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There was a celebration that featured. Critics feared the event would devolve into a partisan rally. The president highlighted our countrys unique history and those who sacrificed. President trump today we come together as one nation with this very special salute to america. We celebrate our history, our people and the heroes who proudly defend our flag, the brave men and women of the United States military. [cheering and applause] as we gather this evening, in the joy of freedom we remember we all share an extraordinary heritage and part of one of the greatest stories ever told, the story of america. It is the chronicles of brave citizens who never give up on the dream of a better and brighter future. In 1963, reverend Martin Luther king junior stood here on these very steps and called on our nation to live out the true meaning of its creed, and let freedom ring for every citizen all across our land. It has willed our warriors up mountains, across mine fields, liberated continents, split the adam and brought tyrants and empires to their knees. Jon kevin corke is reporting live from the president ial mansion. Fair to say the president was happy with the way the salute to america event unfolded . Yes. And to be clear from the tweets to the reaction to his speech, the wet weather notwithstanding i think its fair to say the president was pleased with how the salute to america worked out yesterday. It was quite an event and something to see for danl people. Not everybody in the crowd was there for the event itself. A lot of folks wanted to see the fireworks. No matter for being in the Nations Capital yesterday it was memorable as the president paid tribute to those who forged history and those who preserve it and preserve the peace. President trump as long as we stay true to our course. As long as we remember our great history. As long as we never, ever stop fighting for a better future, then there will be nothing that america cannot do. [cheering and applause] a rousing reaction to the president s comments yesterday. Aside from the music and speeches and salutes to the heroes here and in the past there were a number of flyovers, jon. Mostly of military aircraft which really seemed to thrill the crowd despite all the heat and humidity and rain. It was a lot of fun to watch those fly over. The evening culminated with an incredible fireworks display dampened by intermittent rainshowers but not enough to dampen the spirits of those along the mall and those watching all around the Nations Capital. It was quite a scene here in washington, jon. Jon the president may have been happy with it. There are a lot of protests over this event, right . Right on the money. Protests are common at the white house. We see them every day in some variety or another. Yesterday they took a bit of a dangerous turn for a while. At least one demonstration got so out of hand that protestors burned an American Flag only to be confronted by other americans. That led to a bit of a dust up between competing groups. It resulted in an injury to at least one secret service officer. A couple of people were arrested following that incident but that is something we have come to expect here in the Nations Capital from time to time. Although you dont usually see it get so out of hand on pennsylvania avenue. Democratic president ial candidates were critical of this particular event by the president saying he was trying to make the holiday all about himself. If you listen to the comments in the speech, it looked like he steered clear mostly of all that. Jon, back to you. We expect to hear from the president as he makes his way to new jersey. If he says something on the south lawn i promise to pass it along. Now back to you. Jon well expect him up here in our neighborhood, kevin corke. Thank you. Alicia for more on this lets bring in byron york from the Washington Examiner and fox news contributor. Thank you so much for joining us. Good morning. Good to be here. Alicia good morning. A whole lot of worry, a lot of criticism before the thing started. The president stuck to the script. Has there ever been a bigger contrast between the commentary and predictions before an event and then the event itself . Before the event, we had some of the president s opponents saying that it would be a dangerous mill tarization of the fourth of july ordaining rouse politicalization of the fourth of july. One said he saw signs of another Tiananmen Square when the chinese killed a lot of people. Others prayed for rain to ruin the event. When the event actually happened, it was really unremarkable. The president paid tribute to the u. S. Military services, each branch of the services, and paid tribute to lots of other americans and basically steered clear of politics. Alicia five different flyovers from all the different branches of the military. There was rain. As we know it didnt ruin anything. However, there are a lot of democrats running for president and they had a lot to say. A lot of criticism. This all happened prior to the event. Take a listen. Donald trump i believe is incapable of celebrating what makes america great. I dont think he gets it. Not about my brothers and sisters who lost their lives in service to this country. He is having a praise for himself putting tanks out there for himself. I think we need money to go into rebuilding our infrastructure. I am not sure we need to put tanks in downtown washington, d. C. Alicia i want to put up something on the screen here. This is from Washington Post headline marc thaoesen made his opponents look small. You wouldnt expect any democratic hopefuls to praise the president. You heard a couple of references to tanks in washington which raised a lot of concerns before the event that the president was going to have tanks rolling down the street and perhaps declare martial law or something. If fact, there have been tanks at a number of ceremonies in washington, d. C. In the past. In 1957, 1961, 1991 for various occasions not just the gulf war victory parade but for inaugurations as well. It wasnt as unusual as some of the critics said. And i think in the end the tanks didnt play a very big role in the whole thing. As you mentioned, the real star of the show were those flyovers, especially the Stealth Bomber flyover which seemed to get a lot of admirers. Alicia does the president need to answer for any of these concerns that were brought up, National Parks picking up part of the tab. Anything like that . Does he need to respond to any of that . Well, a president usually takes care of his donors. There is no doubt about that. But in terms of why spend public money for a celebration like this . Im sure the president s supporters would say it was good thing. The government spends money for all sorts of things and critics, you heard Bernie Sanders say its a waste of money. The president could perhaps solicit private donations for part of this. He could actually address these concerns. He did before by saying the participants in the parade are a lot of people who already work for the u. S. Government. But it did cost a lot of money. There is no doubt he could try to raise some money to pay for those costs. Alicia were hoping to hear from the president a little later in the hour as he heads to new jersey. I imagine he might bring this up as well. Things seemed to go pretty well. Byron york, thank you so much. I just saw the chair rocking and i was like whats going on . I was like did i just was that an earthquake . I texted my husband and i was like i just saw my chair rocking. He said yeah, there is an earthquake. Jon the strongest earthquake in 20 years rattleling Southern California on the fourth of july holiday. Leaving several people injured. Two homes caught fire as a result. Store shelves were left in disarray. The 6. 2 quake hit a remote area in the desert 150 miles northeast of los angeles but felt as far away as las vegas and sacramento. Jeff paul is near the epicenter of that quake. Many of the folks who live in ridge crest are still rattled but thankful damage from this powerful quake wasnt more widespread. Unfortunately the man who owns this home one of just a handful of folks impacted directly by this magnitude 6. 4 earthquake. His house now boarded up after it caught fire shortly after this area started to shake. This is some video that shows that moment as flames got out of control. The owner says he was out getting a cup of tea when the earthquake started. He returned home and found broken windows. When he checked on his classic cars in his garage and he opened the door to a fire. What a fourth of july. I quickly forgot what it was together. A bad day when both an earthquake and a house fire that destroyed the house. Fire Officials Say there were other fires, ruptured gas lines and reports of some mobile homes damaged and knocked off their foundation. So far only reports of minor injuries but some patients at a local hospital were evacuated as a precaution after the structure showed signs of damage. The concern now is what could happen next. Some reports indicate close to 200 aftershocks have happened since that earthquake started yesterday local time at 10 33. Officials are warning to expect more in the coming days. Jon what about this morning . Any aftershocks . Throughout the night as we tried to sleep in our hotel you could feel a few. Got you off balance you felt it. You didnt know what would happen next. As we were setting up the shot for the day there was a magnitude 5. 4 earthquake that rattled off, knocked down a few stands out here as we got ready to go on air. Thats a big part of the reason why local officials tell us they wanted to have that state of emergency declared. The governor approved it here in the state of california. Jon it looked like your victim lost some of the classic cars in the fire, huh . Yeah, unfortunately he believes theyre a total loss. He somehow still had some pretty good spirits about him as you heard him in that sound bite able to somehow make a joke about it but thankful he is okay. Most people are okay. Jon jeff paul, thank you. Alicia with his once commanding lead in the polls slipping joe biden sounds off on the future of the Democratic Party and whether it can survive a struggle between moderates and a rising voices of progressives like ocasiocortez. The fourth of july holiday marred by violence in chicago. Alicia President Trump reportedly considering executive action to put a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census after the Supreme Court blocked it last week. President trump youre not allowed to ask, you dont knock on doors of houses and check houses, you go through all this detail and not allowed to ask whether or not somebody is a citizen . Bookers are booking getaway deals starting from 15 percent off so their tacos are 15 percent tastier theyre scooting 15 percent smoother and their kids love them 15 percent more with getaway deals with at least 15 percent off, you can be a booker at booking. Com jon there is tragedy in South Carolina over the july fourth holiday. One man was killed and as many as a dozen others injured when lightning hit a tree at a popular Gathering Spot at a river back near the black river. A witness saying the group was boating and stopped for a cookout when lightning struck. Alicia President Trump reportedly considering an executive order as he doubles down on his push for a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census following last weeks Supreme Court ruling. He tweeted yesterday so important for our country that the very simple and basic are you a citizen of the United States question be allowed to be asked in a 2020 census. Department of commerce and the department of justice are working very hard on this even on the fourth of july. Lets bring in steven mulroy, former federal prosecutor, law professor at the university of memphis and an author. Mr. Mulroy, thank you very much for being here. Really appreciate it. Before we get started i would like to put up a quote from a former federal judge on this idea of executive action and we can discuss. He says he told axios if the president of the United States were to issue an executive order supported by his full article 2 powers directing the Citizenship Question be included in the 2020 census i believe the Supreme Court would affirm the constitutional power of the president to include the Citizenship Question. What do you think about that . Well, one problem that i and a lot of other election law people have with that is that the census is actually mentioned in article 1 of the constitution which talks about the powers of congress. In fact, the exact language gives the power of regulating the census to congress. It shall be done in such manner as congress by law shall direct. There already are congressional statutes on the books governing the census process. It seems a pretty hard stretch to say the president would be able to invoke his article 2 executive powers and simply ignore and bypass those congressional statutes. I think an executive order going in a different direction on the census at the last minute would not be viewed favorably by the courts. Alicia how would that look . Another lawsuit that would delay everything . Its already in the works. The printing has begun. Youre exactly right. Were up against the clock here. So if the president were to issue that kind of executive order it would be immediately challenged, possibly in the same census case that the Supreme Court just dealt with. It would go right back into the lower courts on that with probably expedited review. But the time is not on the administrations side here. They would need to get the courts to bless this addition of the census Citizenship Question within the next couple of months because the administration has already said that the forms had to be printing in the process of being printed right now this month, july 1st. They might be able to extend that by a few months but after that there is a drop dead deadline and they need to start printing the forms. The census is supposed to take place in april. Alicia one of the sources they talked to pointed out a lot of this could be about politics. Frees up the president if he is able to put the blame on the Supreme Court rather than his own office. I read that and that may very well be a political consideration on the part of the administration to be able to say to its base look, we tried, we did everything possible, we pushed it right up to the limit but that darn pesky Supreme Court Justice Roberts wouldnt let us do the right thing. It may make sense from a political perspective. It doesnt hold a lot of sway in terms of a straight legal analysis. Alicia since were talking about the politics of it. Mayor Pete Buttigieg had this to say. Take a lins. This is the time when we should be as welcoming as possible. The Citizenship Question is motivated biracial and partisan reasons. It has no business in something that is supposed to be neutral like the census but so important for the way resources are shared and the way democracy is enacted in our country. Alicia im running out of time, this does come down to politics. So mayor buttigieg is correct the political stakes are great here. A lot riding on the census and what results we get. Ill mention quickly his notion that there was racial or political motivations behind this isnt entirely unsupported. There was some latebreaking evidence from a key redistricting consultant that suggested that those kinds of political motivations really the true motivation behind adding that Citizenship Question. Alicia i understand. Thank you so much steve mulroy. Thank you. Jon a massive fire at a jim beam warehouse stretching into its third day now. 45,000 barrels of bourbon already destroyed. And now firefighters face a new danger. Alicia plus joe biden in a new interview suggesting he plans to take the high road as more liberal candidates chip away at his lead in the polls. Is bidens frontrunner status in jeopardy or will his moderate position stand out in a field of far left democrats . Our Political Panel weighs in next. Try new pepto liquicaps for fast relief and ultracoating. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea get powerful relief with new pepto bismol liquicaps. Priceline will partner with even more vegas hotels to turn their unsold rooms into amazing deals. Delegates, how do you vote . cheering yes, yyyyes, yes. That is freaky. applause i want it that way. I cant believe it. That karl brought his karaoke machine . Aint nothing but a heartache. No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. I never wanna hear you say. No, kevin. No, kevin believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Alicia crews fighting a fire at a jim beam warehouse in kentucky let it burn for a Third Straight day in order to burn up some of the bourbon and keep it from polluting the water supply. The building went up in flames tuesday. No word on what started it. I point out who i am, who he is. This guy is divider in chief and acting with racist policies. This guy is moving to formeant hate. The only way he can sustain himself. It worries me in the sense im looking forward to this, man. You walk behind me in a debate, come here, man. Jon joe biden stepping up attacks on trump as his lead diminishes in post debate polling. The former Vice President is facing pressure to embrace an increasingly liberal agenda in the Democratic Party. Lauren claffey joins us. Thank you for being part of our Political Panel this morning. Zach, it already seems that joe biden has embraced more liberal positions. He always supported the Hyde Amendment for instance, which restricts federal funding for abortion. Now he says he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment. Is joe biden becoming more liberal as a result of the his fellow candidates . I do think the base is definitely moved far to the left since the 2008 election. Think the Vice President has a clear lane. Over half of democratic primary voters are conservative or moderate. I will say this election will be won through the industrial midwest. States he does very well in. If he maintains that lane of the center left he does have a pretty strong chance to pull through in this election. Jon you are suggesting that his banking to the left if thats what you want to call it is still keeping him in the middle of the democratic field . I think overall his positions really are in the middle of the democratic field. He has not embraced some of the more liberal positions on healthcare or even on some of the Income Redistribution proposals proposed by some of his colleagues. He has had a more traditional approach on healthcare and wages that play pretty well in a number of early contests and general election. Jon lauren, if thats the case why do his numbers seem to be shrinking in the polls . Joe biden is doubling down on this general Election Strategy because he is center left he will be the best one to win the general election. The problem is he is ignoring the fact he has to get through a primary right now. What he is good at and where his base of support is with africanamericans and also blue collar democratic voters that are on the more moderate realm. The problem is all the primary voters for the most part he is great with people over 50 in those two blocks but he is not great with younger voters. Younger voters are highly energized and very active in the primary now and split among the other democratic forerunners. So as people become more aware of the alternatives to joe biden, he came in with great name i. D. And lots of Fuzzy Feelings because of his role in the Obama Administration at Vice President. But as people get to know what the other alternatives are they look at them and think joe biden is great but here is somebody over here i think i might like a little better. Theyre doing a pro con list with him and theyre looking the other way. Jon lauren, the most recent fox news polling suggested that were it a twoman race donald trump versus joe biden, that biden would win. Do you think that he is the biggest threat to the sitting president . I think its too early to tell. I think part of that is because of name i. D. And part is because people are trying to figure out where they stand on President Trump at the given moment. When you look at the averages of the polling thats not necessarily the case in every instance. Jon listen to how joe biden handles the suggestion that maybe he should embrace more liberal positions. Here he is talking about congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. I think ocasiocortez is a brilliant, bright woman but she that general election fight, who won . Mainstream democrats very progressive on social issues and very strong on education, healthcare. Look, center left is where i am. Where its not is way left. Now look, thats what we can find out. Jon how did he handle that answer . I think he is right. I think what plays in brooklyn doesnt necessarily play in philly or michigan or other locations key to the general election. Jon all right, lauren . He is doubling down on the moderate thing. He has to win iowa and South Carolina. Were still way out from the first election. He will double down on the one to beat President Trump and hope it carries him through the primary. Jon lauren and zach, thank you for being our Political Panel this morning. Alicia how wall street is reacting this morning to a strong june jobs report just out showing the economy added 224,000 jobs last month. Jon plus chicagos july 4th celebration turns to chaos as deadly violence rocks the city on the Holiday Weekend. What can be done to stop all this bloodshed . Tush and book Amazing Things to do, wherever youre headed. Including hidden gems that can really make your trip one of a kind, so you can enjoy the best of the bestkept secrets. Hoo book things to do, on tripadvisor. Jon wall street is back open for business now after a stronger than expected jobs report. Still the numbers are down about 100 points right now. 224,000 jobs added in june. That was a bigger number than expected. Unemployment edging up, though, to 3. 7 . It is still close to a 50year low. Edward lawrence, live at the white house with more. Edward. A very big number but it shows the economy remains strong. That number the Unemployment Rate 3. 7 did kick up but due to a good reason. Because the size of the workforce increased. More people coming in off the sidelines looking for work. The economy averaged about 173,000 jobs per month over the past year. Now, here is where the jobs are. In construction, they created about 21,000 jobs. Manufacturing jobs are up related to that. The private Service Providing created 154,000, including professional Services Like architects, computer Design Services and scientific research. Weaker than the speed of the job growth from last year but still very, very strong. Anyone who wants to find a job could find a job in this economy. Now, other key number the Federal Reserve is watching is that one right there, 3. 1 . Thats how much wages are going up over the past year. That number is small enough where there is no or little inflation pressures going forward. The stuff you buy wont be more expensive. The Federal Reserve would like to say inflation at 2 . It is coming in under that. Signaling more pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut rates at the end of the month. That number again is low enough to where there are not that inflation pressures and the stuff we all buy is not getting more expensive. Jon thank you. Our first goal of the weekend is the safety of our family and residents. Thats why over the next few days well be all hands on deck. As you might imagine, we talked about before, weve been preparing for these fourth of july festivities for some time. That was chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has the city is on edge this july 4th weekend. Four People Killed, 33 others injured in shootings across chicago since the start of the holiday. Also this, a fight breaking out at the fourth of July Fireworks show last night. Three people were stabbed and more than a dozen others injured in a stampede. Steve rogers is a former member of the f. B. I. Joint Terrorism Task force and retired detective for the new Jersey Police department. Really appreciate it. Whats going on . Chicago . Forever weve been talking about the violence in chicago. There are is multifaceted support to solve the problem. The courts have to get tough. Some are repeat offenders and need to be put away for a long time. Secondly saturation policing. Directed patrols. You have to saturate the areas where the violence is. You have to give the police the tools they need to do their job. Alicia Holiday Weekends we see a lot of activity in a lot of different cities. Chicago in particular seems to have been pretty tough. Just this weekend lets look at some numbers, chicago july 4th weekend violence here. We have 33 people shot at least 4 killed. Last year it was 7 people were wounded in multiple shootings across the city. 2017, 101 people shot. So the numbers fluctuate a bit but still shows a scary trend when you are talking about a Holiday Weekend in chicago. It sure does. Compare that to the city of new york. Relatively safe. No violence here like you have in chicago because the policing methodology here are quite different. The difference is what i articulated earlier. The saturation of police in areas that there would be a propensity for high crime. The courts have ruled against issues like stop and frisk in chicago. There is something not right with a person in the spot. Years ago you could ask questions. You cant do that today. You know what . The result is what were seeing happen in chicago. Alicia is there a political will to fix this . I dont believe so. If there was it would have been fixed a long time ago. I believe the people are going to have to cry out and get their politicians to do whats right to protect them or get them out of office. It is all about leadership. You get tough leaders like you do in some cities around the country youll have safe neighborhoods. Alicia the Chicago Police department will point to the numbers im going to show you. For them its improved news. The first half of 2019 murders, 238 since the beginning of the year, down 7 from the same period last year and shooting incidents theyve had 980 since january, down 11 . But is it just me or does it still seem like those numbers are high . If you lived in a neighborhood where you had hundreds of shootings. Those numbers are very high. The fact of the matter is to solve the problem you need that multifaceted approach. The judges need to send bad people to prison for a long time. You need the Police Presence heavily in areas for at least a year in these areas where there is violence and give the police the tools they need to do their job. The cops do a great job but they need the leadership to tell them to go out and do what you must do at all costs. Do what you must do to keep the people safe. Alicia Chicago Police are in a spotlight quite a bit. Not always for the right reasons. Right now a tremendous amount of criticism about Law Enforcement and the Jussie Smollett case. Do they have the capacity to handle this . That has nothing to do with the street cops. Those are the foot soldiers out there. This was a prosecutor that went awrier. This is politics. It is all politics. The cops out on the street in chicago are probably some of the best in the country. I feel for them. I know they want to protect the people. When you have political interference like that look what happens. They are not tarnishing the badge, theyre honoring the badge. Alicia thank you so much for your time. Really appreciate. Serena williams winning her second round match of wilmington and Meghan Markel was there. She threw her a baby shower before the birth of her son, archie. Archie has a big event coming up tomorrow. His christening at windsor castle. Serena cant make it because shell be working. There is some speculation out there that serena might be one of the god parents for archie. So if she cant make the ceremony, i dont know. Alicia i dont know about that. They have to be able to connect, right jon i would think so you have to be there if you are a royal god parent. Well see. Alicia dramatic video as a Fireworks Store goes up in flames. Witnesses getting an unexpected fireworks show. Well show you what happened next. Jon wow. Plus President Trump urging more Young Americans to enlist in the armed forces. Might the military see a recruiting boost thanks to the president . Well talk to marine veteran Johnny Joey Jones coming up. President trump Young Americans across our country, now is your chance to join our military and make a truly great statement in life, and you should do it. Pay for what i need. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. The sleep number 360 smart bed. It senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. The queen sleep number 360 c4 smart bed, now 1299. Plus, free premium delivery when you add a base. Ends sunday. Alicia Christopher Klein was among seven People Killed in a Helicopter Crash yesterday in the bahamas. The aircraft went down shortly after taking off from grand kaye island. Klein died one day before his 61th birthday founded Foresight Energy of st. Louis, a big coal company. The governor of West Virginia tweeted we lost a superstar and close friend. Our families go back to the beginning of the cline empire. He built an empire and always there to give. What a wonderful loving and giving man. The cause of the crash is still unknown. President trump today just as it did 243 years ago, the future of American Freedom rests on the shoulders of men and women willing to defend it. To Young Americans across our country, now is your chance to join our military and make a truly great statement in life and you should do it. Jon thats President Trump celebrating his military history and urging more Young Americans to enlist. Here to talk about what the president had to say former bomb technician in the u. S. Marine corps Johnny Joey Jones. Thank you for being with us today. You heard the president s speech. What do you think about his call for enlistment among young people . I think overall the speech and celebration yesterday was really beautiful. It probably went above and beyond most expectations and did a great job celebrating our militarys history. For one, you dont have independence without a military. Likewise you dont have a military without fighting for independence. Anyone who says military shouldnt be part of an independence celebration they dont understand the impact a standing con described army has in our history when it comes to independence. When you take someone out to dinner and want to put it on your company card you talk about business right before you leave. By President Trump putting in there joining the military he justifies the military spending for that day. I think it would be clever in that sense. I do give him props for that. Jon you arent one of those complaining about the expense of the parade and Everything Else that included the president s speech yesterday. Listen, President Trump got the cost of the f35, the billion dollar plane down by 25 . Unless they spent 250 million yesterday i think he can throw a party to celebrate our country and independence and im okay with it. Jon lets look at the armys recruiting numbers. They had a goal of 76,500 new recruits. They got about 70,000. When you compare that to the other services, the army is the only one that didnt meet numbers. The navy in 2018 reached 100 of its numbers, marine corps, which you are partial to, of course, also did and air force came in at 103 of its stated goal. Generally the country is doing pretty well when it comes to matching recruits to the services, would you say . We are. It wasnt that long ago we were turning people away. It wasnt that long before that we were letting everyone who wanted to join in. It is a sliding scale. A constantly moving target. Depends whats going on economically in the country and whats going on with our military overseas. When were actively fighting a war people not unlike myself are running to the recruiters office trying to be part of it. If were actively fighting were growing our numbers which means we want everyone we can get. The standards get a little more lax. You find jobs for people. When you make your numbers smaller and the war and headlines arent reflecting the military all the time people arent as eager. When the economy is booming there are other opportunities. One thing i will tell you at least in the last 20 years the perspective has gone from the military is your last chance to a competitive market where you have to come in not having a bad record, not having not being overweight and things like that. You have to compete against others. Thats a great thing. I think that the army numbers will be your biggest numbers, half a million size force, the marine corps 170,000. Easier for the marine corps to make a much smaller number. As far as comparing the services it would make sense the army is the only one who didnt meet their numbers. As far as all that goes the department of defense, military, social narrative is it becomes a life long commitment to one another now. Not the case until this war. More people are laong at it as an option and weighing it with Everything Else. Jon the president is fighting against himself in a sense. He has this great booming American Economy on the one hand. A lot of jobs out there. You cant walk into a business without seeing a help wanted sign these days. But at the same time he is also encouraging young people to consider the military. Its a bit of a quandary there . Absolutely but as someone who fought both in iraq and afghanistan and served in the marine corps for eight years i want enlisting in the military to be a competitive process. I dont want what society cast out or left aside. Those people have a place to redeem themselves but i want people to have talents and skills to look at the military as a viable option as an officer or to come to grow up and mature. I want people to come to the military that want to be there and willing to work for it. If it means the military has to go out and work for them im okay with that, too. Every dollar spent on that parade yesterday, as long as it is being used for recruitment in some way i like that. It means were trying to attract the right people. Jon we know you sacrificed tremendously for your country as a Marine Recruit and we want to thank you very much for your service. Thanks for being with us this morning. Johnny joey jones. Alicia you may have seen this video which has gone viral. A woman opens a carton of blue bell ice cream. Licks it and puts it back. Why this stunt could land her behind bars for decades. Plus as venezuela marks its Independence Day Opposition Leader gado calls for action. The latest on the political conflict there next. With tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. Fixodent ultramax hold gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. So now you can eat tough food without worry. Fixodent and forget it. Jon now to the growing crisis in venezuela. Opposition leader juan guaido is calling protestors to the streets demanding an end to the deadly violence thats rocked that socialist country. This as the u. N. Is set to release a report on the human rights situation there. Phil keating has the latest live from miami. Phil. 208 years ago venezuela liberated itself from spanish rule and their Independence Day today. Activists are planning to try to liberate themselves from the regime of nicolas maduro. Big protests are planned on the streets throughout the day. In switzerland the United Nations Human Rights Council is expected to release the current rights in venezuela. It cites witnesses who accuse his special armed forces as operating as death squads, framing crime scenes and killing opposition targets. U. N. Investigators his special Action Forces killed more than 5,000 people in 2018 and another 1500 by mid may of this year. They term it operations for the liberation of the people. A report notes attacks against actual or perceived political opponents and human rights defenders ranging from threats and smear campaigns to arbitrary detentions, torture and ill treatment, Sexual Violence and killings. Excessive illegal force has been used against protestors. Opposition leader juan guaido, recognized as the true president by the u. S. And 50 other countries is calling for massive street demonstrations today in another push to force maduro to step aside, which for many months now, he has refused to do. A u. N. Human rights assessment back in march found that 7 million venezuelans need humanitarian assistance. Thats a quarter of the countrys population. Jon unbelievable whats happened to that very rich country. Thanks very much, phil keating. Alicia a woman caught on video in an east Texas Walmart licking a tub of ice cream and putting it back on the shelf. She could face up to 20 years in prison for felony tampering. The viral video racked up 11 million views. Authorities believe theyve identified the suspect and expected to issue a warrant for her arrest. If my kids did that i would send them to their room, take away their phone. I dont think prison. Jon this is one of those situations in my view. What she did was awful and she ought to do Community Service for the next five years. Going to jail for Something Like that alicia no ice cream, either. Jon thanks very much. Iran saying it will take the next step in uranium enrichment and vows to do it soon. How the International Community is reacting. Plus new developments in the murder of a utah College Students. The suspects family raising concerns about the legal process. [inaudible] dealing with Psoriatic Arthritis pain was so frustrating. My skin. It was embarrassing. My joints. They hurt. The pain and swelling. The tenderness. The psoriasis. I had to find something that worked on all of this. I found cosentyx. Now, watch me. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are getting real relief with cosentyx. Its a different kind of targeted biologic. Cosentyx treats more than just the joint pain of Psoriatic Arthritis. It even helps stop further joint damage. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. 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Tensions are iran once again flaring up after its president threatened to break the caps on uranium enrichment beginning this sunday. From july 7th our level of you are rainium enrichment will no longer remain at the 3. 7 level. We will put the commitment to the side. We will increase it to whatever we seem is essential for us and to a level that we need. Its the primary element needed to make Nuclear Weapons. President trump walked away from the Obama Nuclear deal last year. Other countries are trying to hold the deal together and keep iran from also walking away. President trump has accused iran of violating the nuclear deal and hopes another more wide ranging agreement can be worked out. President trump we are working on iran. Well see what happens. I think they would like to make a deal. They would be very smart to make a deal. Well see what happens. I have all the time in the world. Theyre doing very poorly. They were very brutal when i first came in. President trump responded to his iranian counterpart in a tweet. Iran issued a new warning. Rohany says theyll enrich uranium. Be careful with the threats, iran, they can come back to bite you like no one has been bitten before. It included a b2 Stealth Bomber capable of Nuclear Weapons and advanced f22 raptors. The fifth Generation Fighters jets were ordered to the region to keep tabs on iran. Royal marines seized bolton responded excellent news, u. K. Detained the super tanker grace one laden with iranian oil bound for syria in violation of e. U. Sanctions. America and our allies will continue to prevent regimes from profiting off this illegal trade. Jon here in the u. S. President trump refuses to back down as he pushes to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. Government lawyers are rushing to find a legal basis after losing the latest battle in front of the u. S. Supreme court. Its possible the president could issue an executive order to include the question. Here he is discussing his options earlier this week. President trump they spend billions of dollars on this census and you arent allowed to ask . You knock on doors of houses, check houses, go through all the detail and not allowed to ask whether ot nor somebody is a citizen . You can ask other things . But were trying to do that. Were looking at that very carefully. Jon Jamie Weinstein is a Founding Partner at jmw strategies. Give us the rational . They had tried to get into the census from nearly the beginning of the administration. What the Supreme Court ruled said john roberts is the man that needs to be persuaded to either let this go on or not. You have 44 on each side. His view was the argument they used for the Voting Rights act because the d. O. J. Requested it was a pretext. So basically he left the door open if there was a legitimate argument for this that he didnt think was a pretext for Something Else that he might rule in their favor but the only problem for the white house is that time is running out. In fact, theyve already started having to print the census since the Supreme Court ruling without the Citizenship Question. If they will have an alternative to try to get the court to rule in their favor they have to act rather quickly. Jon where do you think the president stands with regard to his power to invoke an executive action to put it on the ballot . He is the head of the administration, the administration of u. S. Government. Why could the president not put that on . The argument for the president right now is propounded by people who teach constitutional law, if he made an executive order and presented a new reason, then they could petition the Supreme Court to examine the new reason through executive order. You can get a quick hearing in front of the Supreme Court and perhaps that is there best and maybe only avenue to try to get this census question on the census. Citizenship question on the census. People counter that saying the constitution is pretty clear on this. Its an article 1 power. Congress is given the power of the census. Even executive order wouldnt probably persuade Justice Roberts to then side with the administration. So its really somewhat of a hail mary but the president has that option. He is supposedly weighing the option of issuing an executive order. Time is of the essence here. They told the courts that they needed this settled by the end of june. Were now in july and the census is already being printed. Jon a lot of people think this is something that hasnt been done before but it is my understanding and weve got sort of a graphic that describes this, the 2010 census under the Obama Administration was the first one in 200 years that did not ask a question about whether the person filling out the census form was actually a citizen of the United States. Yes. It has been done before and used to be common before 1950. I think this case would be that all the questions i think in the Obama Administration case it was a portion of them would have the Citizenship Question on it. President trump knows politics very well. To most americans it would make perfect sense to ask are you a citizen or not, or even to try to find out who is a legal immigrant and who is not a legal immigrant. The other side would suggest if you are an illegal immigrant in the United States you are not going to put that on and answer that question correctly. And in fact if you are in a household where you might be a citizen but someone who might not be here legally, you might not answer the question all together. So that argument is that you will get an undercount of the exact population of the United States that would benefit republicans. That is really what the argument on the other side is. That this is a political move to benefit republicans. Jon republicans say this is all about being fair, i guess. I use the example yesterday in this discussion california has an estimated 2. 8 million illegal immigrants. If each of them is counted in the census, that amounts to four congressional seats and then a whole lot of federal dollars that without a congressional vote federal dollars that flow to california as a result of the census numbers. So states like california have a vested interest in counting everybody whether theyre a legal american or not. President trump should blame the commerce department. It seems clear from the ruling that had they presented that argument something that was straight forward and honest, that john roberts probably would have allowed this census question to be put on the census. Instead he said that he cant avert his eyes to the evidence there. The reason that they wanted was a pretext for Something Else. So if they were open and honest and gave that answer perhaps we wouldnt the administration wouldnt be in this position. Because they gave what john roberts thought they were not being honest with the court, they are where they are. Jon all of the states that have lost congressional seats to states like california ought to pay close attention to what happens with regard to this Citizenship Question. Jamie weinstein, thank you. Alicia fox news alert as reports emerge of a secret facebook group. It mocks migrants and some lawmakers. Griff jenkins is live in washington an agency already at breaking point more bad news. Fox news confirming cbp has opened an investigation into allegations of a second Facebook Page derogatory comments, they were brought by cnn and turned over to the cbp office of personal responsibility. They issued this statement. Cbp received screen shots by cpb employees and shared those posts with the office of professional responsibility. The office charged with investigating potential employee misconduct. Theyre investigating it to determine the facts. If the investigation that they posted con tint, the findings will inform management decisions involving appropriate disciplinary action. It will hold those who violate our code of conduct responsible. They dont reflect the core values of the agency and reflect the vast majority of employees who conduct themselves professionally and honorably every day on and off duty. The same policy with last weeks allegations. The results shared with management. A determination will be made. That could result in dismissal or removal. Fox news obtains an internal memo from july 3, Deputy Commissioner robert perez writing to all cbp employ ears regarding conduct and core values. He writes this. The discovery earlier this week of some cbp employees engaging in social media activity is disappointing and unacceptable and these activities undermine the credibility of our agency. The views expressed in those posts are deplorable and do not represent core values that we swear to uphold. Perez continues quote, i am confident that the allegations that have surfaced in recent days do not represent the vast majority of our employees who faithfully execute our mission, responsibilities going above and beyond the call of duty every day. For some perspective a senior cbp official tells fox news theyre surprised by both of these allegations. Last week and now this week. They take seriously every allegation of misconduct by their employees but noted they do not monitor the activities of 60,000 plus employees when they go home and log onto the computer. They the trying to get through all these allegations and get to other ones if there are more instances out there, they are actually encouraging anyone to report that to cbp so they can investigate that as well. Alicia okay, griff jenkins. Thank you so much. Jon Hillary Clintons unsuccessful run for the white house casting a shadow over the field of 2020 democrat wanna bes, what lessons can they take from her failed president ial bid as they try to win . Alicia iran sending mixed signals suggesting tehran may be open to a meeting with washington under certain conditions. Even as it threatens to boost uranium enrichment if sanctions and lifted. Daniel davis on how the white house should respond next. President trump no message to iran. They know what theyre doing and playing with. 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President trump we want to build our roads and schools and build all the things we want to build. We cant let iran have a nuclear weapon. So theyre having a lot of difficulty in their country right now. And hopefully at some point they will come back and say well make a deal. Alicia President Trump on the prospects of reaching a nuclear deal with iran speaking to Tucker Carlson in south korea after the g20 summit. It is not clear if iran wants to talk right now. Mixed messages out of tehran as officials are saying theyll talk only if the Supreme Leader approves. Retired Lieutenant Colonel daniel davis from defense priorities. Thank you for joining us. Right now we get the mixed signals from iran on, you know, yes, we want to talk but we want the sanctions to go away before we talk. What should the white house do right now . I actually dont think the signals are mixed at all. They are very consistent as they have been throughout. What iran wants to do is relieve the pressure. They dont have an open desire according to our own Intelligence Service to have a Nuclear Program. What they do want is relieve this pressure and so if were willing to talk and we want to talk and they say theyre willing to talk also. Thats a good sign because President Trump keeps saying he is ready to have a new deal. The thing we have to bear in mind is if you want to negotiate a better deal than the jcpoa and be more stringent on iran with Ballistic Missiles well have to give more than we did during the negotiation as well. That wont sit well with some people. If you want to resolve this it may be necessary. Alicia their talk continues to be so aggressive. How can you say we want to talk but then also were going to enrich uranium as high as we want, up to 90 which is weapons grade. 90 is but they arent even up to 3. 6 yet. Their actions arent happening in a vacuum. Their whole country is being choked off and suffocated. They are saying these things and the reason why they shot down the drone the other day is send a signal we dont want more but we wont just be strangled to death. Theyre sending measured signals. This whole maximum Pressure Campaign is only successful if it leads to an outcome we want. If we only put pressure and dont give them an alternative well get more of these things and thats where the risk of war comes in whether by accident or otherwise. That isnt in our interest at all. Alicia this is separate but still speaks to what were dealing with here. Yesterday British Royal marines seized an iranian tanker headed to syria. This is a quote from a leader a Major General and counselor to the ayatollah. It reads if britain does not release the Iranian Oil Tanker it is the authoritys duty to seize a british oil tanker. It is their duty . Right. Thats from their perspective. One of the things about maximum pressure that could spark a war that i was talking about. Those tankers have been going there for quite some time. Nothing new. The fact that they held it now which bolton lauded, thats evidence were trying to push the screws tighter. If we think well pressure them to where theyll capitulate i think well find we push them into a position where they launch back. If they do that all kinds of bad things can happen. We cant push so hard that our own interests are harmed. Thats what im saying we have to be careful of. Alicia lets move to russia. Vladimir putin gave an interview to an italian member of the media there in which he said he is ready to restart arms negotiations again. Ill put up a quote and see what you think about this. He said i think the achievement of concrete agreement in the field of arms control would contribute to strengthening international stability. Russia has the political will to work towards this. Now its up to the u. S. He is putting the ball in our court with the president. What do you think . It is absolutely in our interest to work with russia anything that limits especially tactical Nuclear Weapons is a win for everybody. This idea some people have that you can use low yield Nuclear Weapons and not spawn a nuclear war is delusional. The likelihood it will spark more. If we have an agreement with russia that limits that on both sides and maybe make Something Better than the one he had, the inf treaty done during the Reagan Administration in the 80s, the conditions are different today. If President Trump and putin can Work Together and makes it so we can validate that both sides are adhering to it, thats a big win for the United States and something thats important for all of us. Alicia okay. Thank you so much for your time. Always my pleasure. Thank you. Jon remember that president ial handshake over the weekend in north korea . Now a north korean delegation accuses the u. S. Of being hell bent on hostile acts. So what does that mean for Nuclear Talks . 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But the job market jon the family of the suspect arrested in the murder of a College Student say theyre worried he will not get a fair trial in utah. Prosecutors say the defendant kidnapped and killed lueck last month. The familys Attorney Says judgments are already being made based on limited Police Evidence and media coverage. He is being crucified already. No way you can watch all this that has been said about your loving son and able to be at peace. Let him come before the court and let him be tried. Lets see the evidence. Lets see the results. Jon we have a former prosecutor here. The family is claiming this trial should be moved out of state. Have you ever heard of a criminal trial being moved to another state completely . No. The answer is no. In utah they do have a statute regulation that says that a case can be moved out of the county but certainly does not talk about state. By the way, it is so premature even have this conversation. There arent charges yet. Look at the boston bombing case. The city was on lockdown. Jurors were on lockdown and considered victims of the crime. No move of venue there. Nor is it going to happen here. Simply put. Jon dont you have to go through some voir dire and try to find a jury locally and if you cant find a jury locally you can then appeal . The motion to change venue can be moved prior to jury selection. Thats where the judge is going to say we have a system in place to ferret out taint and abuse. So the jury Selection Process is there to make sure that defendants get a fair trial and that should be enough in this case. Jon the strange thing, too, the attorney is in new york, acquainted with his family in nigeria, but he is in Salt Lake City and she is not officially representing him yet. She is speaking for the family. Very early, right. Attorney making Public Comments about the case without being retained nor is she even in utah. That brings up another question, right . But again, this case is a sad one, no question. It will get pretrial publicity but it wont be enough. Right now theyre reporting on the facts of the case. There is Electronic Communications between the defendant and victim prior to her missing. Witnesses saw him burning things in his yard. And they have dna evidence of the victim in the yard. You know what . Theyre reporting on facts. It is not going to be enough to transfer venue. Jon the attorney, whether they officially represents him or not she is trying to do as good a job as possible with what she has to work with, right . The reports are coming out are very, very damming against this defendant. If all true, i think this is an open and shut case. And by the way, because there is a desecration of the human body, because the allegation is that he burned her, it is an aggravated murder which is applicable for the Death Penalty in utah. Jon there were the reports from a handyman, carpenter who was reportedly asked by this suspect to build a secret soundproof room in the guys basement. Sure, earlier this year. A couple months ago. Troubling. There is also reports coming out about a rape in 2014 that was not charged. The girl says there was a consensual relationship that ended in a forceful rape. Some of the reports that this attorney is talking about. Is it enough . Absolutely not. There is a jury Selection Process that will be enough for this case. Jon fair justice prevails in this country regardless . Even in the trial itself. The judge will sit on the bench and make sure the evidence that comes through is the rules of evidence that there is no hearsay, that its fair so we can ultimately see the end verdict as a fair one. Alicia some new advice for 2020 democrats. What they can learn from Hillary Clintons failed bid for the white house and what theyre likely to ignore possibly at their own peril. 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At some point during the evening, while everyone was exiting, we believe that someone yelled gun. Calls of shots fired at this time. There was a stampede. 14 individuals were injured in the stampede. Theyve been taken to areas hospitals with nonlife threatening injuries. Most of the injuries were people tramped in the stampede. One person was impaled in the leg when he ran into a table and three people were stabbed in the area. Just outside of navy pier teenagers were flashing gang signs and started a fight. One purpose was stabbed in the armpit and another in the arm and rib and third person who was not involved in the fight was stabbed in the face. Now the new mayor and the Police Superintendent got out in front of the violence this weekend. 1400 extra officers. Police executed a roundup ahead of the Holiday Weekend knabing 38 illegal hundreds of thousands of dollars of narcotics off the street. There were 17 shootings in the city of chicago. Three were homicides. A sad number but not that out of line compared to what we see when the weather gets warm in the bad parts of town. Jon they have to get their arms around the gunfire in that city. Mike tobin, thank you. Im the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring Economic Opportunity using Clean Renewable Energy as the key into coal country because were going to put a lot of coal miners and Coal Companies out of business, right, tim . And were going to make it clear that we dont want to forget those people. Alicia Hillary Clinton went on to regret that remark saying it was partly to blame for her defeat in 2016 and could be a lesson for 2020 democrats. Kimberly strassel. There is economic pain of a climate regime through regulations. Every democrat vowed to make it a priority and they have that obama blueprint. They dont need congress. Mr. Trump will make clear the election of a democrat guarantees an immediate return to struggling rural economies. Joining us now is an independent womans forum fellow. And joel rubin, former assistant secretary of state under president obama and president of Washington Strategy group. Thank you for joining us today. Appreciate it. Ill start with you, joe. Every democratic candidate out there is talking about Climate Policy and it goes much farther than the obama era which could be frightening to some people. What do you think . Yeah. The election in 2020 will run through heartland and midwest. Climate policy matters there, too. How do democrats talk about it . It has to be about jobs and economic security. There are real indicators that a cleaner environment can produce better jobs. Weve seen it even in the emergency sector where renewable energy, wind and solar are taking off and coal is on the decline. That has to be communicated yit is good for americans, voters in their pocketbook. There is an argument to be made there. Alicia you are talking about a whole part of the country thats very concerned about their pocket books, joel. You see what im saying . Absolutely. And these are the issues that democrats ran on successfully in 2018, healthcare, be it the tax bill frankly and the tariffs now are coming up as an issue. All the issues are critical and democrats need to speak to the quality of life of people in the midwest right now. The climate again is not separate from that. This is integrated into all of these facets of our economy. Alicia beverly, do you have a response . When it comes to the Energy Policies were seeing, i think the working class and americans in general want us to have policies that are reasonable. What were seeing from so many of the Democratic Candidates are extremely extreme. You saw one congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez first came out with her Green New Deal. A lot of democrats mocked it. Yet so many of the candidates are now implementing some of those policies within their own plan. The average american looks at that and says look, i want us to have an environment thats clean. There are small steps we can take. I think innovation leads to cleaner energies that we have out there. But they also know this means their jobs going away. When you take a look at the fracking industry or offshore drilling. So many jobs have been created as President Trump has rolled back so many of the regulations that president obama put forth. So it seems that so many of these Democratic Candidates seem out of touch with the working class, which is a voting block theyll need if they will defeat donald trump. Alicia all democrats arent unaware of this issue that democrats have. A lot of longtime dems have raised this concern. Kimberly strassel points to it. Democrats are aware this is toxic for the working class voters they need to win back. Thats why most lead with patronizing promises to invest millions to retrain whole communities. People dont want to be the guinea pigs of the lefts green experiment. Is there a risk here . There is always a risk if its framed like that. Im from pittsburgh, originally. Natural gas is booming there and replacing coal. Energy change is happening right now. So asking folks to listen and think about and retraining is not a patronizing policy it is dealing with the reality as we know it. The clean plants work better and more efficiently. So well have to as democrats communicate that effectively. It is true the Green New Deal as a vision is inspiring to Many Democrats and many democratic voters but as an action plan it is very difficult to get the hands wrapped around it and easy to parody. Right now Democratic Candidates are getting stuck in the rhetoric of the Green New Deal. They need to bring it down a level to explain how it can provide jobs and provide a cleaner, safer environment for the future. The reason why we do have so many of these good movements in pennsylvania when it comes to the drilling and the fracking that is taking place has nothing to do with liberal policies. Its purely because you have regulations that were rolled back that were implemented during the Obama Administration. Its been through private industry weve seen so much clean energy emerge. Thats what we should be promoting. Alicia if i can get in here quick. Dont both parties really have to walk a balance here . Its not like there are republicans who dont care about Climate Change. There is a delicate balance for both parties. Exactly. One of the things you hear republicans talk about more is the fact that Climate Change does exist. The question is, is it at dire as we hear so Many Democrats talk about. You have democrats saying the world will end in 12 years and we need drastic policies. The reality is the messaging that will win is saying innovation leads to cleaner energy. The United States is one of the leaders when it comes to clean energy in this country because we rolled back regulation for innovation to take place. There are steps that we can take on Climate Policies but democrats want to double down by taxing people and saying that industries have to go out of business because theyre not clean enough. That is not only resonating not resonating with the working class but also isnt the way forward for us to have clean energy as we continue to progress in this country. Were losing the jobs of the future to china right now because of our policies. They are building the future of solar energy, the Fastest Growing sector in the energy economy. We cant afford to lose those jobs at home. We are because the policies arent matching the moment. Alicia thank you both for joining us on this friday. Have a good one. Jon georgia man is pulled from a burning mobile home and the rescue all captured on camera. Come on, come on. Give him to me. Jon you look at body cam footage from the Clayton County police department. They pulled the unconscious man out of a burning mobile home on monday morning. The neighbor suffered a burn on his arm and two officers also were hurt. They were treated on the scene, police say the man they saved ended up making a full recovery. An unpatriotic act on the fourth of july ends with two arrests. Details on what happened here in d. C. Plus President Trumps historic dmz meeting with kim jongun seems to get Nuclear Talks back on track. Could that now be in jeopardy . Much more on that ahead. President trump i can just say that for 2 1 2 years weve had peace for 2 1 2 years with nothing signed, just based on relationship. A family van . Was that her choice . Naaah man, that was my choice. 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S. Of being hell bent on hostile acts despite that historic meeting between President Trump and kim jongun at the dmz. The comment comes in response to a letter sent to all u. N. Member states last month calling on nations to impose tougher sanctions on pyongyang. North koreas mission saying this in a statement. It is quite ridiculous for the United States to continue to behave obsessed with sanctions and Pressure Campaign against north korea considering sanctions as a panacea for all problems its not unusual for north korea to be sort of constantly petulant and angry about the way it was tweeted. After the historymaking handshake are you surprised at this response . Not at all. This is what the North Koreans have always done. Theyre signaling to donald trump trying to say to him in the upcoming negotiations what they want. They want sanctions relief. There are other signs coming out of north korea as well. That are positive. They recently put out a 60 minute documentary you can find it on youtube that shows President Trump walking into north korea and this was shown so all of the north Korean People on their state news broadcasts and shows ivanka trump shaking hands with kim jongun. I think we have to look at the negative side but Something Like that to show america in a positive light on north korean state tv . Ive been looking at north korea for over a decade and never seen anything like that. The president s approach is working and he deserves a lot of credit. Jon if they want sanctions relief, cant they take more positive steps to end their Nuclear Program or end their Ballistic Missile program . Absolutely. I think what will happen here is well have a tough round of working level negotiations. What the North Koreans are desperate four is sanctions relief for coal exports and textile exports. It gives them billions of dollars of revenue to do everything they need to do to power their economy and hopefully feed their people. The president needs to stand firm here and make sure that they give us Something Big in return, which one thing would be the nuclear facility. If they do that i think we could suspend those two sanctions for a year and see if the North Koreans keep their word. Jon the president says he is patient. Here is a sample of what he had to say regarding north korea and denuclearization talks. President trump speed is not the object. We want to see if we can do a comprehensive, good deal. Nobody knows how things turn out. What is going to happen is over the next two or three weeks the teams will start working to see whether or not they can do something. Jon so there are talks going on behind the scenes here. Not yet. Theyll have working level talks overseen by mike pompeo. Theyll be very tough negotiations. The North Koreans will ask for a lot and were going to ask a lot in return. I think the approach the president is taking is working and been truly sad to see democrats make north korea a Campaign Issue when the president has shown courage and guts to get us this far. Lets face it. Kim jongun might not have gone to the dmz and the president would have taken the heat on that. He has a great approach here. We have to see what happens. So far were in a good spot. Jon kim jongun and his father before him have frustrated every american president to this point. It is not surprising that President Trump hasnt made a lot of headway just yet. Absolutely. This is going to be something that the American People need to understand it could take a decade or more to get north korea to fully denuclearize but kim jongun is in a bad spot. They have very little in terms of economic output. They are a third world country with Nuclear Weapons and kim jongun has to make a decision. Does he want to give those up and see his people prosper or someday maybe be overthrown . Thats the decision he needs to make. Jon tragically his people pay the price. Thank you. Alicia President Trump offering praise for ice agents and Border Patrol as critics continue to slam the detention centers. Condolences pouring in for a billionaire coal tycoon among seven People Killed in a chopper crash. A live update ahead. Delegates, how do you vote . cheering yes, yyyyes, yes. That is freaky. applause with tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. Fixodent ultramax hold gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. So now you can eat tough food without worry. Fixodent and forget it. Front slams on his the hbrakes out of nowhere. You do, too, but not in time. Hey, no big deal. Youve got a good record and Liberty Mutual wont hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. You hear that, karen . Liberty mutual doesnt hold grudges. 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The aircraft is thought to have gone down shortly after takeoff. Local residents discovered the crash site two miles off grand cay island. The wreckage is thought to be still in the water. Police say there were four men and three women on board. One of those killed in the crash as you say was 61yearold billionaire businessman chris cline. He is from West Virginia. He also was a donor to republican politicians including President Trump. The governor of West Virginia has paid tribute to him saying today we lost a vest virginia superstar and i lost a very close friend. Our families go back to the beginning of the cline empire. He built an empire and always there to give what a wonderful, loving and giving man. Kathy and i are praying for his family and for all those involved in the tragedy. Now the bodies of the passengers have not yet been formally identified. That process is believed to be ongoing in the capital now. Police have not yet given the cause of the crash although we understand there will be a full investigation with the cooperation of Civil Aviation authorities. Back to you. Alicia so incredibly sad. Kitty logan, thank you. Jon this fox news alert. Millions in california still on edge after a powerful earthquake rattles buildings and nerves. Several strong after shocks still being felt. Were live at one of the towns hardest hit. And President Trump saluting brave Service Members in his fourth of july speech calling on others to volunteer to serve. More from yesterdays celebration ahead. How do you gauge the greatness of an suv . Is it to carry cargo. Or to carry on a legacy . Its show of strength. Or its sign of intelligence . In crossing harsh terrain. Or breaking new ground . This is the time to get an exceptional offer on the mercedes of your midsummer dreams at the mercedesbenz summer event, going on now. Lease the gla 250 suv for just 329 a month at the mercedesbenz summer event. 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Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom, im jon scott in for bill hemmer today. Alicia im alisha acuna in for sandra smith. The earthquake centered 150 miles northeast of los angeles near the town of ridge crest, california. The quake was felt more than 100 miles away making it Southern Californias strongest earth cake in 20 years as experts warn an even bigger one could hit in coming days. There is about a 1 in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake within the next few days that we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the sequence. It is certain that this area is going to be shaken a lot today and some of those aftershocks will probably exceed magnitude 5 which means theyll become damaging. Jon jeff paul is live in ridge crest, california with the latest. An ominous sound bite there from the earthquake experts. We just spoke with the police chief here in ridge crest and he tells us he truly feels like this community dodged a bullet not only in terms of the amount of damages that they are seeing, very few, but also in terms of the weather. That impacts things like fires and as you take a look at this video right here, you can see how the flames got out of control at one house. This fire started a few minutes after this earthquake hit the area of ridge crest magnitude 6. 4 and reports of other spot fires and vegetation fires and mobile homes were damaged. So far only reports of very minor injuries. So the main concern moving forward is what could happen next. Its that unknown that is putting not only the Emergency Responders here but the community on edge. We dont know if there will be any more after shocks. There have been 87 after shocks as we talked. Is there a High Percentage of a big after shock . Thats unknown. Unlike a fire or flood, we can predict that stuff. Earthquakes we cannot predict. Throughout the night we did feel several aftershocks and while we were setting up today earlier this morning to get ready to report on this earthquake there was another pretty powerful earthquake, 5. 4. So far we arent hearing reports of damages from that quake. Back to you in the studio. Jon jeff, thank you. Alicia President Trump about to head out of washington to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey a day after his salute to america, the celebration marking Independence Day. President trump today we come together as one nation with this very special salute to america. We celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag, the brave men and women of the United States military. Together we are part of one of the greatest stories ever told. The story of america. It is the chronicles of brave citizens who never give up on the dream of a better and brighter future. Alicia kevin corke is live at the white house with more. Hi, kevin. Jon always good to have you with us. I wanted to pass along the president is actually out on the south lawn responding to reporter questions. He also spent a bit of time working the rope line as he has want to do before making his way up to new jersey. I want to mention that because he talked about the Citizenship Question. Weve discussed this before where the administration would like to add a Citizenship Question to the upcoming 2020 census. The president says he is considering an executive order although he hasnt made up his mind on that. He says he has four or five options to consider so as we get more information about of course ill pass that along. Meanwhile it was a great day here in the Nations Capital yesterday. A fourth of July Celebration out on the national mall. Tens of thousands turning out as you well know. They were there to see the fireworks but also the aircraft and to witness a bit of history. President trump salute to america draping the mall in red, white and blue, music, speeches, and as i mentioned some pretty incredible flyovers by the u. S. Military part of a celebration of the nations 243rd birthday. President trump nearly 250 years ago, a volunteer army of farmers and shop keepers, black smiths, merchants and militiamen risked life and limb to secure american liberty and selfgovernment. This evening we have witnessed the nobel might of the warriors who continue that legacy. Continuing a legacy as strong today as it has ever been said the president. The parade as you know also featured drum and fives and bugleers. It bothered Bernie Sanders from the great state of vermont. I think we need money to go into affordable housing. I think we need money to go into rebuilding our infrastructure. Im not sure we need money to put tanks into the town of washington, d. C. Nevertheless the evening ended with a spectacular fireworks display including a rousing finale to celebrate the fourth. The president is on his way up to bedminster, new jersey. He is still talking, right . He is still over there talking. When he finally wraps up ill share what he had to say. Back to you for now. Alicia thank you, kevin. Jon President Trump praising ice, immigrations and Customs Enforcement during his salute to america speech last night. Listen. President trump our nation has always mon ored the heroes who served our communities, firefighters, sheriffs, ice, Border Patrol and the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. Jon joining us now david mark Deputy News Editor for the Washington Examiner. When you heard ice and Border Patrol being included in the list of public heroes, thats not something that is often done in a president ial speech, david. Right. This is an expansion of what we would often hearsay in a normal fourth of july event. It is not unusual to praise the military and police officers. But ice and Border Patrol agents were part of the coalition and they endorsed President Trump back in 2016. The first time the union has ever done that. Jon the president obviously still wants to get that wall built along the southern border. He has been frustrated in efforts to do so by congress. He thought he had a workaround in sort of redesignating military pentagon money to build the wall. Now he has taken a beating in the courts. The court is saying he cannot do that. What is the president supposed to do . Well, the most recent hit to the president s plan to build that border wall came from the ninth circuit on the west coast which traditionally hasnt been all that friendly to the Trump Administration. This is a tough legal case for the Trump Administration. After all, congress has the power of the purse. They can direct very specifically where money is supposed to go. But this is not over by any means. This is likely almost certainly going to be appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court. They may have the final say on whether that money can go toward a border wall or not. Jon it doesnt surprise you that the president was not allowed to redesignate those pentagon monies. Not particularly. Again, congress can appropriate money very specifically. Courts have traditionally been rather there are other aspects. Moving on to private land and other issues that had to do with that court decision. Jon so when americans see the conditions that the migrants are being held in at the border and its obviously overcrowded and awful but is that the fault of the american Border Patrol system or is it the fault of the Economic Conditions in central and south america . Certainly Border Patrol agents are doing the job they were hired to do. They are given instructions. They have lots of rules and regulations that they have to follow. They are doing what they are commanded to do like any military or pair a military official. It is broader policymakers in washington, d. C. And then if you want to go further out, it is the Economic Conditions that drive these people to walk hundreds of miles through mexico. Whose fault is that . We could go on for hours about that. The Border Patrol agents are doing their job. Jon in the meantime Border Patrol is taking some heat because of not one, but now two private facebook groups apparently that have turned up in which Border Patrol agents are sort of disparaging of the migrants who are coming across the border and some of the legislators who have been critical of the work that they do. Yeah, probably not the smartest move to put those kind of images and statements on a Facebook Page. Weve all learned that privacy on facebook posts dont really mean that much. Having said that, its a relatively a very small group compared to the overall number of border agents. And in any organization you are going to find bad apples and some problems. Jon i imagine that there are huge frustrations in that job. Ive never been a Border Patrol agent but the video weve seen of the work they do, they are putting not only their lives on the line, but working in some pretty unpleasant circumstances sometimes trying to keep the u. S. Border safe. Absolutely. Theyre truly on the front lines trying to keep this country safe, doing what they are told. Taking orders, often rapidly shifting and changing orders at the same time that come down from washington, d. C. , that come down from the nine sectors on the border. So theyre in a tough spot and i think theyre doing it as reasonably well as they can. Jon every job has its frustrations but theirs especially. David mark, thank you. Thank you. Alicia iran threatening to increase its rainium enrichment as it accuses britain of piracy as it jon President Trump considering executive action after the Supreme Court blocks his plan to include that Citizenship Question on the 2020 census. Is this the only path forward . Fox news legal analyst mercedes colin joins us next. The Citizenship Question is motivated biracial and partisan reasons and has no business in something neutral like the census. Hoo dont let an amazing adventure pass you by. Tripadvisor makes it easy to book your tours, attractions, and experiences ahead of time. So you never miss out on cant miss adventures book things to do on tripadvisor. Jon a strong jobs report for the month of june showing 224,000 jobs added with healthcare and the government sector seeing the biggest jumps. Unemployment ticked up to 3. 7 . Its still near a 50year low. Some concern from investors. Thats part of the reason the dow is down almost 150 points right now. They worry the good news on jobs could mean that the fed will not be inclined to cut Interest Rates to boost the economy later this month as the president wants them to. The dow down 149 points right now. President trump they spend billions of dollars on the census and you arent allowed to ask . You knock on doors of houses, check houses, you go through all this detail and youre not allowed to ask whether or not somebody is a citizen . Alicia President Trump sounding off on the Supreme Courts decision to block his effort to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census as the administration tries to find a legal path to get the question included. The Justice Department has a deadline of 2 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon to tell a judge whether or not they will pursue the matter further. Joining me now is fox news legal analyst mercedes cowan. Nice to see you. Lets talk about this. What do you think well see. The Justice Department as a matter of hours now. There is a little reverse engineering. The u. S. Supreme court stepped in to say we need to see a different reason behind this question. We feel the question is contrived. We know it was a very close call. It was a 54 decision so you know there are four justices that believe that question is permissible under the constitution. Five say we want to see further information and see another reason. It doesnt sound contrived. It gave that deadline and why the d. O. J. Said all right, i guess we wont go back. To step back and give another reasoning gets a little sticky as you can imagine. These are all lawyers who carefully crafted their arguments. By the time it got to the u. S. Supreme court there was so much information already before the court to go back and say well start from step one and decide what really is the rationale . Its sticky for them and why initially they said we wont do this. Alicia we do have a quote from a d. O. J. Lawyer on this and it is saying we at the department of justice have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward consistent with the Supreme Court decision that would allow us to include the Citizenship Question on the census. We think there may be a legally available path under the Supreme Courts decision. Were examining that looking at nearterm options to see whether its viable and possible. Here is the argument floated around they may hang their hats on. Section 2 of the 14th amendment allows for the gathering of information regarding citizenship. It is a twopart process. The constitution says you can do this. Where weve got the rub is that the decision by the u. S. Supreme court didnt focus on section 2 of the 14th amendment which allows you to gather the citizenship information. It asked for the reasoning behind gathering this information. So im not sure the d. O. J. They step forward and say constitutionally were permitted. The u. S. Supreme court may turn to them and say what is your reasoning . I get it that the constitution allows you to do it but what is your reasoning for gathering that information. If you look at the purpose behind the census it is to get how much funding and education and healthcare is needed. If you look at the infrastructure that the Census Bureau use the information for its the infrastructure the government will fund. Alicia thank you so much. We have the president departing the white house today. He and the first lady are traveling to bedminster, new jersey. We have that tape. President trump last night it was a fantastic evening for our country. Well have a lot of people being recruited based on that. A lot of people joining our military. We really needed that. Our job numbers are so good that the military has a hard time getting people and i think really that a lot of people [inaudible]. I think we showed that last night. We had great numbers this morning. I think 224,000 jobs. Those are unexpectedly good. And our country continues to do really well, really, really well. So were very happy about it. I think we are going to be breaking records. If we had a fed that would lower Interest Rates we would be like a rocket ship. Were paying a lot of interest and it is unnecessary. We dont have a fed that knows what theyre doing. It is one of those little things. If we had a fed that would lower rates, you would have a rocket ship. When president obama was here he played close to zero interest. Im paying real interest. Yet our economy is much better than its ever been. From election day were over 50 increase and weve made trillions and trillions of dollars. Were doing very well. Last night was spectacular. Yes. [inaudible question] are you willing to bring democrats back to the table and in particular when it comes to [inaudible] President Trump i would love rural broadband. We are working on it. I would love to have the democrats come back and talk about infrastructure and drug pricing. Well be announcing something very shortly. A favored nations clause. For years and years other nations paid less for drugs than we do. Sometimes by 60 to 70 . Were going to be and were working on it right now. Were working on a favored nation clause where we pay whatever the lowest nations price is. Why should other nations like canada, why should other nations pay much less than us . Theyve taken advantage of this system for a long time, pharma. Were working on now a favored nations clause so that whatever the lowest nation is anywhere in the world or company, but the lowest nation or company, then what happens is we will pay that amount and thats being worked on right now. Well do it in the form of an executive order. Its one of the ways. We have four or five ways to do it. One of the ways were thinking about do it. Were doing well on the census. He made a statement. He wrote something out. The judge didnt like it. I have a lot of respect for Justice Roberts but he didnt like it but he did say come back. Essentially he said come back. Thats what he was saying. So well see what happens. We can also add an addition on so we can start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. Were working on a lot of things including an executive order. [inaudible question]. President trump i dont think im a bully at all. I dont like being taken advantage of by other countries, by pharmaceutical companies, by all the people that have taken advantage of this country. You look at what joe biden has done with china. We have lost our shirts with china. Now china is dying to make a deal. So were taking, by the way, billions and billions of dollars in tariffs are coming in and china is paying for it, not our people. So if you look at what weve done and if you look at what weve straightened out, i call it the obama biden mess. Were straightening it out whether its north korea, you would end up in a north korea as sure as youre standing there. Now the relationship is good. Well see what happens. As sure as you are there, you would end up in a war with north korea. [inaudible question] President Trump i dont call them raids. I say they came in illegally and were bringing them out legally. These are people where we have the papers, weve gone through the court system. They will be starting fairly soon. I dont call them raids. Were removing people that have come in, all of these people over the years that have come in illegally, we are removing them and bringing them back to their country. [inaudible question] President Trump i dont think of it in terms of that. Were just celebrating our country. There is nobody stronger or nobody that has a military anywhere close to ours. We spent 700 billion. When i took over the military it was absolutely depleted. We had old planes, we had old jets. We had bad stuff that was tired. Now we have the finest jets in the world, the f35, the f18, the new ones. We have military equipment the likes of which weve never had. Building submarines, building aircraft carriers, all made in the usa. Its a double. Its all made now. Im all about jobs. We had great job numbers today. When it comes to the military it is not about jobs. We have the greatest in the world. Nobody that comes close. Our military now is just about the top, just about the best its ever been. There is nobody that comes close to the power we have in our military. What we have in fact, if you look, our nuclear now is in great shape. Weve renovated and fixed and were buying some new. Never want to use it. We never want to use it. But we have to be in a position that we have to be in a position. But our nuclear is in great shape. Our military now is in great shape. [inaudible question] President Trump i can tell you those people that you see, a lot of people in front of the white house, every one of them loved it. I would actually say i want to go to give a little appreciation. The media generally speaking loved it. They loved the evening. We had a lot of rain. I stood in the rain. The teleprompter went out so i had [inaudible question]. President trump the teleprompter went out. It went kaput. Thats not a good feeling. When you are standing in front of millions and millions of people on television and i dont know what the final count was, but it went all the way back to the washington monument. The rain knocked out the teleprompter. But no, its not that. I knew the speech very well. I was able to do it without a teleprompter. But the teleprompter did go out. It was actually hard to look at anyway because it was rain all over it. Despite the rain, that was just a fantastic evening. I think people really had it and i think a lot of people you know, it was a recruitment situation. A lot of people are going to be joining our army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard. [inaudible question] President Trump look, he campaigned on ill get trump. She never knew me. I dont know who she is. Her whole campaign was she knew nothing about me. She campaigned im going to get trump. We have 100 clips and so do you and you cant do that. Our system isnt about that. Our system isnt about lets see if we can find something. You cant do that. But her whole campaign was im going to get trump. Im going to get him. Cant do that. [inaudible question] President Trump trust me, after 500 witnesses, 2,500 subpoenas, every Single Person i know practically was called in one form or another, nothing. And ill tell you what, even with you people. You are honest people. None of you could have with stood that. They would have found something. If there was a comma put in the wrong place, if there was a period in the wrong location, they would have grabbed it. No collusion, no obstruction. After that its almost its amazing. You know what it does . It shows im a very honest guy. [inaudible question] President Trump china. Well see what happens. They are talking to us. They want to make a deal. But we had a deal and they broke it. They broke the deal. They shouldnt have broken it. I think if they had it to do again they wouldnt. Right now we put big tariffs on and have a lot more to put on if we wants. China broke a deal. We are talking to them. Well see what happens. [inaudible question]. Well see what happens with iran. Iran needs to be very, very careful. [inaudible question] why did the Vice President cancel his trip to New Hampshire . President trump youll know in two weeks. An interesting problem that they had in New Hampshire that i cant tell you about. Had nothing to do with white house. There was a problem up there. And i wont go into what the problem was. Youll see in about a week or two. [inaudible question] President Trump the southern border is being policed very well by mexico. Mexico is doing far more than the democrats. We all know it because of tariffs. Theyve been great. They put 6,000 people. They have many of them there on the southern border, their southern border. On our southern border which is the main border that you think of, they are going to have anywhere between 16,000 and 21,000 troops. It has had a big effect. Theyve only been there for a week where they had the troops. It has had a tremendous impact. And you will see the numbers starting to come in very well. Guatemala is going to be signing a state third agreement. Were talking to mexico. Mexico is really doing a good job, i have to say. Very big. Here is the thing. When people come in illegally and then it is crowded. Ive seen some of those places and theyre run beautifully. They are clean, they are good, they do a great job. They do a great job. They are crowded because the democrats will not give us any relief from these loopholes. We have loopholes that are so bad we have asylum that is so bad. So these places are many of them, not all of them, but many of them are incredible. Really well run. I said it yesterday. Border patrol did not train to be doctors and nurses and janitors. Thats not what they are trained to be. They are trained to be Border Patrol. Thats what theyre doing. Theyre doing a phenomenal job. Because of the country, because were doing so well as a country, we never weve never done this well. Two days ago we hit the highest stock market number weve ever had in the history of our country. Our country is doing great. Unemployment is very low. We just came out with 224,000 new jobs, the numbers are unbelievable. And thats bringing people up like theyve never come up. Border patrol and ice have done a great job. Now people are being removed from the country. Were removing them. We are starting with the ms13. Weve taken out thousands. Weve never had an onslaught. The reason they come up is because the country is doing well, they want jobs. [inaudible question] a report says the facilities are overcrowded and dirty and widespread problem. President trump i think they do a great sdwrob with those facilities. You know how it could be taken care of . Number one, tell them not to come because its illegal. Very unfair to people that have been waiting in line for seven or eight years and theyre about to be admitted and theyve studied and know the country and the history and everything. And then a person comes in, walks in and all of a sudden they become a citizen or they are allowed to stay . So thousands and thousands of people will be legally removed from the country and that process has started. We have been doing it for a long time. [inaudible question] President Trump that i dont know. I dont run it. I would say this. Probably every club in the United States has that because it seems to be from what i understand a way that people did business. But we have a very strict rule. Those rules are very strict. Every club practically in the United States thats the way they did business. [inaudible question] i havent seen it. I will say this, i think the Border Patrol has been treated very badly by certain members of congress, very, very badly. For the most part theyre very respected by congress. Certain members of congress say very bad things and lies and exaggerate and Border Patrol people are tough people. They arent happy about it. [inaudible question] will you President Trump we have a number of different avenues. We can use all of them or one. Were doing very well on that issue. Were spending 15 to 20 billion on a census. Were doing everything. Were finding out everything about everybody. Think of it. 15 to 20 billion dollars and you arent allowed to ask them are you a citizen . By the way, if you look at the history of our country, it has almost always been asked. Were fighting very hard against the system thats a very difficult system. Well make a decision. The attorney general is working on that right now. Whats the reason for trying to put a Citizenship Question. President trump you need it for many reasons. You need it for congress redistricting. For resources. How many people are there . You need it for many reasons. [inaudible question] President Trump i thought ivanka was amazing at the g20. Foreign leaders think she is great. She is very smart and done a great job. She has sacrificed a lot. Ivanka and jared work very hard and sacrificed a lot to be doing this. They want to do it. Ivanka has worked on almost 10 million jobs training and going to companies and getting them to hire people. But the people, the foreign leaders really like her a lot. [inaudible question] President Trump im not grooming her for office. As you know, president obama had separation. President obama in 2014 built the cells that you always show on television. They were built by president obama. But he had separation. The one thing he didnt have is a good economy. He didnt have the kind of onslaught were having. We have a tremendous onslaught of people. Who can blame them . They want to get in and take advantage of the economy. They have to come in legally and through merit. I think Border Patrol has done an incredible job and mexico has been doing an incredible job. [inaudible question] President Trump a lot of people thought his answer was fine. I didnt see the answer yet. They thought it was fine. It can be expanded. There are many reasons you do it. We were surprised by that decision. Citizenship has been on that thing most of the time for many, many years, its shocking after spending 15 billion it is not on. [inaudible question] President Trump tell biden that nato has taken total advantage of him and president obama. We were paying for almost all of nato. We are protecting countries. Those countries have to protect themselves with us. They have to make a contribution. In my first year i raised over 100 billion from those countries. Biden didnt know what the hell he was doing and neither did president obama. Nato was taking advantage of them. They still owe us a lot of money. Biden doesnt know about that. He thinks stupidly we do. Nato is fine. But they have to pay their way. The United States is not going to get killed on trade with europe. Europe kills us on trade, which were changing and europe then kills us because we defend europe and we lose a tremendous amount of money. So we lose on trade and the military. President obama and Vice President biden didnt have a clue. They got taken advantage of by china, by nato, by every country they did business with. [inaudible question] President Trump i dont know ill be able to. I hope they do well. I hope they win. [inaudible question] President Trump kim jongun on numerous occasions to me, president obama wanted to meet with kim jongun and kim jongun said no. Numerous occasions he called and right now we have a very nice relationship. Weve done a lot and weve gotten our hostages back, were getting the remains back. A lot of good things are happening and there has been no nuclear testing. During president obama, there were nuclear testing, they were sending missiles. Right now everything is nice and quiet. Alicia the president departing the white house heading to bedminster, new jersey and taking quite a few questions from the press hitting on a number of topics including Border Security and pressing that executive order to ask the Citizenship Question on the upcoming census. He also talked a little bit about that celebration last night and ended on north korea. And joining me now is gordon chang asia analyst and author of losing south korea. He said a lot of good things are happening now between the u. S. And north korea. What do you think that means . I think President Trump is talking about his Good Relationship with kim jongun the north korean leader. He knows that the working level talks are going to start very soon with steve, his envoy on north korea and they may be looking for a small deal. A stepbystep approach. Thats something that President Trump said he would not do. Matter of fact he walked out of the summit in vietnam in february because he wanted the big deal. But maybe there is a new way forward for the president. Alicia can you explain what that small deal is and how we got to this point where it may become more acceptable to this administration . Its something short of the complete disarmament of north korea. All of its missiles and nukes. You know, weve had big small deals and small small deals. The agreed framework of president clinton 1994 was a big one. President obamas deal in february 2012 was a small one. None of the small deals worked. The North Koreans always renege. What we have to do is what i think trump talked about before. That is the North Koreans give up everything and then they get everything. In other words, its a selfenforcing deal. Alicia on the democrats he talks a little bit about biden and obama but i want to go to the sound bite here from Vice President biden on trump and north korea. Take a listen. He gave kim everything that he wanted. Legitimacy. He ended our relationship with south korea and japan as a united front and let china off the hook. He said i love the man. He hadnt done a thing. Kim jongun, what have we done . Suspended exercises. Alicia that was this morning. The president completely disagrees with the way the Obama Administration handled north korea but does the Vice President have a point here . He has some points and wrong on others, for instance, kim jongun hasnt done a thing thats true. He has ramped up production, upgraded facilities and also when you look at what kim jongun has been doing, he did get legitimization from the handshake and walk into north korea. On the other hand china is now pushed to the sidelines because of President Trumps diplomacy. Thats very important because china over the course of two decades has been a malign influence on denuclearization talks. President trump can claim that as a victory. He is dealing directly with the North Koreans. The chinese arent in the room. This is a process and if it works out all the criticisms from Vice President biden and others will fall away. If it doesnt work out, President Trump will be in a very difficult position. But this is going to be a long, long process. The North Koreans arent going to be helping. Alicia it seems like a forever game. There are a few steps forward, a couple steps back. Everybody goes sideways sometimes. Should americans think it is actually going anywhere . I actually think it is. If you look the middle of may of last year President Trump had the most successful north korea policy of any president. The North Koreans were making all the concessions and we werent making any. After the middle of may we started making concessions and the North Koreans werent. He said i will give kim a onetime shot to disarm. Theyve had a little more than that now. President trump can go back to the policies that made him effective. Those policies were the vigorous enforcement of sanctions that put the North Koreans in a place where they had to deal with President Trump. Alicia thank you so much for your time and sticking around. Jon iran is threatening to ramp up uranium enrichment to near weapon grade levels as britain seizes one of their oil tankers. 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Its like theyre in a box and bouncing against the walls looking for a way to get out. So one of the strategies here is to breach the agreement and essentially hoping that the europeans would be so fretful about this that they would do something to either ease the economic pressure on the iranians or somehow push the United States to do something. Instead it looks like in the end the europeans are likely to put sanctions on iran and ironically in a way to try to save the deal to show they are still committed to the deal by insisting iran comply with the deal. I dont think the iranian strategy will work well. Jon it doesnt seem like it gets them anywhere. They wont win any concessions from the United States and doesnt sound like the europeans either are inclined to relax the sanctions on iran because they are threatening to ramp up uranium production. It actually shows the deep flaws in the iran deal. It wasnt a break, just the push button. If the iranians at the flip of a switch proceed back on a Nuclear Enrichment program and back on the path to the bomb, what were the benefits of the iran deal with begin with . Jon the president seems to be not in a mood to accept a lot of iranian aggression and they have been acting up lately. Listen. President trump well see what happens with iran. Iran has to be very, very careful. Jon he postponed or called off what was intended to be a response against iran after they shot down one of our drones. I imagine there is still plenty of Iranian Military hardware in the crosshairs of the u. S. Military right now. Right. The u. S. Policies is in a good place. He put pressure on the iranians and the iranians helped them by making them look for dangerous and more pressure on the europeans. The Oil Sanctions have been very effective to the point that iranians are almost afraid their economy will shut down. I think what the administration has to do on the one hand people will say you need to back off because the iranians will do something dangerous. Indeed, there are forces in iran that want to do whacky things and they might try something. What the United States has to keep the pressure on. It has them right where they want them. At some point the iranians will want to come back to the table. On the other hand somebody in iran may do something stupid and the United States has to be disciplined and showing it wont mess with that but not escalate. They need to stay right where they are. Jon talk about that term proportional. That was a 40 Million Drone they shot out of the sky and all the oil tankers that we have pretty clear evidence were sabotaged by Iranian Forces in small boats. Why not aim a drone at one of the small boats. Would that be disproportional . Thats an act of selfdefense. Honestly, kind of the drone thing is on us. We should not have left our drone that vulnerable. We should have certainly considered that kind of iranian response. So i really wonder if that was our finest hour there. But i think that well protect our assets and weve made that very clear to the iranians. And were talking about living human beings. If they go something with a live human being on it and threatens to hurt or till them that asset will get taken out. Iranians know that and thats proportional. Nobody in the world would take us to task for that. Jon the iranians are threatening again to ramp up their uranium production. They dont need it for power plants. The only purpose that could be served by this highly concentrated uranium is weapons, right . Look, they didnt need enrichment at all. Under the npt they shouldnt have had enrichment. One of the ultimate sins of the iran deal was we let them have enrichment. When you can enrich you can make the stuff for a bomb at some point. If we had taken that off the table. If they let them keep the Nuclear Power plants but given up the capacity to enrich uranium we wouldnt be where we are today. The original sin was obama got us to this point. We put the Pressure Campaign in place. Iranians came to the table and then he basically let them do whatever they wanted them to. Were back where we started. We cant repeat the sins of the past. Look, weve also got to realize at some point the iranians have to come back to the table. They know that. Theyre looking for a facesaving way to do it. Jon thank you very much, james. Alicia former Vice President joe biden unloads on President Trump in an interview this morning. The idea that i would be intimidated by donald trump . He is the bully that i knew my whole life. He is the bully that ive always stood up to. He is the bully who used to make fun when i was a kid and i stuttered and i smacked them in the mouth. I wish i had been labeled as moderate when i was running in delaware back in the day. 80 of the party center left. I am center left. Far left is getting far more attention. Look. Its a disconnect. Look, its center left. Thats where i am. Where its not is way left. Former Vice President joe biden speaking out in new interview saying the new Democratic Party isnt as far left as it seems. Peter doocy is following this from houston, texas today. Peter, he talked about the debate, too. What did he say he wasnt prepared for . Alicia, the former Vice President said he was not prepared to have to defend certain positions that he had decades ago without the time at the debate to go into proper context, including his former opposition to a federal mandate on busing as a way to integrate schools. Were you prepared for them to come after you. I was prepared for them to come after me. I wasnt prepared for the foreign come at me the way she knew bo. She knows me. I dont anyway. Bidens admission when he caught off balance civil rights record was a big surprise for senator harris who points out the stories about biden recalling civility with segregationists were on newspapers for days before the debate. Part of the elm at the tuesday of th impetus of the conversation was that the statements the Vice President made about his work with segregationists. And that was the subject of conversations for days at end. So, you know, is h if he and his team werent prepared for the topic, i dont know what to say about that. You heard it there, harris still not satisfied bye bye dens explanations of his former positions. She and the former v. P. Though are going to be here in houston today at a forum where they will have a chance to answer questions posed by the public. School teachers, the top four democrats in the polls are all going to be here, elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders here, too. So look out for that this afternoon. Peter doocy, thank you so much. President trump just addressing a sort of a mysterious incident involving the Vice President this week. On tuesday, Vice President pence suddenly cancelled a trip to New Hampshire after being called back to the white house. Now, heres what the president told reporters about it just moments ago. You will know in about two weeks. What was it. A very interesting problem that they had in New Hampshire. What kind of problem . I cant tell you about it. But it had nothing to do with the white house there was a problem up there. And i wont go into what the problem was but you will see in about a week or two. Originally an announcement was made that the Vice President was called back to d. C. For an undisclosed emergency. The white house later clarified saying there was no cause for alarm and had nothing to do with the president wants health. President s health no matter what i wore, i worried someone might see my bladder leak underwear. So, i switched. To always discreet boutique. 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As his administration faces a federal judges deadline, that is this afternoon, just hours from now. This is outnumbered im Julie Banderas and here today fox News Headlines 24 7 reporter carley shimkus. Fox news contributor kat timpf. Fox news contributor dr. Nicole saphier and in the center seat today actor, tv host, and producer dean cain. Thank you all for being here today. We have a lot to talk about. Start with breaking story this afternoon the president weighing in on this moments ago. The Trump Administration facing a federal judges deadline 2 00 p. M. Eastern today. Two hours from now we will