Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Happening Now 20170808 : comparemel

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Happening Now 20170808

The president is staying in the news. And the thing about this twitter stuff, its not that the president use it as, its that he gets himself in trouble with it. What we are looking for with the new chief of staff is not whether the president stops tweeting or sends out a bunch of boring tweets, its whether he stops tweeting things like president obama was wiretapping me. Jon laura engel is keeping tabs on the president , he is live dont act on my dock speak out we have just learned that the first lady will be in attendance for this opioid briefing today. Weve been giving a very close eye on the tweeting activity, as weve been reporting in the last 24 hours and this morning, Melania Trump set out a tweet that she will be in attendance for what her husband has called a major problem to address for our country. Mrs. Trump tweeting this. Opioids are destroying our youth and people, meeting with president of United States and secretary price today to give my support. The secretary of health and human services, tom price, has been working closely with a Trump Administration on this alarming problem. The growing figures show there have been more than 33,000 deaths involving opioids nationwide since 2015 with an average of nearly 78 people a day who die from opioidrelated overdoses and we are learning those numbers could be much worse. A number of those overdoses have been severely underreported. They found mortality rates were 22 higher for harrow and then it had been previously reported. Those unreported numbers coming largely from pennsylvania, indiana, new jersey. This is come to light on the heels of the Opioid Commission which is led by Chris Christie, to ask the president to declare a National Health emergency to handle the crisis. If an emergency is declared, that would then pave the way for the government to have the ability to expand access to drug treatment programs and it would also allow pharmaceutical companies to stop overdose of medications. Jon will be hearing from the president a little later today. Laura ingle, thank you. Melissa this is a fox news alert, new signs of north korea defying International Pressure to stop its missile tests. U. S. Spy agencies are reporting that they found two antiship cruise missiles days ago. Jon that ominous news coming from the United Nations on saturday after issuing their heaviest sanctions yet on the rogue regime. Nikki haley on the importance of russia and china joined the u. S. On those sanctions. All of us should be concerned about whats happening right no now. North korea is concerned back, now they are seeing the International Community standing with one voice, china didnt pull off, russia did and pull off, and all of the Security Council and the International Community said thats a lot, youve got to stop it. The International Community really laid on down the groundwork of saying were not going to watch you do this anymore, now north korea has to respond. And yes, theyre going to say, theyre going to threaten, theyre going to do all of these things, but were not going to run scared. Melissa greg palkot is live from our london bureau. Speak out talk and action on both sides of this issue come out lets start with secretary of state to listen. He is right now in asia, hes been in thailand moving on to malaysia trying to drum up support for those strong new Security Council sanctions. They ban a range of exploit. Both of those countries are active in trade with north korea, also, they ask for Third Party Domain countries which help to raise revenue for pyongyang. This, as another neighbor japan, and a new report today says the threat is at a new stage. The tests they have been watching, show there a good chance that they could nuclear eyes. Theyre talking about bolstering their own defenses. U. S. Officials are telling fox news at spy agencies are already detecting those antiship cruise missiles being loaded on north korean patrol boats. Its been happening for the last couple of days and it hasnt happened for about three years, and a sign of your activities there. And the rhetoric still coming from the regime of kim jongun continuing to bash the United States, it was basically the u. S. Behind those sanctions. According to north korea, they are getting ready for a savage physical attack on the United States and they claim, and some experts are saying that might be closer to reality, that they can hit the mainland u. S. No indication on the story. Back to you. Melissa greg palkot, thank you. Jon some troubling numbers for President Trump as we get new polling, which shows six month into his presidency, his job approval standing is at its lowest point in seeing and pulling, just 38 of americans approve of mr. Trumps handling of the presidency, 56 disapprove. Thats very similar to pulling from cbs which shows only 36 of those surveyed approve. Joining us now, political reporter who covers capitol hil capitol hill. Im sure the president will say these are fake poll numbers, but what does it do to it administration, to an agenda when youre pulling numbers the slow . It shows people are not satisfied. President trump space is still behind him, we are talking about the entire country when we are talking about these poll numbers. When you look at supporters and republicans, a majority of republicans are Still Standing behind trump, however those numbers have dipped a little bit if you look at it from even early june, they were assessing twothirds of republicans approved of trump, now we are talking about half of republicans approving of trump. From my point on capitol hill, there used to be this machiavelli in effect where lawmakers were afraid to criticize them because they were afraid it would hurt their own poll numbers. As his popularity has declined, ive seen more of elegance criticize him on the hill. Jon thats gets to the point, michael, where if you want to be a special president coming without public behind you. If republicans are more willing to criticize him, he is less likely to get his legislative agenda passed on capitol hill, right . Thats right, especially when you look at where that legislative agenda is currently. Over the last six months, its really gone nowhere. This is a big problem and its why youre seeing a couple of things. At the beginning of the administration, there is a big push to do the things that only the president can do alone, regulations, executive orders, i think what youre seeing now is this push to address the opioid crisis, get this commission together, get the report out, try to find some ways to do this. Its another reaction to the political reality, which is its about the extent of what he can do alone in the executive branch, because he doesnt really have a lot of Political Capital to expand to get his agenda through and congress. Jon the projections which are half a million americans a year could die within the next ten years if we dont do something about this opioid crisis, clearly that is something that a president can do a great deal about, and it is the kind of president ial issue that Many Americans think he should be tackling. Is this a sign that the change of staff at the white house is redirecting the president s focus . I think its too early to tell, but you hit the nail on the head right there when you talk about trump focusing on these important issues like north korea and opioids today. Republicans on the hill have been a little worried in recent weeks that trump is getting a little distracted by the fighting in the white house and focusing on the russia investigation, they want him to focus on issues just like this. You talk about opioid, i think Chris Christie said Something Like 140 americans die every day of overdoses, thats more than a 9 11 type of occurrence every three weeks. His attention on these issues could be the new chief of staff, but its definitely welcome, what hes doing right now on capitol hill. Jon in the recent past, the president s attempts to try to focus on what he considers big issues, he had his focus one week at the white house on made in america, that kind of thing gets covered up either by other events, north korea for instance, or just by arguments or tweets that the president sends out. Thats absolutely right. This is a president will walk and step on his own message. Thats why is the job of the Communications Director who is not something theyre getting a lot of applicants for, because its hard to craft a message whenever a president who steps on it. Through his own tweets and through that enter west wing, Enter White House administration, the very civil wars that are going on. I think when you go back to these poll numbers, that is where you are starting to see some of the craft in his suppor support, theyre saying, what has the president been able to do . Congress has always had low Approval Ratings, theyre being blamed for an action in washington. The president wanted to drain the swamp and he hasnt done that so far. Hes done important, but relatively minor issues rather than trying to get three legislate of agenda and republicans have to be wondering, why did we elect this president . Jon one of the troubling numbers in that poll suggests that americans, less than half of americans now believe this president can actually bring change to washington which is a big part of what he was elected to do. Michael warren, Senior Writer at the weekly standard, rachel from politico, thank you. Melissa a woman accused of killing her husband, going to trial, why theyre having a hard time finding a jury, thats ahead. Plus north korea ramping up its threats against the United States, Ambassador Nikki Haley says its time to act. How many more icbm tests do need to see before we do something . Melissa new information on some crime stories we are following. Jury selection continues today in houston for the trial of sandra balaguer, accused of stabbing her husband to death and trying to cover it up. Attorneys on both sides cannot agree on 12 jurors out of a pool of 65 yesterday. She could face life in prison if she is convicted. A Sheriffs Department in ohio says a rape suspect shot and killed himself. Brandon powell was being transported from a Mental Hospital on friday. He forced the deputy driving the van to crash and took his gun. The murder trial of molly Martin Corbett and her father, Thomas Martin is going to wrap up toda today. Prosecutors say he was hit in the head with a baseball bat close to a dozen times. Defense attorneys say it was selfdefense. Jon a fox news alert, north korea faces a billiondollar hit to its economy after the u. N. Imposed its toughest distinctions yet against the rogue regime before test launching to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles last month. China and russia, amazingly, joined the unanimous Security Council saturday to pass those sanctions, which the u. S. Drafted. Heres nikki haley, are you an ambassador. Saturday was a huge win for the United States, it was a huge win for the United Nations. It was not a good day for north korea. Basically what you saw was everyone come together and say this is got to stop. This is not something we think can be casually dealt with and i think they hit him and basically we hit them back. Jon John Garamendi of california, a member of the Armed Services committee and the subcommittee on strategic forces. He was on the Korean Peninsula a few weeks ago and was briefed on the regime and their icbm program. You must be heartened by the u. N. Sanctions and especially by the fact that russia and china joined in. Its very, very good news. It is extremely good news and thats followed up by the conference in which the Chinese Foreign minister really went after north korea. All of this is good news. Of course, kim jongun is pushing back and putting out all kinds of threats, but this is been a seriously hurt economy and it might cause him to come to the table and we can have some rational, good negotiation negotiations. Jon so far, there are no signs of that. North korea has remained very belligerent and says they will not negotiate. Do you think thats just bluster or a temporary moment . No, i dont think its bluster at all, but you might expect that going into negotiations. What you have to do is use the current sanctions, all these countries coming together and then begin the serious negotiations, keeping the pressure on north korea, and moving them away from the line. Will we be successful . Its well worth an attempt. Jon kim jongun seems to see a nuclear threat, as the only way for him to get what he wants in the world. How to use this stick of sanctions and offers some kind of carrot . Thats what the negotiation will be about, but it appears that most people believe that what hes looking for is stability in his regime, that his regime and his longtime family dominance of that country somehow will be able to keep in place. Other ways that can be done other than a Nuclear Weapon and intercontinental ballistic missile, thats with the negotiations will have to get into. Obviously thats going to be a tough situation, but right now, i think we are very, very wellpositioned. We have russia, china, the United States, the u. N. , and all of us pushing kim jongun away from the Nuclear Weapons and the intercontinental blessing missiles. Well see what happens, but we are in a good place right now, we have to continue to go down this track and we need all of these countries be willing to sit down at the table and be very, very tough on negotiations using the sanctions and the economic problem. Jon lets talk domestic policy and specifically health care. Mitch mcconnell says hes open to a bipartisan plan that would continue to Pay Insurance Companies subsidies low income people. Does that sound to you like the starting point for negotiation that could be successful . Absolutely. Thats a very good opening. We had that seven months ago when this new administration opened up. They wanted to do with their own way with her pill an end that didnt work out at all. Now we need to sit down together and make sure the Health Insurance is available to every american at an affordable cost not the same time, look at ways of reining in the increasing cost of health care and there are ways to do this. Theyve been on the table, theyve been discussed, all of those mechanisms, and i was a time for us to work together, and we can. Republicans want to do that. Ill tell you, every democrat, theyre going to sit down and get it done. Jon its good to have you on, thank you. Melissa the challenge of facing the president when it comes to the war in afghanistan. Theyre trying to turn down the deteriorating situation over there, why this may be more of an inner struggle for the president. Because there are limits to the amount of fossil fuels that we can burn. Since 1925, we have depended on diesel generators, burning approximately a million gallons of diesel fuel a year. Were going through an energy revolution. Our mission is to make offshore wind one of the principle new sources of energy. Not every bank is willing to get involved in a first of its kind project. Citi really stepped up when we needed them. 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The sheer force of the winds, so strong that it split trees and overturned cars. I saw a tornado come up and you saw the ring in the trees just coming and coming. I was just like, i hope he is okay, then my phone rung and yelled to my phone, and it was him and he was like, the car just flipped, but im okay, but my foot is all cut up, but i got out of the car in time. Jon thankfully no serious injuries reported. The National Weather service says it most likely was a tornado, but a mowing that announcement for official till it the damage later today. Melissa parking right now on the war in afghanistan is the Trump Administration works to come up with a new strategy to reverse the deteriorating situation there. The commander in chief seems to be struggling with himself, this is according to an executive washington editor of the wall street journal. He writes, the president who hates moving fears h

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