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Let her go or else. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News. President Trump says unless today's show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother is not released unharmed, he'll instruct the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty for those responsible.
Speaking to the New York Post, President Trump is promising to have the U.S. Department of Justice prosecute any suspect arrested in the supposed kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother, Nancy, and seek the death penalty should the 84-year-old die because of the trauma.
What are the latest updates on Savannah Guthrie's kidnapping case?
The kidnapping case is currently the jurisdiction of Arizona law and Tucson area prosecutors, though Arizona does allow for execution for conviction of first-degree murder. The president's remarks come as deputies are entering the third week in their search for Guthrie while waiting to see if DNA recovered from a found glove matches any known profile. Eben Brown, Fox News.
There have been preliminary talks a day before a second round of U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Iran's foreign minister met with the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, in Geneva today, ahead of the talks, vowing to, quote, achieve a fair and equitable deal. He said Iran would not submit to threats. The talks will focus on the nuclear issue and not address Iran's massive ballistic missile stockpile or regime change.
Fox's Jennifer Griffin. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Hungary tells Prime Minister Viktor Orban relations between our countries is in a golden age.
I don't think it is any mystery and should not be a mystery to anyone here how the president feels about you.
Secretary Rubio, like President Trump has already, is endorsing Orban for reelection in April. The actor Robert Duvall died.
Duvall was acclaimed for his iconic performances in the Godfather films Lonesome Dove and as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. I love the smell of grape hum in the morning. Duvall died Sunday night at his home in Middleburg, Virginia. He was 95.
It's Fox's Michelle Polino. Robert Duvall won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for his role in Tender Mercies. America's Listing to Fox News.
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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says it's been notified by the FBI the state will not be getting access to evidence related to protester Alex Preddy's fatal shooting by federal agents last month.
The case is similar to other immigration-involved shootings in Minneapolis that are under federal jurisdiction and being handled as such. The BCA saying it's committed to a transparent and independent investigation, calling the FBI's lack of cooperation unprecedented. All while state and local officials have also been accused of not cooperating during ongoing immigration action. Jeff Manosso, Fox News.
There's heavy rain moving across Southern California. There's a flash flood warning and evacuation warnings for people where wildfires have made the ground more susceptible to rock and mudslides. In the mountain, heavy snow.
Today, we're going to get about...
potentially a foot of snow here tomorrow well that's the blockbuster many feet will begin and that will go all the way through wednesday even into thursday we'll just have to continue to watch fox weather's robert ray in south lake tahoe california former president obama got some attention saying during a podcast interview the other day aliens are real he says now to be clear he saw no proof of that during his time in office
And he's now clarifying those comments since he says they have gotten so much attention. Obama now explains, quote, statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low. And I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.
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