>> dana: it's been a tough west. we need more of you, todd. >> thank you. >> dana: thanks for joining us on a fun week. tgif. i'm dana perino. here's shep. >> shepard: our reporting begins with a fox urgent. a trump administration senior official confirming one of the whistle-blowers key claims. that white house lawyers directed staffers to move the transcript of president trump's phone call with the ukrainian president in a highly classified computer system. according to the whistle-blower, white house officials were disturbed by the phone call and believed the president had likely abused his power when he asked a foreign leader to investigate his political rival, joe biden. but just as the impeachment inquiry gets underway on capitol hill, lawmakers are headed home for a two-week recess. you can see them heading down the steps of the capitol today. what house members hear from

their constituents back home could help determine what happens when they come back. we haven't seen president trump on television today. he's been active on twitter defending his call with the ukrainian president and demanding the resignation hoff the democratic chairman of the house tell committee, adam schiff. among the president's tweets, if that perfect call or i should say perfect phone call with the president of ukraine isn't considered appropriate, then no future president can ever again speak to another foreign leader. more than 300 former national security officials disagree with his view of the call. they signed a letter calling president trump's actions a profound national security concern. john roberts reporting live. hi, john. >> good afternoon, shep. the white house is confirming that a transcript of the call that the president had with volodymyr zelensky, the ukrainian president, on july 25 was archived on a highly secure computer system, it is not saying which system and the two

high security systems that i told exist are one called the top secret information system and one above that which is code word for where information about covert operations are usually housed. might be unusual for a transcript to be housed on that computer. also, was it standard operating procedure for the white house to archive transcripts of calls on that system or is this a one off? catherine herridge interviewed fred flights, the former chief of staff of the national security council who said that to him, it didn't seem like anything unusual to do what the white house did with the zelensky transcript. listen here. >> when i handle transcripts of foreign leaders last year, we put the transcripts into a very secure top secret code word system. i don't see any difference from what this alleged whistle-blower is claiming. i don't think there was any

change. >> officials of past administrations tell fox news it would be unusual to put transcripts into that highly secure or highly classified system. however, don't forget that early on in the trump administration there was some high profile leaks, telephone conversations that the president had with the australian prime minister at the time and the mexican president. i'm told as a result of that, steps were taken to button down access to these transcripts. don't forget, too, while the transcript does exist in a computer system, when the transcript goes out to anybody and that would include the national security adviser or the secretary of state or ambassadors, it's in a paper form, not an electronic form. >> shepard: john, a rich history in the administration of attacking the messenger and now there's a clear strategy to discredit the whistle-blower. >> no question the president is trying to destroy the credibility of the whistle-blower saying first of all, it was third hand information and questioning

whether or not the person had access to anything at the white house, whether anybody at the white house was delivering information to them. but when the president was talking yesterday to staff at the u.s. mission to the united nations, he suggested there was a whistle-blower and there were people delivering information to this person. the president addressing the staff suggesting that everybody involved with this were spies. listen to this. >> who is the person that gave the whistle-blower the information? that's close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies in we handled it differently than now. >> there are a couple of errors in this complaint that i have in front of me. one of the errors is that the whistle-blower says a state department representative was on the call. we're told by multiple administration sources that in

fact is incorrect. there's a citation on page 7 starting in mid may u.s. officials were trying to limit the damage that rudy guliani was doing to national security. in particular, it says ambassadors had spoken with mr. guliani in an attempt to contain the damage to u.s. national security. if you take a look at this text message, which was sent from curt volker to rudy guliani on friday, july 19, volker is offering to set up a telephone call with guliani and the representative of the zelensky government, that rudy guliani met with on august 2 in august. so clearly we have a contradiction here. was volker trying to limit the damage to national security or was he trying to hook rudy guliani up with ukrainian

officials. guliani said he went to madrid at the behest of the state department and this text would back that up, shep. >> shepard: john roberts, live on the north lawn. great to see you. have a good weekend. >> you too. >> shepard: to mike emanuel on capitol hill where there's reaction as they flee the district. hello, mike. >> good afternoon. lawmakers are gone. house intelligence chairman adam schiff predicts it will be a couple busy weeks. he says he will be here part of next week and could be a hearing friday. nancy pelosi says there's plenty of work ahead. >> you never know where we're going next. now i think we're getting involved in the cover-up of a cover-up and that may be something that will take some time to investigate. do think the attorney general has gone rogue. has has for a long time now. since he was mentioned in all of this, it's curious that he would be making decisions about how the complaint would be handled. >> a key house republican says democrats are rushing it. >> there's questions there and

certainly no first hand knowledge. now the democrats are going to move ahead with impeachment after reading that transcript? it's ridiculous. what schiff did with his opening statement is ridiculous as well. >> some lawmakers say there's pressure to get moving on this with next year being a presidential election year, shep. >> shepard: what about other agenda items even the possibility of some of them getting done? >> new york congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez says before this, there's not much the house and senate agree on these days. >> so i'm not concerned about us slowing down our business here in the house. i find it humorous that they're acting now as though gun legislation will be held up because of impeachment because they haven't been sitting on hr-8 for several months now. so if they were -- the senate was being productive and, you know, being worth their weight, but then i'd be concerned. right now they haven't done a

damn thing all year. >> a house republican is defending the trump administration's actions. >> they're claiming a cover-up. this is the world's worst cover-up ever. they released the transcript. they did so very quickly. they released the whistle-blowers complaint. they did quickly. at one point they might have been afraid this would leak. maybe that compelled them to move it on to another computer. we don't know if that's true anyway. >> things have moved swiftly but much to sort out, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel on the hill. thank you. we have been watching wall street as investors deal with the latest uncertainty. president trump has warned an impeachment would crash the market. that's not necessarily the precedent if you look at past presidents. see what you're seeing here. this isn't about impeachment at all. see that drop there just been the noon hour and the continuing slide? that is about concern over china trade because there's big news

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white house? >> let me say i think this white house is concerned. you know, we all have become amateur or i guess we because we're paid to do it, professional trump watchers. it's struck me at the u.n. and since that he seems to be dealing with this particular controversy potential scandal in a different way. seems to have gotten to him and he's more rattled by it. he had the final news conference in new york earlier at the u.n. he seemed somewhat despirited. he took four questions and ended it. there was that curious session yesterday in new york where he was meeting with members of the u.s. mission. the u.s. delegation that represents this country at the u.n. there were families there, kids there. he called reporters scum and

animals. he made a very curious and troubling remark about how the whistle-blower and the people that had talked to the whistle-blower compared them to spies, compared with what they were doing to treason and talked about how we used to handle people -- still do, people that have committed treason with execution. so this seems to have gotten under the president's skin and perhaps to be worrying him more than almost any other situation he's been involved in that i can remember. >> shepard: is there a danger in your mind of a leader of his stature attacking an unknown whistle-blower in this way? there's suggestions of physical harm. i wonder how you process that and if the pundits are making too much of it or too little of it. >> look, he did talk about spies. he did talk about treason. that has an obvious implication. i don't think he was saying that

he wishes harm on the person. i don't take -- i don't think it goes that far. but just forget the politics of it. i know we always talk about just the politics. this isn't the first president who has gone after a potential threat. think of all the things that bill clinton did to monica lewinsky and linda tripp and all of her people saying that she was nuts and deranged and a stalker. this isn't the first president who has gone after his attackers. you know, to suggest -- you have to go back to what joseph maguire, the acting director of national intelligence said in the hearing with adam schiff. he said he believed the whistle-blower had acted honorably, that his claims were credible and that he had followed the letter of the law in submitting a confidential anonymous whistle-blower statement. so for the president to then go

compare that to treason -- we have whistle-blower laws to protect people who are trying in good faith, you can argue whether he's right or wrong, but in good faith to say something is going wrong in the way the government has handled something. to accuse that person of potential treason really strikes at the whole point of why we protect whistle-blowers. think of the whistle-blowers -- again, i think reverse the situation. whistle-blowers who claim that hillary clinton had acted improperly during benghazi. how would we have felt if hillary clinton or barack obama had accused them of treason? consider it that way. >> shepard: there's two different information streams going on now. there's the things that we know that are confirmed. the president has admitted and then the legality or ill legality of that and the rules and protocol and all the rest. there's this information stream of constant attacking of the

facts that is interesting to watch. i wonder the degree to which you think it's troublesome. >> sure, it's troublesome. i expected from the white house. as i said, that is what politicians do. it's what presidents do. again, just go back and look at some of the stuff that hillary clinton did with her accusers about the e-mails and benghazi. look at what bill clinton did with lewinsky and linda tripp and all of them. i do think it's important for people who are on the outside, you know, aren't in the white house, i expect more of them that they will try to look at the truth. i think you have to go to two things. first of all, the main contention, yes, everything that he said turned out to be true? no. the main thing that the whistle-blower has contended, namely there was an alarming phone call that had raised issues about whether the

president was seeking aid and interference in the 2020 election from the ukrainian president. that turned out to be true. it was not widely known last august that the president had suspended military aid to ukraine. that was true. and rudy guliani, that he was deeply involved in talking to people in ukraine. that's turned out to be true. this was put on a special classified system, the whole conversation. that has turned out to be true. you know, it seems to me that you have to be in a reality base situation here where it's not a matter of my tribe or your tribe, that you're trying to deal in the facts. >> shepard: it's bigger than anything political. this is about getting to the truth and doing the right thing and protection of the democracy while following the constitution. pretty basic, isn't it? >> yeah. but let me be clear. there's a lot that is not been

proven yet. i think the most important part of the whistle-blower's complaint is he's cited a lot of sources, he's cited a lot of episodes, instances, evidence and it seems to me -- do they have enough ground for impeachment now? no, they don't. but it seems to me this is a point at which the democrats need the hold hearings and find out what is true, what isn't true. either build a case or the case will fall apart. it would be nice if everybody on the democratic said and the republican side would have an open mind and let's see where the facts take us. >> shepard: mr. sunday, you're the very best. >> can i say one thing to you? you may not say that anymore. that is just very quickly, i know that ole miss, the rebs are playing alabama, the number 2 team in the nation. i looked in the paper today. i was curious what the points

spread was. have you ever heard of a team that is a 38-point underdog? >> they beat us 63-3 last year, chris. is it fun kicking a dog when he's down? we had a couple of years of probation. we have good talent. we'll get more. we'll be better. come basketball season, coach kermit is going to turn heads. come baseball season we'll be fantastic. leave the rebels alone. the rebels are good. >> let me ask you this. would you take the 38 points and bet on the rebels? >> shepard: i've never bet for or against them. they're about heart, not about money. >> i know. putting your money where your mouth is. that is -- >> shepard: i don't bet on the rebels. never laid a penny on the rebels. i love them. win, lose or draw. >> shepard: i wouldn't do it tomorrow. >> i haven't ever dope it, not going to do it. going to stay with it. stay the course. 1,000 points.

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>> shepard: listen to this. a plastic surgeon blacked out, then woke up out said a strip club, bloody, beaten with his hands bound and burned raw. now a man in florida is facing the possibility of life behind bars after he pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of that surgeon and torching him -- torturing him with a blow torch. there he is on the left. the feds say that man on the right was also involved. he's being extradited from spain. all this happened in january in

broward county. according to court records and reporting from the south florida sun sentinel, the two men kidnapped the plastic surgeon from a walmart parking lot. then they drove an hour east to a storage facility where they burned his hands with that blow torch and threatened to kill him. the surgeon gave them his home address in miami-dade where they said they could find $50,000. when they couldn't get inside, they forced alcohol down his throat to make him unable to resist their orders. an insane story. trace gallagher has more. >> the court documents go point by point details how the suspects spent weeks plotting the kidnapping and getting rope and a blow torch at home depot. they rented a van. the two suspects went to the plastic surgeon's office and filled out phony paperwork. investigators don't say why. later that day, they abducted

the doctor and blind folded him and burned his hands were a blow torch while threatening to kill him. the doctor has not been identified and was willing to cooperate. the victim said he advised law enforcement that he said he was willing to give them whatever they wanted, but they just kept hitting him and burning his hands. the suspect drove the doctor in a van to his home and at 2:00 a.m., one suspect went to the front door with a gun. somebody inside flipped on the lights. the suspect fled. that's when they forced the doctor to drink the alcohol. he passed out, woke up in the van of a parking lot in the strip club and started honking the horn till somebody came to help. the kidnappers never got a dime, shep. >> shepard: one of these guys confessed, right? >> yeah, justin boccio has pleaded guilty to kidnapping. he could face life in prison.

the other suspect dragged boccio in the kidnapping plot. his lawyer says his client is going to be the star witness. it appears that boccio is trying to cut a cooperation deal to get a lighter sentence. and the one man is in the process of being extradited to florida from spain. both of these guys in a world of trouble. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live for us. thanks. a live look at the dow as we monitor the markets and the fallout from the impeachment inquiry. economists say today's drop is because of trade concerns involving china and while president trump has warned the impeachment could tank the markets, history shows that may not be the case. keep in mind, only three u.s. presidents have faced the possibility of impeachment. andrew johnson, more than 150 years ago, richard nixon who resigned before the impeachment happened and bill clinton. the market reactions?

they've been mixed. kristina partsinevelos has more. >> you got it right. impeachments leads to talk and gossip but has not rallied markets just yet. there's some volatility but they look past political events. you brought up andrew johnson. 1868, vintage photos that we had. stocks didn't react. you had bonds that rallied. the president was acquitted three months later. so we don't have a graph to show you because the data is from so long ago. if we move to richard nixon's impeachment, we saw more market turmoil. that, you can say and argue coincided with the oil shock, inflation was running out of control and then led to a recession. after he was impeach for several months after that, you saw stocks tank, but they climbed higher after 1975. we move on to bill clinton and his team during the impeachment. there was some volatility, a huge drop during the initial

investigation but then in 1998, the markets went higher. the economy was doing so well. it was a boom time. so between clinton and nixon, they were in their second term of presidency. so didn't really affect their i guess career as a president going forward. that's the difference with president trump. traders like to overlook political theater. i'll leave it with this. what can add volatility is the lack of bipartisan support towards getting bills done like the infrastructure bill, usmca, which is a trade pact between canada, mexico and the united states and then also keeping drug prices lower. lack of progress there can definitely add risk and volatility to markets. >> shepard: kristina partsinevelos from the biz. thank you. >> thanks. >> shepard: ahead, welcome to saudi arabia for the first time. should you want to do that. the king is putting up a welcome sign for tourists relaxing the rules. but still some things you should know if you decide to go to

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>> shepard: just passed the bottom of the hour. top of the news headlines. an accused baby killer, high stakes gamble that got her off the hook. wait till you hear how close this former cheerleader came to getting years in prison. no doubt those at home dna kits great at helping cops solve cold cases. what happens if that dna comes back to haunt you? inside the fed's push to balance privacy with fighting crime. and lawmakers head out of congress for a couple of weeks. so where does that leave the fight over impeaching president trump? it's a fox news urgent. our senior producer, chad pergram reporting. what are democratic lawmakers planning to do during this break? >> they have to walk their constituents through the

mechanics. nancy pelosi is really good at getting members to take a certain position and to get their constituents in line. people say that nancy pelosi is a really good vote counter. what she is a really good vote getter. i spoke earlier today with johanna hayes, a freshman democrat from connecticut and she talked about what needs to happen over the recess. >> how do you educate folks saying this is how we do it, this is the process? making sure that -- even if they don't side -- >> it's interesting that you say that. one of the things i did this week, i put a civics 101 lesson on social media. this is the impeachment process. >> steny hoyer said it's important to have this recess. it was on the box last november after house secured control of the house. hoyer says congress ought to be talking to their constituents. i think the consideration of the public's viewpoint is critically important, shep. >> shepard: looking at these polls that just came out, it

appears that the idea of impeachment is gaining some degree of popularity, if that's the right word. i wonder if there's a sense that more in congress will come around after this district meet. >> right. the thing to watch are the 31 democrats that represent trump districts, districts that voted for president trump and some of these democrats won when democrats took the house in 2018. there's going to be town hall meetings and constituent meetings. looks at max rose from staten island. and kendra horn in oklahoma. that's a district that this democrats surprisingly win. hailey stephens in michigan. we'll know more mid week where they stand. next week we'll get the polling and understand where these members are and more importantly where the public is. a lot of times, this is what i'm talking about with nancy pelosi and this behind-the-scenes getting people in place and getting their positions in place. and the members reflect their district, shep. >> shepard: a lot of work ahead. chad pergram is the perfect man

for it. good to see you. >> thank you. >> shepard: the justice department regulating how law enforcement officials use consumer dna test kits to solve criminal cases. the top investigator in california says the genealogy website helped him crack a decades old golden state killer case. the feds say there has to be a balance between solving crimes and protecting privacy. kristin fisher reporting live in washington. kristin? >> we're talking about the dna kits like ancestry and 23 and me where you swab the inside of your mouth, mail it in and get the dna. the kits have led to the rise of forensic genetic genealogy. it's a new technique that connects dna found at a crime scene with the dna of the victim or the suspect's distant relatives. they have created public profiles on those websites.

the technique led to the arrest of joseph james deangelo. the man believed to be the golden state killer responsible for possibly 13 murders in more than 50 rapes in the 70s and 80s. as you might imagine, it's raised some serious privacy concerns. that's why the department of justice is announcing this new policy. the department put out a statement that reads forensic, genetic genealogy gets us that much closer to solving the formerly unsolvable. now, the new policy includes guidelines for law enforcement on the criteria that a case must meet in order to use this type of technique and how it can be used to generate leads for unsolved crime. an interesting point, shep. a similar technique is also being used to crack down on medicare fraud and even illegal immigration. ice have used it to find people that are related but the dna

doesn't match. this is only the beginning how this could be used and will be used in the future, shep. >> shepard: kristin fisher with a look ahead. thank you. saudi arabia is now going to allow foreign tourists for the first time ever. the kingdom relaxing their rules for visitors and allowing women that visit the country to wear what they want as long as its modest. the kingdom's dress code has required women including tourists to wear head to toe robes. but no longer. though women still have to stay covered from shoulders to knees. including at the beach. the saudis also say they will sell visas for $120. saudi arabia's public image took a brutal beating after the murder of jamal khaishoggi. prince harry following the foot steps of his money by walking

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>> shepard: washington is joining several other states in banning the sale of flavored vape products following growing numbers of people getting sick and some dying after vaping. the governor there in washington directing the board of health to make it official when they meet next month. this as the cdc focuses its investigation on vape product containing thc. the ingredient in marijuana that gets you high. health officials in oregon say a 13th person has now died from an illness associated with vaping on e cigarette use and more than 800 people have gotten sick according to the cdc. jonathan serrie reporting live. >> hi, shep. the washington state ban includes flavored thc products. the governor says his executive order is necessary to bring some accountability to a completely

unregulated industry. listen. >> this is a giant hole in the ability to protect the public health of our citizens. so vaping products and e cigarettes must be regulated and not marketed to our children. >> shep, for years public health officials have been warning that flavors like popcorn and cotton candy make vaping products appealing to kids and that's why you see efforts by the trump administration, some individual states including washington state today joining efforts trying to place bans on these flavored vaping products, shep. >> shepard: as far as the illnesses go, the cdc still haas president been able to nail down what is behind this, right? >> yeah, they are still looking and federal health officials tide say there may not just be a single source of illness, but there may be multiple sources. that's because these vaping products are made of multiple ingredients. they often come from various

sources. the cdc does believe that thc products play a role in the outbreak. 77% of patients interviewed reporting using them. public health departments in illinois and wisconsin did a deep dive investigation to where people are getting their thc and vaping products. most came from street dealers and friends which makes tracing them harder. no single brand was reported by all patients. prefilled cartridges under dank vape was the most common. it was used by 2/3s of the patients surveyed in wisconsin and illinois. >> shepard: all right. jonathan serrie in atlanta. thank you. scientists say extremely small pieces of plastic may be turning up in your cup of tea. that's according to a new study out published in the environmental science and technology journal. researchers say plastic tea bags break down in boiling water releasing more than, get this,

11 billion microplastics and 3 billion nano plastics. they say that is more than 1,000 times higher than other foods. unclear how micro plastics affect humans. for now scientists say it's best to avoid using plastic tea bags. jonathan hunt reporting live with more. jonathan? >> shep, a lot of things we drink have micro plastics. it's not unusual and not necessarily bad for us. what is unusual is the shear amount of micro plastics that we ingest every time we use one of those plastic tea bags. about 16 micro grams for each mug of tea according to this study. that's thousands of times higher from the .005 micro grams like table salt. that is generally considered to have a high micro plastic content. we know from studies that a lot of micro plastics going into our oceans and getting into the food

supply that way. now we know that at least when it comes to these plastic tea bags, we're ingesting a great deal directly or those the reports say more research has to be done to determine what that might be doing to our health, shep. >> shepard: a new u.n. report says we're at a dangerous point on climate change. >> yeah, the report released this week says waters are rising, ice is melting and that has made you're implications for every species on the planet including humans according to the report. sea levels rising 1/7 inches every year. ice melt accelerated accelerated from 2015. we're losing 720 billion tons of ice per year and the arctic snow comfortable in june shrunk more than half since 1967. one million square miles of snow cover has been lost. in the words of one of the

reports lead authors, professor michael oppenheimer, he said "the oceans and icy parts of the world are in big trouble and that means we're in big trouble, too." but there's a counter argue. a different group of scientists writing to the u.n. secretary general this week in a letter titled "there is no climate emergency" saying the scientific models used to study client change are unfit for their purpose. eventually shep, we'll find out whether the alarmists or the optimists were right. shep? >> shepard: thanks, jonathan. crying in court. the former police officer accused of killing her neighbor breaks down on the stand. and a massive bull elk -- look at this -- charging a crowd of people in colorado. wildlife officials have a warning. so perhaps a little late.

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>> shepard: breaking news now on fox news channel. remember this boat fire from labor day? a diving boat called the conception? it burned and killed 34 people on labor day. here's the update. investigators have been examining that boat and just finished examining what is left of the boat and found no cause for that fire. the origin of this fire that killed 34. still a mystery with the investigation of the boat stopped. the former high school cheerleader that was acquitted of killing her newborn turned down a plea deal and took a chance at dodging life in prison. that's what her parents said with an interview with "48 hours" on cbs. brooke skylar richardson was charged with aggravated murder. a jury found her not guilty on

all charges except corpse abuse. a judge sentenced her to three years probation for that. her parents telling cbs that prosecutors offered to drop the aggravated murder charge in exchange nor a guilty plea and 15 years in prison. she took the risk and went to trial. the dallas couple accused of killing her neighbor when she went into the wrong apartment took the stand. amber guyger collapsing in tears as she described what happened on that night. casey stegall reporting live from the courthouse. casey? >> shepard, she had shown emotion in court before especially listening as she made the frantic 911 call that night after realizing she was not in her apartment and that she had just shot an innocent man. the tears really started flowing today once evidence from the night was pulled out. september of last year. her department issued police gear, her bulletproof vest and

then the service weapon that she used. testifying that she fired off two shots because she thought 26-year-old botham jean was burglarizing her apartment and was a threat. listen. >> i hate myself. every single day. i feel i don't deserve a chance to be with my family and friends. [inaudible] i took an innocent person's life. >> the former cop was the that she gave verbal commands like show me your hands prior to firing the weapon. the prosecution refuted that with a string of witnesses. neighbors from the apartment complex that say they never heard commands prior to the shooting. >> shepard: casey stegall, thank you. so we ran out of time to show you the bull elk that went charging on people. we'll have that on facebook

watch in a few minutes. the final bell is ringing on wall street. down day on concerns about china trade. have a fantastic weekend. shepard smith. fox news. >> we're going to move as quickly as we can. >> this is expeditious. >> i want to see the committee through to a full investigation. >> we will have a calendar from the arbiter but we do -- there's -- it doesn't have to drag on. >> neil: no need to worry about dragging on. what is the need for speed? democrats pushing for a quick impeachment probe. looking to wrap up hearings before the holidays. why the big rush? big show. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. mike emanuel on capitol hill where it looked like