guys all in their 70s. >> clayton: and we are trying to teach alisyn how to properly hit a baseball and what is -- >> technique looks good. swing it. get another pitch in here, hurry up -- get it in! >> jamie: a fox news alerted, fox news confirmed there is a new tape reportedly posted by the taliban, and it doesn't -- does in fact show a u.s. soldier missing for the last few weeks and the soldier went missing from his base in eastern afghanistan, last month, when he apparently walked away from a patrol and what we don't know is how he is doing today. good morning, everyone, i'm jamie colby, good to have you with us. >> eric: i'm eric sean, the american soldier captured by the taliban in afghanistan, he appears in a video, posted on the internet, and in the 28-minute video she is shown with his head shaved, and he says he misses his family, and fears he will never return home.

fox's reporters joins us live on the telephone from kabul. connor, do we know, the soldier in afghanistan, who exactly is holding him. >> caller: the u.s. military is focusing the search for the school in and around the pa teeka province where he went missing and the military will not say if they think he is in eastern afghanistan but the soldiers continue to do daily searches for him throughout the region and the u.s. military condemned the release of the video, calling the taliban propaganda and in violation of international law and the military is also -- asking the afternoon people for information for his rescue and doing everything they can to bring him home safely. >> eric: do you have a sense how he was captured, and the soldiers were supposed to have a buddy system and do you know what happened? >> caller: we are getting conflicting stories, and it is unclear. originally defense officials said he walked off the base

without his weapon and by himself and completely alone but in a 28 minute long video the taliban claimed they actually captured him while he was lagging behind on a patrol and the video was shot on july 14th. and, in it he is clearly scared and one positive aspect of the release of the video, is could confirm he is still alive which nobody knew for certain, a few days ago, but he is clearly still in a lot of danger. >> eric: let's show, we have the approval to show the picture of the soldier, that is him. he is missing -- a u.s. soldier, and he is 23 years old and lives in ketchum, idaho, and certainly, here at fox news, our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family in idaho, at this moment. and it is certainly, conor, must be a terrifying experience, and, an unusual one in that his head is shave and he is obviously in taliban clothing.

>> caller: yes. you know, he has a full beard in the video and his his head shaved and is not exactly clear what type of shape he's in and doesn't complain about being beaten or mistreated, but, he is clearly very scared and wants to go home, and is not a pleasant situation for him. >> certainly not and we hope it tuns out fine for him. conor, live in kabul, thank you very much. >> jamie: also covering a developing story in san francisco, this morning, and investigators there are now looking into what could have caused a commuter rail crash late yesterday. and the reason it is important to follow the story, is the third major train accident in the u.s. in just the last two months. this crash injured 48 people and four of them seriously and thank fully june of the injuries are considered to be life-threatening, and the incident happening late day afternoon, when one train barrelled into the back of another train, near a platform. and looking at some of the video of some of the injuries. and there are eye witnesses that

say the operator of the moving train appeared to be, quote, slumped over, transit officials are not ruling out either mechanical or human error, as possible causes. >> eric: in tennessee police have a suspect under arrest. not telling us much about the killing spree yesterday. that left six people dead, in tennessee and in alabama. this is the suspect, 30-year-old jacob schaeffer, from fayetteville, tennessee and is charged with six counts of murder, and they believe all of the victims were members of the same family and five murders occurred in tennessee and in two separate houses and cops discovered another body, 30 miles away in a business in alabama and schaeffer was arrested while he was sitting on the porch of one of this homes where the killings tools. >> jamie: president obama has said it again and again, he wants to help -- a health care bill and wants it now. and just in the last hour his

budget director telling fox news the deadline, just about two weeks, now, is still firmly in place but even members of his own party are growing uneasy, over the rising costs it will take to pay for it. and to pay for it all, it is huge and the -- and the timetable is to get it done before the august recess and they are concerned, adding to the tensions, the chief of the nonpartisan congressional budget office, last week, saying, the bills making their way through congress right now, in committee, now, may insure more people but will not control the rising costs of health care. democratic congressman sander levin of michigan sits on the house ways and means smaet committee. where one of those bills is working its way through, health care bill, slapping a half trillion dollar tax on top earners, and the house committee on friday, congressman levin is joining me now, good 0 see you, congressman. good morning no thank you, good to be with you. >> jamie: let me ask you about the cost. you want health care for

everyone. how are we going pay for it? >> first of all, we have to get a hold on costs, and this bill, really begins to do it. the cbo indicated that more needs to be done and we'll continue to work on that. we have to get a hold on costs as we expand coverage, to everybody. how will we pay for it in addition to the reduced costs? they are proposing a sur tax on the very wealthy in this country, 1% of the people who are taxpayers. 1%, and it would be the upper bracket, and $350,000 and above, that income would be taxed and then, 500,000 and those who make a million dollars, there would be different brackets for those -- >> jamie: let's look at what could be the case, can i put up the full screen that shows the tax rate we could ultimately be looking at for those wage earners, do we have that? well, congressman, here it is. in the u.s., according to the plan, that is being discussed,

u.s. average, 52% tax rate. i went to your web site, where you talked about the people who live in michigan. and 78% of the businesses in michigan are small businesses. many of them will be subject to those numbers, because, they are incorporated as -- sub-s, smaller corporations and are you saying, that you are comfortable taxing small business owners who may not be able to even afford to keep the employees they have, or at least provide health care coverage, given these taxes, that is what they seem to be concerned about, on main street. >> well, that -- let's look at the -- about 5% of the small business owners -- small business owners will pay an additional taxes, only 5%. and, they would pay the additional tax. it isn't the 95% of small business owners, but the 5%, so,

it is important that we look at the facts. >> jamie: where does the 5% number come from, congressman? i'm not familiar with that. >> well, it comes from the joint tax committee. >> jamie: so you are saying, small businesses only account for the 5%, because i know they are the major employer in the u.s. and let me ask you about massachusetts -- >> no, no, the fact it is only 5%, 5% to have of the small businesspeople would be paying the additional tax, and that is income above $350,000, income beyond 500,000 and income beyond a million dollars. >> jamie: pus -- if you put all the numbers together it would be a tax rate that is here than other countries that provide health care as well and i want to ask you about massachusetts and they've made an effort to insure everybody with a universal health care like plan and this past week we reported at fox news about boston headline center, actually suing the state, because medicaid reimbursement had been cut.

and, that hospital is facing -- and i want to get this numbers righted and ask you about it, $38 million deficit, just for that one hospital for the fiscal year ending in september. and it is its first loss in five years and next year, $100 million loss potentially, because the state had lowered medicaid reimbursement. are there not calls for medicaid reduction of reimbursement under your plan? >> there are some in terms of what the course would be. we have to get ahold of costs. look, massachusetts just has a report that says they have to change the fee-for-service proposal, or structure, in that state. we need to do the same in this country. this proposal that we passed out of the ways & means committee has major cost reductions and i think, we can go even further. there also has to be coverage of everybody. massachusetts has set the pace here, and now, as i said, they have a new report that says, let's restructure fee-for-service, over the period of time, the next few years and

we have to do the same in my judgment, in the united states, generally. >> jamie: congressman levin -- >> it is underfunded. underfunded but -- >> jamie: an important top i-96 we can get control of costs and i think do this so everybody is covered. >> jamie: getting control of the costs, covering everybody, at what cost, that is what i'm trying to wrap my hands around, thanks for taking to us today and we'll follow what your committee does and what congress does on the various measures being put through and also your response to the g.o.p. resolutions proposed as well, thank you, congressman and as the congressman mentioned the president is responding to the cost concerns, we have been discussing, by releasing a plan to cut way back on the government payments to doctors and hospitals. not just medicaid, also medicare. and next hour, fox news contributor dr. marc siegel will weigh in on what you can expect if that happens, and i know you will want to see that. stay with us. >> eric: and the attacks in indonesia, there is mounting concern over the possibility of even more terrorist attacks, on

american businesses and -- in -- and western tourists there and the hotel received a new threat. this time, it was the four seasons but an inspection of the hotel did not turn up any bombs. in the meantime, there is dramatic video coming out of the homicide attacks, this week. at the j. w. marriott and the ritz carleton hotels. looking at pictures that show terrified people running for they was lives, at the ritz-carlton. and police also are uncovering new evidence into the bombings, that killed 8 people, and they believe the bombers checked into the j. w. marriott, two days before the attack. and assemble the bombs in room 1808 and one bomber was seen rolling a large suitcase through the lobby before the explosion and we are joined live from jakarta with the latest, and do you know anything more about the suicide bombers today? >> reporter: they're trying to piece together and reconstruct the faces of the suicide bombers and yesterday investigators told us they thought one of the suicide bowmaners could have been a female and are backtracking from that today

saying that don't believe that the woman in the room was a suicide bomber and believe she's among the victims and the reason reconstructing their faces could be key here is as you said, room 1808 in the marriott where it all was being planned they hope hotel employees might be able to identify one of these suicide bombers, and to find out whether this was the person who was inside the room, planning the attack, eric. >> eric: and the mumbai attacks, remember those in november this, fbi went into help and is that the case here? >> reporter: a good appointment and local authorities much like in the mumbai attacks don't want to have to ask for outside help, they want to prove they can do it and deal with terrorism in their own country and the spokesperson for the police tell us for now, they are not asking fbi agents from washington to come in, but you never know, it could all change. >> eric: certainly hope they can certificate and stop the attacks, live in jakarta, thanks, jamie. >> jamie: an islamic supremacist group reportedly linked to al qaeda is holding a conference,

and it is going on right here in the u.s., taking place today at the hilton hotel in oak lawn, illinois. the first time the group is openly meeting in the u.s. and the title of the conference "the fall of capitalism and the rise of islam" and the group denying it has any ties to terrorism. here's their promotional video. which shows some provocative images, often used as rallying cries, in the islamic world, coming up in the next hour, just how dangerous the group might be. >> eric: another washington show down in the works, the house intelligence committee announcing it will investigate the cia's handling of a proposed secret plan for an al-qaeda hit squad. the target of the democrat-led investigation is former vice president dick cheney, and joining us now sith in sight on this is former ambassador to the united nations, and fox news contributor john bolten. ambassador, always good to see you, good morning.

>> good morning. >> the democrats do not want a secret plan to kill usama bin laden? >> i think we should welcome the investigation and welcome the debate and let's talk about whether this u.s. government is entitled to defend the american people. and let's have those who are concerned about this secret program that was never implemented explain why they are against taking steps in what is clearly a war that has been launched against us. i don't think those who have decided on this investigation have fully appreciated what they have opened up but i'm all in favor of it. >> eric: we went up through the 1970s, remember the senate committee hearings back then in terms of assassinations of foreign leaders and those types of allegations and the exploding cigar, with fidel castro and demoralized the cia bought the broader issue is, is it legal and does the nation have the right to go out and kill al qaeda leaders? >> yeah, i think the attitude by those in the administration, and i think clearly the white house

had to agree with leon panetta's decision to reveal the program, that never has been operationalized and those in congress, are hashing back to that era of the church and pike committee investigations, which devastated our clandestine operation capabilities and we have never really recovered from it. but, let's be clear, nobody should have any qualms in the united states, moral, league oral otherwise, about acting in our own self-defense, these terrorists attacked us with deadly force, we are entitled to defend ourselves, and we are entitled to use deadly force in response. the battle doesn't take place just on ordered battlefields like in the 18th century with different armies and different colors, it takes place in the mountains, on the afghan-pakistan border, takes place in the shadows, with intelligence operatives work ointing, tays place in a lot of ditch places. i think the real question, here, is why is it that the intelligence agencies apparently were never able to operationalize the plan, i would

like to hear that answer. >> eric: is that what the cia is for, some say we want them to do this and the broader issue is should vice president cheney have informed congress? this she not have said, don't tell congress, that is one of the issues they'll investigate. >> well, i think it is well worth having the debate on that, too. the vice president is an operational decision making figure, in the the u.s. government. he gives advice to the president. the president makes decisions. i think he was probably involved in this issue, and thank goodness for that. but, the point is, even the law that congress passed to govern briefing about clandestine operations to the so-called gang of 8 in congress, requires that the operation actually be proposed for implementation, and, as best we can tell from the public reports, they never got to implementation. i think that is part of the problem. i was assuming that we were doing more against al qaeda, and i think it is unfortunate, we

were not. but, i think this episode also reveals what happens when you brief members of congress on these operations, and the highly charged, highly partisan atmosphere, we have in washington today. after 7-plus years of being kept secret it didn't take but 24 hours, after the briefing for every media outlet in this country to be writing and speaking about it. >> eric: and that means al qaeda knows about it. and never was in operation anyway which probably as you say, would surprise a lot of american, that they are not doing that. john bolten. former -- yes, final word. >> i think we are entitled to defend ourselves and i wanted to have the debate. >> eric: and looks like you will get it at the house intelligence committee. ambassador bolten, good to see you, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> jamie: call it quick on his feet, a teenage boy makes a split-second -- goodness, split-second decision to escape. yes, he did that, during a home invasion, see how his decision may have just saved his life! >> eric: and it has been a tough week on health care reform and

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>> eric: a washington state team makes a daring -- teen makes a daring escape when gunmen break into his home, he jumped from the second story window of his home after armed men broke done the front door and neighbors told cops they saw three men, break into the home, but when the officers arrived they had already escaped. and police right now are searching for the gunmen and are looking into a motive for the home invasion. luckily the 14-year-old boy only injured his ankle and thankfully, no one else was hurt. >> jamie: as we mentioned earlier, moderate democrats are uneasy about some of the hefty taxes that would be needed to pay for health care reform. and also, the tight timeframe to do it under. but on "fox news sunday," white house budget director peter orszag is confident congress will meet the president's deadline. >> chris: will both the house and senate meet the president's deadline and pass separate health care measures, before

they go on august recess. >> that is the goal. >> jamie: well, joining me now the host of "fox news sunday," chris wallace and this is the goal. the president has been pretty clear, chris, that that is what he wants. with all of these different committees, and all of these different measures, what are the chances they do come to a decision, on something and that it is bipartisan? >> chris: well, a couple of different questions there. i think the house almost certainly will pass something, before they go on august recess and that is just in two weeks. i think it is much less likely that the senate will and the idea that either one of these packages will be bipartisan is almost nonexist tent. in fact, every vote that has been taken in any committee that voted foe far -- so far in the house and senate, has been a straight oups republican vote against it and even a few republicans in the case of the house voted against it. >> jamie: in a since the president had a hastily called presser and made statements about the fact that he wanted

this done and he wanted more costs cut. after the congressional budget office came out and said, huge deficits if this it goes forward as it is currently being discussed, any response to that? >> chris: well, yeah, peter orszag says, it is interesting, because, let me explain first the congressional budget office is a wing of congress, independent, nonpartisan, in fact, because they were -- in control of both houses the head of the cbo, was appointed by the democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and harry reid, and he came out this week with a statement that said, far from the president's goal of turning health care spending both private and public downwards, this would actually increase the spending, and also, as you say, it would increase the deficit, and peter orszag who used to be the cbo director before he got his job at the white house says the cbo is wrong and in any case whatever the president ends up signing will, one, decrease costs and be deficit neutral but, health care reforms suffered a big blow this

week when you have the independent judge, umpire, if you will, in effect saying, what the democrats are considering, so far, does not meet those tests. >> jamie: chris we'll watch the interview and pay very close attention, thank you so much for joining us. you don't want to miss fox news sunday here on the fox news channel and check your local listings, you can watch it there as well, have a great day, chris. >> chris: thank you, jamie, same to you. >> eric: it is supposed to be a chance for the nation's 50 governors to get together and talk about their problems. so, why did only half of them show up? we are on the scene, live, in biloxi, to show you what is going on. >> jamie: the search for clues in a new and latest commuter rail crash, there are nearly 50 people injured in this one and there are reports that one train operator may have been, quoted, slumped over. what is going on with the nation's railways? this is news you need to hear. and it is just ahead. ç@

>> jamie: the u.s. military confirming a man on a video posted on the internet kidnapped by the taliban is an american soldier, he is from keep up, idaho an disappeared from his base in eastern afghanistan, last month. and investigators in san francisco are looking into this commuter rail crash, you are locking at the injuries, 48 people total, four of them seriously, it is this third major train accident in the u.s., in the last two months and police have a suspect under arrest in a killing spree that left 6 people dead in tennessee and alabama. 30-year-old jacob schaeffer of fayetteville, ten nays is charged with 6 counts of murder and police believe all the victims are from the same family. >> julie: the annual gathering of governors is taking place this weekend in biloxi, mississippi and guess what, only half of them showed up as california is $26 billion in the hole and giving out ious and

ohio, considering one armed bandits, that's right, installing slot machines like vegas to raise monday and jonathan serrie live in biloxi at the conference with the latest and how come half are there? >> reporter: many of these governors are dealing with shrever budget crises, back in their home states and they indicated they would be more effective staying at home instead of attending the national governor's association conference and other governors cited scheduling conflicts and most notably, mark sanford, of south carolina, who is taking his family on a trip to make amends for a highly publicized extramarital affair, and in fact that governor is still making headlines, publishing an op-ed in today's edition of the state newspaper, in columbia, south carolina, apologizing to stitch wents, but indicating no signs of any plans to resign, in fact, the op-ed suggests sanford would be more effective during his remaining 18 months in office, because he would approach the legislature with a contrite