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today so it's wild card thursday. wait till you see the stories for tonight. thanks for joining us. up next we have trace gallagher in for shep. >> trace: michael cohen back on capitol hill. the president says cohen a lied at the hearing except and one thing. the river hasn't been this high in 25 years. flood waters swamping thousands of homes and businesses and leaving hundreds of people stranded. now the national guard on the scene. a new warning about china spending big bucks to control what american students are learning right here in the u.s. the news begins now.
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north korea contradicting president trump about why his second summit with kim jong-un ended with no deal. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. president trump said kim wanted the white house to end all sanctions against north korea before he dismantles his nuclear program. officials in pyongyang said they asked to partially lift the economic punishments and washington wasted an opportunity that may not come again. the president said sometimes you have to walk after cancelling lunch and a signing ceremony. >> i could 100% sign something today. we had papers ready. it wasn't appropriate. i want to do it right. i'd rather do it right than do it fast. >> just yesterday president trump praised what he called a special relationship with kim jong-un. our chief white house correspondent john roberts
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reporting live in hanoi, vietnam. john? >> trace, good morning to you. it's 3:00 a.m. here in hanoi. we're in a game of duelling diplomatic narratives. president trump saying north korean leader kim jong-un gave him a deal that he couldn't accept, asking for all sanctions to be lifted if north korea agreed to shut down their main nuclear facility. but in a rare press conference that happened in midnight here in hanoi, last night, the country's foreign minister saying whoa, didn't happen like that at all. we asked for some sanctions to be lifted and the u.s. was asking for more than what we offered. listen here. >> they were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted. we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that. so we continue to work and we'll see. we had to walk away from that particular suggestion.
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>> was what reposed is not the removal of all sanctions but partially. the united states insisted we should take one more step and start dismantling the nuclear facilities. >> so north korea is insisting the united states asked for more than just the dismantling offed the nuclear facility. we don't know what that was at this point. however, on capitol hill, there was bipartisan support for the president walking away from the table today. >> i think the president had to decide if he could get what he needed or walk away. part of the art of making the deal is knowing when to walk away. >> it's good the president did not give him anything for the little that he was proposing. >> typically it would be unthinkable for a u.s. president to fly halfway around the world to negotiate with a foreign leader to watch the entire thing
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fall apart. there really is no playbook for the type of negotiations that are going on now with north korea. it's always been done at the deputy level and rises from the top. now we're doing it from the top down. the deputies make suggestions but the two leaders negotiate. trace? >> yes, a brand new model. the president says he talked about otto warmbier. >> yeah, since otto warmbier was returned from the united states after a year and five months captivity in north korea and died a few weeks later, the president has become friends with otto's parents. today the president seemed to absolve of kim jong-un of any knowledge of whats going on with otto warmbier while he was in prison. listen here. >> i don't believe he knew about it. he felt badly. he knew the case very well but he knew it later. >> even lawmakers that backed
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the president on walking away from the table found that hard to swallow. listen here. >> that would be a lie. kim jong-un lied. he had to know. nothing happens in that country without him knowing. >> we shouldn't be naive about this regime and the way they mistreat their own people and the way they treated otto warmbier. >> in a photo op, the american pool asked kim jong-un if the issue of human rights was going to come up in his discussions with. trump. the president jumped in to run interference for kim jong-un saying we're going to talk about everything. trace? >> john roberts live for us in han now. john travels home today. let's bring in john pack from the brookings institution. she's had senior positions at the cia and the office of the national intelligence. if your article on february 6,
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you knew this would be a long shot and kim has not made progress on denuclearization. did this summit, the second summit, pan out the way you thought it would? >> i'm not sure that anybody thought that it would turn out with both sides walking away. president trump was right to walk away. what the north koreans were offering was really actually a bad deal. they were asking for what amounted to the most effective sanctions against north korea in exchange for a small piece of denuclearization. so it was not reciprocal or proportionate. the president was right to walk away. >> trace: critics say look, the president is being played by kim jong-un. in your estimate, better to walk away from a bad deal than to get into the deep negotiations of a mediocre deal. >> right. you know, i think both sides,
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both kim and president trump, were overly confident thinking the power of their relationship would be about to rest a concession from each other. points to the fact of how important process is and how important working level negotiations are so that we don't have to come to this situation and to have this kind of miscommunication between the two leaders. >> trace: so going forward, is there a summit three? what is the biggest hurdle? >> i think there's still an opening for a summit 3.0. president trump in his press conference left the door wide open. even before that, he said there will be lots of meetings. also hinted at a third summit. the north korean foreign minister when he spoke earlier today also made it seem as if the north koreans were open to it. but i think we have to make sure
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that working level discussions continue to happen. >> and if you're south korea in this scenario, how do you feel about this? what does this mean for the relationship between north korea and south koreas going forward? >> the south koreans were enthusiastic about the summit and wanted something to happen, especially on the peace declaration and the exchange of liaison offices. they were ready to get some inter-korean economic engagement projects going. so this was a really big disappointment for them. probably threw them off guard as it did all of us. it was good that president trump called president moon of south korea right away and explained what happened. president moon expressed regret that the summit reached no agreement but i think if the past is precedent, president moon will try to step in and get
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the talks back on track. >> trace: we shall see if there's a summit 3.0. jung pak with the brookings institute. meantime, michael cohen has more questions to answer. the president's former lawyer is on capitol hill for the third straight day. this time back behind closed doors to talk to house intelligence. even as he speaks, some republicans are saying his testimony the other day broke the law. that's next. oh! oh!
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>> two republicans in the house oversight committee a using president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, of lying under oath at yesterday's publicing hearing. jim jordan of ohio and mark meadows of north carolina referring cohen to the justice department. they said he lied to make himself look better. more on their accusations in a moment. yesterday cohen said prosecutors in the southern district of new york are investigating the
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president but he couldn't get into details. president trump has called michael cohen a liar. he will soon head to prison for a three-year sentence. he's back on capitol hill for a closed door meeting with the house intelligence committee. catherine herridge is live on capitol hill. catherine? >> thanks, trace. that formal criminal referral to attorney general william barr was made about a couple hours ago. the central allegation is that michael cohen perjured himself. >> i didn't want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i did not take a
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job at the general counsel's office. >> the criminal referral from congressman meadows and jordan that cites documents in the southern district of northern from the u.s. attorney's office. that is significant that is the of course that prosecuted cohen or reached the guilty plea. it reads during and afternoon the campaign, cohen told friends and colleagues that he expected to be given a prominent role in the new administration. and then there's the other issue of what cohen told cnn just shortly after the presidential election. >> is there a chance? >> that he will ask me to go to washington? >> there's absolutely a chance. >> would you go? >> 100%. >> we received a response from lanny davis. he's acting as michael cohen's attorney and his p.r. he's responded to the criminal
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referral. he says it's not surprising that two pro trump committee members have made a baseless charges and a sad use of the criminal justice system, trace. >> trace: catherine, what are the key players saying? >> rudy guliani has been pushing back against the cohen testimony as have others. the big headline from yesterday and it continues today is michael cohen's testimony suggests that the president's potential legal exposure is likely greatest in the southern district of new york and for activities not related to russian collusion. president trump weighed in on the testimony with fox news. >> he lied a lot. it was very interesting. he didn't lie about one thing. he said no collusion with the russian hoax. i said i wonder why he didn't lie about that too like he did everything else? he lied about so many different
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things. i was actually impressed he didn't say i think it was collusion for this reason. >> fox news will ask michael cohen to respond to the criminal referral when he leaves the security facility behind me. we're expecting the timing on that sometime in about 3 or 3 1/2 hours. we're on par with his other closed door testimony that ran into the 9, 10, 11 hour range, trace. >> trace: thanks, catherine. thank you. let's bring in michael rothfeld from the "wall street journal" and has covered cohen's testimony. he broke the testimony that cohen arranged deals with stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. i want to take you back 13 months. when you broke the story, michael cohen said to you, this is now the second time that you're raising outlandish allegations against my client. you have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year, a narrative that has been
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consistently denied by all parties since 2011, this is what michael cohen sounded like yesterday. play this. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes. again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> we're talking about two different men there, michael. what did you make of his testimony yesterday? >> he's reversed himself for some months. it's true, as you said, when we initially were reporting on that, he -- the things you read were referring to whether or not trump had a sexual encounter with stormy daniels. cohen denied that. he actually at the time didn't address the hush money payment. it happened. he knew it did happen. he was defending president trump a long time after we reported it in january of 2018 until he came
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under criminal investigation and raided by the fbi last april. a couple months later turned on the president and ultimately pleaded guilty and fingered the president. so he's a very different person now. he has changed his tune. >> trace: a day after this testimony about michael cohen, michael, are you surprised that the democrats are not as riled up about the hush money payments that some thought they would be? a lot of them saying we want to wait until the mueller report comes out. that surprise you? >> am i surprised they're not riled up? not really. they're in power now in the house. they want to investigate the president. michael cohen haas pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations which we know and we've reported that the president was involved in arranging these in 2016 during the campaign. you know, normally doj doesn't prosecute presidents while in
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office. there was a tape of cohen talking to the president about the karen mcdougal hush money payment during the campaign. yesterday he described the president being involved in negotiating with stormy dan orioles. it's not surprising that the democrats would want to be examining mr. trump's involvement in these deals. >> trace: what about michael cohen saying the president didn't direct him to lie that he gave him these coded messages? what did you take away from that? >> that was regarding the trump tower moscow deal. i don't think that is surprising. you know, the president doesn't -- people that know him say he's not going to specifically -- he's going to protect himself. he's very smart. i'm not saying he did it, but he might not say explicitly say i
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want you to long. he gave him a coded message and he followed it. >> trace: michael, thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: it's washington versus moscow with rival revolutions at the u.n. the fight over the future of venezuela. this is a live look. this is a nation in the midst of a political and humanitarian crisis. the votes are going down right now. do they back russia no do they back the united states? what does it mean beyond that? coming up on "shepard smith reporting." with the most lobster dishes of the year like lobster lover's dream and new ultimate lobsterfest surf and turf. so come lobsterfest today! and now for a limited time, get ten percent off red lobster to go. not having a good breakfast can make you feel like your day never started. get going with carnation breakfast essentials®. it has protein, plus 21 vitamins and minerals including calcium and vitamin d, to help your family be their best.
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want more from your entejust say teach me more. into your xfinice remote to discover all sorts of tips and tricks in x1. can i find my wifi password? just ask. [ ding ] show me my wifi password. hey now! [ ding ] you can even troubleshoot, learn new voice commands and much more. clean my daughter's room. [ ding ] oh, it won't do that. welp, someone should. just say "teach me more" into your voice remote and see how you can have an even better x1 experience. simple. easy. awesome. >> trace: and we have breaking news coming it of the united nations. the security council right now deciding whether to decide with the united states or russia in the political and humanitarian
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crisis in venezuela. they're voting on two draft rival draft resolutions. the u.s. resolution failed from vetoes from russia and china. they got the nine votes but russia and china vetoed the measure. the u.s. was backing juan guaido and calling for a new presidential election. that is free, fair and credible. russia is standing behind venezuelan president nicholas maduro and urging the u.n. to stay neutral. the u.n. resolution just failed from the united states. we're waiting for the results of the vote on russia's resolution. let's get to steve harrigan who is live in venezuela where maduro is clinging to power. steve harrigan. >> it's clear that maduro still
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controls the lever of power here in venezuela. he controls the army, the courts hand the police. there's been a sense of failure on the ground here in efforts to oust maduro from power. last saturday we heard reports from juan guaido that he was going to bring in aid that perhaps the military would simply melt away and join him. neither have come true. there's been some defections, 500 to 600 soldier going over to guaido. the aid is still blocked. large scale defections from not happened. there's a sense of disenchantment with the 35-year-old opposition leader. he's not done very much in venezuela. trace? >> steve, juan guaido is making moves today, correct? >> that's right. he's been in columbia today. he's in brazil. he's trying to ratchet
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international pressure on the maduro regime. he has his work cut out for him. he's been banned from traveling by the maduro regime. now he has to get back into venezuela without getting arrested. it's not clear whether or not that will happen. seems like there's a lot of bad options here on the ground in venezuela. will the u.s. continue to ratchet up sanctions, driving maduro from power? that would hurt the venezuelan people. could there be military ent interventi intervention? the hope was that maduro would go away, find himself a nice beach somewhere, that easy path. there's no sign of that happening. trace? >> yeah, the situation is fluid and violent. steve harrigan live on the ground caracas. thank you. one of america's closest allies could face criminal charges that could end his political career and complicate u.s. relations in
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the mideast. israel's attorney general says he plans to charge benjamin netanyahu with bribery. he leads the right wing party and the accusations are a political wish hunt. >> even though there's nothing there, they're going to start a prosecution of me for one reason only, to affect the votes at the ballot box. >> president trump didn't comment on the accusations but said that netanyahu has been a great prime minister. the administration is working on an israeli palestinian peace plan to present after the election. let's get to trey yingst reporting live. trey? >> benjamin netanyahu will be indicted on three separate
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charges regarding corruption. two of them are what is called fraud and breach of trust. one is for bribery. all three will receive separate hearings here in israel there were documents that showed that prime minister netanyahu accented $200,000 of cigars and champagne for using his influence as prime minister for their business and personal interests. netanyahu allegedly helped with mergers and deregulation, in severe conflict of interest for media companies. in the last few hours, netanyahu responded to the indictments against him calling the invest combination a witch hunt saying his family was attacked during the process. the attorney general added no details on the indictments will be released until after the elections. they're set for april 9. right now, prime minister's party is trailing in the polls. netanyahu's party said all of this has to do with politics leading up to the elections.
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they say the announcement was not proper and moving forward they hope that netanyahu will hold on to the support that he's grasping on to here in israel. trace? >> tray yingst leave in israel. robert kraft pleading not guilty in his prostitution case. his lawyer requesting a noninjury trial. that is according to court documents in more. police say kraft paid for sex acts at a day spa. they say they have the video to prove it. kraft was busted as part of the investigation of human trafficking at the spa. he denies doing anything illegal. major flooding turns towns into an emergency. we'll take you there live for an update next.
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>> trace: california governor gavin newsome declaring a state of emergency in five counties in california where flooding has swamped communities and triggered mudslides. folks using boats to get around after the russian river overflowed. a sonoma county town of gurnsville has been overwhelmed by water. one man says he sawfish swimming right by his front porch. the sheriff reports in rescue calls came in overnight. he says it looks like the water is going down, but a lot more slowly than they first expected. claudia cowan reporting live from forestville along the banks of the russian river. claudia? >> well, trace, is water is
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starting to recede slowly. in the heart of wine country, we have a road here and a bridge and an entire vineyard all of it totally submerged by the temporary lake. meantime, 100 roads here remain closed, including this one. this is river road which leads to gurnville which is totally cut off. 4, 500 people live there and they're trying to assess the damage after the russian river crested. in some spots, the water is 8 feet deep. a lot of debris needs to be cleaned up. a lot of roads might not be passable until tomorrow. the sheriff says 2,000 homes and businesses are inundated with water and evacuation order remain in effect. several shelters are been set up
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and the disaster has claimed a life. in the humboldt county town of fern dale, a man drowned while trying to get to where his three children were trapped. no reports of injuries here in the bay area. back to you. >> look at those pictures, claudia. reminiscent of hurricane harvey. how is everybody getting around? >> the best mode of transportation nguerneville is by canoe or kayak. many were using jet skis and boats, responding to welfare calls and checks. many cars were washed away, too. even after the waters recede, some residents won't have a gay to get around. the national guard is here. they have special high water trucks that can get to area that local first responders can't get to. they made about 60 rescues
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yesterday. people are getting a couple of days to dry out and cleaning out before the next storm arrives. we're not done with this wet weather yet, trace. >> thanks, claudia along the russian river. let's bring in michael lazlo. he's about a mile from guernsville. what is going on where you are and how are you and your family? >> we're okay on the ranch. our neighbor came over to hang out. i sent a couple of pictures of my house here. a sunny day today though. the water is still up. >> we know that you guys are going out, trying to help others. what is the process there? do you know of friends and neighbors and family that might be in trouble that you have been
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trying to help them out? >> a neighbor just said hi here. was in town earlier. first rising up. a guy in his house and yelling at me and telling me to come over. i went over there. he said he called the fire department. they never came. so he hopped in a boat. gave him a ridge to the bridge. >> best to you and your family and friends. >> we'll keep an eye along the rush recover. michael lazy so. thank you. let's check in with rick reichmuth who is live at the weather center. what can folks in northern california expect? >> unfortunately, we have two more systems. you get in these patterns and it doesn't change. california has been in complete drought or getting flooded. last time we saw this bad of flood, 1995.
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we have a little moisture in the area. nothing that is that bad though. we have winter storm watches in effect because of the next storm coming in. here's how this looks. you can see the power out this out here. by the time wu get to saturday morning, we have rain across central california, southern california. more mountain snow. over 24 feet of snow in february across the sierra nevadas. that one moves through here and move through arizona, another one back there behind that. precipitation totals, we'll see places two to three inches of rain. it's not as powerful as this last batch of rain. the next one behind that a little stronger again. so two storms that we have to get through. when you take a look here, we have rain in the forecast. we'll see a few bouts of sunshine as well. overall, probably see another three to four inches total from this. this will be better than the last part. because the ground is so saturated because of the flooding, not much will
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certainly cause more problems. >> yeah, all of that snow has to melt and come down that will put more pressure on the rivers. there's another system coming to the east coast as well. >> it is. the same storm coming to the west moves to the east. this is sunday afternoon. take a look at there. the center of the low pressure here. we have not had a single coastal storm or nor'easter all year, which i don't if that's ever happened. no significant nor'easter. might be the change in that by the time we get to sunday and monday. go through winter without a big coastal storm. we get to march, could have the first one. rain across the southern side of this. snow in the ohio valley, back towards missouri and monday. certainly snow across the interior sections. still too early to say what happens along the coast. trace? >> yeah, rick reichmuth live for us. thank you. breaking news now.
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a look at -- live look at the floor of the united nations. the russian resolution just failed. ten minutes earlier, the u.s. resolution failed because china and russia vetoed that. russia is backing the current venezuelan president, nicholas maduro and the u.s. is supporting the opposition candidate, the opposition president, juan guaido. we'll keep our eyes on the united nation tos see what's going on there to see if there's any kind of movement. the latest on red hot tensions and shots fired between two nuclear powers, india an pakistan. and luke perry is in the hospital. there's word that he suffered a massive stroke. 52 years old. we'll have the latest on that coming up. this is loma linda, a place with one of the highest life expectancies
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>> trace: there's word that luke perry suffered a massive stroke here in los angeles. tmz breaking the news. a rep for the "90210" star is in
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the hospital. >> trace, we know very little beyond that statement from his remember that he's at the hospital and has been there since this morning. it was around 9:30 when he called in. that call he described having a stroke. his health has not been known to have an issue. he was treated for precancerous growth in 2015. many of his actor friends expressing their concern today. among them, ian dearing that wrote "no words can express what my heart feels hearing shocking news. let's say a prayer for speedy recovery." and christy swanson saying, "luke, honey, i'm praying so hard for you. i love you so much."
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a lot of love today for a very popular actor, trace. >> trace: so he's worked consistently since that show. >> yes. terrible coincidence that today is the day that fox tv announced a rebooted of 90210. he was not scheduled to be part of the show but that's where he made his name in the 90s where a lot of us would remember him from. he has worked consistently since then. just recently being introduced to a new generation of teens and 'tweens in the show "riverdale" on by half of lilly ann jordan hunt and the millions of fans across this country, we wish him the best. >> trace: thanks, jonathan. the prime minister of pakistan says they will return a captured to india as a good will
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gestu gesture. this is happened in the disputed area of kashmir. two indian jets were shot down and one of the pilots were captured. analysts say this is the most serious in between the countries for 20 years. both countries have nuclear weapons. benjamin hall reporting live with more. >> draktrace, this area has bee climbed by india and pakistan since 1947. two wars have been fought over it. the recent tensions are some of the worst we've seen in decades. pack stain's decision today to release the indian pilot shot down yesterday is soon as a major peace offering, one that everybody hes will calm the violence. the u.s. is helping broker a cease fire. >> a lot of dislike so we've
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been in the middle trying to help them out, see if we can get some organization and peace. i think probably that's going to be happening. >> the downing of the indian jet was the latest in a series of tit for tat attacks that began february 14 when a pakistani terror group attacked and killed 40 indian troops. politicians have said they will strike again if they feel there could be another attack. the pakistani prime minister reached out to the indian prime minister to calm the situation by offering the return of the pilot. he said considering the nature of the weapons that we have, can we afford my miscalculations? there's domestic calculations as well. in india, elections are weeks away and modi is a nationalist and he will come under pressure to show that he can be strong.
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although tensions have called, they are not clear. trace? >> benjamin hall live for us. thank you. senators releasing a report claiming that chinese funded institutes are trying to spread propaganda to american students including kindergarteners. that's coming up. and the feds say a doctor probably saved a lot of lives after a gunman opened fire in a florida hospital. first, police in alabama say miss are facing charges after fighting over crab legs. it happened about 100 miles north of birmingham. the man and woman were using serving tongs like swords. cops say they later admitted their tempers got the best of them. (kickstart my heart by motley crue)) (truck honks)
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>> trace: a doctor in florida being called a hero after the feds say he was able to stop a gunman after getting shot in the neck during a struggle for the weapon. it happened a veterans hospital north of miami. the fbi reports the shooter was a doubamputee army veteran when opened fire on staff. a second employees grazed by the bull let. the doctor treated for his injury, a special agent told reporters that he's doing well and probably saved a lot of lives. police say the shooter is in custody and now facing criminal charges. senators accusing china to spreading propaganda in schools in the united states. not just colleges but elementary, middle and high schools as well. rich edson reporting live. rich, these instituted have spread to hundreds of schools.
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>> about 100 colleges and 500 million schools and high school. a bipartisan support released called them confucius institutes. these reports say the chinese government has spend $158 million in the u.s. on these institutes and charges them with being a way to spread chinese government propaganda. the instituted encourages complacency after the government and business and academic institutions abroad. the chairman says the government should look into closing them. >> absent full transparency in how they operate for u.s. cultural institutions, they should not continue in my view. >> senators are exploring ways
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they operate in the united states. >> trace: and the chinese officials said they're okay. >> yes. the foreign ministry has said certain people and institutions in the u.s. are now trying to politicize without foundation the confucius institution. a program for normal cultural and educational exchange between china and the u.s. it's a cold war mindset and probably reflects that they're unconfident. another issue for the senators, the united states has a kepted to create a similar program in china but china has blocked the efforts. >> trace: thanks, trace. we'll have more on facebook watch with unique content. that streams live on the facebook watch home page a few
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minutes from now. it's available to you any time on demand. the u.n. andu.s. and russian resolutions failed. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. your world with neil cavuto starts right now. >> it was a very interesting two days. it was a very productive two days. sometimes you have to walk. this is just one of those times. >> president trump walks away from talks with kim jong-un or was it the other way around? everybody is confused. now reports that the north korean leader may have lost the will for further negotiations. so where is this headed? welcome. glad to have you. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." a lot of fast-moving developments this hour. the north koreas are saying they're not asking for complete sanctions as the white house claims. we'll talk to jack rd