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00:00Good evening, I'm Bret Baier.
00:03Former President Donald Trump says he might agree to another debate with Vice President
00:07Harris if he gets, quote, in the right mood.
00:10That comes just one day after saying there would be no third debate.
00:14The Republican nominee took questions from reporters this afternoon in California.
00:19Congressional correspondent Aisha Hosni was out there.
00:22She starts us off tonight from Rancho Palos Verdes, California, with the latest.
00:26Good evening, Aisha.
00:27Bret, good evening to you.
00:29It is not a commitment, but it is the first time the former president has softened up
00:34to the idea of doing another debate.
00:36That off-the-cuff comment came right after he wrapped up a big press conference here,
00:42basically telling reporters that he didn't have to do another debate.
00:45What would it take to do another debate?
00:48What would you need and want?
00:49I wouldn't need anything.
00:50I could do it tomorrow.
00:51Maybe if I got in the right mood, I don't know.
00:53Right now, I'm leaving.
00:54Former President Trump leaving the door cracked open to another debate against Vice President
00:59Kamala Harris one day after he said that there would be no rematch.
01:04But defiant, he won the first.
01:06The president held a news conference at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf club in between two
01:11high-dollar fundraisers in California, one hosted by billionaire Tom Siebel, a relative
01:18of Governor Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
01:21The GOP nominee also ripping apart his opponent's home state.
01:26California has the highest inflation, the highest taxes, the highest gas prices, the
01:31most illegal aliens, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities.
01:36And calling Harris the, quote, godmother of sanctuary cities.
01:40She boasted, quote, we are a sanctuary city and we always will be.
01:43Well, the sanctuary cities of crime.
01:46Trump also took incoming about right wing social media personality Laura Loomer, who's
01:51been traveling with the president this week.
01:53His own allies questioning her influence on him as she's getting blowback from conservatives
01:58over a tweet saying, among other things, that the White House would smell like curry if
02:03Vice President Harris won.
02:05I don't know what she said, but I'll go take a look and I'll put out a statement later
02:09on.
02:10She brings a spirit to us.
02:13Now the former president is headed to Nevada to host a big rally there.
02:17Arizona and Nevada bread are two of the biggest concerns for Senate Republicans right now
02:22because their candidates face a huge cash disparity with Senate candidates for the Democrats
02:29side.
02:30It is unclear at this hour if the former president will try to help them at all with fundraising
02:35after he wraps up these events here in California, because he, too, is facing a major shortage
02:41or at least a funding gap with his opponent, Brett.
02:47I just ain't traveling with the former president.
02:49I should.
02:50Thanks.
02:51Vice President Kamala Harris, meantime, will address supporters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
02:54As you look there live in just a few minutes, you're seeing Senator Casey there from Pennsylvania.
03:00It's another visit to a state that could decide who sits in the Oval Office for the next four
03:04years.
03:05Correspondent Brian Yennis is in Pennsylvania tonight.
03:09I am feeling very good about Pennsylvania because there are a lot of people in Pennsylvania
03:17who deserve to be seen and heard.
03:19Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris campaigning in rural Pennsylvania counties.
03:24Trump won by double digits in 2020.
03:26Ultimately, I feel very strongly that I've got to earn every vote.
03:30In a new document, the Harris campaign is detailing its plan for rural America for the
03:35first time, promising to invest in rural infrastructure, lower energy costs for farmers and lower grocery
03:42prices.
03:43But the latest Congressional Republican Joint Economic Committee report says Pennsylvanians
03:47are spending on average 19 percent, $984 more a month on energy, food, housing and
03:54transportation since the start of the Biden-Harris administration.
03:58The race in Pennsylvania is tied and it hinges on the economy, where polls show Trump is
04:03trusted more than Harris.
04:04Inflation may not be the only problem for Harris, so too is the support of Pennsylvania's
04:09steelworkers.
04:10Tonight, The Washington Post reports the Biden-Harris administration will likely delay its decision
04:16on whether to block the acquisition of U.S. steel by Japan's Nippon Steel until after
04:21the election.
04:22Presidents Biden and Trump are against the deal, but local Democrats and unions say they're
04:26for it.
04:27Nippon has promised new equipment, new modernization, new techniques.
04:31The jobs will be created, they'll be secured, their pensions will be secured.
04:35The White House insists this is not a political calculation.
04:38It's simply waiting on a national security assessment.
04:41There's a process.
04:42A CFIUS has to make a recommendation, it has to be transmitted to the president, and the
04:45president then makes a decision that has not occurred, that has not happened.
04:51And tonight, in a major ruling, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court says that mail-in ballots that
04:56are undated or incorrectly dated will not be counted in this election.
05:01This is a win for Republicans that appealed a lower court's decision that ruled that misdated
05:06ballots should count.
05:08This can make all the difference in a close election.
05:12Take this in consideration, 16,000 mail-in ballots were not counted in the primary simply
05:18because voters forgot to put in the proper date.
05:21Brett?
05:22It's a big deal.
05:23A big deal.
05:24We're going to dig deep into that in coming days and weeks.
05:27Brian, thank you.
05:30Tonight at 11 p.m. Eastern, a special interview with former President Donald Trump.
05:33Fox News at Night anchor Trace Gallagher spoke with the Republican presidential nominee earlier
05:38today in California.
05:40Here's an excerpt.
05:42Bernie Sanders said the quiet part out loud when he said that Kamala Harris is going to
05:46the right to get into office, and then he believes that she is still a progressive at
05:51heart.
05:52But she is actually left of Bernie Sanders.
05:54She is more liberal.
05:55They don't like that term, liberal.
05:57They like progressive.
05:58But to me, it's liberal.
06:01But she is far more liberal than Bernie Sanders or than Pocahontas.
06:05I mean, Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, commonly referred to as Pocahontas, is more conservative
06:12than this woman that's running for president who got no votes, who was the first one to
06:18lose in the primaries, same primary to Biden.
06:21And I guess she had 22 people running.
06:24She was the first one to drop out.
06:25She never got to Iowa.
06:27And she's now running.
06:29I don't know.
06:30Is she a threat to democracy?
06:31You know, they call me a threat.
06:33They call me a threat to democracy.
06:34I'm the least threat to democracy.
06:37Former president there, Trace Gallagher now joins us from Los Angeles.
06:41Hey, Trace, good job.
06:43What did you take away from the interview?
06:45You know, I took away that the bottom line here in this entire strategy is the former
06:49president, Brett, believes that his biggest asset against Kamala Harris is to continue
06:53defining her as this far left liberal who's trying to move to the center to win the election
06:59and then would move back to the far left.
07:01And the reason he thinks he'll be successful is because his campaign does not believe that
07:06Kamala Harris has truly defined herself.
07:08She's changed policies.
07:09We know that, but hasn't explained why she changed.
07:13And if she continues to kind of leave voters in an issue type limbo, Donald Trump believes
07:18that will benefit him.
07:20Of course, strategy is one thing and outcome is the main thing.
07:23The outcome remains very unclear here, Brett.
07:26I think we have another clip, this one about President Biden and the hat incident.
07:31Take a listen.
07:34So I've just had a great relationship with Pennsylvania, with those people.
07:38And they asked me if I could come.
07:40I didn't know that Biden was going to be there.
07:41He was there earlier.
07:43Actually more prime time in a sense, right, because I got there later.
07:46I went to the World Trade Center and then I went to Shanksville and we stopped at the
07:50firehouse.
07:51But he was there a couple of hours earlier and I saw it on your show.
07:55Actually, nobody said anything except they demanded he put on a Trump cap.
07:59You have to put on the Make America Great Again hat, right?
08:03And he did.
08:04I mean, he did.
08:05He didn't.
08:06The first, it was very interesting.
08:08They said, put on the hat.
08:10And he said, I can't do that.
08:11He said, put on the hat.
08:12And he put it on.
08:13I said, hmm, that's not very nice when you think about it.
08:16But then I came in the place, went crazy.
08:18It was a very nice feeling.
08:21So he feels confident, I'm guessing, from those two clips.
08:24Anything else you take away from the interview?
08:26Yeah.
08:27One thing, I'm glad he watches the show.
08:28You know, the funny thing is, he walked in, it was the 9-11, right?
08:31It was 9-11, the 23-mark, 23-year mark.
08:34And when he walked in after President Biden and Vice President Harris, they got no response.
08:39He got a huge response.
08:41And when Trump walked into that same firehouse, you can hear the place just kind of erupted.
08:46But we spoke to him, Brett, for about 23 minutes.
08:49He was very open, gave us insight into how he plans to win this race.
08:54And as for more debates, I was listening to Ayesha Hosni earlier.
08:57He's a very competitive man, as you know, Brett.
08:59He does not like to walk away from a fight.
09:01So I would never count him out of doing another debate, maybe on Fox.
09:06All right.
09:07We will tune in tonight.
09:08I look forward to seeing the rest of that interview.
09:10Trace, thanks.
09:11Thank you, Brett.
09:13The State Department is pursuing new sanctions on Russian state media tonight.
09:17The U.S. accuses a Kremlin news outlet of working hand-in-hand with the Russian military.
09:22It says RT has run fundraising campaigns to pay for sniper rifles, body armor and other
09:28equipment for soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
09:30It had previously been sanctioned for its work to spread Kremlin propaganda and disinformation.
09:35These new sanctions suggest RT's role goes far beyond influence operations.
09:40Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls it a key part of Russia's war machine.
09:46Breaking tonight, President Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met today at the
09:51White House on the agenda there, Ukraine, and whether it will be allowed to use long-range
09:56missiles against Russia.
09:57Vladimir Putin has said that would cause war with NATO.
10:02Senior White House correspondent Jackie Heinrich has details tonight.
10:05Mr. Prime Minister, welcome.
10:08Western diplomatic sources tell Fox President Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer
10:12would talk about greenlighting Ukraine's ask to use long-range missiles on targets deep
10:17inside Russia.
10:18Ukraine now faces a new wave of potential destruction after the State Department says
10:22Iran gave Russia short-range ballistic missiles.
10:26Biden would need to sign off for Ukraine to use British storm shadow missiles because
10:30components are U.S. made.
10:31Kiev has also asked to use U.S. attack arms.
10:34Officials have signaled openness.
10:36As the battlefield has changed, we've adapted.
10:39But insist there's no change now.
10:41I would not expect there to be any announcements.
10:44The U.S. has resisted lifting restrictions as Putin warns that decision would put NATO
10:48countries at war with Russia.
10:50I don't think much about Vladimir Putin.
10:53But the escalation fears are nothing new.
10:55The equipment that we've provided is defensive, as you know, not offensive, and we see that
11:00as being a difference.
11:01On each capability the U.S. has ultimately provided, the initial answer was no, from
11:06HIMARS and attack arms to Patriots and fighter jets.
11:10This week in the debate, the vice president was promoting what this administration has
11:14done in terms of giving Ukraine what it needs, but there's plenty of criticism outside of
11:21that to say that it's also effectively blocking a victory by slow-walking these decisions.
11:26If you were to ask NATO leaders, if you were to ask President Zelensky himself, their thoughts
11:33on the president's leadership, I don't think they would have the words that you just said
11:37to me.
11:38The U.S. has told Biden's meeting today isn't just about this decision, even though Canada
11:42today announced its support.
11:44Broadly, the U.S. and U.K. have been discussing how to best position Ukraine ahead of the
11:49U.N. General Assembly, where they want to arrive with credible proposals in hand to
11:54get other allies on board.
11:56Brett.
11:57Jack Henrich on the North Lawn.
11:59Jackie, thanks.
12:00Stocks were up to cap the best week of the year, the Dow gaining 297.
12:07The S&P 500 finished ahead 30, the Nasdaq rose 114.
12:10For the week, the Dow jumped 2.6 percentage points, the S&P 500 surged four, the Nasdaq
12:16jumped six.
12:17Up next, we look at Vice President Kamala Harris' changing policies on decriminalization.
12:24And later, we'll talk about the key battleground state where energy could be the most pivotal
12:29issue.
12:30Boar's Head says it is indefinitely closing a Virginia manufacturing plant linked to a
12:34deadly listeria outbreak.
12:37The company's Jarrett facility has been tied to the meat sliced at deli counters that caused
12:42the biggest listeria outbreak since 2011.
12:46Company also says it will permanently discontinue its liverwurst product, which was linked to
12:50the illness.
12:51As of August 8th, 57 people from 18 states had been hospitalized, nine have died.
12:59Workers at Boeing's West Coast factory are striking tonight.
13:02They overwhelmingly rejected the contract deal, halting production of the planemaker's
13:06strongest selling model and sending shares down more than 2 percent.
13:11The first strike since 2008 comes as Boeing is already under heavy scrutiny from regulators
13:16and customers after a door panel blew off a 737 MAX jet in flight last January.
13:24Vice President Kamala Harris has taken significant criticism over changes to many of her past
13:28policy positions, especially back to 2019 when she ran for president.
13:34Tonight we take a look at the Democratic presidential nominee's evolving stance on drug decriminalization
13:40as evidenced in the same questionnaire that has exposed other inconsistencies.
13:46Here's correspondent Alexandria Hoff.
13:49You have heard me say I just don't think people should have to go to jail for smoking weed.
13:53We know where Vice President Harris stands on marijuana reform, but not on hard drugs.
13:58At least not right now.
13:59In 2019, then-Senator Harris appeared to support full decriminalization of illicit substances.
14:06In a recently resurfaced ACLU presidential candidate questionnaire, Harris wrote,
14:10The opioid crisis has reaffirmed the failure of criminalization.
14:14Full decriminalization with appropriate treatment responses could address this stark racial
14:19injustice and reduce incarceration.
14:22In 2020, Oregon became the first state to try this by removing traditional penalties
14:27for drug possession.
14:29It was an experiment that ultimately failed.
14:31I had a customer who had to walk over a lot of people who were on the stairwell in the
14:36parking garage doing drugs, at least like five people.
14:40It impacts our business.
14:41Between 2021 and 2023, homicides in Portland rose 11 percent, burglaries up almost 10 percent,
14:49car thefts increased by 33 percent, and robberies by nearly 23 percent.
14:53That is on top of a spike in homelessness and overdoses.
14:57This year, Oregon passed legislation to re-criminalize drug possession.
15:01When Fox reached out, the Harris campaign avoided a direct response, instead repeating
15:06the statement they used when asked about Harris' apparent policy reversals.
15:10The vice president's positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as
15:14part of the Biden-Harris administration.
15:17On the 2019 ACLU survey as a whole, these old questionnaires are a complete distraction
15:22from the task at hand right now.
15:24Now, on the issues page of Harris' website, the campaign touts the Biden administration's
15:29efforts to help stop the flow of illicit substances.
15:32There is no mention of decriminalizing drugs or not.
15:35In fact, marijuana reform isn't mentioned either.
15:38Brett.
15:39Alex, thank you.
15:41Pope Francis is strongly criticizing both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls
15:46anti-life policies on abortion and migration.
15:50He's advising American Catholics to choose what he calls the lesser evil in the upcoming
15:54election.
15:55He says when deciding between a candidate who supports abortion rights and one planning
15:59to deport migrants, that both are against life.
16:04He did not mention either by name.
16:07Up next, political experts Douglas Schoen and Karl Rove on how energy issues could be
16:11the difference in the presidential election, especially in one key state.
16:14Plus, we'll do a little what if scenario at the board.
16:17First, what our Fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight.
16:20Fox 5 in New York, as entertainer Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving, resolving
16:25the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York's Hamptons.
16:29The boy band singer turned solo star and actor appeared in Sag Harbor Village Court to enter
16:34a new plea to the lesser charge.
16:36The judge sentenced Timberlake to a $500 fine with a $260 surcharge and 25 hours of community
16:44service.
16:45And this is a live look at Boston College.
16:47One of the stories there tonight, the prizes for comical scientific achievement called
16:53the IG Nobles, go to a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide
16:59missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish.
17:04Winners received a transparent box containing historic items related to Murphy's Law, the
17:09theme of the night, and a nearly worthless Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill.
17:14There you go.
17:15Boston College.
17:16That's tonight's live look outside the Beltway from Special Report.
17:20Welcome back to Special Report.
17:22As we get closer and closer to the election, these what if scenarios are getting tighter
17:26and tighter as we look at our path to 270 electoral votes.
17:31That's what you need to win the White House.
17:33These gray states are all the toss up states that we have currently.
17:37And there you see 225 to 219.
17:40Now, if we take the real clear politics of average average of recent polls in all these
17:45states and we just decide that that's how these states are going to go as of tonight.
17:51Here's what we're looking at in Nevada.
17:54You're looking at Kamala Harris with a win there.
17:57However, next door in Arizona, a lead.
18:01And we'll give that state to Donald Trump in Michigan.
18:07It would go to Harris in Wisconsin.
18:10That would also go to the vice president.
18:12However, down here in Georgia, it would go to former President Trump and in North Carolina,
18:18also the former President Trump.
18:20Again, with this scenario, you come to the state of Pennsylvania that is tied.
18:26And whoever wins, Pennsylvania gets to the magic number.
18:31If you look at the what if scenario above 270, you see that it could come down to this
18:39state.
18:40But the thing that we're factoring in here is that these states are going one way or
18:43another, even though the spread in some of these states is only one point or less than
18:49one point in the average of recent polls.
18:52So anything can happen.
18:54But clearly, the more that we look at this, the tighter it is for the state of Pennsylvania.
19:02Let's talk about fracking because we're here in Pennsylvania.
19:03Fracking.
19:04She's been against it for 12 years.
19:06I will not ban fracking.
19:07I have not banned fracking.
19:09If she won the election the day after that election, they'll go back to destroying our
19:13country and oil will be dead.
19:15Fossil fuel will be dead.
19:18Vice President Harris is changing positions specifically on fracking.
19:22Other issues as well.
19:23But fracking could be a difference, an energy battleground of Pennsylvania.
19:28We just talked about it.
19:29Let's talk about it with Doug Schoen, former Clinton adviser, Democratic pollster, and
19:32Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.
19:36You know, Karl, we talk about this issue and, you know, the flip flops and trying to get
19:43how she's evolved on these policy issues and and the statements that the campaigns put
19:47out.
19:48But when it comes to energy, when it comes specifically to fracking, I don't think people
19:52fully understand what a big deal that is in Pennsylvania.
19:55They don't.
19:57I mean, this is revolutionized, if you will, the oil industry and the natural gas industry
20:04in Pennsylvania and in eastern Oregon, excuse me, eastern Ohio.
20:09And it means a lot of jobs and not only means jobs in the oil patch, but it means prosperity
20:13for the communities.
20:15It means a demand for steel, for pipes, a demand for skilled technicians to run these
20:21systems.
20:22And, you know, look, this is the issue of fracking has revolutionized the energy industry
20:30in the northeast and made for more plentiful, lower cost utility bills.
20:36So this would be a problem if she were in favor of of of abolishing fracking.
20:42What we do know is while she claims to have changed on this, she hasn't said anything
20:46about the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has clamped down dramatically in leasing on
20:52federal lands.
20:53We have an oil being pumped in the United States today, primarily because in places
20:58like Texas, where there's private land or where there were existing federal leases,
21:03fracking has helped us generate more energy from those areas.
21:06But you go to cross the Texas, New Mexico border and you'll find that in New Mexico
21:11there's not as much federal leasing being done and very little leasing being done throughout
21:15the entire Rocky Mountain West.
21:18Yeah, Doug, if you look at the overall race, real clear politics in the nation, she holds
21:24a slight lead again, as we've been talking about.
21:27If you look at the swing states and you look at the key states in Pennsylvania, one of
21:31them, it's forty seven point six to forty seven point six.
21:34If you look at Pennsylvania now, that Senate race with Casey and and McCormick is tight,
21:42tighter.
21:43Some polls have it within the margin of error.
21:46There are a lot of stops by the Democrats in Pennsylvania.
21:49Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, is going to be joining those stops this next
21:53week.
21:54But the topic is abortion on all these stops.
21:57They see that as their their way to battle in Pennsylvania.
22:02They do.
22:03And while I believe the abortion issue has real resonance with suburban swing voters,
22:10particularly women in the Philadelphia suburbs, I think what Carl was suggesting is really
22:19quite important.
22:20My party should have an all of the above set of policies and recognize explicitly that
22:27we need more drilling.
22:29We need fracking.
22:30We need domestic energy independence.
22:33And the only way to do that is to encourage domestic drilling in states like Pennsylvania
22:40and to support not only the fracking industry, but the liquid natural gas industry.
22:46I think Pennsylvania, if I remember correctly, is the second largest energy producer in our
22:52country.
22:53And what I would recommend is not only to say, well, I'm not against it, but I'm for
22:59it.
23:00This is my energy policy and here's what I'm committed to doing in terms of drilling.
23:05That to me is going to do more than just underscoring abortion, an issue that does work for Democrats,
23:12but I think has largely provided its benefit in the midterms two years ago.
23:18And certainly most people are aware of the difference between the two parties.
23:22Yeah, it's really interesting.
23:24The other thing is, after this debate, Carl, we saw pundits on both sides and how they
23:30felt about it on points and style and everything else.
23:33Reuters had this write up, some undecided voters not convinced by Harris after debate
23:37with Trump.
23:38Reuters interviewed 10 people who were still unsure before they watched the debate.
23:42Six afterwards said they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward backing
23:47him.
23:48Three said they would now back Harris.
23:49One said still unsure how he would vote.
23:53Obviously, small sample there, but Reuters doing their own interviews post-debate.
23:59The question is, you know, how much that debate moves things or if this race is kind
24:03of stuck where it is for the moment?
24:05Well, I think the race is pretty well stuck, but there will be some movement out of the
24:10debate.
24:11There have been bigger polls that have talked to hundreds, if not over a thousand people.
24:15And by a margin of basically two to one, people think that she won and he lost it.
24:20But as I said in my Wall Street Journal column Thursday, this is not going to help her as
24:25much as she hopes and it's not going to hurt him as much as some people might fear.
24:30But in a race like this, think about think about this, this number.
24:35If you take a look at the real clear politics average and you look at the 538 average of
24:40the seven battleground states in each poll, five of the seven states are the two candidates
24:45are separated in their average by less than one point.
24:49And so this is going to be and no and none of them, 2.9 percent is the biggest gap in
24:54the 538 and 1.8 percent is the biggest gap in real clear politics.
25:00So this is a very close race.
25:01So even a small change in public attitudes could have a huge consequences by Election
25:06Day.
25:07Doug, you think there's another debate?
25:09I don't think there's another debate.
25:11I think Donald Trump felt pretty clearly that he had not done as well as he should have.
25:19And what Carl's saying is, I think, part of the calculus, since he's not going to really
25:22lose much, maybe a point or two, but not more.
25:25And that could be temporary, transitory.
25:28I think his attitude is, let me run my campaign.
25:32And I think for Kamala Harris, while she's ready to debate, I don't think she's going
25:37to have a willing partner.
25:39I don't think Donald Trump's going to go on a mainstream network.
25:42And I think the chance that Kamala Harris comes on Fox News is pretty limited as well.
25:48I think what I see from we'll see about that.
25:52But Carl, I'll tell you this, 60, 70 million people.
25:55It's a one time deal usually.
25:58Yeah, absolutely.
26:00Look, I think there's a reason why the Harris campaign keeps talking about having a second
26:05debate, because they'd rather have the discussion in the 50 some odd days left to us.
26:10They'd like to have more days spent on talking about a second debate and less time spent
26:14talking about the state of America's economy, the inflation that America's families are
26:19suffering, or the border crisis, all three of which Donald Trump leads by a wide margin
26:24on.
26:25So either let's talk about debates or let's talk about abortion seems to be the attitude
26:30of the Harris campaign.
26:31The Trump campaign ought to be focused on the economy, inflation and the border.
26:35Those are the winning issues for him.
26:36Second debate.
26:37Well, one way or the other, that's not the critical issue.
26:41Carl, Doug, as always, thanks.
26:45That's why a major federal agency is abandoning its investigation of the so-called Havana
26:49syndrome and later the panel with the latest pronouncements from the presidential nominees.
26:54The two astronauts who rode a Boeing spacecraft to the International Space Station but could
26:58not get a ride back home say they are grateful to spend extra time in orbit.
27:03Barry Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams arrived at the station in June, but problems with
27:08their ship led engineers to bring it home empty.
27:11The two Americans are now scheduled to return to Earth on a SpaceX flight next year.
27:17A long term study of the medical problems experienced by Americans stationed in certain
27:22overseas locations is now being shut down.
27:25The National Institutes of Health say it is through investigating so-called Havana syndrome.
27:31Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin tells us why from the Pentagon.
27:37This former CIA officer who we'll call Adam is known as Havana syndrome's patient zero,
27:42the name given to symptoms experienced by hundreds of CIA officers who have complained
27:48of severe sensory phenomena, pressure to the brain that led to vertigo, tinnitus and cognitive
27:54impairment.
27:55The intelligence community stated in March of 2023 it could find no evidence linking
28:00the alleged attacks to a foreign adversary.
28:03Now in a new twist, the NIH has abruptly shut down its long term study of Havana syndrome
28:09patients citing an internal review that found the subjects had been coerced to participate
28:15without their informed consent, though the report says not on the part of NIH researchers.
28:21NIH has stopped the study out of an abundance of caution, adding in NIH's assessment these
28:27investigative findings do not impact the conclusions of the study.
28:32Something was amiss in how it was being handled, how patients were being filtered into there,
28:38what was being done on the back end with cooperation between NIH and the CIA.
28:43Undercover in Cuba first experienced symptoms in December of 2016.
28:47He and others believe they were victims of a pulsed energy attack using weapons on which
28:53US and Russian scientists once collaborated.
28:56The initial patient showing Havana syndrome symptoms who participated in the NIH study
29:01raised concerns that the CIA was including people who did not fit the profile, resulting
29:07in watered down data.
29:09The CIA dictated who would go.
29:12They, you know, NIH often complained to us behind the scenes that the CIA was not providing
29:16adequate matched control groups and they flooded in a whole litany of people that likely weren't
29:23connected or had other medical issues that really muddied the water.
29:26The CIA said its inspector general has been made aware of the findings.
29:31We take any claim of coercion or perceived coercion extremely seriously and fully cooperated
29:37with NIH's review of this matter and have offered access to any information requested.
29:43The victims now want the Journal of American Medical Association to retract two articles
29:48it published last spring using early data from the NIH study that concluded there was
29:53no significant MRI detectable evidence of brain injury among the group of participants
29:59compared with a group of control participants, suggesting at the time it was all in their
30:04heads.
30:05Brett.
30:06Jennifer Griffin at the Pentagon, Jennifer, thanks.
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