kmele foster, thank you so much and thank you for watching. go to our webpage right now for lur live show. w from all of us here, thank you very much for being a part of this. lou: good evening, everybody. the obama obama administrationti can decide whether the islamic state is sending a message where he designates the islamic state back in january. the white house now claiming the president wasn't been talking about the islamicot state. >> the president was not singling out isil, but the very different threat of what was posed by extremist around thehe globe. many of them do not have designs

on attacking the west or the united state. lou: that was not the onlyeing rationalization being undertaked today in washington. you remember chuck hagel and chairman martin dempsey justpseu last thursday outlined an imminent threat that the islamic state poses for this country. >> i think the evidence is pretty clear when we look atwe d what they did to mr. foley.o what they threatened to do to all americans and europeans. they have no responsible human behavior and i think the record are pretty clear ono that.

and so yes, they are in imminent threat.edi this is an organization that has anacy. apocalyptic end of days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated. so your question can they be defeated without addressing that part, the answer is no. lou: continuing the revisionisme he has apparently changed his mind in three short days. the joint chiefs chair telling reporters yesterday that he believes it is merely a regional threat and he would notnal recommend air strikes now in syria. telling fox news that he believes that isis is a regional wi threat that will become a threat ro the united states and europe we report and you decide. meanwhile, the state department today confirming the investigation into the murder os james foley is progressing.

aources tell fox news a british paper named abdel-majed abdel bary as the principal suspect. investigators using voice andncs skin analysis ofpect the video n their investigation.herie her catherine herridge is at the pe pentagon tonight with our report. report. >> the family of this slain american journalist is celebrating their child's life. he is known on the british circuit posted a photo of himself on twitter holding a severed head. today the investigation is progressing. >> we are not in a position to say who the man in the video is but we are working with our british counterparts on that. reporter: he hid behind a mask but did not cover his hands.

they say that that may have been a critical mistake. in addition to voice recording, they have distinguishing characteristics which is as unique as a fingerprint according to an fbi investigators. >> if you can get it to pictures were any markings on the spin matchup, there are very few people that have malls and veins that are the same in their hands and it's pretty good in a court of law tour the social media filmed this video has been identified. he is described to fox news is a key part of the electronic evidence trail. >> it's not impossible to hide, but it takes somebody who is very educated and not only the technology, but also the technology to investigate. reporter: a source adds that there are a dozen social media accounts into the senior leadership and the data suggest that the leader provided his blessing or tacit approval for his murder.

one of his fellow hostages memorize the test and later david to his family. it reads in part, i know you are thinking of me in praying for me and i'm so thankful. especially when i pray, i pray for you to stay strong and to believe. and investigators on a high level of confidence because the administration says all options are available and u.s. officials told fox news that lethal force is among them. lou: fox news confirming the president obama has again surveillance flights over syria. we'll have much more on syria and the islamic state talking with unit commander and former u.s. ambassador to the united states john bolton. turning now to the escalating tensions between russia and the ukraine on the eve of a meeting between the leaders of both

nations, the ukrainian government today accusing russia of opening up a new front in the conflict across the border into the southern part of eastern ukraine. an area until now that has escaped hostilities between the two sides. russia has dismissed the incursion as propaganda and announced that it wants to send a second humanitarian aid convoy into eastern ukraine, saying that suspicions that it is a ruse to supply arms to the pro-russian levels are unfounded and all of this the day before, as we said, vladimir putin and petro poreshenko talk. we will be talking with the former president of georgia. no let up in the conflict hamas

terrorist fired and benjamin netanyahu said that the week conflict is far from over. here at home the body of michael brown laid to rest and ferguson, missouri, more than 4500 people turned out to pay their respects to 18-year-old who is unknown to most of the country three weeks ago. mike tobin has our report. >> with it cascade adorned with roses and a cardinals ball cap, the uncle of michael brown called for anger. >> his blood is crying from the ground. crying for vengeance. crying for justice. reporter: michael brown was scheduled to be in the beginning stages of trade school and now

his funeral includes a who's who of white house aides and a tv preacher. 485 family members were less dead. a family attorney referenced the three fifths compromise of 1787 that determined a black man was equal to three fifths of a man. >> we will not accept 3 cents. we will demand equal justice for michael brown junior. reporter: al sharpton had a sharp rebuke for leaders who distracted the parents are grieving. >> they have to stop to get you to control your anger like you are more angry than they are. reporter: he had a rebuke for police, for time spent on the investigation and techniques used to control the crowd. >> we need money to get military equipment and police forces.

we all have money for training for public education and to train our children. reporter: a march is planned for saturday. the officer in question being demanded to be fired with this crime. but the prosecutor be removed and a demand that the mayor and the police chief of ferguson resigned. lou: a lot of demands. what are we to make of it? >> well, i think that we have to look as it relates to the grand jury handling this case. a lot is not understood about the jury and how it works and you have the crowd out here that once a particular outcome of this. they want to see an indictment and beyond that they want to see a conviction and there's a chance that this jury to come back and not return any charges

with this indictment. lou: mike tobin reporting. much more on the funeral of michael brown later. i will be talking with michael good one. and it will be the subject of my commentary this evening. we are coming right back. lou: the islamic state no longer the threat to america, but how big of a threat is it? the obama white house seems the obama white house seems undecided at best. you know what i love america? fine barbecue, good times and zero heart burn. and that's why i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heart burn because it gives me zero heart burn.

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confirmed cases, the virus has killed more than 1400 people in sierra leone, liberia, guinea and nigeria. according to the world health organization, it needs more than $430 million to bring the west african ebola outbreak under control and officials say a doctor who received transcends has died. two of the six people have succumbed to the disease. two americans who took the drug have recovered. they were released from the hospital last week. and the white house earlier downplayed president obama is comments claiming that he was not singling out the islamic state but from a range of extremists and many who don't have designs against the united states, joining us now is the former head of the cia bin laden

unit. it's good to have you with us, michael. three thank you, sir. >> this is a spectacle and there are many things unexpected in washington. in but in the course of three days, to go from the defense secretary and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff declaring the islamic state to be a terrorist group that poses an imminent threat to the united states to being uncertain about the proximity of the threat is really breathtaking. >> is appalling but not surprising. this president has tried to play down the islamic threat to the united states if he became president. we have four people that died and been rising because mrs. clinton and the president didn't want to make the american people think that the problem wasn't over. this is an evolutionary problem and we have seen asunder what in 1992 and what is occurring at

the moment is just the development of an islamist movement that we chose not to take on. i'm pretty sure that no one in the semesters were the republican party for all their talk has the stomach to do what it takes and it would be a unilateral effort with enormous amounts of u.s. troops twice the speed will out and their supporters. they won't do that, so now they have to go back to the lie that they are receiving. >> in this case, it is expanding and controls about a third of the rack, much of syria. and in order to deal with the threat, even as the president has authorized surveillance over syria and perhaps anticipations

and the reality he said that he must go is about to become an ally of bashar al-assad. >> it will add more impetus and we are already backing a dictator and we supported the overthrow of an elected official and right now we are going to back a man who we have called the butcher for the last 30 years in syria. so this administration, and frankly the american foreign-policy elite doesn't know what it's doing. what it's doing is inspiring the movement against us and it has no intention to defend america. and i would make a point that the issue of eminence and non-imminent threat, there's an imminent threat always because

three consecutive administrations have nailed and to close the southern border. we don't have a clue who is in this country. so talking about this is nonsense because we don't know and the lack of knowledge is our own fault. lou: this president however responsible for this government and this government seems to be out of control. and it also seems to be raising large questions about the integrity of the officials that this administration has put in place. raising this about the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and no one wants to talk about this. but i will on this broadcast. this is awho has reve fnd teaysn witht planahay th apreho ss wasnfng the was mha sevhs gandso e tin th ernm

wht e thk, s outhing to say, if you listen to what the general has said over the past 18 months about how well things are going in afghanistan, you would know that he is more than willing to lie for the president of the united states. the other shoe issue that is out there that is going to fall is that we are going to turn back afghanistan to the taliban and they are going to inherit trained military formations and an enormous mountain of american cash and guns. and yet the chairman of the joint chiefs has for the past 18 months said that en andlves. you watch what is going to happen. afghanistan will not iraq off the front page. lou: michael, it's good to have you with us. >> thank you, sir. lou: time for a look at our online poll results. we asked if you believe that

obama has checked out, 93% say yes, he has. vote in tonight's poll. the question is do you feel better about the nation's purity now that the president has returned from vacation. cast your vote at loudobbs.com. coming up next, my commentary on the obama and ration and a deepening racial divide. we have that

lou: coming up in moments, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as they say in washington, walking back the assessment of the islamic states threat to this country. u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton will be our guest and the obama administration today further politicizing the michael brown shooting. columnist michael goodwin will join us next. but first, a few comments on an unusual development that occurred in ferguson, missouri. a community that is struggling to slowly awaken from the national minor of the police shooting of a young man. and the outrage of what amounts to political exploitation of the incident by everyone from the president to the states governor

to reverend al sharpton and some in the national media as well. the fact is more than two weeks and three autopsies later, we, the public, don't know if the evidence suggests that michael brown attacked the policeman, that the policeman fired in self-defense or whether he was surrendering to a policeman who overreacted and shot him. or some other possibility not publicly considered. and as of right now, a missouri grand jury is hearing evidence in the case and the highly unusual parallel federal investigation is also underway attorney general holder was sent to ferguson, but it was unclear on what they accomplished except to appear to be putting his thumb, as he put it perhaps is entire right hand on the scales. they were willing to deepen the

racial divide to seize the opportunity to narrow the divide and true leadership and compassion for true unity and the entire country and so many were as willing as the president who is doing that darren wilson shot and killed michael brown because he is white. and brown with black. one of those and serving as the liaison to the community of ferguson, he was a controversial choice as speaker to eulogize the 18-year-old brown. criticizing police and some police tactics by al sharpton, criticizing education as he was expected to do. and then he did something unexpected today, an unusual development. he spoke about personal responsibility without calling it such. he talked about dignity and

independence without calling it such and not accepting violence is part of the black urban culture without calling it such. >> what this requires is that we have to be straight up in our community as well. we have to be outraged at a 9-year-old girl killed in chicago and we have to be outraged by her disrespect for each other and i think that we disregard each other. killing and shooting and gun toting each other. so that they are justified in trying to come up because some of us, the definition of this is how low you can go and blackness has never been about being a gangster or a dog. but it was, no matter how low we

were pushed down, we would rise up anyhow. lou: al sharpton rose up today, in my opinion, those few words were the most important words spoken by any of those who have made their way to ferguson in the past two weeks and i hope that the entire country heard his words. now for the quotation of the evening, this from one of our founding fathers, benjamin franklin. to succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you'd u.s. conclusions. we are coming right back. the ukraine says russia has invaded a day ahead of the meeting between its president and vladimir putin. the former president of georgia the former president of georgia mikheil saakashvili j people are stuck in very old the former president of georgia mikhhabits of cleaning their dentures with toothpaste, and dentures are very different than real teeth. they're about ten times softer and have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily.

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earthquake in a quarter century, a 6.0 quake hit near napa valley, more than 17 people were 70 people were injured, associated press reporting that russian convoys are moving weapons and military supplies to rebel help held areas of eastern ukraine, wok day before the president and putin to meet face-to-face. for more i am joined by mikheil saakashvili, former president of georgia. great to have you here. >> nice to be back. lou: you are going to head to ukraine tomorrow. this is a peculiar moment given the convoy that the government said is an invasion by russians

and meeting between the two leaders set for tomorrow, does that go ahead. >> i think that meeting whole thing is scheduled for that meeting, it is set. this is very much like vladimir putin's -- like, he is doing all over the same things over and over again. time to get it right. so like the enough groundhog d day. whe relives the same thing over until he gets it. he people are guessing it is an invasion? is it not? what else is it? you have russian tanks and soldiers, they have captured in quite some numbers, they show them to the world, ar till rare

ari bombing from russia. >> what should he do? faced with a awesome force but condition overcome. or meet the force. without being over taken. what is his options. >> tomorrow's talkss, the day that russia recognized so call independence, first time since second wore war, they created -- second world war, they created in -- they tried to change european borders, that is the anniversary. there issue things we should learn about russians, never under estimate how uncivilizeed putin can get. second, unchecked aggression

creates other unchecked aggression. if they are not checked 4, it will go -- if they are not checked now it will spread, poroshenko is in a difficult situation, putin's record is using these talks for his own agenda, that is head -- killing the idea of aourbgian ukraineiy every being successful. >> we put up pictures of poroshenko and anglea merkel in kiev. she seems to be standing up, is that real? >> it happened this way, america, attention span -- within somewhere else, to isis and iraq.

so, and america tried to mobilize, successfully after some time, european allies, but now merkel shows up on day of the old pact, for which they decided some parts of ukraine, i am not comparing her to old germany, some critics might, the reality is this largest country in europe, ukraine stranded between russia and germany. this all a longstanding story, germany is overwhelmed with economic issues. i remember ronald reagan used to tell them, don't build this pipeline. don't get dependent on russian gas and oil, it the hahn you -- it will haunt you, he was so right. so, merkel says, we don't want

russia to be defeated. it would humiliate them so much. it would have a predictable consequence, but if russia is not defeateed then we'll dealing with -- a huge consequences for western civiliation, democratic world. lou: defeated? militarily? economically? dip natically? ically -- diplomatically? or all of the above, reality, is that this administration does not seem to make and overt moves taking any action to blunt either the russian maneuvers or the ukrainian providing support to the ukrainian government. >> there was a lot of discussion about arming syrian rebels, i understand, but here we have a european country fighting for freedom. nobody disputes it, it is the

freedom at stake. u.s. interests are at stake, u.s. fought several wars in europe and won them, it might be a rebel, here they automatically excludeed even occurs arming ukraine. -- considering arming ukraine, u.s. cannot abdicate world leadership, there is use for leadership. lou: i understand what you are saying. but the fact is, there are those who say this president, has abdicateed that leader. >> then they are unhelpful, and we see everything going to hell, it is will harm u.s. interests, there is awareness of this in washington. too many bad things are happening at the same time, but that is what leadership is about, you deal with it all, in ukraine, you don't need much just need to stand by them, you know, don't demoralize them.

and also do small things, you know precision weapons ukrainians have enough but they need precision weapons, more, intelligence. just pushing for a ceasefire when computer know a end game is very -- putin's ingame is very clear, this ceasefire is going in hands of putin, this will not help ukrainians in anyway, they don't' war, nobody wants war but theyment freedom, poroshenko is not in position to surrender, tomorrow's talk is not going to result in anything. i think, the pattern of behavior is clear. west better be prepared for the follow-up. lou: you think that u.s. administration given putin's record would have understand his

strategy, mikheil saakashvili thank you. >> thank you good to be back. lou: good luck to you in kiev. >> thank you. lou: much more on the ukraine, israel, threat from islamic state, we'll take that up and more with ambassador john bolton. >> department of homeland security warns more than 1,000 retailer their cash registers could be infected with a same malware that hackers have used against target, last year, software allowed cyber criminal to steal customer financial data so governments businesss to stan their -- scan their systems to detect it. tonight after this broadcast for a new documentary, fox business investigates, cyber war games, hosted by neil cavuto. it airs after this broadcast. be patient, we're coming right back. stay with us. >> adios to martha's vineyard, hello white house, john goodwin

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lou: a real quick market update for you, wall street s&p 500 crossed 2000 level for first time, but it closed just under that milestone mark. s&p yo up 10. and dow gained 76, nasdaq up 10. volume on big board 2.2 billion shares. all 10 s&p sectors finished higher, crude oil lost thirst 30 cents, gold down a fraction. yield on 10 year down t to 2.39, new home sales fell in july, burger king in talks to buy tim hortons and relocate

headquarters in latest tax inversion deal, both stocks surging, listen to my financial respecreports 3 times a day, coast-to-coast on salem radio network. lou: obama administration sending mixed messages on syria and threat. i am joined by former u.s. ambassador to united nations, fox news contributor, john bolton, in 3 days, they reverse themselves in plain view of the public without embarrassment, what happened? >> in their first interview, they committed the washington folly of speaking the truth. not corresponding with white house says to the world. they don't know what they want to do.

they don't really have a clue. so they are in confusion. nothing new. lou: what does it say? when a government has a deficient secretary, a chair joint chiefs of staff who so be so malable they would reverse themselves 180 degrees? >> in one important respect, it shows they don't know their own president, they didn't know when they spoke the truth that actions that were implyed, a strong stance against islamic state or isis, was just not something that president was prepared to do, this administration does not know what our interests are, does not know what the objective is or tactics to follow. lou: white house released a word that president had, approved, authorizeed surveillance flights over syria. would you assume that means that he is now considering actively strikes against the islamic

state in syria? >> it a prere prerequisite, andp up from before, this gives new meaning to phrase, gradual escalation. fact is islamic state now, is not in secure control of all territory you see on maps, this is where it is most vulnerable, we should have been collecting intelligence like this months ago. lou: hard to believe, that just, by serendipity we would not know strength or strength ending of the islamic state over that period of time? >> to have acknowledged growth in the strength of their position, would have been to under cut the administration's yell call view of the -- idea call view of the world that terrorism was no longer a threat, this is proven that to be false. lou: former president of georgia

mikheil saakashvili just said shhethinks there will be further ambutionty between poroshenko and putin. >> yes. poroshenko has a wake hand, putin has a strong hand with military activity, and poroshenko has nobody in the west backing him. lou: will there be a price as a result? a consequence for west? >> i think there will be, it will ebb courage putin to do the same thing in other parts of former soviet union, and eastern and central europe, he wants to russia rush to a central role in world stage, he is not getting push back, he will continue to advance until he is met with resistance. resistance. lou: i want to ask you, no development on a ceasefire, egypt continues to work hard to broker negotiate a deal. prime minister netanyahu said,

not soon will he stop his initiatives against the hamas organization, that is launching more than a hundred rockets into israel each day. >> he is not even after pounds that hamas is taking it is still striking. lou: ambassador john bolton. >> thank you, lou. lou: a disengaged and scandal-ridden white house, dragging democrats down, ahead of november midterm elections, we take it up with michael goodwin, his analysis next, right here, stay with us. you do a lot of things great.

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lou: joining us now, michael goodwin, today, in ferguson, we heard reverend al sharpton stand up and talk about i think incredibly eternal decent value that have been absence from the discusdis-- discussion in fergun since michael brown was shot. what did you think of the reverend's departure, from my expectations? >> i agree. i thought he was in danger of becoming an outside an tate -- agitatagitateer. which is what he was doing there. i think today was more of a grown up moment for him. a moment he talked about issues that were not just relateed to

this case. but to the larger urban culture, to the issues there. i wish high would continue that vein of thought when he comes back to new york. in new york for example, naacp is fighting charter schools with the teacher unions, the teacher union is responsible for worse school in new york city, charter schools break the model motorola with black -- the mold with brack and latino children. >> nonsense that emanates whether it be in new york school district or with many challenges, no question, from washington d.c. from this president. who should be a natural allie of improving education for all kids, because i have said for decades, that great equalizer in this society is not the government, not all this you

know, all of these initiatives and programs, it is public education. public education, is what makes this ameritrocacy. >> that is one of the great tragedies that the teachers union has become a regress of force in american education, too many democrats too many black democrats frankly, are walking step by step with the teacher union, which is holding back the inner-city kids, the teachers union is all about the seniority about protecting the teachers, and the kids suffer, too many black politicians are going with that. lou: president obama can be accused of a lot of things and democrat a lot of things but not they have out raised a lot of money,' republican so far in

midterm election is that going to have an influence on outcome? >> we could never discount or underestimate power of money, and it is interesting now, now that elect after labor day begins a new phase. this is the crucial phase, i think president, if he will do something, in immigration, he will do it to time to the election, all about fall election now. i think that is all he will be talking beverything for him will be about senate, can he hold the senate? if he does not, the terrible time high had these two years will get worse. lou: is there anything that suggestions to you on the near horizon of likely evens that would be helpful to the president, democratic party before those midterm elections? >> i think if he were to be more attendant present. lou: just so up. >> yes. >> attending to the problem, he is not doing this, this argument

over golf, it is not optics that is a demeaning phrase that white house would want to use that how is it looks, that is how it looks, it is what he does with his time, we know what he is not doing, now we see what he is doing, this is say mismatch to the reality of the world, he has to work harder. lou: work and obama? a curious -- we'll take a break. >> there is a book in there. lou: michael goodwin, time for a few of your comments. sanders tweeted -- johnny e-mailed. one reason year losing war on poverty, we allow mexico and skral american countrcentral amo

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