arthel: we begin with the fox news alert. authorities nothing the airline employee who stole a plane and took off without authorization from seattle tacoma international airport was cleared to be among aircraft. the man who is not a pilot, believed to be the only person on board, flying erratically before crashing into a small island. now the dramatic incident is raising new concerns about security.hello everyone welcome to a brand new our inside "americas news headquarters" and my partner is back! still good to have you with us. i am eric shawn. team coverage on this very disturbing, chilling and

heartbreaking situation. ellison barber is in washington following the response and federal officials and the white house. less big with jeff paul on the ground in seattle with the very latest. what is the latest on the situation on the suspect that apparently killed himself behind the controls of the stolen airplane? reporter: i want to give a little bit of a better idea what it is like at our location. we are in washington, behind us is the entrance to the ferry. that is we have to take over to get to the site. now authorities say it is sparsely populated island with very few people and they do not believe anybody on the ground was hurt. during the plane crash. we are also learning more about how, a little more about the man that stole the plane. authorities say is with the airline for more than three years and passed all extensive

background checks. the fbi tells us he was allowed to be in the security area and they do not believe any security safeguards were compromised. they say would not be out of the norm for a ground worker like this man to be around planes in the secured areas. >> aviation in america, the doors of the airplanes are not like a car with keys. there is not ignition key like there would be on a car. this set up in aviation is the airfield then we have the mindset is we have employees that are credentialed and authorized to be there to operate. to do their various job responsibilities. reporter: the port authority say they do not understand right now is how this man was not only able to get in the plane and take off but how he was able to fly, move around the air and pull off some of the dangerous stunts as long as he did. he was in the air for more than an hour. eric: a lot of questions about security, the fact that he had access and to get on the tarmac even though he had access and a plan like that. without anyone stopping him. any word on his motive? clearly he seemed disturbed in

the audio. reporter: the fbi warned us and said it really is super early in the investigation, less than 24 hours away from this but if you listen to some of the recordings that were captured between air traffic control and this employee it gets a little insight into his mindset. at one point he told the air traffic controller that he is a broken man with a few screws loose. but the air traffic controller stays calm throughout this trying to get the man to land safely. >> there is the runway just off your right side in about a mile do you see that? it is the field. >> man, those guys -- >> we're just trying to find a place for you to land safely. reporter: our local affiliate here in seattle says that they have confirmed the identity of the employee through the local law enforcement sources say

that the man's name is richard russell. the fbi though right now is not confirming anything. eric: we will have a lot more on richard russell, the apparent suspect. meanwhile it is also -- arthel: phenomenal drop your new reaction washington d.c., to the stolen plane crash. and how this employee was able to take off from the airport. ellison barber is live in washington with that part of the story. reporter: the white house says the president was briefed on this this morning and air monitoring has become available. federal agencies have been involved in this from the very beginning.the department of defense sending norad fighters to intercept the plane. the fbi, faa and ntsb. >> the ntsb is supporting the fbi in the investigation.

i think we all know that this is a stolen aircraft, criminal act. ntsb 's role is supporting, not actually controlling the investigation. we are all going out there shortly and start doing some pre-luminary documentation of the wreckage. one of the things we will be looking for is the flight data recorders. then also recovery of the remains. reporter: this plane crashed in the county. the person that stole the plaintiffs from there as well. the congressman that represents a portion of the county, the eastern portion, he is also a former sheriff in washington state. and he told fox news that there are still a lot of questions to be answered but at this moment, we face feelings of gratitude that there was no further loss of life and sadness for the family of the individual involved. he then went on to say the event brings to light, concerns

over mental health checks and security at our airports. all of this must be addressed. investigators of course will try to figure out the motive here, based on what they've seen so far, the fbi says they do not believe it was a terrorist threat and do not believe the need to worry about any additional criminal activity related to it. a former dhs officials say at this point mental health seems to be the primary issue. >> they do go through a level of background checks. at a certain point, how do know that the fella, the day he will try to take out the plane? the more money we can shift to mental health and background checks the better off we will be. reporter: be reached out to tsa to see if they were role he appears so far we have not heard back. arthel: thank you, ellison barber. eric: right now president trump is meeting with members of the group, bikers for trump. it is happening at his estate in bedminster today. as a presence into a series of

tweets. we live with the latest. reporter: the event just wrapping up a short time ago. about 180 bikers for trump gathering at the bedminster golf club for a photo op this afternoon. some handshakes and smiles. a lot of laughter, a very relaxed atmosphere with the bikers and the president this afternoon. they were brought inside because of the heavy rain coming down outside. they were in the ballroom for a while as well. then the press pool asked the president about omarosa. of course, she was famously hired and fired by the reality show, the apprentice and then hired back again. then she was hired and fired at a job at the white house. then shown the door by the chief of staff, john kelly. she has a book coming out next week called unhinged way she makes some extensive allegations against the president. he was asked about that during this afternoon. this is what was said. >> is already like the press? >> no! >> do you think the media is

fair? >> no! >> not at all! >> tell the truth! >> i better not go there. [laughter] i better not go any further. a lowlife, she is a lowlife. reporter: sarah huckabee sanders released a statement about the book. she says omarosa was said and disgruntled and said that the book is riddled with lies and false accusations. eric: probably hear a lot more about that this repair meanwhile the president was active on twitter this morning. going after the fbi. what is he saying? >> also about the robert mueller probe and the 2016 opponent hillary clinton and his own appointment of the attorney general, jeff sessions. the president tweeted earlier today, the big story the bit fake news media refuses to

report is -- and his beautiful wife, nellie. they hired steel to write that dossier paid for by quicken hillary and the dnc. he goes on in a second tweet to say, you believe nellie worked for fusion and her husband still works for the department of justice with justice and quotation marks. i've never seen anything so rigged in my life. our ag is scared stiff and missing in action. it is starting to be revealed, not pretty. the ig report soon, witch hunt. no reaction so far from jeff sessions. the present has one more full day of vacation before he goes north to fort drum on monday and then back to the white house monday night. eric: thank you. arthel: thank you. new york republican congressman chris collins suspending his reelection campaign.pending his indictment on insider

trading charges. the move setting up a scramble for the gop which is now working to legally remove collins from the november ballot and replaced him with another candidate. collins issuing a statement today saying quote - democrats are laser focused on taking back the house. electing nancy pelosi, speaker and then launching impeachment proceedings against president trump.after extensive discussions i've decided it's in the best interest of the constituents of ny 27, the republican party and the president's agenda for me to suspend my campaign for reelection to congress. speedwell meanwhile nasa 's groundbreaking mission and why it ended up being a no go. and approaching one year since the white supremacist rally

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it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. arthel: special counsel, robert mueller stopped the investigation is putting the heat on longtime trump advisor, roger stone. while the president's legal team rejects robert miller's conditions for an interview with the president. gillian turner has the latest from washington. reporter: the present took to twitter this morning to comment in the ongoing robert mueller probe. first ask why the fbi is not handing over andrew mccabe 's text messages to government authorities and then asking whether the fbi will ever regain is quote - stellar reputation. this is andrew miller, former -- during the campaign was held

in contempt for defining a subpoena to testify in court earlier this month. meanwhile, cross the river in alexandria virginia, a fraud trial.paul manafort rolled into his ninth day. democrats tying this back to the president himself. >> as far as this and there is no honor among thieves, right? you don't know who to believe. you don't know if you can believe the president, rick gates, paul manafort, stone. don't know that you can believe any of them. this is one of those things where we have to trust the jury system and see what comes out of it. >> a try get off to a late start essay by nearly 5 hours. today is still unclear as to why. because i don't know what the delay is about. but the robert mueller team has taken hits this week there is no doubt. the big star witness, rick gates, really got beaten up a little bit. >> we know the presiding judge received a motion for the team at which they complained about a comment that ellis made suggestion that the lawyer should stop asking about loans,

paul manafort had been to light. no clarification from judge ellis as he resumed proceedings once it was done by calling for the governments next witness. as a result the team was not able to rest their case yesterday as they planned to do. next up in the trial, one or two more government witnesses and then closing arguments. which judge ellis has already strictly limited to two hours each. maximum. in washington, gillian turner, fox news. arthel: thank you. eric: meanwhile, the former white house prosecutor, sean spicer is weighing in on whether the president's legal team would allow him to sit down with a special counsel, robert mueller.and whether or not the president would even listen to his lawyers advice. >> is not a question of i think everyone watching the last two years, he did not tell the president what to do. [laughter] he does what he wants to do. and i think that he needs, the lawyers need, it's clear the president wants to do this. >> he tends to do what he wants to do so how does this play off in the midterms? we are joined by the tree of congressional correspondent for

the washington examiner. between all of the issues, this is on robert miller's timetable. you think it will continue to loom over the upcoming midterms? >> is a great question. i know the trump administration wants them to wrap it up. you heard rudy giuliani. but we have heard nothing of the sort from robert mueller. he is not making any promises about finishing the or outside of his own timeline. don't know when that is. already, we're getting into september now, it is obvious but they'll have to wrap up the paul manafort trial. that is going on and then this fight over whether or not the president will actually sit down and speak with robert mueller. you're looking at the very earliest, september for this to wrap up. it will be really an optimistic prediction. if this is going to go into the midterm elections, the year people question whether it is even appropriate.

because it is it within the 60 day window should they be really doing any kind of active investigation that close to an election? it will be a fight over that. but yes, this is definitely going to at least be on the minds of voters i think into the elections. because we already just a couple of months out. eric: we so what happened with james comey in terms of the justice department coming with the press conference. but clearly, can mueller team continue the legal maneuvers and pressing cases without having any type of press conference? they've not had that for just the coverage. they have a battle over miller. then going after potentially roger stone.calling on rogers stone associate who they claimed was a back town to wikileaks. it is going on and on. clearly past the november election day. perhaps into next year. >> we have no idea. i think the real question is, i think if you read the president's tweets it keeps bringing this up again and again. where is the collision?

the trial for paul manafort is not about the conspiracy issue with working with the russians ahead of the presidential election. and the president brings up point up again and again. he says what this is an unfair witchhunt because is no evidence i've done anything wrong. so he kind of has his own way of communicating with people through twitter to try and counter the whole investigation and its legitimacy. also as you point out with the earlier tweets, bring out the inherent bias that may have been going on in the fbi with various people working on the investigation. he keeps bringing that up to twitter. which will help his cause but i think the big question is what impact will it have on people who either show up at the polls to vote or decide not to show up at all during the midterm elections. will this way on their minds? will they be just utterly confused about what exactly the investigation is about? i bet if you ask people they will give you various answers depending whether not they

support the president or not. eric: what is your sense of what people think? if they came back and clear the president then of course, it would work potentially against democrats. but you have this looming over the whole midterms. you still have the democrats able to campaign on this and the question of quote - russian collision even though the president has united there was any. >> i think it works both ways because a democratic base will say we've got to get out and vote and defeat this president that won the election by including the russians. then you have the donald trump basis is as a witchhunt and they're trying to draw the person duly elected that we voted for. we have to get out there and so, you have everyone in their camps sticking to their feelings on it. i'm wondering about the people in the gray area who may decide the election. will they stay home and say i don't know, i lost my enthusiasm for the president. it confuses me. was he involved? and so you wonder about that. i think the biggest problem for the president really, aside from the investigation is the

way the noise from all of this and the constant coverage, completely overshadows in some sense, all the compliments on the economy, all the accompaniments on job growth, the tax reform, things i have done to rollback regulations and undo parts of the healthcare law. all of these things he has managed to pull off during his very short time in office. how can we talk about that without talking about this? eric: that's a good point because you've an issue potential collision or conspiracy and the people read about the trump tower meeting with a foreign government lawyer, and this sort of thing. some say is proof of conspiracy. and right there you're not supposed to getting anything of substance or value from a foreign government during an election. but at the same time, this does as you say, overshadows some of the policy objectives and achievements. >> it really hands went to the democrats because they don't want to talk about those achievements. because it hurts their own

agenda which is kind of missing any substance and most people argue that. they are, they are running against republicans and against the president and not for anything. the president and republicans have a lot to promote. a lot to tout into the election. it does get drowned out and the noise is really covering up all of their accomplishments. it is never good head of an election because it can kill enthusiasm and it is really the thing that drives victories in a midterm election. eric: we have seen an increase in democratic enthusiasm with the last results. susan, good to see you. >> thank you. eric: we are much more this tomorrow. rudy giuliani goes on with howard kurtz on "mediabuzz" at 11 eastern tomorrow morning. rudy giuliani and howard. two new yorkers. how about that? later in the day, kellyanne conway will sit down, and martha sitting in for chris wallace on "fox news sunday".

you can watch it here in the fox news channel to pm and 7 pm both eastern times. should be two fascinating interviews tomorrow. arthel: firefighters in california finally gaining ground on the deadly wildfires up north and working around the clock to contain a wildfire in the southern part of the state. the mendocino complex fire in northern california. the largest ever recorded in the state nut 60 percent contained. the two week old car fire that killed six people and burned more than a thousand homes up north now 51 percent contained. the crew say it keeps growing for the south near los angeles, the holy fire is 29 percent contained and covers nearly 33 square miles. eric: and a nasa launch has been delayed thanks to last necklace.we will tell you how they will try to get back into the sky to potentially touch the son.

a lot more the breaking news story out of seattle. and an apparent suicide of a horizon airline employee that still in atr from the airport. raising russians of security at airports on the ground. how easy was it for them to climb in, taxi off the tarmac, take off and fly around for more than an hour? an aviation expert will join us on this straight ahead on this saturday afternoon on the fox news channel. managing blood sugar is not a marathon. it's a series of smart choices. and when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna

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declaring a state of emergency this weekend. as were about to hit one year since the deadly white supremacist rally occurred in charlottesville virginia and shocked the nation. today head of security is running in place for any signs of trouble all over the weekend. doug mckelway is live a control spell with the latest of what's happening on the ground.we are seeing an arrest there in the video. any signs of any angry protesters or trouble today?

reporter: none at all, absolutely none at all! we have seen no white supremacist it's unfair to say some of them have perhaps gone under cover or incognito. perhaps some have gone to washington for tomorrow's big rally. we also see note evidence of open carry. virginia is an open carry state. you can have a arm on your side in plain view in -- in the height of the tension through real fear into this community because you saw a lot of the white supremacists who were openly banishing their weapons. only one was used on the occasion. the guy who fired into the ground when he was approached by someone with an impromptu blowtorch and an aerosol can and from his face. created real fear year ago. we have seen none of that this year. we did see some people here today that entered the pedestrian mall where we now

stand through the police checkpoint. everybody has to go through. their belongings were checked just like everyone else's belongings were checked.the biggest change we've seen this year is a massive police presence. the governor of virginia created a state of emergency earlier in the week which allowed him to budget up to $2 million dollars for fostering police presence. there are quite literally hundreds of people. only three arrests thus far today. one for disorderly conduct another for two cases of trespassing and and other for public drunkenness. a lot of people appreciate that stepped-up police presence in some say it's a bit excessive. >> you had a few hundred idiots come down here from charlottesville and also 60,000 charlottesville residents come down here to listen to them and give them the podium that they were asking for. that is utter stupidity. >> it seems to me like this is

maybe a bit over the top for what we need down here. >> think the police can win either way. it's kind of a lose lose for them.don't you think? reporter: we are expecting another gathering tonight. uva students, a group for social justice will have a rally on the campus green. the campus lawn which was a site of a tiki torch protest they said they want to take back the lawn for my supremacists. not that there in here. eric: it could be a big event of course. outside of the white house tomorrow. meanwhile, an independent review of how police handled what happened last year. what is the latest on that review and its findings? reporter: this is a remarkable review that was done this past winter. it should be required reading for anyone going into the executive levels of law enforcement.

it was compiled by former u.s. attorney by the name of timothy -- 220 pages of exhaustive condemnation of the conduct of the city of charlottesville police department. a special condemnations held out for the chief of police, then chief of police, thomas who basically allowed the fighting and such to happen so he could declare an unlawful assembly. it also says he tried to silence criticism within his own police department to present a rosy picture. he also deleted a lot of text messages that investigators are trying to find out what really happened last year. he is now long gone as is the city manager and the mayor of charlottesville. back to you. eric: thank you so much. arthel: bachtower top string appeared federal investigators in seattle , looking into how an airline employee was able to steal an empty plane and fly it for one hour before crashing into a small island. the man was not a pilot but a ground service agent, deicing

planes and directing aircraft for takeoff and gait approach. investigators say, it is not so unusual for a ground worker to be around planes and secured areas. >> they don't necessarily use a key. so there are switches that they use to start the aircraft. so if the person has a basic understanding from what i understand, he was support personnel. they probably do have at least a basic understanding on how to start the aircraft. arthel: for more on this our next guest is an aviation analyst, mike boyd. present avoid group international. nice to have you here, mike for this. you have a ground service agent in an aircraft. they said he had some sort of a

key or something. what did he need to start the plan, how did it happen?>> there's more to it to this. you don't just get in the airplane get a couple of switches hit, take off, there's a lot more to this. the ntsb person did not make a lot of sense. there's more to this than just that. you cannot fly the airplane that way. you need to know a lot more than was being led on. again it's an inside job, i do know we can do about that but to make the accusation, anyone can get one of these airplanes in flight it is sheer nonsense. arthel: and you feel for what you can tell it seems i can i inside job. what rules, regulations and safety measures will or should be changed or re-examined after this? not just here but other airports as well? >> and i think that there was a failure of security on the part of horizon or alaska it's this is a trusted employee.

probably they would never dream would be able to fly an airplane. there's not a failure there are in thing we can do in terms of faking the situation where airlines insist upon hiring humans to do these things. and humans do funny things. but i do not think in the future, right now, when i was an american airlines, one of the rules was don't fly the airplane without permission. i think that's the same thing here. you have to be very careful. arthel: the fbi is leading the investigation, ntsb and faa are on board. among a long list of tasks, they're talking to dozens of personnel and people at the crash site. what questions will they be asking? >> what about this guy? was he weird on the job? was he not weird on the job? what were his hobbies? he had to have ability to know how to move the airplane into the sky. there's more than just switches. they have to find out what is his background and i guess try to figure out are there more

people like that out there in the future and how to identify them? arthel: when you ask the questions, ultimately, will there be someone or a group of people responsible you know, see something, say something. was he acting strangely? he did not just show up to work one day and say, i'm going to hotwire this plane and take off. >> no, agreed. the thing is though, if he was a ramp agent, i was once also. if you are ramp agent you would not dream of this guy getting on an airplane and flying it away. unless he tells people. maybe he did. i think what they will try to do is find out, is there behavior we could have identified ahead of time? they might not have been. arthel: are we to show a picture of the plane again. again, it is a turboprop bombardier horizon q 400 aircraft. not an easy plane i figure, no plan is easy to fly. the guy did appeared he was a ground service agent. he had a car key to get to the

authorized area. he is authorized to be on the security side of things. however, you believe at this point from when you can tell your analysis that this is some sort of inside job. he did not know if he was working with someone, it goes to some of the questions that will be needed to answer. with that in mind, does this incident open the door for a broader security concerns on your part? >> i do not think so. when i say it was an inside job it was an employee. it was a normal working employee in there that work with airplanes. i think it is one of those things that horizon alaska never could have anticipated. nobody could have. i think what we want to look at is, were there signs of this person going crazy that we might find in other people? maybe that is it. but if you're looking for a smoking gun, there is none.

arthel: understand. lots of questions still lingering. mike boyd, we appreciate your analysis this afternoon.we will talk to you again, sir. thank you. >> thank you. eric: a technical problem has delayed the nasa mission to the simpler today's launch countdown was halted about two minutes remaining in the countdown at cape canaveral. they plan to try again to launch tomorrow. saying they should be able to quickly resolve a helium pressure issue. the parker solar pro bowl orbit within 4 million miles of the sons surface and its $1.5 billion mission to investigate more about the solar system. arthel: wow! the intense search continues for a missing university of iowa student. our live report from her hometown coming up just ahead. and british ambassador to the united nations, is here on the latest on iran firing a ballistic missile in the first time in a year. what's up with that?

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a ballistic missile for the first time in more than one year. happy last week just days before the trumpet mr. cheri imposed sanctions against tehran. they'd been left in under the 2015 iranian nuclear deal. what does this mean and can international diplomats eventually bring tehran to a more moderate course? we have karen pierce with us the representative of the united kingdom, and united nations for this month of august also the president of the united nations security council. ambassador, congratulations. named by the queen, congratulations on that.good to see. >> thank you very much. >> the missile launches clearly come in response to the president's opposition to the iranian nuclear deal.

do you think it is provocative or potentially what does it mean? >> thing is the iranians showing there still people to be reckoned with. although there hasn't been a lunch for about a year, actually in 2016 and 2017, the iranians had a pattern of launches but i think it is all part of showing they still remain and influence in the part of the world. eric: someone say it's a violation of 2231 which calls on a man not to directly related to ballistic missile to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons. d.c. that is a violation or what is the process to indeed hold iran accountable for this? >> some people, not us. some would say they call on illegal and binding as he should not fire the missiles but i think the security council is clear they did not want iran to do this. what normal happens in these cases of violations, if the security council get together and discusses they process

these reviews, sanctions committees, and then decides whether or not to put forward proposals for more sanctions. d.c. any action on this this coming week? >> weird to see what else happens and some suggest it may be part of a radiant exercise. while condemning it, and the risk it poses, i think that we want to see exactly what happens next. i think it is worth bearing in mind they do not have an air force they rely missiles to form self-defense. i think the key question is could she claim this as self-defense? i think that is the big problem. eric: that is what tehran has been saying. meanwhile nuclear deal, your government france and germany are clearly at odds with the u.s. position on that. what would you say to supporters of the president and critics of the deal who say that it is a bad deal and it gives iran a clear path to a nuclear weapon in 12 years or so. >> we believe that it is

important deal for nonproliferation purposes, stopping countries exchanging nuclear material and programs. it has stopped iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. and we believe that has been variable. we actually share the u.s. administration desire to contest iranian destabilizing behavior in the region and we work with them very closely on that. we believe the french and germans believe that it is easier to deal with iran with the stopping them from getting a nuclear weapon. eric: do you think it can be modified and changed anyway at all? it is bureaucratic regime, bent on this radicalization. how can or can the international community do you think in any way, modify the regime? you see it as the president -- what realistically do you think

can be done? >> we have tried to discuss with iran, a different pattern of behavior in someplace like yemen. we have tried to discuss with iran, different patterns of behavior and syria. it is open for iran to come back to the diplomatic table and work with the united nations and others for more constructive outcomes and political agreements in these places. so far she has not taken that route. as i say, we agree with the trump administration but we need to get the pressure up. but i would say after 9/11, we actually work closely with iran on counterterrorism. so it can be done. but i think it depends on the will of the iranian government. i think it also depends on the relative strength of the moderates versus the hardliners in the iranian government. eric: have their own internal hard languages moderate type of behavior. before they go, you're the president of the security council for the month of august.what does that mean? what type of responsibilities

are there and because it rotates among the members. >> that's right. it changes every month and next month it will go to the united states. we sit in the security council, it means that you share the council meetings and you set the agenda. you bring issues forward and you have the right of initiative to make proposals. it is your job to try and make the council do good work in the month you are there. actually get agreements, move issues forward. we have something on yemen, the other day we had something on yemen. we were able to proclaim support for the special envoy. they call for peace talks in geneva on september 6. as president we were able to render support for that. we have a meeting coming up later in the month on international terrorism.and the effects of that on international people security. we try and put on the agenda, issues that are really critical for international peace and security. eric: those are the serious issues that we all face.

terrorism, war and violence in all of these other issues. ambassador, good to see you. thank you for coming in. on a saturday, you work all the time! >> we work all the time. eric: karen pierce, thank you. >> thank you. eric: iran is likely to come up -- the guest on fox news sunday tomorrow will be talking, 10:00 and 7 pm eastern time, it will be on the fox news channel. he more about iran, yemen and other issues in the coming months. arthel: the search continues for university of iowa student. more than three weeks now missing. our live report from the search scene is coming up next. delicious boost® high protein nuritional drink now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals boost® high protein. be up for life.

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continues in iowa for missing college student. the reward fund offered for the return of molly tibbets has now grown to more than $300,000. $330,000. from the university of iowa student she was last seen jogging her hometown on july 18. matt finn is live in brooklyn, iowa with the latest. reporter: the $330,000 reward

is the largest reward for crimestoppers in iowa state history. crimestoppers tells us they've now taken a 935 tips. a federal investigator on the ground here tells fox news it is taking all of the tips and all of the leads seriously. we are now in her hometown of brooklyn, iowa she was last seen on july 18. not far from here in des moines, iowa, right now the iowa state fair is going on. an attraction that brings in an annual a million people. molly's father and boyfriend went to the fair to continue to raise awareness for molly. they handed out flyers and buttons and did interviews. they were hoping to run into someone who might have some information. here is molly's father. >> it is where all people from iowa come together once a year. i cannot think of a better more crowded venue. to get people to think about where molly is and how we get her back.

reporter: molly's father said he handed out 1000 flyers and today, despite all the efforts from the family, investigators, their have no suspects named publicly and no arrests in the mystery. arthel: matt finn, thank you for that update. eric: a lot of questions over airport security and investigators are looking into exactly how an airline employee stole an atr, fluid around for an hour and then crashed. we are more covered on the bizarre, strange and chilling tale right here on the fox news channel.

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welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. voters if five states headed to the polls this week and some razor thin results have caused debate in the republican party on what role president trump should play in the midterm campaign. the president declared victory on twitter this week, boasting he was five for five with candidates he endorsed in tuesday's races, narrow margins in a special election in ohio and in the gubernatorial primary in kansas are causing some to raise questions about his claim that a giant red wave is coming this november. let's bring in "wall street journal" columnist and editor

dan henninger. and editorial board member alicia finley. dan, after you look at tuesday's results, how much trouble is the republican party in in november? >> i would say the republican party is indeed in trouble, paul. look, the baseline is that ohio 12 race where troy balderson seems to have won by less than 1% against the democrat, look, on a scale of >> >> >> arthel, we are learning this man didn't have a pilot's

license. he he ended up crashing that plane in the puget sound. authorities say thankfully no one on the ground was hurt. authorities say it was early on in the investigation and don't have 100% clarity on his motive. if you listen to some of the recordings on the conversations between air traffic controllers and the man, it does give us insight into what he was thinking. take a listen. >> 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. just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, i guess, never really knew it till now. >> now what is incredible is the demeanor of those air traffic controllers. if you listen to some more of those tapes, you can hear those air traffic controllers extremely calm, just trying to

tell the guy how to possibly land the plane, maybe a location where he can land that plane the entire time just trying to get him to bring that plane down in a safe manner. arthel? arthel: that controller was really really grace under fire, for sure. again, jeff, everybody is asking how was he able to pull this off? >> yeah, that is the main question. this is a huge airport in the seattle area here in washington. and authorities telling us that this is till very early on in the investigation. we're less than 24 hours in. we do know this man had clearance to be in and around planes. they say that they don't believe any security safeguards were compromised. he was a ground crewmember, which means he helped guide planes on the ground, unload cargo, and it wasn't out of the ordinary for him to be around the aircrafts in secured areas. they said he underwent extensive

background checks. they say they don't know how he learned to fly a commercial plane. >> there were some maneuvers that were done that were incredible maneuvers with the aircraft. to our knowledge, he didn't have a pilot's license. so to be honest with you, i mean, commercial aircraft are complex machines. i don't know how he achieved the experience that he did. >> now when asked about how he got into the plane, even from the first get-go of this, authorities telling us that this isn't like driving a car, there's not a set of keys laying around. and while the doors are secured, they do latch and people can get into them. but again, totally different situation than driving a car. they stressed that to us today. arthel? arthel: i'm going to be talking to robert mark, a commercial pilot a little bit later in this newscast. i have a lot of questions for him. jeff paul, thank you very much for that update there. eric: federal agencies from the fbi to the ntsb also investigating this really

shocking incident. ellison barber now live in washington with what federal authorities are doing. hi, ellison. >> hey, eric, investigators have a tough task ahead of them. federal agencies are working together and they are also working with local law enforcement to try and figure out how this happened and why. here is a short version of the standard process on something like this -- when something like this possibly occurs from one former dhs official. >> first of all, what happens in these situations is all the entities tsa, local law enforcement, etc., will do what they call a hot wash. they will review in incident. they will look at all the things that happened. they will look for the holes and why this employee had access to the aircraft, and they will try to determine where the system had possibly broken down, and with that, they will be able to strengthen the system. >> experts say preventing this sort of thing is not easy, because in most cases, employees already undergo background checks. some officials say the issue here is not security. it's mental health.

>> i don't think there is a test out there that probably could have found this out, and if you get into this testing, it's a level of testing that's incredibly expensive. we're trying to find a needle in a haystack that's going to cost us millions of dollars, and we'll pass that on to the consumer to find somebody. i mean, i've always been of the opinion of there's an infinite way of people -- of ways that people can hurt us, but there's only a finite number of people that do that. so the more money we can shift into the mental health, the background checks, the better off we're going to be. >> a congressman a former sheriff in washington state, he represents a portion of pierce county, that's the county where the plane crashed and where the person allegedly behind the wheel is from, in a statement, the congressman told fox news, this brings to light concerns over mental health checks and security at our airports, things that in his words must be addressed, but right now the congressman says this is a moment of grief for the life

that was lost and gratitude that it wasn't a whole lot worse. eric? eric: all right, ellison, thank you very much. arthel? arthel: eric, there's new reaction to the indictment of congressman chris collins on insider trading charges as the three-term republican suspends his reelection campaign. congressman collins says he will continue to fight what he calls meritless charges while his democratic challenger is calling on him to resign. bryan llenas is live in our new york city newsroom to break this down. bryan? >> hi, arthel. look, just three days ago, republican congressman chris collins held a defiant press conference in his district just hours after he pled not guilty to charges of insider trading and lying to the fbi. he called the charges meritless, and he vowed to stay in the race and to work hard for his constituents. well, that all changed this morning, when he tweeted a letter explaining his decision to end his reelection campaign, quote, democrats are laser focused on taking back the

house, electing nancy pelosi speaker and then launching impeachment proceedings against president trump. i have decided that it is in the best interest of the constituents, the republican party and president trump's agenda for me to suspend my campaign for reelection to congress. he also said that he was innocent in this letter. his challenger democrat nate mcmurry had about $81,000 for his campaign. he says tens of thousands of dollars more have come in since the indictment was announced. in a statement, mcmurray said collins needs to do more. quote, it is a continuing disgrace that both parties have not said with one clear voice resign mr. collins and do it today. well, let me do it for them. mr. collins, suspension is one thing, but it is time for you to resign. do it today. mcmurray making the case collins and republicans are corrupt and they've betrayed the 27th district. arthel? arthel: so the question now,

bryan, is there a replacement candidate on board yet? >> yeah, not yet. the new york state republican party will ultimately have to choose, but some names that have popped up, include the erie county comptroller, and also the ceo and founder, and mayor of buffalo at one point, and ran for governor against democrat cuomo in new york. the 27th district in new york includes buffalo suburbs. it is regarded as probably the most republican district in the state. trump won by more than 25 points in 2016. arthel? arthel: bryan llenas, thanks, bryan. >> of course. eric: new questions are surrounding that mysterious pause in the paul manafort trial. the judge delayed testimony for five hours without any official explanation. prosecutors had to finish calling witnesses yesterday but now that's not to be.

jillian turner has more. >> president trump took to twitter this morning to comment on the mueller probe, first asking why the fbi isn't handing over mccabe's text messages to government authorities and then asking whether the fbi will ever regain its, quote, stellar reputation. this as andrew miller, former aide 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 the hearing back to president trump himself. >> look, there's no honor among thieves; right? you don't know who to believe. you don't know if you can believe president trump. you don't know if you can believe rick gates, paul manafort, stone, you don't know that you can believe any of them. this is one of those 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 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 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 lawyer should stop asking about loans. manafort had been denied. no clarification from judge ellis as he resumed proceedings once it was done by calling for the government's next witness. as a result, the mueller team wasn't able to rest their case yesterday as they had planned to do. 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 already strictly limited to two hours each, max, he says. in washington, gillian turner, fox news. arthel: this weekend marks one year since the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia. authorities seized prohibited items including brass knuckles as hundreds of people passed through security checkpoints leading to the city's downtown

today. president trump tweeting, the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. we must come together as a nation. i condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. peace to all americans. last year 32-year-old heather heyer was killed when white nationalists clashed with counterprotesters. two virginia state troopers monitoring the violence from the air also died when their helicopter crashed. eric: meanwhile, the spree of killings continue in chicago. and now there are new plans there to combat the carnage. efforts by police to try and take the streets back from the violent gangs. this after one of the bloodiest weekends in the windy city in years. plus the dates are set for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearings. will he get senate approval as some democrats continue to vow to fight his nomination. and california dealing with one of its worst wildfire seasons on

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what can you say? it makes you sick to your stomach. everything they've worked for all their life gone in a heart beat. >> it is devastating. it is really devastating to see, and so many people lost their homes, hit and a miss now. arthel: got to feel for those residents there in california reacting to the mendocino complex fire, now the largest in state history, torching more than 300,000 acres. and it's not the only one. there are 18 fires burning right now. 14,000 firefighters are battling them. and there have been at least 10 deaths. cal fire battalion chief jonathan cox joining me now on the phone. we're saying some 14,000 fighters, some of them, chief, are from 17 other states along with firefighters from australia

and new zealand, plus you have about 2,000 minimum security inmates battling at least 18 fires, want to point that out again. they are across the state. chief cox, tell us about the current strategy there on the ground and in the air. >> yeah, so right now our priorities are really focused on the areas where there are structure and lives that are immediately threatened. so we are putting structure protection in place and evacuating communities where the fire may be impacting. the good news is the last two days have proved very beneficial for us in the sense that the temperatures have been a little bit lower than we expected, and the biggest variable for us, the wind has been less than we expected. so some good containment lines have been put in, but we still have hundreds of miles of open line around some of these larger fires. arthel: and what do you do to try to combat those open lines you just referenced? >> yeah, so a lot of the areas were focused on the kind of more remote parts of a fire, are areas that are really literally

inaccessible. no roads or trails in there. so a lot of times we'll go ahead of it. sometimes we'll go 5, 7,000 acres ahead of it and build containment lines with bulldozers. we will use aircraft to make a really good check line, and then we will either let the fire burn to us or set a backfire to let the fires merge together. arthel: you mentioned that the wildfires are threatening over 16,000 homes. it has led to evacuation orders for nearly 25,000 residents. how can residents, chief, help you, and how can we help them? >> yeah, so i think there's two really important points right now in california. the first is, we're still in the middle of fire season. so we've got a lot of runway left ahead of us, as far as potential incidents still breaking out this summer. so our big plea to all californians right now is to just be hyper vigilant when they are outside, either in their vehicle, mowing their lawn, discarding a cigarette. it only takes one instance for

it to become a mega fire right now. the second thing we're asking for is when we send out a evacuation orders to local law enforcement offices, we don't do it as kind of an invitation. we do it really as a demand, it is for the public's interests and ours. we're most effective when the people are able to get out there and we can get in there. heeding those warnings is the most critical thing people can do. any time we have to perform rescues during those fires, it takes the resources from actually fighting the fire. arthel: very good point, sir. also you have six firefighting personnel who have lost their lives fighting these major fires. we of course are very sorry for your loss. how are the firefighters and the emergency crews in general holding up? >> yeah, thank you. you know, i won't sugar coat the fact that it's been a tough month for the fire service in general here. and i think, you know, we're out there on the lines right now not

only battling the fires and saving these communities, but also kind of reflecting internally and as crews as to, you know, how bad it is and wondering if it's going to get any worse. so we do take momentses and times and the opportunities to speak about our colleagues and to acknowledge them and kind of honor what they've put forward. and also we work in their honor, you know. the hard work we put in there is to really honor the sacrifices that they made, but at the end of the day, you know, firefighters are human as well, and it does take that kind of emotional mental toll. arthel: they are human as well. you are human as well. you have families who you are concerned about as well while you are trying to protect others and their families. we thank you very much sincerely for your efforts out there. chief cox, according to my information, you don't expect to have the california wildfires fully under control until at least september; is that still the case? >> yeah, that's the case. so, you know, because we have

such large areas right now that are burned, you know, over 600,000 acres in the last few weeks alone, there's hundreds of miles of fire line that we're going to have to staff and really protect against any additional wind that comes through. september is not out of the question. by all means we're not out of the woods yet. we still have a lot of fire season left and the conditions are unfortunately just a little bit too ripe right now for a large incident. arthel: yeah, because you have the wildfires combined covering almost more than 1,000 square miles. talk to us if you could about the difficult tasks after, i mean, not to jump ahead of the game, but just curious what happens after those fires are out, getting people back into the homes, those who do have homes to return to, restoring greenery, vegetation, wildlife, i mean efforts to restore the ecosystem or the natural order of things out there. >> yeah, that's a great question. the immediacy is to get the area staged for people to return to. that includes the getting

utilities back on line, getting the culverts fixed, making sure environmental health is okay for everybody. once people are allowed to reenter, then the actual kind of recovery process begins. and that's things such as how the debris gets removed and that's a lot of times the local oes and fema organizations get involved. then there's the environmental factors, and the watershed emergencies that comes from actually impacting these lands. although the immediacy of the kind of life, dangerous situation passes, there's a huge recovery in a lot of areas that takes a lot of coordination between local agencies, fire officials and recover organizations. arthel: chief jonathan cox battalion chief of cal fire, thank you. good luck to you and all residents of california. thank you very much, sir, and to your firefighters, thank you. >> thank you. eric: the firefighters need to be recognized. the some california farmers are

also worried about the effects of something else, that as the u.s. and china square off in a tariff fight. the biggest export to china happens to be pistachios. now china is slapping a 45% tariff on the nut, and several republican congressmen in the deep blue state are feeling the backlash. william la jeunesse has more. >> from california fields to beijing markets, a prolonged trade war hurts both. >> china represents over a billion dollars market -- >> china typically buys about 30% of the pecans grown in the united states. >> the big worry right now is what happens if we're in a prolonged dispute. >> at a recent california food expo, the trump trade war took center stage. china is the state's third largest export market. >> you name it, we grow it here. >> since april, china slapped new tariffs on 2 billion in california commodities. 45% on pistachios, 53% on grapes, 65% walnuts.

out of the thousands of products that china imports in the united states, why pistachios and almonds? well, one reason, pressure. while california voted for clinton, four of the five largest nut producing counties voted for trump, if they feel the pain, he feels the pressure. >> and some believe the chinese have specific targets in mind. >> look at congressional districts, what's grown in that district, and who the leadership is. >> which includes house majority leader kevin mccarthy from bakersfield and vulnerable central valley republicans. >> where they first attack is where they know that they are going to hear from the folks and california agriculture definitely is very vocal when it comes to these issues >> but trade policy from washington puts orchards like mark's at risk. >> the farm bureau joined the coalition farmers for free trade whose national ad campaign tries to balance support for the president while opposing his policies. >> we're very optimistic about the economy under president trump. however, we're very concerned about the trade policies from

washington. >> so right now farmers fear that if this goes on much longer, customers in china are going to soon begin sourcing from competitors. let's take wine. it is a lucrative emerging market for california, but vineyards here can not compete with australia, chile and new zealand which have agreements and 0 tariffs compared to 35% for california wine. in los angeles, william la jeunesse, fox news. arthel: thank you. a provocative move by iran. the rogue nation test-firing a ballistic missile as the first round of u.s. sanctions on tehran go back into effect. plus airport security under new scrutiny after an airline worker stole a plane and flew it for 90 minutes before crashing. how did this happen? we will talk to a commercial pilot. that's up next. ♪motorcycle revving

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arthel: security at the nation's airports under scrutiny after a fiery plane crash outside seattle. an airline worker stole an empty passenger plane and took off on a wild ride, that included loops in the air, with f-15 jets on its tail. this before crashing in an island in the puget sound, killing himself. alaska airline says it is working with investigators. >> safety is our number one goal. there's nothing more important to us. last night's event is going to push us to learn what we can from this tragedy so that we can ensure this does not happen again at alaska air group or at any other airline. arthel: robert mark is a commercial pilot and publisher. several questions for you, robert, let me start here, it's a turboprop aircraft.

how difficult is it to fly this plane, first of all, take off, keep it in the air for 90 minutes, not to mention do loops, how difficult is that? >> well, most people would have said it's not near as easy as it looks. but when i first saw some of the videos, i thought this person was probably a pilot or had some flying experience because they weren't doing too bad a job of some of the maneuvers they were doing, but then i watched one of them and he got pretty close to the water and i changed my mind. the person on the ground there at seattle that took the airplane must have had a fairly decent knowledge of the airplane because he had to get in there, turn on the electrical system, start the engines, set the flaps for take-off, complete the take-off, bring the landing gear up and everything. the guy had to know something. arthel: uh-huh. take us inside the scramble for airport control tower agents.

i mean, suddenly there's an unauthorized plane taking off. you have dozens of other commercial airline planes in the area, in the air there, on the tarm tarmac, how crazy might had it been in the airport control tower? >> i bet it was pretty interesting with one controller -- of course later in the evening there's not quite as many people up there as there are in the day shift. i'm sure one of them looked over and said did you forget to tell me about this fellow that's taking off on some particular runway? they looked at each other and went i'm not talking to that guy. they looked and the airplane went on its own. all they can do at that point is keep everybody else out of their way. the controllers did a really good job at that. arthel: phenomenal job just what we can hear in the tape recordings that we have been playing over the air. have you spoken to other pilots who were on the radar at that time?

>> no, i have not. as you mentioned, the audio is pretty much out there right now. and it's very interesting because it's almost as if you're listening to two different people. in one situation, the man sounds very almost a little calm, a little reluctant to be there. he's beating himself up a little bit about not being very good to his friends, and then he kind of turns on himself, and it's a very strange event. arthel: yeah, definitely bizarre for sure. you know, as a commercial pilot, what would you like to see happen in the wake of this incident? >> i think that's the million dollars question. i'm sure as in the clip you played a minute ago, the people at alaska air are asking that as will all the people at the other airlines. how in the world did this guy get on to this airplane, get it started, taxi out and take off with nobody noticing it and nobody getting in his way? i mean, obviously the man had an

identification badge that got him into the area where the aircraft parked. that would be normal. arthel: right. >> if you're a ramp person. but to just walk on the airplane, close the door, start the motors, and disappear with no one noticing? i think that's what they are going to really be focusing on. arthel: definitely. he's a ground -- he was a ground service agent. what is his job? how much interaction would he have with pilots like yourself? >> well, the ground service agent is usually the person when people, you know, land at an airport somewhere, they may see them. they're usually the people carrying the orange batons that are kind of directing the captain or the person steering how to get the airplane parked up to the ramp. and they also might work the de-icing equipment in the wintertime. but that's it. they don't normally have any real involvement with the flight

crew because there's really no need for them to have that. arthel: and robert, do you know that the tsa plans to lay off 9,000 of its 55,600 airport screeners nationwide by the end of next month, the idea is to increase the tsa budget and also to free up 2.3 billion dollars to help airlines cover their security costs. what can you tell us about the state of airline security, individual airline security? >> well, usually, from what i can say as someone that still travels a lot, it's usually pretty good. i mean, when we look at the number of weapons often loaded that the tsa confiscated from people that are trying to get on airliners every month, people would be absolutely amazed, especially at some of the responses they get from people that say oh, i'm sorry, i forgot i had that loaded 38 in my

briefcase. and things like that. and they catch a tremendous number of those people, which is wonderful, i think. arthel: yeah, robert mark, a commercial pilot and publisher. thank you very much for being with us. >> you are welcome. arthel: uh-huh. eric: meanwhile, there was a bold display of defiance in iran. the islamic republic test-firing a ballistic missile as the u.s. reimposes sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. in the last hour, here in america's news headquarters, british u.n. ambassador, the president of the security council this month, told us that the council diplomats are studying this latest provocation and again she reaffirmed her government support of the iranian nuclear agreement despite u.s. opposition. kitty logan has more on all this from london. >> hi, eric. when iran fired this test missile on friday, there are questions about the timing, whether this could be seen as an act of defiance in response to

the latest sanctions imposed on iran. this missile was launched during iranian drills. the test-firing happened within iranian waters. iran has confirmed it has been holding military exercises in that area over the past few days. it says these war games are intended to prepare for what it describes as possible threats. there was nothing to suggest the missile test was unusual within the context of these exercises. but just similar to those iran has held in the past, but it does raise questions about whether this was designed as a message perhaps to the u.s. iran is of course angered about the u.s. government's decision to pull out of the iran deal, which was agreed in 2015 and limits iran's nuclear activities. the government in tehran is also unhappy that washington decided to reimpose stiff economic sanctions earlier this week. and while these diplomatic

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nominee kavanaugh's confirmation hearings will begin on tuesday, september 4th. that of course the day after labor day. the washington post today reporting that opposition to his nomination is, quote, fizzling. reporting quote, moderate republican senators such as susan collins of maine the most closely watched g.o.p. swing vote are sending strong signals they will back kavanaugh. several democrats facing difficult reelections this year have indicated they are open to voting for the judge. so what are the odds he will be confirmed? the deputy editor at roll call is joining us now. it seems like a done deal despite democratic opposition. is that the betting on capitol hill? >> it would seem so, eric. i don't even really know if it can be classified as ferocious opposition because democrats are as you've noted a little bit divided on this. i mean, some of of the more liberal aspects of the party are arguing that this could jeopardize a lot of things that they hold dear, like the roe

versus wade ruling that legalized abortion in the country. as you noted there are a lot of senators in very republican states like heidi heitkamp in north dakota, joe manchin, west virginia, claire mccaskill in missouri and hearing from their constituents that they are not getting a clear signal that they want their senator to oppose him and they are running in very tight races. i mean, democrats are a little divided. i mean, that whole democrats divided kind of thing is sort of an old thing you hear a lot, but in this case it is not unified opposition, and even the minority leader chuck schumer from new york, he isn't really twisting arms in a manner that you would see in a full-court press. >> why do you think someone like a scrappy brooklyn guy like schumer isn't out there more when it comes to this nomination? >> as you noted in the story

from the washington post, from previous interview with minority leader, threats aren't really the way things work in the senate. it is a very delicate kind of balance. schumer knows that not all of his party feel necessarily like say cory booker in new jersey or bernie sanders, people who have been very up front about their opposition. and if he, you know, he is in the position even though democrats feel very good about their chances in the house, he's in a position where he could lose seats in the senate, which is not really a position that he wants to be in, in 2019. he has to let them kind of go their own way. eric: that's a fascinating tight rope that he's got to walk, if he wants to keep control of the senate. >> yeah. eric: we pointed out susan collins and lisa murkowski, two swing votes. 49 republican senators have indicated they will vote for the nomination. that leaves, you know, you have several democrats who potentially could. you know, joe manchin as you mentioned and heitkamp and joe donnelly, they voted for

gorsuch. but what about lisa murkowski and susan collins, what do you expect from them? >> we do know that they voted for brett kavanaugh's nomination to the d.c. circuit, the position that he currently holds on the circuit court of appeals. so i mean, if history is a guide, i mean, kavanaugh had a tough time getting to that point because of different, you know, sort of thicks that came up with his -- sort of things that came up with his nomination in the early, mid 2000s, but they did vote for him as a circuit court nominee. and collins and murkowski, you know, are not -- this seems a little different than other times that they have departed from the republican party line, like with the affordable care act debate last year. they both seem like they are not really drawing some firm lines that they are going to cross. and it would seem that this is -- i mean, this is a fairly easy vote, i think, even if you are an established republican because brett kavanaugh comes

from kind of the establishment wing of the republican party. eric: collins has voted for every nominee for a democrat and republican president. what about the senators that are in tough races? >> they are in tough races, claire mccaskill on a press call earlier this week, my colleague listened on the call. she says mccaskill was saying there's no real winning edge here. i mean i've got about half the people saying oppose. half the people say you know confirm and, you know, so for her, it is to probably come down to a personal decision, i would guess. she is in a very tight race. we've got her as a toss-up for roll call. tester might be in a different position. he opposed gorsuch. and he seems to have a little bit more of his own kind of brand going in montana. he's been willing to buck the

president more on these sort of topics. so it will be interesting to see. i wouldn't be surprised if mccaskill votes to confirm. i wouldn't be surprised if tester votes not to confirm. but i mean, again these are decisions that will be coming down the line. and the math is that kavanaugh is probably going to be confirmed. there's not much democrats can do. and so that puts the spotlight on those democrats in those tough races on whether they're going to confirm the inevitable, or whether they're going to sort of set in motion, you know, the opposition. eric: all right, jason, it appears it is almost done, hearings last three or four days the first week after we all get back from labor day. it should be interesting. as you say, it looks like it is almost a done deal. jason dick, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. eric: arthel? arthel: a new effort to stop gang violence on the streets of chicago. what police are planning to do and how the president is reacting. sometimes, bipolar i disorder

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arthel: we want to take you live to charlottesville virginia where university of virginia students are holding rally against the white supremacy in advance of the planned rally there tomorrow, a march there tomorrow in charlottesville. that is a big deal as all eyes are on charlottesville, one year ago tomorrow, the death of heather heyer who was there protesting against the white supremacists walking through the streets of charlottesville. eric: tomorrow there will be of course a rally by kessler and others, at the white house, we will be following that. meanwhile, nasa's mission to the sun was delayed about a day. the countdown for the parker solar probe halted with just 2 minutes remaining. nasa does plan to launch tomorrow in hopes to basically

try to find more about our solar system and the sun that provides so much for us. wonder what they will find out when they get there. arthel: we will be quite fascinated. jon scott is up next. thanks for joining us. eric: have a good night. jon: we are learning more about the theft of a passenger plane that caused a major scare over seattle. authorities identifying the now dead suspect as an employee of horizon air saying he had a security clearance, but no pilot's license. good evening. i'm jon scott. you are watching the fox report. this was the scene above seattle last night after police say a suicidal worker stole an empty turboprop aircraft and took off from the international airport. people on the ground watching in disbelief as the suspect took the airplane on an hour-long joyride, flying upside down and doing loops over puget sound, getting chased by fighter jets, before crashing on to a nearby island.