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Hezbollah and conducted surveillance of possible target locations. Such covert activities conducted on u. S. Soil are a clear threat to our national security. Prosecutors say he surveilled dozens of locations on behalf of hezbollah in new york city including not only the United Nations and quarters, the statue of liberty and times square, but also the empire state building, Grand Central terminal, the new york stock exchange, Brooklyn Bridge omma and local airports. Saab also gathered intelligence on potential targets in cities like washington, d. C. , focusing on the capitol building, lincoln memorial, and the white house. And in boston and fish locations like fenway park and the prudential center. If the fbi recovered these photographs from saabs electronic devices. Investigators say saab provided hezbollah details on the structural weaknesses or soft spots of locations, noting details like how close an attacker could get to a target. According to the indictment, saab joint has the law in 1996 and trained to build explosives. In 2000 saab first enter the u. S. At that same year prosecutors allege he joint hezbollahs Islamic Jihad organization or i jay oh, responsible for planning and coordinating terrorist activities. He became an american citizen in 2008 and lived in new jersey. Prosecutors adding even though saab was a naturalized american citizen, his true allegiance was to hezbollah, the terrorist organization responsible for decades of terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds. Investigators say saab also conducted operations outside the United States including once attempting to murder a man he thought to be a suspected israeli spy. Bret. Bret bryan thank you. Lawmakers in the Intelligence Community and the Current Administration are dealing with a new potentially explosive issue. A whistleblower complaint over an alleged promise made by President Trump to a foreign leader. The case is shrouded in mystery and was the subject of a closed door classified meeting today on capitol hill. The president is already pushing back in the house intel chair is threatening to go to court. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has the latest tonight. Behind closed doors on capitol hill, the Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson briefed republicans and democrats on the house intelligence committee. The democratic chairman said the session did not confirm media reporting for the whistleblower complaint involves a phone call for the president made a promise to a foreign leader. Still, he set the threshold for congressional notification was not in the intelligence chief blocked it. It was an urgent matter, the director of National Intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with congress. On twitter, President Trump called the place another fake news story and referring to the fact that other officials were likely listening to his calls, is anybody dumb enough to believe that i would Say Something inappropriate with a foreign leader while in such a potential heavily populated call . American leaders are often measured by what they tell foreign leaders. Thenpresident obama famously told the outgoing russian president he would have more flux ability to negotiate a defense issue after the election. Today the House Minority leader was skeptical. Another media always wants to rush when they think something sensationalist and nine times out of ten we find out a lot of that is not true. I think the New York Times has experienced that just in the last week. Than a whistleblower complaint may further stress the relationship between the Intelligence Community and administration. There are remaining legal questions over whether acting dnr mcguire can share intelligence from executive branch communications. We do know the department of justice has been involved in the decision to withhold that information from congress. We do not know because we cannot get an answer to the question about whether the white house is also involved in preventing this information from coming to congress. The acting director of National Intelligence is scheduled to publicly testify next week. Many democrats say they are willing to go to court over the issue while republicans call that schiff statement is extreme, adding they are taking a waitandsee attitude on on the complaint, bret. Bret kaplan, thank you. Canadas leader is trying for the second day in a row to deal with an emerging scandal as he faces a tough reelection campaign. Pictures have surfaced of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau outfitted in dark face makeup during social gatherings when he was younger. Trudeau is now on his second round of apologies. Correspondent laura ingle has our story. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expanding his apology today for what is now at least three past incidents of him wearing black and brown face. This is something that i deeply, deeply regret. This barely a day after trudeau, who is campaigning for reelection, initially confronted allegations on his Campaign Plane after Time Magazine published a photo of him from the west point gray academy. It shows trudeau, who was a teacher at the time, wearing a turban and robe with his face, neck, and hands completely darkened as he posed during arabian nightsthemed party. Im going to be asking canadians to forgive me for what i did. I shouldnt have done that. Trudeau now admitting he has worn brown or black face at least three times in his past but couldnt recall if there were more instances, adding he has never talked about this publicly because hes embarrassed. I didnt understand how hurtful this is to people who live with discrimination every day. Pick all of this a shock to many who consider that Canadian Liberal Party leader a champion of minority groups during his nearly four years as Prime Minister. His political opponents calling trudeaus past actions disheartening and hurtful. We see with Justin Trudeau one set of rules for himself and one set of rules for the rest of us. I am deeply troubled by what this means for canada. Young kids are going to see not just one or two, but multiple images of the Prime Minister mocking their lived reality. The most recent polling in canada done before the scandal broke showed trudeau at the top of the list of who canadians favor with the current set of Political Party leaders. The Canadian Election takes place october 21st. Bret. Bret laura, thank you. President trumps approval numbers have ticked up, but he continues to be under water the latest fox news poll. 45 of those surveys approved of the president s Job Performance his approval was up from 43 in august. 47 of those polled say the economy is an excellent or good condition. 51 think the economy is only fair or poor. This is the president of westerns legal team is trying to stop the latest attempt to get a look at some other numbers, his tax returns. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts has the latest. President trumps attorneys today fired back against a Manhattan District Attorney filing suit to block the release of the president s tax returns claiming because this up enough times criminally investigate a sitting president , it is unconstitutional. This court should call invalid and to join its enforcement till is no longer in office. Monday they subpoenaed the president s Accounting Firm demanding eight years of the president s tax returns. In response to the lawsuit, judge Victor Marrero stated enforcement of the subpoenas and scheduled arguments for next monday. The only public response from the d. A. s office we have received the plaintiffs complaint and will respond as appropriate in court. Two other attempts to get President Trumps tax returns are currently tied up in the courts. A subpoena from the House Oversight committee may soon be decided at the d. C. Circuit court of appeals in subpoenas from the Financial Services that intelligence committees to Deutsche Bank and capital one are being by the Appeals Court of the second circuit. At the president s attorneys battle it out in court, negotiators for the United States and china are wrestling over how to proceed on a trade deal. It talks at the deputies levels resumed in washington in preparation for another highlevel round next month. A new fox news poll finds 45 of registered voters believe tariffs are hurting the u. S. Economy. 31 say they are helping. And a cnbc conference this morning, Vice President pence insisting a new trade deal is critical to americas economic future. The question now is whether or not china wants to do a deal. I think we have a sense china wants to do a deal, we just dont know if they want to do it yet. And it will still be a while before we find out what President Trump will propose on guns. The president telling our ed henry yesterday he is not going to rush a plan. We are not moving on anything, were going very slowly in one week because we want to make sure its right. We are doing very careful job. We are working with the democrats, we are working with republicans. Democrats are puzzled as to whats taking so long. I dont know whats holding the president up on it. I know hes busy. We hope to hear from him soon. President trump said if the democrats asphalt pointing to democratic president ial candidate beto orourke threat last week, yes we are going to take your ar15. A lot of republicans and some democrats now are afraid to do anything to go down that slippery slope. A Court Victory for the president today in california for a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the state of california and a new law that will require president ial candidates to disclose their income Tax Information in order to qualify for the states primary ballot. The president s attorney jay sekulow in a statement saying it remains our position that the law is unconstitutional because states are not permitted to add additional requirements for candidates for president. Bret. Bret john roberts live on the north lawn, thank you. Stocks were mixed today. The dow lost 52. The s p 500 was up a fraction, the nasdaq gained five and a half. The president s top diplomat is on his way back to washington at this hour. Secretary of state mike pompeo returning from a quick trip to the middle east to consult with allies about last weekends attack on Saudi Oil Facilities. Iran the most likely culprit is warning any retribution will be met with a prompt return and will cause a massive conflict. State Department Correspondent rich edson has details tonight. An allout war. Iranian foreign minister warning of the consequences of a saudi or u. S. Attack on his country. We dont want to engage in a military confrontation. We believe that a military confrontation based on deception is awful, will have a lot of casualties. But we wont blink to defend our territory. Secretary of state mike pompeo called the attack on saudi arabia an act of war spent the last two days meeting with leaders in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. Im here in an act of diplomacy while the foreign minister of iran is threatening allout war. The secretary says he is returning to washington to get President Trump information about how the United States should proceed. He says the u. S. And its regional allies have determined its abundantly clear iran is responsible for this weekends attack on Saudi Oil Infrastructure that the finger prince of irans ayatollah have put the Global Energy supply at risk. Anybody in the region who doubted that for a single momen moment. U. S. Officials say intelligence shows the drone and Cruise Missile attacks against the two Saudi Oil Facilities came from southwest iran. Publicly, pentagon Officials Say theyre not ready to say where the attack came from and at the u. S. Will wait until american investigators complete their final assessment with the saudis. Defense officials also said the pentagon is considering sending more troops, air defense units and f22 fighter jets to the middle east. A senior at Administration Official says the state department has approved a visa for iranian president hassan ronnie to travel to new york for the United Nations general assembly. The official says iran requested around 120 visas, state rejected about 40 tiding them exciting ties to the irg c. Bret. Bret we will be up at the u. N. General assembly next week, which adds in at the state apartment, thanks. There is still no firm plan for getting a new government in israel. Tuesdays Election Results have left neither Prime Minister benjamin not netanyahu or his opponent with enough votes to claim power in the discussion of a third election is being discussed. Trey yingst has the latest from jerusalem tonight. Is the deadlock over the israeli elections drags on, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met his opponent, former army chief for the first time in months at a ceremony marking the three Year Anniversary of former Prime Minister and president s death. The two shook hands as netanyahu cracked a smile and then he stood stoic. In between them was israeli president who will give one candidate than odd likely next week to Start Building a government. Netanyahu, who is facing charges of corruption and bribery, could face jail time if he is not elected Prime Minister and able to pass an immunity law. The urgency was seen today as he called for a unity government with his main rival, something he campaigned against doing. In his elections, there is no clear winner and i call on you, benny, as the president ordered. Let us Work Together to bring the state of israel to save shores. Netanyahu made an agreement with all of the right wing parties, having them sign a document saying they would support a joint government only if netanyahu remained in his position. If gantz gets the support of former defense minister and netanyahu rival, who will control at least eight seats, he will surpass the 61 seat majority and increase his chances of becoming Prime Minister. I want an intent to set a broad and liberal unity government headed by me. The surprise offered by Prime Minister netanyahu to team up with his opponent was quickly rejected by benny gantz. The battle over who will be israels next friend minister is expected to continue for weeks. If no resolution is reached, israel is headed to a third round of elections in the coming months. Bret. Bret trey yingst in jerusalem, thank you. Up next, catastrophic flooding in texas is turning roads into rivers. We will bring you there. First, heres what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight buried box 13 and tempo. Diverted after what is called a cabin pressurization irregularity. This leads pilots to take that plane from 39,000 feet to 10,00f 7 minutes. The flight, which originated in atlanta, was forced to make an alert to Emergency Landing in tampa. Q13 fox in seattle where amazon vows to cut emissions as it delivers more than 10 billion items a year on planes, vans, and trucks. Amazon Officials Say they ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans that will start hitting the road next year. The Company Plans to have 100 of its energy use from solar panels and other renewable sources by 2030. If this is a live look at detroit from our affiliate fox 2. The big story there tonight, michigans ban on flavored nicotine vaping products now in effect. It comes after the state Health Department declared a Public Health emergency connected to i it. Also tonight, the center for Disease Control and prevention says 530 people have now been diagnosed with vapingrelated breathing illnesses. The cause remains unknown. And just moments ago, Missouri Health officials said a man in that state in his 40s has died of a long illness related to the use of ecigarettes. He is now the eighth vaping death in the u. S. In recent weeks. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. We will be right back. Of course i have ever since i started renting from national. 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Today a Government Official in beijing set hong kong is an internal chinese issue and the u. S. Should respect chinas sovereignty. Tonight, a prominent democratic donor and activist is being accused of causing the death of 26yearold man two years ago. Ed buck is charged with one count of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death. The criminal complaint also alleges another man died in his apartment from a Drug Overdose earlier this year and that buck provided narcotics to a series of other men, one of whom suffered two overdoses several weeks ago. Forecasters are warning of catastrophic flooding as a tropical depression dumps more than 3 feet of rain on southeast texas. Casey stegall shows us tonight. Is tropical depression continues moving inland, the system, texas first named storm since Hurricane Harvey in 2017, has drenched parts of southeast texas. In liberty, and our northeast of houston, blinding rains fell at a rate of 6 inches an hour at one point. 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Houstons transportation even coming to a grinding halt, high water cost the citys metro system to be suspended and ground stops issued at both of houstons major airports. Casey stegall, fox news. Bret up next, what facebooks creators says big tech should be doing about online extremism. First, beyond our borders tonight. Secretary of state pompeo says the u. S. Is taking back 100 million intended for an Afghan Energy Infrastructure Project citing unacceptable high levels of corruption in the afghan government. Pompeo says the u. S. Will still finish the massive project that involves five power substations and a maze of transition lines in southern afghanistan but he will not spend the money through the current afghan leadership. A Japanese Court has ruled three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power company were not guilty of professional negligence in the 2011 disaster at the Nuclear Power plant. 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Online extreme is him yesterday, lawmakers asked facebook, twitter, and google what they could have done to stop mass shooters in el paso and dayton who posted their extremist views on their platforms. Facebook says theyve gone all in on moderating violence and terrorism and they are sidebyside with Law Enforcement to take down bad guys and criminals. We are learning tonight senators pressed zuckerberg on facebooks mishandling of user data. Josh hawley tells fox News Facebook should sell off instagram if its serious about privacy. Something he pressured zuckerberg to do today. Bret. Bret thank you. Nike has ended its endorsement deal with new England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown as he faces multiple allegations of sexual assault. A Company Spokesperson confirmed the move to Fox Business Network today. Nike released a signature sneaker for the athlete, and nike tech trainer Antonio Brown last february. 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Intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community. It was not immediately clear which foreign leader trump was speaking with or what he pledged to deliver. One former official says the communication was a phone call. The president tweeting about the story. Another fake news story out there, it never ends. Virtually any time i speak on the phone to a foreign leader i understand that there may be many people listening from various u. S. Agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem. Knowing all this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that i would Say Something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially heavily populated call . I would only do what is right anyway and only do good the usa. So lets start there with our panel. The White House Press secretary ari fleischer. Wesley marshall, democratic strategist, and jonah goldberg, fellow at the American Enterprise institute. Okay, ari, your thoughts on the story . Marking on is curious but highly skeptical. And heres why. When a president makes a phone call to a foreign leader, theres a team of people in the situation room of about four or five Intelligence Officers were typing every word the president and his counterpart say. Thats how up transcript gets created and that transcript then is shared around the administration is widely or as narrowly as the call requires for people to know that the president talked about. If there is something indeed that scandalous, that morally objectionable that the president said, it would have leaked, something along that line wouldve said something before the fact that only one Intelligence Officer has seen this enough to file a whistleblower report and none of the others who have seen it filed a report, it just makes me highly, highly suspect, especially all the other false accusations against this president. This sounds like another one. Bret leslie, we saw some early reporting and President Trumps administration about phone calls he had with various leaders about the specifics of those phone calls from transcripts or actually hearing those calls, so this, i guess, falls into that line. Yes. When the president talks about fake news, this is very different than some of the other fake news accusations hes made. There is a transcript. There are written assists to the conversation. We dont know how many certainly within his country, but the statute is very clear. There obviously seems to be a disagreement between the acting director mcguire and the Inspector General, who did find this of an urgent nature and the statute is clear, if that is the case, then he, acting or otherwise, is supposed to provide that information to congress. So in a sense, he has broken the law, and if there is nothing so damning here, then why isnt congress being divided with the information right when they requested a . That would be the proper chain of commandprocess not to followe process as its been laid out in the statute and been followed prior. Bret to leslies point, here is adam schiff on privilege, again trying to be used by the white house. I dont know whether the white house is directly involved because we cant get an answer to that question. Given that it involves something that the ig has already found to be serious and credible and evidence of wrongdoing of one kind or another, there is no privilege that covers that. Bret jonah . Well, thats debatable. I believe both io bush at administration and Obama Administration contested the idea of the statute actually compelling the disclosure of the executive privilege stuff. According to a lot of constitutional scholars, theres a solid argument that the president could have done something absolutely terrible or said something absolutely terrible and he still within its constitutional prerogatives to keep that secret. So the law is going to be disputed in all of that and i take aris point and i generally agree that we should be very skeptical about all of this. There are a lot of people who rushed to judgments or always want to win the race to be wrong first in all this but there are in fact two people who think this allegation is significant enough. One is the actual whistleblower and when is the ig. That should be of concern. First of all, the president s tweet is odd in that it actually confirms the story. Theres nothing that he alludes to that says the story is fake. He actually confirms that this happened basically. Whether or not the substance of what he said was so terrible we just simply do not know and the problem isnt that just justice President Trump is not exactly a reliable defender of himself on this, he says inappropriate things all the time and has a long record of it. Adam schiff isnt reliable either. Hes gotten way of feta, out of the facts on the russia probe and a lot of other things and i think we do have to wait for the facts to come in. Bret what about the concern that president s should be able to have conversations with foreign leaders without getting out . Absolutely. Thats paramount, its of vital importance. And president s and the latitude. They need the latitude in a conversation with a foreign leader to say things that they think might move a foreign leader in americas interest in direction. Take as a hypothetical, lets say he was talking to the north Korean Leader and he said if you were able to make peace, youre going to be the richest guy in the world. We can make you rich because all that business is going to come in. Is that an inducement, is that a bribe, is that something a whistleblower would say you can do that or is that a legitimate use of president ial diplomacy to try and achieve a goal for our country . President s have an enormous latitude when it comes to information, intelligencesharing and diplomacy, properly so. Bret we will see where this goes, we need more facts. We will bring them to you here. Next up, canadas Prime Minister in brown face, israel possibly facing another election. We will bring you that. Im off to college. Im worried about my parents retirement. Dont worry. Voya helps them to and through retirement. Dealing with todays expenses. While helping plan, invest and protect for the future. So theyll be okay . I think theyll be fine. Voya. 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Wearing brown face is an active open mockery and racism. What canadians saw this evening is someone with a complete lack of judgment and integrity and someone who is not fit to govern this country. Bret the commonwealth of the virginia and the canadian Prime Minister dealing with his own brown faceblackface issue. Pictures, that when an arabian nights party, where he was a latin, and then we have him dressing up as harry belafonte. The Prime Minister on his second round of apologies. We are back with the panel, start there, jonah, thoughts . I dont know. Look, theres a reason why we get so many standup comedians from canada. Its just a great net exporter of comedy. I know im supposed to be scandalized by the blackface but once you get past hypocrisy issues issues and all of that, its just its one of the most sanctimonious World Leaders was famously a poster boy for sort of woke social justice stuff being points on his own petard, i just have popcorn, i dont have anything profound to say about it. Bret [laughs] leslie come to that point, Meghan Mccain tweeted out today that at a town hall recently the canadian Prime Minister trudeau chastise a woman for saying mankind instead of person kind. And yet here he is dealing with this today. I dont want to get on jonahs bad side, just remind me of that in the future, okay . With the popcorn there. Look, i included in this group, many of us have done stupid things in college but theres a difference between stupid and offensive. He admits what he did was wrong, it was offensive, it is for the canadian people to decide. I think that the Prime Minister today i would hope is a very different person and he was then. I think that we all are, so i think when he says its personhood, its person kind, not mankind or womankind, hes speaking not only to the sensitivities of certain people in the community in canada, but throughout the world and i believe his apology and we will see if the voters in canada do. Bret election upcoming. It lets to something more substantive, ari. Take a listen to Bibi Netanyahu and benny gantz, and they are tied essentially in israel and there may be another election. I want a liberal unity government headed by me, government that will benefit the will of the people and fulfill promises to the public. Benny, its up to us to form a broad unity government today. The people are expecting from both of us to show responsibility to Work Together and therefore i tell you, lets meet today and any time to this forward. Bret so the challenge is to form this government and just talked to somebody about the importance of what this means, if this leadership changes, or what it means for the u. S. Well, two points. Number one, in terms of israeli politics and what comes next, it is now a game of maneuvers buried in order to get 61 seats in israels parliament, you start cutting deals with everybody left, right, center, up and down and political ideology in israel becomes real flexible. People start forming alliances with groups that they hate if it will get them there 61 votes and thats whats happening behind the scenes now. Both parties are doing it, blue and white among with netanyahu netanyahus. Then bennys blueandwhite. In terms of what the implications are, especially in america, if anybody in america is thinking getting rid of netanyahu is going to lead to a different Israeli Defense policy or Foreign Policy or Security Policy or they will renegotiate the deal with iran or they will be a coming out for a two state solution, forget it. There is little difference between benny gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to security positions. Bb is seen as tougher, but any american who expects a big difference on most Foreign Policy issues, this election is not about that. Bret netanyahu is not, jonah, coming to the u. N. General assembly, obviously trying to form a Coalition Government and state a leader. Meantime, President Trump was asked about it and said the u. S. Is friends with israel. Even after a very close friendship with Bibi Netanyahu. I think is exact statement was our relationship is with israel and not just netanyahu and i think thats the exact correct thing for donald trump to say. In one of the reasons why i agree with most everything ari says, one of the reasons why this is so hard to form this coalition is that the blueandwhite party is actually basically just an antinetanyahu coalition. It is not really it is still its got liberal members but there were our broad consensus around a lot of the policies in israel, an enormous amount of netanyahu fatigue. We dont see that in america because Bibi Netanyahu particularly among republicans is very popular, but hes been around for an enormous amount of time in israeli politics, longestserving Prime Minister and a lot of people are just sick of him, hes got some corruption issues. I think some of that is unfair and it just makes it very difficult for benny gantz to agree when his singular issue was getting netanyahu out of their to serve under another netanyahu Prime Ministers ship. Bret leslie, iou sometime next time. Okay. 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