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>> so big day. >> another one. >> trump on taxes. what's on "outnumbered"? >> chris stirewalt. >> jon: that's a big reveal. president trump hits the road again to sell his tax reform plan to the people. this time with a special focus on truckers. good morning to you, welcome to "happening now." i'm jon scott. >> melissa: good morning, i'm melissa francis. the president stopping in pennsylvania later today where he will speak to a crowd at the harrisburg international airport. big rigs will be part of the background. president trump will pitch his plan as a boon to truckers who are expected to make up a good portion of his audience tonight. during a white house meeting with henry kissinger yesterday saying his strategy will benefit all americans. >> president trump: people want to see tax cuts.
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they want to see major reductions in their taxes and they want to see tax reform. that's what we're doing. >> melissa: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn with more on this one. what do we expect, john? >> good morning. very often big rig trucks are used as a security screen at outdoor events the president attends but the president is trying to make it difficult for members of congress, particularly members of congress on the democratic side up for reelection in 2018, difficult to say no to him. he has the speech in harrisburg later on today scheduled for 5:45. he will speak predominantly to a group of truckers and owners of trucking companies saying that they will benefit from the president's tax plan and in the speech he will say nothing gets done in america without the hard working men and women of the trucking industry. when your trucks are moving, america is growing and why my
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administration is removing the barriers that slow you down. american first means putting american truckers first. the former chief executive of cke restaurants and one-time nominee for labor secretary explained how the plan will benefit truckers. >> it is great for small businesses, the lower tax rate for pass-through entities like the trucking companies he will talk to today. when they are paying taxes, they are paying this higher individual rate. they will be able to pay 25%, which would be great for growth. they can buy more trucks, invest, hire people. it is an excellent tax plan. >> the president also for the first time today will make an estimate on what repatriating corporate funds overseas will mean for taxpayers. he will say today we will impose a one-time low tax for money overseas so it can be brought back home to america where it belongs.
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we estimate this change alone would likely give the typical american household a $4,000 pay raise. in addition to tax reform and tax cuts there are other things on the president's mind including the nfl letter to owners and chief executives of the teams. roger goodell saying he wants players to stands up for the national anthem. the president tweeting this morning, quote, it is about time that roger goodell is finally demanding all players stand for the national anthem. respect for our country and going off on a story on nbc news he wanted a 10-fold increase in the nuclear arsenal. fake nbc news made up a story that i wanted a 10-fold increase in our nuclear arsenal. in addition to all of that the president will be meeting with the prime minister of canada,
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justin trudeau. nafta and a huge duty against new canada regional jets. >> melissa: did you say prime minister mcdreamy? >> yes, ask any woman in america. they'll tell you. >> melissa: would you. you may have stepped -- wow. you may have stepped in it there. i don't know if i call him mr. mcdreamy. >> come talk to some staffers at the white house. they'll disagree with you. >> jon: president trump pushing his message on twitter this morning ahead of his big speech this evening. he tweeted the stock market as increased by 5.2 trillion dollars, a 25% increase. lowest unemployment in 16 years and if congress gives us the massive tax cuts and reform i'm asking for, those numbers will grow by leaps and bounds #maga.
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you know what that means. jake sherman from politico. interesting he is really pitching this to the trucking industry tonight, jake, why? >> i think he wants to make the case at this point it is going to be a tax cut for middle income americans, a tax cut for small businesses. that doesn't paper over some of the issues he has on capitol hill. number one he started a massive fight with bob corker who is a critical vote on the budget and a critical vote for tax reform or against tax reform. he has a number of other senators he needs to win over on this proposal but listen. every president tries to build support from the outside. president obama did it. president trump is doing it. it doesn't replace personal relationships that you need to have on capitol hill with individual lawmakers. >> jon: interesting as you talk about his relationships in the senate. he pitched his tax plan in missouri, indiana, north dakota, all of those states
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that have potentially vulnerable democratic senators up for reelection. bob casey of pennsylvania also up for reelection and the president just happens to be going to pennsylvania tonight. what about that? >> listen, there is no -- let's be clear here. if the president plays his cards right on capitol hill and gets a tax plan that republicans can rally on and that does not drastically cut taxes for the upper income americans, millionaires and higher he could get some democrats to rally around him. at the end of the day close to an election year, if you say this is a tax bill that will cut taxes for a lot of americans, it can be difficult if it doesn't lower taxes for rich people, it is hard to vote against it. either you're for tax cuts or not. that's what republicans think the dynamics will be if the president plays his cards right and if he continues to anger and browbeat republican senators and members of the house this isn't a discussion
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worth having because it won't get through. >> jon: it proposes lowering the top rate from 39.6% to 35% with the caveat, as we understand it, that congress can set a higher level for upper income earners. is that enough to quell any disagreements or any qualms among democrats? >> i once thought it would be unthinkable they would put an upper rate for millionaires and higher. i do think that's a likely scenario at this point. it's a great talking point for republicans if they do set a higher rate for super rich, super healthy americans. it helps make the case for republicans this is a middle class tax cut, not cutting taxes for the wealthy. there is a political really narrow political road to travel here and we'll see if the president can do it. >> jon: when i listen to my friends on fox business network, melissa francis among them, they say that part of the reason the stock market is where it is with this 5 trillion of additional value
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created since the election because the folks on wall street are expecting tax reform will go through. what happens if this all blows up? >> as i talk to people that i know on wall street i tell them they have a rational exuberance it will be an easy thing to do. partially the white house and congressional republicans have set expectations this will get done by the end of the year. i'm not a market expert. we have to kick it over to fox business to that. markets look forward and look at what's happening in the future and -- but they often don't take cues from what has happened in the past. i've been covering congress for a decade and seen them squirm around on a lot easier things like repealing healthcare. count me as skeptical. there is a path for the president to go on here. >> jon: skeptical jake sherman from politico's playbook. see you soon. >> melissa: so more actresss are coming forward to say hollywood producer harvey weinstein sexually harassed
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them over the course of several decades. now his wife says she is leaving him. the allegations have been pouring in since they first surfaced in a "new york times" article almost a week ago. >> i do not think that harvey weinstein understands or comprehends how much pain and suffering this brings to me and scores of other women. i implore other women to please stand up and to come forward. i know there are many women who have experienced just what i've experienced. let us be the change we want to see in this world. >> melissa: jonathan hunt is live in los angeles. the story just keeps getting bigger, jonathan. >> yeah, melissa, this morning harvey weinstein is reportedly in europe as a rehab center for sexual addiction as his former friends continue to desert him
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amid abuse allegations. hillary clinton says she is appalled and the obama's also have spoken up. a who's who of hollywood who revered or feared harvey weinstein is condemning him. many actors and actresses are expressing horror at what he did. paltrow and jolie saying they were both victims of weinstein's predatory ways and weinstein's wife of 10 years has announced she plans to divorce him. she says, quote, my heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. i have chosen to leave my husband, caring for my young children is my first priority and i ask the media for privacy
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at this time. now, harvey weinstein is reportedly complaining his brother, bob, was instrumental in making the lurid allegations public. bob weinstein says harvey is a very sick man. harvey weinstein hasn't made any public statements since last week. we've reached out repeatedly to the p.r. firm and representative sally hoff meister who is supposed to be speaking for harvey weinstein. neither she nor the company appears willing to speak to us at this point. melissa. >> melissa: wow, thank you for that report. >> jon: it looks like president trump is going to de-certify the iran nuclear deal. does that mean the u.s. will withdraw from the agreement? >> clear majorities on this committee and in the house opposed the nuclear deal. ultimately, however, the obama administration rammed it through anyway.
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>> jon: right now new information on some crime stories we're watching. opening statements in the trial of a mississippi man charged with murdering a 19-year-old cheerleader. he is accused of burning her alive in her car. he claims he thought she was already dead when he set the car on fire. an oregon man held without bail in a drunk driving accident that killed a 25-year-old woman and her four young children. his blood alcohol level almost four times the legal limit. new york, a drug lord gets 14 years in prison for running a $50 million operation out of his apartment. he is notorious for sending his son to a mexican cartel as collateral for a drug deal. >> melissa: breaking this hour president trump has been signaling his plans to de-certify the iran nuclear deal. gop leadership is blasting tehran for violations of the
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agreement expanding iran's nuclear capabilities beyond its domestic needs. >> iran's continued pursuit of intercontinental ballistic missiles funded by the cash it received when sanctions were lifted is telling. no country has run such an expensive program without also seeking nuclear warheads to go on top. these missiles are designed to hit us. >> melissa: joining me now is the former senior director of middle eastern affairs with the national security council and managing director of the washington institute. sir, thank you for joining me. there is an explosive report that is coming out today. it is 52 pages long and our own holly mckay got an exclusive look at it called iran's nuclear core, unsuspected military sites and they say the more they investigated, the
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more they realized the weaponization program is fully operational. they already have a weapon. what do you think about that? >> well, i think that report is at odds with the findings of our intelligence community. i think you have to take it with a bit of a grain of salt. the real issue, melissa, is that iran has said that it won't allow inspections at these nuclear sites and the prohibitions on iran's weaponization research contained in the nuclear agreement aren't subject to monitoring or verification. it is details like this and flaws like this in the deal that we may see the trump administration trying to correct in the days ahead. >> melissa: that's what this group says is that those sites that you are talking about that aren't open to inspection, that things have been moved around, that there are silos that they are totally not monitored. and that their domestic program has just been a front for their military program. as they looked at the movement and the development they can
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tell they are already there. without -- maybe at odds with our government is saying because they don't want to call it a missile until they've seen it but they can't get in to investigate. the international community can't. >> it is hard to comment on the veracity of the report. it is hard to know what intelligence our own government may have. i have think the point is, melissa, if we're to know whether these types of allegations true or false we need to have transparency, we need to have, i think, a tighter inspection regime than we currently have. as we think about the way forward with the iran nuclear agreement, i think this demonstrates there are concrete ways to strengthen it that would give us more confidence that iran isn't pursuing a clandestine program. >> melissa: along those lines, ed royce didn't think necessarily that de-certifying.
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>> i would figure out how to get the buy-in in order to get into the military bases. i would keep the existing agreement and add to it. i think that's the better approach in order to address these concerns we have because that keeps the europeans on board working with us. and that's ultimately the goal. >> melissa: the fact of the matter is when president obama sold this agreement, he said there were any time anywhere inspections and snap back sanctions. we never saw those things and we definitely never saw any time anywhere inspections. is there any way they'll agree to that? >> if president trump de-certifys, it's a strong signal he is dissatisfied with the agreement and doesn't think it's accomplishing the objectives it set out to accomplish. i think that probably it will be an effort to gain leverage by creating the possibility of the u.s. withdrawing to get the others to agree to not only
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enforce it better as congressman royce was suggesting and to address iran's missile program key to developing a nuclear weapon or their support for terrorism in the middle east. >> melissa: absolutely. all right. we will watch and see because it is certainly a very scary and important issue. thank you for coming on. >> jon: it is almost halloween, of course, you can expect spooky things all around. but one 3-year-old has been really spooked and not in a fun way. also california wineries decimated by the out of control wildfires. we're live in napa. >> raising the tragic event but we were all able to get out. we're back here today for the first time. to see what was left, if anything. really it is just -- as you can see, devastation, there is nothing left.
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>> jon: it's one thing when you are 3 years old to get lost at the mall but imagine the horror of getting left behind in a corn maze. that's what happened to a toddler who was found cold and in tears at the edge of an 8 acre maze in utah. it took 12 hours for his parents to go looking for him. police, as you might expect, are investigating. >> sunday night we were awoken to a red glow coming out of the north and had just minutes to actually get out of the house, wake our kids up. called our neighbor, woke her up and it was just a mad dash. it was chaos.
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>> melissa: fast moving wildfires in california's wine country have taken at least 17 lives and destroyed thousands of homes and offices and stores. leaving the area covered in ash and debris. hillary vaughn is live now with more. you're in front of a winery that has been reduced to rubble. wow, look at that. >> melissa, this is a snapshot of some of the carnage that has been left belined by these fires whipping through napa valley taking out businesses, homes, wineries, fields of plants in its path. you can see over here the field is black after it was -- the path of the fire tore through here. some of it in places still smoldering and behind me this was a tasting room where a lot of people stopped to enjoy wine. this has been reduced to rubble and will need to be built back up from the ground up. then over here you can see a lot of the land remaining
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untouched. so where the fire tore through decimated everything but there are portions that haven't been touched. the two big fires threatening california wine country in napa, a atlas fire is only 3% contained and the tubbs fire has grown to 28,000 acres. those two fires combined are putting 21,000 businesses, homes and other structures at risk. the cal fire chief said they dumped record numbers of fire retardant. 266,000 gallons and they've deployed just about every firefighting aircraft asset in the country. >> our focus continues to be on life safety. getting people out from the front of these fires and then engaging in the perimeter control. we can't keep our guard down. we are looking at fire weather conditions and potential red flag warnings returning for later in the week, possibly as early as tomorrow. >> as many as 17 people have
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died, over 25,000 have been evacuated with at least 28 new evacuation orders coming overnight. the sonoma county sheriff says there are 200 people missing and unaccounted for. we talked to some homeowners that were evacuated in this area. they were able to go back after the fire passed and survey some of the damage. here is how they describe what they saw. >> unfortunately a lot of chimneys, refrigerators, washers and dryers still standing and that's about it. >> 11 of the shelters are now at capacity. the largest veterans home in the u.s. housing 1,000 disabled veterans had to be partially evacuated last night and also a red flag alert, the highest alert for fire conditions. the national weather service issued that starting at 5:00 p.m. tonight. >> melissa: so tragic. thanks for the report. >> jon: the fraud an conspiracy case involving the former i.t.
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>> jon: just in the president getting ready to take his tax reform plan on the road with a speech in pennsylvania tonight. his team is already touting the plan's benefits. listen. >> major tax cut and tax overhaul. that's a simplification part. 91% of americans have to -- we need a more simple, fair system that doesn't benefit the wealthy. >> jon: joining us now is ari fleischer, former press secretary for george w. bush. republicans are desperate for a legislative win. they haven't had a big one yet. is this tax reform plan the possible vehicle? >> more importantly the country is desperate for a blooming and growing economy. that's why republicans and hopefully some democrats need to pass tax reform. it's the single biggest tool the government has to affect
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the economy. it touches so many different lives in so many different ways and give people incentive to work, grow and prosper and businesses to hire and pay more. that's why congress has got to get this done. >> jon: the devil as you know is in the details and some of these members of congress are worried that cutting the number of brackets down to three reducing some deductions and exemptions. it will actually boost taxes on some constituents. the point is what does it do for the overall economy? >> they'll look at all the different ways to slice it for this and that group. what is most important is that the economy grows as the result. for the last 10 years we've had dismal economic growth. if we had stronger growth, higher paychecks and more money every week from private sector employees, the deficits would go down. the deficit since president obama raised taxes, the deficit has gone up in the last two years. so what you really need is growth. the reason the deficits are
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going up, growth has been so weak, so poor, particularly for middle income and low income workers. we need to capture what tax reform can do and i'm worried a lot less about whether one individual slice gets a raise or decrease, including myself. if i got a tax hike i would be fine with it so long as the economy prospers. >> jon: you bring up deficits. republican party is generally one that doesn't like talk of deficits. again, there are critics who are looking at these numbers saying if you cut taxes this much, you are going to build the deficit. your response. >> that's my point about president obama raised taxes and the deficit has gone up for the last two years in a row. the reason is growth is so pal try. i was part of the congress on the staff job in the 90s when we had a balanced budget act passed. you know what got it passed? revenues surged before we agreed to a deal because the economy was booming. that's what these guys in washington need to keep the focus on.
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get the economy booming. if the economy booms it's the best thing for blue collar workers, and low income americans who want to become middle income americans. it is what separates america from europe. the entrepreneurial spirit, capitalism. we need a boost to grow the economy, not redistribute money from one to another. >> jon: talk about the politics of this. republicans control both chambers of congress. they couldn't get repeal and replace of obamacare done. tax reform it is said is even a more thorny issue because there are so many camps that want to have a piece of the pie. can republicans pull this off? >> it will pass in the house. i think the house has the strength in numbers to do it and a severe test of the united states senate f. the senate can't get to 50 votes, why are they there? after the repeal, the failure to repeal and replace obamacare. if they can't focus on economic
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well-being for all americans what on earth are they doing in washington this is a severe test about the senate and about our ability as americans to self-govern. if they can't get these things done it has been 10 years since any major legislation was passed and republicans run it all. it is the job of republicans to pass it. >> jon: like a political spokesman. >> a distraught one. >> jon: ari fleischer, good to have you on. >> melissa: reports a mainstream media out let chose not to report the story of the harvey within stein allegations. >> a very powerful man, a bully and he had an m.o. in something he d. you were aware of it. everybody knew.
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>> melissa: some democrats
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finally condemning hollywood producer harvey weinstein for allegations of sexual harassment against him. it has been six days since "the new york times" published a piece about weinstein paying off his accusers. just yesterday hillary clinton released a statement and so did former president barack obama saying, quote, michelle and i have been disgusted by the recent reports about harvey weinstein. any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable regardless of his wealth or status. our media buzz host howie kurtz joins me and syndicated radio talk show host leslie marshall and former presidential writer for george w. bush and ceo of the american majority ned ryan is also here. howie, i want to talk about these reports that nbc news had the story. they knew about the allegations, there was investigative reporting with them or for them. they had the tape and they
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decided not to go with the story. what do you know about that? >> that's absolutely true. we know it's true because -- he said i walked into the door at the new yorker after nbc declined to run with this story, was explosively reportable piece that should have been public earlier. nbc's spin that i'm not buying is it didn't meet our high standards. he didn't have then what he had later. nbc had this as recently as august. new yorker chose to publish it. on the record allegations from numerous women denied by harvey weinstein we should add but major embarrassment for nbc. >> melissa: the tape. they had an actual tape. the tape is horrifying when you listen to it. and they had that. so it's not -- you can't even say there was no way to corroborate the stories. they had many women on the record but the tape. >> maybe some of the women
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hadn't yet agreed to the ob the record. the audio tape is chilling. an italian model two years ago, wearing a wire after she says that harvey weinstein groped her. he is trying to badger her to go into a room with him alone. he acknowledges the groping. that would have been a story in and of itself. you have to question the business relationships between nbc's universal pictures and bravo and harvey weinstein's company. cross producing and distributing different tv and movie products. was it that? the fact he was a big democratic donor that made nbc's appetite -- they could have broken this story, chose not to and it's hard to understand that decision. >> melissa: it's very hard to understand because they did have that financial relationship that you talked about there and it is very tangled and it goes deep.
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that's part of the reason harvey weinstein spreading his influence and his money into so many different places is part of the reason why people were reluctant to come forward. if you add then a news organization that is reluctant to come forward even though they have a tape from the new york police department, it gets to be really hairy. how much pressure do you think -- what happens to nbc as a result of this? >> just to make clear ronan pharaoh used to host a show on nbc. not just a freelancer. enough with the blind quotes, they need to explain why it made this decision and i think it's just a question of its reputation. nbc also didn't go with the access hollywood tape. they have a business relationship with nbc as well. it's -- there are a lot of journalists, apparently, intimidated by harvey weinstein. nbc had the story in its
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corporate hands and walked away from it. that is not nbc's finest hour. >> melissa: leslie, it's why we're focused on the political angle of this. one of the reasons that someone is able to get away with this kind of behavior they have financial influence all over the place and that, you know, giving donations to so many in the democratic party, even employing his production company employing president obama's daughter as an intern. he had his reach and tentacles everywhere. >> yes, he did. this is not about political side or ideology. this is about power. it is about money. but power even more so. we saw that happen here in hollywood with big cosby. for years some of these women that have come forward together as a unified force, they called media and everybody turned their back because it's bill cosby. everybody loves him. that can't be true.
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i think it's power and certainly in hollywood. >> melissa: if i can stop you for a second it is about politics. he was spreading his influence through donations all over the democratic party. it was another way of ensuring that he had some recourse the same way when he went out and asked people please speak up for me. he felt he had bought off everyone i would think. ned, what do you think? >> one of the bigger parts of this story is not just the hundreds of thousands that weinstein gave directly to the democratic party. it's the millions of dollars he helped raise for the democrat party. one of the major financiers of the democratic party. i'm glad clinton and obamas finally condemned the behavior but one thing not being addressed he gave over $300,000 to the dnc. they gave $30,000 away to other democrats. moving money from your checking
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to your savings account. the bigger story is they have over $270,000 of his money in their account. they can't give it away. you know why? with their debt figured in, the dnc only had $2.7 million. they're struggling financially and now you have one of their major financiers who it turns out is a sexual predator. >> melissa: leslie, do you think this eventually reveals more of the predators that are out there? i know they still exist in news. i know that they exist across the entertainment industry and they certainly exist in music. there is so much damage and then the collateral damage as well. the weinstein company was my book publisher. i know many hard-working people at that company who are now sitting there going now what? they didn't know. they had a career. they worked hard. that's additional collateral damage beyond the people who obviously are the biggest
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victims. have we gotten to a point where we start rooting these people out? >> i hope so, melissa, i think personally i've been the victim of sexual harassment of my years in this business and i and many other women were afraid because of those people in power or people above them even more powerful who you fear wouldn't listen to you. i hope this urges people to come out. i think it's actually why there is a hesitancy when information first comes out in this culture of fake news if you will for people to wait. the president waited, hillary clinton waited, former president barack obama waited to say something and even the women have taken a long time to come forward. it takes a lot of guts. it is a green light for others not only against this but any perpetrator regardless of their political leanings to come
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forward. >> in is a microcosm of what took place in 2016. people were sick of a ruling class of a protected class of people, whether it was d.c., new york or hollywood and they are rejecting this elitism where they all protected each other and turns out they are nothing but a bunch of big hypocrites. again, this is why 2016 happened and i hope we see more of this being revealed and people rejecting it. >> melissa: thanks to all three of you. >> jon: the search for a missing arizona woman enters its five day. police now interviewing the last person who saw her as her family also begs for answers. >> we love her so much. we're hoping that they find her very soon.
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>> melissa: "outnumbered" top of the hour. more fallout from the horrific sexual assault allegations about harvey weinstein. what about the money he donated to barack obama and hillary clinton? will there be a political impact? >> the nfl commissioner saying he wants to see players stand for anthem and may press owners to be a rule. >> that's the president won this culture war? >> "outnumbered" when you see us. >> melissa: police in arizona are questioning a man about a missing kindergarten teacher after she bails him out of jail, then disappears. investigators say 44-year-old picked the man up from a jail in flagstaff on october 6th. no one has seen her since.
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police rearrested the man she bailed out after he led them on a chase in phoenix but so far he is not saying anything about the woman's whereabouts. her family now just hoping for her safe return. >> i'm always hopeful. i'm not giving up hope, never. >> melissa: that is the number on the screen right there. anyone with information on the case flagstaff police are asking them to please call. >> jon: details emerging now in the fraud and conspiracy case involving the former i.t. aide to congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz. the one-time chair of the democratic national committee. one lawmaker describing the data transfer that imran awan made as a substantial security
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threat. >> a congressman who sits on the cybersecurity panel aired concerns about imran. he said the storage and flow of data arranged by awan posed a substantial security threat to the united states. awan was arrested at dulles airport in august and charged with bank fraud and other financial crimes unrelated to his i.t. work for house democrats. he has pleaded not guilty. his wife, who worked with him and charged agreed this summer to return to the u.s. from pakistan. perry detailed how a bag marked rep dws was left for capitol police to recover in a phone book after midnight one night in april two months after house investigators banned him from access to house networks and it included identification for awan and letters steering
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federal authorities to investigate wasserman-schultz. perry alleged that over 5,000 unauthorized log ins were done on a server that was the california attorney general. >> 40 or more members of congress had all their data moved out of their office server and onto another server without their knowledge or consent. >> since first approached by the authorities a spokesman for him said the attorney general has worked to provide them the information they have requested so we would refer you to them. lawyers for imran awan have told fox news they believe their client is suffering from islamic phobia. >> information in a phone booth in the middle of the night.
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>> like cold war stuff. >> melissa: president trump pitching his tax reform plan saying it would help the economy grow by leaps and bounds. how lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are reacting ahead of the president's big speech tonight. the opioid my doctor prescribed for my chronic back pain
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the president heading to pennsylvania tonight pitch tax reform. >> he is going to be on with hannity as well, but the tax reform huge. there are people that said before the election that the work it would take of the president were elected that night. it's dropped a lot. we were on and said you'd be smart to buy right now. sure enough, we've had all these new records but so much of that is predicated on tax reform going through. right now, the market has flat just a few points and that's because the market they want to see. what is going to happen, what are the details of this plan? it essential to keep these records going. >> as the president has pointed out, the market up $5 trillion since that election night and that's good for a lot of people
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4o1 kays. >> and job creation. they get out there, they reinvest, they hire more people, this is what the economy needs. in my humble business opinion. >> watch them on fox tonight. thank you for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts now. >> sandra: fox news alert, at least 17 people killed in an onslaught of quick moving wildfires in northern california's wine country which are still spreading, prompting more evacuations. 17 large fires north of san francisco burning 120,000 acres, scorching at least 2,000 homes and businesse businesses. these fires now among the deadliest in california history. fire officials have not yet determined the cause. president trump who has spoken at california's governor said the federal government will be there for its folks. sonoma county hosting a news conference later this hour. we will bring you the latest as we get it. spirit of fox news alert here as well. just a few hours from now,

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