for him. we'd like to fill in the gaps as i'm sure department of corrections would like to fill in many gaps and then apply any lessons learned. >> and the clinton county district attorney, andrew wiley,
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told fox this morning that each though sweat was already in for a life sentence without the possibility of parole, with these new additional charges he could be looking at solitary confinement and solitary confinement for several years. he will be meeting with other law enforcement agents today to discuss those charges. hopefully, we'll hear some of that later on. bill: got can it. thank you laura ingle in albany, new york. they've got to figure out what's going on inside that prison. martha: they do. the governor said this morning they've had one breakout in 100 years, but can you imagine seeing this guy? he didn't change his appearance. he looks exactly like the picture we've been seeing all along. he's jogging along the side of in, basically, what looks like camo? he couldn't look more like the picture. it's an extraordinary end and great work by that police officer. bill: we hear the saying over and over, if you hear something say something. they had a whole community on the lookout for these guys, and they got 'em. four minutes past the hour. martha: and final deal with iran on its nuclear program will have
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to wait. u.s. officials confirming that negotiations will miss tomorrow's june 30 deadline as major obstacles continue in this deal. former cia director michael hayden criticizing the administration's approach to these talks. >> i actually fear that the iranians have the upper hand right now. i actually fear we have painted ourselves into a corner where we believe that any deal is better than no deal at the present time. martha: really sounding the alarm on this deal can. chief washington correspondent james rosen is live in ve is yen that. secretary kerry held a meeting with a key player but not someone who's actually taking part in these talks right? >> martha greetings from vienna where secretary kerry sat down at the imperial hotel with the japanese-born director of the iaea the united nations' nuclear watchdog agency. if a final deal can be reached
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it will be the iaea's nuclear technicians who will conduct the inspections, install and monitor the surveillance cameras and do the work necessary to verify whether iran is even complying. it was also the director to whom iran was supposed to come clean about its past research into warhead design and other aspects of the so-called pmd, the possible military dimension to the iranian nuclear program but that never happened. specifically, martha, whether the iaea will have access to restricted iranian military sites remains one of the key sticking points here. martha: so, james, why were u.s. officials so willing to give up on this june 30 deadline yesterday with two days left to go at that point? >> well, despite reports out of iran that the thorniest issues have been resolved, u.s. officials swiftly said, no, that's not true. one of them adding sarcastically then why aren't we announcing an agreement today? secretary of state kerry and his iranian counterpart spent a
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total of about five and a half hours in face to face negotiating sessions over the course of this past weekend before zarif returned to his capital for consultation. other sticking points include the timing and sequence of sanctions relief and the establishment of a dispute resolution mechanism in the event that iran is alleged to have violated the terms. how would such disputes be adjudicated? how much time for formal responses allowed and so on. aides to secretary kerry are casting doubt on the idea that they would stay here at the table all the way up to july 9th which is a key date, it is the date by which the obama administration is supposed to submit to congress the formal terms of any final deal martha. martha: it's a cliffhanger. thank you very much, james. we'll be watching. ♪ bill: new concerns here at home now that the fourth of july as that holiday approaches homeland security putting out a new warning after three attacks on three continents raising the level of concern. the chairman of the house homeland security committee on fox news sunday with chris
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wallace. >> i think given the confluence of events we're being on the cautious side here to warn the public to remain vigilant to enjoy the fourth of july parades, but remain vigilant during these celebrations. bill: that's just the tip of it. stephen hayes senior writer weekly standard, fox news contributor. >> morning bill. bill: you have to encourage vigilance, right? but not freak everybody out. >> yeah, exactly. i think that's the real challenge here for the u.s. government, you know? you want people to pay attention, as you said in the earlier segment, you want people if they see something to say something, but on the other hand you don't want people to be so concerned and so upset that they overreact to every little thing. i do think given the attacks that we saw late last week, the fact that there were three on three different continents, the fact that we've got growing signs of radicalization, self-radicalization here in the united states, isis-inspired attacks here in the united states and overseas, you do have to really wonder if this
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wouldn't be sort of a perfect time for an isis-style attack here in the united states. bill: did they did they admit much confidence over the weekend? that we can actually get in between these potential attackers? >> you know, they really didn't. and you heard now in congressional testimony and interviews that you've done, that i've done that other people have done with intelligence officials they don't have a lot of confidence that they're really keeping track of all of these, you know, so-called lone wolves these people who have been inspired by isis who might not leave much of a paper trail or a digital trail. and that's, i think one of the main concerns right now as you look at the potential for attacks, for smaller attacks soft targets, people who we haven't yet identified as self-radicalized. bill: the last time we had these warnings, it was the shopping malls in minnesota, right? that was al-shabaab/al-qaeda linked out of somalia, right steve? >> exactly. it's important to know there's so much coverage of isis and
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isis-inspired attacks we can't forget al-qaeda. they continue to amasseter story they're expanding even though they have these ideological differences with isis they're expanding their reach. they remain intent on attacking the united states and elsewhere and that was the warning that jeh johnson, homeland secretary jeh johnson gave about not going to the mall of america in minneapolis because of a potential threat there. we know these jihadists whether they're isis-related or al-qaeda, are looking to attack soft targets, and i think that's what has people sort of on alert right now. bill: it's a big week. steve hayes, thank you for your time. analysis there from washington d.c. ten minutes past here's martha. martha: that's the big question how do you prevent a beachfront attack like the one that we saw in tunisia? coming up, a look at how intel officials are going online to try to track potential connections between lone wolfs andjihadis before they become
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radicalized. bill: also in a moment two more shark attacks and now a teenager seriously injured. it has happened yet again. what is behind or what could be behind this rise in incidents? martha: and the firestorm over hillary clinton's e-mail, lawmakers furious over new revelations that she failed to turn over some e-mails about benghazi when she said she turned over everything that was relevant. so what comes next in their investigation? >> she also said that she had a single device for convenience. we now know she had more than a single device. every explanation she's offered so far is demonstrably false.
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martha: a final farewell today to 59-year-old myra thompson. she was one of the nine victims at the shooting at emanuel african methodist episcopal church in charleston. her husband offered dylann roof forgiveness at a court appearance last week. thompson's being laid to rest at the historic church where she was killed. thompson's funeral follows services for four other victims that were held at emanuel over weekend. ♪ ♪ >> single press conference she said that she had turned over everything related to work to the department of state. we know that that is false. she said the e-mails from sidney blumenthal were unsolicited we know that was false. so so far -- she also said that she had a single device for
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convenience. we now know that she had more than a single device, so is every explanation she's offered so far is demonstrably false. bill: trey gowdy there, making new calls for a third party to take a look at hillary clinton's private server, this after revelations she neglected to turn over more than a dozen e-mails related to benghazi. where are they? what's on them? mark thiesen is a fellow at the american enterprise institute and a fox news contributor. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. bill: you say she's been caught red-handed. if that's the case, what can you prove? >> well, she has been. she said that she handed over all -- a complete record, all of her official e-mails before she deleted 31,000 of them and wiped her server clean. we now know she withheld and destroyed official u.s. government e emails, that she was required by law to hand over. the state department has said those 15 e-mails that we only got because they were able to check her official record
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against -- congressman goudy's committee was able to check her official record against sidney blumenthal's e-mails, that those were not part of the official record. she has been proven to have lied about handing all of her official e-mails. what else do we not know that we don't have? bill: a couple of basic questions. why do you believe she would withhold these e-mails, or certain e-mails? >> well, in the case of these specific e-mails these e-mails show that she was lying when she said the advice from sidney blumenthal was unsolicited. she says to him keep it coming keep it coming, so that's the opposite of unsolicited. but second of all the particularly in this case show a nexus between two different scandals that she wants to keep separate, the e-mail scandal and the clinton foundation scandal. sidney blumenthal was a paid staffer of the clinton foundation making $10000 a month. he also had business interests in libya, and he was advising
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hillary clinton on libya policies. hillary clinton was soliciting policy advice from a clinton foundation staffer with business interests in libya and business before the state department exactly what she claims never happened. bill: you wonder if we will see this publicly, right? tom fenton with judicial watch he's filed 20 requests for freedom of information act. there is nothing in the history of foia to compare with mrs. clinton's decision to use a secret account to conduct her government business and have other agency officials use that as well. there was a whole cadre of state department officials who went dark and were conducting government business in such a way that made it immune to scrutiny. will he ever win in his pursuit, tom? >> i hope he does, and i hope congress helps him win by getting by it getting its hands on hillary clinton's server. look we've never had a secretary of state who kept her own server in the basement of her house and unilaterally
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decided whether to wipe it clean or not. this is just unprecedented in our history. but what we're learning here is that the rules that apply to the rest of the world don't apply in clinton world. the lines between official and unofficial are mored the lines between illegal and legal are blurred and so we need to find out what else is on those e-mails -- bill: i know goudy wants that but can she get away with the this? the head of the rnc is saying this goes to trust this is why you can't trust her as a candidate, that will be a continued theme. can she get away with it, mark? >> well, the clintons have gotten away with a lot of things over the years. just count the scandals they seem to survive everything. when you have no shame and you're willing to do things like destroy your own server and not hand over official e-mails and play with the law the way they do you get away with a lot. but i think the answer is congress has to use its power to subpoena that server to get can its hands on that serve everybody and recover the -- bill: why doesn't gowdty do
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that? dud he have that authority? >> i hope that he uses it and exercises it. i would think that congress, if it was able to do so, would issue that kind of a subpoena. bill: we will ask him. >> if not they need to go to court. bill: marc thiessen there live in washington, good to have you back here. martha? martha: did you see this over the weekend? an explosion after the liftoff. >> vehicle on course, on track and would appear to have had a launch vehicle failure. martha: wow. that was a rocket bringing supplies to the international space station. it blew up just minutes after launch. is the space station at risk? bill: it's amazing to watch. two more shark attacks. six attacks in two weeks near the same beach. what's going on out there? we'll take you there. >> his calf looked all bandages up and he had a bloody towel around his waist. it's scary it's sad.
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>> once we realized it was a shark attack, we todayed at the pool concern we stayed at the pool. i've been taking a water bottle to my head i'm terrified. ♪ ♪ ♪ you're only young once. unless you have a subaru. (announcer) the subaru xv crosstrek. symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 34 mpg. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru.
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bill: latest mission to space ending in failure in the skies over florida. broad daytime an unmanned spacex rocket loaded with supplies exploding two minutes after liftoff from cape canaveral and look at it one. investigators trying to figure out what happened. it's the third shipment in about eight months that has failed to make it to the space station. a bit more later. martha: well, a series of shark attacks off the beaches of north carolina have left swimmers scared to go in the water understandably. there have been six shark attacks in just the past couple of weeks the latest victim, a teenager who was bitten over the
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weekend in the outer banks area, was airlifted to the hospital and is now in serious condition, was bitten in three different areas of his body. this one followed another attack including a 47-year-old man who was bitten multiple times. he's reportedly in stable condition. beach goers a bit nervous out there. >> it's a little scary. don't remember seeing so many shark attacks, and it just seems they're occurring quite often now. martha: fair assessment right? joining us on the phone joe romero a shark week expert and cinematographer. welcome. >> hi. martha: this is unusual no? >> no, this is very unusual. the state of north carolina had about four shark bites last year and this year it's increasingly higher, but also the temperatures of the ocean and the conditions as far as fish across the coast of north carolina are unusually high this
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year, especially this time of year. so it seems like the shark activity is a lot more, and swimmers and bad visibility and all those things are sometimes confused as prey items. martha: so you're saying the waters are warmer than usual, and the fish that they're feeding on, are they closer in than they usually are? >> well, sometimes these fish are just stimulated sometimes it's just by people walking around in bad visibility. you wouldn't think so, but aye definitely seen it where people have just walked around on the beach and been three, four feet off the shore and there have been bay fish crowding next to them. it makes for more fish to move in, and you don't even realize these fish are near them, and then later the sharks can come in and these incidents can possibly happen. but these people are just being taken as mistaken identity definitely. martha: that's what i don't get because we've always heard that a shark isn't after people they're after their normal food source.
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but when you're bitten you know in the calves and then on both hands and in different areas of the body i mean that tells me the shark is going after this person in the water. >> it seems like -- sometimes it's multiple sharks that are doing it, so some people assume it's sometimes just one shark in the bad visibility, that's the reason it's happening, but sometimes it's, like three or four sharks that are all in one area. and it'll seem like it's one shark doing the biting, but it'll be a few of them, like, competing for the food. martha: do you think these are -- what kind of sharks do you think these are? >> i think these are bull sharks. i've heard all kinds of reports about bigger sharks but i don't believe these to be bigger sharks. i believe them to be schooling sharks and i think these are sharks that are confusing people with prey. martha: and they typically do come in very close right? >> it's just kind of like dogs. you have a small dog, it can cause a little bit of damage but a large dog has a lot of
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damage and still have the same kind of attitudes towards people. bull sharks are a lot larger than these other prey sharks which are like spinners and black tips these are the sharks that i think are mainly responsible -- martha: should they be closing these beaches joe? >> i think they should be highly suspect. i mean, no one knows really what's going on as far as like if they're near fishing piers if there's fishing going on at night if there's any kind of smells or anything being dumped in the water locally, those could carry off onto the beaches. it's something they could definitely try to avoid the womenners and the fish ormen -- fishermen and try to separate them. martha: this is a serious situation. teenagers now who are dealing with a completely changed life. >> it's completely tragic. martha: this other one is in serious condition. joe, thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on it. bill: you're very right when you point out it's almost like a bite and release but in a lot of these cases haven't happened
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that way. and when he says it's unusual it is. amid fears banks could collapse around them, we are live in athens greece and we'll get a quick look at how it could affect your 401(k) here at home. martha: this is such a chilling story, what happened in tunisia on friday on the beach where people were on vacation killed dozens of westerners, brits, germans. how can we prevent this from happening here at home? authorities are using social media to predict who could be radicalized and try to catch them before they do this. >> we don't feel safe here at all. we don't feel safe here at all. i've took two weeks off work to come here to relax, to have a holiday, and i'm absolutely petrified.
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>> breaking news. we expected a financial time bomb kicking in greece.
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the dow is down more than a hundred points and greece banks were ordered to close for six days and the european central bank refusing to increase the credit lines, and strict bank rules causing huge withdraws at the atms there. what is the latest, greg? >> reporter: since the greeks were told the bank was closed for the next eight day and $66 is the most they can get out routh now and they are being calm. the european union wanted them to raise taxes and cut pensions and greece said no and that resulted in the yanking of the emergency funding and the big bill out program and looks like they will default on an imf loan tomorrow. and that means for the first
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time we could see a euro country falling out of the euro and that has people spooked. >> no body knows. >> what do you think? >> i think a lot of things but i cannot tell you. >> are you upset? >> very much. >> we will see what we can do and try to find a solution. >> reporter: batting a lot of confusion, the greek prime minister calling for a referend referendum this weekend on whether greece should go along with the bailout. political turmoil on the no looking deeper because greece looks like they will fall out of the euro. the country is important because as this riles europe and the
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european union one of more most important trading partners is in trouble and with isis looming and russia causing trouble greece is an important security concern to keep the stability here. president obama was on the phone yesterday to european leaders and probably my treasury secretary and others were talking to them yesterday. >> thank you, greg. new tools to help find potential radicals on social media before they can strike. this coming in the wake of the horrific attack on friday as beach goers were relaxing for the holiday and dozens were slaughtered at this resort in tunisia.
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kt mcfarland is here. welcome back always good to see you. first your thoughts on what we saw in tunisia and the threat of seeing something at home over the 4th of july. >> reporter: what is the big reward of seeing these events? something in the united states on july 4th leaders. we have been warned by intelligence leaders watch out, this is the brass ring terrorist are looking at and we should anticipate somebody will try things and hopefully we prevent them and are in front of it. >> the problem is there are so many people out there and so many of them are working out of their basement. and we saw a stunning story over the weekend in the new york times that documents the
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radicalization of this woman who was a sunday school teacher who lived with her grandparents in a remote area and they swarmed her online. there is new technology helping us to find these people. tell us about it and then we will take a look at it. >> reporter: the bad is use is young, vulnerbal teens are being reeled in to become radicalized and people who would go out and commit tack attacks. the good guys can use twitter, facebook and skype and find them online by starting with somebody who is a known radical and from there branch out to find out who he is in contact and who he is recruiting so week find them before the attack not after the attack. >> it looks like something you
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would see on "24" but this is real. >> this snap show shos the online people affiliated with the website. we have identified connections of those affiliated with the site and one another. in red, those are profiles that are known members, recruiters, financeer financers with terrorist and those of purple are just memberoffs the page. >> it reminds me of the pin board trying to put people together used by the mafia and terrorist all of the time but hopefully this digs deeper into areas that are open. >> reporter: it allows us to take social media tools and all of the public databases and connect the dots. and that is why this is the one good piece of news in the other bleak news of terror.
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we have the ability to fight this. >> are we using it? it is this up and running? >> reporter: yeah it is used for law enforcement. but the other problem is we keeping having debates about the first amendment, patriot act and such. you don't have to use that stuff anymore. just go to twitter and connect the dots. ted cruz coming out against the media saying trying to tap on the republican candidates on subjects like gay marriage. and what we are learning about this family who ran from their home because a plane crashed into it. >> i ran outside and saw my daughter outside in a fire ball. everything was engulfed.
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a plane crashed into a house 30 miles outside of boston. it plane was headed to massachusetts and had a mechanical problem and crashed. a family was inside that home at the time but they all made it out okay. >> i heard a big boom. then i felt the house shake a little bit and i heard people yelling. >> i went outside and saw smoke everywhere and people running up the street. >> the miracle today is the four people in the home that was damaged by a rapidly burning fire were able to escape. >> the ntsb is looking into what happened in the crash. ted cruz is speaking out on same-sex marriage accusing of using the media for using the
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supreme court ruling to trap the republicans. here is how he explained another example over the weekend: >> there is a trap in politics that when someone denies something -- when nixon said i am not a crook everyone said he is a crook. >> and rather the charge is valid or not gets lost. >> exactly. that question was designed to get me to deny it. so then he could run as the headline he denies this. >> that was cruz explaining an initiative from a few days ago. we have two ladies here to discuss. good morning to you. cruz was explaining an interview he did and he accused the reporter to coming back to the issue of same-sex marriage five or six times and that is when
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ted cruz said you are obsessed with sex and the liberal mainstream media. do you have a point? >> he has a valid point. if you look at the 2012 election you had the bogus notion that republicans wanted to ban birth control and that was one of the main narratives of the entire campaign. now it is are republicans against same-sex marriage and therefore bigoted. this isn't about reporters wanting to get to the bottom of what position he holds on same-sex marriage. he has been very clear as have other gop candidates. this is asking them to take a side and if they are against same-sex marriage they are anti-gay. >> he believes that same-sex marriage is a state's decision not a federal decision and not one to be ruled by the supreme court as of friday. mary ann, does we have a point about the double standard?
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>> it is not a trap to tell voters where you stand when you are running for president. that is how they determine who they will vote it. it is only a trap if your answer reveals you to be a hypocrite or your not telling the truth. cruz always said he was a constitutionalist and now because of the decision he is thinking they should be elected. when it comes to telling the truth he would not answer the question about having animosity against gay people. how hard would that be to answer no? it is only a problem and trap if it is not true. so he is either a hypocrite or not telling the truth. >> i think a bigger issue with regard to the politics you watch every day, does the ruling on friday change the campaigns for any republicans? does it take it off the table
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for some of them or help others draw the line between their came campaign and the rest of the field? >> i think it goes both ways. i think republicans have a base that is in favor of traditional marriage but i think it takes off the table in the sense that the supreme court had their decision. 5-4. and same-sex marriage is now constitutional right according to the ruling. but i think it will change things for hillary clinton who by the way held the same position as ted cruz in terms of gay marriage being determined by the states not the federal government. it wasn't until april of this year that hillary clinton supported gay marriage as a constitutional right. hillary clinton is also a hypocritical on this. it isn't ted cruz has animosity against gay people.
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in fact it is the left who have been hounding thea group of republicans out of gay bar owner who owned a bar. >> you said a lot here. but back to the question, does it change the calculus for any candidates? help them or not? >> hillary clinton supports gay marriage. not one republican candidate does. it does help some of them by the way they answered. jeb bush at least said i don't support it but it is the law of the land and i am going to respect what the supreme court said. if you are ted cruz who is flailing or walker who is desperate to win the iowa caucus they will go so far right that it will cost tem.
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despite running the litm test of being a republican and being opposed to everything, especially gay marriage it will make it easier in the primary but you will have all democrats support gay marriage and no republicans. >> katie last word quickly. >> you look at the stance the republicans have taken on same-sex marriage and it has been consistent whereas hillary has changed her mind. >> she could say she changed her name and evolved. >> as did the country. >> thank you both of you. we have fires forcing people to leave their homes and the latest on the effort to contain them. and massive storms here knocking out the power for many.
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>> here we go. supreme court will talk up a new challenge on affirmitive action involving a case of a white woman who was denied admission to the university of texas at austin. the u.s. supreme court will role soon so stand by. and we have dangerous weather in colorado. lightning bolts hitting 15
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hikers near clear creak county. they are expected to be okay but ominous clouds and touch situations up there. >> some were knocked unconscious for a while. up to five minutes. they were able to regain conscious and walk out on their own. >> we are live in the weather center with more. >> reporter: it is that time of the year. people are heading out on vacation and checking out the trails and it is important to be weather-prepared. i was ten minutes from the summit with my fiance and got hit by lightning hail and transitioned to all snow even. just extreme weather conditions you can start to experience out west as you get into the higher elevation. you can see we have moisture out here and we have had some showers and storms that have
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developed not only across colorado but parts of new mexico and other areas out west. and looking closer at colorado you can see heavy rain in the eastern parts of the state especially. we are not expecting just storms out west but portions of the midwest great lakes region and another area across parts of kentucky and ohio and that is the zone we are looking at. we have a warm front for any tornadic threat coming up this afternoon and evening. so we have a threat in places like cincinnati and lexington for storms to rotate and produce isolated tornados out there. that will move eastward and tomorrow you will look for severe weather in the southeast and northeast. and in the pacific northwest we are dealing with extreme heat.
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look at the values well above average. upper-90 in montana and boise is getting triple-digit heat out there. two more republicans want to be president and what their campaigns could mean for the already crowded field. >> and bullger spending an emotional letter to three girls from behind bars. his surprising message next. and ones you never thought you'd make. we help connect where you are. to places you never thought you'd go. this, is why we travel. and why we continue to create new technology to connect you to the people and places that matter.
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martha: so once again and for the last time in this session we're waiting the supreme court to hand down their final decisions the term is about to end after some landmark rulings last week recognizing national right to same-sex marriage and upholding obamacare subsidies. today's remaining decision are about to come out. we'll get them as they run down
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the steps as they did last week. welcome to hour two now of "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. we're expecting big decisions including the use of a drug to carry out executions. another involves congressional redistricting. martha: shannon bream is live at supreme court. what do we expect in these decisions. >> reporter: we have three opinions that are still left. we expect this will be the final term, day of the term so we should get all three of them. i would say what is most heated argument i've ever seen that is one over the death penalty. about the three-drug protocol states use carrying out executions. even points of the death penalty have been successful pharmaceutical companies about the first drug. the one renders the inmate unconscious before the two other drugs kick in and shut down their system. because it is nearly impossible states to get it. they have to go to substitute drug. it hasn't worked as well.
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inmates were still conscious and feeling pain. does that violate the eighth amendment ban on unusual and cruel punishment? we'll see if they can limit the epa powers dealing with power plants and emissions. could have huge impact on electricity costs and coals use here in u.s. who has the power to draw congressional districts? can you farm it out a commission that is non-partisan or left to law makers. texas attorney general told clerks and justice of the peace there in texas if they have a religious objection they do not have to take part in same sex licensing. you will probably be sued if you make that decision but we have lawyers ready to defend you. we'll receive those decisions soon. martha: shannon, thank you very much. bill: meantime two more republicans expected to jump in
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the race for the white house. new jersey governor chris christie will make his announcement tomorrow. ohio above john john kasich will join july 21. carl cameron what does chris christie expect to bring to the race? >> reporter: the slogan is telling it like it is. he would announce after the state legislature wrapped up and is what they will do tomorrow. there wasn't much doubt about it. he has been at 2016 trail steadily holding townhall style meetings. it brash reputation has really surfaced in the last few months. he is giving detail policy speeches far more than his rivals in terms of social security. in gop recognition he comes in only to jeb bush. the problem with that, voters know his temper in the so-called "bridgegate" scandal and among other things and steadily in the middle pack.
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if voters know him that well it may be hard to break out of pack. bill: what about governor kasich? some say he is getting into the game late. what would he say that about. >> he is. he will be the last candidate to join the race. governor scott walker will jump into the race in july 13th. kasich ran in 1999 but didn't raise that much money against george w. bush. kasich like christie can be rough and combative. he has a long resume' as governor and back in congress. only guy wrote a balanced budget for the federal government in the last half century. when he gets into the race pollsters go into the field to take surveys to find out what poll numbers are beginning of august. that matters, bill. we will have the first debate in august. the top 10 candidates in recent polls will qualify. then there would be a forum in the afternoon for those who don't. kasich may not qualify for
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either potentially. there is some talk about him and perhaps even bobby jindal so low in the polls taking a walk on the debates or making a grandstand stink to get the attention. bill: will be important day. august 6 is a thursday. we'll have the forum with martha. the rest in prime time. thank you, carl. martha has more. martha: for more let's bring in brit hume fox news senior political analyst. as always nice to have you here. >> hi, martha. martha: chris christie is taking critical first step for all these candidates. hopes it will capture bringing from the brash new jersey style as carl mentioned. here is a little i clip of it. >> i know if my mom were still alive she would say to me i taught you in a trusting relationship you don't hold anything back. and if you're going to run for president of the united states, and you're going to ask these people for their vote, that is the single most trusting thing they can do as a citizen is to give you their support.
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so you better tell them exactly what you're thinking exactly what you're feeling. martha: brit, obviously last time around chris christie had very strong approval numbers. he watched those diminish over this time. he needs to get back in this race in a big ray if he will be a contender. >> to some ex-extent he has almost been written off as a candidate because of the difficulties he had and so-called "bridgegate" scandal carl spoke of i think some extent sort of froze him in place and made people doubt that he would be viable but the history of the this so far martha, when a candidate announces, the media attention that comes with that gives a candidate some exposure to the public and the public exposure to the candidate and most of them get a bounce in the polls after that. some of them even get to be first in the polls, at least for a while. you see donald trump, rocketed up to number two in the polls after his announcement last
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week. doesn't look like bobby jindal has gotten that kind after bounce. that remains to be seen. we'll see what happens with chris christie. if he get as lift out of this he would very much in the thick of things. we'll see how it goes. martha: the tone of that video brit his brashness and things he is willing to say gets him trouble but plays as his biggest asset in many ways. he is willing to tell it like it is he says. that has to be how he tries to connect it and make himself stand apart from some of these other candidates who had a hard time jazzing up the crowd. i think of jeb bush in that regard. >> he made kind after bet here hasn't he martha? on social security which has been described many times as the third rail of american politics, a benefit program so popular you can't touch it. and he has come out now, look this thing is in financial difficulty and it has to be dealt with. i'm the one with a plan to deal
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with that i want to know where all the other candidates stand on that. he will try to call them out and presumably set himself apart as somebody blunt and outspoken in his view on that issue which some people may find appealing. the other candidates are not emphasizing that particularly right now. so that might give him some leverage and something to talk beenthe trail. and something with which to embarass the other candidates. but social security is popular. people want their benefits. they don't want them messed with for the most part so it is risky too. martha: not talking about touching it for those who are in several years of getting it. >> right. martha: means testing a popular idea in the past. >> that's right. that idea of reducing future benefits to those who are not on the verge of retirement has been articulated before and it has been very hard to convince people in the age group who are about to get the benefit, and those who are already on it that it wouldn't affect them as well.
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it wouldn't but that is a point that has proved hard to get across. martha: quick thoughts on kasich, what do you think? >> well kasich has some appeal. he is an interesting guy. we'll have to see how he does. my feel about kasich is if he wants to get in it i think it isn't wise to get in july. it is still quite early but that late bounce hopes will push him up into the range of popularity where he qualifies for the first debate we have in early august. perhaps that will work out that way. if it doesn't it will prove to be a mistake. martha: going to be a big few weeks for the governor. >> what a huge field, martha? have we seen anything like it? i never have. martha: it is crazy. brit, we'll see you soon. bill: ruling from the u.s. supreme court straight away to shannon bream. dealing with lethal injection drugs in death penalty cases. what do we have, shan i don't know. >> reporter: this is another big one appears to be 5-4 decision.
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three-drug protocol is called into question because inmates say the first drug is not reliable for rendering them unconscious while they wait for the two other drugs to shut down their system to kick in. does that violate the eighth amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment and do they feel pain n 5-4 opinion, this primary opinion authored by justice alito. it is okay to go with the three-drug protocol. the petitioners, four inmates have not made the case that they would suffer or there is alternative. justice breyer wants the protocol shut down and wants to get rid of the death penalty all together. he wants something more broad and sweeping. we don't expect the court to do that anytime in the future. for now the three-drug protocol is allowed to proceed. bill. bill: shannon. got it. waiting one more. shannon bream there. martha. martha: a fast-moving wildfire
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forced a thousand people out of their homes. some homes already burned to the ground. the file is still not contained. plus this. >> of great concern. i would say there is probably more concern now since anytime since september 11th. bill: those are brand new warnings ahead of the july 4th weekend here at home. terrorists launching multiple attacks overseas. why authorities are now so concerned today. martha: nuclear talks with iran spilling beyond the deadline. no big surprise there at this point. the west meets indiana to hammer out this deal with iran. is the u.s. giving up too much here. former director michael hayden says the u.s. has lost its edge. >> i actually fear the iranians have the upper hand right now. i actually fear we painted ourselves into a corner where we believe any deal is better than no deal at the present time.
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bill: as of moment we have more than a thousand people forced from their homes by this wildfire. hundreds of firefighters working to bring the flames under control about 150 miles east of seattle. strong winds and dry brush and some hot temperatures. 108, fanning those flames. so far about dozen buildings including some of those homes have been burned down. >> we got a level three evacuation notice but we haven't, we didn't leave. we sat there and helped the firefighters, give them water whatever they needed. >> not much they can do. look how much is flaming right now.
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just incredible. bill: no injuries reported thankfully. no word what caused the fire. got work to do in the state of washington. martha: well the clock is ticking now of course on this nuclear deal with iran as secretary of state john kerry holds last minute meetings ahead of tomorrow's deadline in vienna. critics say the obama administration has already made too many dangerous concession. >> this agreement will not prevent iran from having nuclear weapons capability and that's the concern of many of the experts in the former inspectors, current inspectors looking at this. is that this agreement is not really going to be able to constrain iran in the least as a matter of fact the ayatollah continues to say, death to america. you know, in his speeches. martha: yes he does, that exactly right. jillian turner joins us, fox news contributor. jillian good to have you here. when you look back as i know you
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have into the relationship between president obama and the leadership in iran in working on this, they requested back in 2009, they sort of opened that door and said, you know, there are hostages we would like released. then there were the secret letters that went back and forth between the president and leadership in iran, trying to open the door to this negotiation. so they are invested in this. they have been working on this for a very long time, right? >> absolutely. the three big issues on the table today sanctions, inspections and the matter past talker clear research are really just as problematic as they were at the start of the actual negotiations a year-and-a-half ago. you know the fact is the progress has not been as forthcoming as the administration had counted on and that's why there is no resolution yet. martha: yeah. i think the bottom line in all of this would a deal make us safer foror not or would it create a more dangerous situation? and i don't know that's a question that is being, you
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know, sort of handled in a very open way in these negotiations. >> no. and the more immediate question for everybody to think about today and tomorrow is a matter of timing because very harsh reality here, that the longer these negotiations are allowed to drag on, better for the iranian regime, the longer they avoid inking a deal the more time they have to push forward unfettered with their nuclear program. they would more than this to drag on another year. martha: ayatollah khamenei, he likes to spout on twitter and elsewhere about the red lines and inspections and how they would never allow their scientists to be subject to random inspections. he wouldn't allow that there is a big piece over the weekend whether or not that is just bluster. whether he is trying to keep people happy on the hard-line side in iran and also keep those negotiations going, the idea that he might be open to some
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kind of a final negotiation. what do you think is the case? >> i think that is really the ayatollah pandering to his own domestic continue when sy. as the ultimate hard-liner in iran that is sort of his job but i also agree with something general mike hayden said just yesterday which is, you have to follow the rhetoric with these negotiations because perception counts a heck of a lot more than the administration would like to belief. during the entire run-up to the deadline the ayatollah's rhetoric has been very critical, very obstinate but in recent days he really a.m.ped it up. talking about red lines which is a direct insult to the american president. a reference to his handling of the assad regime in syria. i think at the end of the day it is not just what is written on paper that counts, it is public perception as well. martha: they're talking a whole lot tougher than we are as we get down to the end of the this negotiation the they clearly believe you have to negotiate
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from from a position of strength. you have to throw out your fartherrest red line this is what we absolutely don't do. but re doing that on our side? there will north be a deal unless you agree to the respond taken yaws inspections that -- spontaneous inspections that general hayden says a are a must. >> they have encouraged the american public don't pay attention. don't follow the rhetoric. don't pay attention to what the grand ayatollah is saying. this deal is being executed negotiated by foreign ministers. that is why secretary kerry is involved, but president obama and ayatollah on the other side are explicitly recognizing that political calculations and political sentiments really count here. that's why as we get closer and closer to tomorrow's deadline they are amping up public commentary. martha: we know under leadership of khamenei ayatollah khamenei we've seen centrifuges go from
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the teens to the thousands. those actions may speak louder than anything else in terms of what his intentions are. thank you. we'll see you next time. >> thanks martha. bill: 20 minutes past the hour t was a long shot but convicted mob boss whitey bulger answer to a letter from high school students. martha: one inmate shot, one killed. this one, david sweat, was captured over the weekend. there is that incredible picture of him, where state police are now learning about how they got out. >> there is a lot of men going home with sore feet tonight that are going to relax and everybody gets to enjoy the fourth of july next weaken and not look over their shoulder.
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he spent years on the run and now convicted mobster "whitey" bulger is speaking out and you might be surprised who he is talking to, three high schoolers. he offered the advice to three girls who wrote to him for a history project which later won the district competition because they got the big guy, right. the letters he wrote to the teenagers quote my life was wasted, spent foolishly and brought shame and suffering on my parents and siblings and will end soon. advice is a chief commodity. some seek it from me about crime. i only know one thing for sure if you want to make crime paygo to law school. the 85-year-old is serving two life sentences for racketeering and murder. he was the subject of a big film and he is notorious in boston. he was on the lam for years and years and finally caught. he says, take the high road folks, don't do what i did. bill: that advice is spot on. whitey.
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three-week manhunt meanwhile coming to a violent end. the last of two escaped inmates shot and captured in upstate new york near the canadian border, about a mile 1/2. investigators are trying to piece together how david sweat and richard matt escaped from a maximum security prison and avoided capture for more than three weeks? >> being in the right area, where sweat was i can only assume he was goings to the border. he was that close. there are a lost blank spaces between the time they left dannemora prison she weeks ago and they were apprehended and we would like to fill in some of those spaces. bill: rod wheeler, former d.c. homicide detective fox news contributor. morning to you. >> morning to you. bill: some suggest they used black pepper to throw off the trail. does that work. >> i heard of criminals using using that to throw off the scent of their scent from police sniffer dogs. it really doesn't work. but sometimes what it can do is confuse the dog. because it is irritant.
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black pepper is irritant. it irritates the dog's nose. it may delay the animal. what happens after a period of time the dog recovers and picks back up the scent. i don't think this is the only reason why these guys were able to evade capture over 23 days. i think a lot of it had to do with forestry and terrain up in that area bill. bill: stay in the movies, haven't we? the old pepper trick. >> that's right. bill: a 21 year veteran sergeant jay cook saw this guy running down his road, two miles from the canadian border and opened up fire. they believe if he hit the tree line he would have been gone again. i imagine given thickness of the forest this time of year they're probably right. >> they are. plus if you notice looking at photograph you showed of sweat being arrested, he was actually clad in a lot of camouflage clothing which he probably put on intentionally so he could blend in with the forestry area up there but i'll tell you, it was incredible police work on behalf of sergeant jay cook. why do i say that?
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when you really think about it, cook was by himself. he wasn't with a team of officers. he was on normal patrol routine patrol. he confronted this guy. sergeant cook had a couple of options, bill. could have radioed for assistance and waited to allow this guy get away what he decided to do take this guy one-on-one. hank fully he was able to subdue this guy, take him into custody without any officers or bystanders injured. bill: fired a few shots in the torso. >> that's right. bill: now the governor was speaking earlier today here in new york. said there has been one escape from this prison in 100 years pretty good track record. >> right. bill: you want it to be 100% secure. now that the second individual is alive don't they want to figure out what kind of help they were getting on the inside? you're running around upstate new york in camouflage clothing. you either stole that clothing rod or someone gave it to you. the latter is a scary proposition. >> we know that joyce mitchell who was the worker that worked
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inside of the corrections institute we know she assisted these go guys. there may have been another or one or two other people inside of the institution that assisted them, we don't know. yes, you're right. they want to talk to sweat. want to interrogate hem as you get a chance. priority is mending him back to good health. once that happens, they will take him, bill, by the way to supermax facility. this is the facility where inmates are checked on every 15 minutes. the officers have to put eyes on inmate. a little different than a maximum security institution. bill: thank you, rod, rod wheeler in washington d.c. >> thank you, bill. bill: they're breathing a sigh of relief, huh? 22, 23 days now it is over. martha: incredible of timing he was caught and jogging along the road. as you say if he slipped in one more time. where did he get those clothes? where did he get those clothes. a lot of questions remain. they hope to get answers out of him. now that they have him in custody.
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good work. the pentagon is considering a plan to put u.s. marines on foreign warships. why they would be forced to tag along with our allies instead of using our ownerships? bill: good question. u.s. officials on high alert heading into the july 4th weekend after slaughter of tourists on a beach in tunisia. could extremists be plotting similar attacks on u.s. soil? if so, what do we know about that now? >> isis is incomparable as far as terrorist organizations. they can reach disaffected they can reached deranged and idealogically committed.
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when you travel, we help you make all kinds of connections. connections you almost miss. and ones you never thought you'd make. we help connect where you are. to places you never thought you'd go. this, is why we travel. and why we continue to create new technology to connect you to the people and places that matter. martha: about an hour into the trading day the dow taking a hit. all of this as greece left the markets extremely unsettled today. a lot of concern there about whether or not they can hang in there in the euro or whether or not the other nations will continue to bail them out and tomorrow is the date. so meanwhile they have got people standing at atm machines
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hoping to get out of 60 euros which is the max you can take out of the machine if the machine has any money in it. can you imagine? bill: don't want to. we call that a document connect aides ago with run on banks. you thought it would be a quiet summer perhaps not. more on that coming up here. also a few days before the holiday a terror warning for possible attacks targeting 4th of july weekend. there is no specific plot we're told. homeland security and fbi say homegrown extremists pose ongoing threats. here is homeland security committee member peter king out of new york. >> there is great concern. i would say there is more concern than anytime since september 11th. as you said there are lone wolf attacks. but isis they have a multilevel sense of operation. it is not just the lone wolves. isis is incomparable as far as terrorist organizations as far as being able to reach. they can reach the disaffected.
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they can reach the deranged and also reach the idealogically committed. bill: we have the president of diligence llc, mike baker. how are you mike? >> good morn, bill. bill: take comments from peter king. isis has multilevel sense of operation. what does that mean to you? >> well, it means they're operating on several different layers here. obviously social media, we've been talking about that a lot recently. we've been experiencing much more success. important to understand that the threat warning that came out over the past couple days to our local and state and federal authority, it is not just a concern here about the coming july 4th holiday and the potential for terror attacks. the british, the u.k. premier, called for a cobra council meeting after the horrific attacks, sorry in tunisia and elsewhere. that is basically the national security council. the australian leadership is extremely concerned. they have been talking about this over the past couple days. this is not just something
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isolated to the u.s. all our allies are worried about increasing concern increasing potential for isis to, on social media level. bill: now mike on friday you had three attacks on three different continents, three different countries. do we believe that they have the ability to trigger multiple attacks with one text message? or one tweet or one email? >> well, we know if you drill down and say are they able to coordinate multiple attacks all at the same time on different continents the evidence staring us in the face on the terrorist attacks in tunisia, france and kuwait within matter of hours. yes, there is some level of coordination. how efficient we don't know but it is efficient enough to create this concern. what they're doing, they're reaching out as we talked about, they're reaching out to the disaffected, they're reaching out to the delusional as peter
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king says, they don't care. they have got to be reaching their idealogically committed. that doesn't matter to them as long as there is a an attack or terror incident. they don't care at this stage how successful or how large-scale it is. they're simply in the business now of bringing as many people to the dark side committing whatever act they can wherever they happen to be. bill: when peter king says there is probably more concern now than since 9/11 does that square with what you see out there today? >> yes, it does. i know, there is some people so fatigued from the war on terror rolling their eyes despite recent events, can we move on. we're tired of the war on terror. the people who aren't are muslim jihadists. they are not tired of it. they're experiencing a success on level they haven't seen before. they have got, today is their proclaimed one year one year anniversary of their caliphate,
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the islamic state that physical territory is driving so much success convinces people around the world and they have convinced over 4,000 westerners at this point to come to the dark side again and commit acts of terror, to travel out there and do something on their home turf. bill: mike one question. steve hayes was talking about this at the beginning of our program two hours ago. he says the focus is so much on isis we lose track of al qaeda and it is affiliates. is that true? what ultimately is that danger? >> well, you know, at the 30,000-foot level, down matter whether al qaeda or the islamic state. we're dealing with islamic jihadism, right? that is where it stands. it breaks down to the various groups. in 2008 and 2009, al qaeda in iraq which eventually morphed into the islamic state put a book or pamphlet how to recruit westerners via essentially social media. you know a course on recruiting
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westerners. they have been working on this for a long time. we sometimes get lost in the weeds here about what we call it, whether it's a lone wolf. it doesn't matter. it's muslim extremism. that is the problem at the top line. bill: fair point. mike baker, thank you. boise, idaho today. thank you, mike. >> thank you. bill: 22 minutes before the hour. martha: so the u.s. marines are now considering plans to hitch rides on foreign warships because the navy doesn't have enough ships to carry out their primary mission due to budget cuts. strange situation going on here. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. why would they be looking to do this? could it really an that bad jennifer? >> reporter: right now, martha the navy has 30 amphibious ships to carry marines. they estimate need 38 worldwide but won't meet that until 2028 because of current budgeting constraints. like the attack on benghazi made it clear quick reaction forces
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were not close enough to help. in the wake of benghazi marines set up a land base hub in rota, spain even that is thought too far from contingencies in north after. the marines issued a following statement. we don't know where a crisis will come from or where it will occur but increasing opportunity of maritime forces will prove enormous benefit in the years to come. budget cuts led to shortage of u.s. navy ships, forcing marines to explore other options, martha. martha: we heard about this some time. looks like it is acting out in reality what logistically they will do. will you get reaction from presidential candidates people on the hill but then when. >> former secretary of the navy under ronald reagan and decorated marine in vietnam jim webb had this to say. >> we are a maritime nation. we communicate across the world through our sea services and the size of the navy right now is
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way too low. it was 568 ships when i resigned as secretary of the navy. it is down to about 280 right now. >> reporter: others on capitol hill don't want u.s. marines sailing under another country's flag. what if those country, for instance don't allow marines to intervene and prevent them from going ashore. martha? martha: jennifer. quite a story. thank you. bill: back to breaking news. we have two more supreme court rulings from the high court. moments ago the u.s. supreme court that obama administration failed to consider costs relating to mercury in power plants. that is 5-4 last for the administration. another ruling in arizona, the court upheld congressional districts drawn by an independent commission and then rejected a challenge from republican lawmakers. 5-4 vote begin which would preserve the efforts in 13 states to limit what they
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consider partisan influence in districting. most notably, california using independent commission to draw electoral boundaries for largest in the nation congressional delegation. that will stay the same. had it gone the other way there might be a lot to talk about there. for the moment that stands. martha: president obama admits he is loosening up a it about as he comes near the end of his second term. even broke into song singing amazing grace during the eulogy for reverent clementa pinckney. what can we expect for the next year-and-a-half of his presidency. what does it mean? >> sort of like an athlete, you might slow down a little bit. you might not jump as high as you used to. >> right. >> but i know what i'm doing and i'm fearless.
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martha: we are back with, president obama saying with
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year-and-a-half left in his second term he is ready to take more chances as president. maybe a sign of his looser attitude he scene aamazing grace as part of the eulogy of clementa pinckney at his funeral which was a extremely moving moment. we want to play some of that for you. ♪ amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ♪ martha: bring in the panel. basil michael, jr. is contradict tore of hill director of new york state democratic party. borelli conservative review.
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fox news contributor. what was your reaction to that moment. >> i think, my reaction is mixed. on one hand he spoke glowingly about reverend pinckney, absolutely. on the other hand i think president obama politicized situation because he made references to racism in a way that ily don't think was necessarying. he mentioned people won't be able to vote, i'm paraphrasing. he talked about the con feds rat flag i really don't think he had to go there. again there are different perspectives and views about the confederate flag. the flag did not cause this awful horrific tragedy. he made it more political, instead of staying why he was there and to really comfort the family, community and stick on point in terms of this being a eulogy and not politicize. >> i couldn't disagree with dinneen more this was an appropriate venue to talk about race in the way that he did. we take away the singing in many
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ways it is an important and interesting takeaway he also talked about the black church being the soul of the black community. he is not sort of leaned into these discussions about race i think for the majority of his presidency but to see him do it there, and the fact that the reverend's casket was being taken past the confederate flag which was still still in the air at that point i mean just incredibly telling sign that or symbol that you have this flag which so many people associate with race and hatred being flown while a man who is the victim of this terrorism his casket is being pushed through. martha: it was pretty amazing ceremony. i felt overwhelmingly the biggest takeaway came from the people of that church. you could just feel the incredible energy and their faith and how their religion and their faith was really pulling them through this moment. almost felt to me like the president was riding on that with them. that they were supporting, you
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know, kind of the main emotion and the backbone of that day and, perhaps it was too political, perhaps it was not as you both say. what does this indicate, what does the president, what signal he is sending saying he feels more free now as president for the next 18 months of his presidency? here is a statement from the interview he did about a week ago i believe. let's listen to this. >> i know what i'm doing and i'm fearless. >> for real, you're not pretending to be fearless. >> not pretending to be fearless. >> exactly right. >> when you get to that point -- >> freedom. >> part of that fearlessness because you screwed up enough times. >> sure. >> that you know -- >> it all happened. >> it all happened. i've been through this. >> right. >> i've screwed up. >> right. >> i've been through the bearable tumbling down niagra falls and i emerged and i lived. that is always a that is such a liberating feeling. >> yeah he also said our country is not cured of racism and that
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racism is in our dna which i find absolutely outrageous. yes there are individuals who are going to be racists but it is not blanket across the country. that is just ridiculous statement for him to make. i think he is going to ramp up being aggressive especially when it comes to race. given the fact we have 2016 election coming up i think he is trying to make this very emotional, especially to keep black voters focused on racial tension in our country instead of focusing on where we have come from many many years ago when it comes to race. >> he is not focusing our attention on race so much as the fact that police officers are focused our attention on race. >> that is not true. >> the fact that, the fact that there is a terrorist attack in a black church in charleston. that is what is focusing our attention on race. i think the fact that the president is saying that he is fearless is an important message that he is sending which is hey look, i tried to play it sort of this way -- martha: what he is going to do? >> i tried to sort of sit on the
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fence but i have to be more aggressive to get my agenda through. you saw that with cuba. seen that with trade. martha: the question is, do you believe we live in racist country. >> yes, absolutely. i think we've gotten,. martha: that is the whole country is racist. >> i think our institutions race problems, absolutely. there is racism in our country. >> how can you say that based on progress our country. >> we made a tremendous amount of progress. >> so your seeding into this rhetoric. >> think about -- >> he also partnered with al sharpton. a known race baiter. >> we're not talking about al sharpton. we are getting better but still there. martha: i'm up against a hard break. which i wasn't. thank you very much to have you both here today. bill: moments ago supreme court with a major ruling that will affect directly the coal industry. for those who thought the administration was leading a war on coal today there is victory. we'll explain what that is about
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>> hi, everybody, coming up on "happening now," a trifecta of terrible economic headlines weighing on stocks here in the united states today. why greece, china, puerto rico matter to your bottom line. plus chris christie plans to bring his brand of brashness to the 2016 race tomorrow. what are his chances? we'll talk about that. we'll talk about this. senator ted cruz says the media is obsessed with sex. does he have a point? we'll talk about that next hour. bill: thank you, jenna. claudia cowan is live in a water park in east oakland. rising temperatures swimming pools, where is the controversy, claudia? >> reporter: yeah, well, bill good morning. water parks like this one attract thousands of visitors but also use thousands of
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gallons of water, leaving cities wanting to build new pools, new water slides, having to admit timing couldn't be worse. this summer many california families will head to community pools and water parks. even as they're bombarded by messages to conserve. that's left the bay area city of dublin defending construction of a new 36 million-dollar aquatic center with two pools and water playground, set to open in 2017. six slides with tall fountains adds to the pad optics. >> the timing is unfortunate with the drought. it is not due to open for two years. we hope the situation will be rectified. we think it is an important long-term investment for our residents. >> reporter: a decade in the works to accommodate the city's growing population the aquatic center will retreat and recycle 480,000 gallons of water. too much says dublin resident. >> when you look what we're having to do in terms of doing away with our lawns, saving
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money, or saving waters in buckets in bathtubs, reusing water for the garden, whatever else we do to conserve it seems wasteful at this time. >> reporter: critics sign ad online petition to stop the project but the city says it is necessary amenity. >> in this time of childhood obesity and inactivity we want to make sure we have a gathering place someplace families of all ages want to come. >> reporter: other california cities like guarden grove also defending proposed water parks. the predictions of el nino winter come through and ending drought and further water park controversy. bill: let's do it. claudia cowan in east oakland, california. martha: back to this horrible story. a deadly terror attack played out on the beaches of tunisia. what we're learning about the gunmen and possible accomplices. connections you almost miss.
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