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jan brewer, mike huckabee, scott mcneely and john paul did he juror yoe. please tune in. we'll continue with our coverage of muhammad ali. the world mourns the death of an american icon. muhammad ali, dead at 74. >> i am the greatest fighter of all-time. when i hit you with a hard right hand, you will fall. >> plus, california dreaming. the 2016 candidates fight for the biggest jackpot of delegates. we're live on the ground in the golden state with all the last-minutes campaigning. tragedy in texas. rescuers recover more bodies near ft. hood after an arming training mission went wrong. meanwhile, evacuations continue around that state. could there be any relief in
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sight from mother nature? good saturday to you. thanks for being with us. i'm leland vittert. >> i'm elizabeth pranin. welcome to the election headquarters from washington. president obama says muhammad ali, quote, shook up the world and the world is better for it. one of the many words of praise for the boxer once known as cassius clay who became a sports icon, civil rights activist and finally a beloved humanitarian and american hero. the greatest passed away overnight. we're live in ali's hometown of louisville, kentucky with more. hi, mike. >> reporter: hi, elizabeth. as i start talking about what's going on, let me show you some of the flowers piling up here. >> we lost -- >> reporter: we remember young
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cassius clay buying a cadillac for his mother, winning a gold medal and as the story goes, squeptly throwing that gold medal into the ohio river here. it demonstrated that a young black man can take a stand. calvin moody showed up here and he served in vietnam and he's glad he stood up. >> the flags were lowered to half-staff. the mayor glad to call muhammad ali a son of louisville. >> muhammad ali lived a life so big and bold, it's hard to believe that any one man could do everything he did. to do all the things he became in the course of just one lifetime. >> reporter: with all the condolences rolling in, perhaps no more touching than from his own daughter, rashieda who calld
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him the greatest man of all-time and said to her father, he's no longer suffering. >> evander holyfield calling in to fox news today talking about he and the greatest fighter of all-time lit the torch. >> it was 1996 when they let the whole world know what you was saying, this man who lit this torch. i realized that oh, man, i got a lot of work to do. because you know, life is about people who are before you and how do you take what they have done and take it to another level. >> three u.s. presidents have weighed in with public statements. president obama saying that ali fought for what was right and he fought when it was hard. president george w. bush saying he was a beautiful soul, a fierce fighter and a man of peace. bill clinton simply tweeted,
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goodbye my friend. elizabeth, back to you. >> mike tobin, thank you very much. a very rainy kentucky there. thank you, sir. we appreciate it. muhammad ali was the first boxer to win the heavyweight title three times. the last time was in 1978. that same year, heavyweight boxer larry holmes went toe to toe with ali winning the match and the title. larry joins us now on the phone to talk more about his bout with the greatest. thank you for joining us, sir. talk to us about october 2nd, 1980. >> well, it was a great -- it was great to get the opportunity to fight one of the great guys of all-time, a guy that everybody heard about. you know, and fight my former boss. because he was my boss first before i became -- before i got to fighting. i was his sparring partner in 1971 or '2, something like that. he was my boss.
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so it was great. >> you said on your website, and i quote, the world has lost an incredible legend. i have lost a phenomenal friend and mentor. you just touched on that very briefly. talk to us about your relationship with him. what was he like with you as a mentor and as a friend throughout your career? >> the way he -- the way he was mentor to me is watching him. watching him do his things that people do. that would take time with people. ali took time. he got people to come to the camp to watch him train and they treat him like they was brothers and sisters, you know. autographed pictures. a lot of celebrities don't want to sign autographs or take pictures anymore. ali tried to sign every last autograph that he possibly could sign if that's going to make you
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happy. that's what he was all about. making people happy. >> how do you incorporate lessons that you've learned from him into everyday life now? how do you continue his memory and all those lessons that he taught you every day? you're still in the public eye. >> one of the things that i do, i don't say no to nobody. my wife gets mad at me sometimes because i don't say no. because somebody say larry, could you go here and make an appearance here, and i say yeah, okay, fine. my wife hollered at me for doing because i had something elsie promised somebody else. those one of the ways that i make up people and stuff like that. i just give them -- here i am, take me as i am or don't take me at all. >> is there anything as we leave you this afternoon that you want our viewers to know? anything that behind the scenes, a characteristic or a memory that you have of him that
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perhaps the public isn't privy to or not aware of? >> one of the things that i always tell people. when i fought muhammad in 1980, whatever it was, '80. i went to his dressing room, laying on the table. i reached over, gave him a hug and told him, i said i love you. he said, if you love me, why you beat me up then? that's one of the things that i always laugh at. i always will remember. i will remember it until the day i die. ali was a great man, great human being. treated everybody like he wanted to be treated. never said no to nobody, at least not around me. what can you say? he gave everybody opportunity. i learned how to fight because of muhammad ali. when i throw my jab, i threw my jab like ali did. when i moved around the ripping, i moved like ali did. it wasn't that i wanted to be like ali or be ali, i wanted to
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get down some of the moves so i can insert it into my fighting. >> right. larry holmes, you're a champion yourself. we're grateful that you took the time to join us today. thank you so much, sir and of course, sir, we are sorry for your loss. >> thank you. okay. >> many call ali the most famous man of the 20th century. ryan kilmeade has more. >> february 1964, he entered the ring against the reigning world title holder, sonny liston. he emerged the heavyweight champion of the world. >> i'm a bad man. >> muhammad ali was born cassius clay in louisville, kentucky. january 17, 1942. clay started boxing at the age of 12. after winning a gold medal in the 1960 olympics, he turned pro. but it was after the liston fight that clay announced his affiliation with the nation of islam and changed his name to muhammad ali. >> it's hard to be humble as
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good as i am. >> the three-time heavyweight champion was one of the most popular men in sports history. in 1967, he was drafted into the u.s. army. but refused to fight in vietnam, stating religious differences. he was immediately stripped of his title and licensed to box. ali's license would be reinstated in 1970 and vowed to return to the top of the ranks and he would. october 1974 he got his chance against a powerful young heavyweight by the name of george foreman. the fight was billed as the rumble in the jungle. ali went in as the 3 to 1 underdog. but it wasn't enough to silence the greatest. >> only last week i murdered the -- still lies a brick. i'm so mean, i make medicine sick. >> he allowed his mighty poen toept punch himself out. ali would drop foreman in the 8th round.
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took ohm a $5 million purse which many feel paid the way for the multimillion dollar contract in any sports. >> before ali. were minimal. during ali's time they grew. after ali, they exploded. >> ali lost the title again four years later to another olympic gold medalist, leon spinks. he won a split decision in february only to relinquish the title back to ali seven months later. this made ali the only boxer in history to win the heavyweight title three times. the roaring crowds fueled him for 15 years and 61 fights. but his drive to please them kept ali from heeding doctor's warnings. he was slowing down. his thyroid was flamed. medication was a daily routine. it wasn't until losing his last fight in 1981 that ali admitted parkinson's syndrome was the real enemy forcing him to take off the gloves for good.
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believing the pg ring didn't keep him out of the public eye, neither did the disease. despite parkinson's syndrome, ali's work with the community would never stop. his work around the globe was lauded. then 1996 another high. muhammad ali was chosen to light the olympic flame in atlanta. in 2002, ali went to afghanistan as a u.n. messenger of peace. he was in kabul for a three ln day goodwill nation. then he received the highest civilian award. >> when you say the greatest of all-time is in the room, everyone knows who you mean. >> president george w. bush presented him with the presidential medal of freedom during ceremonies at the white house. after nearing 70 years of age, he remained dedicate today humanitarian efforts. he appealed to iran's supreme ruler to show mercy and release two american hikers held on spy charges. despite his deteriorating health, ali made a rare public
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appearance to show respect at his greatest rival's funeral, joe frazier. he could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. when we think of the greatest, we'll always think muhammad ali. >> really the most famous man of the 20th century. juan williams said certain people know about john kennedy, some people may know a certain person. everyone around the world knew who muhammad ali was. >> it transcends all beliefs and ideologies. >> with curious controversy here and there. there's a lot of folks who are still angry over the draft dodging and the racism that came out and that ali sort of walked back in his older years and became, as he would say, a lover of all children of god. and the quotes are legendary. if the lack of faith makes people afraid of meeting challenges, i believe in myself. you can't argue with that.
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>> of course. we want to hear from you. send us your thoughts on the death of muhammad ali. tweet them to us. we'll share some of your thoughts later in the show. we are three days away from the final big contest of the primary calendar. can you believe it? and the battle for the democratic nomination is focused on the treasure trove of delegates up for grabs in california. also up for grabs, the big momentum. polls show hillary clinton and bernie sanders in a tight race. both are hitting the campaign trail hard in the golden state today with multiple scheduled events. mikey manual is in santa monica with the latest. hi, mike. >> reporter: hi leland. it's going ton be ton action-packed day in california. polls suggesting a dead heat. time to connect with voters is treshser precious. hillary clinton is continuing her campaign swing through
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california. she's expected to do events in l.a., oxnard, santa barbara and fresno tonight. she's pushing to get across the finish line. >> if all things are expected to occur as i hope they will, by tuesday, i will have captured the democratic nomination for president. [ applause ] >> then i will need you to work with me to win in november and then to work with me to make our country all that we know it can be. >> bernie sanders made a campaign stop at in and out burger, a well-known california brand and ordered a cheeseburger yesterday. he's expected to do a news conference today talking about the close polls out here. he will likely make the case that it isn't over for him yet. sanders is hoping to shock the
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political world after clinton once held a big lead in california. >> we have won 20 primaries and caucuses over the country. lost a few. but on tuesday, the most important and significant primary of this whole nominating process is going to be taking place right here in california. >> if sanders can pull out a close win in california, hillary clinton would still earn plenty of delegates. there is a mass problem there. sanders is hoping if he can win out here, he can convince the superdelegates that he is the stronger democrat to take on donald trump. leland? >> he often cites polls showing just that. mike emanuel live in cal kalg on the trail. thanks, mike. represents some of
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california's capital city area. he's a long time supporter of hillary clinton. he says tuesday's race may be tight but clinton will walk away with more than half of the delegates. congressman, thank you for joining us today. we very much appreciate t know you have a lot on your plate on the west coast. but first and another most, before we talk about tuesday, i do want to get your reaction from hillary clinton's foreign policy speech. i want to get your response to criticism that she focused way too much on donald trump and not necessarily about a clinton plan. i went to the transcript, she did mention donald trump by name almost 30 times during that speech. what is your response to that? >> well, first of all, it was in a very, very effective speech. she did exactly what a candidate needs to do early on in the election. that is, draw a distinction between yourself and your opponent. she did that spectacularly and clearly pointed out all the contradictions in policy in
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policy as well as in consistent si that donald trump has made over the last nine months, statements about nuclear weapons for saudi arabia and beyond. all of those things were very, very effectively done. as to her own foreign policy, she's laid that out very clearly in the earlier speeches that she's given throughout the campaign. certainly, during her time as a senator and as a secretary of state. so she has a very solid foreign policy agenda. one of a strong america, one of using our military wisely. being strong but smart with our military. and also recognizing that you cannot go it alone. you have to be working with our allies around the world. so i would give her an a-plus for that speech and what she needed to do as a candidate early on in an election process. >> okay. you talked a little bit about drawing a distinction. at that point you were referencing hillary clinton and
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donald trump. in the past she's made reference to the decisions made in the obama administration, her decisions as secretary of state. in a couple times she -- some could argue wars have been lost in syria -- a different administration. when she brings those things up and touts them as success, is that dangerous? is that what people are angry about as they head to the polls during this general election? >> i think there's many, many things that americans are concerned about. certainly, the issues of the middle east, the issues of radical islam, those are things that are great concern, terrorism. all of those concern all of us. what we need to do is to address them in a very thoughtful and a very consistent and strong manner over what is going to be a very lengthy period of time. but also the american public is concerned about the economy. hillary laid out a very clear economic message that's been on
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the books and repeated by her and her team for more than eight months now and message of strong educational system, building our infrastructure, rebuilding the american manufacturing sector. >> congressman, if i may interrupt you. >> sure. >> that message, is it resonating? we look at the polls popping up in california. within the margin of error, there's a chance she may not win california, your home state. what if she doesn't? >> well, whether she does or not, she will win the nomination. california goes 450-plus delegates. will be proportional each if bernie won by 5 percentage points which he won't, she'd get over 230 pledge delegates together with what comes of the other elections going on, on tuesday. she'll be very, very close if not over the top on pledge delegates and then you add to that the superdelegates. i don't see the superdelegates
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shifting. you got to remember across the nation in all of the elections, hillary will have more than 3 million more votes than bernie sanders. so i don't think we're going to see a shift there. >> congressman, thank you so much for joining us. i wish we had more time and we're grateful you came on our air ahead of a very busy tuesday. thank you so much. >> thank you. before clinton faces donald trump, she does need to win that democratic crown. as we talked about, she is in a tight primary race in california. first of all, will go one-on-one with clinton campaign chair john podesta. only on fox news sunday. check out your local listings for air times. when we come back, the trump team reacts to congressman geir mend i's comments from the clinton camp. we'll talk to one of the foreign policy advisers right after the break. from texas, dozens of homes evacuated and roads closed after a train carrying crude oil derails and catches fire.
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one of the country's most scenic rivers in the pacific northwest. details on that story ahead. plus, condolences pour in after nine soldiers fall victim to flooding in texas. we're going to have a report from there where more than half of the state is under flood watches or warnings. part of our -- i will never leave a fallen comrade. were it not for the professionalism and compassion of these emergency services personnel, it would have taken us much longer to live up to our egos.
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person. hillary clinton is scripted. hillary clinton is a -- hillary clinton should be in jail for what she did to our national security. >> with that, donald trump has this saturday off. a day after taking aim at hillary clinton who attacked his character on thursday. we heard from congressman john garamendi before the break. let's bring in our contributor, foreign policy adviser to donald trump. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you.
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>> wow. gotten pretty nasty pretty quick. >> that's politics. that's the substance of what is important here. >> so give us the substance here. hillary clinton basically says, look, i've got all the experience in the world. donald trump's biggest claim to fame is he once held the miss universe contest in russia. why is she wrong? >> because there were precedents where her husband, president bill clinton was against a very important leader with a vice president for eight years and head of the cia and that he won. you had senator obama against senator mccain with much more experience. >> hold on. you've come on this program before. if we should elect somebody with the least experience. you've come on this program and said he has no clue with foreign policy. partly, that's because he has no experience. why should we repeat the same mistake? >> he doesn't give bad advice that pecks -- expertise. in this case, the clinton campaign is trying to go on two
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tracks. number one is to say that we have, secretary of state had many meetings, 112 countries, et cetera, et cetera. that's what the secretary of state does. on the other hand, the achievements on the ground. those are not discussed. you have been talking about it. egypt. libya. syria. iraq. russia. ukraine. homeland security. >> not exactly worked out so well for the obama administration. >> that is the substance i'm talking about. that needs to be addressed. of course, the head of the opposition was in the in the executive branch to be responsible for that. >> in other words, you're saying that obama had bad advisers. among them, hillary clinton resulting in bad decisions and donald trump has great advisers and will make great decisions with the same level of inexperience? >> say, for example, if secretary clinton and mr. trump are given the same information about libya. jihadist that the me lisch i can't is jihadist, would he have done the same thing? the same information about
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syria. in his statement, he would have gone in a different direction. the problem here is that mrs. clinton made decision. >> you say donald trump's statements. often what we hear are contradictory statements. japan should have nuclear weapons. i never said that. it's one thing to say it on the campaign trail and it's another thing when foreign leaders listen and say one thing one day, another thing another day. you talk with consistency. >> the comprehensive one had many directions. >> we only listen to the speeches, not what he says on the campaign trail. >> you listen to every single world. this is a campaign. same thing a flies to senator obama. he made many things -- of course, president reagan who was an actor, who also ran without much experience and made statements in the elections. what is important are foreign policy speeches and who is giving you the advice and your judgment about this advice. >> we know you're giving advice. you often come here and give us advice as well.
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we've always appreciated it. nice to have you back. >> thank you so much. >> liz. >> come pg up a desperate situation in texas. a state of disaster across 31 counties because of deadly flooding and more rain in the forecast. will carr is there with the latest. hi, will. >> hi there elizabeth. thousands of people still evacuating. you can see here in texas, neighborhoods surrounded by floodwaters. we'll have an update on the nine ft. hood soldiers killed by the floodwaters coming up after the break. you've finally earned enough reward miles on your airline credit card. now you just book a seat, right? not quite. sometimes those seats are out of reach, costing an outrageous number of miles. it's time to switch... to the capital one venture card. with venture, you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. and when you're ready to travel, just book the flight you want, on any airline and use your miles to cover the cost.
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will carr is live in richmond, texas, there as folks, many folks are still out of their homes. hi, will. >> reporter: that's right, leland. this is the second year in a row that texas has seen historic flooding, including here in richmond, which is about 40 miles southwest of houston. you can see there are neighborhoods still surrounded by floodwaters and it comes at the same time that in ft. hood, both family members and service members are mourning the loss of the nine soldiers. we found out that four more bodies have been found. you have to keep in mind a lot of people forget how strong floodwaters can be when they're moving. you can have 6 inches can knock you over. 2 feet can move a car. we saw that with the soldiers. their tactical unit was swept away. nine solders ended up dying on thursday. >> i'm sad to report that we recovered the four missing
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soldiers. tragically, all four of the soldiers are deceased. we've lost in this incident, nine of our great soldiers. >> reporter: there's been torrential rain across the region over the past week. we've seen cars swept away. at least 600 water rescues in 2,000, at least 2,000 homes swamped by water. a lot of water still across the area. on friday, governor greg abbott toured the area from the air. there's thousands of people evacuat evacuated. his advice is, if you live in an area that's evacuated, please stay away. there's a flash flood watch until later. at the same time, water in other places is continuing to go up until rivers crest in the surrounding area. still a potentially dangerous situation. guys, back to you. >> will carr, reporting live. will, thank you so much.
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now, back to politics. to the race for the final states and house speaker paul ryan's decision to endorse the presumptive presidential nominee, donald trump. the need to push back against trump inflammatory rhetoric about ethnic heritage. >> i didn't feel any pressure other than my goal is to make sure we're unified so we're at full strength in the fall. it was basically getting a comfort level of our idea about where the country is headed and where it ought to go. it's more of an understanding of each other and these principles and policies. >> look, the comment about the judge the other day was out -- it's reasoning i don't relate to. i completely disagree with it. he clearly says and does things i don't agree with. i had to speak up from time to time when that has occurred. i'll continue to do that as
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necessary. i hope it's not. >> very carefully worded. ford o'connell is joining us, the chairman of the civic forum pac and presidential campaign adviser. dennis keller is the president and ceo of better markets, inc. and former senate adviser. gentlemen, we could talk the whole our about this. i want to get your reaction because we listened to the thoughtful language from not only speaker ryan but other republicans. but then the next day, you hear stern thoughtful language. i want to get your reaction. i sort of heard you chuckle during that. i want your reaction first. >> i think the voters this cycle will have to get used to whiplash. on the one hand, the establishment republicans like paul ryan, policy driven people. you have the definition of a loose cannon, the nominee for the republican party.
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>> the democratic party isn't exactly unified. >> my advice for -- if you have nothing nice to say, bite your tongue. speaking out against trump won't save your office, it will not save the party. all it's going to do is help hillary clinton in the fall. >> we hear republicans like paul ryan saying that. why do we hear? snoo why -- >> because they don't understand. the voters have spoken. donald trump won the election fair and square. the voters don't necessarily like all the positions. they like what he stands for. that's the middle finger to washington and the political establishment. they have to get used to the trump train. >> the voters haven't spoken. a tiny minority of voters have spoken in the republican primaries. >> people would argue millions. >> that's true. but not relative to who are going to vote in november. when you have tens of millions come out. that's when people are going to vote. that's what speaker ryan and
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other establishment republicans are looking at. does the tiny minority that voted for trump in the republican primaries turn into a super majority in november? mcconnell and trump. -- i mean mcconnell and ryan are saying no. they love the -- >> they can't protect the majorities without donald trump winning the white house. understand this. >> that's not true, actually. >> yes, it is. >> split ticket voting is the 50 an-year low. this whole election will come down to four to six states, about 500,000 to 6 hup,000 total votes out of 120 million cast. going against donald trump hurts his chances at the margin which is going to go down ticket. >> that's my next question. what actions that they make now will trickle down? >> i hope ford is running the republican program because that's going to be absolutely fabulous for democrats. okay? all republicans, top to bottom, should embrace finding 11 million immigrants, rounding them up and getting them out of
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country. they should embrace all muslims coming into this country. they should embrace a wall. >> we only have 350 million people. >> making fun of a handicapped reporter. they should embrace making fun of the way a woman looks. that's not going to get you votes. >> i'll let you respond. >> he didn't say why hillary clinton should be president. he told you why you shouldn't vote for trump. >> actually, what i did say is the republicans ought to follow your strategy and embrace twlru who is the ultimate loose cannon. >> guess what, though. the polls are tied right now. same close election in november. >> embracing donald trump is a disaster for -- >> i disagree. >> i have to wrangle you two and have you back. >> that's the road to disaster. that's why the strategy is in place. >> ford and dennis, a lively group. maybe we'll have you back after tuesday. >> love to do it. >> thank you so much for joining
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roads are back open following a massive train crash which spilled 11 cars full of crude oil and sparked a very large fire. 23 miles in oregon were shut down for hours when the 96-car train derailed yesterday. the fire's black plume of smoke could be seen for miles as emergency crews worked to contain the spill. there were no injuries. but it brought new criticism from environmentalist about the
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dangers of hauling oil by rail. the fbi investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server may be wrapping up soon. but now there's word a key figure in that investigation is trying to postpone a deposition that he planned to give regarding his work for the presumptive democratic presidential nominee. our garrett tenney joins us with details on this. it seems like there's two issues, the fbi investigation and tagly an owe as it relates to judicial watch. >> the key figure in the investigations and his deposition has been delayed at least until the end of tuesday. our viewers will likely remember the former clinton campaign and state department staffer who set up hillary clinton's private e-mail server at her home in upstate new york. this coming monday, he was scheduled to give a deposition for the freedom of information
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act group judicial watch. the judge over that case on friday postponed the deposition indefinite indefinitely. fox news reported earlier this week that court filings showed pagliano was going to avoid saying anything by asserting his fifth amendment rights. they've ordered his lawyers to explain the legality behind that and to produce an immunity agreement given in exchange for helping the fbi in its ongoing investigation of clinton's e-mail servers. pagliano was recently described to fox news by an intelligence source as a devastating witness. as the multiple investigations continue, hillary clinton remains adamant that nothing can come from it and any suggestion to the contrary is nothing but a political attack. >> there is absolutely no possibility of that. and look, i understand how the drums can beat by political opponents to try to make outrageous untrue accusations.
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i'm well aware of that. that seems to be the particular modus prand i of trump and his supporters. but that is just never going to come to pass. i have absolutely no doubt about that. >> of course, hillary clinton herself is still expected to be interviewed by the fbi as part of its ongoing and criminal investigation. as far as the judicial watch case goes, at least until tuesday, that's when the lawyers have to provide that. >> it will be interesting to read those as they become public. tuesday is the democratic primary in california. what happens if bernie sanders asks for that. >> political time lines in play. >> garrett tenney, thank you so much. >> liz, what's coming up. >> still to come, a tale of the missing tape. gop lawmakers want answers over who deleted footage of a press briefing from the official record. more on the troubles at the state department.
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retired air force colonel thomas schaefer was among 52 embassy personnel held for nearly 15 months. he spent 150 of those days in solitary confinement by militants. he was interrogated endlessly and threatened with execution. he later became a professional speaker, helping motivate others to overcome adversity. he was 85 years old. i have just been reading some of the, some people who had been listening to him speak. he was incredibly influential, handling adversity, because he had lived through so much. it sort of makes all your issues seem so minimal. >> he did indeed live through so much. we are also forgetting so many lessons learned by the iranian hostage crisis. that's something you are hearing a lot now on the campaign trail. who would have best handled that. remember, they were released within minutes of ronald reagan being sworn in. lot of folks will tell you that's because the iranians thought he was actually going to do something about it where jimmy carter did not.
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live pictures right now, well, not from anywhere else. we are thinking about muhammad ali, who passed away last night. 74 years old, known as the greatest. >> we had larry holmes on earlier. he had said really, he was initially his boss and then turned into a friend so he spent years being a mentor. he said he learned so much from him, he thinks of him on a daily basis as he is now very much still in the public eye. he had some beautiful things to say about him. we checked in with mike earlier in the show from louisville. certainly very touching tributes from all living presidents and dignitaries across the globe. >> not only that, as we sort of reflect back on ali the story, 12-year-old boy in segregated louisville, kentucky. his bike gets stolen, he's talking to a white police officer about it and how he wants to whoop the guy who stole his bike, and the police officer takes ali under his wing, takes him to a boxing ring, shows him how to box, teaches him, becomes
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his coach, and it was a bunch of folks in louisville who raised the money to send him to the olympics in 1960. then for so many years, ali got so angry at white america so militant, if you will, for a long time, then reversed course and became this great humanitarian and the world went on and we look through the pictures, you see the intensity in his eyes there and at some point we will get to the picture in the 1996 olympics, where the intensity was just the same right there in his eyes fighting parkinson's in order to be able to light the olympic torch. >> we will continue to have more guests that have personal experience. of course, after the break, we will touch more on hillary clinton's conversation on immigration event. we are awaiting the start of that in about a half an hour in suburban l.a. these are live pictures you are looking at. stay with us. we will have more in the next hour.
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plus, while clinton still must contend with sanders, donald trump can focus all of his attention on her as well as the general election fight in november. lauren green is outside trump tower. >> reporte >> reporter: it's a beautiful day on swanky fifth avenue. i will have the latest on the gop presumptive nominee. the right things working together can give you an advantage. like trubiotics with immune support advantage. its unique formula supports immune health in two ways. with probiotics that work in your gut. and antioxidants that work throughout your body. trubiotics from one a day.
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live pictures right now from suburban los angeles. we are awaiting the start of hillary clinton's first event of the day in the golden state. it is billed as a quote, conversation on immigration. >> clinton and her rival from the democratic nomination, bernie sanders, are barnstorming california. it is the last weekend of campaigning before tuesday's big primary and the race is neck and neck. thank you for spending your saturday with us. a very busy news days. i'm elizabeth prann. >> i'm leland vittert. we are continuing to follow the life and legacy of muhammad ali. today, fans of the boxing great
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all over the world are remembering the three-time heavyweight champ and in his hometown of louisville, kentucky, people are remembering ali's compassion and generosity. >> my father had liver cancer when i was 18 years old at st. joe's hospital and muhammad ali's mother was in the hospital at the same time, and i was graduating from high school and just was visiting my dad, and muhammad ali came out of nowhere in the hallway and touched my head, and came up to me and said everything's going to be okay and here i am 60 years old today, and remember him giving me that spirit and that faith and that love, and when i found out he passed away today, i remembered him and i remembered that strength and that touch he gave me.
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>> so many people remembering that humility, that compassion, that humanity of muhammad ali. joining us with the latest on the world's reaction to ali's passing, chief correspondent jonathan hunt. good morning, jonathan. >> reporter: good morning. he was and will likely always be the greatest of all time. muhammad ali, dead at the age of 74. he had, of course, suffered from parkinson's for many years and died one day after being admitted to a phoenix area hospital with breathing issues. a makeshift memorial, flowers, boxing gloves, has already sprung up outside the hospital, and tributes have poured in from around the world for a man who transcended sports. a champion in the ring and a champion of causes outside the ring. on his twitter account, president obama posted a picture of himself sitting under one of the most iconic photographs of ali and said quote, he shook up
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the world and the world's better for it. rest in peace, champ. his exploits in the ring of course defined him as the greatest champion. his fights against liston, frazier and foreman would make any highlights reel of the greatest sporting moments of the 20th century. but as boxing promoter don king told us, ali will also be remembered for his principles, his refusal to be drafted for the vietnam war and his conversion from christianity to islam. >> ali will never die. i think we want to celebrate ali's life for being the man that he was, a fighter for the people, and to become a champion of the people. >> reporter: ali's diagnosis of parkinson's came in 1981, just three years after he retired from boxing, and he brought tears to everyone's eyes at the opening ceremony of the 1996 olympics in atlanta. he was present again for the
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opening of the 2012 games in london. and now, he is gone. flags lowered to half staff in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. muhammad ali, dead at 74. the greatest of all time, period. leland? >> we are continuing to remember him as you are in los angeles. jonathan hunt, thank you very much. >> muhammad ali's career in boxing spans decades, taking up boxing at age 12, going pro six years later. ali, then known as cassius kcla, won his first title in 1964 against sonny liston but gave it up in 1967 when he refused to be drafted in the u.s. army to fight in vietnam. muhammad ali was arrested and found guilty of evading the draft. he was sentenced to five years in prison but appealed the sentence which was overturned in a unanimous decision by the
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supreme court in 1971. ali returned to the boxing ring fighting joe frazier in the fight of the century later that year. ali and frazier would fight two more times, including 1975's famous thrilla in manila. ali also regained his world heavyweight title against george foreman in 1974. he lost the title to leon spinks in 1978. but won it back eight months rea later, being the first to win it tremendous times. he retired in 1981 to focus on social issues and of course, his battle against a new foe, parkinson's. >> that was the one battle he could not win. we heard from his family and from his daughter tweeting out about now finally her father doesn't have to suffer anymore. >> a testament to his strength. >> 30 plus years. to do all the things he did with parkinson's, it was interesting, you think about muhammad ali, how iconic he was and his
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boxing, what everybody remembers him for. this is what he said about boxing. he said it's just a job. grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand, i beat people up. there was an authenticity about all of his quotes. we have dozens of them here. >> you also heard from larry holmes who said when he lost the fight in 1980, this is muhammad ali losing the fight to larry holmes in 1980, he said i love you and he said if you love me, why did you beat me up? >> he had this great way, when he talks about being humhumble, says it's great to be humble but humble people don't make much history. he had this incredible way, so many people, even people i have been talking to, he went to visit congress to have the boxing reform bill passed and someone just sent out a picture of a young staffer and they said when ali came up to capitol hill, he didn't want to meet congressmen. he shook the hand of every maintenance person, of every groundskeeper and every staffer answering the phones and wanted
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nothing to do with the congressmen. there was this raw humanity. you could sense that growing up in segregated louisville. he was deeply affected by that. >> we hope the stories we do today give him justice. heard from rry for his loss. his family, perhaps at some point the passing was going to come and he's now at peace. from inside the boxing ring to behind bars for objecting to be involved in the war in vietnam, to a decades-long fight with parkinson's disease which we have been talking about throughout the show today, muhammad ali's legacy is more than just sports. of course, our own brian kilmeade takes a closer look now. >> reporter: he was pretty and he won the heavyweight championship three different times from 1964 to 1979. ali was still known as cassius clay when he came out of louisville, kentucky. he took the championship from sonny liston in february 1964.
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overnight he became an international star with attitude. >> i jumped off the airplane. everywhere i go, you see cameramen. everybody follows me, i'm so great. >> reporter: in the late 1960s, ali embraced the muslim religion, chased his name from cassius clay to muhammad ali. in 1967 with the vietnam war raging, ali refused to be inducted into the army. as a consequence, he was stripped of his title and exiled from boxing for almost four years. he returned and won the title again from george foreman when he introduced his famous rope-a-dope strategy in 1974. >> it would knock him back and he was literally standing there and would wake up again. >> reporter: it was an aging ali who lost to title to leon spinks in 1978 but came back eight
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months later to regain the crown. ali's most memorable fights were with joe frazier. he won two of the three classic contests from 1971 to 1975. >> i told you today, i'm still the greatest of all time. never again defeat me, never again say that i'm going to be defeated, never again make me the underdog until i'm about 50 years old. >> reporter: in the '70s, ali came under the influence of don king, cleveland boxing promoter. he fought at the richfield coliseum, pounding out a lopsided decision over chuck wepner in 1975. he remains an international celebrity long after his retirement in 1981. symbolic of his international status, ali was chosen to light the olympic torch at the summer olympics in atlanta even though he was already severely afflicted with parkinson's disease. to the world he was still the champ. >> i told you i'm the champion
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of the world. >> of course, we want to hear from you today. send us your thoughts on the death of muhammad ali. tweet them to us. we will share some of your thoughts a little later in the show. despite help from u.s. air power the iraqi army is still having a rough time retaking the city of fallujah west of iraq in western iraq. no surprise, say many experts. the iraqi army all but ran away from fallujah when isis showed up. there's a real question of how strategic that city is to defeating isis. joining us, former u.s. army green beret, ben collins, man with a lot of experience in that part of the world. nice to see you. big picture for us, why does this matter to folks in iowa and indiana and minnesota whether or not the iraqi army takes fallujah or not?
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>> well, i think the answer to that question's going to be two-fold. one, i think you have to look to the past. so let's remember we lost a couple hundred soldiers or excuse me, couple hundred service men, mostly marines in 2004 when we actually had to go in and take fallujah twice. so there's a part of our past that i think people in iowa and nebraska and across this country should care about in the fact that we already paid a significant price in blood for this city. so it's really disheartening to see kind of -- to go again. >> are we throwing good lives and a good treasure after bad? >> you know, going towards the future, i think that we weren't able to figure out really the military solution, i don't think iraq's military's going to figure out a military solution to this. this is a political solution because of sectarian violence. i would really hate to see us get sucked back into this thing for a third time. honestly, like you said, this isn't much of a tactical victory for them. this was really a political decision on the part of a body
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to go into fallujah first. >> we are watching some video of the iraqi army and these are the guys who ran away from fallujah a couple years ago, let isis overrun it. these guys have taken months to get to mosul. it took them months to defeat isis fighters. is there any reason to think the iraqi army will be anything other than a bunch of screw-ups no matter how much money and how much training the u.s. puts into it? >> again, if you look at who's in this fight, the iraqi regular military, the iraqi special forces that are u.s.-trained and the iranian shiite militias. isis has had about two and a half years to prepare the battlefield in fallujah. ied implacements, sniper positions, tunnels, using civilians as shields. the fact is they relied heavily on the u.s. trained special forces that have gone in there and they're exhausted. we saw it in ramadi.
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they will do it in fallujah and try it in mosul. they can't firmly rely on the iraqi special forces. the real question is, can this shiite militia, iraqi regular army, can they actually stand and fight, can they actually, do they have what it takes. the prime minister has been exhorting how much success it's been but so far we have already seen this stall because we know there are still 50,000 to 60,000 civilians in that city. >> ground truth seems to say anything but success for the iraqi army. you brought up the iranian militias that are there outside of fallujah, commanded by the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps. the question is, how big of a threat is it to regional stability for the united states that we are allowing the iranians to have so much influence now in iraq, allowing him, with american blood on his hands, to essentially become a u.s. ally? >> well, it's a humongous
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concern. look, you said we allow. the sad thing is we pretty much gave up that ghost years ago. obama's poor leadership in this on the back of how much effort we had put in for years left a vacuum. the fact is, the shia government in baghdad relied heavily on the shia government in tehran and iran. so the reality is as we have discussed in the past, ramadi was destroyed. i mean, 60% to 70% infrastructure was gone at the end of that battle. you're watching just dumb artillery after dumb artillery fired into the city. >> we got to run. as you point out, in fallujah, we can never forget the cost that was paid in american blood there and other parts of iraq now. to your point, and pretty much everyone agrees, it's a complete mess. ben collins, appreciate your service and insights as well. good to see you. enjoy the colorado air.
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back to politics. animosity between donald trump and hillary clinton is on the rise and so are the tensions at their political campaign events, as was the case this week in a rally in san jose. trump is off the trail today but that's not stopping him from slamming clinton and when he is calling terrible jobs report released yesterday. lauren green has the very latest outside of trump tower. hi, lauren. >> reporter: hey, elizabeth. donald trump has no planned events today. that's probably one of the benefits of having already secured the needed delegates for the gop nomination. but yesterday, he was on all -- operating on all cylinders in redding, california. sorry, we have some emergency vehicles going by. ahead of tuesday's big primary day. six states, north dakota will have a republican contest. trump is keeping aim on the general election and an expected matchup with hillary clinton,
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responding to her comments blasting his unfitness for office. >> that phony speech she made yesterday, every word, and people think oh, did she speak well. she got a teleprompter here and there. you ever notice, bum, bum, bum, bum, donald trump is a bad man. donald trump has a bad tone. >> reporter: well, he's also blamed hillary and the democrats for yesterday's dismal jobs report. >> they are expecting 150,000, maybe 200,000 jobs. turns out to be 38,000. and they're bad jobs, folks. everybody, even the other side says we don't have good jobs anymore. our good jobs are moving to mexico along with the companies that are moving there. they are moving to china which china is making all our product, they keep devaluing their currency. >> reporter: meanwhile, trump on the defense about the lawsuits surrounding the now defunct
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trump university, complaining in interviews on cnn and "wall street journal" that the judge presiding over the case has an inherent conflict of interest because of his mexican ethnicity and trump's call to build a wall at the mexican border. u.s. district judge was born in indiana and was a judge in california. now, looking ahead, trump is scheduled to meet with florida governor rick scott on monday here at trump tower. yesterday, governor scott said he would not accept an offer to be trump's vp if he actually was offered it. he said monday's meeting would be about campaign strategy. >> lauren green, thank you for battling the very very loud sirens. we appreciate it. thank you. a military training exercise turned into a very different kind of mission as a group of soldiers was stranded at the top of a 14,000 foot peak. we will tell you what happened and why after the break. as search teams zero in on where they think egyptair flight
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804's black boxes might be. now the airline's chairman is denying a startling new report about the plane's flight history. plus james rosen is known for asking the tough questions but are they really so tough that the state department felt compelled to delete the answers? we will tell you about the very latest excuses from the state department. >> i want to thank james rosen. your correspondent, for bringing this to my attention because if he hadn't a couple of weeks ago, i would never have known that this occurred. so first of all, kudos to him. i'm terrible at golf. he is. but i'd like to keep being terrible at golf for as long as i can. new patented ensure enlive has hmb plus 20 grams of protein to help rebuild muscle. for the strength and energy to do what you love. new ensure enlive. always be you.
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a military training exercise in colorado ends with an evacuation. a chopper was sent in to rescue ten soldiers attempting to climb long's peak at rocky mountain national park. a few members of the group had troubled ascending the snowy summit so they were forced to spend the night while waiting for help. the next morning park rangers flew in and brought the soldiers back to fort carson for safety. republican lawmakers want more answers from the state
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department as to who deliberately deleted parts of a state department briefing on the iran deal even though the department says their search has hit a dead end. joining us now to discuss the issue, town hall political editor guy benson. nice to have you with us here. for a department that seems so outraged and john kirby said i'm so thankful james rosen, our fox news esteemed correspondent brought this to my attention, they found a dead end very quickly in their search for answers here. >> they don't want answers. it's very very clear. this is the latest in a string of lies pertaining to this incident and that's great that they're giving james rosen credit and he deserves credit, because he asked the tough questions every step of the way that brought this malfeasance to light. i think there are two unanswered questions. one is how many other times has this state department or the administration more broadly deleted video that was perhaps inconvenient for them politically, one, and two, who ordered this deletion. someone did it. they can find out who did it.
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they don't want to. the dead end was reached in five minutes. >> and when you listen to them, it is linguistics gymnastics. we might know who made the phone call to the video editor but we don't really know who told the person to make the phone call because it was three years ago. mind you, these are the people carrying out american diplomacy around the world, can't remember who called who. jen psaki, who was involved in one of these briefings and is now a senior advisor at the white house says i had nothing to do with it, attacked james rosen and went on cnn -- >> falsely, by the way. >> right. then went on cnn and said this. >> i will let the state department and their lawyers speak to that. i will say i think i understand why people at home who are watching this inside the beltway debate in many ways. >> understand why people at home debate this in many ways, not this is despicable and we are going to find the people who did it and punish them. >> it seems like they might know who it is. also, the phrase she used there
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was inside the beltway. the implication clearly was oh, this is just a d.c. thing that those stoort of silly political people care about. average people don't. if i'm an average person out there in america, if the u.s. government lied about something like i don't know, a nuclear deal with a hostile enemy in iran, then covered up the lie by editing the official record, doctoring video to pretend several minutes of tough questioning never existed, that goes to the core of who we are as aountry and press government relations. one other thing about how they consistently insult our intelligence on this. when they claimed this was a glitch that deleted it, this was one of their four or five lies about this, when you watch the video, there's a white flash. in our business, that does not happen by accident. that is deliberate editing. anyone familiar with even television news can see that very plainly. there it is. >> if you were watching and saw that, you realized something was
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wrong. secretary kerry, secretary of state who runs the state department, says this was stupid, clumsy and inappropriate and he would like to find the person. he said that yesterday afternoon. at the same time his spokesperson is saying oh, we hit a dead end. does the administration just not seem to be on the same page? can they not figure out their story and spin? >> well, they are consistent recently in the fact this was inappropriate. oh, we are so sorry, it shouldn't have happened, clumsy, et cetera. we would love to know who did it but gosh, we just can't figure it out. >> now that our hand is firmly caught in the cookie jar we're not sure what kind of cookies we're after or who told us to put our hand in the cookie jar. appreciate you, guy benson. liz, what's coming up? from asia to europe to his hometown in kentucky, people across the globe are paying their respects to muhammad ali, remembering the man and his many missions.
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will see wet weather on this first weekend in june? our meteorologist janice dean has the forecast. >> yes, we are still talking about texas, where they are getting more rainfall in the forecast. we are talking about record rainfall for much of the state. places like houston, austin, over two feet of rainfall in just a matter of weeks. we are seeing more rain in the forecast, especially along the gulf coast where we have tropical moisture being pumped in from the gulf of mexico. an additional two to four inches of rainfall that's going to spread across the gulf coast into portions of florida and the southeast as we are watching an area of low pressure that could develop into our next tropical system. flood advisories remain posted for parts of texas, louisiana, mississippi and alabama, and then we will watch the threat of severe weather today and tomorrow along the east coast, the potential for large hail, damaging winds and even isolated tornadoes for places like baltimore, d.c., all the way down towards richmond and up
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towards new york city. lots of weather to talk about. we will be sure to keep you up to date. back to you. >> thanks for keeping us on our toes. appreciate it. thank you. we are continuing to remember muhammad ali, who died overnight. as iconic as his fights were, his interviews with the press were equally so. geraldo rivera spent time with the champ, the greatest that ever lived and joins us on the phone with memories of ali. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. he was a great interview, a great person and it was shocking to hear how the parkinson's and this respiratory problem just kind of fell apart and caused his death. it was so unexpected. i woke up this morning, got the awful news. i interviewed him several times over the years and hung out with him at various times in his career until the disease had advanced and he became kind of more shy and reclusive, less public. but i have some vivid, vivid
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memories. >> you think about some of his great quotes and there are dozens. don't count the days, make the case count. it's not bragging if you can back it up. if my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then i can achieve it. when you were interviewing him, did you get the sense he had these precanned as so many people do now or was this just muhammad ali unvarnished? >> first of all, i appreciate you showing me in those short shorts and high white socks. >> videotape's a dangerous thing, my friend. >> it certainly is. that was on the eve of the thrilla in manila. he gave me exclusive access to his training camp. >> you are dating yourself. >> i know. we hung out together. he was so gracious. we had a lot of fun. we sparred and i will show some of that sparring later on. but you know, he absolutely was so vivacious, to your question. he was so uncanned and so
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spontaneous that he said -- there he is beating me up. he was definitely right off the top of his head, he just said whatever he was feeling, but he had deeply held emotions. i don't mean to say that he was sketchy or that his responses weren't thoughtful. they definitely were, in an era before political correctness. for instance, the whole thing about evading, avoiding the draft and willing to give up almost four years of his prime fighting career because he was a conscientious objector until the united states supreme court overturned the conviction and allowed him to fight again. he was a person who proudly converted from christianity to islam at a time when -- well, it's still an incendiary choice for a public figure to make. but he was proudly muslim and it
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got to the point where no one even thought of him and that's what you think of america, no one even thought of him as this or that religion, but it was muhammad ali, this wonderful character, this impassioned speaker, this thoughtful person, he was a role model to tens of millions. i just speak with evander holyfield who talked about being a kid in alabama 8 years old, looking at ali and saying i want to be him, i want to be like him. i think that it's a great loss. it's funny, one of the people i want to talk to later is donald trump. he and i had some ringside experiences together and i know he was a big fight fan. i got to get his reaction to this tragic passing. >> well, trump was already on twitter talking about just sort of what an amazing, incredible person muhammad ali was. geraldo, appreciate your insight, your analysis and sharing that videotape there. >> i could get you a pair of
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those shorts. >> well, you know, i think there are some things our viewers probably don't want to see. more of geraldo and the short-shorts and sparring with muhammad ali and some of the things you heard about memories from donald trump and so many others who geraldo knew as it related to muhammad ali tonight. geraldo rivera hosts a special one-hour ali, 1942 to 2016, right here on fox news, 8:00 p.m. eastern. it's so neat to be able to talk to geraldo and get those really personal memories. it will obviously bring a lot of those back this evening. >> i will be watching. still ahead, with just months to go before voters cast their ballots in the national election, a prospective third party candidate enters the scene. will this help or hurt donald trump for his quest to the white house? we will talk to our political panel up next. ying ] ugh. heartburn. sorry ma'am. no burning here. try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies.
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well, house speaker paul ryan endorsed donald trump this week although many say it's not a full-throated endorsement. other republicans aren't so sure the never trump movement remains alive and well. ethan berryman, part of that never trump camp. angela glowen is supporting mr. trump. ethan, we will let you take it away in the beginning here. really? you guys are still at this? >> there's a lot of them here in california. it's not just conservatives, not just republicans who have the no party preference which is 24% of the electorate here in california. republicans are only 28% now, democrats 43%. i got to tell you, donald trump has not won over a lot of people i know here in california, although i will say those riots in san jose this week at the trump rally are starting to turn some people around, just because they are so mad that people
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won't let trump people show up and listen to their guys speak. >> nothing like throwing eggs and waving mexican flags to get people to go over to the other side. how much do you worry that ethan's movement and this idea of a third party candidate will fracture the gop? >> as for ethan's movement, that's what's great about america. the first amendment, we have freedom of speech. that's fine. i'm not worried about his movement. as for a third party candidate, all i can do is remind people about ross perot when we first met the clintons. it was because of an independent candidate in 1992 that defeated bush and allowed bill clinton to win. so yes, i am concerned about that. >> so ethan, end game here? the idea to try to push donald trump in a certain direction? is it to say effectively play out the logic, give the election to hillary which i'm guessing you don't want to go, or try to split the electoral college, nobody gets 270, it goes to the house? what's the real tangible
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deliverable end game? >> well, i would really like to see donald trump, i mean, if this is even possible, become a little bit more presidential. really, we are looking for a pr plan here that doesn't say build a wall and deport 11 million people. we have next door neighbors who maybe have family who are illegal immigrants. we don't want to just say round them up and ship them out. let me talk about trade. >> we can all ask for a lot of things. donald trump has said this is not something i'm going to do, why would i, people like me because of who i am. if you can't get what's impossible, what do you want? >> well, i think, too -- >> then we start looking at people like gary johnson. because we want somebody who can lead us with ideas and not just shout whatever ideas off the top of his head to rile up a certain percentage of the electorate. we are past that now. he's already got the nomination in the bag.
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>> but i agree with you, dealing with the immigration issue, i think that is going to be a challenge for donald trump. if you remember, reagan got a large percentage of hispanics. he got a large percentage of that vote. reagan democrats. however, it was governor reardon with prop 187 that caused hispanics to go back democratic. i think that's going to be a challenge for donald trump in california, that issue. >> no republican has won california in a long time. is this even worth talking about? as it relates to trump possibly taking california? he's talking about it but does anybody actually believe that out there? >> i don't know that anybody really believes that. we have the latest usc/l.a. times poll that came out yesterday and it shows that the favorability ratings of trump is only greater than 50% with republicans. the no party preference voters, it's 21% and democrats, it's 7%. so who is he going to bring over of the electorate here in
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california when only 28% are registered republican and only half of them -- >> there's going to be an eternity before election day. hillary might be indicted. those polls that are happening right now might change a week from now or two weeks from now. >> hillary may not even be the nominee if that happens and some democrats have their way. appreciate you guys being here. have a great saturday. >> thank you. liz, what's coming up? still to come, new information surfacing about the leadup to the crash of the egyptair flight 804 that's raising big concerns. we'll have the details coming up. if you suffer from a dry mouth, then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? well, there is biotene, specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants... biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy too.
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speculation is stemming from reports of french broadcasters about the egypt airbus that crashed into the mediterranean sea last month. the jetliner made three emergency landings in the 24 hours before the crash. that claim the airline has denied, but it brings safety into question. can this happen here in the united states. an aviation attorney worked for the faa and of course as you and i were hearing, we want to stay away from all speculation and inform the viewers of the technology in airplanes that we
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fly in all the time. if it can be improved. first and foremost, the technology in that airbus 804, is that also in the united states? >> it's in all commercial airliners. it is what is referred to the acars. it's an ought mailautomated sys cracks down on the aircraft being monitored. it receives information and that's a box on all airplanes. >> when we talk about looking for the black box and they only have 30 days. can you explain why there is a shelf life on that? >> it's an issue of battery life. it's usually plus or minus, but usually slightly plus? >> can that be improved? >> batteries are always being improved. in terms of talking 30 minutes
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or an hour. i'm sure that the battery technology will be improved. the real issue is not only the improvement of battery life, but the lost aircraft. that is the streaming and the realtime streaming of the data from the aircraft to the ground. >> that would be highly superior to now. >> we wouldn't be looking for the black boxes or recorders that are orange actually as most of your viewers know. we wouldn't be looking for it because the data would be streamed in realtime. not so much the technology, but a function of cost. we are looking at $100,000. and in the grand scream of things, they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. the question is cost benefit analysis. >> it sounds like logistics getting all of this in place.
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>> that's right. it's not unlike when we repaint airplanes and the airline gets bought by another airline. it takes a long time to cycle through the maintenance to repaint them. it's going to take time to get the streaming data in place. what would be the first step for us to work towards that updated safety measures? >> you really have to build the consensus in the industry. the faa can mandate anything they choose, but that's not how to bring about improvement. you have to have a cooperative system. it's no accident and it's a strange word to use. it's no accident that the airline industry is the safest in the world. it speaks of the relationship between the faa and the airlines. all of these things are being looked at. you don't have the situation in the united states. the last accident involving a
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u.s. airline in the united states was in 2009. we have an incredibly safe industry. >> i want to leave it on that note. i appreciate you coming on and talking about the technologies that are in place and where they can be improved. thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> professional athlete and cultural ambassador, husband. muhammad ali thrived in all of those roles and more. ahead, remembrances from you, our viewers and this legend's fellow boxers in the ring. >> not just all places, but the working class.
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and help make tomorrow possible. ♪ you're only a day away ♪ >> the life of a boxer is to display veracity in the ring. few are shown the kind of respect and affection than the legendary muhammad ali who died last night at 74 years old. >> for a long time -- >> and on social media from george forman whom ali memorably thought, a part of me slipped
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away. the greatest piece. filipino boxer manny paquiao said please keep muhammad ali in your thoughts and prayers. with god all things are possible. mike tyson, quote, god came for his champion. so long, great one. >> he was often thought of as the most famous man in the 20th century both around the united states and around the world. we asked you to share your thoughts. kathy said when cassius clay lit the torch i thought back to when he was a strong fast fighter. rest in peace. when i was a young boy, we used to say i'm muhammad ali. he is such a legend. indeed. muhammad ali was a great american and through all his medical issues he stayed strong. >> it's so wonderful to have all the people who have personal memories of him. >> and all good.
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all really great. touch people he met for an instant like geraldo and all those we will hear from later. >> thank you very much for joining us today. bl >> democrats hillary clinton and sanders are locked in a tight race with two points separating them in the latest "wall street journal" poll. clinton canceled events in new jersey tow head to the golden state. something her opponent made note of in a rally in palo alto. >> i read the newspapers, the "new york times" and the other papers and they said the campaign is over. i suddenly sawhillry clinton
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