Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2015

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 20150625

Reason. Good evening, shannon. Reporter hello, bret, for the second time the Supreme Court led by chief justin john roberts, george w. Burn appoint year has upheld president obamas chief legislative achievement and handed the administration a big win. In a 63 decision the Supreme Court made clear it will have no part in dismantling the Affordable Care act. At issue whether the irs violated the law when it extended subsidies into all 50 states despite a phrase in the aca that says subsidies will exist in states that have september up exchanges. More than 30 of them chose not to. Writing for the majority chief Justice John Roberts said while the meaning of the phrase an exchange established by the state may seem plain when viewed in isolation, such a reading turns out to be untenable. Those credits are necessary to avoid the type of calamitous result that congress plainly meant to avoid. Judge scalia wrote this court rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere we should start calling the law scotus care. He says discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others and is prepared to assist and uphold its favorites. The administration has been dogged by the socalled obama care arktd text m. I. T. Economist michael gruber. If you dont set up an exchange that means your citizens dont get their tax credits. Reporter the administration repeatedly tried to distance itself from gruber despite his numerous appointments at the white house including at least one meeting with the president as the law was being drafted and remained confident it would be victorious. This law is working. And its going to keep doing just that. Reporter neither the administration nor lawmakers appeared to have a backup plan in the event that the court struck down the extension of the subsidies and may have dodged a political bullet. Were going to continue our efforts to do everything we can to put the American People back in charge of their own health care and not the federal government. Its a victory for common sense and for all american families. Reporter judicial executive and legislative branches aside, the latest fox news poll shows half of americans arent convinced. 50 still say they wish the law had never been passed versus 45 who are glad it was. A number of states that did not set up exchanges were wondering if they would be forced to following a ruling today that struck down the subsidies. But because that didnt happen after todays ruling the number of experts are saying theres really no motivation for the states to do that instead avoiding the headache and expense of setting up the exchanges and letting their residents go through the federal exchange. Health care. Gov. Shannon breen, thank you. In some ways this gives gop president ial candidates more red meat. Reporter it didnt take long for the Supreme Courts ruling to reverberate on the campaign trail. Several candidates said despite the ruling its still a lousy law. I believe obama care is bad for americans, bad for the country. People are not getting good care. Theyre not being taken care of right. Everybodys unhappy. Reporter and former Florida Governor jeb bush said quote this decision is not the end of the fight against obama care. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker blamed washington saying instead of just finger pointing from the president for why his law is failing, we need real leadership in washington and Congress Needs to repeal and replace obama care. Other gop candidates expressed disappointment and laid out the impact on this race. I believe 2016 will be a National Referendum on repealing obama care. Whoever the Republican Party may nominate the one thing i can assure you is that they will repeal and replace obama care with something better. Hillary clinton, the most likely democratic nominee, will make obama care her own. Reporter in fact she embraced the law tweeting yes, scotus affirms what we know is true in our hearts and under the law. Health insurance should be affordable and available to all. And her aides put on instagram a throw back photo of clinton hugging president obama in the situation room calling it a victory close to hillarys heart. Affordable health care for every american is the law of the land. A new bloomberg poll reveals Bernie Sanders has eaten into clintons lead in iowa up 8 points for may. And clinton is also down in New Hampshire with sanders up 6 points from a month ago. Today sanders called the High Court Ruling common sense. The idea that we would simply throw another 6. 4 Million People all of Health Insurance and totally disrupt the Affordable Care act he said makes no sense. Hes glad the Supreme Court ruled the way it did. Former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley said we must continue to build and improve upon this hardwon progress. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee called this a new low for the court and that a simple majority in black robes are circumventing the law. Business woman Carly Fiorina said it is outrageous the Supreme Court once again rewrote obama care to save it even though it isnt working for the majority of americans. And former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum says if you want to get rid of obama care you must elect a conservative president. Bret . Takes awhile to get that all in. Mike thanks. Well todays decision continues what has been by all accounts a very good week for president obama. Congress has approved two major items in the president s trade Agenda Setting up the real prize, a pacific rim trade pact. Also there has been no significant pushback on a change of policy regarding ransoms for americans taken hostage by terrorists. But iran remains a thorny issue with Nuclear Talks coming down to the wire. More on that coming up. First, to capitol hill and new information about thousands more emails in the irs targeting scandal destroyed during the investigation. Thousands of emails vanished. Heres correspondent rich edson. Reporter after an order to preserve evidence the Internal Revenue service says it erased hundreds of backup tapes containing tens of thousands of low is lois lerner emails. We havent even gotten into the content of the emails. Were just trying to get them so we can actually read them and figure out what was going on. Reporter testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the treasury Inspector General for tax Administrations Office says there are still up to 24,000 unrecovered lerner emails. The erasure was done by irs employees in martinsburg, west virginia. Our investigation found no evidence to prove the erasure was done in an effort to purposely destroy evidence. Lerner was director of the irss exempt organization office. That office says for two years it delayed applications for conservative and tea party organizations. After promising to provide congress all of lerners emails, irs commissioner john costinen says his agency lost or destroyed two years of her electronic correspondence. He pledged his agency would attempt to recover those lost emails. However, the Inspector General says the irs failed to search several sources for lerner emails, like backup tapes, hard drives and loneaner laptops that he says ultimately failed to disclose emails. The house ways and Means Committee and the oversight and Government Reform Committee here that it quote confirmed the emails were unrecoverable end quote. Given then that these tapes had been stopped, give than recoverable data still existed on the tapes was, that statement true. It would appear not to be true. The as for the investigation, congressman Elijah Cummings charges this inquiry has devolved into a republicanled political spectacle. This investigation has squandered tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in a failed Scavenger Hunt for any possible evidence to support republican accusations against lois lerner the irs and the white house. Revealing few details on his findings the treasury Inspector General says hes going to offer his preliminary report next week though he says he may have to issue a supplemental report on his investigation depending on what additional facts emerge. Bret . Rich edson live on capitol hill thank you. Continued worries about greece its economy, the shaky negotiations over another possible bailout sent stocks into negative tearrritory today. The dow is down 76 s p 500 lost 6. Fox 10 in phoenix with iraqi officials confirming the pilot of an f16 that went down in Southern Arizona overnight was an iraqi who had been training in the u. S. Neither iraq north the Arizona Air National guard have announce whad happened to that pilot. Wral in raleigh, North Carolina with another child bitten by a shark. 8yearold Brady Knowles is said to be in good spirits and recuperating. His dad says the boy was standing in kneedeep water in surf city when the shark came up from behind. Two teenagers, you may remember lost limbs in separate shark attacks earlier this month off of oak island. And this is a live look at new york city from fox 5, our affiliate there. The big story there tonight, a report accusing whole foods of overcharging customers. The New York Post reports the department of Consumer Affairs says whole foods charged extra on vegetable platters chicken tenders and berries. The Company Denies the accusations. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Ugh heartburn no one burns on my watch try alkaseltzer heartburn reliefchews. They work fast and dont taste chalky. Mmm. Amazing. I have heartburn. Alkaseltzer heartburn reliefchews. Enjoy the relief. Up. What could be interpreted as bad news tonight for president obama on iran. Several top advisers are coming out strongly against a nuclear deal with the islamic republic. Chief washington correspondent james rosen tells us why. Reporter as secretary of state kerry prepares to leave for vienna for the final scheduled week of the iran Nuclear Talks, he is and president obama faced an unprecedented public revolt by five former aides, faulting them for negotiating a weak deal one that will leave iran a threshold Nuclear Weapon state emboldened in its aggressive regional behavior. Former cia director general petraeus former nfc ambassador dennis ross. Form state Department Arms control adviser Robert Einhorn and gary samore signed an open letter stating most of us would have preferred a stronger agreement. We fear that the current negotiations may fall short of meeting the administrations own standard of a good agreement. The group had a sense and did have a concern that the negotiation does not fall short of these kinds of prince. Thats one of the reasons that the group decided it was important to put out the statement. With the new red lines hes demanding unacceptable restrictions on the verification provisions. And i dont think the administration can afford to agree to those kinds of terms. Reporter Administration Spokesman cast the groups statement not as an alarmed critique but rather an endorsement of mr. Obamas approach. The types of concerns that outlined in the letter are very much on our minds as well. So when they say we fear that the current negotiations may fall short of meeting the administrations own standard of a good agreement, they just dont understand what the administration is doing i guess. Id just say they have no reason to fear. Reporter director of National Intelligence general james clamp acknowledged to lawmakers in a june 3rd letter it would have been appropriate for his agencys 2015 worldwide threat assessment to have made mention of the iranhezbollah Terror Network as the state delayed its annual report on human rights which fouled iran guilty of arbitrations detentions torture and killings. The iran Nuclear Talks, however, are not linked are human rights. Im always hopeful, yes. Reporter its not just former advisers to president obama who are very concerned about the way the iran Nuclear Talks are unfolding. The latest fox news poll finds that just 17 of registered voters are quote very confident that the president can handle these negotiations with fully 50 saying they are not very confident or not at all confident. One final note we just learned from the white house that president obama received a phone call today from Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin with one of the topics discussed iran. Bret . James rosen, live on the north lawn. James, thank you. Please join me this weekend for a special look at how Jordans King Abdullah is trying to fight both syrian president ba bassil al assad. And details about a modernday underground railroad of hope to america for syrian christians who believe they may have lost their ancestral homeland forever. They flew via europe into mexico city and then to tijuana where they got a helping hand from a coyote, someone who smuggles people in across the border. He only gave us his first name manny. He described his role in this complicated process. I have many Law Enforcement friends who are willing to help along with our movement to facilitate the crossing whether it be Border Patrol friends or Law Enforcement agencies political ties anything thats needed. Reporter with all the danger fadi had experienced at home he figured there would be trouble. But he was surprised by how smoothly the whole process went in mexico. Fox news reporting crossing jordan escape from terror debuts friday 10 00 p. M. Eastern time. Isis terrorists have launched a swift counter offensive after recent setbacks against the kurds. Major assaults took place in two cities featuring deadly car bombs and a sneak attack carried out by militants dressed as syrian rebels. Dozens of people reportedly were killed or wounded. President obamas top intelligence official is pointing the finger squarely at china for the major hacking of federal government personnel data. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seemed almost complimentary of the hack today saying the perpetrators exhibited a great deal of skill. Please dont take this the wrong way. You have to kind of salute the chinese for what they did. If we had the opportunity to do that i dont think wed hesitate for a minute. Just to be clear, are you identifying china as the perpetrator behind the opm attack . Well i mean thats the leading suspect. The president s press secretary declined to comment on clappers statement. The death toll from this weeks heat wave in pakistan is nearing 900. Temperatures dropped to 93 degrees today from sundays high of 113. The situation has been complicated by muslims fasting without water to observe ramadan. That has led to largescale dehydration. Still ahead, how one of the most ferocious critics of republicans and fox news maintains a taxexempt status. First are we any closer to recapturing those two convicted killers nearly three weeks after they escaped from prison . So this beauty can be yours with a down payment and 10 financing. Oh larry, lawrence. Thanks to the tools and help at experian. Com, i know i have a 798 fico score. [score alert text sound] [score alert text sound] oh. Thats the sound of my Interest Rate going down. According to this score alert, my fico score just went up to 816. 816. 816 816 fico scores are used in 90 of credit decisions. So get your credit swagger on. 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