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the on long marsh golf course in florida. i'm wondering, what do you do? do you take a drop shot? do you get the penalty? i'm sandra smith. here's shep. >> shepard: there is breaking news at noon on the west coast. 3:00 at the white house. right now president trump is set to sign a series of bills that as we get word that his son-in-law jared kushner could soon answer questions in congress about russia. plus, more u.s. troops headed to the war in the middle east. inside the battle to defeat isis in iraq. caught in the crossfire in west mosul. take this city and isis could be crippled. but will kill ised civilians me
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trouble down the road? street fight to defeat isis. lost in the daily back and forth of politics, the united states is at war. the battle against isis rages today. our soldiers are fighting today. now we know more are headed to the theater. breaking today, the u.s. sending more troops to the last major islamic state strong hold in iraq as iraqi forces fight house-to-house in one of the bloodiest fights yesterday. the army is deploying 200 soldiers in mosul, the capitol of is islamic state in iraq. the battle has been dragging on for months. the u.s. forces will be assists and advising iraqi forces as they fight to liberate the city. we have a map here.
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the black areas are the places that isis still controls. in the red areas that you see all around, those are areas where isis still attacking. the fight is on in those red areas. in the yellow areas, isis still getting help from supporters. so that's a vast stretch. they're not in control. but they're getting a lot of help. mosul is in northern iraq. it was once the second largest city. hope to five million people. the islamic state seized it in 2014. iraqi forces launched an operation to free it this october. the eastern half of the city was declared liberated. that was january. militants have entrenched themselves in the western half sparking gun battle. sky news reports 12,000 men and women and children have been
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leaving western mosul every day to escape the fighting. witnesses say a coalition air strike in western mosul earlier this month may have killed as many as 200 civilians. that would be horrible news for our cause. american officials over the weekend confirmed the united states launched an attack at that location while targeting isis fighters and iraqi forces called in the air strike. american officials say they're investigating. health officials say they pulled more than 100 bodies from the rubble. our sister network sky news has been reporting extensively on the battle for western mosul. the network's special correspondent alex crawford has an eye-opening report on the fighting on the ground. >> the west mosul sky line is clouded with black smoke. at the iraqi front lines on the edge of the old city, jihadists
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are fighting till their death. a flag is 50 meters away from the soldiers. they're held back by snipers. they have helicopters as backup. a pause and then the is fighters return fire. an is mortar lands in the tie grit river in front of us. the iraqi helicopters step up their fire. the jihadis just don't care. the attack helicopters come back again.
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and in the middle, mosul residents. few scared to leave and terrified of staying. they pick their way past dead bodies covered by blankets and burned-out suicide car bombs. the vbd or vehicle borne devices are still a potent threat. >> really just a peep hole at the front so they can see out. this is so they can drive army military anywhere and withstand the bombing. inside, they have stuffed it full with gas cylinders as a protective seal around the driver again, so that they can drive and stay alive for as long as possible before they set off their bomb. it's a small car. it's can maneuver its way in and out of the streets. this is as far as it got this time though. >> yes, it's far from easy.
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we joined the counter terrorism unit. the general invited a small group of reporters to the front line. his soldiers are pounding an is hideout in front of our position. our group comes under attack from snipers. the destruction in mosul's center extensive. >> every building has been affected. either hit by air strikes or street fighting. huge damage to the infrastructure. the whole city has been literally reduced to rubble.
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>> there's been much bombing around the old city's mosque. its retaking was a huge symbolic victory. >> shepard: that was alex crawford. the network has provided fox news with an extraordinary report from the front lines in mosul where the war against isis or is being carried out. it show as moment that one of the news crewed escaped the blast of an isis suicide bomb. here's stuart ramsey. >> you okay? >> yeah, i'm okay. you can see the hot places
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covered in smoke. >> this is the bomb from islamic state's own drone pictures released on social media. >> shepard: that was stuart ramsey. you can watch and share the records we just aired on foxnews.com or or instagram and twitter. there's news content. we posted another report on the thousands of refugees escaping the fighting in mosul. this war is about people, and they are the innocent victims. here at home in politics a strange new twist in the case of the house intelligence chairman devin nunes and his claims that members of team trumpgot swept up in surveillance. he admitted that he had a secret meeting at the white house with his source the day that he reported that president trump and his team were caught in
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incidental surveillance. according to the report, the congressman was with a staff member when he got a message. hopped out of the car and into an uber and disappeared. word has it, his staff didn't hear from him that night. his spokesman said that he needed to be near a secure area to view that information. chairman nunes said that the meeting was to confirm what he already knew. that he doesn't think the president was aware he was on the ground. the chairman is still not giving up his source. he's refused to rule out that the information came from somebody actually in the white house. they won't talk about it in those terms. they won't answer that question directly at all. the press secretary said anything is possible on who nunes' source was. nunes and the white house said the administration did not orchestrate the news conference the next day. that tell us nothing about where the information came from. did it come from the white house? we can't get an answer. even though the president has been highly critical of other
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leaks in government, they don't consider this a leak. >> there's a difference between a leak, someone leaking out to reporters for -- to take classified information and share it with people that are not cleared. chairman nunes is cleared. someone that is cleared to classified information with somebody else that is cleared is not a leak. >> and nunes is helping investigate possible collusion between trump officials and the russian government. he brought information to the president before bringing it to his own committee members. congressman nunes has said to apologize to his democratic colleagues and has apologized. the top democrat on the committee has called for an independent committee to take the reins. also new, the white house says jared kushner has volunteered to answer questions involved in the
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russian meddling. jared kushner met with sergey kislyak and sergei korgoz, the head of a bank that the united states placed on their penalty list. jared kushner was an official primary point of contact with foreign government and officials. the white house spoke person told the times, president trump authorized his son-in-law to have meeting of foreign officials and report back if anything important came of them. kushner viewed the meetings as inconsy -- inconsequential. remember what the investigations are about here. did president trump and his team collude with the russians as they helped to make hill little lose the election and president
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trump to win it. john roberts is live on the north line. what else is the white house saying about chairman nunes? >> the white house isn't saying much. senator mark warner of virginia is from the senate intelligence committee and thinks it's all suspicious. what we know from nunes about reports about it, he was over here at the white house complex, eisenhower complex building on tuesday and rushed to the white house to tell the president about information that was housed in the white house. according to a bloomberg report, he met with a source in the intelligence community and personally a white house staff member to view records that were only on the system of the executive branch. now, questions have been raised as to why he couldn't see this information up there on capitol hill. one reason is because this was
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on white house commuters, the executive branch computers and not transferrable to congressional computers. also according to a states spokesman for congressman nunes, the information comprised of executive branch documents that have not been provided to congress because of classification rules. the source couldn't put documents in a backpack and walk them over to the house intelligence community space. the white house was the best place to keep chain of command so the chairman could review them in a legal way. what is interesting about this and the question i raised at the white house press briefing today to sean spicer is that the white house was looking for some sort of information to corroborate what the president had said in his tweet back from mar-a-largo weeks ago now. the information apparently was sitting under their nose and yet they couldn't find it. why did it take the chairman coming down here to uncover it and what type of information was it that has been suggested to me by military intelligence experts. maybe this was just standard
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stuff that was collected in the process of people getting their security clearances. so i asked the press secretary about that. watch here. >> is it possible that these documents were merely surveillance reports? >> i don't know what he found. >> is it possible that they were surveillance reports from security clearances? >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know what he's got on his systems and what the intel community has on theirs. >> so the white house press secretary says he doesn't know what chairman nunes saw. chairman nunes isn't saying what he saw except information is only available on the executive branch commuters. more on jared kushner, the first son-in-law. the president's chief counselor and whether or not he's going to capitol hill to talk to the senate intelligence committee. he's offered to do it, he's volunteered. the senate intelligence committee has asked him to come up. we don't know when it will happen, what form, whether testimony in a closed session or some sort of informal meeting
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with members of the intelligence committee. we'll watch that and let you know. >> shepard: they made it clear in the building behind you that they're moving on now. they have said they're moving on to budget and tax reform. but now the other side they say that they're going to come back to healthcare. are we to believe that? >> moving on but saying that the healthcare reform bill is not dead yet. it's like the princess bride. a big difference between dead and mostly dead. so this thing only seems to be mostly dead at this point. they may come back to it. hoping to recruit the support of democrats to resuscitate it. it was pointed out in the briefing, shep, anything that deals with repeal and replacement of obamacare isn't going to get a lot of support on the democratic side. certainly the white house is laying blame yesterday, the president tweeting out, democrats are smiling in d.c. that the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage action have saved planned parenthood and
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obamacare. but the press secretary saying that this is only the beginning of the process and don't forget it took obamacare 17 months to see the light of day. >> there were several failures when obamacare went through during the process. ultimately they tried to go through a single payer process and they got rebuffed on that by some of their own members. so you know, look, we're not saying it's the end of healthcare, but i think we're looking to look for a way forward. >> something that would speak to this not being the end of obamacare repeal and replace, shep, you have a big pot of tax money if you reform healthcare and you take away the obamacare subsidies which the president can net apply to tax form. if you don't do healthcare first, it's a smaller piece of the pay. he would like to do that first and send a signal to the freedom caucus, if you really want tax reform, get on board healthcare reform. he sent that message last week
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and didn't work out. >> shepard: john roberts on the north line. nice to see you. back to the russian investigation. there's a criminal investigation working to determine whether the president and/or his team colluded with the russians to help hillary clinton lose the election and donald trump win it. let's bring in eliana johnson from politco. all of this matter of devin nunes and the rest, here's why the questions are being asked. the question is did the white house give him some stuff, he runs out, does a big dog and pony show, goes into the white house, briefs the president, comes out for another dog and pony show. never shows it to anybody be as he never had it. is this all a distraction? that's a question. usually when you have a direct question like did the information that chairman nunes have come from the white house? if it didn't, they would say no. they didn't say no so you wonder. >> exactly. the bigger question underlying
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that is it possible to have a truly bipartisan investigation into the russian interference in the campaign. that's what was immediately asked after this nunes controversy erupted, which his counter part, adam schiff immediately taking the opportunity to say, see, look, he went to the white house first and now arguably beforehand and using that to say that look, this is being high jacked bipartisanship and we need an independent investigative arm to look into this. >> shepard: most americans no matter politics, but if the russians and their leader, the former kgb agent who probably had a lot of people murdered, if the russians were trying to sway the election, there ought to be a free and fair investigation of
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such a thing. can a partisan accused of doing the talking, can he conduct it fairly? democrats say no and are some of the republicans agree something. >> what's the real problem here, both in the white house and within republican lawmakers, devin nunes would be among these people. there's not an appreciate how sensitive this thing is. number 1, there's no question the russians did interfere in the campaign. number 2, there was a member of the president's campaign, paul manafort, his one-time campaign chairman that was involved in unsavory business dealings with pro russian characters. for these reasons, any contact with russians and with the trump -- between russians and the trump white house is enormously sensitive and
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explosive.it's not been dealt that way by the trump white house or those on capitol hill. so you're seeing jared kushner and before him, the national security advisor, michael flynn, jeff sessions and now devin nunes become ensnared in this scandal when we're not sure there's a there there and contributing to the billows of smoke when we're not sure there's a fire. people have not been treating this with the delicacy and sensitivity that it deserves. >> shepard: dick cheney quoted today that in many quarters, what we already know of vladimir putin and his government did would be considered an act of war. that's the former vice president dick cheney saying that. when republicans such a thing on such a level, you think that all americans would want a free and open investigation to get to the bottom of this story. not about politics, not about
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trying to overturn an election. but to find out if americans colluded with russians to change the course of human events. that's what this investigation is about. if it's not fair, i bet the american people are not about it. the news continues after this.
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>> shepard: there were parentsly not enough to stop the worst mass shooting in the united states this year. cincinnati's police chief confirms the deadly nightclub shooting had the security operation in place. this happened at the cameo nightclub. they have not said how the guns got inside or who they think was responsible. investigators say the shooting left one man dead and 16 other people injured. in an interview, the mother of one of the victims said her son is having multiple surgeries and is on a ventilator. our local fox station showed her feet on camera to protect her identity. >> in a battle for his life. in a battle for his life. he's a fighter. so we're praying. keep fighting. >> shepard: the cameo club no stranger to gun violence.
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we're told there were two shootings in 2015 at that location. the police captain said the latest was by far the worst. mike tobin is in cincinnati. mike? >> shepard, the number of people that were shot rose today because another gunshot person wound came forward. police said when the gun fire erupted, people scattered in every direction. some of the people with gunshot wounds sought treatment on their own. i'm not using the word "victim" because the police chief said today, very good potential that among the ranks of the people that were shot, you'll have some of the gunmen in that particular crowd. they say there's no one particular person that they're zeroing in hahn at this point. as far as identities when the chief was pressed, he said there's no information that they're ready to release at this stage of the investigation. police have been very careful to point out, they don't believe that this is connected to terrorism. they believe this is a dispute
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between a group of young people with an indifference to life. it exploded into gun fire in the nightclub. >> i'm reading reports that there was a v.i.p. line that allowed guns past the metal detectors? >> that's coming out of local media. apparently a line that you could by pass the metal detectors or the inspections were sloppy. that could provide a report on how the guns got past security. however, today the chief would not confirm those reports. >> you have to understand, right now the priority is catching those that are responsible for the 17 people being shot. right now, the priority for us is to deal with this criminal investigation. >> the owner of the nightclub said he had security cameras in
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place. the chief said they're not providing any video to help in the investigation. >> shepard: mike tobin live in cincinnati. in washington, what is next for president trump's agenda now that congress has handed him his first legislative defeat? coming up, why the battle over healthcare could be a preview of the road ahead as we approach the bottom of the hour. ♪ from engineering and manufacturing... to stealth bombers... to next-generation fighters... ♪ to landing an unmanned vehicle on a carrier for the first time in history. just wait till you see what's next. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman
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>> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report. investigators say they have recovered the black box after a plane crashed next to a home outside atlanta. police say the crash killed the 78-year-old pilot and set the house on fire. nobody on the ground was hurt. the pilot radioed that he was having trouble with the auto pilot. the feds say they're looking into what caused the crash. police in japan say an avalanche has killed seven high school students and a instructor. police say 40 people were hurt.
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local media reports the students were finishing up a mountaineering course. reports of heavy snow overnight there. looks like there's about to be a new kind of drone in the sky. officials in israel clearing the way for a new drone that flies without help from humans. it launches and lands automatically using computer software. the news continues with shepard smith after this. my goal was to finally get in shape. not to be focusing on my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. so i made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults taking humira were clear or almost clear, and many saw 75% and even 90% clearance in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure.
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>> shepard: president trump said he's open to working with democrats to get things done in congress. think of that. is he saying now that he will be the kind of president that he ran as? not as a conservative republican or a liberal democrat? as a populous leader? so he could form his own coalition? get people from the center right and the center left? by pass the system? that's kind of what he campaigned on. is that what he's signalling now that he will do? that's the word from the white house.
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press secretary sean spicer. >> we learned a lot through this process. i think we're obviously looking at ways that we can improve not only how we handle healthcare and other things. >> one of those other things is tax reform. that's what president trump told reporters would like will be next on the agenda after republicans failed to pass the health care bill in the house. some say they're going back, others say they're not. the chairman of the house ways and means committee, kevin brady said his committee never stopped working on a plan for tax reform. the whole time that the healthcare battle was going on. mike emanuel has more. what is the likelihood of passing tax reform after what we saw can healthcare? tax reform is different. it's different with more differing opinions throughout the republican party. >> shep, it's not going to be easy. some say tax reform will be easier for businessman president trump to explain than crazy,
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complicated healthcare. one critic of the healthcare effort sounded more upbeat about the next big push. >> we're in the information gathering mode right now. i can tell you what most americans need and want, they need lower intrusion from the federal government in their lives. they need lower taxes so that they can take more of their paycheck home. >> the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, doesn't send ready to work with president trump on tax reform. >> he's been captured but the right regard wealthy special interests. that's who loved his proposal on the trump care. because it gave huge tax cuts to the rich. if they do the same thing on tax reform and the overwhelming majority of the cuts go to the corporate and special interests, they'll lose out. >> the biggest threat to tax reform may be the lobbyist
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fighting for their respective clients and industries as lawmakers are trying to put this together. shep? >> democrats delayed a vote on president trump's supreme court pick. sounds like they're trying to slow roll this to see if the negative picks up against the president. while you were speaking, i got word from gallup that the president's popularity has gone down to 36%. his approval rating only 36%. this makes things more difficult for this white house. >> no question about that, shep. the senate judiciary committee bumped back the hearing to vote on gorsuch's hearing a week from today. so dianne feinstein and chuck grassley agreed on a week from today. there's 17 congressional members opposed to gorsuch's nomination. and several are up for re-election next year. a key republican made the key to
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report gorsuch. >> if you can't find the courage to vote to give this man 60 votes, we cannot find a better person for you to vote on as a republican, then you're letting the senate traditions go away. you're get into political demogogary and letting the country down. if i have to change the rules to put this man on the supreme court, i will. >> that's the point from republicans. they say judge gorsuch is going to get through. it's a question of whether democrats help him or whether they have to blow up the senate rules to get him through, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel, thanks. a.b. stoddard from real politics. i heard they were going to push it and then they were going to wait. and then maybe another nominee. are things change something. >> it's interesting. schumer indicated that they're going to filibuster him. now they're sort of talk about maybe in an effort to preserve
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the filibuster for a bigger fight, a more contention nomination down the road, because this scalia seat replacement wouldn't change the balance of the court. make democrats should work with the majority leader and come up with -- the democrats are up in 2018 in states that trump won, support gorsuch because he's so acceptable and sterling credentials in order to save a fight for another time and filibuster on another justice. we don't know where it's headed. they're going to come out and say all these bad things and why they can't vote for him. i'm not sure if they will filibuster him. >> this know poll is significant. the president's approval ratings continue to go down. this was taken after the loss on healthcare friday. his approval rating is down to 36%. you get down to a third in
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ratings, traditionally, you start losing supporters. people start turning against you and your agenda. isn't that a concern or is it not? >> right. senator mccain, you remember, shep, teased president bush that when you get down to those numbers, it's friends, family and paid staff. look at this in terms of the time line of tax reform. think of the bruising healthcare fight, the fact that you can tell from sean spicer's comments, they don't know what to do, whether to declare it over, pretend they're still working on it. no, maybe it needs to be replaced. they haven't landed on a place to be at peace and make a plans. they want to get to tax reform. that's later in the year after you get through a bruising budget fight and increasing the debt ceiling, which the house freedom caucus members, the most
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conservative that just cost this healthcare win for the president will refuse and balk. so how much is he going to work with democrats? he's undoing president obama's sort of executive order structure that he put in place over eight years. his approval, shep, among democrats is 8%. so it's not really looking good on day 66 or seven to reach out to democrats. there's some that will work for him. if you look at the 36% and you see where it might be in august or september, that's going to make tax reform that much harder. >> shepard: getting anything done, the freedom caucus has given every indication with their votes over time, including most recent one, that they're a no vote. they're a no vote. that's what they do. if you try to apiece them and give things you which, which they tried to do in the healthcare bill over the weekend and on monday, then you start to lose the tuesday group. that's the more moderates whose
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seats are more in jeopardy. in of whom are in hillary clinton districts so if you start losing those and losing these, you can't get the votes, you have to find them somewhere. absolutely nothing will happen. and then you become a promise breaker because he promised this and promised that, promised tax reform. if they wouldn't cooperate, he can't have that. >> that's what is difficult to imagine with him working with democrats on healthcare. you find enough democrats to overcome the losses that you'll take from the conservative pocket in the house republican congress, the conference -- look, what they thought is steve bannon, the chief strategist thought was trump was so popular in the districts of these freedom caucus members that they would get moderates -- >> shepard: i know this much. i know this much about washington. those people are in safe districts. you can't go in there and tell them what to do. who is the congressmen said the last time somebody told me what
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to do, it was my daddy and i told him no. washington has never worked like that. maybe he doesn't know anything about it. that's not how it works you have to give to get. they didn't give and they got it. >> that's the problem. they have to find a way. they'll be giving more if they want to get their votes to get a budget through and get the debt ceiling increased. before you get to the tax reform that everyone wants and apparently unites the republican party so much. as you pointed out, there's sacred cows in tax reform. you'll probably end up is a bunch of cows and no bill. everybody wants their own special interests. what people don't want to talk about is how much they fight with the freedom caucus members and the budget. >> first president trump said senator schumer is his friends. what did he call him? >> a loser. >> shepard: a loser. senator schumer, against who he has staked himself, the leader of the democrats.
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he just called for devin nunes, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, the one investigating the president and all the president's men for possible collusion with the russians on matters of the president chat race, senator schumer has asked for congressman nunes on the right to step down, to get off that thing. democrats have said look, he can't be fair and impartial. he can't be forthcoming. no answers are coming. schumer wants nunes off the thing. is that politics? yes. a lot of pressure. up next, a check on the markets and a look at your money. gerri willis has a look at how the stock market is reacting to president trump's agenda. if we're down today, that would be nine days in a row. that would be a new long thing of downturn. that's not what the president
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>> shepard: look at the markets today. the dow is down again. if it closes down again today, 8 sessions in a row and it's been quite a while since the dow has taken eight sessions off in a row. some investors say they're very worried new that failure to pass a health bill could signal trouble for the president's plan to cut taxes and boost infrastructure spending. how can you cut taxes if you don't have the people together and how are you going to pay for infrastructure spend something who will approve it? congress? really? worth noting the dow up about 12%. is that right? >> amen and amen. >> i get it has a way to fall. because what it was betting on is healthcare changes and then tax structure changes and then infrastructure spending, which gets people working. >> let's talk about it. tax structure, tax cuts for
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corporations and rich people. >> that's what people wanted to see. look, you're right to put this in perspective. eight consecutive trading days would be the worst losing streak in 5 1/2 years. step back for a second. we're still less than 3% below our all-time closing high. if you're worried about your 401(k), forget about it. we had a big turn around trading higher. we were down as much as 184 points on the dow ten minutes in today's trading. look at it now. down 38 points. a big move to the positive. like to see that. we're seeing a lot of sectors doing well. mostly in health care, as i think about wow, if we don't get this repeal and replace through, what does this mean? does this mean that the president -- >> we can drop a bunch of people. i don't know what it means. we don't know yet. >> it's true. a lot of people are looking whether they'll have to re-price
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drugs. low volume, not a lot of convictions. >> shepard: what does the vic high? >> it's rising, but we haven't seen the big sell-off. that's what people are wondering is. there more to come? >> shepard: hope not. >> me too. >> shepard: thanks, gerri. so does social media make you feel better about early thing and more attached or does it make you feel lonely? it's hear it's lonely. kennedy will explain next. once there was a little pig that had built his house out of straw. one day a big bad wolf huffed and he puffed and blew the house down. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped the pig with homeowners insurance. he had replacement cost coverage, so his house was rebuilt, good as new. the big bad wolf now has a job on a wind farm.
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>> lots of social media use may feel less socialable. according to a new study out of the university of pittsburgh. young adults on social media two hours a day feel socially isolated. those that visited social media sites more than 58 times a week triple their risk. kennedy is here. she's host of "kennedy" week nights at 8:00 eastern on fox business network. this is where people live, in the phone. the rest of us are a distraction
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for them. they're here. oh, look. there's a cat. >> and there's an emoji of a cat. >> my life does not exist unless i'm attached to my phone. >> shepard: horrifying. >> it's not just young adolescents though. this only deals with people add an incredibly important formative time in their lives. the isolation doesn't come necessary from the stuff you post. that can be fun. the unfortunate thing is, as a whole, we feel like if we don't post something on social media, it didn't really happen at all. for younger people, it's the ostrasization. we're out of the moment.
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we have forgotten what mindfulness is. >> shepard: we live in our phones. >> we do. >> shepard: i feel better all right. >> since the bruins lost, that's all i have. >> shepard: on this day in 1939, the university of oregon won the ncaa national championship. oregon beat ohio state. for the first years of the original tournament there were eight teams. by 01, 65 team were taking part in the madness. for the first time since 1939, oregon is in the final four again this year. south carolina is there for the first time. and i think i hope they win it. go gamecocks. good luck. >> wash
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. >> i know that secretary mnuchin talked about august as a target date. as you point out, these are big things. there's a lot of groups that will want a ton of input because of the very nature. it's been 30 years. but i think part of this is dependent on whether or not -- the degree to which we can come to consensus on a lot of big issues. >> neil: easier said than done. that's sean spicer talking about getting the tax cut done by august, the goal. the fact of the matter is, what mnuchin was talking about then and what sean spicer is talking about