Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2017

FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier September 22, 2017

Services to kims government. John roberts starts us off. Good evening, john. The president has been looking for a sea change in the worlds approached north korea which is why he described in such stark terms the consequences of letting kim jong uns Nuclear Program go unchecked. Today it appeared the president was getting the cooperation he had been pushing for. North Koreas Nuclear weapons and missile developments is a grave threat to peace and security in our world. With the stroke of his executive pen, President Trump gave his Treasury Department sweeping new powers to put a choke hold on north koreas economy. Today im announcing a new executive order i just signed that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, Financial Institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. The president made the announcement at a trilateral working lunch with the leaders of south korea and japan. The action significantly broadens the administrations ability to dry up the flow of money, technology, goods and services into north korea. For too long, north korea has evaded sanctions and use the International Financial system to facilitate funding for its weapons and mass destruction and Ballistic Missile programs. After weeks of cajoling, President Trump announced china has finally stepped up to the plate. Chinas central bank ordering all chinese banks to stop doing business with north korea. I want to just thank president xi. The strategy has been to build International Support against kim jong uns regime. The European Union announced they would implement new sanctions against eight north korean individuals. On a less serious note, President Trump joked when moon jaeins translator use the word deplorable. I promised i did not tell them to use that word. For all the solidarity between the u. S. , japan and south korea against the north, President Trump still has a burr under his saddle on trade. Tweaking moon over the u. S. Korea free trade pact. Our trade deal is so bad for the United States and so good for south korea. Were going to try to straighten out the trade deal and make it fair for everybody. The president met with five leaders today, also the president of afghanistan, ukraine, and turkeys authoritarian recheck erdogan recep ergogan. I think we are as close as weve ever been. A lot of that has to do with the personal relationships. The president has sought to defuse tensions between the u. S. And turkey over america support for kurdish rebels in syria and a washington brawl where erdogans security detail attacked protesters outside the turkish embassy. The next thing on the president s plate is his travel ban, a Supreme Court declared a 90 day review period despite expire sunday. The president has to decide whether to make changes to the travel ban, leave it the same and fight it out in court or ask for a delay while he thinks on it a little more. Bret obviously the Iran Nuclear Deal decision lies ahead as well. John roberts live in new york. Thank you. New information on the unmasking activities by former Obama Administration officials and where that investigation is heading. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is here. Source tells fox news former National Security advisor susan rice requested the unmasking of an overseas meeting that took place in the seychelles in january set up by that United Arab Emirates crown prince and betsy devos brother as well as the russian businessman with alleged ties to the kremlin. The timing matters because earlier rice confirmed that she unmasked trump transitional officials at a december 2016 trump tower meeting with the president soninlaw, former Campaign Strategist steve bannon, incoming National Security advisor mike flynn, and the crown prince. During her interview, the source said rice justify the unmasking stating there can only be one government at a time and she says she reached out to the trump team on the issue. Rice was pressed repeatedly on how the information she received about american citizens was named surface in foreign intelligence reports got to the media. The first reference is an april Washington Post story that details both meetings. Rice took the same position she has in public. The allegation is that somehow Obama Administration officials utilized intelligence for political persons. Thats absolutely false. I leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would. Earlier this year, prince said he had no rule on the transition team. He questioned whether the Intelligence Community was spying on americans. Another Obama Administration official, samantha power, made unmasking requests at such a rapid pace she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016. This figure of more than 260 requests dwarfed previous appointees. When we brought you the story wednesday, spokeswoman for power had no comment on the allegations. Provided a statement later, calling them false without being more specific. Adding that power looks forward to meeting to the meeting next month. Bret lets get an indepth look at the center of the story. Jennifer griffin lifts the veil on samantha power. Samantha power made a name. For herself taking president bill clinton to task for which he argued was his role in the rwanda genocide. She won a pulitzer for her first book. Harvard trained academic and former journalist, power was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 2013 after being exiled following undiplomatic remarks about Hillary Clinton during the 2008 president ial campaign when she worked for then candidate barack obama. Shes a monster. She is stooping to anything. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive. The next day, power resigned from the obama campaign. Her remarks cost for the job she wanted most, secretary of state. She served on the National Security council and played a key role in convincing the president to use the military in libya to overthrow it more mark duffy. As u. N. Ambassador, she served a dual role as not just ambassador and point person taking on russia each day but also as a member of president obamas National Security council. Giving her assessment of threats to United States. In her remarks, she laid out the danger russia poses to the worl world. We know the russian government sought to interfere in our president ial election with the goal of undermining public faith and the u. S. Democratic process, denigrating one candidate, and helping the other candidate. Russia not only try to influence our elections but to access the very systems by which we vote. A spokesman for power pushback on allegations she initiated an unusual number of unmaskings. The end unanimously sourced reports about ambassador powers intelligence requests are false. Ambassador power looks forward to engaging the Bipartisan Committee in the appropriate classified forum. Former National Security officials tell me in order to do her job and understand the intelligence reports she was receiving, names would have to be unmasked to understand the significance of those intelligence intercepts. The u. N. About one oh official told me, is like lisbon during world war ii, full of phis and foreign agents. Bret Senate Republicans are going to be moving forward to see if they can get any answers on all of this as well as House Republicans in the Intelligence Community. The investigation into what russia may have done on social media is continuing as well. Facebook says the company will provide two congressional investigators the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a russian agency. The move comes after the Company Faces growing pressure from members of congress to release the content of those ads. Facebook had already released the ads to federal authorities investigating the russian interference in the president ial election, namely bob mueller. The leaders of the senate Intelligence Community have been seeking to bring facebook executives before committee since the Company Revealed the existence of the ads two weeks ago. Senate republicans are counting heads and doing math tonight as they prepare for a possible vote on a lastditch effort to repeal obamacare. She Congressional Correspondent mike emanuels on capitol hill. The senate is bracing for a showdown at the white house campaigns for the 50 votes needed to push the grahamcassidy Health Care Reform across the finish line. This may well be our last best chance to stop and turn around and head america back in the direction of the kind of Health Care Reform thats based on individual choice, statebased innovation. There are number of undeclared or undecided republican senators. The three who voted no in july. Collins, mccain, murkowski. Cruz and lee and moderates. Sources suggest it could come down to mccain and murkowski. One senator urged his colleagues to get on board. There is no free lunch and you are not going to get one with this bill. There are tradeoffs. Is it better than the Affordable Care act . Clearly the answer is yes. President trump is defending bill cassidy writing senator bill cassidy is a class act who really cares about people and their health care, he doesnt lie. Just wants to help people cassidy defended the bill today. President trump tweeted last night he will not sign legislation unless it protects those with preexisting conditions. There is also the ongoing war of words between cassidy and jimmy kimmel. I get it. I dont understand because i am a talk show host. Help me out. Which part . Cutting 243 billion from federal health care assistance. Jimmy doesnt understand not because hes a talk show host but because weve never spoken. Bob menendez is on trial in new jersey facing corruption charges. He hasnt said if he will return next week for votes but did take this swipe at the g. O. P. They took the Congressional Budget Office and threw it out the window with a sixth of our economy at stake and millions of people to health care. Mcconnell has asked a committee to hold a hearing next week. Well see if its enough to get mccain to support the bill. Bret employees at the Environmental Protection agency are attending mandatory training sessions this week about leaking government information. President trump has as threats threats expressed. On the market, stocks down. Doll lost 53. S p 500 dropped 8. Nasdaq fell 33. U. S. Treasury advising banks and other Financial Institutions to be on the lookout for shady deals involving corrupt venezuelan officials. Venezuelas president is accusing the u. S. Of trying to impose a financial blockade against his country which is experiencing an economic and political crisis. Tonight Doug Mckelway on how socialism in venezuela has affected a once prosperous nation. And one of his many famous quotes, Winston Churchill said the inherent virtue of socialism is that equal sharing of misery. That may have been in the minds of President Trumps speechwriters when he trained his rhetorical guns on the socialist government of venezuela. The problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented. Its that socialism has been faithfully implemented. Venezuela has the Worlds Largest oil reserves, yet shortages of basic necessities like toilet paper and medicine abound. Citizens queue up for food at their shelved Grocery Stores. Others pick through trash. President maduro blames the Opposition Party and the United States. In 2016, he bizarrely accuse the Obama Administration of hoarding venezuela 100 notes to cause inflation. Observers note the real reason is different. They kept printing currency and that devalues the currency. They tried to impose price controls. Many Venezuelan Industries went out of business because mandated prices were lower than the cost of producing the goods. Socialism was not the sole cause of venezuelas crisis. Venezuelas longstanding dependence on oil. In oil prices dropped, sorted venezuelas income. Another factor communist cubas heavy hand. They have a tremendous influence basically exporting their brand of repression. Ogrady says cubans run education, medicine, government propaganda. Venezuelan generals have cuban minors. She says cuba also runs the colombian cocaine trade. Venezuela appears to be following the path of many of historys failed socialist states. Chronic shortages, corrupt strongmen. Digging out from an earthquake and trying to turn the power on after a hurricane. We will go live t my name is jeff sheldon, and im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. Its great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize ive got a hundred orders i have to ship out. Shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everythings pretty much done. Its so much easier so now, were ready, bring on t. Shipstation. The number one ch of online sellers. Go to shipstation. 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The rescue workers inching their way across the rubble, the remains of what was the school. They are looking for any signs of life. In the past 24 hours, they have seen some signs of life through heat seeking cameras. They are not saying whether they believe those survivors are adults or children. They are simply looking for anybody who may have survived what is obviously a devastating crash of rubble here. They say they will not give up until they can be absolutely certain that there are no more survivors. And other search and rescue operations are ongoing across the city. There have been miracles. Two women and a man pulled from a collapsed Office Building earlier today. President pena nieto says this rescue operation will go on until they are certain there can be no more survivors. Then of course it will become nothing more than a recovery operation. Bret. Bret sad scene. Thank you. Rescue workers are fanning out across puerto rico tonight after Hurricane Maria ravitch that island, knocking out power, triggering landslides and floods. Correspondent Steve Harrigan is in san juan. Good evening again, steve. Bret, good evening. Help is on the way for puerto rico. The coast guard is bringing in millions of liters of water. Fema has positioned more than 3,000 personnel across the island. Thats of tomorrow, the airport should be up and running. There needs here are widespread and severe. There is practically no electric power across the entire island. The u. S. Territory, a 3. 5 million people. There are shortages of gasoline, long lines just about everywhere at any store that has reopened. Shortages of water. We have seen people today taking babs in fire hydrants, bathing children and fire hydrants. We saw women today breaking open packing crates with machetes and hammers, doing their cooking outside. They used downed satellite dishes to try to break the wind. There has been peace. Im few minor incidents of looting. Some Grocery Stores lost all their products. They have been patient but they are going to need help very soon. Bret Steve Harrigan live in san juan. We told you earlier allstate says about half of its estimated 600 million in august losses from Hurricane Harvey are because of vehicle damage. People in the houston area are struggling to handle a halfmillion stranded vehicles. Some folks are trying to adva

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