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mike emanuel tells us what we have now. >> if we didn't have it over our head we'd be in better shape. >> general lloyd austin issued that warning to lawmakers as the pentagon is due to take a brunt of $110 billion in mandtory spending cut in january. the vice chief of naval construction would limit the hot spots around the world. >> it would cause us to look at the strategy. the force from the sequestration is not a force to support the current strategy we are operating under. >> reporter: house republicans are trying to prevent it from happening by trimming a bill they call bloated programs to stop slashing the military budget. >> not only does it hallow out defense, it creates 8% across the board cut to domestic discriminatiodiscriminatory spe. >> democrat ospose the measure. defense secretary leon panetta applauded the evident but said the cuts are too controversial. >> to guarantee results would be confrontation, gridlock. a greater likelihood of sequester. the key is work together. >> working together has been a huge challenge for the congress. previous efforts to find saving or

>> bret: mike emanuel live on the hill. thank youment ahead on the grapevine. union hatred for one for visualized. we'll show you the video. but first a day of reckoning in egypt. they'll hook you up with a solid plan. wa-- wa-- wait a minute; bobby? bobby! what are you doing man? i'm speed dating! [ male announcer ] get investing advice for your family at e-trade. [ male announcer ] you plant. you mow. you grow. you dream. meet the new definition of durability: the john deere select series. with endless possibilities, what will you create? ♪ dreaming of great savings? get them during our green tag event. visit johndeere.com/greentag for details. >> bret: checking international headlines now. egyptians today voted in the first free presidential elections in generations. 15 months after mubarak's ouster. correspondent leland vittert has the latest from cairo. >> reporter: outside cairo polling stations, they double back on themselves. in keeping with tradition, women queued up separately from men under the hot may sun. >> i had to wait. i want to go to the elect

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us lots of big changes may add up to not much change> the population shift from the rust belt to the sun belt led to fewer northern congressional districts and created 13-member versus member races this year in 11 states around the country. in pennsylvania, last month, blue dog democrat jason altm evenyer and tim holden were ousted losing to more liberal opponents. >> time that members of the caucus are pitted against one another, it's gut-wrenching for them. heart rendering for us. >> in ohio, dennis kucinich lost to one of his best friends in congress, marcie captor after the districts became one. in illinois, done manzulo and adam kinkinger faced off. controversy when eric cantor endorsed freshman kinsinger over ten-term manzoulo. >> i equate it to two brothers being locked in a room and saying only one can walk out. i didn't enjoy the process. >> in iowa, steve king's reliably red district eliminated. now 45% the former constituents and 55% new people in the new four congressional district. he faces well-known advantageer vilsak wif

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>> shepard: mike emanuel in washington tonight.he feds have apparently been eavesdropping on more americans lately. the justice department reports it made more than 1700 requests for permission to wiretap or search for evidence of terrorism or espionage last year. that's a 10% jump from 2010. officials say a secret federal court did not reject any of last year's requests. but it did modify some of them, whatever that means. the ferry captain who unwittingly brought a mass murderer to an island's camp in nor way sets killer was cooperative on the boat ride over. he killed 18 people on a bombing last july and then made it to that summer camp where he slaughtered 69 others. most of them were but teenagers. the killer dressed as a policemen for the ferry trip for the island camp. today the captain of that ferry agreed to cover up his gun so it wouldn't scare anybody. when they arrived at the island the gunman pulled up that gun and started shooting. ferry captain's girlfriend who you see here was the first one to die. locked up for fou

>> chris: mike emanuel on capitol hill. thanks. it's being called a watershed for the nation. the face of america is changing one baby at a time. national correspondent steve centanni tells us about minorities now in the majority. >> this crucial demographic tipping point was long expected and points to a much more diverse future for america. census bureau figures show more minority babies being born than non-hispanic whites. it's the result of an aging baby boom population and a surge of immigrants, mostly hispanics in their childbearing years. >> it reflects a very different america. america has changed dramatically over the past three or four decades during -- we used to see ourselves and be able to largely as a nation largely in black and white terms. >> for now, the u.s. has a white majority. that's not true in every state. in hawaii, immigrants comprise 77% of the population. the figure is 65% in the district of columbia and about 60% in both california and new mexico. texas has 55%. by far the largest and fastest growing minority population is latinos growing at 3.1% a

mike emanuel is live on capitol hill this evening.ow are democrats responding to this new warning of the nation's debt limit. >> shep, new york democratic senator chuck schumer says the last thing the country needs is a rerun of last summer's debt battle that nearly brought down our economy. and here now is senate majority leader harry reid. >> republicans can grandstand all they want. the fact is any agreement to avoid a fiscal cliff facing us at the end of this year must not gut programs that support the middle class. like medicare and social security and education. >> democrats say they want taxes to go up on higher income americans as part of any deal which is something obviously republicans do not want to do. shep? >> not surprisingly it looks like we are set for another train wreck when all of this comes around. >> yes. when you consider at the end of the year the bush tax cuts are expiring. the bush payroll tax holiday due to end. long-term unemployment benefits due to run out. one long time senator former senator says is he pr

>> shepard: mike emanuel at the rotunda on capitol hill. thanks.to death his own pride just hours after their wedding has now spread as far as texas. the search is widening. the fbi has issued an unlawful flight warrant for that husband who maybe missing since this past weekend. the cops outside chicago say they have gotten more than 200 tips on his whereabouts. we're told this is a surveillance photo of him. they found her dead in the bathtub still wearing silver see again dress the won she wore at that wedding last friday. one of the football players caught' in the new orleans saints bounty scandal is now suing roger goodell. set linebacker jonathan vilma who claims that the commissioner made false statements that have damaged his reputation facing one year ban who helped start the so-called bounty system. he had offered teammates $10,000 of his own money who injure opposing quarterbacks. john that vilma denies the claims and says there is no evidence against him so far no response from commissioner goodell there are more minority babies being bo

mike emanuel has the latest example of throw the bums out mentality in voting booths across the country. >> well known and well funded duhurst failed to win the vote for retiring kay bailey hutchison senate. former state solicitor general cruz finished second after earning classroom support and backing of the national conservative figures such as rick santorum and sarah palin. >> there is a title quiv going on that the enfrenched establishment ignores at their pearl. >> gearing up for july 31 runoff, he appealed to state pride and suggested washington conservatives shouldn't mess with texas. >> republican party is alive and well in texas. we have having a primary contest. i'm merely saying if mr. cruz, talks conservative and i act, i do conservative. >> on the democratic side in el paso, eight-term congressman campaigned on the washington connection, with endorsements from obama and president clin top who campaigned for him. hi argued cruz is out of touch. seven members of congress defeated so far. as democratic leader pelosi expressed sadness for reyes. said that isn't anti-incumbent w

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chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reports on an opening shot of the war on the borrowingit. >> boehner is ready for a fight. >> when the time comes i will again insist. principles are greater than debt increase. >> it led to a huge battle that ended with creation of a super committee charged with finding $1.# trillion in cuts only to fail. now boehner is sinnisting on savings a reforms. >> i am trying to use debt ceiling as action forcing event to force the process to deliver more change than what it would produce on its own. >> they call protecting the credit rating of fundamental commitment and incyst the process shouldn't be as difficult. >> only congress can act to raise a debt limit. we hope they do it without the drama and pain and damage they cause the country last july. >> other top democrats say the hast thing the country needs is a rerun of the last debt battle. >> republicans can grand stand all they want. any agreement to avoid the physical cliff facing us at the end of the year must not gut programs that support the middle class. >> the timing of it will be t

on capitol hill, mike emanuel, fox news. >>> president obama sunday governor romney were not on any ofkers on both sides of the aisle were weighing in on the candidates vying to be the nation's ceo in 2012. steve centanni with more on what they had to say. >> with the president's denouncement that he supports same-sex marriage that issue is suddenly a hot topic though it is unleer how it may impact the presidential race. one key democrat said she went through a personal transformation on the issue like obama did. >> you get to know more and more gay couples. you see the happiness. you you see the economic security that marriage brings. and even more fundamentally you see children who otherwise would not have an adopted home being able to have that home. and so same sex couples raise children, they do a fine job. >> the president may have energize the his political base with the announcement especially since one in six of his key fundraisers is gay but democrats and republicans' like predict the issue will have little impact on election today. the gop presumed nominee appeared at libert

mike emanuel on capitol hill today.paks, they are a popular choice for treating common infections, but the antibiotic is now link today a deadly heart problem. what you should know about the risks before it's too late. >>> plus, the jury is about to get the case existence john edwards. -- against john edwards. we'll take a look at today's closing arguments involving the man who wanted to be president. ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. jenna: a few international stories we're watching on "happening now" for you, including new violence in syria today. we have some videos taken in the south reportedly showing syrian and opposition forces in a bloody gun battle. a voice can be held vaguely telling civilians to carry the wounded out of the area. according to reports, the latest clash was in respo

jon: mike emanuel in the capitol building, thank you. as mike just showed us, both sides are amping up the political rhetoric on the issue, senate majority leader harry reid taking a swipe at the republican plan just a few moments ago. let's take a listen. >> while we do not support the republicans plan to support programs that combat diabetes, cancer, are happy -- we're happy if they want a vet on an alternative but let us get on this bill. if republicans would stop filibustering our legislation, and in this instance, to keep student loan interest rates low, they want some other way to pay for it, let's take a look at it. let them offer that. the stakes in this debate with too high to let partisanship get in the way. jenna: for more, we're joined by john thune, chair of the senate republican conference. nice to have you with us. >> good morning, -- good morning, jenna. jenna: senator reid says he's open to an alternative. let's be -- why not be open to that? >> we would like an opportunity to get a vote on a proposal that would keep the

jon: mike emanuel in washington on that story. mike, thank you. harris: fox news is america's election headquarters. today two former rifles meeting behind closed doors. mitt romney and rick santorum getting together in pittsburgh after a hard-fought primary campaign. the former pennsylvania senator expected to endorse romney but not quite yet. the chief political correspondent carl cameron is live from washington. >> reporter: romney may in fact be meeting with santorum as we speak. the two have been saying there were no plans for them to a pier together today and no public announcement of that endorsement but santorum has long said eventually he would endorse whoever the republican nominee is, including mitt romney. he wants romney's assurances that not only will obamacare be repealed in some future romney administration and romney will not include a mandate in any replacement. santorum wants a seat at the table for the blue-collar tea party conservatives who supported him last year. he made it clear he is counting on santorum's help. listen to

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill with more on that. mike, why is it some democrats don't like this house bill? >> reporter: jon, the white house says the house bill does not go far enough to protect battered illegal immigrants, native americans or gays. here is a senator press expressing her thoughts. >> the senate bill strengthens violence against women law to provide violence against women act to provide more protections to more women and their families. the house bill weakens the law. >> reporter: democrats want to expand the expiring current law to protect gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender americans, jon. jon: so from the republican side, what are they saying about it? >> reporter: i should note there are some republicans who do feel that the house bill does not go far enough. i should note that the senate bill passed by a pretty good bipartisan margin. in the end though the senate republican leader says something will get done. >> i'm confident that we'll renew the violence against women act. as you may recall it, passed th

our chief correspondent mike emanuel has the top story tonight. >> late today, 40-year-old chen guangcheng spoke by phone to a congressional hearing focused on him and appealed for u.s. assistance. >> i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. >> reporter: his greatest concern is safety of mother, brothers and neighbors that helped him. after officials said chen did not want to leave china, he told reporters he had a change of heart. >> when i was inside the embassy i didn't have all the information. so i changed my mind. >> chen told a fellow dissident the china government attacked his wife. >> basically the interrogator told her that her husband did not walk out of the u.s. embassy they will kill her. >> reporter: it's called a political dilemma for the white house. >> at no point during his time in the embassy did he ever request political asylum in the u.s. and he expressed his desire to stay in the china. >> he about one child per family and late term abortions. he left for the hospital after suffering a foot injury in his escape. a state departmen

thank you very much, mike emanuel in d.c.on: energy in america looking at an effort to change regulations affecting the coal industry and how the obama administration tried to keep some negative information secret. chief national correspondent jim angle has that live from washington. jim? >> reporter: hello, jon. fox has obtained documents from are an investigation of obama administration efforts to rewrite coal regulations in a way lawmakers say would kill the coal industry. transcripts and recordings between officials of the office of surface mining and contractors hired to quantify the impact of proposed regulations show the contractors' estimated job losses of some 7,000, though a private analysis pus puts the -- puts the losses at as much as 79,000 jobs, more than 64,000 of which would be from a region including kentucky, west virginia, ohio, pennsylvania, tennessee, and virginia. in one session officials are flabbergasted, it appears, to learn after spending millions of dollars to produce 160 pages of new rules, the gai

jon: mike emanuel there in washington. mike, thank you. america's election headquarters and brand new analysis of the president's approval rating right now. 47% considered pretty low for any president who has gone on to be reelected but according to a "new york times" analysis it should exactly be even lower, especially if history is any guide. "the times" looking at the president's going all the way back to eisenhower finding their popularity hinges on several factors. we'll take a look. time in office, popularity, usually declines over time. scandals, or wars, which can push approval up or down and most importantly the economy, the better it is, the higher the approval rating, the worse, the lower, makes sense. taking all of that into effect "the times" calculated what president obama's approval really should be. the actual is the red line. the black line is what would be expected considering all those things. roughly a 10 point difference between them. "the times" is saying that discrepancy is more the exception than the rule. take a lo

mike emanuel live on capitol hill.an pitch for this bill and exactly what are they trying to accomplish? >> reporter: well, jon, they got a little bit of help from the vice chief of staff of the army who said the military would be in a lot better shape if these massive cuts were not hanging over their heads. so $110 billion is the first wave of cuts which is due to kick in in january. the majority of that coming from the military. so what congressman paul ryan and his colleagues are trying to do is, essentially, cut domestic programs that they think have got too bloated. andinstead of cutting the pentagon, here's the house budget chairman, paul ryan. >> it's an across the board spending cut that has a formula written into it which disproportionately cuts defense starting january 2nd. according to the president and the defense secretary it would decimate our defense, so we don't want to lose the savings, we just need to cut government spending in other places of government. >> reporter: the house is expected to vote thi

mike emanuel has more live from washington. >> reporter: two top u.s.icials are enroute to beijing while a senior american diplomat is on the ground there discussing the fate of this blind dissident. secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary tim divider in are head -- geithner are headed to beijing. secretary clinton was cautious when talking about the dissident. >> we will be going to beijing for the strategic and economic dialogue. we have a full range of issues that covers all of the political and economic matters that are of concern to our nations and our people. i'm not going to address the specific case at this time. >> reporter: clinton did go on to say there will be very frank discussions of areas where the u.s. and china do not agree including human rights. senator lindsey graham said the dissident deserves our admiration and respect for his work in speaking out against china's continued practice of forced abortions and sterilizations. this morning senator marco rubio, republican from florida, said, quote: the united states has

jon: well mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more about that controversy.he tone of the secret service director, as he speaks to the lawmakers? he looked pretty remorseful there. >> reporter: that's right, jon. director sullivan saying that the secret service has protected more than 37,000 trips around the world and they've never had an incident like this one before. so trying to make the point that it is not systemic or the culture of the secret service. here is more from director sullivan, trying to reassure lawmakers. >> the overwhelming majority of the men and women who serve in this agency exemplify our five core values of justice, duty, courage, honesty and loyalty. >> reporter: and pretty quickly director sullivan apologized for this incident and tried to reassure lawmakers that the president's safety and security was never in jeopardy, jon. jon: what are the folks on the committee saying about it? >> reporter: it's a fascinating contrast, because there you have the secret service director saying, hey this looks like a one-time deal and trying to rea

mike emanuel is with us.e expect to hear. >> reporter: we expect mark sullivan to say that this one incident in columbia does not reflect the ethical standards of the nearly 7,000 secret service employees. you can expect him to say that at no time was president obama's security at risk and also expepbgt etd to say, quote, the security plan was extremely thorough and comprehensive and no aspect of the security plan was compromised, due to the miss conduct. so sullivan will try to contain this scandal. i should note "the washington post" is reporting this morning that four of the employees who are being dismissed for the scandal are planning to foy to fight their dismissal. so the story may have legs for a time longer. bill: they are concerned this was not a one time event, are they not? >> reporter: that's right. we expect senator joe lieberman who is going to chair this meeting later this hour if there were warning signs from previous overseas trips with the secret service leading up to this trip. we know the

mike emanuel with news live from the d.c. newsroom. what is behind the apparent breakthrough, mike?> there was pressure on china and the u.s. to find deals so the chinese could save face after not allowing u.s. officials access to chen for day secretary of state clinton made an announcement. >> in that regard we are also encouraged by the official statement issued today by the chinese government confirming that he can apply to travel abroad for this purpose. >> and nyu law school has offered chen a position as a visit scholar in new york or one of its campuses around the globe. >> are top republicans satisfied with all this? >> some relief but a sense that it isn't over until chen and his family are on u.s. soil. they said to avoid another harmful error the state china tot must press klein to carry out its commitments. another official says the administration made this mistake early on. >> there was clearly a hurry-up offense in order to clear the decks if you will so that the secretary of state and geithner would be able to have this meeting. >> secretary of state clinton and geith

>> shepard: mike emanuel live on capitol hill. now to our good friends and trusted allies in pakistan. case in point, the man who helped hunt down the world's most wanted terrorist. he just got a reward from the pakistanis. 33 years in prison. that's the sentence that pakistani officials who just ordered for a doctor who helped the united states track down usama bin laden. the doctor's crime? conspiring against the state. he ran a fake vaccination program to collect d.n.a. intelligence teams to make sure bin laden was at that compound. the pentagon points out he was working against al qaeda. not against pakistan. and the senior u.s. official tells fox news the doctor helped save the lives of both americans and pakistanis. u.s. officials are calling for his release. the pakistanis says he has two months to appeal the verdict. analysts say this will only increase tensions between the united states and pakistan which is supposed to be america's ally against al qaeda. bottom line, they want money. and news from the future, they will g

mike emanuel is live in our newsroom. >> reporter: there were concerns the release of that sensitiveormation may have compromised u.s. operations against al qaeda. congressman king wrote mueller today saying this was handled in the most restricted manner possible about it intelligence community and the white house which means it would have had to a emanated from a small universe. that makes the leak all the more distressing which is why i believe an investigation of a security breach of this magnitude must even come bass everyone who had access to this vital information. the fbi director said he, too, is concerned about how this information got out. >> leaks such as this threaten ongoing operations. puts at risk the lives of sources, makes it more difficult to recruit sources, and damages our relationships with our foreign partners, and consequently a looks like this is taken seriously and we'll investigate thoroughly. >> reporter: democrattic congressman adam shift said this leak has been devastating. >> if the published reports are accurate you can imagine what operational impact t

mike emanuel explains. >> speaker john boehner signaled he is ready for a fight when washington willthe end of the year to increase the debt limit. >> when the time comes i will again insist on my simple principle of cut greg palkot joins us live on the phone with more. hello, greg. >> we are here in london and it is a big story here, of course. 1988 bombing of pan am 103 about over lockerbie scotland in which 270 people died remains the biggest terror attack to happen portfolio or on uk soil. but, of course, 189 of those 270 were american. that is why, of course, it as big deal that the lone person, the one person convicted of responsibility for this is dead. he had been suffering from cancer for awhile now. and it is his brother today who said today that in libya he died. we don't have formal confirmation of that. we were speaking to authorities here in the foreign office and in the scottish government so there is no hard confirmation but it is assumed it is, correct. he remained controversial to the very end. his release in 2009 was on quote unquote compassion ate grounds because

mike emanuel starts our coverage live in washington. >> reporter: it's not clear if something got lost in translation or if blind chinese dissident realized after leaving the safety of the u.s. embassy that his family was in serious danger. american officials had told the world it was chen's desire to remain in china, but the 40-year-old blind dissident is now receiving medical treatment after sustaining a foot injury escaping house arrest with the help of supporters last week. chen told the associated press that u.s. officials informed him of a threat that his wife would be beaten to death if he did not leave the american embassy. state department officials have insisted that is not the case. in a phone be interview with sky news, chen explained why he's worried. >> translator: when i was inside the u.s. embassy, i couldn't get information. now i have it, and i can sense certain things, and i've changed my mind. >> reporter: the timing is awkward for secretary of state hillary clinton who is in china with treasury secretary tim geithner to discuss economic and global security issues.