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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting July 26, 2019

Our reporting begins with the investigation of the president taking a new turn this afternoon. The House Judiciary Committee now wants grand jury secrets related to the mueller probe. So new today, its asking a federal judge to unseal them. The reason . The Committee Chairman says it needs access to relevant facts in order to consider whether to recommend the house impeach President Trump. The committee is exercising its authority to investigate all of these scandals and to recommend to decide what to do about them, which include articles of impeachment. Reporters tried to get chairman nadler to explain what is happening. Is this a formal impeachment inquiry. His answer. I suppose theres one difference. If you said an impeachment inquiry is considering only impeachment. Thats not what were doing. Were investigating all of this and were going to see what remedies we can recommend, including possibility of articles or impeachment. Were not limited to that. Thats very much the possibility as a result of what were doing. Shepard in other words democrats say it is what you want it to be. There was a report on the topic of grand jury secrecy, which is governed by the federal rules of criminal procedure. In particular, rule 6 e, which states that attorneys, grand jurors and others must not disclose a matter occurring before the grand jury. Except courts have been conflicted on whether congress can get exceptions. Nancy pelosi for her part says she does not support launching a formal impeachment inquiry right now. Well proceed when we have what we need to proceed. Speaker pelosi says she doesnt want Speaker Pelosi says she wants the committee to keep investigating. Chairman nadler says that he will go to court if the former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn does not comply with a subpoena. Mcgahn is an important fact witness. He sat for 30 hours of questioning from the mueller team and his name is in the Mueller Report more than 500 times. Republicans from the Judiciary Committee have argued that democrats have no right to the grand jury material and should propose a bill to get access to it. The chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill. Mike . Good afternoon. The house judiciary chairman is sending a clear signal that even though lawmakers are leaving the house for a sixweek recess, the investigation work continues and lawmakers are not bound to the former special counsels report. Appears to be compelling evidence of the president s misconduct outside of the four corners of the redacted version of the Mueller Report. And we will work to uncover that evidence as well. Nadler walking a fine line here trying to show his constituents and the base to show that theyre still working. Shep . Shepard more democrats coming forward with interest in impeachment. No doubt about it. By foxs count, the count is up to 100 lawmakers favoring an impeachment inquiry. The latest two from New Hampshire and california. Annie custer of New Hampshire, mike levin of california wanted to go on the record on the subject before they go back to their constituents in their districts for six weeks. So when their constituents ask them, theyre on the record of supporting an inquiry. Shep . Shepard russias unprecedented efforts to infiltrate the 2016 election targeted each of the 50 states. Thats new information from the report from the Senate Intelligence committee. The bipartisan document reveals state governments did not get enough warnings from the feds about Cyber Attacks and were not prepared to handle them. The Committee Reports that they found no evidence that the russians changed any votes. This week the former special counsel, Robert Mueller, told congress russias effort to interfere in the 2016 election and ongoing interference now is dangerous. Mitch mcconnell blocked two Election Security measures calling them partisan bills. Chuck schumer says its a National Security issue. Chris wallace is here with us live from d. C. Hello, friend. How are you, sir. Shepard im well. Theres not one stand alone bill on Election Security despite the fact that we know the russians came and are coming again. There was one bill passed for Election Security. What schumer is looking for is a followon bill that was passed by the house that would add another 775 million and say to campaigns, if you get any feelers from any foreign country, you have to report that. It would establish a kind of paper trail of ballots so that if there were some cyber attack, that there would be paper evidence of who people actually voted for. Those are the bills, the measures, that mcconnell has blocked. Two reasons really. One, he said theyre partisan bills. Two, he said they havent spent the 380 million thats been appropriated so far. So why do we want to spend another 775 million. Thats his argument for it. Schumer, as you say, has said that that is inadequate. One of the political realities here is rightly or wrongly, theres a feeling among some republicans that anything the democrats do in this area is seen as saying that the russians interfered in the last election had an effect on the last election, which creates sensitivities at the white house. So you know, its a political issue. I think everybody has to agree that we want to do everything that we can to protect the country from continued and apparently continuing russian interference. Perhaps interference by other countries in our democratic process. Shepard theres this difference of opinion within the Democratic Party about whether to go full steam toward impeachment or something else. We kept wondering, how will that massage this thing. I think we learned today. Chairman nadler got up there and said were going to go ahead with impeachment proceedings without saying were going to go ahid with impeachment proceedings. Thats what theyre doing. He did say that much. But its not a formal impeachment proceeding with a vote by the house to proceed to that hes the head of the Judiciary Committee which would handle any potential impeachment. You can call it what you want, clearly theres continuing investigation not only on the Mueller Report but on a variety of other things. You continue to see a number of subpoenas for witnesses to testify for documents to be handed over. But nancy pelosi in her News Conference made it clear, she doesnt want to proceed to a formal impeachment or even hearings to lead to that unless they have a stronger case than they have now. You dont even have half, even with 100 democrats, you dont have half of the democrats and certainly not half of the house that you would need to pass an impeachment resolution. And then if you did that, it goes to the senate. Theres not been a single republican senator that has said that they support removing the president. Thats what would happen in the senate after impeachment. You would need 67 senators, republicans and democrats, to remove a president. So what pelosi is saying, were not going to go into this unless theres stronger evidence, more bipartisan buyin. I think theres a concern that if they do that republicans will say oh, you spent your year in the majority going after the president instead of doing things to help americans. Shepard along the way while working toward that end of getting more information, nadler is talking about these grand jury the sealed grand jury stuff. That is one thing. Don mcgahn testimony, that i think will be important to them. If they get it. Shepard its important to them to try to get it. The don mcgahn testimony is something that the democrats really want. Yeah, if you read volume 2 of the Mueller Report, some of the most damaging allegations against the president are that repeatedly the president pressed don mcgahn and his white House Counsel to basically get the Justice Department to fire Robert Mueller and end the special counsels investigation. When that was reported by the New York Times that reportedly according to the Mueller Report the president told mcgahn, you have to deny that. Mcgahn refused to do that. Sure, that would be i say sure, it would be damaging testimony, but on the other hand a lot of people thought that Robert Mueller was damaging testimony and that didnt work out the way that people thought. Shepard it wasnt the movie is better than the book. No. Shepard thanks, chris. Well look for you sunday on fox news sunday. He will take with Mick Mulvaney and others. Thats this sunday on your local fox station. Fox news has a new batch of polling that shows in a hypothetical headtohead matchup, joe biden would beat the president by a comfortable margin. Ten Percentage Points nationwide. Same spread as last month and outside the margin of a error. The president tweeted about the polling. Fox news is at it again, he wrote. So different from what they used to be during the 2016 primaries and before. Proud warriors. Now fox news polls, which have always been terrible to me have me down to sleepy joe. The fox news poll did have President Trump losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton and it was accurate. The final survey was done november 36 of that year. Among both registered and likely voters, the poll predicted Hillary Clinton would beat trump by 4 Percentage Points. So clinton would win the popular vote by a margin of 1. 5 and 6. 5 . She did. Her margin of victory was 2. 1 . The polls were accurate. Were learning more about the navy seals booted back home from iraq and reports that the bad behavior went beyond alcohol. Also, the frantic man hunt for two teens accused of going on a murder spree. Theres word one of the suspects has a sick obsession and one of their mothers sending a desperate message to her son on the run. Thats coming up as our reporting continues on this friday afternoon. Fact is, every Insurance Company hopes you drive safely. But allstate helps you. With drivewise. Feedback that helps you drive safer. And that can lower your cost now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . gasp singsong budget meeting sweet. If you compare last quarter to this quarter. Various mmm. Its no wonder everything seems a little better with the creamy taste of philly, made with fresh milk and real cream. With the creamy taste of philly, we carry flowers that signifyn why we want to end the disease. 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A man hunt in the swamp for two teens going on a killing spree and gunning down an american tourist and her boyfriend. But are they cornered or long gone . Dogs, drones, helicopters and hely armed Police Searching near a tiny canadian town after confirmed sightings, two of them. Thousands of miles from the spot where the police say that they killed three people last week. Among the victims, china deese of North Carolina and her boyfriend, lucas fowler. They were on a road trip when their van apparently broke down on the side of a remote highway in British Columbia. Locals say the area where the police are searching is treacherous with wolves, water up to your waste, relentless bugs and even the occasional polar bear. You can see one of the officers watering a mosquito net around his face. Meantime, were hearing disturbing stories from people that knew one of the suspects. This one, his grandmothers neighbor told the daily mail that the teen started losing friends when he showed him a photo of himself wearing a nazi arm band. A former class made talk about killing her and cutting her head off when they were 13. The Toronto Star Newspaper published a letter from his mother put out to her son begging him to come home. Jacqui heinrich reporting live with more. Shep, theres one road in and out of the tiny town police have zeroed in on and no cars have been stolen there. So Police Believe the teens are on foot. Some experts think they could be up to 50 miles away right now. Local media is reporting that people are terrified and closing businesses early. Leonard dick is a 64yearold botany professor that was murdered. Investigators believe they began their rampage after leaving home in British Columbia telling their parents they were going to look for work in uconn. Police found their burnedout truck and the professors body nearby. If theyre in the area, you feel that you feel unsafe, then i would just stay indoors or always travel in groups. Ultimately its the communitys safety that we have to take into account. Last night police fielded more than 80 tips. Shep . Shepard thanks, jacqui. Status update now. Youve been robbed. Cops in houston say they arrested seven suspected thieves who used social media to find their wealthy victims. Police are now asking the public to help track them down. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen artwork. Casey stegall with the news live from texas. Casey . Hey, shep. Information from a public tip is what really ultimately brought this whole welloiled crime ring down. Each person with their own specific role from the muscle, those that went down and carried out these houston heists and then the others who were responsible for transporting and holding and storing this precious art. Now, the folks that were arrested according to police, a total of seven people did this over the course of several months and police say it took several months to nab them. Some of the suspects, this is their job. They look for an opportunity to commit crimes. They look on social media, other things like that. So thats how they found the complainants. One of the stolen pieces, this monet worst 1. 2 million. According to the christys website, this piece fetching 600 k. In all, hundreds of thousands of precious paintings after all of them were stolen out of the owners homes when they were at work or on vacation. Hpd says in most cases they even had burglar alarms and high Tech Computer systems, security systems, but they werent on. Shepard thanks, casey. Dramatic details out of the mass raid on marines in california. Agents waited until hundreds of troops were gathered in formation before busting suspects one by one. 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