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safety gate for his 2-year-old daughter that didn't work very well. and there she goes. up and over two safety gates. as you can see the parents huddled down on the floor there taking the video. they are going to get where they want to go. we have to leave it there. happy weekend. >> to you as well. >> "happening now" starts now. >> jon: america is open for business. that's the message from president trump to a collection of world leaders and ceos at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. >> happy friday to you. i'm leah gabriel. president trump is on his way back to washington after taking his america first agenda to a gathering of the global elite in switzerland touting a revival of the u.s. economy and american spirit say when america wins, the whole world
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benefits. john roberts is live in davos. how is the president received there? >> good evening. this whole thing was really kind of drenched in irony. an organization that snubbed him when he was a businessman. never invited him to come to davos. a lot of people who come here every year have been extremely critical of the president yet they lined up for an hour to get in to see him and a packed house, standing room only as the president gave his speech. broke it down into three themes. the world working together against shared threats like north korea's nuclear program, iran and the threat from ice is and engaging with the world over trade and then saying america is the place to do business with. listen here. >> president trump: america is the place to do business. so come to america where you can innovate, create and build. i believe in america.
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as president of the united states, i will always put america first just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also. but america first does not mean america alone. when the united states grows, so does the world. >> trade reform was one of the big issues that the president was pushing today in his speech in davos as he has said so many times, the united states has been taken advantage of when it comes to trade and it's time for that to end. listen here. >> president trump: we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. we support free trade, but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal.
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because in the end, unfair trade undermines us all. >> another issue the president was dealing with today a report that back in june he told his chief white house counsel to fire bob mueller and was only convinced to not do it when the attorney said he would quit if the president ordered him to do that. we reported on this, leah, back in june of last year and i checked with a number of sources this morning. none of the people i talked to said that the president said to don mcgahn fire bob mueller. he said something to the effect of if i wanted to, i could fire him. i have the authority to do that. maybe even went so far as to ask don mcgahn to see if he could talk to rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general in charge of the special counsel's office to take his temperature on it. apparently when the president asked his white house counsel mcgahn about that he shot back it's a horrible idea. the hammer will come down on you if you do this and it will blow up in your face. the president said okay, we won't do it but he would hold
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in reserve the idea of maybe firing mueller if he thought that the investigation was going in an inappropriate direction. as we've seen, bob mueller is still in his job and the president has said repeatedly after being asked about it at least a half dozen times if not more, no, he has no plans to fire bob mueller. >> i'm sure we'll be hearing more about what was said. >> jon: president trump taking his speech as an opportunity to promote america's economic progress while inviting other world powers to join in that success. >> president trump: the world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous america. i'm here to deliver a simple message. it has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest, and to grow in the united states. america is open for business and we are competitive once again. >> jon: let's bring in glen
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hall, chief editor for the dow jones news wires. kind of interesting what john roberts had to say a moment ago. as a private businessman donald trump got the cold shoulder from the crowd in davos and now all of a sudden he is president it is standing room only in the room to hear him. >> this is perhaps no surprise considering the stature of the u.s. presidency. surprise being donald trump had never been there before but at this point he carries a lot more weight in this role and a lot more influence on the global events. >> jon: you suggest the policy or maybe the approach, the approach he is taking to the policy is evolving. >> yeah. when you look at the america first message during the campaign it was pitched towards americans saying i have your back and make sure that people don't take advantage of america and hurt your prospects for economic prosperity. this message to world leaders, which we've seen over the last couple of months has been also
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that america first doesn't mean it's only about america. it means that he is looking after america's interests but it is not america alone were his words meaning he is opening the door here for partnerships and continued engagement with the world and all along this has been a matter of interpretation, right? he is putting the message into stark relief at this point for the world to hear. >> jon: some of our competitors on the world stage china, india, do not necessarily have to follow the same rules that the u.s. does. >> that's right. when you are talking about trade and all these other global arrangements, there have not always been perfect balances between what america was seeking in terms of global influence and what was best for the american domestic and economically speaking. >> jon: the economy is booming now in this country. >> the president made the point about that. when he was talking about being open for business and being more competitive than ever he is talking about all the regulations that his administration has cut since he has taken office. he is talking about the tax
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reforms that he championed and all of that has created this climate and has certainly pushed optimism in this country. we saw in the fourth quarter gdp numbers out today the american consumer is feeling more optimistic than we've seen in a while. >> jon: if you're a businessman who wants to establish a factory or country you look for a number of things. educated workforce, low taxation, low regulation and a table government. one that is going to be there in 10 years. >> those are some of the challenges still out there in terms of attracting that business. we've seen toyota and others coming in in the recent months. one thing that we heard at davos and our "wall street journal" teams there have been reporting is there is divide between some optimism among executives and concern about protectionism around world leaders. >> jon: on that report the president wanted to fire robert
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mueller john roberts' take on it was interesting. he has been digging around the white house. they said there was some discussion of it. if the president really wanted the fire robert mueller he could have done it, right? >> it was explored in june as john mentioned. it was the report then. i think there were -- always a frustration about this and we heard from the president he has made no secret criticizeing jeff sessions for recusing himself from all of this. questioning whether there was a need for a special counsel. and just generally feeling like this was a distraction from what his presidency is trying to accomplish. >> jon: glen hall from the dow jones news service. thank you. >> it was the tweet heard around the world. you may remember the false missile alert that sparked panic in hawaii. where the investigation stands nearly two weeks later. plus the president is slamming a report by "the new york times" claiming that he tried to fire robert mueller. our next guest is calling the story a deliberate leak to change the narrative as the
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mueller investigation comes under scrutiny from lawmakers. the media panel is up next and here is mercedes schlapp, white house director of communications. >> "the new york times" is throwing out these month's-old russian conspiracy stories. the reality is the president and this white house has been cooperative with the special counsel. p) achoo! achoo! (snap) (snap) achoo! achoo! feel a cold coming on? zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45%. shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam.
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>> leah: the hawaii state employee who sent out a false missile alert is refusing to cooperate. it warned residents to seek immediate shelter from an in-bound missile threat. hawaii's emergency management agency is helping with the investigation but the employee is refusing to say more after giving an initial statement. if you remember the message caused mass panic among the
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public for nearly 40 minutes before authorities finally announced it was a false alarm. officials say the employee pushed the wrong button during a routine drill. he was reportedly disciplined and reassigned but was not fired. >> jon: president trump pushing back on reports he tried to fire special counsel robert mueller last year according to the "new york times" the president ordered the firing of mueller in june but backed off after white house lawyer don mcgahn threatened to resign over the issue. the president denies the claim calling the report fake news. he also slammed mainstream media coverage of him in general while attending the annual world economic forum in davos. >> president trump: i've always seemed to get for whatever reason a disproportion nat amount of press or media and throughout my whole life. somebody will explain someday why. i've always gotten a lot and as a businessman i was always treated really well by the
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press. the numbers speak and things happen. always had a very good press. it wasn't until i became a politician that i realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be. >> jon: let's bring in our panel. elizabeth harrington and a correspondent for bustle.com. i raised the point. if the president is the top guy in the administration, if he wanted to fire robert mueller he could have, right? >> absolutely. he has the power to do that. back in august he said he had never considered firing the special counsel. we're seeing reports in june he did consider it. he went as far as to ask for it to be done. that goes against what he said. it falls in line with a number of false or misleading statements by the president. more than 2,000 a year ago. five per day. >> jon: you have looked at this, elizabeth. you don't necessarily find it
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all that credible. >> right. well, isn't it curious that just as the mueller probe and the entire premise of this investigation is coming under scrutiny with these text messages, with this fisa memo that is circulating on the hill we have a deliberate leak to change the narrative. now the media is in a frenzy talking about obstruction. what we really have here, trump didn't fire anybody. not firing someone doesn't sound like obstruction to me. what sounds like obstruction is a top f.b.i. agent communicating months before he is about to interview hillary clinton he agrees he should go easy on her for political reasons. that sounds more like obstruction into an investigation than not firing someone which is what this report intentionally leaked by the mueller team as a distraction shows. >> jon: i suppose there would be in a white house like this a lot of back and forth about should we fire him, should we
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not. your point is that the president has said that he had never considered it but apparently he did and that is part of the criticism here i guess? >> well, now i'll take issue with elizabeth's point this detail was deliberately leaked by the mueller team. how do you know that? because there is reports that say this was just learned in recent months by the investigation, these new developments. so who knew it? that's what the media story actually implies and why did this story come out two hours after these text messages were leaked from grassley on the hill that deliberately show the bias of the top f.b.i. agent on mueller's team? it shows that he wants to go easy on hillary clinton because she could be our next president. is that just a coincidence do you think? >> i disagree that the story
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implies it was the source and this is a valid piece of the russia investigation. >> jon: if it didn't happen, what's the net effect, erin? >> we've seen a pattern by president trump to try to diminish the roles of people on his team whether the deputy attorney general, andrew mccabe, jeff sessions or whether it's james comey. all of this becomes important to the mueller investigation. >> jon: and elizabeth your take is that it was leaked to try to distract, i guess, from some of the other efforts that seem to be underway to diminish or tarnish the trump administration. >> we've seen a complete change in narrative nou. all the other cable news networks are in a frenzy calling it obstruction. obstruction of what exactly? obstruction of a fishing expedition that has no connection to the initial purpose of the investigation, which was russia meddling in
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the election? we're so far down a completely different path and now we're saying that oh, trump -- it's laughable when you have democratic lawyers saying this "new york times" story shows intent of trump to obstruct justice whether it was hillary clinton's intent to set up a private email server and misuse classified information and that was the whole question, right? comey said oh, we don't have to consider her intent because she didn't really mean any harm when peter strzok is the one who changed the language to reckless instead of criminal statute which was extremely reckless and disregarding classified information. here you have the top agent had a hand in this hillary investigation and also was brought into the trump/mueller probe and he was completely biased against trump. we've seen it and fired just as all the text messages are coming out to expose that, now
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what is the media jumping onto? a 6-month-old story that they reported that trump considered firing mueller but the fact is he didn't fire mueller. >> jon: interesting times in washington gives us all a lot to cover. elizabeth harrington and erin dill more, bustle.com. >> leah: south korea dealing with a deadly fire. flames broke out and left nearly 40 people dead plus this. >> i'm on board the min act will of american maritime engineering. the fastest ocean liner in the world almost as famous as the titanic. this one never sank. coming up, why the s.s. united states is now sending out an s.o.s. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.
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>> leah: flames ripping through a south korean hospital killing at least 37 people marking the country's most deadly fire in years. it broke out in the hospital's emergency room and spread through the first floor. nearly 130 people were injured. the head of the foundation that runs the hospital saying that the hospital did not have sprinklers because it is not required by law. the cause still under investigation. >> jon: you know, some of the greatest symbols of america are found in philadelphia. the liberty bell and independence hall, for instance. another of america's industrial historical icons is there as well. easily seen by passersby yet almost impossible to tour. the 65-year-old ship that bears the name of this nation. right now the s.s. united states is in real trouble. >> the new 53,000 ton liner united states. >> this is america's flagship
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the s.s. united states. ♪ >> is there anything else in the united states that is named the united states? >> arguably this is it, jon. that's one of the reasons why she is america's flagship. >> jon: this once grand vessel is many of many things. almost as long as new york's chrisler building is tall. 100 feet longer than the titanic. proudly wears a made in america label as the largest passenger ship ever built entirely in the u.s. >> we talk a lot about american made today, jon. this ship is the epitome of it. there were people and companies from every state in the nation that built this ship. >> jon: she carried nearly 1 1/2 million passengers across the atlantic in style and
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safety. the ship's architect made the s.s. united states his labor of love. he insisted no wood be used in the construct to keep her fireproof. he allowed butcher blocks in the kitchen and the grand pianos. >> what are the store aoefs you remember from childhood about your grandfather and this ship. >> jokes about did he love this ship more than my grandmother? and he would always say yes, a thousand times yes. >> jon: she is the fastest passenger ship in the world. >> while she has every modern comfort, the united states has been constructed primarily for power and speed. >> jon: on her maiden voyage in 1952 the ship smashed the trans atlantic speed record. she sliced through the sea at
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44 miles per hour. giving her high profile clients. >> marlon brando, john wayne. >> jon: marilyn monroe as i understand. >> if you were an a-lister you were there. president eisenhower, truman and kennedy and bill clinton going over to europe when he was a rhodes scholar traveled on this ship as a kid. it has seen more passenger than any other vessel. >> jon: it was a symbol of american inbegin yu tee, prestige and pride and to protect the nation to gave her her name if necessary. >> it was a top secret design. >> she was a top secret ship in
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addition to a luxe lury liner. a cold war asset. she could be quickly converted from luxury liner to a troop ship and transport up to 15,000 troops, 10,000 miles without refueling. so her whole shape, the propeller was top secret. >> jon: for its speed and technology built in it fell victim to the jet engine. >> fewer people were willing to spend four to five days traveling to europe when they could get in a plane and travel for six or seven hours. >> she was retired from active duty in 1969 after only 17 years of service. today her walls, once adorned with beautiful artwork are bare. even the paint is peeling away. the lights long dimmed in the grand ballroom. the live music gone silent.
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the decks of the vessel now deserted and decaying. the s.s. united states floats in a philadelphia shipyard rusting and in desperate need of restoration. a grassroots organization is fighting to keep her intact. here is the spokesman for the conservancy. the idea they would cut it up into scrap would be tragic. >> it would be a real tragedy. this ship is as important a symbol for this country as the liberty bell or washington monument. that special. >> it would be such a loss and a crime against history for this ship to be cut up into razor blades. we can't let that happen. >> jon: it costs $60,000 a month to keep the ship here. >> it does. $60,000 a month. a grassroots organization has built a global community of supporters to help keep the ship in the water.
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we haven't taken a dime of government money but we are at a point now where we need americans to step forward. we need people to realize how important a symbol this ship is. we need the president to take notice and congress to take notice. but how we can work together as a nation. come together as a country to save america's flagship. >> jon: some cruise lines have shown interest over the years in buying and refurbishing the ships but changing consumer tastes and requirements, restoring her to active use would be cost prohibitive. still there is hope americans will save her to keep her history alive and preserve the united states' unique place in america history. >> our country is a singular, extraordinary expression and so is this ship. she matches her namesake really well. and that's why it's emotional. you see her name on the bow of this ship and you see it rust.
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great nations don't allow their history to rust or be destroyed, especially something that is named after our great nation. >> jon: some probably won't carry passengers again. this ship could go in reverse as fast as the titanic could go forward. >> leah: you do see united states across the bow and you do think about the greatness of the american power. i want to know when you were on this ship comparing the pictures to what you see now, could you imagine what it must have been like in its day? >> jon: sure. what they would like to do is tow it to a sea port city and turn it into a museum or shopping mall or even a condo or office project and have it there for people to be able to see and walk aboard and touch. >> leah: it will be a neat place to live. there is a way to donate. >> jon: we are the united states.org is the grassroots organization trying to save the
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ship. check them out and check out fox news.com/lifestyle. we have more information there and a slide show of old and new pictures of that ship. >> leah: those pictures are pretty amazing. incredible to think of all the people who were on that ship. the celebrities, the presidents that you mentioned. >> jon: it was sort of the space shuttle of its day. that kind of a symbol of america. >> leah: i like that analogy. great story, jon. president trump leaving davos after delivering his message of america first and pressing his case for immigration reform as his team lays out a proposal for a path to citizenship for dreamers. will congress get on board? now you can join angie's list for free.
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the bipartisan group of moderate senators should continue trying to find a consensus. i think that's an excellent idea. the white house unfortunately has proven unreliable and wildly unpredictable. >> leah: let's bring in our panel. tiffany cross co-founder and managing editor of the beat d.c. and a fox news political analyst. nice to see you both. i would like to start with you first, tiffany. what is your initial reaction to this framework? >> i think it's hard to nail this administration down exactly how they feel about immigration. trump will say one thing on monday and something different on thursday. in terms of their framework it is disturbing that although the president is giving citizens dreamers a path to citizenship he is doing so by making it impossible for three times the amount of legal immigration who come to this country to help make it great again as the
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president loves to say, and these are people who are ceos ad job creator. the ceo of google and tesla are immigrants. he has made some concessions on giving dreamers a pass to citizenship he is doing so at a huge cost. nobody on the right or left is happy with this legislation. >> leah: giano. you don't like this either. >> president trump calling him a deal maker and chief was a fallacy. the president is giving everything away. the cake and toppings. this proposal is a generous to every individual that comes to this country legally. i'm all for protecting dreamers. this proposal goes on beyond that providing a pathway for citizenship to 1.8 million people and likely a whole lot
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more beyond the current 700,000 people that signed up for the deferred action for childhood arrivals figure we've been discussing for the past few months. in essence this proposal to me makes president obama's daca program look like a conservative choice. this is beyond what i ever would have expected from president trump. >> leah: back to you, tiffany. those on the far right don't like it and the far left don't like it. don't it sound like what we call a compromise? >> i don't think so. i think the biggest challenge i have with it is because of this empty campaign promise the president made that he wants to put a $25 billion debt on the back of american taxpayers to build this ridiculous border wall when his own ice administration says the numbers of border crossings have gone down. that's been a huge sticking point. i would echo congressman gutierrez who said it would be -- it is what this legislation is. a come prom aisles i think is something that at least makes
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sense. i don't think this legislation makes sense to anybody on the right or left. the heritage foundation called it a non-starter. we both don't like it, we disagree for different reasons. >> leah: those on the right would say the lower number of illegal immigrants coming from the country is a result of president trump being in office and his administration. the white house seems to feel like this is a point to begin with to ultimately get legislation that would end up in conference. what say you to that idea? >> so the only thing that makes me feel comfortable about this proposal is the fact it is only a proposal and these major giveaways won't fly when it comes to conservative caucuses in congress. this is a good thing to get 60 votes in the senate and we know that people like the tea party and others, freedom caucus will say it isn't something we should do. they will probably push a bill out of the house and we can't take it to conference but at the end of the day it just -- it's interesting to me.
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i don't consider myself to be on the far right. i'm in the middle. conservative but more in the middle. it's interesting i see folks on the left complaining about this when this is the most liberal policy that they have come out of a republican administration. this is something they should be praising president trump for and something we never expected and i understand what chuck schumer is saying when he says hey, this is an unpredictable president. at this point no one who supported president trump or republicans in general thought that a proposal like this would come from this white house. >> leah: the issue is will it get the ball rolling? that's what we'll be waiting to see if it happens. thank you both. >> jon: the largest and most recognizable symbol of american might might soon make a stop in vietnam. how this historic move could be about sending a message to
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>> jon: accused mexican drug cartel boss el chapo makes a promise to jurors in his trial. he won't have any of them murdered. a motion filed by his attorney. prosecutors want to keep the jury anonymous and under protection because he has tried to silence witnesses in the past. defense attorneys say it sends
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a message to jurors that he is probably guilty. he made escapes from custody in mexico. the judge hasn't ruled on the motion. >> leah: breaking now the u.s. navy preparing to send an aircraft carrier to vietnam since the end of the vietnam war. the ship docked in the country which is a direct message to china. joining me now is an attorney at georgetown university professor of national security studies. >> thank you for having me. >> leah: those of us who served in the navy say a u.s. aircraft carrier going anywhere in the world is a big symbol of diplomacy. what do you make of this decision? >> it is a symbol of outreach to vietnam and vietnamese government which has been increasingly interested in forming shall we say an informal partnership with the united states to manage china's activities in the south china sea. the deployment of the u.s.s. carl vincent or any other
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carrier battle group to vietnam would not only be historic in terms of u.s./vietnamese relations showing how much those relations have improved but would also send a powerful signal to beijing the united states cares about what it's doing in the south china sea and has an interest in preserving the independence and autonomy of sovereign countries like vietnam. >> leah: going into danang. certainly symbolic. you mention china and the south china sea. china has been building on top of islands that are disputed. secretary mattis in speaking about this said freedom of navigation and access in the south china sea will be critical to vietnam economically and in their security effort. i want to key in on him saying freedom of navigation and your legal brain on this one. he is using those words for a reason. explain. >> that's right. there are two reasons why we care about the freedom of
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navigation. the first is under the united nations convention on the law of the sea. unless you are within the 12-mile territorial sea of a country there is supposed to be no restraint on your ability to move from one port to another. the exception would be a u.n. embargo or economic sanctions that have a multi-lateral effect. if you're outside the 12-mile limit the territorial waters no one is supposed to be getting in your way to operate or navigate. it is also important because china as it is building up these islands in strategic locations throughout the south china sea is asserting its ability to interfere with the shipping of other countries including vietnam, the philippines, taiwan, and others in the region. and so one of the u.s. primarily interests in the south china sea is to maintain freedom of navigation for commercial and strategic reasons and also to limit china's ability to make the argument that they control the
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area. >> leah: china is trying to make that argument. china was complaining that a u.s. guided missile destroyer went around 12 miles from scarborough shoal. what do you make of how china is trying to reclaim these islands and when u.s. ships are passing through under freedom of navigation complaining about it? >> the chinese government has an interest in asserting its influence not just in asia generally but in the waters off the shores. south china sea is a major trade shipment point for world commerce. a source of potential oil and gas and other minerals and the chinese government is trying to have their cake and eat it, too, by creating facts on the ground with these new islands and by encouraging the united states and others to stay away. perfectly fine for you to transit an island or other location outside the 12-mile
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limit. if you get inside you are supposed to identify and have yourself to the local authorities and get permission to be there. that's been international law for hundreds of years and it's important that the united states uphold it and make sure that smaller countries in southeast asia like vietnam are being treated fairly. >> leah: all right. christopher swift, thank you. >> good to be with you. >> jon: new details on the deadly train derailment in washington state. what the train's engineer is telling investigators. a manhunt continues in colorado following the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy. update on the investigation as an entire community mourns a terrible loss. >> there is nothing more important to me than making sure that the person or persons that are involved in this situation as a whole, but particularly the situation of the shooting and the killing of one of our deputies, comes to justice.
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>> jon: we are learning more about a deadly train derailment in washington state last month. the national transportation safety board giving an update after talking to the engineer. he told investigators he misjudged the location of the amtrak train and missed a signal that would have alerted him to an upcoming curve. three people killed, dozens more injured when the train went around the curve as twice the speed limit and ran off the tracks in washington it was traveling along a new route when the derailment occurred. >> leah: a suspect in the murder of a colorado sheriff's deputy is set to make his first court appearance today. authorities are still searching for two more men who were possibly connected to that case. we're live in los angeles.
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william, what do we know? >> police believe the man that they have in custody likely knows the other two suspects who are still on the run. this all began when up to 10 men assaulted a woman wednesday night in north denver prompting witnesses to call 911. deputies respond and the suspects ran. >> it started out with like -- i saw a tall man about 6 fought wearing all black clothes and hoodie running through my yard running away from my door. >> when the deputy cornered one man in a backyard the suspect fired. the bullet somehow got through or missed the police officer's vest. the shooter is charged with first degree murder. at 17 he beat a man unconscious. the next day he assaulted a woman and stole her ipad and served two years of a four-year sentence. police ask the media not to
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share his identity until the court appearance until later today. gumm was a thoughtful, caring deputy. >> serving in law enforcement is a shared sacrifice. the fam laoels of our deputies and law enforcement officers across colorado appreciate the outpouring of support and prayers. >> the manhunt for the two other suspects continues. they are not wanted in the murder. gumm is survived by his wife and parents and the second officer killed in the line of duty in denver in the last 30 days. >> leah: let's hope that they find those other two and get more information. thank you. >> jon: recovered text messages between peter strzok and lisa page reveal some at the f.b.i. worried about being too tough on hillary clinton during the email investigation. how top lawmakers are responding to the apparent pro-clinton bias ahead on "outnumbered".
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>> here's a union with an unusual start. a new jersey couple had planned to get married at a local courthouse, but when the grooms mother had an asthma attack, they ended up tying the knot in the bathroom. that's where brian schatz is mom was waiting for emts. if the couple had postponed, they would've had to wait another 45 days for a marriage license, so a judge agreed to perform the ceremony in the loo and it was all caught on video. the groom's mother we are happy to report has since recovered. >> what can you say? love is love. if they wanted to get married and didn't want to wait. >> that's right. >> i like what it said on the web site which is they didn't want to flush away their wedding dreams. a little play on words they are. >> good way to start your weekend. >> it sure is. >> thank you for joining us
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today. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. see you soon. speed when we begin with the fox news alert. president trump is going after the media calling it fake news as a bombshell report that he ordered the firing of special counsel robert. this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today with sandra smith. melissa francis, host of kennedy also on fbm, kennedy herself and in center seat, "outnumbered" today we welcome back the cohost of the bernie and said show on wabc radio. >> bernard: thank you for having me. the end of another slow news week. >> harris: what do you mean the end? they never end. >> bernard: is very exciting. >> sandra: i don't know of our audience can see your timberland boots with your suit coat. quite a combination. you're working and you're serious. >> bernard: i'm not playing.

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