i think the question is if they can ever been minimally competent anymore. paul: thank you all. that's it for this week's show. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm pauwe hope to see you righte next week. arthel: president trump meeting with american pastor andrew brunson just one day after his release from detention in turkey. the pastor spent two years in captivity in turkey in jail and under house arrest. this could potentially ease tensions between the u.s. and turkey as another diplomatic dust-up is taking shape. the president is issuing concerns and warning of sorts to saudi arabia over the disappearance of a washington post columnist. hello, welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters many i'm arrest

they'll neville. eric: i'm eric shawn. the president hosted the pastor in the oval office. the heart-warming gathering of administration officials and the pastor's family occurred hours after the north carolina native landed in joint base andrews. the president reiterated that no deal was made with turkey to secure brunson's release. >> we've been negotiating long and hard. we do not pay ransom in this country. at least any longer. we won't pay ransom. otherwise you have big problems and lots of things will happen, lots of bad things will happen. eric: garrett teny is live at the white house with the latest. it was quite a moment as they prayed together and had a meeting of thanks and gratitude. >> reporter: this is the first time most folks had a chance to hear from pass ton brunson himself. what stood out to me were the repeated expressions of

gratitude from the pastor for the administration and for the turkish people. he was facing 35 years in prison for crimes he said he didn't commit. he said i love turkey and i love the turkish people. he went on to thank the president, members of the administration and lawmakers for helping secure his release. he told the president he prays for him often and asked if he could pray with him right there in the oval office. here's part of that prayer. >> lord, god, i ask that you pour out your holy spirit on president trump, that you give him supernatural wisdom to accomplish all the plans you have for this country and for him. i ask that you give him wisdom in how to lead the country into righteousness. >> reporter: the trump administration has been raging an aggressive pressure campaign against turkey over pastor brandon, including tariffs on a

number of turkish goods. those were a major blow to their already struggling economy. president trump stressed he didn't make any kind of deal or agree to any concessions in order to get brunson released. >> we were very tough on turkey and we'll take a look. there was absolutely no deal made. frankly, the only deal, if you could call it a deal, is a psychological one. we feel much different about turkey today than we did yesterday. and i think we have a chance of really becoming much closer to turkey, and maybe even having a very, very good relationship. >> reporter: on a separate note, the past hour john roberts confirmed that president trump chosen the news white house council, choosing pat sibiloni. eric: heather eric: thanks, so much. we consider all the important world leaders and facts and things that have gone on in the

oval office, that was quite a touching scene. arthel: there is new information on the disappearance of washington post columnist jamal kashok can i who disappeared after entering the saudi arabia consolate in turkey last week. officials have video and audio recordings of his alleged killings and a local newspaper claims his apple watch may have captured it all. president trump sending a stern warning to saudi arabia. >> there's a lot at stake and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. there's something really terrible and disgusting about that, if that were the case. we're going to have to see. we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. arthel: that was a preview of leslie stahl's interview with the president, coming up tomorrow. benjamin hall is live in turkey with the very latest.

>> reporter: hi, arres arthel. as we heard in the oval office a couple hours ago, both president trump and secretary pompeo saying they wanted to get all the facts before they made any decisiodecisions or before they approached any other countries about this. there is one thing that we do know, that is jamal kashoki walked into the saudi consolate in istanbul and hasn't been seen since. that was 12 days ago. the turkish authorities believe he was killed by a hit squad of 15 saudi agents who flew in that morning by private jet and left soon afterwards. among those 15 people there was a forensic expert and intelligence officers. again, the saudis deny all of this. in fact, today the saudi interior ministry released a statement saying what has been circulating are lies and baseless allegations against the government of the kingdom of saudi arabia. the turkish state media claims to have recordings from the

apple watch which he was wearing inside the consolate. they claim he recorded his own murder and apparently according to them it's graphic. however, there are questions now about whether or not the apple watch actually has the romeing g ability in turkey bluetooth connection would have been impossible. turkey claiming that saudi arabian agents used fingerprints to delete files but there's no finger print recognition on the apple watch. the waters are muddied here. remember, all the evidence comes from state controlled turkish media. they have released none of that to the public. president trump said he will speak with the king of saudi arabia in the next day or two. at the same time he's saying he doesn't want to jeopardize the thousands of u.s. jobs which are based on the trade between the two, $110 billion in arms sales and many more on trade alone. so he has said if it turns out to be saudi arabia, then he has to find other ways to punish

them. arthel. arthel: thank you very much. eric: for more on this we're joined by the former director of communications and spokesman for the u.s. mission to the united nations. the president vowed, quote, severe punishment if the saudis did indeed kill kishoki in the consolate. what could those consequences be? >> the president spoke about his reluctance at this stage to talk about sanctions, economic sanctions and changing the dynamic because there really is a tremendous trade between the two countries and a huge weapons purchase that happens from saudi arabia. and a variety of economic levels, the trade is very robust. but if the hand is pushed, because of whatever is determined in terms of what happened here, there may have to be moves in that sector or you can move on the diplomatic area and try to figure out what to do. one thing worth pointing out is

there was supposed to be -- there is still going to be a large economic summit at the end of the month in saudi arabia he. eric: the treasury secretary is supposed to go there. today the president was asked about that in the oval office and secretary of state pompeo said that they're weighing that, looking at that. should mon chin cancel the visit. other people are bailing out of that economic conference that is part of the crown prince's esteemed gathering that he created like a davos in the desert they call it. >> it's a huge deal. that's an area where you could have leverage in terms of punishment there. you have american companies attending that or considering not attending and where things develop as more becomes apparent in terms of what has happened. the accusations are flying on all sides. eric: is that enough. should they kick out saudi

arabian diplomats. should they impose harsher sanctions because of this. they're weighing all the options. they don't have any answers. >> this is an utterly confusing situation right now. we're hearing -- i've been looking at what's coming out of countries like iran, for instance, which is of course overjoyed do see this wrist betweeriftbetween the united std saudi arabia. eric: it could help tehran. >> yes, because the united states and saudi arabia have been working to contain iran. eric: what does it do to the suni, arab coalition, how could this impact that cooperation if indeed kashoki was killed in the consolate zo. >> the united states has been trying to contain the huti

rebels in yemen who have been firing missiles at saudi arabia and fighting for control, influence in the country in yemen. this could affect that dynamic because the united states is a weapon supporter in that, so is the u.k. you could put more scrutiny on the saudis. you could ask them to pull back because you exert diplomatic pressure on them that they can no longer have a relatively free reign to conduct their military operations in yemen. eric: what do you do, the fact they're stonewall. they say they have nothing to do with it. the crown prince claims that kashoki walked out of the cons consolate in about an hour. there's no video of him walking out. there's video of him walking in. what do you do with that? the president will have a phone conversation probably later on tonight with king solomon. what if the king says mr. president, we don't know anything about it, it's not us, we don't know.

what does america and the world, the civilized world do then? >> we can not judge until we really know the facts and we don't. there are a lot of weird accusations going on. turkey is aligned with qatar which is in a dispute with saudi arabia. turkey aligned itself with the muslimuse brotherhood. -- muslim brotherhood. there's such complexity. you have to shut the ears and get to the bottom of what transpired here. the outcome, what you determine will affect so many different countries, so many different relations. and one of the things is also, kashoki is such a prominent figure. it's not like some journalist, columnist with the washington post which is not be disparaging about a journalist working for an american paper but he's a big figure. this is a man who consulted the

saudi government. he worked with prince bander in washington, consulting with him. he ran a tv operation, saudi tv operation. this is a prominent person. this is not going to go away. this those be properly investigated. it's going to stick with us. and then you'll have conspiracy theories on top of conspiracy theories. eric: do you think it will be soled? >solved? >> that's a big question. you've been investigating the hoffa murder for many years. eric: we use lumenal to find a blood pattern in the jimmy hoffa disappearance and the turks want to use lumenal in the consolate, because it can find blood, evidence of blood and guess what, saudi arabia reportedly does not want the turks to use lumenal to potentially find any blood evidence. so we'll have to he see. >see.>> huge ramifications.

eric: as always, thank you. arthel: great analysis, jonathan. we have this fox news alert for you now regarding recovery efforts underway in florida. as the death toll from hurricane michael continues to grow unfortunately, with more than a dozen now dead. search and rescue teams are still scouring for survivors as crews work to bring food and water to the panhandle and other devastated areas. mike toebin is live in mexico beach with the latest. hi, mike. >> reporter: thel, really reallg against time to find these survivors. kind of a hig high vantage point this town. if you look at those squares, those were somebody's houses a couple days ago. you can imagine the brightly colored house that's were part of this florida seasid seaside . you can see the arms of the garbage pickers, that's one of

the big jobs that is taking place, the claw picks up the debris, puts it in the trucks and they drive it away. it's like emptying a pond with a tea spoon. this debris has to go. you can see the searchers out in the debris field. they're doing the grim task of looking for anyone who may be trapped in the rubble. there were 1280 peopl 12 -- 280t elected to ride out the storm. they're searching through the rubble with dogs, looking for any void spaces where a person might be trapped, very important work. a big development today is that a mobile at&t cellular tower went in the area. we're hearing from verizon. they say some 97% of their customers have been reconnected. that is very important because what we're hearing from most of the people, the great concern is they lost touch with loved ones during the course of the storm and once people can communicate, that may bring that number of unaccounted people down.

also, many, many distribution points for water. you think about these poor people who have had their homes ripped open, they've got no plumbing, no electricity to generate coldwater, this cold drink in this florida heat is very important to them. still, according to florida power and light, a quarter million people are without power. there are armadas of trucks that came from out of the state. they haven't made it here to mexico beach because mexico beach is still in recovery mode. that is part of why you have the local leaders out here, telling people not to return to the areas if they have evacuated. there's still debris everywhere. the power crews want you out of the way while they try to re-establish power and there still is no plumbing. back to you. arthel: still a dangerous situation there and we want the people to get all the help they can use. okay, mike, thank you very much. eric: we're 23 days away from the midterms and the fight for control of congress, we've been hearing a lot about that.

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call unitedhealthcare and ask for your free decision guide today. eric: this afternoon as the president was leaving the white house to go to the rally in lexington, kentucky tonight, he addressed the issue of immigration. this as the white house is reportedly considering several options over it to try to deter the rising number of migrant families who are arriving at the southern border. one plan could be to renew the policy of separating children from parents. this afternoon, the president said if they feel there is going to be separation, quote, the people don't come. and he said the aim is to slow it all down. jeff paul joins us with more from the los angeles bureau. hi, jeff. >> reporter: eric, separations could once again be a possibility but the decision this time would be left up to the parents. the trump administration is reportedly considering an option that's being referred to as binary choice.

the washington post is reporting under that plan asylum seeking families would be held up to 20 days together. then they would be given a choice, stay together as a family while the immigration case proceeds which could take months or years, or allow the government to take their children to a shelter so other relatives or guardian guardianse custody. the first lady discussed the issue in an interview that aired last night on abc where she had a message for families who are currently seeking asylum. >> i would tell them to keep strong and that time will come, everything needs to go through the court system. >> reporter: the first lady also says after her visit to the border, she asked border patrol how she personally can help reunite families. she has been speaking directly with her husband, the president, about what's going on. >> i saw it on the news and i reacted right away. it was unacceptable for me to see children and parents

separated. it was heart-breaking. and i reacted with my own voice. i didn't know that that policy will come out. i was blindsided by it. i told him at home and i said to him that i feel that's unacceptable. >> reporter: what the trump administration reportedly is not considering are the forced separations that cause outrage and protests along the border earlier this year. white house officials are set to be pushing for tougher measures that might act as a deterrent. eric: arthel? arthel: let's bring in he'll lie. >elizacollins. thanks for joining us. we're talking about something very personal here, we're talking about people. there is a political impact. i want to ask you exactly what you think that political impact would be or will be for candidates in states like texas, california, florida. >> well, i think this is absolutely not the conversation that moderate republicans who

are vulnerable want to be having three weeks before election day especially in states where immigration is a big deal and they feel strongly, they might feel differently in those states than in the rest of the country. but family separations was one of those issues that actually reveereverbated across both sid. the first lady called it unacceptable. you don't want to have to be explaining how this family separation policy is different than the last one right before elections. arthel: you fill have kids that are still separated from the first go-round. what are republican strategists saying? we're 22 days away from the midterms. >> right. republican strategists don't want this to happen. because basically the hard line immigration hard liners, the base, the people that really would like a policy like this, they're not very vulnerable right now. the vulnerable republicans are in purple districts or districts

with sort of a strong sense of democrat and they don't want to be dealing with a thing -- they want to be on offense, not defending a policy out of the white house. arthel: let's play a little sound on the president on separating immigrant families. >if.>> if they feel there will e separation, they don't come. you have really bad people coming in and using children. they're not their children. they don't even know the children. they haven't known the children for 20 minutes and they grab children and they use them to come into our country. arthel: what do you make of those assertions by the president? >> that was the assertion they were using this summer. there certainly are cases where that happens but that is not every case. we saw the president actually reverse this summer from the first family separation policy which is not something president trump does often. we saw melania and ivanka trump pushing back against this. it seems interesting they would be going at this again,

especially right before election day. it's an interesting strategy. arthel: the president reversed his own rule. >> exactly. arthel: how will this play out in voting booths, do you think? >> we really will have to see. i do know republican strategists told me that after the first family separation is when they saw a dip in numbers. they saw another dip with president trump and vladimir putin's press conference. those are really the only two things this year that they saw a drastic drop in their numbers. and i can't imagine that boosts right up, republicans are already having issues with sort of the suburban mom, the independent woman or the moderate republican and an issue like this is certain not to help that. arthel: there's a lot swirling right now in the world of politics. the president is juggling a lot of international situations, circumstances that are conundrums and then you have a lot going on here at home. all that with a backdrop of a good economy and job numbers that are good.

so how does the president as he out there on the campaign trail a all the time now, what does he focus on? >> he should be focusing on the economy and those job numbers. the pastor from turkey coming back today, that is absolutely a success. the president should be talking about those things. that's what republicans want him to be talking about. but you said there's tons of things swirling around. it feels like a new news story almost every second. we have no idea what will happen between now and election day. arthel: okay, we leave it there. and what, i think we said 22, 24 days away, i have to look at the calendar and count it. >> we're close, we're close. arthel: okay. thank us. eric: we're minutes away, much closer to president trump arriving in lexington, kentucky. we will hold another campaign style rally and man, oh, man are the people pumped and ready and in that huge space, the gymnasium waiting for the president of the united states. this comes as republicans are trying to stave off what some

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arthel: welcome back. president trump holding his second campaign rally in two days. here's a live look now at the stage where the president will be stumping for congressman andy barr who is currently locked in a tight race with his democratic challenger, amy mcgrass. this as republicans make their final push to the midterms with less than four weeks to go. doug mcelway is at the site of the rally with a preview. hi, doug.

>> reporter: we believe the president is in the air as we speak. he just tweeted about that. on my way to richmond, kentucky for a maga rally. the crowds are once again massive. he is right about that. you gain insights into these rallies after having attended several of them. one of the insights you gain is when you come to these arenas early in the morning to get set up, you see the size of the crowds outside. a lot of times they wait for a really long time in the parking lots and then wait inside the arenas for really long times. you see elderly people and infirm people, standing out in these forlorn parking lots, sometimes in inclement weather, then coming inside and having to stand for long, long stretches of time before the president arrives. it speaks to the fact that this is not at all like a midterm election. there is something happening here it certainly appears from all the sensible evidence and

the president spoke that that earlier -- spoke to that earlier today. >> there's something going on, phil. this reminds me of '16. it reminds you of '16 too. >> reporter: well, part of what explains this is the president's recent series of successes and we talked a lot about those, perhaps none more significant in long term at least, than the historically low level of african american unemployment which threatens the glue that bonds the african american vote to the democratic party. the perfect symbol of that was kanye west's visit to the oval office last week. this is what was said about that last night at the rally in ohio. >> i never knew i would say that but god bless consistent yeah k! >> we have the best numbers in history on employment and unemployment and median income and many other things and i

think we're going to get the african american vote. consistenkanye west, what he dis pretty amazing yesterday. >> reporter: all that said, it's still going to be a challenge for republicans to hold onthetoe house of representatives. that is the primary reason that the president is coming to kentucky tonight, to sing the praises of andy barr who is in a tough fight against amy mcgrass, who is a former marine corps fighter pilot. the polls have it as a toss-up right now. watch for president trump to sing the praises of andy barr, an attempt to hold onthe house of representatives. arthel: the crowds love the president. they like seeing him in person many that's why they show up, to get a glimpse of him in person. >> reporter: they do, no doubt about it. eric: as doug reported, all

eyes are on capitol his this november. that's where the balance of power might shift to the democrats at least in the house. the local level, they're just as critical in shaping public policy. my next guest writes national political coverage in 2018 is focused on the political density of congress. naturally, enough. the straw consensus is that washington is headed for divided political control again. that's why the 6,000 plus legislative seats on ballots in 26 states are critical to the direction of the country. the person who wrote that is the expert on politics, larry sabado, joins us now, he's the director for the center for politics at the university of virginia. always good to see you. in the whol realm, everyone is focused on the house. you noted that the state houses are quite a battlefield. >> they are. i have to insert one thing,

eric. here i am changing the subject back to congress. but andy barr is a former student of mine at the university of virginia. i want people to know he got an "a" in my seminar, campaigns and elections. and he's proven in his career that he deserved that "a." he's done quite well. i don't endorse candidates. i'm simply offering that as a fact. back to the subject. eric: this is not an endorsement, certainly not. i'm an objective man. you get an " a" in your class, you must be doing something right. about what the state assemblies, the state senates, that's where they'll be duking it out, even though the republicans control the majority of them. >> this is what is significant. 6,000 plus state legislative seats are on the ballot. there are only 7,400 state legislative seats in the entire country. so over 80% of all the state

legislative seats are being elected this year. it's significant obviously because they pass policies that affect every citizen in those states. but also many of the people elected this year will be around in 2021 when the next redistricting is done after the census. so it has implications going well into the 2020s, all the way up to 2030. that's something for people to focus on. eric: that really is overlooked. can you say why that is so important? number one, if you have a new state legislator, you're not only part of redistricting and then potentially the census, you also basically are the farm team for national office. >> that's it exactly. the state legislative positions are the best jumping off point for the house of representatives and eventually for the u.s. senate. barack obama was a state legislator, a number of presidents have been state legislators before they became

president. it's a significant position, people need to focus more on them, not to say the others aren't important too he. eric:.eric: what do you think s going to happen? about 10,000 candidates are running. usually the president's party loses about 400 seats in this type of election. what do you expect will happen in the state legislatures? >> the average is the president's party loses about 400 seats in the state legislatures. there's 7400 of them. 400 makes a dent but not much more than a dent. and they also on average lose 12 legislative chambers throughout the united states. we've looked pretty carefully at this. i don't think democrats are going to hit the average on legislative chambers. they may hit the average on state legislative seats. the reason is because republicans did so well in 2010, a midterm election, 2014, another midterm election, so

they have loads of seats to lose. they have more state legislators than they've had since the 1920s. they have close to 55% of all state legislators. so let's say they lose 400 seats. maybe they go down to 53% of all state legislators. it's still enough to control most state legislative chambers. eric: from your view, the republican versus a cushion that -- >> they do. eric: that won't be sufficiently reduced enough for them to lose the balance? >> that's correct. eric: all right. >> that is correct. we'll see on november 6. remember one thing, barack obama and the democrats during the obama administration lost nearly 1,000 seats net in the state legislatures and that was the largest number that any party has lost over eight years since worlworld war ii. so this can be devastating if you start losing big. but i'll be surprised if that happens this year. eric: we'll see. there may be some losses but not

enough as you say to make an impact. professor larry sbado who does not believe in great inflation. larry, always good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. arthel: a community is still reeling from last week's tragic limo crash in upstate new york. how loved ones are saying good-bye. plus, hurricane michael leaving behind one big mess in florida. the panhandle there and hundreds of thousands of people in the dark. how long it may take emergency crews to get the lights back on. governor scott was in every single county, every single day, nonstop, basically begging people to leave, saying this is going to be a horrible hurricane, get out of your homes. and the problem now is as i described, it's like a jungle. there are multiples on the table: one is cash, three are fha, one is va. so what can you do? she's saying a whole lotta people want to buy this house. but you got this!

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eric: a somber farewell today as family and friends say good-bye to some of the victims in the horrible limo crash from last week. the crash killed 20 people. the funeral was held for eight victims this afternoon. eight. rns resting in the church. prosecutors charged the limo company and operator with criminally negligent homicide in those deaths. arthel: power in the florida panhandle is slowly being restored. 80% of cell phone service is back today. hundreds of thousands remain in the dark. it may be like that for a while. it could be months, in fact, before the lights are turned back on in some of those coastal cities and getting fuel is also a big problem. >> one of the sheriffs in the

panhandle went out himself and chewed out the service station so they would lower prices. the problem is, it's search and rescue right now. and most of the panhandle is without fuel. the fuel's being used for emergency vehicles for rescue. arthel: former fee mall official tom panuzio joins me now. thank you for being here with us. >> it's a pleasure to be here. thank you. arthel: you can share insight. as horrible as they look, pictures don't always capture the real impact. how bad is it? >> it's devastating. any time you have literally a cat 5 hurricane with the wind speeds nearly 155 miles an hour, you're going to have mass destruction. one thing we didn't see with irma, marie, harvey and this year with florence is this utter destruction of neighborhoods. of course, houses were destroyed and homes were impacted, but nothing like what you're seeing this devastation on the coast

and unfortunately you also have the infrastructure destroyed, the utility grid is destroyed and people's lives have literally been changed forever. arthel: who so what is fema doing to help the good people of florida and how on track is fema in the aftermath of hurricane michael? >> well, i think fema is doing a great job. the realities of fema's preparation can never truly take place similar to what happens on the ground. in other words, you cannot prepare for a cat 5. you can do everything with regards to staging of equipment but you cannot prepare for the events on the ground. and fema's literally having to set distribution centers up where people are safe. so before distribution centers can be safe, they have to go in, they have to make sure the roads are okay. so fema i think is doing a great job.

brock long is as good a manager as there is. unfortunately, people's patience because of such destruction is very low and it's understandable. my heart-felt prayers go out to everybody affected in the panhandle and it's just a strag di. arthel: what are you hearing from the residents, those who are in shelters, they're suddenly without their homes, in need of resources they never imagined they would need and also what about those people, the residents who are trapped in their homes, what are you hearing? >> well, what i'm hearing is first of all, the residents trapped in their homes unfortunately are probably injured to a point where they can't get to either a phone or their neighbor's maybe not there. hopefully search and rescue efforts will continue throughout the night tonight and tomorrow, to make sure that anybody who is in those facilities or a structure that's been damaged

can be found. second is the fema side of this is going to be very, very difficult with regard to temporary shelter and housing. a lot of people are going to have to live in a place they never imagined. and again, fema's doing i think everything they can. but the events on the ground are dictating the day and it's very, very difficult to respond to. arthel: former fe fema directo, tom pinuzi. what do you want to tell the american people watching or listening to us? >> my prayers go out to the people in the panhandle. i think we need to understand that the bottom line here is that fema is doing everything they can. this is not a storm that can be easily responded to. it's going to be months and perhaps years before the lives of the people affected are going to be okay. and patience has to rule the day.

and hopefully these events won't be politicized. just patience and understanding that the federal government is doing everything they can to make this right and to respond in an adequate manner. arthel: a profound impact on their lives, no doubt. thank you. >> honored to be here many thank thank. eric: just a devastating situation in florida today. the navy is celebrating a big milestone. the military branch serving and protecting us for 243 years. we'll take a look ahead at all the celebrations that are lined up, next. ♪ anchors away. that last place was pretty nice. i don't like this whole thing. dad, what happened? where's rosie?

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eric: the united states navy is 242 years old today. happy birthday. the military force was first called the continental navy at its founding back in 1775. it consisted of two armed vessels. now the navy has 300,000 active duty personnel and hundreds of ships, boats and submarines. jackie is live in the new york city newsroom with much more on the birthday festivities. >> reporter: we're looking pretty good for 243 years old. this year's birthday theme is forged by sea.

it's set to capture the aspirations of every sailor's journey in uniform. every year there's a bell ringing, a cake cutting and they sing anchors away. the u.s. didn't always have a navy. it was established october 13th, 1775. the continental navy consisted of two vessels. the colonies were in rebellion against the british and british superior at thiity at sea threao stop trade. they kept a standing navy to intercept ships. they disbanded the navy do years after the end of the revolutionary war. it was reestablished in 1794 after pirates threatened trade and renamed the u.s. navy. today it's the largest navy in the world. >> our navy's around the world today protecting and defending us. i would like to give a shoutout to the men and women serving in the navy, defending and

protecting us. >> reporter: today president trump and vice president mike pence tweeted happy birthday to the navy. families of veterans replied with photos from as early as world war ii. the navy's birthday is not to be confused with navy day which is celebrated on october 27t 27th. eric: happy birthday and god bless all those in the service in the navy. arthel: reunited with his loved ones one day after being released by a turkish court. details on throng awaited home coming of pastor andrew brunson, coming up on the fox report. stick around for that. what do you mean it's not working out, craig? i just introduced you to my parents. psst! craig and sheila broke up. what, really? craig and shelia broke up!? no, craig!? what happened? i don't know. is she okay?

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>> emotional moments in the white house as president trump says welcome home to freed american pastor andrew brunson. good evening. i'm jon scott. this is the fox report. brunson back on u.s. soil greeted by the president and others who worked for his freedom at a ceremony in the oval office. brunson detained for nearly two years in turkey on what the u.s. says were bogus charges. the turkish government finally releasing him in the face of increasing pressure and sanctions from the trump administration. the pastor thanking the president with a prayer. >> our god, i