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place. >> he was so offended that a woman would be -- that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldn't believe it. actually he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not. he knew -- i was so nice -- look, i have called many people. and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. i was very surprised to see this, to be honest with you. julie: kristen fisher reports from the white house tonight. president trump is continuing to escalate his feud with the florida congresswoman. what is the very latest between them? >> well, julie, just hours before the congresswoman was set to attend the funeral for this fallen soldier, one of the four fallen soldiers killed in this ambush attack in niger. the funeral for sergeant david johnson, president trump punched back on twitter by saying this, quote, i hope the fake news media keeps talking about whacky congresswoman wilson in that she as a representative is killing the democrat party. now, this comes just one day

after the white house defended the chief of staff john kelly for calling congresswoman wilson an empty barrel. the press secretary said quote if you are able to make a sacred act like honoring american heroes about yourself then you are an empty barrel so they are not backing down. at the same time, they also want to move on from this dispute. they want the public and the media to focus on other things, focus on more policy issues, like tax reform, but it's tough to do when the president himself is continuing to tweet about it and talk about it. fox's maria bartiromo asked him about it in an interview airing on sunday morning futures tomorrow and he explained just how difficult these calls are to make. >> these are tougher than dealing with the heads of countries, believe me. these are very very hard calls. they're sad and sometimes, you know, the grieving is so incredible. but he's just an elegant man and a wonderful man, and he is doing

a fantastic job as chief. >> the ongoing investigation into the attack in niger that left four american soldiers dead, yesterday, the secretary of defense was on capitol hill meeting with senator john mccain after mccain complained that the trump administration wasn't giving them enough information about what happened. he had threatened to subpoena, but after the meeting, mccain said we're clearing that up. while mattis conceded that the defense department can always improve on the communication, but you know, neither the senator nor the secretary gave any more details into exactly what went down in niger. that is all still part of this ongoing investigation by the defense department. julie? julie: switching gears here now, what are you learning about president trump spending his own money in order to help with his staff's mounting legal bills? >> yeah, this is according to a white house official, julie, and this official told us that president trump has promised and is prepared to spend more than

$400,000 of his own money to pay for some of his staff's and former campaign acquaintances pay for some of their legal bills. these are mounting legal bills as part of this ongoing russia probe. there's a lot of questions. you know, who decides which staffers get the money? could it possibly include paul manafort and michael flynn? the president meanwhile he's continuing to dismiss these investigations as a hoax and a witch hunt, but make no mistake, the legal bills are very real and wracking up at a rapid rate, so by offering $430,000 of his own money, he's hoping to offset some of those legal expenses for his staff. julie? julie: all right, with more on this and we thank you, kristen fisher, this feud between the white house and representative wilson, it just doesn't seem to want to go away. we go now to a senior political correspondent. thank you so much for coming in.

first of all, the mere fact that this widow's grievance is being politicized, whether it's a congresswoman or anybody for that matter, is really disheartening, and it's something that should just never happen. we'd like it to go away. it's not seeming to go away any time soon. in washington, general kelly, who has great respect, is standing up for the president, which says a lot, considering he himself has lost a son on the battlefield. is that enough to finally silence all the critics? >> well, as was just discussed, this storyline doesn't seem to go away in part because both sides do kind of keep speaking to it. you know, your colleague of course just noted a tweet that we saw recently from president trump, and, you know, i can tell you this was obviously the dominant story line, one of them certainly in washington all week. this is an issue that is very sensitive, that is very personal. there's a lot of people on both sides who feel like this issue is not something that should be

politicized so you are seeing motions run high here -- emotions run high here as developments continue on both sides. julie: there's a lot of facts and there's a lot of fake news as the president likes to call it. let's talk about the facts first of all. general kelly came out very forcefully but he also mentioned something that turned out in a video, didn't necessarily add up. that's the fbi building and representative wilson and her involvement in all of that. that turned out not to be true. can you clear up fact versus fiction for us? >> well, as general kelly spoke in the white house briefing room and continued to come out there and defend the president, he was also very critical of congresswoman wilson. he talked about a moment where the way that he characterized, suggested that she was taking undue credit for something that related to funding, but then of course the video did surface that showed that that was not the language that she used, and, you know, of course she and her allies swiped back suggesting

that general kelly mischaracterized her involvement. she's also talked about how she personally knew the family that was involved. of course the gold star family. she was there when the president called and she feels she has every right to speak up and help characterize how the family is feeling there. julie: i understand that there are people out there who don't like our president so they are going to try and twist his words. that's something that, you know, unfortunately happens every time he puts out a tweet. but insensitivity when it comes to widows who have lost their loved ones at war, there have been numerous people that have come forward and said look, the president called me, and he was extremely disheartened, he was extremely sympathetic, and extremely respectful in talking about the hero that that person and their life that is no longer with them and the tragedy so for him to say the words that he's being accused of by this representative and so far nobody has really come out and said one

way or the other for fact, there's no recording of this conversation for him to actually say or the theory that he said that he knew he was getting into just doesn't seem to add up compared what all the other grieving families who have come forward have said after having spoken to the president. >> well, if you take a look at what general kelly said, he said that he had helped counsel the president. he had helped the president reach a message. it sounds like a lot of this comes down to tone and a question of how the president's sort of tone was perceived. no doubt that congresswoman wilson is saying it and of course some tied to the family are also saying they did not appreciate the tone and the commentary from the president, but then if you listen to general kelly and of course president trump, they suggest that, you know, certainly came from a good place and he was very much sympathized and empathized but there have been other moments when president trump has come under criticism in the eyes of some of his critics not appearing as empathetic as they would like to see. julie: if you speak with

military families who have lost loved ones at war, there is a truth to that, that he knew what he was getting into, here's why, this is why his words could be misconstrued. you go to war knowing you're risking your life for our country. that's a proud moment for these military families so they are tragically losing someone they don't want to feel like they have just lost them in vain. they want to know their life had a purpose and a meaning. so for the president to say he knew what he was getting into, he was ready to risk his life for our country, that's not a bad thing, unless you turn it around, too bad, he knew what he was getting into. i highly doubt that's what the president said, if those words were actually exchanged. it's just very hard to believe. >> certainly general kelly who has first-hand experience with this tragically, of course his own son died serving his country and he's a decorated general as well, he defended the president's message. he thought that's exactly what the president needed to be saying. then of course you do hear from the family and from the congresswoman who suggested the way it was communicated was

hurtful to them and so, you know, certainly speaks more broadly to just how charged and just how sensitive this issue is, and, you know, as general kelly said, there are a lot of people who are frustrated with the fact that everything has become so politicized. julie: yeah, and this is certainly not an issue that should ever be politicized. it's certainly a step back. but katie, thank you very much for talking to us. we appreciate it. >> great to be with you. julie: republican lawmakers narrowly passing a budget for the 2018 fiscal year with 51 votes. senator rand paul, the one and only republican, though, to break ranks and vote against it. and now the trump administration is praising that vote saying it paves the way for tax reform. listen. >> i think the process for it as we have passed it in the senate. that was a huge hurdle. there are obviously changes that get reconciled next week in the house we expect a vote next week and then we should be moving towards mark ups which means we actually introduce the legislation, members of both parties and committees, jurisdiction, ways and means in the house, finance committee in

the senate, will have opportunities to make amendments and hopefully to continue to improve the bill. as you heard the president say, we're anxious to get this done before the end of the year. julie: garrett tenney is in washington with the details. when are republicans expected to unveil their tax reform plan we're all waiting for? >> well, julie, house g.o.p. leaders say they plan to introduce their proposal after the house approves the budget that the senate just passed, and that's expected to happen by the middle of the week. leaders say that puts them right on track with their goal to get tax reform to the president's desk by the end of the year, though, some are suggesting it could happen even sooner, by thanksgiving. while there has been a lot of progress so far, it's important to remember, that everything up until now has been simply setting the stage for the real work of debating what tax reform ultimately looks like, and there's plenty of disagreement over that, something that democrats made clear today in their weekly address. >> while there are a few ideas that democrats might be able to support, we believe that the republican tax cut framework

failed to live up to the task that president trump himself set for his tax plan when he said it would be focused on the middle class. democrats believe that the republican tax plan is simply unfair and would further rig the tax code for the rich. >> some of those criticisms may be a bit premature though because again republicans have not revealed the details of their plan. as you have heard white house legislative director mark short say a bit earlier though this initial proposal is simply a starting point and that all sides will have plenty of opportunities to debate it, make changes and ultimately the hope is to have a better bill at the end. julie? julie: that's the hope. garrett, do we know how much republicans will actually be willing to negotiate with democrats, though? >> well, republicans are attempting to pass tax reform through the parliamentary tool known as reconciliation. that means they only need 50 votes in the senate to get it done, but as we saw with healthcare, even with 52 republican senators, that's no guarantee. so while they would like to be able to get it alone, we're already seeing some efforts to potentially win over a number of

democrats and yesterday house speaker paul ryan announced one change that democrats are expected to like, is he said that republicans are planning to add a fifth tax bracket for the richest americans. president trump told maria bartiromo he's open to that change. >> well, he really said that on the basis that i wanted it or was thinking about it because i want to make sure the middle class gets taken care of. i think that when paul says -- we may not have that, but i would rather do that than do anything to hurt the middle class. >> one of the key details, though, will be what the cut-offs are for those four possibility five tax brackets and we will find that out when republicans introduce their plan in the days ahead. julie? >> thank you very much. former white house chief strategist steve bannon launching a pretty big attack, a new one on the g.o.p. establishment. ahead, who he is calling out and why he claims that man's time in office was quote destructive. plus, president trump says he will not stop thousands of

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president when he shot him with the sniper so when the president's head goes back, you say wait a second there must have been a second shooter but i have -- i applaud the president, about time, i don't know why these files are still classified. julie: bryan llenas is here in our studio with more. why are these documents still classified anyway? >> honestly, the u.s. intelligence agencies and cia probably have a slew of reasons like methods and sources and whatnot, but they have been kept classified but now under the 92 jfk records collection act which mandated the government to release all documents about john f. kennedy's assassination by this up coming thursday, they will now be leased this thursday -- released this thursday, october 26th. but under the law the president has the right to keep some or all of these documents from being made public. now the president tweeted this morning he was going to release the files, quote, subject to the receipt of further information i will be allowing as president the long classified jfk files to be open. there are reports government intelligence agencies like the cia are lobbying the president

to withhold certain documents that could reveal sources and methods used by the intelligence community. now, the white house says the president believes these documents should be made available unless agencies provide a compelling national security reason, otherwise republican representative walter jones and senator charles grassley and others have introduced resolutions calling on trump, julie, to reject any moves to postpone this. so the thought is the president will release these. the question is, really, how many of these documents will be released? julie: a lot of people are wondering what are we going to learn from all these documents, something we may not have heard before, but maybe that's not so likely. >> right well the jfk files are a compilation of secret documents from the cia, fbi and justice department. there are more than 3,000 documents as well as the full text of more than 30,000 files, conspiracy theorists and historians will comb through these files looking for answers to questions centered mostly no doubt around lee oswald the man charged in killing kennedy,

questions about whether he abouted a -- acted alone. did some just intelligence officials have prior knowledge of the plot. did he act on behalf of the kgb? was the mafia involved? they could contain insight into oswald's trip to mexico city seven weeks before the assassination in which he visited the soviet and cuba embassies. cia personality study of oswald. letters from hoover and jackie kennedy and transcripts of a kgb agent who argued that oswald had not been recruited by the soviets. now ultimately, though, experts say don't expect major bombshells and conspiracies to continue. julie: bryan llenas, thank you very much. we will be talking to dr. michael bodin just moments from now. he actually investigated the assassination of jfk. i'm going to talk to him about what his theory is. he will join us later this hour. it is a rare sight, all five former presidents together in

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speechwriter wrote a speech. >> days before bush said this in new york. >> we've seen nationalism distorted into nativism. we've forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to america. bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry and compromises the moral education of children. the only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them. >> many said it was a speech on quote trumpism, a speech meant for the current administration, even though bush did not mention trump's name. the white house says they just don't buy that line of thinking. >> our understanding is that those comments were not directed towards the president. >> perhaps bannon did and he offered one of the most severe responses from anyone associated with this white house. >> it's clear he didn't understand anything he was talking about. he equates the industrial revolution, the agricultural rev

revolution, globalization he has no earthly idea whether he's coming or going just like it was when he was president of the united states. >> bannon was pushed out of the white house in august. he's now back at breitbart news and has publicly declared what is in his words a war on the republican establishment. julie? julie: ellison barber, thank you. all five former living presidents are in the same place tonight, coming up, the good cause they are uniting behind. plus, the nation is facing challenging times right now, but certainly not the worst we've endured. we're going to take a look back in time from the home of an american president tested by war and the great depression. the only thing we have to the only thing we have to fear is fear itself!♪ it's not just a car, it's your daily treat. ♪ go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. experience amazing.

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george herbert walker bush who will be here tonight had this message for people impacted by the hurricanes. i'm quoting here, even if the path to recovery feels like a road that goes on forever, we are with them for the long haul. and we know that it is going to be a long haul in puerto rico and parts of florida and texas still recovering from hurricanes. that is the primary theme is to raise as much money as possible. politics aside, everyone coming together to help people who have been devastated by hurricanes this year. former presidents obama, bush 43, clinton, bush 41, and carter will all be here. they will each say a few words, we understand, and they will also be accompanied by their former first ladies as well. a texas-sized performance here including the gatlin brothers, alabama, lyle lovett and robert

earl keen. plus a couple of surprises along the way. listen. >> it's quite a deal. i think it's -- and it's big on all of their parts to put aside all the wrangling, you know, everything that goes on, so i think that speaks to how important this is. houston and, you know, florida, devastated by the horrible hurricanes. >> and of course that's just right down the station from college -- right down the road from college station where we are, at texas a&m university. this arena on campus can hold nearly 13,000 people and tickets range in price from 40 to 60. however, you can't miss out on the action, if you're not here because you can also go on-line and you can go to -- you can go to -- they have the web address up here. julie, we will get it for you.

we had it up on the screen. i was going to look up here. but you can go on-line and you can donate any amount of money possible and again, the goal here is to raise as much as possible because they say that every single penny will go to hurricane recovery. my apologies, julie, for that website. we will get it to you and you can bring it to the viewers before the fox report is over. julie: it's one america appeal.org. we have it on the screen right now, casey and thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> got it. julie: more coverage of the hurricane relief concert tonight. you will get it live on watters world here on the fox news channel, 8:00 p.m. eastern, right after the show. stay tuned for that. the ongoing syrian civil war apparently is spilling over into israeli territory sparking a military response from israel which is now getting fierce pushback from multiple nearby nations. john huddy is in jerusalem with the details. >> the israeli military says

that it will intensify its response to any syrian fire, whether it's spillover from the fighting going on across the border in syria or not. this as syria's military warns of, quote, grave consequences to israeli attacks. the warning comes as the top iranian and syrian military commanders met in damascus this week, agreeing to increase the two country's military cooperation and coordination, while also fighting against, quote, zionist american schemes. >> translator: it's not acceptable for zionist regime to violate the land and airspace of syria any time it wants. we in iran share the same feeling with the syrian military and people who get frustrated and upset with aggression, and we will stand with the syrian military against such threats. >> israel is concerned about iran's increased involvement in syria and the potential for a stronger iranian military

presence along syria's border with israel. a line that netanyahu says cannot be crossed. earlier this week russian defense minister discussed creating a buffer zone to keep iranian forces away from the israeli border. israel's military said it will not tolerate any attempt to undermine the sovereignty of the state and security of its citizens. in a statement today, after syria fired five rockets into israeli controlled city earlier this afternoon. in response, syria's foreign ministry demanded that the united nations security council rebuke israel's actions saying it represents, a quote, new chapter in the israeli occupation of the city. julie? julie: john huddy, thank you. these are tense times in america. with north korea and iran making those terrible threats, hurricanes and wildfires, still affecting millions, and citizens

arguing about whether to stand up for the anthem, or tear down civil war statues, worth remembering that we have seen times far worse and come through with strength and unity. john scott took a trip two hours knot of new york city -- north of new york city, the home and library of our 32nd president. although he himself faced physical challenges he harnessed the incredible power of the american people to beat the depression and win a global war. ♪ >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself! >> they are only words, nothing more, yet they rallied a reeling nation. . the united states was struggling to cope with the worst economic disaster in our history, the great depression when franklin roosevelt took office in 1933. millions of american jobs disappeared. folks who couldn't feed their

families crowded soup kitchens. deposits and loans dried up, leaving banks to fail at an extraordinary rate. >> the first thing he does the president is shuts down all the banks and then about eight days later he gives his first fire side chat. >> i can assure you that it is safer for you to keep your money if a reopened bank than to keep it under the mattress. >> that one speech changed the country's attitude so much that there had not been a run on the banks. in fact people did what he said, they took their savings out from under the mattress and put them back in the banks >> that pep talk from their new president worked. americans poured millions of dollars back into the banks in just the first week they reopened. the president employing his astonishing power of persuasion to reach americans on a whole new level. >> his great tool was his voice. he understood the power of radio. he used radio in a way no one had ever used it before and few have used it since. he understood it was an intimate

meeting and the reason they came to be called fire side chats is when he would do those speeches on the radio, and millions of people would sit in their living rooms in front of their fireplaces and listen to them and some of those fire side chats were written in the room and several were delivered from this room behind that desk. >> as he helped pull the nation from economic ruin, a terrible new challenge loomed one that would forge a partnership strong as steel. >> talk about the leaders in this room. >> churchill sat here. >> they had a good relationship aside from heading the two allied countries in the war. they had a good working relationship. >> in the beginning churchill was the dominant figure. they were already involved in the war. he was desperately trying to get roosevelt to bring america into the war against the nazis. and he had a lot more experience in terms of military campaigns. >> but suddenly roosevelt needed no more product from churchill. the surprise military strike on america's pacific fleet in pearl

harbor once again required fdr to reassure a frightened nation with his charisma and self-assured attitude. >> the pearl harbor speech, you know, he was in washington. they called his assistant and said i need to give a speech tomorrow. i want you to take the speech down. she described it in an autobiography. he sat back, took a long drag on a cigarette and dictated the entire speech in one pass, no stop, complete with punctuati punctuation -- punctuation. >> a date which will live in infamy. >> those words almost didn't come out that way. the proof is right here. >> the most famous edit in history where he crossed out and world history and writes in infamy. so it was not a date that lived in world history but a date that lived in infamy. >> the sneak attack on pearl harbor outraged the american people and the nation's mood quickly shifted. men rushed to enlist, eager to join the fight, but those they left behind were frightened for

the fathers, brothers, sons and husbands who shipped off to fight thousands of miles from home. now with battles raging on two fronts, fdr used one of his fire side chats to instill confidence. >> we are going to win this war. >> those fire side chats truly changed the course of this nation's history. >> absolutely. another interesting moment is in february of 1942, so three months after pearl harbor, the war is not going well. the japanese have swept through the pacific. the nazis have swept through europe. the british are losing in north africa. nazis are right outside. moscow is about to fall. and he gives a speech, fire side chat, and he says i want to talk to you about the world. and he had told people ahead of time to get a map of the world. he says now look at this map in front of you. look at the size of the soviet union. look at the size of china. look at the size of the united states. look at the size of canada. those are our allies. now look at germany. look at italy. look at japan.

look how small they are. we are going to win this war is what he was saying. but more importantly he wanted people to understand the global nature of this conflict. and again it is a brilliant piece of political persuasion. but he was also not pretending it wasn't going to be difficult. he wasn't creating a false sense of hope for them. he was saying here's the situation. he was very specific about it and again it was one of those things where at a point of great trepidation in this country, he provided encouragement and a sense of accomplishment. this is what's going to happen. going to be hard. but in tend, we're going to win -- but in the end, we're going to win. >> john scott reporting. the national archives set to release thousands of jfk documents after president trump says he will block that -- will not block that from happening. our next guest investigated the assassination of president kennedy and he joins me next to tell us what we might learn, next. [notification tone] ♪ in the modern world, an app can help you find your perfect match. ♪

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julie: president trump says he will not block the scheduled release of thousands of government documents related to president john kennedy's assassination tweeting the following subject to the receipt of further information i will be allowing as president the long blocked and classified jfk files to be opened and now those secret p documents are set to be released by the national ar arrives next thursday -- archives next thursday. a fox news contributor is joining me now. let's just talk about the multiple theories ones that you have disproven and that is that there was more than one gunman. one gun, three shots. >> right. i was acting on behalf of the congressional committee investigating as chairman of the

forensic science panel of the house committee and we had access to lots of stuff. and there were nine chief forensic pathologists on that board, the forensic board. we all agreed after -- for two years of reviewing everything, going down, to the different autopsy areas that there were two and only two bullet wounds that struck the president. both were from behind. the first one -- well, the first one fired and missed. the second one struck the president in the back and the third one, the infamous head shot. and they all were able to determine the trajectories came from where oswald was in the texas book depository. we decided that way back in 1978, when we released the report. and to this day, that has not

been disproven. julie: okay. there were a lot of mess-ups in this investigation, which actually fed all these conspiracy theories. >> yes. julie: one, lee harvey oswald did not act alone, two, there were two gunmen and the list goes on. >> right. julie: 3,000 documents, 30,000 files that make up the jfk files and the cia, the fbi, and the justice department, these documents have all been secret until now. they do not want these documents out. why? >> well, i think it's going to be embarrassing for the fbi, for the cia, in some ways that where oswald could have been prevented and other things. but what is already known is that part of the reason for the conspiracy theory was that the doctors and the hospital where he was treated got a television set, he was shot in the front of the neck, the doctors in

washington, d.c. who did the autopsy said he was shot in the back. therefore, it had to be a conspiracy. people said they heard -- they saw somebody in the grassy knoll that was shooting and the movement of the head i think geraldo rivera mentioned all gave misinformation that there were two shooters. if there were two shooters, conspiracy. >> uh-huh. >> in the final analysis of the house select committee and assassinations, even though the forensic panel said -- documented that there were only two bullets from oswald that struck the president, there was testimony from acoustic experts that they could tell from the sound that there was another bullet fired from the grassy knoll that mised the president. -- that missed the president. and on that basis, the committee came out and agreed it was a conspiracy, but within a year or two later, a lot of the fbi and other scientists showed that

that acoustic evidence was wrong. julie: wow. any ground breaking information you think is going to come out of these files? >> i think mostly it will be embarrassing information for some of the agencies involved. i don't think there's going to be any change in the fact that oswald did it alone. julie: all right. >> which was not what oliver stone thought when he made the movie jfk but he was the one in the movie jfk -- got the government to set up this 92 committee that said these documents had to be released by thursday. julie: all right. we will all be looking forward to that. doctor, always great to have you on. >> beautiful to see you again. julie: haven't seen you in so long. we're old pals. thank you very much. well, a rash of burglaries across los angeles and hollywood's biggest names are the targets with mariah carey being the latest victim. ahead, the thousands of dollars worth of valuables snagged from her home. plus, hundreds of dare

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julie: mariah carey the latest victim in what has been a year of long waves of hollywood robberies. she's now out some $50,000 worth of times after her l.a. mansion was hit earlier this week. will carr picks up the rest of the story from our west coast newsroom tonight. how many celebrities have been burglarized recently? what's the deal? >> well, quite a few throughout the course of the year, julie. mariah carey is the latest. tmz is reporting that she was in new york when burglars broke into her home and snatched more than $50,000 in purses and sunglasses. tmz also reporting that kim kardashian and kanye west had three cars ransacked in their driveway on friday. they are now added to the growing list of big name celebrities who have been hit by burglars this year, that includes nicki minaj, kendall jenner, david spade and mma fighter ronda rousey.

>> someone had been squatting in my house, sleeping in my bed, stole my olympic ring, stole my precious jewelry, every headphone in my house. >> she says the thieves that broke into her house were arrested but many of the other celebrities can't say the same. julie? julie: what's the lapd doing to catch these culprits? >> well, we've learned the lapd has a task force that's looking into these burglaries. also private security experts say that social media is a vital tool for these bandits when they're deciding who to target. >> in my opinion, the people that are behind these crimes are highly organized, highly effective. they are working in small teams. and they're sharing information. probably through some organized central way. >> you don't have to be a celebrity to be hit by this type of criminal. experts say that you shouldn't advertise on social media when you are going out of town or how long you will be there so add that to the list of things that you need to do, julie. you have to get your neighbors to make sure your newspapers

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>> the white house defending his chief of staff, john kelly in this week's condolence call controversy. this year the weight entrée right to know what happened and why. tonight the death tonight the depth of your something that's a great and politicized. >> the public assumes the secret documents relating to the assassination of john f. kennedy. spirit go comb through the files. >> narrowly passing a budget. >> the biggest cuts ever in the history of this country. >> all five together in one place has nothing to do with