blake berman is in washington with the very latest and what to expect from the president's words as we listen this morning, blake. >> good morning, sandra. that news conference we're told expect ad few minutes from now. this is first visit by a sitting u.s. president in ethiopia. as part of the agenda, the president got there yesterday. as part of the agenda going forward as well, issues like counterterrorism and regional security. one of the regional security issues, the civil war in sudan and growing threat of al-shabaab and al qaeda affiliate. we say in the neighboring somalia. mogadishu a hotel attack, suicide attack killed 13 people at that hotel that houses diplomats. al-shabaab will certainly be on the agenda for the president during his trip to ethiopia. this comes after he spent the weekend in kenya. al-shabaab and counterterrorism threats were part of his talks over there. the president met with family in kenya and part of talking with world leaders, leaders in kenya he brought up touchy issues such as women's rights, gay rights, traditions that were a part of the past we nee

charles. >> blake berman, thank you very much. now, listen. you may not want to hear or talk about it much. but let's face it. the shooter was muslim. and colonel says the only way to stop it is to address it, talk about it out in the open. colonel west, welcome to the show. in the last 24 hours, you've been on fire. you've said comments that people say are prospective, but your point is those comments must be made. >> well, i don't think it's prospective in staying who the enemy is. and it's a pleasure to be with you, charles. we cannot continue to be on the path of political correctness and not admitting that is a jihaddist attack. back in june 2009 we didn't want to pay attention to what the little rock armey recruiting station. we still today in the obama administration classify it as fort hood as workplace violence. so when is it going to come a time when the commander-in-chief will break his silence and finally say the thing that everyone knows. that we have a domestic problem with islamic jihaddism here and isis has infiltrated this cou

neil: blake berman, now to my buddy keith more. the magic number is 67. those are keenly against this deal. to reject this deal, to reject a presidential veto. that was next to impossible. that is suddenly very possible. >> there's a reason there's a full court blitz going on with john kerry and all the rest of the heavyweights going over to capitol hill and making this case for this deal because it is eroding right now and it is eroded with republicans and moderate democrats having some reservations about this so this is not a done deal. i doubt there will be 67 votes in the senate to blast this. totally one party against the republicans, the bloom is off the rose here. neil: they might go by diplomatic perfunctory nests if you excuse my slaying. the un is already said a katie is this, it is an international agreement. we reject all the others are part of it. they are easing up on their sanction. it is weird by that wisdom not being part of this. what do you think of that. >> you are making the case john kerry is making. everyone in the world is for this

yet again, we make the jon stewart show blake berman is a star. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ remember malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared 17 months ago, a section of a wing found on an island in the indian ocean can't say conclusively it's from the 370 plane, but investigators have identified the component on the french island as a flapper arm from the trailing edge of a boeing triple 7 wing. there's only one 777 missing and that's flight 370. now the island is near mad gas madagascar madagascar, 2300 miles from the search from australia. if it's correct it would be the first physical piece of evidence since the plane crashed in march of 2014. there's the update and now this. donald trump has taken a commanding lead in the republican presidential race, according to a now reuters poll, trump has 25% of the vote, that's double the next candidate in line jeb bush. ashley, this poll was taken after trump made the comments. ashley: it's interesting, they call it rolling on-line poll. last friday 15%, by this tuesday, two days ago, it ha

border patrol union explaining why it backed out of the visit at the last minute fox business's blake berman has the leats. >> spokesmen for the national border patrol counsel tells me there's a couple reasons why they halted meeting with donald trump which include the comments trump made the about john mccain. the nacialg union representing border patrol agents say they've worked with the senator on legislation in the past, and respect the veterans. additionally group says that meeting became a spectacle far beyond anythinged it orchestrated in the past trump was invited by local border patrol chapter in laredo and went to border town sphiet the last minute snub on the ground trump said group was being silenced. the national union tells me it received no outside pressure to stop the organized meeting. melissa back to you. >> wow, blake all right. thank you. >> why should anybody be surprised that a trump event would turn into a spectacle. that's what it is. a point of a trump to be exactly a spectacle. i don't know. there you go. >> government is launching an investigation into whether five

like that. >> thank you he serves with valor, receiving the purple heart blake berman washington tennesseernor reacting to a deadly shoots on fox and friends weighing in on gun free zones on military bases. >> i think what i would always do in a situation is before ask you as many about to something you need to understand why it was in place before military has a place -- protocol in place, about carrying weapons on these facilities worked up through chain of command and i think we will all begin by saying, help us understand on a day when that doesn't seem to make sense help us understand why that policy is in place. maria: joining us more about pail mike baker with us former cia covert operations officer president of diligence thank you for joining us, the governor not yet ready to change the policy of guns. on these bases but servicemen and women have no way to defend themselves,what is your daik on this policy, of having our men and women unarmed. >> it goes back to 1992 i believe, so, it has been this place for sometime, but the reality is the world is different, right we are facing d

sherry and blake berman in washington d.c. reacting to technical glitches and let me kick this up with you, what was the reaction from washington? felt like everyone came together, was trying to make sure the world knew we have evidence that it is not a cyberattack. >> at a federal level all sorts of agencies, and basically the line was this is not a cyberattack, this was a glitch, the president was briefed, even secretary of state john kerry was briefed yesterday. kind of odd to point out there has been no comment from the sec. yesterday's they said they were monitoring it but after that they have been silent. at least on capitol hill it has gone from suspicion to concern and points in between with everything going on yesterday. a couple examples, barbara mikulski, a senator, said she doesn't believe in coincidences with everything going on yesterday. dianne feinstein said this is an oddity, she said we need to deal with is talking about a greater computer problem, because it is happening every couple weeks it feels like and

blake berman will tell us about that coming up.ly fiorina looking for her chance to take the white house in 2016, we will talk with her in a few minutes. the federal communications commission approving direct tv, $48.5 billion that the fcc wants something out of it for customers, telling the companies to build a network ten times the size of at&t at current network of fiber-optic cables which executives and free of chrysler hot under the collar after two researchers were able to hack into the software of the jeep suv, the researchers, one of which is a former nsa analyst say this in industrywide problem and trying to bring attention to it. boeing said twenty-second quarter earnings, looking for a year over year increase on overall revenue but a decrease in earnings for the aircraft manufacturer. dow component stock up 4.5% justin the month of june live. coca-cola also out with second quarter earnings. stock is up 5% in the month of july many savings as strong dollar will hurt the dow components as coca-cola does a majority of its r

blake berman joins us now from dc. still has put out an official statement, we are hoping for one or at least some answers regarding the future at a presidential briefing later this afternoon. you'll remember that the president said greece did not pose a threat to the economy and it was the position of the white house that they would like to see a resolution with greece saying in the euro zone. now, that appears to be is fearless doubt, and the folks at the treasury department told us earlier this morning they're essentially in a wait and see mode. as for the federal reverse the chair janet will give a speech at the end of the week on friday about the u.s. economy. we'll see then if she ends up touching on greece and what this might potentially mean for the fed and a possible rate hike going forward analysts told us earlier today. they are mixed as to what this all means. the loudest public stands from dc actually came from the independent and presidential candidate bernie sanders. he released a statement saying quote i

stuart: blake berman in d.c. thanks so much blake.believe that the gunman acted alone and he was postings online about islam. so is this another lone wolf attack? looks like it. fox news radio todd starnes is with us. and, todd, you object to that label, lone wolf. why? >> oh, i do. as a matter of fact when you listen to what the president said yesterday he didn't even use the word lone wolf. he said loan gunman. stuart: he did. >> we keep hearing this phrase lone wolf as if these are just isolated incidents. we've got a heck of a lot of lone wolves out there and we have a heck of a lot of islamic radicals out there but you won't hear the president say those words either. we have yet to hear him say islamic extremism. we have yet to hear him say terrorism. we have yet to hear him say jihad. his u.s. attorney inattanooga, said we're investigating this as act of domestic terrorism. for whatever reason this president doesn't want to connect the dots. he doesn't think there are any dots to connect. stuart: i would use the expression of lo

far more than originally reported blake berman in washington with the story, blake. >> hi maria good that in perspective, that is roughly one in every 15 americans. the information from security clearance hand by office of personal management dating you a the way back to 2000 is now believed until the hands of chinese cyberthieves compromised 22 million people includes from social security numbers, to employment, health financial history. there is growing by partner calls for opm director to leave her post however there are not any indications from archuleta white house that will happen soon take a look at this opm circulating the letter to likely victims four pages long, looking through it also one big credit monitoring headache for who ever might be tangled in this. >> people hacked by about initially we thought all federal employees people who worked at government, at some point in their career but it is also anybody who has had a background check? >> yes so initially number was four million that was federal government employees, but now this is expanded to those who have backgrou

reaustering diplomatic ties reopenir reemployees for the first time over half is this your statement blake berman d.c., with the latest. >> good morning, a 53ier stalemate comes to an end this morning, here in washington, cuban comi will reopen one of the many signs relations restored between u.s. and cuba a ceremony the emcee involving john kerry and cuban counterpart there are many outstanding issues between both countries, and access is not complete, for example, the obama administration has kept in place restrictions for those want to go travel to the island nation strictly for the means of tourism former united nations ambassador richardson said last hour he feels that might become the next opening. >> i think the next move is going to be is the administration on their own, can say, travel is now free both ways between the united states, and cuba. >> administration says the five-decade policy against cuba clearly has not worked critics though say new era rewarding the castro geological notorious violator of human rights jeb bush tweeted out a while ago sandra a quote obama rush to restore di

washington correspondent blake berman joins us with details on the hearing. how are things going?y the least. one of the central questions in the senate armed services hearing is why are there so few trained syrians and iraqis on the ground fighting isis within their own country? the defense secretary testified the u.s. has only been able to train fewer than 9,000 fighters in all of iraq and just 60 in sea area. that led to this exchange between republican jeff sessions and carter. take a listen. >> the strategy is to defeating isil on the ground in syria and iraq is to train and then enable local forces. that takes some time. >> general dempsey was training the iraqi forces eight years ago. i visit him in iraq. that was his primary responsibility. we have been training them for nearly a decade and that is not the problem right now. i think the problem is confidence within the iraqi government and the iraqi soldiers that they will be supported and victorious and if they had that confidence to get more recruits. >> carter said the 16 numbers not impressive as he sat in the problem

blake berman joins us. >> will this affect teflon hillary at all?> at the least he will create a headline and she'll potentially respond to today and quite possibly every 30 days from here on out because that's the time frame that the uj ordered an entire batch released every 30 days. >> the news here. >> she was receiving advise from sidney blumenthal sooner than anybody knew. and he was an aide to president clinton shunned by the obama administrationment and the benghazi comments were un unsolicited and wanting an update on the state department hiring of blumenthal. the e-mails showed concerns that clinton had about her standing with the administration after a couple of selling stelg scheduling mix-ups. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> isis is getting more sophisticated in obtaining recruits. we're talking to a guy in the united states getting in their way and stopping them. he's a hero. he stopped the kids have joining. and taking a major step in a market sort of breathing sigh of relief on "varney & company." >> this could be a dangerous dramat

blake berman in washington, d.c., with the latest here good morning to you. >> maria good morning gainingp department justice a criminal reveler into possible hess handling of hillary clinton e-mails as "new york times," and the "the wall street journal" are also reporting this morning, the former secretary of state private account contained hundreds of potentially classified e-mails, now not clear yet whether doj will go forward with that potential criminal inquirey. >> clinton said in much a she never e-mailed any classified information on her private account, however, when the first batch of clinton e-mails were he released last month roughly two dozen designated classified officials said they with upgraded to more sensitive status we are hearing the classified material mick significantly more than that, the clinton pain is pushing back this morning, pointing to the timing of the classification here is what they said in part quote, any released e-mails classified by administration have been done so after the fact, and not at the time they were transmitted this latest report cuts to the

the navy yard has been closed and fox business washington correspondent blake berman is on the phone and just arrived at the navy yard. what are you seeing? >> good morning to you, i'm at the navy yard there is a massive situation here at the gave yard in washington kansas city on the southern portion of washington d.c., south of the capital. it's on lockdown it's the oldest navy facility institute here in the united states and there is a huge scene underway right now. i just spoke with a spokesperson of the navy yard who wanted to clarify, while there is indeed an active shooter situation going on and hence the huge presence that we have here there is no confirmation of a shooting at this point and essentially, they're not confirming whether any shots were fired. this is part of the investigation going on right now. what i can tell you from my vantage point here there are helicopters that are circling the navy yard and it appears at certain points they're focusing on one specific area, but continue to circle. one of the buildings, building 197, i believe is the number that might rin

. >> thank you >> blake berman, you're at the embassy, the flag has been raised.en watching a little bit of this, stuart, for the first time in 54 years. the cuban flag is on the embassy here in dc. you know, this could be really any one of 1,000 buildings here in our nation's capital. but for the first time in five decades, we've seen this flag go up. it is a day of ceremonies here. both what we've seen and nondeposition transcript over at the state department. the cuban flag was put back up at the state department, secretary of state john kerry will be meeting with his counterpart there later today as well. seeing people chanting on both sides for a free cuba, also folks chanting asking for the blockade the embargo to be lift travel restrictions to be lifted. but as you know that is the next step and the political step going forward with all of this as travel restrictions are still in place the embargo is still in place. republicans have said that will be a tough lift, and they're not for lifting the embargo, at least at this point and potentially might even blo

let's go to blake berman in dc with the very latest >> this speech wrapped up moments ago.y definition. more than 40 minutes long, hillary clinton giving a framework of her economic agenda and a lot of it she said i will outline in the up coming weeks or outline in the up coming months. for example, she calls for fairer profit-sharing. she said she would outline that later this week in new hampshire. she said is how she would like to get students to refinance their student debt, and she would talk about that in the up coming months. she called for a strong, fair, long term growth and only mentioned three republican candidates by name. jeb bush. marco rubio and scott walker. so it is clear to see at least who she is keeping her eyes on >> wow. so that's who she thinks the competition is. even though carly blasting her. thank you very much. we've got hour three of "varney & company" just three minutes away. stay with us >> is america becoming greece? yes. i regret to say as a refugee from europe, yes, it is. the model is clearly broken, but is america determined follow their