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>> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 at the white house. today's briefing has wrapped. there was a lot to cover. president trump's pick to lead the veterans administration still fighting for a job. will the backing from the white house be enough to overcome these accusations of misconduct? including drinking on the job. a cabinet member admitting that he talked to lobbyists only if they gave him cash back when he was in congress. really? pay for play? his staff points out that he met with constituents for free. new reaction coming in. and breaking now, a bomb shell announcement in a cold case. cops announcing that 40 years later they've caught the serial
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killer who terrorized an entire state. the original night stalker. let's get to it. >> first from the fox news desk, the white house is standing by president trump's pick to lead the veterans affairs department as accusations of misconduct pile up. the top democrat on the senate v.a. committee says white house staffers nicknamed dr. ronny jackson the candy man. >> that's the report we got from 20 some people that said we have a problem, this doctor has a problem. he hands out prescriptions like candy. >> the democratic senator john tester from cnn last night, he's from montana. he says more that 20 members of the military came to the committee with claims against the rear admiral ronny jackson
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drinking on the job while with president obama. >> if you're drunk, something happened with the president, it's difficult to treat the president. so this is totally unacceptable under this environment and that's what multiple people told us this was the case on several different trips. >> shepard: still, a senator that met with the doctor says the nominee told him he never had a drink while on duty. dr. jackson said he would drink only when another doctor was in charge of taking care of the president. an inspector general report from the year 2012 accused dr. jackson and a rival physician of unprofessional behavior in a battle to control the white house medical unit. staffers said they walked on eggshells and there was a lack of truth in leadership. senators say they delayed dr. jackson's confirmation hearing indefinitely while they look into the accusations. the white house is calling the claims outrageous. dr. jackson has worked as a white house physician since
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2006. his supporters are pointing out that president obama and president trump have praised dr. jackson's work. so what is at work here? is this legit? this doctor, after all, has been praised all around. if it's about maybe there's not enough experience to run a department of 360,000 people, well, that's something different entirely. the chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with more. john? >> the white house continues to insist that it's dr. jackson's decision to face the problems ahead of him. but the white house released yesterday some comments from president obama that were included in fitness reports, so called fit raps of dr. jackson. the president obama writing in 2014 that he was the most impressive leader that continues to perform at the flag officer
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level. ronny has earned the confidence of myself and my family. from october 2016 president obama again writing --. >> and then from president trump, updated but we expected this from this year after he had his physical in january with dr. johnson. the president wrote -- >> we heard from senator john tester of montana in that interview that he says that the book on dr. jackson is that he manages up very well, that he is very, very kind and very cooperative and very complimentary of people above him. it's managing below that he has a problem. sarah huckabee sanders this
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afternoon said none of these allegations came to light before his nomination. she finds it all very suspicious. listen here. >> the allegations that dr. ronny jackson is facing, there's more allegations that have been levelled at him the last 24 hours, one of which might involve a hippa violation. >> dr. jackson's background and character were evaluated in three different administrations. dr. jackson has had at least four independent background investigations conducted during his time at the white house including an fbi investigation conducted as part of the standard nomination vetting process. during each of those investigations, dr. jackson received unanimous praise from dozens of witnesses and there were no areas of concern. >> jackson was, as we know, shep, the subject of a 2012 military medical inspector
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general's report in which his leadership conduct was questioned. that at the very least should have been included in the background checks. perhaps it didn't -- go ahead. >> shepard: not at all. sorry. joe manchin is speaking on this matter live right now. let's hear it. >> give him the benefit of the doubt until we see the facts. i haven't seen it. >> [question inaudible] >> we're trying to be briefed at the v.a. committee. we were supposed to meet tomorrow. i'm hoping johnny and them are working something out. >> [question inaudible] no, no. just a briefing on the committee. okay? thank you all. >> shepard: okay. didn't say it on the screen but that was live. there's another part of this, john, that i have been wanting to ask all day. at first, the word was released, he's the candy man, hands out prescriptions, everybody can get them. then you hear details. the details were people on the plane, the white house plane, have taken a long trip overseas
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and he gives people an ambient so they can sleep overnight and hit the ground running in the morning. john, that's going on a long time. what's going on here? >> it's been going on a long time. it's not just aboard air force one that people are offered sleep aids. it's pentagon trips as well. if you travel with the secretary of defense to afghanistan or something like that, the physician will come along and say if you want something to help you sleep, we have something here. typically it's ambient. used to be halcion. the president was famous for taking halcion back then. that was a matter of controversy. this never happened to me. i've not traveled on air force one on the long trips. but every time the white house physician, whether it's ronny jackson or somebody else or the pentagon physician hands out a sleep aid, that is recorded who he gave it to or she gave it to and the prescription amount. so all of this is recorded and is a matter of record and as to
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why it's an issue, i think, again that speaks to sarah sanders' skepticism that none of this came to light before ronny jackson was nominated. i mentioned in my question to sarah sanders about allegations of a hippa violation. i got some detail on it, some i'm not at liberty to share. it involves a medevac from camp david, which wouldn't seem like a hippa violation. >> shepard: thanks, john. this white house has been accused of and evidence to suggested that maybe some of their vetting is not as thorough as others because they come in and realize there's problems. but the investigation is underway. you can say 360,000 people. how is he going to run a department like that? that's different from saying he's a candy man. investigation is underway. the white house budget director said when he was in congress that he met with lobbyists, but he would only meet with them if
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they gave him campaign money. pay for play it sounded like. "the new york times" reports that mick mulvaney made the comment to more than 1,000 executives. it's the kind of thing you say in private but rarely in public. he said we had a hierarchy. if you're a lobbyist that never gave me money, i didn't talk to you. if you did give us money, i might talk to you. if you came from back home and sat in my lobby, i talked to you without exemption. in other words, constituents didn't have to pay for their meetings. mulvaney is acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau. back to john roberts at the white house. it's like some of the things you used to whisper are now coming out of people's mouths. >> he has long said things like this. i talked to members of his staff this afternoon. they insist that the comments from his speech were taken totally out of context.
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what he was doing, he was praise ago group of constituents, in this case local bankers and pay-day lenders saying it's important for you to come to washington, go bang on doors on capitol hill and speak to your representatives directly. the message i'm told that he was delivering was that lobbying contributions mean nothing compared to seeing somebody from back home. it was not about giving money for access. the democrats think that they have him on the floor now and the rule in politics, when you're opponent is down, keep your foot on his throat. senator brown of ohio saying pay to play that makes americans furious. he should resign and the white house should nominate a new director with bipartisan support and a moral compass. senator bob casey saying this is supposed to be a government by the people, for the people. not a government of thieves and money changers. mick mulvaney is a disgrace. some of the context that was not
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included in the initial article comes from the last paragraph of mick mulvaney's speech. he said people coming from back home to tell people in congress what issues are important to them is one of the fundamental underpinnings of our representative democracy and you have to continue to do it. mulvaney is saying there was a hierarchy in his congressional office when he was there. people from his home district come first regardless if they contributed or not and then lobbyists that helped contribute and lobbyists that haven't. clearly he could have said it a different way. >> shepard: or not at all. >> yeah. >> shepard: john roberts, things. let's go to jeff mason for reuters. is this politics? what do we have here? what is the reporting? >> one thing it is, it gives democrats own words that he wants to drain the swamp. then you have words like this coming out of his budget
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director, you have to controversy surrounding scott pruitt and the ethical decisions that he's under fire for at the epa. it gives fodder to democrats to say president trump is not keeping the promise that he made about draining the swamp. >> shepard: you mentioned scott pruitt. with scott pruitt, there's a long reported history of lots of factual reports that back up he's been a spender for quite a while. yet it's not getting the traction one might have thought. >> well, i guess it depends where the traction may be coming from. it's not getting as much traction at the white house. sarah sanders defending the epa administrator. she did say that they expect the epa to answer some of these questions that have been raised about thinks travel and other ethical decisions. you don't have president trump coming out and withdrawing his support from pruitt. this is somebody that is gung ho for the administration on
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pulling back regulations that many republicans don't like. so president trump is a fan. that said, that doesn't mean that pruitt is not in hot water. it's one of those things that we'll wait and keep watching. >> shepard: do you have a handle on the dr. jackson situation? back when he was giving the rousing approval of president trump and the medical report, it was clear what the weight was and sort of missing the heart part and the fact that he doesn't eat right. it was brushed aside. but the rest of this, it feels like there's more reporting to be done on this. >> it's clear from just watching today's briefing, sarah sanders emphasized much defense of their vetting as much as she did
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dr. jackson. dr. jackson is very popular with republican and democratic white houses. so that's playing it here. >> jeff, lindsey graham, republican of south carolina speaking on this matter. dr. jackson. listen. >> iran and climate deal. how is your reaction -- >> there was something in it for everyone. i tweeted out today that the voice of john mccain sort of alive and well in that speak in terms of rejecting isolationism, leading from the front, not from behind. the countries like france and the united states shape history and we're looking -- people will be overwhelmed by globalization was music to my ears for the french president to say that we're global leaders, proud of it, we're not going to create vacuums throughout the world. north korea, i think he gave a lot of credit to president trump and he deserves a lot of credit
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for getting north korea to the table on the iran deal. i'm glad he's understanding it's not a good deal. let me tell you how bad it is. the arabs wants nuclear power. i'm okay with iranians having a nuclear power plant. i'm know okay them making the fuel. they can turn the fuel to a bomb. this deal allows them to enrich and reprocess. we're telling our arab allies to not enrich and reprocess because we don't want to proliferate nuclear materials. i'm trying to communicate to the french -- >> shepard: we know his stance on this. he had been speaking on this dr. jackson thing for a while. the white house amounting a vigorous defense, they're going to let this investigation play itself out. at the moment, it's a definite postponement of the hearing. they say we are not going to do it or reschedule, right? >> yeah, if it's going to happen, they need to have the
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hearing. so far the rhetoric coming out of officials like sarah sanders is that they continue to support dr. jackson. that wasn't entirely clear yesterday when the president answered john roberts' saying if it was him, he would pull back. but this is something that they care about, they like a lot. even as sarah said at the briefing, despite some of the questions that people have raised that president trump alluded to yesterday about whether he has the most experience running an agency as long as the department of veterans affairs, they like him for the job. >> shepard: he doesn't. the president was clear about it yesterday. sarah backed it up today. that's what he said. the fact is running a doctor's department in the white house that has 50 employees and running the second largest agency in the united states government with 360,000 people, those are two different things. not to be equated or compared with somebody calling him a pill doctor. it's two different things. if he's not qualified because he doesn't have the experience to run a big agency, that's a whole separate issue.
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they seem to be on some level conflating them. i don't know. it's note worthy. >> they are different issues. i think if the hearing does happen, it's pretty reasonable to believe that he will be asked about both issues and perhaps drill down more on the experience issue than the other. >> shepard: is there a feeling in the white house about how the macron visit overall has gone? >> yeah. they're very pleased with it. they feel like the visit was positive, that it went well. sarah's praised first lady melania's role. they were pleased with the talks. it will be interesting on the substantive issues like iran which both presidents addressed yesterday. there's a deadline coming up about for president trump to decide whether to keep the united states in the agreement. will this friendship or this bromance between macron and trump lead to something substantive that the europeans want, which is to keep the
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americans, to keep the united states in that deal. that still to be seen. >> shepard: jeff mason for reuters, thank you. cutting it short because we have breaking news on fox news channel. word of a major development in a decades old case. officials in california making an announcement about the golden state killer. the original night stalker. for four decades the identity of the person police say murdered 12 people and raped dozens of others in the 70s and 80s has been a mystery. but now an announcement. let's listen. >> upwards of 50 rapes, 12 murders. crimes that span ten years across at least ten different counties. it was that day in june of 2016 that we in public safety reiterated our commitment to
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justice and the victims. in this case, the golden state killer. it was that day that we embarked upon what i call our journey for justice. a to find the answer, to give victims a voice and ultimately to identify this person and bring him to justice. we brought teams together, not long after that press conference. we dedicateded more resources, more people and we created what i have called team justice. an incredible collaboration of
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individuals with one mission. there are things about that journey and that commitment that each of us knew the answer was and always is in the dna. we knew we could and should solve it using the most innovative dna technology available at this time. we all knew that it would take passion, we all knew that it would take persistence. last wednesday at 8:15 p.m., i received an e-mail from the daughter of sherry domingo that was murdered in southern california. her name is debby. she was 15 at the time. last wednesday she e-mailed in essence -- i'm paraphrasing -- hi, i thought the editing for the recent documentary was
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brilliant. she quoted from the show. "this case will be solved because of sheer persistence." she went on to say i have it posts in my home and workplace so i can see it throughout the day. thank you for that persistence. i have faith. >> shepard: important breaking news from jeff sessions appearing before a senate panel to testify about the justice department's budget. they're now talking about his deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. let's listen. be in touch with the committees, both the senior republicans, senior democrats of the committees. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thanks very much.
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senator from maine, senator collins. >> shepard: the golden state killer, the original night stalker, they believe they have a suspect locked up. back to that news conference and listen live. >> here in sacramento in february 1978. it is fitting that today is national dna day. we found the need until the hay stack. and it was right here in sacramento. with that, i would like introduce our sheriff, scott jones. >> good afternoon. i'd like to make preliminary comments. when i was sheriff in 2010, there were view outstanding cases that drew the passion and
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the interest and the dogged determination to solve the east area rapist. the sheriff that i took over with that is here today told me about the importance of it. i don't know that i fully appreciated it at that time, but i can tell you without exception, weekly, sometimes more, i get telephone calls or e-mails to this day from former employees, former detectives, community members from all over this country, that believe that they know or at least have some information on who the east area rapist was. committed then to do everything that i could to solve it. had a lot of conversations early on with district attorney shubert about how we could do it. those discussions really touched the passion of both of us to solve this case. both of us committed the best and the brightest are hand picked folks to oversee the
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resolution of this case and gave virtually unlimited resources and freedom to pursue whatever leads and technology currently existed. so i can tell you that over the last few days as information started to point towards this individual we started surveillance, we got discarded dna and confirm what we thought we already knew, that we had our man. yesterday afternoon in a perfectly executed arrest, my detectives arrested james joseph deangelo. 72 years old, living in citrus heights. i can tell you although it was dna ultimately that led us down the right road, there were a lot of places that road could have led. i don't want to -- >> shepard: and they have their man. police announcing it in -- on
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the west coast in sacramento and trace gallagher following this from the west coast news hub. a 72-year-old former cop. is that right? >> yes, this is the most prolific unsolved serial murder case in modern history. the sheriff said they arrested 72-year-old james joseph deangelo, a former police officer in auburn, california, which is about 30 miles outside of sacramento and he was fired from his job as a police officer for stealing a can of dog repellent. you think about that. the golden state killer goes unnoticed for 50 years and he gets fired for stealing a can of dog repellent. this suspect apparently lived outside of sacramento the past 20 years. he's now being hold on two counts of murder. if he turns out to be the golden state killer, the east area rapist, she could be charged with a dozen murders, 50 rapes and hundreds of burglaries.
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of course, it's been 42 years since the crime spree began in sacramento and the sheriff said, as you heard there, they never stopped investigating at all. the so-called east area rapist used the same m.o. usually women alone with children. shine a flashlight in their eyes and raped the women, steal small items and sometimes would taunt his victims by calling them on the telephone. in 78, the east area rapist became the golden state killer when a couple was shot and killed walking their dog. the killer using the same pattern and same m.o. started moving down the coast to santa barbara and on to southern california committing seven murders between 1979 and 1981. in southern california, he was none as the original night stalker. the sheriff talked there, it wasn't until the advances in forensic technology that allowed
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investigators to match the dna from the night stalker crimes in southern california to the east area rapist in sacramento and the san francisco bay area. the past several years, the fbi and local police have been convinced that all three names have been the exact same man and now you heard it there, they do believe they have the man who is all three. bay area rapist, golden state killer and the original night stalker. he's 72-year-old joseph james deangelo, a former police officer. we're still following this news conference. see if we can glean more information about the man's background and if he always lived in southern california. the d.a. said he's always been here in sacramento. unclear if he moved to central california or southern california or always lives in the sacramento area. shep? >> shepard: trace, i wondered if they gave any information that you know of about what happened when the takedown happened?
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and whether he had been incarcerated on other matters at any point. >> that's a good question. i don't know. i'm not following the news conference anymore. right now they're giving information on the victims that he had over the years. some of the victims are at the news conference. they didn't tell us exactly how he was taken down, they didn't tell us if he tried to avoid arrest. there's no information on that. we assume that will be coming and that in the minutes to come. but right now they're giving us basic details of what went into this investigation, how long it took, spanning some 42 years and what the key point was. we still don't know the lynchpin when they matched the dna, how they got the dna matches from the golden state killer and the east area rapist to this suspect is the big question. as we listen on, we hope to find the answer out, shep. >> shepard: we'll be monitoring from west coast and here in new york. more to come on that. the headlines just crossing from associated press.
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prosecutor says dna tied serial killing suspect to two decades old killings in sacramento county. and a hearing of arguments on president trump's travel ban today in the supreme court. protesters demonstrating outside. the question was would the high court side with the president and say this isn't a muslim ban and it's appropriate for national security or would the high court lean toward what the lower courts have said? that the ban is inappropriate. are there signs? shannon bream was inside the courtroom arguments. she will join us live. that's next. of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. let's plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. prudential. bring your challenges.
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>> shepard: the supreme court today hearing arguments over president trump's travel ban. this is the third version of that ban and the president has called this one watered down. the ban for now is indefinite. it applies to people from five muslim majority countries. iran, libya, somalia, syria and yemen. also north korea. some government officials and their families from venezuela. it does not allow -- i should say, it does allow some exceptions for people that have close relationships with those
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institutions in the united states. the court allows the ban to take effect in december while the justices consider the case. the white house argues it's about national security. critics say it's unconstitutional and it's essentially a ban on muslims. the fox news at night anchor, chief legal correspondent shannon bream is at the supreme court and is live outside now. shannon, what happened? >> so most of what we heard today was focused on where to draw the line between congressional power and the president's power. congress has drafted statutes dealing with immigration and vetting people but also given the president some discretion. today the chief justice john roberts talked about where that line comes and leaving the president enough room to do his job. >> they may have more -- the president may have more particular problems in light of particular situations developing on the ground. yes, congress addressed the question of the adequacy of vetting but those questions arise in particular contest.
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seems to me a difficult argument to say that congress was pressured enough to address any particular factual situation that might arise. >> they went on to argue about whether the current vetting system is in direct response to a national security threat as the administration says. >> shepard: the president said i want a total ban on muslims entering the country. that was part of the discussion or not? >> absolutely. they had a conversation about whether those things he said in the campaign, tweeted, retweeted should be factored in when they look at the text of this, the third version of the travel ban. here's justice kennedy talking in. >> you have a local mayor, a candidate. he makes statements. he's elected an on day two he state actions consistent with the statements. whatever he said is irrelevant.
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is that what you would say is irrelevant? >> so they had a discussion about whether the president right now turned away and repudiated every statement he made in the past and issued the travel ban would it be constitutional? the plaintiffs attorney said yeah. the government says the president has done that. we'll have a decision by june. >> shepard: shannon, did you get a sense five on one side, four on the other? any sense? >> you know, we feel like there's an an idealogical split but we always have the wild card with justice kennedy. he was tough on both sides. he had skeptical questions for both. he leaves us wondering and waiting. >> shepard: thanks, shannon. see you tonight at 11:00 eastern. iran's president said there will be no changes to the 2015 nuclear deal despite the french
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president macron looking for a new agreement. >> i have spoken with mr. macron several times by phone and one time in personal at length. i told them we won't add anything to the deal or won't remove from it. not one sentence. >> shepard: the iranian president called president trump a tradesman and said he's not qualified to handle an international agreement. president trump has repeatedly criticized the nuclear deal and yesterday he said if iran threatened the united states in any way, it will pay a price like no country has ever paid. rich edson live at the state department. rich? >> good afternoon, shep. all of this is ongoing as france, the united states and the germany and the united kingdom are looking at a separate deal to the original agreement. they're addressing discussing the ballistic missile program, the terms of the deal when it comes to inspections and extending the terms of the iran nuclear deal.
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rohani and the iranian government said that breaches the original nuclear deal, the one reached in 2015. the trump administration said if we don't get the changes, we will withdraw by may 12. this is after a visit from president macron. the russians say the original deal stands. no changes or no separate deal is possible. >> shepard: so on north korea and south korea, i hear there's been an interview. >> there on friday will be a second or a meeting between the two presidents and two leaders of the country, the north korean dictator and president moon from south korea. they right now according to the news agency of south korea are going through rehearsals right now. the point at which the north korean dictator will pull up to the line, walk across and the two will go together to what is known as the peace house there to begin the discussions.
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the historic moment in those relations and only a couple of weeks perhaps before the president of the united states and the north korean dictator kim jong-un meet person to person, shep. >> shepard: thanks, rich. iran's foreign minister responding to president trump's threat of bigger problems if tehran restarts its nuclear program. he told the associated press, if the united states pulls out of the deal, iran will most likely pull out, too. let's turn to josh lederman. did he give an idea about what a mutual pull-out might mean? >> not exactly. but he's saying that i ran has a lot of options that will be open to it if it is freed from its international obligations under this deal. what he's talking about, shep, enrichment. the specific activities that the world was so concerned about in the first place, the iranians are threatening look, there will be nothing to stop us from doing that if trump pulls out of this
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deal and kills the deal and we have a free hand. >> shepard: you wonder how much of this is bluster. can you get a sense on that front during your interview? >> there is some bluster here. on the one hand, the iranians are getting relief, sanctions relief under this deal. they want to keep this deal alive. they want to keep the engagement with the west that they've had through this deal. on the other hand, they don't want to make it look like they have no leverage here and that this is all in the u.s. courts. so they're making the point that look, take it or leave it, we have our options and we'll respond accordingly and you may not know how we're going to respond. tehran is trying to preserve all the leverage they have possible. >> shepard: as far as president macron goes, while the happened shaking and all of the rest of the bromance continues for reasons that you can interpret however you want, his goal seems
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to be keep the united states in this iran agreement nor the good of the world. whether he will be successful or not is another matter. >> that's right. it's anybody's guess. the president even said yesterday, nobody knows what i'll do. macron might have a decent sense or not. but there's this sequencing of what happens next that is so unclear. macron in his speech a few hours ago to congress saying if the u.s. pulls out, we will not follow their lead. we're in the deal. who iran ultimately decides that even without the u.s. in the deal, it makes sense for them to continue going along with the europeans to try to relieve some of the sanctions from the europeans is anybody's guess. >> shepard: josh lederman, good to see you. we're getting an update on the former president, george h.w. bush's condition. it's improving. he's been in the hospital with a blood infection since the day after his wife's funeral. which bush 41 says he wants to focus on right now. that's coming up. plus, new, a presidential tweet
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>> well, there's a thing going on. it's kanye west who didn't tweet for a long time but now he's back. there's an album and he's running for president in 2024 and he really likes president trump, but he doesn't like everything. the reason i bring this up is because there's been a potus tweet. background first. kanye west tweeted a lot of things. but one of them is, you tonight have to agree with trump but the mob can't not make me love here. we're both dragon energy. phrase of the days, dragon energy and potus, jeezy. he's any brother. i love everyone. i don't agree with everything anyone does. that's what makes us individuals. and we have the right to
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independent thought. this was what? this is like 9:30 a.m. it's been all over twitter today. look what just happened. the president just tweeted at kanye. thank you. very cool. after that happened, he sent out another tweet. and it is this. it's a maga had and kanye says, it's signed. well, you may have heard, you know, he is married to kim, you know. and he actual -- kim kardshian west. they have children together and thing. during all of this, kim said to kanye, hang on now. i'm not on that team. he says that his wife reminded him that he doesn't agree with everything. my wife just called me and said she wanted to make this clear, i don't agree with everything everything trump does. i don't agree with anything but myself. so it's like the couple, first families getting together here.
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kanye, jeezy and kanye. you have to figure chris jenner gave a call. don't you figure? this is getting up there now. kanye is back and kris involved and kim is in there. now potus has tweeted. we'll see what happens. there's word president bush 41 is doing better and tweeting himself. nothing like kanye. a live update from the hospital where the news is good in houston. stay with us for that.
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regular patient room. he went to the hospital with an infection the day after the funeral for his wife, the former first lady, barbara bush. jonathan hunt is outside the hospital in houston. what else did the statement from his office say, john? >> nothing but good news today, shep, from this statement put out by jim mcgrath, george h.w. bush's spokesman. he said that the president is now talking with hospital staff. he is talking with family and friends. his doctors are very pleased with his progress. and then mr. mcgrath's statement went on "president bush naturally thanks everyone for their prayers and good wishes. he wants to assure everyone that as good as he feels now, he's more focused on the houston rockets closing out their playoff series against the minnesota timberwolves than anything that landed him in the hospital." you may recall, shep,
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mr. mcgrath said that president bush wanted to spend the public in maine. >> and like poe susatus and jee tweeted, he also did today? >> yes, the president might be feeling much better because in a tweet, he thanked the mayor of houston, the houston police department and several other organizations for their care during barbara bush's funeral preparations and funeral. he thanked "really all houstonians for making all of our guests fell so welcome.
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thank you all." as i said, nothing but good news here today. >> shepard: thanks, jonathan hunt on scene. more breaking news. we told you a little while ago the suspect is in custody. this is the suspect in the golden state killer case. the original night stalker. the suspect is a 75-year-old former police officer named -- 72-year-old joseph deangelo. this picture just released by the police. he's been taken into custody after 42 years. authorities said that the way they were able to do this by being able to tie the east side strangler, the dna, from there, the original night stalker and all the rest to one case. we don't yet know much more than
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that. we don't know whether when he was taken into custody he had anything to say or put up any sort of resistance at the time. police say they're confident that this 42-year-old case, one that baffled authorities on the west coast and the sacramento area and beyond, one who had really terrified residents of the west coast in the 1970s and 80s, that this case has at lost last been brought to a close and closed today because of dna work and the work of hundreds of people that have been on the case, in some cases for the better part of 42 years. there's said to be many dozens of rape victims, as many as 40, more than a dozen murders and as many as 100 robberies and home ransackings. along the way, many sketches and descriptions of the person. they seemed to tie it together believing it was one case. there were times when this was
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>> shepard: on this day in 1507, the word "america" appeared on a map. i can't stop thinking about kanye. at any rate, the first to show a pacific ocean as an ocean and separate body of water. european explorers didn't discover that until years later. in 2003, the library of congress bought the last known surviving copy of the map for $10 million. after among introduced the word
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"america" 511 years ago today. the president tweeted at kanye. we'll see what happens. kanye 2024. that's what he is saying. he's running in 2024. we'll see what kris has to say about that. >> neil: thank you, shep. very cool. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. fox on top of a blue wave that might have to be put off after a win that republicans badly needed yesterday in arizona. signs the grand old party, well, it's not time to stick an old fork in it yet. peter doocy in west virginia. >> if a blue wave is building, it's not strong enough for every democratic country in the candidate to ride. in arizona, in the race to replace trent franks, the democratic candidate was defeated by republican debbie
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