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reefs. bleaching happens when water temperatures are too warm raising concerns that climate change could cause permanent damage to the sea life. nesco working with australian authority to protect the reef. i'm sandra smith. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 at the white house. president trump is putting on the pressure as republicans work to repeal and replace obamacare. the president meeting with heavy hitters and planning a rally and hosting a bowling night as he tries to win over critics. paul ryan talking about the stakes here saying if these efforts fail, it could crush the rest of the agenda. and scandal in the marine corps. top brass that stalked women online and posted photos. ncis getting involved. i'll speak with a vet that knows what it's like to be targeted. and the real life hunger games
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on an island. tv producers say they won't stop contestants from committing crimes like rape and murder. reality tv gone too far? let's get to it. who knew about michael flynn and when? that's the headline question out of the white house briefing tomorrow today. the spokesman says president trump did not know. sean spicer reports nobody told president trump that his first national security advisor was a foreign agent, a lobbyist working to help turkey's president. the white house claimed coming after the associated press reported the trump transition team did know before the inauguration day that flynn might need to register with the justice department. as we reported yesterday, general michael flynn registered this week even though he was working to help the turkish government during the
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presidential race. flynn was a foreign agent and on the campaign trail for donald trump at the same time. among other things, flynn wrote an op-ed for the turkish leader. while flynn was national security advisor to the president, the turkish president said he confirmed evidence with pictures and videos showing america supports the terrorists. the state department called that ludicrous. for his department, the president of turkey won't fight isis. flynn lobbied on his behalf and got $500,000 for doing so. the white house first asked flynn to resign after he lied to vice president pence about his conversations with russia. now sean spicer said the president fired him. john roberts is at the white house. you pressed the press secretary. was this a vetting problem?
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what is the thing here? >> it was either a vetting problem or a problem of the message not being passed at the line or somebody thinking all they had to do is give certain advice to an attorney who called in. sean spicer told us an attorney acting on behalf of michael flynn called an attorney at the transition and said, by the way, we're looking for an opinion on this. he's been doing this work. should he register as a foreign agent. the attorney said it's not to me to make that determination. you need to decide that yourself. spicer left it there saying that that attorney did what he was legally supposed to do. however, from a judgment perspective, if somebody calls in to the transition and says, by the way, the guy you're about to name the national security advicer of the united states, a person who will have the president's ear says that he they need to register as a foreign agent, shouldn't you tell someone at the transition about that? i asked sean spicer that question. watch. >> you have an attorney calling
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the transition saying that -- >> no, no, no -- >> -- the person in line to be a national security advisor may need to register as a foreign advisor and that doesn't raise a red flag? >> it's the they gave him the advice they were supposed to. it's not up to them to make the decision what's to do or not to do. there's certain activities that fall under each of these requirements. it's not legal for the government to go to private citizens and tell them what they have to do. >> if someone calls in, whether the government attorney should grow to somebody else and say, by the way, i just got this phone call and evidence that maybe should have been passed up the line came yesterday from the president to the united states, mike pence, was asked in an interview with bret baier in the
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national security advisor should have been fired when it was discovered that he registered as a foreign agent, mike pence said it was an affirmation of the president's decision to fire mike flynn. so whether he got fired for lying to the vice president or would have gotten fired later for registering as a foreign agent or acting as one during the campaign seems to be clear that he likely would have lost his job either way. shep? >> shepard: at the same time they're busy with healthcare. president trump tapping into his business background trying to sell the gop version of obamacare. the house speaker paul ryan is warning republicans, it would be a momentum killer for the rest of the gop agenda if the healthcare plan comes crashing down. president trump and vice president pence meeting this afternoon with the chairs of the house committees overseeing the bill. it's cleared two panels and the
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president congratulated the leaders for their efforts. >> i want to applaud you and the diligent work of your committees to advance the obamacare repeal and replacement legislation we've talked about a long time that we've been running with and i ran with and i can tell you, that's what people want. >> president trump said republicans must act now to save americans for what he calls the imploding obamacare disaster. based on this week, acting now is going to take a lot of convincing. the white house has promised a full court press to win over critics. since then, its hosted a bowling party and the president has met with several lawmakers. he had dinner with his former rival, senator ted cruz and his wife and their children. liein' ted he used to call him. the senator says he has serious concerns about the house plan and couldn't draft the plan as drafted. senator cruz says he thinks
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lawmakers could fix it. yesterday president trump sat down with the freedom caucus, mark meadows and jim jordan of ohio. members of the caucus spoke out about the house republicans bill earlier this week. congressman jordan has offered his own rival plan along with rand paul. senator paul has said that the house plan has no chance of passing in the senate. >> conservatives hate their bill. i promise you, obamacare light dead on arrival. you might start over. i'm not the only voice saying this. what they should do is, clean it up, get rid of the obamacare light stuff, get rid of the taxes, the subsidies, the mandates and just do repeal. >> the president this week also sat down with key groups. we're still waiting for the congressional budget office and its projection of what this may cost. there's new reporting today on how many people may lose their coverage. the reporting today rages from
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10 to 15 million but the numbers are not decisive. tom price told fox news folks should not rely on the congressional budget office too much because it was wrong how many would buy insurance over obamacare. the cbo overestimated the tax plan and getting people to enroll. president trump has insisted he can do better. this is what he told scott pelley in september of 2015. >> everybody has to be covered. this is an un-republican thing for me to say. i'm going to take care of everybody. i don't care if it cost me votes or not. much better than they're taken care of now. >> everybody has to be covered. that was then. now instead of talking about covering everybody, the president is talking about giving everybody access to coverage. back to john roberts at the white house. any word on how those efforts to unite republicans are coming along, john? >> you mentioned ted cruz. he was at the white house last
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night meeting with andrew benberg. i'm told the president is in fuel deal-making mode doing what leadership should have done previously, take their ideas seriously and give them a hearing. there's the pictures of the two mitts over today before lunch. kevin brady came out of the meeting with an optimistic attitude. >> there's so much more that unites republicans than divides republicans on this issue. repealing these awful taxes, the subsidies, the mandates that have hurd our local businesses we unite behind. >> jim jordan was here yesterday with the freedom caucus. i'm told he wants to move ahead the idea of repealing, rolling back the medicaid expansion. it's set for 2020 in the existing bill. jordan wants to move it to the
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end of the year and the white house might agree to that. consternation coming out of the speaker of the house's office that maybe the white house is trying to do an end run around paul ryan by negotiating their own terms for healthcare. the speaker's office is staying in close touch with the white house trying to make sure the ryan play stays in place as much as possible. it's beginning if they want to bring the conservative republicans on board, they have to make significant changes in the bill now, shep. >> shepard: thanks, john roberts with the white house on a very busy week in washington. next, we'll hear from chris wallace about the healthcare battle and the latest revelations on general flynn and who knew what and when about him being a foreign agent. that's next on this friday edition from the fox news desk. umbrellas!! you need one of these. you wouldn't put up with an umbrella that covers you part way, so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day?
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meet with people, to listen to their concerns and try to convince them to support a very important piece of the president's legislation. but there's differences within the republican party. you have a lot of conservatives that feel this obamacare repeal and replace doesn't go far enough. you have a few moderates in both the house and especially the senate that think it goes too far. so you have to thread the needle here. >> shepard: the other matter that seems to be percolating today, beginning with john roberts' question, regarding michael flynn, the former national security advisor and who knew what and when regarding his being a lobbiest for the president of turkey. >> yeah, it was interesting to watch sean spicer. he was trying to deflect this in a question of what the lawyer should have told him and he was giving him the best legal advice and it was up to flynn's lawyer. that misses the point and i suspect sean knew it missed the point but he didn't want to
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answer. the real point is that let's assume they didn't know that michael flynn was working as a foreign agent for turkey at the time that he was in effect the top security advisor to the president during the campaign, let's assume they didn't know it until the transition, wouldn't you think -- to me it seems inconceivable -- i know that sean said it -- it's inconceivable that it wouldn't percolate up the transition chain and somebody would have said to donald trump the president-elect, did you know that mike flynn was working at a foreign agent and one, if he didn't know, then why would you ever want him as a national security advisor? he was in the briefings that were held as a candidate with the c.i.a. and he has never told candidate donald trump that he's on retainer, $500,000 retainer from the government of turkey? i find that very hard to believe. if he didn't know it in the campaign, he clearly -- the
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transition was given the information during the transition and you got to think that somebody told the president at that point. the president-elect and why he would have named him as the national security adviser is inconceivable. >> it was after the election that the president of turkey accused the united states of supporting isis. it was during that same period that general flynn wrote an op-ed in support and in praise offed the turkish president. i don't know if there's anything illegal here. i defer to you. something is missing at least in the vetting process or the communication process. wouldn't you say? >> certainly in the communications process. i mean, again, let's point out, he was top foreign affaired national security advisor to candidate trump. yes, you're pointing out reason why erdowan and the government
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of turkey would be troubling. but let's say he's representing england. a stanch ally of us. when he's going in with you to top secret briefings by the c.i.a. when you're a candidate for president and he's representing another country and getting $500,000 retainer or more than that, how is it conceivable that he wouldn't have told you? if he hadn't told you, how is it conceivable that you wouldn't fire him on the spot as soon as you found out? >> there's more intrigue here that the russian government is very much aligned now with the turkish government. they have nice things to say about each other. it was michael flynn who had conversations with the russians that was the stated reason at the time for what was then called the asking of his resignation. with all of these different concerns within this white house, the people that are now or were at least close to the president questioned about russia continue to come up.
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>> that's true. you know, i think we have to point out and i had an interview last sunday on fox news sunday with tom cotton, a member of the intelligence committee. i asked him is there any evidence you've gotten so far? this investigation has been going on for quite a period of time. is there any evidence of collusion 2001 trump world -- writ large -- and the intelligence of russia? there's no indication, no hard evidence of any fire, any collusion between the russians and trump world to interfere with the campaign. >> shepard: not one bit. thanks, chris. look forward to you sunday with "fox news sunday" when you take with carry kohn about the budget and tax reform and healthcare. the republican congressman jim jordan, co-founder of the
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consecutive house freedom caucus. he's in the news a lot. his group came out about the gop healthcare bill. his group has enough votes to block it. that's this sunday on "fox news sunday." check your local listings. a democratically president impeached that is a vital ally and home to u.s. troops. we'll look at the fallout and how it affects american interests. and the dangers from working from home. sometimes your children interrupt live television interviews. you need to hang with us on this friday afternoon. v8 or a powdered drink? ready, go. ahhhhhhhh! shake! shake! shake! shake! shake! can
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. >> shepard: just into fox news, the justice department confirms that the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has requested the resignation of all remaining u.s. attorneys appointed by president obama. the justice department spokeswoman said that as in prior transitions, many u.s. attorneys nominated by the previous president have already left and now the attorney general has asked the 46 remaining who were appointed by president obama to resign. this is common. it's possible the trump administration may ask some of them to stay on as some previous administrations have done. one of the most important ally in all of asia has ousted their sitting president. last night, the south korean constitutional court voted unanimously to uphold impeachment of park geun-hye over corruption charges. she's the first president to be impeached in south korea since it become a democracy in the
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late 80s. her removal of office comes days after north korea fired four ballistic missiles into the sea of japan. north korean media reports said it was a test for a strike on military bases in japan. about 46,000 troops are in south korea. i mean in japan. the u.s. military is installing missile defensive in japan. two people died in demonstrations over their president's impeachment. a slide show for you, this is a very emotional issue over there. supporters impeach the president here and they're crying in a rally outside that impeachment. here demonstrators look at a cut-out of the impeach president.
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below, a cut out of the nation's prime minister who right now is the acting president of south korea. here you can see people celebrating the impeachment with champagne. this last picture has gone viral in south korea. this is the acting chief justice showing up at court ahead of the impeachment ruling. look at this. she still has curlers in her hair. she got lots of praise for being more concerned about her work than about the curlers in her hair. next week, the secretary of state rex tillerson is set to travel to south korea. that will be his first visit to asia since becoming the top diplomat. rich edson is there in south korea. this could play a big part in the secretary's visit. >> absolutely, shep. think about what the secretary of state's mission is to do there, to discuss an aggressive north korea. he's going to do so with a south korean government that is on its
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way out, this is what the state department has to say about this. we'll continue to work with prime minister geun-hye and we look forward to a productive relationship to whoever the south korean people elect. this is a domestic issue for the south koreans and it's up to them and the u.s. will take no position on who they should elect as their next president. the rules there, the law there's, say they have 60 days to elect a new president. it was the last president, president park, that agreed to allow the united states to put the controversial missile program on south korean soil that was deployed last week. the chinese government opposes that. there's politicians in the south korean government that oppose that. this is the situation that secretary of state rex tillerson will walk into as he goes there, japan and china, shep. >> u.s. officials say they're considering strengthening their response to north korea. what does that mean? >> nations allied with the u.s. have preferred to use economic
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sanctions to get north korea to stop launching missiles and exploding nuclear weapons what the state department is talking about, acknowledging going beyond economic sanctions and tightening existing sanctions. the state department is hanging it all on the important meetings next week in asia, shep. >> shepard: rich, thanks. a professor in south korea gave a live tv interview when his kids took over. happened on the bbc. look at this. >> the question is how did democratists handle it. >> what will it meet for the wider region? one of your children just walked in. you think relations with the north may change? >> i would be surprised if they do. pardon me.
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my apologies. my apologies. sorry. north korea -- south korea's policy choices by north korea have been severely limited -- >> shepard: isn't that amazing? he kept it together for the most part. he apologized for the interruption. the baby coming in and -- that's funny stuff. lawmakers previewing the public hearing coming up in congress on alleged ties between russia and the trump campaign. details ahead. first, a fox weather alert. today's snow is wrapping up. it was a bust around new york city. it's the first in a series of storms headed to the northeast. yesterday in ohio, a powerful windstorm, so strong that a little girl -- did you see this video? oh, my goodness. she's fine. didn't hurt her a bit or we wouldn't be showing it. she grabbed the door. the wind just takes her and
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calgon, take me away! good grief! she flew through the air. this happened in cleveland. her mom said she wasn't hurt at all. rick reichmuth is here. next week looks nasty. >> yeah, take a look at this. gets really cold behind this system. all week long, some of the coldest air that we had all winder long. here we are in march. tomorrow, across the mississippi valley and the tennessee valley. the snow likely not on the roads there. another one coming behind that. that is the one that we're watching with very -- a lot of interest here. this could be a major storm, potential for over one foot of snow, maybe more across the i-95 corridor. we can't tell you where this sets up but we will track this. a potentially very big nor'easter coming next week. shepard smith reporting.
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>> shepard: headlines from the fox news desk. there's no evidence for religion or political motive for an axe attack in germany. that's the report from police that say the suspect appears to have had psychological issues. they say he attacked people as they left a train in dusseldorf. police near san francisco say they arrested three people after an apparent drive-by shooting on a freeway. witnesses told cops somebody opened fire on a couple in a minivan. police told reporters the victims are seriously hurt. last night's shooting shut down traffic for hours. and a fire burning near the coors brewing outside denver is nowhere near close to containment. unclear how it started. it comes as wild fires in kansas are under control. the state saw their largest wild fire in history this week.
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>> shepard: in less than two weeks, we could learn a lot more about russia's interference in our presidential election. the house intelligence committee is set to hold its first public hearing on the matter on march 20. among those that could testify, james comey. yesterday he briefed top lawmakers and intelligence community members on the russia investigation. the meeting came after some members of congress called for comey and the justice department to weigh-in on the president's claims that president obama wiretapped trump tower. catherine herridge is with the news live in washington. katherine? >> the republican and democratic leadership committee is asking the justice department to provide all applications for warrants that applied to alleged wiretaps of president trump and his team during the campaign. the deadline is march 13. that comes a week before the committee's first public hearing
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on the russia investigation. a short time ago, sean spicer said the congressional intelligence committees are well-placed to investigate. >> i think i we spoke very clearly and what we would like to happen last sunday. i would reiterate it. we believe the house and senate intelligence committee have the appropriate forum and staff to look into this matter and report back. >> james comey, mike rogers, john brennan, former national intelligence director james clapper and sally yates have been called to testify. yates was fired over her refusal to enforce the first travel ban. >> shepard: what do you have on the computer link between team trump and a bank in russia? >> law enforcement emphasizes that when james clapper oversaw this russia investigation that
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concluded last fall, said that he found in ed of collusion between russian intelligence and the trump team. the findings reflected the somewhat unusual computer activity between a server associated with the trump administration and a bank. that may explain the wiretapping allegations out of the white house, but we don't know at this point. a republican on the house intelligence committee said that upcoming hearing he thinks will be very illuminating. >> we need to see the evidence behind our government's response to those efforts. so i come from a background that is evidence centric. i'm not interested in summaries. i can't deal with anonymous sources. i need witnesses and facts and i need evidence. >> these witnesses are super important because they have first-hand knowledge of the investigation itself and they have probably very good insight into where some of the leaks may
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have come from originally and the committee chairman has not ruled out issuing subpoenas in this case, shep. >> catherine herridge from washington. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: lots of americans went back to work this month. u.s. players adding 235,000 jobs in february according to the labor department. that's better than most economists were predicting. it includes 58,000 new construction jobs. the most in nearly a decade. more good news now. the unemployment rate went down a notch from 4.8 to 4.7%. the labor department reports more americans started looking for jobs bringing the proportion of people working or looking for work to the highest almost in almost a year. today's jobs report is the first to cover a full month of president trump's administration. during his campaign, president trump questioned the accuracy of the government's jobs data even calling the unemployment numbers a hoax. but today sean spicer tweeted, great news for american workers.
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the economy added 235,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped the 4.7%. sean spicer addressed a question about the apparent double standard. >> i talked with the president prior to this. he said to quote them clearly. they may have been phony in the past but it's real now. >> good stuff. it's good news for all of us. a live look at the dow. it's been up and down on the session. traders seem to be confused about things. the stocks are up now on the dow. up about 51 points. oil is in the dumper. it keeps falling. jerry willis is here. tell us about this fantastic jobs report. >> drill down a couple more numbers. you talk about labor force participation. it went up 1/10% to 63%. underemployment. those are folks that maybe want to work full time. 9.2%. the markets rally ed 82 points.
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they love it. and we're pack on track, talking about interest rates going up again that means the markets sign on with this. >> shepard: that's factored in. interest rates are going up and the fed is okay with it. >> you can bet your bottom dollar. >> shepard: and what about the budget? >> this is going to be interesting next week. donald trump, the president, he wants to increase spending on defense by $54 billion, which means there's a lot of cuts. average cuts to departments, 10%. some of these are getting whacked. the epa, 25%. states 37%. commerce, 18. fema and tsa about 11%. we're getting this from government executive about what is going on. >> shepard: we have a lot of debt. steve mnuchin is calling on
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congress to raise the federal debt ceiling. >> yeah. this is interesting, too. guess what? you know, the trump administration has been calling for restraint, right? in spending. now we're talking about raising that debt ceiling. so it's going to be interesting to see. mick mulvaney. he's a deficit hawk. how is he going to react to this? all of this will play out next week. >> a big business week. >> you bet ya. >> shepard: ahead, the defense secretary and the head of the u.s. marine corps speak out about the scandal involving marines accused of sharing nude photos of their women colleagues. we'll speak with a former marine who is a woman about why she says she's not surprised at all. constipated? trust #1 doctor recommended dulcolax. use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief.
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>> shepard: the very top people at the pentagon speaking today about a scandal involving members of the military, accused of sharing photos of women colleagues naked online.
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jim mattis called the action egregious and unacceptable and said the department is investigating. the head of the marines said the scandal is affecting his entire branch of the military. >> they undermine everything we stand for asthma -- as marines and the marine corps. professionally and honor amongst each other. >> shepard: the photos appear on a private facebook group. erin cuomo joins us. she wrote "not many my movement." nice to be here. can you tell us about your experiences and why this is so important to you? >> thanks so much for having me, shep. i appreciate you bringing to light this issue. first off, i think i'd like to address the fact that this isn't necessarily a naked photo issue.
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many of these photos that were shared nonconsensually were images of females fully clothed, going about work on bases. they were stolen from their social media accounts to use in a way that promoted rape talk, sexual assault promotion. so we need to clarify. this is not just a naked photo issue. >> shepard: this is about, as your site puts it and being explained to us, exploiting women who are just trying to get their jobs done like the men walking next to them. >> absolutely, this is about women that had their imagery stolen. nonconse consenconsen consenco t nonconsentually shared. it comes back to the issue that is a cultural issue within the marine corps. we've been saying these pages have been a problem over a
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decade. women like me in the marine corps have taken pages like just the tip of the spear or similar pages to their leadership. we're told the issue is too large. they couldn't get ahold of it. >> shepard: you had your own experience with this. i understand that's what brought you to this campaign. >> absolutely. in 2008, i had private photos of me from my my space page, fully clothed in a deployment in iraq and used to encourage tent parties for males that would talk about assaulting me, what they would do to me. this is -- this is something that is not a rare occurrence. we've had hundreds of messages of our page of similar things
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happen ing. >> shepard: i didn't realize, these sites have been around a long time and the complaints have been going on a long time. no one in 30 should be surprised by this today, right? >> absolutely not. this -- these sites have been known to military leadership for a very long time. we were just told and they sl slug -- shrugged it off. if you saw something, report it to the server or the administrator or facebook. that's how they handled this. >> and what you and your group are doing, just so our viewers understand, is trying to do more than attack the host of these boards and people that post there. but instead, to try to change a culture within our military. >> absolutely. as i mentioned before, this is -- especially in the marine corps, a culture that starts in boot camp. the marine corps is the only service that segregates men and
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women in boot camp, this practice leads to a mentality that woman are inferior, that they are adversarial and shouldn't be trusted. >> neil: all right. i certainly appreciate you being here. erin cuomo, thanks for your time. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: now to a major development in the story we've been following. danielle vargas has been released. she's the 22-year-old woman whom immigration agents detained moments after she spoke out about deportations in a news conference in jackson, mississippi earlier this month. she came to america when she was 7. the feds say she overstayed her visa. her lawyers say her protection under the dreamer's prime expired a few months but she applied to renew it. her attorney say the legal battle is not yet over. some 30 years ago, there was a schwarzenegger movie called "the running man" about a reality
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. >> shepard: organizers of a russian reality show says they will look the other way if contestants rape or murder each other. the real hunger games set to take place on a large island in siberia where there's lots of bears and temperatures can drop to 60 below. 15 men, 15 women will complete
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in a nine month survival mission that starts this july. organizers told the media, 2,000 cameras will capture the action. the winner gets around $1.7 million. but rape and murder? trace, this sounds awful. >> big time, shep. the contestants can bring nothing with them. that -- they get a fishing rot, soap, salt, sugar, an axe to chop wood and a knife for protection. they have to build their own shelter. they're free to become couples and become alliances and unions. while there are 2,000 cameras, unlike survivor, there's no camera crews. so help is not readily available. if a crime is committed like rape, murder or assault, the producers will look the other way but keep in mind, the
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punishment will still follow the russian criminal code. each contestant does have a panic button. so if you push it, you get evacuated and you're out of the game. if you get wounded or ill, you're also evacuated and out. the bottom line is whoever makes it nine months, they get to split the $1.7 million prize. >> shepard: who is signing up for this, trace? >> the only guidelines are you have to be 18 and mentally sane, which is debatable. there's a 30-year-old russian switching coach says she wants to do something mad and unforgettable that makes people remember her. and david goldberg is a students from sweden. he said his grandfather was a prisoner of war in siberia. he wants to endure the same experience. there's a 28-year-old from russia that considers herself a professional blond. she loves manicures and shopping
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and said there's no way she could make it without help but that makes her interesting. the show will be live on the internet 24/7 for nine months, july to april. >> trace gallagher, thank you. the future president of the united states got an important promotion on this day in history. that and the top of the headlines straightaway.
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today. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. the dow did a good job. great jobs numbers. trish regan is in for neil to tell you all about it. >> the first jobs report under president donald trump better than expected. with his agenda tied up in congress, could it get better than this? welcome. i'm trish regan in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." 2 235,000 new jobs last month. the unemployment rate ticking down. stocks spiking early on and getting back gains on some fears the economy could mean more rate hikes by the fed. what do you know? we ended the day up 47 points. gerri willis is here with more. 235. this is the right direction. >> you bet. here's what we're sg