>> brian could not find his phone and he can't start that radio show until -- >> it was in my hand. >> bye, everyone. >> breaking news, north korea is rejecting an appeal as the u.s. says it's your move. kim jung un vowing fierce pay back in the face of new sanctions. we'll figure out if the sanctions will work or not. welcome to "america's newsroom." >> shannon: good to see you. i'm shannon bream. president trump praising the actions against north korea this morning saying after many years of failure, countries are coming together to finally address the danger. u.n. ambassador nikki haley saying the u.s. holds the upper hand no matter what actions kim jung un decides to take. >> saturday was a huge win for

the united states and united nations and not a good day for north korea. you saw all the countries come together and say this has to stop. this is not something that we can be reckless and casually dealt with. that's what he has done. they hit him and basically we hit him hard. >> let's begin live in london. greg palkot picks up the story from there. hello. >> hello, bill, that's right. a lot to update you on this morning. the rhetoric, the warnings, diplomacy heating up on both sides. secretary of state tillerson is in thailand. that's important because there is a lot of business done between north korea and thailand via false front dummy companies that pyongyang sets up in that country to help raise revenues for those nuclear and missile programs. tillerson is trying to convince the government there to crack down on these government to get in line with the u.n. sanctions

approved over this weekend and following the two icbm missile launches by north korea last month, neighboring japan today with a very stark warning they have an annual defense report they put out just today and they say in terms of north korea, they have reached a new stage. they probably have miniaturized nuclear warhead and calling on their defenses to ratchet up against this growing threat. a united front from allies of the united states, especially in the region like japan and thailand, the kind of stuff that president trump was referring to in his tweets today. bill. >> take us to pyongyang. how is it responding after this, greg? >> they've been busy on a couple of fronts as well, bill. let's look to our reporting fox news being told by u.s. officials that for the first time in about three years north korea is loading cruise

missiles onto patrol boats, anti-ship missiles that would patrol the waters off north korea. that's being ratcheted up as the rhetoric is coming up as well. north korea state media today as well as officials saying again in response to these very strong sanctions backed by the u.s. and the u.n. that there would be a savage physical attack. those are the words, savage and physical attack specifically on the mainland of the united states. and they specify that they do now have the capability of hitting mainland. experts aren't too sure on that point yet but it's getting closer. >> greg palkot reporting live in london. >> shannon: let's go to laura in new jersey. what are we hearing from the president on north korea this morning? >> we're keeping a close eye on

twitter because that's how we know he communicates with everyone. president trump tweeted 13 times yesterday. so far five times today covering a wide range of topic. north korea is one of them. take a look at some of the things we saw yesterday blasting the media on his list, "the new york times" specifically and going after democratic senator richard blumenthal and touting the new u.n. sanctions on north korea. he tweeted this this morning. after many years of failure countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by north korea. we must be tough and decisive. u.n. ambassador nikki haley appeared on "fox & friends" to discuss the resolution that president called in another tweet yesterday the single largest economic sanctions package ever on north korea. haley says it was clear message to kim jung un . >> we had to stop him. how he responds. he will have to think what's

the end game? is he going to come after the united states knowing what the united states can do back? he has to make that calculation and he has to decide that. >> just one interesting note we want to bring up as we take note of all the tweeting going on, there are 325 million people living in the united states according to the u.s. census and on the average 68 million people in america use twitter every month. not everybody is on it. it's a fun fact for you, shannon. >> shannon: we understand the president is tweeting about plans to hold a briefing there in bed minster where you are. >> he has been calling this a working vacation. it is. the 17-day trip here in new jersey. he sent out a tweet this morning talking about what will be going on. he tweeted earlier today he will have a briefing that will cover what he called a major problem in our country. that briefing happening on the

opioid crisis at 3:00 p.m. here in new jersey. there have been over 33,000 deaths involving opioids nationwide since 2015 with an average of 78 people who die every day from an opioid-related overdose. it will be addressed and discussed today and we'll bring it to you as we get it here. >> donald trump passed the 20000 day mark on his presidency. laura ingraham argues there have been a good number of accomplishments despite the obstacle. >> considering the media onslaught, the distraction of the russia probe and resistance from congress, both sides in congress, he has done a heck of a lot in just 200 days. if he can keep focused and keep his team motivated and together and put pressure on the hill to deliver on some of these big issues, he will improve his

numbers. >> there is the challenge. byron york, fox news contributor. good morning to you. laura said a lot there. you'll make a case that trump is still learning how to govern. go ahead and contrast the two. >> he is searching for a way to govern. laura is right about the accomplishments cutting regulation, increasing border security, reforming the veterans administration, appointing judges including a supreme court justice. those are all big things for trump and almost all of them were done through his executive authority as president, not by going through congress. the question is how can trump deal with congress? one of the points that laura was making is that trump is definitely unpopular now. his job approval rating real clear politics average is 38% compared to 57% disapproval. but given that, congress is even lower. so the question is can trump

exert some influence over congress even when the american public basically dislikes both of them? >> what's curious about the whole populous message is how he figures out how to work with him. the atlantic has a long piece, a focus group in michigan outside of detroit. reagan democrats and what they found. with trump supporters the groups reacteding aly when shown photos of paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. people describe them as shifty and for the upper class. what many voters value about trump he represents an unalign edfors in american politics, the very quality and earlier election cycles led them to president barack obama. that says a lot. explain it. >> that word unaligned. a lot of these trump supporters saw him as neither republican

or democrat. when the president came to washington he confronted a reality divided between republicans and democrats. the question is with the opposition party, democrats basically unanimously opposed to him plus a number of republicans ambivalent or opposed to him themselves, what can trump do? the question is, can he step outside the party structure and create some sort of momentum for an agenda from a populist point of view. i think that's what laura was talking about when she was talking about how unpopular some of the leaders of congress were. that reaction you saw in that focus group. >> "new york times," work hard, play hard, tweet hard. you have seen all three. hours' long conversation with north korea and today he meets the tom price. how is it going in new jersey. >> the president is staying in

the news. the thing about this twitter stuff is not that the president uses it and not that he makes news with it. occasionally he gets himself in trouble with it and what we're looking for with the new chief of staff is not whether the president stops tweeting or just sends out a bunch of boring tweets, it is whether he stops tweeting things like president obama was wiretapping me and things like that. if he sticks to commentary, attacks on the media and what he will be doing twitter the still a very effective tool for him. >> i would expect more. thank you, byron. next week he comes to new york apparently he suggested. the irony about that, he hasn't been back to trump tower where he lived for much of his adult life. has yet to be back since he was sworn in in january. >> shannon: that doesn't stop the picture takers, the security. it is if you're around within a couple of blocks of there you know very congested area

without him even being here. should be fun once he arrives. >> 10 minutes past the hour. >> shannon: new backlash after the city of chicago sues the department of justice over the trump administration's immigration policies. >> i'm confident we won't be the last to bring the suit. >> shannon: jeff sessions has rahm emmanuel is choosing to protect illegal immigrants rather than his own city. plus this. >> this is crazy stuff. a day at the beach turning deadly. gunmen opening fire at a popular resort. the details of this horrific scene coming up in a moment. >> shannon: how north korea is responding to a billion dollar sanctions vote. ambassador john bolten is on deck. >> it was a strong day for the

united states, the united nations and a gut punch to north korea to let them know the international community is tired of it and we'll start fighting back.

>> you have to stop it. it's reckless and irresponsible and the international community laid down the ground work of saying we won't watch you do this anymore. north korea has to respond. yes, they're going to say -- they'll threat en and do all these things but we won't run scared from them.

>> bill: nikki haley speaking out about north korea after the u.n. approved sweeping sanctions against that country. john bolton former u.s. ambassador and fox news contributor. nikki haley has given a lot of interviews in the last two days. in a general sense how do you feel the trump team is handling north korea now? >> if you look at the past 6 1/2 months, i would have to say that the trump administration policy looks a lot like the obama administration policy. a lot like the george w. bush administration policy. secretary of state tillerson said we would be happy to north korea if they would stop their missile tests. we've seen this security council sanctions resolution, now one of a half dozen since 2006 which have been routinely ignored before now. i would predict this. if we continue the policy of the prior administrations of

negotiations combined with economic pressure north korea will have deliverable nuclear weapons next year and we'll be forced to live with that reality. >> bill: that's something to imagine here. i think north korea has got us where they want us. they're the focus of the world and everyone is giving them that attention. >> it's the attention but also the reality. for years people could say north korea doesn't have a nuclear weapons program. north korea's missile program isn't getting anywhere. i fought these doubters personally and many others did, too, for the last 20 years. now i don't think there is any dispute from anybody who seriously understands north korea's capabilities. and the general view is by next year -- next year north korea could have the capability of hitting any target it wanted to in the united states. >> bill: take it to the next step. how does it change the geopolitical dynamic. >> all the talk about sanctions misses the point. north korea is almost there. so any cut-off of funds i think

will have at best a minimal effect in the ideal world where the sanctions are actually enforced. let me ask one question to conclude this answer. you think iran will pay any attention to these sanctions? >> you're probably right about that. i can't believe that north korea exports $3 billion annually and the u.n. sanctions that were passed this week could cost them up to a bill dollar in revenue exports. who is buying all this stuff? china, right, and russia? and even though they signed on 15-0, saying it and doing it are two very different things. do you think beijing and moscow will follow through with actions? >> no, i don't. in part because both of them fear that if they really applied severe economic pressure to north korea, you would see a catastrophic collapse on the peninsula. china doesn't want that.

it fears the flow of refugees across the border and -- the only diplomatic -- history is our only guide here, it is not perfect, that's for sure. they have not enforced prior sanctions resolutions. by the way, north korea remains one of the best counterfeiters of american currency on the planet and i don't think what they earn from counterfeiting is included in the $3 billion figure. >> bill: last question. nikki haley said kim jung un has the next move. what do you think he does? >> he showed yesterday by loading two crews missiles onto patrol boats in the sea of japan he will continue to test. the world did not begin on january 20th this year when the trump administration came into office, we've had 30 years of watching north korea pursue this objective of deliverable nuclear weapons. they are very close and they aren't going to stop.

continuing to act as if diplomacy and sanctions will effect them guarantees the outcome in the trump administration north korea has the capacity to hit targets in the united states with nuclear weapons. >> bill: that's a different world. john bolton, i hope you're wrong. >> so do i. >> shannon: nobody said college would be easy until now. one university professor thinks classes may be too stressful for many students. if you don't like your grade he may let you change it with no explanation plus a possible tornado ripping through one state leaving a trail of debris and destruction in its path. >> you have know what they say a freight train coming through? it was abnormally strong, very strong. do you need the most trusted battery for your son's favorite toy? maybe not. maybe you could trust he'd find other ways to occupy his time. maybe you could trust he wouldn't accidentally call the police.

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maryland, powerful winds flipping the cars over in salisbury. much felt near the university. storms tearing through nearby buildings. those are strong winds that do stuff like that, wow. good news, no reports of injuries, national weather service doing a damage survey to confirm whether or not that was indeed a tornado. >> shannon: university of georgia business professor taking an unusual approach with his students creating what he calls a stress-reduction policy saying emotional reactions to stressful situations can have profound consequences and looking to help alleviate that. part of what we're told is a proposed syllabus for the class. the professor said no set policy, he is making changes before classes start but he was suggesting at one point all tests and exams will be open book and notes including the use of material on a student's laptop. if a student is feeling stressed over a grade they can

email the instructor indicating what grade they think is appropriate and it will be so changed. if they are stressed by a group dynamic they can leave immediately. need not offer no explanation and move on with individual work. sterling beard is editor in chief for campus reform. i wish i had this in law school. >> you would have would have crazy not to take advantage of it. when you get a mulligan, i'm not satisfied with my failing grade, change it to passing. it is absurd. you would have to be crazy not to use it. >> shannon: not only the changing of the grade but if you feel uncomfortable in any way you can opt out of a group project. didn't love them only because i was like i'll carry this whole thing and you won't mess up my grade. people liked being in group

projects with me. if you don't feel like the group is working for you, you can walk away with no explanation but at the end of this ultimately the responsibility is on the student individually. i don't know how these other three or four things lead to that statement. >> the whole idea of reducing stress for these college students. college can be stressful and you can end up with a situation you have a poisonous academic environment but merely dealing with difficult things. dealing with people you dislike is stuff you have to put up with in the real world. the business you work for after you graduate is not going to give you a mulligan when you mess up their database system and cost them time and money. this isn't how the real world deals with these things. we see these things at campuses all the time. universities are working to coddle their students. play-do sessions at the university of michigan. puppy petting sessions. universities aren't treating legal adults like legal adults.

>> shannon: i'm down with the puppy situation and we should have that here at fox news also. but let's talk about the role of college as it has been interpr*eted over the last several decades and whether this kind of behavior does prepare you for the real world. there are those of us old geezers who worry about the kids and thinking they're so protected now they'll only be disadvantaged when they get into a real workplace where nobody cares about hurting your feelings. >> they absolutely will be. what happens when they get into leadership positions as they muddle through all of the work that comes with getting into middle management or upper echelons of a company. when they try to be more affection you'll run the companies into the ground. look at what happened with google. you have such tremendous group think in that company that a person putting out a memo, a 10-page memo saying we ought to

be hiring based on merit, gets run out of town on a rail. you end up with problems in different companies. that's what we look forward to in 10, 15, 20 years. >> shannon: i know there is one college you may have documented that we read about recently that said the idea of am -- for you to say things like in this country if you work hard you can be anything or do anything is untrue and unkind. and insulting. >> i'm not surprised. i wish i could say i was surprised but the problem with all of this is we keep taking everything -- what we used to call putting your foot in your mouth. if you say something that is slightly uncouth or offends somebody you didn't just act like an idiot you're a horrible, whatever. slap any number of names on that and it will be true. that's the environment we've allowed universities to promulgate. people going through universities go into the real world and take what they learn in the universities with them.

it doesn't stay contained, that's the issue in the long run. >> shannon: all right. let us know if you hear more from this professor. he says it's still a work in progress. let us know if you get an update. good to see you. >> bill: could i get a mulligan in economics? it did not go well for me back then. >> shannon: did you have puppies to pet? would that have helped? we're getting a puppy in here. "america's newsroom" dog. stay tuned. >> bill: government opening fire on a popular resort killing multiple people, injuring others, this is the first images we're getting of that. a live report coming up on this story straight ahead. >> shannon: plus the growing face-off between rahm emanuel and jeff sessions. they say they're putting the rights of illegal immigrants ahead of their own citizens. our panel debates that next. >> donald trump is on the right

side of this issue. as long as democrats keep prioritizing non-americans over americans they'll lose the political argument.

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moment for the many tourists in that spot. take a look and listen again to the gunfire. and when you listen to that, bill, it is automatic weapons being fired there. at the end of it three people were killed, two wounded at the entrance to a very popular beach in the cabo area surrounded by resorts that are very, very popular with americans. it will be interesting to see what kind of effect this might have on the tourist dollars upon which so many people depend in that area of mexico, bill. >> bill: was this random, jonathan, or not? >> well, we certainly have seen an up tick of violence in mexico and particular in cabo. up until now hasn't seen too

much of the drug-related violence. it is changing there. for instance, from january to march of this year, there were 133 murders in the cabo area. you compare that to january to march 2016 when there were only 17 murders. that's an increase of 682%. now, the violence, as i say, being blamed on the drug cartels. there is a cartel that is strong in that region but it is now being challenged by a cartel called the new generation. and clearly those two are fighting very violently, as they always do, bill. this is likely to go on a long time. it doesn't seem as though the mexican authorities are in a position at the moment to get any kind of a grip on this violence, bill. >> bill: seeing and hearing it makes it different, too. thank you for that reporting in los angeles. >> shannon: chicago is

officially suing the trump justice department claiming its plan to cut funding to sanctuary cities violates the u.s. constitution. mayor rahm emanuel says his city won't be blackmailed. jeff sessions saying this administration will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety. so it's this simple. comply with the law or forego taxpayer dollars. editor of national review brad woodhouse former communications director for the national committee. brad, that bottom line from the doj, follow the law, if not, you don't. >> the bottom line is jeff sessions has to follow the law. in a similar case two counties brought a suit against the trump administration for his executive order on this very point withholding federal funds to sanctuary cities. the judge in that case as

enjoined the administration not to do it because he believes at the end of the day this action will be found to be unconstitutional. jeff sessions cannot decide to not appropriate money that congress has said must be appropriated and cannot violate the 10th amendment. in other words, coerce cities, towns or states to do things which is against the 10th amendment. if he is going to violate the law to get someone else to enforce it, then he is the one being lawless. >> shannon: we have seen this kind of thing happens from the feds on down before. i want to read a little bit what the lawsuit says. the government can't unilaterally set new conditions not approved by congress and that would federalize local jails and police station, warrantless detentions for civil infractions so fear in local immigrant communities and ultimately make the people of chicago less safe. rich. >> i think there are a couple of things you have to distinguish here. on the policy no question the trump administration and jeff

sessions are correct. we're not talking about icinging and rounding up illegal immigrants randomly. we're talking about illegal immigrants already in jail. the federal government is asking the locality to hold them because they're dangerous so the federal government can take custody of them. for a locality to release these people and defy the federal government, it's wrong and violates a federal statute that says you can't as a locality forbid your officials from sharing information with the federal government. now, there is a legal question. the problem with trump administration as we saw with the travel ban, there are a lot of lawless judges out there who are hostile to the trump administration's policy on immigration as a policy matter and the decision that brad cited is one of these example. any legal expert would tell you it's ridiculous for a judge to enjoy something that hasn't happened yet. if the trump administration and republicans want to be on firmer ground congress should explicitly condition these

grants on localities abiding by that federal statute. >> shannon: let's talk about miami as an example. it had been flagged on this list of potential problem sanctuary city areas. there are about 300 give or take -- after president trump was elected and they knew what was coming they changed some of their policies, brad, they are cooperating on certain things with detentions and notifying the feds. now the doj says great you are in compliance and you'll get your money. does the carrot and stick -- looks like it has worked with miami. >> the problem with this approach, though, is the fact it violates federal law, it violates the constitution and it you surps power from congress. jeff sessions cannot decide to appropriate money congress has approved. now some cities might give into the blackmail. chicago isn't giving into the

blackmail. i'm old enough to remember, by the way, when conservatives railed against democratic administrations meddling in the affairs of state and local governments. trying to coerce state and local governments to do certain things. so it is curious to me that conservatives are supporting the federal government meddling in the affairs of state and local government. >> is federal or state law superior? >> is it the constitution -- >> if there is a federal law -- let me just ask you this question. >> shannon: gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. gentlemen. gentlemen. i'm using that term broadly right now. i'm the one asking the questions. we've given brad a second answer. quick final response to rich and then we're done. >> the federal law is superior in that area. a federal statute says

localities have to share information with the federal government. obama government studied the issue. i'm old enough to remember for the last 150 years when democrats actually believed that cession was a bad thing. >> shannon: rich, you don't look a day over 150. you both look great. thanks for joining us. >> bill: it's where you say gentlemen, i presume. >> shannon: 150 years back. >> bill: i presume. a massive sinkhole continues to grow claiming yet another home. how big this thing has grown. is there any end in sight? what the local experts are saying about that coming up. >> shannon: tax reform is the next obstacle for republican lawmakers in congress. they're on vacation as we speak or they are working at their home districts. can they get it done? what happens if they don't?

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>> we are so far behind on tax reform and also incidentally on infrastructure we may not get a tax reform at all. the best we might get is tax cut because everybody agrees in it on that could blow a hole in the budget. rocky days ahead. >> bill: republicans say tax reform is next. what are the meaningful changes that could happen? how are you, art? it has been too long. just to refresh our audience's memories you were there during the reagan years leading that tax charge to change things

then and 31 years later. you heard what the good doctor just said. rocky days ahead. you watched the healthcare thing play out and fail. are you more optimistic or less? >> i would love to see healthcare pass. that's very simple. that's very straight forward. what charles said in his statements about tax cut would blow a hole in the budget. it won't blow a hole in the budget. believe me when i tell you. if you cut the corporate rate from 35% to 15%, do nothing else, the government revenues will sore in the next two years and more than make up for the static revenue losses by many fold. charles is wrong on that and that's what the president should do. it's really hard to get tax reform in the first year or two of an administration. you really need bipartisan support. there is none today. there wasn't any in 1981 and 1982, either. so we need to do that. but you have to remember life is a marathon, not a sprint.

we'll get healthcare and tax reform. we will. >> bill: you are going on record with both. >> yes. >> bill: you'll get healthcare reform and tax reform. >> it may take a couple of years. that's nothing in the long sweep of time. >> bill: you have an election coming up next year. >> we lost that in 1982. >> grove norquist writes this. six reasons he believes it will happen. speaker ryan says we're 97% in accord after getting rid of the border tax. republicans are good at cutting taxes, proposals pro-family and pro-middle class. business community is united on the corporate tax rate cut. 15 or 20%. an election, november 2018 and many moderate democrats privately support lower taxes although they may not go on record and say that. i think you believe with the principles that norquist is arguing. however, you can see how people are dubious based on what we just saw play out. >> yes, i can understand why

people are dubious and a good right to be. this congress has been dysfunctional to say the least. grover is completely right on this. democrats know corporate tax cuts have to take place as well. and if i were doing it, i would do a very simple cut wherever it says 35% on a statutory corporate tax rate i would drop it to 15% and that's all i would do to keep it simple so we can get it through without all the debates on secondary issues. there are other things in there, the deductions, getting rid of the estate tax, those are great. the corporate tax will bring us out of this low level. >> bill: you'll get the corporate tax right in your vision. >> i think it should be done. the democrats know it should be done. i've talked to a lot of them. not one of them disagrees. they want a price from the republicans but they know it should be cut dramatically. >> bill: politico writes this on that same point.

trump white house quietly courts democrats for tax overhaul. a few dozen centrist house democrats have listened to the pitch as they pursue a partisan path. do you think you'll get any democratic votes for it? >> i think we will get democratic votes if they keep it simple and make a corporate tax rate reduction. a couple democrats in the senate and i think we could get up to as many as 25 or 30 or 40 in the house. there are a lot of democrats in the supposedly conservative caucus who really do want to get a corporate tax rate reduction. now, they want a lot of other stuff, too. but i think when push comes to shove they'll go for the corporate tax rate reduction. >> bill: come on back. >> i would love to. >> bill: thank you, sir. >> shannon: it is summer in the city. who doesn't love speed whether it's on the road, in the air or out on the water? today we've got the perfect combination of plenty of horsepower and some summertime

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>> bill: another home in florida condemned after a massive sinkhole opened three weeks ago. the seventh home to fall victim to this monster, whoa. over the weekend that sinkhole forced four other homes to be condemned and folks living there fear a sinkhole might be expanding again. pasco county florida officials aren't willing to confirm those concerns just yet today. >> where some of those homes were located was in the middle of a lake. it may be mother nature taking back and this lake trying to become a lake again. we don't know. it's a little too early for that. it might be premature to say the sinkhole is growing.

>> she opened up three weeks ago. now it's 260 feet wide. crews are working to take out debris and contaminated water. full cleanup expected to take months down there. >> shannon: now is the time to get out on the water. how about a look at cutting edge technology pushing racing boats to hit incredible speeds. we're live from the hudson river and we all are super jealous, hi, gary. >> the boat industry is back in the united states and i'm in one of the fastest boats you can buy at the outer limits sp43. it hit 180 miles an hour a couple of years ago. the one i'm in now does 160. a million dollars. mercury marine engines in it. sounds like a lot of money. you can't buy a car with that much power that's for sure. boat industry bottomened out

2010. 95% of them are made in the united states. this one comes from rhode island. >> shannon: all right. well, it looks like that's something that we would like to go research. bill and i need to get out there. check it out. 180 miles an hour. for those who take the ferry it will speed up your commute. i think we may have some technical issues with him. when you go 160, 180 miles an hour. he still has us. i thought he would offer to pick us up. >> bill: phenomenal live shot there. gary knows speed. well done. go out and buy one now. we are 200 days in, america. republicans still looking to make good on a number of promises with them behind the wheel, can they deliver by the end of 2017? in depth on that. but first do you remember this from january seven months ago?

>> by and large our goal by the end of 2017 we have made good on so many of the promises that we made to the people and the policies that we ran on.

>> shannon: the hum of activity continues from the northern white house in new jersey. president trump not wasting any time on his working vacation keeping up the pressure on north korea and now promising action in combating our nation's opioid crisis. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm shannon bream. this is our working vacation. >> bill: good morning. day four of his 17-day stint. he will focus on combating drug abuse tweeting i'll hold a major meeting on the opioid crisis today at 3:00 p.m. in bedminster, new jersey. >> shannon: guy benson joins us now, co-author of end of

discussion and a fox news contributor. good morning, guy. listen, no secret this president was very critical of the last administration each time that president obama went golfing and now people say he is doing the same thing. his team says a lot of working meetings, cabinet members, chief of staff is there in new jersey. what do you make of it? working vacation. >> it is a working vacation. there seems to be a few different stories whether it was scheduled for a planned renovation at the white house. a lot of the criticism of president obama were overblown. presidents should take time out to blow off steam. trump says look at the length of the vacation. he has such a motor. he will be working all the time. the notion he will be loafing around is ridiculous. partisans go after the golfing

stuff and they defend it when the shoe is on the other foot. generally i think we should back off, let these presidents take a little time off when they need it. >> shannon: he was up early this morning we know. he was tweeting not only about the opioid crisis, north korea. he was definitely up and at him not sitting around eating bon-bons. congress is taking family vacations and this congress have no major legislative wins to show for the first 200 days. people are asking questions about who is responsible. in an opinion piece for the washington times a reporter writes this. the do-nothing gop-led congress has time to write anti-trump books and warning the president about firing robert mueller or jump on the russian collusion but pulling together a majority, beating back the democrats and media sharks

snapping up negative tidbits to damage this president, sorry, too busy to help with that? >> it sounds a little critical to me but there is a kernel of truth. there are couple of sig -- deregulation and chief justice gorsuch. legislation has been scarce but significant va reform that people tend to forget about. the point is well taken. on the big promise made over seven years the gop and congress blew it on obamacare. the house did its job. the senate had 49 members on the republican side willing to move the process forward and three republican senators derailed the process which to me is just unacceptable and very, very frustrating. if by the end of the first year, shannon, they don't have a major legislative accomplishment under their belt beyond the va bill i just

mentioned, talking about tax reform here obviously. then the criticisms will grow louder and the republicans will come asking voters to reelect them in 2018 having done nothing. that doesn't work. >> shannon: okay. i want to play speaking about this legislative agenda want to play a flashback from january. i think this is right after the inauguration when congressional leaders, republicans on the hill were talking about being united and getting things done. >> we are on the same page with the administration and worked with the administration on just basically the kind of timetable and the legislative agenda we have for 2017 so yes, we're on the same page. >> shannon: in that they also talked about getting things done by the august recess. other than the v.a. bill you mentioned and the very important appointment and nomination, confirmation of justice gorsuch there is not a big legislative win there. what happened between january and this recess? >> it was paul ryan. paul ryan if he were sitting in this chair would say look at

what the house of representatives have done. we've done a lot of things. and, in fact, the house gop has a new ad they put out this week, a web ad highlighting their accomplishments saying the media is obsessed with russia and conflict. they're fixated on chaos. meanwhile, here are all the bills that we've passed including the american healthcare act. so i think that if you want to point fingers at the building behind me here, one legislative chamber, the lower house, the house of representatives said look we're doing our job. things are more difficult in the senate. the minority has more rights. but it's mitch mcconnell's crew. i'm not blaming mcconnell necessarily but senate republicans that gummed up the works on obamacare and so i don't think it's fair to paint with a total broad brush with republicans on capitol hill the vast majority of them have been eager and willing to move forward with the president's agenda. a handful says not so fast and

that's why so far they've come up relatively empty. >> shannon: senator mcconnell there in the senate talked over the weekend about this and he said i'm choosing not to dwell on situations where we come up a little bit short. one vote there on the healthcare moving that forward. even the night we came up that one vote short of our dream to repeal and replace obamacare the first thing i thought about feel better, hillary clinton could be president. so that's true for voters out there but at what point does that cease to be enough to protect them in 2018? >> i think it's a one-two punch that republicans need to come at especially if you talk about their base and keeping republican voters energized. when healthcare failed a lot of republican voters are like what's the point of electing these people? they need to put real tangible accomplishments in front of their voters saying here is what we've done. the democrats would have never done any of that. i also think you'll see from republicans especially in swing districts and trump-friendly districts they'll hammer on every opportunity when

democrats talk about impeachment warning if the democrats take over, it doesn't matter what the evidence is. it doesn't matter what mueller finds. they'll try to impeach this president. so those are going to be, i think, two of the major themes from republicans saying keep electing us, keep the democrats out of office. but they've got work to do between now and then. >> shannon: guy benson, thank you very much. >> bill: lots happening overseas. this is a big and important week for the secretary of state rex tillerson. he is in malaysia and earlier he was in thailand pushing for action on north korea. rich edson live from the state department. >> secretary of state rex tillerson is trying to press allies and adversaries to cut off north korea from the world economy. to cut off revenue flows and force and convince it to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. existing sanctions, the u.n.

security council approved additional sanctions to try to get the world to enforce the sanctions that are already in place. the secretary began his day in thailand. north korean businesses have been using thailand as a hub to establish -- the u.s. is pressuring that country to try to cut off north korea diplomatically and rein in its visa program. after a summit in manila where also the secretary of state pushed these and many other countries to cut off their ties with north korea. north korea has tested two icbms since the fourth of july. in response to this latest round of sanctions north korea says the u.s. and its allies are packs of wolves coming to attack and strangle the nation and physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its

national strength. much of this also has to do, bill, with pressure in china. china counts for 90% of north korea's trade. a state department official tells us that china, the list of things that china could be doing far outweighs what china is actually doing to try to pressure north korea and cut it off. a state department official says things are moving a little bit more slowly with china and eventually the u.s. will try to make the case or is continuing to make the case the destabilizing actions that north korea are taking will harm china in the long run and needs to crack down on its allies. >> bill: we'll see what beijing does. he is watching all of that from the state department. >> shannon: today marks three years since the u.s. carried out its military operation in isis. authorized by then u.s. president obama. good morning, lucas. what prompted the start of u.s. involvement formally? >> good morning. shannon.

three years ago today with isis fighters closing in on the u.s. consulate in northern iraq. they raced north to drop the first bombs against isis and the start of the war. since then the u.s.-led coalition has flown over 13,000 air strikes in iraq and nearly 11,000 in syria. u.s. military carries out 80% of these air strikes against isis and shannon it's worth noting since the fall of mosul last month the majority of these air strikes now take place in syria for the first time. >> shannon: it was a big milestone. where do things stand now? >> shannon, at its peak isis controlled the area of the size of ohio and had 5 million civilians under their captivity. since that time isis has been pushed back about 70% of the territory they once held in

iraq has been recaptured and 50% of the territory in syria has been retaken. in the capital of raqqa half the city has been captured. officials say most top isis leadership have fled to southeast of raqqa. u.s. pilots complained of district rules of engagement and slow process to get strikes approved and it sped up over the past three years and 5,000 u.s. troops were moved closer to the fight. the u.s. enjoy to the counter isis coalition says the process has been sped up more under president trump. >> the president made a number of decisions very early in the administration. delegated authorities down to the lowest level in the field to allow us to take advantage of isis as we see opportunities. a third of all the gains we've made against isis in iraq and syria have come in the last six months. >> critics also point to the gains made by the more than 100,000 iranian backed fighters also fighting isis in iraq and syria raising questions about what comes next.

>> shannon: lucas tomlinson from the pentagon. thanks. >> bill: new questions, who is elizabeth carlisle and what does she have to do with the former a.g. loretta lynch? we'll sort that out in a moment coming up. >> shannon: google responding. the latest on the employee who wrote it. >> bill: the u.s. ready to take more action against the venezuela government. what will the trump team do next? ll be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart.

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under investigation. thomas dupree joins us to discuss this. the former attorney general used different pseudonym for email. epa officials and lois learner did it. is it illegal? what's the law on this. >> it's not illegal. the reason why senior officials sometimes do this if they use their normal name for an email account, the account would get swamped and overwhelmed. having a secret email address allows these officials to communicate privately by email. it does add to the air of mystery and intrigue that was already swirling around this meeting between attorney general lynch and bill clinton. >> shannon: the former attorney general lynch's attorney has said the address was known and is known to people who process all the freedom of information act requests and a lot of people raise the question about that. if you use a name that's not yours, when somebody says as the american center for law and justice did last fall we want all documents involving this

particular person and thing. the initial response they got from the doj under the obama administration was we don't have records responsive to that. now they have hundreds of pages of records. is the use of a name potentially something that could be confusing and cause important documents to be missed if officials don't know? >> that's a real concern. you could have a situation where the attorney general conducts emails in secret using this fake address and then when someone puts in a freedom of information request and says i want the attorney general's email correspondence the person who handles that request may not know about the secret account saying i looked at my records and i don't see anything when in fact the attorney general has a trove of emails that go missing or that aren't turned over precisely because the information officer doesn't know the existence of the secret account. >> shannon: we've learned a lot more from the latest release regarding the tarmac meeting and everybody involved and people in the mainstream media who wanted to shut it down.

let's talk about another big story now, the sanctuary city situation. chicago joining those who are threatening or actually filing lawsuits against the administration saying you can't block grant money from coming to us with the strings attached that we have to cooperate with federal immigration laws and agencies, that kind of thing. chicago says they won't be blackmailed and this is unconstitutional. what are the odds that you think this works its way up the chain to the supreme court? >> it might. i don't think it will happen in the next few months but might make its way up there. a number of these lawsuits pending. it's ironic that chicago of all cities filed the lawsuit. chicago is in the midst of a serious public safety crisis. the number of homicides is off the charts. you would hope that the mayor, rahm emanuel would have better things to do. >> shannon: the attorney general points out the chicago, murder rate skyrocketed and

accuses city leaders of protecting those in this country illegally than their owns citizens. the mayor says the measures would make the city less safe because if they cooperate with federal officials and the immigrant community won't come to them and report crimes, that kind of thing. they both are accusing each other of making chicago an even more dangerous place. >> look, taking law enforcement advice from rahm emanuel take ship building advice from the guy who made the titanic. he doesn't have a huge credibility in this area. you would hope the local officials work with the federal officials. they want to make chicago a safe city. it's unfortunate it has gotten to the point you need to litigate it. you hope saneer heads in chicago will prevail and find a way to enforce federal law and restore some degree of civility and sanity and safety to the city of chicago. people need it. >> shannon: i don't know about the civility part but hopefully

the safety part gets done. always great to see you. >> bill: at major insurance company dropping out of the obamacare exchanges in several states and we'll tell you where it's happening and what it means for you as president trump continues to push for repeal. >> shannon: the republican party taking up another goper last weekend, west virginia governor jim justice flipping from blue to red and how it's affecting republican's grip on local states. >> when i needed my party, they walked away from me. i'm in this for one reason and one reason only, to get something done and to do stuff for the great people of west virginia. many people clean their dentures

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such a firestorm over the weekend. the ceo saying portions of the memo violated the company's code of conduct and crossed the line by promoting sender stereotypes. it accused the deck giants of alienating conservatives and the employee is exploring all legal remedies. >> today i will tell you with lots of prayers and lots of thinking, today i will tell you as west virginance, i can't help you any more being a democrat governor so tomorrow i'll be changing my registration to republican. >> bill: that was the west virginia governor jim justice a few days ago announcing he is changing parties from democrat to republican. that puts republicans in control of 26 governorships

across the country. allison barber is live in d.c. why are democrats having so much trouble at the state level? >> some argue this is partly because of redistricting. others argue democrats have a problematic party platform that doesn't welcome everyone and leaves out people like pro-life democrats. university of virginia professor says it has a lot to do with president obama. >> obama was very successful for himself, but he was a disaster for the democratic party. a president en capsules many issues, social, economic, healthcare, you name it. that president symbolizes that package of issues. i guess you could say all of those issues had an impact but mainly it was barack obama. >> republicans aren't just doing well at the state level they're dominating and have total control in 26 states. democrats only have it in six.

republicans hold the governorship in 34 states. some are blue states like maryland and massachusetts. the republican governors there are very popular. >> bill: what does it mean moving forward? you think about elections this year or next year? >> the stakes are enormous because of policy, the obvious one but the people elected at the state level make up part of this bench that gets created for other national offices down the road and there is also redistricting. take a listen. >> this is a critical election because redistricting will occur in 2021 after the 2020 census. these governors and many of those in the state legislatures elected in 2018 will be the public officials determining the lines. >> democrats have a big hill to climb over the next 15 months. two governor elections this year but 36 in 2018. most of those are republican-held. the flip side of that for republicans is that they have a

whole lot more to defend. >> bill: thank you. something to watch from washington thanks. >> shannon: just one day after chicago announced it will sue the federal government for withholding funding over a sanctuary city policy, the city announcing it is laying off almost 1,000 public school employees due to massive budget shortfalls. chicago and the state of illinois have been plagued with break downs. 350 are teachers, school support staff. more layoffs may be on the horizon. >> bill: major insurer -- >> shannon: repealing obamacare still a priority for some in the gop. a must-do for senators who want to keep their jobs. our panel takes that up. >> if the senate does not repeal obamacare at least most of it, they will lose the

majority in the senate. you heard it first here.

>> shannon: dropping out of yet another obamacare market. it will leave nevada's exchange next year and slashing its presence in georgia by about half. william is live in los angeles with details. tell us exactly what this is going to mean for consumers. >> about 7 million americans get their healthcare through the state exchanges, working poor who get a federal subsidy to buy their insurance through a state exchange. premiums went up 22% and new rates for 2018. some providers are pulling out of the market entirely. the latest anthem blue cross is leaving nevada, parts of georgia as well as wisconsin, indiana and ohio. friday molina healthcare left

wisconsin. our research team says several enrollees could lose coverage in insurers who say they will leave do exit the market. >> losing an insurer is not good. it means less choice, less competition. a big inconvenience. they have to pick a new plan next year. >> now, this is the latest snapshot of obamacare. the green counties have three or more insurance providers, yellow counties have one, red ones have none. as of friday, 2.3 million americans or 25% of those enrolled will have no choice where they get their care, the fallout, shannon, is not over. providers have until next wednesday to decide if they're in or out. we could have more changes between now and then. >> shannon: what is driving this and why now, william? >> okay, one reason is neither president obama nor president trump is enforcing the individual mandate that is forcing the young people to buy insurance to subsidize the old

and secondly insurance companies don't know if the administration will make up the difference. about 60% of enrollees in the exchanges qualify for the cost-sharing subsidy. the administration has not said if it will continue to provide $7 billion in subsidies next year. without it insurers would have to raise rates, cut payments to doctors and hospitals that they won't accept. always a flaw in the system. some insurers saying we're out entirely because we can't make money. >> shannon: thank you so much. >> my father cares tremendously about repealing obamacare because it's a disaster. he talks about that every day. i can't tell you how many days we were on the campaign trail people would come up to us crying saying i used to have healthcare. >> bill: the president has repeated his calls in congress for a do-over on healthcare

reform. will that happen? john mccormack and adrienne elrod, good morning to both of you. thanks for coming back here. john, it's pretty clear the president wants this done. and when you look at the story that william is just reporting, this is not getting better. so what then? >> you know, republicans and congress might want to move on from healthcare but it seems like healthcare won't move on from them. i do think there is a decent chance, a small chance, less than 50/50 that they do actually accomplish something by the end of september. where i think this might be heading is to this idea put forward by senators bill cassidy and lindsey graham. block grant the obamacare fund to the states. let the states figure it out. if new york and california want to keep the obamacare plan it's fine. if states that wisconsin with

governors like scott walker wants to try more free market, let them try that. they don't have consensus. kicking it back to the states they could find compromise. >> bill: does it get 51 votes? >> i don't know. i wouldn't place bets on it. the reason it might. john mccain is very close to lindsey graham. he could make the case to him we're letting the states figure it out. we aren't destroying the healthcare system. we have are just telling the different states to figure it out. loosening it up. the question i think is whether some conservatives. i think the question is whether some conservatives defect. i think that plan wouldn't really repeal all the regulatory burdens that obamacare imposes. >> bill: adrienne, listen to louie saying if you don't get this done you'll lose your majority in the senate and more when he said the following. >> it is terribly embarrassing.

brian, this is something that everybody -- most everybody in the senate that's a republican ran on. we're going to repeal. i know people are saying well, it's dead, we have to move on. we have to do tax reforms. business has got to have those reforms but at the same time there are too many people that are hurting. >> bill: what is your bet, adrienne, they come back and get it done? >> well, look, you know, who knows, right? these guys are going home for five weeks for a recess and they will hear more and more from their constituents who want to see obamacare fixed but not repealed. i'm hoping that they will come back in september and say look, there is a crisis going on with healthcare in our country. we need to make sure there are more insurers in the market and we can bring down costs. let's work in a bipartisan manner to make tweaks to it instead of repealing it. >> bill: as for 200 days, though, obamacare just one issue. the president sent a flurry of

tweets yesterday and the following said this. the trump base is far bigger and stronger despite phony fake news polling. look at the rallies in pennsylvania, ohio, west virginia. the fact is the fake news, russia collusion story, record stock market, border security, military strength, jobs, supreme court pick. economic enthusiasm and so much more have driven the trump base closer together and will never change. after 200 days how has he done? >> there have been some accomplishments. conservatives would point to the appointment of neil gorsuch. overcoming the rules in the senate. a big win for conservatives. a lot of conservatives who didn't like trump or clinton voted for trump just for that. but on the other hand congress has failed to come together, congressional republicans had seven years to reach a consensus and they let people down having let the premiums go up.

the president bears some responsibility for that as well. lack of leadership. it's a mixed bag. >> bill: a long list, adrienne. how would you score it so far despite you don't have the single legislative victory. >> look, you know, a new poll came out last night even among donald trump's very solid base that it carried him through the election, his numbers tanked with white working class voters in some of the flyover states that supported him. why? he has done nothing so far. there were a couple deregulation bills that may have gotten through the house and senate but on major signature achievements that he ran on, healthcare reform, tax reform and infrastructure plan, nothing has gotten done and people elected him because they thought he would focus on jobs, focus on getting people back to work and that is absolutely not happening. >> bill: we have to crank up the pressure on congress and we'll see what happens then. thanks, we'll talk to you real

soon. >> shannon: north korea threatening revenge over the new sanctions. they're taking an action they haven't done in three years. how the u.s. is responding. retired four star general jack keane joins us. >> bill: vehicles trapped in waters in the lone star state where the storm system is heading today. ♪ hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 subaru outback models. now through august 31.

>> bill: they have had some sort of rain there in the houston area. torrential downpours. more than six inches of rain in six hours. that will do it. high water and flash flooding swamping suburbs west of town. the heavy rains moving out today. officials urging folks to stay home until the flooding levels go down. >> shannon: not backing down vowing revenge over new sanctions and threatening nuclear retaliation if provoked by the u.s. military. nikki haley calling the new

sanctions a clear message to north korean leaders. >> it was not a good day for north korea and basically what you saw was all the countries come together and say this has got to stop. this is not something that we think can be reckless and casually dealt with and that's what he has done and i think they hit him and basically we hit him hard. >> shannon: president trump tweeting after many years of failure countries are coming together to finally address the dangers of north korea. we must be tough and decisive. general jack keane is a fox news military analyst. good morning, general. most folks agree this is a really tough round of sanctions. it was important we got china and russia. a unanimous vote here. everybody acknowledges that sanctions have not worked in the past. will they this time? >> i don't think we know for sure. the problem we've had in the past. first of all they have never been as comprehensive as this but the enforcers of the sanctions, the countries

committing to sanction north korea have never vigorously enforced those sanctions and particularly china. so that still remains a question mark here. this financial loss for them in enforcing these sanctions and china could be gaming us to a certain degree here just to avoid what was about to be sanctions on themselves from the united states. so that's an open question, shannon. the trump administration and all of us want to believe that there is a genuine commitment to vigorously enforce these sanctions because the clock is ticking here. time is now an enemy as much as north korea's behavior is. that's a reality we have to face. >> shannon: over the last couple of generations we've seen not only an advancement of the technology. their ability to get closer and reach the u.s. mainland they're attempting to. it used to be in the past you believed that for example kim

jong-un's grandfather thought if there was a threat to south korea. now the leader thinks i have to have a direct threat to the u.s. and the only way i can protect myself from the regime change and the u.s. keeps saying we're not about that. >> that's why secretary tillerson reached out to north korea to discuss with them. people are opposed to that. i don't have a problem with it. what secretary tillerson is trying to do is convince this young leader that we are not about regime change. that's not our intent even though we're the only country in the world that truly has the capability to do just that. but you put your finger right on it. this young leader is not as irrational as people think he is. his strategy is simply this. i need to hold the american people at risk to guarantee the united states will never attack me. and secondly, he also believes, because of our past behavior,

acquiescing to china having icbms and in the end once he has the icbm with the capability to reach the united states, the united states will accept that. that's his belief. i think what he is not factoring in very accurately here and what the trump administration is trying to convince him of, this is not the obama administration. we won't accommodate and appease. that's the reality that kim jong-un is facing. >> shannon: what do you make of the reports that u.s. spy agencies have detected that they're moving anti-ship cruise missiles to a boat within the last few days off their coast and a second part of that question south korea has a limit on the loads or the missile warheads that they can have currently. potentially the pentagon allowing them to have a larger load in negotiations.

>> south korea initially shut down part of the shipment of the thaad missile system based on the new president getting into office and he had concerns about it. wanted open diplomatic negotiations with north korea. none has succeeded as it failed with his predecessors. the missiles will flow again in south korea. north korea is just trying to react to the comprehensive sanctions imposed on them by the entire u.n. security council to include russia and china. and his bellicose language is part of that. i don't for a minute believe that he would use any military capability against our allies or the united states while we're in this imminent crisis. that clearly would provoke a strong military response from the united states. >> shannon: they say that's the very thing they don't want. general keane. always good to see you. >> bill: 12 minutes before the hour. hackers who broke into the hbo computer network posting some

of that compromising information online. they're making ransom demands and hbo has issued a response. you'll hear that coming up next.

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>> i'm jon scott. on "happening now" president trump back on twitter this morning turning his attention to north korea and the opioid crisis. several polls how the president is doing 200 days into his presidency. political analysis and jerry seib on a new strategy in afghanistan nine minutes away on "happening now." >> shannon: london seeing dramatic surveillance issue as

they look at the jogger nearly pushing the woman. amazingly that bus driver slammed on the breaks and swerved out of the way in time. they spotted that same jogger minutes later but somehow they were unable to get to him. >> bill: hbo game of thrones under attack by hackers after a security breach late last month. those hackers are demanding a ransom payment after publishing personal information about some of the actors, emails from a high-ranking executive. nice to see you, carly. so they stole what from hbo? >> first of all, this has been going on for about a week. this is the second data dump now. the hacker group goes by the name mr. smith. they've released some pretty high-profile stuff. game of thrones scripts. a month's worth of emails from

a top hbo executive. there are also reports they've started to leak personal information from some of game of thrones top actors, actors that i know and love. i'm a huge fan of the show. now they're saying that listen, if hbo doesn't pay up, there is more where that cut came from. they have more data that they are going to leak. >> bill: they're demanding a payment in bitcoin. >> $6 million. it has to be bitcoins. >> bill: maybe they want it to be more discrete. hbo is on the air now. does it make it more valuable based on what they're asking for. >> game of thrones is on the air now, which is probably exactly why they've hit that particular show. also it's one of the biggest shows around the world. so this makes it a really big deal. it isn't as big a deal -- it appears not to be as serious of a hack as the 2014 sony hack.

you remember that one where thousands of personal emails were leaked from employees that led to some employees actually having to excuse themselves, get fired. >> bill: sony is a bigger deal than this. >> appears to be a bigger deal but this is a big hack. they're essentially holding game of thrones and hbo at ransom. >> bill: hbo believe further leaks. the review is ongoing. reported a number of emails have been made public the review doesn't give us reason to believe our email system as a whole has been compromised. they're a little dubious. >> well, it does look by the amount of data that they've now known that these hackers have, it doesn't look like the entire email server was hacked. if it was that's a big deal for hbo employees. this is also a big deal for game of thrones fans. you know people who like game of thrones don't want that

information leaked online. then they'll have to dodge spoiler alerts. this is becoming a pretty big trend in the digital world and it is really difficult to stop these hackers from getting it. >> bill: last year was another studio. what happened there? >> last year hackers threatened to leak orange is the new black episodes and the studio there actually folded. they paid these hackers $50,000 and guess what the hackers did? they leaked the episodes anyway. so i guess the moral of the story is never trust a hacker, right? >> bill: i think corporations are getting better at testing their own employees to make sure you don't let the outside breach your security. >> it's that outside that you still have to watch out for because some of those folks are just trying to make a buck in a weird way. >> bill: carly, thanks. we'll see if hbo gets their way. thanks, good to see you. shannon, what's next? >> shannon: a working vacation for president donald trump at this hour.

he will have a major briefing on the opioid crisis. his wife melania expected to join him at the briefing. more details on that coming up. [upbeat music]

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>> shannon: we talked about getting a show puppy, i talked about. >> bill: is not going to happen? >> shannon: maybe we should get a show goat, they seem very pleasant. >> bill: we've got a run, everybody. have a great tuesday. >> jon: we begin with a fox news alert on developments as president trump gets side to hold a roundtable on the opioid crisis. i'm jon scott. >> melissa: and i melissa francis he is still meeting with aids and cabinet members and he is focusing on the opioid crisis, announcing that roundtable via twitter, but he also weighed in on north korea. this is the poll finds 70% of americans say president trump tweets a little too much in response to the news. he tweeted nine times yesterday alone. byron york of the "washington exam