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information. molly henneberg has the latest information. >> molly: attorney general eric holder tapped a u.s. attorneys to lead separate investigations into several recent leaks. one of the probes have been started by the f.b.i. helder said in statement, i have confidence in their abilities to doggedly follow the facts. but the chairman of house intelligence committee has concerns that these attorneys who will report to holder will be available to investigate freely. he said, quote, i look forward to how they will be independent from the chain of command. president obama talked about the leaks yesterday and said his white house is trying to figure out where they are coming from. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security
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information is offensive. >> reporter: but one top senate republican suggests the president should look in-house. he talked about the articles that appeared there, and journalists identify some of the sources for their articles as administration officials. aides to the president, members of the president's national security team. mccain wants the president to appoint a special independent council to investigate the leaks. >> heather: thank you very much. molly henneberg reporting live. how significant are these leaks. >> a retired four-star general speaking out today saying the leaks are some of the most serious security disclosures he has ever seen. just one example, iran, which said is bound to retaliate against the united states for cyber attacks on their nuclear program. here is the general. >> they are an eye for an eye government. they will respond to this attack as they have in the past others.
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they may already have responded and we don't even know it yet. the fact of the matter they will return some kind of cyber attack to the united states. >> heather: new calls from the chairman of house judiciary committee anyone behind the leaks should face jail time, lamar smith who will join us live later on. >> gregg: just a short time ago, spain agreeing to accept a bailout for the trouble banking sector. fourth largest nation in the euro zone to receive outside hip after desperate calls from world leaders and recommendations from european finance ministers. many fear if banks fail there, panic could spread here at home. greg burke is streaming live from rome. >> reporter: that is right. spain is the fourth largest
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economy in the euro zone. if spain is in trouble, it means problems for europe. spain finally admitting it does need help. they insisting that it is not a bailout. they don't like the word bailout but call it whatever you want. it is going to be a massive loan, a loan under very favorable conditions to help the banking sector. it is a problem. it's very humbling for spain to put itself in the same club as portugal, ireland and greece, other countries which have already asked for bailouts. spain's main problem is the banking sector, that comes from 2008 real estate bust. spain had been growing like mad and then it all fell apart leaving so many banks with bad loans, a lot of fear from the people too that they were going to lose their money in those banks, a major problem there on the street in spain. they are trying to keep things calm. interesting, this is important for the global economy, reaction from the u.s. was very quick.
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geithner saying a welcome recapitalization of the spanish banks. it will be interesting week ahead to see how markets reacts academy week from sunday elections in greece to see how greece is going to do. spain is much more important country. europe could do without greece but it can't do without spain. >> gregg: thanks very much. >> heather: it has been a rough start for the month of june for president obama after a serious of set backs in the first, series of setbacks. the private sector is, quote, doing fine despite signs of a weakening job market. that is quickly become campaign fodder for the gop. there is the intelligence regarding anti-terror operations which some in congress came from someone inside the obama administration. a dismal report on jobs showing
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the economy and recovery may be slowing down and then came word that the president lost a fund-raising battle last month to governor romney. then the whammy in wisconsin, scott walker surviving his recall election despite fierce democratic opposition. so how quickly can the president get his campaign back on track. shane is editor of campaigns and elections magazine and joins us with more insight. thanks for joining us. one of these issues, beginning with jobs and president obama's comment yesterday that the private sector is doing fine. republicans responded almost immediately, john boehner saying that the president is defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the american people. how damaging is this? >> i don't think there is any question that this remark is going to play a role in mitt romney campaign ads before the fall. it was not the smartest thing for president to say and he
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walked it back, but as you go forward real benchmark for president obama and white house, despite recent jobs report it's going to be the next one. as we have seen. economic mood sort of starts to accept the tone or kind of set itself in stone about five months before election day. that makes next month's job report all important. for the white house and president obama i think that is going to be set the final tone for electorate. >> heather: let's talk about those unemployment numbers, 69,000 jobs created in may, that is uptick to 8.2%. next batch of numbers come out july 6th. so historically, what is the message in terms of reelection for the president? >> historically, if you look at these numbers and put much stock in the numbers, white house is good reason to be worried. if you look at the last two
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presidents that have lost reelection bids, george h.w. bush and jimmy carter, both of those in their reelection years, the unemployment rate ticked up between march and june of their reelection years. that is why this next report is so critical for president obama and the white house. that portends to the uptick of the unemployment rate but psychologically has a major impact. if that trend doesn't turn around, that says a lot because every president has won the election has the opposite trend. >> heather: we have to talk about these leaks. we've been reporting on them, details about a u.s. cyber attack on iran's nuclear program president's role in directing drone attacks around covert operations against al-qaeda. president says it's not coming from the white house and whoever
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is responsible suffer the consequences. so will his campaign suffer, as well? >> i think it remains to be seen how it plays out. it's a fire that will rage on capitol hill. that has already started. i think that poll after poll you see such an overwhelming concern over economic issues. it will be interesting to see what issue mitt romney will make on the campaign trail. i don't think it will play into the campaign events. on capitol hill a different story. >> heather: wisconsin recall election, scott walker's win over tom barrett, what are the implications moving forward? should the president have gotten more involved. he won wisconsin back in 2008. is this an indication that he may not this time around? >> i think there is a lot of democrats who very much wanted obama to be involved on tom
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barrett. no campaign appearance, the white house didn't want to put any extra political capital on the line in wisconsin. i think the larger picture of wisconsin and i think this is going to see play out through the fall is the tremendous amount of money that came in support of scott walker, number of television ads that groups were able to air and money came in on walker's behalf. that is an issue facing president obama, as well. right now, super pacs have not come close to the money they democrats would like to see them raise. you are going to see that reflected in every battleground stated before the fall. democrats have got to close that gap. >> heather: i was going to ask you about the fund-raising. effort so far, in may, governor romney outpaced obama, raising
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$68 million, democrats $60 million how significant is that? >> its great month for romney campaign and rnc but they need to keep that up and they know that. i don't any there is any question that fund-raising will catch up for president obama. the real question is money out they had to spend on the airwaves, there have been millions of dollars attacking the president. >> what does president obama need to do to get things back on track. what does governor romney need to do to take advantage of this? >> the eastbound and in flow of the campaign you will expect the ups and downs. it's still very early. we're still in june. biggest benchmark is the next job numbers. i think the white house knows that. you will see a complete focus on both president obama and romney
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campaign. >> that is five months out. thank you very much for joining us. >> gregg: a grandmother accused of squandering her grandson's college fund but she will not face justice. how she lost the money and why she is beating the odds in a court layoff. >> heather: and rebels in syria take their fight to the country's capital right to the doorstep of president assad. is the end game in sight? >> gregg: criminal investigation into leaks of classified information faces no limits allegedly on its reach including into the white house. now, the chairman of the houses judiciary committee is calling for severe punishment that could make some folks awfully nervous. i'll be talking to him as we joins us live coming up. >> i've been on in committee for ten years. this is most serious breaches that have come out i have seen. it puts us at risk. it puts lives at risk.
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>>. >> heather: welcome back. tragedy at yellowstone. an 18-year-old woman falling to
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her death during a hike during the first day of work. trail gave out from under her. an indiana woman accused of gambling away her grandson's college fund, officials in indiana were ordered to ex extradite her if she was found in a neighboring state. after tonight's belmont stakes, i'll have another dark his hopes for a triple crown. >> gregg: wide range of cancers could be added to the 9/11 health program. when the world trade center collapsed on september 11th, a large amount of fumes and ash surrounding downtown manhattan. many people that were exposed it's the reason they developed cancer. anna is live with more. >> reporter: fellow health officials voted for a
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controversial expansion of a $4.3 billion 9/11 health program that is already in place. it will include people with 50 types of cancer covering 14 broad categories of the disease. many first responders do have cancer, there is no scientific evidence directly linking it to ground zero. now with the new measure people with cancer could qualify for treatments and payments as long as a good case is made that it was caused by causfitic dust. the 9/11 program pays people based on suffering and economic losses, but an attorney representing multiple first responders is concerned the large a amounts of money his clients have already spent will not be reimbursed. he tells me there is no mechanism in place. one of his clients lost $800,000 on his treatment. vote is victory for his clients
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but believes more money needs to be added to the program. congress tapped it $1.55 billion and $2.78 billion for compensation payments. those numbers will remain the same. 60,000 people have already enrolled and up to 25,000 more could still join before it closes. no official estimate has been made on how much the addition of cancer could be costing that compensation program. >> gregg: thanks. >> heather: still ahead with the supreme court decision days away we have brand-new fox news, how do americans really feel on the new health program and secret leaks, eric holder is starting a criminal investigation but they feel that is not enough. one of congressman, lamar smith joins gregg live next.
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>>. >> heather: spain the fourth and largest country asking europe for a bailout. they will give them an unspecified amount to help the ailing banks. the country needs at least 40 billion euros. >> mandy moore celebrating girl scouts anniversary. organizers at the national mall say they hope to set a guiness world record. and marie -- maria sharapova defeating italy's oh opponent to complete the career grand slam.
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congratulations to her! >> gregg: there are growing concerns now over a series of intelligence leaks that involve highly classified counterterrorism operations and could be jeopardizing lives of them include classified background information on the bin laden raid. recent stories about pakistani doctor. extensive reports on the president's counterterrorism kill will list. details against the cyber program and revealing the double agent that prevented al-qaeda from using a plane with a bomb coming to the united states. let's put questions to texas congressman lamar smith, anyone leaking classified intel should face jail time. congressman, thanks for being with us. the journalists themselves
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identify their sources as administration officials, aides to the president and members of his national security team and yet the president said yesterday as you heard, the notion that his white house would do this is offensive. do you believe the president or the journalists? >> well, i think that does raise a lot of questions. how can the president say that before an investigation has occurred. you have journalists say we have classified information to legally give the information out can endangering the lives of individuals. i think it's premature for president to say the white house didn't leak. what we should be looking for from these two u.s. attorneys who have been appointed by the attorney general is a couple things. one when the report coming out, before or after the election. second of all are they going to
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get cooperation from the organizations like the "new york times" as far as trying to find out who gave them the information and who were the individuals. that is the thing to look for. it's a step in the right direction to have the u.s. attorneys for but this ag is so poll it willized the his office whether they will delay the report. that is why we have the investigation. >> gregg: these investigations take a long time. we can't take the president's word for it. when you examined some of the leaked information, it includes top level deliberations so detailed that they almost certainly were known only to the president's inner circle. do you think president obama is engaging in a false denial or is he in denial that the leaks may have come from his own white house? >> he may be parsing words here
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and maybe he saying i didn't know anything about it. he said white house and that includes all officials in the white house. as you say they have been identified as the source of these leaks. something has to give. i hope these u.s. attorneys will be totally independent and not have any political pressure put on them by the ag who works for the president. >> gregg: people leak. they do it all the too many time but they leak for different reasons. let's talk about the motivation. do you agree with senator john mccain, look this highly classified information was leaked to enhance the president's image because it fits suspiciously well with his tough on defense narrative of his reelection campaign? >> i can only say that i hope that is not true. if that is, that would be clearly, clearly offensive. it would be something that the president would have to live
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down and would be politicizing. politicizing issue and endangering lives. let's hope that is not true because that would be a real serious offense on the part of the president. one more point to make, this whole issue should not be par 7. you have republicans and democrats saying it should be investigated, we're not trying to use it as a political issue. we want to get to the facts and find out who leaked and try to prevent it from the future. that is why they ought to go to jail. >> gregg: can this investigation be fair. these prosecutors named by eric holder, they report to holder, he was appointed by the president. holder is a close political ally of the president. s isn't there a conflict of interest here that potentially could compromise not only the independents but the integrity of these investigations? >> all that is exactly right.
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that is why we have a right to be suspicious. that is why congress has to be involved with oversight hearings and judiciary committee need to conduct those. some of it is a matter of trust. these u.s. teoshsz have good backgrounds. we've got to hope they will do the right thing and hope that the ag and president don't try to put political pressure on them. there is no way to find that out, but you have to have a lot of tris in these individuals to do the right thing. >> gregg: there is one way to find it out. that is to get it from the authors and journalists. they know who the leakers are. they can name them. if the reporters promised confidentiality should the reporters be forced to divulge their sources even if it means threat of prosecution and/or jail? where do you stand on that? >> exactly. that is why i mentioned ago we have to look a couple things whether the journalists, whether the reporters will cooperate and
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identify their sources. the other thing i would like to know is whether frankly anyone asked the reporters not to publish this information. it could be a situation where the white house were about to and convinced them not to publish this information, being passive rather than active and they could have prevented the information from coming out. a lot is dependent and whether they are willing to identify their sources and whether they are willing to tell us did anybody tell you not to do this. those are the kinds of questions these two u.s. attorneys need to answer it quickly and in the next few weeks. >> gregg: still on the subject of eric holder but slightly switching topics to fast and furious, cause particular caustic cross-examination, he says i testified iet eight times and i turned over 700 documents
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but he is withholding 132,000 documents more. do you think he is deliberately hiding something that could be incriminating? >> it's not the number of documents he has given. number of pages doesn't matter. it's the actual information that we wanted and we have not been allowed to talk to individuals we wanted to talk to. we did not get the information that specifically we had requested. they may want to cover us with an avalanche of paper. but it's not the right paper, it really doesn't count. when the attorney general is before the committee that i chair, one of the questions i asked him, who was the highest level official that knew about the tactics used in fast and furious where u.s. officials gave hundreds, almost 2s in firearms to the drug cartels. he didn't know the answer to the question. he said he didn't know the answer to that question. we need more answers. we need more information. we need better access to individuals.
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>> gregg: let me be specific. congressman issa apparently has some affidavits in supported of a wiretap applications in which he apparently has suggested it clearly indicates that doj knew about the gun walking operation. holder says, well, i only learned about in 2011. i mean if those documents are true and accurate, does that suggest to you that holder is lying to congress? should he be held in contempt? >> certainly indicates to me that the ag either is not remembering correctly or has in fact not been truthful with congress with the congressional committee. she sworn to tell the truth when he appears before the committee enforcement we can prove that he knew about fast and furious that is a serious violation of the law. >> gregg: all right, lamar smith many thanks for being with us.
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>> heather: brand-new fox news poll on the president's controversial health care mandate showing that 60% of americans wanted the supreme court to overturn at least part of it. high court is expected to announce its decision any day. meanwhile, the obama administration reportedly making plans in cases the mandated goes up in smoke. jim angle takes a look at the possibilities. >> reporter: president obama recently told potential donors he may take a second bite at healthcare reform. he may have to if the superior court rules it unconstitutional. the administration officials have hinted considering the options. >> when the supreme court makes a decision we'll be ready for that. we're confident that the affordable care act is constitutional. >> sources tell fox they have been looking at alternatives in case it's struck down. >> i am one to think that eliminating the mandated is
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deathblow to obamacare. so a word i use with affection. >> reporter: critics say it won't work either way. >> the real question is even if --. >> heather: that was jim angle reporting for us. >> coming up, shocking new information on how much cash it could cost and how you can avoid it. >> gregg: john bolton will be here with his take on what is next for syria. more evidence of mass murders, masses kersz, this is the violence they are really spirals out of control. we'll have brand-new details on syria, what to do coming up. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink?
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of the laboratory and into the kitchen holding a bake sale to help save planetary science projects. that is right. the budget proposal submitted by the obama administration for 2013 would cut funding for nasa by about $300 million while can you please takes and cookies probably won't make up for that full shortfall. organizers are hoping to sway lawmakers to keep money in the program. >> heather: forget the debt crisis in europe and shaky stock market. another scary statistic that is taking a bif te out of the retirement savings. we're talking about massive, hidden fees on 401-k. according to on to a non-partisan group, average couple will pay $155,000 in fees for their 401-k plans over the entire careers. what can you do? we wanted to know that. david nelson is chief strategist
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at bell point management. thanks for joining us. so nearly $155,000 in fees, much more for wealthier couples. do the numbers seem right to do you? i ask that because the mutual fund industry, they say the average pays about $248 amounts to $20,000 for dual income household? >> earlier numbers seem a bit inflated. i agree high fees, they are a problem for any investment vehicle, not just 401ks. it's hard to know to know how much they are paying. in april the department of labor put forth a new disclosure rules that would increase disclosure for 401 ks but it's hard to know if we're having a little bit of an effect.
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>> will it be any effect or will it change anything? >> i don't know. it will if people really dig down and read these things. when you look at the average prospectus, it can't be read by a professional. how do we expect an individual investor to fare much better. >> heather: hidden fees, what are some of the other things people should be concerned about? >> the biggest risk frankly is performance. average investor in a 401-k plan does terribly, even if they weren't paying any fees, they overtrade their accounts. and they exactly the wrong time. the crisis of 2008 and saw the number of investors that all their money in stocks when they were only a year away from vergt staggering. then they got out at the bottom and didn't start putting money back a year or two later.
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>> heather: we want to know how can investors do any better. we earn it. how do we keep it? >> probably the best thing you do is go to the human resources department of your company that sponsors the 401-k. ask for the phone number of the plant administrator. they will be happy to talk to you. they will give you some investment advice. explain the fees to you. it's a great place to start. >> heather: all right. thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate your insight and hopefully we can keep a little more in our pocket. >> gregg: syria descending deeper in chaos. new violence erupting in the heart of the capital pushing the country into all out sectarian war. john bolton will be joining us live next. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes,
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>>. >> gregg: a frightening surge of violence in syria, gunfire and explosions breaking out between rebel fighters and government forces. take a look at this. [ gun shots ] >> gregg: amateur video from the
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capital of damascus where fighting is going on. activists saying it shows rebels bombing a buses of syrian army soldiers. you can see armed men running away and then opening fire. we're learning yet of another attack on civilians today. new video of troops shelling killing at least 17 civilians. this is the latest bloodiest assault on the people of syria. massacre in another syrian town, 78 syrians murdered and many of them women and children. back in may, united nations reports of masses killings in the central syrian town of houla. more than a hundred people were killed, some were killed in their own homes, half were children. some were shot at close range. victims hands were bound. all of this in the face of the u.n. peace plan that has been violated neerm every single day
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since it went into effect in april. what is the next step? joining us live is john bolton, former u.s. ambassador and fox news contributor. >> kofi annan's peace initiative seems to have been calamitous. is there no doubt the bloodshed can't be stopped diplomatically? >> i thought it was clear quite some time ago. we saw months before that efforts to impose new sanctions on the assad regime in syria were blocked by a double veto by russia and china. while they didn't stand against annan's mission, clearly they were and still are supporting the assad regime. in the absence of any political and military factor to induce the regime to accept the cease-fire, i think the negotiations were never going to succeed. >> gregg: russia has been
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refusing to use it's a influence to force assad to leave until day, suddenly russia said we are willing to support his departure quote, if the syrians agree on it. ambassador, that is impossible since the syrians don't have any voice? >> we're in the middle of what is clearly a civil war in syria. i think we have been for some time. its war in which outsiders are already participating. russia has supplied arms and financing to the assad regime. iran has done the same and has revolutionary guards and officers and perhaps troops on the ground aiding and commanding the syrians. the opposition forces have been financed and armed by saudis and other arabs. this war is already not just a civil war but has more general implications. >> gregg: senior u.s. officials
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recently wrote that nato's victory in libya what they referred to end a humanitarian crisis. that was echoed by the u.s. ambassador to nato and supreme allied commander. i'm should you read the piece but the nato secretary-general said, i'll quote, nato has no intention whatsoever to intervene. ambassador, why not, aren't the humanitarian stakes just as great in syria as they were in libya? >> i think humanitarian stakes are but i think this doctrine called responsibility to protect that was invoked in libya has a lot of problems to say the least not just to mention that it's essentially limitable in its scope. one other lesson that russia and china learned from libya, they agreed to a humanitarian mission it was clear the only way the
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people could be protected was by overthrowing moammar khadafy which is what they did. the russians and chinese are not going to agree to humanitarian intervention again with that prospected in mind. remember, secretary of state clinton has said unequivocally we will not act without russia. >> gregg: she is pushing for new sanctions. that is not going to do anything >> good luck with that. its policy that is doomed to failure and it has been doomed to failure for some time. >> gregg: what should we do? >> i think at the moment the only thing that is going to change these pictures that we're seeing is if we change the strategic environment. that means taking steps against the assad regime's two major allies, russia and iran. we need a much more vigorous posture against russia. we should basically tell them that the administration's reset button is going to get reset again unless they change their
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behavior. as far as iran goes, any notion there is an acceptable diplomatic way for them to keep their nuclear weapons program has to be toss in the garbage can. unless we change the fundamental dynamics that russia and iran think going to aid assad and he will remain in power. >> gregg: let's say for example we use some of the harsh language with russia. do we have any leverage that would motivate them? >> i would certainly go beyond language. i would tell them that we have absolutely no intention in any way changing our plans for national missile defense. i think given that the obama administration has reduced our missile defense program almost to nothing, dramatically scaling that back up is in order. i think we ought to withdraw from the new started arms agreement. i think you've got to have a fundamental change in the relationship with russia.
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it thinks it can back authoritarian regimes like assad and get away with it. under obama's administration's approach that is exactly what they are doing. we can expect this kind of behavior from moscow. >> as for the hullahs in tehran, there will be never be a diplomatic solution to the nuclear program other than tactical strike, do you think it would motivate them? it appears very little seems to motivate them. >> indeed. they think they faces a weak united states. i have been in favor of regime change in iran and syria for at least ten years. i think it's clear that the syrian problem is in large measure, not exclusively but in large measure an iran problem. the obama administration is not willing to take on iran because it still holds out hope for negotiated settlement on the nuclear weapons issue.
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that isn't going to happen. but a serious national policy of changing the mullahs in tehran, putting in a different government there and of overthrowing assad requires looking at this whole problem of syria in a much larger framework which we are not doing now. >> gregg: could syria's conflict unless it is sunshine stopped migrate someplace like turkey and lebanon and iraq which would arguably allow al-qaeda to profit from the opportunity? >> i think you have to see this conflict in syria as part of larger ongoing struggle in the middle east between iran on the one hand and sunni arabs loosely led by saudi arabia on the other. that is why the stakes are so high here for the arab states. they want assad to fall because they want to reduce iran's influence in the region and iran wants to keep him in power for
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opposite reason. unless we understand that and prepared to do something, then the broader picture, then the conflict in syria is only going to get bloodier. in part these massacres that have taken places are simply fueling sunni determination to get theirs back if they prevail. that is reason for caution in arming the opposition because i think the last thing americans wanted to see is their weapons being used to slaughter the assad regime supporters. >> gregg: dangerous situation. ambassador, thanks so much for being with us. >> heather: coming up, a potential medical breakthrough that could offer help for shopaholics. more details. do you have that problem. >> gregg: i did a little shopping today for father's day for me, of course. [ music plays, record skips ] hi, i'm new ensure clear. clear, huh? my nutritional standards are high. i'm not juice or fancy water, i'm different.
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>> heather: hello, everyone. i'm heather childers. >> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. topping the news this hour, thousands of acres across the southwest up in flames. mother nature not helping at all. firefighters are having a tough time. we'll havele latest. >> heather: and who done it in washington? president obama says there is zero tolerance for series of national security leaks. where the investigation stands right now. we'll have a live report.
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>> gregg: and brand-new images of a man police believe murdered a young college student almost three years ago. her parents are speaking out to our own judge jeanine pirro. she'll join news a few minutes. >> heather: up first, major developments overseas that could have a huge impact on wall street. spain just announcing that it will need a bailout from the european union. euro zone finance ministers say they are ready to give spain up to $125 billion to help it save its banking sector. u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner welcoming the news. spain is the late nest a string of european countries asking for a bailout. and people there have been flooding the streets, furious that the government let it get to this. greg burke just returned from spain and he's on the phone from rome. hi, greg. >> hi. that's right a. big weekend in europe and probably not a coincidence that this is happening while the markets are closed. we've known spain was in
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trouble. we're now learning a little more exactly how much. the spanish finance minister admitting today that spain will seek help from europe for its banking sector. spanish pride is still pretty strong and they're insisting it is not a bailout or rescue, with you rather a loan. call it what you want, but it looks like a pretty big loan. more than $1 billion. spain's main problem is its banks. that's been the problem for four years after a real estate bubble burst in 2008, leaving so many banks with bad loans. for so many years action the spaniards thought they could do it on their own. they're joining other countries that have already sought bailouts. europe finally can go on without greece. if spain were to fail, that is an entirely different question. that's why everyone in europe is watching closely and everyone across the globe. heather? >> heather: all right. thank you very much, greg burke reporting live. thank you. let's take a look at the european union's recent debt
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crisis. by the end of 011, the 17 countries making up the e.u. racked up 8.2 trillion euros in debt. greece, portugal and ireland asked for bailouts. debt payments plus interest got expensive. the next big event to watch, greek elections that happen june 17. voters could clean house sending the message that they want out of the. u. all together. >> gregg: fox news alert. controversy is growing this hour over classified information leaked that some intelligence experts say threaten u.s. national security, maybe even lives. justice department launching an investigation and now some lawmakers are saying politics must be kept out of it all. yesterday president obama denied any intentional white house involvement. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release
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classified national security information is offensive. >> gregg: molly henneberg live in washington. what do we know about the two people who have been appointed to head up these leak investigations? >> greg, they're both u.s. attorneys who work for earn joan eric holder and that's really part of the controversy that they may not be independent enough. holder says ronald machin, a u.s. attorney for dc and donor to president obama's campaign, and rod rosenstein, a u.s. attorney for maryland, appointed by president george w. bush, will, quote, doggedly follow the facts. but the republican chairman of the house judiciary committee isn't convinced of that yet. >> i just hope these u.s. attorneys will be totally independent, go wherever the trail leads them and not have any political pressure put on them by the a.g. who, of course, works for the president. >> he says anyone convicted of
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leaking should face jail time. gregg? >> gregg: some people seem to doubt the president's insistence that the leaks are not coming from the white house, right? >> some republicans are skeptical, especially since this investigation is just beginning. but the president maintained that the information leaked to journalists must have come from somewhere else. here is more. >> as i think has been indicated from these articles, whether or not the information they've received is true, the writers of these articles have allstateed unequivocally that they didn't come from which white house and that's not how we operate. >> but one top senate republican john mccain points out the articles identify some of the sources as administration officials and aides to the president. senator mccain said, quote, i continue to call on the president to immediately appoint a special counsel to fully investigate. mccain called the leaks gravely serious breaches of our national security. gregg? >> gregg: medical medical live
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in washington, thanks very much. heather? >> heather: wildfire burning in southern new mexico is racing through a thick forest. flames jumped containment lines apparently, damaging or destroying more than a dozen buildings. the little bear fire, as it's known, was only a few acres on wednesday. but windy conditions pushing it now to more than 10,000 acres today. summer homes and a camp ground have been evacuated there. the fire started with a lightning strike. >> gregg: in colorado, crews are battling a wild fire in the northern part of that state. so far 200 acres have been scorched. dozens of evacuations ordered. evacuation center has also been set up now. the fire reported early this morning. it appears to be burning on private land and u.s. forest service land. windy and dry conditions working against the firefighters all over the west. >> heather: gregg, concerns about the u.s. and pakistan working together to fight terror.
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today pakistan lashing out against u.s. defense secretary leon panetta, furious that he said the country is a safe haven for militants, explaining that the situation is apparently much more complex than panetta makes it out to be, at least they say that. peter doocy has details. >> leon panetta said on thursday that pakistan keeps turning a blind eye to terrorists who use land in their country as a home base for attacks on americans across the border in afghanistan and they need to stop right now. >> we can not continue to tolerate a situation where the terrorists on their side of the border come across, attack our troops, kill our troops, and then return to a safe haven in pakistan. that's intolerable. >> his remarks aren't sitting well with pakistan's foreign ministry who fired back today, saying their country strongly rejects those comments and, quote, we feel the secretary of
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defense is oversimplifying some of the very complex issues we are all dealing with in our efforts against extremism and terrorism. but one member of the house permanent select committee on intelligence says just because it's hard to rein in the haqqani network doesn't mean pakistan shouldn't do it. >> we understand it's hard. we understand their military has limited capability. we understand it means taking some risk 'cause if you go after the haqqanis, they may come after the pakinstani government am the bottom line is, it is absolutely essential to stabilize that region not only for afghanistan, but for pakistan's own future. >> when we asked secretary panetta if the united states is at war with pakistan, he said we are at war with anyone who would attack our country. heather? >> heather: peter doocy reporting from washington. thanks. >> gregg: a major development for some of the people suffering health problems after the 9-11 attacks, when the twin towers collapsed, a massive cloud of
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ash, choking downtown manhattan as a result. many people were exposed to that dust and they now believe it's the reason they've developed all kinds of cancers. anna is live in new york city with a ruling that could help them. >> this emotional victory for people who did fall ill after sifting through the soot at ground zero came on friday. federal health officials voting to expand the existing $4.3 billion 9-11 health program. it will now offer compensation for people with 50 types of cancer. while many first responders have cancer, there is no scientific evidence directly linking cancer and the toxins at ground zero. people with cancer could now qualify for treatments and payments as long as a good case is made that it was caused by caustic dust. previously the program only covered ailments like asthma, acid reflux disease, and chronic sinus irritation. attorney daniel hanson represents multiple first responders. he is concerned the large amounts of money his clients
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have already spent will not be reimbursed. he says this vote is a victory for his clients, but believe it needs more money. >> also there is a huge sense of relief that this tremendous financial burden that's been placed on them for paying for the medications and the cancers and not knowing what the future holds in terms of their care has been somewhat lifted off their shoulders. but they're cautiously optimistic and their many concern is what's going to happen in five years, ten years and for the rest of their lives? >> 60,000 people have already enroll and up to 25,000 more could still join before it closes. no official estimate has been made on how much the addition of cancer could cost that compensation program. congress capped funding at $2.78 billion for compensation payments. those numbers will remain the same regardless of how many people file for benefits. back to you. >> gregg: anna, thanks very much. >> heather: yauch lake this story. you have two young girls.
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>> gregg: girl power, baby. >> heather: all the way, girl power. 200,000 girl scouts descending on the national mall in washington, d.c. marking the group's 100th anniversary and trying to set a guiness world record for the largest sing along in one venue. the scouts performing a choreographed routine to the song called "ignite," the anthem for the event. also there were and former girl scout herself, actress mandy moore. >> gregg: i do what i can to support the girl scouts. i always buy about a dozen box of their cookies. i like the thin mints. >> heather: 'cause you really want to support them. that's why you buy them. >> gregg: they shouldn't call them thin mints 'cause if you eat enough of them, you get really big. okay. a prominent megachurch leader busted. we'll have details from police interviews with this pastor's daughter. >> heather: also, some new clues coming up in the death of a college student leading
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investigators to this suspect. morgan harrington's mother is leading an effort to find him before he can potentially harm someone else. >> if you are one of those who had some suspicions or concerns and the hair on your neck has gone up a couple of times, call the police and let them look into it. that's what we're trying to do is to get the kill who are is walk amongst us. ighs ] hold up partner. prilos isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8.
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>> gregg: it's time for a quick check of the headlines. atlanta mega church leader arrested. creflo dollar's daughter report her father choked and slapped her. he faces misdemeanor charges of simple cruelty and battery. a very difficult story, a discharged marine charged in the shooting death of his teenage brother. investigators say eric charlton was drinking heavily at the time. they also say he was extremely distraught and the shooting was not intentional. a fleet of international tall ships sailing into the port of virginia. it's an event to inspire interest in american maritime history. how beautiful? >> heather: love that.
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>> heather: new reports raising the possibility of another shift in the balance of power in washington. state by state analysis showing that republicans are poised to keep control of the house. but they may also capture a majority in the senate. here is a map of the states that are in play. the gop needs to win four sites. right now the party appears to be in good position to win between two and five. so will it happen? former ohio congressman bob is a republican and former pennsylvania congressman, joe cess stack is a -- sestak is a democrat. thank you for joining us. >> good to be back with you. >> good to be with you finance we saw the map. the gop only needs gain four seats to take a 51-49 majority in the senate to seize control away from the democrats. there is a chance that they could do it. what impact would that have on which ever candidate wins the white house in november?
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congressman sestak, i'll begin with you. >> yes. i think that right now, the democrats may hold on to the majority. while i think which ever party has it will be a significant difference. it's not going to be defining and that's because frankly, both parties are broken. they come to understand or believe that which ever party is in the minority, that the only way to gain the majority is to make sure the other side won't govern well. so they use these arrest cake rules -- archaic rules to make sure the government grinds to a halt so the electorate believes the other party should become the majority. everything has changed in the last centare women gained the right to vote. we had the internet. the only thing that hasn't changed is the broken rules of the senate to where one senator can filibuster. he doesn't have to stand on the floor. if you can't fix the party with better leaders, at least fix the rules of the senate so that you can at least have governance and
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governance that's done well. >> heather: congressman, let's talk about that. how do we get work done and legislation passed? consider this, say it is president romney and a gop majority senate. would a minority democratic senate, would they try to push for a two-thirds majority filibuster to make mr. romney a one-termer or would the gop insist on up or down votes and then say the opposite, say president obama wins a second term, would the two sides finally cooperate no matter who has the majority or does the gop try to make him a lame duck? what happens? >> much of what joe says is absolutely true, the fact is that the first years he was in office, this president had a super majority, over 60 members of his party in the senate. republicans have never had that in the history of the united states. yet, for three years, they failed to pass a single budget. the budget has to be passed every year. it's part of the law. they haven't passed it once. that's the responsibility of the majority leader. as joe mentioned, that's the
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gentleman from nevada. he refuses to do the basic business when he wanted to take over health care and obamacare. he kept the bill on his desk in his private office and certain members could go in and make amendments and sprung it on the floor, bypassing the committee process. when you say it's broken, it's broken because of the people that we have there in charge. i believe that if we were to change the leadership of the senate, we could make significant changes as we've seen in the house. the house passed a budget every time. the senate refuses to do so. and this fall we're going to have an election in which we choose a new president and new members of the congress. i think we're going to have to see change. >> heather: what about that, congressman sestak? let's talk about specifically about the senate seats. they're likely to see intense presidential campaigning, independent voters don't make up their mind 'til late fall. how much influence will the national trends have over the senate races? >> i don't think the national trend is going to have very much
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impact within the states. i think you see whether it's massachusetts, whether it's ohio, where it very well may change from democrat to republican, that it's being influenced by the national mood. i think what you have found, which is most significant, is that voters have changed from moving out of the two parties to where now it is between the 30-yard lines, almost you have so many who identify themselves as independents where it used to be between the 40-yard line that they're look at things independently. it's unfortunate that our two respective parties have been taken over by idealogues. when you see mitch mcconnell and he has said that, look, he is number one objective as a stop whatever mr. obama is going to do, he's probably not influenced by the nationald into. but he's being influenced by what he believes kentucky needs. so what you really have to have here are leaders who are willing
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to after the election, try to work with the other side. the last time we've had a landslide is mr. reagan. just having two or three or four more republicans or democrats isn't enough when a filibuster can stop everybody from doing good governance. >> heather: i have to wrap up. you can jump in here examine give your response. >> let me quickly say, i strongly disagree. i believe the country is going to make a change. i believe the senate is going to make a change. it can work. we need not say our entire system is broken. the leadership is broken. as reagan said on election night, there is nothing wrong with this country that proper leadership can't change and the country went from floundering to leadership and we can do it again. >> i have to agree with that. with the right leadership in both parties, he can do much better. >> heather: you said you agree. that's good. >> it is about leadership. willing to lose for the good of the american people. >> heather: thank you both so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gregg: now to a controversial case involving police tasering a pregnant woman. chicago police using a stun gun,
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believe it or not, on a mother to be when she resisted arrest over a parking ticket. lisa from our chicago affiliate, wfld reports. >> i think it should have never happened. she's pregnant. that's excessive force. to pregnant woman, eight months pregnant, that's excessive force. >> rick: toni is livid her pregnant daughter was tased by a chicago police officer tuesday night. it happened here in a walgreen's parking lot on 103rd and south michigan. the altercation with police started because of where tiffany decided to park. >> it was a handicap spot. she threw it on the ground. >> the family says the officer tased her while she was attempt to go roll up her window as she sat in her vehicle. rent was arrested and so was her fiance, joseph, when he tried to intervene. hobbs showed us how police
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dislocated his elbow as they arrested him. now, chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy was asked on a separate ehave not what his policy is on tasing pregnant women. >> first of all, you can't always tell if somebody is pregnant. so you want to use it where you're overcoming an assault or preventing escape. that's it boils down to. >> but the family says the officers knew her daughter is expecting. >> they could see, she has a hernia. the other officer said no, she's pregnant. so he knew. >> gregg: our thanks to lisa from wfld. we want to remind you about a story similar that i had our legal panel debate a short time ago involving another pregnant woman and tasered west of seattle. the u.s. supreme court has refused to review the case of ma loca brooks who was 7 months pregnant when she was repeatedly tased by seattle police during a traffic stop in 2004.
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the supreme court, about a week ago, let a lower court ruling stand that could expose police to liability for inappropriate use of tasers. our legal panel predicted that outcome. >> heather: coming up, against all odds, we will introduce to you a young woman who has faced incredible challenges. she's now achieved something few us could ever dream of. >> gregg: is you or somebody you love addict to do shopping? does spending too much cause problems in your personal life? well, now there may be -- i find this hard to believe -- but maybe there is a pill for that. we'll talk about that possible cure. >> hoarding and things, shopping is considered compulsive, than medication could solve that problem well the kids wanted a puppy,
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it is bottom of the hour. time for top of the news. violence erupting across syria. reports of at least 52 civilians killed across the country today, including women and children. witnesses in the capital of damascus say government tanks opened fire on the streets. armed rebels are fighting back. >> heather: afghan president karzai squarely placing blame for this week's deadly air strikes on the u.s. he says his troops had no notice that it was coming. 18 people were killed. >> gregg: spain is asking the european union for a bailout. market watchers and united states worried about what it may mean when the opening bell rings on monday. >> heather: now to a truly remarkable story of a young woman who faced unbelievable obstacles after her parents abandoned her. she ended up homeless and had to
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go live with friends. now she has been accepted to one of the most prestigious universities in the world, harvard. elizabeth prann is live with more on this story. hi, elizabeth. >> hi, heather. what an inspiration. here is a young woman who tells us about a childhood filled with memories of constant evictions and parents running from law enforcement. let me give you a little background on how now 18-year-old dawn logbegins became homeless. her junior year in high school, she was selected to go to a prestigious governor summer school camp and that's when she returned home after that school camp to find out that her parents were gone. they had picked up and moved to tennessee. that's when she knew she was living on her own. she would live at friend's homes and eventually lived with a fellow school employee. for the past year, she's been working for that one goal, to go to college. listen to what she has to say about the four years ahead of her.
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>> my teacher is going to be great. i know it is. harvard is going to make that happen, but also it's stability. i'm not going to have to worry about where my meals are coming from, or where i'm going to sleep at night. and i'm going to have so many opportunities. >> what loggins wants people to know is she's really not alone. studies show more than 2 million high school students across the nation at one period or another are homeless. one school counselor who we spoke with says it's an incredible challenge for any young individual. >> just overcoming the idea of never knowing what you were going home to or where home was because they've been evicted so many times or they were trying to outrun some law enforcement. >> that being said, now 18-year-old dawn loggins did rise above all those challenges
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and plans on being a biology major at harvard and wanted to let us know it is a merit-based scholarship. she'll be working at the university to continue paying her own way. >> heather: congratulations to her. an inspiration to many. thank you so much. >> gregg: what a great story. good for her. all right. we should continue to follow her. strong reaction from the white house to growing controversy over a string of highly sensitive intelligence leaks. president obama saying he's offended by claims that his white house is involved. here is the president from yesterday. >> people, i think, need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. >> gregg: liz trotta is an author journalist, fox news contributor and joins us with her commentary. hi, liz. >> good afternoon, gregg. this is really a throwdown with the media. if you step back and look at
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this, everybody seems to gain if you're a cynic. the "new york times" certainly seeks to gain because they're now in a face-to-face fight with the white house and they've gotten lots of publicity for their reporters. and the white house seeks to gain because they will have succeeded in bolstering president obama's national security image, and of course, the writers themselves of the books are going to make a lot of money because they got all this free publicity. so what happens when you get down to it is who is felling the truth in all this? have classified secrets really been leaked to reporters? it's interesting that the defense from the times comes from the national editor and not from mr. salzburger who owns the newspaper. he's been an absentee publisher. maybe that's part of the reason. but it seems to me if you're taking on the white house, it ought to come from the top. dean bakay, who is the national
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editor, said -- he used the word mission. he said we're on a mission examine we're going to continue to tell this story. he just doubled down and defended his reporters and said these are not leaks. this represents quote, unquote, tons and tons of reporting. that's a rather precious summary of what these stories have said. and the ones that we're talking about specifically are, of course, are david sanger's piece on the cyber attack in iran and the kill list that obama is supposed to have to shoot down drones and he signs off on it personally. that was done by scott chain in the paper. no book attached yet, but i bet that will come. then, of course, the u.s. drones. >> gregg: you're not arguing that the newspapers were wrong in publishing this information, nor the authors, are you? >> i'm not -- yes, i am. >> gregg: really? >> i'm arguing -- >> gregg: it dates back to the pentagon papers case in which
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the "new york times" and "washington post" went to the supreme court -- >> assuming i was for the pentagon papers. let me say, you have to have a certain amount. i'm the last one who is going to yell censorship. but you really have to have a sense of responsibility and especially if you think you're being used. this has all the appearances of each them, the white house, the administration, and the times using each other. now, that's what i object to. that smacks of an accommodation, of a cozy arrangement. >> gregg: as i said earlier with lamar smith, leaks are indemic in washington and everybody uses everybody else. the leaker and the leakee. there is nothing unusual there. >> i think there is. i think -- i've been talking about this for months on fox and starting with the details that came out of the osama bin laden raid, a lot of these things should not be made public and it really does make obama look bad,
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especially when he's having a c.i.a. guy open up the room where they make all the decisions in the c.i.a. and give them all the details. he's always been friendly to the hollywood community. and to talk about a cyber attack on iran, i'm sorry. that should be classified and should be kept a secret. we don't win that way. we don't win that way. >> gregg: sunshine is the best disinfectant, i always say. >> that's a nice, cozy constant. >> gregg: the supreme court decision, a statement by -- >> you're also an american citizen and you have to have some regard for where you are, either you're a citizen or you're a reporter for some international global conglomerate. >> gregg: all right. thank you very much, liz. always fun to talk you want to thanks very much. >> thank you. >> heather: hundreds of thousands of bikers take over downtown austin, texas. we'll tell i couldn't today that will go down in history.
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>> gregg: catch a killer, 22-year-old student murdered three years ago. now her mother is leading the call to catch the suspect before he kills again. >> we are very concerned that -- and statistically it's possible and likely that we will find our murderer through dna or forensics from another body. we are determined that that not be how this unfolds.
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>> heather: hundreds of thousands of motorcycle fans crowding the streets of austin, texas to make history. the guiness book of world records declaring the 50,000 bikers the world's longest motorcycle parade. it was part of the annual republic of texas rally. besides the bikers, 200,000 others were there just to cheer them on. the crowd is being called the
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largest biker party in any metropolitan city's downtown. >> gregg: i used to have a mo town. the f.b.i. is just leased a new clue in the death of a college student, 20-year-old virginia tech student vanished from a concert in 2009. her body was found three months later on a patch of farmland. investigators believe the man in this sketch is responsible. he's also been linked to another assault four years earlier. authorities say he has probable will he changed his appearance, but harrington's mother hopes someone will i.d. him before he has the chance to hurt anyone else. >> to me, the most frightening thing about it is that it doesn't look like the face of evil. it looks like a regular person walking around and that's why this composite is important. it's 'cause there is someone who looks regular, walking around, hiding in plain sight. probably in this town.
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>> gregg: judge jeanine pirro is the host of "justice" with judge jeanine on the fox news channel. you'll be interviewing both the mother and the father tonight. >> it's so sad, gregg, to listen to the mother of someone who has been murdered and even worse, to realize that the murderer has not been found. the daughter of jill harrington was 20 years old and a college student at the time she went to a metalca concert. she ends up separated from her friends and she is not found for three months. her body is then found in the middle of a 750-acre farm. suggesting that someone who was from the area or knew the land may have done this to her, given the fact that they had to go over creeks and there were obstacles and -- >> gregg: what's encouraging is that there is incriminating dna evidence of the killer that was on the body morgan harrington and on the body of somebody in 2005. right? >> that somebody in 2005, gregg, is a very lucky woman.
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she was pulled from a park into a parking lot and ended up being raped by an individual whose dna matches the dna on the shirt of morgan harrington, the victim in this case. with the advances in technology, we have the ability to identify someone who is both a rapist, as well as a murderer. the problem, of course, is that we don't know who he is. and that's why this sketch is important. >> gregg: he's not in the database. >> exactly. >> gregg: which is too bad and some day that may change dramatically? >> that tells you he hasn't been arrested. he's not in the system. >> gregg: he's very good at getting away with crime. >> and given the fact that the rape was in 2005, the murder in 2009, what we do know is that he didn't stop in between those two. so there is a predator among us. there is someone who is out there who is killing and raping young women and tonight we're going to talk about all of these issues and hopefully some new information. >> gregg: that's picture of morgan harrington. >> beautiful girl. >> gregg: she was.
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absolutely. and loved and admired by all of her friends and family. i want to go back now to the composite sketch because it's changed from 2005 to now. originally it was a beard and a mustache. now they believe he's got rid of that, what, trying hide his identity and he's got a fuller face. >> what's interesting is with the advancement of time or with the time that's passed in the -- since 2005, it's seven years. so he does look different. he's got a fuller face. people think that he probably shaved his beard and mustache. and what's interesting is that the rape was 6 1/2 hours away from where the concert was where morgan was last seen. so someone in the area action he knew that farm area, he knew how to get there. you saw the gates, the fences. he had to literally walk across a creek to put her body in the place where it was left. >> gregg: "justice" with judge jeanine, catch it tonight on the fox news channel. she'll be interviewing morgan
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harrington's parents, 9:00 o'clock eastern time right here on the fox news channel. judge, good to see you. >> good to sigh. >> heather: always a good segment. a surprising new connection between alzheimer's disease and compulsive shopping? judge jeanine, familiar with that? researchers now say that an alzheimer's drug could help shopoholics keep their credit cards in their wallet and that's not the only thing it could help cure my bad.
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>> gregg: now you may not be able to shop 'til you drop. new hope today for people suffering from obsessive compulsive disorders. researchers say there is a drug that is used to treat alzheimer's disease and now it appears to help shopaholics curb their desire to shop and spend excessively. >> heather: i don't know. this could help doctors treat other addictions. like gambling. here is how one researcher describes it.
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>> it works on a chemical glutamate. so there is thought that it may be responsible for people having obsesstive compulsive disorder and these compulsive behaviors. >> heather: dr. mark siegle is a member of the fox news medical a team and professor of medicine at nyu medical center and joins us now with more. hello. >> hi, heather. >> heather: tell us about this study. first of all, my big question, how could the two possibly be related, alzheimer's and any sort of compulsive disorder? >> as that doctor said, there is a hormone in the brain and it's conceivable that lacking it, that this drug does, could conceivably cut down on obsesstive compulsive behaviors, including been a shopaholic, which 80% of shopaholics are women. >> gregg: really? >> heather: i don't like shopping. i'm kind of the weird one in that. i don't like it at all. >> you're too busy work. >> heather: yes. >> here is the thing about this, only nine team in the study out
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of minnesota. number two, this drug has a lot of side effects. it can cause headache, headache, fatigue, hallucination. maybe the fatigue from the drug is the reason people don't have the energy to go out and shop! you're falling asleep. >> gregg: i can't go shopping, i'm sleeping. >> but i don't want to use drugs with a loft side effect no, sir matter what if i can avoid it. i'd like to see a much larger study before i would tell anybody to consider asking for it. >> gregg: if being a shopaholic a function of ocd disorder, there are a bunch of them, including addictive gambling, would it help for that? >> all kinds of addictions. even cigarette smoking. any kind of obsessive compulsive behavior. it only has a mild effect even in alzheimer's. so i'm dubious about whether it's really going to get out of the starting gate. it's one of those studies i'd say, let's go back to the mice and see how much they gamble on
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this drug. i really want to see it tried. >> heather: here is a question coming from our producers, christine burke, could this be dangerous? could you potentially do the opposite and say, you know, a casino could use this and make people want to do more, have the opposite effect, more gambling or more shopping? >> i actually tonight think -- it's great question. i actually don't think it would cause the opposite and cause more shopping, but i am worried about what i said at the beginning, what if you're hallucinating on this drug? what if it causes to you do something else? what if you think i'm going to take this examine get into a car accident from it? i don't want people to be taking a powerful drug to solve one problem and create another problem. >> heather: what is used to treat ocd? >> that's a great point. psycho therapy is number one. behavior modification therapy. you have to figure out why the person has the problem. sometimes they have a deeper root. they may be depressed. what's causing this? actually it's shocking in the nine people they studied here,
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you know, the women in the study -- used 60% of their income was going to shopping. 60%. >> gregg: how about just cutting up the credit cards? that would probable leggett rid of the -- probably get rid of it. >> they'll get other credit cards or find secret store credit cards. you have to do it by getting to the root of the problem. >> heather: we're not advocating a pill for everything. that's what a lot of people were saying. are we in danger of becoming an overmedicated society? >> no question. we are overmedicating. we're treating the symptoms rather than the underlying problem. but sometimes, 'cause i made a little light of this here in the segment -- sometimes the problem is so fear it's ruining people's lives. in that case, maybe a pill is indicating, if it's the right pill. >> gregg: but still, nine people participated in the study. you have to do a lot more.
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>> a lot more, and i want to get to the real problem in this case if i can. >> heather: i agree with you, gregg, cut up the credit cards. >> gregg: there you go. >> people go underground. >> gregg: nobody takes cash anymore. we're a plastic society. >> everybody takes crash. >> gregg: good to sigh. that's going to do it for us. rick folbaum and arthel neville take over top of the hour. >> heather: we'll see you tomorrow right here at 4:00 p.m. eastern. we hope you join us. >> gregg: have a great weekend, everybody. bye-bye [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food.
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>> rick: hello, everybody. i'm rick folbaum. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville. topping the news, the u.s. treasury chief applauding one european country's efforts to save its banking system despite anger on the streets. what does it mean for our economy? >> rick: overseas, heavy shelling and gun fire in damascus as emboldened rebels take their fight against president assad to the center of his palace. >> arthel: you still have time to get dad a gift for father's day. >> rick: who you calling old? >> arthel: correction. good time to get a gift for dad. next weekend it's coming. "consumer reports" is here with terrific ideas which definitely do not include a tie. thank you very much. re rick: we start with new

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