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of information as well. >> that's always good to end on. so something for everybody here. hope you're having a great fourth. enjoy your barbecue. >> absolutely. and we love your boots today. >> proud american right there. >> we are monitoring a new string of suicide attacks, including one very close to a u.s. consulate. it comes during a brutal week of terrorism. the attack at an airport in turkey, the massacre in bangladesh, bombing in baghdad, the likes of which we have not seen in more than a decade. just ahead, the islamic state's effort to extend its reach of death, and the efforts to keep us all safe. plus, politics. can hillary clinton overcome trust issues? and give voters a reason to believe in her? also, donald trump tries to overcome his latest hurtle and gives hints about his possible pick for vp. the story of a young brain cancer patient who is family says tsa left her -- tsa agents
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left her bloody and bruised. all ahead this independence day. >> hello, happy fourth of july. i'm gregg jarrett in for shepard smith. a suicide bomber launching an attack steps from a u.s. consulate in saudi arabia, that according to saudi officials. the bomber detonated his explosive vets after security guards approached him near the parking lot of a hospital. officials say the blast killed the attacker and wounded two guards. neither seriously injured. the saudis say the suspect had been acting suspiciously at an intersection just outside the u.s. diplomatic post in the western city of jidah no group has claimed responsibility and no word whether the attacker was targeting the compound. there's mop. today reports indicating two explosions rocking the city of qatif in eastern saudi arabia.
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a suicide bomber blew himself up at the prophet's mofntion in met -- mosque in medina. muslims celebrating the holy month of ramadan which ends tomorrow. the bombings are just the latest in a series of recent terror attacks across the globe. a suicide bomber yesterday detonating a truck packed with explosives in a busy shopping district in baghdad, one of the attacks in iraq since the user invasion in 2003. -- the u.s. invasion in 2003. iraqi officials say the death toll will likely rise as the rescuers search the rubble for people who are still missing. the islamic state claimed responsibility for the bombing. the terrorist army has been losing ground in iraq, but at the same time it is stepped up its attacks outside its self-declairl caliphate. the group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack over the
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weekend at an upscale restaurant in bangladesh. investigators say three suspected isis fighters carried out the massacre last week at istanbul's international airport. we have team fox coverage now. john huddy has more on the deadly bombing bombing in iraq. first, benjamin hall in london. what else are we learning about the attacks in saudi saudi arabia? >> reporter: as you're saying, multiple attacks around the country today. we're still getting details coming out. they do seem to have been coordinated, and to kind side with the end of the holy ramadan month, the muslim month where they give thanks. the first bomb happened just outside the u.s. consulate this morning. but it killed only the suicide bomber. the man had been acting suspiciously and the guards responded. before they even reached him he debt it detonated his vest. another one near met medina. the attacker killed the bomber and two guards but the toll would have been higher had the attacker got into the mosque
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where thousands were praying. investigation is still underway to see who they were, but again, one main suspect comes to mind, isis. >> what about the attack in bangladesh for which isis had claimed credit? >> reporter: they were very quick to claim credit online but we're learning more about the attackers. they were educated. came from privileged backgrounds. one was even the son of the former mayor of the city. 28 people were killed in that attack. at a small restaurant on friday. most of them foreigners. the attackers came in shouting allah "allahu akbar" and identified those who couldn't recite the koran, tow toured them cicialgd them and then shared the brutal illinoiss ongoing, among the dead were two students from emory university, one of them an american from march. a student from uc berkeley was also killed. among the 18 hostages were nip italians, seven jches and one indian and today their bodies
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are being flown home. isis claimed online that their commandos carried out the attack but the bangladeshi government were quick deny that and now the great fear is isis is moving towards southeast asia. they have long side they want to recruit more people from there and bangladesh has 146 million muslims. the main point today is isis managed to spread fear and chaos across the world, and that will be a great success in their eyes. >> benjamin, thank you. team fox conk continuing now. john huddy live in the middle east news hub with more on the bombing in baghdad. john? >> reporter: we're learning more information. the death toll continues to climb and among the victims are at least 25 children, and an entire families that were wiped out in the bombings, according to iraqi officials and witnesses there on the ground. just a horrific act of terror. s it happened close to midnight
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saturday in the bustling shopping district of karrada in baghdad. a refrigerator truck lead with explosives rammed into a crowded upscale market area and bodies are still being pulled from the rubble, even today and tonight and the charred buildings. some incinerated in the explosion. both reasons that the death toll continues to climb. at this point 167 people confirmed dead. saturday night was particularly busy with a lot of young people and families shopping for the celebration which marks the end of ramadan this week. isis has threatened to carry out attacks throughout the muslim holy month. that has been the case. this saturday' attack is along with a series of other recent attacks in baghdad but it was the deadliest one this year in iraq and that's saying a lot because there have been so many, and one of the worst bombings in more than a decade as you were talking tblt in the intro,
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gregg. >> why would they targets this area of baghdad in particular? >> reporter: karrada is not only very busy, an upscale shopping and market area, and of course, saturday night in particular it was very busy. but this is a district of baghdad that is predominantly shia, and also it has a large christian population so it's a desirable target for isis. that said, though, iraqi prime minister abadi maintains isis is grewsing gowndz and his country's counterterrorism efforts working to break up isis terror cells. al-abadi toured the bomb site on sunday, and instead of being melt by supporters, he was met by angry protesters that were hurling rocks, shoes, and insults, calling him a liar and a thief, and that the government just isn't doing enough to stop
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the terror attacks and to stop isis, and they're screaming at him to leave the scene, which ultimately he and his convoy did. so, clearly, despite his claims of victory after fallujah and then ramadi, last year, and the early part of this year, isis still has the capabilities of carrying out these attacks. one quick note, per our contact on the ground in iraq, we're learning that 14 rockets landed in the vicinity of baghdad airport. it's unclear if that is related to isis but again, what is clearer is that isis has the capabilities to carry out these massive attacks. >> indeed they do. john, thank you. let's bring in former united nations ambassador john bolton, fox news contributor, ambassador, thank you for being with us, as isis loses more and more land in its self-deer clerical feat it is gaining -- caliphate it is gaining in
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attacks overseas. there is a coring layings -- correlation? >> i think the capable to carry out these attacks has been building for quite some time, unrelate told how well isis is doing on the ground in syria and iraq. and i think we have testimony from u.s. intelligence officials over the past several months that large numbers of isis terrorists, operatives, are in europe and very much fear they're in the united states as well. so, i think these attacks are not necessarily scheduled pursuant to some global isis plan. think the attack in baghdad is almost certainly a direct response to the loss of fallujah, and saying to the forces of the iraqi government, maybe you can beat us when you have u.s. air power but we will kill your families back home. bangladesh is something else. turkey is something even more complicate. but the point is these terrorist capables are out there. with the terrorists often having
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a lot of awe to autonomy when to carry out attacks. this thursday is the end of ramadan. so, we're really at the peak time, and i had been worrying for the united states on the fourth of july here, that this is -- because isis loves these anniversary dates, we need to be on the -- on guard. >> turkey, bangladesh, iraq, saudi arabia, the last several days and the previous week, jordan, yemen, lebanon, and you can go back month-by-month since january where there appears to have been an escalation of attacks. you mention they like dates. ramadan ended tomorrow should we expect some of this to subside or is that simply an artificial day? >> well, think there is some incentive under their ideal to carry out an act of martyrdom
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during ramadan and that's why the attacks in saudi arabia -- we don't know their background but one of the things isis has argued against al qaeda for some time is that they need to focus on the blasphemers and heretics right near the islamic homeland. so, you can imagine what the consequences would be if isis were more successful, fingers crossed here, than they have been so far today in saudi arabia, against the oil-producing monarchies on the arabian peninsula. what effect that would have for this countries and for the international economy potentially. >> is isis expanding in some correlation with the expansion of the internet and itser ever extending reach and what more do we need to do to stop them? >> well, i think those who observe isis closely will say that their propaganda capabilities over the internet are unmatched, unfortunately, in
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the history of terrorism, their ability to persuade and convert people to their cause to give them the tools of their trade through digital communication, the ability to spark them into action. it's one reason why in my view, this concept of lone wolves or self-radicalizing terrorists is so misguided. it's just a different way of organizing isis' activity and this is that's free speech issue when you have people putting together efforts to kill others. that's a criminal offense. just think we have to catch up with where isis is. it's unbelievable they've outpaced us. our law enforcement and intelligence. i know they're striving to catch up but i'm worried we have a long way to go. >> who the terrorists or inspired or directed by isis, the result is the same. carnage and death. ambassador john bolton, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, gregg. >> millions of us celebrating the fourth of july today. we'll take a look at how police are trying to protect everybody.
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that's coming up on this independence day edition of "shepard smith reporting."
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police in ohio apologizing to a muslim man after somebody wrongfully accused him of supporting isis.
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[shouting] >> officers tackling the man on the ground and then handcuffing him. happened last week at a hotel in avon outside of cleveland. a clerk reportedly told her sister to call 9-1-1, saying she heard the man pledge allegiance to isis over the telephone. cops say the man was not a threat and released him. he collapsed after the ordeal, went to the local hospital. minor injuries. police say the hotel clerk could face charges making a false claim. all of this coming as law enforcement as beefed up security after a recent string of terror attacks. bryan llenas is live in new york city. why the nypd doing to keep people safe today? >> reporter: happy birthday, america. new york city is home to the biggest fireworks show in the country, and some three million people are expected to pack the streets and rooftops of new york city today to witness the 40th 40th anniversary of the macy's
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fireworks spectacular. 56,000 pyrotechnics shoot offering five barges on the east river, and given what happened in saudi arabia, orlando, bangladesh, turkey, and baghdad, all eyes are on security, and the nypd is not holding back. they've got the hercules counterterrorism currents, patrol boats and divers, radiation detection units and extra officers on the streets, including plain-clothesed and those who graduate from the academy on friday. >> come out and celebrate on july 4th. nypd is ready to keep everyone safe. in fact all of the new officers, 1,257 officers sworn in today, will all be out there on patrol around the city, keeping us safe. there are no specific threats directed at new york city but we are very, very vigilant. >> reporter: now, new this year is a team of elite k-9s.
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eight dogs trained to track and sniff out explosive scents in the air. they're the last line of defense to stop a suicide bomber in a crowd or somebody delivering a deadly package. these types of security measures can be seen through washington, dc and boston and other major cities, but no specific or credible threat anywhere in the u.s. for today's celebrations. >> what more do we know about the explosion in central park yesterday? >> reporter: it really rattled people's nerves and horrifically hurt one tourist. three tourists visiting central park, the 18-year-old jumped on a rock which happened to have an explosive device underneath it. it blew his left foot off. he is in stable condition. really authorities are calling it an experimental explosive device, likely a firework built by probably a hobbyist or amateur. there's no terrorism connection.
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right now they say in their investigation to see what is up but honestly the bomb squad was called in and the vapor dogs were called in people's nerves are understandably on edge given what is happening in the world but no credible threat for today, gregg. >> bryan llenas in battery park, lower manhattan. thank you. we have all heard nightmare stories about airport security. how about this one? a cancer patient's story. the teenager is partially blind,day deaf and paralyzed. hough did she end up bloodied, bruised, on the ground and under arrest by tsa. next. max and i just discovered
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a 19-year-old cancer patient
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who is partially deaf, blind, and paralyzed, spent a night in jail tsa officers left her bloodied and bruised at airport security, according to the girl's mother who is now suing the tsa, the airport and airport police. hannah coen was heading home to chattanooga, tennessee, after aftercare in a hospital. the tsa agents wanted to do extra screening on her daughter, who resisted because she didn't understand. she was confused. hannah's mother says one agent put her disabled daughter on the ground, hannah's head hitting the floor leaving her, quote, bloody and blood everywhere. security arrested hannah. arrested her. put her in jail. then they later dropped the charges. the tsa wouldn't comment directly about the situation but a spokesperson did say this: quote, passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical
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situation. phillip siegel is an investigative attorney and president of charles griffin intelligence, also wrote a new book "the art of fact investigation." thank you for being here. this doesn't look good for tsa. >> looks really bad, unless they can argue they thought that's girl was going for a weapon, it's hard to imagine how anybody, mentally impaired or not, would justify being treated that way. >> what if they south she was trying to run? >> well, you can -- how far can you get and if she was trying to run, they could still probably resist. she is a mall girl who is impaired, can't see, can't hear. it's just hard to imagine how reasonably they would have to wrestle her to the ground. we have all been in airports and seen alarms go off. you don't get encircled by a lot of people when the alarm goes off. just hard to know how this would have happened, except, of course, it's an airport and it's probably on videotape, which is
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perhaps why they dropped the charges. that's my guess. >> all on the videotape, but we. in the rodney king case in which the four cop thursday state court were all acquitted. the videotape doesn't always tell the story, and isn't -- tsa, like any law enforcement agency, is only allowed to use the level of force that is needed to meet the threat. they cannot exceed that. that would be considered excessive force. >> that's true. and when you see the videotape -- this will be in federal court anyway -- this is an american with disabilities act case, and the case says -- they're suing because they said that the tsa didn't make reasonable accommodations for someone with mental and physical impairment. the idea that you can call ahead -- no, no, the burden is on the tsa to accommodate people -- >> but you no they're going to
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say they didn't recognize -- >> the mother alleges in the lawsuit that the mother was telling them, hey, she is impaired. she doesn't understand. she is impaired. and that the tsa ignored what the mother was saying. that, too, should come out on the videotape. >> so imapart affects her ability to walk, talk, stand, see, hear. given all of that, should have been obvious to any reasonable person, any reasonable tsa agent. right? >> i would think so. if the facts as alleged in the complaint are anywhere close to being true, i would be astounded if this thing goes to trial. >> yeah. probably filed it under the federal tort claims act. got to kind of jump through a few hoops in advance before you get it in front of a jury, but if you're the defense here, the government, you don't ever want to get this in front of a jury because most jurors have been on planes go through security, it's an aggravation, they don't particularly like tsa agents. >> that's right. we have all, thing think, experienced if we fly at all,
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that most of the tsa agents i've come across are fine. nice. but i have had my share of really rude ones, abusive ones, and you're scared to say anything. if you start arguing, a., you miss your plane. b., they can arrest you for impairing their ability to do their job. you're scared of the tsa. plus you want to make your flight. but if this woman was saying, hey, my daughter is impaired, she doesn't understand, she is 18, a cancer patient, she can't see, can't hear, at that point you got to stop. >> thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> donald trump meeting with yet another potential vp contender today. also defending his tweet, this one after critics called it antiset met tick, trump claims there's an innocent explanation. and hillary clinton about to hit the campaign trail with president obama for the first time. she may have not like everything he has to say about her, but it's apparently all part of the
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...and new lobster and shrimp overboard. overboard? nah, ...it's just right. so hurry in. donald trump today defending a controversial image he posted on twitter, saying it's not antisemitic. it shows hillary clinton against a backdrop of money and next to it a six-sided star that reads "most corrupt candidate ever" in people say it resembled the star of david and was on a neonazi web board. the campaign deleted the original tweet. replaced witness this one, circle instead of a star. trump is defending the original version and tweeted, dishonest media trying to do their best to depict at the star in a tweet as the star of david rather than a sheriff's star or plain star. pete-under -- computer doocy is
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lying. now hillary clinton's campaign is weighing in. >> they are saying that, quote, the fact that it's a part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern. but trump's former campaign manager, corey lewandoski, agrees with his old boss he doesn't think there was any intention to invoke the star of david and the design in his opinion more closely resembles a sheriff's badge, saying on cnn that, quote, it's the same star that sheriff's departments use all over the place to represent law enforcement. think again that's the mainstream media trying to attack donald trump for something that isn't really there. it is worth pointing out, for context, that donald trump's daughter, ivanka, her husband and their kids are all jewish. >> what's the latest on donald trump's search for a running mate? >> he tweeted this morning that he was going to meet with the republican party's rising star, senator joany ernst.
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he post evidence online i look forward to meeting jody ernst. yesterday he spent the day with indiana's governor mike pence, and as for the timing of a vp announcement dr. ben carson says not to expect it before the convention. >> he could, but right now, he is really going through this process, and being very deliberate about it and will take as much time as is necessary to make a good choice. >> waiting until the convention could be a problem for pence sent he can't be on indiana's ballot twice and that means he would need to announce he was not going to run for re-elect as governor three days before things kick off in cleveland. >> peter doocy, thank you very much. president obama will join hillary clinton in north carolina tomorrow, his first campaign appearance with the presumptive democratic nominee. the "associated press" reporting the president will vouch for clinton as a former rival who
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then became a friend, and his secretary of state. polls show she is still struggling to convince voters she is hospital and trustworthy. mike emanuel in new york. what else should we suspect from president obama tomorrow? >> reporter: good afternoon. president obama is still quite popular with democrats and will seek to energize the base in a critical state like north carolina. charlotte is where president obama accepted the democratic party nomination four years ago. it's clinton's sing visit to north carolina in the past couple of weeks. a sign how important her team sees the state. white house press secretary josh earnest gave us this preview. >> the president has developed a deep appreciation for her toughness under fire, and her commitment to a set of values that the president shares. so, that -- those attributes, that character, those values,
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are principally the reason the president believes that she is the best person to succeed him in the oval office. >> reporter: and that is just for starters. vice-president joe biden will hit the campaign trail to campaign for hillary clinton in battleground pennsylvania, on friday. >> mike, how is clinton addressing her issues with appearing honest and trustworthy to voters? >> reporter: she has tried apologizing, has had mitted she made some mistakes and sounds like she is hoping to win back the trust over time. >> i'm going to continue to put forth my record, what i have stood for, do everything i can to earn the trust of the voters of our country. i know that's something that i am going to keep working on, and i think that a clear priority for me.
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>> reporter: one possible running mate says clinton recognizes she must do her best to try to turn it around. >> she understandses she has to earn people's trust and is going to work very hard to do that. i give her credit for saying that she has made some mistakes and is going to try to show the american people she will work hard, especially for working families in america to earn their trust. >> reporter: a recent nbc news "wall street journal" poll had trump up 16 points over clinton on the issue of trustworthiness so she has a lot of work to turn that around. let's bring in liz, a democratic strategist, thank you for being with us. want to put up on the screen mike reverenced it but here's the latest fox news poll numbers, 66% think hillary clinton is not honest and trustworthy. 58% think she is corrupt.
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>> wow. >> isn't meeting with the fbi in a criminal probe in which clearly she is the focus, is unprecedented? no presidential nominee has ever done that. how much damage does this cause her? >> well, i'm not going to lie. those are some pretty big and bad and scary numbers for her, but the truth of the matter is, these aren't new numbers necessarily. hillary clinton, ever shin frankly assumed the role as first lady in 1992 has been battling with the idea that she might not be trustworthy. frankly, about 50% of the country thinks she and is 50% of the country thinks she isn't. i'm not sure you're going to find a lot of people that haven't made up their mind about that. do i think that the meeting between the attorney general and her husband, former president clinton, was wise? no. i think we all agree, not the smartest move by two very smart people. they have both come out and said, if given the opportunity
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to meet again, they wouldn't do it. but i think that's an indication that the meeting was nothing. it was simply a moment in time to discuss menial things. golf, grandchildren, but the optics were poor. and i think they both know that if they had to go back, they would make a different choice. >> after she met with the fbi for three and a half hours yesterday and was i'm sure peppered with a lot of questions, maybe confronted with documents, she dade brief interview on the telephone, and she was asked, how do you account for classified material on your unauthorized server? again, her defense seems to be, for lack of a better word, ignorance. she said once again the documentwards not marked classified. well, markings are irrelevant, but even if they are -- does she really need to be told that a u.s. spy satellite image of north korea's nukes are classified? that's clear and that's obvious. to say it needs to be marked for her and she wouldn't recognize
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what is in front of her, isn't that arguing her own incompetence? >> wow. that's a pretty big charge. i don't think it's incompetent. i think it is that there are hundreds of thousands of documents that any one of our secretaries of state in any administration, look at, and that after a while -- >> spy images or north korea's nukes -- >> if they weren't labeled classified, i will ask, why wasn't it? i agree with you itch think something that sensitive, frankly, should have been labeled classified. >> not all documents are classified, and in fact she was instructed in her tutorial, her non security indoctrination on her first day, here's what classified is, here's what is classified not and is not always marked that way and she signed a nondisclosure statement, saying she understood and it would abide by the rules. >> well, i appreciate that. but the truth of the matter is that we have been investigating this, frankly, congress, and the fbi, has been investigating this
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for four years, and they have yet to find anything that really looks malicious or --ee we don't know what they found -- >> or criminal intent. at this point four, years into this i think if there had been anything malicious or with criminal intent we'd know by now. did she make mistake inside yes. many of our elected officials have made mistakes, particularly as technology moves forward goal from e-mail to facebook, we go to twitter. it gets a little difficult after a while. don't know about your mother but my mother has a hard time keeping up with the new technology. >> we haven't known about it for youths years because we didn't learn about until a year and a half ago when "the new york times" broke the story, she has these e-mails on a private server and not at the state department. liz, we'll have -- >> already convict her so we'll have to wait and see what in the fbi says. >> what's that. >> you made up your mind and convict her. let's wait ask and see what the fib saying. >> i've read the law and statutes, the one on intent and
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gross negligence and i'm trying to figure out how her answer to that -- we heard it yesterday once again -- they weren't marked classified -- however that reef lefts to the statute. the statute doesn't speak to whether it's marked or not. doesn't matter whether it's marked. >> i have faith -- i appreciate that. have faith in the fbi we'll ghetto bottom of this. >> thank you. >> you, too. >> just ahead we'll talk to a republican strategist about donald trump's search for a running mate. he was doon lots of meeting and tweeting this weekend with'll look at how the potential contenders stack up, coming up next.
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more now on donald trump's search for a running mate. as we reported the billionaire said he was meeting tonight today with rub joni ernst. in addition, the soap report is these are among the people that trump campaign is considering
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for veep. trump also met with indiana governor mike pence over the weekend. so let's talk about it now with republican strategist brad blakeman, former member of george w. bush's senior staff. happy independence day to you, brad. good to see you. >> happy fourth. >> let's talk about joni ernst. that's the newest name that we have been hearing. trump does not do well with women, and there are some with a military background who are concerned about having him as commander in chief. would her has his running mate help him? >> sure. she has a lot to offer. comes from iowa, a u.s. senator. she is a veteran of the armed forces. she has had state experience, and now she has federal experience, bag u.s. senator, although a first termer. that would probably be her only drawback. if she didn't have the breath of experience but neither does donald trump and he will be our president.
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so a fresh faced, jony i ernst being a woman adds to the ticket and something quite frank live that donald trump needs desperately. needed women both married and single. >> let me throw two people together. newt gingrich, chris christie, whose ratings have plumb -- plummeted. talk about these two as possibilities. >> i think newt gingrich is well suited instead of vp for chief of staff. would argue that is a much more powerful position, working directly for the president. be it behind the scenes working with congress. and newt is older than donald trump, has been out of the public eye for many decade, whereas i would think that would be a drawback to him. now, christie comes from new jersey. his polls are kind of low and i think that what good is a vice-president that can't deliver his home state? i think christie certainly could serve in a trump cabinet but he doesn't bring enough to the
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table, i believe, to be a vp nominee. >> what about mike pence, the governor of indiana? what does he bring to the table and of course trump met with him over the weekend, seems to really like him. i think they ended up playing golf together. what about pence? >> pence, again, is a fresh face to the g.o.p. nationally. he served in congress. he is a popular sitting governor of indiana. he certainly can win, i believe, his home state. he is -- and i believe he is also principled conservative, something that trump needs by helping round out his ticket. so, pence has a little problem. that he can't run for governor and also be vp, can't vote for him twice on the same ballot. so the dilemma needs to be fixed if we were to accept trump's nomination. >> real quick, brad, because i'm out of time. the laundry list maybe of the people who said no way, don't
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want to have anything to do with donald trump. is that about right. >> a lot of people who like to sit it out because trump is so unpredictable and so much an outsider himself greatest strength may be his biggest weakness as far as the establish. >> brad, great to see you. more fall fountain from brexit, nigel farage has resigned as head of the uk independence party. one offed the lears of the campaign to break away from european union but today he said, quote, want my life back and it begins right now. this is just the latest political leader to walk away from the chaos created by britain's vote to leave the european union. conservative prime minister david cameron made the decision to step down after he failed to convince voters to stay in the eu. call it the original brexit. 240 years ago. americans coast to coast. marking our nation's independence day, and we are live with the celebrations, coming up next.
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across the country americans celebrating the fourth of july in the nation's capital, floats and bands cruise pass the national pal. the ann san francisco, crews setting up for a big fireworks display. organizers set up an app that will sync music to the show inch tennessee, music city celebrating independence day. no surprise, with lots of music. abby is live in beautiful nashville with more on that. hi, abby. >> reporter: wore having way too much fun here in nashville. i'm at this bar and restaurant itch had lunch here an hour ago. great burgers, sweet potato fries, a bam is warming up -- a
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band is warming up. so many plieses along broadway here, and music come out of every door. the questions is what have we not done? we he done the grandol' opry. recorded my own song. eat something incredible food. you think what makes america great, the country music, barbecue, living the american dream, striving to live that dream, everything reminds you of right here in nashville. it's quickly become one of my favorite cities. the rain has been off and on. today is a big celebration for the fourth of july. but that is not stopping people. they're still hundreds of people outside. food vendors, music playing everywhere, but as i said, today is the big day, greg, and nashville of all places have the pest fireworks display of any city in the country because they come bin it with the symphony and time it perfectly. sheryl crow will be proving but
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it's just an incredible experience. all the people here -- i have to tell you, everyone is so talented people are singing, humming. they're humble. it makes you proud to be an american here in nashville and that's why fox is here because we're proud to be an american. we have this awesome sunglasses. says #proud americans. they're hand these out. it's really been a memorable weekend. >> you got the abouts going on -- the boots going on and the whole thing. >> i do. >> i want to hear what you recorded. abby, thank you very much. >> we'll be right back with more. don't go away. i want my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® readytresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i want to trim my a1c. ♪ tresiba® readytresiba® provides powerful a1c reduction.
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on this day in 1939, baseball legend lou gehrig gave his farewell speech at yankee stadium. he was diagnosed with als. gehrig died two years later but
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a baseball icon told fans, quote, i consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. 77 years ago today. i'm gregg jarrett in for shep. "your world" is next. have a great fourth. >> airports underring highenned security this hour as the holiday weekend continues. in the weak of more terror attacks over there, are americans getting increasingly anxious here? hi-everybody. i'm in for neil cavuto. this is a special edition of your your. on the heels of the massacre at turkey's largest airport and the attack at a restaurant in bang la, the new fox poll shows more than eight in ten americans are nervous about our ability to prevent terrorist attacks here in america. to former green beret. is it not just actions we're taking to protect people, say, the pulse nightclub in orlando but also how the administration