join us tomorrow for the summer concert series, lighthouse performs. brought to you by your friends at keurig. >> if you're running, run to radio. >> bill: good morning, everybody. fox news alert now. the quote of the morning, a load of nonsense. that's what north korea is calling president trump's threat to meet any belligerence. they're saying absolute force is the only way to work with the united states and setting their sights on the u.s. territory of guam. i'm bill hemmer live in "america's newsroom." see where we go. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream. latest reports claim that north korea is considering firing four missiles at guam, which is home to 6,000 u.s. service members, more than 100,000 civilians. guam's governor dismissing north korea's threat last night an tucker carlson. >> as far as i'm concerned as

an american citizen i want a president that says that if any nation such as north korea attacks guam, honolulu or the west coast, they will be met with hell and fury. >> bill: rex tillerson returning to washington after a stop off in guam yesterday. we begin our coverage live at the state department. what are you getting out of north korea so far this morning? >> they're responding specifically and mentioning specifically president trump's comments about being met with fire and fury. the korean people's army saying sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy, the president. and only absolute force can work on him. the statement says north korea is considering a plan to have four missiles around the island of guam. rex tillerson met with russia, china to cut off north korea's

economic activity and financing. americans should have no concern about the rhetoric of the past few days. the secretary of defense saying while our state department is making every effort to resolve with global threat through diplomatic needs it must be noted the militaries possess the robust defensive capabilities on earth. north korea would be grossly overmatched in any arms race or any conflict it initiated. >> bill: administration says it's unified in its message. is that the case? >> they're trying to square comments between fire and fury from the president and the secretary of state saying americans should sleep well at night. there are questions of consistency. the administration is speaking with a unified force according to the state department. >> the united states is on the same page whether the white house, the state department, the department of defense we're

speaking with one voice and the world is speaking with one voice. we saw that as it came out of the u.s. security council with the resolution that passed less than a week ago. >> the secretary of state held a press conference to north korea we aren't looking for regime change or attack or cross the 38th parallel but he said we aren't your enemy but you are presenting on unacceptable threat to us and we have to respond. >> bill: rich edson from the state department. >> shannon: the president will meet with vice president pence later today. how is the trump administration reacting to the latest bluster from north korea? rick leventhal is near where the president is in bedminster. >> no statements or tweets on this topic. perhaps letting the defense

secretary's words speak for themselves the north korea regime is grossly overmatched by the u.s. military. this war of words ratcheted up monday afternoon when the president spoke about the fire and fury warning north korea to stand down on its nuclear program and it reiterated yesterday the president was in constant communication with general john kelly and also with the national security team. his homeland security advisor arrived yesterday for meetings with the president and as you mentioned, shannon, he is scheduled to have lunch with vice president pence at 12:30 today. there will be lengthy discussions about north korea, we're not sure yet what the white house might have to say about it today. >> shannon: we're getting word of a tense phone call between the president and senate majority leader about recent criticism. >> that happened yesterday morning and we're learning more from ed henry of the details of the call when the president ripped into mitch mcconnell

describing himself as very unhappy over the mcconnell comment that he gave tuesday in his home state of kentucky about the delays in progress on healthcare. listen. >> our new president hasn't been in this line of work before and i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. >> that didn't sit very well. we're told the call lasted 10 minutes and the president told mcconnell he didn't appreciate the criticism. he expects republican leadership to repeal obamacare and the president tweeted his displeasure again. can you believe mitch mcconnell couldn't get it done? must repeal and replace obamacare. we're told the president also expressed his displeasure with senator john mccain's lack of support and suggested that mcconnell might be able to take away mccain's chairmanship of

the senate armed forces committee. no word if that is going anywhere. >> shannon: wouldn't hold my breath on that knowing mitch mcconnell like we do. >> bill: charlie heard, opinion editor for the washington times. good morning in washington, d.c. the battle underneath the party. >> it's not good for mitch mcconnell. he is tangling with a large and angry bear who has a lot of good points to make here. if it's excessive expectations to think congress can repeal and replace obamacare after seven years of campaigning on it, why were you campaigning on it in the first place? donald trump has a good point here. exactly the kind of fight he likes. when he gets into -- i feel like oftentimes he is at his strongest when he is having a principled fight with fellow republicans and i think that's what we're seeing here. and, you know, maybe it gives us some hope there is still a

chance for republicans to get back to the table and try to do something about obamacare. >> bill: stirewalt wrote about this yesterday. want to pull one of his last lines in the piece from the halftime report. while it is certainly true that democrats' chances in 2018 will depend on their ability to sort out intraparty disputes, the feud that's taking shape on the republican side right now may be just what democrats need to get back on the good foot for 2018. is that possible? is that true or is that overstated? >> i think that democrats still have a real big problem. what they have to convince voters is that somehow voters should trust them because they didn't fail to repeal the bill that they were the ones that gave us in the first place. i think that's a very, very hard -- it's a tough sell to make. i think republicans obviously if they don't repeal obamacare, it will be harder for them.

but they can still harang against obamacare. the thing people are suffering under and suffering under now is still obamacare. it is owned lock, stock and barrel by democrats. >> bill: on the topic of language general james mattis put out a very tough and strongly-worded response to north korea. in part he said the following. the dprk should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. i don't think it gets stronger than that. why is it mattis, tough guy, that's his reputation and why he has the job. why the criticism for the fire and fury comment from the commander-in-chief and not this? >> the distinction is it's what donald trump who said it and what we've been seeing for two years. one person can say something and it's okay. donald trump says it and people go crazy because he says it with a different flair or over

twitter or in some way that people aren't used to around here. but it's the same thing and the message that needs to be conveyed and in particular the point about we're not interested in regime change but if you mess with us your regime will end. there will be regime change if you lift a finger against any of our people. >> bill: charlie hurt, analysis on both those topics from washington, d.c. shannon, i believe the topic we're discussing with mitch mcconnell and others with intraparty battle will play out after labor day. >> shannon: the white house bearing down making sure something happens. we'll see. with north korea a big question continues to unfold. is the u.s. capable of shooting down a missile in the event it ever happens? trent franks joins us later this hour.

>> bill: is that the right way to go now in afghanistan? the trump team is weighing sending more troops underseas. erik prince wrote an article about that. >> shannon: a federal judge ordering the state department to turn over its own copies of emails. former secretary of state hillary clinton sent and received concerning benghazi. >> the state department, which is supposed to be apolitical, not interested in the next presidential election, has been covering for hillary clinton since she left office. [upbeat music]

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>> shannon: we're learning more about the suspect who rammed his car into a group of french soldiers yesterday near paris, a 37-year-old from algeria. he is known for minor crimes but no convictions. police raided his home yesterday after his capture. so far his motive is still under investigation. >> bill: here is a story that appears not going away. a federal judge ordering the state department to conduct new searches. they say get back to it and find emails the former secretary of state hillary clinton might have sent and received about benghazi. ned ryun has been looking into this. good morning to you.

where is this coming from now, this judge? >> so a little bit of back story. a few weeks ago the state department informed people that because there was not as much public outcry, they didn't feel a sense of urgency in going and looking for more hillary clinton emails. judicial watch, aclg has been requesting from both f.b.i. and state department the emails they've requested. we've now discovered in this case with the state department, bill, that the state department didn't even search its own servers. the state.gov servers for the emails of clinton's top aides referring to again ghazi. the judge said the state department has the obligation to search its own emails about benghazi. >> bill: he wasn't satisfied with the evidence that came

back. the judge, you mentioned an obama appointee. if she sent an e--- state server presumably would have captured and stored such an email. therefore, state has an obligation to search its own server for responsive records. basically the judge is saying get back at it. >> you are going to go back and do it correctly. you have an obligation. i thought the thing that was interesting, bill. justice's lawyers argued it would set a bad precedents that it would belabor the foya process. i'm sorry government employees would be belabored by this. she wasn't buying that argument. she said you'll go back. hillary clinton's emails are a

unique situation unlikely to be replicated in the future. she told the justice -- the lawyers that were making this argument on behalf of state they will go back, you will look at the state.gov servers and do the job you didn't do previously. the arguments coming out of the state department have been well, there hasn't been a sense of urgency. nobody is that interested. all these arguments and the judge, an obama appointee, is buying none of them. >> bill: does it change now? is it different now because there is a different administration and there is a different boss at the state department with rex tillerson? >> there is a little bit but some of this delay is happening because there are still holdovers from the obama administration who quite frankly don't feel a sense of urgency and do not feel they should be pushing this in a timely fashion. bill, this kind of addresses one of the other issues that we're dealing with right now in this transition from one administration to another. there are still holdovers in

many of the departments from the obama administration. they are not on the trump team. they are not working on behalf of the trump administration and doing their best to delay these things. >> bill: what would tillerson do about that? >> coming from the oval office president trump has made it clear to various departments they're to be working on these requests in a prompt and timely fashion. there has been a delay, pushback, not made a priority. i have to tell you a little bit i'm encouraged by jeff sessions willing to go and get aggressive on some of these other things. this is something, these emails and getting to the bottom of these things whether it's loretta lynch's and james comey manipulation of the email investigation. they said the f.b.i. lied to them about saying certain emails didn't exist. i hope in the various departments again under the trump administration people will realize this is an absolute priority we get to the bottom of this.

>> bill: let me go back to what the judge said here. a central premise of the rulings that state department servers archived emails from clinton's top aides. however, it's not clear that happened regularly or reliably. you have to ask yourself why. what it comes back to ultimately, it is trust in government and in washington on behalf of the american people. >> i want to make this last point if i could, bill. either the law is the law or it's not. if the law is one of our founding principles, it applies to all people and needs to be done in a timely fashion. if people don't think the law and our government and institutions are to be trusted, everything becomes arbitrary, people begin to lose trust in the institutions and serious implications on society. we have to be serious about this. i would remind people and state the obvious. this government works on behalf of the american people who fund every last dime of our government and the employees who work for it. >> bill: looks like they'll get

back at it. we'll see where it goes in washington thank you. >> shannon: well, check this out. a russian spy plane flying over major u.s. cities including not far from president trump's new jersey location. what is the story on that? >> bill: also a bizarre story on u.s. relations with cuba. the u.s. taking action against that country after american diplomats return home under mysterious circumstances. >> it is a cause of great concern for us. it's caused a variety of physical symptoms in these american citizens who work for the u.s. government. we take those incidents very seriously. you don't let anything

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>> bill: did you know a russian spy plane conducting an approved flyover of washington and new jersey happened yesterday?

the aircraft flew near trump national golf course and near the white house, capitol and pentagon. it was permitted to fly there under an open skies treaty with russia and the u.s. both belong. senior intelligence officials say they're concerned moscow is using advanced technology to go beyond the spirit of that agreement. i bet you didn't know that happens. >> shannon: did you think it was weird when i first saw the emails about it yesterday? whoa, there has to be more to this story. that's why we bring it to you. interesting. another story here, the state department has ordered two cuban diplomats to leave the u.s. after two of our diplomats were forced the return home. break this down for us, phil. >> the state department says this harassment of u.s. diplomats stationed in havana

has been happening since late last year but we first learned of it yesterday after the state department afternoon briefing. according to u.s. officials there have been a series of bizarre incidents happening in havana leaving u.s. diplomats stationed there hearing loss and symptoms similar to the effects of having a concussion. u.s. officials have concluded the cubans have been using a covert sonic device operated outside of the range of audible sound and been deployed inside or outside the u.s. diplomats' residences. >> initially when they started reporting what i will call symptoms, it took time to figure out what it was. it is still ongoing. we're monitoring it. we provide medical care and concern to those who believe they've been affected by it and we take it very seriously. >> several of the diplomats returned to the u.s. for medical treatment. state department spokeswoman said in may, may 23, the united

states retaliated by ordering two cuban diplomats in d.c. to go back to cuba. the ministry of foreign affairs says it's offering to work with the u.s. on getting to the bottom of this, quote, the ministry categorically emphasizes that cuba has never nor would ever allow the cuban territory be used for any action against diplomatic agents or families without exception. it will cooperate in the clarification of this situation. for decades u.s. diplomats stationed in cuba complained about repetitive harass many. having their cars and amounts broken into. since president obama established diplomatic relations with cuba two years ago things had reportedly improved down there. >> bill: top white house official says doing nothing about north korea is not an option for president trump. >> the fact is when good men do nothing, evil triumphs. it's not the people of korea

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regime details its plan to launch multiple missiles at guam within weeks. gorka said it would be foolish to get into a military confrontation with the u.s. >> we're a hyper power. world history has never seen a nation as powerful as our great nation. therefore, north korea needs to understand the blackmail stops and if you get into an arms race as secretary mattis says with the united states of america, you will lose, whoever you are. >> shannon: joining me now republican congressman trent franks chair of the missile defense council. within weeks they say they have a plan to envelope a ring of fire around guam. what are our capabilities with regard to that threat? >> we have a thaad battery at

guam, which is the terminal system that allows us to engage in enemy missile coming in on its terminal phase and if it doesn't work, of course, the missile lands but the reality is that north korea has multiple opportunities there to attack guam if they wanted to. they have the missile capability and, of course, you know, there has been recent reports about the potential ability to attach a nuclear weapons to those missiles. >> shannon: let's talk about the defense systems we have in place. something you fought for, you fought for the funding. how well equipped are we in your estimation with regard to this threat to the mainland as well? >> we have what's called our gmd system in the main land. ground base mid course. and it meets the threat for the moment. but we're now in a situation where, within a year or less, that threat could begin to over mark our ability to respond.

and that leaves only then the offensive capability or the deterrent. i would just suggest to you that shannon, there is a moment in the life of nearly every problem like this when it is big enough for reasonable people to see and still small enough to be addressed without catastrophe. and bill clinton missed that moment when he made a deal with the koreans that didn't last very long. he paid the ran some. didn't secure the hostage. barack obama did essentially the same thing. gave them a quarter million tons of food. clinton gave them a half million tons of fuel a year. in both cases the north koreans disregarded the deal immediately and we now face a situation where a rogue country like this could potentially target the united states with nuclear weapons. and then the obama administration makes a deal with iran that is essentially the same kind of deal that puts iran on a legal trajectory to

gain nuclear weapons. this is most prolific sponsor of terrorism in the world. and i'm starting to be almost impossible to surprise but this is really starting to be a frightening situation. and yet to hear the left say it's all president trump's fault. and mr. trump is taking a different tack and i believe that hopefully we can get through this without some sort of military action. i just don't know if that's going to be possible. >> shannon: i should note the defense missile caucus is bipartisan and i imagine there is a lot of unity with respect to the threat. maybe not the way the president is handling it with the threat as it exists to the u.s. you mentioned there a moment in time with these serious problems where you come to a certain realization there may be a point for turning back. are we past that moment with north korea or iran or do you think there is some diplomatic or non-military solution that would work? >> well, i think there are some

still some possibilities especially if we can get an adamant support from china to begin to really put the kind of pressure necessary to make it clear to this regime that if they continue that they'll be so isolated economically and otherwise they can't continue as a regime. the reality is this president has really reduced not capability -- tremendous capability but this administration has reduced options now because now this rogue nation with someone that we're not sure whether is really rational or not is on the cusp of gaining the ability to attack major cities in the united states of america with devastating results. >> shannon: here is what the defense secretary says. the dprk, north korea should cease any considerations of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. we're told this is what this is all about for kim jong-un

trying to flex his muscles because he fears the end of his regime change. our officials repeatedly saying, tillerson and haley that's not what this is about. we're not seeking regime change. do you think he is willing to take another step down this road that could lead to a self-fulfilling prophesy? do you think he gets it? >> i hope so. i don't mean to continue to consider just the past references but he has observed over time two american presidents, mr. obama and mr. clinton cave and do what they wanted and not really put any permanent restrictions on them. so he hopes this administration will do the same. i think he is dead wrong. what frightens me is that while we have some pressure on this regime because it wants to maintain its existence more than anything else, we're now seeing a situation where again

iran, which has an ideology that's different. it's not so much about protecting the regime, it's about the ideology that would kill their own children in many cases to kill ours. and that puts us in a very frightening situation and ultimately we need to keep in mind if north korea has nuclear weapons, they do. it's an easy thing for iran to obtain them if north korea should choose to supply them. and that with iran's missile capability represents a very grave threat. one that might put your children and mine in the shadow of nuclear terrorism. >> shannon: far beyond the regions they are. a worldwide threat. congressman frank, always good to see you. >> bill: a deeper look at the second retive world of north korea when kim jong-un came into power. given the events of this week it's worth a look back at this report from our fox files. >> december 28, 2011, the world's most secretive and

oppressive koun tre laid to rest its leader. the world got a rare glimpse inside the sealed-off nation. hysterical throngs of north korea's lined the 25 mile route of the funeral procession in a ritual of bizarre mourning. it's unclear if the wailing was genuine or motivated by fear. >> much of this was forced. the state wanted them to behave this way. >> most important for the regime is a creating a new call to personality among kim jong-un. about him little is known. >> we don't even know how old he is. north korea hasn't released his birth date. >> the population of 22 million act with blind devotion to their new leader, some people inside the country are beginning to show unprecedented dissent. >> how would you describe what

is considered the underground railroad from north korea into china? >> it's 6,000 miles. running from north korea to china through southeast asia. >> it's a network of safe houses and secret routes. >> there are contacts along this entire route to help and to aid north koreans. >> they help north korean people in china. it is illegal for anyone to even feed a north korean refugee. >> if your identity was revealed. >> you go to jail and more importantly the people working for us in china go to jail and north koreans could be executed. >> the country has been a living hell for millions. >> just getting out of north korea has its first hurdle. how do they do that? >> two ways. one is you can pay or bribe a border guard. the other way is during the winter the river freezes over,

so people walk across. >> three generations of the kim family have maintained an iron grip on the isolated society in the north. >> there has been very little indication that he is willing to open the country up. he certainly hasn't stopped the country's nuclear or missile program. >> bill: that was only five years ago and you think about the advancements in the prament since then. the underground railroad is a big thing and a big deal for millions who live under a dictatorship. this is one of the last places in the world you'll find an iron fist this strong today. >> shannon: on a lighter note how many you look the same five years ago. he is aging in reverse. i don't know how he does it, but he does. breaking news on an isis plot to blow up an australian jetliner. a terrorist leader shipped the bomb-making materials by air mail. you heard that right. air mail. details on that stunning case just ahead. >> bill: the u.s. keeping up

pressure on beijing. not just over north korea. we'll tell you what the u.s. navy is up to today coming up. >> shannon: f.b.i. agents conducting an early morning raid last month at the home of paul manafort. what it means for the russian investigation moving forward and what manafort's attorney has to say today.

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>> shannon: the u.s. keeping up the pressure on china's disputed claim in international waters. the u.s.s. john mccain sailing through the south china sea and coming within 12 nautical miles of mischief reef. one of the artificial islands built and claimed by china. it is doing freedom of navigation controls in the south china sea. >> bill: major development. the f.b.i. raiding the virginia home of former trump campaign manager paul manafort.

the operation conducted in the early morning hours july 26th, the day after manafort spoke with members of the senate intelligence committee. erik prince founder of security company black watts and frontier services group limited. thanks to have you on. good morning to you as well. how big of a deal is this to take this information from manafort's home? >> from what i've heard he was complying with the investigation but, you know, ultimately the feds aren't interested in him. what they'll try to do is cast a wide net and find somewhere that he committed some infraction on anything, whether it had to do anything with the campaign or somewhere previous in his work. and then they'll try to pressure him with it. they're only interested in going after the president. i find it amazing that they serve a warrant, they have to go through a lot of process to do that before early morning. >> bill: why is that? >> when you hear of hillary's

people destroying their servers and destroying blackberries all while they were supposedly under direction to maintain that stuff and not damage that evidence, the double standard. there was no double standards in washington there wouldn't be any standards. >> bill: you had a meeting in january with someone who was close with vladimir putin. sean spicer said a couple times that you were not working on behalf of the transition team. just give us a sense of what that meeting was all about. >> actually i had a business meeting with some guys from the middle east and that's why i was there and they said you should meet this other guy, a fund manager we've done business with. i had a beer with him. not a vodka. it lasted a few minutes and that was it. it had nothing to do with the united states, with the u.s. government, with the election, with the trump campaign or anything like that. >> bill: nothing. >> zero, nothing. >> bill: sanctions regarding

russia? >> nope. didn't discuss anything like that. >> bill: was it a business deal you were looking for? >> not at all. >> bill: it lasted how long. >> as long as it takes to drink a beer. >> bill: why do you think the story got out? >> part of the unmasking. this was just a business meeting i was going to and i think in the last days of the obama administration their people unmasked various signals intelligence and from that they tried to create some next us to russia. >> bill: do you believe your identity was made public because of that? is that a fact or your theory? >> it's the only way that happened. >> bill: only way. >> yep. >> bill: you have an idea to help the united states in afghanistan. understand your security service did a lot of work overseas. you want to lead. how would you call it, a group

of mercenaries? >> not at all. we're into afghanistan for 16 years now. spent close to a trillion dollars, we'll be paying for it for a long time with out trillion in healthcare costs for all the injured veterans. and we're losing. as general mattis said to quote we're not winning in afghanistan. the government controls barely half the tear tore. the pentagon consumes more than the entire defense budget of the u.k. in afghanistan. it's time for the president to think about a strange in strategy and not continue as we have been. there are 9,000 u.s. troops and 26,000 contractors already in country. i'm not talking about an increase in contractors but a rationalization to cut down. if you focus on supporting the afghan military from the bottom up instead of the top down like we're doing now. provide them air support. better medical support for the

military to get resupply. you could create the way for the conventional army to leave afghanistan. as we talk about the concerns of north korea and nuclear -- their nuclear program, there is clearly the need for real deterrents of our military to defend against state on state conflict. to defer against state on state conflict. >> bill: an interesting idea. let's share a piece you work this week. you concluded the following way. this approach would cost less than 20% of the $48 billion being spent in afghanistan this year. trump was hired to remake our government. there is no greater need for restructuring than in afghanistan. i think about the people hired by great britain. >> this is a job that is much bigger than that. >> bill: how can a smaller, cheaper army that can win the war in afghanistan now in its

16th year. >> losing what is we're doing now. spending that huge sum of money. or if we pull out completely, which is another option, the taliban or isis ends up taking over the u.s. embassy and their flag flies over the top. that's what losing looks like. winning looks like building and maintaining afghan security capacity to control their terrain so it's not a terror sanctuary. that's the main goal of the united states. deny terror sanctuary. let's not worry about the nation building. if you set security in the country their economy will develop. >> bill: is the president open to this idea? yes or no. >> he has rejected the pentagon's current strategy. maybe it's not hard to have the best strategy when there are no other ideas on the table. >> bill: appreciate you talking about. >> shannon: one of the most dangerous opioids of the planning pouring over our border and a look where it's coming from next.

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smugglers have streamlined their production process. will karr is in los angeles to tell us more. >> federal authorities tell us their biggest concern is the number of deaths across the country linked to fentanyl. we went to the border where it's coming into the country and got an exclusive look at the problem. >> the whole thing is a nightmare for the country. this epidemic of opioid addiction >> fentanyl, the opioid stronger than heroin. so dangerous law enforcement offices have to wear hazmat suits to handle it. authorities have seen more of the drug that's killing americans at a dramatic rate pouring across the border. >> we've seen a doubling over 2016. >> u.s. attorney mark conover and special agent believe a direct result of the cartel's rambling up fentanyl production. they've set up labs in mexico.

>> you can smuggle less and spread it out than with traditional heroin. >> it's coming through this port of entry. and the numbers will continue to spike. it's hard to test in the field since most fentanyl is mixed with other drugs. federal authorities are forced to send seizures to testing labs where there are major back-ups. >> oftentimes things that tested positive for cocaine or heroin turns out are actual fentanyl when it gets back to the lab. we don't find out for months. >> that don't address another drug stronger than fentanyl and 1,000 times stronger than heroin. so strong federal authorities are concerned it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. >> bill: another big story this morning. federal judge ordering the state department to turn over its own copies of emails from former secretary of state hillary clinton. all about benghazi.

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searches for emails that hillary clinton wrote about the benghazi attack. the state department was flooded by freedom of information requests for those emails and in response the state department searched three sources for the emails. the 30,000 emails that clinton turned over from her private servers and documents provided by three top aides and emails recovered by the f.b.i. in a lawsuit the judicial watch argued those searches weren't enough. the state department didn't search its own systems from other top aides. the state department argued it had already done enough and any additional searches weren't likely to turn up any new results. the district judge disagreed in his ruling this week saying state has offered no assurance the three record compilations constitute the entirety of

secretary clinton's email for the request. assurance the court is unconvinced beyond material doubt that a search of the state.gov accounts of aides is unlikely to produce any marginal return. the state department hasn't commented on the judge's ruling and a spokesman for the justice department say it's reviewing the judge's opinion. >> shannon: what other emails were included as part of this particular lawsuit? >> judicial watches is seeking emails the f.b.i. uncovered of abiden's husband wiener. they're in the process of being made public in response to separate freedom of information requests and as long as those emails are produced, the judge said he will hold off on ordering those to be made public. >> shannon: we'll keep tracking it. thank you very much, garrett. >> bill: meanwhile now breaking news on north korea making again new threats against the territory of guam at this hour.

threatening to launch four missiles at the u.s. territory. arizona republican trent franks talked about north korea's capability of carrying out that threat when he said this. >> the reality is that north korea has multiple opportunities there to attack guam if they wanted to. they have the missile capability and, of course, you know, there has been recent reports about the potential ability to attach nuclear weapons to those missiles. >> bill: greg palkot reporting in london. what more do we know about the north korea plan to shoot a missile at guam? >> exactly. bill, i think you and all of our viewers know that north korea is no stranger to threats. this one is alarmingly specific. in the sights of the regime is the u.s. pacific island territory of guam complete with u.s. navy and air force bases being submitted for approval to

kim jong-un supposedly a plan which would involve missiles flying over japan about 2100 miles. only takes 18 minutes. landing about 20 miles off the coast of guam just outside of u.s. territorial waters. the missile proposed to be used is called a 12. we saw the missiles up close in a military parade in april. that's why -- it has only been tested four times. three failures. the one time it worked was a high trajectory altitude. there is no sense of whether it's dependable or arc rat. the targeting of guam makes sense. b-1 bombers, the closest bit of u.s. territory to north korea. it is a tempting target. >> bill: what has been the reaction to this threat? >> first of all the reaction from north korea, they haven't finished talking amidst a very

well orchestrated demonstration this week. we're hearing from state media saying that president trump is i'm quoting here, a guy bereft of reason. they go on to say his strong comments we've been hearing the last couple of days are a load of nonsense. however, the regional neighbors of north korea are taking this very seriously. japan says any fly over of missiles would be a national emergency. south korea's response would be stern and strong. guam, officials there say they aren't worried. there are u.s. anti-missile defense ships off of the coast, there is also that thaad anti-missile land-based system. people are concerned. >> bill: thank you. greg palkot in london. in a moment robert natter is our guest to join us to talk about the showdown with north korea. stay tuned for that coming up. >> shannon: more on all of this we go to editor and chief of the weekly standard and fox news contributor, steve hayes.

let's start with north korea and work backwards to benghazi. we had franks on last hour there is support for defense of our country and north korea. he talked about the schism, critics of the president and the way he is handling this. how is it playing out in washington >> i listened to the interview with trent franks. i think there is bipartisan concern about the threat from north korea, just as there was bipartisan failure that led to this moment. this is 25 years of failed diplomacy in which both republicans and democrats sought diplomacy as an end in itself not trying to solve a problem. just happy they were engaged in talks with north korea and we see where that has led us. if ever there was a case for preemption this is it. there was talk about clinton, and bush and north korea's missile, talk of preemption in the 1990s. nobody did it. wasn't taken terribly seriously

and here we are with this mess. >> shannon: let's talk about benghazi now. it came back into the headlines for a lot of people it was dormant. there are various investigations looking into this. the inspector general at the doj, back in january said there are parts of this case he is looking at. how the f.b.i. handled this. the other case was bubbling until we got the order with the judge. a president obama appointee and he said state department looked through all kinds of outside sources and things provided to them but never looked through state.gov, their own servers. you need to go back and do that for any email related to hillary clinton and benghazi. >> it was a striking ruling. the quote that stood out to me was he said state hasn't searched the one record system over which it has always had control, the state.gov email server. if state had been interested in finding records responsive to the request. those of us who looked at the

state department at the time know the state department was not interested in complying with these they did everything they could to hide the records playing with hillary clinton, toying with congressional investigators who wanted this, being unresponsive to foya folks, deliberately trying to hide emails they had through classification games, through non-responsiveness. so it's not any surprise at all that the state department bureaucracy wasn't operating in good faith in responding to these foya requests. >> shannon: he said if secretary clinton sent an email to her aides at the state.gov addresses or if one of them sent an email to secretary clinton using their account the state server would have captured and stored such an email and state has the obligation to look at its server for responsive records. there are questions about whether they were archived, if

they still exist somewhere and passed through that system. folks should have tempered expectations about what may or may not turn up. >> right. look, if you think about the arguments that republicans were making at the time. they were so intent on getting their hands on the private emails. the assumption was the clinton team would be communicating on the private emails to avoid the records preservations by the government. so they wouldn't have been using their state.gov email addresses to communicate on anything significant. we don't know that. that was an assumption republicans had. the state department, the fact that the state department didn't actually comply with these requests means they might have been operating under different assumptions. the bottom line is the state department did not do its job. these are -- if we wanted to get to the bottom of what happened in benghazi and why the story was told after the benghazi attacks that it was and what the discussions were before benghazi about security at the facility.

these would be among the first things you would search for. the fact that the state department didn't do it and resisted requests to do it speaks volumes. >> shannon: this judge ordered it and we have a different administration. we'll see. steve hayes, thank you very much. >> bill: a lot of people thought that story would go away. >> shannon: the house judiciary committee sent a new letter to the justice department saying we still think there is more here to reopen and asking the a.g. to do it. >> bill: see what they find and how long it takes. in the meantime developments in an isis plot to bring down an airplane. wait until you hear how the bomb materials were sent from halfway around the world. that's coming up. >> shannon: president trump and mitch mcconnell ratcheting up their differences after the failure to repeal obamacare. can their rocky relationship be fixed? wisconsin congressman sean duffy joins us next. >> our new president hasn't been in this line of work before and i think had

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and in iraq. >> how are you doing? mitch? are we going to be okay? everything good? that healthcare is looking good? good, thanks, mitch. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> clearly a disappointing moment. >> they have been working on that one for seven years, can you believe that? the swamp. >> our new president hasn't been in this line of work before. and i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. >> shannon: a relationship going from at times warm to down right frosty. president trump and senator mitch mcconnell pointing fingers at the failure to overhaul healthcare. the president said can you believe that mitch mcconnell who has screamed repeal and replaced for seven years couldn't get it done?

must repeal and replace obamacare. joining me now is representative sean duffy from wisconsin. the president campaigned on overhauling the swamp, overhauling washington, getting things done. he has come up against the bureaucracy. who is in the wrong? washington or the president? which is broken? >> the president is right. he campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare but the senate and house campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare. the president has been pretty does aisle with the senate's failure. he can send out mean and aggressive tweets. he has been pretty nice in the tweets he sent out against the senate. mitch has done everything he can to try to get his senate online to pass some form of repeal and replace. these are two leaders who are trying to get to the same end goal, repeal and replace. mitch isn't able to corral some of his senate republicans to

vote with him. which is too bad. >> shannon: you passed a lot of things in the house that didn't get to the finish line in the senate. credit to the house for getting a lot of legislation through the channels there in washington here is what former house speaker gingrich has to say. >> it was a collective failure. the trump administration and republicans in the senate failed. to get involved in shooting at each other when there were 16 democrats voting no for every republican who voted no is goofy. >> shannon: how do they patch things up? >> i think the speaker is correct in that we have democrats who passed obamacare, the failed healthcare system. people getting hurt in places like wisconsin. premiums have gone up by 93% since the passage of obama game. democrats have a lot to blame for a lack of some kind of fix to healthcare. they sit on the sidelines and point at us. they are the ones to blame here. if we look at the two pathways forward you have a free

enterprise healthcare system or socialized medicine what democrats are advocating for. if mitch mcconnell can't get healthcare onto the senate floor you pay single player system and you will blame the god matters of socialized medicine when they promised their constituents they would vote to repeal and replace. it's a lie. the way you get it back on track is to get not democrats but republican donors and supporters, the people hand out flyers for you and come to your parades. when they call the senators and say it is unacceptable. we won't support you in the next election and might support your opponent you'll start to see them act. this is a vote, shannon, doesn't just have impact on the next election. this is a vote in the senate that constituents will remember for a very long time. not just in 2018 but 2020 and 2022 if we don't get healthcare done, these senators who voted no will pay the price at the

ballot box. >> shannon: another phone call our ed henry reported on 10 minutes before the president and the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he expressed his frustrations not only that they haven't gotten things done but it sounds like he expressed frustration that mitch mcconnell was talking about it publicly that the president's mismanaged expectations. these are two grown men, ambitious and want to get things done. do you think they get back on the same page quickly? >> i think a private conversation is a better way to do it. if you look what happened with jeff sessions and the tweets going out against him. to put the twitter away and have two grown men on the same page with the same goals talking to each other and not having it public is a good approach. they were able to vent to each other. you need to have them singing off the same sheet of music moving forward. when you have the congress

fighting with the president and we're all republicans it shows a sense of chaos. we don't want to present that to the american people. they have to work together to get the senators on page to vote to pass healthcare reform and they are stronger unified as opposed to fighting one another. >> shannon: we'll see if that's the result. thanks so much. good to see you. >> bill: president trump repeatedly promising to bring back jobs for our coal miners when he said this. >> president trump: american workers will build this great future and american energy and american clean coal will power this future. >> bill: well, the west virginia governor jim justice who just switched parties is asking the president for a big and expensive favor. we'll talk to him live about that next. plus this. >> shannon: the st. louis cardinals may have found a new

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>> shannon: last night's cardinals game in st. louis getting an unexpected visit from a furry friend. >> that's a cat. >> shannon: trying to take over center field. this is a bases loaded situation. so check it out. he is trotting around. the red birds were down. fans were loving it. they paused the game so a crew member could get the cat. check it out. cat attack. he did not want to leave. biting and scratching the guy the whole time. poor guy. the players were laughing. ouch. you know it hurts. the cat was safely removed from the field. the guy wasn't safe but the cat

was check this out on the very next pitch. >> molina. the rally cat. >> shannon: that went to a cardinals win. fans say because of the rally cat. now he will need his own twitter account. he will need the royal treatment. he will have to be at every game. we'll see. >> bill: a guy needs a glove the next time. >> shannon: send him out there with a glove. >> bill: 25 past the hour. remember this? >> president trump: as president, we are putting our coal miners back to work. american coal exports are already up. think of this. think of this. american exports of goal are already up more than 60% this year. did you ever hear of anything like that?

>> bill: president trump touting success on rebooting the coal industry last week. west virginia's governor is asking the president for a big investment. governor jim justice joins me now live. now a republican. thank you for coming back here. good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> bill: we have a bit of a delay here. you are asking for a lot, governor. you want $4 1/2 billion to save eastern coal in your state and elsewhere. that sounds like a bail-out. how do you defend it? >> well, bill, it's anything but that. i mean, just think for just one second. we came really close to completely losing our eastern coal fields in the past probably four years. 55 companies took bankruptcy. now at the end of the day we better awaken to one thing and

that's for sure. we can't afford today to do without coal in the east. there is no way. and just think if we could fast forward and awaken to the fact that we did lose the eastern coal fields completely and we're completely dependent upon western coal or natural gas. from the standpoint of exposing our eastern power grid, are we willing to take that risk? are we truly willing to take that risk and to be perfectly honest the eastern coal fields, you're mining a 25 foot theme and in wyoming you're mining 80 foot. the problem is marketability. now, the reality is just this. i'm not looking for a hand-out in any way, shape, form or fashion. i'm looking for a way to put our miners truly back to work. >> bill: i can get that. >> back the work by the tens of thousands. >> bill: a lot of folks that

mine in the western part of the u.s. say these are not free market principles. and you just switched from a democrat to republican. what would you say to them about that? >> well, it's just a matter of national security. think about if you awaken to the fact the eastern coal fields are gone and there is a disruption. there is a bomb at a gas junction or at a bridge or two that is bringing western coal. what are we going to do? are you willing to take that level of exposure? i truly believe -- i'm not for a hand-out. i truly believe there will be a point in time to where we can truly maybe do without eastern coal. but today if you can take that risk, if we were to lose our power -- first of all if we had the mines still running in the east and had a disruption we could haul it to the power plants in the east, florida

power and light. duke energy or whatever. if the coal production is obsolete in the east, you are running a risk beyond belief as far as homeland security. if we lose our eastern power grid. >> bill: you made this proposal to the president directly. how did he respond? >> i think he really gets it. and he really understands it. and absolutely they are taking it into very serious consideration. this is not a way to expand gigantic coal tonnages but to put the coal miners back to work. if we don't do this we're willing to roll the dice and take a risk. just think, bill, we had the power go out one night in new york city and we had just an absolute melee. now, just think if we had a power disruption in the winter

for three months what would happen? we would lose hundreds of thousands of people. it's a risk i don't think we need to take. >> bill: we'll see if the president agrees with you. thank you for coming back. jim justice the former republican, turned democrat, turned republican. sir, thank you for your time. >> shannon: a development in a plot to bring down an australian plane last week. the terrorists using the most simple possible way to send a bomb halfway across the world. north korea channeling its threats into an actual battle plan? setting the u.s. territory of guam in its sights. what's the next move for this administration? a retired admiral is next. here is president trump. >> president trump: north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.

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>> shannon: stunning new details from the foiled terrorist plot to bring down a flight out of australia last month. we now know who made the explosives and how it got shipped via air mail from turkey to australia. security officials are calling this one of the most sophisticated plots ever attempted on australia soil. benjamin hall joins us live from london. is isis getting better about getting around western security? >> well, hi, shannon. certainly the ability to ship military grade plastic explosives halfway around the world on commercial air cargo is a great concern. whether it's a sign of sophistication or air cargo the weak link in safety is unclear. it was disrupted july 29th. the suspect had built the bomb, taken it to the airport but abandoned the plan before going through security. what we're learning is for more than three months the two

suspects, the brothers, were being directed, instructed and supplied by an isis commander inside syria. what's more all the components needed for the airplane bomb including the plastic explosives and devices needed to set it off had been shipped from turkey to australia by air cargo probably in a passenger jet allowing the brothers to build the bomb. authorities have known that isis has cells inside syria whose specific aim is to plan attacks against the west. this is yet another real sign of their growing ambition and now as they lose territory isis is clearly attempting to recruit abroad and carry out attacks wherever they can and so this is yet another example of the sophisticated terrorist supply chain around the world. you have to ask yourself if they were able to send explosives to australia where else have they sent them and what needs to be done on airplane security to change that? >> shannon: very important

questions. benjamin hall live in london. >> bill: a lot of questions on this, too. military upping the ante saying only absolute force with work on president trump. in the wake of its recent missile testing the rogue regime laying out battle plans targeting the u.s. territory of guam. robert natter, a former commander of the u.s. navy seventh fleet headquartered in japan. thank you for being with us. the territory of guam is about 2100 miles southeast of north korea. does north korea have the ability to hit this territory with accuracy? >> well, certainly the intelligence reports indicate that they can launch an icbm, they've proven that. whether it can be accurate enough to hit a specific target in guam, we don't know. >> bill: that's an outstanding issue. how about this question then?

when you look at the length of travel from north korea to u.s. l.a. 5900. new york 68 and washington, d.c. 6800 miles. does north korea have the ability to launch a missile into the atmosphere, allow it to reenter the atmosphere and still stay in one piece to deliver its payload? >> well, again the assessments indicate that they can -- they have a missile that has the range. whether they have the technology and the miniaturization to have a survival warhead enter back into the atmosphere and hit the target that they aim at is unknown to the public certainly. and i would argue that on the intelligence side it's an assessment, not a known fact. >> bill: what concerns you the most when you throw these ifs out there and you look at hawaii could be hit in 20 minutes or l.a. half an hour, chicago 40 minutes, likewise for new york city?

>> not much time and certainly a surprise launch and attack would be the most worrisome. we can be rest assured, though, as a public that our military has the systems that can be effective against these launches. of course, a lot of systems have to work together in a complex equation with some real challenging kinematics to make it work. we have the best systems in the world to do this and we need to continue to improve those systems. >> bill: rex tillerson yesterday in guam said americans should not be concerned. what do you think about that? >> i think that's appropriate at this point. listen, we've heard north korea leadership make outrageous statements in the past. i don't think we're at the brink of a nuclear launch out of north korea. having said that, we need to be

vigilant, we need to be ready and we certainly are on the military side. if north korea is stupid enough to do something like this to attempt something like this, they will suffer dire consequences. >> bill: james mattis said this. the actions will continually to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates. i want to draw your attention to a clip from 1999. tim russert asking private citizen donald trump about north korea. watch. >> you say that you as president would be willing to launch a preemptive strike against north korea's nuclear capability. >> first i would negotiate. i would negotiate like crazy. these people in three or four years will have nuclear weapons and have those weapons pointed all over the world and at the united states. wouldn't it be good to sit down and negotiate something? if that negotiation doesn't work you better solve the problem now than solve it

later, tim. you know it and every politician knows it and nobody wants to talk bit. we tried to bribe them into stopping and they're continuing to do what they're doing and laughing at us and think we're a bunch of dummies. you want to do it in fire years when they have warheads when they're pointing to washington and every one of our cities? you better do it now. >> bill: that's 17 years ago now. can we negotiate our way out of this now? >> only with china's assistance and active involvement. with that, i don't think so. >> bill: admiral, thank you for your time. we'll rely on your expertise on all of this. hope you can come. >> shannon: a legal fight over the second amendment brewing in one state could have implications for gun owners. a veteran forced to give up his constitutional rights in order to foster parent his grandson. a terrifying story showing a man poisoning someone's water

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boy. a spokeswoman for the nra. good to see you, dana. does it surprise you at all? >> shannon, so good to see you. it does in a way but at the same time this is one in a long line of examples where we have seen in my opinion the state going about trying to sort of push people into certain belief modes and behavioral -- we saw this with catholic charities in illinois where it concerned same-sex marriage. my heart breaks for the family. the johnsons have already been through something having to take their grandson from their daughter. they have the option of fostering him but with the state telling them he has to give up his second amendment rights to do so. it's weird. when you look in laws of different states where it concerns fostering they say make sure your firearms are locked up, that your ammunition is stored separately but it doesn't address when you are concealed carry, your everyday

carry piece. and i am concerned. i'm concerned not on behalf of the nra members but other american citizens who want to have their second amendment rights. the state wants to play politics. if anything i would think that concealed carriers would be great prospects for foster and adoptive parents. they've gone through a background check and proven to be the most well-behaved sub sect of american society. if anything, they've proven that they're worthy. >> shannon: let's talk about children's rights. a group says it's non-profit advocacy group. 428,000 kids in foster kids. they need homes. the executive director, "the new york times" reports what he has to say. states have a legitimate right to monitor gun ownership and other common sense safety

measures. becoming a foster parent is not a right, it's a privilege. that's what he said. here is a little bit of the explanation about why johnson has so many guns. he had nine weapons. keeps them for self-defense not only against humans but against the animals. coyote and bear that roam the woods near his home. with the exception of his handgun all the weapons are kept locked up. >> that makes sense and why so many other american citizens have firearms as well. but to the point of this organization, they say it's not a right to be an adoptive or foster parent. that's true. it is the right of an american citizen to bear arms. there is nothing on which they're basing this. if they're concerned about accidental deaths involving children it is car accidents, it's drownings, shannon. there are a number of other causes that rank so much more higher than accidental gun deaths. if they want to be consistent they also need to regulate those as well and maybe then

harshly check individuals that own automobiles or that own pools, things of that nature that take more lives accidentally of children than firearms do a year. >> shannon: we're told in this whole filing in this story the grandparents say the state came to them to ask them to become foster parents. something they sound like they're more than happy to do but not something they were seeking. the state comes to them and they claim the caseworkers in this case said they would have to turn over the serial numbers of every one of their guns, give up their constitutional rights or they don't get the grandson. that's a tough bargain. >> it is a pretty tough bargain and a defacto gun registry. this is a responsible adult such as this veteran. gun safety and firearms knowledge it is this veteran which is doubly awful this whole entire story. but again, concealed carriers have shown to be the most well-behaved segment of

american society and they go through so much. for instance, in texas the background check that we undertake in texas for conceal to carry permit holders and this is what i was told in the class and i've taken numerous classes. they said it's more stringent than the background check you would receive if you were pulled over for a traffic stop by texas police. it is actually one of the most stringent background checks in the country. when someone is undergoing a background check to become a concealed carry permit holder they've already proven they are a great prospect to become a foster or adoptive parent. they're upstanding member of society. you would think these organizations would thank these people for vetting themselves so freely like this. >> shannon: it heads to court now and you'll track the case as we will as well. two interesting and important competing sides here, dana, thank you very much. >> bill: 11 minutes before the hour now. city council, routine city council meeting take a bizarre turn.

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>> major developments in a car attack near paris that wounded a group of soldiers. what we're learning about the suspect behind the wheel and new revelations concerning the flow of deadly opioids streaming across our southern border where the feds say dangerous cartels are now getting their supply. a leading expert on concussions makes a bold statement arguing parents who let their children play football should be accused of child abuse. seven minutes away at the top of the hour "happening now." >> bill: dow taken a hit.

off more than 100 points. see what happens today as a major shake-up for the tobacco industry with the fda rolling out new policy plans. doug mcelway live in d.c. on this. what can you tell us about the new policy? >> the fda commissioner hasn't come to a formal decision yet. this new proposal would require tobacco companies to reduce the nicotine content in smoking products significantly. they won't provide an exact percentage. anti-smoking groups say it will put tobacco companies to the test. >> if this policy goes through it will for the first time put the test to the tobacco companies claim that smoking is a free choice. if you eliminate the nicotine, if you reduce the addictiveness of the product the smokers will have a real free choice. phillip morris international has been promoting itself as a company that wants to move current tobacco users from products that kill them to products that don't kill them. we'll find out if they mean it.

>> some question whether the proposed change will actually work among adult long-time smokers. it is nicotine they crave. if nicotine is reduced, some fear long-time smokers may seek black-market alternatives to get their fix. >> they find it helps them concentrate and relaxes them. these are the individuals who have quite a bit of trouble quitting, which is why again a safer way to get nicotine is a godsend for people like this because it is without the combustion. there is no tobacco, nothing burned. >> nicotine is addictive and not what kills smokers. the danger in tobacco products is the smoke itself. the tar, that is linked to cancer and other illnesses. >> the fda is trying to regulate vaping. >> the agency is behind british and canadian health authorities

recognizing the smoke-free benefits of vaping. they're embarking on a study to regulate vaping products and the fda is launching a campaign to dissuade children and teens from vaping. >> bill: thank you, doug. >> shannon: north korea doubling down on threats. the rogue regime laying out a battle plan with its sights set on the u.s. territory of guam. a live report straight ahead.

>> shannon: this happened in nevada. >> >> shannon: a woman's purse exploded. it was sitting in her lap. fortunately, the fire chief happen to be there. the woman suffered some berms, but nothing serious. apparently a malfunctioning battery in her cell phone caused it. i have a lot of stuff in my purse, as you know. >> bill: the folks need to

understand, you've got that big bag everywhere you go. i think it would give you back issues if you don't unload a few things. what's in the purse? see you friday. >> jon: with sir with a fox news alert on the war of words heating up now between north korea showdown. they unveiled details to attack the u.s. territory of guam. looking to "happening now," i'm jon scott. >> melissa: and i am melissa francis. a major military hub home to u.s. bombers and 160,000 american u.s. citizens. they say the plan will be in place just days from now. this as kim jong-un calls pr