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emily. pirates. and our delightful studio audience. i am greg gutfeld and i love you, america. >> as we start tonight with a fox news alert. authorities saying they have turned the corner in battling the historic and horrific wildfires that have been raging in northern california. as the winds die down, fire crews say they are beginning to make headway. shifting their focus from defense to offense against the wall of flames, hundred miles wide and it's caused such astounding destruction and sadly claimed some lives. good evening, everyone, and hello, i'm eric shawn and this is america's news headquarters. art art i'm arthel neville the shear scope of the tragedy is staggering. at least 40 people have been killed. many, many more are still missing. about 75,000 remain under evacuation orders.
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each as some people have been allowed to return home. california governor jerry brown saying the dimension of the suffering is unlike any the state has ever seen. >> this is truly one of the greatest, if not the greatest tragedies that california has ever faced. the devastation is just unbelievable. it's a horror that no one could have imagined. we drove by the houses, hundreds of howfses that were totally destroyed. and just brings home just what a horrible situation this is will carr is live in santa rosa with the very latest. will? >> hey there, arthel, firefighters on the front line doing a great job upping the containment numbers after these fires swept through this community disseminating everything in their path. as you go home by home chimneys almost like single pillars stretching up towards the heavens. every block that we go to.
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as you mentioned, there are still hundreds of people still missing. such a chaotic, confusing time when the fires raced through here. authors are trying to figure out if people went with family members or friends and haven't been in contact or if there could be more victims. i want to show you this, arthel. we have seen this at several homes. you see this hose sneaking up towards the street here. you can imagine the homeowner's last attempt trying to spray heir home, spraying waters at the flames enreached. they quickly realized they had to get out of here. we heard from one family in that scenario. so desperate they didn't know where their dog went. they returned this week to their home. it was burned to the ground. all of the sudden their dog izzy came running out of the woods jumping into their arms. it was heart warming moment after a week of so much devastation and heart break. arthel? art they will: thank goodness they found izzy and izzy came back but what devastation and so tragic.
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will carr thank you for the update. eric: members of the trump administration this morning backing up the president's decision to decertify the controversial agreement but not kill it some claiming tehran has continually crossed the line and is violating the spirit of the agreement, while the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog says iran is abiding by it even though inspections of iranian military bases, for example, are not even part of the deal. kristin officialer at the white house tonight with more. hi, kristin. >> hey, eric. today three cabinet members hit the sunday shows to say even though iran may have violated the spirit of the agreement, that technically it is still in compliance with the deal and that the u.s. is still very much in it. listen to what the national security advisor h.r. mcmaster said as he tried to describe what exactly president trump is trying to do. >> what the president has
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done is led with congress to ask congress help fix this domestic legislation and let's work on as secretary tillerson has said a deal that can lay alongside the jcpoa and address its fundamental flaws. >> democrats argue that it can't be fixed, that the deal is done. and that neither the iranians nor our european ally also renegotiate. congress know has 60 days to figure out a fix. if they don't, president trump has said that he is willing to kill the deal entirely. now today secretary of state rex tillerson also weighed in on two controversies that he is at the center of. first, the question of did he call president trump a moron as nbc news reported a few days ago. well, tillerson was asked that question twice on cnn state of the union. and both times he refused to give definitive yes or no answer. instead he said i'm not dignifying the question with a response. so, he had a chance to put it to rest there.
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and he chose not to. second, and i'm going to warn you recall, one of the more awkward moments you will ever see on a sunday show, the secretary of state was asked about republican senator bob corker's comments that president trump, in an effort to undermine him, perhaps, that president trump had castrated him. listen to this exchange. [applause] >> i am fully committed to his objectives. i agree with his objectives. i agree with what he is trying to could. hoto do. how he wants to use his own skills tactically push change i'm there to help achieve those. >> you have a cattle ranch. you don't want to say anything about the senator calling -- suggesting you have been gelded before the world? it's not anything that bothers you? >> i have checked. i'm fully intact. >> so, yes, he was asked that question. and, yes, he actually eabsd it. so arthel and eric, i'm going to leave it right there. never thought i would be talking about hearing this from a secretary of state on
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a sunday show, eric. eric: yeah, that is very wise and sage advice, just leave it right there. we have more by the way on the iranian nuclear deal and the possible second agreement will be dealing with that. a little later on in our newscast. i'm getting a little tongue-tied here. kristin, thank you. ararthel: president trump handing the nuclear deal off to congress after refusing to recertify it first step toward patching up the flawed agreement. doug mckelway is in washington with more reaction from capitol hill. doug? >> the president's national security advisor today exexplained his boss' two step to the nuclear deal either congress or the seven nations in the two party deal toughen the agreement or mr. president trump will pull out unilaterally. >> the president has set out marker to the iranians and tour allies and partners that we have to fix fundamental flaws in this
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deal. one. >> one key to satisfying the president, iran must allow international inspectors access to its military sites. >> it's just implement the agreement by going to sites, to fully implement the inspections of sites. the monitoring of suspicious sites in iran. >> democratic critics say if the president makes good on his threat to pull out, it will free iran to pursue its nuclear ambition even more aggressively. >> there is no chance that the deal is going to be renegotiated. the iranians will not renegotiate it and neither will the europe pines. if we were to pull out of this agreement iran would get everything they want. >> one republican senator argues even if the obama negotiated deal remains intact, it only temporarily nuclear pursuit capability. >> >> they can do whatever they want in terms of enriching and processing. >> the president's reaction in conjunction with his position to stop subsidies to the obamacare insurance exchanges are the strongest
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signs yet of his intents to undo the obama legacy. at the same time he is leaving it in congress' hands how to execute the dismantling. eric, arthel, back to you. arthel: i will take it. back to you, eric? eric: more accusations of sesexual assault and even rape against harvey weinstein. more women are coming forward with their only horrific stories of what they say was the sexual abuse at the hands of the hollywood mogul. let's get the very latest from bryan llenas who joins us from here in new york. hi, brian. >> three more women are now accusing harvey weinstein. one of the women is british actress lacette anthony who stars in a soap opera. he assaulted her and raped her in his own home. the hollywood mogul visited at her house back in the late 1980s, when she answered the door in her dressing gown, anthony says weinstein raped her in her
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hallway, telling the sunday times newspaper, quote: he pushed me inside and rammed me up against the coatrack and started fumbling at my gown. he was trying to kiss me and shove inside me. these new allegations are in addition to the at least 30 other women employee he is, actors and models who accuse weinstein of rape, groping and unwanted sexual advances. he was suspended president british academic u the picture academy and sciences hosts the oscars held annual emergency meeting in los angeles and voted to expel weinstein from the academy. this as harvey weinstein's own brother, bob, told the hollywood reporter that his brother is, quote: sick and depraved, saying he begged his brother to get help and he avoid you had it of the hollywood reporter's editorial director saying the rumors about weinstein were so widely known and widespread that the hollywood reporter began investigating him years ago. >> we had heard the stories. we had investigated it. in fact, about two years ago
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we actually put a team of people on trying to find people who would tell us on the record what had happened to them. we tried to confirm it on the record as many, many, many outlets did. and it wasn't until this break through in the "new york times" where actresses came forward and spoke on the record that the flood gates opened. >> meanwhile french president emmanuel macron says he has started the process to revoke harvey weinstein's lee john of honor award. he was given the prestigious french award in 2012 for the french award the artist won multiple produced by his' can. are a ararthel: yesterday's explosion the deadliest single attack in somalia. officials say out truck bomb targeted a busy street near key ministries in the city causing widespread devastation. it's not clear who staged the bomb but the city is a target for al
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shabaab militants battling the somali government. eric: meanwhile, arthel, back here at home, president trump's efforts to try to roll back obamacare sparking strong reaction on capitol hill today including from at least one republican senator. what does this mean for a bipartisan deal? coming up, we will talk about the future of healthcare reform and that g.o.p. senator's plan to finally get it done. ♪ listen up, heart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits.
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arthel: a look at some of the top stories we are following around the world today. u.s. allied forces in syria announcing the final days of the battle against isis forces in raqqa. it comes after about 275 of the militants and their family members have surrendered. leaders believe several hundred isis fighters are still in the city of raqqa, one year after the launch of a military campaign who drive them out. texas police mourn a fallen officer in a procession this weekend. officer floyd east jr. was fatally stabbed by a texas tech college student monday. the 19-year-old is being charged with murder. and a tragedy on a carnival cruiseship, 8-year-old girl fell several stories to her death yesterday.
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the ship was arriving at portsmouth miami when it porth miami, investigators still trying to figure out how the girl fell. eric: backlash on democrats not to mention strong reaction from one fellow republican today. the president signing an executive order allowing an expansion of insurance options. then announcing an end to those subsidies on obamacare insurance exchanges. both moves not sitting well with republican senator from maine, susan collins who today criticized the president in no uncertain terms. >> i'm very disappointed in the president's actions of this past week and i don't agree with his decision on the subsidies that help low income people afford their deductibles and co-pays and i don't agree with his executive order. but congress needs to step in and i hope that the president will take a look at what we're doing. >> will congress step in?
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susan ferrechio joins us. she is chief congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." good to see you. >> hey, eric. eric: susan collins has been a bellwether on healthcare. she has voted twice kill the republican repeal and replace efforts? what's the significance when she says the president should look at what congress is doing? can that mean there is some bipartisan effort that will be successful. >> there almost has to be. because there is no way that the cost-sharing subsidies are legal. congress was always going to have to act. the court has already found them to be unconstitutional. the problem, eric, is that republicans aren't willing to pony up more money for the heck law unless there are big changes to reform it that's where you have the problem and gridlock in cock. have you republicans who are saying, look, we can put forth subsidies for a couple more years. but we want changes to remove. so onerous mandates of the healthcare law. democrats are saying we are not g.r. going to agree to
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that because we think it will leave people vulnerable and we want to keep as much of their signature healthcare law in place permanently as is possible. so you have this tug-of-war going on in the senate right now and then over on the house side, also a republican majority. they are saying, hey, we are not going to approve any more subsidies for obamacare. we passed a repeal law. so have you got a lot swirling in congress. a lot of disagreement. ultimately what the president did was what republicans had long promised to do which was stop, you know, paying more money into the healthcare law. aside from the subsidies even if you were to keep those in place, the law itself is resulting in much higher premiums and a complete collapse of the individual marketplace. something has to be done, eric. the problem is how are they going to do it and when are they going to do it? eric: you just hit on the major issue e that's the cost. have you seen the costs of healthcare skyrocket. kenny bunk, wrote this about what senator collins is proposing and it's exactly
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that what you just talked about with the costs. senator collins said her focus would be on cost control. there it is. she identified competition among providers in regulation of the prescription drug industry as good places to start. she should also advance work on payment reform to preventative care. collins is in a secure position with three years left on her current term and the high regard of maine voters and has made her presence known u so can she then maybe shift the debate to these issues of cost and, finally, get something done whether it's lamar alexander or patty murray's legislation or something republicans can get on board with? >> it's going to go one of two ways, eric. either cut her out of the equation and try to work with who they have. today the president was golfing with rand paul. another holdout on reform. if they can cut a deal. they may not need her. if they want to ink her, they have a slim majority.
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that's when the plan you just described may factor in. and a lot of what she talks tals about are republican ideals as well, lowering prescription costs, the competition issue. the president just signed an executive order that is supposed to boost competition over state lines with insurance markets. there is some overlap there. but, it's not clear whether they are going to deal her in at this point or whether they are going to try to work with her members who are less moderate than she is. it's not clear. it's possible they will, if they decide they need her. it just depends on if they can get 50 votes with the v pght as a tie breaker. so far they have not cut her in to any deal in the senate because she has been a firm no. eric: just like one or two votes there. you just mentioned the golfing with rand paul. he played golf yesterday or today with rand paul. yesterday was lindsey graham's turn out on the links. senator graham said that the president really beat him hanhand handily.
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lindsey graham who has been a critic into rand paul who was a definite no vote. >> you bet. rand paul one is the most interesting one of all. if he can form annual alliance with him. now, rand paul has been about a firm a no as you can. he says you need to just repeal the law as promised during the campaign. i mid president essentially agrees with him. if there is some way they can form annual alliance and the president goes along with a plan that's not quite a repeal but reform effort, they can just come up with 50 votes on another healthcare reform effort next year, which is what the plan is, basically, some time january or beyond, there is the deal. he would have 50 republicans with the vice president as a tie breaker. maybe get john mccain on board with lindsey graham as one of his close friends. you know, it's all about the math. i'm not clear whether susan collins in her plan there are going to be put into this deal if possible. right now there is no deal. and something is going to have to happen. because, as you say, the
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subsidies are going to disappear for these low income individuals. nobody wants that but the president is trying to light a fire under congress right now. because they didn't pass anything. and he promised to repeal obamacare. the subsidies are being knocked down in court. really have no choice. it's up to congress now to act. and just how they are going to do it at this point is really pretty much upped in the air. eric: finally, talking about lighting a fire, he had a phone conversation yesterday with mitch mcconnell. talk about a thaw. what do you think that phone call yesterday with senator mcconnell, how do you think that went, what it was about, and are they going to be good buddy buddies. >> they are never going to be good buddies buddies, they are going to be co-workers. i talked to mitch mcconnell about the president a number of times. is he ready and willing to work with the president. doesn't like his tweets and off the cuff stuff. is he willing to work with the president. is he a professional. and i do think the two of them can get things done together. i think tax reform right now is a priority. they need to spin issue in that up.
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preferablely by the end of the year. the republican party doesn't have have much to stand on in the midterm election if they can't get this done. eric: it's on mcconnell's plate right now and up to him to start doing something when he is getting down from the white house. we will see. >> yep, really up to him. eric: good to see you. thanks. arthel? art art when we come back the employment contract of harvey weinstein raises lots of questions. it actually allow ford sexual harassment as long as the company was reimbursed by mr. wine steenel for any settlement. our legal panel looks at the fine print next.
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allegations as long as he reimbursed the company. tmz's harvey levin explained it further on "fox & friends." >> all harvey weinstein had to do was any any judgment or settlement that a woman might have gotten as a result of it and a fine. what they do is the company gets $250,000 the first time he does it 500 the second. 750 the third. and for every instance after that harvey weinstein pays a million-dollar fine to the company. and he is good to go. arthel: let's bring in legal panel now. former assistants prosecutor and mercedes collins is a fox news legal analyst. mercedes, let's start with you, this sounds outrageous. what more can you tell us about these protections and are they legal? it's one thing for harvey weinstein to have some sort of arrangement with this company. >> right. arthel: these women, if true, they were assaulted. >> that's exactly right. you hit the nail on the head. this is a contractual
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provision that basically says it doesn't matter that i have violated other individuals' rights as long as i pay a fine to the company. that's against public policy. every lawyer worth their weight will tell that you when you have provisions like that, that allow employees or allow these individuals to violate other people's rights, commit crime there is no conceivable way that it could ever hold water. those are the types of provisions that are considered voidable by law any of these -- the company, frankly, it's outrageous that they even had this contract turley provision to begin with. i have never seen it. i have drafted plenty of contracts for companies. it's t. just doesn't exist. this is something that should never have happened and, frankly, if it's ever challenged in court it's voidable by law. arthel: alex, it's being referred to as sexual harassment. the allegations of rape means a crime was committed. in confirmed in court, what could happen to weinstein? >> is he looking into
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investigations both the united states and apparently now in the united kingdom. i think have you some real issues with those investigations because some of the conduct has been reported certainly would be rape or at least sexual harassment that carry very serious penalties. and, sort of like the bill cosby case, many of the incident that have happened, some of that evidence can come into court and show he has a pattern of behavior to demonstrate that this accuser is credible. i think he has a real problem in these investigations across the country. arthel: let's play some more sound from harvey levin from "fox & friends" this morning. listen. >> i have seen the provisions of this contract. i don't know that they had a right to even fire him the way this contract was written. and so i think harvey weinstein may have a good case against the company because he may have been wrongfully terminated. art 5r9 by the way, that was friday. again, at this point who cares about his case against the company, mercedes. but the big question is could harvey weinstein get away by going to live in
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another country? i don't know, getting a medical diagnose diagnosis. making his assaults willness. >> great point. certainly he can say i had temporary insanity which frank solid laughable. because there are so many victims or at least 30 last count u and in terms of how many individuals that are coming forward and saying they were raped, there is at least a handful. it would be laughable before a jury or judge to say i was criminally insane for 30 decades or 30 years, rather, three decades. i don't think it would ever hold water. but those are great points. he will certainly explore everything. in terms of whether he can sue his company, that's, again, it falls back and saying those provisions are voidable. and the fact that he was legitimately terminated, those provisions that may give him some protection because he pays a fine instead of getting terminated, it doesn't hold up in court. arthel: alex, how do these women take their claims from
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the court of public opinion to the court of law and is there any legal recourse these women have against the execs in power to whom they reported the sexual assaults but those people chose not to speak out about any of these crimes in this, perhaps, they may have committed crimes of omission or did they? >> yeah, that's a great question. it's exactly what i thought about when he saw this contract being reported. if i were advising these women about their rights, they certainly have a right to come forward and be public and talk about what happened to them. but i think here the fact that the weinstein company put in contract provisions that i would argue as a lawyer encouraged it behavior from its chief executives. if i represent one of these victims, i would go after the company itself and say this contract encouraged him to keep doing what he had been doing. you knew about it you are culpable too, and go after the company and the board and the executives. she should do that i hope they do. arthel: to alex's point, mercedes is, that a strong case? will these women get their day in court?
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will they get. >> that's a great point. the civil cases are generally three years maximum at the federal level it's 300 days for you to then exercise your federal rights under the law it all depends. if it's a criminal. >> certainly in utah there is no statute of limitations with rape. any of the women claimed they were raped in utah certainly can proceed criminally. in terms of civilly, most of them will be out of luck, unfortunately. arthel: alex, if the company, if there is proof and harvey levin usually is on the mark that there was a protective clause in harvey weinstein's company with his company, you know, in his contract with this company, i mean, that gives a direct bulls eye, i would think, for these actresses to go after that company. >> it does. it also could restart the clock and let them bring their claims today where they may have lost that because it had been too long otherwise. this is information' company kept from them. if you are one of these
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victims contact a lawyer. it's absolutely worth doing. >> alex little and mercedes colwin, i have to leave it there. thank you to both of you for your legal expertise and analysis. >> thank you so much. arthel: eric? eric: back to washington now. president trump's decision to cut those subi subsidies to health insurance company sparking backlash on the hill. expanding insurance options now lawmakers from both parties are pondering next steps in the continuing fight this coming week over obamacare. caroline shively has been keeping an eye on all of this and what we can expect this week and she is live in washington. hello, caroline. >> hello to you, eric. i will start with the subsidies you just mentioned. president is taking them away with the goal of taking down the entire obamacare exchange system while many republicans say the subject is i did is aren't even legal. here is part of battle played out on "fox news sunday." >> this is the equivalent of healthcare arson. is he literally setting the
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entire healthcare system on fire just because the president is upset that the united states congress won't pass a repeal bill. >> the president is not gutting the affordable care act. let's take the cost share reduction payments as an example. they are unconstitutional. the court has said so. >> federal government pays $7 billion to insurance companies to help decrease the cost of co-pays and deductibles for an individual, making between about 12,000 to 30,000 a year. in august, the congressional budget office said if the subsidies are cut and congress does nothing prime yums would go up 20% next year. now, so that second big move you mentioned, on thursday, president trump signed an executive order that will let more people buy health insurance across state lines and make it ease father for businesses to buy strip down policies. he also says this might put pressure on democrats to work with him on a solution. >> the democrats should come to me, i would even go to them because i'm only interested in one thing, getting great healthcare for this country. that was a big chunk.
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and as far as the subsidy is concerned, i don't want to make the insurance companies rich. >> president trump says all of the moves should help lower skyrocketing premiums. eric back to you. eric: interesting to note the president just said he is willing to go to them see if the democrats take that up mantel, caroline, thank you. arthel? arthel: okay, eric. democrat dianne feinstein has served as one of california senators for the past 15 years, one state lawmaker is looking to take her place, we're going to tell you about the looming primary battle that is still ahead. plus, president trump putting the ball in congress' court after decertifying the iran nuclear deal and raising a key question why aren't iranians military sites a part of the deal.
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the senate facing a new challenge as the state senate throwing his hat in the ring now vying for senator dubai feinstein's seat. feinstein has held that chair and has never faced a serious challenge from her own party. feinstein 84 years old and announced just last week that she is running for a fourth term. rex tillerson said stinging with the iranian nuclear deal. raising they're could be second agreement with tehran if iran is really telling the truth about not wanting or developing a nuclear bomb. >> under the jcp and under the nuclear agreement, it may be we are not able to reopen this agreement with everyone being willing to play, but doesn't mean we cannot undertake negotiations to address the areas of concern, which are the ballistic missile program, the sun set provisions, expired provisions and perhaps lay a
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second agreement down alongside of this agreement. eric: can that be addressed. vice president of the seno senorrian policy. clandestine officer for the cia. daniel, good to see you. what are the chances of the secretary of state just said of the second reworking of a side agreement to address some of those concerns? >> well, i think it's pretty challenging. we're playing catch up a little bit. you know, the president said in his speech on friday that he ordered a comprehensive review of our iran policy. i think what he found is that the obama administration had made essentially a bargain with iran whereby in the interest of signing a nuclear agreement which had some good points about halting iran's nuclear weapons program that we made too many concessions. >> yeah. and that's exactly for example prime minister netanyahu of israel has been saying. he has been a harsh critic of this. todayen he was on fox news channel and he was on sunday
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morning future. he did say that there could be a second agreement. here is prime minister netanyahu. >> i think the reason they want to keep the deal because they think changing it would be canceling it the president said something very astute. he said well, unless you change it, i'm going to cancel it. if you want to change the keep l start fixing it takes time until governments actually understand the significance of what the president put forward rouhani and eu partners says we are not going to change the deal but there is some light there the you have macron the president of france saying we have got to address the ballistic missiles. >> there are three areas of concerns and it's up to us to convince those with whom reneg united stated that we do need to make some changes. the first area of concern is that the sanctions relief allows iran to spend additional money supporting hezbollah, supporting those
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she a militia groups in iraq and elsewhere with which are conducting such lethal attacks on us and on our allies. they supported the houthis in yemen and provided lethal equipment to the taliban and afghanistan. and so we have to be, i think, very, very seriously concerned about the extent to which the significant amount of money the iranians are now taking in is finding its way to the irgc and other nefarious policies of the iranians. eric: they are funding terrorism, they say. it's like $100 billion and still on the state sponsor list of leading number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world. >> yeah. i mean, you know, since 2010 and the onset of the arab spring, the region has been engulfed with violence unprecedented since the fall of the empire and the iranians are just pouring gasoline on the flames. that's resulting in sectarian violence. a greeing ground both on the
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sunni and she side we have spilled enormous amount of blood and treasure in that region and afghanistan. and iran is absolutely operating at odds with our u.s. national security interests. eric: at the same time, the obama administration agrees with this deal, can't go to the military sites. if they suspect maybe there is some nuclear stuff there, then they could go. they went depart once. no you no, you can't come into the military sites. how do the inspectors know what's going on military sites take their word for it? >> that's an issue for sure the fact that vaughn developing a missile capability threaten the region and beyond. puts the onus on our intelligence community to collect that intelligence on what iran is up to. remember, in 2009, we discovered that the iranians had built an underground enrichment facility which they had not disclosed to the iaea. so really the onus is on our intelligence community to
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ensure that we do all that we can, to ensure that the iranians aren't doing something that we can't track. and also also important for us to share your allies the extent to which that iranian money that we're freeing up is going to those nefarious purposes in the interest of convincing them. it will be a tall task to add on additional agreements so that we can enhance our securities. eric: they are not supposed to spend that money on terrorism. honestly is, there really a way to track the money? once it gets over into tehran, wee wil we will not be e to track it how do we know they are not using it to fund something against israel right now as we speak? >> i think we can definitely collect the intelligence that will give us some confidence, some level of confidence that a certain percentage of that money is making its way towards enhancing iran's capability and throw weight in the region.
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eric: talk about throw weighted, that sounds like missiles. why do they need intercontinental missile? they say it's for deference, flight going to another continent let alone striking another and troops in europe. why was that left out of the deal in the first place? they played this deal and is it doesn't deal with the behavior or money or ballistic missiles. it doesn't deal with terrorism. it deals with that one issue, yes, of nuclear issue. but now have you got them popping off missiles that some day potentially one day could hit the u.s. >> the other concern is the sun set provisions. right now iran is about a year away break out for nuclear weapon, once the agreement expires it would be two to three months. cog any zants what we have seen with north korea, if you allow triune develop the icbm capability over the next 10 years or so ebb riching sanctions relief. they could have the capability that north korea has today with an icbm and potential for nuclear weapon atachingsd to it that's what concerns the administration
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is that we don't go down a path which 10, 15 years from now could result in signatursignificantly diminishig our national security. eric: talking about 10 years u do you think they plan out the clock? yeah we will sign this agreement now we will wait in 10 years they have a free path say the critics to a nuclear bomb. >> i think we had our booted on their throats with the sanctions and we kind of took it off. i think they needed that desperately in order to conduct the sorts of policies they are right now in the middle east and beyond. and i think that they would take 10 years of economic growth with the idea that they could then pursue a nuclear weapon if they chose. they may not choose to do that but they would certainly have the capability to do so if we don't do something about it. >> the president may be now taking some actions and getting that boot out of closet so we will see what happens. daniel hoffman, as always, thank you for your analysis tonight. >> thank you. eric: good to see you. arthel? arthel: thanks, eric. well, the effects of 9/11 still linger 167 years after
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the attacks. how a crucial recovery program is helping first responders and families to this very day. watch me. owe
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arthel: 16 years after 9/11, many families and first responders are still dealing
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with the effects. the septembe september 11th 1res compensation fund awarded $3 billion so far and showing no signs of slowing down. here is laura ingle with the story. >> catherine susan wolf. and i guess -- whenever i come by here, i always give her a kiss. >> charles j. wolf lost his wife catherine on september 11th, 2001. catherine was working on the 97th floor of the north tower of the world trade center. charles would learn of catherine's death a few days later. as our grieving nation began to recover, the federal government created the september 11th victim compensation fund or vcf to provide compensation for those who suffered from the terrorist attacks. it was funded using federal money, which congress appropriated for that dedicated purpose. >> it extends to anyone who was in our zone, which is the shanksville and pentagon
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sites or new york city anywhere on manhattan south of canal street. it includes responders and survivors. >> program has been updated a couple of times and to date has paid out over $3.1 billion covering more than 14,000 compensation determinations. it's currently funded under the james degree began 9/11 compensation act of 2010, a bill which president obama signed into law and reauthorized in 2015. james was an nypd officer who died of a respiratory disease linked to responding to recovery efforts in lower manhattan. the latest revision includes money for clean up workers and first responders dealing with related health issues. >> there really is no amount of money that can alleviate the losses that were suffered as a result of 9/11. we hope that this fund can provide a little bit of support, financial support, a little bit of compensation for the pain and suffering. >> fund still has $4 billion
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left to distribute. and has helped people like charles who has advocated for other families to apply move forward. >> the fact that i received this money allowed me to get treatment that i needed to overcome the. tsd. >> that you law allows those who wish to submit their claims to the vcf a little over 3 years, giving them nell september 18th, 2020. eric: we do have a correction for you a few minutes ago we reported that texas tech police officer floyd jr. was stand by college student he was, in fact, strategically shot and killed. we certainly of course regret that error. we will be right back. with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory.
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♪ eric: well, talk about a pricey rock. it's the raj diamond and going up for auction next month in geneva. aaccording to souther bees it's the largest pink could i nonsd in the world. arthel: it is a beauty. if you want to bid on it, bring all the loose change can you find. it's expected to fetch up to $30 million. that comes out to be about
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$1 million a karat. it is gorgeous. >> eric: 30 million? have it here next saturday? arthel: absolutely. looking forward to it. connell mcshane is up next with a fox report. eric: have a good night. connell: insisting it iran nuclear deal. this is president obama's decision to decertify that agreement. i'm connell mcshane, this is "the fox report." the president disavowing what he calls one of the worst deals ever leading to condemnation from democrats, european allies and of course from tehran. calling this is a blow to u.s. credibility. here's the thing, we are not walking away, at least not yet. national security officials have spent their sunday saying the president is hoping congress will come up with something stronger to prevent another nuclear crisis like the one we're seeing now in north korea. >> what the president has

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