>> looking for answers, investigators combing the wreckage of the passenger plane stolen from seattle airport by an airline employee. they are looking for the remains and the wrapping up the news conference outside of tacoma. will come to "america's news headquarters" for washing. i'm elizabeth prann on another busy saturday. leland: out in washington at about 12 hours after this incident started. i'm leland vittert and the white house released a statement commenting with official response to a stolen plane in seattle late friday. the president according to the

white house has been briefed on the incident involving the plane in seattle and is monitoring the situation. we commend the interagency response effort for their swift action and protection of public safety that included scrambling fighter jets to intercept this plane. dan springer applied at seattle-tacoma international airport with more details from where the playoff. reporter: this plane was stolen but not in service and at not at a gate that would've been more people and more security. were told it was by a maintenance hangar in the 29 -year-old horizon air employee would've probably had full access to the area. he was listed as a ground service agent. he might've been able to get inside the plane but what fascinating is how he was able to start the plane take off and fly around the puget sound for

90 minutes. the plaintiff sees 76 passengers but he was the only person on the plane. norad. terrorism scrambled fighter jets from portland behind the plane and about seven minutes trying to keep him overwater instead of people. the man who was despondent was also at times, apologetic. >> i told you i don't want to hurt anyone. i've got a lot of people that care about me. it will disappoint them to hear that i did this. reporter: air traffic controllers were called to try to get the plane safely landed at an air base nearby and later on water. the fighter jets never did fire the plane even as a blow to the ground and it loops and a barrel roll. eventually the man crashed on a small island south of tacoma. the sheriff county called it a

joy ride gone terribly wrong. most likely a bizarre suicide but not terrorism. >> there is indication he might've done this on a lark or he might have been trying to harm himself. there's no indication that he was trying to harm any one else. this is not a terrorist act or a threat to anybody. reporter: the crash happened on a tiny island with only about 20 residents. trees were set on fire and one of the ground was hurt. only emergency personnel are allowed on the island in near the crash site. the fbi is leading the discussion and the national transportation safety board has personal in the area. they held a news conference this morning said to be taking the black box and the fact that but the fbi will be taking the lead in the magician and looking into the motive for the theft of this airplane and will not be necessarily look at mechanical difficulties or things i got because this was the guy who clearly was unable to fly a

plane, although he did for nine minutes. leland: certainly fluid long enough to scare a lot of people. dan springer, seattle international airport, more from dan as we learned. thank you. with that we bring in aviation attorney and former faa official, mark. in many ways it's harder to steal a new mercedes than to steal one of these planes if you have access to the hangar and if you know about the carpet. >> i think that is right. certainly aviation is number of security measures in place and you not expect something like this to happen. have a history of small aircraft being stolen from her more fields but in terms of an airliner in this instance there's no history of the thing. leland: dan said it was not necessarily someone who is trained to fly, at least as far as we no, he was on the pilot but a maintenance worker or ramp

worker so he had access to the planes and maintenance facilities but were watching amateur video of him flying this plane around and to be able to do barrel rolls into loops with a commercial airliner is pretty impressive chairmanship, at some level. >> it's pretty striking. when you watch the video and you realize he was a aloft for 90 minutes the fact that he was a loft for almost 90 minutes of airplane crashing and the fact that he was able to take off the airplane in the first instance would suggest he had familiarity with the aircraft controls and capabilities. he may well have had a lot of extra is fine a computer-based flight some later, one by in computer store. leland: you could make it seem like any cockpit you want. ntsb as a mentioned wrapped of the press conference, an unusual investigation, no doubt, for them in terms of what they normally look at verses right

now but take a listen to the ntsb. >> the cockpit was recorder picks up in the cockpit medications. we already have the air traffic and pilot communications. he might have been talking to himself in the cockpit and he might be able to get additional information. leland: they're looking for the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder in the black boxes, so call. is there anything learned from those that we don't already know of a guy steeled an airplane connect. >> as they must be said is a function of listening to the cockpit voice recorder and seeing if he was talking to himself in some conversation that is not broadcast over the radio but picked up in the cockpit. it's an investigation that should be noted that been led by the fbi. a number of years ago after twa crashed over long island sound there was an agreement reached

following that in litigation that if there was a criminal act the fbi would take the lead and be supported by the ntsb which i suspect is what is happening here. alternatively straight accident the ntsb tastefully. leland: at the very list the cruel act though go through his e-mails and try to figure out if he talked to anyone in social media and what you make of the fact that you had to alert aircraft meaning fighter jets we don't know what kind following this? for 90 minutes they watch the sky fly around and never once took a shot, you read that as in action or were they waiting for a moment they had to take a shot? >> iv that is restraint. i think they will monitoring where over the ground the aircraft was and where the aircraft was headed. their job up there was to make sure the aircraft did not physically crash in a populated area. had that aircraft headed over seattle itself might've seen a

different outcome. it's not unlike a situation involving aircraft in which payne stewart perished and went to f16's shadowing that aircraft. ultimately, they ran out of fuel and crashed in a remote field. i think will be soft with respect to f15 aircraft out of joint force we saw a restraint, approach to this. leland: we always appreciate your expertise. for 15 hours into this will learn a lot more. we have crews working the story here in dc with the fbi and also out in seattle. more on this as it happens. you again. >> thank you. judge jeanine:. trish:. elizabeth: rick leventhal has the very latest in his near bedminster, new jersey for the president is this "hello, rick. reporter: it's a rainy day in

northern new jersey. not ideal, there are plenty of opportunities for president to treat her in his weakening vacation. this morning when the topics he focused on was andrew mccabe, former fbi agent involved in both the mueller probe and clinton e-mail to the station. he was fired by attorney general jeff sessions as their instruments delete information to the media and the allied under oath on multiple occasions. the president focused on mccabe's involvement in his wife's 2015 virginia state senate campaign. with text messages that could reveal a competent interest or bias toward clinton. the president wrote -- this

afternoon the president does have a public event at his bedminster golf club and the bikers for trump will be there for a photo opportunity and will bring you the highlights later today. elizabeth: thank you, rick. leland: turkey's president says his country is not facing a financial crisis and is prepared to fight what he calls an economic war against president trump and american tariffs. this is the second level of terrorists imposed on turkish steel since march. turkey's president called on the nation to ditch the dollar and begin relying on the lira for trade. he further boasted a healthy financial quarter despite its currencies sharp spike in

inflation. elizabeth: more on that with our next guest. present tariffs and the possible economic impact of played a major role on the campaign trail leading up to november elections for the spring and eric cochair of the great american pack for more investment thank you for joining us. one your initial response, your reaction to turkey's response to the additional front of terrorists. ready for economic war, those are strong words with nato ally. >> the elephant in the room is the us dollar. everyone wants us in our dollar is strengthening in many ways offsetting some of the terrorists we have especially countries like china where we have a 400 dollar trade goods definite. at the end of the day consumer confidence is high economy is high recent report by the university of michigan that says the us wages are outpacing the inflation risk.

i do think there are many things that will occur but also offset because of the us dollar. elizabeth: eric, you teed up my next question because there are critics who are saying listen, wage growth is slower than inflation. people are not feeling that economic push you're talking about. what's response to that? >> the stock markets are at an all-time high and there is a report i mentioned by michigan debunks that three. it says were outpacing the inflation. furthermore, how can we. elizabeth: it's 2.9% higher, this year and last year at this time it was around 2.7%, right? >> right, but it will offset. the president has said about the terrorists is a long-term play. not about having consumer confidence but about strengthening us dollar. everyone wants to do business with united states and the delicate strength and then we have to buy you estimates products. elizabeth: when you say tariffs are long-term play, how does

that play out in november? november is not that far away and people are feeling the pain i now, especially in parts of the country where the tariffs are impacting them in the agriculture and other areas, i mean, they are looking long-term looking to make ends meet. >> look, with the tax cuts the present push through last year that helps everyone in their paper, middle-class america, were looking at november is a run on the court trump coalition principles. you can talk economy, gdp numbers are at an all-time high, and implement all-time low, 18 year low so the republicans have a lot to run on in terms of the economy but don't forget about the issues that trump ran on and got him elected in 2015. the forgotten men and women in middle-class america and is important to them. elizabeth: i want to read a tweet for you and i want to ask you question says -- at the same

time we just heard rick leventhal's report talking about mccabe and the fbi and where is the focus right now? is on the campaign trail and listing the rallies speaking to his face but this is a tale of two topics and should not be focused on an employment and economic issues? >> not just economic issues. to be honest, we run on economic issues as republicans for 30 years. we don't just reach to the middle because it can go either way to republicans or democrats in cycles. you talk about those core issues he ran on when he tweets out he's raging against the machine. collected because there was an unelected bureaucracy that was undercutting president obama

even and president bush. he ran against the machine and talk to voters who will reward him in the midterm election. elizabeth: eric, that's all the time but i pretty coming on. insert will be back. don't miss media buzz 11:00 a.m. where howie will interview president trump's attorney, judy and rudy giuliani. martha mcallen is in for chris wallace on sunday. extensive interview with senator lindsey graham. check your local listings for time and channel. leland: as wildfires continue to burn through california to washington politics make the fight so much harder. plus, as thousands try to get into america illegally will breakdown the attorney general's new message to those standing guard on the southern border. new questions about nancy pelosi and just how unpopular she is. a political panel on how democrats are moving away from their leader. >> there talking about this blue

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relaxing pain following high profile arrest on federal insider trading charges. he's an early on trump supporter in the house said in a statemene congressional the white house with this alleged phone call me have taken place about insider trading. the corpsman vehemently denies charges and says he is not guilty. elizabeth: pulls opening in hawaii as voters cast ballots in the primary. democratic primaries will be closely watched as winners of those races are heavily favored to win in november. in the deep blue state of the governor's and first congressional district, six democrats are vying to succeed the congressman there she has her hat into the governor's ra race. leland: voters in minnesota cast

a ballot in that state's primary on tuesday the governor's race is front and center as candidate jeff johnson and states former governor, tim valenti, face-off for the gop nomination. we top bring in minnesota talk radio host andrew lee. surprising that tim plenty has raised all considering national following huge fundraising abilities and big dollars in the bank. >> it's a little surprising. people when tim announced that he was going to get in i think people presume that it would not be much of a race but you got to give credit to jeff johnson. he's been working hard and working hard to earn the partie. leland: what is differential as between him or jim. >> mainly that he has been working the party base a lot more than tim and three. he decided to forgo the party endorsement policy and that

created a bit of a divide. that gave jeff johnson a bit more momentum that he might have otherwise had had tim entry recorded the party base to the conversion process. leland: interesting. how closely aligned is it with president trump. i was up in duluth for the present rally early this summer and in order to support the president trump for they think they can turn the congressional districts read. >> minnesota republicans are very much on board with president trump that the one thing we've learned in the last couple of years. there was a strong never trump faction during the 26 election but since then minnesota republicans have gone on board. support or lack thereof of trump has been one of the key issues between johnson and pawlenty with johnson using quotes that tim pawlenty said during the

election against him and pawlenty has had to prove his drum support bona fides. leland: we saw that work well for john james and the machine primary for senate or he was able to wrap a never trump sign around his opponent and then john james one. does it surprise you that president trump as i waited on the? >> no, it does not. this is a primary and somethin something -- you got strong candidates in jeff johnson and tim pawlenty and regardless of who is a primary will be pretty happy to support either one of them against the eventual opponent. this is a state under dfl rule for a long time and it's a blue state but could turn red in the governor's race. i don't think it would matter too much if president trump had weighed in the primary side because i think the be a strong coalescence run the eventual gop candidate after today. leland: conventional wisdom in

washington scissors huge enthusiasm gap between the public and voters democratic voters now heading in 2018 as we go to november. are you saying that, as well? >> not in minnesota. minnesota republicans are motivated and very excited because they saw in the 2016 election, they saw the state come closer to going for a republican than they have in a long time. leland: what specifically about president trump's message republicans message, what issues are resonating while there? we know in duluth you have manufacturing and mining and steel and or where those tariffs help but what works down farther south? >> the tax cut bill has worked in benjamin's for minnesota. it's really helped the minnesota economy. i think the support form mining and mining is a massive issue

not just in northern minnesota. the white. it's important and support for our farmers has resonated in southern minnesota, as well. leland: support for our farmers is a double edge sword with any anger at president trump over, not only the tariffs that of her farmers but from farmers who said they don't want subsidies? >> i were not as private as anger but as concern. i'm not seeing a lot of anger yet but there is, there is definite concern about the tactic and about the path the president is going in regards to tariffs in regards to the $12 billion of the package that they're putting together. this is not what a lot of people expected but based on the results we've had with this demonstration pacifically in regards to the economy there is leeway that they're willing to give the president definitely concern. leland: don't need to tell you as you drive north to minneapolis from deliberate help wanted signs, as a growth in

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leland: fox news alert. 9:30 in seattle investigators worked overnight don't know how or why in airline employee stolen empty has an airplane, flew it around for 90 minutes and crashed it. at the time there were two other debts following it but they did not shut it down. fbi not taking over invitation. ellison barber joining us with the washington side of the

story. this is big. reporter: lots of questions here in washington dc as well. as reported earlier, white house as commented and said they say the president has been briefed on the incident and according to their sinners are monitoring the situation is more permission becomes available. we reached out to lawmakers on capitol hill to see what, if any action they look at some experts say for sending this thing is not easy. >> i mean you have a mechanic who has to get on the aircraft and has to understand how this thing works. they go to a level of that context but at a certain point how do you know this fellow is a going yesterday will trade take out a plane. >> also say the answer might not be related to security at all. >> at the level of testing is incredibly expensive and time-consuming and the carriers are saying what is the level of risk your.

event of the opinion is an infinite way of people to hurt us there's only a finite number of people to do that. the more money we shipped to mental health, back context, better off we will be. >> when the faa reported that the flintstones they asked the pentagon for help. norad fighters responded in a try to redirect it over the pacific ocean when it crashed. norad says they did not fire at all at the aircraft. leland: a lot of questions whether they had the authority to and they talk to. ellison barber on this out to dan springer in seattle in about half an hour. thank you. elizabeth: president trump says he's predicting a red wave in november after several gop primary candidates he endorsed have one nominations but democrats are anticipating a strong turnout in the midterm elections. they set up a battle for control

of progress prepared to discuss warmer obama and ministration official and ceo of global situation room and the public and sean noble. thank you for turning us. sean, i would start with you. your reaction after this week is a blue wave or political? >> blue trickle. no question there is enthusiasm on the democrat side but there is definitely depth in the republican enthusiasm as well. this will have a terminus impact and all the things the republicans have been able to come push and delivering on promises they made about tax reform in improving the economy, getting jobs back, these will be a great year for republicans. there will be some seats lost is always would be but it's not enough to have the democrats take over. it will gain seats in the sena senate. elizabeth: johanna, what's your reaction because you can't disagree with the president when he endorses a candidate they are winning so, is he right?

>> yeah, you know, i guess i would say a couple things. first, i know firsthand how difficult it can be to motivate your base when you're in office for a midterm election. you may remember the special election lost ted kennedy seats and go on to lose the midterm. it's difficult to motivate your base. i do not think the democrats cannot underestimate the power of the powers of the president marketing. he's pretty capable of motivating both wings of the democratic and republican party. my question is what are the republicans running on? i listen to an exit interview with paul ryan we talked about one of his a compliment being averting disaster and i don't think that's good enough. elizabeth: shot, respond to that. i want you to respond to that but also segue to how republicans will win in districts that hillary clinton one in 2016. is advancing johannes --

>> i think johanna is right is that there is difficulty and honestly they went to a rough patch in 2009 and 2010 but part of that is because of what they were doing. when you look at what the democratic agenda was, the government takeover of healthcare had a galvanizing effect on people because it was something that negatively affected their lives and made the motivated to go to the polls and vote out the democrats who supported that legislation. now, the galvanizing piece of legislation above is pushed is a tax-cut that helps 85 or 90% of the people and it's across the board. this is a good thing that happened is that of a bad thing. elizabeth: get johanna's response. yes, racine tax-cut wage growth but inflation may be challenging seen those benefits. >> that's exactly right, elizabeth. here's the problem.

what is the service doing for the bottom 90%? when we entered office every 30 seconds and american lost their healthcare coverage. that was a problem. i was part of opening up a republican caucus meeting for president obama wanted to address the issue with making your enemy out to be the devil. you can never compromise. we had trouble getting republicans to sit down and talk about healthcare. now they've had the control of the house, senate and white house may not do anything on healthcare. what we will see in this election is ideas. we absolutely need reform and we need improvement of the system but what are the areas are about to have? >> problem is democrat ideas and i'm happy for the democrats have ideas about medicare for all because it's a crazy idea that will not work and has not worked

in other countries where they had socialized medicine and i hope the democrats grab that message and run on that message because i will make it easier for republicans to retain the seats that are difficult is the seats that hillary one, they will be challenging but the democrats have overplayed their hand and running so far to the left. elizabeth: we will see. first off, i want to get a 102nd response from both of you because we have breaking news with chris collins suspending his reelection campaign. i get reaction from both of you is he not had time to discuss in this brand-new information. start with you, sean and he was the right move. he needs to get out under the cloud and protect that seat. someone needs to step in and we hold that the republicans. right move. elizabeth: johanna? >> you know, corruption is corruption regardless of party. i'll be interested to see how the race goes. one nothing on their public and

base, they have to have a message more than we don't want medicare for all. elizabeth: okay. we will leave it at that. to be continued. john, i know you're chomping at the bit. thank you so much johanna and sean. leland. leland: devastating wildfires continue to rage across california and they are becoming a half on the issue. by the fires could change votes in november. president trump former advisor working on a tell all about her time with president trump the big bombshells coming out and why the white house sitting back.

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elizabeth: strong winds are fueling wildfires across the state of california. crews are fighting more than a dozen active fires in the state any homes, forcing evacuations.

yosemite national park has been closed due to fire and book. the officials say it's set to reopen next tuesday hopefully. leland: is those wildfires continue to burn they are increasingly divisive subject for the california political candidates ahead of the november elections. twenty has now from sacramento, angela hart and nice to see you. obviously in california the fires are now are top of mind for everybody. there is the political light on it? you would think everyone would come together and they will put these out and move on. >> first off, i think we've seen the california wildfires become the latest front in the war between california and the trump administration. we had president trump seen on twitter that quote, california wildfires are being magnified and made so much worse by the

environmental laws and meanwhile were seeing governor jerry brown and other statewide officials including california attorney general fiercely defending california's very tough environment to loss -. leland: is the president's criticism there? that the environment to laws and the rules regarding water have contributed, if not significantly to the increasing severity of the fires but made it harder to fight it, at least? >> numerous cap fire officials and climatologist weather experts what they say is california has enough water to fight these fires. the issue is extremely hot temperatures, earlier in the year, dry vegetation and erratic fire behavior that are making these fires more unpredictable and more severe.

we saw tornado fire in chester county. leland: help me understand, as we look to the governor's race with gavin newsom how is this point to play? as their divide between political candidates inside california? >> we are seen that divide in the governor's race with lieutenant governor gavin newsom and republicans businessman john cox. i talked to both of the candidates earlier and earlier this month and john cox, characterized as a democrat trying to obscure the real issue and he told me that he quote unquote did not know whether climate change was underlined this issue and meanwhile we heard the lieutenant governor saying that climate change is clearly the top issue. leland: that divide is

nationally as well. angela, very much appreciate you being with us and great conversation. will follow your reporting in the sacramento as a school sword. thank you. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: after the break, cracking down at our southern border. what the trump administration is calling on juan forstmann to do down south. >> we violate the law and it is a violation of law to cross the border illegally between the ports of entry, there needs to be a consequence. ♪

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to citizenship. >> i suggest that the present plan to end the unlawful miss of our system, provide relief for the daca and build a wall that will send a message and secure our borders is a reasonable, rational approach. elizabeth: let's bring in david beer from the cato institute. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: first and foremost, i read your piece is online and there's a lot of push for board funding and you say in that border on the congress has included promises or fire that you think is important. what are those pieces? >> homeland security committee did something remarkable on a bipartisan basis. they adopted a variety of reform into the home and security funding bill that is proceeding is way to congress that these reforms include things like more legal guestworkers who can come in and work in agriculture and

hospitality and other industries late into tourism. allowing more guestworkers to come in legally -- h2 a and h to be programs. elizabeth: anyone who is watching right now who is had a vegetable or fruit summer ground in the united states for taking a vacation summer where these workers, you are getting impacted. >> yes, there's an economic impact for the benefit to border security. we've seen as an increase the number of each to be an h2 eight workers come in and year after year since the 1990s fewer and fewer people crossing the border illegally during that time and if you look back in 1986 each border patrol agent was apprehending 500 people a year and we've got that down to 17 last year so a remarkable improvement in during that same time with an increasing number of ways you can enter legally through these guestworker programs.

elizabeth: if i'm not mistaken, streamlined families for citizens whether it's skilled or perhaps on skilled labor, is that correct? >> right, make reforms to the green card process for permanent residency. if you are from india you are facing almost 100 year wait for a green card if you apply today. that's unconscionable. what these reforms would do is make it equal across the board. we don't take into consideration with lots of countries you're from but we focus on to applied first and process them equally and a fairway. elizabeth: a lot of bipartisan support. >> yes. elizabeth: i want to play from our border patrol agent and get your action. >> it's not an easy task but we violate the law and it is a violation of law to cross the border illegally between ports of entry needs to be a consequence. elizabeth: that the argument. we hear that out of the white house and attorney general jeff

sessions said the same thing. they are asylum-seekers who are fleeing gang violence and must violence so we had a more cohesive immigration law that was easy to understand would we be avoiding illegal immigration? >> absolutely. or broadly, all of our illegal innovation programs are supposed to deter illegal immigration by making it possible for people to enter our country legally. everything in ministration is doing right now is encouraging able to enter illegally and keep talking about eliminating asylum and eliminating the immigration. elizabeth: there saying the numbers are down but you disagree? >> the numbers are not tempered if you look at the numbers of families entering the ports of entry the numbers are exactly the same as they were before the policy, during the policy and after. no difference. that disproves the argument from attorney general jeff sessions and president trump that these

people are lying and don't actually base violence. think of the violence you had to face in her home country to risk having your child taken away from you for months. you risk being deported back to her home country that the child. you must face serious that to undergo the process. elizabeth: is such a hot topic and i suspect will continue hearing as midterms approach. thank you. interesting. we could talked the whole hour. leland: our two coming up. "america's news headquarters" it's one year since the deadly white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia. why the city is under threat again. dansby are standing by in seattle about the plane stolen. >> ntsb has begun their investigation and as a search for a motive the plane

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it's about 10:00 a.m. in seattle. they have first light, very remote island for this crash site that they're looking at. america's news headquarters, hour two, nice to be with you from home. i'm leland vittert. elizabeth: thank you for joining us. i'm elizabeth prann. dan springer is in seattle with the very latest. hi, dan, what can you tell us? >> reporter: the investigation has begun. the fbi will take the lead in that investigation because this was a crime before it was a crash. what a bizarre crime it was. at 8:00 last night a 29-year-old horizon air employee who works as a ground service agent stole a q-400 turbo prop. it seats 76 passengers. the plane's thief was the only person a don on-board. norad scrambled two fighter jets from portland to shoot the plane down if necessary. they did not. the man flew around the puget

sound for 90 minutes, doing loops, barrel rolls and flying close to the ground. he was in regular contact with air traffic control. he said he was a broken man. at times he seemed to be enjoying himself. >> okay, and you can see all the terrain around you? you've got no issue with visibility or anything? >> no, everything's peachy. just did a circle around rainier. it's beautiful. i think i've got gas to go check out the olympics and, yeah. >> reporter: the stolen plane was not in service last night. it was taken from a maintenance hangar, run by horizon. after 90 minutes the plane crashed on a small island south of tacoma. the ntsb is helping with the investigation. they held a briefing a short time ago. the question came up, how was this guy able to start the plane, let alone take off and fly for an hour and-a-half. >> they don't necessarily use a

key, so there's switches that they use to start the aircraft. so if the person has a basic understanding from what i understand, he was support personnel, ground personnel, they probably do have at least a basic understanding on how to start the aircraft. he's ground support corks they have access to -- support, so they have access to aircraft. >> reporter: luckily, no one on the ground was hurt. ketron island is a tiny island with about 20 residents. trees were set on fire by the crash but no homes were impacted. the name of the man has not been released. we know that he lived in pierce county which is where he died last night. back to you. elizabeth: thank you, so much. here to weigh in with more details, former dhs assistant secretary, doug smith. thank you so much for joining us. i want to talk about what happens next. because obviously the ntsb will work with the fbi. we heard from dan springer's report, more so the fbi because

of the criminal nature of the crime. what are the next steps in this investigation? >> thanks for having me, first of all. what happens in these situations is so the tsa, local law enforcement will do what they call a hot watch. they'll review the incident. they will look at all the things that happened. they will for the holes -- will look for holes to understand why the employee had access to the aircraft. they'll try to determine where the system had broken down. with that, they'll be able to strengthen the system. the chattanoog challenge is a la little bit around mental health issues, et cetera. while tsa and others do extensive screening on ground personnel, i would suspect this will be an issue that they will drill into, are they doing enough to check the mental health history of employees and ensurinensuring --

elizabeth: we did hear some sound in dan springer's report. i want to play another sound bite to bring in some of that mental health aspect and i want to get your reaction. take a listen. >> hey, are you thinking about landing this successfully? >> i think that would be a good job if you could pull this off. >> yeah, right. i'm a white guy. people's lives are at stake here. >> don't say stuff like that. >> just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, i guess, never really knew it until now. elizabeth: we'll get more information when investigators do retrieve the black box. you can hear the internal conflict there and it sort of brings me to my next point. aviation has a number of security measures many this is an airliner. he wasn't a pilot. what do you foresee could change in the future? >> i think it's a great question. i do think we should pause and give a shout-out to the air

traffic controller there. i mean, true professionalism as that must have been a crazy incident for that air traffic controller to respond to and really shows the depth of the training and the depth in the system of protection. i think we should give a shout-out to him. i think one of the things, it's a tragic case in the us as a whole, we see suicide rates continuing to escalate and i think an aircraft, as we saw tragically on 9/11 and previous attempts, it's a tremendous weapon. i think it will call local law enforcement, tsa, faa, et cetera to double down and try to look for any signs of mental illness that could enter into the system. this was obviously a very, very tragic case and obviously our thoughts go out to this individual's family. but i think it really brings to bear the importance of thinking about mental health in these systems. when someone like that can get an aircraft in their hand, this

story could have had as tragic as an ending as it had, it could have had a more tragic ending if not tore the response of the planes that scrambled out of port land and what they did to talk this individual down. elizabeth: he was up in the air for 90 minutes, an aircraft that could have had 76 people on-board. there's a myriad of ways the story could have ended, although still extremely sad. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. leland: the president finishing up the last weekend of his summer vacation in new jersey. much of the past week he spent on the offensive, getting ready for the midterms. his tweet from last night. democrats, please do not distance yourselves from nancy pelosi. she is a wonderful person whose ideas and policies may be bad but who should definitely be given a fourth chance. she is trying very hard and has every right to take down the democratic party if she has veered too far left.

and with that we bring in donald trump for president advisory board member, gina la lauden. you don't need to dissect that tweet to notice the sarcasm. >> yeah, well, you know, the president has done a masterful job of communicating with his base and creating the narrative over and over with his twitter account and so you have to give him all credit. he sees things, leland, like the middle of america sees things, not the crazies on the coast, i don't mean that all people there are crazy. leland: a fair point that nancy pelosi has been the ultimate foil both for president trump and in a larger sense for republicans. is there a danger if he keeps hammering away at her in this way, if democrats abandon nancy pelosi before the midterms, what do republicans have left? >> look, the democrat party is completely fractured an shatterd

and on the version of implosion. they've abandoned their base. democrats have abandoned ship in the walwalk-away movement. the president is continuing to reach into the base by good policy, things like unemployment being at record lows, that calls people over. the job numbers from last week, i noticed that people who never graduated from high school, high school dropouts, are at the lowest unemployment ever. leland: you said the democratic party is fractured. democrats i talk to say divided and directionless at times, maybe, different adjectives. interesting to note in terms of where the democrats are splitting, left and center, as it relates to nancy pelosi. here's alexandria ocasio-cortez, the woman who is called the future of the democratic party, about the person who is the leader or who she thought could be something else of the democratic party. take a listen. >> do you recognize her as the leader? >> i think absolutely right now.

>> go ahead, please. >> she is the leader of -- no, no, i mean, speaker, rather leader pelosi, hopefully will see, she is the current leader of the party and i think the party does have its leadership in the house, we have our leadership in the senate as well. leland: you guys got to love that. >> [ laughter ] i've got to say, i hope she stays front and center for the democrats, because if she's the future of the democrats, the future belongs to the republicans and to donald trump for sure. leland: this is something that is coming in the future, this week o omarosa's book, this is e of the excepts obtained by the washington post. i saw him, meaning the president, put a note in his mouth. since was trump was ever the germaphobe, i was shocked.

he appeared to be chewing and swallowing the paper which must have been very sensitive. we have no idea whether to believe the veracity or not. the white house said the book is riddled with lies. coming through the summer you've got somebody who was close to the president spilling the beans, what is the white house's strategy, if they have one? >> she is spilling the beans on herself. if you look at the title of the book, i think that says all you need to know about where omarosa is. i know our president loves to look at people and give them an opportunity and the very fact that he gave this woman such an opportunity that she never would have had, he created her. leland: now the logic is that he gave her this opportunity, he knew what she was like on the apprentice, knew what she was like during the campaign, stilling brought her into -- still brought her into the white house, now we're not supposed to hebelieve her?

i'm not clear how the logic works. >> here's a man who created her brand. leland: a lot of people are unclear how her logic works 6789 there's the question of why did somebody who supposedly is such a great and powerful leader like president trump says he is and as good of a character judge as he says he is, why would he let somebody who by your own admissions got some serious issues into the white house and be such an end grail part of his -- integral part of his administration for so long? >> omarosa made her bed and she will have to lie in it. i think this is clearly her telling the whole world that she is not what she portrayed herself to be to the president or anyone else. her being deceptive is not any basis of judgment for this president. this president gave her a chance and the very fact that he gave this black woman a chance, tells you that any accusations that she would make about any sort of race issues are absolutely debased an fictional.

who will believe her again. she should apologize. leland: do you worry about the idea that there's tapes? come on. >> no, i don't worry about it. i know this president. i know his heart. i know his character. and i will never fault him for believing in people and giving people a chance that by the way, no one else ever gave that kind of a chance to. look at what he's done on black unemployment, on prison reform, i'm sitting with a list in front of me with 20 things he's done. leland: i'm not sure where you get the link between those two things. we'll see the continuing defense. this is part of it is that he did give her a chance. we'll see where it goes from there. gina, thanks to much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. elizabeth: the city of charlotesville is under a state of emergency ahead of the anniversary of a deadly rally in the city one year ago. doug mcelway is on the ground. what's the latest now? >> reporter: what a difference a year makes. all is quiet here in charlotesville today on the first year anniversary of the

rioting which occurred on the same day exactly one year ago. i say that with one caveat, just coming through the police access point, the police checkpoint which everybody must pass through to goat the downtown mall, entered a group of people who say they are with antifa. they're very calm and quiet here. we're on the street now where heather heyer died. they walked down the street to pay respects for her. some laid down momentos. if somebody wanted to create trouble here today it would be overwhelming chances it would be nipped in the bud. earlier this week the governor declared a state of manage circumstance enabling the ex pen -- state of managing, enabling the expenditure of millions of dollars. many local residents welcome the police presence. some say it's a little

excessive. >> then and now is utter stupidity. it's already lunchtime, almost lunchtime, people aren't forming anywhere. it should be shut down already. >> what are they doing? who is running the show? >> it seems a bit over-the-top for what we need down here. >> i don't think the police could win either way. it's kind of a lose-lose for them in some ways, don't you think? >> reporter: city authorities say this was taken out of an abundance of caution and lessons hard-learned. last year, police stood by as violence broke out. this is not just my observation from being on the scene and being in the thick of it last year. it was the finding of an independent report released this past winter by a former u.s. attorney who found there was no unified command here, insufficient space for owe p opg

groups, failure to heed warnings, also failure a year ago to confiscate weapons, whether pots and pans, sticks and stones, urine and feces, bombs, coke cans filled with cement, all those things were allowed in the park where the violence broke out. it was that failure that resulted in the death of heather heyer. her mother today spoke out at a ceremony at the university of virginia campus, called a morning of reflection and renewal. the president of the university of virginia also spoke there and spoke about the changes and the mistakes that were made a year ago. >> it means not being afraid to apologize for mistakes we have made. we do nothing more than recognize our common humanity to say to those who were attacked around the statue last year, i am sorry. we are sorry.

>> reporter: and later tonight on the lawn in the rotunda of the university of virginia where that tiki torch march took place friday night a year ago, a new group will try to reclaim that area. it is a group called students devoted to social justice issues. they'll be gathering there tonight with other groups to try to reclaim the land from what they say is those who have suffered under white oppression and we will be there for that and watching out for any violence. as i say, all calm in charlotesville today due in large part to the massive proactive police presence. back to you. elizabeth: wow, doug, what a difference a year makes. we remember your excellent reporting a year ago today. thank you so much, doug. appreciate it. leland: incredible work by doug a year ago. nasa's high profile mission to the sun runs into a snag. we'll tell you what happened, how they're fixing it. the defense preparing to take

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leland: it was so close, yet so far away, just a minute before launch nasa scrubbing the launch of an unprecedented mission to the sun. on the right you see an animation of what was supposed to happen. on the left, what actually happened, which was nothing. a helium pressure issue stopped the launch of the parker solar probe, pushing the launch back another day. it's already been delayed a week. when the probe does launch it will embark on a mission to get closer to the sun than any other spacecraft before. get ready for a little -- ♪ elizabeth: president trump firing off more tweets this morning, blasting fbi leadership. this after two weeks of paul manafort's criminal trials came to a halt on friday morning, some unexpected delays. jillian turner joins us with

more. there were unexpected delays. >> president trump took to twitter this morning to comment on the ongoing mueller probe. first asking why the fbi isn't handing over andrew mccabe's text messages to government authorities and then ask whether the fbi will ever regain what he calls its, quote, stellar reputation. this as andrew miller, former aid to roger stone during president trump's campaign, was held in contempt for defying a subpoena to testify in court earlier this month. meanwhile, across the river in alexandria, virginia, the fraud trial of paul manafort rolled into its ninth day. democrats tying that hearing back to president trump himself. >> as fa there's no honor among thieves. you don't know who to believe. you don't know if you can believe president trump, rick gates, paul manafort, stone. you don't know if you can believe any of them. this is one of the things where we have to trust the jury system and see what comes out of it. >> manafort's trial got off to a late start yesterday by nearly five hours and today it's still

unclear as to exactly why. >> i don't know what the delay is about. but the mueller team has taken some hits this week, there's no doubt about it. their big star witness, rick gates, really got beaten up a little bit. >> we do know that the presiding judge received a motion from mueller's team in which they complained about a comment judge ellis made thursday suggesting that mueller's lawyers should stop asking about loans manafort was declared. no clarification from judge ellis as he resumed proceedings by calling for the government's next witness. the mueller team wasn't able to rest their case yesterday as they planned to do. so next up in the trial, when it resumes monday, one or two more government witnesses and then on to closing arguments which judge ellis has strictly limited to two hours each, liz. elizabeth: all right, jillian turner with the very latest. thank you so much. here to weigh in, let's bring in former federal proos cue tore

doug -- prosecutor, du doug bur. your take on the delay on friday, were you surprised? >> i've seen delays many, many times but not necessarily five hours. that did seem to kind of jump out as a very lengthy one. there's been speculation, we don't know for sure, it may have had something to do with a juror. what typically happens is in good faith a juror will say somebody in the hallway came up to me, said something. usually don't take five hours so it is hard to handicap. as you guys were discussing, the government has twice actually called out the judge, once the judge criticized the government for allowing a witness to be in a courtroom when the judge said that would be okay, because with government agents by the way, the regular exclusion rule doesn't apply. the second issue about why don't you goat a loan that actually closed, the government is right on that, because just because a loan doesn't close doesn't mean there could be some other theory. the dust-ups may have created

the delay. elizabeth: we know he went into the jury pool there. were you surprised, we heard news that andrew miller is being held in contempt of court. his lawyers are challenging the legitimacy of the special council. so what is your take on that? did you expect him to appear or did you think this was going to happen? >> no, i was surprised, elizabeth. because the norm and we've seen this before with others, i won't necessarily name them, they may give indications in the media i'm not going to comply with the subpoena and almost always they do, it's court process, it's pretty serious. the lawyer was saying, this is a little confusing, that the reason he didn't appear is because he wanted to be held in contempt so they could appeal the original ruling about it. that seems a little confusing and a little off. i don't know that you necessarily had to go through the contempt situation to do that. but again, to answerer question, i was surprised, yes. elizabeth: seems a little convoluted, just from the -- >> yes. elizabeth: for me, someone who

has been following the trial. were you surprised by gates' testimony? was that well-played by the mueller team? did they expect that? did it go as planned or no? >> the gates testimony from somebody who has been in the trenches 33 years actually played out the way a lot of cooperators play out. i'll repeat the basic fundamentals. a cooperator is sun who is involved in -- someone who is involved in the conduct. the government would argue i would have loved to take the first grade librarian but we take the witnesses where we find they'll. he did get beat up. he pled guilty to lying, embezzle moneed money from the defendant which you don't always see and was met with -- i'm not going to use the word coached or rehearsed, met with the government 20 times. the owns to that question -- the answer to that question is usually five times. 20 meetings seemed to jump out. the good news as you heard repeatedly is that the plea

agreement says that if the witness is deemed to be lying by the government, then all bets are off and the plea agreement is ripped up. the counter argument by good lawyers is wait a minute, on a lot of this stuff they don't know if he's telling the truth, the government and it boils down to whether or not and to the extent that he's backed up and corroborated with other documents and so forth. elizabeth: the trial resumes on monday. i just want to get any time line, any predictions from you and obviously i don't think we would ever expect to see manafort, right, testify? >> no, totally agree with you. 100%, you will not see paul manafort on the stand. i don't have a crystal ball but the chances of that are -- elizabeth: boy, that would be a jaw-dropper, wouldn't it? >> the cross examination would be brutal and so forth. it's never going to happen. generally the defense has no burden of proof to do anything and so very often they rest on that. it does create a catch-22 in the

sense that if you feel that the government has done enough and you don't get up there, that goes unchecked. often getting up there, i'm kind of reading your mind, and you're right, can make it worse. so i think you'll see a short to nonexistent defense case and we'll be right into the closing arguments. elizabeth: , remember, he has to face additional charges in the district so not quite over yet. doug, thank you for joining us. the trial continues. >> my pleasure. leland: we are learning new details by the minute out of seattle where an airline employee stole a plane and then crashed it, crash scene right there. we'll tell you what authorities are now searching for in the daylight. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association.

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elizabeth: we have brand-new video into the fox newsroom of the airplane crash site outside of seattle. federal authorities say they're searching that area for the remains of an airline employee

who stole a passenger plane from sat l he'l -- seattle tacoma international airport, flew the plane for 90 minutes before crashing. they are also searching for the plane's flight recorder to determine both how and why the horizon airlines employee stole the plane in the first place. the employee spoke with air traffic controllers about his mental state while flying the plane. we do have additional sound from air traffic control. this sound begins right after the pilot who is flying the plane says lives are at stake. >> don't say stuff like that. >> i don't want to hurt no one. i want you to whisper sweet nothings into my ear. i've got a lot of people that care about me and it's going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. i would like to apologize to each and every one of them.

leland: a former cia officer who spent years undercover on the front lines on the war against terror faces extra digs from the united states over charges he organized a coupes. they said he conspired to overthrow a dictator. they put out an arrest warrant for the former cia man. they announced they want the united states to turn him over and stand trial. this leaves the trump administration with two options, protect a man who has risked his life for his country many times and anger a nato ally or turn a man over who knows america's most sensitive secrets to a regime with an abysmal human rights record. joining us now is joseph assad. joseph, you tried to organize a

coupes? >> no, in mont montenegro i waso provide security advise to a western political advisor that was advising the opposition in their election. leland: why do you think they're trying to go after you? >> because of my affiliation with the cia, i worked there for a decade, something i'm immensely proud of. a conspiracy is very sexy and salacious and gets media attention. leland: you have everyone's attention from the associated press to the guardian, clearly this is what they say. the special state prosecutor's office has issued an order for investigation against j.a. for a founded suspicion that he has committed the criminal act creating a criminal organization under article 402 of the criminal code and the act of

terrorism. now, they can ask for you to comcome, for the united states o extradite you. what is your message to the administration? >> you see at nato values, democratic values and human rights and you look at the actions of a state like montenegro, they're contradictory to the values that nato and i hold dear. i think nato, the administration have an obligation to uphold these democratic and human rights values that we hold cacr -- sacrasanct, an. leland: it's important to note, this wasn't a coups attempt, this was an election you were involved in helping one of the political advisers there.

we won't ask about your time with the cia. don't worry. we will ask about your time after the cia. there was a lot of reporting about 15 150 christians he's esd isis in a no doubt daring escape. these are some of the pictures and we know that you were one of the people behind this. give us these two contradictory ideas, that here's a man who helped hundreds of people escape, put your own life at risk, for no other reason that to try to save these peoples' lives and the accusation that you were some how behind a coups. >> i worked for freedom house. it's america's oldest private rights organization. after the agency, i was involved in a program that rescued 149 christiansings, it was put toger by a group of americans that wanted to helpers cuted

minorities -- help persecuted minorities. i was prepositioned because of my training, we vetted people, got them ready, overcame a bunch of hurdles to get these christians out of iraq, out of isis territory where they were being persecuted. they faced the choice to convert to islam or die. we had to get them out. leland: this brings up an important point. folks who leave the agency, leave other dangerous parts of the american government service, go on to do lots of things. you went on to help these christians. you did work in the middle east. you did work in montemay grow. ienegro.is there an expect thats government protects the guys who gave so much for so long, even if at times you're doing things that people may not really like? >> i think the united states has an obligation to be a beacon of democracy and supporting the rule of law and we have seen countries, like our allies or

nato members that are not upholding these values, we need to stand up for that and we need to encourage countries to adhere to values that are important to us in this country. leland: joseph, we appreciate you coming on. admire you speaking out. and we will follow your story when the state department gets back to us, obviously we'll update our viewers and hope to have you back to discuss it as time goes on. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: after the break, a republican primary in minnesota down to the wire. we'll speak with one of the candidates for governor who is going against a former presidential candidate. and president trump's taking on kneeling nfl players. the president says -- what the president says need to happen if a player takes a knee during the national anthem and how teams are now responding, we'll have that story. ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving

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elizabeth: voters in minnesota cast their ballots in a high profile governor's race. tim pawlenty wants his old job

back. he's running against jeff johnson. johnson joins us now to discuss the upcoming election. thank you for joining us. i want to get to a campaign ad that's been airing in your great state and get your reaction. take a listen. >> who is jeff johnson? he's a career politician who taxes and spends, a lot. jeff johnson supported spending millions of dollars of tax payer money to support obamacare, higher taxes, wasteful spending. supporting obamacare. elizabeth: that was from a pawlenty campaign. they say you're a career politician. you're getting endorsement from the gop. what say you. >> i have the endorsement of the actual party which tim couldn't get. have tim pawlenty call me a career politician is humerus. he's been -- humorous. he's been doing this for 30 years. what's happening in minnesota is similar to what's happening all over the country. we have one candidate who is the

establishment, backed by the political class, by the big money guys, which is tim and another candidate who is backed by the grass roots conservatives in the state who are looking for something different, who are looking for fundamental change, who will come in and blow up the status quo. we're seeing the same race in minnesota now. elizabeth: it's a bell weather state and towing the party line. he's a career politician and he was the governor. it is a bell weather state. he was a popular governor. he was aiming for the presidency in 2012. will he be able to get that popularity that he had over two terms? >> i don't know. he left office in the popularity of the 40s. when he left he was somewhere around where we're seeing donald trump now. since then, he's gone off to run for president. he has trashed on donald trump right before the election and skipped the endorsement process

and essentially thumbed his nose at all of the grass roots republicans who supported him 16 years ago when he ran. elizabeth: you brought up the president there. >> i think it will be problematic. elizabeth: the president has not weighed in on this particular race. we had a radio talk show host who said the president's popularity in your state has gone up since the election. is that who you're trying to get to vote for you? >> well, yeah, i actually -- i need every part of the republican party. right now, i think we've pulled together a coalition of the grass roots, which includes a lot of the new people that donald trump brought out. i was actually up in duluth and fargo for the donald trump rallies and shook probably 12,000 hands of people before the doors opened. those are the folks who are going to decide this election in minnesota. elizabeth: that being said, the former governor pawlenty entered the race late, he entered in april. but he is -- the fund raising

games are epic, if i'm not mistaken it's a ten to one fund raising advantage. how are you taking that on right now, especially with such a short time period ahead of voting day? >> it's not ten to one, it's maybe five to one. he's spent over $1 million on this primary. i was the candidate four years ago against a popular incumbent and i raised a little over $2 million in a few weeks after a very difficult primary. so tim's big money will come early. he's got a lot of wealthy friends. my big money will come after next tuesday. but it will be there. we have spending limits in minnesota. you can only spend a little over $4 million in the race anyway. i'm not concerned at all about getting there. elizabeth: who's better to take on the democratic party? you or the former governor? >> well, i believe i'm a much stronger candidate in november for a couple reasons. number one, i will have a very energized, united republican base behind me, every faction of

the party. if tim's candidate we'll be bitterly divided. if i'm the candidate, this is going to be an election about my vision for the future versus the democrats' and i think we've got a great shot of winning that. if tim's our candidate, this will be a referendum on tim pawlenty, his eight years as governor, his presidential run, his comments about trump, his lobbying, that's harder to win. elizabeth: the implications are huge, when we talk about what's going on in your state, idea epidemic -- opioid epidemic. it's huge. thank you for joining us. leland: the nfl still debating its policy as players continue to kneel during the national anthem. president trump doubling down on his demands. we'll tell you what he's calling for coming up.

leland: as nfl preseason games continue this weekend, the kneeling of players during the national anthem continues and the league says they still don't have a firm policy on it. president trump continues his demands that players either stand respectfully or face serious consequences. matt engle, fort columnist --

sports columnist joining us from santa barbara, california, where the cowboys are out for their preseason. matt, you were at the game with the 49ers when the 49ers were kneeling there in protest, some of them were. how is the reception to that? how does it compare to how the cowboys are acting? >> reporter: i think it kind of depends on where you are and which part of the country. san francisco, obviously a liberal stronghold, it's okay. with the dallas cowboys owned by jerry re-jones, that's -- jerry jones, that's a no fly zone. they're not going to kneel. he's made it clear to his players that they will stand at attention for the national anthem, no ifs, ands or butts bs about it. leland: the nfl says they're trying to figure out the policy, as least the way you describe it, mr. jones has made it clear that his sideline is a no kneeling zone. how does he do that and can he

enforce that rule? >> well, he is. i think oni think it's oneof thn look at his employees and say you're going to stand and they'll say okay, i guess we're going to stand, even if necessarily that isn't what they want to do some owners, particularly atlanta falcons' owner, the new york giants, has condoned and totally endorsed players who want to go on their own and take a knee during the national anthem in row protest. it depends on what team it is and where it's located and what that particular owner thinks and clearly what we've seen is not everybody in the nfl within those offices is on the same page just yet. leland: here's the list of teams that so far have had protests this year. the eagles, dolphins, jaguars, 49ers, seahawks, and ravens as well. have you heard now and gotten to the point where it seems as

though fans are starting to walk away from the and over the year two of the kneeling controversy? >> certainly hurt it. certainly hurt it. i get a lot of action on social media and e-mails from fans who are walking away. leland: as you talk to front offices around the country, are they worried about it? have the owners start todd be concerned about this. >> they know they're potentially aliealien ating their fan base. this isn't necessarily the patriotism. this is about capitalism and wanting to ensure their fan base has every reason and every desire to come back and watch the game. leland: as you talk to players, are they worried at some point that there is going to be a backlash from owners that is both swift and severe, you kneel, one time there's a fine, the next time you're gone? >> absolutely, they're worried

about it. all you have to do is look at colin kaepernick and eric reed. they can't get jobs because of the league, who said you know what, maybe this is the reason why you're here but they implied it because they can't get jobs because of their stance in regard to this issue. leland: matt, it's a little cooler in santa barbara. enjoy the few days before you head back to texas. all the best. >> thank you very much. leland: great seeing you. we've got about 15 seconds left. big news on the other side of the break about that plane crash out in seattle. elizabeth: we have more news at the top of the hour from new york. thank you so much for joining us. we'll see you tomorrow, 1:00 p.m. leland: there you go.

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>> fox news alert on a fiery crash near seattle an airline employee taking off in empty airplane with military jets quickly scrambtology intercept the aircraft. we are waiting update from officials said to start in just a bit. hi, everybody, welcome to america's news headquarters i mean eboni williams. >> the plane seemed doing stunt in the air, the authorities describing the man behind controls as suicidal. investigators now trying to find out how all of this happened, we have fox team coverage with ellison barber in washington,

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