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most dangerous cycling race is getting off to a violent start in new york city. moments in the start of this race, a nasty pile-up. at least two dozen riders caught in it. i'm sonda smith. here's jon scott in for shepard smith. >> the white house attacking democrats over the spending bill saying they're trying to make the president look bad. the president says maybe washington needs a shut down to stop the mess. and president true on the phone with president putin. this comes as our president catches flak for warm words over the most infamous leaders in the world. and apologizing for the incident in which security dragged a passenger from the plane. and hillary clinton blaming james comey, wikileaks and herself for her election loss.
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that's all ahead in this hour. a government shut down this fall could be inevitable and might be a good thing. mick mulvaney say if the government shuts down, it would be the democrats fault for not cooperating. this new deal does not include funding for the border wall. director mulvaney claims it's lawmakers on the left that lost the budget battle. >> they wanted a shut down. we know that. they were desperate to make this separation look like we couldn't function, like we couldn't govern. we know that a large part of their base, especially the left wing base wanted a shut down. that's why they're crowing about success, to cover up the fact that they cut a deal with president trump and president
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trump did a tremendous job. >> president trump seemed to send mixed messages about the deal. he called it a clear win for the american people. but this morning, the president tweeted the reason for the planned negotiated between the democrats and democrats is we need 60 votes in the senate, which are not there. we either elect more republican senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. our country needs a good shut down in september to fix the mess. some democrats have said it's irresponsible for the president to call for a shut down. mulvaney said while it's not ideal, maybe a good shut down could fix washington. as for changing senate rules, here's how utah senator mike lee tells it. >> we have to be careful here. the filibuster, takes 60 votes to close debate on most legislation in the senate has
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protected us from a lot of bad things. you have to be careful when you talk about changing the rules of the senate. you might wonder later if you did the right thing. >> jon: mitch mcconnell said not a single republican senator is looking to change the rules. our chief white house correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn. what else, jon, did mick mulvaney have to say. >> not only mick mulvaney, but the president as well. to put it in real estate terms what you have here is a building that is three stories high but has a 10 or 12-story basement. president the president said this is and under-the-radar type budget agreement when he met with the air force falcons championship football team. white house and republicans in congress are doing everything they can to try to convince the republican party and conservatives in their own party that we cut a good deal despite the fact that conservatives and
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republicans thought they rolled over and gave the democrats everything they asked for. first of all, new money for the military. $21 billion. new money for border security. $1.5 billion. $347 million of that will go to actually removing all type of fencing along the border along the wall and putting up a steal wall and new money for school choice. conservatives were money they didn't get bricks and mortar for a wall and cuts for sanctuary cities or cuts to planned parenthood. the budget director saying you see that wall, that is what we're going to be building. it's 20 feet high and better than the wall that's in place there. don't let democrats tell you there was no money to build any kind of a border wall here. mick mulvaney backed the president suggesting in a tweet earlier today this a shut down might just be what the doctor
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ordered when it comes to fixing washington. watch this exchange. >> the president tweeted out this morning that looking ahead to fiscal year 18, a shut down may be just what is needed to clean up this budget mess. can you agree with that? >> a good discussion to happen in september. the president is frustrated that they made him look bad. i get that. >> so what the omb director was saying there, the president's tweet was in reaction to the democrats trying to suggest they pulled a fast one on the president when it comes to president negotiations. to the greater idea of a shut down here and what it would mean for washington, mick mulvaney said the process, the appropriations process is broken in congress and maybe needs something like a shut down to shake up the system and get people back on track to the way that it's supposed to work. the president getting a lot of blow-back from members of his own party saying the shut down is not the way to go.
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something else funny happened at the end of the briefing after mick mulvaney was finished. sean spicer was in the chair. we expected him to brief us on the rest of the day. watch this. >> sean, sean! come on, sean. >> he walked out of the room there behind the budget director. apparently he had a meeting with the budget director and the homeland security. one of the things we waited to hear about that is beginning to trickle out, what went on with the phone call that the president had with vladimir putin. we'll have that for you in a second. >> talk about that in a minute. thank you. let's bring in shane harris, senior writer for the "wall street journal." shane, the president is saying that he outnegotiated democrats over this budget deal. is it possible to assess who won the argument here? >> they each want to say they won.
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to hear mick mulvaney say he's shocked that they would spike the football. what this reveals, the nature of the republican party. not all elements are going to be happy. the white house seems to have calculated that it was better to get this short term deal for the doesn't actually shut down in september rather than please anybody and negotiate with democrats. it's surprising to hear the president threatening a shut down in september, when it's clear that that's what they were trying to avoid here. >> jon: is that political posturing to keep his adversaries off balance? >> yes. but something not very strategic here, if you're holding out the possibility that you'll use a shut down as a negotiating tool. you heard mick mulvaney saying no, it's not really a negotiating tool. that caught him off guard. the president might be playing those cards too quick considering that's several months away.
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>> you mentioned the republican and how democrats could be on the same page, oppose the president. >> yes. it was used when president obama was in office. maybe they're taking a page out of the same playbook. should come as no surprise to anyone in the trump administration. of course, the democrats are feeling very good about this. there's many issues that they wanted to preserve and spending in this bill. they got it. although it's worth saying, then't did get a significant increase in dod spending and an increase in border spending even though it's not going to the wall. so pluses for republican there's. >> jon: i suppose both parties can talk about getting some of what they wanted out of this deal. i suppose that that's what the american people want. they want progress. they want both sides to work together. talk to each other, right? >> wouldn't it be great if both sides could say hey, we didn't get everything we wanted but with compromised. that's the way things used to
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be. that's not happening. that shows how die -- divisive. >> jon: let's see if there's a shutdown in september like they're talking might be possible. shane harris, "wall street journal." also today, president trump talking with phone by president vladimir putin. both of them taking on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in september. the two agreed to work together for diplomatic process on north korea. according to a white house read-out of their call, president trump and putin talked about syria. no mention of the g-20. we didn't not hear anything of the call because the press secretary didn't take questions. the first time that the two presidents talked since the missile strike on syria. president trump said the strike was in response to bashar
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al-assad's use of chemical weapons on his own people. the attack killed dozens. russia denied syria was behind it. after that president trump said u.s. relations with syria made be at an all-time low. another issue, the investigations into russia meddling in last year's election and potential collusion with members of team trump. today mr. putin said russian has never interfered in other countries politics. now back to john roberts with more on this. >> jon, a lot of questions since that missile strike as to the state of the u.s.-russian relations was. it would appear from the read-outs on the telephone call that things seem to be going if not swimmingly at least well. there was a little bit of a d
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discrepancy on whether they would meet before the g-20 summit. the two did talk about north korea. they talked about syria. president said that both president trump and putin agreeing that the suffering in syria has gone on too long and all parties must do all they can to end the violence. they talked about safer deescalation zones for humanitarian reasons. they agreed that russia and the united states would continue to talk at the dip pillowmatic level and technical level to strengthen syria in terms of deescalating the civil war there. hillary clinton earlier today in a speech that she was giving suggested there was a back room deal cut between president trump and president putin before that syria strike. we didn't get a chance to ask sean spicer questions about that. as you saw, he walked out of the
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room. you can point out that the president has in recent weeks invited a lot of strong men to the white house for discussions. people like egyptian president al sisi, thailand, and reaching out to kim jong-un saying i'll be honored to talk with you and get you to dial back nuclear dealings. a lot of people have talked about whether he has a thing for strong men. the white house would describe it there's a lot of people that live in bad neighborhoods around the world. if the president wants to get something done, he has to reach out to these people. jon? >> jon: we will hear more from hillary clinton later today as well. thanks, john. republicans say they're getting
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tells fox news john roberts that they're four or five votes short. paul ryan said the gop leaders are making progress on the bill but he wouldn't say when the house will vote on it. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. >> good afternoon. many face-to-face meetings and conversations taking place trying to address the concerns of house republicans. mike pence has been a regular up here on capitol hill here in recent days trying to win over the final republican votes to pass a healthcare reform package and scrap obamacare. speaker ryan tried to re-assure his colleagues today. >> the purpose of our bill is to get more choices to lower prices while preserving the protections for pre-existing conditions. so that is a very important thing. we're excited about this policy. we're making very good progress with our members and our president has been instrumental in that. >> a step pack in those efforts. more republicans are saying no
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including fred upton of michigan and billy long of missouri. the more nos you get, the path is more difficult. >> what about the democrats? what are they saying? >> they seem to be content to sit back and watch republicans struggle a critical issue. they say they're okay with talking with republicans if the focus is on improving obamacare. they're also taking aim at this republican plan. >> they want to repeal the bill, which has always been their initial drive to repeal. only recently they're talking about replacing. what they're replacing it is so damaging. it will still pull away from 2 fewer million americans with health insurance today, this bill will take it away from them. >> and the guy responsible for rounding up the votes for healthcare reform says he likes
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>> jon: now more on the healthcare battle. house republicans say the republicans need four or five more votes to pass the bill. gop leaders say when they plan to vote. we have marlena here with us.
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michael tobman is a democratic strategist to chuck schumer. michael is president of tobman's consulting firm. morgan, would republicans risk a vote if it were certain to go down to defeat? >> they didn't risk a vote when we were in the same predicament. the problem for republicans, what we've gotten away from is the message of what are we trying to fix here? we're trying to fix the problem that is obamacare. when you look at the past two election cycles, why were republicans successful? the american people felt like they were overpromised on obamacare about underdelivered. so republicans have a big mess. we're the governing party and we have to fix it. but the negotiations behind the scenes are so important. so without getting into nuances, if we don't pass some sort of healthcare repeal and replace
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now and we move on to tax reform, we lose the ability to pass anything under reconciliation in 2017. >> a big part of the reason this president was elected, he campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare. so why should he and the congress not deliver? >> four or five votes down might as well be 14 or 15 votes down. the charade of having to states opt in or waive pre-existing conditions becomes a race to the bottom. whether it's the freedom caucus or moderates, whatever label you want to give, the conclaves in the conferences, the first and only responsibility that members of congress have are to the constituents in his or her districts. if it doesn't work and they're hearing from voters and community newspapers in their districts that repeal and replaced is being rushed even though it was a campaign promised, if it doesn't deliver and causes more harm than good, the republicans aren't going to
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be there. and no democrats will support it. no democrats campaigned on repeal and replace. >> two close to two years to get the original obamacare bill passed. should republicans maybe slow down, take their time and reth -- what they're going to put in place? >> to be fair, if you look at what paul ryan did in the way forward bill, this is the discussion. this has been around for the past year or so in republican circles working through various legislation proposals. it's not like the republicans started working on it before president trump came into office. the challenge is that the president's base and many of the voters believe the president would be able to deliver something better than obamacare. you saw story after story in the 2016 election that people felt that obamacare didn't work for them. if you go slowly, it takes a longer amount of time to get to tax reform, which is vitally important in order to get the
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american economy growing and to get businesses excited again. so i think the republicans are going to have to move on this and they shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good. >> there's a number of democratic senators up for re-election in senators that trump won handily. do they have to be thinking about how they approach this? >> i think not. trump like obama in many ways will go down in history as very unique political figure. running statewide when your a legislator is very different than a national message that stirs different parts of constituency. as a legislator, you have relationships with veterans groups, with school ptas and chambers of commerce that as a presidential candidate doesn't have. this president like any democrat, democrat and republican, as we saw trent lot say, congress is a co-equal partner in governing. republicans i think have misread
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this one. >> jon: it's something he didn't have to deal with when he was head of the trump organization. he didn't have to deal with a congress overreeling or tinkering with his proposals. >> very true. this is the electoral process of find me a democratic process, find me a better opportunity around the world, a better system of government and let's go for that. but even though our system can be incredibly flawed, this is what works best. the american people, who voted for trump in these crucial swing states understood he didn't have government experience. they heard that message loud and clear. they were willing to gamble and bring somebody to the table that had a different set of skills and expertise. so does that mean because he's not a life-long legislator that there's not bumps in the road? of course there will be. he and his team are new to the process. they're willing to take big risks and think outside of the box and getting the reforms voted on. >> that's very different in these swing states that impacted
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the election than discussing issues around no more coverage for preexisting conditions. to your point in a republican district or state, if this gets to the state, that's what you vote for. very different than a presidential election. >> jon: we've seen the insurance companies bailing out of states saying they can't afford obamacare the way it's currently established. doesn't something have to change and why don't democrats want to get on board to make the changes? >> president trump's rush to do this and the way he's doing it capitulating to the freedom caucus does real conversations a tremendous disservice. insurance is supposed to be about spreading risk. it's not just a payment mechanism. getting healthy and sick people in the system. that's what insurance is about. are some people going to see increased premiums. yes does that 19 to be fixed? yes. that's a conversation not happening because we have this all-or nothing approach from the
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white house. >> perhaps when obama gets paid for his cantor fitzgerald speech for the healthcare reform, perhaps he can give us some ways to magically fixed a very failed plan. >> we had such a good conversation until then. >> michael, morgan, thanks very much. >> thanks. >> jon: officials in china now weighing in after president trump said he would meet with kim jong-un. details on the reaction from china. north korea's only ally. the state department defending president trump for inviting another controversial leader to the white house. more on that coming up. (man vo) it was may, when dad forgot
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video. >> someone help. this guy is crazy! >> happened just before the all nippon airways left for los angeles. police told local media in japan they arrested a 44-year-old american. he's also accused of choking an airline worker after leaving the plane. forecasters warning more heavy rain is headed to missouri as people clean up after deadly flooding there. up to a foot of rain has fallen in the state over the past two days. emergency workers say at three people died. a surfer covering after being 30 hours at sea. he was rescued off the coast of scotland. the news continues after this.
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>> jon: chinese officials are urging the united states and north korea to negotiate and reach a solution on north korea's nuclear program as soon as possible.
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this after president trump told bloomberg news he would be honored to meet with the north korean dictator kim jong-un under the right circumstances. relations between the u.s. and north korea have been tense for weeks with both town tries leaders warning of possibility military action. and today north korea said the u.s. was pushing them closer to the bring of war. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. what more did we learn about trump's offer to meet with kim? >> today the chinese foreign ministry smokesman said china would welcome direct talks between president trump and kim jong-un. the message from china avoid further escalation and allow the situation to cool down. the chinese spokesman welcomed president trump's pronouncement under the right circumstances that he is willing to meet the north korean leader who he called a smart cookie in a recent interview. critics say the president would be breaking with tradition by
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offering to meet the north korean rogue leader without preconditions or getting anything in return. the chinese welcomed the move, of course. back to you, jon. >> jon: so where do things stand on the korean peninsula right now? >> tensions are extremely high. the u.s. is set to carry out another test of an intercontinental ballistic missile after midnight. the minuteman three is fired from vandenberg air force base in california. this is the second test in a week. the last u.s. ballistic missile flew 4,200 miles into the pacific ocean. today u.s. defense officials said the terminal high altitude defense system is now operational in korea. this is a missile defense shield that can shoot down short and medium range messages. north korea and china have both protested the u.s. deployment of the sad 2.
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two b-1 bombers have flown close to the dmz and it was called a provocation putting two countries on the bring of nuclear war. the flight of the training mission was first reported by fox yesterday. right now on the house floor, jon, they are just completing a debate on new sanctions for north korean. it's a bipartisan bill being presented and there's some members that just returned from south korea and very impassioned debate about imposing more sanctions on north korea at the moment. >> jon: thanks, jennifer. a state department official seas the tension with north korea is one reason that it's important for the u.s. to have good relations with the philippines. president trump has faced criticism for inviting rogrigo duterte to the white house. human rights activists say duterte's crackdown on drugs has killed his own thousands people.
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he has made public death threats against drug suspects. rich edson has more. >> even as the united states continues to try to work with the philippine government on a host of issues in east asia, u.s. officials stress problems with president duterte's prosecution of a drug war in that country that has killed thousands of people. the state department official says that "we've discussed our concerns with the drug war on multiple occasions. a corrective relation ship with the government philippines is crucial." officials in the white house say the primary reason that the united states wants a better relationship and the potential for that meeting with president duterte and president trump here at the white house is the primary urgent issue according to the white house and in that region and in that part of the world, north korea. >> jon: and there's bipartisan criticism at the white house?
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>> critics say what president trump is doing by extending this invitation, he is legitimizing the drug war and the prosecution of it. a top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee writes in a statement -- >> and also when asked what the difference here is between inviting president duterte and some of the other world leaders that have come to the white house the past decade to have had very bad human rights records, one example would be those from the saudi government that have come to the united states. senator mccain says there is a difference. >> they're a very important ally in the middle east. i would not compare the saudi arabia country and government
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with that of a philippine dictator that is now violating basic human rights laws with extra judicial killing. >> there's questions as to whether president duterte will accept this invitation. he was asked whether he would go. he did mention that he might be too tied up to accept the invitation and come to washington d.c. because he has trips on his schedule to russia and to israel. >> rich edson at the state department. thanks. six years ago today, the u.s. military killed osama bin laden in pakistan taking out the leader of al-quaida. it was a huge victory in the fight of terrorism. since then, we've seen the rise of isis. now the state department has issued a travel alert for americans all of europe this summer. catherine herridge live in washington with that. catherine? >> the state department issuing that travel alert warning u.s.
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citizens of attacks in france, sweden and the u.k. there's plans to execute terrorist attacks in europe. 2017 is on track to be a record year for terrorism arrests and suicide attacks. this isis inspired plot in stockholm marks europe's fourth attack in 12 months where the group used vehicle as a weapon to inflict mass casualties. in the first four months, analysts say the french and british have seen a significant jump in the number of women arrested. on monday, british police arrested three girls, alleged members of a cell with the fourth being shot dead. the chairman of the homeland security committee said there's more plots against the west since bin laden was killed. >> jon: and you have new
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information on certain electronics on flights to the u.s.? >> yes. in march, there were new rules impacting ten airports banning electronic devices larger than an iphone in carry-on baggage. the decision was based on solid information pointed to a plot in the near term. >> on specific credible intelligence, there's a threat to our aviation sector. the administration took responsible actions to safeguard the safety of americans here in the homeland. >> secretary kelly said april 5 that the ban may be expanded to additional airports. what is at play here, two things. one is that al-quaida and its associated groups are enemies and they've put on the bans for explosives, liquid explosive but now they're experimenting with a directive way with electronics. here we are 16 years after 9-11
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and they remain focused on aviation because when you hit aircraft, it becomes such an important sort of impactful event for them because it hits the economy as well as killing innocent people. >> jon: a worldwide story. >> yes. >> jon: thanks. hillary clinton opening up about her election loss and taking blame and spreading plenty around from the russians the head of the fbi. you'll hear from her next.
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>> jon: hillary clinton says she would be our president right now if not for intervening events in the last ten days of the campaign. >> i was on way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were
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inclined to vote for me but got scared off. >> clinton is referring to that letter from james comey that said that agent s were looking into new information about her e-mail server. they mentioned wikileaks that posted letters from john podesta, the chief said russia hacked. she said she takes personal responsibility for her campaign coming up short. trace gallagher with the news. trace, so she admits it was not a perfect campaign. >> yeah, that's right. hillary clinton says her message of adding on to what president obama accomplished wasn't as exciting of trump's message of throwing everything out and starting again. she points out she won the popular vote despite losing the election and agreed that prejudice against women played a role in her loss. listen again. >> it is real, it is very much a part of the landscape
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politically and socially and economically. >> clinton is now charting her post election life, which includes a series of new speeches where in the speeches she likes to take a few jabs at president trump and says she's writing a book about the election that comes out in the fall. she said it was painful to review all that old information, jon. >> jon: and she had something to say about. trump's foreign policy decisions. >> when she was asked if she supported the syrian air strikes, the 59 tomahawks missiles, she said she didn't publicly support it because it wasn't her role but she did support it. she's not sure how much of a difference it made and not sure what kind of back room deals were made with russia. then clinton asked ant president trump saiding he would be honored to meet with north korean leader kim jong-un. this is what she said.
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>> negotiations are critical but have to be part of a broader strategy than just thrown out on a tweet saying hey, let's get together and see if we can get along and come up with some sort of a deal. that doesn't work. >> clinton praised james mattis for supporting u.s. foreign aid funding despite a budget request to cut the funding. >> jon: trace gallagher, things. ahead, the ceo of united airlines in the hot seat. that's next.
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>> jon: breaking news out of
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charleston, south carolina. a white former cop has pleaded guilty to civil rights violations in the death of an unarmed black man in 2015. michael slager claimed he was afraid for his wife. prosecutors say slager scott shot as he run away. somebody captured cell phone video which people viewed millions of times. as part of plea deal, prosecutors said they will stop the state's murder charge. the a.p. reports that slager is facing a possible sentence of life in prison. a news conference underway in charleston, south carolina. the family of walter scott expected to speak soon. easy going. a really smart guy. that's how former high school classmates describing the suspect in yesterday's stabbings at the university of texas. police say kendricks white was
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unvoluntarily committed for treatment. the police chief said the suspect was suffering from mental health issues, but did not elaborate. the 21-year-old was enrolled at the austin campus. police say white stabbed four people with a hunting knife killing one of them and he did not resist when officers confronted him at gun point. witnesses say the attack was sudden and appeared to be random. the ceo of united airlines saying sorry and promising congress that his company will do better after the viral video of security dragging a passenger off a flight. >> we had a serious breach of public trust. i'd like to apologize to dr. dao, to every person on the flight. no customer, no individual should be treated the way mr. dao was ever. >> united airlines ceo oscar munoz testifying on capitol hill about customer service issues in the airline industry.
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dao said he had shattered teeth and a concussion when he was dragged off the flight. united bumped him but he refused to leave. one lawmaker called it horrific and unthinking about questioned whether the feds had to step if. united announced they received a settlement with the passenger and have now bookings and boring procedures. let's bring in mercedes, our analyst. you have a congressional hearing, a settlement between united and dr. dao. is this likely to end the whole process or the whole incident or is congress going to write new laws here? >> it's the tip of the iceberg. congress doesn't have nothing to do other than to regulate the airlines. if they see there's a good faith effort by united and the other airlines that have come forward -- they had a bruising black eye from this issue with
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dr. dao. then yes, maybe they'll step in and say maybe we don't need to legislate. the almighty dollar is what is going to be regulating them. lots of people fled. booking other lights. they don't want to fly on united because of what they say. make them regulate themselves. probably the best way for them. >> i don't think we know what united paid dr. dao in this settlement, but they have suffered millions in bad publicity. >> within 24 hours, their stocks plummeted. it was about a $280 million fall. ever since then, it's been up and down, going up and down and they slowly recovered, but we don't know how many individuals decided rather than fly united, i'm going to fly delta or american. i'm going to do something else. >> jon: originally munoz said the passenger was belligerent. that was the first public announcement. >> i had to reaccommodate the passenger. that means shattering teeth, a concussion. let's be real.
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it was horrific. it showed the ceo the power of the people because they're the ones that reacted so violently. you can see the reaction when they saw the video. it just went viral. so it really -- he had to step back and say how do i manage this and manage it better. you can't blame the victim. >> mercedes colwin, thanks. >> great to be here. >> jon: sailing the high seas got more high tech thanks to what happened on this day in history.
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took over 48 years ago today. i'm jon scott, in today for shepherd smith. the markets are up a little bit today. "your world with neil cavuto" is next. >> neil: all right, republicans are in a grand old funk again on the health care bill. we're getting word from the wall street journal that this writing, quoting here, 21 house republicans said they oppose the latest, the layest incarnation of the republican plan to repeat and replace obama care, the car. welcome, everybody. fox on another rework going down. the hope had been they would get a vote going this week. that is looking dicey, especially if the wall street journal is right and these numbers don't look good. the most no votes they can