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On station every minute of every day and simulate these kinds of exercises every single day, to make sure they are prepared if a real nuclear attack ever comes. we are just getting information from jennifer griffin at the pentagon, the cost of yesterdays test, $244 million. the cost of failure could be a whole lot higher. >> jon: exponentially higher. very, very true. jonathan hunt, thank you. >> heather: it for more on this, im joined by stephen tucci. he is a former defense -- we were just all...

>> sandra: our #oneluckyguy, bill bennett is here. top of the hour. >> jon: see you in 5 minutes. >> heather: fox news alert. weve learned to some additional information about that massive suicide truck bombings that rocked a highly secure diplomatic area and kabul, afghanistan. of the 90 injured, weve now learned that there were 11 u.s. citizens, mainly contract personnel who were injured in that attack. an afghan local guard is still missing, nine other afghan guards working for the u.s. contr...

Way ed goes to criminal charges. >> jon: give her credit for at least what looks like to be a heartfelt apology. thank you both. we are back with more "happening now" in just a moment.

Adversely impacted by this, and might actually do something bad and try to harm the president because they see a public figure endorsing such nefarious behavior? if we get a change in law, this might stop effects of actions like this. >> jon: the law says you cannot inflict bodily harm upon officials like the president, holding up a fake severed head doesnt cross that threshold? >> it doesnt because you have to look at the law. we all know kathy griffin is outrageous. she put yourself out there....

Right, its not something thats going to land in a criminal charges against her. >> jon: do you see it differently? >> if using bad judgment was a crime, kathy griffin would be behind bars right now. unfortunately, we have a law in place that dates back to 1969 and mercedes is right. that law looks into the mind of kathy griffin. did she knowingly and tend to incite violence? my view on this is the law needs to be changed. we need a different law that calibrates with social media, with the escala...

This would start a new task for american leadership under donald trump. >> jon: you let off your playbook this morning with the tweet from the president, the tweet heard round the world. the president wrote this. despite the constant negative press covfefe, then it stopped. then the president wrote who can figure out the true meaning of covfefe? enjoy. >> if we can take one interesting thing away from thi this, the reports are true, weve all been reporting for the last couple months is that dona...

Need for us to change the senate rules. the rules already allow for us to do what we need to do. >> president trump tweet about health care this morning. hope they were public and senators, good people all, can quickly get together and pass a new repeal and replace health care bill and save money. sean spicer was asked yesterday about potentially spending more to make sure whats next is great. >> there is a lot of savings that are coming out of the repeal and replace effort right now. were at $1...

Thanks to both of you for being here. do you see a smoking gun somewhere in all of this talk about russia meddling in the election? >> i think its why there is an investigation. im trying to be very deferential to the investigation. we know all the investigations are being led by republicans. attacking democrats seems a little bit odd because we are not actually couldnt control of any investigations. my hope is that these investigations go on and the chips fall where they may. i dont know what h...

>> jon: is a lunch break becoming a thing of the past? last year americans went out for lunch more than 400 million fewer times in the previous year. whats behind that trend? lawrence amenity is here with more. >> they figure the average lunch, $7.38. it seems like we are hanging out lunch the same way we do the fax machine and tape recorder. were trying to save time and money. that seems to be the new trend and attending the restaurants, whether its the casual chains or counter restaurants, eve...

The afghan security forces are not up to task to protect the diplomatic area, but also the larger city of kabul. this is what the white house is struggling with right now. there are talks about sending more u.s. troops. the pentagon is pushing to send roughly 5,000 or so more u.s. troops into afghanistan. the white house is weighing this offer, this contemplation. there are reservations for what these u.s. troops would do if they were there and what impact they have on the battlefield against th...