martha: three more. the babies are are color coded to tell them apart, and they have an older brother who is three years old. i think they're going to be color coded. bill: so mom cried, and dad was how in the hell are we going to pay more this? [laughter] martha: oh, my gosh. congratulations. have a great weekend, everybody. ♪ ♪ jenna: the presidential campaign now heating up down south as republican candidates preparing to take the stage in a key primary state. hello, everybody, welcome to "happening now," i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. as many as 10,000 people expected at an event in greenville, south carolina. it kicks off just a few hours from now. several gop candidates will be speaking at a take back america forum hosted by the conservative heritage action group. senior political correspondent mike man well is live in greenville with more. mike? >> well, jon, good morning. south carolina is the very

important first in the south primary state, and so you have 11 republican candidates making the trip here to greenville to make their pitch. let's take a look at the lineup. you've got governor jeb bush, governor scott walker, dr. ben carson, senator ted cruz, senator rick santorum, senator marco rubio, senator rand paul, carly fiorina off her debate performance, governor bobby jindal and governor kris kristy. the real -- chris christie. the real clear politics poll here in south carolina has trump in the lead followed by carson, bush, cruz, rubio and fiorina. trump is fielding scrutiny today after his answer of a reporter's question last night in new hampshire. >> problem in this country, it's called muslims. we know our current president is one -- >> right. >> you know he's not even an american. >> we need this question. >> but anyway -- [laughter] we have training camps where they want to kill us. that's my question, when can we

get rid of them? >> we're going to be looking at a lot of different things, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. we're going to be looking at that and plenty of other things. >> today governor chris christie didn't blast trump but talked about how he would have handled that kind of situation. >> somebody at one of my town hall meetings said something like that, i would correct them and say, no, the president's a christian, and he was born in this country. i'm not going to lecture him about what to do, and i wouldn't have permitted that. if someone brought that up at a town hall meeting, i would have said, no, before we answer, let's clear things up for the rest of the audience, and i think you have an obligation as a leader to do that. >> south carolina senator lindsey graham will not be here this greenville making his pitch tonight, he'll be in iowa where voters don't know him as well. jon? jon: mike emanuel in south carolina for us on an interesting friday. thank you. we also want to hear from you. judy miller says the media do not respect donald trump. we'll get into that later on on

"happening now," but do you agree? yes or no? it's the topic of the day on our live chat. go to foxnews.com/happeningnow to join the conversation. jenna: in the meantime, new speculation that carly fiorina could attract women voters disenchanted with hillary clinton and help close the gender gap for the gop. polls showing mrs. clinton, who is campaigning in new hampshire, is losing support from women. our chief washington correspondent, james rosen, is live with more on this. >> jenna, good morning. the objective is no longer to fight her way onto a debate stage, but to cultivate especially in centrist women voters, the notion that she is that heroic, in my lifetime candidate who can deliver them a historic first they have been waiting for their entire lives. women have outnumbered men in presidential balloting since 1980, but the fiorina team knows that barack obama clobbered mitt romney by 12 points among women, but when we look, for example, at how white women voted, it was romney who came out 12 points

ahead. jay newton small is a correspondent for time magazine and author of the forthcoming book, "broad influence." >> we have to figure out campaigning, we have to figure out relating to people, doing retail. does she have the same abilities, can this debate performance translate into a real sort of presence on the campaign trail that is presidential? does she have the gravitas and this aura to attract voters and to keep them? >> the day after the debate fox news' random samplings of women voters in nearby union station found some excited by her performance, others stirred by the prospect of cracking what hillary clinton likes to call the last glass ceiling. >> i would love to see a woman in office. i think she would be great. i think it will be really cool to see her against hillary. >> i still have confidence that isms can be overcome because

both of these women have an outstanding record. >> no one should assume democrats have a lock on the female vote. ronald reagan still won the women's vote by 12 points. and in 2000 george w. bush lost women by 12 points to al gore but then narrowed that gap to three points in '04. jenna: something to consider, james, thank you. jon: joining us for more on the important women's vote, nina'ston, a fox news contributor, jamie weinstein is also with us, senior editor at daily caller. nina, hillary clinton's support among women has been flagging of late. does carly fiorina offer, perhaps, the west republican alternative? -- the best republican alternative? >> well, carly fiorina provides a great alternative vision for women in politics. she doesn't see women as a special interest group, and i thought she beautifully captured that in the debate when she wouldn't -- to the question of

should you put a woman's face on the $10 or $20 bill. all the other candidates were struggling to come up with an idea, and she said that's an empty gesture. that's not what this is about. yeah, i think she's great for the republican brand, and it's something the republicans need. she will appeal to some independents and is moderates. she's not going to peel away at hillary clinton's core supporters, however. jon: jamie, democrats launched the war on women as a campaign theme the last time around, blamed that on republicans. would the presence of a carly fiorina on the ticket or at least, you know, very visible within a party, does it blunt some of that? >> well, it certainly makes the narrative much harder. how do do you say the republicas are leading a war on women when let's say the top of the ticket, the person running for president, is a woman? it makes it much more difficult. does that mean it's going to change the course of how women vote? maybe not. but she certainly, i think, can peel some voters away if she is

more impressive than hillary just with her record. she had a stunning debate success, but the question that follows now is can she continue on and defend her record at hp when there's more scrutiny applied to it? that is what she's going to have to do now. she didn't have so much scrutiny going in, but it will now be applied to her. jon: yeah. republicans seem to be looking for somebody who comes from outside government, nina. that's why donald trump and ben carson and carly fiorina are all doing so well. so she brings that added cache to the potential ticket here. i mean, if people are looking for somebody from outside government, she certainly fits the bill. >> outsiders are definitely in this s&p. but keep in mind -- in this season. keep in mind, jon, they've been in at other times, and they haven't held up in those polls. we have a long history of that, and it's typically a career politician who does win the nomination. so there's a long way to go in this, and jamie's right about

carly fiorina. she is going to come under or a lot harsher light right now. she went into that debate knowing she needed to get known, to capture people's attention. she's got that attention now. we'll see how well she holds up to the scrutiny that's sure to follow. jon: well, and that kind of scrutiny generally includes a lot more attacks. how is she positioned to weather more attacks on her record or, you know, issues, whatever other candidates might throw at her, jamie? >> well, she's faced them before when she ran for senate in california in 2010. barbara boxer, who she was running against, put attacks on her record as the ceo of hue let act ard. she ended up raising by -- losing by ten percentage points. that's in liberal california. she may do better across the country, and she's quite able to answer those attacks. you've seen it before where people have mounted those attacks against her, and she was able to stand up and defend her record are. it'll be up to the american

people to decide which side do they believe, do they believe she was this amazing ceo or something less than that? i think, you know, she's more than capable of defending herself. jon: some tantalizing possibilities ahead in this race. we'll certainly have you back to talk about them. in the meantime, there is this: will he or won't he? there is speculation about vice president biden getting into the race this morning. national review reports a guy in charge of laying some of the groundwork for a potential campaign was overheard saying he is, quote, 100% sure that joe is this. nina, do you buy that? i mean, is joe biden going to run? >> i think we -- i approached this report with a bit of skepticism only because this, the person who was saying this was part of the draft biden movement. so he has an interest, of course, in joe biden running. and it was something that was overheard on a train. we do these to wait for some confirmation on that. but it's a good time for biden

to get in. it's a time when hillary's not doing well, she's struggling against bernie sanders even in iowa and new hampshire. and he needs to get in sooner rather than later. so, you know, looking at both sides of that equation, we'll be watching this. it's friday, we'll be watching this over the weekend for sure. jon: how big a hand grenade would that be in the democratic tent, jamie, if all of a sudden the sitting vice president is challenging the former first lady, former secretary of state? >> it would be big, you know, with hillary struggling a lot of people are wondering who could be actually the nominee if not hillary? they're not sure if bernie sanders, for all his ruckus in the democratic party, could be the nominee. then you have the sitting vice president get in, and there's a clear alternative. it will be interesting to see if he does get in, will he get in before the first democratic debate which is in the middle of october? and then he'll come on the stage and maybe light the room on fire coming in from nowhere to take on hillary clinton.

jon: and, you know, joe biden has been the loyal foot soldier to barack obama. how does the president handle this kind of thing if, in fact, joe biden does enter the race? nina? >> gingerly. [laughter] i think he probably stays out of it and lets, just let the arrows fly. i mean, it wouldn't be in his interest to take sides in this. and i think also agreeing with jamie, i think biden -- again, if he gets in -- to see him get on stage mid october on that, in that debate stage, that's doing to be key in the shape of this race moving forward. jon: it'll be be with fascinating to watch -- >> yeah. jon: thanks very much. nina easton, jamie weinstein. jenna: lawmakers hard at work on capitol hill debating a pair of anti-abortion bills one of which would defund planned parenthood after undercover videos showed

officials discussing the harvesting of body parts from aborted fetuses. doug mckelway has the details. >> with only five legislative days left before funding for the federal government runs out, congress is again wrangling over who would take the potential blame for any government shutdown, and a key part of this debate is this fight over planned parenthood funding. and especially these horrific videos which have recently surfaced. some conservatives in the house remain intent on attaching a rider to any continuing resolution to fund the government that would defund planned parenthood. the gop leadership is warning them not to do that. in fact, in a closed door meeting yesterday, they produced some internal polling documentation that said republicans would, indeed, take the blame for any government shutdown should it happen. meanwhile, the democratic leadership huddled with the president at the white house yesterday. they say they will support only a clean, short-term continuing resolution with no defunding of

planned parenthood attached. meanwhile, today the house is voting on two separate provisions to abortion rules, the protection act of 2002 which would protect babies born alive after a failed abortion, and the partial birth abortion ban act of 2003 which outlawed that kind of late-term abortion. these revisions would deny medicaid payments to those states that suspect health care providers of violating these law ares. here's chairman bob goodlatte of the house judiciary committee. >> just last week heard direct testimony by two grown women who, as babies, survived attempted abortions. the number of one of them was advised by planned parenthood to have an abortion, but as she testified, instead of dying, after 18 hours of being burned in my mother's womb, i was delivered alive. >> this bill is not about protecting children born alive. its real intent is to further undermine a woman's right the choose, a right that has been

constitutionally guaranteed for more than 42 years by roe v. wade. >> congressman adam kinzinger told me just a little while ago that conservative republicans who want to go to the mat over a potential government shutdown see that as a prelude to a challenge to speaker boehner's leadership which may happen as early as next week after the pope's visit. so all of this debate over government funding and the abortion fight has to be seen in the context of a potential challenge to the speaker's leadership. we'll see that potentially next week. jenna? jenna: a story to watch, doug, thank you very much. jon: there's a big break this the mysterious and very sad case of a little girl known as baby doe. new reports that police have identified the body of the child found several months ago on a beach in massachusetts. plus, the refugee crisis in europe becoming more chaotic by the day. croatia now dealing with thousands of people desperate for a better life. and there's this -- fancy

sports cars racing through the streets of a very wealthy neighborhood. police sending a stern message to the owner who has now raced out of the country.

jon: some new information on story we've been following closely on "happening now." a new report reveals that the young girl whose body was found on a massachusetts beach has now been identified. the daily beast is reporting the little girl, known as baby doe, is actually named bella and the police are now looking for the child's mother, said to be rochelle bond of massachusetts. the break in the case apparently coming after a search warrant was executed at a massachusetts home. the little girl's body was found in june by a woman who was walking her dog on deer island. testing of pollen samples in the trash bags in which the little girl was hidden suggested she came from the boston area. there is still no word yet on

the cause of her death as we get more. jenna: so sad. in the meantime, croatia is seeing a huge influx of refugees, taking in 6500 migrants in 24 hours. 6500 in 24 hours. the country having trouble coping with all the refugees, making their way through croatia since hungary closed the border crossing. gregal lot is live in london -- talcott is live in london and has for more us. >> thousands of migrants remain on the move in year, and they are -- in europe, and they are changing their movements as the countries there change their policies. and they're changing literally by the hour. let's look at what the route has been. the route coming from syria and other countries that the migrants are taking now through turkey, greece, macedonia and serbia. it did go through hungary. it shut its doors. now it goes through croatia, or does it? a total of 14,000 migrants in

the past two days have come into croatia via serbia by bus, by train, even by foot. but just in the last couple of hours, the prime minister has said his country is overwhelmed, and in the last hour or so we've been watching buses of refugees being transported back to the hungarian border with croatia, and it appears hungary might be transiting those refugees up to we don't know where. also those refugees inside of croatia are going knot to slovenia where at least a thousand are expected on their way to austria and, hopefully, to germany. slovenia says it won't accept those my grants, and it will turn them back, so another flashpoint developing there. you're right, jenna, we are just back from the region, and our crew, our team's impression of what's going on there aside from being very confusing is one of desperation. but also speaking to the my grants and the refugees who --

migrants and refugees who we made contact with, their determine nation and dignity after weeks and weeks of travel. one man we spoke to from syria, he was desperate to get his two children back into school. those kids, ages 8 and 9, hadn't been in school for two years. another iraqi man who we spoke to who said, hey, i've survived the taliban, i've survived isis. he kind of implied he could survive this too. most experts that we've been talking to on the ground there say the e.u. has to come up with a better unified response to this crisis, the u.s. and the west have to better fund refugee camps around syria and, of course, the terrible war in syria's got to be dealt with too. that's the main source of all this problem. back to you, jenna. jenna: such a big question about what's next. greg, thank you. jon: there are breaking developments surrounding the war in syria as the u.s. and russia agree to direct talks, and the pentagon claims president outen

is increasing his military support of the assad regime. will anything good come from these discussions? plus, the fed holds off on raising interest rates and traders react by selling. an update on wall street next.

jon: to a fox business alert now, stocks taking a dive the day after the fed decided not to raise interest rates, at least not for now. lauren simonetti knows all about why. she's with the fox business network and joins us live with more. lauren? >> what a decision. so, jon, the fed punted yet again yesterday, and the market totally fumbling today. stocks risk erasing their gains for the week right now, that's how bad this selloff is, and the federal reserve risks losing its credibility. fed chair janet yellen promised us higher interest rates this year. many on wall street called yesterday her golden

opportunity, and thousand the fed has just -- and now the fed has just two policy meetings left to hike, if they decide to hike in 2015. the worry today -- and this is the reason for the global selloff -- is that the fed didn't hike because the economy isn't strong enough to handle higher rates, not even a small quarter basis point move. and that worry, like i said, is global. japanese stocks falling 2%, chinese stocks down 3% this week. many european markets are down 2 and 3%, and right here in the u.s. the dow is tanking by 153 points, and believe it or not, that is far off the lows of the session. so your 401(k) might be struggling, you're searching for places to find returns. there aren't too many of those aside from the dividend-paying utilities. folks with savings, they're missing out on interest. money market and savings accounts earning not even half of 1%. and whether you have your money parked in a cd for a year or five years, it's not earning more than 1%. the fed's decision is killing

savers. it is helping those with loans or credit card balances, but if the economy's not growing, that hits demand for things like oil. it makes businesses nervous. and as we approach the holidays, folks won't be spending much money, and the question is what money, jon, do they have to spend? have you looked at wages and inflation in the fed says inflation really isn't out there. you certainly haven't seen inflation in your paycheck. if you look at median household incomes now, right around $54,000, we're 6.5% less than we were before the great recession. so wages are another big problem in the economy. jon: yeah. obviously, traders don't like this fed decision not to move. >> yep. jon: maybe portends some weakness ahead. lauren simonetti at the fox business network, thank you. >> thank you. jenna: well, right now the u.s. and russia agreeing to meet face to face to discuss the civil war raging in syria. secretary of state john kerry speaking about the importance of communication between the two powers after landing this morning in london.

take a listen. >> the president believes that mil-to-mil conversation is an important next step, and i think hopefully will take place very shortly, and it will help to define some of the different options that are available to us as we consider next steps in syria. jenna: this comes as the pentagon confirms russia is stepping up military support for the syrian president, president assad, sending several attack helicopters to the country. james, also what we learned this morning is that the defense secretary, our defense secretary spoke to his russian counterpart for about 50 minutes, so the talks are already happening. the question is, why now? >> i think it's clear at this point that president putin wants to prop up his client, which is the assad regime. the assad family has had ties to the russians for decades.

and i think it's strange that we would be trying to cooperate with moscow in this considering the fact that the president for years has been saying that assad needs to leave, and that's the only way, that's the only path forward. i don't see much room for cooperation considering the tact that we are directly opposed to what the russians -- or at least in theory -- opposed to what they are doing in syria. jenna: so what do you think could actually come from these talks? >> well, i think you're going to see perhaps a bolstering of attacks, unfortunately, on the moderate syrian rebels. vladimir putin is going to present himself next week, he's going to be speaking at the u.n. general assembly, and he'll be presenting himself as the leader of an anti-isis coalition, and he's going to try to get the europeans and us as well to join him. if you actually look at most of the attacks that the syrian regime has been launching, they're not against isis, they're against the moderate syrian rebels who we claim -- again in theory -- to be

supporting. i think it's very important, i just want to say it's very important that we not fall for this. jenna: well, and to your point, we've seen the photos. we know that president assad has used barrel bombs and chemical weapons not only against moderates, but also against children in syria. >> yeah. jenna: so if we're working with the russians and the russians are working with assad, then are we supporting a man who kills children in his own country? >> i think, unfortunately, that's the outcome of this policy. and most of these migrants from syria are fleeing assad. they're telling journalists and they're telling asylum officials in these countries that it's the assad regime that they're fleeing. this is all very reminiscent of back in 2012 when president obama announced his red line, the red line had been violated and there was talk about perhaps intervening in syria and then who came to save the day? president vladimir putin with a plan to remove syrian chemical weapons. and we, we fell for that, and we went along with that, and as we know -- because there have been

the use of chemical weapons since then -- the chemical weapons were not fully removed. i think this is part of a broader problem, a broader strategic concept on the part of this administration which seeks rapprochements with iran. and we don't want to do anything that will anger the iranians. that's why we have this deal, this nuclear deal. and we don't want to take on assad because assad is allied with iran. so we're allying ourselves with some nasty characters here. jenna: there are those that say, listen, out of all of that, isis is the priority because they pose a threat right now, and if we're going the work with the russians and take care of isis, good. to that, you say what? >> i believe that the tacit support for the assad regime is driving the extremism and is driving people into the hands of isis. the, as you said, the barrel bombs, the horrific massacre of the sunni population, they are -- this is encouraging people. this is radicalizing the population. and this is what is driving

people to isis. so any sort of tacit support, overt support that's given to the assad/iranian axis in this war is only going to help isis in the long run. jenna: james, thank you. and we'll be right back. >> thank♪ you. ♪cinnamon is my soul mate. ♪no debate 'cause it tastes so great.♪ ♪that's why i got milk face. ♪la-la-la-la-la.

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include more women. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon with more. >> well, a fight is brewing between the navy secretary and the next chairman of the joint chiefs, general joe dunford, who served as marine commandant until recently. the issue involves whether the marines will be allowed to ask for permission to exclude women from some combat jobs after a recent study of female marines concluded, quote, the all-male units moved faster, shot more accurately, could carry more weight and suffered fewer injuries than gender-integrated units. today we've learned the marine corps plans to ask for an exemption from the defense secretary to keep their infan try and artillery positions all male. but navy secretary may bit, the civilian who oversees the marine corps, says he won't ask for an exemption and immediately questioned the study. >> nobody's asking for an exemption in the navy. i've been pretty clear, and i've been pretty clear about this for a while, i'm not going to ask for an exemption. for the marines.

>> recently two females graduated from the grueling army ranger school, becoming the fist two women -- first two women to do so. the army, navy and air force plan to open all of their combat jobs to women next year. congressman duncan hunter, himself a former marine, is demanding that mabis resign because he, quote, openly disrespected the marine corps as an institution, and he insulted the competency of marines birdies regarding their professional judgment, their combat experience and their quality of leadership. the debate began in 2013 when then-defense secretary leon panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey, ordered an end to women's exclusion from all front line combat jobs. the service chiefs have until next year to ask for an exemption. jenna? jenna: what a story. jennifer, thank you. jon: well, right now there may be another shake-up underway in the race for the white house. more than 20 million people tuning into the republican

debates this week. the cnn moderator focused many of the questions on donald trump, the front runner. but new data shows the public's interest in trump may be starting to wane. with more on this, let's wring in judith miller, author and fox news contributor. lynn sweet is also with us, washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun-times." welcome to both of you. >> hi, jon. jon: august 6th was apparently the day that donald trump got the most media mentions in headlines and news reports and so forth. he is way down from that since then, lynn. are the media turning on donald trump? >> i think the media is reporting on donald trump's own mistake and missteps and miscalculations in his run for president. and that's where the story is now and, jon and judy, that's what reporters are supposed to do on the campaign trail. check if what he says is right, and if he says things that is

provocative, insulting or patronizing, we report it. and one other thing as we get into this, the first round of trump mania was very reasonable almost over the top coverage of him because he was a candidate who had an enormous amount of attraction. but when he has nothing new to say, he can't demonstrate he has think substance behind his style, media's going to write about it and cover it. jon: well, he has been a media fixture for a couple of decades, especially in new york where he bases his business, judy. is that why he has been getting so much coverage up til now? >> well, i think that's part of it. he is a genius at attracting attention and at getting free publicity for himself. as he told fox news, he doesn't have to spend any money. he told maria bartiromo because, in fact, we're giving him all this free publicity. look, i think people who cover politics have their views. some of them are open about them, some of them are not.

but i think it kind of breaks down this way, jon and lynn: conservatives suspect that deep down donald trump is actually a liberal and that he's not one of them. and liberals don't like him because he's the epitome of everything they dislike about sudden, you know, discovery of issues like immigration. but finally, the people who cover politics think it's serious x they don't like to see -- and they don't like to see a reality tv star hog the limelight. and as peggy noonan said, make politics a reality tv sport. jon: so many of the questions the other night, lynn, were, you know, revolved around donald trump. it was asking other candidates to say, well, donald trump says he would raise taxes. what do you think about that? is that the appropriate way to run that kind of a forum? >> well, i think when you have a debate, there's no -- this isn't like moses came down from the mount and said here are the commandments for how you do a

debate. fox had its way, cnn has its way. frankly, if judy and i were running the debate, we might even do it differently, okay? [laughter] i think when whoever is the front runner has to answer, i think that's a standard. go ask the front runner who -- and give them the respect of being taken seriously. in a three-hour debate, i think everything gets evened out. what an amount of time to watch even with the unwieldy 11 people on stage. so i think the front-loading of trump maybe was a good show business calculation too because we didn't want to see him. i think everything leveled out in the end, and if somebody really wanted to say something, there was men bety of time to -- plenty of time to elbow your way in. jon: it seemed to be a less combative donald trump on stage. is that by design, judy? is he trying to mellow his message and maybe win new fans thereby? >> well, i think he is, and he's very good at reading the public and understanding when the bloom

is off the rose. i mean, look, he's now resorting to things like arranging meetings with vladimir putin in new york at the u.n. in order to attract, continue to attract attention. you're going to see that again and again. but the issue is, as lynn mentioned, as long as he won't come clean about his policies, where he stands, what his specifics are, it's hard for people -- and frustrating for reporters -- to take him seriously, and that's what i think you're seeing a lot of us react to. jon: as i mentioned earlier, he is not getting the kind of media mentions that he was just a couple of weeks ago. >> no. despite cnn's 44% of the questions mentioning him. 44%. jon: interesting. >> well, one thing is if your whole campaign is predicated on being the front runner, you know, i'm number one in the polls, then what do you say when you become number two or three in the polls? jon: we'll see what happens. still, he's still out there in front. judy miller, lynn sweet, thank you both. >> thank you.

jon: we also want to hear from you. judy miller thinks members of the media don't really respect donald trump. do you agree, me or no? go to foxnews.com/happeningnow, get your thoughts into that conversation. jenna: new details on the charleston church massacre. friend of the accused gunman now arraigned on federal charges. we're going to tell you why. and bowe bergdahl's defense team is having their say in a hearing to determine if the sergeant charged with deserting his post will actually face a military trial. we're live outside the court with more. ♪ (woman) one year ago today mom started searching for her words.

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jenna: new information now on a tragedy in south carolina. a friend of the man charged with murdering nine worshipers at a charleston church pleading not guilty to charges of lying to federal authorities. court documents revealing that 21-year-old joey meek told an fbi agent he didn't know about dylann roof's plan to shoot churchgoers but the fbi says that, in fact, is a lie.

roof is facing nine counts of murder stemming from that shooting which took place in mid june. nine people were killed including the reverend clementa pinckney who was also a state senator. jon: right now it is day two in a hearing on sergeant bowe bergdahl. the prosecution has stressed the dangers of searching for him when he left his post in afghanistan back in 2009. his defense team is now getting its turn this court, planning to call four witnesses to the stand. casey steagall live from fort sam houston in san antonio. case key. >> and, jon, we just learned that sergeant bowe bergdahl will not be one of those witnesses taking the stand. there's a lot of speculation leading up to today that he may, in fact, speak. we would hear from him publicly for the first time, but his defense team says that will not happen. they're just going to call four different witnesses. they've spent much of the morning talking to some of his fellow soldiers who were in his platoon. sergeant greg leatherman, in

particular, describes the 29-year-old as an introvert but someone who was likable. however, bergdahl, he says, was not finding fulfillment in his mission while he was deployed in afghanistan. he went on to say that he expressed his worries to his first sergeant and that he was told at the time to drop it. military law experts sabering call the's defense team will try and paint their client as a soldier with mental illness history because yesterday one of his lawyers said bergdahl had been discharged from the coast guard following a mental health evaluation. here's the chief lawyer for the accused, eugenefy dell. >> look, it's a government that has the burden of proof in this case. even though, you know, at this level it's just probable cause. it's a tiny little burden of proof. >> so far the prosecution has mounted their case saying that bergdahl planned his escape for weeks. quote, sneaking off post under the cover of darkness. the government calling three witnesses yesterday, all

commanding officers of bergdahl's platoon, his company and battalion. all men testifying how fellow soldiers were put president in extreme danger -- in extreme danger working in incredibly harsh conditions as they searched for bergdahl for 45 days. once this hearing concludes, all of the information will be turned over to the commanding general of the u.s. army forces command, and that general will have the ultimate say in which bowe bergdahl will face a full court-martial. jon? jon: all right. casey steagall reporting from texas. thank you. jenna: an unusual rescue mission for a fire department. typically, as you know, old clothes can wind up in these donation bins. they sort of look like big mailboxes, if you will. a man found himself stuck inside one, and that's what resulted in this interesting call. we'll get into it. also, you've seen this video, fancy sports car roaring down the streets of beverly hills. why police are kicking

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godfather -- >> who hasn't? >> forget about being a juror in this mob trial. seriously? >> we'll ask our #oneluckyguy, attorney arthur aidala, about that. >> and they tell you what not to watch? jon: no, they can't. >> there you go! forget about it! jon: looking forward to that, thank you. jenna: beverly hills police are cracking down on street racing after -- well, you saw this, right? a million dollar ferrari and a white porsche caught speeding through stop signs in the city. the cars connected to a qatari sheikh. apparently, he told lis he has diplomatic immunity, but by the time they realized that wasn't true, he was able to race right out of the country. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with this story. >> jenna, nobody likes to see someone who thinks they're above the law get away with it, but look at the tape. the porsche and the yellow ferrari blowing through stops, racing past kids. finally, they pull into a house

renting for $45 grand a month. that's when the ferrari driver tried to stop the photographer from taping, and he said, hey, the law protects me on private property. according to the daily mail, the man apparently says f-america, beverly hill cops show up, the sheikh tells them i'm a member of the qatari royal family, and i've got immunity. police later learned that's not true. too late. he's left the u.s. nevertheless, beverly hills cops make this claim: >> regardless of who you are, who you know or where you're from, the beverly hills police department has a reputation of applying the law equality and fairly -- equally and fairly. >> yeah, well, right now the best cops can do is ask customs to flag the so-called patron sheikh of drag racing next time he enters the u.s. you know, diplomatic immunity does generally protect diplomats

from prosecution, but it is an endless source of anger to those who watch diplomats park anywhere they want without a fine. at one point diplomats owed new york city $15 million in outstanding parking tickets. those owing the most? egypt, two million, followed by nigeria, indonesia, brazil and no rock coe. a lot of that is now considered uncollectible, jenna, but now new york is taking the diplomatic plates from those outstanding parking tickets. debt is now under one million from 15 million, so you guys are doing something right. back to you. jenna: we'll take it. even if it's that one thing. >> now it's time for l.a. to step up. jon: and they will, i bet. all right, staying in california now, a man apparently getting carried away while donating to charity. he ended up stuck inside a clothing donation bin. some workers from are a nearby home depot tried to help him get out, but they couldn't. the fire department eventually did rescue him. no word yet on exactly why he

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