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it done. >> we are going to scoot and do the other things that we do. you're back at 7:00. >> we're going to work on a podcast. >> see you guys. ♪ a >> jon: there is no fallout from explosive allegations about the cia after wikileaks releases thousands of documents and claims exposes secret cyber arsenal. including tools to turn smart tvs and cell phones into listening devices. good morning to you on this wednesday. >> heather: wikileaks claiming that the cia turning every day electronics into surveillance devices. it also says the cia knew about flaws in software made by apple, google, samsung, and other tech
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giants. it used those vulnerabilities to bypass encryption on popular apps. benjamin hall is following the story for us live from london with more. >> good morning. this is just yet another embarrassing blow to the intelligence community. wikileaks, again releasing thousands of classified documents, this time from inside the cia. the documents are said to come from the agencies cyber intelligence unit. it shows the entire hacking agency, naming specific programs with names like assassin and medusa. they come from a isolated high-security network. they use malware to target smartphones, smart tvs, and cell phones. they have the ability to bypass encrypted messages.
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wikileaks editor is a fugitive, said the cia had "lost control of of the majority of its hacking arsenal." this is the worst security breach since edward snowden. he was a contractor for the nsa, which traditionally the agency past with this type of packing. >> the cia's mandate is to perfume intelligence. it didn't disclose all of the nsa's tools, which would have been far far more than the cia's four who this is sort of a secondary mission. >> these leaks come at a time when president trump had been critical of leaks inside the intelligence services. among other disclosures, some cia hacking methods were perpetrated by other countries. it is not a surprise at the cia has the capability, but the scarab it is the big surprise.
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who is betting the people who work in a cyber intelligence unit? >> heather: what you would think they were already doing that, if they are, they're not doing a very good job. thank you very much. work underway right now to replace obamacare. the house majority leader's our meeting right now to debate. the bill is getting some criticism from concerta republicans, they say doesn't go far enough to blow up the care act. president trump promises a meeting with them today, saying the midterm election could be at stake. mike emanuel is a lie for on capitol hill with all of this. very busy day. >> good morning to you. i was told to bring lunch and dinner today, expecting it to be a very long day and night discussing the future of health care. house energy and commerce is one of the two congressional committees taking a look at this g.o.p. health care proposal.
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greg walden is walking members through what is in that committee's jurisdiction. he says they will return power back to the states, strictly medicaid and prioritizing our nation's most vulnerable. in the past hour, house speaker paul ryan said this legislation will pass because lawmakers will keep their promises. >> we are working hand in glove with president trump, vice president pence, secretary price. this is an all hands on deck. we all ran on repealing and replacing obamacare. we know that if we do nothing, it will collapse. we know if we would have repealed it, the system collapses. >> however some house conservatives like rand paul came out quickly to oppose legislation. they say republic's are divided and suggest congress should vote on a straight obamacare appeal. >> only told the voters relay to reveal apartment care, we didn't say we would repeal obamacare, but keep some of the obamacare fashions. we didn't say we would repeal obamacare, but expand the
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medicated faction. >> house members are also at work at their part of this health care package. kevin brady says relief is on the way and this will leave a patient centered health care system. democrats say they're surprised were hooligans appear to stand by it. >> they don't have their act together. from the right set of their party and the left side of their party, people are taking shots at it. >> chairman kevin brady told me last night that president trump told lawmakers to get this done, no excuses. the work on that begins today. >> heather: mike emanuel, life for us with lunch and dinner. thank you very much. a >> jon: as we watch this bill's progress there congressional committees, let's bring in senior writer and co-author. you pointed out in the playbook today that there's not really a
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bill yet that still has to be sort of written in the committee. there's a couple of conflicts of floating on hill. republicans have to decide which one they'll support. >> there is a bill, but it's getting marked up. it's going to go through this long process today, as mike mentioned, it's going to go into the evening, which is a very, very long arduous process. democrats are going to try to insert their priorities, they will fail. republicans will certain their priorities and will see what happens there. this is not how they envision this role it happening. a lot of outside conservative groups are against this bill. the freedom caucuses at the top. at this is a giant new entitlement. this is not appropriate. jim jordan, probably the most respected member is vehemently opposed. the one dynamic and we shouldn't make this up. if donald trump throws his weight behind this in a serious
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way, this is a chance of passing. it donald trump is the only person who can get this bill across the finish line. make no mistake about it. he needs to corral votes, he needs to negotiate and get people on his side like he said he would during the campaign. he knows how to get deals done. this is the deal that he has to get done or else it's a big loss for them. >> jon: he is having dinner with ted cruz. >> we mention not playbook this morning, this is the most hands-on we've seen donald trump. as we mentioned, he came back with a large group of people charged with the nitty-gritty of vote counting it is going to meet with them next week. he's going have conservatives over tonight, the white house is not released to the zinc conservatives are yet. he's invited the house freedom caucuses to bowl in the white house. they have their own bowling lan lane. there is some corralling going
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on but look, the white house has laid out an ambitious agenda. they want to complete a repeal of the health care law and replacement of the health care law and tax the august reset. that's 60 something days. it's understandable that the trump administration might not understand how washington slowly works at times. you're beginning to see how difficult these things are. those are priorities that take time. let's be on the president has said time and time again that this is a beginning of a negotiation. he may be finding that works in business, but not necessarily in politics, because if your opponents think you're willing to negotiate, then they're going to dig in their heels, right? >> right. if this isn't the final product, where would would you support i it? i think the top republicans on capitol hill have communicated to the white house that they hope he stops saying that is a negotiation and he again throws his weight behind the package
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and republicans get it across the finish line over the next couple weeks. if you say there's a negotiation, we saw when democrats who used a very long process with a lot of input from a lot of people, when they passed their health care law, that lasted about nine months. if you frame this as a negotiation, it's going to take a while. it donald trump's administration has laid out an aggressive agenda that they want to get done by august. this cannot be a negotiation. this has to be a package that he puts us through. a >> jon: prior to you, we heard from jim jordan we mentioned earlier, he said we should just repeal the thing. it just repeal obamacare. not really practical, is it or is it? >> a lot of tvs are turning to fox news on the hill, so i'm sure once i walk out of here, i'll get in trouble for saying this. i think top republicans in the leadership in the head of these
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committees do not think you can just repeal the law and then work on a replacement. they think you need need to pre some sort of help. i think jim jordan, who is not the current leader, but the de facto leader and the most respected member of the freedom caucus, he would argue otherwise. they have a different plan. listen, they had a plan last night with mick mulvaney, the head of office of budget who is a former freedom caucus member. he said the president was willing to deal a little bit. we'll see how this plays out. we'll see if the president can get conservatives on his side in what he has to give up to get them there. this is very high-stakes and a loss on this would be a black eye for donald trump. a spew on this markup session is going to be so intense and long and chaotic. thank you.
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the man in charge of implementing a new health care plan will be tom price, secretary of health and human services and later this afternoon, he sits down with neil cavuto on your world to share his view of the republican plan. you don't want to miss it, 4:00 p.m. eastern time here on fox news channel. >> heather: some new information on a deadly collision between a freight train and charter bus. what witnesses say happened right before the crash. plus, there could be trouble ahead for the g.o.p. plan to replace obamacare. we've been talking about that. ed is coming from inside the republican party. what is the leadership doing to get a health care plan back by the presidents past? will go in depth
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>> heather: welcome back, we have some new information for you on a deadly collision between a freight train and a charter bus in mississippi. the fed to launch a full
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investigation on it. witnesses are now saying that the bus looks like it was stuck on the tracks and the conductor of the train was trying to stop before he slammed into it. the crash killed four people and injured more than three dozen others. >> we received a call that a train had impacted with a tour bus. we responded. it was a terribly chaotic scene right now, we have it under control. we're not sure about the bus itself, why was stopped, if it was having engine problems. it's a terrible tragedy. i know there's a lot of families that will be impacted here. i just want everyone to know that we're doing everything we can do. >> heather: it took rescuers more than an hour to pull victims from that wreckage. witnesses saying their body parts everywhere. >> jon: new reaction to the g.o.p. plan to repeal and replace obamacare as it faces pushback, especially among
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republicans. >> this bill is just obamacare and a different form. at the very first paragraph says it amends the affordable care act, it doesn't repeal it. the american people want us to repeal it and replace it with something that is different, and certainly want to drive on those health care costs. mommy tell you, what if some of the plan so far, it does nothing to actually lower health care costs and premium for less for hard-working taxpayers. >> jon: us now, you are one of those voices on capitol hill, although you know the medical industry well. you seem to suggest that this bill is in pretty good shape. if you this proposal. >> i certainly like it a lot better than obamacare, which has been a complete failure. it continues to collapse around the country and its driven premiums way up. what i like about this is as promised, he repeals the
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mandates. it eliminates the taxes and the penalties, but it preserves the things that as a doctor, i think are very important. people with presenting conditions will be protected, there will be any lifetime limits for people who are ill and also young people can stay on their parents plan. i think those things are very, very important. this is a monumental shift away from obamacare and toward the freedom and choice the patient's want. >> jon: if it doesn't have the individual mandate, it does contain a penalty provision for anybody who drops their insurance, right? if you drop your insurance for a couple of months, you have to be a 30% penalty. if you try to get that insurance back. >> i think this plan is set up in a way to protect patients who continue with insurance, who have insurance, but we have seen so many people gaining the system under obamacare, that's one of the reasons so many insurance companies say we're not going to sell anymore. and my home state of wyoming, we
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don't really have a choice. there's one person selling insurance, and us because obamacare is set up on such a terrible way, it's been bad for patients, it's been bad for doctors who are trying to take care of them, it's been bad for the taxpayers. insurance companies is that we don't want any part of it either. >> jon: what you say, specially to your colleagues, we just heard from jim gordon of ohio who is very anti-this proposal. how do you get him and others on board? >> it's interesting, because their members that caucus who endorse what tom price introduced a couple years ago when he was in the house. i think it's important that we work together to repeal and replace obamacare. that's what we campaigned on, that's what donald trump campaigned on. that was our pledge to the american people. as a doctor, i say i don't want to go back to where we were years ago when i was practicing medicine. we need to health care reform. this is the right way to do it,
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by getting the power out of washington and putting in the hands of the patients, by moving away from washington and back home to the states where people have a much better idea of what works for the people who live there, and i think this bill that were talking about now, which is open to amendments and discussions and looking for better ideas, and there are a lot of good ideas out there, this is a huge step in the right direction, away from obamacare and toward personal freedom. >> jon: i want to turn your attention, senator, to another topic and washington right now. democrats, as you know, are pushing for a special prosecutor to investigate russian interference, or allegations thereof, and the 26 election. as a house intelligence committee schedules its first hearing later this month on the russian investigation. and your view, what's the best way to proceed? >> the intelligence committee is a bipartisan committee, they were closely together, they have access to incredible amount of information. i put my trust and faith in the
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intelligence committee to get to the bottom of this. we all want to know the truth, we all took want to make sure that we are safe, strong and secure country. >> jon: your former colleague, jeff sessions, who is now the attorney general, has taken some heat for suggesting that he was not involved in campaign meetings with russian campaign contacts, when in fact, he had. he says, he understood the question to be in the context of campaign appearances when he had in fact met with the russian ambassador and his senate office in his capacity as a senator. is that explanation except will to you? >> i think jeff sessions is a man of great integrity. i worked with him over the last ten years. he has now recused himself from a number of these discussions, but i have a lot of faith and trust in jeff sessions. >> jon: senator of wyoming, appreciate you being on.
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thanks very much. >> heather: is still to come, the man accused of several bomb threats against jewish centers is heading to court today. investigators say what's his motive
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>> jon: a former reporter set to appear at a missouri court, charge of making bomb threats against several jewish sites. a judge will decide today if juan thompson to remain in custody. he was arrested friday and what prosecutor's essay was a cyber stalking scheme to retaliate against a former girlfriend. the 31-year-old is not believed to be responsible for most of the threat targeting jewish centers across the country. >> heather: congressional committees setting a date.
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a starting march 20th, lawmakers could hear from some of the biggest names in the intelligence community as members of congress start to review classified information provided by the cia. joining me now, retired four-star general jack keane who is also the chairman of the institute for studies of war. along with this date for the hearing, which we now have, we know the scope of the investigation will entail the alleged connections of the term campaign and russia, along with leaks from members of the intelligence community. what specific evidence do you think they will want to hear and see? >> i think it's not disputable that russia obviously penetrated our democratic process. how expensive that is is really the issue at hand. it will take examination of classified information and other sources to be able to get to the bottom of that.
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secondly, as you suggest, is there or has there been any collusion with the term campaign and russia? we have some preliminary evidence from the former dni, director of national intelligence, mr. klapper emma director of the fbi, mr. comey, both of said there is no evidence to date such a claim. nonetheless, because this is so much in the public domain, i absolutely agree that the committee has to pursue this, run the rabbit down the hole so to speak and get to the bottom of it, and make certain that there has been no collusion. >> heather: here's the thing, some of the experts, you mentioned james call me, mike rogers, john brennan, former national intelligence director james clapper, your interest him and also the former acting attorney general, sally yates.
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who is not on that list is former national secured advisor, michael flynn. you say that he would be significant. >> i think it's up to the chairman of the committees to call him, certainly, i know mike flynn, i had lunch with him last week. i know for a fact that if he is called, he certainly will go and provide a testimony. i think, clearly there was electronic surveillance being executed against him when he was a private citizen, which should be alarming to all of us. that was before he became the national security advisor. i think that clearly is an issue and should be under investigation to be determined if that is the only electronic surveillance that was done. >> heather: that goes toward president trump's claims that the obama administration had trump tower under surveillance. >> yes, he's made the claim. if there is no evidence to support it, except this one fact
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about general flynn that we just discussed. that is a fact. i assume general flynn was spending most of his time at trump tower advising the president-elect a time. what was the basis for that electronic surveillance? why was it conducted and what was the legal authority to do it question or two to do that on a private citizen felony. unless there's probable cause. where there others who were also electronically surveilled? >> heather: is all of this a distraction? look at what we're talking about, but we're not are not talking about what russia is doing overseas, particularly in the ukraine and also in the middle east. >> i think it's a very good point, heather. i think this is been an absolute windfall for the russians. here, there is likely some major
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hacking of the dnc that did not undermine our democratic process. i think that's what it will turn out to be, but we have been talking for weeks and no months about russia's penetration of our democratic process, which they want to be publicly disclosed. now this windfall is here. people have doubts about our system, because of the russian capabilities. they have got a huge psychological victory here. as you point out, we have major problems with russia trampling on u.s. national interest around the world, certainly. >> heather: general cain, thank you so much for joining us. always a pleasure to talk to you, appreciate it. >> jon: an influential voice in politics during the public with an opinion on the republican plan to replace obamacare. what the aarp thinks of the bill that's being debated at this hour. plus, police and fbi agents searching for the prime suspect in the murders of two teenage girls. have you seen this man whose
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internet romance fraud. a deadly deception of the military hospital in afghanistan allowed armed men to operate in like they worked there and open fire. plus, lights out in philadelphia after massive fire at the station. an effort to get the electricity back on. >> jon: you can add one more voice to the people opposing obamacare. aarp says it will weaken medical care and make it more expensive for people ages 50-64. >> let me give you a list of what's in here that conservatives should be excited about. number one, the bill repeals obamacare. number two, repeals obamacare taxes. >> it will be the biggest transfer of wealth from middle income people to wealthy people in our country. you don't think of it that way. that's why i say to them, show us the numbers.
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shows the numbers of what the impact us personally on people, show us the numbers of how many people will be thrown off. it couldn't be worse. >> our goal is simple, to bring on the cost for working families across this country. to do that, we have to get rid of obamacare completely. >> jon: will talk with simon rosenberg. lisa boothe as founder of harney strategies, contributor to the -- thank you both for being her here. simon, the opposition of the aarp is no great surprise, they lobbied for the bill when president obama was trying to get it passed in in law and actually supported it. >> is a little surprising that so many organizations have come out this quickly, because it's not just the aarp, it's also "the american medical association" came out of dance
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the bill this morning. we heard a lot of reservations from senate republicans, jim jordan. there's been a lot of very rapid opposition, something we just found out about on monday. the reason why, it looks like millions are going to lose their insurance, cost will go up for others, i think we should view this as a first start. certainly, if this is where republican's wand up, i think it will do political harm to them in the election in 2018. >> jon: lisa, those groups that he mentioned, are you surprised that there isn't more unanimity among conservative groups? >> not at all. it's messy, it was always going to be messy. if i was republicans trying to drive us forward, i would be less concerned about aarp, a group that helped divide obamacare, supported obamacare,
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and less concerned about nancy pelosi, who really has staked her like to see on obamacare as well. what i would be concerned about are the republicans, because the reality is, it's a numbers driven game and moving this legislation passed the finish line. if you are someone like speaker paul ryan, you can only afford 21 defections, i think the house freedom caucus has around 30 members. if you're some like majority leader, mitch mcconnell, they need 51 to support this legislation or 50 with vice president pence being the tiebreaker, given that it's going to be moved forward to the reconciliation process. i has around eight senators who have skepticism both conservative and moderate. that's important for the leadership to move this past the finish line. >> jon: can the president and
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republicans afford to have this thing go down in flames? if it doesn't get changed, is this their best shot and maybe their only shot, at least in this legislative session? >> yeah, because they fused the reconciliation process, because republic is in the senate don't have a filibuster proof majority. if that's the only way at this point of this is going to get done. it will be really bad politically if this falls down. they need to take heed of those defectors in the various members of their public and party, that's part of the markup process as well, as it moves through various committees, as well, of course they need to listen to those voices. if there is a lot of whipping that's going behind closed doors as well. i think administration carries a lot of weight and trying to move it forward, because if you are the members of the house freedom caucus, i would be looking among those members that he won
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handily. there's going to be a lot of lobbying behind closed doors and in front of closed doors that will ultimately happen with the spirit >> jon: simon, as you know, one of the charges against the obamacare procedure was that there wasn't a single republican vote and support of it. you see any democrat, any at all, getting in line behind this proposal and if so, if it becomes a republican past, republican only passed measure, does not give the democrats ammunition in the future? >> at this point, it would be shocking if any democrat got on board, because of the actual proposal, not because of the idea of making obamacare better. i think democrats are open to ideas, they have been open to ideas to make it better, i think what meets it particularly difficult for democrats at this point is that we are moving forward on this legislation without any score from the cbo. we don't know how much this is going to cost. this is very unusual, perhaps
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unprecedented. i think it's a bad sign that a conservative party is asking people to vote on something that they have no idea of the costs are. i think suddenly democrats can never support something without it being scored and us knowing what the actual costs will be. i think this is a very bad early sign of the integrity of paul ryan's leadership in the house, that he, who is supposedly a fiscal conservative would ask people to vote for something without knowing the cost. that's not very conservative to me. >> jon: what about that criticism? >> i think -- ultimately, they're the ones that move the health care bill, which is now and a death spiral. it has led to so many americans really lacking options and insurers and health care plans as well. they're never going to offer their support anyway, so it's on a question of cost for them, is a question that so many of their members stick to their legacy on this legislation, like former
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president obama, not like nancy pelosi, they're never going to win their support anyways. >> jon: it will have to leave it there. it lisa boothe, simon rosenberg, thank you so much. >> heather: coming up, more air strikes against terrorist targets in yemen. what sparked the increase and what we learned about one of the terrorists just taken out. plus, police searching for this suspect, take a look. he suspected in the murder of two teenagers and indiana.
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2012. all four girls were alone on nature trails and they were kidnapped, murdered, and left in the woods on the 13th day of the month. police in florida just arrested a 60-year-old man in connection with the killing a dismemberment of a boy more than two decades ago. the boy's body was positively identified through dna testing only two years ago. romance fraud sparked an international woman hunt as police look for a brunette who spoke with an american accent when she scammed a british man out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. she met the victim on the dating site match.com. >> heather: we have some new information, a u.s. air strike in yemen killing a former guantanamo bay detainee who returned to terrorism. u.s. intel estimates about 30% of all former gitmo prisoners have gone back to the battlefield or their suspected at least of doing so.
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the vice president of research at the foundation for defense and democracies and former terrorism analyst at the treasury department, thank you very much for joining us. let's talk about the stepped-up campaign first. there have been 40 attacks across central and southern yemen and just the past week. you compare that to 2012 when there are 41 total. this is something president trump promised would happen. why the stepped-up campaign? >> two reasons right now, number one is the affiliate group of al qaeda in yemen, they are by far, the most dangerous al qaeda affiliates host a client to attack states. of course, the affiliate group in syria is larger and potentially more active, but they've made a conscious decision to turn inward i'm aware is the group in yemen is a still dedicated to attacking the united states.
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there is the intent of this group that we are seeing, at least an attempt to mitigate that. then there's also the raid that took place at several weeks ago. >> heather: let's talk about that. the latest raid, apparently killed a gitmo detainee who whs released back in 29. 2009, what does that tell you about all the gitmo detainees who were released? >> roughly 20%-30% chance of the detainees returning to the battlefield, we always know this is going to be a problem. this is the worst of the worst that were being held in guantanamo bay. it certainly those numbers have dwindled, i think the chances are higher that people return to the battlefield. we've gone from roughly 700 to about 40. those 40 right now about the nastiest you're going to see. >> heather: let's move now to
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iran and what is happening there. we have these iranian ships, one of which can with it 150 yards of our navy ships, some of the smaller boats came in within 60. what are they up to? >> they've been doing this for us quite some time now. this is certainly common during the obama years when they were testing the patience of our military, testing the patience of our leadership. i think now they're trying to get a sense of whether donald trump has the stomach for this, how he might respond, and so, i think this is going to be a moment of truth for the trump administration. then he appeared to respond to iran, they need to make sure that things don't happen and international waterways. >> heather: he did respond to iran. we reported this last weekend that they testfired a pair of ballistic missiles. he responded with economics ancients, was that enough? >> no, it's not. at the sanctions that were passed was a terrific move
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obviously, but it just one small network. there's a broader network. i think the real response should to go after the irg see, there is a push right now inside washington to designate an entirely terrorist organization. these are the people behind the ballistic missiles, but also terrorism in the stranglehold on the iranian economy. >> heather: speaking of the economy, let's talk about this briefly. we have a chinese company at the same time all this is going on, they're actually sending prohibited items to iran and north korea. what items are we talking about? >> primarily communication with technology items. the point here is they were doing this without a license. there are export controls and posed by commerce and their regulations imposed. the chinese government did this in a big circumvent sanctions to
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prevent things they should not have. i think this is a terrific first step of what we really want to see now, is a focus on chinese banks, specifically those helping the north koreans over the last several years. i think this may be the beginning of a new trend and focusing on chinese companies and banks that are helping the bad guys circumvent sanctions. >> heather: follow the money. jonathan, thank you very much for joining us. >> jon: a deadly terror attack and afghanistan, gunmen disguised as medics, break into a crowded military hospital killing dozens of people. that story is ahead
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>> jon: will take a peek at what's ahead on "outnumbered" up
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ahead. >> sandra: the effort to repeal and replace obamacare beginning in earnest today, but president trump throws his full support, some conservatives felt her fight it. can our publicans get this done? >> meghan: , schools are closig due to a day without a woman protests. >> sandra: plus our #oneluckyguy. >> jon: you are one lucky guy has women to sit with today, right? >> meghan: we all showed up today. >> heather: no choice for us. 30 people killed and dozens more injured after an attack on the u.s. embassy in afghanistan. people say a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a military hospital, allying gunmen dressed as doctors to enter the complex.
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connor is in jerusalem with more on this story. >> they were there recovering mostly from their wounds, battling the taliban out in the battlefield. it was in the tell a man who claimed responsibility for this attack today. in fact, it was isis, a new insurgent group there for the afghan war. isis has been growing in strength, but this type of attack is it something we have not seen from isis, it's the hallmark of the taliban who regularly carry out attacks across afghanistan. this has a lot of security analysts concerned and afghans concerned about the strength of at isis and afghanistan. it began about 9:00 in the morning with a suicide bomber that blew up a vet, and three people rushing and wearing doctors off its concealing weapons. they began a three hour gun
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battle with commandos going room to room killing afghan soldiers who were patients and recuperating at the hospital. afghan commandos were able to ultimately kill all of the attackers i get the situation under control, but more than 50 people were also wounded in this attack. ed has a lot of concern being raised in the afghan capital. this adding to the taliban insurgency has many, many people scared there. >> heather: conor powell come alive for us. thank you. >> jon: you next hour of the "happening now," firefighters in the midwest looking for a break after deadly wildfires across four states. high winds are fanning those flames, will mother nature cooperate? we are also standing by for the daily white house briefing with press secretary sean spicer as lawmakers on the hill debate that re-placement plan for obamacare
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>> jon: we've been telling you this republican plan to replace obamacare has taken a lot of heat from republicans, will be talking to one of them next hour. we will see you back here in one hour. >> heather: bye-bye. see you then. >> meghan: leaving enough of fox news alert. a march getting underway in new york city, dozens like it across the country for the controversial a day without woman strike. a move to show the vital role women play. on capitol hill, democratic lawmakers including nancy pelosi are set to walk out at any moment and show of support. we have much more on this coming up later in the hour. >> sandra: action is beginning on capitol hill to replace and repeal obamacare. this is outnumbered. i'm sandra smith. here today, meghan mccain,

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