>> it was not too long ago that democrats were predicting a recession in 2020 that could have derailed. and the editorial page it calling a blowout jobs report which shows the economy is helping lift in the lower classes. and maybe it's more likely that they could beat the president at the ballot box. this is america's news headquarters, i'm ed menry. we begin with a possible terror attack in florida.

on the weekend that we mark 78 years sips the attack on pearl harbor. you'll hear later this hour from a special 98-year-old pearl harbor vet who is sharing his moving story now because he's suffering from bone cancer. stand by for the touching tribute. and breaking news, a student that the president got released from iran. we begin with family mourning at the naval air station. the fbi is investigating whether it's terror related. a shooter opened fire killing three people, wounding eight others before being shot dead by officers. now the fbi is probing whether it's islamic terror, fbi is combing through evidence. >> their work is going to be methodical and it will not and cannot be rushed. they have only one chance to get

this right and this is what we owe to the families. ed: we are all over this story this hour. pennsylvania congressman guy what's next. >> six saudi nationals were detained questioning this shooting. the new york times quoting a source that was apparently briefed on the investigation saying that three of the six were seen shooting video of the events unfolding here in pensacola on friday. and a senior u.s. official also tells fox news that the gunman was an aviation student from saudi arabia. his name mohammed sayed al-shamrani. and there was a critique of u.s. policy in the middle east hours before the gunman opened fire on

the base and killing three and injuring eight before police fatally shot the suspect. officials want to know how the individual got through the vetting process to study with the military on u.s. soil. >> what i'm most interested in as we get to the bottom of this, was this a deliberate infiltration on the part of al-qaeda or isis as part of the a planned effort or was this more of a one-off radicalization? >> saudi arabian officials send condolences and reaffirm, relationship with the u.s. the prince said i was trained on a military base to fight side by side with. and one of them overnight was released from the operate and the other overnight underwent surgery and is expected to

recover and be released from the hospital within the next few days, ed, back to you. ed: thank you for that report. defense secretary mark esper put out a statement, i want to make sure we're doing our due diligence, what are the procedures and screening people coming in to make sure they have their life in order. and coming in, guy reschenthaler. >> thank you for having me on. ed: and let's talk about vetting and we have partnerships as i understand it with over 100 countries supposed to be allies like saudi arabia where we train some of their military pilots and others. you've searched in the military as we noted. do we need to step up vetting to make sure we're geg the best and brightest. >> we do need to increase our vetting process. i don't want to speculate, but taking a step back when we train

with members of foreign militaries, it's good for us and around the globe. i was just in taiwan on a naval destroyer and one went to the united states and we should increase our vetting process especially when they're coming from nations that have histories of terrorism like saudi arabia. ed: let's stay on saudi arabia. we hear that, as you just heard jonathan report, it's not just the shooter being a saudi pilot, but then there are six others from saudi arabia held and detained and three of them according to the new york times were filming this attack. that makes you wonder whether or not think were getting ready to put together some terrorist propaganda. what -- how does that square for you? dos that raise some eyebrows? >> so i prosecuted terrorists when i was in the navy. i prosecuted terrorists in iraq and clearly, if you have a group that's filming the terrorist attack as it's going ton, that is for propaganda. one of the ways that they

recruit, one of the ways they propagate our hate against us is putting these videos online. clearly that's going on. look, i am somewhat speculating because we're getting the facts in. to me, why else would you record a shooting if you don't want to propagate. if you don't want to have propaganda on afterwards. ed: i understand your caution, we don't want to get ahead of the facts. we have stephanie grisham, she made that clear as well. the president wants the facts to come in and we don't want to get ahead of the fbi and others investigating. the signs are troubling and the florida governor, ran desantis, had this to say. >> the government of saudi arabia have to make it good for these victims and there's a debt here to the individuals. ed: and there are questions going back to the 9/11 attacks and 9/11 families saying they're

still suing the saudi government. they want basically them to pay up and now you have the governor of florida an ally of the president, saying saudi arabia has to do more here. what say you? >> well, i agree with governor desantis, he and i served in the jag corps together. if saudi arabia had knowledge, then we knead need to look and see if they did, if the individual was radicalized, whether he was radicalized in the united states or before he came to pensacola. ed: okay. i'm sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you, congressman. we're going to have you back in a minute to dive deep on impeachment as well. currently right now my colleague jennifer griffin is out at the reagan defense forum we're a big part of and interviewing a top military official and let's dip in live and get a flavor. >> the fact that we had an incident this same week in pearl harbor at the ship yard and then

generally 48 hours later in texas-- i'm sorry, in florida that we are right now approaching those investigations very, very carefully so that we're consistent in how we look at both events so we don't rule anything in or rule anything out. it's to early in my opinion -- again, i haven't seen the breaking news that you're referring to to draw those types of conclusions. >> general goldstein, there's more money in the defense budget to expand training foreign military. what would be the affect if you canceled those programs. there will be questions whether this is a good idea and whether we're able to screen well enough? >> i'd say the biggest impact will be on our allies and partners and interoperatorability. that's an asymmetric advantage that we bring, we have allies and partners and many of our adversaries don't.

so my biggest concern would be that we would walk away from those key relationships from folks that we know we need when we go into combat. >> and general, we referenced-- >> that's the defense forum at the reagan library in california. that's my colleague jennifer griffin. we have officials weighing in on the attack. and if there's more news we'll dip back in there. we want to thank congressman reschenthaler who will be back in a moment. in the meantime, a fox news alert, the house judiciary committee moments ago released a brand new report, what it's calling constitutional grounds for impeachment. that's coming from the democrats. and the house committee telling jerry nadler it's not participating in the next hearing going forward. they're planning to layout evidence in the case.

our correspondent david spunt is on capitol hill. i understand there are rehearseals going on behind you ahead of monday's hearing. >> absolutely, ed. good afternoon, a working saturday on capitol hill going on in the longworth building, everybody has seen the hearings taking place the past few weeks. a few feet from where i'm standing. and the house judiciary going over and rehearsing some of the hearing taking place monday. look at it like opening arguments in a criminal trial. that's when they'll get the report from the intelligence committee and then hear from folks in the intelligence committee and go forward with the judiciary committee. chairman jerry nadler of the house judiciary committee he was here along with other members and he didn't want to stop and talk, he said today is going to be a long day we're told tomorrow is going to be a long day as the rehearsals continue. >> nancy pelosi made the announcement she's going forward with the articles of impeachment.

>> the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our election. >> now, thursday morning's announcement came as some on capitol hill the speaker would push impeachment until after the new year into 2020, but republicans felt the president was under attack from the day he took office. white house secretary with you earlier this morning on fox news. >> the whole thing is a sham and it's go the to stop. it's clearly not going to and if it does move to the senate we look forward to that, because it will be fair. >> late friday, the president's in-house council pat cipollone, said the white house was invited to call witnesses, and he said it's baseless and violated due process and fundamental fairness. ed, that report, the staff report from house judiciary on the constitutional grounds of

impeachment just released about 15, 20 minutes ago, i'm going to take a look at it, but again, members here with house judiciary rehearsing today and also tomorrow for that hearing which starts monday morning at 9 a.m., ed. ed: if you get any more nuggets in that report feel free to let us know. david spunt with that. let's go back to congressman guy reschenthaler, i didn't mean to interrupt you. your military service enabled us to talk about pensacola. let's talk about the fact you're on the house judiciary committee. how do you feel about what david just reported. we don't know what they're going to present on monday. they haven't released a lot of details. >> we've been kept in dark this entire time, not only the american public, but the vast majority of the members of congress. adam schiff held these meetings in secret in the basement of the capitol. and the fact that the president is not afforded due process is

disturbing. i think it's been a pre-determined outcome from the beginning and it's a political hit job. ed: congressman on that point, you say that the president hasn't gotten due process rights. jerry nadler, the democratic chairman is saying he's offering that, he's saying bring up the white house counsel and rudy guiliani and mr. president, if you want to come up, how is that not due process. >> it's completely disingenuous. the outcome was predetermined and the time for the president to call exculpatory witnesses, and witnesses that the democrats would not bring out, were in the secret hearings in the basement. capitol and now saying that the president can call his witnesses. we cannot call our own witnesses and to call this a judicial proceeding where it's fair and neutral is a joke. it's a political hit job and politics is driving this entire process. ed: quick last question, you is

a you stephanie grisham was on fox and friends earlier, here is what she said is not going done in congress right now, watch. >> you know what is this that's up to nancy pelosi. that should have been done a long time ago. we are hoping that it will go through. there's many things sitting on her desk that should be going through. instead she's playing silly games at detriment to the american people. ed: congressman, she's talking about usmca, that could be in your district and in the country. what do you wish that congress was doing. >> months ago we should have passed usmca, good for american workers and farmers and passing free trade agreements all over the globe to make sure we're winning the trade war with china. we also could be doing something to lower the cost of prescription drugs. we could be doing something near and dear to my heart, criminal justice reform. there's a lot the bipartisan things we can do unfortunately we're wasting time with impeachment and we still yet to pass a budget. we've still yet to fund the military.

this is very problematic, ed. ed: big issues indeed and you'll be able to take those to the voters and nancy pelosi going to the voters she says she's trying to hold the president accountable. thank you for coming in. >> thank you, ed. ed: ahead, get the democrats's response to noancy pelosi's call to impeachment. and stick with fox news all afternoon. special anchor bret baier will go one on one with mark esper from the forum in california. that's live at 2:45 eastern and it will also stream on fox nation. stay with us.

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from the iowa caucuses. 2020 democratic hopefuls continue to make their case to the voters in the hawk eye state. we're all over it. a lot of events in this hour. in a few hours, democrats candidates, joe biden, bernie sanders, pete buttigieg expected to take the stage in a teamsters meeting. and out there on the ground, what's going on there today? >> nobody lets me inside. i think that's what we're learning, so the building behind me, that's where the teamster event is going to take place in a few hours. as you said, a lot of big candidates here today. of course, union blue collar voters, they're an important voting block. they helped president trump win the white house back in 2016. for decades they were considered a core part of the democratic base. president trump changed that a little bit and democrats, they want those voters back. every democratic candidate has

plans put out union specific issues. there's broad hope raising the minimum wage to $15. and candidates leading in iowa, buttigieg, biden, sanders. they diverge on health care. and three of the candidates, buttigieg, sanders and biden, they'll be here today so union voters, they matter to every single candidate. democrats have appeared on picket lines and consistently argue that president trump made promises specific to union families and then failed to keep them from the trade war, to idled factories. last year general motors announced plans to close plants in michigan, iowa-- in michigan, ohio and maryland, excuse me. and one in lordstown, ohio and that's where a year prior at a rally, the president promised that jobs were coming back to the community. late this week, gm announced they're opening a new plant in the lordstown area and plan to

create 1100 jobs. it's a political win for president trump, but democrats still say big picture, trump has hurt union families and union workers far more than they've helped them. that's the argument that we expect the democratic candidates to make as they try to layout differences at their programs geared at union families and workers and those are other democratic 2020 hopefuls. ed: vice-president biden if you're watching from the malarky, let this woman in. and in 2004, the democratic d democratic, and joining me is congressman who endorsed the former veep. please tell me, by the way, we have a live town hall, we were

going to show our viewers of former vice-president biden, and he had an exchange about hunter biden and tell me why you're endorsing him. >> we don't have time to learn on the job. vice-president biden's 36 years in the senate, eight years as vice-president, gives him that experience to hit the ground running on day one, you know, we've seen our allies, you know, frustrated with us, we've seen our adversaries in power and we've got to restore the americ american-- >> we're going to get to the news overnight, president trump helped to secure the release of an american hostage, iran respects what the president is doing and the economy if you saw what the jobs report was yesterday, the economy seems to be roaring right now. what part of peace and

prosperity isn't good for democrats rights now. >> let me applaud president trump for securing the release of the hostage. that said, disparaging institutions like n.a.t.o., empowering russia, our adversaries like turkey and others, you know, that probably isn't the right direction and i don't feel like we should be withdrawing from the world. i think we can certainly think about how we reengage with the world, but let's do this with american leadership and again, i think vice-president biden shows us that leadership. ed: all right. we started this program with the republican colleague of yours, i want to give you a fair shot. here is another republican, matt gates talking about the impeachment process and i want you to hear that and give awe fair shot to listen. >> there's a trampling of rights had a goes far beyond the trump presidency, it speaks to our powers, and civil liberties. democrats used to claim that they were the party of civil liberties, and that's before

donald trump was elected because they'll do anything to tear apart of the president. ed: and referring to devin nunes and rudy guiliani, react to big picture. where are we on impeachment? >> i'm not thrilled that we're going down this path of impeachment, but the president left us with very little recourse, we've been trying to do our responsibilities. why he was putting a hold on aid approved and authorized for ukraine. that's our job, we have to ask the questions, who made that decision. the president ought to take up the judiciary committee and have counsel there. he ought to let mick mulvaney come and testify and secretary pompeo testify. if those folks who were in the room can clear it, great, let's clear the president. he's blocking all of those requests into congressman, we certainly appreciate you coming in and thanks and have a wonderful weekend, sir. >> ed, thanks. ed: and the release --

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>> well, breaking overnight an american student now headed home after being held in an iranian prison more than three years. the release of wong is an example of rare cooperation between the u.s. and iran. our own rich edson is following it. >> good afternoon, ed. in germany under a medical investigation and will hopefully be on his way to the united states. this unfolded last evening when

a u.s. negotiating team led by the special representative from iran brian hook, conducted that prisoner swap with iranian officials. they secured him and he's a graduate student at princeton, he was studying persian history when he was arrestedment he was charged with espionage, sentenced to 10 years in prison. the u.s. maintains the charges are bogus. his wife says our family is complete once again. our son and i are excited to be reunited and we're thankful to everyone who helped make this happen. the zurich exchange involved an iranian doctors arrested in chicago. he was expected to be appearing in court next week and they

defended the prisoner swap saying they paid no money and the u.s. sanctions campaign against the iranian regime continues. and the president will welcome hem them to the white house though nothing now is scheduled. ed: thanks for that report. joining me now for more than this live is representative chris smith from new jersey and represents a neighboring counties where the student lives. what's your reaction? you know this family and talk about the joy they must be feeling before christmas? >> i talked to hip and-- him and his wife, she's ecstatic. last year, may, 2018, i conveyed to the white house a letter, and she said, please, mr. president, you are our hope and we're counting on you. well, that hope is well-placed the. the president and his team, including brian hook and robert o'brien did a magnificent job of

releasing this innocent man from princeton held on trumped up charges. ed: this is a broader context and the president may not get credit for from his critics, but we've seen prisoners released from north korea. and we had a democrat on who said that the president is not respected around the world, but when he's getting prisoners released, what does that mean? >> he's showing that they're -- i asked around may of 2018, secretary pompeo at fair affairs committee about mr. wang and he launched into a magnificent defense of him and they're working tenaciously so often behind the scenes to ensure his release. the president should get credit for so many things he's done with regards to human rights particularly of americans. ed: congressman, we were going to have you in and we will in a

moment, about your bill dealing with uber and lyft, a lot of fears people have with assaults. we'll get to that in a minute and stand by for the break. and new progress with the veterans after the house veterans affairs committee pass add bill that expanded options for those with mental health challenges. our next guest is a member of that committee and we're proud he's here. andy barr from kentucky joins me live. we're going to get to impeachment. we have a embarrassin embarrass of republicans and democrats here today. and talking about mental health, that's not talked about enough. >> well, we passed a landmark piece of legislation in the last congress. and the president signed that into law called the mission act. this is going to open up community care options for many of our veterans with that scandal of delays and waiting lists. that's being implemented right

now and that's a huge benefit to many of our veterans seeking care in the community outside of the va. more choices and faster access to specialized care and primary care, but in the case of veteran suicide, this is something that we need to focus on immediately and urgently. we still see 20 or over 20 of our heroes taking their own lives every single day in this country, and what we've come to understand through our oversight in the house veterans affairs committee is that 14 of those 20 do not have any interaction with the va health care system in the last two years, so just merely throwing more money at the va is not the solution. what we need to do and general bergman, the highest ranking officer in congress, the veterans improved act. and what the bill will do is provide grants to community baized. >> 0s not necessarily affiliated

with the va, but veteran services organizations who have better access to veterans. ed: important help we need to get to. let's quickly get to impeachment, an important subject. i is a you tweeting this morning the wall street journal editorial at the top of the show about how the economy is roaring right now. is this why your democratic colleagues are pushing so hard. al green said months ago we can't beat them at the-- >> we had 260,000 jobs added last month. economic wealth is growing. and the president's economic policies are producing results for the american people and nevertheless, democrats remain obsessed with reversing the will of the american people. ed: quick, you responded to respond to your democratic colleague with ukrainian aid. >> this idea that it was somehow improper or inappropriate for the president to withhold aid is absurd in the las five years

congress passed four times legislation not only to allow the president to withhold aid or seek assurances from the government of ukraine it was countering corruption, but we affirmatively mandated the president to do so. ed: so you wanted those strings attached essentially. >> the bottom line, they're trying to impeach a president to follow the laws that they themselves voted for. schiff and pelosi voted for the laws. the 2014 freedom act, requires the president to seek reassurances. he was not acting in his personal political interest he was working in the action of the people of america-- >> you're making a case. go wildcats. and are they doing enough, uber and lyft, and they reported

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>> well, as we mentioned, ride share companies underfire right now. drivers of uber and lyft accused of thousands of sexual assaults and revealing more than 3,000. and nine murders and 54 deaths. >> and the connecticut police chief and public safety director at sacred heart university and bringing back congressman chris smith. >> good to see you. ed: i want to put on the screen a picture of samantha josephson, a student, and i've got to know her parents, seymour and marcy. she was one of your constituents. this wasn't an uber driver, it was somebody pretending to be an

uber driver who picked her up at school and tragically murdered her. you've gotten involved and new jersey passed a law and now you want congress-- >> it's called sammy's law inspired by samantha. her parents have been tenacious and helped us write the law and they came down with virtually every person in leadership on the house of the senate, two full days of meetings, everybody was empathetic and now we've got to get the bill passed. ed: some of this is transparency, because you had somebody pre trending to be an uber driver and it's late at night. >> verify your ride before you open and get into the back seat. to make sure that's the driver, the uber, lyft that you've asked for. secure code or a number, especially a number for people who are blind or disabled, especially for the blind, they work or the act provision and we've found, unfortunately, a great deal of obstacles coming

from the ride share industry. ed: unfortunately. >> you've got to verify that ride. that's not the beginning and end of all protections, but make sure that that back seat safer today. ed: and i want to bring in gary, but bring in uber and lyft, counting, confronting and taking action to end sexual assault. my heart is with all the survivors of this all too pervasive crime and we take a step forward today with this report. gary what more needs to be done. it's one thing to put out a report. how do you have real accountability. >> first of all, it's shocking numbers. this is a company and we can't minimize the fact that they have a lot of rides, but the numbers are really, really high. kudos for them putting this out and the actions taking against drivers if there's anything inappropriate. if a student reports a behavior that a driver took, what action is taken because we know that in

a sexual assault case, they don't report it to the police unless the victim wants it and that may be appropriate, but at the same time, they still know about it. what investigation do they do against their drivers. ed: and so many of us get into the cars without thinking about the issues. i've got a son in college and he uses lyft all the time. and here is lyft court case in san francisco, plaintiffs making these allegations, listen. >> they don't care about their customers, they only care about their profit. lyft demonstrated that when they ignored my assault. there was no apology, no phone calls for e-mails, no response. i was left physically beaten, bruised and cut as well as emotionally scarred that night. at no point was i notified by lyft that this man was taken off this platform. ed: congressman, these are horrifying stories. >> and just like sammy, who was brutally murdered, we've tried to get both the companies and the other ride share companies to support the bill. we need comprehensive,

predictable policies in place, yes, they come up with this or that and that report was certainly a step in the right direction, but reported that 19 people died through physical assault in uber cars. that is a huge number of-- >> we want to be fair, there's a broader context, they do hundreds of thousands of rides. but you can't main mies the tragedy that happens. >> you can't. the sacred heart university students are teaming up with sammy, simple, stop, assist, make sure you know who the driver is and take that into account. verify the information, you match it. stop, assess, match the information to confirm it and then inform others. and that's the key. we have to be safe and practice that safety in cooperation with legislation. ed: good advice. >> and the signs, you can buy a sign on amazon who says you're an uber driver ar or a lyft driver and you're not. ed: check out the congressman's

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well, this is a fox news alert. an update on the saudi national who opened fire on a base in florida, citing a u.s. official the shooter hosted a dinner party to watch mass shooting videos the night before this fatal attack. and that he posted an anti-american manifesto online. fox news has not independently confirmed that part of the story, but we'll stay on top of this all afternoon. in the meantime, we want to talk about baseball, my final sport. a final chance for some to join the hall of fame in cooperstown in the modern hall of fame ballot. thurmon munson played 11 seasons

in pinstripes until he died in a plane crash. and joining me ray. >> great to be here. ed: you were friends with thurmon monson and i was eight years old in my swimming pool and learned about him dying. you said he was a great person. >> i think about diana and the daughters and thurmon all he wanted to do was to go home. i use today love to drive him to the airport because i would have my alone time and get to know him and i would have 0 had his cadillac for a week, a puerto rican kid driving around a cadillac. thank you, sir. he was an incredible man. ed: he died in a plane crash. you're referring to, when he had an off day he was learning to fly himself and get home to ohio because he wanted to be with with his family. >> we would be in boston, he would be in boston and he would say where are you? and he would call me, i'm home this and that, okay, come on up,

i would drive up to boston, me and my friend, hector. he would jump in the car after the game. we would drive from boston to teterboro so he could jump on the plane and fly home to be with the family. that was thurmon munson. ed: he had an amazing run and you can check out a piece kevin kironen wrote and some stats they might not meet the stats for cooperstown. they like compiling stats, but you say. >> i thank kevin kernen, because the analytics say he's a hall of famer. states that he reached five or six guys are in the hall of fame and the fact that he was the all-time pull season hitter and i didn't want to come here to talk about that because kevin hit it, but at the same time, i've got to thank neil diamond for his friendship. ed: why is that? >> his friendship to thurmon monson.

he idolized him. ed: and that's why we played the song "i am". >> and his wife talks about that and neil diamond, thurmon was supposed to go on tour with him and if diana would have given him permission. ed: she would have given him permission. he died in august of 1979. and some may get the call. why thurmon? >> i witnessed the beauty of the man, who he was, he was a hall of fame guy and when the kids go to cooperstown, they say daddy, granddad, who was he? they're going to say one of the greatest men you will ever know in life. ed: we'll find out tomorrow. ray, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. ed: when we come back, a tribute to survivors and fallen heroes of pearl harbor.

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♪ ed: today we remember one of the darkest days in our nation's history. we mark 78 years since the attack on pearl harbor, more than 23400 americans -- 2400 americans killed. one sur or viefer now sharing his memories of that horrible day. >> the sky is full of planes, a roar of planes. and then the first bombs went off on the ramp. now we know we're in the attack. and all the whole harbor is full of fire because of the oil. yeah, i got cancer of the bone, and i am on the way out. so this is why i wanted to tell all this story right now because it'll never be told again. ed: wow. well, we want his story to be told, and we want to remember

always. there will be a ceremony later today as we honor and remember our fallen heroes. that does it for me, i'll see you tomorrow on "fox & friends," 6-10 a.m. eastern, then right back here at noon. ♪ ♪ >> an american graduate studenting is coming home after being in an iranian president for three years, stopping at a u.s. air force base in germany today before making his way back to the united states. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, i'm kristin fisher. leland: you know, i've had an opportunity, as you have, to cover a couple of these homecomings. it is so emotional and so special when you look at those photographs and you see them finally realize they're free. kristin: especially for the family that's been waiting for three years.

pretty incredible. leland: and then you think about families with hostages overseas. i'm leland vittert. wang was first detained while doing research in iran for his ph.d.. his release comes as part of a prisoner exchange, drawing big distinction between this and the within that happened under the obama administration. rich edson at the white house with the latest on all of that. hi, rich. >> reporter: good afternoon, leland. a senior u.s. official says wang is in germany and that he's doing very well and will soon be on his way back to the united states. president trump tweeting, quote: taken during the obama administration despite $150 billion gift, returned during the trump administration. thank you to iran on a very fair negotiation. see, we can make a deal together. senior administration officials said the u.s. is hopeful this could lead to momentum in leading to the release of other americans held in iran. the u.s. official said an american team including state

department iran envoy met for iran last night to meet with officials. they secured wang, flew him to germany, and he'll come back soon to the united states. 's a graduate student at princeton university, he was studying persian history in iran when he was arrested in august of 2016 is. iranian authorities charged him with espionage, sentenced him to ten years in prison. the u.s. maintained charges against wang were bogus n. a at the same time his wife says, quote: our family is complete once again. our son and i have waited three long years for this day, and it's hard to express in words how excited we are to be reunited. we are thankful to everyone who helped make this happen. the zurich prisoner exchange also involved ma assumed sulemani, an iranian doctor arrested in chicago for violating iranian sanctions. he was expected to appear in court next week and then be released soon under a plea agreement. the senior administration if

official defended the swap saying the u.s. paid no money for wang's release, and the sanctions campaign against the iranian regime continues. officials say the negotiations really intensified over the past 3-4 weeks and that the president would like to host wang and his family at the white house though nothing yet has been scheduled. leland and kristin, back to you. leland: rich edson's at the white house. the president is headed out to florida in an hour and a half or so, we'll see if he has anything to say. kristin: well, american intelligence officials say the saudi military student suspected of killing three people at naval air station pensacola appears to have acted alone, but more people have been arrested, and jacqui heinrich is live in pensacola with the very latest. till a lot of questions about motive, right? >> reporter: certainly this morning, kristin. the associated press is reporting ten saudi students are being held at the base for questioning, and several other are still unaccounted for. they're reporting the shooter held a dinner party the night before to watch videos of mass

shootings, also saying one student was recording outside the building as that shooting happened. now, the fbi this morning saying it's a very fluid thing at this time, but some lawmakers are drawing their own conclusions. congressman devin nuñes on fox this morning. >> well, it has all indications of terror, so clearly this person was likely radicalized. i think all your law enforcement has to wait to get the facts, and i think that's what the white house is waiting to do too. >> reporter: we know the shooter, mohamed save yield al-shamrani, was training with the u.s. military here in pensacola, one of a few hundred foreign pilots that train the here each year. defense secretary mark esper calling for a review of the screening process. right now the department of defense has more than 5,000 foreign students from 153 countries training with the military on american soil. the dod noting those students

are vetted before coming to the u.s. today the community is grieving together as a vigil, family members identifying one of the victims who was killed, joshua kalew watson, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the u.s. naval academy. his brother wrote on facebook: after being shot multiple times, he made it outside and told the first response team where the shooter was, and those details were invaluable. he died a hero, and we are beyond proud, but there is a hole in our hearts that can never be filled. one deputy who was wounded in the shootout was released from the hospital this morning. seven others are still recovering from their injuries. kristin? kristin: jacqui heinrich, thanks. leland? leland: all right. democratic maryland congressman, vice chair of the house armed services committee also a retired colonel in the u.s. army reserve, anthony brown joins us from the reagan defense forum, simi valley, california, where there's obviously a lot of discussion about this going on right now. congressman, appreciate you being with us. do you agree with the assessment

of some of your colleagues that this was terrorism? >> yeah, leland, in fact, i just left a panel discussion with all of the chiefs of the various services, army, air force, navy, marines. the question was asked of them do you believe this was a terrorist attack, and they -- like i -- caution not to jump to any conclusions. the fbi has this case, they're scrutinizing it closely. but whether it's ultimately characterized as a terrorist attack or not, i think we can all agree that it inflicted terror. i mean, the idea that a saudi national on a u.s. military base gunned down, killed three americans, that's tragedy thetic, and it's, it is a terror in those commitments. but in terms of the formal definition, we will hear from the authorities how it's characterized. leland: as you've talked to these folks in this forum and other places, was this somebody who was a self-contained person, a lone wolf with terrorist tendencies or whether it be

somebody who just sort of snapped and went on this mass shooting, or as we heard this report from jacqui that, apparently, he watched mass shooting videos the night before, etc., etc. there was this alleged manifesto. any idea if this went broader than just him? was this some type of sleeper agent, some type of longstanding plot? >> and, again, that issue was raised and addressed this morning. it's way too early to tell right now whether this was part of a sleeper cell, whether this self-radicalized individual was acting as a lone wolf and the full extent of any cooperation or support. so the fbi's got it, and we'll learn more -- leland: you're confident in that. the president tweeted yesterday what the king of saudi arabia said, this person, the shooter in no way, shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american peel. the president -- people. the president seems to take the

king of saudi arabia at face value on this. do you? >> yeah, look, i can accept that this shooter does not represent all of the residents of the kingdom of saudi arabia. having said that, i will also use this opportunity to voice my concerns with the kingdom and their treatment of, for example, "the washington post" reporter, khashoggi, their indiscriminate bombing and killing of innocent men if, women and children in yemen. so there's a lot that we need to be concerned -- leland: so politico has a headline about this, says the saudis' role in florida naval base shooting poses a new threat to the alliance. based on what i'm hearing you say, you kind of view this as emblematic of a problematic relationship? fair? >> no. i think that we've got a relationship problem with saudi arabia. while they are a partner, much of their conduct doesn't represent our values. now, whether this particular

incident can be related to that, again, i think we've got to see what the fbi uncovers and discovers. and to what extent saudi arabia cooperates with the fbi in the underlying investigation. leland: yeah. there have been a couple of statements by them that they say they will cooperate fully, although as we know with the saudis, that can have a lot of meanings -- >> yeah. words mean one thing -- [inaudible conversations] leland: a little different. want to turn you to where you're at the reagan defense forum. one of the few bipartisan events really left in terms of republicans and democrats coming together to talk about the nation's defense and how best to do it. you're standing in front of an f-117 fighter. as we look at the defense authorization spending bill and what's going to happen, we have some numbers to put up. white house asked $708 billion, congress approved 2019, $708 billion. in fiscal year 2018, actually. there was a little bit more than what the white house requested. you guys going to be able to get

this done, or is politics once again going to take over in terms of the national defense interests? >> well, in terms of the authorization, the good news is this week, next week coming we will, in a bipartisan way, approve, vote for the conference committee on the defense authorization act. that's the underlying authorization for the equipment and the readiness and all the spending to sport our military war fighters and their families. and then, of course, the end of december, you know, we've got to get beyond this continuing resolution and have a full-year funding not just for the department of defense, but the entire federal government enterprise. leland: i hear hope and not a lot of confidence. >> look, it's hard to say. it's hard to say, it really is. i mean, there's a lot going on if on capitol hill -- leland: yeah, no kidding. [laughter] >> no kidding. i'm committed to full funding, ready to support it. not only an increase in defense spending, but also in some other priorities like in health, in the environment, in diplomacy,

in development aid around the world -- leland: some restrictions also. >> a lot of priorities, and the military's one. leland: yeah. some restrictions in terms of what that money for defense may or may not be able to be used for. congressman, we appreciate it. we're going to check back out there, we know you've got a busy day. appreciate you spending a few minutes with us, sir. >> thanks. leland: all the best. kristin? kristin: well, house democrats are moving forward with the impeachment inquiry as the white house opts to not participate. democratic members of the house judiciary committee are meeting behind closed doors this weekend ahead of monday's hearing, and david spunt joins us from capitol hill with more on what we can expect. what's on tap, david? >> reporter: hi, kristin, it surely is. listen, two important things going on right now. the first is that house judiciary democrats, they put out a report about the constitutionally of inpeachment. several of those members here on the judiciary committee are here including chairman jerry nadler. we spotted him walking into the hearing room, preparing for a

hearing that's going to be taking place on monday. now, i asked him to comment, he said he expected it just to be a long day today, maybe we'll hear more later. other members quickly walking into that hearing room. today's the rehearsal, monday's the main event, that's when judiciary committee formally accepts the findings from other branches. think of it monday as opening arguments in a trial. i want to read part of this report that judiciary staff just put out about the constitutionality of impeachment. part of it says, quote: the framers authorized impeachment for a reason, and that reason would have been gutted if impeachment were limited to crimes. it is possible, of course, that the framers thought the common law rather than the federal statute would define criminal offenses. rl less than 48 hours ago, nancy pelosi announced she's moving forward with the articles of impeachment. >> the president has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our

national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections. >> reporter: thursday morning's announcement came as some on capitol hill believed maybe she would push this into the new year. republicans felt the president has always been under attack from the moment he came into the oval office. white house press secretary stephanie grisham this morning on fox news. >> we're not going to participate in a sham hearing that doesn't give him any rights. they get to choose all kinds of things. they keep moving the goalposts, moving the rules. >> reporter: late friday president's counsel announced the administration was not going to take part in the hearings. judiciary chairman jerry nadler, he invited the white house several times to send witnesses. won't happen, he wrote: your impeachment inquiry is completely baseless and has violated basic principles of due process and fundamental fairness. again, kristin, this hearing is set for monday. the house judiciary committee, and we could see articles of impeachment being written at

some point this week, this process seems to be moving, but there's really no template for it because this is a different situation than past impeachments from years ago. back to you. kristin: david spunt live on capitol hill, thanks. so so let's turn to republican georgia congressman and member of the house oversight me jody hice. let's start with the white house's recent decision, this announcement that it is not going to cooperate or participate in the house's impeachment inquiry. do you think that was the right call? >> yeah, actually, i do think that was the right call. you look at this whole process from the very beginning, it has been so unfair. the democrats have been the prosecutors, they have been the judges, they've been the ones, the only ones who have been allowed to even submit witnesses to to the table. we still are waiting to have a minority hearing which we have been refused. so we've not been able to call any of our witnesses. this has been a one-sided witch hunt from the very beginning. and as we all know from the day

he was inaugurated, the attempt has been to impeach him. and so this is just a witch hunt, is all it is. and the democrats lack evidence that there's any impeachable offense with this. and so i think for the president to say we're not going to participate is the right decision. kristin: the counterpoint to this, obviously, coming from chairman nadler. i want to pop up something he said just yesterday. quote: the american people deserve answers from president trump. having declined this opportunity, he cannot claim that the process is unfair. and, or you know, the other thing that i can't help but notice regardless of where you stand on whether or not there should or should not be an impeachment inquiry, a lot of people are watching these hearings. so by declining to be a part of this process, in a way isn't the white house robbing itself of an ability for, you know, somebody within the trump administration to defend the president? >> i don't think so. look, the president has been very cooperative in this. we have the transcript. for example, this whole issue,

you need look no further than the transcript itself to determine what happened. and in that transcript there is no quid pro quo. the president and the president of ukraine both said, he said that he was under no pressure, he was not aware of there being any quid pro quo following that phone call. there were 55 days in which there were five meetings between leadership of the ukrainian government and the u.s. government, and none of those five meetings was there any mention of a quid pro quo or any conditionality for the funds being released. and, of course, the funds were released. so, again, this is all based on hearsay, it's based on wishes. we are literally going through an impeachment process in which the democrats are seeking to impeach this president simply because they don't like him or they don't like his policies. that in itself is not an impeachable offense. kristin: so how to you see this playing out? you sound pretty convinced, you

going to be voting to impeach president trump, but any wiggle room with some of your other republican colleagues in either the house or the senate? >> i think it's totally united among the republican conference with this. this is not impeachable. this is an attempt, in fact, the attorney of the whistleblower himself used the word coup, that that the coup is underway. this is nothing but ap attempt to overturn the voters of 2016. 63 million voters, the democrats cannot accept the fact that donald trump won the white house,, and this is their attempt to get rid of him. what i hear in my district, what i hear across the board both in the republican conference and beyond, the american people are seeing through this. it is a sham, and they want it to come to an end. kristin: and, certainly, the american people would like to see more done on other issues other than impeachment. obviously, for some americans impeachment is very important, but others would like to see congress actually do some other things. do you see anything else getting done on capitol hill before

2020? >> you know, the focus of the democrats have been so much on this impeachment that they literally have shown capacity to govern. to legislate. and it is not only shameful, what the democrats have done in this impeachment process, but it is shameful what they have not done -- kristin: so let's get specific. right, usmca, any chance it passes before the end of the year? >> hey, how about -- well, there's talk finally, and up until this point there's not even been mention of it. but this past week we did start hearing some mention that there might be an attempt to get it through by the end of the year. how about funding the government? how about funding our military, for crying out loud? our national security is at risk as long as democrats remain focused on impeachment rather than the basic issues the american people have sent us to washington to do. kristin: all right. congressman, i've got to leave it there. i notice -- i love that you got all dressed up for us -- [laughter] on a saturday. you know, it's a saturday, i don't really have a horse in the race --

leland: go, dogs. >> thank you, go, dogs. [laughter] kristin: thanks so much. and for more, be sure to catch fox news sunday tomorrow, chris wallace has an interview with member of the house judiciary committee david cicilline. check your local listings for the time and channel. leland: check out these pictures from paris yet again today, why yellow vest protesters are back in the streets, what they're demanding and what this might mean for the french president when we come back. ♪ ♪

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28-year-old sergeant court plantenberg were conducting a maintenance test flight when they lost contact with air controllers. cause of the crash is still under investigation. ♪ ♪ kristin: protesters are creating quite a bit of protest in france, several strikes disrupting weekend travel all over the cub. ryan chilcote is live with more, and what are these demonstrators asking for. >> most of them want the government to back away from its plan to reform france's retirement system. but there are a lot of groups out there including the so-called yellow vests. there have been a few thousand yellow vest protesters out there today, most of them peaceful, i'd say, but you do get the occasional skirmish. police clearly trying to avoid conflict. broadly speaking, the yellow

vest protesters want more social programs. it's really just their most recent grievance. public transportation workers are also on strike, a lot of paris' subway and train stations are empty, and there are a lot of truckers striking as well. they're protesting a new hike in the cost of fuel. french president emmanuel macron was here in london earlier this week just as the protests kicked off. his argument, the government has 42 different retirement plans. he says his plan will be simpler, fairer and perhaps most importantly, more sustainable. this is one to watch though. this is the third day of these strikes which got off to a very violent start, and despite the tear gas, the chaos and a promise from the government not to raise the official retirement age from 62 years old, unions are already planning new nationwide protests for tuesday. and, kristin, i've got to tell you, the government hasn't even laid out the details of this new plan yet. so all these strikes, i guess

you could say they're preemptive. the government is promising to lay out the details of its plan next week. kristin: preemptive strikes. ryan chilcote live, thank you. leland? leland: union workers will be critical in the 2020 caucuses, especially in iowa. former vice president joe biden with them today. ellison barber on the road as well. hi, ellison. >> reporter: hey, leland. president trump did well with union voters in 2016. democrats are hoping to win them back. biden, buttigieg, sanders just a few of the names we expect to hear from today. stay with us, more in a minute. ♪ at bayer, we're more than a healthcare company.

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♪ ♪ kristin: former vice president joe biden, senator bernie sanders and mayor pete buttigieg are among the six 2020 democratic presidential candidates speaking at the international brotherhood of steamsters forum in -- teamsters

forum in cedar rapids today, and ellison barber is on the ground with more. >> reporter: hey, kristin. nearly every democratic candidate has put out plans focused on issues that matter to union voters. six candidates are here in cedar rapids today trying, hoping to convince the teamsters, both leadership as well as rank and file members, that they are the best person to lead the country and beat president trump in 2020. blue collar union voters helped president trump win the white house back in 2016. it is a bloc that was a core part of the democratic base for decades. president trump changed that a little bit, and democrats want those voters back this time around. nearly every democratic candidate has said they support raising the federal minimum wage to $15. the four candidates leading the polls here in iowa -- warren, buttigieg, sanders and biden -- they a all support ending right to work laws. health care plans tend to be a key issue at these forums. democrats have appeared on the picket lines with striking

autoworkers and consistently argue that president trump made promises specific to union families and failed to keep them. that is an argument we expect those six candidates to make here today as they speak with teamsters and also try and point out the differences. often times small between their positions, they platforms as it relates to union members' issues they care about and those other democrats hoping to take the lead here in iowa as well as other states. kristin? kristin: ellison barber, thank you. leland? leland: all right. joined now by talk radio host ross cominsky, joining us from the deep purple state of colorado. nice to see you, sir. our friend over at axios interviewed joe biden for their special tomorrow night. we'll take a listen to mike allen with biden, come back and get your thoughts. >> medicare for all, do you think that's political -- >> the party's there. the party's not there at all. >> some of your opponents are. >> yeah, but the party's not there. you guys got it all wrong about

what happened and what -- >> [inaudible] >> i do. no, look, it's not -- it's just bad judgment. you all thought what happened was the party moved extremely to the left after hillary. aoc was the new party. she's a bright, wonderful person, but where's the party? come on, man. leland: so is this biden beginning a general election pivot? >> well, come on, man -- [laughter] leland -- leland: i was waiting for. that it was too obvious for me to do it, but you could. [laughter] >> look, i think that joe biden wants that point to be true and beneficial to him, kind of desperately that if a majority of the party isn't in a place -- and i think he's right that the majority of the party is not where aoc is. but if you think about 2016, president trump was the first choice and in policy positions, you know, kind of anti-free trade, anti-nato, all this. he was kind of with maybe 20% of

republicans were with him, and yet he became the nominee and now he's president. so even if biden is right, that doesn't necessarily predict that one of the more radical can't become the nominee even though i think they probably won't. finish. leland: but to that point, biden's been the front-runner, pillar to almost post here if you want to say the caucuses are the beginning of the big turn. interestingly enough, there have been segment after segment on every cable news show about what happens after when biden falters. he's faltered a number of times, and he's still on top of the national policy polls. is -- polls. is this the time he decides to pivot to the middle, or do you think it's too early? >> well, i don't think that's biden's by mare problem. i don't think -- primary problem. i don't think his issue is people think he's too far left to win the general. i think his weakness is a lot of people think he has a glass jaw. they don't think he can, you know, take a political punch if

he were to get into -- leland: well, he landed a pretty big punch on the guy who went after him about his son. >> exactly. and that's why i think he did it. i think that was going after his weakness. i actually thought that was a pretty good day for him. some other people thought it wasn't, but i thought it showed him, you know, standing up, pushing back, all this kind of stuff which is where i think his political weak is rather than is he centrist enough. leland: view that as a preview potential to an attack by president trump in a general election debate and that response by biden, you seem to think that that works well for him. >> i think it works better than just seeming to have a glass jaw. i also think it brought him back into the news where he hasn't been -- leland: yeah, exactly. what do they say, if it doesn't kill you, it only makes you more popular? yeah. in iowa though biden's making this eight-day bus tour through iowa, his fourth in iowa, number one in the national polls. number one in iowa is pete butte judge, the mayor of south bend,

indiana, who is drawing unique scrutiny including about his time at mckenzie, the consulting company. here is buttigieg talking about trying to be released from his nondisclosure -- >> i don't have a number of days for you. i don't have a number of days for you. >> [inaudible] >> i don't have a number of days for you. i am urging my former employer to do the right thing and resolve it. leland: is this really fair to look back a number of years ago and say you need to disclose what you told clients a number of years ago when you were working in the private sector? >> yeah, it's not fair, but fair doesn't matter all that much in politics, as you well know. i think that the -- two keys for me on this. first, if they have to go after buttigieg based on what he did as a consultant a decade ago, then they don't have much to go after him with. so i'd feel pretty good, that this is what they're coming after me with. and second from the people who

are raising that question, i think part of the reason is they don't feel much fear of him turning the table on them because so few democratic candidates have ever actually had a productive private sector job. leland: that's an interesting -- it's an interesting perspective in terms of, it seems as though buttigieg would be inoculated against president trump in that come a general election debate, right? >> yeah, i -- look, i think buttigieg's main goal here with this particular mini controversy, it doesn't necessarily matter as much if the information comes out as it does for him to look like he's not trying to hide anything. so even just by him asking mckenzie, hey, will you please release me from this nda, even if they don't, he's inoculated himself fairly well. and, yeah, as far as business controversy -- not that there really is one here -- it'd be hard for trump to pick at that. [laughter] leland: as we look at your backdrop, the city you and i love so much of denver, colorado, give us a sense of what's happening out there. do you feel like there, like

colorado is still a purple state, or have you guys turned blue? >> it's pretty blue right now. leland: so corey gardner loses. >> well, corey gardner is the single most talented politician in the state of colorado, one of the most talented politicians i've ever seen. he is genuinely a happy warrior. i actually saw him yesterday. he's always smiling -- [laughter] leland: he is. >> and he means it, he's just that kind of guy. [inaudible conversations] he could win even if trump loses this state. leland: wow. that is, that is an interesting prediction and thought that might occur. we'll have you back to talk about it as things get closer. good to see you, my friend, best to the family. >> hey, you too. thanks for having me. leland: kristin? kristin: well, you're looking at live pictures out of honolulu, hey, where the national park service -- hawaii, where the national park service are remembering the american casualties lost during the japanese attack on pearl harbor.

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♪ mug. ♪ leland: live pictures from honolulu, hawaii, as today is the 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. and this ceremony remembers those who were killed when the japanese planes bombed that december morning, a date which will live in infamy. franklin roosevelt was right about that. a survivor is going to be laid to rest inside the wreckage of the uss arizona today. loren bruner was the second to last person to get off of the ship alive in 1941. and now his ashes will be interned on the sunken navy vessel. you can see him there the oval office. bruner died earlier this year at the age of 98. he said he wanted to return to pearl harbor to join his old friends and shipmates who never

made it off the arizona. kristin: wow. leland: godspeed. ♪ ♪ kristin: here's another story for you in news that is truly out of this world. an extraordinarily fast comet is moving through space, and it's going to be making its closest pass by our sun and earth tomorrow. you're looking at a time lapse of the interstellar comet which is an ancient ball of ice and gas and dust formed outside of our solar system. scientists say they think it came from a place that we will never be able to directly observe that far away. and, you know, leland, what's so fascinating, this is only the second known interstellar comet that we -- or intertell lahr object that human eyes have ever seen, and it's the only one that we've been able to look at really closely. leland: stunning really. and, you know, one of those things that i would have never known if you hasn't told me about. either way, nasa gets all the billions of dollars, you interview them about wanting,

and they've got the hubbel space telescope, yep, there it is. it was an amateur astronomer who found this in the ukraine -- kristin: i knew you were going to go there. leland: nasa misses it -- [laughter] space shuttle, everything else, and it's some guy e in his backyard. kristin: it really is remarkable, you know? this is really kind of a growing field of these amateur astrong the mists with all of the technology that's out there. it just shows you how big the universe is. even these big, powerful telescopes that nasa and other governments have control over, it took this amateur astronomer in ukraine -- leland: we know you're going to follow it closely. no chance he's going to hit, right? kristin: no. you're safe. i know that's what you really care about. you're going to live to see another day. leland: thank you very much. as we head out now to reagan defense forum, simi valley, california, the statue of president reagan there, our jennifer griffin standing by

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♪ ♪ leland: we head out to california now, the reagan national defense forum, simi valley, california. fox national security correspondent jennifer griffin there with us.

jen, good to see you, as always. you know, it's interesting, when this forum happens, you've got impeachment and everything else going on in washington, but at the same time you've had a shooting at pearl harbor, we've obviously now had the shooting down in pensacola. how much is the question of the saudi military training, what happened in pensacola overshadowing the larger conversation out there? >> reporter: well, leland, i just had a panel with four heads of the army, navy, air force and marines, and i asked them that very question because we started with the news. we are here the talk about the national defense strategy and shifting the focus from the middle east to the fight against china and russia in the future and future technologies that are going to be needed. but this shooting has been leading many of the discussions, and the issue of whether the u.s. can afford to continue training aviation officers from other foreign countries. there are about 5,000 training

in the u.s., foreign nationals training in the u.s. right now. there were 852 saudi nationals training, many of them in this aviation program. and this shooter down at pensacola, he has been here for the past three years. and so there are real questions about the security on bases as well as the vetting, the extreme vetting that needs to take place for these foreign nationals who are training with the u.s. military given this new insider threat. the new defense budget, $738 billion, has more money for foreign national training. i asked the members of the joint chiefs whether it would be a problem if they cut off that program, and they said, in essence, saudi arabia buys a lot of the u.s. military equipment, they buy our war planes, and you have to train their pilots. so they would be hurt in terms of being able to go to war together. you saw in the gulf war you needed to fly with allies. if these pilots are not trained in the u.s., but clearly something went wrong. if you look behind me, the

secretary of the air force and the air force chief have just cut the ribbon of this new exhibit here at the reagan library, and it's a f-117 jet, the first stealth jet fighter of its time. you'll remember when it did come in, this put america way ahead of its competitors, having that stealth technology. now the competitors are catching up, that's what we're discussing here at the forum. and we're looking at new technologies that are going to be the next generation, in the next generation fight, fighting in space, fighting in cyber, how does that work. that's what i asked the chiefs about just moments ago. leland: interesting. all right. getting back to the issue in terms of the hooting and training the saudis -- shooting and training the saudis, the saudis buy weapons from russia or china, the two groups that you talked about. has there been any defense of

the saudis in the larger sense by the secretaries and by the joint chiefs? they have close relationships with their top military brass, this longstanding u.s. relationship. is there defense of them of saying, hey, out of 852 saudis and thousands of others that we have trained, you might end up with one that gets radicalized, and that sort of is the unfortunate cost of doing business if we're going to have allies in the middle east? >> reporter: i would say that we have not heard any criticism of saudi arabia from any of the defense chiefs who are here, from mark esper, the defense secretary, and also from the white house. if you've noticed, the tweets that have come out, they have been very neutral, no criticism of the saudi royal family or the king who did reach out right away and spoke to the president. the president did not speak to the crown prince, mohamed bin salman. the relationship has been tense, and it has been -- there have been issues since the killing of the journalist, jamal khashoggi,

by the saudis in turkey a little over a year ago. but the u.s. military also has just been, has just -- is considering sending more troops to saudi arabia in defense against the iranian threat. so the administration as well as the military understands that they still need saudi arabia in the middle east especially with a raise rising iranian threat. leland? kristin: jennifer, it's kristin. you are part of the fox contingent that's out there. you've got bret baier, chris wallace, you, of course, moderating a panel. i'm curious, can you just help our viewers understand the range of topics that you all are covering during the forum this weekend? >> reporter: well, again, this is looking at national defense strategy which is really a shift from fighting terrorism for many years to looking at how is the u.s. military going to compete against china and russia as those, as those competitors come up with technologies that could

potentially blind the u.s. in space, for instance. so there's a lot of talk about space technology. there's a lot about what they are going, what the service chiefs are going to need in the next budget in order to come up with the next generation of fighting tools. again, if you look behind me, the f-117, that was a state of the art stealth fighter jet back in the day, but it was retired in 2008 to make way for other platforms. this is about looking ahead. but what is notable about the pensacola shooting, the hawaii pearl harbor shooting as well as news that the u.s. is considering sending more troops to the middle east is that as much as each president continues to try and shift the focus to china and russia, they keep getting sucked back into the middle east and having to face real issues of protecting the forces and strain on the forces if you look at the pearl harbor situation. that strain on the force is also a part of having this very large

military being deployed in 140 countries around the world. kristin? kristin: jennifer griffin, great work out there. we'll be talking with our bret baier very shortly. right on the other side of this break, we'll get back to our top story today, an american graduate student returning home after spending years in an iranian prison. getting more for getting away. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded. learn more at the explorer card dot com. that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. at chevy, we're all about bringing families together. this time of year, that's really important. so we're making it easier than ever to become part of our family. that's why our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone.

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♪ ♪ leland: an american graduate student has been freed after three years in an iranian prison as part of an exchange between the united states and iran. welcome to "america's news headquarters" from washington, i'm leland vittert. boy, the white house is trying to make a very clear point about the differences between the exchanges under president obama and what we just saw happen overnight. kristin: indeed, they are. i'm kristin fisher. wang was a arrested back in 2016. he was in the country doing research for his ph.d.. rich edson is joining us now

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