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macron. this handshake went on for so long, both men's knuckles began turning white. all right. lovely. i'm sandra smith. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 on the east coast. 8:00 p.m. manchester, england where investigators are following new leads from a concert attack. and the trail leading to germany. but don't expect american investigators to hear much about it. the britts are reportedly cutting off the intel flow after leaks to the media. >> i will be making clear to president trump today the intelligence shared between law enforcement agencies must remain secure. >> now president trump promises an investigation into how the leaks happened. and tense time in today's big nato meeting as the president calls out allies who he says are not paying their fair share. and a new report that russian insiders were talking about how to influence donald trump through a couple of his key
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advisers. senate investigators meeting this hour. and breaking in the last hour, the president's travel ban shot down again. let's get to it. we begin with another major pillow to president trump's push for a travel ban. a federal appeals court in virginia upholding an injunction against the revised ban targeting six muslim countries. in other words, it keeps the blocking of the ban in place. here's what makes this really a big loss for the trump administration. this particular court is historically more conservative. so the thinking going in was if the trump administration was going to win an appeal somewhere, anywhere, it would be in virginia. but no. doug mckelway with live with more. >> hi, shep, this 10-3 ruling by the fourth circuit court comes as a surprise to almost no one. when the case was argued on may 8, most of the judges appointed
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by democratic presidents focussed on comments that candidate trump made in his campaign, comments that were believed to convey the president's prejudice for a muslim ban. in today's opinion, the fourth circuit wrote that the executive order speaks with vague words of national security but in context drifts with religious intoll intollerance. in his dissent, judge niemeyer said the real losers are thele many -- are the millions of americans that rely on the president for security. that dissenting opinion goes to
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the heart of the administration's case. president trump has long maintained that the president has sole authority to set immigration law. the supreme court said back in 1950 that the execution of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty inherent in executive power. in 1952, congress codified that into law which allowed the president to deny any class of aliens considered to be detrimental to the interests of the united states. the administration has vowed to appeal this case to the supreme court. it may wait until the ninth circus court rules in a similar case. back to you. >> shepard: thanks, doug. now the britts keeping the united states out of the loop as they investigate and keeping track on a terror cell that is connected to the suicide attack in manchester. the associated press citing a british official that says police in manchester have decided not to share information with the united states because
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of leaked information that came from u.s. officials. our sister network sky news is reporting that british investigators will be keeping a lid on their findings until the united states assures them the leaks will stop. we just showed you the british prime minister theresa may said she would make clear to president trump that intelligence must remain secure. the white house this morning issuing a statement from the president that reads in part -- >> the two leaders meeting at the nato summit in brussels. no word yet on what came out of the conversation. at the same summit, president trump saying the manchester bombing was a barbaric and vicious attack on our civilization. the president calling on our allies in the efforts to track down the losers, as he puts it. >> all people that cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and
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extremists. yes, losers. they are losers. >> shepard: more on the nato summit later on. on the issue of the leaks, the new york times is defending crime seen photos and one that appears to show a detonator and what is left of a backpack. officials say the united states leaked the photos but it's not clear at this moment how they got them. all that as we have now learned that the search for potential terrorists has expanded again. now to continue nine tall europe. german newspapers first reported that salman abedi flew through dusseldorf four days before the bombing. the police say he spent a short time of that time in the airport's transit area. a turkish official tells the
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associated press, abedi traveled through istanbul. seems like he connected in dusseldorf. the official would not say where the flight originated before turkey. and "focus" reports that abedi twice flew from a german airport and he was not on a watch list. the other team from frankfurt to great britain. not only that, but this magazine claims that british police a said that suspect went through paramilitary training in syria. now officials are trying to determine if he had contact with islamic extremists in germany before making his way to manchester. in libya, security forces picked up salman abedi's younger brother and father. on the left, hassem. on the right, the father, ramadan. a spokesman for libya's malitia says that hassem confessed to
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helping salman prepare for the attack. it's not clear why they arrested the father. he allegedly used to be part of a group that al-quaida backed. he told the associated press, that wasn't true and he said his sons are innocent. rick leventhal has more. >> shep, many of the nuggets we're learn ing are coming from abedi's family. if it's true his younger brother confessed to knowledge of the plot, he may have information about other suspects. as you know, manchester police are carrying out aggressive raids, making eight arrests since tuesday morning. they call the arrests significant to the case and say that items recovered during the raids are very important to the investigation. >> these searches will take several days to complete. so as you would expect there will be some localized
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disruptions in and around the premises. however, it is vitally important that we continue those searches and do it very, very thoroughly. >> a u.k. security source tells sky news the bomb itself contained hydrogen peroxide and may not have been as sophisticated as originally reported. >> shepard: anything more on the leaks? >> welling to be clear, we're told that there has not been a freeze on all intelligence sharing between the u.s. and the u.k. just on information relating to the investigation between manchester police and the u.s. authorities and a british official tells fox, the prime minister plans to reinforce to the president that information shared between our law enforcement agencies must be secure and that we're pleased that the u.s. authorities have launched an investigation into breaches. the britts say they recognize that the u.s. their closest and most trusted partner but the leaks have shaken the trust,
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shep. >> shepard: rick leventhal. more on the investigation into the manchester attacks and the leaks that have both sides on the pond all fired up. that's coming up on this thursday afternoon. plus, the body slam in big sky country. the reporter that witnessed it joins us live. umbrellas!!
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reporter for politico. this leak is big news over there. >> it's really an interesting situation. because you actually have a situation where now donald trump is vowing to investigate some of these leaks that are coming out of apparently u.s. intelligence about some disclosures relating to the manchester investigation. so it's interesting situation. you're right, it's taken center stage at least for today for the time being. >> shepard: do we have a sense -- a lot of people got the leaks. it was all over the news, on cable, all over the newspapers that night. that sort of information seems to get out more in the u.s. than in the u.k. >> right. there's a little difference here between the way journalists are viewed in the u.k. and the way they're viewed in the u.s. the u.s. journalists have more freedom to roam than in the u.k. the interesting thing, the u.k.
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is clearly upset about the leaks and the attacks on their soil. first, you had the situation where the alleged attacker's name came out in the u.s. press. then you had these really horrific horrifying pictures of the attacker's nap sack and pieces of the bomb and pieces of shrapnel that appeared on "the new york times" yesterday. both the disclosures the u.k. felt compromised their investigation. at the time they're worried there's an active cell around europe and the u.k. looking to strike again. >> shepard: how is it that the publishing of the leftovers of the backpack and the detonator, how is it that would obstruct the investigation? >> well, that's a good question. but you know, you definitely had a situation where the u.k. was upset about the disclosure of the name of this alleged attacker, which came before they were ready to announce it. look, you can see it from their
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position. they're out there trying to figure out who else might be in this cell. maybe by giving out the person's name, you're tipping off other people that they could be in the hunt for. >> shepard: do we know of any real break-throughs? they're throwing a wide net over this thing. >> you know, they are. it looks like they're looking at sort of this ever-expanding network of people that may have been close to this man. this is clearly what really worried officials in europe, which is that you have this active cell or indications this there may be perhaps an active cell looking to strike again. you've seen this before in other attacks that happened in europe. in the paris aftermath, there was this wide drag net put out across europe for officials looking to strike again. that's why the u.k. has set their threat level to the
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highest level possible. >> thanks very much, alex. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> shepard: ahead, the plot to influence our president. a new report that the kremlin discussed how best to shake then candidate trump's opinions during the campaign. it all apparently revolves around getting close to two men who were very close to donald trump.
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>> shepard: in the months leading up to the 2016 u.s. presidential election, top russian officials were reportedly discussing how to influence candidate trump through his advisers. that's according to a new report in "the new york times" which claims the american spies collected information on the discussion. "the new york times" reports that the conversation among the
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russians focussed on paul manafort, the campaign chairman and the retired general, michael flynn, who was at the time advising trump. both men had indirect ties to russian officials. the russians appeared confident they could use paul manafort and general flynn to shape trump's views on russia. manafort denied helping russia in the election. one democratic senator said in the report is true, that could be problematic for president trump. >> obviously these press reports indicate there a lot of shoes may be dropping. as i understand it, the president may have hired counsel. if these press reports are right, those lawyers may have a full closet to deal with. >> one republican senator said
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the focus should be less on what the russians tried to do and more on how the americans responded. >> the elections tried to influence our election. nobody is shocked. yet what they have done is to show that any american was trying to reach out to the russians to say yes, we want to help. that's very different than the russians trying to reach towards us. >> shepard: we don't know which it was, not yet. that's what the investigation is partly about. president trump said his campaign did nothing to help russian influence on the election in his favor. peter doocy has more. you spoke with the top democratic about this new york times report. >> and the ranking member, senator mark warner said if the reports are right, what "the new york times" says, what the russians were talking about and lawmakers on the committee need to know why. >> the question is what kind of conversations took place. was it an attempt to influence, some indication of that the russians had this damaging
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information on clinton, did they share that? it's way too early to say. >> this "new york times" story is news today because of a leak. senator warner says leaks like this must be pursued and the leakers prosecuted. that's something that marco rubio is just talking about here in the hallway. >> violation of u.s. law, even if they're not accurate. it's still -- someone using their position to get into the press. again, violates the u.s. law now. >> what rubio said there is key if the leaks are accurate. it's a reminder from senators that we've been getting on both sides that not everything you read attributed to a u.s. official or former news official is guaranteed to be right right away, shep. >> shepard: there's a new washington report that involves james comey. >> right. a document that he apparently relied on heavily in making his decision to go public around the
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doj with his problems about the clinton campaign and their use of a private e-mail server. the problem with the document, it lists conversations and people that don't know each other and say the conversations never happened. the former fbi director relied on what he believed to be this russian document filled with allegations including that former attorney general loretta lynch told a clinton campaign staffer that the e-mail investigation won't go too deeply and this report alleged that's why comey went around doj and decided on his own to outline the case against clinton in public. the fbi was never able to confirm all of the details in that document and allege still that comey used it making a decision that potentially shapes the course of the election. shep? >> shepard: thanks, peter. kelsie snell is here, a congressional reporter for the post. a pretty serious charge. >> yeah. one of the things that is really
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important to keep in mind here is that we're seeing a lot of news coming out of these leaks. we're seeing teams -- seems like it's every day. one thing to keep in mind, these are being vetted closely be the reporters. lawmakers are hesitant to make any comments about whether they're true or not. that's why they have the investigations going on. we have one going on in the house intel, senate intel, one at the fbi and now this separate investigation being done by bob mueller. so there's a lot of fact-finding happening right now. people are reserving judgment until they can figure out what is going on. >> shepard: it seems we do know from the reporting of your own paper that somehow this dubious russian document ended up in the decision making levels of the government. that's really stunning. >> yeah, my colleagues found that this document was known to be dubious for some time before
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former fbi director comey used it as justification for coming out and outlining his investigation into the clinton campaign. it is still being used within the fbi. there's a lot of questions that raises about how good the intelligence was, what kind of intelligence they're using and how this investigation goes forward. >> we know a lot of this circles around paul manafort, general flynn. how is the process of attempting to compel them for more cooperation progress ing? >> a lot of that process is behind closed doors. what we do know the house and senate committees are willing to use subpoenas to testify. we know general flynn plans to plead the fifth in some areas. folks on the hill don't believe that that gives him blanket immunity. that is something that is very much still in flux. the open question is, how far will the subpoenas go and how
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many people will be subpoenaed. we'll see more resolution to that early in june. >> shepard: i felt like once this special counselor came in, some of this information in the public might dry up. is it your sense for a motivation behind these leaks, is it just to keep the public informed or what is it? >> i personally don't know what the motivation is. i know that oftentimes people have varying motivations. some people say to understand when something is going on. some people leak because they see wrong doing. some people leak because they want to be in the papers. i have no idea what these people were thinking when they chose to reach out to the press. >> shepard: thanks, kelsey. president trump coming face-to-face with members of the alliance he once called obsolete. he had a tough warning for nato. time to pay up. how that is playing out with our allies coming up. at red lobster's seafood trios
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>> shepard: president trump met leaders of nato for the first time today and he aggressively challenged them to spend more on their own defense. reporters on scene say the 27 world leaders were licensing in awkward so i license, some rolling their eyes as president trump suggested most nato countries are free-loaders not paying their share for military protection. >> i've been very, very direct with the secretary and members of the alliance in saying that nato members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations. but 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they're supposed to be paying for their defense. the president made the remarks
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at an unveiling of a steal beam from the 107th floor of the world trade center. president trump made no mention of nato's article 5. an attack on one is an attack on all. even as he spoke of the memorial dedicated to unveiling that. article 5 was activated one time after the attacks of 9-11. as president trump was meeting with european leaders, president obama was giving a high profile speed in germany. the former president took availed swipe at his successor saying modern nations can't hid behind a wall. as far as we know, the current and former presidents of the united states have not spoken since inauguration. rich edson live at the state department with more. president trump did not endorse article 5? >> shep, he failed to do so
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explicitly in these remarks this morning if you remember during the campaign last season. the president called the nato obsolete and openly questioned why the united states is spending so much to defend europe. united states, greece, britain, astonia, poland and at the bottom of the list, canada, slovenia, spain, belgium and luxembourg. as for the commitment to ney though, apartment the president's marks, the united states is a member of nato and supports nato and all of the articles, including fifth one that an attack on one of them is an attack on all of the countries. officials have said they openly support rex tillerson who was in brussels and called it the bedrock of trans atlantic
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security. >> shepard: clearly european leaders did not agree with the president. >> they did not. they met this morning. the president of the united states sitting down with the european commission president, the european union president, donald tusk. tusk said that he and the president differs on a few things, including russia. >> we agreed on many areas. the first and foremost, counter terrorism. i'm sure that i don't have to explain why. but some issues remain open like climate and trade. i'm not 100% sure that we can say today, we meaning mr. and myself, that we have a common position, current opinion about russia. >> tusk did say though that when it comes to ukraine, it seems that we are on the same line. the united states and its western allies have sanctioned russia over its interference and actions in ukraine and for the
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seizure of crimea. >> shepard: thanks, rich. michael, nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: this nato business, are the words coming back to haunt him or what is happening here? >> he's flip-flopped on one big part of his view of nato. he reversed it rather plainly a few weeks ago. he once said it was obsolete. he now says it's no longer obsolete. there's this idea that he has from the campaign that he can play a major role in reforming the alliance, in particular in getting other countries to step up to the plate. if you remember in the campaign, this was a plank of his foreign policy agenda in europe and in asia. he wanted our allies to pay more for their defense. this isn't direct spending. this isn't money that goes to nato, this is what they spend on their own military. the mystery here, the line that has been moving is where he stands on russia. he did mention in the speech threats from russia and on the
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eastern border of nato countries. but he's also at many points averred from confrontation with putin. >> shepard: is there a rip or is it smoke? >> i don't think it's a rip. there's clear tensions. you can see it in the body language and the tensions. i think it's clear a number of other leaders of nato countries are unhappy with some of the things that. trump is bringing to the table. president trump is trying to bring a sort of confrontation here. he's trying to shake things up. so i don't think it's a rift. he hasn't disavowed article 5. but clearly he's not saying what those were on stage with. >> shepard: what is the goal there? do you know? you say he wants to shake things up.
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to what end? >> there's a couple things. he has a broad nationalist view that he's tried to bring to the world stage. he's pulled back from some of the planks of it. but he says the international coalitions are less important and countries should look out for themselves. that's one thing. the other thing is he's trying to get a better deal for american taxpayers. he felt that the united states was wasted a lot of money on foreign aid and military support. he's pulled back from that some as he's been told by military advisers how important it is. and i think it's just his general approach to governing. he came to office since telling everyone he could do this better. he was smarter than a lot of the leaders that have come before him. he's trying to keep that up. >> shepard: how are other nato leaders responding to this? >> with gritted teeth and clinched hand shakes. we haven't seen verbal
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fistacuffs over this. everybody is trying to get along and make the most of it with what they have. >> neil: thanks, michael. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> shepard: the u.s. military is blaming isis after more than 100 civilians died during an american air strike in mosul two months ago. here's what happened. the military claims that the terrorists somehow smuggled more than 1,000 pounds of explosives in a house in the iraqi city and forced civilians inside and then put isis snipers on the root as bait. the u.s. bombs triggered the explosion which in turn caused the house to collapse. officials say no one saw isis move explosives in the area. for the first time since
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president trump took office, the u.s. navy approached one of china's manmade islands in the south china sea. a chinese defense official said a u.s. destroyer came 112 miles of the reefs. it's disputed area that kline says they own by building reefs and turning them into islands. a spokesman for the pentagon said the patrol was part of an ongoing program to challenge excessive maritime claims, but said that it isn't directed at any one country. if you're going to attack a reporter, like physically, maybe don't do it in front of other journalists. a congressional candidate failed to follow this advice and today it's his election day. i'll speak with the fox news reporter that watched it happen next. ♪
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. >> shepard: now the candidate that flipped out and body-slammed a reporter. there's audio that i'm getting you've heard. happened in montana where a sheriff's office has cited a congressional candidate for assault. it happened hours today before the special election there and in front of a fox news correspondent that will join us in just a moment. the candidate is republican greg gianforte. the reporter, ben jacobs of the guardian. jacobs tweeted yesterday, greg gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses. jacobs said it happened after he asked a question about the gop healthcare bill. but here's the audio i mentioned.
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>> shepard: unstable much? a statement from gianforte's campaign reads in part -- >> shepard: of course, that's not exactly what happened. alicia acuna is live in bozeman, montana. is that what you saw? what did you see? you were right there. >> yeah, i was two feet, maybe
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three from the two men when this started, shep. that is not what i saw. we were talking to gianforte right before an interview. our photographer, our field producer, we were all together in this relatively small room setting up for an interview that we planned. he came in. gianforte. we started talking about restaurants and things in bozeman specifically. about two minutes in, ben jacobs came in, said he was with the guardian. put his recorder up here, about standard location and started asking about the cbo score, the congressional budget office score. his reaction. gianforte said he would get to him later. jacobs persisted. then gianforte said, you know, talk to shane, his press guy. at that point -- i was looking at the two men -- at that point that's when gianforte put both hands on either side of his neck, grabbed him, threw him to the ground against this wall on the ground, got on top of him,
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just over him, punched him about two or three times and said i'm really sick and tired of this, something to that effect. we saw jacobs -- i saw him -- he scrambled away. he was on his knees. his glasses were broken. he said you broke my glasses. you body-slammed me. i was in shock. so were keith and faith. we could not believe this just happened. it went from a very calm, cordial discussion to just this craziness. >> shepard: so first, he body-slammed him and put out a statement and lied about it. >> the statement does not reflect anything that i remember. it's not what keith and faith remember either. so no, it's not what happened. simply not what happened. the reporter was doing his job. >> shepard: the timing is stunning. this was the night before the special election where in a state trump won by 20 points.
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>> right. yeah, democrats can win here, too. that's what made this such an interesting race. what is also interesting, shep -- the polls closed a 8:00 mountain time. the polls close at 8:00. 37% of the absentee ballots of the voters here in montana have already sent in their ballots. there are people today that were complaining about saying they wanted to change their vote. now, they want to change their vote. some who voted for the democrat said they want to change it to gianforte because of this. some people want to go the other way. so it's hitting on both sides in different ways. you know, it's strange. >> shepard: alicia acuna, a witness to it all. bum the camera wasn't rolling. we got the gist there. see you soon. some 23 million americans will lose their health insurance in the next decade if the healthcare bill becomes law, which it won't, but that's according to reports from the congressional budget office. this has no chance in the senate. they'll change it what are top
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republicans saying about this particular version out of the house? >> shep, good afternoon. they're luke warm about the house bill and senate ers are saying they're going to take out a blank sheet of paper and write their own bill. as for the guy behind the bill, paul ryan offered this reaction. >> premiums have doubled in america because of obamacare. people can't afford this. so what cbo just told us, the reforms we put in this bill will help lower premiums so i'm very encouraged by that. >> with providers pulling out of states, the republicans are saying tsay ing the status quo, obamacare is not sustainable. so democrats are saying, you know, the guy that heads the cbo
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was picked by a republican who happens to be in the trump cabinet about now. other democrats are saying look at the assessment and this should be a done deal in terms of eliminating this bill. >> shepard: the cbo report ought to be a final nail in the coffin of the republican effort to sabotage our healthcare system. republicans in washington and the president should read the report, cover to cover, throw their bill in the trash can and begin working with democrats on a real plan to lower costs and improve care. >> that's the question at this point, whether the senate can get republicans and democrats to the table to work out something on healthcare with some saying that obamacare is not really working at this stage in certain places with limited options. bottom line, the two parties have been talking past one another, not too one another at the table. >> shepard: thanks, mike. when you were 14 years old, what
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>> shepard: some jobs require applicants know computer languages. others have years of experience. and then there's the one that demands you be capable of petting and stroking cats for long periods of time. you qualify? >> i don't. i'm a little allergic. but it's a veterinary clinic in ireland. they're looking for a professional cat cuddler. that's one of the job specifications on the ad. they're looking for someone that
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hat cattitude and likes to feed the local strays, this is on the job ad. someone that is a cat whisperer. someone that can calm them for procedures. sometimes they can be antsy. and they need to understand different kinds of purring and also need a veterinary certificate from ireland. a lot of people would qualify for it. >> shepard: nice work if you can get it. >> the phones have been ringing off the hook. >> shepard: some kids in his age are still in school. the 14-year-old prodigy in texas just graduated from college and he's set to work on his master's degree. casey stegall has more. >> you're about to meet a texas family taking their love of
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learning to a whole new level. two brothers doing what brothers do. but this sibling duo is anything but ordinary. >> i was 10 years old when i graduated high school. >> four years later, carson is a college grad. at 14, he just became the youngest person to ever earn a bachelor's degree from texas christian university. not yet old enough to drive, but can solve math problems that would give most nightmares. so a physics major made sense. >> i home-schooled him. he caught on very quickly. >> mom also started to notice something else. carson's little brother, cannon, was also special. >> he's 11 years old. he graduated high school. he will start tcu in the fall semester. >> he wants to be an astronaut. >> and i tell everyone, they're just normal kids, but they're
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advanced on an academic level. >> carson will start his masters degree in the fall at tcu at the very same time that his brother will begin his undergrad. >> wow. casey stegall. thank you. we'll be right back. there's nothing traditional about my small business so when
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>> shepard: on this day in 1935, jesse owens broke several world records in 45 minutes. he was a college track star for ohio state. folks called him the buckeye bullet. during a track meet at michigan, owens set world records in hurdling, long jumping and the 220 yard dash. he said he almost didn't compete was he injured his back days earlier after falling down the stairs and he became a sports legend 82 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything
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around here. brand new graphics for the stocks exchange. energy stocks way down. oil off 4% today. neil cavuto is coming up. this is the fox news channel. >> if all nato members had spent 2% of their gdp on defense last year, we would have had another $119 billion for our collective defense and for the financing of additional nato reserves. >> neil: did you see that snickering there? look closely. leaders for luxembourg, macron that just took over, others that are just trying to contain their laughter that the president was calling them out for essentially being cheap skates, not