todd whitman is my guest. let s if out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. breaking news, a shrewd leader, how president trump s lawyers are painting paul manafort. a jury of six men and six women listening as heweller s team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. prosecutors say manafort made $60 million in ukraine and that he didn t report to it the irs. they say he had 30 bank accounts in just three foreign countries which he used in part to store untaxed income to spend on luxury goods like range rovers, a watch costing $21,000, a $15,000 custom made ostrich jacket. who doesn t need one of those, right? the defense hitting back saying manafort is the victim that he was taken advantage of by the man he trusted most rick gates, his right hand man in ukraine and his deputy in the trump A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. countries. he owns seven homes, including in the hamptons, in florida, and here in alexandria, virginia. they said he spent half a million on fancy clothes. $21,000 on that watch and $15,000 on that ostrich jacket. essentially they made it clear that his extravagant life-style, their words, was going to be on trial here because they said this is what paul many of the was using these offshore banks accounts in cypress and in other places to hide the money from the irs. interesting, evan, because it doesn t sound like at least from what we heard today that the defense is going to be, no, we did pay our taxes. it sounds like it s going to be a defense of okay, fine but it s rick gates s fault? kind of a defense of blame it on that guy. rick gates was his deputy who worked closely with him not only in business in ukraine. but also remember, erin, he was his deputy working in the trump campaign. matter of fact he stayed on the A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. close eye on it here at the white house. of course this is bob mueller s first public be case here. for the next three weeks they will say they are not watching, erin. privately i m told they are. certainly are. because this may be about one thing but manafort is linked to a whole lot of other thing as well. jeff, thank you. i want to go to democratic congressman adam schiff of california, the ranking member on the select committee on intelligence. part of the russia investigation there. congressman this trial is not about collusion with the trump campaign and russia as you know. just about an accused shrewd lawyer who avoided taxes and bought a $15,000 as trip jacket. they are saying it s not connected with the rump campaign. is it that simple. no. if it were i don t think you would fine the president watching so keenly. this is donald trump s campaign manager who is pointing the finger at his deputy campaign manager. if the he is convicted, as you point out erin he will face substantial time if he is convicted on these charges. he may flip. that will be profoundly concerning to the president. we are already hearing conflicting reports about the easy were s knowledge and approval of the tower meeting that paul many of the sat in on. if he is facing time he may come clean about what he knows about that meeting. also if mueller were to be unsuccessful it is an opportunity to further bash him. i m betting on mueller on this. these are very document-specific allegations that are i think firly easy to prove. when it comes to paying your taxes or not. as you point out, it should be document driven. but you know, the ostrich coat, the $21,000 watch, the fleet of range rovers. the list they are putting out goes on and on. you would think with all that he would just cooperate but he didn t, right? unlike other trump associates who have been charged right, flynn, papadopoulos, and rick gates. is it possible that manafort is not cooperating because he is not guilty? do you even entertain that possibility at this point? i don t entertain that possibility. i think what is going on here is, if paul manafort even if he cooperated with authorities, he was still looking at a very substantial amount of time given the weight of these charges. at his age he may have concluded he doesn t have that kind of time to spend behind bars. it is going to go all in for a pardon. he is going to be the last man defending donald trump and bet it all on a pardon. that may be where at least he s making his appeal. which is an interesting point. i want to ask you, the judge in the case, judge ill ellis is important. as you remember n may he told mueller s team, quote, you don t really care about mr. manafort s bank fraud. he basically accused prosecutors of only caring about many of the because he could lead to trump s quote prosecution or impeachment. that s were the judge s words. he asked for mueller s mandate, he looked at it and said okay this can go forward. he did do that. what do you think of him? do you think the trial will be fair? i certainly hope the trial will be fair. i was concerned by those comments because they didn t really go to any of the legal issues. it sealed like gratuitous political commentary which you don t expect from a federal judge. they you this look at the law, the mandate, the jurisdiction. all of that was clear. ultimately he ruled the right way but those kind of political comments i think are concerning. the first government witness on the stand today, as we were reporting, it is the rocket docket. 34 witnesses on that side. they want to bang through this. it could be two or three weeks. it was bernie sanders campaign strategy in to 16. divine was the first person on the stand. he worked with manafort in ukraine. he described his relationship with many of the as friendly, said he was impressed by many of the, saw him as a hard working guy. you are a former assistant u.s. attorney. what do you make of that? bernie sanders former top strategist saying he is a hard working guy and impressed by manafort. i don t know the details of this, but paul manafort may be a very hard working guy and he may have worked very hard to hide his money and to fail to disclose his taxes. bear in mind that some of these charges pertain to money laundering that was going on while he was the campaign manager for donald trump. so it may take a lot of work to get that ostrich coat but it doesn t mean it was lawful work. it certainly doesn t appear so from the indictment. as the russia investigation continues and mueller obviously is very focus on the manafort case right now because this trial is his first. but facebook announces today they are shutting down dozens more facebook and instagram accounts believed to be run by russians. it sort of confused me congressman. you know, you have got facebook. mark zuckerberg comes and testifies before congress. they shut everything down and now they are still finding accounts that they need to shut down? even now. does that make sense to you? it does make sense because the russians aren t going to stop and they are not going to be as overt as they were in 2016. they are not going to use the same ip addresses to out of st. petersburg. we have seen continuing activity since the last election. it never stopped. i think we should view what facebook disclosed in combination with what microsoft disclosed within the week. that is both of these same vectors that appear in these two mueller indictments, the social media campaign and hacking. you belief it s new accounts not facebook willing incomplete but sort of a continued onslaught from the russians? am i translating it right. yes. okay. i think that s the case. we kept getting additional information from facebook about advertising and organic content from these original ip addresses from st. petersburg, but they are going to continue to learn about more as the russians move and hide and use other proxies. so this is going to continue to be rolled out to the public. you any i m glad that facebook is doing this. they are going to have to continue doing it. the intelligence community is going to have to tin sharing information with the tech companies when they spot foreign actors on those platforms as well. next, the manafort jury. six men and six women. they are all white but three of them. her going to decide whether trump s former campaign manager spends the rest of his life in prison. plus, the president campaigning live in florida. you see him there at this moment. sources tell cnn trump is wouldered about democrats winning the house. night and trump calling the koch brothers a total joke. it is a battle of the giants. who is going to win? 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first of all i think there is some diverse knit the jury, which we see. but the second point is what both sides want to do when they pick a jury is they are trying to find people that they think we will aligned with the way they see the world. the government wants people who follow the rules pay their tax who is think it s terrible that someone didn t pay their taxes. the defense i suspect is looking for people with proxies for being super conservative, more simple athletic and who heard this is a witch-hunt and is politically motivated. i think that s how you wind up getting people selected for juries. you never know. interesting, the first thing a lot of us will look at is racial component. est as you point out that s actually not the driver here for either side. carry, you live in northern virginia where the trial is car tax. we pay high property taxes federal taxes of course. so the lying and the tax evasion component of this case i think will be relevant to this jury. frank, many of the s team is blaming rick gates. yeah. which we were just talking about. it s interesting. not saying it didn t happen, saying this other guy did it. right. his attorney says quote this case is about taxes and trust. mr. manafort laced his trust in the wrong person, rick gates. now rick gates of course knows pretty much everything about paul manafort, right. yes. they worked together on this campaign, worked together before in ukraine. they have a long history together. bernie sanders former campaign strategist testified manafort is hard working but also said rick orkd for paul, paul was in charge. will anybody buy that gates was the mastermind? i think it s tough to sell that because you are talking about more than 60 million dollars mate over five or four years. you are talking about $15 million of taxes not being made and we are supposed to believe paul manafort never noticed that sort of savings in his financial flow? we are supposed to believe this guy who ran such a big business who traveled the world, lived that large who was that much of a master of the universe was completely content to just sign papers without reading then and hand them over to rick gates. hard to believe that i don t think that s going to be something the jury is going to be persuaded from and rick gates testimony is going to be the moment of this trial. they are saying he is going to be the star in all of this. and blaming gates, ann, do you think it is a good defense. no. if it is the best defense. i think it s the latter, the best defense. if you gates is testifying and he is cooperating and he knows everything. he is the right hand man, the inside narrator of the entire scheme. so the jury is either going to believe him or not. if they believe him, manafort is guilty. so he has to chip away at his credibility. has going to be a paper trail proof of the bank accounts, proof of taxes not paid. this is not like a he said/she said type of crime. the problem for manafort is exactly what frank just said, he signed the tax forms. he got the opulent homes, got the ostrich coat or hat. i want there to be a picture of the coat. oh. it s hard to argue away i didn t know, right. i think gates is going to be the most exhaustively prepared witness in the history of witnesses. carry, the opening statements obviously significant. from the prosecution, key words, shrewd lie e $15,000 custom ostrich jacket. follow the money. he, manafort believed the law didn t pry to him. that s the prosecution. from the defense, two sides to every story, talented consultant, driving force in the candidacy of multiple u.s. presidents. that third one is true. paul manafort has been crucial in the candidacy of multiple u.s. presidents. who was more effective do you think carry in the opening states tchblts prosecutor s approach in the opening statement did track what they put in the indictment which is their theory that manafort is a liar, that the crimes that they are alleging he did involve lying, lying to banks. lying to the irs. lying to the treasury department. so his crime is the criminal act of lying on all of these different types of forms and compliance-related issues. the defense is going to have a hard time countering the documentary evidence that is going to be in this case. and then rick gates, his partner in business, verifying a lot of those documents, which is what i expect part of his role will be. frank, kellyanne conway today decided to take the tack of hey, i was the winning campaign chairman. forget the guy that came before me that delivered the actual nomination. you know, she said look the trial has nothing to do with trump. here s part of how she put night the judge has very strictly instructed no mention of paul many of the s role in the trump campaign, don t mention trump. don t mention russia, don t mention collusion. many of the as i pointed out, he was in the meeting with the admitted informant in trump tower. he provided meetings to a russian oligarch. he attended all of these meetings. you write in your op ed this trial has plenty to do with the president. if there was collusion with russia paul manafort might show about it. this trial is about tightening the screws on him and trying to get him to talk. you agree with junglis who called that out in may. there is another thing. i think this trial is a he radio miner of the company donald trump keeps of the kind of shady behavior that happens all around him. i think it s significant that this is happening at the same time that we have michael cohen in the news. americans are seeing who trump lets attach to him and how they operate in the world and how they cut corners and all of that. and these people are in some ways mirrors of the president. i don t think this is good for the president. i think it does end up hurting him. i tee he with kellyanne conway in that sense. as our coverage continues all of you will be with us as much as you can. up next, trump live at a tampa rally campaigning for ron de santis who is running for florida governor. wait until you see the trump mini me. ron loves playing with the kids. build a wall. and a longtime republican says it s time for her party to call for trump to step down. former governor christie todd whitman is out front. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. in seconds, not minutes. just like that. like everything. the answer is simple. i ll do what i ve always done. dream more, dream faster, and above all. now, i ll dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america s largest gig-speed network. all right. you see the president there. he is campaigning for congressman ron de santis in florida who was once considered an underdog in the race for governor in florida. but not so much anymore thanks to the man on the screen. he appears to be gaining momentum thanks to an official endorsement from donald trump. this comes as cnn learns trump is eager to hit the campaign trail in no small part to distract fr distract from everything that is happening with rebound mueller. joining me now a panel. paul, let me start with you. de santis was an underdog. now he on the is. the president is on fire when it comes to all of these races. out of all the special elections and primaries out there that trump weighed in 17 we he weighed in have won, four lost. that s an impressive record. tampa bay times told cnn today de santiss rival was a shoe-in for the primary but trump has turned the tables. is he really the king maker? he is. in the republican party. look at brian kemp, of georgia. he was behind. he was outspent. he was running against a more experienced candidate. he did his job. okay? i don t want to take anything away from mr. kemp. donald trump put him over the top if you ask me. i think he is going the do that with de santis. he is embarrassing himself buy being so i m going to play in a. de santis is not wrong to do that in the primary, here s the problem. in the nbc news wall street journal poll that came out among republicans president trump s approval rating is 88. but his approval among independents is 36. that s catastrophic. he is gold within the republicans but death with the independents. if he is campaigning in swing states and swing districts in the general election he is actually going to hurt his party. what do you make of that, rob. you get the far right trumper through the primaries and then you hit this independent black hole. all the republicans will going to go back. they are going to stick with the republican candidate. what about the independents. if the economy is doing well he has a shot. if you are open minded to the candidate running in the election then you have a shot. you can t have it both ways. i tell republicans this. you can t sit there and try to run from trump if you don t like some of the things he says because you are going to be tagged with it anyway and democrats aren t going to vote for you. you might as well embrace it and get across the finish line. it s sort of an accordion. how big is this, quote, unquote, independent. a lot of people say they are. how many really are? right. paul, i promised. i will now deliver on my promise. i am a person of my word. let me play ron de santis s the candidate for governor in florida, his most recent campaign ad which is garnering campaign attention. everyone knows my husband ron de santis is endorsed my president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build a wall. he reads stories. then mr. trump said you re fired , i love that part. he is teaching madison to taub. make america great again. people say ron is all trump. but he is so much more. big league. so good. i just thought you should know. ron de santis for governor. okay, paul. first, the kids are undeniably cute. exactly. congressman and his wife should be congrate lated for having beautiful children. here s the problem, if you were to kick donald trump in the butt you would hit the, about of ron s head. it is hue hilliating for a accomplished person. humiliating? a little bit of both. it is not the way i would have gone. they are trying to outtrump each other. i don t think they need to do that because in the general election you do need to bring others into the camp. but you cannot underestimate. an ad like that let s be clear is not going to bring anyone into the camp. that is an ad for the people who love trump. that should have been a direct mail piece not something on television where everyone is going to see it. but i do think you know there is something good for de santis tonight when the republican president comes in and endorses you. we can talk about whether he should have or shouldn t have. but that s going to bring in a lot of money, a lot of resources, a lot of hype for de santis and that s going to help him out tremendously. you have the lego wall and the make america great thing. you would agree it is a bit belittling and perhaps funny rob to you. but he does sound like trump when it comes to substance and policy paul. that i think is what is significant and voters should keep in mind. let me show that. strzok was the driver behind exonerating hillary. i think rosenstein should have recused himself should have never been involved. the use of yes a spy was directed every bit as much against donald trump as it was against russia. it underscores the need why you need to have border security and an actual border wall. okay. the point i want to may be with that, paul, is all those interviews were on fox news. i believe every single one of them. this is not about local media and talking to vote understand florida. it s about doing it on fox news where the president can see you, hear you parrot his talking points then endorse you. and reach the core trump voters. a very start strategy for the primary. very smart. right. i think it s going to limit his ability to reach independents in the general. you are assuming that all the voters in the primary care enough about politics that they are going to be watching national cable as opposed to local. is that the assumption. hard core. hard core, yeah. general election that s not going to cut it. running an ad that s saying i m more trump than trump. that s fine in the primaries. no independent is going to vote for that guy because he is close to trump. they want to know about health care and schools. penny wise, pound foolish. first you have to win the primary. then you can run in the general election and come up with a strategy for that. there is a at stake in florida. the redistricting is very important for the 2020 election and going forward. not only congress but the people who draw the.mas, that s the republican governor or the democratic governor. as a non-politician i think it s disgusting how both sides just run to their polls to get the peopleary. then you end up with more and more polarized 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christina alesci is out front. that s tonight s money and power. when people act in protectionist ways, they erect barriers, which makes everyone worse off. reporter: those barriers include tariffs and immigration reform. billionaire charles koch s political network, which historically backs republicans coming out in force against president donald trump and complicating matters for republicans facing tough races in the mid terms. whaup of the koch noish s top officials saying over the weekend, the divisiveness of this white house is causing long term damage. trump hitting back at the kochs tweeting early tuesday, the globalist koch brothers who have become a total joke in real republican circles are against strong borders and powerful trade. i never sought their support because i don t need their money or bad ideas. the president picking a fight with its network of donors, which has pledged to invest more money in this midterm election cycle than ever before. up to $400 million. kevin, come out. reporter: the koch political machine making it clear it won t help congressman kevin kramer for now. the republican vying to unseat democratic senator heidi heitkamp in north dakota. one big reason? kramer voted for the $1.3 billion spend bill earlier this year. since 2010 the koch s have spent heavily on candidates who oppose tariffs and support government spending, among other issues. that puts republicans who may need koch money in a tough spot, especially which he former trump adviser steve bannon issued this warning tuesday. you take koch money, it s going to be toxic. candidates like marcia blackburn of ten depend and jim jordan of ohio both find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war between trump and the kochs, according to daniel shullman who wrote about book about the koch brothers. jim has been a close ally of the president particularly on the russia probe. but on tariffs he s expressed some concerns about that. so he is to some degree walking a fine line on some of the stuff. reporter: the kochs did not get behind donald trump in 2016. instead, their network supported down ballot house and senate races spend being $250 million. none of it on trump. the kochs have, you know, they have a long game. and i think what the kochs are trying to do is remind the candidates that they supported of the issues that they were that they once held dear. reporter: a koch spokesperson today on the phone with me tried to down play the whole dispute between the kochs and the trump administration, but i m not going to sugar coat it, erin. trump is actively trying to undermine koch influence here. and that is no surprise. some republican operatives i spoke to today say the koch influence has already been diminished because it s been pushing the the koch network has been pushing to reduce tariffs and the administration has done just the opposite. urch that. incredible in that reporting. you are talking about power, trump, who has access to money, about but willing to take on a $400 million donor. who else would be willing to do that. next a prominent republican calls on president trump to resign. chaing he is not quote fit to remain in office. and jeanne moos with the most recent polling on who is the better president. lincoln or trump. lincoln. lincoln on trump. lincoln. lincoln. lincoln or trump. lincoln. i m captain obvious and hotels.com and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verzenio is a cdk4 & 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- mbc, approved, with hormonal therapy, as an everyday treatment for a relentless disease. verzenio + an ai is proven to help women have significantly more time without disease progression, and more than half of women saw their tumors shrink vs an ai. diarrhea is common, may be severe, and may cause dehydration or infection. before taking verzenio, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection. verzenio may cause low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infection that can lead to death. serious liver problems can occur. symptoms may include tiredness, loss of appetite, stomach pain, and bleeding or bruising more easily than normal. blood clots that can lead to death have also occurred. talk to your doctor right away if you notice pain or swelling in your arms or legs, shortness of breath, chest pain or rapid breathing or heart rate. tell your doctor if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or plan to become pregnant. common side effects include nausea, infections, low red and white blood cells and platelets, decreased appetite, headache, abdominal pain, tiredness, vomiting, and hair thinning or loss. i m relentless. and my doctor and i choose to treat my mbc with verzenio. be relentless. ask your doctor about everyday verzenio. but, with more exercise and a change in diet, it can be reversed. i ve tried exercising. it just makes me hungry. for bacon. i love bacon, too. and who really likes to exercise? 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[both laugh] so, we re good? what? oh, you still have prediabetes. big time. new tonight, president trump asking his embattled chief of staff john kelly to stay by his side through 2020. this comes after weeks and months of rumors that kelly s demise was imen in. if one prominent republican has her way the president won t be in office that long. the former new jersey governor who served on george w. bush s cabinet writes in an op ed calling on my fellow republicans trump is clearly unfit to remain in office. quote i am a life long republican. i have campaigned and won as a member of the party. and i have served more than one republican president. we must put aside the gop label as hard as that may be and demonstrate the leadership our country needs by calling on the president to step down. not mincing words. not trying to hide behind nuance. that s a clear estimate. christine todd whitman is out front. i know this took a lot for you to write. you prospect a trump supporter. you came out and said look i voted for hillary clinton. now you are coming out with this step down. you are doing it now? what made you decide to do it now? the final straw for me was the way he behaved in europe for the eu and nato meetings where he basically dissed our allies and embraced putin. when you take the oath of office you agree and hold up your right hand and swear to protect the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. putin is an enemy. he is not going putin is an enemy. but to fawn over him the way the president did, to set aside our allies, to throw everything into uncertainty for the people who are on our side in order to appear more closely aligned with something like vladimir putin, that s just not good for the country. so republican voters, as you know, strongly back president trump. paul begala was just raising this point. 88. our latest polling is 82%. no matter how you look at it, it is a stratospheric approval rating among republicans. that s the key. they re such a small percentage of the registered voters. but if you get all the republicans to vote for him, he could win again. but if you re only 29% yes, he can. oh, i don t doubt that he can. but if you re 29, and now i ve heard 26% voters identify as republicans. so if you re talking yes, if you get that out, it s a serious bloc. but that s a small percentage of the overall potential electorate. you re talking about the trump base. the trump base. the republican base. those who self-identify as republicans now are between 26 and 29%. 30%. and 40 is democrats or independents or unaffiliated. that 40% is not even going to break 50-50. would you lead the party? i m not in that 26 to 29. i m an eisenhower republican. and those are not the ones they ever poll as identified republicans. would you leave the party, though as some have done? no, not right now. it still want to fight for the party. i believe in the republican party and what we used to stand for. i don t think that donald trump is truly a republican. i don t think he is truly a conservative and i don t think he is good for the country. you know, the thing, though, if he were to do what you re asking, to step down. fine, but if he were, that then means mike pence. and new york times columnist frank burn any who was just here a couple of minutes ago said getting rid of trump would be a mistake there are problems with impeaching donald trump. a big one is the holy terror sitting in the wings that would be mike pence. he is also a bigot, also a liar, also cruel. that s one person s very strong point of view. right. but let s be clear, mike pence has a very strong point of view on things like abortion. oh, yes. the law on genderer, right. and gay and lesbian relationships in indiana. he has a strong point of view. which his boss does not seem to have on those issues in the same way. would you be willing to take pence over trump? but i don t think he would tweet us into a war or a difficult situation. i don t think he would disrespect the constitution. i m not a fan in the sense that i don t agree with any of the positions he has taken. but you would take those position over trump? for the next two years, i would live with those position. wow. let me ask you about hugh hewitt in the washington post said no matter what you think, the president has surrounded himself with superb cabinet members of his commitment to judges and the economy is cook. his point of view is he s done a good job. the economy is cooking, the best quarter since 2014 that was only four years ago under the much hated and reviled obama administration. yeah. so he has seen it before. he should take credit because he would get the blame if he didn t. if he were in there, there is no question about that. and as i say, some of the people that have pushed back against me have been very thoughtful. and those interest points that they raise. but that to me does not trump, to excuse that, trump what i see as a really dangerous undermining of the norms that are the basis of our democracy. this idea about false news, it scares me when the president of the united states will stand up and say don t believe anything you see or anything you hear. all news is fake. only believe me. that should scare people to death. that s not the kind of country we are. all right. well, thank you so much, governor. i appreciate your time. my pleasure. and thank you for coming and talking to me about it. and next, jeanne moos on trump s obsession with abe lincoln. of our new unlimited wireless plans. it comes with a ton of entertainment options. great, can you sign for this? 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A precursor to Fox News s morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. in court today charged with attempted murder. he was out on bond for a weapons charge. put the man police a friend to shoot a congresswoman set to face a judge today. carlos is accused of leading voice mail for the majority whip and caffrey kathy mc mars rogers, they told him, quote, we are going to feed them led, make no mistake, you will pay. scalise nearly killed last year after a gunman opened fire at a republican baseball practice. jillian: donald from rallying the crowd in the keystone state out of his economic success, slamming his opponents and calling for a government shutdown. rob: drumming up support for lou barletta s senate bid. reporter: in classic form, in maxine waters, very low iq. running against pocahontas or crazy bernie. i saw him up there the other day. that hair is getting wider and wider, he is getting crazier and crazier. reporter: the attack on the media was a centerpiece of the rally message. we are doing better in all of these states than we did on election night. despite only negative publicity, only negative stories from the fakers back there. reporter: donald trump surprised many when he won in 2016 which is why this race for the senate seat is a big prize this november. barletta trails by double digits. it will be an uphill climb but the president going back to the arena he has gone to in the past. todd: pocahontas, crazy bernie is now sleeping bob. he loves the nicknames. donald trump using his rally to encourage voters to go to the polls in november as the partisan gap grows wider. the midterm elections offer the once forgotten men and women a chance to make their voices heard again. we have a chance for a historic election to give the american people and honest choice between a radical extremist democratic party and the progressive wing gradually being destroyed by radical extremists or they can try to appease the elites. if they run district by district campaign they blues the house. it is impossible in the modern era, rush limbaugh approved of it. 435 districts every day. republicans are going to win the fight, when the argument, all the issues on their side but the question is do they have the courage. the midterms 95 days away. todd: mike pompeo with his counterpart overnight demanding an american pastor held captive be set free. the two speaking privately in singapore. pompeo is hopeful something will get done. pastor andrew brunson is facing terror-related charges while under house arrest, the white house is not budget and economic sanctions on turkey after they refused to release him. jillian: a newcomer claims victory in the gop primary for tennessee governor. bill leads beating out three republicans to get the nod. one of them congresswoman diane black was favored to win, karl dean in november. congresswoman marsha blackburn easily winning the gop facing tennessee s former governor, democrat who won by a landslide. todd: 9 minutes after the hour. we are just hours from the july jobs report. american workers get their biggest pay raise in more than a decade. economist peter moricci with why trump s economy is bad news for the democrats in the midterms. you cannot say the press is not the enemy of the people. it is ironic that not only you in the media attack the president for his rhetoric. jillian: hot off the press, sarah sanders and jim acosta, how the fire exchange ended. have no answers. america is winning again. last week we announced that the us economy grew 4.1% last quarter, nobody thought that was possible and if the democrats got in, that number would be 1.2, it could even turn negative. jillian: will the jobs report due out in just hours add to the president s successes? peter moricci joins me now. thank you for being here. what do you expect in the next few hours? 210,000 jobs which is in line with what we averaged the last several months with an expanding and growing economy. jillian: that is the number we have seen the last couple months, 213,000 jobs created in june 2018. do you expect this number to plateau? we should not expect to see bigger numbers, and at that pace of growth, gradually getting people off the bench and that is people who weren t in the job market, who were really to start looking again. pulling a lot of minorities and disadvantaged people. people who might have a black mark on the record, people with criminal records, this is a very robust job market. people with some experience, opportunity to switch jobs and jillian: it is a nice number and you have critics out there saying american people are not seeing a difference. what do you say to the critics? what else are the democrats going to say? donald trump has accomplished 45% better growth then democrats did. he is averaging 2.7% a year. barack obama averaged 1.8, 1.9. the record is stark. all they can do is make up fake news, that there is great unfairness in the country and every mainstream church wagging a newspaper in people s eyes, not just the media saying there is terrible unfairness in america. the reality is a lot of the raises are going to people at the bottom and people who didn t have opportunities before have opportunities. we are going to make it so you don t have to work. we give you guaranteed annual income. we have an economy where nobody works, borrow money from chinese and democrats will get elected that way. i don t think that is a winning formula. jillian: what do you think these numbers mean as we head into the midterms? good news for the republicans. unfortunately the republicans don t always have the strongest candidates. in a special election coming up on tuesday, when things look dark for the republicans a lot of people bail. it was hard to recruit the kinds of candidates, now we are stuck with what we have got. democrats raising a lot more money, hollywood on their side and silicon valley on her side. and the rich and wealthy went to dupe the poor into keeping them in power. that report, we are standing by to see the numbers. todd: democrats testing a new method to win over voters for the midterms, text messaging, that can work. jillian: kurt the cyber guy with the downside. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it s the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. todd: 21 after the hour, democratic darling alexandria ocasio-cortez hits the city of angels but the socialist star ab too far left for hollywood liberals. according to the hollywood reporter she won t meet with any entertainment bigshot donors. she showed up to an occupy ice lunch. establishment democrats find her too extreme. she has a fundraiser with democratic socialists of america. jillian: ocasio-cortez s victory causing a rise of democratic socialists on college campuses, young democratic socialists of america experiencing a 280% increase from 2016 from 2018. in the fall over 250 campuses registered for a chapter which is the most ever. todd: politicians looking to win over use of voters sending a text message that. todd: fighting that is a got texts and vented mailers donated to campaigns. voters only got mailers. todd: is there a downside to this political spam? let s bring in kurt the cyber guy. when we look at this closely it is a brilliant way for political campaigns to reach people not only for the vote but donations to their campaign. a group of people have been using a similar way, instead of volunteers sitting around calling you and annoying you in the evening hours they will instead text you. hi, jillian, what is going on, who is this? at the end of the day it is much less annoying than getting a phone call according to people receiving this. what happened in tennessee, where it is being sent to the moon? never areas actors, badmouthing, doing political attacks against opponents. it is certainly not allowed. at this point you don t know who is behind it. jillian: there is the national do not call list, don t know if that works for text messages. robot machine, vote for me because that would not be allowed. you are completely allowed to have an individual text you at a time so they created software applications that work for political campaigns, individually texting you. their databases so virtually everything including what nail color you have. we have that information out there, you may have offered it before to a political party. can i do anything to stop this? there is a little bit you can do. once you receive this, you can request as they call you please don t text me again. is a going to be effective? apparently not. the second go around they start to think about removing you from the list. how to remove anybody who is bothering you by text. jillian: including people you know. todd: the final day. jillian: where can we find that? cyberguide.com. jillian: a new clue in the search were missing iowa student as the family of molly tibbetts refuses to give up hope. molly didn t go to work today. at that moment adrenaline shot through my body, something is terribly wrong. heather: disgrace will act calling stone from the grave of a fallen hero. carly shimkus with growing outrage from a goldstar mother. friday the all-american summer concert series eating up, king and country ready to rock the plaza, stay where you are. fox news alert, brand-new clue in the search for molly to its. a red shirt found near the pig farm investigators have been coming through. rob: the family of the missing college student not giving up hope just yet. we believe that molly is still alive. of someone has abducted her we are pleading with you to please release her. todd: that was molly s mother pleading for the return of her daughter who she believes is still around after disappearing two weeks ago. jillian: ted wilson sat down with her yesterday and joins us with that interview. what is the latest information that you know? reporter: i can tell you over my shoulder here is the command center where local, state, and federal law enforcement officers will be converging in this area with one objective and that objective is to bring molly home. they have gotten quite a few clues, some of it they shared with us and hold close to their vests. i want to play some sound from your interview with molly s mom. i was quietly sitting in the public library and approximately 5:15 my youngest son scott called me and said molly didn t go to work today. at that moment adrenaline shot to my body, something is terribly wrong. law enforcement has been essential, crucial. i can t find the words to say what happened. how are you holding up? through some kind of internal strength that is just there. todd: we heard how important hope is during this process, you are there with molly s mom. what did you see in her eyes when you spoke to her? reporter: i saw what i have seen thousands of times as an investigator over the years, someone clutching onto just a glimmer of hope that at some stage in the future they will be able to hug their loved one who is missing. molly s mother s eyes, my heart went out to her. jillian: all of america s heart goes out to their family. in your conversation with molly s mother, do they have any suspicions of their own what may have happened to their daughter? reporter: some do and some don t. i mean some of her relatives have an idea, they believe she is somewhere abducted, that she is alive. they believe sooner or later the person who is holding her, that person will release molly award. take us through what happens of law enforcement identifies this. once they identified the suspect they will bring that person or persons in, look physically over that person because if there are any abrasions, in a fight with the person, and confiscates their cell phones and bring them in, they will do what is done with a digital footprint and find out about the person s background. and confiscate their automobile. one of the most important things they do, and aspect of suspects to take a polygraph examination as part of the investigative process. jillian: the number to call if you know anything no matter how small you think the detail maybe you can call the sheriff at 641-623-5679. thank you very much. reporter: the pleasure. jillian: an exclusive look at the military gear and personal items returned with us marines from north korea, helmets, campaign buttons, from the korean war, caskets recently handed over to the us. also found, this dog tag. it will be given to the fallen soldiers two sons at arlington, virginia. the remains being tested in hawaii after mike pence accepted them on wednesday. todd: sarah huckabee sanders flipping the script on reporters during a fiery exchange in the white house briefing room. the president is rightfully frustrated. 90% of the coverage on him is negative despite the fact the economy is booming, isis is on the run and american leadership is being reasserted around the world. you did not say that the press is not the memory enemy of the people. personal attacks without any content other than anger. the media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions including her own network, harassed, that i should be choked. todd: jim acosta tweeting that he walked out of the briefing room in protest. mark live in slamming the press corps. the dc press corps today is the least professional press corps of my lifetime. they think that their job is to make it impossible for the president to function. as long as they keep putting clowns like jim acosta out there who is a drama queen of sorts, the reaction of the american people. todd: live-in says the press needs to take a look at itself but it won t. as anti-trump rhetoric rams up eric trump is shining a light on how his family has been a target. i have been threatened, we have had white power show up in our house. there is no moral outrage about that but when it happens to them, when they are offended by a message. todd: vanessa trump was hospitalized after opening a suspicious letter with a white powdery substance addressed to her ex-husband donald trump junior. jillian: hundreds of protesters fed up with gun violence take to the streets of chicago. the march shutting down a major highway during rush hour, demonstrators sending a loud and clear message to democratic mayor rahm emanuel, make changes or resign. 16 shots covered up. we are praying today, the mayor and city council, do something different. jillian: gianna caldwell is on the ground with the protestant will join us live in the next hour. todd: democrats blasted by their own party over their efforts to impeach the president. not a single person in the senate democratic caucus has shown the common sense or the sense of right and wrong to support impeachment. jillian: carly shimkus with serious xm 115 with reaction to those comments. reporter: tom stier made his money on wall street, he is a billionaire who became an environmentalist and is founder of a campaign aimed at impeaching donald trump. you heard him calling out members of the democratic establishment who have not backed his campaign but conservatives on social media are responding to his comments, when twitter user rights goes to show you common sense is not needed to become a billionaire. another rights you actually have to commit a crime to be impeached. nora on twitter writing sorry but not liking him is not a valid reason for impeachment. stier pledged $40 million in his business campaign to impeach donald trump. todd: it is about having grounds on which to impeach. really unfortunate situation in massachusetts. the mother of a fallen soldier said thieves have been stealing coins people are leaving on her son s graveyard. take a listen. it just makes me, it makes me sick to think that someone could do that. the mother noticed the coins were missing a couple weeks ago. it is a tradition for people who knew a fallen soldier to leave money on their gravestone. a lot of people on social media sympathizing with this family. i never heard of this tradition but love it. how dare people steal the coins, so much disrespect, such a beautiful young man he was and another twitter user rights there is no accounting for scum who would violate the grave. jillian: 3 girls on horseback going viral. 3 girls in california came up with a unique way to thank firefighters and first responders battling the car wildfire. they are riding past the command center on horseback carrying american flags and a sign it says thank you. it listed their spirits and people in social media responding to this, one twitter user rights that is the country i grew up in and we have to get back to and another twitter user says my hometown, proud of those girls, a simple thank you in a unique way. jillian: i will not get on horseback to say thank you. 39 after the hour, 17 years after 9/11 airplanes are a real target for terrorists. terrorists want to bring down aircraft. they still see aviation as the crown jewel target. jillian: why in the world with the tsa cut security screenings at airports across the country? jim hansen, an expert in hunting extremists, joins us with why he says this could be catastrophic. rob: this video showing a dramatic car rescue, americans help officers. the weather across the country. not a hero the hero in the morning sky - in a crossfit gym, we re really engaged upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com. booklet, travelers, tsa weighing a new plan to stop security screenings at 150 airports nationwide. jillian: critics worry it will or terrorists to those airports. john kelly has this morning. reporter: terrorists want to bring down aircraft to disrupt their economy, undermine our way of life and it works. which is why they still see aviation as the crown jewels target. jillian: joining us with reaction his former us army special forces conducting counterterrorism operations, jim hansen. thank you for joining us. i want to hear what you have to think of this was we were stunned yesterday when we heard it. reporter: it does not seem like a wise move. as secretary kelly said the terrorists have always focused on aircraft. if you can knock an airplane out of the sky or as on 9/11 use them as weapons you create a very normal fear for people. there is something completely not quite right about putting a couple hundred humans in a tube and hurdling them through the sky. we all have a rational fear of that. i have jumped out of them at the same altitude, but the terrorists know that puts fear in us and disrupting that and our air travel system causes massive disruption to people and businesses. it is a great target and we need to keep our eye on it. todd: you can t put a price on human life but for arguments sake, say they came back and said this will save us $100 billion. then there might be a little more of an argument here. $115 million annually. that is nothing compared to the scope of what we pay at airports and how much the federal government has. this is insanity. you can make the case there are plenty of other targets. a terrorist in nice, france, killed 87 people and wounded 450 with a cargo truck. it is not like they don t have other ways to do it but this is the one they focus on. this is the one that given a choice they will do. the idea of saying smaller airports if we go ahead and leave them a little bit foldable they won t go there but the 9/11 hijackers focused on an airport in portland, maine based on the assumption that security at smaller airports would be less. they proved the fallacy in that thinking. tsa needs to accept the fact that we either protect all our airports or none because knocking a plane with 50 people out of the sky is not much less bad than knocking one out with a couple hundred. jillian: a statement from the tsa says, quote, there have been no decisions to illuminate passenger screening at any federalized us airport. you brought up a good point when you were talking about what happened in nice. we saw terror play out in many aspects since 9/11, vehicles on multiple occasions, a lot of shootings, concert venues targeted. just because we are seeing other factors of terrorism doesn t mean you start getting lacks at the airports. i don t think this is the place to make cuts especially for budgetary reasons. let s go ahead and if we are going to secure our air travel system we have to secure it on this go in through the weakest spot and weakest links in the chain. secure it all and look at procedures that are ridiculous at some of the checkpoints but no reason to stop screening luggage or other things. if they sneak a bomb on a plane anywhere in the united states on the us aircraft or anywhere else on the world especially our own us travelers that 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jillian: sometimes it is insane. no one is paying attention. pay attention to this. stores closing their doors for good. todd: tracy carrasco is here to explain why. i found that one jillian: i like brookstone. you need to find another place to get chairs or high-tech gadgets. they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. they will be closing all mall locations, about 100 of them. they hope to keep 35 of their airport locations open but this is all due to declining foot traffic at malls, more people shopping online. another victim of the retail ice age. jillian: they have the softest blankets. reporter: i have a blanket from brookstone. todd: some big guinness news. reporter: the first guinness brewery in the united states in 60 years is opening today just outside maryland. the guinness (worry, not going to be brewing the iconic stout, that is coming from dublin, ireland but they will be brewing the lacquer, they will have a visitor center, task force, you can take tours. this is opening up today, first time in several years. todd: the players are not getting in. reporter: you can taste the imported beer from ireland. they are not doing that iconic status. time for the good, the bad and the ugly. a lot on the line to pool a man from a burning car. first responders pooling the unconscious driver out. he crashed in southern california. jillian: a teenager tried to steal a plane to go to a rock concert, the 18-year-old found bike security arkansas city in the cockpit of an american eagle jet but he doesn t know how to fly. heather: caught red pod, a company named savage seen on surveillance video stealing and amazon package. it was not the only thing savage swiped. he took a pair of prescription sunglasses and a garden hose nozzle the owner did not realize. jillian: all right. chicago protesters outraged over rising gun violence instead of democratic leadership. not everyone believes chicago is a trump freezone. i accept his help. we can t turn any help away. todd: born and raised in the windy city, joins us live with reaction in the next hour of fox and friends first .
A look at the day s news and headlines. the average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. on the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. transportation and warehouse was interesting. the monthly was almost 19,000. last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. it was one of the things that stood out to me. bill: economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. unemployment is at 3.9 percent. we haven t seen a number like this in 18 years. the real unemployment number is more impressive called the u6. it takes into account people working part-time but don t want that. that number dropped from 7.5. that s a sharp decline in a long time. bill: 2.7% higher wages. you want wages to go a bit higher than that. it was the expectation. another great piece of news, people working part-time for economic reasons because they couldn t find a job, that s dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workforce. overall it was a good number, a strong number. the only thing the wages, i want to see wages go higher. i m really shocked they haven t taken off. bill: why is it so stubborn? theories the workers coming in are replacing older workers who make a lot of money and you don t have to give it to an entry level. kimberly strassel, what is clear is this white house is doing an able of whiffing what she is arguing is that this white house is moving at light speed from day one and they are crushing it on the economy but not selling it well enough. do you agree with that? i think president trump talks about it a lot. i don t know that the gop talks about it a lot. they talk about it with the same kind. bill: she says he talks about other stuff and it serves as a distraction. the mainstream media will not make the points for them. they aren t. on that point you re right. he brings up some stuff that s inconsequential other than he is at war with the mainstream media. he is losing when he lets them bait him. the biggest story for anybody in the country is we re growing at a rate that people had given up on. folks now working today that thought they would never work again maybe because they were a non-violent felon or didn t have the job skills. we have something remarkable going on in this country that we had given up on. bill: head-to-toe he is all put together. sandra: maybe you can learn something from that, hemmer. you are always looking good both of you. coming up ahead on america s newsroom this morning we re getting reaction from the white house. director of strategic communications mercedes schlapp will join us as our headliner this morning next hour. a news conference 90 minutes from now from the sheriff s department on their search for mollie tibbetts. investigators finding a shirt possibly connected to the case near a pig farm searched by federal agents one week ago. tibbetts family saying they believe she is alive and they will not give up hope. we believe mollie is still alive. if someone has abducted with her we are pleading with you to release her. we wake up every day at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning and fighting. we re all fighting and everybody in the community is fighting to get her back. sandra: matt finn is live for us from iowa where we ll get an update on what authorities are learning there, matt. there have been lots of leads in this case so far. what do we now know? lots of leads that unfortunately have led to dead ends. regarding that shirt, at the daycare where molly works, she and staff wear red t-shirts. well, yesterday a red t-shirt was reportedly found at a pig farm not far from here. investigators combed that area, a ditch on that pig farm that they had previously searched because of some suspicion they have for the pig farm. that search didn t lead to any major break in the case. this morning police will update us on the status of their investigation. exactly what they ll say isn t clear. so far the family has praised this investigation calling law enforcement strong and sophisticated. one of the major questions in possible tactic? president trump: we re fighting the war on drugs. they re bringing in drugs, lots of bad people. we are getting the hell we re stopping it. so we re going to be taking some very tough actions. .. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. i wok(harmonica interrupts)ld. .and told people about geico. 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i do. i would absolutely 100% support a shutdown. i m a federal employee. it will affect me and my family. but i can tell you that without border security we just don t have the safety and security. when i was a little kid growing up my parents had no problem letting me walk a mile away to go to the park. today parents just don t let that happen because they re too worried about crime in the united states. crime has to stop. we have to look at this issue. we have to take this issue seriously and a wall in strategic locations will help us secure the border. bill: he referred to the current construction ongoing, $1.6 billion in allotted funding. we ve heard that number before. if that s the case, what is happening on the border with that money? what is happening with the construction? so the construction is starting in san diego, california. and what we re doing is we re extending the walls again in the strategic locations. but we re also reinforcing the old fences that have been torn through, criminal organizations will bring up welding torches and cut through the antiquated fences. we re reinforcing that and doing a lot of the infrastructure that s necessary. but again, it all circles back to what is the purpose and the purpose is to control the illegal flow of all of the illicit narcotics, all of the illegal aliens and criminals like the ms-13s. we re working on keeping them out of our country. bill: you are saying this is happening right now? how much more would it take to get the job done in the way that you think is sufficient? well, if you look at what he is requesting when he is requesting the $25 billion, i don t know that we necessarily need $25 billion but we definitely need around $5 to $10 billion. we have to look at the specific locations where walls are going to help us control the traffic. dictate where illegal crossings take place. and if we can dictate that, we can then be successful and we can once and for all secure the border. i ve been a border patrol agent for 21 years. this debate rages year in and year out. bill: i don t know how much support he will ever get from democrats. he is not. bill: i m not so sure how much support he is getting from republicans. last word on that. in fact, it is not just a democrat issue. it is a republican issue. you look at paul ryan. he has never supported the president in this particular issue. it seems like the democrats want voters and the republicans want cheap labor. the border patrol agents are caught in the middle and it s not a good place to be in. bill: we ll see what progress we make in time. have a great weekend. thank you. sandra: president trump s former campaign manager back in court at this hour. what we re learning as the star witness in this case and whether he will take the stand. plus dramatic new video coming into our newsroom showing good samaritans and police officers jumping into action to pull a man from a burning car. rt. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. save $200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. sandra: former trump campaign chairman paul manafort back in a courtroom. prosecutors are saying they have every intention of having manafort s former business partner, rick gates, testify after a judge warned them their case would fall apart if they did not call their star witness. peter doocy is live from u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia this morning. have prosecutors explain why they think manafort allegedly committed these financial crimes yet? the mueller team is trying to make the case that paul manafort was running out of money and having a hard time paying bills. they said certain documents were falsified to make it look like his net worth was $4 million higher and debt lower so he could get approved to loans to fund what prosecutors are trying to establish a very luxurious lifestyle that included a flower bed shaped like an m for manafort at his place in the hamptons. his accountant testified he never told tax preparers he had any foreign accounts even though that would have affected his returns and he was warned of potential penalties and his bookkeeper testified she wasn t aware of any foreign accounts even though manafort, she says, watched over every single penny that came in and went out, sandra. sandra: is the trial still moving along quickly? we re several days into this now. it is moving quickly. the mueller team said last yesterday right before they recessed for the night they plan to rest their case next week and that the length of the trial overall will depend on what the manafort defense team plans to do after that to make their case and make their defense. we re hearing this morning that they don t know yet if they are going to call manafort to the stand. so far the manafort defense team s strategy has been just to insert his former business partner, rick gates, into as many allegations as possible. gates is expected to be called to the stand soon and that s important because the judge even told the mueller team yesterday that he doesn t think they can make the case for conspiracy without rick gates. sandra. sandra: we ll continue following that throughout the day, peter. bill: we re awaiting this news conference expected live in one hour, the disappearance of mollie tibbetts continues to baffle the sheriff s department in iowa. sandra: please people fed up with crime in the city of chicago. as hundreds of protestors flood the streets calling for rahm emanuel, the mayor s, resignation. we ll speak to garyy mccarthy live in moments. he needs to step up and come to the people where the crime is. the crime is on the south side and the west side. that s why we came over here to prove that we have to come over here to the north side to make a statement. bill: 9:30 in new york. an hour from now a news conference on the mollie tibbetts disappearance. a young student from the university of iowa. the sheriffs office getting ready for an update. new evidence may have been discovered in the case. her family continues to plead publicly for her safe return. we will cover that event and bring you there live as soon as it begins in iowa. sandra: an anti-violence march in chicago briefly shutting down some major streets. dozens of demonstrators making their way through the city to wrigley field yesterday trying to bring attention to deadly gun violence in the city of chicago and calling for the resignation of mayor rahm emanuel accusing him of being out of touch with communities most affected by high crime. we have to do things to irritate in order for change to happen. who wants to do this? but we have to do it. we re tired of having a tale of two cities in chicago. and rahm emanuel has perpetuated and expanded the economic disparity. sandra: hour next guest is challenging rahm emanuel for mayor, the former superintendent of police in chicago, garry mccarthy. what is going on in our beloved city of chicago? i m from there and was raised there, got married there and had both my kids there. all the news coming out of that city seems to be horrible these days. what exactly are you seeing and what is happening? i can tell you what the protestors said is exactly what s happening. the mayor is out of touch with the people of chicago. he is more interested in raising taxes to get a war chest so that he can get pay for play from developers and city contracts. he doesn t listen to people. and therefore you see things like what happened yesterday where people feel they actually have to protest to get the attention of the mayor. i go to meetings across this city. small groups of people and sit down and talk to them for enormous amounts of time. everybody says the same thing to me. they said you know, rahm emanuel would not come here and have this conversation with us. and the real reason is because he can t. he is out of touch with it. what they just said is so true, that he is widening the socio-economic divide that exists across this country but particularly in this city and it comes to fruition in gun violence. the issues aren t being addressed because the mayor is busy bullying people politically and political retribution and working his own war chest. sandra: we reached out to rahm emanuel s office and we got a response no thanks. that being said, it seems it seems like just nothing is changing. things continue to stay the same, if not get worse. do you see an appetite for change in the city? absolutely. people say all the time we want change. one of the things that i love to say is if you always do what you always did you ll always get what you always got. that s what s happening in chicago. things are changing. they are getting worse. we re reaching lawlessness. there are nuances happening that people need to recognize. during the nato summit you heard me say over and over again we re going to defend people s first amendment rights to protest but we re going to be intolerant of criminal behavior. what you saw yesterday was facilitation of criminal behavior. the city actually closed down lakeshore drive for the protestors. we re crossing a line here. two weeks ago eddie johnson, the superintendent of police, marched onto the dan ryan express way with a priest. that was the jurisdiction of the illinois state police. when the superintendent of police is behaving like that it s a problem. it is being reflected on shootings on the magnificent mile and lakeshore drive. sandra: in chicago so far this year these are stats being kept by the chicago trib as we understand it. 304 people killed so far. this is referencing race and ethnicity as far as homicide victims and obviously you can see the numbers surge when it comes to black, non-hispanic numbers. the crimes have been concentrated in predominantly black, low-income neighborhood. what can you tell us about that? the majority of victims of homicides in chicago are young black men, 416 so far this year. what i can tell you is when i was police superintendent in 2013 and 2014 we had the murder rates down to 50-year lows in the city. everything was going in the right direction against complaints against police, overall response and starting in 2016 all of that changed. from 2016 to 2018 there has been 394 more people murdered than there were in the previous three years alone. new york city last year had 290 murders. in a city three times the size of chicago, we had 770 in 2016. this is not okay. it is because of the politics of this city. it is because nothing is being managed. these are the results. sandra: we haven t even mentioned, you brought up rahm emanuel accusing him of pay to play politics. he received money from a developer after a plan commission approved plans for the developer for the city. i want to move onto the sanctuary city. this is rahm emanuel on the sanctuary city policy. great news for all of us who care about protecting immigrant come chicago will be a welcoming place for anyone who comes seeking safety. i want to get your response to that. really simple. he should be caring more about the african-american community that s getting slaughtered in this city right now. at the end of the day what rahm emanuel does as he talks about global warming, climate change, the president, he weighs in on federal judges. at the end of the day he is not in charge of that. he is in charge of gun violence, cone me and education system here in chicago and he is not paying attention to it. taxes go up, economy is struggling. a huge story for this country to keep watching what is happening in that city. i hope you come back on the program. absolutely. thank you. bill: 22 before the hour. mike pompeo not mincing words. he is speaking ahead of an asian security forum saying that north korea is far from living up to its pledge. greg palkot picks up story live in london. what else did he say, greg? pretty tough line from secretary of state pompeo at a meeting in singapore. on his way to that session of countries of the security and political organization saying that north korea is behaving in a manner this is a quote, inconsistent with its commitment on denuclearization saying the country another quote, has still a ways to go before it gets rid of nuclear weapons. he thanked the organization for keeping the pressure on north korea and also noted the north korea is in violation of u.n. sanctions. all this just under two months since president trump and kim jong-un summit meeting at that same location. that s where the commitment to denuclearize came. it is sending a reply to a letter chairman kim sent to the white house. the north korea foreign minister is also attending these sessions. it is a mixed picture this week. we saw the dramatic and heartwarming scenes of the remains being repatriated of the u.s. service members lost in north korea. we also are hearing about missiles being made and fissile material for bombs being made. tough row to hoe. that s the behavior that secretary pompeo has been referring to. bill: thank you, greg. sandra: meanwhile fox news is getting an exclusive look at some of the items returned to the u.s. from north korea as those metal cases containing several things including two helmets, several can teens and dozens of buttons. a dog tag will be given to the two sons of a dead soldier next week. it could take months or years to identify all the remains, scientists say they re finding some positive signs already. what we saw were remains that were consistent with what we have found from korean war recovery we ve done over year and consistent with being americans. sandra: scientists will sample bones for dna to identify the bodies. bill: there might be more than 5,000 missing from that war. thousands were forced from their homes and could drown a city in minutes and more heavy rain. sandra: the trump administration showing a unified front fighting election interference and how intel officials say they re handling the threat. russia has tried to use this propaganda and methods to sew discord in america. they stepped up their game big time in 2016. we haven t seen that kind of robust effort from them so far. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don t have to stash antacids here. here. or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. we re prepared to conduct operations against those actors. relative to what we have seen for the mid-term elections, it is not the kind of robust campaign that we assessed in 2016 election. the nation s elections are more resilient today because of the work we re all doing but we must continue to ensure that our democracy is protected. the president has made it abundantly clear to everybody who has responsibility in this area that he cares deeply about it and he expects them to do their jobs to their fullest ability. bill: theresa payton former chief ininformation offices and a ceo and good to have you on the program here. what did you think of the message, theresa? i was very pleased to see that strong, united front signaling not just to russia but other countries who might meddle. if you meddle we ll figure it out and there will be repercussions. yesterday was a great step in the right direction. bill: what do you think it says to critics who say you aren t taking it seriously enough? there is still a lot of work to be done and we have to be relentless in making sure that we don t come up short for the mid-term elections in the next election cycle. so i understand everyone s frustration we need to do more. some of the signals that come out seem confusing. the helsinki meeting. election security dollars. it seems confusing but yesterday it shows this administration is taking it very seriously. bill: the election is november 6. when do we know what happens? is it november 7, january 7? how do we gauge this, theresa? this is a tough one because we have different attack vectors that could happen. there are the websites themselves at the state level. there is the election databases, the voter registration, the polling booth and then the whole disinformation campaign that s been going on on social media companies and saying in the cybersecurity community. it could be a long time before we know if there is an issue. the one good thing i do know is that a lot of really smart, dedicated people in the cybersecurity intelligence community are on watch. we ve been forewarned. my concern is when we say we aren t seeing things at the same level, it could be they ve changed their tactics and using cryptocurrency to set up things in the cloud where they can vaporize it in a moment s notice if they think we re onto them. what are the new tactics allowing them to hide in plain sight? bill: those tactics change, i m sure. the report suggest many states aren t taking it seriously enough. i don t know if you have evidence of that or not. address that and tell us what do you think russia is really up to? how would everyday americans be influenced by something they see online? well, i think what russia has done there is a great report, bill, called freedom of the net report that has been put out for every year for 12 years. they ve been sounding the alarm from some countries maintain power and using social media to do that. if you think about the premise behind social mead ya. it was set up to connect each of us to each other and to give us more of our common interests and the things we like to follow, the things that we like and to basically have us spend a lot of time there. and because of that, russians who are so great at the ground game with political espionage and these deception techniques, they basically move those techniques over to social media and used it against us. so that to me is one of those things where as americans now that we re on to them and other countries who may use these tactics, this is why if you see something on social media from the news perspective, step away from social media and go right to the source. go to trusted, vetted news source programs like yours, bill, and actually get your news there and make your decisions for yourself. don t allow what is targeting you on social media to make you think kind of double down on one point of view, be open minded. bill: i think the mentality of it, if we re talking about russia all the time, putin is winning that argument. you see it on all the networks all the time. that s precisely what a former kgb agent would want. last comment quick. you are a great guest. thanks for having me on. and the last thing i would say the russia would like nothing more than to make americans distrust our democracy through our election security and it s up to us as americans to not fall for that. bill: theresa payton, great insight. thank you. sandra: evacuations underway in virginia as the threat of dam failure has one city on high alert. if this dam breaks, the town could flood under 17 feet of water in just seven minutes. we re live with this story next. plus things get tense in the white house briefing room as sarah sanders and cnn s jim acosta go head-to-head over the media s coverage of the trump administration. our headliner, mercedes schlapp, is standing by. the president has made his position known. i also think it s ironic i m trying to answer your question. i politely waited and even called on you despite the fact that you interrupted me. feel for any road at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? 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the headliner today, mercedes schlapp live from the white house. you can go ahead and sell this economic report in a moment here. i do think as an economist you can find negative news in anything you want, right? chart after chart after chart and number after number. anyway, frame it for us, best number in 18 years, go ahead. here at pebble beach i m seeing larry kudlow with a smile an his face and dancing down the driveway here because as we know the economy remains in credibly strong. in 2018 we re at a pace of making more gains in terms of jobs per month than in the last two years. when you are talking about the fact that the unemployment number this month is at 3.9%, that alone, bill, you could just see, we ve hit that eight times in history. the eighth time we hit it in history since 1970. they re significant numbers. our economic fundamentals are strong. there is no question that because of president trump s leadership, his vision in terms of pushing forward economic policies like tax cuts and tax reform and deregulation, it s working. sandra: the question, is the president communicating that message and doing it well enough? kimberly strassel has a piece in the wall street journal this morning where she is saying you have a lot to tout but a lot of distraction at the same time. her piece failure to communicate. he has a solid record but too busy making noise to tout it. the white house doing a great job in whipping one of the political it s demoralizing candidates alike. kimberly should probably watch the rallies and watch what the president has done in the past few weeks. he was in granite city talking about a company that came back and is having jobs here in granite city for steelworkers and where he has gone to iowa and tampa talking about workforce development and also talking about the great economic success story in america. the president talks about the economy every day. and we know that many times it is going straight into the local communities where it matters most where we re seeing the revitalization of communities because of the economic because of the president s economic record and that s a message we ll keep talking about through the end of the year and beyond because bill: i think you can hang your hat on a lot of good news on the economy in the past year and a half. then we get moments like last night in pennsylvania. roll sound bite number two. the potential for a government shutdown. i know he wants this wall. i just don t know about the tactic. you explain this in a moment. first from last night. president trump: the democrats anything i want it s not even the republicans. i don t know if they care they care about me. they re very concerned. anything i want, they want to oppose. i just figured out how to do the wall. i ll say, i don t want to build the wall and they ll insist on building it. i just figured that out right now. bill: it was a pretty funny moment. i don t want the wall and you ll give it to me then. why the threat of a shutdown. how does it advance his cause for border security? how does that contribute to a roaring economy right now, mercedes? because we do have a crisis on the border and because of the fact that for democrats now their message has become that of abolishing ice and that of open borders, which means more crime. it s because the democrats have obstructed all along the way while the president came in with a compromise in terms of ensuring we would be able to secure our border, that we would be able to close the legal loopholes. in addition to providing a pathway to citizenship for the daca recipients. it was a plan that the vast majority americans agreed on. the democrats have made this decision of just pushing forward open borders, of allowing this crisis on the border where illegal aliens are crossing the border and then just ending up in our country, there is a legal way to do it. bill: you also have to admit that you have the majority in the house and you have the majority in the senate. you know in the senate you need 60 votes and the fact that we don t reach those numbers. you ll need the democrats to come on board. it s very clear. as we know when it comes to safety in our communities, when it comes to pushing forward legal immigration as opposed to allowing illegal aliens to just come over, cross the border illegally and end up in the united states, there has to be a way that we re able to stop this. it starts with funding the wall which as we know the wall is shown to work. this is something the president will work and see if he can get the democrats on board. thus far what we ve seen from the democrats is pure obstruction. sandra: the president is campaigning for lou barletta, he needs a boost. whether or not trump will give him that we ll see. here he is doing so. president trump: most importantly, get your friends, get your neighbors, and get out and vote for an incredible champion, an incredible winner, lou barletta. with your help, your voice, your vote, we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning. we are going to win so much perhaps some of you, but not all, will get tired of winning. sandra: will he give barletta the much-needed boost he needs? i can t talk elections but i can talk about the president s economic policies are working. the mere fact we re seeing there was one article that came out not long ago of really seeing hope and change happening in these communities, much-needed communities in terms of manufacturing jobs coming back, construction jobs coming back. even those who don t have a high school diploma. their unemployment is down at a record level. unemployment rates for hispanics, african-americans, women across the board are benefiting because of president trump, his economic policies, and obviously the strength that he brings through what we ve seen in terms of pushing forward for denuclearization in north korea and continuing to work with our allies in making sure we have strong national security. bill: he has a really good story to tell and a really good story to sell and we ll find out on tuesday to some measure of how the american people are feeling. you have a special election in ohio, congressional district 12. the republicans balderson and democrat o connor. the latest poll shows a one point district. the president won this district in 2016. the tweet last night. he will campaign hard for a future congressman troy balderson. see you all then. we ll see what happens on tuesday. the polling is tight. i don t know what explains that. is this the flight of suburbanites on the administration? how would you characterize that? there is no question anyone who aligns themselves with the president, he brings a winning message. he is the one who is able to help so many of these individuals, as we know at the end of the day it s because of president trump s policies that we re seeing such success. and i have to tell you, just seeing him in action he is results oriented and why he isn t just going to give up in terms of working on trade deals. as we know we re getting close on the nafta deal with mexico as well as continuing to put pressure on china to stop these abuses of the trading practices, which no other president had ever really forcefully done. we re seeing movement in that area as well. so i think what you re seeing, you saw vice president pence coming back with the remains of those fallen soldiers from north korea. again, pushing north korea in a direction to basically live up to their promise. this is a president who is a non-stop working machine and sandra: what this morning is the talk inside the white house after that moment in the white house press briefing yesterday, contentious moment between sarah sanders and jim acosta of cnn. he pressed her to say the press is not the enemy of the people and walked out of the briefing. you know, fake news is dangerous. we know for a fact that many of these so-called news reporters, okay, that go out there have a complete disdain for president trump. it is no wonder we ve seen that 90% of the media coverage for president trump has been negative. what american people want to see is fair, objective coverage. quite frankly you ve had reporters who cried the day that president trump won and they show their bias. i think it s very troubling. for that being said the president has to defend himself. the president and those of us in the administration who have been blamed and have been called names by journalists. we really want to be able to be able to talk about the president s winning message. it is very hard when you have reporters who prefer to see themselves on camera all the time and many of the liberal media who have complete disdain for this president and refuse to acknowledge any of the positive work he is doing. bill: i don t think he should be defensive on this. you need to go on offense and a big part of why you came on today. we re going to take this up with our media panel in a moment. it was quite a thing watching that and seeing sarah sanders reaction. she felt it. i hope you come back. are you tired of winning? no, not at all. not at all. i m more tired dealing with my kids these days than winning over here. sandra: five daughters, right? fox news alert. moments away from the brief news conference on mollie tibbetts disappearance. there was a shirt found near a pig farm. mollie s family is still hopeful she is a live, plus this. president trump: but they can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. bill: that was the message for the mainstream media and sarah sanders said she is sick of the personal attacks her and why no one would defend her from the white house press corps. has the hostility gone too far? the a-team is next. so you have, your headphones, chair, states should not call us the enemy of the people. i want you to acknowledge that right now and right here. i appreciate your passion, i share it. i ve addressed this question. i ve addressed my personal feelings and here to speak on behalf of the president. he has made his comments clear. sandra: sarah sanders taking on the press corps at the white house briefing. jim a costa asking sanders to say the press is not the enemy of the people. instead she cited all the personal attacks against her. america s a-team joining us now. david asman, after the bell on the fox business network, shelby holliday reporter for the wall street journal and judith miller author. what were your thoughts as you watched the exchange yesterday? at first sad and then outraged. look, i think jim acosta has to be reminded this is not about him. this is about the united states and his coverage of the president of the united states. and to use the white house press to as a back drop for a right, a self-righteous rant is inappropriate. sarah sanders is not going to denounce the president she works for. he shouldn t expect her to do that. and even his colleagues were rolling their eyes saying, you know, please. i think that donald trump has created the kind of mood that lets people like jim acosta think this is appropriate. i think that both sarah sanders and jim acosta should watch mr. smith goes to washington remember that old movie about an outsider who becomes senator in washington the press tells all kinds of lies about him. he goes around and finds all of the press people and punches them out. not to say that sarah sanders should punch out the media around washington this is not new. jim acosta is approaching the issue, i agree with everything you said, judy, about this. jim acosta is outrage like this is something brand-new. this has been going back 100 years where this antagonistic relationship exists there are people in the media that tell lies about what is going on inside the beltway and those who try to stick to the truth. it has always been so and always will be so and there is and probably should, i think, be an antagonistic relationship between the media and the folks that serve us. sandra: it was important that we show the exchange that we re talking about here. watch. i also think it s ironic i m trying to answer your question. i called on you despite the fact that you interrupted me. i said it is ironic. i m trying. if you would not mind letting me have a follow-up that would be fine. it s eye raonic jim that you and the media not only attack the president when they lower the level of conservation in this country. sandra: shelby. it is awkward watching that. you hope for a joke or some moment of levity because it s so contentious. not the first time it s happened and won t be the last. it is becoming very personal. in the white house briefing room you are supposed to be talking about the president. sarah huckabee sanders is there to speak on behalf of the question. it is not about the press and the press secretary but about the president of the united states. he devolved in a very personal. bill: you have the white house press corps. you brought up a comedian who i m the first press secretary of the history of the united states that required secret service protection. i felt a lot of emotion in her response there yesterday. she was affected by this. it s a stretch to say that jim acosta is responsible for michelle wolf s joke at the white house correspondents dinner. she took the moment very personally and not over it, fair enough. everyone has the right to feel that way. that s why most americans i think are justifiably fed up with the media because they have this self-righteousness that acosta was beaming with yesterday about how we are above everything and you have to treat us forget about it. the press corps sometimes gets down and dirty and sometimes they get it dead wrong. you accept that. you go way back and find out it was even tougher. that conversation seems like it should be happening down the hall. bill: ivanka trump did an interview. she was asked is the media the enemy of the people? here is her response. i have certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that i know not to be fully accurate. so i ve had some i have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe especially when they are sort of feeling targeted but no, i do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people. bill: we have the tweet from the president. she correctly said no, it is the fake news, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people. she didn t say that. she said that the press is not the enemy of the people, which is what jim acosta wanted sarah sanders to say she is not going to say it. i was pleased ivanka said it but ivanka is not the president. part of the problem is the president he just goads us into doing things like what jim acosta did. we shouldn t rise to the bait. our job is to keep our heads down and cover him fairly and accurately. if he makes errors to fact we should point out but not be personal. we should point out when the media makes mistakes as well because sometimes they don t. you guys played a clip before the break of trump looking at the media riser and pointing saying fake, fake, disgusting news. i hope it changes but i don t know how it changes. bill: we have a press conference coming up. judith and shelby and david. we re moments away from a news conference. mollie tibbetts, new clues, we ll see what police add to this in a moment as we take you their live. sandra: new information about a red shirt that was found. if you re turning 65, you re probably learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn t cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medicare costs, which means you may have to pay for the rest. that s where medicare supplement insurance comes in: to help pay for some of what medicare doesn t. learn how an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by united healthcare insurance company might be the right choice for you. a free decision guide is a great place to start. call today to request yours. so what makes an aarp medicare supplement plan unique? 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(vo) ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. bill: brand-new information in the search for mollie tibbetts. a new conference about to get underway. police will conduct that from the sheriff s department there. the college student disappearing more than two weeks ago from her boyfriends home. investigators returning to a pig farm that investigators combed through a week ago. her family holding onto the belief she is still alive and crimestoppers working with the family. a large reward on the table as a result. somebody might know that she is being held by somebody but would never say anything because if they said something they may think their life might be in danger. we can guarantee that whoever gives us information, their identity will be protected. bill: ted williams is on the ground following the story. what do you expect to hear from police in a matter of minutes from there? hi, guys, we re here live on the ground here in iowa at the sheriff s department where momentarily there will be a news conference. there are so many questions that have gone unanswered and we re hoping the sheriff and some law enforcement officers here will provide answers. we know that on july 18th around 7:30 mollie tibbetts went jogging. we don t know if she ever returned home. law enforcement has kept that very close to their vest. we don t know if she returned home after jogging. but we do know that the investigation has been centered around a hog farm right outside of brooklyn, iowa. some of the questions that are going to be answered are concerning a red shirt that has been recently found to try to show if there is hopefully the sheriff will be able to tell us if there is a clue between the shirt and mollie and any suspects at this immediate time. a lot of rumors are going on. i m hoping the sheriff will give us some information concerning some of these rumors. sandra: i think that s the point, though, ted, right, why we re so highly anticipating these news conferences because authorities have been so tight lipped on this case. we re struggling to get anything new about possible witnesses, about who they might be even considering played out in this crime. we know this pig farmer has been interviewed for multiple hours. we haven t heard much from police. you know, you re absolutely right. law enforcement has been very tight lipped and on one hand saying they want the public s help and quite naturally the media is out here and clearly wants to help, but you have to give them some information. and this we ve been given at this stage limited information. i m hoping that they will own up here today and give us more information so we can get it out to the public and the public can help to try to bring mollie home. bill: two things. how far is the farm from the house that the pig farm? it s one thought i have at the moment, and the other thought is, numerous interviews with family members and the boyfriend, they ve all said that investigators have given them very little information themselves as sandra was referring to publicly. privately they re getting very little information. in an investigation like this, what would be the logic behind why police would do it that way. well, two things. the hog farm is approximately 17 i would say miles away from brooklyn. law enforcement have a great deal of information that they know that the perpetrator or the person who may have entered the home, if they entered the home, who may have abducted mollie, if she was abducted, have a great deal of information as some physical evidence. they don t want to share that with the public because quite naturally they can use it later certainly if they can bring the perpetrator himself or herself to justice. so law enforcement do in investigations hold a lot to their vests but i have to tell you this investigation i ve seen them hold more to the vest than if most investigations. again, if they want the public s help, they ll have to give the public and the news media more information so we can disseminate that to the public and try again to bring mollie home. sandra: the latest that we heard out of this investigation talking about how little we have heard come from this is this red shirt. the reason why that is important, it was found on this pig farm. the reason it would be for she worked at a daycare facility and wear the red shirt to work. the timeline is called into question. perhaps she went to bed that night and on her way the work the following morning that something could have happened. you see, again that is information that law enforcement needs to share with the public. when and if she was after jogging did she return to her boyfriend s home, to jack s home. we don t really know that. that s one of the pieces of the puzzle. as pertains to the red shirt what they ll have to do is show a nexus between the red shirt and mollie. we don t know that as of this time. we do know that they are looking at many numerous suspects. they ve got at least 200 leads recently and they re following up on those leads. but one of the individuals who i understand that they are suspect, they brought him in and talked to him for two hours. sandra: there is a technical something happened with the microphone. we re hoping it will fix itself and give you a second as we set up what we re waiting on here. we ve gotten the two-minute warning the press conference is about to begin. mollie tibbetts was last seen july 18th. over two weeks out. she went for a run is what we know. new information coming in is the shirt was found on a hog farm how far away from the house? bill: 17 miles. i don t know in which direction. the boyfriend and boyfriend s brother were working at a construction site 100 miles away. was it a different part of the state? small town, brooklyn, iowa, population 1400. dog sitting that night at her boyfriend s home. her brother lives there as well. she just finished her second year of college. sandra: the boyfriend who was on this program with you earlier this week said we left our doors unlocked, you know. it is something that everybody in the town does. ted, i wonder as we wait for the news conference to begin now is it underway now? okay. we ll get to that when it begins. if you could just tell us what you re hearing and seeing on the ground there considering this is such a small, tight knit community in rural iowa, people must be kind of scared. well, they are somewhat apprehensive and afraid at this time because this is middle america. this is a very tight knit community, brooklyn, iowa. i can tell you that individuals here have galvanized in the community, the men, the women, the children, they ve all dedicated to one mission, bringing mollie home. the thing about it is, it has been reported that individuals within this community do, in fact, leave their door open. this is middle america. yes, they do leave their doors open. they feel very comfortable. i can tell you as a result of mollie going missing, this has left a lot of individuals within this community terribly apprehensive. bill: thank you, ted. stand by out there, okay? we re waiting on police. we were given a two-minute morning and some sort of delay. may not mean anything at all. mother s father, rob, praising the investigators yesterday saying it has been large and sophisticated, aggressive as well and very sensitive to family. now we re told the police are about to approach the microphone. let s hang with the signal here. if we get the signal stronger from ted we ll go back to him. this captured the attention of a country in a way we haven t seen in some time. the mystery is obvious with very few answers. sandra: a big part of this investigation has been social media, electronic devices. she was working on a laptop the night she disappeared doing homework late into the night which her father has told us on the program that is not uncommon for mollie. she was an avid runner. she went for a jog that night. the family is gathering. they re beginning. let s listen in. i appreciate your patience. we re here for another update. with me i ll do some introductions here. the sheriff is with us. special agent in charge from the f.b.i. is here. mollie s mother is here. rob and casey tibbetts are here, dalton is here and well as our missing person information clearinghouse manager. we want to start with the sheriff to come forward and read a brief statement. this might be a little redundant. we appreciate your help in getting the information about mollie out to the people all across the country. on july 19th, 2018, 20-year-old mollie tibbetts of brooklyn, iowa was reported missing by her family. she was last seen on july 18th at approximately 7:30 p.m. while running the city streets of brooklyn. last known article of clothing is believed to be dark colored running shorts, pink sports top and running shoes color unknown. although mollie has not been located, the investigation into her disappearance has not slowed down at all. the public is encouraged to contact the following tip lines if they believe they have information related to mollie s disappearance. first tip line is 800-452-1111 or 515-223-1400. there is also a dedicated email to accept tips and that s i want to just tell the people if we have a tip from outside the area, if it s outside of brooklyn, iowa, please call your local authorities. reporting a tip that you see outside the area would take time for us to respond to that. so if you are from out of state or out of the general area of this county please call your local authorities. they ve been great about following up on these tips. to speed things up if you could do that, that would be very helpful to us. and there are a couple of people i want to thank. i want to thank central iowa crimestoppers for staffing the tip lines. they ve been getting hundreds of tips every day and they re working very hard at it and also working, i would like to thank them for working with the family on the reward for mollie. there is one other group of people i want to thank from my office. i want to thank all my co-workers for working hard on this. especially our dispatchers. they are being inundated with telephone calls and all kinds of things and two of them live in brooklyn so it s very dear and close to their hearts what s happening here. they ve been getting beat up over this and i want to make sure they know how much we appreciate what they re doing. thank you very much. thank you, sheriff. i guess i should have started by introducing myself. i m the director of investigative operations for the iowa department of public safety. since i last met with you on tuesday, the investigative response has not slowed down. investigators from the dci and f.b.i. and sheriffs office continue to complete leads that come in and evaluate and prioritize new leads being received every day. unfortunately we have not yet found mollie but it has not been due to a lack of effort or resources. we appreciate the continued support of mollie s family, the entire community and the media organizations keeping this story in the news. although we appreciate everyone showing up today for this press conference our position hasn t changed on the release of case facts, results and conclusions. i understand it is frustrating for many in the public and media but feel it s necessary for our investigation. our position has also not changed in that if we evaluate a piece of information and feel its release could lead us to mollie we ll do so immediately. as mentioned previously, there are media reports regarding details of this investigation that dci has not confirmed. the fact that we do not confirm or deny these details is not an indicator of their truth or falsity. we ve been asked about social media postings and the investigation and whether they re beneficial or not. these postings are beneficial in that they keep the investigation in the public eye. however, i would keep in mind these posts are often rumor and unconfirmed by law enforcement. as a result of this investigation, many questions have arisen from the public and media regarding missing children in iowa. with me today is the missing person information clearinghouse manager for the division of criminal investigation. at this time i would ask her to come forward to provide some information related to missing persons in iowa. good morning, everyone. as kevin has mentioned i m the iowa missing persons information clearinghouse manager. today we would like to address some frequently asked questions we ve been receiving not only from the media but the general public as well. we would like to start with general statistic. yesterday, august 2 there were a total of 3 225 were listed as juveniles. majority of those are runaway situations. 26 of those individuals listed on the clearinghouse website are categorized as involuntary. those 26 cases date back as far as 1976 which confirms that abductions and involuntary disappearances are not common in our state. numbers have stayed steady over the years when it comes to missing persons, runaway youth and amber alerts. the clear house website was established in 1985 as a result of iowa legislation passed in iowa code 694. designed to disseminate information to keep the public informed on missing people from iowa. iowa is one of the few states that publishes all missing persons information. local law enforcement agencies from primary authority to address missing persons cases in the state of iowa. all entries into the national crime information center as well as investigations are handled by local police departments and sheriffs offices. they can seek assistance from state and federal law enforcement partners if needed. the clearinghouse keeps track of significant likely criminal cases occurring in our jurisdiction regardless of the time frame. people go missing for various reasons whether that be by choice, wandering away because of a disability, running away from home, stranger abduction or by someone that they know. we really hope that this clarifies some questions that the media and the public has had regarding missing persons and at this point i ll take any questions that you may have regarding missing persons in iowa. we plan to conduct another press conference now next tuesday. information about that press conference will be posted on the dps website and hope to have more information to provide to you next tuesday. at this time if you have any questions i ll be happy to address them. ted williams, fox news. it has been reported that a red shirt has been found and i was wondering can you shed any light on whether a red shirt has been found and whether there is any kind of a nexus between the red shirt that may have been found and mollie? and do you at this stage have any suspect? i don t have any information with me today on a red shirt being found. that s not to say there was one found or not found. i just don t have that information. as far as suspects go, we re still we continue to look at all possibilities. i m not in a position right now to say we have suspects or we don t have suspects, persons of interest or anything else. initially it was reported by your agency and others that she was wearing a black sports top, now this newer descriptions that you just referred that she was in a pink sports top. that may be confusing to the people or public. can you explain the discrepancy there? no, i don t. i can get back to you. even on the poster it says black sports top. i ll look into that and get back to you. as i mentioned previously we re not in a position to say who is a suspect, who isn t a suspect or that there are suspects. have you employed any divers to search ponds. we ve been doing searches in many different manners. i don t know if we re using divers. my assumption would be if you re searching ponds, we re using divers. people were out yesterday and going back. would it do any good for ask for the volunteers again and search new areas further away? i leave that up to the investigative team to determine what the priorities are for the investigation on any given day. they have the latitude. they have all of the information at their availability to make those decisions and we leave those decisions up to the investigative team. since you raised the reward amount have more tips been coming in? tips have been coming in regularly. the pace to which they re coming in i can t speak to since the reward amount has been upped. have you found any articles or clothing or physical evidence? that will be another area that i m not going to devil into delve into at this time. you have no suspects and no persons of interest, is that correct? no, what i regardless of what i just said or you interpreted i won t speak to the fact whether we have suspects, persons of interests or anything else. follow up. are you saying that you have no solid leads at this point? no, because i think all leads are valuable. how you define solid would be up for interpretation. at this point we view all leads as valuable. as they come in they re evaluated and prioritized and we re looking into everything at this point. do you think you re closer to solving this now than you were two weeks ago on the 19th. that would be a conclusion based on the investigation and i won t speak to that at this point. recovery or rescue? the day she was abducted or disappeared can you clarify [inaudible question] i m confident we have a solid timeline that they re working off of. at this point we aren t ready to disclose what the timeline is which is what your question is. since the reward fund was increased can you characterize the kind of tips that have come in? different kinds of tips? doing that as a reward or recovery fund produced anything significantly different than you were getting before? i really don t have the information with me right now to say that if any of the leads that were developed provided anything significant or not. leads are a good thing. as tips come in they generate leads. all leads are important and they re all being looked at. any kind of disturbance inside the home? anything unusual in the home? that s another area that would cause me to comment on the result of an investigative lead and i m not going to do that at this time. [inaudible question] no. as i ve mentioned previously as leads come in and information is evaluated, the investigative team responds to those and prioritizes those. i would expect those searches to continue whether they re from the air, on bodies of water or in fields, wherever those leads may take them. are you treating this as a stranger abduction? we re treating this as a missing persons investigation and trying to find mollie. that continues to be our focus is to find mollie. clarify the importance of every passing hour? it s frustrating for everybody. it is frustrating for the investigative team and us and particularly frustrating for the family and friends of mollie. obviously nobody wants to find mollie more than these folks right here and we re included in that group. it is very frustrating, but it hasn t slowed our efforts. we have not slowed down at all the investigative process and so we come to work every day with an attitude that we are going to find mollie today and we hope to be able to do that and report that to you soon. can you confirm there was foul play? i m not going to confirm anything at this point related to the results of a lead or try and draw conclusions about what the investigation shows at this time. [inaudible question]. i don t have that number. it would be in the hundreds. can you say how many police officers are working the case? i believe we reported previously. not just state police but investigators from the f.b.i. and division of criminal investigation there are on average 30 to 40 working this case a day. briefly explain how this information might compromise a lot of people think if you gave us more we could help you. it s part of our evaluation process, we consider that and so there are parts of any investigation that we hold very closely for good reason. so we are constantly evaluating that process as well as to what information we should release and what information we shouldn t. at this point we don t believe it s the appropriate time to do so. you know, it s a delicate balance with this information but we believe this is the right approach and we ll stay this approach. we recognize it is frustrating for everyone involved but we believe it gives us the best opportunity to resolve this investigation [inaudible question]. i couldn t hear your question. [inaudible question]. it s important because it continues to let us get to know mollie. particularly people who know mollie or have seen mollie or talked to mollie in the days leading up to her disappearance. if people have that type of information that we haven t talked to yet we would encourage them to call us. you know, as the sheriff said, if somebody thinks they ve seen mollie right away they need to call 911 or call local law enforcement to generate an immediate response to wherever that location is that the sighting occurred. information like you are talking about. people that may have known mollie to come forward and provide a piece of information can use the tip line to do that. if they believe they know the immediate whereabouts of mollie they need to call 911 or local law enforcement no matter where they may be in the country. can you confirm law enforcement searched a pig farm around the vicinity of brooklyn, iowa? and if you did, have you had to return to that pig farm? my final question is, have you had any of the suspect take a polygraph i can t speak to the specifics of that. i won t speak to what we have or have not asked any people to do in regards to this investigation. bill: interesting. the iowa department of public safety. a lot of probing questions, not a lot of answers at the moments. unfortunately we have not yet found molly, quote. sandra: they show up to work every day in hopes of finding her. they are frustrated. we re all frustrated. leads are a good thing. all leads are important. the investigation has not slowed down at all. tips from outside should be reported to local authorities. they are desperately continuing this search for mollie tibbetts. bill: as we look for clues and hints how they answer the questions sometimes it leads you in a certain direction or watching it where you are today. the questions repeatedly about suspects and side stepping the questions. it is a careful dodge. you really wonder what s going on inside the investigation. very little information gone public about the specifics of the case shared with family members. the next press conference tuesday of next week. sandra: there was absolutely bill: four days from now. sandra: no comment as far as suspects or persons of interest. her father is now speaking. he is desperately asking for all the leads. anybody who has possibly seen her to call in. bill: if the story changes we ll get you back there. in a minute, a booming economy across the country. unemployment 3.9%. we saw that number 18 years ago. watch me. 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[applause] sandra: president trump repeating his commitment to build that wall even if he needs to shut down the government to get the money for it. joining me now chris wallace. good morning to you. is this a good idea? what do you think about this? doubling down on this call. well, yes, but he didn t make it clear whether he is talking about a shutdown before or after the election. that s the key. the president it s been interesting to watch his stream of consciousness. he has been very open in the various arguments for and against this. he thinks one, it s a good issue and bring out the base. he also things that means doing it before the election around september 30th when the government would run out of money. and he also thinks that it will put more pressure on democrats because it will be a big issue and they will be asked about it. on the other hand there are an awful lot of the republicans he is not on the ballot in november. it s congressional republicans in senates and house on the ballot. they think it s a terrible idea. given the threats that he will be blamed and seen as the person who led to the shutdown of the government and generally speaking, in the polls you see that the american public does not like the idea of a shutdown and tends to blame the person they hold responsible for the shutdown. so there is a great nervousness on the part of republicans. not so upset about the idea of a shutdown after the mid-terms. maybe in a lame duck session but they don t want to see it before the mid-terms where they think it will create a backlash against them. sandra: he said a lot of great republicans are pointing to the strength of the economy and tout that and go off that for the mid-terms. he said he didn t want to complicate what voters are seeing ahead of the mid-terms. he said i understand it. i m a little torn myself. but clearly he still sees this, chris, as the winning strategy and last hour earlier in the show we had on the president of the national border patrol council brandon judd and he, too, supports a shutdown. listen. i would 100% support a shutdown. i m a federal employee. it will affect me and my family. but without border security we just don t have the safety and security. when i was a little kid growing up my parents had no problem letting me walk a mile away to go to the park. today parents just don t let that happen because they re too worried about crime in the united states. sandra: support there for sure. chris. well, i think to a certain degree and you are exactly right. the president has been kind of in a stream of consciousness way arguing both sides of it. the arguments that he feels that maybe before the election the arguments of a lot of his colleagues who would be on the ballot maybe after the election and perhaps he is trying to have a best of both worlds. raising the issue, getting his base excited and upset about the issue of border security and he is for closed borders and tough border security and claims the democrats are not. if he can have the argument without actually shutting down the government that would be the best of both worlds for him and for republicans. sandra: the president saying we re about to get really nasty over the wall. so we ll see where all this goes. chris wallace, we ll see you this weekend? let s make a date, yeah. sandra: fox news sunday chris wallace. he will have an exclusive interview with marco rubio and cody wilson, the director of the 3d gun blueprint company defense distributed. check this out. it has been in the news all week and everybody is watching this story. fox news sunday chris wallace. check your local listings for times. bill: north korea sending the possible remains of american soldiers to the u.s. this week and now we re learning more about what else could be in some of those cases and what they contain. dan springer is on the story. the long process of identifying the remains handed over by north korea last week has begun and there are some items that were mixed in with the bones of the fallen soldiers that can help in the investigation. the most obvious is one dog tag. it will be given to the two sons of that soldier next week. there has to be more testing done to determine if the remains of that soldier are also home. the boxes from north korea also contain two helmets, several canteens, dozens of buttons, boots, socks and a pair of fingerless gloves. all these items are solid evidence that they will be the remains of some of the 7600 u.s. servicemen killed during the korean war still listed as missing. it is just the beginning. the defense accounting agency will have a team of experts including historians and forensic anthropologists working an making positive identifications. it took 65 years to get the remains the north koreans did help during the handover. giving us ideas of where the remains are from. a basic village level location which does help us because we then tie that to our analysis of battlefield losses. that does help in our identification process. and dna is used to determine identity in 60% of the cases solved by the dpaa which last year solved 201 cases. bill: how long does the identification process take? the answers don t come quickly unless they can take that dog tag and make a match between that soldier s family dna sample on file and a piece of dna taken from the bones in the transfer cases. it could take around a month. for most of the remains it will take much longer even years in some cases. the science is amazing. they can determine a lot just from the examination of the bones such as height, which region of the world they re from and if they have a shoulder bone. they used to check for tuberculosis in the screening process so the service has a lot of that on file. sandra: torrential rain leaving a dam on the brink of collapse threatening to drown a u.s. city in minutes. more rain is on the way. we ll have the latest. bill: president trump hitting on a wide range of topics last night. our next guest says for the mid-terms republicans should focus on only one topic. more than 4 million americans will receive job training under our new workforce initiative. manufacturing, consumer and business confidence has reached the highest level in the history of our country. i would say that s pretty good. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. it quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. relieve heartburn with fast- acting, long-lasting gaviscon. we re respected again. we re respected again. our economy is soaring, our jobs are booming, factories are pouring back into our country. they re coming from all over the world. sandra: president trump last night at a rally in pennsylvania touting the economy. the labor department say employees added 157,000 jobs in july with the jobless rate dipping to 3.9%. our next guest has advice for republicans. run on the president s biggest accomplishment, the economy. this is daniel hoffman from the wall street journal. we noticed the drop in the unemployment rate, the fact it s the lowest it s been in nearly two decades. why don t republicans just stick to this message? because a lot of strategists exhort them to run on the entire trump agenda. let s set the scene. president trump is out at the campaign rallies for one reason. he wants to hold the house of representatives. if the house turns democratic the trump presidency turns into a pumpkin. the democrats need to pick up a net 23 seats to gain control of the house. there are between 20 and 25 republican seats that are on the bubble where they will win or lose by 2 or 3 points. if you re in a strong conservative seat and 20 points ahead you can run on anything. but these republicans who are in tight, tight races have to focus on simplicity and clarity. the idea of running on all these things the president talks about, shutting down the government, not shutting down the government. inviting vladimir putin come, not inviting vladimir putin. only donald trump can run on all that. sandra: that s what you write about your piece. the gop hall of mirrors, a message, run on his biggest victory. you write this, the reality during the obama years was people were losing hope. mr. obama s constant speeches about a job that pays the bills and a chance to get ahead were just speeches. we had less than 2% growth for eight years. people were losing hope. there was only one candidate who was able to translate this, i think, into words that people could relate to and that was the guy who said make america great again. look, you can say the phrase economic growth all you want, unemployment statistics but candidates have to relate a real economy to real people and what they have done in the last 18 months going from that lack of hope in the obama years to every article, every other article in the wall street journal tight labor market. teenagers being hired for good jobs is an extraordinary achievement. if i m a republican in a tough race i ll talk to people about that. and the alternative. sandra: he is threatening to shut down the government over the border wall and some great republicans are doing don t distract from the economic message as you are writing about it. something else you point out fascinating to think about as we sit in august 2018, dan. you look back to january 2013, 5 1/2 years ago, the unemployment rate was at 8%. for black americans nearly 14%. we have come a far way. black and hispanic unemployment now is at the lowest record recorded in the last 30 years. as the head of the federal reserve said pretty much everyone who wants to work now can find a job. that i think is what republicans have to hammer over and over again. you have got an economy that works for everybody. your children have jobs, the people you know have jobs, let s keep it that way. sandra: a lot of vacant jobs that can t find people and hearing a lot about closing the skills gap. dan henninger from the wall street journal. thanks. bill: president trump targeting bernie sanders last night in pennsylvania. president trump: you have to hand it to bernie, i saw him up there the other day, that hair is getting whiter and whiter and he is getting crazier and crazier. you have to hand it to that guy. he doesn t quit. bill: the president calling out liberal democrats and socialists as he promises to keep up the pressure on congress for the border wall. anthony scaramucci is live today. we ll talk to him coming up in moments. tion right now that press conference just wrapped up. no new information. these press conferences have become highly anticipated because outside of them police aren t answering any questions, questions from the media or people of the public. people gather around and get ready for the press conferences, maybe a break or a lead or arrest and then nothing. there is a growing sense of frustration and concern. people in the community saying perhaps you can give us a description of a suspect. perhaps you can point us in the right direction and we can help you. today police acknowledged the frustration say they feel that right now they re taking the right approach. constantly assessing whether they can release any new information to be public. that hasn t happened so far. one of the lead investigators explaining the latest on this investigation. it s frustrating for everybody. it s frustrating for the investigative team and us and particularly frustrating for the family and friends of mollie. so nobody wants to find mollie more than these folks right here. police say are taking in hundreds of tips a day. encouraging the sharing of information on social media but are warning people there are rumors out there. they say the investigation has not slowed down. as of this morning no arrests and no named suspects in the missing case of mollie tibbetts, bill. bill: thank you, matt. matt finn back on the case in iowa today. sandra: another big day in court as prosecutors in the paul manafort trial get ready to call their star witness. bill: a full-court press from the white house on russian election meddling. how u.s. intel officials are fighting the threat just about 95 days before the mid-terms. our focus here today is simply to tell the american people we acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing, and we re doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. add-on advantage. 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star witness rick gates to testify against his former business partner. peter doocy is live for us this morning. right now paul manafort s accountant is on the stand. this accountant is testifying that he once had to email man fort because he didn t know where a million dollars of income came. they say it was a loan disguised as income which would affect the return and make it illegal. the accountant also says he emailed paul manafort multiple times asking if he and his wife had any foreign accounts or income and he said they said no. they are saying he was hiding money from the irs and use as a fund to wire to luxury retailers. tax returns have been presented as evidence. on every one manafort checked he didn t have any foreign income and signed his name under penalty of perjury he was telling the truth. some of those returns from a few years ago do show manafort business taking losses which is consistent with what his bookkeeper testified yesterday. there was a time paul manafort started to have a difficulty paying bills. this is the fourth day of the manafort trial and the focus the whole time continues to be exclusively on allegations of financial crime. there is no talk about russian collusion or president trump even though the evidence against manafort was found by investigators charged with rooting out russian interference in the election. it is a very slow and deliberate process using a slide show of multiple years, dozens of lines of these tax returns and when the judge t.s. ellis thinks it s going too slowly, he does tell the mueller team to hurry it up. sandra: peter doocy, what a week it has been, thank you. russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. bill: detailing efforts to stop the meddling. the threat is ongoing. not as intense in 2016 but they re watching it. fox news contributor daniel hoffman with me now. good to see you again and good morning to you. what did you think of the message from the podium yesterday? i thought it was excellent. it was a very stark delivery of indications and warning to the american people. it is really important we understand what the threat is emanating from russia. we re under the kremlin siege. it is important that the government take steps and inform us about those steps to deter and defend us and then counter russia s aggression. bill: to counter you break it down in three components, right? deterrence, defend, and counter. what s that all about? on the deterrent side, that s about in my view the president delivering that stark warning to vladimir putin that if russia continues to meddle and interfere i prefer to use the word interfere in our elections we ll take action. this president is known for drawing a red line and following through as he did in syria. we re the aggrieved party and we need to demonstrate to the russians we re serious about taking action. bill: here is dan coats. he was in the room. play a clip. relative to what we have seen for the mid-term elections, it is not the kind of robust campaign that we assessed in 2016 election. we know that through decades russia has tried to use this propaganda and methods to sew discord in america. however, they stepped up their game big time in 2016. we have not seen that kind of robust effort from them so far. bill: why would that be? do you have an answer? first, that s really important information for us. i can tell you from my experience the intelligence community plays an important role in providing critical information about indications and warning of this threat to the consumers in our government starting with the department of homeland security who can then work with those at greatest risk, first the voting installations and then the party committees as well as social networking and media sites. the thing that i would say is the russians are mounting serious operations against us, maybe a little less than we saw in 2016 because it was a presidential election but it is still at a high level and great concern to us. bill: okay. putin loves this stuff, doesn t he? we re talking about russia all day long. turn on every tv channel, it s all about russia. to that extent, daniel, he has won. yeah, he has won. it is a little counterintuitive. when ambassador bolton says this attack on us was an act of war, vladimir putin likes that. it helps his regime security. as if he is at war with the west and everything we stand for, our liberty, freedom and democracy. i would say if we are at war we re supposed to bring down destruction on enemy combatants. i listened to the potential for countering russia s attacks on us at the point of attack inside russia. that s something we need to be thinking about it. might be reprovided a warning to the russians privately in our intelligence channels we plan on doing that. i hope we have the ability and intention to use it. bill: to be continued. thank you for your comments today. sandra: fox news alert there are protests along the israel/gaza border happening right now amid reports the two sides could be close to a cease-fire. that is where david lee miller is at this hour. sandra, it s about 6:35 in the evening. for the last two hours a massive demonstration has been taking place behind me along the israeli/gaza border. take a look at this hour and you can see the thick billowy black smoke that has been used to obscure the activities of some of the demonstrators. the israeli military is on the scene. on occasion they have fired in the last few hours live ammunition at some of the demonstrators. as many as 25 of the protestors have been wounded. some we re told by some of the live ammunition. we saw at least one kite that was flying overhead. these flights are insendary devices to try to set fire to israeli agricultural land and forest. they have caused millions of dollars in damage. in total since these demonstrations got underway at the end of march, at least 155 palestinians have been killed. in the last couple of weeks at least one israeli soldier was killed by sniper fire. all this unfolding while simultaneously in gaza now high-ranking leaders of hamas are meeting to try and come to some agreement being brokered with the help of the egyptians to try to end these weekly demonstrations that have been happening now since march following friday prayers for the last several months. so far no word on the progress of those talks. but if they do succeed, these regular demonstrations will come to a halt and in exchange israel might agree to open up the gaza strip allowing more products to come in and increase the flow of electricity. this is a negotiation that is still in progress and once again, on another friday, we see more violence along the israeli/gaza border. back to you. bill: president trump blasting a potential opponent in the 2020 election. so i don t know who i ll run against. bernie tells how wonderful things are. he wants to raise your taxes, he wants to create massive amounts of crime and wants to open your borders. bill: he is touting a possible stand off on government funding for the border wall. we ll talk to anthony scaramucci on the message. sandra: a massive dust store caused damage, black-outs and travel delays. we ll bring you there. dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you with my bladder leakage, the products i ve tried just didn t fit right. they were very saggy. it s getting in the way of our camping trips. but with new sizes, depend fit-flex is made for me. introducing more sizes for better comfort. new depend fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. oh yeah! he s gonna get mine but i m gonna get a new one! when it s time for your 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out bernie sanders and other democrats during his rally in pennsylvania last night. the president calling the democrats obstructionists. anthony scaramucci is former white house communications director. he joins us now. what were you thinking, anthony, as you were watching the president there? my dad s hometown. and he had the entire town turn out. that s him. that s what makes him him and why he will win reelection. he is off the cuff. very present in the conversations and doesn t want to let you know this, he is analyzing everybody on that field and looking for their weaknesses and he is going to surgically strike when necessary once he figures out who the competition is. sandra: he went further calling out bernie sanders and other potential opponents coming up. watch this. president trump: let s say i m running against pocahontas or crazy bernie. he wants to raise your taxes and create massive amounts of crime. he wants to open your borders. when he goes out and i say one thing african-american, hispanic, asian, you have the lowest level of unemployment in the history of our country. how does somebody fight that? sandra: he actually went as far as to be so funny to say maybe i should be against the wall. then democrats will be for it. i ve heard him say that privately. let me pick two or three things senator schumer likes and i ll say i m for them and they ll get stopped. he is cataloging who he thinks his adversaries are. because of his policies, because of the strengthening at the border, the minority unemployment situation has improved dramatically. you see wage growth and printing gdp numbers in the 4s. if you stay in the 3 1/2, 4 zone. it s not a forecast. i think it will be bumpy but the president s policies can sustain north of 3. a 3% gdp growth doubles the size of the economy in 18 years and resolves so many of our entitlement problems, social security and medicare issue. the president is focused on growth and evening out the employment situation as it relates to wages, pressing wages up in the lower and middle class families is going to lead him to sandra: the report this morning, some economists are using it as a reason to say missed expectations, jobs growth number wasn t as big as anticipated. that s why i m saying it is going ton everybody is trained as an economist knows it isn t a 45 upward. we have to be very careful on the trade stuff. i understand where the president wants to go and right on the macro. but let s figure out a way to work with our allies, get the tariffs to where he wants them. reduced tariffs on both sides and work alongside our chinese competitors, if you will, to see if we can growing all our economies together and make the numbers better. sandra: dan henninger wrote this big piece about republicans focus on the economy. president trump focus on the economy. your biggest victory, focus on that. we see the president focusing on his border wall. he is threatening to shut down the government ahead of mid-terms on that. do you agree with the president s strategy there? he says we re about to get really nasty over the wall. i think what he is frustrated? it works for him. he is super frustrated that he is calling for the wall. he has been calling for the wall as number one campaign promise. people want to strengthen the border. people flood across the border and participate in the welfare state in a way that it misall indicates the system. you will have a welfare state, which we do, you need a strong border otherwise free market forceers dictate that people will come across the border. i do believe, you have to give the president credit. tightening at the border has taken the slack out of the economic situation on the employment side for the african-american and hispanic american families. the guy has been resoundingly successful. he could probably dial back and be more strategic tweeting. dial back on i think he is now in a position where he has a tremendous amount of allies out there and media surrogates pushing his agenda. guys like bill shine will help him get the agenda out there more aggressively. let s play nicer with the press and we ll be in much better shape. the approval ratings should be north of 50. let s get a peace pipe out there and smoke it a little bit. tobacco smoke. we haven t made cannabis legal. i m not allowed to be on before greg gutfeld. he is writing down jokes now. i m calling my agent. sandra: good to have you. i hope you don t cross paths in the highway. get ready, bill. bill: harris and lisa a quick preview of outnumbered. one of my friends who stays ready so he doesn t have to get ready. that s what i know about bill hemmer. july jobs report is out today as you may know showing unemployment hovering around a 50-year low with upward revisions for jobs added in may and june, this as china is threatening more retaliation if the white house goes through with new proposed tariffs. whether the president can bend beijing to his will when it comes to trade. we ll talk about it. see about that and the president is not letting up on the media. he says fake news is the enemy and asks whatever happened to honest reporting? who is winning, who is losing? in the center seat a lucky guy for now, bill hemmer. bill: say hello to him. have a great weekend. she had a shocker of a primary. alexandria ocasio-cortez hitting the road spreading her socialist message in california. will it pay off? greg gutfeld has a few thoughts about his home state. ocasio-cortez riding the wave of a stunning victory over a long time democrat is in california this week. my next guest is greg gutfeld. how are you, sir? i m doing great. bill: we re hawking books for you, brother. you deserve it. you went to school in berkeley. you re from california. she is out there pitching for votes and trying to raise money. exactly. it s less about her and more about this disturbing message that how many people under 30 and 40 know so little about the legacy of socialism and the suffering it s caused. it is an interesting contrast. when you look at her, she is charming, young and has a future. what she is selling is the opposite. socialism is grim, it s old, and it offers you no tomorrow. even bernie is likable but the message he offers is not likable. what infuriates me more about california and new york city. they flourish because of liberals that got rich an capitalism. it got them to the point where they can put these horrible ideas on us. the inequality in california is insane. pelosi estate versus the tent cities. that s socialism. bill: i see what you did there. bernie is 70 something? he doesn t look a day over they are they seem fresh and innovative but their ideas are destructive and old. i guess you need a really good salesman to sell bad stuff. i don t i wouldn t mock her too much. she is going to get better. the more you mock somebody, the better they get. you learned with trump. bill: i don t think people realize you write all of your own stuff. every word. yes. bill: and i m told when you work out in the gym you carry a clipboard with you, because if you get an idea you write it down. i stand on the stair climber at the gym with this thing and i write all the ideas i have for the five for all the blocks and i write the monologue there and then i just keep writing because i hate exercising. bill: you are afraid of losing the idea once it leaves your mind and it is gone. nothing worse than having an idea, i have to remember that and it s gone and floating somewhere and you sit there. bill: you are aggravated because you can t bring it back. it driver s license drives me nuts. please stop you walking plank of repurposed wood. john kerry. it was the walking plank of wood that gave it away. bill: re purposed would. perino, she is so small she could float on a cheese it. i reverse them. like a gum drop is dana s medicine ball where as with the book is out. gutfeld monologues. i added new information. more new than old. a pleasure. scaramucci s hair, you could ride on that wave. bill: he saw you coming a mile away. he has a new poof going. bill: we ll see you this weekend. sandra: good to have greg. good news for the economy. the white house claiming an economic victory over the strong monthly jobs report. what do these numbers mean for the economy moving forward? we ll be right back. to have new jumbo snow crab with tender dungeness crab. or try crab lover s dream. but hurry in. cause crabfest will be gone in a snap. today s senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there s never been an easier way to get great advice. a place for mom is a free service that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. a place for mom. you know your family we know senior living. together we ll make the right 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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. that and $300 billion after that. basically the entire u.s. trade relationship with china. initially on the next tranche of $200 billion, the president was thinking about levying attacks of 10%. this afternoon we re going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25%. the belief here among his trading economic team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders. the president has made some head way the e.u. in terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the playing field. does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures? we d like to see the playing field levelled. the president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said repeatedly, we d like to see the unfair trade practices stop. until that happens, the president will hold their feet to the fire and put pressure on china and he s not going to allow american industries and american workers to be taken advantage of. so here s the calculation that the white house is making. the united states buys about $500 billion, maybe more than that of goods from china every year. china buys $130 billion of american goods. if it comes for a tit for tat war, the u.s. believes they can last longer. $130 billion on the chinese side versus $500 billion on the u.s. side, the calculation, shep, is that they have more bullets to fight a trade war than china does. shep? shepard: thanks, john. the white house echoed the president s false tweets claiming the dossier is the reason for the russian elements of it that are confirmed true. no part of it to fox news knowledge has been confirmed false. the special counsel, robert mueller, is a registered republican. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who appointed mueller is also a republican. attorney general jeff sessions who swore in rosenstein is also a republican. president trump, a republican appointed sessions. the dossier is 35 pages of research memos. christopher steele wrote it. he s a former british intelligence agent. a research firm called fusion gps compiled the memos. they allege conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russian government to help mr. trump win the election over hillary clinton. republicans supporting marco rubio hired the research firm. when mr. trump won the nomination, the group stopped funding the research and the clinton campaign took it over. in virginia outside d.c., it s day two of the criminal trial of the president s former campaign manager, paul manafort. it s the first trial resulting from robert mueller s investigation. today we learned the government s star witness may not testify. prosecutors are describing paul manafort as the mastermind behind a multimillion dollar scheme to evade taxing and banking laws. the judge said manafort s lavish lifestyle is not on trial. he blocked mueller s team from showing the jury pictures of a closet full of clothes. the prosecutor said manafort dropped $15,000 on a jacket made of ostrich skin. rick gates pleaded guilty in the mueller investigation and has been cooperating in the federal government in its investigation. he was expected to testify against his old boss but prosecutors say that may not happen. paul manafort faces more than a dozen charges including bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy. he s pleaded not guilty. these charged are connected to the rob lobbying he did in ukraine. president trump has repeatedly said there was no collusion. peter doocy is live at the courthouse. peter? shep, the photos the mueller team wanted to show today of paul manafort s $7,500 cashmere suit or $9,500 cream trousers were taken in the fbi raid. the court s seizing agent was on the stand. he testified that when agents showed up unannounced, they knocked, waiting 30 seconds and repeated that three times. nobody answered. at which point they used a key to get in. the fbi agent would not say where the key to manafort s condo came from. that account from the fbi does dispute earlier accounts there was no a no-knock raid because they say that they did knock but it had no impact. however under cross examination, the fbi agent said he s not surprised. nobody came to the door at 6:00 a.m. but what the special counsel is doing, demonstrating that they don t want to use a paper trail, computer files, paper files of transactions that were seized that show that manafort was spending a lot of money they allege from the hidden accounts from international wire transfers. they want jurors to see the actual physical high-dollar clothing that manafort was allegedly using this money for. the judge said that it might be prejudicial to present photos in addition to the transfers and he stress add again today like yesterday, it s not illegal to be really rich and throw money around, shep. shepard: why doesn t the judge want the mueller team to use the word oligarch in the trial? the judge thinks that oligarch has a pajorative meaning. so he thinks that if the mueller team will describe the people that manafort was doing business with in the ukraine as oligarchs, it might be prejudicial again. he said these are people that finance campaigns like the judge said the koch brothers as opposed to criminals. when the judge give instructions like that to the defense or mueller team, he asks the jury to leave the room so the six men and six women from virginia that decide his fate are not there to see the judge pushing back. shepard: peter doocy, thank you. dozens of troops killed in the korean war could be making the journey home. north korea agreed to return the documents the remains and we ll have the details coming up after this. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? you won t find relief here. go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray relieves 6 symptoms. claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more. new laptop with 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. save $200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. how it s done? 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shepard: dan springer, thanks. lawmakers apparently trying to send a message to president trump. congress can get things done. in the last hour, the senate wrapped up a frenzy of budget votes after the president threatened to shut down over spending. we ll give you details coming up on the fox news deck this wednesday afternoon. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven t worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts. so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you ve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, control is possible. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it s the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. shepard: president trump s threat to shut down the u.s. government over border wall funding may have lit a fire under congress. the evidence is, the senate passed a spending bill which has approved seven of 12 annual spending bills. the deadline to fund the entire government is october 1. chad pergram is with us now from there. the president is demanding exactly what, that the congress is not willing to give him? he s demanding funding for this border wall. in the 7 of 12 bills, none of which address the homeland security spending bill, which is where the wall money would reside. they passed 7 of 12. the president threatened in march to not approve another big bill like they did back then. the omnibus. what they re doing, taking a volkswagen approach here, the mini buses where they put a batch of three bills together. one group, legislative branch, the v.a. the bill they passed today, 98-6 with the department of energy and the interior department. agricultural spending. so what they re doing is doing the mini buses. they re not going to get to that homeland security bill until later. this is the gop message. we re going to work in august. we get the spending bills done. the problem is the president is tramping on their message which leaves chuck schumer very upset. we re working in a remarkably smooth bipartisan way. we hope that is a predent of things to come. we hope to work together and not let outside forces mess that up, not to mention any names. our immigration system is completely broken and he s begging and has been for can congress, particularly democrats, to step up and do their jobs, stop kicking the ball down the field and work with him to fix our system. it s that simple. again, this was the approach by senate republicans to work and try to pass some of these bills in good faith to show the president that they were passing these pieces of legislation and still he s stepping on their message. when the president talks about a government shut down, i remember talking to a republican congressman some years ago, the tactics of forcing a government shut down to get your way. trying to force a government shut down for political games is like trying to break dance around nitroglycerin. shepard: are republicans expressing concern about this talk of a government shut down? absolutely. i talked to richard shelby yesterday from alabama. he called the president s approach mind boggling. this would seem to affect house republicans more significantly. there s 40 plus open seats there. if you have a government shut down before the mid-terms, that s a problem. might not affect the senate as much because the field favors democrats over republicans. a lot of folks said we had a government shut down in 2013, 2014 in the mid-terms. we won the most seats in the house. we seized back control of the senate there. what is the problem? the difference is doing this before the mid-terms what in a government shut down happens just as they re trying to confirmed brett kavanaugh to the court? two ways you can read this. you have a shut down and they have stepped on the message again. maybe he s not confirmed by october 1. mitch mcconnell said that could drift into october and sets it back a couple weeks. they re playing with fire here with a potential government shut down, especially as it pertains to brett kavanaugh. shepard: chad, you re the man. thank you. coming up, the family of a missing college student molly tibbets speaking to fox news. we ll hear from her boyfriend and what he has to say about how he s been demonized since she s disappeared. flames on a plane never good. what started a fire on a packed passenger jet next. motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? 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you promise? you promise? you promise? i promise. shepard: today marks two weeks since college student molly tibbets went missing. her father speaking to fox news about his daughter and telling us about her life and things that he believes we should know. i ve been telling people, you know, the genius of molly was her ability to make everything about other people, to be generally honest and asking questions. maybe not talking aboutherself, that s what really endeared her to have everyone in the community. molly s boyfriend, dalton jack, also talked to fox ne. molly had been staying there at his home to wat the dogs when acco the stement. police the laste anydy saw her that we know of was during the run. dalton, the boyfriend, says his family is not worried about molly worried about him as well. i ve extremely worried about me and, you know, the way the public is, yow, demonized me a little bit. evybody is thinkingbo me after this is all over and she s back safe. shepard: we re focusing on her. po theave gotte more than 200 leads about where molly might be and the police have thanked the news media for their efforts to publicize this. hi, eric. molly tibbets is 20 years old and vanished near brooklyn, iowa. an hour east of des moines. a heart breaking story. a student at the university of iowa. last seen jogging at night. she lived at her boyfriend s house for the summer. she s an avid jogger and regularly ran 40 minutes a day. law enforcement ruled out anything by her boyfriend, dalton jacks. he was in dubuque at the time that molly was said to disappear. they were scheduled to be in the dominican republic. they were high school sweet hearts. his family says any suspicions about him are wrong. i don t want to go racking it through my brain thing what happened, what happened. just driving myself insane. i know everybody else around here is. you have to lead by example. i love you and i miss you and i want you to come home. it s heart breaking to go through what he and the family has been going through. shepard: tell us more about the search. the search is continuing and going on ever since she first vanished. friends and neighbors and others have gathered. they ve been going through corn fields and big farms. volunteers and the number has been growing. molly s family hoping for any information that can help bring her back. authorities say her disappearance and their words are not consistent with her past. everyone knows everyone. everyone talks to everyone. you can t do anything there without someone seeing it. so we need to get that person or persons to come forward with that information so we re getting the message out. the bottom line is, somebody knows something. who is that somebody? molly s father says no amount of information is too small that people should come forward to police. shepard: thanks, eric shawn. wild fire alert. crews are trying to get a handle on one of the most destructive fires in california history. the fire in the northern part of the state has destroyed 1,000 homes. it happened around the city of redding. it s forcing nearly 40,000 people to leave their homes. the fires killed at least six people so far and just one of more than a dozen big fires burning in california right now. the fox business network s hillary vaughn is live in redding. hillary? shepard, some of the 32,000 evacuees are waiting to get back in their neighborhoods. there s pockets of devastation that look like this behind me where the houses are completely levelled. you may see a chimney a door frame. everything else ash. homes are a shell of the home still exists. there may be valuables inside. cal fire posted signs to prevent residents sifting through what valuables may be left behind. there s some hunting trophies that sur 5ed the fire. there s some sets of tools. again, residents completely blocked from going inside. the culprit behind this devastation is the carr fire, the sixth most damaging fire in california history. i went to the fire line to get a look. here s what i saw i. what you see burning behind me is the carr fire. it s the sixth most destructive in california history. it s 35% con taped. it all started by a car breaking down on the side of the road. engine fire, setting up sparks and igniting what is called a monster. it s so erratic and volatile. firefighters are having a hard time beating back the flames. it s killed six people, including two firefighters and it s wiped out entire neighborhoods and whipped up a fire tornado that terrorized the community of redding. shepard, that smoke that you saw hit any face is the wind changing directions erratically. that s what s causing these firefighters a lot of challenges. overall, the state has spent $119 million just on fire suppression. not the cost of the two structures that has been lost. that s almost a quarter of the fire budget and we re a month into the budget. shepard? shepard: thanks, hillary. a priest on board a plane that crashed in mexico says the weather was so bad, he thought the pilot might call off the flight. that s what he told one of the producers on this program. the aero mexico flight crashed at take off during a storm of hail, rain and strong winds and every person on board survived. it happened in durango state, about 500 miles north and west of mexico city. the priest says he broke his arm but is okay and is calling the outcome a miracle. the governor there says all 99 passengers and four crew made it out alive. the pilot was seriously hurt. some images for you in the slide show this afternoon. the pictures are incredible. i was looking at this on my phone. like how in the world did everybody survive this thing? red cross workers here carrying somebody on a stretcher. airline workers are walking away from the burning wreckage. rescuers took dozens to the possible mostly with minor injuries. firefighters rushed to the scene. the plane crashed in a field near the airport. experts say they re not surprised everybody survived. they say airports are designed with fields around them in case something like this happened. it certainly looks like it broke in half and there s a fire. so i don t know. here s some passengers walking through that field to red cross workers that got to the scene quickly, we re told. analysts say companies are making planes with new improvements to make survival more likely. they ve made seats stronger and now use less flammable material. here s smoke billowing in the sky as passengers walked away. anita vogel with more. an amazing story. yeah. eye witnesses say they saw the plane dropping rapidly from the sky. you can imagine the panic all the way around. as you mentioned, weather reports indicated is severe scattered storms. the governor of durango says the plane was hit by a sudden gust of wind that caused a sudden descent. the wing hit the ground and two engines came off. the aircraft made an emergency landing. air 5 people suffered injuries. 49 people were taken to the hospital. there was fire and a lot of smoke, but people managed to get out anyway they could. i ll read one of the spanish translations here. a passenger said a hole opened behind us. i unbuckled my son s seat belt and got out that way. we jumped. the back was full of smoke and more people were trapped. that s an eye witness account from one passenger. apparently the pilot was the most seriously injured person requiring a surgery. even he is expected to recover. as far as the safety record of this airline, aero mexico, its last deadly accident was in 1981 when 32 people were killed when one of the planes crashed on landing. the president of the airline said the president was in perfect condition and had just had maintenance in february. even though it seems like weather was to blame here, mexican aviations said it will actually take months to know the exact cause of the crash. nonetheless though, shepard, a lot of very lucky people on board. back to you. shepard: a big change in healthcare could mean cheaper insurance for you. critics are warning you get what you pay for. the details coming up. 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everybody loves molly, nothing like this has ever happened. jillian: it is thursday, august 2nd, fox news alert. the brand-new clue and a break in the search for the missing iowa students. todd: the russia probe must end, the message from donald trump to his own attorney general. jillian: will he sit down with robert mueller? president obama endorsed a long list of 2020 contenders but there s one name noticeably missing. todd: fox and friends first continues right now. ain t no mountain high enough ain t no mountain low enough ain t no mountain high enough keeping me from getting to you rob: that is how it happened. that is something. a very good morning to you as you watch fox and friends first thursday morning. jillian: thanks for starting your day with us. let s start with a fox news alert, a break in the search for molly tibbetts. police looking into a reported sighting in missouri. heather: stop 200 miles from where the 20-year-old went missing in brooklyn, iowa. she was not found but police are reviewing video footage. jillian: she was seen two weeks ago at her boyfriends house, she spoke to fox news. i left for dubuque, iowa and i was staying there until friday. thursday we found out after we found out she was missing, my family, her family, friends, anybody, you don t lock your doors. todd: police have ruled him out as a suspect, a vigil held overnight. reward for information at $30,000. 500 mi. chart in the california wildfires. that is bigger than los angeles. the state of california spent a quarter of its annual fire budget before fire season even begins. more than 1000 homes destroyed in northern california. people in redding coming home to piles of burned trouble. three new fires erupting in the last 24 hours near yosemite national park. jillian: a judge delivers a helping hand to sanctuary cities amid the growing anti-ice todd: heading to his desk is a $717 billion defense bill that includes funding for military parade, 2.6% raise for our troops. the bill adds 16,000 active-duty members. the us on high alert as iran wants to carry out a military exercise in the next 48 hours. todd: the trump administration tightening its grip around iran. persistent protests, iran state answering economic conditions in the country and the us begins targeting more of iran s economy, restoring sanctions it once lifted as part of the iran nuclear agreement. hope that works out well. i hope it works out well. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. it s about delivering a more comfortable shave every time. invented in boston, made and sold around the world. order now at gilletteondemand.com. gillette. the best a man can get. todd: 13 after the hour. the family of brian terry one step closer to justice after extradition of the accused killer from mexico. but it doesn t stop there. what more needs to be done? brian terry s brother, thank you for being here. the latest developments in this case? i think the mexican government for capturing these individuals. todd: what was your reaction when you heard the news? i haven t heard anything in a while, kind of relieved, a bigger fight in dc. todd: what are they? one of those is the involvement in the previous administration. why not release, in the justice system. why has no one been held accountable in atf, who orchestrated this with eric holder. todd: referring to fast and furious, those who need a reminder explain fast and furious was sold 2000 weapons to smugglers. atf lost track of 1400 weapons connected to this program and two guns at your brother s murder scene were connected to fast and furious. why do you think it has taken so long to have any movement, the mexican government is seemingly moving along closer to fruition. our side of the border, a lot of politicians involved in this, in the justice department and they are involved in this. the reason they are hiding is they don t want names exposed. todd: from the previous administration to the current administration what would you like to see donald trump and his white house do? release documents unredacted, to reinvestigate agents that were involved in this because they are actively working. nobody has been fired like atf said they had. they are collecting the paycheck. and reinvestigate this whole case from beginning until now. todd: are you optimistic the president s border policies will prevent a similar situation like what happened to your brother from ever happening again? yes. open borders, 6 individuals come across the border armed by the previous administration walked across the board easily to rob, pillage, rape women, other druglords across this country. if we had a solid wall these guys could hesitate about coming across. todd: we say it every time we have you or a family member on to discuss your brother s case but thank you for your brother s service trying to defend our nation s borders and thank you for continuously sharing his story with us. thank you very much. jillian: 17 after the hour. from snow melting sidewalks to garbage robots, google smart city might sound good but some say the price tag on privacy is too high. security shifts, the tsa could end screenings at 100 airports, jackie ibanez here with big concerns nationwide. surance that won t replace the full value of your new car? 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no lead is too small to follow up on. what you have even in this investigation is law enforcement followed up on 200 or more leads. then they send a team to conduct an interview and when we look at possible sites, law enforcement will converge on that area and they will try to see if there is some way to identify the person who could be molly. jillian: footage from that possible sighting right now. todd: we are always focusing on the nuts and bolts of an investigation like this but there is a human element. we will have the father of molly and molly s boyfriend coming up on fox and friends live at 6:20 a.m. eastern. we had them on the show previously. this is a family going through an unspeakable time in their lives. jillian: real quick before we let you go. in your experience after this much time, do you get worried at this point as to the outcome? you get worried but you are also optimistic. we all remember eve elizabeth smart, she was missing for a long time, she came back alive, molly could still very well be alive and will hopefully come back. todd: thank you very much. two migrants busted after a man falsely claimed to be the father of a 17-year-old girl when crossing into the us. border patrol agents finding out she was 18 and the two were friends. they tried using a fake birth certificate as part of their scheme. officials say the man is from honduras. the woman could find herself in a catch-22. congresswoman maxine waters it with a watchdog complaint, she broke finance law when the democratic party gave her $35,000. and on waters s mailer, her dog she worked on those mailers. she was paid $750,000 in 2004. donald trump meeting with a group intercity pastors at the white house holding a roundtable discussion on prison reform. one pastor praised the president with these strong words. to be honest, this is going to be the most pro-black president we have had in our lifetimes. this president wants to prove something. another step in his administration, taking in order to make it easy for prisoners to reenter society and find work. take a look at this image. the driver, a cloud formation that is unusual. jillian: incredible. shep: going down jackson highway calling it an angel cloud. jillian: jana steen has the forecast, sometimes you see things like that and go wow. hopefully they pulled over before they took that picture. a beautiful picture. the current temperatures 77 in new york, beautiful picture, you can tweet me at janice dean, 58 in rapid city that make sure you do are not driving when you take the pictures. a lot of moisture moving in from the gulf of mexico. this has been the scenario the last couple weeks, potential for rain in the forecast up and down the east coast florida to maine through the weekend and from the rainy pattern across the east coast to no rain in sight for the west coast where they have wildfires continuing to burn, 88 large wildfires and elevated fire danger for parts of the northwest, california again today, not only dry conditions, heat, but gusty windss, not a lot of rain in the forecast. the areas that really need it, fires burning, moisture we need to see this time of year in california and the west. i would love to donate our brain to the west. if only i could. jillian: keep us posted. shep: 37 after the hour, sorry not sorry. that is not the bottom. a half apology from a connecticut lawmaker who took a need to the pledge of allegiance. she won her seat from melissa s lag and his live next to react. jillian: a rising socialist star not impressing everybody, carly shimkus with a major snub from former president barack obama. stay right there. at business? 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everyone thought it would be caller: ocasio-cortez. todd: massachusetts had an incident with road rage. accused of intentionally running her car into a vehicle because of trump bumper sticker was on it. the alleged victim said a woman began screaming at him calling him a racist before running her car into his. chloe right was arrested for that crime. she reportedly pleaded not guilty. we talked about the lack of civility in politics and i would say this is a glaring example. one said there you have it, trump derangement syndrome on steroids. i hope the person in the other car sues her, i would. amy also with this tweet saying this awful, nobody deserves this treatment. jillian: i can breathe and think. reporter: sound advice. todd: don t put your bumper sticker on your hood. thanks. going on on one with mike pence moment after the remains of us soldiers killed in the korean war. a sneak peek for the sit down. we have more than on fox and friends . hickam air force base a few miles over my shoulder, the remains of 55 us heroes who fought in the korean war and never came home were ushered home in flag containers. the vice president of the united states after he gave a powerful speech to military families. not just what is take to bring boys home and strategic implications of this moment. we saw this problems kept by north korea as evidence of the progress we are making and we remain hopeful that we will achieve the aim that worked for decades. a nuclear free korean peninsula that will bring the boys home. more of this interview not just on north korea but also china and a looming shutdown on the american economy and fox news channel, the only place you saw that lately, the vice president times in on all of that. todd: coming great back. 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the point of her having her right to do this i understand that it is her right. even though it has been next really offensive to others as she gets to neil, i decide to stand. i think the piece that put me over yesterday was when i heard her say that the town because we didn t agree with her, she has her first amendment right, some of the residents disagree with her and they were labeled as fascist and racist and that is wrong and that is part of what she said when she backtracked a little bit and we have that for you. i want to apologize for making it seem i thought all of had it was racist and fascist but there are strong veins of fascism, forced patriotism and racism running deep in had them. do you see any truth? can you understand why someone would say that? know. melissa is vindictive and if you don t agree with her she dismisses it. she doesn t think twice about going on social media labeling someone and calling people out. i think this is her way to dismiss those who disagreed with her. todd: one thing that is important to point out as a connecticut resident myself being a local news anchor in connecticut for five years, this is not the nutmeg state. this is a very isolated incident but a very democratic state but most of the democrats aren t this, this is beyond social liberalism, this is something entirely different. i don t think this is a republican democrat issue. she has been trying to turn it into that. this is a patriotic issue, something where we represent the town. you don t have to like the president, don t have to go by what he has to say but we are a nation and we should all be able to come together and have that level of respect. the outcry hasn t been one party or the other. it has been this is wrong. she is elected, she is paid to be there and do town business and she should be putting the town first. not a personal opinion. todd: would you like to send a message to your community and folks across the country who are involved in this? i was hesitant to come to the media because the attention has been negative for the town. i feel it needs to come to a end. the town of haddamn has great businesses, i had threats people would stop doing business there, visit our community. we have a great beautiful community, people in hadam are very welcoming. we can have a difference of opinion but we need to be respectful. i want the nation to know that is who we are. making the statement and doing what she did is not who we are. jillian: thank you for your time. i know it was difficult. i appreciate being here. todd: 54 after the hour. parents are hiring pros to help kids get better at video games and you won t believe how much they are shelling out. booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. . . - my family and i did a fundraiser walk in honor of my dad, get started today at customink.com. todd: time for the good, the bad and the ugly. first the good quick thinking officers working to get a bear out of a car. jefferson county sheriff s office using a rope to open a car door in colorado before the bear quickly runs off into the woods. the bear tearing the inside of the car to shreds but leaving behind a banana. jillian: next the bad. hiring to teach kid how to play video game fort knight winning the game big boost for children amongst online piers. the going rate up to 50 bucks an hour. todd: remember education and sports? finally the ugly, this isn t your typical police chief this could be many of us in years. coming in south carolina trying to stop this line slowly getting away on a motorized scooter. jillian: more important things though it is the big mac s 50th anniversary. happy anniversary to you big mac. this is exciting to me 50 years. todd: 50 seconds of us eating big macs and not talking. carley: there are people who eat big macs every single day. jillian: i was told religion is tearian one but looks like just a bun. a religion is tearian one is just a bun with pickles. [laughter] i will send you one, rob. rob is in greece right now and we are eating grease. how about that?