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>> have a great day. >> thanks as always for watching. >> don't put the in your mouth fit looks funky. about an hour from now the senate meets for a rare sunday session. at stake a highway bill lawmakers must pass before july 31st deadline or it could be a rough road ahead for states and millions of american drivers. however, real fireworks today are likely to be over a couple of amendments. ones that will get a vote, and ones that may not. first a scandal over long wait times for veterans. now lawmakers say the v.a. is hiding a massive budget crisis. can congress make up a more than $2 billion shortfall and keep some hospitals from closing? we'll ask a congressman who is trying to fix the problem. chairman of the house veterans affairs committee jeff miller joins us live. >> plus fire breaks out at a las
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vegas hotel's rooftop pool. check it out, sending flames and clouds of black smoke billowing over the strip, and guests running for their lives. nice to be with you. welcome to "america's news headquarters" from washington. >> thank you so much for spending your sunday with us. all right a showdown in the senate today. lawmakers are working on a sunday to try to get a critical highway funding bill passed before the end of the month deadline. and of course their august vacation. attached to that bill are two amendments including one on the controversial export/import bank. that is sparking some heated debate with one senator going as far as calling the leader of his own party a liar. kristen fisher is following the story from right here in washington. >> the senate will convene in just one hour and on the table are two procedural votes on
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amendments to the highway bill. first up a vote to fully repeal obamacare. that's not expected to get the 60 votes to move forward. next up with a vote on the reauthorization of the exprt -- import bank. the official credit agency of the u.s. government. it offers loans to u.s. businesses to sell products overseas. supporters say it is essential for keeping u.s. firms competitive in the global market. but conservative critics argue these companies should stand and fall on their own merit. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is one of those critics. he openly said he opposes the bank but he's allowing this procedural vote today to reauthorize the bank because he believes it's the only way to guarantee passage of this highway bill. well that has infuriated senate conservatives. in fact senator ted cruz went so far as to call his leader a liar on the senate floor on friday. listen. >> i stood up and i asked the majority leader very directly what was the deal that was just cut on tpa, and was there a deal
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for the export/import bank? it was a direct question i asked the majority leader in front of all of the republican senators. and i went back to my office and i sat and had a long discussion with my staff. my staff told me that afternoon he's lying to you. that's what my staff said we've been around the senate a long time he is not telling you the truth. >> now remember what's happening today are strictly procedural votes to break filibusters on those amendments. they're not votes to actually adopt the amendments. so that still needs to happen. and then if passed the bill still needs to go to the house. where so far it has received a very frosty reception. so we're still at least several days away from any potential passage of an actual highway bill. and of course shannon and leland they all want to get it done in time for their summer break. >> yeah this is very critical issue. these aren't fluff pieces. so a lot of tension still to go. >> real difference to real americans. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. hillary clinton is doubling
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down on her denials about her personal e-mail server. clinton said again yesterday that she never knowingly sent or received classified information using her private e-mail server while secretary of state. it came on the same day she accepted an invitation to testify before the house benghazi committee in late october. all of this has given her presidential candidate rivals a lot of ammunition on the campaign trail. elizabeth prand is watching it allion fold from here in washington. >> you're right. the gop landscape may be crowded but candidates are clawing to make headlines ahead of the august 6th debate. many of them are focused on the scandal surrounding hillary clinton. government investigators say e-mails containing classified information have been shared on the private e-mail account hillary clinton was using during her tenure as secretary. which goes against what the now-candidate has been saying for months that she's been telling reporters she conducted no such sensitive business on
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that private server. carly fiorina says it's clear clinton broke the rules. >> what voters are discovering, day after day, drip by drip is that hillary clinton is not trustworthy. it is the heart of the matter. she is not trust wore think. she has engaged in cover-up and she has not been truthful. and every day that goes by we learn that over and over and over. >> other republicans echoed similar rhetoric. senator rand paul says the former secretary can't pretend she wasn't aware of the classified communications. clinton on the other hand told reporters she's done nothing wrong. the conversations were not classified at the time. she also points to the fact she's cooperated by turning over thousands of e-mails. >> when i turned over my 55,000 pages, i did so to help the state department. they had asked all the former secretaries to please give any information, because they were having some challenges with their recordkeeping.
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so i did. but then i said okay let's make it public. now if i just turned it over we would not be having this conversation. >> the clinton camp also tackled another controversy making headlines this weekend, announcing she will testify before a house committee investigating the benghazi terror attacks coming up in october. house republicans continue to pry for details regarding the state department's possible denied protections which may have prevented the attack and saved lives. knows coming to her defense say it's a political hack job ahead of the election. clinton's attorneys reportedly want to make sure the committee addresses events surrounding the terror attack in 2012 and not other topics surrounding the clinton camp. leland back to you. >> there's a lot of topics people would like to ask her questions about. elizabeth prann live for us today. this programming note for you as elizabeth mentioned at the top of her report on august 6th, fox news and facebook team up for the first debate of the republican presidential campaign. it all happens live in cleveland, a little bit more than ten days from now. we want you to submit your
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questions, go to facebook.com/foxnews and tell us what you want to know from the candidates. today in pakistan gunmen shot and killed an employee of the u.s. embassy in islamabad. pakistani police have identified the employee as a local man who worked for the u.s. drug enforcement agency. authorities say the man was killed early this morning at his home. no word yet on a motive for the attack. the u.s. embassy has not commented on the incident but a police officer says u.s. embassy security officials did visit the crime scene. turkey continues to battle isis. now launching a series of airstrikes against the islamic state targets in syria. meanwhile, embattled syrian president bashar assad made his first public address in a year. he vowed to crush insurgent groups including isis but acknowledged a serious lack of manpower on his part, after years of civil war. conor powell is following the story from your mideast bureau.
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>> hi leland. well today we saw sort of a mixture of what's going on between the united states and turkey in the fight against isis. but also some real and very candid talk from president bashar al assad. now most analysts agree that the turks are very much needed for both defeating president assad and the syrians and also defeating isis. and in a sort of historic moment in the fight against isis the turkish government has allowed the u.s. to start flying sorties and airstrikes from turkey against isis. and also agreed to start targeting isis militants in syria. but so far all we've seen for the most part out of the turks is airstrikes against pro-american kurdish fig the turks believe are dangerous because of their desire for an independent kurdish state. now the united states has defended turkey's action against the kurds, saying that they have a right to defend themselves. privately u.s. officials do want turkey to do more against isis and less against the kurds.
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now in a very rare and candid piece today syrian president assad said syrian troops are losing territory to rebel fighters including isis. assad also acknowledged that the syrian army is under a lot of strain due to power and equipment but he said his government is not collapsing and vowed to defeat syria's enemies. he also said he expects greater support from iran one of syria's key allies now that economic sanctions have been lifted as a result of the international nuclear agreement between the international community and iran. what we're seeing here is a shifting in the battlefield. but so far we haven't much seen a change in isis' strength which is still very, very strong in both iraq and syria. most analysts say that until turkey shuts off the flow of foreign fighters coming through istanbul and in to syria, isis is likely not going to suffer much because of these air strikes no matter who is flying these bombing runs. leland? >> good questions for sure in terms of which side of the battle the turks are on in this
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one. conor powell live in the middle east. appreciate it. more trouble for the department of veterans affairs. the embattled agency says it may have to close some hospitals if a $2.5 billion budget gap isn't met. florida congressman jeff miller is the chairman of the house veterans affairs committee. he says he's shocked at the enormity of the v.a.'s issues joins us live. chairman thank you for your time today. >> thank you. good to be with us. >> basically what we're hearing from the v.a. is they're going to have to close hospitals and taper back service unless congress comes up with another $ $.5 billion. your response? >> well the problem is, it was just notified to us a little over two weeks ago that the problem was as large as it is. the secretary has said we'd like to have some flexibility going back in to february. but he came to me with a throw-away one-line sentence basically, in a letter and said if you don't give this to us we're going to close every hospital and clinic in the
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united states. basically they're trying to back congress into a corner using the veterans as pawns. >> i know that there's been a lot of investigation into what happened involving wait times, who's responsible. i mean by our last research we did here just a few weeks ago, only one person has been fired within the v.a. you could argue maybe up to three. but one for sure directly related to those wait times. with all of the investigations going on the auditing goingen organization how did this budget gap build up to where it is? did we know where the money is going, what kind of efficiency we're dealing with or not dealing with? how did we get to this point? >> well what has happened is, the v.a. made a gamble knowing that there was the $10 billion that we appropriated last august with the choice act. so they bet that they would be able to stretch out the number that they had until the end of september, the end of the fiscal year, and they lost that bet. now they've come to congress and basically said we don't have enough money to keep the
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hospital door opens if you don't give it to us on the 20th of august which is during the august work recess we're going to have to shut down these facilities. again, this is v.a. playing with the numbers and not being transparent with the legislative branch that appropriates the money. >> all right. listen i know you get an earful especially because of the job that you do the position that you hold. all of us do. i mean we get e-mails, we get tweets we get facebook comments people stop us on the street as i'm sure they do with you, too, saying why does thises it disaster continue? we have veterans who cannot get a doctor's appointment. seems a year after this broke we are not much further along in resolving it. what is it going to take? you have passed legislation. the rules have been changed about how can be fired. but it doesn't seem like in day-to-day practicality it's gotten any better for our veterans. >> well, the unfortunate thing is about 250,000 employees at the v.a. are union members. and this week i have a bill that will come to the floor that will
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give the secretary not just the ability to fire the top executives within the v.a. but any person in the v.a. that can't or won't do their job. accountability is the most important thing to change the culture at the v.a. unfortunately, the secretary and those at the v.a. have done very little to change that culture. he'll say he fired 1400 individuals since he became secretary. 1,000 of those were on probationary status. we're talking about people that have been with the agency for 10 and 15 years that are so ingrained in the culture that they know that they can't be held accountable, and i think that's what's stopping the v.a. from changing the path that it's on. people have to serve the veterans not protect that bureaucrat. >> very quickly, because we're just about out of time. donald trump, whether you like him or not, has talked a lot about this on the campaign trail. he says because he's a successful businessman he would come in and clean house, the v.a. would be changed from day
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one. but based on you talk about the employees, you talk about the bureaucracy, is it realistic to say that any one person could come in and change this overnight? >> i've said it from the very beginning, this did not happen overnight, it's happened over decades, it's going to take a long time to fix. but, we need to have a partner at the v.a. that's willing to work with the congress not push against us in trying to resolve the problems that exist there. and again, don't protect the bad bureaucrat serve the veteran. that's what they're there for. >> chairman miller we ish you and your colleagues on both sides of the aisle all the best in getting this rectified. we know that americans across the board, across the ideological spectrum are pulling for you. thank you, sir. >> america expects nothing less. >> leland? >> all right we want to hear from you now. what should be done to fix the problems at the v.a.? you can send us your tweets. @shannon bream, she's back from vacation.
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@lelandvittert or @anhqdc. a problem it is truly important to all of us. the u.s. government is expected to slap fiat chrysler with a $105 million fine tomorrow reportedly for violating safety laws in a series of recalls. the italian american automaker accused of failing to november customers of recalls and delays in distributing parts. political correspondent brenda is here to break it all down. are they actually going to have to pay this? >> that's the issue. we find out tomorrow the whole detail of the settlement. but it seems that federal regulators are reportedly very close to a deal with the italian u.s. company for recall lapses and other safety issues. reports are it will be as you said a sweeping settlement more than 100 million fine involving millions of vehicles. this after the head of the national highway traffic safety
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administration said early this month it would move quickly to act on fiat crislerhris chrysler's handling. according to reports the penalty surround some two dozen recalls including more than 1.5 million jeeps recalled two years ago for fuel tanks that could cause deadly fires. "the wall street journal" reports that jeep owners may be offered cash so that they can get the necessary repairs, or receive more money than the value of their vehicles if they trade them in. the company, which would not comment on this report has complained that jeep owners were reluctant to get necessary repairs, even when they were alerted to the trouble several times. but regulators may targets company for providing inadequate repairs and not ahurting car owners to recall quickly enough. not only to the automaker face a record fine it may also be under scrutiny by an independent monitor to audit recalls for quite awhile. the fines against the company may far surpass the $70 million
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the government slapped on honda earlier this year for reporting potential safety problems and the $35 million paid by gm last year for not letting regulators know early enough about a faulty admission switch. word again is that details of this setment could come as early as tomorrow leland? >> we'll see at what point companies start paying attention to the fines and change their behavior. brenda buttner, live in new york. >> thank you. huge plumes of thick, black smoke shooting high into the sky above the las vegas strip after fire started at the cosmo pal tan hotel yesterday. it took firefighters about 30 minutes to get that blaze under control. it broke the at the rooftop swimming pool. no serious injuries. officials investigating the cause of the fire. a witness told the las vegas sun it may have been caused by a disguarded cigarette. a tv news crew reporting on a drive-by shooting unexpectedly became part of the story.
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i am confident that i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received. and what i think you're seeing here is a very typical kind of discussion to some extent disagreement among various parts of the government over what should or should not be publicly released. >> a defiant hillary clinton denying that she did anything wrong in the e-mail scandal that is continuing to dog her, her campaign and her poll numbers. gop rivals have latched onto the controversy as proof of her untrustworthiness. here for a fair and balanced debate gop strategist mercedes schlav and democratic strategist. we're going to put apart what may or may not have happened with the e-mail server.
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let's talk about how this played out politically. we've seen her poll numbers continue to plummet when it comes to trustworthiness and then also when it comes to her head-to-head match-ups in key states against certain republicans. craig what can she do to stop the slide? >> i think her campaign has done a pretty good job so far in terms of handling it. one they have released it. two, a lot of these things wouldn't be discussed if they hadn't released it. and three they're trying to talk about other things. i want to give her and her campaign a shout-out her statement she made was from winterset, iowa. the birth place of john wayne. for those of us who love john wayne in iowa that was a great place to do it. >> if john wayne was sending e-mails would he do it on a private server or not? that's a discussion for another time. i thought what was interesting and one of the things she said this is a typical discussion among bureaucrats about this that and the other thing. i don't think a typical discussion among bureaucrats is whether you have an e-mail server that's private. does dismissing this out of hand work mercedes?
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>> no i think it is a big mistake. and also she also goes into this whole vast right wing conspiracy which she used in a cnn interview about three or four weeks ago. >> it's just not helping her. what i think what the american people and what the voters are seeing is that she's not coming across with direct answers. and i think that has been a big challenge for this campaign. it's been a big challenge for hillary clinton. and it's going to haunt her if she does not just say, let the investigation be let's see what happens, as opposed to you know i think the heat is getting to people. >> -- whether the clintons have ever given direct answers to anything. >> i think it's important to realize and remember that "the new york times." which is an interesting source to be used repeatedly by republican candidates walked its story back twice within 24 hours. >> and they're getting a lot of heat for doing it. >> but i think one, we need to remember that. we can debate about why they may have done that or not. two, she did release 55,000 e-mails, you know --
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>> after she scrubbed the server. >> which is -- look i mean i think that everyone has said well the state department and she have said that at the time none of these e-mails contained classified information. >> we now figured out that some do contain classified information. you wonder when she keeps making these statements and then she keeps having to qualify, why didn't people in her campaign really make sure whatever she was saying in the beginning was absolutely correct? >> i think it's been very perplexing. i mean i don't know -- we're all trying to understand why her campaign it's not only slop you, it's poor judgment. and they keep trying to shield her. the more she comes out and really not accurately defending her position. when you look at what the majority of americans are saying they're saying look we're worried of the fact that these e-mails were shield because of lack of transparentsy. two the majority of americans in the poll that came out by id they should allow for a third party to review the server which she refuses to do. >> look i think that you know
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we have to remember that you're correct the story is going to be used consistently for months by republican opponents, both in congress and on the campaign trail. i don't know what they're going to do yet. but her campaign you know has addressed this in terms of saying that you know these e-mails were not classified at the time. i'm not sure what happened since then. that's a legitimate question and i think we'll get -- we'll, you know i think get an answer you know on that in the coming days. but i also think that you know we need to look at you know was there any national security damage you know nothing like that has been done yet and it is politically against her. >> we don't know. we don't know -- >> -- from the department of justice which there is a chance that might not happen. these are two inspector generals of a president appointed by president obama that they're basically requesting -- >> i don't know that they were appointed by him. i don't know if they were -- >> supposed to be apolitical so we'll see. i don't know who got the last word in this. but thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we could go on and on all day
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but we've got to go. more ahead on "america's news headquarters." they represent our armed forces and our men and women in uniform. they are of course the seals of the various branches of service. but you will never believe where many of the official military seals that hang on the walls of capitol hill are actually made. plus investigators are digging in to the life of a man accused of opening fire in louisiana at that movie theater and killed two people. will carr has been following the story live in lafayette. we're learning a lot more about the final days of the shooter, at the same time this community continues to mourn the two innocent women who were shot and killed. we'll have the details coming up. you do all this research on the perfect car. gas mileage , horse power... torque ratios. three spreadsheets later you finally bring home the one. then smash it into a tree. your insurance company's all too happy to raise your rates. maybe you should've done a little more research on them.
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loved ones to rest tomorrow. will carr is live in lafayette with more. hello, will. >> hi shannon. desperate and depressed. that's a description that people who ran into the shooter in his final days are giving now. we're talking about john russell houser the man who police say came in to this movie theater thursday night, sat through a screening of a new comedy for about 20 minutes before he stood up and unloaded on the crowd. we've learned that he has a his try of mental issues and for making violent and hate-thrilled threats. in his last days we learned he was begging for money all across this community. he went to a local church told the pastor that he was extremely depressed. now we still don't know why he came to this theater in this city and shot 11 people on thursday what we do know is the handgun that he used was purchased legally in alabama last year at a pawn shop. that's the same state that actually denied him a concealed carrying permit back in 2006 because of past domestic violence issues in a charge of arson in his past as well.
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while police continue their investigation three people remain in the hospital today, and as they recover, it's really been a weekend filled with memorials. there was a candle light vigil last night. hundreds of people showed up to pay their respects. they offered kind words for the victims. it was a somber emotional evening. just about everyone who showed up knew either one or both of the two innocent women who were shot and killed thursday night. there was 33-year-old jillian johnson, described as an artist a musician a creator, one woman that i spoke to last night said she made being from lafayette cool. then there was 21-year-old mayci breaux who planned to work in the radiologist department of a nearby hospital. a number of people made their way over to a local bar where the hub city all-stars played. they were friends with johnson and used their concert to honor their friend's memory. >> this guy came in here and decided to do a bad thing in a very beautiful place and we're
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not going to let that define us. we're going to continue to be a very special, resilient, happy, festive community. >> locals say they will recover and that their strength is stronger than the damage that was inflicted. shannon? >> will carr live in louisiana. thank you. lawmakers offices on capitol hill is the iconic seals of the armed forces of america. but at least one congressman has a problem with them. many of the seals he says are not made here in the usa. new jersey congressman tom mcarthur is trying to change that. his bill the manufacturing american defense emblens or made act would require all officials seals to be produced here at home. you're a pretty detailed oriented man congressman to figure out that the seals weren't all made in the united states. how did you figure it out? >> well, i asked. you know i'm a new member of congress. and i grew up with a sense of pride in our military.
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my dad was a korean war veteran, and a represent a large military community. i have 65,000 veterans at home. i have the only triservice joint base in the country in my district. so i ordered the -- the seals to hang in my office and some of them came they were beautiful, they were obviously hand crafted. and others came and they were cheap styrofoam or plastic, and we asked where they came from and found out that they had been made in china. and i think for something this important, it's a symbol of pride for our military and i just think these should be made here at home. >> well where, where does this stop in terms of what should be made in the united states what shouldn't? should the t-shirts that our service members wear should those be made in the united states? how do you, how do you define what products should and should not? should every flag be made in the united states? >> well i'm focused on one
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thing right now, leland and that is that these seals are symbols of pride. they represent our armed forces. you'll see them in most congress members' office. you see them in government offices all over the country. and i think that this -- we put our men and women in uniform in harm's way. we ask an awful lot of their families. and i know this is simple. it's a simple, symbolic gesture but i think it matters. and i think this is an opportunity to show pride in american manufacturing, and to honor our men and women in uniform. >> so you want all copies of the seal not just the ones hanging in congress to be american made. what kind of support and feedback have you gotten on capitol hill about this? >> well we just started. i just introduced the legislation, and i'll begin the process now of building support from other members of congress, from both parties. as i said it's simple.
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it's symbolic. but symbols matter. and and we're putting our men and women in uniform in harm's way every day. and this is a simple way, i think, to honor them and to have seals that represent the best of america. >> any idea how much it's going to cost? >> well oddly enough these cheap plastic ones are not inexpensive at all. and so i'm not sure that it will cost anything. to have them made here at home or anything more than they cost today. >> interesting. well we'll, we'll see what happens. we'll see who can get behind this we'll, we'll, it will be interesting to see if this is something that everybody up on capitol hill can agree at. congressman macarthur, appreciate your time and dedication to this bill. we'll follow it along, sir. >> you do not want to miss this next story. a group of marines on the march in their skivvies.
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>> maybe we do want to miss it. >> well they're stripping down for a very good cause. we're going to tell you why, and why you should care. >> president obama wrapping up his tour of kenya with praise for the nation where he has family ties and also a blunt message. we'll have a live report from nairobi. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. when i started at the shelter, i noticed benny right away. i just had to adopt him. he's older so he needs my help all day. when my back pain flared up we both felt it i took tylenol at first but
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when they return from combat many of our veterans often feel stripped down emotionally. so playing off that a group of marines are stripping down physically all to support our vets. they marched 13 miles along a san diego boardwalk in their skivvies. all for a good cause. they want to raise awareness about suicide prevention among military members and veterans. each marine carried a pack killed with 22 kilograms of gear about 50 pounds. they say that's to symbolize the 22 service members who commit suicide every single day. president obama is off to his next stop on his african
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tour. ethiopia. but first he wrapped up his historic visit to kenya, his father's homeland. thousands of seinians jammed into an arena to hear the man they view as a local son. kevin cork is traveling with the president. >> hello from nairobi, kenya, where for president obama this trip was part professional and part personal as he spent a great deal of time connecting with friends and making a real bond with the people here in the homeland of his father. but he was also very busy touching on a number of important issues like good governance economic growth and cooperation. even touched on gay rights. but no issue was more important than security cooperation and counterterrorism. and the president told the kenyan people in a speech today that they would never change on his watch. >> we're proud of the efforts that we're making to strengthen kenya's capabilities to our new security governance initiative. we're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with you in this fight against terrorism for as long as it takes. >> the trip also included a solemn remembrance of the more
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than 200 people who died in the 1998 embassy bombing here over 4,000, by the way, were hurt in that attack. the president laying a wreath in the fallen there. meanwhile, the crowd seemed to really enjoy the president's speech on sunday in which he called on kenyans to reject old traditions that are not consistent with today's world and values like marginalization of women. >> there is a tradition of repressing women. and treating them differently. and not giving them the same opportunities. and husbands beating their wives. and children not being sent to school. those are traditions. treating women and girlses asecond-class citizens. those are bad traditions. they need to change. they're holding you back. >> and in a very lighthearted moment that the kenyan people are sure to remember and probably talk about for a long
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time the president actually took part in a traditional dance. yep, that's the commander in chief right there cutting a rug at a dinner here in nairobi. next up for the president, a trip to ethiopia where once again, security cooperation and counterterrorism are expected to be very high on his agenda. we also suspect he'll talk a bit about renewable energy which has been a major economic driver in ethiopia. leland? >> all right, we'll look forward to hearing from kevin once he gets there in a couple of hours. kevin corke traveling with the president. it sounds like science fiction but nasa's actually discovered a happen itable planet it says it's a lot like earth. a former astronaut joins us live to tell us what this means for the future of space exploration. ♪
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leroy ciao is here to give us his thoughts and what it means for the future of space exploration. >> thanks for having me. >> so i understand it's called kepler 452-b. what can you tell us about what we discovered about this earth-like planet? >> well, the interesting thing about kepler it seems to be in the goldilocks sun. so the energy that is radiated on the planet gives it a temperature that's like not too cold and not too hot. just about right. so if the building blocks for life are there's the possibility that life could exist on the planet. >> so the space telescope, what kind of data can it collect? are we talking about images? you mentioned temperature reading too. what kind of data can it collect? >> well basically, it can look very far out into the galaxy and detect planets by looking at basically at their shadows as they cross across the sun. their own stars.
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so we unfortunately can't get chemical composition analysis but we can analyze temperatures and distances and things like that. it's very exciting to actually find a planet that appears to be earth like. now, it is quite a bit -- quite a far distance away. 1,400 light years away which is the distance that light would travel in 1,400 years so we have to look at it remotely. >> when we talk about the distances and area and that kind of thing with the discoveries it's kind of mind blowing to look up at the night sky and see a twinkle and think how long that it took to get here. how does this help us back here on earth? >> well, i mean, in information tells us there are planets like that out there. scientists have taken the discoveries and estimated how many how many earth-like stars there are in the milky way galaxy. they have come up with you know applied some assumptions on how many planets might be orbiting inhabitable zones.
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and they have come up with over 1 billion planets that could be kind of goldilocks like. that opens up the possibility of life elsewhere in our galaxy and elsewhere in the universe. >> what does it mean for us? do you envision a day, somewhere i would imagine far in the future where we would ever be able to travel to some of the other planets whether we'll determine if there is some kind of life form there? >> right. well you know to actually travel light years it will take some kind of a big technological break through. people have talked about worm holes. it's been the stuff of science fiction, physics, modern physics. it is theoretical possible some of the things could exist, but we are a long ways off. now, as we develop better sensors and telescopes we can determine more about planets like. this closer to home we saw the new horizons come back with some stunning images of pluto. stunning analyses of the chemical composition of pluto.
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things like that were not possible just decades before. so we're always moving ahead and hopefully we'll be able to learn more about planets like kepler in the future. >> i feel for pluto. you know, getting demoted. losing the planetary status and all the debate it's so interesting to get the new information. i feel bad for pluto. by the way, on the technological advances i have a lot of people tweet me and i'm sure you about the time travel they have personally uncovered. so we'll see if that comes to fruition. maybe we'll get a little bit closer to that new kepler fine. thank you for lending some expert tooez today. >> thank you for having me is. the senate is about to convene in a few minutes for a very rare sunday session. our fox capitol hill team is
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monitoring it all and what it means for you. plus, blowing up a world record. the strange way one man-made it into the history books. i'm guessing it involved balloons, stay with us. hi my name is tom. i'm raph. my name is anne. i'm one of the real live attorneys you can talk to through legalzoom. don't let unanswered legal questions hold you up, because we're here we're here and we've got your back. legalzoom. legal help is here.
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sector. greg, vets should have a portable voucher that can be used at any hospital. some vets do. and joe says close it. make v.a. vets cat or gocally eligible for medicaid until the v.a. is fixed. you have to see the kids when they first came in, it was gratifying to hear them. >> this is not your usual balloon party. jeremy telford built the largest balloon sculpture ever made by an individual measuring 65 feet by 32 feet. it took him days to make the massive dog which is a collection of nearly 8,900 balloons. have you ever tried to make one of those? i mean, making one is like -- like you need some sort of certification. >> you have a whole diagram there. i'm guessing he didn't blow them up by himself. >> hopefully a little helium tank. >> helium they'd float away. >> that would be cooler. >> get working on that.
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>> all right. that is it -- >> yeah. that's a first for washington. >> "fox news sunday" is next. >> see you next sunday. thanks for watching. i'm chris wallace. will hillary clinton face an fbi investigation over the handling of special secrets on her personal e-mail? >> i did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. we are all accountable to the american people to get the facts right. and i will do my part. plus -- the fallout over the new planned parenthood video and what it means for the abortion debate. we'll discuss bot
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