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FOXNEWSW Americas News HQ December 7, 2019

On the weekend that we mark 78 years sips the attack on pearl harbor. Youll hear later this hour from a special 98yearold pearl harbor vet who is sharing his moving story now because hes suffering from bone cancer. Stand by for the touching tribute. And breaking news, a student that the president got released from iran. We begin with family mourning at the Naval Air Station. The fbi is investigating whether its terror related. A shooter opened fire killing three people, wounding eight others before being shot dead by officers. Now the fbi is probing whether its islamic terror, fbi is combing through evidence. Their work is going to be methodical and it will not and cannot be rushed. They have only one chance to get this right and this is what we owe to the families. Ed we are all over this story this hour. Pennsylvania congressman guy whats next. Six Saudi Nationals were detained questioning this shooting. The New York Times quoting a source that was apparently briefed on the investigation saying that three of the six were seen shooting video of the events unfolding here in pensacola on friday. And a senior u. S. Official also tells fox news that the gunman was an aviation student from saudi arabia. His name Mohammed Sayed alshamrani. And there was a critique of u. S. Policy in the middle east hours before the gunman opened fire on the base and killing three and injuring eight before Police Fatally shot the suspect. Officials want to know how the individual got through the vetting process to study with the military on u. S. Soil. What im most interested in as we get to the bottom of this, was this a deliberate infiltration on the part of alqaeda or isis as part of the a planned effort or was this more of a oneoff radicalization . Saudi arabian officials send condolences and reaffirm, relationship with the u. S. The prince said i was trained on a military base to fight side by side with. And one of them overnight was released from the operate and the other overnight underwent surgery and is expected to recover and be released from the hospital within the next few days, ed, back to you. Ed thank you for that report. Defense secretary mark esper put out a statement, i want to make sure were doing our due diligence, what are the procedures and screening people coming in to make sure they have their life in order. And coming in, guy reschenthaler. Thank you for having me on. Ed and lets talk about vetting and we have partnerships as i understand it with over 100 countries supposed to be allies like saudi arabia where we train some of their military pilots and others. Youve searched in the military as we noted. Do we need to step up vetting to make sure were geg the best and brightest. We do need to increase our vetting process. I dont want to speculate, but taking a step back when we train with members of foreign militaries, its good for us and around the globe. I was just in taiwan on a naval destroyer and one went to the United States and we should increase our vetting process especially when theyre coming from nations that have histories of terrorism like saudi arabia. Ed lets stay on saudi arabia. We hear that, as you just heard jonathan report, its not just the shooter being a saudi pilot, but then there are six others from saudi arabia held and detained and three of them according to the New York Times were filming this attack. That makes you wonder whether or not think were getting ready to put together some terrorist propaganda. What how does that square for you . Dos that raise some eyebrows . So i prosecuted terrorists when i was in the navy. I prosecuted terrorists in iraq and clearly, if you have a group thats filming the terrorist attack as its going ton, that is for propaganda. One of the ways that they recruit, one of the ways they propagate our hate against us is putting these videos online. Clearly thats going on. Look, i am somewhat speculating because were getting the facts in. To me, why else would you record a shooting if you dont want to propagate. If you dont want to have propaganda on afterwards. Ed i understand your caution, we dont want to get ahead of the facts. We have Stephanie Grisham, she made that clear as well. The president wants the facts to come in and we dont want to get ahead of the fbi and others investigating. The signs are troubling and the florida governor, ran desantis, had this to say. The government of saudi arabia have to make it good for these victims and theres a debt here to the individuals. Ed and there are questions going back to the 9 11 attacks and 9 11 families saying theyre still suing the saudi government. They want basically them to pay up and now you have the governor of florida an ally of the president , saying saudi arabia has to do more here. What say you . Well, i agree with governor desantis, he and i served in the jag corps together. If saudi arabia had knowledge, then we knead need to look and see if they did, if the individual was radicalized, whether he was radicalized in the United States or before he came to pensacola. Ed okay. Im sorry, i didnt mean to interrupt you, congressman. Were going to have you back in a minute to dive deep on impeachment as well. Currently right now my colleague Jennifer Griffin is out at the Reagan Defense forum were a big part of and interviewing a top military official and lets dip in live and get a flavor. The fact that we had an incident this same week in pearl harbor at the ship yard and then generally 48 hours later in texas im sorry, in florida that we are right now approaching those investigations very, very carefully so that were consistent in how we look at both events so we dont rule anything in or rule anything out. Its to early in my opinion again, i havent seen the breaking news that youre referring to to draw those types of conclusions. General goldstein, theres more money in the Defense Budget to expand Training Foreign military. What would be the affect if you canceled those programs. There will be questions whether this is a good idea and whether were able to screen well enough . Id say the biggest impact will be on our allies and partners and interoperatorability. Thats an asymmetric advantage that we bring, we have allies and partners and many of our adversaries dont. So my biggest concern would be that we would walk away from those key relationships from folks that we know we need when we go into combat. And general, we referenced thats the Defense Forum at the Reagan Library in california. Thats my colleague Jennifer Griffin. We have officials weighing in on the attack. And if theres more news well dip back in there. We want to thank congressman reschenthaler who will be back in a moment. In the meantime, a fox news alert, the House Judiciary Committee moments ago released a brand new report, what its calling constitutional grounds for impeachment. Thats coming from the democrats. And the House Committee telling jerry nadler its not participating in the next hearing Going Forward. Theyre planning to layout evidence in the case. Our correspondent david spunt is on capitol hill. I understand there are rehearseals going on behind you ahead of mondays hearing. Absolutely, ed. Good afternoon, a working saturday on capitol hill going on in the longworth building, everybody has seen the hearings taking place the past few weeks. A few feet from where im standing. And the house judiciary going over and rehearsing some of the hearing taking place monday. Look at it like opening arguments in a criminal trial. Thats when theyll get the report from the Intelligence Committee and then hear from folks in the Intelligence Committee and go forward with the Judiciary Committee. Chairman jerry nadler of the House Judiciary Committee he was here along with other members and he didnt want to stop and talk, he said today is going to be a long day were told tomorrow is going to be a long day as the rehearsals continue. Nancy pelosi made the announcement shes Going Forward with the articles of impeachment. The president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our National Security and jeopardizing the integrity of our election. Now, thursday mornings announcement came as some on capitol hill the speaker would push impeachment until after the new year into 2020, but republicans felt the president was under attack from the day he took office. White house secretary with you earlier this morning on fox news. The whole thing is a sham and its go the to stop. Its clearly not going to and if it does move to the senate we look forward to that, because it will be fair. Late friday, the president s inhouse council pat cipollone, said the white house was invited to call witnesses, and he said its baseless and violated due process and fundamental fairness. Ed, that report, the staff report from house judiciary on the constitutional grounds of impeachment just released about 15, 20 minutes ago, im going to take a look at it, but again, members here with house judiciary rehearsing today and also tomorrow for that hearing which starts monday morning at 9 a. M. , ed. Ed if you get any more nuggets in that report feel free to let us know. David spunt with that. Lets go back to congressman guy reschenthaler, i didnt mean to interrupt you. Your military service enabled us to talk about pensacola. Lets talk about the fact youre on the House Judiciary Committee. How do you feel about what david just reported. We dont know what theyre going to present on monday. They havent released a lot of details. Weve been kept in dark this entire time, not only the american public, but the vast majority of the members of congress. Adam schiff held these meetings in secret in the basement of the capitol. And the fact that the president is not afforded due process is disturbing. I think its been a predetermined outcome from the beginning and its a political hit job. Ed congressman on that point, you say that the president hasnt gotten due process rights. Jerry nadler, the democratic chairman is saying hes offering that, hes saying bring up the white House Counsel and Rudy Guiliani and mr. President , if you want to come up, how is that not due process. Its completely disingenuous. The outcome was predetermined and the time for the president to call exculpatory witnesses, and witnesses that the democrats would not bring out, were in the secret hearings in the basement. Capitol and now saying that the president can call his witnesses. We cannot call our own witnesses and to call this a judicial proceeding where its fair and neutral is a joke. Its a political hit job and politics is driving this entire process. Ed quick last question, you is a you Stephanie Grisham was on fox and friends earlier, here is what she said is not going done in congress right now, watch. You know what is this thats up to nancy pelosi. That should have been done a long time ago. We are hoping that it will go through. Theres many things sitting on her desk that should be going through. Instead shes playing silly games at detriment to the American People. Ed congressman, shes talking about usmca, that could be in your district and in the country. What do you wish that congress was doing. Months ago we should have passed usmca, good for American Workers and farmers and passing free trade agreements all over the globe to make sure were winning the trade war with china. We also could be doing something to lower the cost of Prescription Drugs. We could be doing something near and dear to my heart, criminal justice reform. Theres a lot the bipartisan things we can do unfortunately were wasting time with impeachment and we still yet to pass a budget. Weve still yet to fund the military. This is very problematic, ed. Ed big issues indeed and youll be able to take those to the voters and nancy pelosi going to the voters she says shes trying to hold the president accountable. Thank you for coming in. Thank you, ed. Ed ahead, get the democratss response to noancy pelosis call to impeachment. And stick with fox news all afternoon. Special anchor bret baier will go one on one with mark esper from the forum in california. Thats live at 2 45 eastern and it will also stream on fox nation. Stay with us. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. 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President trump changed that a little bit and democrats, they want those voters back. Every democratic candidate has plans put out union specific issues. Theres broad hope raising the minimum wage to 15. And candidates leading in iowa, buttigieg, biden, sanders. They diverge on health care. And three of the candidates, buttigieg, sanders and biden, theyll be here today so union voters, they matter to every single candidate. Democrats have appeared on picket lines and consistently argue that President Trump made promises specific to Union Families and then failed to keep them from the trade war, to idled factories. Last year General Motors announced plans to close plants in michigan, iowa in michigan, ohio and maryland, excuse me. And one in lordstown, ohio and thats where a year prior at a rally, the president promised that jobs were coming back to the community. Late this week, gm announced theyre opening a new plant in the lordstown area and plan to create 1100 jobs. Its a political win for President Trump, but democrats still say big picture, trump has hurt Union Families and Union Workers far more than theyve helped them. Thats the argument that we expect the Democratic Candidates to make as they try to layout differences at their programs geared at Union Families and workers and those are other democratic 2020 hopefuls. Ed vicepresident biden if youre watching from the malarky, let this woman in. And in 2004, the democratic d democratic, and joining me is congressman who endorsed the former veep. Please tell me, by the way, we have a live town hall, we were going to show our viewers of former vicepresident biden, and he had an exchange about hunter biden and tell me why youre endorsing him. We dont have time to learn on the job. Vicepresident bidens 36 years in the senate, eight years as vicepresident , gives him that experience to hit the ground running on day one, you know, weve seen our allies, you know, frustrated with us, weve seen our adversaries in power and weve got to restore the americ american were going to get to the news overnight, President Trump helped to secure the release of an american hostage, iran respects what the president is doing and the economy if you saw what the jobs report was yesterday, the economy seems to be roaring right now. What part of peace and prosperity isnt good for democrats rights now. Let me applaud President Trump for securing the release of the hostage. That said, disparaging institutions like n. A. T. O. , empowering russia, our adversaries like turkey and others, you know, that probably isnt the right direction and i dont feel like we should be withdrawing from the world. I think we can certainly think about how we reengage with the world, but lets do this with American Leadership and again, i think vicepresident biden shows us that leadership. Ed all right. We started this program with the republican colleague of yours, i want to give you a fair shot. Here is another republican, matt gates talking about the impeachment process and i want you to hear that and give awe fair shot to listen. Theres a trampling of rights had a goes far beyond the trump presidency, it speaks to our powers, and civil liberties. Democrats used to claim that they were the party of civil liberties, and thats before donald trump was elected because theyll do anything to tear apart of the president. Ed and referring to devin nunes and Rudy Guiliani, react to big picture. Where are we on impeachment . Im not thrilled that were going down this path of impeachment, but the president left us with very little recourse, weve been trying to do our responsibilities. Why he was putting a hold on aid approved and authorized for ukraine. Thats our job, we have to ask the questions, who made that decision. The president o

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