good evening, everybody. breaking news here tonight. russian president vladimir putin becoming increasingly aggressive and reckless in both ukraine and now here in the united states. defense department officials say russian ground forces are carrying out attacks against ukrainian troops within ukraine itself and attacking the banking system with hackers from within russia. fox news has confirmed from senior u.s. defense officials that there is now evidence that shows the russian military firing artillery from within ukraine at ukrainian military positions. intelligence officials say that there are more than 1,000 russian troops now fighting inside ukraine with the help of

tanks and heavy artillery, despite the constant denials from vladimir putin. here is state department spokesperson jen psaki on new evidence of russian aggression in ukraine. >> we have also seen reports of separatists shelling residential areas and in coastal towns and we have seen reports of heavy fighting and shelling near the city and airport in donesk. these incursions indicate a russian directed counteroffensive is likely underway. clearly that is of deep concern to us. >> you will remember putin denied any role in the attack on the malaysian airlines downed last month. 268 civilians were killed but video of a russian anti-aircraft missile crossing the border and an intercepted phone

conversation between rebel leaders and russian intelligence proved otherwise. also tonight, reports that the fbi is investigating a breach of the u.s. banking system according to those reports, russian hackers attacked and successfully infiltrated jpmorgan chase and at least one other unidentified major bank over the past two weeks. the russian hackers able to obtain gigabytes of sensitive data, that according to jpmorgan officials who declined to be identified. the fbi now investigating the breach as possible retaliation for western economic sanctions levied against russia. the fbi declining to comment with the investigation ongoing. an american journalist is back home in cambridge, massachusetts after two years of being held captive by an al qaeda linked group in syria. peter theo curtis made his first public comments outside his family home, thanking everyone who had worked to free him.

>> i had no idea that so much effort was being expended on my behalf. and now having found out, i am just overwhelmed with emotion. i'm also overwhelmed by one other thing and that is that total strangers have been coming up to me and saying hey, we're just glad you're home, welcome home. glad you're back, glad you're safe. >> the group that freed curtis is the al nusra front, a sunni group that is fighting bashar al assad's group in syria but it is also fighting against the islamic state. that's the group that beheaded journalist james foley and is still holding journalist steven sotloff. today, sotloff's mother shirley released an emotional video asking the leaders of the islamic state to free her son. >> steven has no control over the actions of the u.s. government. he is an innocent journalist. i have always heard that you the caliph can grant amnesty. i ask you to please release my

child. >> the islamic state also believed to be holding two american humanitarian aid workers. an open-ended cease-fire between israel and hamas is still holding tonight after seven weeks of conflict in which more than 2200 people were killed. in a news conference today, prime minister benjamin netanyahu said it was too early to say whether the calm will endure. he also, however, threatened hamas with a more vigorous response if it resumed firing on any part of israel. to give you a sense of what the israelis have had to contend with, this is new video posted on youtube that shows israel's iron dome simultaneously destroying 15 hamas rockets. some of the more than 4500 rockets fired at israel since the beginning of the conflict. 15 rockets simultaneously destroyed. the obama administration pressing allies to support

possible air strikes in syria with the uk and australia willing to join a coalition, that according to the "new york times." officials also asking turkey to seal off its border with syria in an effort to stop the flow of foreign jihadists to the islamic state. for more now on the administration's foreign policy challenges, we are joined by retired four star army general, former army vice-chief of staff, general jack keene, also fox news military analyst. general, great to have you with us tonight. let's turn to first the purported next couple of days, a plan that is to be created for the president's consideration. your reaction to that development? >> well, i applaud it and it's a new step in the right direction. we should lead a coalition effort to conduct air strikes in syria and obviously also in iraq, and the more we can get to

participate, the better. in addition to as you mentioned, hope that they would get some of the regional allies to participate like jordan, saudi arabia, who will also be threatened by isis eventually. so this is a big step. we don't know if the president's going to make that decision. he's walked up to decisions before and backed away. but i know from what the military is doing, they are planning an effort along those lines. >> that effort apparently includes looking for financial support from saudi arabia, qatar, the united arab emirates. your thoughts about that, because qatar, for example, some of those countries supporting the very forces that we are about to engage. >> well, i totally disagree with what's been taking place in terms of regional allies supporting radical islamic terrorists, not just this organization, but others. the saudis, their citizens have

been up to this for some time. i think we have to clamp down with our allies to get this, to knock it off. qatar as a government have supported isis, they have provided arms and funding to them, particularly in the beginning when they entered syria. they have done some other things for us and with us, but this is one thing that we've got to stop. once and for all, we have got to get a cooperative effort from our regional allies to pull together to work against this organization. >> general, qatar. we have a huge air base there. we have been building a relationship with the country. at the same time, they are supporting the very people against which we are fighting. our allies are fighting and at some point, is it not truly the american way to kill our enemies? we seem to have lost sight that this is a super power that must exert its influence on the

behalf of our values, our interests and for the good of the world. >> i totally agree with you, lou. we have moral principles that guide us in our actions around the world. this is the united states of america. we've got very strong values and we believe in them. we should not be looking the other way. we know for a fact that qatar provides assistance to hamas. they have been doing that for years. those rockets that rained on israel by the thousands are directly linked to the funding that came out of that country and we should not look the other way. we should remove those bases if this behavior doesn't change. we do a lot of business in qatar, american businessmen, we could impact on that as well, and we have to take the gloves off once and for all. >> and speaking of morality, how

immoral is it for us to continue a form of, if you will, a detente with a regime that supports terrorism and terrorism against our allies as well as ourselves? there seems to be a time when this nation just asserts its values and if not now, when? >> well, i totally agree with that. these challenges have been out there for some time, and we have been turning our head and not facing up to them. clearly, even with what russia and iran is doing with assad and 200,000 dead now, millions of people displaced, that is a human catastrophe that's taking place there. it's off the front pages in terms of american media but it should not be. it should never be off the table for the united states. we should have dealt with that situation sometime ago. >> iran, russia, the challenges are clear.

the united states is being challenged as well by china, and it seems to be a reflection of a certain passivity that has gripped our national leadership. what should we do? >> well, i clearly think that's true. the fact of the matter is our adversaries have taken advantage of a situation that they have perceived that america is pulling back from its traditional role of leadership that it's had since world war ii that transcended democratic and republican presidents. they see this less in our words but more in our actions, and they pay attention to it. i think that is why these countries are considerably more assertive and aggressive than what they have been in the past, and they also take note that the united states is decimating its own military. which makes no sense to take ground forces back to pre-world war ii and the navy and the air force back to the 1950s status.

anybody looking at that knows that the united states is a world power and a super power and that military is needed to support our economic and global interests, and doing that kind of decimation to it clearly emboldens our adversaries. >> general, good to see you. >> always good talking to you, lou. a cease-fire in the seven week long conflict between israel and hamas, israel consul general joins us to tell us why the deal could be made this time.

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israel and hamas have agreed to an open-ended cease-fire, but pushing talks on more complex issues such as the disarmament

of hamas won't begin until next month. for more on the cease-fire i'm joined by the consul general of israel here in new york. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> what is different this time over the five as we count them cease-fires that were tried, attempted and broken very quickly over the preceding seven weeks? >> well, actually, believe it or not, this is the twelfth attempt. hamas initiated six of them and violated all six of them. what's different i think is the fact that over time, we managed to severely impair the operational capabilities of hamas. 70% of the rockets and missile stockpile was destroyed or used by hamas. all the tunnels that are known to us, the offensive operational tunnels were destroyed. you look at the facts, hamas didn't get release of prisoners as they demanded, they are not getting a seaport, they are not getting an airport, they are not

even getting money for the payroll. the only thing they're getting is if they will behave in the next month, we will begin indirectly a discussion with them about the reconstruction of gaza. >> i think a lot of people would ask, and i think fairly, why in the world would there be any question about israel tolerating this kind of aggression on the part of hamas and a continued belligerent threat against the state of israel and its people? >> it's an excellent question. i wish i knew the answer. i can only just say this. we are fighting the fight of the free world. if people think there's a difference between hamas and isis or hezbollah or al qaeda, they are dead wrong. i think that the actions of hamas, executing their own people only the other day, 18 people in the city square surrounded by hundreds of cheering people proves that point. it happened two days after isis so brutally took the life of james foley, an american

citizen. >> the claims of the destruction, 70% of the rockets and the missiles held by hamas, are you confident that at this point, your inventory, if you will, of their arsenal is correct? what are you going to do to assure the safety of the people of israel during this cease-fire because you have nothing but history to rely upon, and it is a history that shows they will attack you in the midst of this process. >> well, there are two types of rockets and mortars and missiles that they're using. you have the midrange and the long-range supplied by syria. most of those came in during morsi's time as egypt's president. most of the damage was done during morsi's presidency and we believe that's over. the other kind of weapon that they're using is locally produced mortars that they

actually manufacture within gaza itself. that's a problem. we tried to destroy as many workshops as possible but there's no guarantee they won't be able to produce them again in the future. >> positive within this is your government, working with the government of egypt, and egypt, the government of egypt serving as a negotiator and a broker in this cease-fire and attempting throughout most of the seven weeks to try to achieve what apparently has been achieved here now, what are your thoughts about the future of the relationship with egypt and israel? >> certainly egypt played a very constructive role. there is a clear self-interest on the part of the egyptians in this sense. hamas is a bitter enemy of egypt. reports came in before the escalation about 100 egyptian soldiers killed by hamas terrorists in the sinai, but hamas is the idealogical twin of

islamic brotherhood which is viewed by the current administration in egypt as a big problem. >> it's worth noting that the obama administration worked very hard with the president of egypt now to include the muslim brotherhood in his government, which was rejected out of hand by this government. good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> appreciate it. up next, my commentary on why the obama white house and much of the democratic party shouldn't have it their way on the burger king deal. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. if you convert 4-quarter p/e of the s&p 500, its yield is doing a lot better... if you've had to become your own investment expert, maybe it's time for bny mellon, a different kind of wealth manager

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agitator which is what he was doing i think largely there. i think today was more of a grown-up moment for him. a moment where he talked about issues that weren't just related to this case but to the larger urban culture and to the issues there. i wish he would continue that vein of thought when he comes back to new york, because in new york, for example, the naacp is fighting charter schools along with the teachers union. the teachers union of course is responsible for the worst schools in new york city. the charter schools are breaking the mold with black and latino children, yet the naacp is resisting charter schools. that's the sort of thing i think where the rubber meets the road with a lot of these cultural issues. >> the nonsense that emanates, whether it be in the new york school district, with many challenges, no question about it. from washington, d.c., from this president who should be a natural ally of improving

education for all kids, because i have said for decades look, the great equalizer in this society is not the government. it's not all of us, you know, all of these initiatives and programs, it's public education. public education is what makes this a meritocracy, it gives every poor kid a chance and why in the world there can't be agreement about that is beyond me. >> that's one of the great tragedies, frankly, the teachers union has become a regressive force in american education and too many democrats, too many black democrats, frankly, are waep by stepith the inr kid holng the teachers union is all about the seniority, all about protecting the teachers. the kids are suffering and too many black politicians are going right along with that. >> president obama can be accused of a lot of things, the

democrats accused of a lot of things, but they are not lacking when it comes to the ability to raise money. they have outraised, i think a lot of people will be surprised to hear this, they outraised the epub son midtctiooutcome? >> we could never discount or underestimate the power of money. it's interesting, of course, now the election after labor day begins a new phase. this is the crucial phase. i think the president, if he's going to do something on immigration, will do it to time to the election. it is all about the fall election now. i think that's all he will be talking about, is everything for him now i think is going to be about the senate, can he hold the senate. because if he doesn't, i think the terrible time he's had these two years is about to get worse. >> is there anything that suggests to you on the near horizon of likely events that would be helpful to this president and the democratic party before those midterm elections? >> well, look, i think if he were to be a more attendant

president -- >> show up? >> just show up and -- >> attendant or attending? >> attending to the problems. this is what he's not doing. i think this argument over golf, it's not the optics. i think optics is a demeaning phrase the white house would want to use to say it's just how it looks. it's not how it looks. it's what he's doing with his time. we know what he's not doing. now we see what he's doing.mism of the world. he's got to work harder. >> work and obama. a curious juxtaposition. michael, thanks so much. >> there's a book in there. >> michael goodwin. time for a few of your comments. we have seen president obama's agenda. there is no surprise of how he is handling foreign affairs, lead from behind. and john e-mailed me, one of the reasons we are losing the war on poverty is we allow mexico and central american countries to export their poverty to us.

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