run-down detroit, got a huge show today. not only that we've got two exclusive interviews. first up, the fed is about to release its latest beige book report on the economy. our all-star panel is standing by to react. first go to peter barnes. >> hey, melissa, the latest fed beige book says quote, economic activity has expanded since the previous beige book report. however none of the fed districts pointed to a distinct shift in the overall pace of growth which the districts, most of them describe as moderate and modest. now this is the summary of economic activity that the fed will use at its next major policy meeting in just two weeks. janet yellen and her allies are focusing on boosting job creation and on that subject the latest beige book says quote, labor market conditions as measured by hiring trend were reported to be relatively unchanged from generally modest rates in most districts. on the consumer the report says,

quote, most districts reported some growth in consumer spending with a pace of growth characterized ranging from slight to moderate. on inflation, report says trends in prices prices were he will relatively unchanged. melissa? melissa: fighter, thank you so much. let's turn to our panel for reaction. steve forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of "forbes" media. our very own charlie gasparino. from "the wall street journal" we have james freeman with us as well. you know peter put the emphasis in the right spot to make some of those things sound a little more positive than the language says. when they talk about consumer spending, you know some growth in consumer spending with the pace of growth characterized as ranging from slight to moderate. that doesn't sound so good to me when you say it a little differently. what do you say, steve. >> describing like how the yankees played baseball last night, they got a couple extra runs but still lost 9-4. a batter hitting .250, when

should be hitting .350. nothing that characterizes real speed. >> i think this is spin job to keep rates where they are. melissa: you think they're talking it down? >> they want their cake and eat it to. listen what she said or beige book said, peter reported, growth, with i is good for the president. not that good we have to raise interest rates. melissa: right. >> just before the 2014 midterms. melissa: none districts reported to distinct shift in the overall pace. >> look where the market is is right now. market is saying this is more of the same bs. melissa: is that a technical term, bs? >> should be a fed term. because here -- real thai we're struck in extremely slow growth mode and just admit it, that would hurt president and hurt democrats in 2014. or say we do have decent economic growth and we better raise rates before x, y and z happens. melissa: james frey man, what do you any. >> look, we're limited with this

given policy mix. we'll not get a great reaganesque quarter but i think you can be pretty optimistic. this is in line with other recent reports. bank commercial lending going up. manufacturing showing more activity. this will be a not bad second half of the year. >> why are they talking it down as they're talking it up? am i only one missing it. talking down when they talk the up. melissa: janet yellen trashes jobs report but it is better but hidden. >> why are they doing that? melissa: keep rates from going up. >> 2014 coming midterms. this is what scares me with the fed. turned, used to be independent. it is part of the white house now. >> part of the problem is mission creep. it wants more and more power. >> yes. >> and that's not good for the banking system. melissa: speaking of scary things, the nation, much of the world reeling from latest murder at hands of isis prompting by the killing of u.s. journalist, steven sotloff.

president obama addressed the growing terrorist threat but the president's stirring rhetoric, what is more muddled message? listen. >> our objective is clear. around that is to degrade and destroy isil so it is no longer a threat, not just to iraq but also the region and to the united states. we can continue to shrink isil's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing. its, its military capabilities, to the point where it is a manageable problem. melissa: i'm so confused. are we managing it or blowing it away? the president also maintained he is not ready to target isis with airstrikes in syria. am i being too critical? is that muddled or feel like he was ready to go out there and get them. >> he started strong because he felt he had to. then went back to the usual mush. he does not have a strategy. the idea that you don't do anything in syria when this

caliphate is crossing borders is preposterous. he doesn't know what to do. he is hoping somehow the thing goes away. and, he is doing better with his golf than with his foreign policy. melissa: looks weak and tired there which is really frightening. >> what scares me about it, he sound like a regulator that wants to rein in wall street risk-taking in the second coming. we want to make this a manageable problem. how do you make a manageable problem out of an organization that cuts people's heads off and puts it on tv. >> managed that in world war ii. that was not a manageable problem. >> make adolf hitler a manageable problem. melissa: we'll talk about this later in the show, we have 11 jetliners that are mission right now. >> right. melissa: that no one knows where they are. we have 9/11 coming up next week. we have seen this step up in what feels like the tempo of what is going on around the world. when you talk to people out there, they say, sweet woman said to me recently, i am really

worried because i feel the president is not worrying. i have to worry for him. i'm scared. >> democrats on wall street, they're even scared. they will tell you this is man, actually, this whole thing about golfing, obsession with golfing, part of me was tempted to say it is blown out of proportion. it is not. melissa: not now. >> this guy really gets, he gets excited about golf. he does not get excited about this stuff. i don't know how you call terrorism a manageable problem. just astounding. melissa: move back to some market issues. uniform change at walmart causing unrest at employees. retailer requiring a new look for associates, and requiring them to pay for it out-of-pocket. this is, so the war on walmart kind of continues as they sit out there, everybody talks they don't pay workers a living wage. now the latest, they tried to get them to change the uniform, dress differently and blogosphere picked up outrage from employees have to pay for uniforms. james? >> this is manageable problem.

melissa: i don't know. walmart having a tough time lately. >> as a customer, i kind of like going into a store and have it clearly obvious who the staff is and who the customers are. melissa: right. >> save as lot of time. so to the extent they get standard look -- >> why can't they pay for it? why can't the company pay for it, come on. >> this is part of, every business has a conversation -- melissa: pay for the uniform they were wearing. they took it out of your first paycheck? yeah. >> when i was security guard and burns security they gave me a security guard. melissa: when was charlie a security guard? >> i worked through college. melissa: at burns security. >> i pumped gas. i washed dishes. i was a security guard at burns security. they gave me the uniform. >> what did you secure? [laughter] >> more than this president has. >> the ibm, ibm -- melissa: didn't we have enough to worry about, softbank making robots available to the masses. it is humanoid robot pepper will

be available in u.s. sprint stores, within the next year. look at this thing. as far as i can tell, because i know my children will ask for this giant thing which costs $2,000. it does nothing. it is a companion robot. it sings and tells jokes. so i guess if you're -- >> you don't have to house train it. melissa: right. okay. there is that, for $2,000. >> don't have to worry about catastrophes, veterinarian fees. melissa: charlie, could you secure that if you were still in the security business? >> this is like vanity for rich people. melissa: sold at sprint store. >> it's a waste of money. it doesn't do anything. there is really no interaction. what i like about, yes you do have to change the litter box for a cat but -- melissa: do you have a cat. >> no. melissa: i i can't imagine that. >> not crazy about them. melissa: james, are you getting robot. >> i will not be early adopter of this brand but i think what this tells you is very, very soon they're going to be

available at a low price for consumers to do awe the household tasks we don't want to do. so i think this is great moment. >> you think you can plug in and clean -- melissa: i'm certain i could teach that thing to push a vacuum around t would at least be usable. >> don't have to buy health care for it. melissa: finance, food service, education are looking to how to use particular robot hopefully doing who are than singing. thanks to all of you. up next, live from kentucky, don't miss our exclusive interview with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell on all events affecting you at home and overseas into. apple. samsung firing off the the tech company unhacking its latest devices to win the smartphone wars. much more "money" coming right up. we've never sold a house before.

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melissa: the growing threat of isis has d.c. calling for action. lawmakers from both parties are urging president obama to expand the u.s. military campaign against the islamic state in iraq and syria. fox business's rich edson is live in louisville kentucky with, for an exclusive interview with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. rich?

>> good morning, melissa. thanks so much for joining us. thank you so much for joining us senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. vice president joe biden says we want to follow them to the gates of hell. president obama using much different language in estonia this morning we seek to make them a manageable threat. your thoughts on that? >> i think the vice president has bottom it right. two beheadings of american journalists in case we had any doubt they want to kill us, they're already killing us. they have to be stopped. so when we expect from the president is a strategy to stop them. and it will obviously require our involvement. we have the best air force. we have the best special operations. we have the best intelligence apparatus. and working with our european allies, and people in the area like the kurds, the president should come up with a strategy, present it to congress, address

the american people and tell us how he believes we should stop them. this is not in my view a manageable situation. they want to kill us. we've had this experience before. on 9/11. these guys are probably better able to carry out such a mission, than they were, than al qaeda was back in 9/11. so this is a serious threat to the united states, to our national security and the president is the guy who needs to lay before congress and the american people a strategy to deal with it. >> and do you think senator nelson, putting a propel on the table that would give the president at least in his words, the authority to carry out a broader mission, is that premature? would you support that measure? >> well i may but, what about the president? he is the one that is the ceo of the our country. he is the leader. , the commander-in-chief. senator nelson is expressing the

frustration of some democrats we haven't seen the plan yet. look, we go back in session next week. the president, a, ought to address the american people and b, ought to lay out a plan, to deal with this strategy, a strategy to deal with this group. it is already killing americans and has the capability and intent to kill us here. >> let's talk more about next week's session. a couple of weeks until we have to deal with the possibility of government funding and what some are saying might be another government shutdown. congressman paul ryan did say that congress will pass a clean, continuing resolution. do you think that's what is going to happen? >> yeah, absolutely. the only people talking about a government shut down are democrats and nobody has any interest in doing that. so i think we'll pass a clean cr which would operate the government probably into december. and that will be the height of the drama. not much drama on that issue.

>> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell thanks for joining us on the live portion. we'll continue this conversation, have more coverage throughout the afternoon. for now, melissa, i will throw it back to you. melissa: rich, thank you so much. we'll look forward to that. meantime the political matchmaker, a new startup, called crowd pac is online service that helps match potential donors with political candidates who best match their beliefs. how nice! oh wait, they get cut of donations. monica crowley with the "washington times" and fox news contributor. james back with us as well. this is interesting. they go through around analyze previous campaign contributions to the candidates, their voting record and their speeches. they help you find the person that best matches your beliefs. what do you think? >> first when i saw this article about this story, first when i saw the word matchmaker, oh, they're taking political affinities and where you're donating to candidates and matching you up with potential dates. melissa: that is not a bad idea. >> great idea, right? melissa: make your house an echo chamber where you agree with

each other all the time. >> yeah. you know what is interesting? this is business. they take 8% whatever you're donating. melissa: that is a big cut. >> to a potential candidate. it's a little, might be a little bit of flaw in the design though because if you're motivated enough politically to be donating to a candidate to begin with you would think you already have a base of knowledge. melissa: you would think. >> to work. melissa: that's true. >> anytime you can sort of educate voters into policy positions of candidates it is a good thing. melissa: what do you think? a stanford professor behind this one. >> might be worthwhile addition to the universe of online information but i kind of tend to think there is role for journalism here, maybe, for example, reading our paper for example. you might learn, not just the stated positions of candidates but also what they actually do and in washington to advance or obstruct those concepts. melissa: maybe it tells you people mistrust the news and what they're hearing and there is bent what they're getting and want to know what candidates are

really about. >> i don't think so. melissa: okay. what a stupid idea, melissa. all right. forget it. we'll leave it there. thanks guys. >> alternative view, i think people are looking for a shortcut. looking for a tech logical shortcut. melissa: so they don't have to read the paper. >> as much as they would love to, on a particular day don't get a chance to. melissa: bankruptcy i trial for detroit is underway. got exclusive interview with mayor mike dougan, that is minutes away. when you've seen it all, a basketball team was left completely dumfounded by a traditional dance from a rival key which team. kiwi team. to say our guys were baffled is an understatement. ♪ [ breathing deeply ]

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melissa: shares of apple seeing the steepest drop since january after a string of record highs in the lead up to a huge event happening next week. let's go to nicole petroleum on floor of new york stock exchange, with more on this one -- nicole petallides. >> everyone is waiting for iphone 6. september 9th is the day. we're waiting for that. apple moved to record all-time highs. two for one split. crossed above $103 this week. 3 1/2% to the downside. biggest selloff since january. january it was down about 8%. we're talking about a one-day selloff. obviously this is a dramatic move. one we're watching though is the options volume as well. the options volume still seems to be leaning to the upside about 7 to 3. that is good news ultimately. china mobile, 2.7% to the upside. they have been taking preorders for the iphone 6.

they have already sold 33,000 for both versions, 4.7-inch screen and 5 1/2 inch screen as well. back to you. melissa: all right, nicole. apple has its head in the i clouds. the company is denying its storage service was breached during the massive hack of celebrity photos. on top of all that, the itunes store shut down six hours overnight. tell me about it. bring in the panel. james freeman is back along with todd schoenberger. jonathan hoenig from capitalist pig hedge fund. he is also a fox news contributor. jonathan, i will start with you. they're denying the breach. is that the best strategy? >> this is a first world problem, melissa. even if there was a six-hour shutdown of the apple, itunes, store, the app store, we love these products. people swear by them. that's why they're waiting to buy the iphone 6 already. and they're willing to tolerate a six-hour disruption. keep in mind, melissa. wasn't too long ago you had to wait in long to musicland.

now you do it online. people love apple and will continue to. melissa: apparently jonathan is not worried about his naked photos get getting out. how but? >> i'm quite disturbed a couple of things. itunes itself, this is fastest growing segment for apple right now. this is company, a segment that saw a 25% increase year-over-year with revenues. july was the best month ever. i'm not worried about this little hiccup on six-hour thing. jonathan is absolute loy right, people will wail out all night long for apple product. they don't do that for samsung. melissa: loan corner on internet reddit users are feeling bit remorse after looking stolen naked images of jonathan and jennifer lawrence. a few posters decided to give money to prostate cancer research. more than $6,000 were donated, when they promptly stood up and returned all the money. saying quote, we would never condone raising funds for cancer research in this manner.

what do you think, james? should they have taken money and run? >> i think they should have kept the money. melissa: 6,000 bucks. >> if it had been stolen i understand that. people give to charities for lots of different reasons. i would assume a lot of it is repentance for people that want to make fresh start. melissa: right. >> do good works. why know why you would turn this down. melissa: what do you think, jonathan? >> money is fungible. so to james's point, the fact that they donated and had something in mind they wanted to honor or feel remorse, doesn't make a heck of a difference. i think it is great, melissa. benevolent people feel sense of remorse when they have stolen other people's images. melissa: there is whole joke why they chose the prostate cancer research in particular i will not go into. this is day time cable television. there is more to this story let's just say. moving along. eva longoria has her own take on security issues at apple. it is star-struck employees, actress has been contacted

directly by workers who were able to access and steal her personal information from within the company. i mean, this is really appalling, todd. she said that somebody called her from an apple store in san antonio said, that they made a dress they wanted to send to her. oh, yeah, i work at apple store in san antonio. they looked at her phone number from the profile and caller her around teller they were a fan and had something for her. on one hand hard to compare that to stealing of photos. >> right. melissa: but i don't know, i mean that is pretty appalling. a bad week for apple. >> no, look look. this is one thing, eva down in san antonio. she is from san antonio. she is a queen down there. somebody reaching out, to us probably foreign for us it is fine. melissa: stole her phone number, could get her credit card number. >> i don't believe it. >> jonathan frank calls me all the time. jonathan, i know it is. melissa: poor, jonathan. >> i don't believe it, if it

happened it was one-time only lapse. apple has thousands of employees. those employees and customers trust is first and foremost for them. i don't buy it. melissa: awe the bad apple headlines coming at great time for samsung. the tech giant unveiling three new devices at its unpacked event. james freeman, i know you can't wait to get your hands on the new galaxy note 4. >> we, i think, this is a reminder that apple can not take its customers for granted. i don't think they ought to dismiss that outage. i think they ought to be sure it never happens again. apple needs to remember they're charging premium price. there is very vigorous competition in this market. melissa: jonathan, you are a staunch apple defender today, i got to tell you those devices look pretty cool. a lot of people have samsung stuff they love. >> we know a lot of people, melissa like some tv hosts don't particularly like to use apple. you talked about that in the past. many people -- melissa: i have apple everything. i just don't have an iphone.

i love the ipad. i have the desktop. i can't type on it. >> it is that competition makes a market. to jpmorgan james's point, there is no monopoly in free market. if apple stays on top there will be competition from google, amazon, samsung as well. melissa: todd, last word. >> nobody waits out in line for a samsung product. it is so big. i have a boom box next to, when i'm walking out of sixth avenue with one of these things. bottom line, samsung losing market share, go 31%, down to 25%, by 2015. that is reason to stay away from samsung and its stock. melissa: shocking reports from libya. have you heard about this, 11 commercial jetliners completely vanished just weeks ahead of september 11th as president obama waivers on the approach to growing threat of terrorism. how concerned should we be? home depot, only latest to get hit by a massive data breach, exposing millions of

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>> rumors are certified and footlocker is about to go private. they could be raising funds right now specifically for that purpose. james from keen on the markets, what can you tell us about this? >> right, so we are seeing a big spike in auctions volume on footlocker on the backs of this news. seven times options has traded with calls out trading today by 7-1. this is a type of activity we would see on speculation of a takeover, they blocks from september and october, telling

me traitorous might have a price target in mind but not necessarily knowing when it will get done. melissa: they recall, thank you for that, james. we appreciate that. 11 libyan jetliners missing spiking fears of terrorist attacks nearing the anniversary of september 11. officials working to confirm the missing jetliner taken from one of two state owned jet lines of extremist overtook tripoli international airport last mon month. monica crowley is back along with kt mcfarland, secretary of defense for public affairs, a fox news national security analyst. thanks to both of you for joining us. >> it is terrifying for a couple of reasons. everybody seems to put it together as one issue. middle east is one thing, taking over regions of the middle east, taking over oil wells,

refineries, whatever. on the other hand it is a thre threat. david cameron talk about the threat of those returning fighters have if they return to great britain. leave the united states have not talked about that at all. we're going to get it down to a manageable level but not talking with the threat to the homeland. that is why these 11 missing planes are a mystery and potential opportunity for bad guys to attack us. >> this president has tried to limit the nature of the enemy and limit its scope, so it is always over there. chairman of the joint chiefs last week walks back his comments of the imminent threat to the homeland to say they don't have the capability you have to reach the united states. if they acquire one airliner, that changes the whole calculus because they can reach here.

i constantly ask fo cheney, any time i had somebody in front of me i would say to them do you still believe these islamic terrorists are hung up on using airplanes and the answer constantly was yes. so do have these 11 go missing in addition to the malaysian aircraft. melissa:.was one of the series at the time when it disappeared, was it taken to be used later, there were those who brushed off that. now 11 missing. >> does that really present a threat to new york. says you have to get the right kind of pilate, across the atlantic. what is more likely is t say soe of those aircraft headed to north africa, middle east, what happens if there is one of these stolen aircraft full of fuel at a suicide attack on a saudi oil

refinery. it would interrupt international oil market, it would terrorize anybody in the oil industry, so what does it do for the market? >> it could load one of these aircraft with weapons of mass destruction. we found a laptop in syria talking about weapon rising the bubonic plague. assuming they can get into the airspace, you crash a commercial jet into times square loaded with a biological weapon, the game is over. melissa: is it significant 9/11 is us? >> in the 16 hundreds there was something called the siege of malta where the christians held back the muslim empire that wanted to move on and destroy the christians. in the 1700s there was the

battle for vienna. same thing, they wanted to come and destroy, both of those cases september 11 the christians prevailed. look at september 11 and september 11 benghazi. in their minds september 11 is a fixated day. if you are isis and you want to show you are the tough guy on the block, you want to show al qaeda is finished, what better way to do something then an attack on september 11? melissa: thank you to both of you. detroit motoring on after bankruptcy. that is next. plus knee guard was so yesterd yesterday. the latest travel accessory that could cause a bit of a ruckus on your next flight. at the end of the day it is all about legroom. if you ware a denture, take the simple test.

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melissa: billionaire investor carl icahn has sold his entire stake in family dollar. making it $200 million profit from the sale, not bad. largest shareholder after his stake was sold in june. the bank of the trial on court, getting help, pledging $100 million, private in funding from boosting small business. jpmorgan head of corporate responsibility joining now. i want to start with you, a lot of criticism of what they're calling this grand bargain while it wipes out $7 billion of debt,

it is very favorable to the co cops, future pensioners and punitive to the bondholders with the firefighters and other communities. >> you have the ford foundation and a number of corporations put up $800 million to restore those pensions, said wasn't something take away from the bondholders, the business and phone traffic committee came together to protect the art institute and the pensions. melissa: isn't the problem that has grown to such a point it is not sustainable, they cannot be made and you need to reform the system within your cities that doesn't happen again?

what they're trying to do is balance fair treatment of those who have retired and a much more lean pension plan for those still working. melissa: when people look at this they look to see that this doesn't happen again. >> hopefully they elected a new mayor, got a new administration and -- melissa: what are you doing differently? >> putting lights on in the city, knocking down abandoned houses, cut cost in a great many areas and city services improve and people are moving into detroit a rate we haven't seen in 30 or 40 years. melissa: to try to provide financing. we talk about the thousands and thousands of properties that have been abandoned, people need

financing of a wants to turn those things around, that is a risk to your shareholders to go in and do that. how do you make them feel good about risking the money that is on them down and out. >> we have over a million consumer customers, post 100,000 small business customers, 2500 employees in southeast michigan, so detroit's success has a lot of bearing on the firm and shareholders, to what we see now is leadership the mayor has bought with the philanthropic community and really starting to turn around. very vibrant midtown, downtown. the auctions they have implemented to get some of these houses that are abandoned. it is starting to make a difference. melissa: strengthening the

workforce to partner people looking for employees and cannot find them, how do you find the right people to partner with because that is a problem that is universal. >> this is an issue over the country and all over the world, we launched a major initiative called new skills at work for the largest private-sector initiative to address the skills gap. there are tens of thousands of jobs going on film because today because most people don't have the right jobs. working with local organizations and community colleges and the businesses to understand clearly where the jobs, what skills are needed hitting people the right training for those jobs is where the money will go to. melissa: thank you for coming on. joining me now, fox business liz claman here to give us a preview of what is coming up on the show, what do you have for us? liz: thinking who would be the

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♪ ♪ melissa: dunkin donuts finally getting love, the company opening its first store in southern california, seeing massive lines for the grand opening. back with me now, todd schoenberger and bearclaw

enthusiast, james freeman. i love the bear claw myself, although the glazed doughnut is fantastic. they've had the hardest time getting people to love them this california, but this looks like it's going to stick. >> it is a puzzle. why are people lining up given this is the company's third effort to crack the california market? melissa: they were paid to be there, weren't they? >> e police officer to this -- i prefer to see this as a silent protest against the first lady's campaign against telling us what to eat. melissa: i love that idea. okay, what do you think it is? do you remember win chels? we used to go there in the morning. >> everybody loves their doughnuts, everybody loves to eat the sugar. these people from california claim how healthy they are, they're lining up around the block for these things. look, this is an $11.5 billion, the doughnut industry, it's growing 3% a year. this dunkin donuts has 13,000 stores, and they're moving first ahead. melissa: they've got a tote bag

filled with special items from the chain. what is this? they got a year's worth of the famed coffee for free, oh, that's worth -- they got a year's worth of coffee. >> of course. they're all unemployed. melissa: that's all we have for you. i hope you making money today. "countdown" starts now. liz: another record day for stocks? confusing but exciting ceasefire talks regarding ukraine and russia boothsing the markets. also new numbers accelerate past estimates. again, chrysler has the winner, a stand standoutout performancey jeep. bob nardelli telling us exclusively what's powering this economy. and, yes, we'll ask ask nardelli was it a breach or wasn't it? home depot working with banks and law enforcement to figure out whether customer credit and debit card information was hacked. are we just sittingu