the ball player, he came back with a fresh tray of nachos. how good is that? sports at its best. i'm sandra smith. here's shep. >> shepard: it's 3:00 on capitol hill where the republican's latest effort to repeal obamacare is officially dead. at least for now. president trump turning his attention to tax reform or tax cuts and promising a new plan tomorrow. >> we will cut taxes tremendously for the middle class. not just a little bit. tremendously. >> shepard: how will it affect everybody's paychecks? the parents of a student held prisoner in north korea before his death ripping into the regime and speaking about seeing their son for the first time following his release. >> otto was on the stretcher across in the plane. he was jerking violently, making these unhumane sounds.

>> shepard: within days, he was dead. ahead, heart break from parents who had to bare their child. as the trump administration announces new penalties against north korea's, the president responds to their littest threats. let's get to it. >> shepard: the breaking news, the latest republican healthcare plan will not even make it for a vote. senate republicans in the last hour decided against moving forward with the graham-cassidy bill. the plan would have given federal money to states so that the states could come up with their own health insurance systems. one of the bill's co sponsors, lindsey graham, says even though the vote is not happening this week, he's not confident the plan sets the stage for eventually changing obamacare. >> the missing ingredient for us

is republicans, we know what we don't like. obamacare is not working. we make that case effectively. we've had a hard time articulating what we're for until now. >> shepard: certainly a major setback for republicans who for the better part of a decade have promised to repeal and replace. of course after republicans took control of the house and both chambers, they have not been able to do it. hours before senate republicans called off the vote, president trump blasted members of his party that came out against the plan. >> at some point there will be a repeal and replace. we'll see whether or not that point is now or shortly thereafter. we are disappointed that certain so-called republicans. >> shepard: so-called republicans. we suppose he meant these. these are the four republican senators that said they were against the plan killing it. republicans could have lost two votes and passed health care. even though the texas senator ted cruz said he was against the

plan, susan collins put the nail in the collins when she said she wouldn't support another one-sided healthcare plan. >> the democratic party made a huge mistake in pushing through the affordable care act without a single republican vote. it's a mistake for my party to repeat that error. >> shepard: the senator announced her decision after the congressional budget office reported millions of americans would lose coverage under that bottle. the nonpartisan office estimated the plan would cut $1 trillion from medicaid over the next decade. senator collins called that devastating. a day later, her decision ended her party's chance to change obamacare. our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill. mike, not unsurprising in any way but a wake-up. >> yeah, shep, the reality is they didn't have the votes. the sponsors of the bill didn't

want to put it on the senate floor and have another high-profile healthcare vote failure. senator lindsey graham is saying it's not over yet. he says they will get back to it after tax reform. mitch mcconnell talked moments ago against next steps. >> we haven't given up on changing the american healthcare system. we're not going to do that this week. but it's still lies ahead of us and we haven't given up on that we do think it's time to turn to our twin priority, reforming the tax code. we've reached significant agreements to go forward and i'm optimistic we'll achieve that. >> that turns up the pressure on getting tax reform done. they had four no votes at least on graham-cassidy at this point. graham says they will get back to it, selling better after they do tax reform. it's not entirely clear how they get the four to come around, shep. >> shepard: regarding healthcare what are you hearing from

democrats? >> democrats are saying they're proud that their side stuck together from the most moderate to the most liberal members. they all opposed graham cassidy. top democrats on the hill are saying it's not over yet. they expect the fight to continue. >> we democrats believe this is not a day for celebration, but a day to roll up our sleeves and work to make the healthcare system better than it is today. the bottom line is simple. the reason this bill failed is because millions of americans didn't want it. >> democrats are now calling for a return to the bipartisan talks headed by senator lamar alexander, a republican and patty murray, a senator from washington state, a democrat. they were working on some bipartisan fixes of obamacare, some things they could get done to improve the lives of consumers around the country. they said they were making progress until the talks were called off about a week ago to see if graham cassidy could get

done before the end of the fiscal year. the end of this week, shep. >> shepard: mike, thank you. the latest failed efforts to change obamacare, they called it repeal and replace, but they admit is a change, another big loss for the white house. president trump campaigned heavily on the promise of repealing and replacing president obama's healthcare law. he wanted to sign the bill his first day in office and that was the plan. john roberts live on the north lawn with more. john? >> good afternoon. the president not very happy about this. this is the second or third go-around that they've tried to get obamacare repealed and replaced. they thought they had the formula right. but it seems it's not going to happen, even though the white house is holding out some hope. i'll get to that in a second. you saw the president when he met with a bipartisan group from the house ways and committee calling them so-called republicans. he's incensed for the fact that

they ran for seven years and won elections on the promise of repeal and replace obamacare. now they're doing neither. so i don't know if the president will decide if he wants to go forward with some different system that he can bring democrats in to it or try for another reconciliation bill in the next fiscal year. he still wants to get this done. they're holding out the slimmest of hopes that they might get something done in the next couple days. they think that they can bring ted cruz to their side. they also hold out help that lisa murkowski, the senator from alaska might come on board and they have very, very slim hope that maybe talks with rand paul that have been ongoing the last few days might bear fruit and rand paul might decide, you know what? i'm going to vote for this and give the president a victory. somebody that i talked to in the rand paul camp earlier today said in order for rand paul to sign on this, they have to get rid of the block grants to the

state or reduce them, which they don't believe will happen. so it looks like it's going to die a death and the president will have to make up how he's going to proceed. he wants democratic support when it comes to tax reform. he believes he can't rely on his own party to get that across the finish line. >> shepard: and as rhetorical flourishes accelerate against north korea, the president says he's prepared to launch military action against that nation. >> well, we saw with the north korean foreign minister. he thought that what the president tweeted, not what he said at the united nations general assembly. what he tweeted amounted to a declaration of war and threatened to shoot down u.s. military aircraft even if they were in international airspace.

the president had a global response to the whole idea. listen here. >> we're totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option. if we take that option, it will be devastating. it will be devastating for north korea. that's called the military option. if we have to take it, we will. various administrations, many administrations that left me a mess. i'll fix the mess. so we'll see what happens. >> the president reiterated in the rose garden press conference that military options are on the table against the maduro regime in venezuela if they don't take steps to restore democracy in that country. the president hoping that sanctions will take hold and encouraging his partner from the european union, the spanish prime minister to get on board with sanctions against venezuela. the spanish prime minister said his country along with other members of the e.u. are looking into tougher new sanctions against venezuela to try to bring the maduro regime to heel. shep? >> shepard: on the russia

investigation, there's breaking news. fox news has just confirmed a cnn report that the special counsel, robert mueller, has asked to interview current white house staffers as early as this week. john, do we have the details on this? >> we reported a few weeks ago that robert mueller wanted to interview five or six people current and former staffers at the white house. sources say that the first of those interviews could happen when -- marine one is leaving the white house for andrews. the president is going to new york city and meeting folks at the u.n. mission. he has a fund raiser there tonight. we told you a few weeks ago that robert mueller was interested in talking to five or six current former white house officials. a source tells me the first of the interviews could happen later on this week. the people that are current staffers that mueller would be

looking into is jared kushner and a couple of aides that were with the president aboard air force one coming back from the g-20 meeting when they crafted that statement from don jr. when he was talking about the june 9th, 2016 meeting with the russian attorney. so we could see those interviews begin as early as this week. kushner could be the first up in that. >> shepard: now to the topic of puerto rico. those that survived the hurricanes found that was the only beginning of a long nightmare. it's a desperate situation there. millions are living in the 90-degree heat without electricity. access to food and water and medical supplies is scarce. this is the line outside a grocery store in san juan. entire communities are demolished, banks are closed. atm machines don't work. there's hours long lines for necessities like gasoline. people lining up to fill plastic cans with a few gallons. the storm knocked out a lot of cell phone towers on the island

making communication all but impossible in many areas. here dozens of people have stopped on a main roadway near one of the few remaining towers that works. some calling relatives in the united states just to let them know they're alive. president trump has been taking heat for not focusing on puerto rico. today he announced he's going to the island tuesday of next week. back to john roberts. the president defended his administration's emergency response to puerto rico, john. >> he's been getting criticism for focusing more on the nfl over the weekend than focused puerto rico and a series of tweets. the president tweeted texas and florida are doing great. but puerto rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt is in double trouble. the old electrical grid was devastated and much of the island destroyed with billions owed to wall streets and the banks that must be dealt with. food and medical a top priority and doing well.

the president defending the federal government's response saying he's got lots and lots of palates of water arriving and a navy ship on the way. he admits it was a tough situation before the hurricane and is even tougher now. listen here. >> puerto rico didn't get hit by one hurricane. they got hit by two hurricanes. they were among the biggest we've ever seen. we have our top people from fema and they have been there. we are unloading on an hourly basis massive supplies of food and water for puerto rico. this is unlike floor where we can go up the spine or up texas where we go down the middle and distribute, this is a thing called the atlantic ocean. it's tough stuff. >> the president saying logistically it's difficult to get supplies there. the president, by the way, shep, will be visiting the u.s. virgin

islands. looks like it's next tuesday. i'm hoping for wednesday, shep, becauser with pool, which would allow me to make another trip to a disaster area with the president. shep? >> shepard: john roberts live at the white house. more ahead from puerto rico. geraldo is there. he will join us with more about helping millions of americans after the storm. some republicans are saying they're not giving up on the healthcare repeal. just in to fox news from sky news in the united kingdom, hear this. sau sau saudi arabia will allow women to drive cars for the first time. that have many difference reasons that women can't drive. some say women might not handle women driving cars next to them. one cleric claiming that driving

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but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >> shepard: breaking news. we learned there's about to be an additional briefing from the white house. something we didn't know about earlier. the fema administrator block long will hold a briefing from

the white house at this microphone on the latest hurricane efforts. we're expecting that shortly. in addition, the president has just left or in fact is leaving now from the white house heading to new york city where he will hold a fund raiser, what they're calling a trump victory diner in new york city. victory dinner. it's a fund raiser at the fancy lecirque restaurant. the president will be there for a fund raiser in new york city. he's departing on air force one shortly. drivers and pedestrians in new york city take heed! should be an interesting afternoon. senate republicans say they are not giving up changing obamacare after their latest effort died for a lack of support in their own party. so no vote this week. but they're still looking for a path forward. turn to a.b. stoddard, associate

editor from real clear politics and host of no limits radio on sirius xm. between started by joe lieberman and john huntsman. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: looking for a path forward. they didn't have a path forward last time or this time. where are they going to find a path forward as brock long is making his way to the microphone. hang on, a.b. is that what you said? pointing to my ear. i assumed there might be a picture, a.b., sounds like he's being introduced. why don't you answer the question, what is the path forward i'm talking about? >> isn't a path forward. that's what they have to say every time one of their appeal efforts dies. they can't repeal it. they have to fix it. they don't want to work with democrats. they don't want to be accused by

the conservative voter whose they a promised they would take care of this for seven years, that they're going to shore up the obama law and going to help it become stronger so they keep trying to get rid of it. they can't. they don't have the votes, the trump voters want a deeper safety net. the whole feeling about obamacare has changed in the states and the republicans don't have the votes anymore to obliterate it. >> shepard: a.b., you've been breaking newsed. let's listen in. >> previously impacted by hurricanes irma and harvey in florida and texas and other certain states. fema has had personnel stationed in puerto rico before hurricane irma through hurricane maria. you've been on site for weeks and continue to work with the governor. with our partners, we continue co conduct 24-hour operations

bringing additional search and rescue essential commodities, food and water, to the islands, restoring power at hospitals, ports, airports and other critical facilities. there's thousands of federal staff from female, department of defense and other federal agencies in puerto rico and in the u.s. virgin islands supporting those governors in response and recovery. while significant progress has been made, the full recovery on the islands will be long. we will be with them through the recovery as access to ports, air fields and roads continues to open, which is not very open yet, more resources will continue to flow into the hard-hit areas. we continue to stand with the people of puerto rico and the virgin islands and remain 100% committed to our full response and recovery efforts. the president is fully committed

and has brought the cabinet together for a full federal response in supporting puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. i'll turn it over to administrator long. >> so the objectives continue to be clear, take care of people and stabilize the situation and do everything we can to sustain life. as the secretary state, we've had a large force on the islands since before irma and we're continuing to bolster and grow that force. this is a logistically challenging, very unique event that the united states hasn't seen in a very, very long time if ever because you have to remember that not only did irma come through and create damage and destruction that we were working to repair, but maria was one miles per hour away from being a category five storm. one of the strongest storms that puerto rico has seen since the 20s. let's face it.

the infrastructure is weak and there were no building codes. so there's a lot of devastation. we understand that. here's the other major challenge that we face. it's an island. we don't just drive trucks and resources on to an island. so with the damage, you had extensive damage to the air traffic control systems, which meant sequencing life safety flights into the area, into the one airport that we could get on, san juan initially, is incredibly difficult. you have to prioritize who accesses the island and what you're sending. so what we did on top of the forces that we had in puerto rico, was to continue to sequence those flights first, take command and control of the airport to make sure that we can get the flights in and then sequence those in of life-saving commodities, meals, water. right now we have over four million meals on the island. we have six liters of water on the island which we're working to distribute. the bottom line is, not only do you have to take control of the airport, stabilize the

situation, today we opened up roosevelt row to increase the flights to get in. we're looking to open another airport that does a couple things. alleviates the commercial -- getting commercial flights out of san juan but the capability to get life-saving teams in. if you're going to puerto rico right now, it should be a life support mission. everybody that is trying to get in that is not supporting that is getting in the way. now, the next thing that has to happen, we're dramatically increasing the federal food print that is there. we're mobilizing our partners in the dod, putting forward a force of thousands of people that are mobilizing as we speak to increase fuel distribution, communications. helping to make sure that we can

transport safely and securely the food and the water to the areas that we need to get to. we understand there's some areas still isolated. we've been conducting air drops. there's numerous search and rescues taking place. we have over ten task forces operating not only in puerto rico but we can't forget the virgin islands. we're working that event as well. we continue to stabilize the situation. the other challenge we face, unfortunately because of the severity of the hit, there's diminished capacity of local governments and state governments to respond similar to what we saw with texas and florida. so therefore, it is requiring us to push forward a lot of resourcr resourc resources, including the u.s.s. comfort, which is on the way. you can't just mobilize ships. there has to be port space. it has to be safe.

the federal government is working around the clock to support the governor of puerto rico with the initiatives to take forward. >> all of these natural disasters that you have had to deal with in the last month have to have taxed your budget going forward. so what assurances do you have from the president and congress that they'll continue to help you out in that regard? how do you think it could take on the ground there puerto rico -- i heard there's people trying to be involved that are not able to get to the island. how long will it be down the road for those people to get there? >> two-part question. first of all, congress has been working with us around the clock to give us the authority to do our job. we're not running out of money. is money low? sure. but in october one, we have a supplemental that comes into play and we'll continue. my guys are constantly in

contact not only with secretary duke and to congress to say we may be in for a problem. let's anticipate that. get the money flowing. the second thing that happened today, the president proactively approved 100% reimbursement for the first 10 to 180 days of this response to puerto rico and the virgin islands. that gives us the assurance from the private sector to come in, do the job, they'll be paid. not only bring the full force of the federal government but the whole community and the private sector. there was a second part. >> the people trying to get to the island. >> right. capacities increasing daily. it's increasing daily from the standpoint of we're establishing the support bases of the other two airports in addition to san juan as well as the port space. what we're asking them to do, basically going through our

website to sequence everything. can't just deploy and shove everything in at the same time. >> for those that might be able to hear your voice, either now or later today, you have established benchmarks for your team to get things advanced in puerto rico. how can people there now things are progressing and how -- i know you want to improve the island. secondly, you talked about naval assets are. any other nasal assets contemplated or deployed? >> we have 16 ships that we haven't talked about in the media. we have 16 ships operating. that's the coast guard and our dod partners. ten ships in route over the next 48 continuing to bring generators, emergency power as well as more additional food and

water that is coming in. take the governor at his word. the governor has been -- i've been in direct communication. i was with him and the governor yesterday and reconfirming that we're not missing anything. we understand there's gaps and people that can't communicate. part of the problem is because the tell communications has been knocked out, makes people nervous. people expect the worse. you have to take the governor after his own word. >> [question inaudible] >> the benchmarks over the next 48 hours is the dod force that i just talked about, sustainment force is rolling into town. they're going to be trickling in in force. we're talking thousands of soldiers. >> in san juan. >> in puerto rico. >> we've heard reports of

martial come into effect. what is the security system there? >> we are supporting the governor. he has his national guard troops. we have dod working with us in terms of supporting the governor and our recovery. like i said earlier, we're adding additional convoys to do distribution into the more remote areas of the island. we feel confident that will stay. >> is there martial law in puerto rico? >> not to my knowledge. we have heard nothing from the governor to declare marshal law. >> it's about correctly allocating the resources that you have currently on the island. so for security purposes, the national guard that has already been there for a very long time and activated, providing security forces what we're bringing in is just going to bolster everything on top of

that. >> it's being compared to hurricane katrina-like devastation. is it that bad? what your assessment? >> every hurricane is unique. one of the difficulties in the virgin islands and in puerto rico is the total -- because they're smaller islands, the total devastation. in the virgin islands and in puerto rico, we had zero power. it's going to take a long time to restore the power grid. we don't have the adjacent areas from which to deploy like we did in katrina. i'll tell you one thing that is working, the forward-leaning of the president and declaring a disaster declaration very early and the governor and asking for help and fema being on the ground. i think it's very different response. >> does the administration plan to ask congress for another supplemental kicking in? >> we don't have a dollar figure. we're working with the needs.

we believe we will need additional beyond the october 1 increments. >> let me tell you what we have taken action to this point. you know, puerto rico has power on the island. i spoke to the diminished capacity to get that back. when i say "diminished capacity", the power workers, the first responders are disaster survivors. they may have lost everything. we recognize that we have asked the army corps of engineers to basically take oversight and management of not only the emergency power restoration and the initial part of rebuilding the entire grid. the entire rebuild of the grid, that's a long process. if we do it, we got to do it right. we don't want to wind up having this same discussion ten, 20, 30 years from now. >> so the army corps of engineers -- >> they're on the island, yes. >> are there any lessons that

we've learned by these big storms that we're getting better at addressing? second question very quickly is there any fear besides climate change -- >> we're focused on response and coverry. that's what we're doing at dhs and fema. what we have learned is not losing any time. on harvey and this hurricane, maria, the president declared the disaster before the eye hit landfall that is absolutely critical to allowing us to come in and support of the governor before the disaster really hits. to me that has been a game-changer. >> i think the last 35 days have been a gut check for americans that we don't have a true culture of preparedness in this country. we have work to do. whether it's in education, being ready. it's not just saying, hey, have

three days of supplies ready to go. it's greater than that it's the finances and ability to overcome emergencies. we have to hit the reset button starting at a young age and filtering up. >> one last question. >> [question inaudible] >> puerto rico was hurt before the disaster hit. the president has provided for 100% reimbursement of all the major response efforts by the federal government for the first 180 days that will get us to a point that we can reassess. thank you all. >> thank you, folks. >> shepard: so puerto rico needs a lot of help and a lot of time

ahead. geraldo is live at the airport. i've been reading about this. i'm hearing it's a mess there. >> it is a mess. jammed. main terminal is jammed, shep, with people desperate to get out of puerto rico. at the urging of the governor, he says anybody that doesn't have to be here should leave. the problem is there's been so few flights out. united airlines stepped up to the plate amid stories of price gouging and flights cancelled for a week or two even, united has put on a 777 flight that was leaving for chicago. i've been on an aircraft carrier the last couple hours. i don't know if the 777 took off. united offered free of charge to get people out of here. the governor wants people bringing supplies, desperately

needed. to me, it's almost mind boggling how slow the relief effort has been. there's been one relief flight all day yesterday. they were trying to swap out the air traffic controllers here at the san juan airport. just doesn't seem that the pedal has been put to the metal if you get my meaning. this is a catastrophe with food supplies are short, but with no water and no power, everyone is using generators. the generators need fuel. so you have the six to eight hour lines at the airport, shep. it's melancholy and depressing. you want this relief machine to get up and going. the kids in the white here are from the more mormon church. these are new york firefighters. they just got here.

what is needed, it's like the old song, you need linemen from the county. glen campbell song. you need telephone poles, we need people that know how to put the grid back in action. we need people that can -- imagine if you left in a 12-story condo and you have no water and electricity. every time you flush the toilet, you need a gallon of water. where the hell you going to get it? the situation is getting more and more dire. i just appreciate what i heard about the commonwealth getting together to mount a real effective relief effort. but because this doesn't have the drama of the winds blowing and the floods creeping up, you know -- my fear is the people don't recognize this is a slowly unfolding human catastrophe, a disaster from one end to the other. back to you. >> shepard: a lot of concerns about the very old and the very

young. how they will refrigerate food and medicine and how they can survive. do we need to be thinking of a bigger plan? >> what i would do, shep -- you hurt me with that question. what i would do, you need ships full of generators. you need -- people want to send ice. the ice will melt. the food will spoil. the old-timers with their medicine, they need it three times a day, need it refrigerated. we just left the aircraft carrier, the helicopter carrier run by the navy. marines are now ashore. they're visiting hospitals and bringing generators to them. that's the kind of practicingmatic aid that they need here. they don't need good wishes. even money doesn't it. we need to get the island back on the grid. it's in the dark ages now, shep. >> shepard: for the generators

you need fuel is. there enough of that? is there a possibility of mounting a huge generator relief ship as you mentioned? >> as far as i know, by the way the time i got on the aircraft carrier before i lost coms with the main airport, the big harbor here at night is not operational. you need bulk here. there's 3.4 million people. it's one thing if a disaster strikes. 3.4 million people, many elderly because of the financial crisis here. many of the able-bodied, the strong middle class have gone to florida already or new york. they saw irma coming. they saw jose and now maria. what is left is the old folks. i'm getting all of these texts. i can read you texts i'm getting

from family in the bronx. some of my relatives, others in the other parts of the community they have not heard from yet. i think they're okay. but they are out of touch. the cell service -- there's no cell service here. it's very, very spotty. very frustrating. there's no coordination. when i go on the roads this long after the hurricanes and still see telephone poles sitting across the highway or big road signs crushed into the middle lane of a three-lane highway, my point here, shep, is that this is an extremely dire situation that unless it's going to become the kind of screwed up response that katrina was, we have to see practical results and the practical results are put some people back online. get some temporary cell towers

up. rather than the big c-5s and the c-130s and the c-17 sitting on the tarmac, why aren't the skies filled with commercial airliners bringing stuff, supplies in? this has been -- i'm not criticizing anybody. don't get me wrong here. but this -- that's why i want use the term bungled response but it's been an uneven response, shep. >> shepard: geraldo with the facts on the ground. they need generators. get them generators. the death of an american student in north korea is more serious than we new. the parents of otto warmbier talk about the first time they saw their son and their reali realizization that he would

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>> shepard: the parents tell us he was blind and deaf, howling and jerking violently.

the father of otto warmbier said that was the condition of his son when he arrived in the united states after more than a year in captivity in north korea. otto warmbier was arrested for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel. they later sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor for that. north korean official says he slipped into a coma after taking a slipping pill and got botulism. his parents say they tortured him. >> shep, the parents are heart broken. they said they had three months to come together and do some healing. they acknowledged they were not prepared to see what they saw. here's fred warmbier's heart-rendering take on what it

was like to see his son at the airport. you'll hear him talking about cindy, greta and austin. >> we were in a waiting room with the medical team as the plane arrived. it was determined the medical team would go on the plane before our family. they went on the plane, five minutes or so later, they came down and said it was time for our family to go to the plane. it was myself, cindy, austin and greta. we walked over to the plane. the engines are still humming. they just landed. we walked up the steps. when we get halfway up the steps, we heard this howling involuntarily, unhuman sound. we weren't certain what it was. we climbed to the top of the steps and we looked in and otto was on the stretcher across in the plane. he was jerking violently making

these inhuman sounds. cindy and greta ran off the plane. austin and i walked over to otto. otto had a shaved head. he had a feeding tube coming out of his nose. he was staring blankly into space jerking violently. he was blind. he was deaf. we looked at him and tried to comfort him. looked like scene had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth. within two day of being home, his fever spiked to 104 degrees. he had a large scar on his right foot. north korea is not a victim. they're terrorists. >> they destroyed him. >> they purposely and intentionally injured otto. >> north korea has denied claims that otto warmbier was tortured

or treated cruelly saying he was dealt with according to domestic laws and international standards. u.s. intelligence reports say warmbier was badly beaten in custody, shep. >> shepard: it seems like in the early going, trace, hear it from the family, they thought he would fully recover before they -- reality set in. >> they did. when the warmbiers were waiting on their son's plane to arrive back in the united states, they thought hi would be in a medically induced coma and with the best doctors and a lot of love, that he would come out of it. here's cindy warmbier talking about how she and her daughter reacted to the first scene of otto and his condition. >> when greta ran off the plane and i was so worried because she was screaming. our image of otto as you know is of someone just wonderful. beautiful inside and out to see how he came home was too much

for us. i almost -- i got it together. i rode in the ambulance with him. i didn't want him to be alone anymore. he had been alone for way too long. we stayed with him. loved him as best we could. no parent should have gone through what we went through. the fact that otto was alone all that time with no one to comfort him is unexcusable. whatever happened, i mean, why would you do this? >> otto warmbier tied less than a week after returning to the united states. doctors said he was in the state of unresponsive wakefulness and suffered a neurological injury that likely occurred shortly after he was sentenced to 15 months. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live for us. thank you, trace. president trump's former adviser roger stone speaking to

reporters after he testified about russian meddling in the election. he said he told lawmakers he knows nothing about any collusion. we'll hear from him and judge andrew napolitano joins us next. hey you've gotta see this. c'mon.

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>> former donald trump campaign adviser roger stone says there's not one shred of evidence. and that's a quote. roger stone appeared in front of members of the house intelligence committee today. the panel is investigating moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign. let's bring in judge andrew napolitano. roger stone.

>> roger stone's complaint is that the allegations against him were public, but his answers are not because he begged the committee to interrogate him in public rather than behind closed doors. the policy of the committee is to interrogate behind closed doors and decide if they want to do it in public. so we know of his certain and loud and articulate and forceful denials in his opening statement because he released that. we don't know what questions they asked him. >> shepard: breaking news out of tennessee, this is from politco. this is from nashville. bob corker will not run for re-election. he's just made the announcement saying when i ran for the senate in 2006, i couldn't imagine to serve more than two terms. he's not running again. one other matter is this matter of e-mails. there's members of the trump transition team when they got -- the election happened and the swearing in happened and the

inauguration happened, they continued to use private e-mail for correspondence. no evidence that there's anything classified on that but brings up the old hillary clinton things -- >> makes you wonder why the white house wasn't concerned about this with all of the problems this produced during the campaign. so if there was classified materials on it, it's a serious issue. we have of none. >> shepard: none at all. >> when you work for the government, the government owns your e-mails even on those on your personal account. so technically that's keeping government property. if you surrender it over, it's over with. it's a bit of a black eye for an administration that made a big deal about it. >> shepard: lock her up. >> yes. >> shepard: that's different. she had a private e-mail server. there's more to it from my understanding about it, once you get into office or you serve in the gift and you get something

on your g mail, you take that g mail and forward it to your government account. could be oversight. who know what it is but worth bringing up. >> seems to be caught before any damage was done. one cannot overlook the irony. >> for this bob corker seat in tennessee, an important member down there, ran against harold ford jr. from 2006. >> he was the harshest republican critic of the president when he called him up stable. >> he's not running again. that will leave an opening there in the state of tennessee for many millions battle. >> i think harold ford will be moving back to tennessee quickly. >> you think so? >> yes. >> shepard: harold ford. might give him a call and see what he's doing. politics interesting. thanks, judge. >> always a pleasure. >> shepard: they'll shut things

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>> neil: all right. this could be tax cut eve. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. tomorrow is the day, the day that donald trump and the g.o.p. roll out details of the tax cut the president says will be the biggest since ronald reagan's. the devil is in the details, right? and wanting to know whether the rich benefit or not. whether you benefit or not. so much attention is on this, particularly after failed health care effort yet again. republicans are hoping that this is their hail mary pass. and they have got to make it happen. to fox business network's deidra bolton on what she's learning