franken's casserole competition. one of the winners, peterson's right to bear arms dish. it was from bear. i have to leave it there. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in d.c. 11:00 p.m. in moscow where new reports are surfacing that russia's fingerprints may be all over the wikileaks c.i.a. dump. the man at the center of it all, julian assange giving a news conference. >> the c.i.a. lost control of its entire cyber weapons arsenal. >> now the c.i.a. is responding. even as julian assange said he will share the hacking tools with tech company. house republicans score a big victory in their fight to replace obamacare. they're still facing a fierce fight from doctors, hospitals and some within their own party,

including republican senator tom cotton who today advised his colleagues just start over. and preparing for disaster. researchers discover a dangerous new fault line in california. they say it has the potential to trigger a monster earthquake. we'll show you where it is and who is at risk. let's get to it. breaking news now on fox news channel. president trump is about to meet with the c.i.a. director, mike pompeo. the agency is scrambling after wikileaks dumped thousands of documents that it claims showed how the government spies can hack into your smart phones, televisions, apps and even your cars. documents indicating the c.i.a. has the tools to turn your connected items into listening devices. the white house says the vice president, mike pence and the homeland security secretary, john kelly, will also be at this meeting. sean spicer says wikileaks will

probably get discussed. we reported yesterday the fbi has opened a criminal investigation. former intelligence officials and cyber security experts tell catherine herridge the information is real and russia likely played a role. much more in just a moment. today, julian assange put the blame squarely open the c.i.a. he said all the data was kept in one place and it was carelessly passed around. assange said it was a historic act of devastating incompetence. >> the c.i.a. developed a giant arsenal, when appears to be the largest arsenal of trojans and viruss in the world that attacks most of the systems that journalists, people in government, politicians, ceos and average people use. didn't secure it.

lost control of it. and then appears to have covered up that fact. >> julian assange said wikileaks will work with tech companies before releasing important information to help the companies stop government spies from hacking into their products. there is no word yet on how the companies will keep that information safe. in response to julian assange's news conference, the c.i.a. took a shot at the fugitive's credibility. as we said previously, julian assange is not exactly a bastion of trust and integrity. the c.i.a. continues to collect information to protect the united states. assange has been holed up in london since 2012. he's skipped bail to avoid extradition to sweden where he's accused of rape. julian assange claims he's innocent and he will not go to sweden out of fear that official

there's will ship him to the united states where he could face charges for leaking classified documents. catherine herridge is live in washington. what else are we learning about how wikileaks got this information? >> in the hour-long news conference, wikileaks said the c.i.a. created 30 types of malware and sloppy security exposed the files. >> the c.i.a. was so careless to produce this material, this enormous cyber weapons arsenal and lose control of it, at least once and then it has spread. >> the white house briefing, sean spicer said agency systems need an overhaul. >> there's information that threatens and undermines our nation's security. it's believed the systems of the

c.i.a. are outdated and need to be updated. >> the fbi was going to isolate insiders that steal government documents, shep. >> shepard: these documents are u.s. documents but the fall out is all over the world. >> after assange said the u.s. consulate in frankfurt is the agency's version of a hacking base to spy on allies in the middle east, the german prosecutor said he's opening an investigation to verify those claims and the russian foreign minister seemed to relish the chaos. >> when we were blamed of doing something, they presented evidence such as the fingerprints of our russian hackers. now it's getting known that the c.i.a. has access to such fingerprints and use them. >> and the chinese with a military hacking head quarter that was behind the theft of more than 20 million reports from the u.s. government

security database accused washington today of stealing secrets, shep. >> shepard: what are you getting from capitol hill after this? >> the bottom line in these sessions is you have to look at who benefits from the leaks. in this case, a lot of the threats lead to russia. russia benefits from the chaos and the loss of confidence in u.s. government agencies. wikileaks also posted former nsa contractor edward snowden's stolen records that exposed government surveillance and russia recently extended snowden's asylum. on capitol hill, the republican chairman of the house armed services committee told fox news that he believes wikileaks is being used by moscow. >> we have never seen wikileaks release information by russia or the chinese. they only disclose information about ours. it's another form of attack designed to weaken the united states. who is trying to do that in a variety of ways through cyber,

through various forms of propaganda? the russians. >> assange when asked about his source today had nothing for reporters. >> shepard: thanks. let's turn to tara moller. hi, tara. >> hi. how are you? >> is wikileaks russia? >> we need to wait to see how this investigation pans out. it's possible it was done with russia in con ordination of someone on the inside. that could be someone at the c.i.a., in the intelligence community or a contractor to work on a particular project or in the cyber arena. we don't know yet. the fbi and cia will look into this and we'll have an answer. >> if the c.i.a. could do this, listen to phones, listen to tvs and drive your car, does that

mean other nations can do that and are doing it to us as individuals? >> i can't speak on every country's intelligence capabilities. there's many countries that have strong capabilities in that area. when this information is released, although the c.i.a. has not confirmed or denied it, if there's confirmed information, this is assists and aiding our adversaries. if they didn't have the capabilities before, when we see dumps like this and classified information the entire world to see, that's not helping the united states national security at all. >> shepard: it's helping them do what we already know how to do. if everybody can do it and everybody can listen to everything, it's a ticking time bomb of technological disaster. >> not only giving them capabilities but helping them avoid monitoring. maybe terrorist organizations

that different means of communication might know what to use now to avoid the u.s. government. so it's like you say, not only helping our enemies in giving them capabilities, it's also undermining our defenses and intelligence capabilities. we've seen intelligence advance technologically before. it's not just human intelligence that we use. we use satellites, signals intelligence. now we have more devices that people use day to day. part of law enforcement's jobs like with terrorism, to try to uncover plots and thwart attacks. >> shepard: what is your biggest concern? >> my biggest concern with the technology in general is there are obviously -- there's obviously the privacy concerns and capabilities on the law enforcement. at the end of the day when you talk about foreign actors, law enforcement needs to have some

access to these devices. nothing is about misuse domestically, mass surveillance. it's about targeting needs for intelligence. i'm not sure why it's breaking news that intelligence agencies spy. that's the purpose. >> shepard: in addition, wikileaks said this is 1% of their new stuff. 1% is all they're releasing right now. it's huge. what is coming? >> that's a good question when they say 1%. i'm curious. i don't know that the other 99% is so i high caliber compartmentalized information. bill curious. they say they're going to release it. i ready earlier today, this information was all a secret, note foreign level, which is not the highest level of classification. i'm know saying that makes it equally problematic, but i'm

curious if it remains at this level or lower or if they have more secret compartmentalized information, it wasn't released in this first round. i'm hoping whatever they have is noise and nothing that useful to adversarie adversaries. >> shepard: thanks, tara. >> good to see you. thank you. >> shepard: probably more interesting ways than spending 17 hours debating a healthcare bill. that's what lawmakers did last night. they made some progress. we'll explain what they got done regarding your healthcare, how it sets up the next fight over replacing obamacare and why that committee actually had the shorter workday. they don't know what it's going to cost and they don't know how many will lose insurance. away they go. that's coming up from the fox news desk on this thursday afternoon.

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>> shepard: we're now up to five states challenging president trump's new travel ban. new york, oregon, minnesota have joined washington state's legal challenge against the president's revised immigration order. that's the news from the new york state attorney general. hawaii, which has mysteriously been relocated to off the west coast of texas has filed their own lawsuit. the washington state attorney general office's blocked the first order. the order is set to go into

effect a week from today. the white house dropped iraq from the list of restricted countries but still bars new visas from six muslim majority nations. the white house argues that the order protects our national security. critics say it's discrimination. more republicans are ripping their own party's new healthcare plan today. we are hearing that moments ago, republican senator ted cruz told reporters that the plan will not pass the senate. ted cruz called on vice president pence to allow add-ons. this morning, tom cotton from arkansas that supported trump tweeted those -- house healthcare bill can't pass senate without major changes to my friends in the senate, pause, start over, get it right, don't get it fast. we asked john roberts about that today. his response coming up. the new healthcare bill cleared

the first hurdles today, the house ways and means committee approved it in the middle of the night after debating it for 18 hours. a little more than an hour ago, the energy and commerce committee approved it after meeting 27 hours. president trump has called the plan great and wonderful. earlier today, he tweeted "despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along great. we're talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture." the truth is, the legislation has divided the gop. some argue the bill doesn't do enough to reverse obamacare. the president met with liters of conservative groups last night at the white house. they say they're confident the president is listening to them. >> we had a very productive meeting with vice president pence and a meeting with president trump on the healthcare bill. he heard our concerns, very serious concerns with the house draft bill.

and i'm encouraged that the president indicated they're pushing to make changes in the bill. >> a white house official said the president and vice president are open to constructive improvements. the two committees passed the bill without knowing what it will cost and how many millions of americans will lose coverage as a result. john roberts is live on the north lawn. hi, john. >> shep, good afternoon. the president refers to the bill as beautiful. but to hear many conservatives talk about it, it's the ugly stepchild of obamacare. the president trying hard to sell it. he's not getting very far at this point. mentioned ted cruz. he and his wife, heidi, were here for dinner last night. there's tom cotton that says it's dead on arrival in the senate. he's widely considered to be president trump's wing man in the senate on a number of issues. senator cotton joined people from the freedom coalition saying paul ryan and the white house are trying to ram this

thing down people's throat before it's fully checked out. senator cotton tweeting "gop shouldn't act like dems did in obamacare. start voting wednesday with no budget estimate. what matters in the long run is more affordable healthcare, not house leaders arbitrarily legislative calendar". the white house said that senator cotton's tweets weren't helpful and that the president should give him a call and talk to him about it. the press secretary sean spicer in response to a question from fox news says he expects senator cotton and other opponents will come around. listen here. >> no matter where you are on the conservative side, you cannot possibly believe that the current healthcare system is an ineffective program. we'll continue to engage with him and other members of the house and senate to have ideas. it will work its way through the process. >> the president is warning republican members of congress that they can potentially face a

bloodbath in the mid-terms in 2018 if they don't do something to replace obamacare because it's going to implode. particularly will suffer if they repeal obamacare but don't have anything to replace it with. shep, we hear there's a bowling party and pizza party here at the white house. members of congress are coming over and clearly the white house is going to be talking to them about the way to get healthcare through. interesting to see how much this white house has used the bowling alley. ten-pin diplomacdiplomacy. >> yeah, the president had a bunch over last night, the american for prosperity, the tea party. he held out an olive branch to them. didn't work well. one said, i'm furious. for years these frauds have lied to our faces. they promised to replace obamacare and now they have

this. it's outrageous. talking about the republicans in congress than the white house. the americans for prosperity say they can't swallow the tax credit. that has to go and other provisions will be separated out from the bills and voted on separately. one thing that is apparently they were surprised by according to a white house source, the fact that this will come in three different phases. they weren't aware of that. they thought phase one was the whole thing. >> john roberts, thank. winter is coming back for a lot of us. never really left. in case you thought about putting away your parka, a series of snowstorms coming and could affect tens of millions of us. snowstorm and a snowstorm and a nor'easter. stop it! (vo) this is not a video game. this is not a screensaver.

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cape code and the islands. it's not bad. but behind that, the cold air. we'll have some of the coldest air all winter long. a high saturday, 28 in new york city. chicago where they've not had an inch of snow in 82 days. >> shepard: stop it. chicago? >> chicago. incredibly dry spell. they'll have colder air moving in. they'll get one shot. this is the first storm that moves through tonight. that is gone. and then saturday, into sunday, another storm. farther south, places like tennessee and the carolinas. this time of year, the snow doesn't stick around long, which is good news. even if it stays cold, the sun is high enough that it melts it quickly. that's the good part. none of this will accumulate that much. the one we watch is monday night into tuesday. a potential for a nor'easter. so we'll watch it pretty close. >> if it goes below freezing

like tomorrow night and doesn't get above freezing for like -- >> five days. we have five days of temperatures in the 30s. it's going to be chilly. we've barely had a winter. we deserve some. >> shepard: i felt it coming. monday and tuesday, great days to call out sick. >> yeah. this storm we'll have to watch. could cause problems. tomorrow morning, while this is not a big storm, it will be in the morning commute. could have a few problems. >> shepard: daylight savings time is back sunday. saturday night? >> saturday night into sunday. an hour less of sleep. more sunshine at the end of the day. >> shepard: i love it. thank you. the new affordable care act -- the american care act now is off the ground after a pair of house committees approved the plan. there's a long way to go and a lot of opposition from conservatives. so how does the house speaker

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>> i'm lea gabrielle. more of today's headlines. crews say they expect slower winds as they deal with wild fires in the central and southern united states. emergency workers say the fire in kansas, texas, oklahoma and colorado have killed six and forced thousands to evacuate. jury selection beginning today for the man accused of gunning down two pennsylvania state troopers in a sniper attack in 2014. prosecutors say he laid and waited for the officers. u.s. marshals captured freen in

the pocono mountains. he could face the death penalty if convicted. he's pleaded not guilty. and pipes small through a car outside of phoenix. the driver lived. more news with shepard after this.

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democrats to help donald trump and "the new york times" say that people close to trump had repeated contact with trump officials during the campaign. mike flynn, in the news again today, spoke with the russian ambassador in the same day on the day that the obama administration placed sanctions on russia. the president has not answer details of the contacts. specifically, were russian sanctions discussed. were promises made. did general flynn lie to the fbi? transcripts of those discussions are reportedly available. democrats want them published. did paul manafort, that worked for the pro ukraine government have contact with the russians? what are president trump's business ties with russia? his tax returns would likely answer that but president trump refuses to release them. it appears that lawmakers are

now being briefed on all of this at least to the degree to which comey of the fbi can give them information. that briefing happening now. will that produce news? we would expect it would. paul ryan said today the republican's new healthcare bill is the closest they'll ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. as i reported earlier, the house energy and commerce committee has approved it. democrats have vowed to do everything in their power to stand in the way. as the committees voted, they had no idea what the plan would cost and had no idea how many millions of americans will lose their insurance as a result. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what is the latest from democrats, mike? >> democrats are blasting it. seems to be enjoying a split on the republican side. house democratic leader nancy pelosi called it a cruel bill and says it will increase the number of uninsured in this country.

pelosi called the facts about it damaging and the democratic leader ripped this proposal. >> nobody likes this bill. hospitals, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberals, nonpartisan groups and most of all the people that will no longer have affordable healthcare. so we democrats are here today to tell our republican friends, turn back, drop this irresponsible plan. >> there's no signs the republicans dropping the plan. there's also no signs of democrats getting on board with it. >> committee members pulled an all-nighter. >> yes. one went to 4:17 a.m. and the energy and commerce panel went to this afternoon before approving it. those voting in favor of it called it the beginning of the end of obamacare. here's the house speaker. >> this is the closest we'll ever get to repealing and

replacing obamacare. the time is here, the time is now. this is the moment. this is the closest this will ever happen. it really comes down to a binary choice. >> that binary chose, obamacare or the republican replacement. speaker ryan trying to press those to get on board, shep. >> shepard: thank you. let's turn to gabriel from politco. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: gabe, what did they accomplish last night? >> they got it through committee. in terms of actual substantive changes to the bill, there was a lot of discussion about some of the tax provisions. they didn't change it that much. now we're going to see more and more debate on what the actual contents of the bill were. it was a procedural step to moving it forward? a new narrative that cale from

this paul ryan news conference. it was an interesting tactic. could you explain it and talk about its chances of working something. >> yeah, absolutely. we don't know what the chances of working are, but what we saw the speaker try to do is change up the conversation that is happening right now. the national conversation has been around the opposition, even from some republicans. what speaker ryan tried to say, we're not just trying to replace obamacare, we're trying to save a failing healthcare system. he and many republicans have said that obamacare has caused healthcare to fail in this country. what he's trying to do is save it before it's too late. not that way it's not a discussion about we should figure out this and this to replace this part or this part of obamacare. it's more wholesale argument. >> shepard: i've been hearing some of them talk about the ten counties in the state of tennessee that have no providers.

but the truth is the reason of what republicans have done. the detractors, the obama acolytes will say it's the republicans that screwed this up. that's the argument they're making. it's not valid but it's one they're making. >> absolutely it's one they're making. one of many the democrats will make. we don't see a situation in which democrats come on board for this bill or this kind of replacement. for a long time at least, a lot of them see the obamacare fight as a big scar on their back that many of them have from 2009. a lot of them are saying why should we let you completely go on the opposite direction here? for them, the goal is to drag out the fight as long as possible. when you can point the finger at republicans for what is going wrong, they're going to. >> shepard: the republican right has a lot of issues. they're not dealing with entitlement at all. they're adding a new entitlement, according to the republican right.

they don't flow what it's going to cost and don't know who will lose their insurance. the freedom caucus, how can they take home a bills that adds entitlement? >> that's the big question right now. we've seen a charm offensive. president trump trying to win over folks. in terms of the actual pieces of policy that will change, that remains the biggest open question. in terms of political tactics, we know this will take some time. this is not a bill that republicans push through quickly. there's more questions mods have like medicaid expansion, that are not the most politically fun to talk about but some don't want to explain to their constituents. >> shepard: thanks, gabe. good to see you. >> thank you. >> shepard: u.s. marines have

arrived outside of the islamic state. yes, we sent more troops over. the american troops are bringing in artillery to help capture raqqa. president trump has pledged to obliterate the terror group. the head of the u.s. central command is testifying before congress and talking about isis. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. did the general mention sending more troops to the region in general? >> yes, this comes after hundreds of u.s. marines arrived in syria to provide artillery cover as part of the effort to retake the isis capitol raqqa. lawmakers are to expect more troops will be sent to syria. 1,000 soldiers are being prepositioned in kuwait. >> as we move more toward the latter part of these operations and more of the stability and other aspects of the operations, we will see more conventional forces requirements perhaps.

>> suggesting u.s. troops will be needed to hold former isis held territory. in northwest syria, rangers carrying an american flag and fighting isis. raising concerns that the u.s. will be caught in the middle refereeing a four-way fight, shep. >> shepard: jen, you went to an army base in kentucky to see what the the budget cuts have done to places. what did you learn? >> everyone is familiar with the 101st airborne division. general dwight eisenhower relied on them to jump behind enemy lines on d-day. in exclusive interviews at fort campbell, we learned the same screaming eagles that inserts 4,000 troops in one night into the iraq war couldn't conduct those operations after six years of budget cuts after having one of the two aviation brigades dis

band banded. we used have have over 200 air craft. now we're down to one brigade and 100 aircraft. >> so if you had to move out tomorrow and do an assault, could you do it? >> we could not. >> the buildings where they repair helicopters at fort campbell and the equipment are crumbling leading to more efficiencies. >> we look at the ceiling. you can see where the water damage is causing the wood to dry rot out. >> for more on the story, we have a deeper look at foxnews.com. >> shepard: new trouble for the national security advisor. the one that lied about russia. he has a new problem. mike flynn is a foreign agent.

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>> shepard: remember general michael flynn? general michael flynn was a foreign agent. the president's first national security advisor that lied to the vice president about his conversations with russian leaders and was forced to resign after 24 days on the job was also working to help the turkish leader as a lobbyist during the u.s. presidential campaign. michael flynn now admits that he was working to help the authoritari authoritarian turkish diplomat. he did that while we were deciding who would be our next president.

while he, the former army lieutenant general and intelligence chief was on the campaign trail with donald trump complaining about pay for play as he was paid to play by a business man in support of the turkish leader whose voting base is islamic voters. >> yes, that's right! >> he chanted about hillary clinton. lock her up! before he was on the trump transition team and before he became the national security advisor. nike flynn registered as a foreign agent, not before he became one last year the night before last. retroactively. now the man who paid him is asking for his $500,000 back. let's bring in julie from the white house. julie, the white house said, he was a private citizen at the time. but there's been a lot of lying, julie. there's been a lot of lying. lying about when you talk to and

by lots of people. almost inevitably and invariably, they were lying about talking to the russians. too many lying and too much russia and too much smoke and now they're investigating. where are we in this thing? >> the regards to mike flynn, the big news today and it was rather surprising to hear sean spicer said that the white house wasn't aware during its vetting process of mike flynn that he had done work that could be construed as for the turkish government. you would think that the white house would in the course of vetting someone nor such an important job come across that information. but it appears that they did not. that made me remember when flynn left his post when he was tired, it turns out, that spicer was saying there were other things than what he was offensively just fired for. we wondered what that was about. we're not getting a lot of

answers out of the white house. but this whole episode with the turkish government could be one of the things the white house was concerned about when they let him go. >> shepard: the president hasn't answered questions on anything from reporters that this russia story began building. he said russia is a ruse, it's fake news but the leaks are real. something that can't live together. >> it's all gotten confusing. i really sort of feel for people trying to follow along at home. on one hand, you have intelligence officials saying we didn't see anything to indicate the trump campaign that was working in collusion with russia. we didn't see any advisors working for russia. on the other hand, you have the president himself rushing this issue again over the weekend talking about how he felled that president obama had wiretapped

trump tower. it's a lot to digest. not a lot of clear answers at this point and not much clarity on when we'll get more information on any of it. >> shepard: are reporters still pressing the white house, pressuring the president and sean spicer and the rest of them on this? >> every day. the last couple of press brief ing s. they're having a difficult time talking their way out of this situation. there's so little clarity when you've got sort of the president questioning intelligence officials on the one hand and the same officials saying hey, maybe there's nothing here. >> julie bykowicz, thanks very much. scientists say they discovered a monster fault line on the coast of california. details of the damage that it could do next.

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call now and request your free decision guide... and start gathering the information you need to help you go long™. >> shepard: scientists have a warning for the 20 million or so people that live here in southern california, in san diego, all the way up to long beach. a newly discovered fault line could trigger a massive earthquake. it running from san diego, about here, off the coastline all the way up past long beach and the torrence area. the whole way. the system is mostly offshore. never more than a few miles. researchers say it could trigger a 7.4 earthquake. five times stronger than the san francisco earthquake in 89 when 67 people died. trace gallagher has more from los angeles. actually, two faults together, huh?

>> yeah, that's right, shep. because they're separated by three small breaks, scientists have combined the fault lines into one. so the rose canyon fault is integrated. the bigger fault line is more dangerous because different parts could rupture releasing more energy. adding to the danger is part of the fault runs along the coast and part runs through the heart of los angeles. the fault line is also relatively shallow. meaning during a 7.4 quake, the damage may not be as widespread. areas near the quake would be devastated. the only silver lining here is because if fault's location, experts say it would not likely cause a tsunami. the san andres fault has erupted

every 60 years and every year it pushing together another inch. it's like a balloon. when you push together, the energy goes somewhere. >> shepard: thanks, trace. top of the hour headlines coming up.

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>> shepard: on this day, an attorney's pants burst into fire delivering a statement on behalf of an arsonist. this really happened. they say the lawyer was the middle of telling jurors that his client didn't settle fire to a car. that's when his pants filled up with smoke. he wasn't hurt. he blamed a cigarette. sounds like a stunt. on this day in 2011, the space shuttle discovery completed its 39th and final trip into orbit. it was the third of five shuttles nasa built. over three decades, it took more

trips to space than the others. nasa ended the shuttle program a few days after the shuttle made a picture perfect touchdown six years ago today. have a great afternoon. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> sandra: >> neil: we are learning just how angry andy poster got when he had to quit his dream of becoming the next labor secretary of the united states. not bitter, but here on fox business today, we'll rerun the interview that a lot of people are talking about. all of that on the same day that we're learning that healthcare does not come easy. tax cuts do not come easy and a bull market that cannot sustain itself does not come easy, especially when steve mnuchin's goal just expressed last week to me to get tax