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make a sand sculpture of me. >> after that story, keep it classy, san diego. thanks for joining us, that's all for us today. thank you so much. >> see ya. hello, everybody, i'm uma pemmaraju. hillary clinton offering up her version of an apology to the american people for exclusively using her private e-mail server when she was secretary of state. >> i am sorry that this has been confusing the people and has raised a lot of questions. but there are answers to all these questions, and i will continue to provide those answers. >> but is it enough to counter her downward slide in her approval rating as her former staffers begin to testify in congress about those controversial e-mails and the ill fated ben ghazi attack, can she weather the fallout and does it matter? plus, with a rise in attacks against police officers in the u.s. how are police departments
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maintaining morale and what impact all this is having on recruiting efforts nationwide? and this week you have seen the images of desperation and agony on the faces of the thousands of refugees fleeing the violence of isis-controlled areas in the middle east and now you'll meet one woman who leading efforts to get washington capitals inclu s ca including washington to let them in. all next on "america's news headquarters." and we begin this hour in new hampshire where hillary clinton is picking up a major endorsement. new hampshire had senator jeanne shaheen publicly endorsing mrs. clinton in a crucial early nominating state where mrs. clinton has been slowly losing ground. according to the latest real clear politics average vermont senator bernie sanders has a more than three-point lead in mrs. clinton in new hampshire but will the support of senator
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shaheen be enough for her to overcome concerns about the e-mail scandal that continues to hound her campaign? we are live with the very latest from washington. molly? >> hillary clinton was asked about brian paglianio who helped her in her 2008 campaign and then at the state department. congressional investigators want to know if pagliano who set up clinton's controversial private e-mail server may have knowledge of the 30,000 e-mails deleted from the server. when his lawyer said he would plead the fifth to avoid self-incrimination instead of testifying clinton said, quote, we encourage everyone to cooperate. she also was asked why he was paid personally by the clintons separate from his state department salary to maintain their private e-mail server. here's what she said. >> with respect to personal services that he provided to me
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and my family, we obviously paid for those services. and did so because during a period of time we continued to need his technical assistance. and i think that's in the public record. >> clinton said yesterday she wishes she had made, quote, a different choice in setting up the private server when she first came on board at the state department and said she's sorry that this has caused such confusion for people. but that apology fell with republicans. rnc spokesman michael short put out a statement saying yesterday, quote, what's clear is hillary clinton regrets she got caught and is paying a political price, not the fact that her secret e-mail server put our national security at risk. clinton handed over her private server to the fbi last month. she said that she deleted around 30,000 e-mails because they were of a personal nature. investigators are trying to recover those e-mails.
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uma? >> all right, molly, thank you very much. now we want to hear from you because we have been reporting that recent polls have been showing support for mrs. clinton's presidential bid being hurt over her transparency and trustworthiness with the latest information this week that she wrote and sent e-mails containing classified information and the fact that she paid a former state department staffer to maintain her server should we be more concerned whether she'd jeopardize national security particularly since the onetime i.t. specialist is invoking his fifth amendment right and refusing to testify about that private server? you can tweet me and i'll try to get to some of your thoughts a little bit later on in our show. mrs. clinton was pressed on the e-mail controversy in an interview on friday only the third time since she gave a national televised interview since launching her campaign. she admitted having a private e-mail server was a bad choice and while she's sorry there's been so much confusion about it
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mrs. clinton insists she did nothing wrong. joining us is senator james woolsey former cia director. great to have you here today. >> good to be here, uma. >> with the latest revelations what impact do you think this has had while she was at the helm of the state department? >> clearly there were some violations and important ones here. it's one thing for there to be a conversation and if you're not sure exactly who was on either end, and a communication that you see and it's not stamped, you can understand how someone would have gotten confused about whether it was classified or not. but some of this material was reportedly reconnaissance, satellite photographs, those types of things are stamped with more code words than you can imagine. and to have some of those going through the system and not know whether it's classified or not is -- is quite a stretch.
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this all reminds me the bon mot what's the difference between an e-mail and a diamond, the answer is an e-mail is forever. >> all right, ambassador. critics are dismissing when it could lead to an indictment on classified information and intelligence. where do you see it all leading? >> i think they have to get in to it considerably more thoroughly than it is right now. the press is interested in a number of things that may not be particularly important. maybe mr. bloom blumenthal kept going back and forth on an unclassified link that they shouldn't have, but if their conversation was not classified then that's not nearly as big a deal as i think something that betrays a source or method, that is, that lets people outside the system know what we know about the things we're taking pictures
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of with reconnaissance satellites, what we know about signals, intercepts that we are doing, and that makes it possible for them on the other side not to let us hear any more, not to let us see what we want to see anymore and that could be real damaging. so far we haven't been able to tell exactly what's in the clinton materials, but if it's something like that, that betrays sources and methods, even if only inadvertently, it could be very troubling. >> indeed. i want to shift the focus now to the concerns over the iran nuke deal. it looks like the president has enough votes to see this through and prevent a veto override. that said, you've gone on the record saying that this deal is, quote, worse than worthless, yet the saudis are now saying they can live with this deal. let's take a listen. >> agreement prevents iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, has a robust and unprecedented inspections regime that includes
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inspections of all sites including military and suspected sites and that has a provision for snapback of the sanctions should iran violate the terms of their agreement. the kingdom was satisfied with these assurances. >> mr. ambassador, why do you think we're seeing a public reversal from the saudis about their fears over this deal since they were very vocal about their concerns just even weeks before this? >> well, they may have some side agreement on other matters or on these matters with the administration, diplomacy can soften language in a number of different ways. but this agreement is i think really a very bad deal. andy mccarthy, very fine lawyer, on his blog today points out that the corker legislation which was passed early in the
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summer that set up the system for congress and the senate to analyze this agreement was set up in such a way that the agreement had to be complete and had to be transferred to the executive branch or to the white house and then sent to the congress within five days of it being negotiated. well, not only was it not sent within five days, it has a lot of material that is excluded from it. the way the sanctions work, the way the inspections are going to take place. the details about how the inspections are going to reflect what we know as distinct from just what is known by, say, the iranians. this is a very, very partial set
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of materials that was transmitted to the congress. and it's -- just doesn't comply with the statute with the corker legislation. and, therefore, congress is entirely within its right not to take this up and to say once you transmit to us a real agreement, not something with lots of gaps in it that the iranians are insisting on, then we'll think about taking it up. but this is not an agreement that satisfies the law. there's no reason that congress should proceed with it. and when they do, if they do, at some later time, it could be taken up, let's say, in a new administration. >> mr. ambassador, always a pleasure to have you on the program. thank you so much for joining us with your insights. >> good to be with you. and now to a story that we've been keeping a close eye, the wild ride for investors who have been witnessing the bigtime roller coaster ruchl been with
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stocks taking a beating over fears over china's wobbling economy to yesterday's numbers on the august u.s. jobs report stoking fears for higher interest rates. it's clear wall street is worried about the future. even if you're not investing in the stocks the impact may have a domino effect on small businesses and consumer confidence. joining us now a man who knows a thing or two about gauging the economic health since he was former economic adviser to ronald reagan. arnold laffer. thank you for being here. people are wondering how long the wild ride may continue and doesn't it go beyond the 401(k) portfolios? >> it does go way beyond that but how long the ride will take it's a politically driven ride as you can see and, therefore, it really depends upon the politics and i don't see any resolution to the politics, uma, until 2017. the election is in november of
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2016. the new president whomever he or she may be will take office. it will take a period of time for legislation to go through. if you look at what the market was doing before reagan took office it was exactly like this type, going up and down, up and down. but as you can see it was an extraordinarily strong market. >> some indeed. but some say a lower unemployment figure is good news but wall street is bracing for higher interest rates and that would affect everyone from home buyers to folks trying to expand their businesses, right? >> it used to be the unemployment rate was the key measure to look at, but today it's not. the reason it's not, uma, there's been a huge group of people who have actually left the labor force. they didn't just go unemployed, they got so discouraged they left the labor force. if you look at the right number, the right number should be how many people are employed as a percentage of the adult population and that number has tumbled from 64.7% when clinton left office to today where it's
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about 59.3% which means we've lost about 14 million people in the labor force, employed in the labor force. that's a huge amount of loss, uma, and it just shows the desperation of this economy over the last 12 years. >> so, how concerned should we be about china's wobbly economy at a time when the economy holds so much of our debt? >> there's not much you could do about china. i would leave china alone basically and let them try to solve their own problems, but the same advice i'd give to the u.s. i'd give to china, don't do something, undo something. when you free markets, you make it all better. lower tax rates. get rid of regulations. repeal legislation. that would have a very salutary effect on the economy rather than putting in more taxes, putting in more regulations, trying to fine people more. you never can tax an economy into prosperity, uma. you really can't. governments have tried it over
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the years and it's always failed. it's governments like clinton and kennedy and governments like ronald reagan that have really given us the true prosperity that we need and i'm hoping the next president will do that. >> but if you boil it all down to the average person here in this country perception often seen as reality. what affect do you see it having on consumer confidence particularly as we're heading into the fall and the upcoming holiday season? >> i'm not really worried. these kind of markets happen from time to time from my stand point i'm fully invested and i'll continue to be. i don't see anything fundamentally wrong with the u.s. economy that has just popped up. we've had a bad 12 years of economic policies and the stock markets are low and the economy is weak. but nothing new has just come on to the horizon to lead me to believe there should be a big fall in the stock market. there's nothing there. in fact, if anything i think politics has led to a much
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stronger economy over the next four or five years. >> the bottom line just ride this out -- >> that's what i'm doing. >> and don't worry about it. >> to be able to engy a sunny day you need a storm every now and then. it's a point and counterpoint and you can't have a bull market every day for 1,000 years. you just can't. you need to have downturns and upturns. we're going through all of that and some of them are larger than others and the upturns are uncomfortable because then you have something left to lose. i'm not worried about this being a long-term phenomenon. >> you are always the everlasting optimist, mr. laffer. thank you very much. good to have you on board. >> thank you very much, uma. for more concerns about the economy you can check out "sunday morning futures" when we sit down with kentucky senator rand paul who gives his thoughts on regulations and the impending interest rate hike by the federal reserve. it airs sunday 10:00 a.m. eastern on fox news channel.
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investigators may be closer to catching the man suspected of gunning down a police officer. there is some new evidence that may lead them to the murder suspects who remain on the run. we'll take a close look at that. and the growing concerns about the attacks against our men and women in blue, what impact is it having on morale and recruitment nationwide? the faces of desperation, the agonizing plight of the thousands of refugees seeking shelters overseas. the humanitarian crisis now forcing europe and the west to respond. what lies ahead? there's news that for some their wait may be over. >> i lived with everything behind me, my family, my home, my mother, my sister. just i leave my life in peace. ♪ defiance is in our bones. new citracal pearls. delicious berries and cream. soft, chewable, calcium plus vitamin d. only from citracal.
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>> this is one of those international crises where the images just speak so much louder than words. there was posting and shelling and tensions erupting between port authorities and hundreds of refugees who are fleeing war and extreme poverty in their homeland. further north a hungarian woman holes up a sign saying we apologize to the refugees after their government refused to transport more to safety. who can forget this image of a little boy who drowned. his body washed up on the beach. but today finally some good news. thousands of re fu refugees hav it to germany and austria. the hungarian government deployed overnight more than 100 buses to transport about 4,000 of them to the austrian border. they arrived exhausted but happy. >> now, it's very, very happy. very, very. like man is free. free. now we are free.
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five days hungry. we in very, very, very bad position. >> thousands of others aren't so lucky. hungary has announced that bus service t the border is over and will not be repeated. many say they will walk all the way to a country that won't turn them away. >> hungarian government doesn't let us to get the train or buses or anything. we walk to austria then manger many. >> officials say up to 10,000 could cross the border by nightfall and there are millions more trying to do the same thing right behind them. it's already being called the worst refugee crisis since world war ii. uma? >> all right, thank you very much. the united nations describing the migrant crisis as the largest of its kind in almost 25 years and coming up a little later in our show i'll talk to a woman who has been to the region and gives us insights on the plight of these refugees and is trying to help them. from fleeing home to a
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bittersweet return the japanese government now allowing people to return to the town of nahara. this happening more than four years after its 7,400 residents were forced to evacuate following the horrific meltdown at the fukushima plant. it's the first town in that area to allow residents to go back to their homes after several years of decontamination efforts japan's central government now saying that the radiation levels are safe. well, the recent wave of attacks on police are prompting many officers to feel as though they have a 24-hour target on their backs. it's all part of the fallout as they confront anti-police protests in some communities. we'll take a look at the impact it's having on morale and recruitment. plus, authorities say they may have a break in the investigation of that murdered illinois police officer, the latest on the so much for suspects. >> the subjects are dangerous and i reiterate this, they murdered a police officer, so they're capable of doing anything. what super poligrip does for me
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welcome back, everybody. authorities are saying they have recovered a new piece of significant evidence from the crime scene where an illinois police officer was shot and killed. the sheriff's office also saying they have received even more surveillance footage but are not yet revealing more details about what it shows at this time. this as the search continues for the three men suspected of gunning down lieutenant joseph gliniewicz, a $50,000 reward being offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of those suspects. matt finn joining us live from fox lake, illinois, with the latest. >> reporter: it's an unusual feeling right now because it's labor day weekend after all. this is a very picturesque town. the sun is shining. the streets are buzzing and all this as three cop killers are on the loose. and police are urging people to
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keep their eyes and ears open. >> we're going to rely on the public. you're the public. instinctively you would know what is suspicious and what is not. simply not recognizing somebody from the area doesn't necessarily make them suspicious. suspicious could be behavior. suspicious could be some kind of an instinct on the person's part reporting it. >> reporter: now, the latest as police have recovered a crucial piece of evidence in the field near the initial crime scene. they've not told us what us. and perhaps even more important right now they are piecing together surveillance from home and nearby traffic cameras which they say could depict the three suspects on the run and also give them a timeline. >> the subjects are dangerous and i reiterate this, they murdered a police officer, so they're capable of doing anything. we have images of people that we believe are subjects that we'd be interested in talking to. >> reporter: despite the holiday weekend traffic there's a somber
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element here. i'm standing in front of a memorial growing bigger by the day. there are blue ribbons all over town and we're expecting a pretty big crowd for the funeral on monday, uma? >> all right, matt, thank you very much for the update. it's a very troubling situation and sad indeed. thank you. this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we've heard black lives matter. all lives matter. well, cops lives matter, too, so why don't we drop the qualifier and say lives matter and take that to the bank? >> that from the harris county texas sheriff expressing the frustration law enforcement is feeling nationwide as the dangers they're facing are become increasingly clear the toll it's taking is staggering. seven police officers murdered in the line of duty over the past month in illinois, texas, louisiana, nevada, and tennessee. and now here's part of the fallout. police recruitment is falling way down across the country, joining us with thoughts on this the former president of the law
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enforcement officers association, art gordon. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> it is unfortunate that we're talking about this at a time that police officers or people would like to be police officers are abandoning their dream amid this anti-cop climate. >> i find it really sad that at this point in this country that we have a lot of people who want to be police officers who have decided against it simply because of the extra dangers now faced. they don't want to be targets. police officers are losing the respect of the public. there's anti-police rhetoric, and i think it's time that the leaders of this country stand up and say enough is enough. we must go ahead and support the men and women in blue. >> i know that you led an effort to gather lots of signatures so that it would encourage the attorney general to come out and
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speak out against the violence against the police, and she did that. and i know that that's something that made a difference to you and others of your association. what more needs to be done in terms of setting the tone that officers are really needed and they are a vital part of our society? >> i think at this point the administration needs to make it clear that we will not tolerate the killing of police officers. i believe it's time that we look at proposing a federal crime for the murder of a police officer. we currently have a situation where federal agents who are killed in the line of duty are subject to federal law and the death penalty is in play. unfortunately, this does not apply to state and local officers. these men and women work with federal agents, federal law enforcement officers every day whether it's on a task force or with secret service on a presidential-type protection
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detail, and they should be afforded the same opportunity. and today i call upon vice president joe biden, who is a firm supporter of law enforcement, to lead a movement to go ahead and join with members of congress to propose a federal crime for the murder of a police officer. we must send a loud and clear message to everyone. >> and i've spoken to a number of officers off camera who basically tell me that they are feeling as though they're virtual sitting ducks at a time when the heated rhetoric against cops is soaring. what are you hearing from the folks that you know first hand? >> i totally agree with that statement. yes, police officers are worried. and they shouldn't have to be sitting there looking in the rear view mirror all the time or we shouldn't have to have another police officer sitting at a gas station when a deputy like darren goforth is pumping
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gas into his car to protect him. we need to take a stand now. we're losing many good candidates because they are afraid to step up and take the job as a police officer or even a federal agent. >> so, what are you telling young people who are looking forward and thinking about a career in law enforcement? those that might be having some doubts about whether to move ahead with this? >> what i tell them is simple. it's a great job. i spent my adult life as a federal agent. i have the highest regard for state and local officers and i do believe if the attorney general, if the president and our leaders in congress get together and make it a priority, to make it known that we will not tolerate the murder of police officers, then we will be able to recruit good and qualified people. there arenherent dangers in the job being a police officer but with the anti-police rhetoric and the fact that we now have cold-blooded killings
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of police officers people are having second thoughts and we need to let them know we are standing behind them. >> how much of the, you know, the black lives movement, you know, you know, black -- the fact that, you know, cops matter, too, other organizations coming together saying all lives matter, how much of this is fueling a lot of the concerns about whether or not officers can feel safe today? and what needs to be done to cool down this rhetoric? >> i think that the public needs to come out, first of all, and say they are fed up. we're a country of laughs and our law enforcement is here to protect us and keep us secure. they should not be subject to worry about being executed when they come out of their house in the morning or they're pumping gas in their police car or standing in front of a police sta station. what i say is we in this country need to get together and make
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our voices heard and say we support law enforcement. and i believe the first step in doing that is to look at federal legislation to make it a federal crime when a police officer is killed in the line of duty. >> art gordon, thank you very much for joining us. it's a very difficult time obviously for so many men and women in blue, and we salute you and your colleagues who are doing their best to keep us all safe. thank you very much. >> thank you, i appreciate it. coming up, a deadly drug making a comeback with a vengeance. and why the dea is saying it could be a matter of national security. and millions in the middle east being forced to flee their homes to escape war and poverty. so, what will the u.s. do as leaders in europe scramble to accommodate the many migrants as they can tax can -- as many mig they can? >> it's not an emergency, it's
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council joins us now. welcome, it's great to have you here today. i know this is a very difficult subject for you to talk about but one where you're trying to make a difference in a meaningful way. the rising tide of refugees has been no secret for years in terms of -- in fact, we've been witnessing the devastation in syria and also in iraq with isis coming into play. >> yeah. >> the fact is, there are critics who are saying that european capitals did nothing to really deal with this, and now they're looking as far west as the united states to come in and try to prevent a humanitarian crisis from going completely out of control. >> yes, uma, thank you for having me on. we have been fighting for eight years to try to let the world know that there's a serious crisis in iraq starting with iraq. the assyrian community that has been completely devastated for the last 10, 11 years. this is not surprising, but the
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crisis that you see today, the little boy that was drowned and the people that are walking to freedom, for freedom, these individuals, this is just a bigger problem that is engulfing the middle east. the middle eastern lives are at stake here and there has to be a global strategy that really fights the islamic ideology. it's not only this crisis issue, there's economical issue. the assyrian people we are being wiped out in that region. so, looking at defeating the islamic ideology is probably first and foremost. the second is the need -- the need that we have to meet for these people to be helped. from a funding perspective. the iraqi christian relief council has been on the ground for eight years serving these people. >> but you recently returned from that region. >> i did. >> and i know that you saw a very desperate situation. talk to me for a moment about the women, children, the families that are being impacted by this in a very big way. >> yes, absolutely. we were in jordan, in amman, and
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seeing the women being reduced to begging. when these people have had everything, they've left everything. there was an old man that i kissed his hand and i wept, because he speaking my alanguag he was dying on someone's doorstep and he should have died in his own home in his own bed. >> we are not talking about people with no money. these are families well established, upper middle-class family, for example, who lost everything. they had to leave particularly because isis has ravaged and targeted these christian communities. >> yes. >> wiping them out. >> yes, exactly. that's why short term -- on the short-term standpoint we need to fund these people. we receive funding from all over the world. we help them in jordan, syria, lebanon, turkey, in iraq, but also from a long-term strategy we have to think about that. there are two efforts that are actually under way right now. one is evacuating people from there, extracting them, which good hearted people unknowingly,
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although they're doing a good job saving these people's lives, they're destroying ethnic communities. for example, the assyrians our history is 6,700 years old, our organization along the partners in the assyrian community are helping actively to preserve, we're spearheading really the efforts to preserve our culture and the language in the diaspora the organization i work for spearheads the restore and return which is extremely crucial. restoring these people's lives here, but ultimately taking these people back, those who want to go back to their ancestral homeland, northern iraq, southern turkey waffles the ancestral homeland and there is a model being worked in northeast syria we're calling it a promise of ours and we're actively working in rebuilding people's lives there, so these two efforts that are under way right now we have to pay attention to. >> because eventually some of the people are going to want to go back as you pointed ut because it's part of their heritage and it's not like they want to live in a foreign
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country forever obviously. >> exactly. >> real quickly we've talked about the cultural destruction, that isis has gone after the sacred sites and destroyed the temples and satellite image shows the before and after if we can put it up there the temple before you can see the outline of where the temple stood and now you see it completely wiped out. what impact is it having on the psyche of the people that you see out there? >> i'll give you a brief example. my treasure, seven of her family members were kid napped by isis in syria on a monday evening. we heard about it on tuesday. on monday we woke up in nashville and we saw our mosque being defaced by these criminals. my treasure although she was weeping for her family members, she said my back just broke because they're going after my nation. it's different when they are trying to wipe out my heritage,
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for us to be recognized as a group as syrians, we're all one people. myself, we get the yazidis, for this we are pleading with the pope. the iraqi christian relief council is hosting an event on september 21st in washington, d.c., a vigil, really, with our interfaith christian communities, also with the jewish community. because we have to have the pope really on the floor of congress for the first time in the history of this nation to really call this a genocide and really to take a stronger stance and really please visit our website at victimsofisis.org and you can step up and partner with us. we need partners to restore and return these people to their homeland when isis is defeated because isis will be defeated. >> we hope so. our heart breaks for your people and the thousands of people who are trying to seek refuge
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overseas. >> i was one of them, uma, germany gave me asylum and seeing the child drowning and the people being discouraged in their car or truck, it could have been me. >> unbelievable, heartbreaking. thank you so much for your courage and commitment. >> thank you. >> all the best to you. >> thank you. sand sculptures hitting the beach for a weekend of work. >> i always tell people the best tools you have, you find them right at the end of your arms. mornings. wonderful, crazy mornings.
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so instead of waiting on hold, we'll call you when things are just as wonderful... [phone ringing] but a little less crazy. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. welcome back. the dea struggling to contain the deadly new outbreak of an old drug flowing into our borders. as marijuana becomes legal in more states there's a much deadlier substance gripping suburban america at a rate four times than what it was a decade ago. we're talking about heroin. james rosen sits down with the new man in charge. >> reporter: when you think of heroin abuse you imagine a setting like this but the new head of the drug enforcement
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administration wants you to understand in the heroin epidemic now gripping the united states where the casualty rate has doubled since 2011, the setting increasingly looks like this. >> there's an enormous supply of heroin. it's cheap. so now we see it every where. not just in poor neighborhoods but in wealthy neighborhoods. not just among kids but among adults. men and women, black and white, it's every where. >> reporter: in his first interview since taking the reins of the agency in may, acting administrator chuck rosceneburg a career federal prosecutor and fbi official said talk of a renegade culture among dea's agents is overstated. >> there are people in this agency as well as other have done stupid things. if you want to talk about our culture we're doing the most dangerous gang and cartel cases.
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if you read everything we're busting kids in their ivy dorm rooms for smoking dope. >> do you see substance abuse a national security threat? >> potentially. one thing we have to ask ourselves is where is this money going? this is a multibillion dollar industry. sure some of it is going to terrorist organizations. we've seen that. so that worries me quite a bit. >> reporter: also worrisome is the escape from a mexican prison of joaquin guzman, aka el chapo. u.s. officials identify mexico as the primary source for the heroin scourge. would you say that there's a single sector of the mexican state apparatus at any level that is free of corruption? >> i don't know. i would hope so. i will say it this way.
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there are parts of the government in mexico, military and law enforcement with whom we work very, very closely. they are good and trusted allies. >> reporter: despite that alliance the new dea chief decline an opportunity to refute controversial aserges about the mexican government recently made by gop presidential front-runner donald trump. is mexico as a matter of policy sending gangs, criminal, rapists across your border. >> i think your question with all due respect is tied to presidential politics and that's a subject i'll not wade into. >> reporter: another thing he said is pot. he's never smoked marijuana and opposed to its decriminalization. the only vice he succumbs to is consumption of diet dr. pepper. shifting gears in a big way. some of the best sand sculptures in the world gathering in san
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diego for the annual u.s. sand sculpting challenge. these artists have 300 tons of sand at their disposal showing their creativity taking place on a pier normally used for cruise ships. this year's contest has a theme run up to athletes to the real olympics next year. that's going to be a wrap for us. thank you so much for joining us. i hope wherever you are you make it a great day and great holiday weekend as we say good-bye to summer. stay with us, more news right after the break. ♪ he doesn't need your help. until he does. three cylinders, dual overhead cams and 50 horsepower. go bold. go powerful. go gator.
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. hello, everyone happy labor day weekend. i'm kelly wright, welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> i'm molly line. topping the news this hours tens of thousands of refugees escaping from terror, running for their lives to europe. but are those nations actually equipped to handle the surge? and what does this mean for the conflicts in the middle east? >> neither side backing down one day after a federal judge jailed county clerk kim davis for defying orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on her christian beliefs. the latest in this high-profile case pitti
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