he's involved in so many capacities, wonderful. leland: also lends a lot of effort and work, the news continues from newk. ♪ >> president trump hammering away at democrats on immigration while attacking former and current officials in the fbi after that scathing report from the justice department's internal watchdog. hello and welcome to brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters, i'm john scott. president lashing out at some of his favorite targets on twitter including fired fbi director james comey along with fbi employees, peter strzok and lisa page. president trump addressing crack-down on illegal immigration as his administration comes under fire over reports of parents and children being separated at the border. the president lays the blame at the democrats' doorstep while

rallying his supporters yesterday. >> we have to change our laws, the democrats have control because we don't have the votes. the republicans need -- we need more republicans frankly and that's why i think we will do so well in the midterms. that and because -- wait, that and because we have the strongest economy in the history of our nation. we have the best job's numbers in the last 44 years. jon: garrett tenney live at the white house with more. >> jon, busy week at the white house and no shortage of issues to talk about. it is telling that this morning the president was again tweeting about the newly released report from the inspector general on the fbi's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation tweeting the ig report totally destroys james comey and all of his minions including the great lovers, peter strzok and lisa page who started the disgraceful witch hunt against so many innocent people. it will go down as dark and dangerous period in american history. the ig's report was highly

critical of numerous fbi officials who texted each other that they would not allow candidate trump to become president. despite those revelations the report did not find any evidence that those biases influenced decisions or actions the bureau took in the case. a conclusion the president strongly disagreed with. >> the end result was wrong, totia bias, when you look at peter strzok and what he said about me and when you look at comey, all his moves. i guess -- interesting pretty good report and then i say that the ig blew it at the end with the statement. >> this is the first of several people reports expecting, special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian election interference, collusion with the trump campaign and obstruction of justice. >> i think that the report yesterday maybe more importantly than anything it totally exonerates me. there was no collusion, there was no obstruction and if you

read the report, you'll see that. >> and despite that statement it's important to note that the ig's report that was released this week was solely examining the fbi's handling of clinton investigation and didn't look into to or touched to special counsel's investigation, however, it was highly critical of several of many of james comey's decisions in the handling of the clinton e-mail case and those are some of the reasons that president trump said he fired james comey ultimately. so it does support the president in his decision to fire james comey, jon. i don't know jon garrett tenney at the white house. garret, thank you. a little bit more of president trump's reaction to bombshell doj internal watchdog report that's highly critical of the fbi. >> what you will really see is you'll see bias against me and millions and tens of millions of my followers if you look at the fbi and you went in and you called the fbi, the real fbi,

those guys love me and i love them. jon: our next guest will be one of the first lawmakers to question inspector general mike horowitz when he testifies before house judiciary and oversight committees on tuesday. joining me now republican congressman mike jonson of louisiana, member of house judiciary committee and former constitutional law attorney. so quite a resume for what is about to come. what is question one for mr. horowitz, the inspector general? >> well, we have a lot of questions for him. this report really was a bombshell, i think that's the right explanation and summary of it. it's over 500 pages. documents a lot of information and much of this we have been requesting through house judiciary committee and house oversight committees going back since last fall. we've just now seen some of the revelations and they are explosive. we have a lot of questions for the director to go through, the inspector general to go through

and explain more of what they found, why they don't believe that this really did affect the outcome of the election and more people should probably lose their job at the fbi. jon: yeah, well, you seem to have some support in that from the attorney general jeff sessions before this report was released. he made a comment along those very lines, listen to this. >> if anyone else shows up in this report or have done something that requires termination, we will do so. jon: so the attorney general is threatening to job losses could come as a result of this report. who do you think, you know, who's head should be on the chopping block on your opinion? >> in the report we have a number of unnamed fbi agents and top officials within the fbi and doj who were involved in overbias, these were people in charge of the investigation, the russia investigation, the clinton e-mail scandal. it's of great concern.

at the end of the day, what this is about is maintaining rule of law. in a constitutional republic like we have, people presuppose that you will have justice under the law, the justice is blind, not for people like the clintons who are wealthy and well connected and one for everybody else. we have to maintain the faith in the system and if we have to make more heads roll so to speak, we have to do that, we have no choice in the matter. >> jim johnson, fellow republican congressman was on fox business network earlier today, he had some questions that he would like to ask in this upcoming hearing that you're going to get a chance to attempt, listen to this. >> there's some few questions like number one why is peter strzok still employed at the fbi. all of the other major players are gone, comey has been fired, deputy mccabe fired, lied three times under oath. jim baker, former counsel was gone, demoted before he left the fbi, lisa page was demoted and

left the fbi, jim, comey's chief of staff has also left the fbi. why is peter strzok still there in light of what we learned from the ig's report? i think that's an important question for mr. wray and mr. rosenstein when they come in front of congress. i don't know jon all right that was congressman jim jordan. so he says that, you know, peter strzok's job in his view ought to be pretty tenuous at the fbi, what do you think? >> no question about it. i agree with jim wholeheartedly. peter strzok in the evidence in the inspect general's report was main offender and in charge of both of these investigations. he slow-walked the clinton investigation after the weinel laptop was discovered and all the rest and overemphasized really the ataxer i think, that was involved with president trump and the russia investigation. he had a clear bias, he said it in his own words, we would really like to question him as well. i think there's no question about it that he needs to be

removed from the fbi because, again, it goes to the people's faith in our very system. jon: he says -- he promised in one of the texts, he vowed that he will stop trump from becoming president. you're a constitutional law professor or were before you entered congress. when you have agents of, you know, of a federal agency promising to mess with the process that the founding fathers set up to elect the leaders in this country, what's going on, what does that say about the state we are in? >> it's a real problem. i mean, i'm back home in my district right now and i've been asked many questions by constituents over the last 24, 48 hours about what this means about our very system of justice, the idea that we really do have a quality under the law. if the people lose faith in that, jon, it's a real problem for us. i mean, this is part of our constitutional system. that's why the oversight here is so important.

the work of the judiciary committee and the house is so important. we will get down to the bottom of this. i think the american people are owed those answers. jon: the american people also need to trust in the quality of the electoral process. i know that you have some thoughts on that. you're working on trying to prevent the kind of thing that the russians tried to do, meddling in the last election. tell us about that? >> well, yeah, not only in our elections but in all of our u.s. policy. one of the most worst kept secrets in washington, hostile foreign nations like russia and many other who is are constantly trying to intervene in democratic process and influence workings of congress and development of u.s. policy. we have allowed this to happen. it's really kind of outrageous but there are loopholes in foreign registration lobbyist laws. i filed a bill several months back, disclosure act, bipartisan measure, passed through house judiciary committee and i think the full congress needs to pass

this and put it into law. we know these things are going on and i think we have a duty and responsibility to stop it. all of this -- the common denominator here is we have to have integrity in the system, the american people have faith in institution and there's nothing left in stake in controversies today. jon: republican of louisiana back home there today. thanks very much for taking some time. >> great to be with you. jon: well, the department of homeland security seeing 2,000 children have been separated from parents at the southern border, both parties pointing fingers and blaming each other for separations. the president says democrats can help stop this if they work with republicans on an immigration bill. >> the children can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and immediately, the democrats forced that law upon our nation. i hate it. i hate to see separation of parents and children. we need a wall. we need border security. we have to get rid of catch and

release. jon: jillian turner from washington. >> the president sticking to his guns when it comes to immigration priorities, plans to enforce policy that separates immigrant parents from children at southern border in spite of publicly expressed hate for the policy in a tweet this morning he puts the onus on democrats writing, democrats can fix their forced family break up at the border by working with republicans on new legislation, for a change. this the day after he stunned republican leadership with a declaration on "fox & friends" that he would not support a oh compromise immigration plan months in the making. >> i'm looking at both of them. >> what does the bill have to have -- >> i need a bill that gives this congress tremendous border security. i have to have that. >> the white house defense, frustration is still ramped on

capitol hill. >> he's using children, whether it's dreamers or children at the border now for political purpose. it's shameful. >> administration insiders say that by continuing to enforce the separation policy the president is playing long game, he hopes to force democrats' hands and increase chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. the hot-ticket items for the president includes funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing illegal entries all of which gop colleagues say they got covered. >> that consensus bill -- we have been working on the white house on it but i don't think it's been fully vetted with him and contains all of the things he mentioned in the interview that were important to him. all to have pill arson. >> meanwhile the department of homeland released figures revealing almost 2,000 children were forced into separation from their parents during a period of only six weeks between april and may of this year. jon. jon: jillian turner in washington, thank you.

for more on this let's bring in susan, chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner, so the president says he willupport either one of the two republican bills that are now in the house, is either one of those bills going to pass? >> well, it's a great question. i think that clip that you played of bob goodlatte is telling that he's talking about this compromise plan as one that embraces the four requirements that president trump outlined in the state of the union address. that tells me that even the more conservative end of the gop conference may back this. that means it may have a good chance of passing. it's not on the schedule next week but it could be. they said to expect a possibility of a vote on this as early as next week. i think that because it has what the president is asking for, generally the four basic pillors which are path for citizenship

for 1.8 dreamers, that's a biggie. the question is can they get it together and not lose say 2 dozen or so republicans. it's kind of right on the cusp, jon, it's not clear whether it would pass and has higher hurdle in the senate where democrats have filibuster power. that's where we bring what you were talking about with the president trying to get democrats on board here by talking about these families separations, that issue was addressed in the gop bills in both of them, so that's an issue that will push some democrats, perhaps these red state democrats in the senate if the bill were to make it over there, so i say it's tenuous but it's essential not beyond the realm of possible that something like this could stumble through congress and make it to the president's desk. it's possible. >> yeah. so let's talk about family separations. you have families from primarily central america, also some from méxico, trying to bring their

children across the southern border, they get apprehended and their children are separated from them and sent to a separate facility, why is that the president's fault? >> well, because what they could choose to do is release everybody together. that's the catch and release program that a lot of republicans are adamant about putting end to because what happens is many of them don't return for the court hearings, they end up in the interior of the u.s. and part of the united states, so what's happening now is they're holding on to the parents but they can't keep the children there under the law, courts determine that they can't stay at detention centers for very long. that's where the separation is coming in and, yes, the republicans are choosing this path to stop full catch and release, the issue is resolving catch and release and both bills address this, the compromise plan talks about keeping those kids with the parents at the border which is not really attractive, i think, possibility either. but in the second more

conservative bill that bob goodlatte is writing, would deal with catch and release issue in a way that would stop it from going forward the way it is right now and getting people to interior and not report to hearings where their asylum status is determined. a lot of it is asylum issue. many, many more in the past and that needs court adjudication and piling up in the courts at the border. a big mess. the two gop bills attempt to deal with it and not fully. when the president says we want to bring democrats on board to work with this, that's his attempt to use that to convince democrats to get on board since they are talking so much about the family separations right now. jon i don't know so viewers are clear on this, the catch and release program as you described it, if i were from guatemala and i showed up at the u.s.-méxico

border with my kids in toe, that would up till now that would have helped me get into this country, is that right? >> correct, and you would be release intoed the country with your minor child, if the child belonged to you, it's a whole different story if it's unaccompanied minor. you're with your parent and it is your parent or guardian, you stay with them and then you can both be release intoed the united states but what's happening now we are holding onto adults and the kids are being sent out because they can't be detained at the centers, that's what's happening. jon: if vacationing family shows up from romania or italy and they come to the united states and say i've got my kids here, i want to stay here, can they do that? >> those are the visa overstays and that's -- you have a lot of people coming from other countries through other ports of entry who are staying throw visa

overstay program and they are not at the border. again, a whole other issue with immigration reform, jon, something that republicans are trying to resolve. if you're here -- this is all a border issue only, if you're coming in across the border, you're at the southern border, you've got detention centers set up. what do you do i do with the parents and children who come in together, the republicans are taking this different tact here and separating the families and it is getting a lot of attention right now and, you know, the republicans clearly feel the pressure on this in terms of how to deal with it. the compromise bill that everybody is talking about that we might see happen next week, keeps the families together, says you can keep the kids and the parents together at the border. that's the language that's written into the bill right now. john: susan, from the washington examiner, thank you. >> thank you. thanks a lot. jon: well, trade tensions escalating between the u.s. and china as the world's two biggest economies go tit for tat on tariffs, well, now the white house says it could be further

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jon: fox news alert, 8 people are injured after crash. early reports say driver lost control of the vehicle skt of course, russia is hosting the world cup right now and capital streets filled with tourist, we will bring you updates as we get them. kansas city sheriff's department mourning the loss of two deputies shot and killed in the line of duty. it happened as they were transporting inmate to a courthouse. reaction now from the mayor. >> they did so fully aware and willing to do so. jon: jeff paul live with news,

jeff. >> the mayor in kansas city, kansas spoke a while ago saying both deputies died doing what they believed in and will not be forgotten. what investigators are trying to figure out exactly how the inmate managed to get free and shoot the deputies. deputy patrick died friday and theresa died early this morning. this all happened yesterday while the sheriff's deputies were transferring the inmate from the courthouse back to jail. investigators say somehow the deputies were overcome by the inmate and they believed the inmate possibly grabbed one to have deputy's guns and started firing. sheriff's department says to the best of its knowledge the shooting happened in the secured gaited area and the suspect was handcuffed. >> from what i observe and investigation shows they followed proper procedure. we always evaluate procedures but we did confirm that they did follow proper procedure. >> both deputies were transport today a nearby hospital but

their injuries were too severe. had been on service for 7 years. jon: jeff paul from los angeles, thank you. in the meantime saudi-led coalition is fighting iranian-backed rebels for control of strategic yemen, what it means for the country's humanitarian crisis. plus president trump taking shots at fired fbi director james comey following the release of the blistering report from the doj's inspector general, so does this report tarnish the image of the bureau, we will take that up next. >> i think that james comey was unfair to the people of the country. i think what he did is disgrace. he goes down as the worst fbi dwector -- director by far and i think i did a tremendous favor by firing him.

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>> in the report we have a number of unnamed fbi agents and top officials within the fbi and the doj who were involved in what was overbiased and these are people who were in charge of of the russia investigation, it's a great concern, it's maintaining the rule of law. jon: republican congressman johnson from earlier this hour talking about bombshell report from inspector general's michael horowitz who spent more than a year investigating hillary clinton emails. horowitz heads to hill to testify about what he's found and already a lot of reaction from both sides of the aisle ahead of this visit molliy live in washington with that. mollie. >> hi, jon, michael horowitz will testify on monday and juice oversight committee on tuesday. fbi director christopher wray will join him on monday. in part of his report, horowitz

said political bias did not influence but five employees for investigation after discovering messages like these, from the day after the 2016 presidential election, back and forth between some people at the fbi, saying i am numb, i can't stop crying u that makes me more sad, like what happened, you promised this wouldn't happen, you promised. going onto others, i am so stressed about what i could have done differently. don't stress, none of that mattered. the fbi's influence, i don't know, we broke the momentum. and all this troubles republicans an democrats. >> the fact that you had fbi agents who were making political commentary back and forth, lady justice is supposed to be blindfolded, right, in this case, the blindfold was off and there are people playing politics inside the fbi against donald trump. >> even more specifically a new

tweet from fbi agent peter strzok and former fbi lawyer lisa page who were having an affair and using work phone to hide from spouses. trump would not win. he said, quote, we will stop it. one gop congressman wants to know about that. >> there's some key questions like number one why is peter strzok still employed at the fbi? all of the other major players are gone, comey has been fired. deputy director mccabe fired. lied three times under oath. jim baker former general counsel is gone, demoted before he left the fbi. lisa page was demoted. she left the fbi. jim, comey's chief of staff has also left the fbi. why is peter strzok still there in light of what we learned from the ig's report? >> the report also calls former fbi director james comey's action, quote, extraordinary and insubordinate in his handling to have hillary clinton e-mail investigation, jon.

jon: mollie in washington, thank you. christopher wray says he is taking the inspector general's report, quote, very seriously and there are sobering lessons from it as he tries toove beyond the controversy. president trump praising wray's plan to restore the fbi's image. >> i think christopher wray is a very different from comey which is what you need, you need different, you need like the opposite and he's moving step by step and you are going to see a whole new very proud fbi. i think comey was the ring leader of this whole, you know, den of thieves. it was a depo -- den of thieves. jon: so the fbi comes out of this with a black eye to say the least, how do they go about fixing that or getting rid of the taint that now is attached to the bureau's reputation? >> i think the best thing the fbi can do is what they do every

day, work cases, investigate without fear or favor and take a case where the facts lead them. that's what they've done for decades and that's what they will try to do going forward. the new director statements in that regard are promising. they have to go to work every day and do their job. jon: everything that we have learned from the inspector general's report suggests that a lot of fbi agents sort of had fingers on the scales of this election and it's going to take a long time to wipe that from people's memories, isn't it? >> that's blatantly false. there's more than a thousand agents and five who are mentioned in the report. it defamous those agents to say there's a whole host of agents that are trying to affect an election. we had some that broke protocol. we had ongoing investigation that's now led to 20 indictments that's not talked about. i don't think it's fair to say there's an fbi den of thieves

the way the president does and somehow affected the election. jon: but when you have peter strzok, a top fbi official, participating in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and he writes to his lover that we are going to stop donald trump from becoming president and then he winds up on the -- on the mueller-russia investigation team, it just smells. >> it doesn't smell if you read the report. smells what you do what all republicans an some democrats are doing, taking things out of context. what the thorough report said that there was no inpropriety in the investigation and the conclusions it drew. it was the direct conclusion not to charge hillary clinton with a crime and so we could continue talking about the two individuals who had an affair who said things in pillow talk that i think it's not different from probably hundreds of other fbi agents on both sides of the aisle. jon: but the fact -- >> wanted hillary clinton to be elected. it's not unusual. jon: i hear what you're saying and yes, okay, five agents named but when a couple of them are

this public with their feelings and it also comes out, it raises questions about the other thousands of agent that is you're talking. >> they weren't public with feelings, they were having an affair and trying to hide from spouses. i think, i know plenty of fbi agents who were on the right and conservative as they can be. i did not doubt for a second when i worked with them on cases that they didn't bring their personal political bias' into a case. the results speak for themselves and that's what i think we have to do here. that's what the director wray has to focus on here is what are the results, can we find cases that have facts that support them and pursue them with hillary clinton there weren't facts to support them, they didn't pursue. with mueller we have 20 grand jury indictments plus have been supported by actual facts. what we have to see in this country is focus on the rule of law. we don't -- you know, i indictment people at political rally to say to lock them up, we have to present evidence and put before a jury and the jury has

to convict people. that's the rule of law. we actually talked about the rule of law, that's what it is. that's what the fbi is going to conned to do, i hope they continue to do it. i feel hopeful. >> you're telling our viewers that they should have full confidence in the work of the men and women at the fbi are doing? >> the fbi is the best law enforcement agency in the world. the fact that the president of the united states for his own personal purposes, his affiliates and inner circle are being subject to investigation see fit to defame them, that's his choice. i don't think we in the public need to the that. the fbi has done things wrong but judging by results. jon: fair to say that peter strzok and lisa page didn't help their agency. >> no, they didn't. they will suffer some internal consequence for that. i mean, i think there's absolutely clear that when you're working on high-profile investigations you've got to operate beyond the pail and they didn't do that. they are going to pay a price for that. jon: alex, little, has long history there in washington working for the department of

justice, thank you. >> thank you. jon: a fox news alert now, saudi-led forces seizing control of international airport in a rebelled-city in yemen, airport major strategic prize and gateway for humanitarian aid, ryan, live. >> iran and saudi arabia which is getting assistance from the united states are fighting a proxy war in yemen. on the one side you have the saudi-led forces that are trying to take the airport working together with the government of yemen which has been in exile, they are also get ago cystance from the united states in form of guidance for targeting for their aircraft and refueling. on the other side of the battle, actually at the airport in control or at least up until now in control of the airport you've got iranian-led forces, the houthi rebels that iran has supported for a good while now. now why is the airport so important, well, 70% of the food

in yemen comes through that airport and adjacent coastal port. the people of yemen really need it. in fact, two-thirds of the 27 million people in yemen rely on that food and humanitarian aid that comes through that airport. groups are concerned if the fighting becomes protracted, that food won't get in. >> we are very fearful that any kind of blockage of the free flow of humanitarian food, also commercial stocks of particularly food and fuel could have a major impact on people who are already highly vulnerable. >> the worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now is in yemen, 8 and a half million people, that's roughly the population of new york city are on the verge of starvation there, jon. jon: ryan in london, thanks.

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all-out trade war. president trump says the u.s. did not fire the first shot in this confrontation. >> the trade war was started many years ago by them and the united states lost. we lost $500 billion in trade deficits last year. we can't do that. jon: joining us lawrence jones, editor-in-chief, also david, progressive commentator, thanks both of you for being here. >> thanks, jon. >> lawrence, we've got the economy humming along, great employment numbers, personal income going up and all of a sudden you the prospects of a trade war with china, what's that's going to do? >> it can be very problematic, jon, you know, i was having this talk with my driver on the way to the studio. he wasn't even a trump supporter, you know the president is giving us tax cuts so i don't understand why he would, you know, give us tariffs, essentially a tax. i mean, i was willing to give the president some flexibility

even though i'm a free-trader, i thought this was part of negotiations that somehow china would come to the table but doesn't look like china is going to back down and so i think the president risks ruining all of the great gains he's gotten from not only the tax cuts but getting rid of regulation that is set ground for a greater economy. i think he's going to mess himself up here. jon: david, for instance, the chinese have announced they will increase tariffs on u.s. automobile import to china, now it's already very expensive to -- to import an american-made car to china, they are going to make it even worse, so, you know, how -- how are we not to say that the president is in some part right in saying that china started the trade war? >> well, look, the imbalance between chinese trade and american trade is something that's been going on for a long time. it's one of the things that

happens when politicians don't pay attention to issues for a long time and nobody wants to do anything about it. they build and build and they can't be fixed with simple solutions like this. jon: i will let you finish the thought, let me interrupt you, you heard the president saying it's been going on a long time. >> he's not wrong about that, he's certainly not wrong about that. but i think the broader point there is when you have long complicated, you know, solutions it's like medicare, entitlement reform, you can't wake up one day and say we are going to solve this by slapping the tariffs on things because the only short-term impact of that, the only real impact of that at all would be on effectively negating the impact of tax cut that is were given to people. >> hit all consumers. >> exactly. in all ways. you got the money from tax cut, you want to go buy a car, the car will be more expensive in a couple of months. jon: we do have midterm elections coming up, lawrence, the president is hoping that

republicans can keep their majority, his own personal rating has been inching north ward, what do you think the effect will be? >> well, that's why i don't understand some of the advisers in the white house, even if the -- most conservatives are free-traders, even if it's something that the president would want to do, why would the people that are advising the president do this now especially after he had a conversation with north korea, the economy is doing well, you know, he's looking good and so you wouldn't want to dam his reputation right now, even the people who don't like the president are now being forth to say, you know what, he's not as bad as we thought he was going to be so why now. [laughter] jon: that's a back-handed complement. >> well, you know. jon: where does this all go? i mean, david, the president said that the chinese weren't going to retaliate, the chinese did, they basically slapped

tariffs on virtually every agricultural import that they bring from america, where do we go from here? >> well, as distinct to the president and the president clearly doesn't understand the chinese very well. the chinese are probably the most strategic long-term planning least willing to take anything lying down country that there is. so they are -- they are certainly not going to concede in just say, okay, you're right. and this president has, i think, if he's trying to play with china, i do not see him winning a trade war with china. i think there's no simplistic way to look at it. we better hope that this doesn't escalate further because the next couple -- at the moment, you know, this leads to a few increases in prices that effectively negate the impact of a tax cut. if you look at where this could play out, if it continues to go up and up and up, then it starts to get actually much more problematic in a way that really start to hurt people in a much deeper way on all different levels, on all different goods

that people could feel in midterms and actually blame the president for. jon: quick final thought, lawrence. >> i do think the president understand the chinese even though i disagree on this issue. he has been dealing with china for a long time not just as president but, you know, back then as a businessman, he dealt with china. i think the president goes back to campaign promises. this is a president that campaigned on the issue. it's not like we didn't know what we were going to get out of. he said he was going to do this and i think he wants to keep the promise with the american people, i don't think they are going to like it when they start hit -- getting the hits as consumers. jon: we will see where it goes from here. we will keep an eye on it, lawrence jones and david beistien. >> thanks, jon. jon: what we are learning as incident as russia increases security as the world cup soccer tournament kicks off. that's next

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jon: fox news alert, 8 people injured after a taxi cab slams into a crowd in moscow's red square, of course, russia is hosting the world cup of soccer right now, the capital streets filled with tourist, let's get

to bryan llenas. >> the driver of the cab has been detained so far this is being described when the driver lost control of his people, eight people reported injured, two from méxico, we do not yet know the severity of the injuries. witnesses say that taxi crashed into pedestrians near red air? moscow, the agency the suspect appears to have had too much to drink, lost control of his vehicle and then plowed into pedestrians, the driver is a citizen of the former soviet republic and told police it was not intentional. again, the streets are extremely visit with fan-viewing areas, monitors showing matches, mem ral -- 2.5 million tickets have been sold for this year's world cup and more than 88,000 tickets were bought by americans, that's

only second to the number of tickets bought by russians, presumably a very large contingent of americans are now in russia. preliminary information points to not being terrorist attack but obviously security is heighten for the torn men. russia has had a history of attacks and recent travel warning to americans, warning americans that terrorist could targets the game. jon. jon: bryan llenas, bryan, thank you. >> of course. jon: so we have a programming note involving yours truly, check out fox report weekend, i take about anchor duties 4 hours from now. hope to i see you then, bye bye unless my hands are dirty. between running a business and four kids, we're busy. auto insurance, homeowner's insurance, life insurance policies. knowing that usaa will always have my back... that's just one less thing you have to worry about. i couldn't imagine going anywhere else.

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