if you're a liberal and attack freedom and liberty you will be confronted with our view crew and good luck with that, you're going to need it, they are freedom ninja warriors. thank you for always being there and always have a safe, sound, patriotic weekend. >> happy birthday america, independence day festivities on tuesday, america's news headquarters celebrating on the road including here at the marine corps memorial in arlington, virginia. hope you're having a good weekend. >> in the capital of country music, nashville, tennessee, already celebrating the fourth of july weekend like you in your hometown. thanks for joining us. we are following the stories including the battle over repealing and replacing obamacare, donald trump says congress should, quote, immediately repeal if they can come up with a replacement, we will speak to congressman marsha

blackburn on what she thinks. leland: the modified version of donald trump's traveled and getting its first test at airports across the country. keeping the nation's capital safe this holiday weekend, take a highflying trip with pilots making the 113th. elizabeth: police state with the people have been injured in an early-morning nightclub shooting. officials say 25 people were shot, three others injured in unrelated issues. all are expected to survive. officials of not release any information on the shooter but police say the incident appears to be because of a fight and it

is not healthcare related. leland: the health care debate continues, revealed and replace later is the message we heard from donald trump, two lawmakers, that is a big change in republican doctrine, the latest health care debate will take place in the senate after their holiday week, senators will hear a lot about this at home. peter do see at the new jersey retreat with the latest from the president and the senate. >> reporter: we have news of the senate majority leaders decision on the latest health care proposal just to repeal obamacare and wait a while and replace it with something else later. mitch mcconnell says that is not going to happen. the republican controlled senate to wait on repealing until replacement is agreed upon by enough senators to pass it.

so far the republican-controlled senate is not very helpful to the republican president with his agenda confirming cabinet appointees. their latest plan to report the healthcare system is rapidly falling out of flavor with voters, 27% in the latest fox news poll like the senate health care plan, similar to the house version, 40% in may. the white house says donald trump just wants healthcare 6, he is not overly concerned with legislative steps that it will take to get it done. sarah huckabee sanders said yesterday the president hasn't changed his thinking at all. repealing and replacing obamacare, we are fully committed to pushing through with the senate at this point, but we are looking at every possible option of repealing and replacing obamacare, focused on doing that. there has been urgency to get healthcare done before the senate august recess which is all of august and ten republican senators are calling for that

break to be called off, senators perdue, ernst top kennedy, lee, round, strange thomas sullivan all say they stick around in dc until their party campaign promise. and something was seriously considered. >> they didn't stick around this july 4th weekend. peter doocy in new jersey, liz has a little more. >> it took two attempt to pass the health care plan two months ago and even after many said it was a work in progress tennessee congressman marsha blackburn, thank you for joining us. we appreciate your hospitality. we heard the president take a change of tune. we haven't heard repeal, then replace. something we would expect from

senator rand paul from the freedom house caucus. what is your reaction to that? >> this is not dissimilar to one of the first plans out there is it said obamacare will cease to exist as of this date, it was one of the first proposals. everyone knows there is not one stroke of the pen. it will take many strokes of the pen to get the rules and regulations -- it could be feasible. this is what congress does, make laws, repeal them, evaluate their usefulness, walking around in nashville, if you stop people and say what do you think? it means my insurance is too high, there are too many limitations on seeing doctors or getting care. >> reporter: tennessee is a

unique example. long before obamacare, health care options within the state. i want to read them stats, two thirds of the 95 counties in tennessee have one provider, blue cross blue shield as of 2017 had a 62% increase, these are the counties with more one provider, 26.3%, humana up 43%. and essential obamacare packages, the only state that close more hospitals of texas. not a good situation in tennessee. >> it is not a good situation. something has to be done. you cannot accept the status quo of the affordable care act. it is proving to be unaffordable. with so few people having access to affordable insurance, what happens? they pick other options, they choose to pay the penalty to the irs. region to repeal option --

people say they need an option. >> that is why the house and senate, a fallen bill, great foundation for them to work from. we would have been willing to stay in dc and work through the weekend if the senate had agreed to tackle this, put it on the table, debate it. send something to the house, let us get together and send something to the president's desk. i understand exactly what the president is saying and he is right to put the challenge out there. >> reporter: are you surprised about the challenge to the healthcare bill? we saw the cbo report and lawmakers say i can't support this. >> i am not surprised. that is their version and that is fine. what we have to do is find something that will be workable, getting rid of the essential benefits and penalties opening the health insurance marketplace

is going to be better. that is part of the phase 3, part of my legislation. we will do what we can do under reconciliation. that is phase i. having doctor price at hhs clawbacks and things. phase 3 is addressing medical malpractice which the house did this week across state lines which we are currently working on and finding a way to get that legislation so it is agreeable, house and senate. >> reporter: you are here for the fourth of july holiday. are you here in august? >> likely in dc for the first week of august, that would not surprise me at all. >> reporter: on the house side, any indication what we are seeing? mister o'connell can't be get a

lot of sleep at night. >> there are a lot of conversations. people trying to negotiate deals. to make certain they have the ability in the senate for healthcare and individuals. we appreciate the attentiveness to the issues to get this done. >> reporter: thank you so much. you have a unique perspective because of what you tried in tennessee, you can bring your expertise to washington, thank you. as you know, healthcare is not the only battle facing congress. when they return i will speak to congressman diane black about the looming budget battle. on media buzz howard kurtz has to talk to anthony scaramucci about the retracted cnn story about him. and fox news sunday this week, taking a closer look at the health care debate with senator rand paul, who has been highly

critical of the current senate plan. check your local listings for time and channel. >> day 2 of the travel ban is going up without the drama that marked the executive order shortly after he took office. will car at lax. we remember the scene of chaos a couple months ago, seems a lot coldeaelemer now. >> reporter: absolutely. this is scaled-back compared to what we saw earlier this year at airports all across the country including here at lax. we have seen a handful of protesters over the past couple days but nothing like the protests we saw earlier this year. the supreme court reinstated the revised band monday, the court will make a final determination of the travel ban, in the meantime six countries will be impacted, iran, libya, sudan,

syria and yemen but there are exceptions for travelers with bona fide ties to the united states including immediate family members but not family members like grandparents or grandkids. as a result the wife filed an emergency motion in federal court asking for verification. >> why is it those people are not allowed to come into the country? what national security initiative are we thinking about? >> the administration maintained this is all about keeping americans safe and the six countries on the band have links to terrorism. take a listen to attorney general jeff sessions. >> i think it was a victory for the president to focus on these six countries alone who have failed states with terrorist bases in them. we need to be very careful before we admit people from those countries. the president is exactly

correct. >> a federal judge is expected to weigh in on hawaii's emergency motions next week. >> reporter: for more insight on the travel ban let's bring in justice department official robert crystal, a friend of the show, great to have you as always. you predicted this the supreme court was going in the administration's favorably to why has this emergency challenge up. doesn't have a chance? >> in my view it doesn't. the definition the administration is using about a bona fide tied to the us, what those relationships need to be a straight out of the immigration nationalization act, it is not new language, it is way immigration laws work. in other contexts. i don't will be a big issue. >> reporter: the president noted and you noted on the salient points, justices were 9-1. it begs the question how can you have a case that has such

drastic and broad ranging national security applications? that the justices are 9-0 and for months were in limbo because of one federal judge in hawaii that was able to rewrite the law of the land. >> it is a warning to whether judges to not politicize this process, got to the end of the line, the law was pretty clear and the supreme court made it clear. some of the lower courts got a little out of their skis. >> reporter: is there a consequence to a judge who gets out of his skis? >> it is more reputation than anything else. there is no sanctum a penalty. >> reporter: a lifelong appointment. >> they are doing their best but no one wants to be overruled, particularly 9-0, that you went the wrong way on something.

>> reporter: at the same time of the ban, the actual action, not issuing visas to those countries is a far cry from what the initial executive order had and was being enforced, people with green cars would not be let in. and away the administration caved here too. >> no question the initial rollout for such a policy, and green card holders have legal rights and due process, but broadly speaking the administration is getting what they want, presumption against people from these six countries, they have to show a close tied to the us to get in. otherwise a temporary halt from those applications. whether that is good or bad policy the administration has that right, an enormous right for them to have as time goes forward. >> reporter: does this affect

anything other than the war on terror? the obama administration or the trump administration using executive orders when they felt they couldn't get things through congress or wanted to do it more quickly? does the supreme court ruling have any implications going forward? >> beyond immigration i don't think so. this is clearly constitutionally in the president's basket of powers. i don't think it affects executive order power generally particularly because it was in line with the president. it was a conflict between those things. >> reporter: leading up to the supreme court the issue of go u gorsuch's first case with national implications, did we

learn anything about him? >> not in this case. it is what people expected, he participated in a few cases in his term and has been a solid conservative justice with originalist tendencies, that makes people like me exceedingly happy. makes other people nervous but it is not a surprise. >> reporter: it to see you, appreciate your insights. we will see if your prediction on hawaii's challenge comes through. happy july 4th. neil: liz:james madison on friday with six month delay, the time for the military services to ride out their own recruitment policies, transgender officers have been allowed to serve openly in uniform for more than a year. the pentagon sought extra time to assess the impact on military

readiness with transgender enlistment. >> reporter: us backed iraqi forces launched a fierce assault on what they hope is the final push to recapture the strategic city of mosul which has been under isis's grip since 2014. us troops have been providing intelligence sharing, logistical, analytical tactics, weapon support to their iraqi counterparts as well. >> isis had two years to prepare the defense of mosul, a vast city with a large population and they put together a formidable defense that any army would have a hard time dealing with. iraqi security forces have continued an attack and over the last 20 days on the west side of the city they got to the point they have isis in its final pocket and stepping off to finish it off. >> reporter: the air force playing a large role in its mission. more on that coming up. iraq's prime minister declared victory over isis's territorial

laughter his government's troops seized and 850y mosque where the isis leader announced the caliphate almost three years ago. and update, six people in critical condition after that hospital shooting in new york yesterday. one person was left dead. investigators say doctor henry bello went to the hospital where he used to work and began shooting friday afternoon before turning the gun on himself, amid sexual harassment allegations and coworkers who claimed he threatened to kill them. it is still under investigation. elizabeth: our pilot i dealing with russian aggression in the air. this -- we will talk to the assistant deputy chief of staff of the air force. we would hear from small business owners providing

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elizabeth: you think of country music, a mass media audience at the ryman auditorium in nashville, the grand lobby was broadcast, here's what it looked like in 1965 with bluegrass icon bill monroe. and we are going to take you inside the legendary walls as it celebrates a historic birthday. >> first based on the history, everyone from houdini to bob hope to johnny cash and hank williams, a long history of all

kinds of entertainment, the opry was here 1943-1974 in its formative years. think about dolly parton made her debut here, patsy cline. legends that have come before them and a lot of acts that have seen shows here and grown up hearing about what is unparalleled. bill for revivalist preachers. a lot of people say it looked like a church, it opened in 1892, shifted to booking operas at ballets and plays and became the alltel at the center of nashville. the shape of the room is so unique, the intimacy, when artists are on stage they can see the audience, hear them talking in quiet moments and there is a connection. this year is our 125th

anniversary, we are lucky to be here. there was a time in the 90s when the building was nearly torn down which breaks my heart even to think about but we have been your 125 years and going strong. >> reporter: it has not lost its luxury, it is getting big acts. jill scott will be performing at the cast of dancing with the stars will do a live show monday night. >> reporter: looks like you are having a great time. after the break 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, that is the mission. we take a ride with the fearless pilots keeping watch over the nation's capital as they train ahead of the fourth of july weekend. >> we don't change anything we do. we train like we expect to when we get the call. ♪

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leland: all around the country the u.s. air force has fighter jets armed and ready to respond to threats that appear in the sky either from overseas or domestically. they call it norad's air defense shield, by far the busiest of these fighter wings is 113th air national guard in washington. they are watching skies this july 4th as you and your family celebrate and they took us for a ride to show us how they keep us all safe. >> scramble, scribble, scramble. >> reporter: the scramble alarms go off daily signaling an unidentified or an responsive plane headed towards the

capital. >> our perspective every time the klaxon goes off is it is a real world event like it was on 9/11, more than 5000 since 9/11. we are defending our nation's borders come our family. >> reporter: weekly, pilots of the air national guard practice going from hanging out to airborne in a matter of minutes, in a post-9/11 world the planes are ready for combat, armed with air to air missiles. >> the threat is different than it was before. >> failure of the imagination is what we were worried about as evidenced on 9/11. >> reporter: we flew along on a training mission defending washington from a sneak air attack and intercepting libyan aircraft. we flew above mach one across the maryland shore. at that speed they can protect

from new jersey to north carolina in a matter of minutes. captain matt morris explained things once we were on the ground. >> the defensive counterreformation. >> you are the first eyes and ears. >> the first. >> reporter: he and his wingmen were tasked to break through the defense against. team. three other guard pilots hunting them. >> the point they wanted to protect, to protect the national capital region. >> reporter: he had other plans, at 575 mph just 2000 feet above the water. >> you and i got through. >> reporter: the 113th wing protect the nation's capital as part of norad's nationwide defense mission, but takes it

overseas. in isis and iraq, syria and afghanistan to provide us admission, major general scott vander hamm, chief of staff operations, good to have you here. you guys are busy. afghanistan, iraq, the fight against isis inside syria and on top of that north korea and russia, among everything else. you guys are busy and at the same time like everybody else are facing magic -- massive budget shortfalls. >> we are busy, busier than we have ever been. you stated it better than i could. our 24/7 nuclear mission come our space mission, cybermission takes 20 to 30,000 people, we have those folks deployed downrange, we are busy, in a tightly constrained budget. >> what does the air force need, more pilots, more money?

better acquisition system? we hear about the of 35 and of 22s, some of the jets protecting the nation's capital are older than i am are older than the pilots flying them. >> stability, budgets, so that we can set a glide path, doctor wilson and chief of staff have set readiness for number one priority, last year's budget, we will be study but grow the readiness back after years of fighting overseas. >> warren tear has gone 16 years. in isis and syria and iraq, is this different than the air force has been doing for a while, fighting isis? or is a continuation of the same? >> this is a continuation since

august when we started to go after isis in support of not just the coalition but iraqi security forces in iraq, expanded into syria. we are supporting organic ground forces. we have special forces on the ground, providing more than kinetic activity but intelligence surveillance like you said, space capabilities, command and control, a host of capabilities with organic ground forces come and they can move. >> we heard from the iraqi prime minister they took over mosul and push towards the euphrates. pictures that came from the air force of russian biggs intercepting a us air force reconnaissance plane. is this happening more often or are we just hearing about it?

>> it happens fairly often but is pretty routine. we are doing freedom of navigation whether it is in the air or at sea that we will be intercepted. we are protecting global comments abroad, at the end in the air and in space. anytime we protect under international law -- routinely those are professional intercepts. your hearing a lot of them, the resurgence of russia and others, those are fairly routine, safe intercepts and normal between a man. >> reporter: last july for the russians blue their bombers down the california coast line. do we send our fighters up to intercept them? do they take the same pictures? >> absolutely. the 11th air force which stands watch in alaska have fighters but it is at their bombers and others that do the same kind of navigational exercises, we

intercept them, fly upon their wing, signal them and what not, fairly routine between those countries. >> no optic we have seen. >> no significant uptick. >> reporter: appreciate you being with us and representing all the fine airmen out there who are defending us all. thanks, general. elizabeth: rewriting the rules on how songwriters get paid in nashville. plenty to say and thing about. >> ♪ i get carried away by the light in your eyes ♪ for i even realize ♪ maybe i am long gone ♪ get carried away ♪ lities of love lities of love you gotta do on your own. and some you shouldn't have to shoulder alone.

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>> songwriters, not will the people, have to consult lawyers, make agreements and do this kind of thing. it would turn the ordinary practice of songwriting upside down. >> senator lamar alexander speaking from experience having covered in the hit song falling apart together. legal battles over song lyrics and royalties are nothing new but a new court battle could change how songwriters are compensated in the future. national country music scene has a lot on the line so better to ask steve beauregard. thanks for joining us. i have been picking your brain and doing a lot of research. this is a complicated issue. can i start with what legal battles songwriters are fighting for? >> the most is and is a contested department of justice consent decree dispute that wants to change the way performance rights organizations pay us to the lowest bidder the way it has always been.

>> reporter: it was confusing, telling you how much to get paid. >> two of the three things that income -- >> explained the three streams. >> one is mechanical which had to do with sales of principle product, it is interacted -- on radio or television. >> reporter: from a performance standpoint, collecting income. >> performing the doj case, basically it says those are the lowest the digital services -- it has never been that way. everyone has always been able to choose their pr collect for

them. you couldn't possibly collect on every single song, it has to be a collected part. >> reporter: how did the government become involved in this? this is your musical your product? am i right? >> yes, nothing would please us more than for it to be a complete free market, let us decide and negotiate for our self, the record labels, that is what they do, they don't want itunes to put a song above that, they say that is not enough, nothing i can do about that. we have compulsory license, maximum wages, mechanical rates, we have to take the money when the money comes, we are completely under the sum of the government and the streaming is the big system, streaming is

killing us because the rates were done before anybody even do about streaming or the internet. the consent decrees were done after the second world war. >> streaming at that time. from your observation of the past 20 or 30 years as it headed in the right direction, or everything you want as a writer? >> the demand for music is in the right direction but the fact that the digital technology streaming is so outside the legal system, the nonperforming songwriter, devastating. the biggest song of the year, hundreds of millions of strains and make $600. >> can you give us a little taste? i will bug you for 30 seconds. >> this was with dirk medley.

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>> there are a lot of iconic american traditions for celebrating july 4th like eating ice cream, barbecues, fireworks, watching us, most patriotic is displaying the american flag. as part of our proud american series joining us now the owner of the national capital flag

company who makes american flags, appreciate it. we have pictures of your company and where they make american flags. it wasn't long ago there were a number of american flags that were made not in america but in china. are you seeing a real demand for american-made american flags? >> where was the flag made you boxes were stamped with it. it is such a symbol and such pride with that. when you see a young people purchasing their first house they want to buy a flag out front. it is a good feeling to help them. >> this caught our eye and it is worth talking about on july 4th. are you proud of the country today? recent fox news polling, 51% said yes, 45% -- difficult in any of these polls to separate

patriotism from the politics. give us a sense of sales trends to tell us if we are proud of the country. people by flags in the same numbers? >> nothing compares to after 9/11 but there has been a steady replacement of flags. a lot of people that didn't have flags purchased them after 9/11. as they wear out they will buy new ones. >> is there a difference now in how flags are made and how they were made in the 50s, 60s in 70s? >> hasn't changed much since the 60s in 70s the larger factories have stripe machines, the ones below, and warehouses full of the machines that make the stars. >> reporter: before 1912 arrangement of stars varied according to flagmaker's, now it

is all set. you have a set american flag, what sizes are we talking about? >> commercial size is two x 3, anything bigger -- the larger flags would be for businesses and large office complexes and car lots. >> something about 35 to 50 flags or something like that. >> 30 x 60 but to me the flagpoles -- >> that is a very big flagpole. give us a sense of your company, mostly made in america were are you doing a lot of other stuff? >> we do a lot of other stuff but everything is made in america, the us flags are all made in america. what we do in alexandria, the government offices and military flags, government flags and custom flags. >> the memorial day july 4th, the super bowl flag company,

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>> celebrating in style with the independence day weekend upon us. america's news headquarters taking our patriotic spirit all across the country. i am at the marine corps memorial in arlington, virginia. elizabeth: here in tennessee's beautiful capital, right behind me, ready for food, family, thanks for joining us. we are following all the stories making food -- news today, the healthcare report as the president offers a new diagnosis to repeal and replace legislation.

>> reporter: from in congress using the constitution to raise questions about the president's fitness for office. one reports as they are trying to push him out. we will break that down. in california, could traffic get worse? and unexpected traveler dropped into the sky. >> reporter: donald trump and his family setting up holiday we can. there is -- seems to be an alarm going off as we assume the president doesn't have much time to relax, with healthcare reform, the future of trade deals and twitter wars, the president -- peter doocy joins

us with the latest. >> reporter: having a hard time hearing you. we are keeping an eye on washington dc where the republican senate is stalled as they tried to replace obamacare with something else and word games that majority leader mitch mcconnell is rejecting the president's we to repeal obamacare now and take however long they need to replace it down the line. now the white house is waiting along with everybody else to find out how long it will take republican senators to deliver on their main campaign promise. >> we are less focused on the timeline and more on making sure we get the best deal on healthcare as soon as possible. >> no word of senate leaders are seriously considering a pitch from ten gop senators to call

off the august recess which will keep them out of the office that entire month until a replacement could pass the senate is agreed-upon. with the healthcare reform process at a standstill the president's attention is elsewhere today. he is tweeting targeted attacks on two cable channels and accusing bosses of organizing unfair coverage of his presidency, he speculated, quote, word is greta van susteren was let go by out-of-control bosses at nbc and comcast because she refused to go along with trump's hate. i'm pleased to see that cnn has been exposed as fake news and garbage journalism. it is about time and crazy joe scarborough and dumb as a rock mika brzezinski, but too that. he has been here in new jersey since last night but making a day trip to dc and a few days the kennedy center for an event

at the celebrate freedom rally, there will be patients from walter reed medical center and hundreds of other wounded warriors and veterans from the washington dc area, several hundred miles as well, after that speech donald trump will come back to new jersey to where we expect them to stay until monday. >> reporter: that was a tornado alarm system, they tested every first day of the month so thank you for your patience, appreciate it. the 25th amendment, the u.s. constitution says if the president is, quote, unable to discharge powers and duties of his office, the vice president would essentially take over leading the executive branch and congressional democrats view that as a political opening seeking to remove donald trump not by questioning his policies

but his mental fitness. here is the very latest. >> reporter: maryland democrat trying to increase support for the bill he drafted a couple months ago which would establish a panel to determine whether donald trump is fit to serve. >> he is no gentleman and seems increasingly like a barbarian in terms of treatment of fellow citizens. something is deeply wrong at the white house. >> reporter: he proposed a bill in april and it headed to committee in early may. 20 democratic lawmakers signed on as cosponsors. the same day donald trump tweeted about mika brzezinski and joe scarborough hank johnson added his list to cosponsors. section 4 of the 25th amendment gives congress the power to set up a permanent body to decide if the president is able to perform the responsibilities of the office.

he wants to create a, quote, independent nonpartisan body known as the oversight commission on presidential capacity. >> all this legislation does is create a permanent body not just for this president but all presidents to come, the physical health of the president is something of importance to the national security of the country and continuing effectiveness of the government. some current events concentrated the mind on the problem but we need to set this up as a matter of institutional responsibility. >> reporter: for a campaign managers say it is all nonsense. >> 63 million people vote for donald trump to change washington and what they hate is that is what he is doing, fulfilling campaign promises so they will do anything they can to stop him from being successful. >> reporter: the bill seeds -- needs 218 yes votes to pass the house, less than 30 -- a very

long way to go, like it or not. elizabeth: all right, thank you so much. leland: new jersey governor chris christie has shut down the government in his state after failing to come to a budget agreement by midnight this morning. the governor ordered nonessential services to close including state parks ahead of the busy tourist weekend, the impasse is over legislation regarding the largest healthcare provider, this is the first shutdown since 2006. a lot of questions what happened to the federal government as so many deadlines loom. >> there is a new tourist attraction in nevada. it appears stores are celebrating marijuana for recreational use, you have to be 21 years older with the proper

id an ounce at a time. officials predict tourists will do just that for two out of every three sales made in the state. nevada joined alaska, colorado, oregon and washington state where it is legal to buy part even though it is against federal law. >> reporter: the president has been tweeting about this for a couple days, the trump administration its latest effort to prove voter fraud in the 2016 election, sparking an outright revolt among leaders not only from the democratic side but republican as well. garrett tenney joins us with more on what the white house wants you to know about you and your voting record and what they want to know about your voting record. >> the administration got fiery responses from state officials, both democrats and republicans. in may donald trump signed an executive order creating the

presidential advisory commission on election integrity to investigate allegations of voter fraud in a 2016 race. on friday commission sent a letter to states requesting publicly available information on those registered to vote in each state including their full names, birth dates, addresses, political party, the last we 4 digits of their social security number and felony conviction records. at least we 10 states have said they will not be providing any information. 19 have said they would only provide some of what was requested. democrats slammed the request as an attempt to suppress voters but even some republicans -- mississippi secretary of state house man said he hadn't yet received request but if he does, quote, my reply would be they can go jump in the gulf of mexico, mississippi is a great state to launch from. the president also weighed in on the status refusal to comply

tweeting numerous states refusing to give information to the very distinguished voter fraud panel. what are they trying to hide? the commission is scheduled to hold its first meeting in a couple weeks, july 19th, at this point, not clear how much information. leland: thanks for holding down the fort at the studio. in the midwest cleanup efforts are underway in illinois after a freight train derailment, police say multiple cars jumped the tracks friday night, an estimated 40,000 gallons of fuel. officials evacuated nearby commercial buildings after the spill and residents are being told they may notice a smell from the fuel that leaked out but so far residents are told there is no immediate danger.

and a fox news weather alert. more than 4800 firefighters across the west have been working tirelessly to battle dozens of wildfires that for thousands of local residents to pack up their families, take what they could with command get out. and intense air and ground attack has been launched in arizona and colorado. governors from both states declared a state of emergency for their counties this week, also during the holiday weekend authorities are hopeful the worst will be over soon. elizabeth: other weather-related news, overturned vehicles and flash flooding on roads caused traffic woes in south-central oklahoma. several severe thunderstorms moved across the region around of rainfall, damaging wind and severe thunderstorms are expected to continue through the start of the holiday weekend, strong storms have been ravaging

the central plains midweek. authorities say no serious injuries have been reported. >> reporter: you might call them daytime fireworks, this long holiday weekend, the president is on vacation but it has not stopped donald trump from blasting critics again on twitter. we will tell you what it is this time and how these personal attacks might affect his political agenda when they come back.

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one that keeps you connected to what matters most. we talked about severe weather in the midwest, some overcast skies, people looking ahead to the fourth of july weekend, let's bring in the fox weather center, the very latest weather predictions for the holiday weekend. >> across the country folks will be seeing everything, spots that are incredibly hot, the heat in the southwest, still early, 95 ° in phoenix, warm in portions of the center of the country, that is fueling some severe weather, stretching from the northeast into portions of texas, some of this could be severe before the day is over, we have seen the

biggest thunderstorms into new england and that will continue into the evening. this line of thunderstorms could become severe as it creeps closer to the coast in coming hours, 6 is a -- 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 please cdc thunderstorms sweeping through the region but it is all along the cold front, this is a stretch, our severe weather possibilities, these highlighted areas including nashville, an area where you see severe thunderstorms into portions of new england. you talk about tornadoes, not likely but conditions are somewhat there in portions of new england, severe weather getting really nasty as we head into the evening and overnight hours. future radar taking you hour by hour, that line of thunderstorms pushing along the coast, 8:00 pm, 9:00 in the overnight

hours, clearing off by sunday so you see more sunshine on the eastern coast when you talk about the second half of this holiday weekend. as far as temperatures go, highs for the day, warm but only gets warmer in the middle of the country. a lot of folks have monday off. a lot of folks have tuesday off. we are talking about a bubble in the middle of the country. folks need the sunscreen. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. leland: there is a reason the marine corps motto is always faithful. how they perform duties in the revolutionary war to iwo jima to the salute they give the president when he boards marine one. donald trump will honor our military veterans and celebrate freedom performance tonight at the kennedy center, our service men and women can be found far from home in hotspots around the world, who better to talk about

sacrifices than military analysts, retired marine lieutenant colonel oliver north. picked a pretty good location. >> the best start to watch the fireworks. >> no wonder the marines have it. as much as we are talking about the fight against basis, the prime minister of iraq said they kicked isis out of mosul and destroyed the caliphate as they put it. all the us troops who are actively involved in combat against isis not as advisers are the marines inside syria. >> absolutely, taking raqqa is what is next in taking what is left of the caliphate. just destroying raqqa and capturing what is left of mosul, most of our viewers have seen a

hero, a former army ranger, former special forces officer and now a missionary saving lives of civilians, mosul has been destroyed. leland: there is not much left. >> particularly on the west bank. the reality of where we are going, and some marines are active in syria, support for the troops, the free syrian army. the reality is isis is not going to go away but they will continue what they have been doing for the last basically since 2011. that is when they began, put together the old al qaeda in iraq. >> they have been unique weather from al qaeda in afghanistan to iraq to isis, isis in syria to isis in libya, unique in their

ability. >> you know that from the jerusalem bureau. the reality is i see a merger happening with isis and al qaeda. the answer, you can never allow a safe haven for terrorists. everybody has got to be concerned about this. we saw the president happening with arab allies, israelis -- leland: this is a president who ran on let's get out of wars in the middle east and you talk about safe havens, failed states that are safe havens, yemen, libya, syria on its way to being sales, somalia failed state and what is the answer. if not us boots on the ground.

>> the secretary of defense working with nato allies, number 2 spending more on defense. you got to spend the kind of coalitions in places where things happen. our allies have to be part of that. the rest of the arab allies lined up because not just al jazeera but gutter broadly is supporting these and if you will the most radical elements of sunni islam. the big problem is iran. you have to deal with a nuclear iran and that is a scary proposition. leland: marines on the front lines against those threats, always a pleasure, good to see you. elizabeth: he led germany during the waning years of the cold war, the rebirth of his unified country, world leaders honoring

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elizabeth: donald trump is made transforming the economy a signature part of his domestic agenda, it has resonated across the country including nashville but competitive challenges wait for smaller manufacturing firms, one business owner is jeff turner who joins us. to clarify you are nonunion and your skilled labor, specialized labor, the reason we are here today, we are doing a proud american series, talking to business owners, you have been in business years. what confinement helps you to succeed? you found in tennessee? >> this is home. we are going to make that work. what makes it work, it is a

great place, breeding ground for entrepreneurs, it has more entrepreneurs -- in the manufacturers a little different, we are obscure, not as much of software, healthcare, we like to support those people in the manufacturing side. we are not big enough to have our own full-blown training program so we have to start with younger people to teach them and grow them. we invest in our employees teaching them how to get there. >> recruiting millennials is different than recruiting someone who is 55 years old, manufacturing, that is who they are. >> different generations are totally different, older generations, firm and hard, younger generations have more emotion in what they are doing.

may be less hands-on. >> i want to ask about challenges, is healthcare a big challenge. >> healthcare is. that is a big question through the interview process for people, what you have, how much does it cost, what does it cost and a lot are still learning what benefits are available. >> reporter: what your competitors are talking about, places to have a small business are you looking for tax incentives, grants and somebody's, all those things that lure business hes. >> 95% of americans work for small businesses. i never got an incentive or grant in 21 years, never been an option. >> would you support that from the city? you want nashville to draw those companies in. >> that was a great deal i give

them. said that time great business for us as they change the way they manufacture computers. elizabeth: your favorite part of owning your own business? your work is instant gratification, use your products in manufacturing. >> it started out that way. now it is about the bowl who want to call you back later. machines could never send a thank you note. it is about the people more than the equipment. >> reporter: we wish you all the success in the world, we are proud of what you do. thank you. leland: back to politics, key elements of the trump agenda remain on the to do list largely because of congressional infighting but the administration may be getting a

big win. the house past two bills to crackdown on illegal immigration and the supreme court clears away for the travel ban to take affect. here to talk about it, the author of gop gps, serving as the 2008 clinton campaign advisor, great to have you both. is this the right place for the administration to go? looking for legislative and executive orders, something at least so far they have been able to ram down everybody's throat. >> this is a smart play by the administration. what we are seeing is the president talking about the rule of law and the president has the right to police our own borders, the supreme court said he has that right and they are talking about the travel ban. in addition to that cages law

which had the senate is making it illegal for sanctuary cities to refuse to work with federal law enforcement. in the weather area do local offices refused to work with federal law enforcement. imagine if we did that on terrorism. you can't pick and choose what you work with federal government on because you don't like the policy. >> reporter: is this putting democrats in a pickle? how do you vote against that? it goes to the senate. you need democrats to get to 60. does that happen or do democrats say this is a hill worth dying on? >> there will be a number of democrats -- americans want real solutions to our immigration problem and not president and congress playing politics, building and immigration policy based on fear. >> reporter: there has been discussion about what is a,

quote, real immigration solution, something both sides have used to dismiss tactics on the other side but let's talk about kate's law. it comes to the senate, do democrats obstruct and say we are going to filibuster this or something they say requiring law enforcement to participate as we look at a picture of kate who was killed by an illegal immigrant, do we require law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement as evan talked about? >> my heart goes out to her family, anyone who loses someone to a violent crime. it is interesting that many supporters of this bill have been in opposition to hate crime laws, that is where the politics comes in. >> data point this out but you are not answering my question. do senate democrats vote for it

or do they vote against it? what are the political ramifications for them either way? what do you advise them? vote yes or vote no as i advised them to not play politics with immigration reform policy, look at the americans who say 4-when they want immigration policy that provides pathway to citizenship. >> i'm a little confused here. >> i am shockingly confused. the bill is going to go to the senate, vote yes or vote no. >> i am not a us senator. what i'm talking about is this is an immigration policy based on fear, dehumanizing. we are doing a comprehensive immigration policy. >> democrats are more concerned with feelings of illegal immigrants than they are about the rule of law. on top of that they are incentivizing illegal immigrants

-- we just established, going to be providing attorneys at no cost too many illegal immigrants facing deportation and criminal illegal immigrants and -- >> hold on, there is -- are some constitutionality issues. because of right to counsel under the bill of rights you have to provide counsel to folks. you don't want people to have lawyers? >> i don't think new york city should spend millions of dollars to defend criminal illegal immigrants. >> law enforcement, the fraternal order of police said this will endanger their ability to keep the community safe. >> reducing crime rates. >> why would republicans want to

split national security fund from up to 600 communities? that is unacceptable. >> better question -- hold on. the question could be why are 600 communities not playing by the rules or federal law? >> communities that are so-called sanctuary cities want to make sure immigrants who witnessed the crime are victims of crime, going to feel comfortable coming forward and testifying, participating with police. this is important to local community policing and playing politics -- conservatives who always say stay out of local decisions, stay out of what we are doing, we are the best designers. conservatives say we have to

listen to police chiefs -- >> i apologize, you guys, you got the first word, you got the last word but we strayed far from the subject, appreciate you being here and your thoughts. take care, have a happy july 4th weekend and with that down in nashville. elizabeth: hollywood legend olivia dehavilland is 100 years old and still protecting her image and reputation. the actress sued the producers of the tv series viewed claiming her identity as he is without permission and falsely depicts her persona on the small screen. >> they hated each other. >> reporter: the episode features the actress have

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>> preparations underway in nashville for the fourth of july festivities. into music city style entertainment will be front and center at the event. joining us with more, the national convention and visitors corporation.

i want to ask you, the state sees quite a few visitors annually, upwards of 100 million but nashville sees 14 million annually and hundreds of thousands during the holiday weekend. >> we do well on july 4th. if the weather cooperates we could go over 200. we are ready for 300,000. >> reporter: does nashville -- the food, the entertainment, the music, the beautiful city is pedestrian friendly. >> the city is friendly in its own way. we give people a reason to decide when to come but they can enjoy it, 365 days a year. and fun. >> reporter: you feel that when you come off of the airplane, live music in the airport, the

restaurant, the restaurant in the airport. i am curious as your observation of the past decade or so. when the economy is not doing well, people are not going to come. >> everybody feel that, every destination, four geographic locations, shifting to the regional approach, side markets, great population base and we can play both angles until we minimize. >> reporter: when we feel the recession, what comes after the recession, people come out. what did you do it the city to prepare for the aftereffect? >> one of the smartest things was to build a new convention center, made sure it was a little bit different, we

invested in ourselves to create our own service package. >> did people doubt you? >> absolutely. critics used the recession, conventions are dying. we had confidence in ourselves and we were ready when the economy turned, we had ramped up and now a rocketship of increases. >> reporter: we appreciate it. we celebrate for your hospitality. i don't know if i need that. i am pretty simple. leland? leland: bringing back the barbecue as well. when we come back, music from tennessee. is right here from the marine corps memorial on the banks of the potomac, the history of this

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>> welcome back to the marine corps memorial here. it is, what that immortalize is, a marine corps historian for a little bit of insight. all around washington. and the world one 2 memorial, and depicting a moment in time. there is controversy behind it. >> there was recently a controversy behind it. last year the marine corps undertook an official investigation to consider the identification of the individual

depicted on the memorial. >> the iconic book written about those who raise the fight on surviving the two moments because it was raised on one day and raised the next day. give us that. >> on the morning of february 23, 1945, there was a tall of marines who mounted mount sarah bocce and they raise the american flag on the summit. it was a huge around booster for men on the ground, visible throughout the island, this was recorded in diaries a few hours later. in order went up to replace the flag that would be more visible through the rest of the campaign. it is only a few days, would go on several more weeks. when the second flag went up,

the photographs, the event we think of 2 immortalize. >> immortalizing the photograph. >> it was created by felix de e weldin and he was inspired by joe rosenthal's photograph and he created a model of the photographic depiction. that circulated among members of congress who began calling for a monument to be made over the next we 9 years. there were donations from marines, friend of the marine corps and the u.s. navy funded with donations, dedicated in 1954. >> reporter: you look on the

monument, uncommon valor with a common virtue, the men who were depicted and all the other men, there was controversy, in each event. the larger issue of the marines in general, every couple decades you hear rumblings that the marine leadership is worried about the marine corps being absorbed into the army or the navy, give us your sense, are we in one of those cycles? is that the valor answering the bell during the war on terror? >> the marines play a vital role in counterinsurgency efforts. we are in a period of immense challenges and conflicts. since its founding in 1775.

>> reporter: video from iraq and marines in iraq, right now marines in syria, this is afghanistan. the only american military force fighting isis on the ground not in an advisory capacity are the marines, launching artillery against isis. what makes them in their minds unique? that you compare them to other services? >> the marines were the first expeditionary force in iwo jima and the decades before, the 1920s in 1930s, leadership in the marine corps carrying out studies for amphibious assaults, submarines origins with the u.s. navy and they were able at that time to anticipate major battles in the pacific and world war ii and this allows them at iwo jima

to have a successful landing, they were never defeated against landing campaigns at the time. >> to your point as brian kill lead immortalized it goes all the way back to jefferson's time, taking on pirates in north africa, appreciate you being here, when we come back, russia's president, vladimir putin, we have video of him too, ready with his close-up with american counterparts. big question, will it lead to a flying of relations between the united states and russia? can vladimir putin and donald trump get along? dramatic video, the plane coming in on a highway, emergency landing, there is the fireball on the highway, we will tell you what happens to the people on board when we come back.

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i'm elizabeth prann. thanks for joining us. we are following august the mainly stories making headlines today. including russian president vladimir putin ready to sit down with president trump. long standing differences linger, of course, against a very domestic political back drop. >> plus, the battle for the heart of iraq. the u.s. backed iraqi army celebrating recent battlefield success but warning of some serious challenges ahead. ♪ ♪ leland: president trump is splitting his time this weekend between new jersey and d.c. he has also been very busy on twitter this morning. peter doocy joins us live from the presidential retreat in new jersey. good morning, peter -- good afternoon. >> good afternoon, leland. the first part of president

trump's holiday weekend was spent on social media where he is accusing the people who run certain cable news channels of ganging up against him. in a trio of morning time tweets, the president wrote this: word is that greta van susteren was let go by her out-of-control bosses at nbc and comcast because she refused to go along with trump hate. then he wrote: i'm extremely pleased to see that cnn has finally been exposed as #fake news and garbage journalism. it's about time. and there was this: crazy joe scarborough and dumb as a rock mika are not bad people but their low-rated show is dominated by their nbc bosses. too bad. the president's tweets came just hours after word alive that majority leader mitch mcconnell does not like the proposal to break into two parts. repeal vote first and then a separate replace vote later. mcconnell says they are

going to keep waiting to vote in the senate until enough g.o.p. lawmakers can agree on a replacement. no word hun how long that is going to take. the president is doing what he can on his own to advance hits agenda. yesterday that included a rose garden warning to the north korean regime where the president essentially said enough is enough. >> the era of strategic patience, with the north korean regime has failed. many years and it's failed. and, frankly, that patience is over. >> the president is going back to d.c. for a few hours tonight. the first baptist church of dallas is having an event honoring veterans at the kennedy center attended by hundreds of vets, wounded warriors and patients from walter reed medical center. the president is planning to salute all of them with a speech before returning back here to new jersey for the rest of the long weekend.

leland? leland: all right. a little bit more with ambassador john bolton on north korea in a few minutes. in the meantime, peter, thank you. liz has more as well. >> that's right for more insight let's bring in white house columnist with the hill newspaper. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it i want to start with your reaction that you saw this week because we saw the president invite some of the senators, all the senators to the white house to discuss obviously talk about the future of healthcare. and then we saw the tweet that sounded like he was more for repeal. i'm curious as to what's going on behind the scenes. initially did you think the president was going to let the process play out and now do you feel as if he is taking a different role? >> i think the what we have here is a president that needs to put some points on the board. initially the republican plan had been to repeal first and replace later. in january president trump said that that was not his preference. that he wanted the two things to happen

simultaneously. obviously, that process has gotten really bogged down and senator ben sasse on this network who was the first one to come out returning to the idea of repeal first and replacing later. i think that's a very politically difficult thing to do. and i think that's why you are seeing people like majority leader mcconnell express considerable skepticism about that idea. >> and that's sortie of what i was thinking. i guess from my perspective, did we think that and we heard from majority leader mcconnell say, listen, you know, it's not over. it's not over quite yet. just like we saw in the house, do you think we will see this round two and is that round 2 perhaps dampened by this latest tweet by the president? >> yes is the short answer. and i think one of the difficulties here is that lawmakers aren't always confident of exactly how the president is going to back them up or not. he celebrated the version of the house bill at one point. then he later called that bill mean.

and i think it is more likely that the senate will keep its push on to get republican agreement on a repeal and replace bill. but, senator mcconnell is trying to keep moderates and conservatives both on board. hasn't had success with that tactic as yet. and it's legitimately a really politically difficult balance to strike. >> you know, you talk -- you brought up actually the perfect segue. you mentioned lawmakers aren't confident how the president is going to react. we saw the highly publicized attack campaign on nevada senator dean heller. how has that worked out over the last week is that making more senators afraid? >> it doesn't appear to have been successful. this is outside group that supports the president's agenda that took on dean heller a moderate who had come out against the healthcare package. the problem was that it caused a backlash among

republican senators. majority leader mcconnell was widely reported being furious about it because he believed it made it more difficult to get agreement. that group subsequently that ad campaign. i think what we have more broadly is this disconnect between the white house and capitol hill. >> now i only have about 30 seconds left. i do want to ask you one question before guy about immigration. we saw the house crack down on undocumented workers, undocumented immigrants, rather and sanctuary cities that was passed this week. do you have any confidence that you're going to see any success with that bill in the senate? >> i think the kate's law is a -- has more chance of success but it still needs a number of democrats to get on board with it. i think there is more political pressure on them to do so with that bill than the sanctuary cities legislation where i would expect more solid democratic opposition. >> right.

now, thank you for letting me squeeze in that last question. thank you for joining us, sir. >> thank you. >> leland? leland: a little bit more now on foreign policy. president trump heads overseas wednesday for his first g-20 summit. on the agenda, a meeting with president vladimir putin and with that comes implications almost impossible to overstate. former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton joins us now from paris. i appreciate you being with us, sir, as always. >> glad to be with you. >> all right. real quick, as we are trying to work through this delay. game this out for us. does president trump embrace president putin? does president putin try to stare him down? these are two men they believe they are chess masters and great negotiators. game it out for us. >> well, i think most important from the u.s. perspective is for trump and putin just to have a conversation where they

exchange views across the whole ranges of differences that we have with russia. there has been so much press speculation about what trump wants to do and what putin wants to do that honestly, i would be happy with no substantive outcome. just an encounter where the two men can take each other's measure. in fact in fact, that's a really good opportunity at this g-20 summit which will have, essentially, no substantive -- really kind of a waste of time in my view. it does allow bilateral meetings. the president will have such meetings with other leaders. this being the first one with putin. i really think it's best to concentrate on the personalities and establish a working relationship. later see if a longer meeting of just the two of them in washington or in moscow makes more sense. leland: it would be fair to say that neither of these men really suffer from a crisis of confidence. it would also be fair to say that both of them at the

same time have relied on their own instincts. president putin continues to use his military to chain the united states. we talked about air force general talking about where these russian fighter jets sometimes armed are coming very close to u.s. planes in international airspace. does president trump at some point and we see those pictures there now, does president trump at some point lay down some red lines for president putin? does he have to make that first move? >> well, i think he should sooner rather than later. i think the question with respect to syria and the middle east more broadly is whether his bureaucracy has produced the policy reviews that permit him to do that. i think as we near the defeat of isis, certainly the u.s. view for what comes after it is very important. the russians have put down some positions that are going to be difficult to reverse but which we need to

roll back. russian influence under obama in the middle east grew to levels not seen since the 1970s. that's not in our interest. we have the iran question to worry about. we obviously have the israel, palestinian question to worry about. so there is a lot there. vladimir putin has never -- i think he will find in donald trump a very different president tha than barack obama. if make america great and make america first anything for donald trump it means putting american interest first. i think the two of them ought to lay out what they think and get a measure of each other. not necessarily try to reach agreement. leland: real quickly on this and this issue is near and dear to your heart, which is north korea. recent fox news polling, president trump on north korea, only 13% of americans say too tough. a full 56% say not tough enough. only 16% about right. at least for the first few

months, this has been the foreign policy issue that president trump spent the time on and been the most diagnostic about. what does that tell you either americans don't know what they are talking about or the presiden are they right e president needs to be tougher. >> i think they know exactly what they are talking about. they don't want to be threatened by a rogue state like north korea or threatened by a bunch of religious fanatics in tehran. which is one reason why i'm over in paris today. the level of cooperation between the north korea and ayatollahs is something we should worry about. i think this is very encouraging for president trump to take a hard line both on north korea and on iran's nuclear weapons program. something that he feels very strongly about, i think. leland: all right. ambassador, we appreciate your time, your insight. as you mentioned you are over there for that conference about iran. a powerful speech you gave. >> we have it on youtube. the link on youtube. i will put it on my twitter

account for our viewers to see. appreciate your time, sir. >> glad to be with you. >> all right. thank you. keep here on the fox news channel, of course for the greatest news as it making tomorrow. tomorrow we will talk to congressman diane black about the looing budget battle and it is a battle. 11:00 sunday kirtz talks to anthony scarmucci about the cnn story wrote about him. and sitting down with white house affairs director martin short about what is on the president's jeanged for the summer. healthcare a big topic for that discussion. of course, check your local listings for time and channel. liz? >> well, u.s. backed iraqi forces have launched a fierce assault on what they hope is the final push to recapture mostly as isis's grip loosens around that city.

john huddy is live in our middle east bureau with the very latest. hi, jon. >> yeah. elizabeth. this fight continues to rage on. it's lasted several months now. and the mosque which has been retaken by iraqi forces now lies in ruin after isis militants blew it up earlier this week. they were in retreat. there is a final holdout as iraqi forces were pushing deeper into mosul's old city and the city center. the battle for mosul is really in its final stages, according to iraqi commanders. as iraqi troops really root out the final isis hold jowfts and estimated 350 to 400 isis militants remain packed my city. it's a tough fight because they are emp hiding among the civilian population as hundreds of people, if not more, continue to flee this city center.

women and children, many that have been used by isiss is a human shield. u.n. warns of agreeing humanitarian crisis because they say thousands more remain trapped in the city center. it's last for several months. i declared victory over isis in mosul earlier this week. again, iraqi forces still have to recapture several key districts. u.s. army advisors are on the ground. they have been helping, advising, and sharing intelligence information with those iraqi troops. but they agree that those isis miltd tants really have put up a fight and put up a very difficult defense in the last two years since isis took control of mosul. as the battle for mof mosul rages on take on syria. u.s. backed sir i can't believe forces surrounded this city this week, elizabeth. but, again, there are several key distribution that this still need to push in and isis militants

launched a counter offensive yesterday, pushing those u.s. back you had syrian forces diaper out of this citi as they tie to take a key industrial zone. isis militants wages on. if the fight to retake moe as you will is any i understand qulingsth battle could take weeks if not longer, possibly months. elizabeth, back to you. liz: general huddy, thank you so much. leland: step away from the barbecue and watch this video. california's notoriously clogged roads had another unexpected addition. this was a small plane. you can see it banking hard and trying to make an emergency landing on the interstate known as the 405. this video was taken by a commuter. you can seat twin engine

plane coming down after we are told it experienced engine trouble just after takeoff from orange county's airport. crashed on the freeway. as you might imagine, the pilot and the passenger suffered traumatic jition but pulled from the rite ride alive. after the least one car was clipped. despite the fireball, no one on the ground was hurt. ♪ liz: this is a fox news alert. police in little rock, arkansas say 28 people have been injured in early morning nightclub shooting. police say 25 people were shot. three others had unrelated injuries. all are expected to survive. officials have not released any information on the shooter but police had said et incident appears to be because of a fight. they say at this point it doesn't appear to be terror-related. another story, five of six people wounded in a hospital shooting rampage in new york have been upgraded to stable

condition in an incident that also left one person dead u investigators say dr. henry bellow went to the hospital where he used to work with an assault rifle and began shooting on friday before turning the gun on himself. fellow was forced to resign two years ago amid sexual harassment allegations and then he threatened to kill some of his colleagues. one victim is still in critical condition. the shooting right now is under investigation. >> china's putt is using hispanic compound to tighten his country's imrip on power over the island. pro-democracy supporters on the other hand are using the 20th anniversary of hong kong's return to chinese sovereignty to call for greater self-determination and civil liberties. that's not working out so well for them. some demonstrations have led to arrests there. it comes, of course, as hong kong inaugurated its new leader. the chinese government has promoted a one country, two systems policy for the

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i'm not talking about cds. i'm talking about vinyl. vinyl was a recording standard for decades. it is now making a come back in the digital age. i recently visited united record pressing, the largest vinyl record company in the country. it was an eye opening and ear opening experience. >> we started making records in 1949. and with like the growth of vinyl, we just needed to find a bigger space and add more presses and double staff. so we're kind of a one stop shop here. one of the countries we worked with for the very first step of making a record is nashville record productions. this is where we cut the lacquer. to preserve it we have to take it through electroplating process. that's where we have to turn it into metal parts. so we can put it onto the press. from the lacquer we create what's called a master. and then we create a mother. and then we create stampers. and these stampers are what actually are bolted onto the press and kind of like a

waffle maker. right here i'm going to show you this special split vinyl press. first we start with these pvc vinyl pellets. they are like little beads you can see. they are poured into hoppers and melted down at really, really high heat through these extruders. like toothpaste as it's being melted down. as it's being melted down, it's coming out into this what we call biscuit. can you see right there. it takes the labels and puts it on to them this and press it pressing about 60 tons of pressure right now. it takes about 30 seconds to make one record. so we call the trimming the excess flash and so it's going to trim it and we regrind that material and reuse it. so we can recycle it. here we have our split color record.

liz: united record pressing tells us they are now churning out about 40,000 records every day thanks to the surge of interest in vinyl by millennials. what's old is new. [fireworks] liz: fireworks, parades, grilling, swimming, how should would he be celebrating the birth of our nation. some poll results straight ahead. ♪ god bless america ♪ land that i love ♪ stand beside her ♪ and guide her ♪ through the night ♪ with a light ♪ from above ♪ she ate some porridge, broke the baby bear's chair, and stole some jewelry, a flat-screen tv, and a laptop. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped the bears with homeowners insurance. they were able to replace all their items...

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to fight for it. but this fourth of july, in a new fox news poll, the majority of americans say they believe the founding fathers would not be proud of today's america. think about that for a minute. and this personal help you think about it presidential historian and author of "all the president's children" doug we'd is here to break it down. there is the book, doug and we are happy to have you. before the founding father could say be proud or not proud they would have to be happy experiment they came up with is still here. >> i think they would be shocked. i think they would be shocked. leland: is there any documentation? is there any way to go back to jefferson or adams or any of these guys memorialize how long they thought it would last. >> they discussed it. in fact, when benjamin franklin came out after some of the deliberations, that was a very famous quote. they said did you get us a document? did you get us a government? franklin said yes, like it was

a baby being born. he said yes, we have delivered for you a republic if you can keep it. leland: well, and for 241 years, we have kept it. where is the republican republic now? what do you think the founders would like? what wouldn't they like? >> leeland, it's such a very delicate balance. they had experienced thousands of years of suffering at the hands of government, and so every little piece in it, intricate like the fifth amendment when someone says they refuse to answer on the grounds to incriminate. people hate that say you must be a criminal to quote that all these little pieces were an answer to the abuse that people had suffered through history. now we are discarding those. we have politicians saying -- we had a president say well the constitution has to be living. it has to be breathing. but the constitution is not abstract art. it's law. so when you say the constitution has to bend, it

has to breathe, you are saying the law has to breathe. leland: the constitution in that sense, at least if you think about how the founders looked at it it's more than like, almost like the playbook or the map or the guide to the country. sort of -- seems to be before the law, right? before law was created you had to have the constitution. we often say now as we listen to the political discourse and the tweets and the comments on social media and then the rhetoric that happened in the past administration and about the past administration as well. that it was the -- this is the most vitriolic this the is worst it has ever been. go back to read what franklin and jefferson were saying in the papers they had it tough too. >> they had it pretty tough. the federalist and democrat republicans celebrated the fourth of july at separate events. they didn't even have a united event. you went to one or the other. so that gives you an idea. at least the democrats and

republicans will shoot off fire crackers together tonight as much as they hate each other. leland: was politics as personal? did it get as mean? did it get to the point where if you didn't agree with me i might question your patriotism or your sanity or your fitness? >> yes. i know people don't want to believe that it's always been very mean, right from the beginning. in fact, jefferson was accused mistress familiar threats put out about it reretaliated against adams and against hamilton. and, yes, it's all been there. sex, all of it right from the beginning. leland: the more things change, the more they stay the same. >> aristotle. leland: i didn't know who i was quoting but it was somebody. there you go. i was fascinated by your book "all the president's children." we have rarely seen a president's child or children who are involved as this president's children, ivanka trump has an office in the west wing.

son-in-law office in the west wing. and then both of his sons were intimately involved in his campaign. still act as surrogates at different times. is there precedent for this? >> absolutely. 14 sons of the presidents served as personal secretary to the president with offices in the white house. and even before women became more prominent, when andrew johnson was impeached, he had a son, robert, who worked in the white house at an office but his daughter ran things. martha johnson. she went down to capitol hill and said i don't care what you think about my dad, we need propositions to keep the white house running. she put the cows out on the south lawn to milk cows to embarrass congress to say we will get our own milk if you cheap skates can't pay for it so women have been involved from the very beginning. leland: children as well. is there anything we can learn from the president's children? is the way this president's children involved any different?

what would be your advice to them based on what worked for children -- president's children in the past? >> i would say it's inevitable that these children would be involved. i saw it coming maybe before the trumps themselves saw it coming. because you have to have people who are loyal and you have to have people who are competent. everything else falls away. and your children will be loyal. you can fire chief of staff, they won't make it to the last station on the train. but, you can't fire daughter. you can't fire son. they are always going to be at the table. and in the last year of his presidency, fdr, anna roosevelt was running the white house. i see ivanka extremely talented person inevitable she would be in there i see the election of donald trump a wonderful met for for independence day. because this is independence day. and media said who we should vote for. academia told us, wall street told us, all the money told us, hollywood told us. everybody said here's who you should vote for, and those

stubborn independent crazy americans said i believe we'll take the other guy. thank you. leland: founding fathers would have liked that part. >> they would like the independence of the american people. leland: they would like the independence. doug, i appreciate your insight. this is great. >> thank you. leland: happy fourth of july to you and yours. >> thank you, leland. leland: when we come back, the movie house hollywood, the stage has broadway. when it comes to country music they have nashville. and nashville is where stories of broken hearts often turn to gold. did you it better than the late johnny cash and the man in black did it of course on his own iconic style. >> here we have one of johnny cash's custom suits that he used when he was on his television show. there was no one quite like the man in black. and he stood for every kind of person. he really did. he always looked amazing, too. tall and posing figure with that great dream.

leland: we're going to drop by the country music hall of fame when we come back. ♪ i keep a close watch on this heart of mine ♪ i keep my eyes wide open all the time ♪ i keep the surprise!

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♪ ♪ liz: all right, you are looking at the country music hall of fame. we talked earlier about some of the great exhibits can you see there. shania twain that was introduced 2017. she is not inductee. she does have exhibit there. also jason aldine. there is one 2016 inductee charlie daniels also has an exhibit. if you are anywhere near nashville do you have to come to the country music hall of fame museum. it's a must-see. of course, welcome back where this city's love of country

music, of course, is a legacy to be celebrated. it's a tradition built on a broad range of musical styles and performers. and it is that artistic diversity that gives it its strength. of course, if you visit here, a great place to start, like we said, is the country music hall of fame. we have an exclusive look inside. >> so in 1925, a little radio shation called 650 am, wsm, the home of the grand ole on pri prethat show began in 1925. by 1943 the audiences were so big that they needed a beautiful venue for that would house the fans. that became the reiman auditorium formerly known as the union gospel tabernacle. people like roy a cough. hank williams, johnny cash, patsy klein, dolly parton they all made it to the grand ole on prestage. that's what put nashville on the map musically was that

radio show the grand ole opry. here we are in the dylann exhibit. my favorite music in the museum. when bob dylan came to nashville in 1966 to record double album blond on blond he told the world nashville was a place to visit. not just country fans but rock and roll people started coming here from england and california and everywhere in between. johnny cash had a tv show filmed live at the reiman in 1969. bob dylan and johnny mitchell were first guests. johnny cash wanted to tell the world bob dylan had something to say. their friendship carried on until johnny's death. here we have the handwritten lyrics to jolene from the great dolly parton. dolly parton was writing songs in nashville at the age of 14. commuting back and forth from severeville, tennessee with her uncle bill. she officially moved to nashville in 1964 when she was 18 years old.

by 1967 dolly was on the poor tar wagner tv show and that's where america really got to know dolly parton. and this particular suit she war when she was finally inducted as a member of the grand ole opry in 1969. these are the pieces that make this museum so special. liz: leland you get a sense of the evolution of country music. it's not just the music that's there, it's the clothes that these artists wore. it's the cars that they drove. it's pieces that they wrote. so it's really a fascinating museum. if you ever get a chance to come to nashville i suggest you do it and get caught up on your country music history. leland: yeah, well, the history for sure. some good barbecue and good town nashville is we are all jealous, liz, you are down there. i'm sure it is a wonderful, wonderful time. when did you go through and see that museum, if you are a geek of country music, which i

happen to be, you do see that song nashville without you is written through the ages of all the great artists and great songs there in nashville. so enjoy it while you are there. go into one the bars tonight and discover some new great artists for us. all right. >> all right. i will. i will get back to you. get ready after the break, we will play you one of nashville's best. country music singer joshua joins us now to sing one of his greatest hits ♪ let's take a vacation ♪ and fall in love again ♪ go back too where we started ♪ a brand new putter you don't even know about!

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♪ ♪ liz: country music artist joshua headlee is a main stay at the downtown nashville honky tonk where he has been playing for more than a decade. he performs every monday the band headliners at roberts western world a couple blocks from where we are right now. the national up and comer has been a professional musician since he was 12. i asked him if he was that legal. i asked him if he signed third man record launching a new chapter in your career. joshua, thank you for joining

us. >> thank you for having me. >> so i know you said 12. was it 11 or 12 when you started showing up at bars around town. >> really i started playing in like vfw's and stuff just sitting in the bands when i was 10. liz lids 10? >> yeah. liz lids aside you from the legality of that what was that like when you were playing in bars and playing in -- i mean you were on stage at 10 years old? >> yeah. with people five times my age. liz: what was that like? >> it was great it was a real learning experience. liz: was it intimidating? >> a little intim dacket and i learned so much. i was a sponge. i wanted to soak up all the information i could. liz: when you are trying to survive in nashville, are there shortcuts to surviving in nashville. >> no. do the work, always. liz: what does that look like? >> that looks like playing four hour shifts, eight times a week. getting your electricity shut off every once in a while.

liz: you don't just play the guitar though. so our viewers are familiar, what is your music like? what type of country music do you play. >> my first music inel instrument is fiddle. i got a fiddle when i was 8 years old and i just started playing traditional country music and studying like merle haggard and price and just the greats. liz: what do the greats mean to you. >> just gives me a sense of purpose. it's history and i think that's important in this music. and i think lost a little bits of that recently. and it's important to recognize the people that came before you and paved the way. liz: story-telling, too? >> yeah, it's story-telling. it's relatability and writing songs that, you know,

everybody has had their heart broken. liz: right. >> everybody has been a little too drunk at the bar, you know. liz: it happens. >> it happens. and that's what people know. liz: i'm curious because the history of music has changed. but there is a core to history music, country music that has stayed the same. it's evolved but it's stayed the same. what is that and is that what drives you? >> i think it's music for the common man. you know, it drives me to stay true, i guess. and to not get ahead of myself and just stay grounded to who i am and it reminds me. liz: who you are, why you are doing this? >> yeah. liz: you said there are no shortcuts. with that being said, what is it like to make it in this community? is it a welcoming community? is it competitive? is it relentless?

we had steve bogard on earlier talking about how the government tells you how much money you make when you are a song writer. there is a lot of challenges. >> yeah. it's all of the above. especially over here, down on lower broadway, it's a welcoming community. it's a little hard to get your foot in the door. and then once you do, you make friends and you just play -- you get to play music for a living. liz: 2017 is a big year for you. what's happening this year? >> i just finished my first record and i think it's going to be out on third man records probably next year. i'm doing a lot of touring and just, yeah, it's been pretty cool. liz: do we know yet where you are going so the people can find you? i had to do a little bit of stalking. i did it though. >> that's deep. thank you. thank you for your honesty. liz: that's true. i did. >> it's getting there i'm

working on a website and, you know, it's a very early developmental stages. liz: i know you said you started when you were 10. you are still a young guy. so you are just starting out. >> um-huh. lifs liz i do want our viewers to hear taste of your music. first i want to bring in our own leland vittert. is he not lucky enough to be here this weekend. he is on the road in virginia. leeland, we are wishing you were here because along with joshua there are very talented artists in nashville and incredible hospitality. we are actually having excellent time. like i said, we do wish you were here. >> leland: yeah, well i wish i was there. the old joke goes you play a country music backwards you get your dog back your girlfriend back your truck back. we will see if that happens at any of the honky tonks tonight. liz: i heard that. leland: meantime it's gotte beea great three hours. i know you have had fun. tomorrow we will be at andrews air force base that flies the

combat air patrols up over the capitol. more on our flight with the 113th international guard time. also, liz, we are going to talk to a now general who was one of the two pilots who went up on 9/11 unarmed to intercept the flight 3. it will be incredible time tomorrow. we'll look forward to seeing new nashville again. liz: that's right. we will give you exclusive look. we will speak with representative dine black. that's all tomorrow. in the meantime joshua headlee is going to play us out. >> all right. ♪ hello, honey ♪ it's been a long, few years ♪ how am i doing? ♪ i'm just counting all my tears

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