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We told lucas thomas and life in the pentagon. Lucas, we heard the claim last night from the North Koreans about this icbm. What is the pentagon same . Good afternoon. U. S. Officials are now confirming that north korea successfully tested for the first time a longrange , or icbm, capable of hitting alaska, something officials have long feared. Is much more immediate now. It is clear, we cannot repeat the same approach, failed reproach of the past paired the president has directed us to not do t...

Trump, who is facing intensifying russia investigations, has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and himself. The u. S. Constitution says the president has the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment. But whether a president can pardon him or one day herself isnt answered in the constitution. The department of justices office of Legal Counsel did shed some light back in 1974 telling thenpresident Ri...

Mike e manuel is keeping track of this all for us on capitol hill. Mike, what an afternoon. Reporter no question about it. Good afternoon to you. The house vote wrapping up. It was 227205 when republicans realized they had the votes, applause erupted on the house floor. Lawmakers got a pitch from President Trump coming up to capitol hill earlier today. They also got an appeal from the House Speaker who has worked his entire career trying to get tax reform done. Its about tax relief, fairness. It...

82 minutes. It came in under that time. For anyone whos familiar with Billy Grahams crusades or his meeting, they have a formula that they follow very regularly. That is you have bible reading, music and personal testimony. This funeral today had exactly those elements. Perhaps the most powerful was the personal testimony. All five of Billy Grahams children spoke, at times addressing that casket directly as daddy. It was a real mixture of tears and laughter for the audience. On the one hand, eac...

To attack. They claim so far theyve killed hundreds of kurdish fighters who they consider terrorists. Lets get straight to pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, the u. S. Defense secretary is insisting that the American Military is not abandoning syrias kurds who fought along u. S. Troops in the lengthy fight against isis. Many of the same Kurdish Forces paid with their lives. At the same time, we see u. S. Forces pulled back from the border area which now we have seen the turks go into...

Outer bands of rain are already moving in. By the time it clears puerto rico, theyre saying it could be a category 3 and spin straight toward the u. S. Mainland, specifically the southeast florida georgia and south carolina. Heres the latest advisory from the National Hurricane center what is the update. We have ourselves a hurricane as you mentioned, the center of the storm which was so hard to find yesterday was found a little further north than we thought it was going to be, the whole path sh...

Reacted. >> i dont know, is he leaving? oh, thats a shame. [ inaudible ] >> that i dont know. wait, did i hear sheperd smith is leaving? is he leaving because of bad ratings? tell me, i dont know. he had terrible ratings. is he leaving because of his ratings? i mean, if he is leaving, i assume he is leaving because he had bad ratings. he had the worst ratings on fox. theres a reason. why is shepard smith leaving? well, i wish him well. i wish shepard smith well. >> doug, you can hear the sarcasm...

Supposed to be representing this administration, part of your job. what shes saying is look, i cant. theyre after us. they have no interest in working through the institutions that we created, they want to do it on their own, doing it in opposition to our own national security interests. it is a pretty damning statement. >> absolutely is. there are a number of other ambassadors that are coming up in the next week, ambassador sondland who is the ambassador to the european union, and were also exp...

Many of your communities, even in our polarized nation, it is my hope the facts will win the day, the truth will always matter, that journalism and journalists will thrive. im sheperd smith, fox news, new york. >> thats what it looks like today. shep smith leaving after 23 years. and he says interpret it how you want, he believes the facts will ultimately win the day. his unexpected good-bye clearly came as a shock to all kinds of people in politics and washington around the country, to a lot of...

News prime time hosts are not going to be changing anything. they are going to be pretty supportive of the president, moving forward, into 2020. and i also think though that someone like sheperd smith, one of the lone straight news anchors at fox is probably going to be covering trump aggressively as he has been doing before. im not sure anything will change here. it is probably making things a little more difficult for the anchors who are trying to report the facts on air because they know if t...