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he got bit in the process but the good news is, todd is recovering and expecting to be okay. they're so good to us. thanks for joining us in the new studio. i'm dana perino. next is shep. >> it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 p.m. on the east coast. 2:00 a.m. tuesday in thailand where news is breaking new after more than a week of frantic searching. there's a pay-off. rescuers have found a group of boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave. the first images of the children from inside that watery cavern. also, will the president's fixer flip? michael cohen giving his first interview since the feds raided his home and hotel room and office. and saying that his family comes first. plus, kim jong-un coming to america? reporting today about a possible
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second summit with president trump. this time in new york city? even as we have seen new signs that north korea could be expanding its weapons program despite the pledge from pyongyang. there's lots of news. let's get to it. and first today it seemed like the search would take a miracle. it seemed to those carrying it out almost impossible but now an incredible find in thailand. new today, the young soccer team missing for nine days found and safe. but not yet rescued. the operation is not over. just minutes ago from a camera sent into that team, our first look at the 12 boys and the young coach alive in the flooded cave.
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they're safe, said the british rescuer. brilliant. the boys are between the ages of 11-16. somehow, we don't know how but somehow for nine days they have survived in that wet cave in total darkness. we have no idea what they ate, if anything, whether they had freshwater or drank the filthy flooding water filling the cave, ebbing and flowing with the tide. you can hear the british rescuers saying we're sending in people, lots of people. the problem is the waters have been so high, the mission so treacherous. now the rescue continues. hours after first word got out that the team had survived. the local governor says crews are now in the middle of the night working to get the kids and their coach out of that cave
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safely. we now know they are alive obviously but we don't know how they're doing physically or otherwise. divers have been search the caves since the team went missing last saturday. it happened in northern thailand. it's about 400 miles north of the capitol, bangkok. we're told the coach took the boys to the cave after a practice soccer match. rescuers from around the world including united states military have joined in the difficult search effort. we have images in our slide show this afternoon. the first video is from the thai navy. you can see how dark it is in the cage. only flashlights lighting the way. here rescue teams earlier today. the maze of tunnels filled the water after heavy rain. at times they say it was too dangerous for the rescuers to
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keep searching. here a thai navy seal carrying an oxygen tank. they blurred the faces on the photos. water rushing around this guy. the crews spend the morning bringing extra oxygen supplies to keep along the rescue route. here look at one of the divers in the tunnels. some of the areas so narrow that the divers couldn't get through there during certain times with the tide with all of their gear. they had to carry in these drain hoses. that's to pump the water out which at times filled the ceiling of the cave. now we rate for the rescues hopefully and soon. it's the middle of the night there. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. the pentagon sent help. >> that's right, shepard. we're told these children are very weak after days of no food or contact with the outside world for nine days. rescue workers say it's so dark
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underground, they can't see their hands in front of their faces. anxious parents and buddhist monks have been praying outside the caves since the 12 soccer players, some as young as 11, didn't return home after hiking into the caves after their practice a week ago. fellow students held very gils, monsoon flood waters rose quickly. entrances were flooded and impassible. today we finally got word from the governor that the boys an their coach survived. >> moments ago, they reached the beach. turns out the beach was flooded. it was 300 to 400 meters deep. we found all the 13 to be safe. >> the caves are near the northern thai city. rescue teams have been looking for alternative routes in the caves. the kids have not eaten. we don't know what water they were drinking. >> absolutely incredible.
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special forces from the u.s. helping out? >> u.s. pacific command sent 30 special operators with special equipment including a 12 person search and rescue team. these air force specialists flew from a base in japan straight to thailand to help the search five days ago. they joined british and australian divers and thai navy seals. u.s. pacific command put out the following statement. "the united states is through the u.s. pacific command has sent a search and rescue time to assist in locating the group. the team arrived in northern thailand june 29. the u.s. team consists of a survival specialist and para rescue men trained in rescue, recovery techniques." the thai military has been in the lead. the boys are still trapped but there's good news after ten days of parents and loved ones
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fearing the worst. shepard? >> shepard: unthinkable that this has happened. live pictures now. this is from the rescue scene again. it's just after -- 7 minutes after 2:00 a.m. on a tuesday morning there. we just heard from the rescue workers. hundreds of them, we're told. they're saying they're going to do everything they can to get if kids out. a lot has to do with the tide. we'll have the live pictures up and available. should there be any developments, we'll go live. at home, president trump's search for a new supreme court justice. the president says he started interviewing candidates today and plans to meet with a few more. you'll remember on friday, he said he was down to five finalists and plans to announce his pick a week from today. of course, president trump is filling justice anthony kennedy's seat after he announced his retirement. justice kennedy was a crucial swing vote in landmark cases including on abortion and gay
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rights. our chief white house correspondent john roberts has the news. he's live on the north lawn. hi, john. >> shep, good afternoon. a very briusy day for the president having interviewed nominees for the supreme court. with that announcement coming next monday, following along the same pattern with neil gorsuch when he introduced him to the nation in a prime time address. listen to what the president had to say a short time against. >> very interesting was my four meetings. i'll be meeting with two or three more and we'll make a decision on the united states supreme court, the new justice. that will be made the next few days and we'll be announcing it monday and i look forward to that. the person that is chosen will be outstanding. >> the white house is ramping up the nomination process. the president has promised that he would pick a nominee from his
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list of 25 conservative judges. the frontrunners a he greets the prime minister of the netherlands are amy barrett, brett cavanaugh from d.c. and raymond kethledge and thomas hardiman. the president interviewed kethledge and hardiman when he was searching last year but decided to go with neil gorsuch. the timetable to get a nominee confirmed is exceedingly tight. no room for error. outside groups say they would like to get this done by the end of september before congress leaves to campaign before the mid-term elections that means that congressional visits and hearings would happen in the summer and this nomination because it would tilt the court
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5-4 would be contentious. the president thinks he can get it done. >> i think it's going to bo quickly. i think we'll have a lot of support. i think we'll have support from democrats if it's the right person. i'm going to pick the right person. i'm going to pick somebody that is outstanding. >> the president believes he might get democratic support because there's a number of democrats that the president won in 2016 who may decide they have to vote for the president's pick to get elected in november again. that would include joe manchin, heidi heitkamp and others as well. there's democrats like chuck schumer that saying that congress should not consider any of the 25 people on the list. the reason being, it was compiled by what he calls outside interest groups. shep? >> shepard: and to support this move, it's a complicated process. some personnel shuffling? >> yeah. the process is complicated and it is intense. so the white house is shuffling around some staff here to focus
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on the nomination and then this incredibly contentious confirmation process. so don mcgann, the white house counsel that led the count fir makes process for neil gorsuch will be taking the lead here. raj shah, who you see in the middle, the deputy press secretary, will take a leave of absence from his daily duties to focus on communique, strategy and message coordination with the president's allies on capitol hill and justice clark will oversee white house conversations to different allies and grass roots organizations. teams of attorneys from the white house counsel's office and the department of justice will be working day and night this work to make sure the president has all the information he needs to make an informed choice a week from tonight. >> shepard: thanks, john. michael cohen, the president's one-time attorney and fixer, get it done guy, has now spoken for
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take a bullet for mr. trump now says he puts his family and country first. michael cohen spoke to abc news over the weekend. george stephanopoulos he's he asked off camera what cohen would do should prosecutors force him to choose between protecting the president and protecting his family. abc news says cohen says my wife, my daughter, my son have my first loyalty and always he. in the last hour, president trump ignored reporters questions about michael cohen's comments. this is the first interview since the feds raided his office and apartment and hotel room here in new york as part of a criminal investigation into cohen's business dealings. they include the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels to keep quiet about what she describes as a sexual relationship with president trump more than ten years ago. the president denies the affair. michael cohen apparently had a difference response this time
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about whether the president told him to make the payment. cohen would not say whether the president knew about the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer offering dirt on hillary clinton before it happened. laura ingle with more. >> the central topic of this interview is about cohen's long-standing loyalty to the president. his statement alone that he puts his family above else is a turn and so is the fact that he's talking to someone in the press at all. for the last several months, as you know, fox and others have asked michael cohen outside court for a comment on all of this. we basically had radio silence. legal experts agree that something shifted when he decided to go on report with george stephanopoulos at his hotel. here's what the abc anchor told him if the legal team went after him. >> this is where he stiffened -- he straightened up and said
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this. "i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy. i'm not a villain in any story and won't allow others to depict me in that way." >> cohen was also asked about the fbi and the robert mueller investigation. he said he doesn't like the term "witch hunt." >> i reported cohen also talked about the payment to stormy daniels. >> right. this has been the $130,000 question. who knew what and when about this payment to stormy daniels. cohen was asked if the president told him to make the payment. all along he said he acted on his own initiative. that's not how he answered this time. he told george stephanopoulos this. "i want to answer. one day i will answer but for now, i can't comment further on the advice of my counsel." daniels' lawyer avenatti tweeted about this today. he thinks mr. trump is trying to
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get his legal bills and playing games. he said if he has info and loves his country, he needs to come forward now. shep? >> laura ingle live in new york. ahead, how attorney client privilege could pay into this. i'll speak to bob bianchi about that and the signal that cohen could be focused on saying himself and his family. plus, the new charges against harvey weinstein. new today they could potentially put him behind bars until the day he dies.
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himself from the president saying his family and country come first. bob bianchi is here. what do you think of this? >> it's absolutely extraordinary. it's monumental. although it was expected and we spoke about this before. there's only so much pressure you can take. here's an issue as a lawyer a prosecutor. when you are both a lawyer and a fixer, you have a problem. the lawyer piece protect communications as long as they were not conspiracy or fraud. when you're a fixer, you don't have the attorney client privilege, this is why lawyers make a clean break between legal representation of an individual as opposed to trump tower meetings and various other things because clients feel they can be shielded if they have nefarious activity. not so under the law. >> shepard: so if michael cohen is aware of information about that trump tower meeting, specifically about who knew what and when, that wouldn't be
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protected under attorney client privilege? >> no. it could be an inappropriate meeting, receiving foreign aid and information. it's a crime. it could be perceived as a crime. that protection is not there because it's not a strict attorney client privilege. that's the argument made by the government. and the people in the trump orbit -- i'm not saying they did anything wrong. but you don't want your lawyer testifying on behalf of the government or giving information on behalf of the government about your activities with all of these financial transactions and business dealings that they've been involved with for a long time. >> shepard: based on your experience after the move in to take information from his hotel room, from his office and home, since then, based on your experience, what has the government been doing with michael cohen? >> that's a great question. obviously there was a joint representation agreement between him and mr. trump.
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right? that means that they can exchange information. since that time, mr. cohen has a new lawyer a very aggressive defense attorney. a former u.s. attorney. they have been withdraw on the joint representation agreement. these are the stormy clouds -- no pun intended -- >> shepard: i think you did. >> i did. but they're looming over the scenario right now. because he can provide data and information about all sorts of transactions occurring and they may not be able to stop him from doing it the platitudes in the interview, if fbi, i wouldn't attack them. i'd say what is happening right now, the feds have not spoken to him and he's basically getting out there and saying hey, i got information, i got data, i want to help myself out for me, my kids. that's not surprising. >> shepard: so with history as a guide, the next thing for michael cohen potentially charges and what?
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>> no. what the lawyer will problem to do, once the representation is done, he will reach out to the u.s. attorney. he will debrief mr. cohen. see if he has any valuable information. the feds want to move up the chain of command. they're not going to let michael cohen off the hook if they're going change him for no good information. the lawyer will tell him, here's what i think i can deliver to you. if the feds or stayed prosecutors think they're interested in that, they will say you have immunity for a day or two. nothing that you say here can be used against you. you have to be truthful. if the feds later determine that this information is available, we believe it and supported by other ed, he starts working for team prosecution. >> shepard: wow. time ahead. thank you, sir. >> you got it. >> shepard: the disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein faces the possibility of life behind bars. this is new today.
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prosecutors in new york hit harvey weinstein with new charges, criminal sexual act and predatory sexual assault. that means rape. the manhattan district attorney said this serious charges. dozens of women have accused harvey weinstein of sexual misconduct. these criminal charges involve three of the accusers. harvey weinstein pleaded not guilty to the earlier charges. he's lawyer says he will do the same with the new charges. harvey weinstein says he did nothing wrong and his sexual counters have always been consensual. the woman stalked and harassed by the capital gazette newsroom shooter said she lived in fear that he would killer. she spoke to nbc news. >> i have been tormented and traumatized and terrorized for
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so lock that it has i think changed the fiber of my being. >> shepard: she says as soon as she heard the report out of the gazette newsroom last week, she knew the suspect had to be jarrod ramos. he pleaded guilty to criminally harassing her and the gazette covered his conviction. cops say that reporting likely started his grudge against the paper. they say he walked in to the newsroom last week and shot and killed five people. colleagues honoring them by keeping the presses running. a cartoon from an artist named marshall ramsey said it all. yes, they got the paper out. the gazette has not missed a day of publishing since. trace gallagher with more. the gazette staff published and open letter this weekend. >> they did, shep. the letter was a thank you to the annapolis community for their outpouring of sympathy. the staff says they will never
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forget the five victims but they will always remember the thousands who turned out to support them in a march to the city dock. the staff also fought back against some of the hate they received and i'm quoting here as part of the letter. here's what else we won't forget. death threats and e-mails from people we don't know celebrating our loss or the people that called for our reporter to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national tv. we won't forget being called an enemy of the people. we won't forget that. because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting justice is what we do. the letter refers to the witness that went on cnn the night of the killings. when she told about prayers being sent by president trump. she said thank for your prayers but i couldn't give a [bleep] when it comes to them.
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she said she doesn't want prayers. she wants action and legislation so this doesn't feel normal. >> shepard: hearing reports about an intruder in a newsroom in new mexico. >> shepard: yes. a man walked into the newsroom in albuquerque. he was escorted out but came back into the building and sat down on the anchor desk. police were called and the building was evacuated as police dogs swept the area. the suspect did not make any threats but he was never located and has not been identified. about 1 1/2 hours, authorities gave the all clear and employees were allowed to go back inside the station. given the attack on the capital gazette, nobody was talking chances. memorial services for those killed in last week's attack in annapolis began today with a celebration of life for the
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59-year-old editor. >> shepard: trace, thanks very much. i mentioned a cartoon in the paper. here's that cartoon by the artist marshall ramsey. "yes, they got the paper out". the gazette has not missed a day since that horrible room. there's word another summit could be in the works between president trump and the north korean dictator kim jong-un. this one we're told may take place in the united states. imagine, a north korean dictator here. i'll speak with an analyst that says a second meeting with kim is the last thing the trump administration should be planning. but first a food fight caught on camera and the man throwing snacks was actually the good guy. we'll show you the video next. you're headed down the highway when the guy in front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutual
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>> shepard: a fox report now. headlines from the fox news deck. a grocery store owner using
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groceries as weapons to fight off a guy with an axe. this video from australia. the surveillance shows a masked man pulling out an axe. the store owner throwing cans of tuna and tubes of pringles, of all things and baby formula while he was add it while workers grab baseball bats. a distracted driver in the state of georgia rear ending a cup. that's congress to police in byron south and east of atlanta. they released this video. the s.u.v. banged up. everybody is said to be okay. and firefighters in chicago hosed down a steel bridge because it was so hot it expanded and couldn't open for boats to get through. the national weather service reported temperatures in the 90s saturday with a feels like of 110. the news continues next. woman: i stay active
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summit? one report says it's possible. axios is reporting that kim jong-un could come to the united states a couple months from now for a second round of talks with president trump. axios reports summit administration officials hope the meeting can happen here in new york in september when world leaders will be in town for the u.n. general assembly. officials tell axios that they need to see progress from kim for the meetings to happen. the thing is he's making progress in the wrong way. the new satellite images show north korea is expanding a miss sample manufacturing plant. they're not supposed to do that, this report comes from the "wall street journal." the picture on the lift from the first of april. the one on the right from just friday. analysts say the plant makes missiles that could hit american military bases in asia with nuclear weapons and makes parts for missiles that could reach the u.s. mainland.
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at last month's summit with president trump, kim promised to work toward getting rid of their nuclear weapons. it was the same promise that north korea has made and promised for decades. greg palkot with more. greg? >> so far at least there's no real signs that north korea is headed to denuclearization. according to experts, they could going in the opposite direction. especially worrisome about the missile factory. most of the construction for the expansion of the plant happened in may and june that is basically between the summit involving north korean leader kim jong-un and president trump. not only is that getting bigger but there's two other plants nearby according to experts. access roads have been expanded and for exchange of parts and missiles. this followed more reports that
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north korea continues their production of fuel for nuclear weapons at secret sites and plotting to hide bombs already in its arsenal, shep. >> shepard: what are you talking about talks with north korea? the possibility thereof? >> there's a lot of talk by the trump administration to regain some momentum. last month's summit, kim jong-un pledged to work towards denuclearization. there were no specific details no, time line. there's various reports that have secretary of state mike pompeo to headed to north korea. for right now, north korean officials med at the dmz and discussed more declarations.
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while the president is hopeful about it all, he says it's possible that this deal might not happen. back to you. >> shepard: thanks, greg. gordon chang is here, author of the book "nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world". the big picture. what does this tell you? >> this tells us that the assumption of trump policy, that the north korean decisions to give up their nuclear weapons is wrong. a couple explanations. either kim was playing president trump or another possibility and that is that kim doesn't control the military. we know that there's been a lot of problems at the top. for instance, that reshuffle of the top three people, the defense minister and the execution of aer is general that we learned about last week indicates that there's a fluidity there. so that's a possibility that these guys are just making their weapons and kim doesn't have the ability to stop it. whatever it is, it's bad from
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our perspective. >> shepard: looking back over history, there's been six-party tax and talks over the decades. i can't find a time within a week or two we were able to prove that the north koreans had either lied about what they said or weren't in charge of what was going on. there's proof that any promises are now broken. >> this is stunning. for instance, we saw the satellite images from june 21 that were on the 38th north website, which showed the improvement of their plutonium reactor. what they're saying is, we don't care what president trump thinks. we think we can get away with, this partly because kim thinks china has his back. i don't know. president trump needs to change his policies quickly. if he can't get the north koreans to give up their weapons and commit right away, we have got to change our policy.
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>> more recent history, two or three months ago, we sat around this table as the country seemed to be in fear that we were very close to some sort of confrontation with the north koreans because they weren't doing what they were supposed to do. so nothing has changed. situations have gotten worse. what does that tell us? >> that tells us that we'll go back to a period of high tension. president trump got them to the bargaining table in the first place. look through may. his diplomacy was good and full apart at the summit where it's inexplicable that he let them have the meeting but not get anything in return. the president needs to go back to sanctioning not only the north koreans but the chinese and the russians, this will cause problems in north asia. if we don't do that, they'll get what they want. not give up their weapon.
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>> shepard: more sanctions? is there any talk of that? >> at the june 21 press conference, president trump said look, i don't want to talk about maximum pressure what he wanted to talk about is how wonderful kim jong-un was. well, maybe kim jong-un is a wonderful guy. maybe he likes president trump. maybe trump likes him. but it doesn't matter. because the north koreans are pragmatic and friendship has nothing to do with this. >> shepard: just to get the facts out, he's not a wonderful guy. he murders his family members, hundreds of thousands have been looked up for the crimes of ancestors. he has gulags and training camps. >> he's a horrific regime. the brutality of treating their own people and their own families. we've seen the excuses of 150, 160 or so senior officials. perhaps the deaths of maybe four or 500 junior officials that have been sent to the camps and we don't know about that.
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so the death toll of kim jong-un is really high. when president trump says these nice things about kim, it leaves people concerned about how he thinks this process is going to move forward. >> shepard: gordon chang, thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: ahead, tensions with the neighbors to the north and south. mexico has elected a new leader and he's a critic of the president's immigration policy. he's a left winger. to the north, canada is making good on threats to strike back about the president's tariffs. details ahead. were made for better things than psoriatic arthritis. as you and your rheumatologist consider treatments, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for psoriatic arthritis. taken with methotrexate or similar medicines, it can reduce joint pain, swelling, and significantly improve physical function. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis.
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>> shepard: you may have heard a left wing critic of president trump and his immigration policies is set to become the next leader of mexico. andrews obrador won mexico's presidential election in a landslide. he's condemned president trump's plan to build a wall along the
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border. he wrote a book titles "listen up, trump" and has called president trump erratic and arrogant. despite their apparent differences on immigration, president trump has called lopez obrador to congratulate him. the president says he thinks the president-elect of mexico will try to help us with the border. that's a quote. of course, it's been intense at the southern border after the separation of immigrant families. president trump has accused mexico from not doing enough to stop drugs and immigrants into the united states. and there's tension at the northern border. canada striking back against the president's taxes on imported steel and aluminum. more on that in a moment. first to casey stegall live near the certain border torn of tornillo, texas. casey? >> yeah, shepard.
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one of these holding locations where more than 300 children are being housed in tents back there behind me. the feds say out of the more than 2,000 children that have been separated from their parents at the border, about 500, they say, have so far been reunited. they're working on an injunction of a judge that said that the kids have to be reunited with their family. well, look at this touching video. cameras capturing one of the reunions this weekend at the miami airport. a mother saying her daughter for the first time in two months since being separated. the child had just been released from a holding facility in michigan. mom now wears an ankle monitor as they await their court dates and she had this message for
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others in a similar situation. >> i advise you to find another country to seek refuge in. people here don't have a heart. [speaking spanish] when they take it away, it hurts a lot. >> we're also starting to see various legal tactics being used down here to try to speed up those reunions. a mother from brazil filing an emergency complaint inside of a boston court essentially ordering the feds to immediately release her son from one of these holding facilities here in texas. much sooner than the 30-day deadline. shep? no casey stegall near the border. thanks. it's pay-back time.
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canada has officially started slapping tariffs on more than 12 billion of u.s. goods including whiskey, chocolate and ketchup. it's retaliation we're told for the president's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. christina is here from the fox business network. what has happened? >> they did it yesterday because it's canada day. it's in retaliation. even though wilbur ross saying that if anything, the u.s. has a trade surplus with canada. canada saying we have to fight back. we can't be bullied. they targeted 120 consumer products. yogurt because it comes mostly from wisconsin. these are states that support trump or chocolate from pennsylvania or even maple syrup is on the list even though canada is a big exporter. specific areas due to that.
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will it affect the u.s. economy? it's too soon to say. heinz may suffer because people will turn to frenches ketchup made in canada. >> shepard: is there more of this? do we know? >> the auto sector is the concern. president trump has said it could be a national security threat. you have a hearing that will happen later on in the sumner the united states regarding whether there's goes to be any auto tariffs that will have a major effect on canada and the united states. >> shepard: i'm sure would. thank you, a career criminal accused of breaking out of prison again apparently with the help of a stolen helicopter. some drones to boot. 's a long-dn and you have the determination to keep going. humira has a proven track record of being prescribed for over ten years. it's the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. more than 250,000 patients have chosen humira
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>> shepard: a notorious french gangster has escaped prison
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again. this time around, he did it with the help of a hijacked helicopter. here's a picture of the abandoned chopter about 45 minutes south of paris. french police say they found it torched in a field. the convicts may have used drones to search for gaps in security a few months before his escape. thousands of police officers are looking for this man. he's serving a 25-year sentence for killing a police officer during an attempted robbery and high-speed chase in the year 2010. this is the second time he's broken out of prison. in 2013, investigators say he used explosives hidden in tissue backs to escape. some advice from a lucky vacationers to the rest of us. don't forget who is top of the food chain in the ocean.
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she was actually trying to feed the sharks. happened off the coast of australia. the woman says it felt like a hoover on her finger. like the shark was shredding it off the bone. the woman is okay. she needed surgery and antibiotics. she insists she's not a shark victim. when you're in their work, it's your domain. if you're feeding them -- well. video of another hungry animal. a bear going nuts for doughnuts and other treats. this happened in hendersonville, north carolina. the woman said her teenagers left the pastries in the garage. a few of them, bear claws. the bear ate the treats and went back to the woods. top of the hour headlines moments away.
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as the white house press briefing is scheduled to begin in just about 10 seconds. we shall see. should news break out, we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> neil: all right. we will be going to that briefing shortly. no doubt questions on trade. remember this trade war that started over aluminum and steel and suddenly it's grown to include everything from pork and cheese and apples and cherries and maple syrup. i'm telling you, if they throw ring dings in the mix, that's it, america. we're on top of that. the single biggest event and focus of our day barring whatever comes of this press conference. right now ahead of sarah sanders, we're going to deidra bolton spelling out the jolting news when it comes to trade. >> billion dollar businesses here, neil. so