wow! >> thanks to roger ales for creating "the five" and keeps us all here. that's it for us. gun control that didn't. the fbi director admits the south carolina church shooter should not have been able to legally get the weapons he used. this is "special report." >> good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. fbi director james comey says he is quote sick about it. nine people in south carolina are dead because of it. the fbi director said errors with the federal background check for gun purchases, a law already in place, failed to keep a weapon out of the hands of the man accused of slaughtering those church members last month in charleston. this news comes on the day the

confederate flag is removed from the state house grounds. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here tonight with a story that's already inflaming people on both sides of the gun control debate. good evening, catherine. >> reporter: the fbi director said he won't basement confident about the -- became confident last night saying the federal background check system should have prevented dylan roof from use purchasing the gun in the shooting. a confusion over where a drug arrest took place. it meant the background check investigator never learned roof admitted to drug possession which would have automatically disqualified him from purchasing the weapon. on the day dylann roof was arrested the president did not blame the background check system. rather as facts were still being gathered mr. obama implied politics and the refusal of republicans to move on the gun debate was partly to blame. >> let's be clear. at some point we as a country

will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. and it is in our power to do something about it. i say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now. >> reporter: nine worshippers were killed on june 17th. the oldest victim was 87 the youngest only 26. today the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee said quote it's disastrous this bureaucratic mistake prevented existing laws from working and blocking an illegal gun sale. the facts undercut attempts to use the tragedy to enact unnecessary gun laws. the american people and especially the victim's families deserve better. meantime the republican chairman of the house homeland security committee, a former federal prosecutor, who has handled gun cases, told fox it was saddening on many levels.

>> it's very tragic and unfortunate that this could have been stopped had we not had the human error. but what it tells me this is not a legislative failure of laws but rather a human failure, a system failure, that we can't legislate here in washington. >> reporter: today white house spokesman josh earnest said they would have nothing beyond the fbi director's comments citing the ongoing investigation bret. >> catherine, thank you. for the first evening in 54 years, the confederate flag is not flying on the grounds of the south carolina state capitol. its removal marked an end to a long similar, battle suddenly reignited by a horrific act of violence. correspondent jonathan sherry shows us what happened today in columbia. >> reporter: the confederate battle flag has flown on south carolina state house property for more than half a century. that tradition ended with a short but dignified ceremony. a highway patrol honor guard furled the flag and presented it

to the curator of the state military museum where it will go on permanent display. >> i look at it as a gateway for growth for the community. >> i think what it is actually creating is a window of opportunity to attack other things that are confederate related. >> reporter: until recently calling for the confederate flag's removal in this state was considered political suicide. but all that changed with last month's killing of nine members of a historic african-american church in charleston. the alleged gunman an avowed white supremacist who had posed for photos with the battle flag. >> allow us to honor those veterans who gave their life in defense of this state, and let's move forward. >> reporter: calls for the flag's removal led to an emotional debate in the state house over whether the flag was a symbol of slavery or valor. but the tide turned when a republican related to the first president of the confederacy,

delivered this tearful speech. >> i am a descendent of jeffer son davis, okay? but that does not matter! it's not about jenny horn! it's about the people of south carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off of the state house grounds! many south carolinians take price in the fact that last month's shooting at emanuel ame church was followed not by riots but displays of racial unity and calls for one state under one flag call that is were answered right here on the state house grounds. >> jonathan serrie in columbia thank you. here in washington republicans are engaged in damage control over an effort to keep the confederate flag at some very sensitive locations. correspondent doug mcelway has that part of the story from capitol hill. >> reporter: the debate in south carolina may have ended but it's just beginning in washington. >> to allow this flag to be sold to be displayed on federal

land is unacceptable. >> reporter: the house floor erupted in acrimony thursday. at issue, a republican amendment that would allow one day a year on confederate memorial day the confederate flag to be placed on confederate tombstones in national cemeteries like arlington which contains an entire confederate section. iowa republican steve king whose ancestors fought for the union defended the amendment. >> when guy to germany and they've outlawed the swastika i think we have a first amendment. that can't happen in the united states because we're open enough. we have to tolerate the desecration of old glory. >> reporter: under an onslaught from the congress black caucuses from other companies, as well as some republicans inincensed at the timing removed it. >> don't they understand it's an insult to 40 million african-americans? >> reporter: speaker john boehner opened the door to a review of the amendment. >> i actually think it's time

for some adults here in the congress to actually sit down and have a conversation about how to address this issue. i do not want this to become some political football. it should not. >> reporter: but it did. minority leader nancy pelosi accusing the gop of acting out of hate. >> wasn't bad enough for them. they needed something worse. they needed hatred in a bill as well. >> reporter: some fear there's a risk in the head long urge to ban offensive history. the soviets did it routinely with people who had fallen into disfavor by simply air brushing them out of photographs, usually after they'd been assassinated. some members are congress are now working to remove the many statues of confederate soldiers placed here by confederate states when the so-called dixiecrats ruled the south. >> would you remove it statue? that is will rogers. he's oklahoma's favorite native son. he was also an unabashed admirer of the italian dictator ben knee

toe muse benito musselini. or ban this building which was built on the back breaking labor american slaves. san francisco's embattled sheriff is blaming federal immigration officials for his release this spring of an illegal immigrant accused of killing a woman last week. ross mecorimi says the feds failed to provide a legal basis for the continued detention of juan francisco lopez sanchez. the sheriff's office released sanchez despite a federal immigration request asking for notification before letting him go. the head of the government personnel department is out of a job tonight. kathryn archeleta resigned as director of the office of personnel management amid the widening scandal over the hacking of data of more than 21 million americans. that is five times the number the obama administration originally disclosed. no one knows how the personal data of millions of americans will be protected going forward,

or how much it will cost the government to deal with the fallout of this breach. >> i don't have those numbers in front of me. and i'm not sure those numbers are available at this point. once we're in a position to announce more details about this suite of services that can be provided to those whose data maybe compromised we'll have some more information about the potential costs involved. >> archeleta will be replaced temporarily by the agency's deputy director. up next donald trump. what he's saying now and what he's said before. a fact check. first here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 2 in detroit with 45 years in prison for a cancer doctor who gave patients unnecessary treatments to bill medicare for $34 million in fraudulent payments. dr. farid fata cried in court as the sentence was handed down saying he was ashamed of his actions. fox 13 in memphis with the search for a monkey that escaped

from her enclosure at the memphis zoo. zim is ten pounds and described as harmless but very spirited. it's believed she's hiding inside a water drain pipeline there in the zoo. this is a live look at times square in new york. our affiliate fox 5 is all over a huge ticker tape parade for the world cup champion u.s. women's soccer team. it is the first such celebration there for a women's sports team. the u.s. beat japan 5-2 in that title match sunday. congratulations. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from special reports. we'll be right back.

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his remarks? chief political correspondent carl cameron has a fact check tonight. >> reporter: the political director framed the abortion issue like this for 2016 pro-life conference. >> you must make a decision right here and right now that the issue of life trumps all else. [ applause ] >> reporter: donald trump was one of 12 out of 17 announced in undeclared gop hopefuls who skipped right to life's gathering. they are all pro-life now, but trump was an ardent abortion rights backer. >> i am pro-choice in every respect. >> reporter: that was "meet the press" 16 years ago. 12 days ago trump stumbled over his current position even after a cnn anchor stated it for him. >> i know you're opposed to abortion. >> i'm pro-choice. >> you're pro-choice or pro-life? >> i'm pro-life. sorry. >> reporter: trump's seventh in a national poll. he now says he'd repeal and replace obama care. but in his 2006 "the america we

deserve" trump wrote "i'm a conservative on this one but liberal on this one. we must have universal health care." trump quit the gop just a few weeks before the 2012 republican primaries and threatened to run as an independent against both parties in the general. he did not. in 2000 trump joined the reform party founded by ross perot whose candidacy in 1992 many republicans think cost them president george h.w. bush his re-election. trump got 15,000 votes in california's 2000 reform party primary. and that year he told the advocate sexual orientation would be quote meaningless in a trump administration. he has never backed gay marriage but told the gay rights magazine he'd back a law that quote guarantees gay people the same legal protection and rights as married people. and trump supported ending the military's don't ask don't tell policy more than a decade before president obama did end it. trump calls his gop rivals weak do nothing losers and insists the feedback from sounding the illegal immigration alarm has been positive.

but when the debate turns to other hot button social issues it may be conservatives who are alarmed. >> what is this deal with senator cruz and the "new york times" over his book? >> the "new york times" won't put his book on the best seller even though it's on amazon's number one and ninth overall in politics ninth overall, rather. barnes & noble has it fourth, book scan which tracks sales list it third. the times is saying that the sales were quote strategic bulk purchases, meaning they were cooking the numbers. but team cruz says that's not true. they want the times to either prove it or admit they're blackballing cruz's book in service to a partisan agenda for a conservative republican presidential candidate to be in a fight with the "new york times" is not necessarily a bad thing for them. >> you can't ask for that actually. carl thank you. as carl mentioned, republicans looking for conservative support are in new orleans this weekend. senior political correspondent mike emanuel shows us what they're saying. >> reporter: in new orleans, several republican candidates at the national right to life

convention focused on the importance of the next election electing someone who will nominate conservative justices to the high court. >> that's my promise to you. if i'm the president of the united states and i have the opportunity to put individuals on the united states supreme court, they will not be squishy. >> if they are not used to the heat in this kitchen do, not put them as the chef particularly as the chief chef. >> other candidates said while the left focuses on women's rights the most fundamental is a baby's to be born. >> there's another right, the right to life. put another way, the child also has a right to his or her body. >> the baby killers, that's what they do. they manipulate you into thinking that this is not a human being. and they capitalize on people's lack of knowledge and understanding. >> reporter: two candidates who didn't travel to new orleans appeared at the convention in short video remarks. >> this is a value our concept that is hugely important that we

need to protect innocent life in every aspect. >> the abortion rate today is at the lowest it's been since 1973. that's a victory! last night governor bobby jindal called louisiana the most pro-life state and drew this contrast. >> the left wants to take god out of the public square. when hillary clinton and president obama talk about freedom of religious expression all they mean is that for an hour or two a week in church you can say what you want. >> reporter: and those heavily involved in the life movement say the stakes are extremely high in the next election. >> when you get to 2024 are we going to stop and think that we will have been in the 16th consecutive year of a pro-abortion president? or will we be ending the eighth year of a pro-life president? >> reporter: convention organizers are not threatening candidates who didn't show up. rather they say in a crowded gop field, those who spoke to the group will gain an advantage. they'll have pro-life leaders

who heard their speeches talk about them with those active in their local communities. bret? >> mike thanks. general motors is recalling nearly 780,000 crossover suvs because of the rear power lift gates can fall and hit people. the recall covers buick enclave from 2008 to 2012 model years. chevrolet traverse from '09 to '12. gmc acadia in '07 to '12. saturn outlook from '07 to '10. 56 injuries have been blamed on the problem. still ahead, is the media trying to pump up bernie sanders in an effort to somehow help hillary clinton or themselves? first was mitt romney right about russia?

a president, his former secretary of state who famously tried to reset relations with cold war foe russia now trying to recover from being blind-sided yesterday by one of his top generals. in the process a lot of people are wondering whether president obama's 2012 election foe who he mocked at the time was right all along. national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> reporter: it wasn't meant to be controversial. just a statement of fact from the general slated to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs. >> if you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existence threat to the united states i'd have to point to russia. and if you look at their behavior it's nothing short of alarming. >> reporter: for a second day the administration tried to distance itself from his comments. >> the secretary doesn't agree with the assessment that russia is an existential threat to the united states, nor china, quite frankly. >> i think you'd be the first to admit that reflects his own view and doesn't necessarily reflect

the view or the consensus analysis of the president's national security team. >> reporter: republican candidate mitt romney was mocked by president obama when he suggested as much in 2012. >> this is without question our number one geopolitical foe. >> the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> reporter: democrats launched political ads capitalizing on what they viewed as a gaffe. >> the statements that mr. romney makes shows he doesn't understand what's going on in the present century. >> reporter: then secretary of state hillary clinton handed sergei radlov which mistakenly read overcharged. since then putin annexed ukraine and crimea and to this day has an estimated 7,000 russian troops fighting in ukraine, attempting to grab more land from the western-leaning government in kiev.

putin recently announced he would add 40 icbms to his nuclear arsenal. this week while the u.s. attempted to hammer out a deal to curtail iran's nuclear program, putin lashed out after hosting iran's president. >> it we are now calling for a full format lifting of all sanctions as soon as possible. >> reporter: today secretary of state john kerry tried to put a positive spin on talks that have been stuck this week. >> i think it's safe to say that we have made progress today. the atmosphere is very constructive. >> reporter: even if russia's role as a mediator between the west and iran is not. on july 4th putin called president obama to wish him a happy independence day. at the same time he sent nuclear-capable russian bombers to within 39 miles of mendocino, california forcing u.s. f-16 fighter jets to scramble. more evidence that russian relations have not been reset, the u.s. is deploying hundreds of tanks and artillery to the

baltics to defend russia's neighbors, bret? >> jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. the head of the federal reserve says she expects to start raising interest rates late this year. janet yellen is still expressing concerns over weak wage growth and low labor participation rate. yellen said today that when the fed does act, any increase will be gradual. optimism over the prospect of a deal for greece fuelled a wall street today. the dow gained 212, the s&p 500 was up 25 the nasdaq finished ahead 75. for the week, the dow was up a fraction s&p 500 essentially unchanged, the nasdaq lost a quarter of a percentage point. after leading the opposition against harsh new austerity measures greece's prime minister is now urging lawmakers to accept even stiffer cuts in order to get a three-year reprieve on an economic collapse. european officials are reviewing the greek proposals while the prime minister is trying to get hard liners in parliament on board. next in the grapevine, spending your tax dollars to get

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said quote i will consider yoga based on what i do in sports. favorite putin pass times have included bare-chested horseback riding judo and -- another well-known presidential contender jumps into the 2016 presidential race. in fact there could be hundreds of candidates not so well-known filing. a dark horse candidate is getting a lot of attention after officially filing paperwork with the fdc. actually it's a cat. limber butt mccub bins to be exact. the registered demo cat is pushing environmental issues and the legalization of cat nip. we have not reached out to mccubbins or an appearance in our center seat segment. we're worried about the claws coming out. i didn't write it. now to bernie sanders. he's getting all sorts of attention right now. but a lot of people have questions about all that coverage. media analyst and host of fox's

media buzz howard kertz. >> it seems to me that things are going very well for you right now in your campaign. >> they are going very well. >> reporter: on the surface, at least, the media are starting to take bernie sanders seriously. the 73-year-old senator may be a long shot for the democratic nomination but the "new york times" says hillary clinton's advisers are worried that he could beat her in iowa. >> he's getting a lot of notice. >> i think hillary clinton's team is a little bit rattled about the crowds that bernie sanders can get. >> he's really capturing the minds and the hearts at this point of a lot of progressive liberals in the iowa caucuses. >> clinton has avoided mentioning sanders' name. >> we each run our own campaign campaigns. >> one of her allies is castigating the coverage. >> i think the media is giving bernie a pass right now. i very rarely read in any of bernie's coverage he's a socialist. >> there's been little focus on his left wing agenda, from breaking up the big banks to

single pair health care. there was little coverage when mother jones found sanders had written a piece four decades ago saying women fantasize about gang rape or when the "new york times" found sanders writing then that cervical cancer could be caused by having too few orgasms or when "politico" reported he had fathered an out of wedlock child. now he may have to compete with former governor jim webb. >> i don't think you need millions of dollars to become president of the united states. >> reporter: journalists would love to see hillary clinton in a competitive race. but they won't really be taking bernie sanders seriously until they give him the same level of scrutiny as other top-tier candidates. jim webb will be featured on fox news sunday which i'm hosting this weekend. in for chris. along with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. you can check local listings for channels and times. big government on a losing streak. the charleston shooter, confusion about russia, the hack attacks, sanctuary cities.

we'll talk about all of it or as much as we can with the panel after a break.

this is without question our number one geopolitical foe. >> the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> he is not up-to-date. and that is a very dangerous aspect. that's just an example of his 20th century approach to 21st century issues. >> what would you consider the greatest threat to our national security? >> my assessment today, senator is that russia presents the greatest threat to our national security. if you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the united states i'd have to point to russia. and if you look at their behavior it's nothing short of alarming. >> there you see the past and then the general that the president has tapped to be the next chairman of the joint

chiefs. marine corps general joseph dunford. here's what the white house and state department said about that whole russia thing. >> we've been very mindful of that threat. and the president has played an important leading role in presenting a united front in confronting russia for their destabilizing activities. >> the secretary doesn't agree with the assessment that russia is an existential threat to the united states nor china, quite frankly. >> so we'll start there but it's been a busy week for the federal government. let's bring in our panel. we welcome david canton senior politics writer for the u.s. news and world wort. nina easten and charles krauthammer. >> it's very obvious that romney was right. obama was condescending. but it's worse than that.

because one of the reasons why the world war is back. one of the reasons why putin has gone into ukraine, challenged the west we just heard a few minutes ago buzzing us with nuclear-capable bombers, threatening the europeans, increasing his nuclear arsenal, it's precisely because he encountered a president who lives in this illusionary world where the cold war is over. as he said in his u.n. speech 2009 when he came into office no country can or should dominate another. i mean that is the only word for that is adolescent. so he encounters a president who thinks because the calendar has changed and it's now 21 instead of 20th century human nature has changed and the objective of great power, politics has changed. you don't have to worry about soviet-russian aggression. putin has pushed against this open door. pushed against a president who said tell vladimir that in my

second term i'll be more flexible. the result of that flexibility and the invitation to aggression we have russia on the loose, scaring the hell out of the east europeans. >> yeah. >> it astonishes me that they would dismiss this as an existence threat. russia as an existential threat when they were wrong once before. if you look back at 2012 what romney was saying at this point putin had not overtly tried to recreate a soviet empire which is what he's trying to do now. however, he was tied to propping up assad in syria, and that's what romney was referring to and he was tied to being an enabler for an iran that had nuclear weapons. the assad threat turned out -- turned into the collapse into civil war of syria, which led to the rise of isis. and isis now is a clear and present danger to this country. so romney was pulling at the

strings of very presciently pulling at the strings of a threat that was coming coming to us down the pike. >> so we see the split between the white house state department and incoming chairman of the joint chiefs. i want to turn to another issue this week the office of personnel management. opm. the head kathryn archeleta e re-signed taught today. the white house tried to explain it away. >> director archeleta did offer her resignation today. she did so of her own volition. she recognizes as the white house does that the urgent challenges currently facing the office of personnel management require a manager with a specialized set of skills and experiences. that's precisely why the president has send her resignation. >> even though she said she was willing to stay on dave to take care of all this. what does this say about the federal government and the ability to protect this data?

it's really a concern! >> well sort of the big overarching theme is the management problem that continue within the obama administration. from the way obama care was implemented, now to this cyber security threat you have house republicans saying that they basically didn't do basic things like encryption on a lot of this information to protect it. so a lot of basic protocols that the private sector are doing to protect data the federal government couldn't even live up to that standard. and i'm frankly cyber security isn't a sexy issue. it's not leading the news every day. but this number the volume the number 22 million is going to make this a more important issue. and i think going to see it talked about in the 2016 race a lot more. >> i agree. listen. nina if you look at how this is going to go forward, how much money will it take to protect it going forward? what about the people's stuff that's already out there? i mean do they all get life lock? what happens? >> it's incredibly unnerving for those people. unnerving for our national

security for our intelligence-gathering abilities. this is a case where you needed -- you need leadership with a periscope ability. these cyber threats are like other threats morephing, changing. you have the hardened parts of the pentagon hardened targets hard to get into and are at the cutter edge of cyber security. but opm was left -- the head of opm was warned. the red flags were there. didn't take it seriously. and now our security has been breached. and the private lives of these people have been breached. >> a lot of talk about sanctuary cities. the sheriff in san francisco blaming the feds. i.c.e. for not enforcing laws. that's another story this week. but i want to talk about this charles. president obama comes out after the church shootings and says this town can't deal with changing gun laws. just not an appetite. but they need to come to grips with it. because he says now's the time.

and we know that this shooter got access to a gun, and innocent people were killed because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. today the fbi director says the reason dylann roof got the gun was bought of a failed federal background check. not because some loophole or because some law wasn't there. >> this is -- tells you two things about obama. number one, is he sees the world through a narrow ideological prism. so when you get the story of the professor in harvard who breaks in obama calls the boston police dumb. he jumps to a conclusion because it fits his ideas. the second is he will exploit any tragedy, any tragedy, in order to advance political agenda. and he does it every time you've got a shooting it's always gun control. but as you just explained in this case the laws are on the books, so changing the law, adding the law wouldn't have made any difference.

it was a question of a human error in the chain. but if he has an occasion to exploit significantomething particularly a tragedy he steps in. that's not something the president ought to do and he does it habitually. >> how big an issue do you think gun control will be for hillary clinton? she's just started going down that road. >> she has said she's going to make it an issue. part of this she's got a primary right now. bernie sanders although he's a socialist is more on the conservative side because he's from vermont. he has voted against gun control measures. so now you see hillary on the trail, bernie's creeping up in the polls and hillary is saying i want to have a conversation about gun control. i think she'll have that in the primary. in the general election it usually turns up poison for the democrats. so we'll see where hillary is assuming she's the nominee, if she's talking about gun control next april, may, i sort of doubt it. but she's beginning to float it. and i think she's pointing to some of these tragedies. but the other issue here is

there's sort of a federal bureaucracy overloaded. i read a report today that the woman who had to handle this case was handling 15 other cases at the same time. so you're going to have human error. now, it's inexcusable when a tragedy happens. but i bet you there's a lot more errors that happen in the system that when something doesn't happen. >> director comey has ordered a 30-day review of that whole system. okay. we got it all in. next up it's friday. that means candidate casino and winners and losers. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans it could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs.

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okay. it's friday. you know that sound. candidate casino. you have $100 in chips going to go around the horn with the panel.

where do you you put the bets in the republican field first. dave, start with you you. >> sure. i have $40 on scott walker. i still think he is the best profile in the republican field. is he going to announce monday. is he leading in iowa. but a governor from the midwest who has won a swing state and not named bush give that annual edge. of course you have got to put jeb bush in the top tier: a lot of people love marco rubio. i don't see him in the polls where he would need to be. rand paul has a base there because of his father. i put 15 on rand and rubio. >> a couple people on facebook. elizabeth 40 on jeb bush, 30 on rubio. 30 on trump. believe it or not trump has surfaced in almost all of our bets today. susan, for example trump $50, christie 25, carson 25. let's go to linda. she says 30 walker, 20

carson, 20 trump, 15 rubio carly fiorina 15. nina? >> i put in terms of the top of my pile this week i put scott walker and jeb bush. scott walker for slightly different reasons. i love this ad he released this hollywood thriller type ad that shows him almost losing his job standing up to the unions. some people might think it's over the top. i thought it was really effective. i love how he is kind of putting out the word that he would consider rubio as a v.p. candidate which is an attempt to both diminish rubio and to make his donors feel like he could put a hispanic on the ticket and make them happy. >> all right charles? >> i stay with my theme rubio, walker and bush and i split them evenly each at 30%. that's good. let's get the numbers up there and then my two outliers kasich and cruz at

1 in 20 chance each. no movie on wine, women and song i'm going straight. i'm getting serious now. >> let's head to the other part of the casino that is the democratic side. far fewer choices there. but a little bit more interesting now perhaps dave? >> $75 on hillary. some people may think that's low but i have seen some of these bernie sanders' crowds. i saw one last night in arlington, virginia. is he pulling big crowds. >> you feel the burn. >> i feel the burn. $20 for him. it's probably not going to be him but, you know, look at his polling 8 points within hillary in new hampshire. not bad for this point. 5es for joe biden who still has to make a decision on this and will by august 1st. >> which is a really big story. >> that's a really big story. >> i put 65 on hillary. 25 on sanders who is obviously, you know, a long shot but pulling in huge crowds and 10 on biden because there is this vibrant draft biden effort out there. i don't see -- i'm putting

nothing on jim webb or martin o'malley by the way. >> facebook brenda presser 90 on clinton, 5 on sanders and 5 on biden and twitter at nic vent. 75 on miller, 25or on martin o'malley. >> i can't believe how my colleagues are wishful race among democrats. obvious hillary 95%. act of god is it the only chance of it not happening. >> quickly winners and losers? winners first. >> winner south carolina for a graceful, dignified end to its debate on the flag. loser is san francisco cool and trendy to be a sanctuary city until it kills a beautiful young life. >> my loser this week has to be hillary clinton. i'm not giving the first interview she gives since she has been running for candidate and she got roundly panned. the best thing somebody said about her she was rusty. in other words she was nontransparent the.

my winner are greece's creditors. how funny is this that the prime minister of greece after having all this vote to stand up to the creditors basically comes back with a very similar plan to the creditors and they are the winners. >> same deal? >> yeah. >> very quickly dave. >> my winner is donald trump dominated both mainstream media and conservative media for two straight weeks now and the losers of the rest of the republican field because is he washing them out. even if they get a couple minutes on fox barely is anyone paying attention to it barely because donald has said something controversial important time they're trying to get in the first debate. >> less than a month away. panel, thank you panel. great to have you dave. stay tuned for some of your friday feedback.

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feedback. let's go to your responses to the questions we asked during the show on whether removing the confederate flag will make any difference annie says it solves nothing the pc police are happy though. we asked would you really vote for donald trump? ron aldridge on facebook: he is not my first choice but is he saying what all the candidates need to be saying but are too politically correct to say. definitely so far trump is the only candidate not speaking like the typical politician from d.c. during jennifer griffin's story on russia we asked if you really think russia could attack or would attack the u.s. tuck tiger says yes putin surely encouraged at our troop reduction. romney is right russia is a threat. we did not receive anything from lumber butt mccuwbins. thanks for your friday feedback. there he is. [cat meowing] >> there could be hundreds of candidates filing with the fec. can't fit them all on stage.

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