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>> shepard: o.j. simpson less than 24 hours away from a parole hearing. analysts say looking good for him. parole officials say the earliest a former football star and pitchman could be out of prison is october 1. he spent nearly nine years behind bars in nevada for the armed robbery of two sports memorabilia agents at a hotel in las vegas. his defense team argued that o.j. was trying to take back items that somebody stole from him. to, quote, get his stuff back. the jury didnt buy it. i will be...

Fell tell the fbi about the russians until this was made public, causes the fbi -- >> shepard: close to when it was going to be made public. but i hear you. >> the fbi says why didnt he tell us, lets look into it. when you try to frustrate the government, keep something tr them and then they discover it, it causes them on get more cuious than if you told them about it in the first place. >> shepard: we get volumes of e-mails saying theres no evidence, no finding, theres no -- we dont know what t...

Relationships. >> shepard: great to see you, welcome back. >> thank you. >> shepard: think your rent ties high? the u.s. government is spending $130,000 a month for office space in trump tower. according to the wall street jurm which got a copy of that lease. the journal and fox news channel share common ownership. the department of defense is leasing the space for a military office that supports the white house although president trump hasnt spent a night in the tower since he took office. the ...

>> is opposition research, a, quote, thing of value? >> yes, people pay for it. campaigns outcourse opposition research, pay money for it and it comes in. we dont know if the opposition research that the russian lawyer said she had or the british publicist said the russian lawyer said she had ever came n was there an attempt to reach it? was there an agreement to reach it? was there material step taken in furtherance of reaching it or did it never materialize? these are the things that rob muell...

>> shepard: fox report headlines from the fox newsdesk. irans president is promising to retaliate against the united states after the trump administration announced in sanctions against the iranian e jeem. u.s. officials have said that iran is technically complying with the nuclear deal. they accuse iran of undermining security in the middle east in part with the missile program. an explosion after balloons collided with powerlines. look! thats long beach, california, south of l.a. the explosion...

Was looking for. so did the two of them talk about that at dinner? did the two of them talk about that in the by lat cal meeting, did they not talk about it at all? we dont know, we do not know what the con effect and the content of the -- context and the content of the conversation was of the president likely smoke with 18 other people at that dinner and we dont know what was said to them either. were asking questions, trying to get answers, so far none have been forthcoming. >> shepard: john r...

Seeking ideas for how to defeat the taliban and isis that popped up there as well. just this week the pentagon announced it had killed the head of isis in an air strike f the u.s. pulls out its troops many fear the vacuum would resemble that that was created in iraq which led to the rise of isis. also, basically the white house is toying with another plan presented to the pentagon to send contractors, defense contractors and replace soldiers and troops on the ground in ofgs. but thats not gettin...

>> if parole is granted, shep, o.j. simpson will have to spend a few more months here. we are told that if he does get paroled hell be out on or around october 1. >> shepard: thank you. more than 60 countries did not show up for the olympics. and it happened on this day in history.

Democrats are taking a different approach today, though, they arent going after the potential bill or senate republicans. theyre going to the president trump. >> elections do of consequences. one of the consequences, mr. president, one of the consequences mr. trump, is that youre in charge. and youve got to make things better. not simply point fingers and tweet. >> republican sen norse say it was good, productive meeting at the white house. we will see if it changes any votes. shep? >> shepard: ...

>> shepard: laura, thank you. the pork barrel spending in washington, increased by more than 100% over the last five years. thats according to citizens against government waste. thats a group that monitors what it calls patientful spending. it released its annual congressional big book today. we cover this every year and its always interesting has a big on the cover, makes us think of bacon, we love it. the book highlights certain ear marks where lawmakers put language in the bill to direct mone...