markets are flat right now. massive indecisiveness ahead of tomorrow's jobs report. there is the closing bell. [closing bell rings] liz: i'm elizabeth macdonald in for melissa francis. david: i'm david asman. here is what else we have for you this hour. it's a very busy hour of live events, dueling campaign events going on right now. donald trump in portland, maine. hillary clinton is expected to take the mic at her rally in vegas. we're monitoring both of them. we'll bring you headlines from each rally. meanwhile president obama is meeting with his national security team at the pentagon. he does not do that very often. only several times during his administration has he done this. they're doing a mic check at pentagon. he will talk about the fight against isis. more importantly for our purpose, he will talk about the

cash to irrather than trade that went on. talk about whether or not it was a trade for hostages. if so, they have a lot to answer for. the president will be answering questions. we're there at pentagon live as soon as that begins. liz: a lot of question marks whether the fear trade is back on. a lot of advisors are saying markets are in for a bought of trouble heading down the road. market inching higher into the close, just around the flat line. traders waiting for tomorrow's all important jobs report. phil flynn of price futures and fox business contributor. he is watching action in oil from the cme. lori rothman down on floor of new york stock exchange. lori, you're watching a bright spot, technology, going on. what is going on? reporter: you said it emac. good to see you. microsoft shares best level in 16 1/2 years. $5897.39 is where microsoft goes

out -- 57.39. there is no new news. linkedin reporting earnings. linkedin being purchased by microsoft for $26.2 billion. that reported last month. nickelodeon, networks, box office receipts. earnings from viacom weren't all that hot. that's why shares were down about a percent today. seaworld also disappointing report for the theme park operator. they're blaming actually, orlando terrorist attack back in june. they're also pointing to economic weakness in latin america. shares of seaworld are really hammered today as a result, down 13.2%. back to you. liz: seaworld has lost 2/3 of its market value from the ipo at 2013. david: look who is there. phil flynn talking about oil which is spiking about 2 1/2%.

well above the 41 bucks a barrel price, close to 42. what is going on? >> it is out of bear market territory. this was basically a market, david, that was very oversold. we did get positive news. this morning big boost for oil was interest rate cut in the uk. more stimulus than anticipated. that is always good for oil demand. remember oil really sold off hard after "brexit" on concerns that would slow demand in europe, a little more stimulus will give that away. we had a report that showed oil supplies in cushing, oklahoma, fell yet again. we're starting to see see supplies worked off. we still have a glut but it is getting smaller. back to you. liz: phil, thanks very much. david: investors are still waiting for tomorrow's jobs report. that is what it is all b it is a wait game. let's bring in our market panel. scott martin, kingsview asset management, fox news contributor and lenore hawkins from mayor taos advisors.

lenore, the news of the warning what they did in england after seven years keeping rates about the same. seems like they're getting stuck in the same magic of what the central bank can do. they're lowering rates. stimulating from a monetary perspective. what is going on there? >> you have the same kind of paralysis there that we in much of the developed world where fiscal policies just aren't happening. there is infighting with all the fiscal side. you can't get the government to really do anything other than print money. you can see with the amount of cash that was starting to writh outside of the system, how much people were anticipating this move. david: scott, the fact is, one place at least in the developed world over there in europe which is doing quite well, that is ireland. ireland had gdp growth, 26%. how? not by smoke and mirrors in central banks but the old-fashioned way. they lowered tax rates tremendously. lowered regulations, barriers to growth for businesses and

they're doing spectacularly well. >> once again the celtic tiger, david. david: you're missing the point here, scott. they're doing it the old-fashioned way. they're succeeding. all the other economies of europe are having flat growth or negative growth. one country really taking off is one doing fiscally what lenore says you got to do. >> well that is fair, david. from your lips to the politicians ears which might be a lot to expect. i'll tell you this much, politicians are letting central banks carrying water which is terrible mistake. lake we've seen with the central bank of england and our fed and ecb buying corporate bonds alongside treasurys which is terribly long term. david: hold on one second. we got some earnings out. linkedin out with second quarter results. lori has the numbers. go ahead. reporter: it's a beat top and bottom line for linkedin. $1.13 per share versus

wall street estimate of 78 cents a share. 893.3 million in revenue was the expectation. now as you were just discussing, linkedin agreed to be purchased from microsoft for $26.2 billion. the first line from the company, from linkedin as part of its earnings release, as a result of this deal they're not going to give their financial guidance. so we just have the most recent quarter. we don't have as you know many other companies do give the next quarter or even full-year guidance. we don't have that for linkedin. i believe as a result that's why we're not seeing a whole lot of movement for shares of linkedin here in the extended session. looks like they're up about 10 cents a share. revenue increase, 31%. hiring, 535 million in revenue. that is 26% year-over-year improvement. terms of membership, they did see an increase, linkedin of course, 18% to 450 million people. so, some improving numbers there. we're seeing growth for linkedin. back to you.

david: lori, thank you very much. emac. liz: nike announces it will stop making golf clubs and golf balls. the company is still committed to being undisputed leader in golf apparel and footwear. as sales for nike's golf unit fell 8% in the past year. scott and lenore are back. scott, the golf unit at nike was its worst performer. we have, calloway picking up slack here. what do you think of this action happening at nike, scott? >> calloway and tailor-made have been leaders in the space as far as equipment for many years. they stayed there. as far as equipment, the market is super saturated with it. nike couldn't break in there. they're smart to focus on apparel and shoes and clothing, no one likes it better when shanking drives and blowing putts looking good doing it. liz: interesting. lenore, you think it isdown fall of tiger and his career, what do

you think? >> this is almost exclusively a tiger woods story. granted the golf industry is having tough time over past 15 years. nearly 20% drop in people actively playing but thing for nike was tiger. he was the perfect marketing machine. he kind of fell off the wagon. liz: good point. thank you, scott and lenore. lori rothman has craft heinz report second quarter results of the how did they do? reporter: beat on bottom line. earnings per share at 85 cents per share versus 72 cents a share expectation. that is the adjusted number. that excludes certain items. revenues right in line, $6.79 billion. shares of kraft-heinz is up in extended session. because kraft-heinz is announcing it is bumping up the vidend 4.3% to 60 cents a share.

liz: thank you, lori. revenue up 50%. thank you, lori, really appreciate it. david: donald trump is stumping in maine right now, speaking as we speak. the candidate still realing from quite a week in the press. it looks like there is a full bore attempt to bring him down by the mainstream media. what's behind falling poll numbers trump has? is it a bump hillary got from the democratic convention? we'll ask sam clovis, the national co-chair of the trump campaign. you don't want to miss this. liz: are we winning the war against isis? new updates on the war on terror as president obama gets briefed by his national security team. david: also the president still taking heat for sending $400 million to iran in cash, the day the very day american hostages were freed. he is expected to be grilled on this when he hold as news conference from the the pentagon later this hour. >> the united states of america does not pay ransom and does not

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after-hours right now. good for them. liz: president barack obama expected to speak any minute, giving a critical update on the fight against isis. the terror group is now operating in nearly three times as many countries as it was two years ago. with a growing list of aspiring branches where isis is gaining momentum in some 18 countytries right now. here with us, captain chuck nash, retired navy captain and fox news military analyst and chris harmer, for institute of study of war. he is a naval analyst there. we're also hearing this in the last month, captain, attacks in 22 countries, nearly more than 1100 people dead, 1800 injured. seems like the trend is clear what is happening. what do you think, captain? >> yeah, i think that's true, liz. what you're seeing is, since the russians got involved in syria, they're not so much interested in delicate rules of engagement.

so isis lost its ability to use civilians as human shields. and because of that, the russians are pounding them. the syrians are pounding them. we've stepped up our air attacks. so although they're losing ground what they're doing, they're operating these franchises in countries where there isn't active combat against them. it is more of a law enforcement issue in these countries and there have been over 250 people tried to join or have joined isis just from the united states and there are over 1000 investigations going on inside of the united states. so they're just using people who want to get involved in their home countries so there is no low gisttics issue, no -- logistics issue and no traveling to syria. just kill people where you are. liz: mr. harmer, we have had airstrikes in 2015, is it effective? >> not really. it is effective in limited mat manner we're limiting footprint.

but we're not stopping spread of theology, ideology of isis and they are setting up franchises in libya and afghanistan, keeping adherents in europe to do attacks where they are. they wanted to bring it to them to in iraq and train them there. they're saying stay in place. do individual lone wolf. people get bet around the term lone wolf. i don't see any better term not actively part of the terrorist network but operates on behalf of the terrorist network. liz: good point. david: president obama is also expected to face some very tough questions on iran. the white house denying the claims that the u.s. paid the country for the release of four american hostages but new reports raising red flags about justice department officials objecting to the $400 million cash payment according to "the wall street journal." chris, justice department complained, particularly about

timing the very day the hostages were released, when the cash went over to iran. who had the power to overrule the justice department? >> president did, the secretary of state did. david: hold on a second. so the secretary of state wouldn't have necessarily been the president. the secretary of state could have overruled the justice department? >> you would have to talk to the obama administration exactly how their decision methodology went through. let me make a very quick wall street analogy. companies trade money all the time. drug dealers and criminals trade cash all the time. when you're making $400 million payment to foreign terrorist organization and state sponsor of terror, that is not a legitimate transaction. street value of cash in terrorist world is much more than the electronically denominated currency. david: bottom line, it is totally untraceable. this is the first installment. there is another $1.3 billion of this payment to be made. we'll have to wait and see if that is made. but, chuck, you know president obama and hillary clinton have

been big on how donald trump is unqualified for the office because according to president obama people expect things to get done in the right way and trump doesn't know what that is. if this is the right way, isn't there something wrong with that? >> well, i think that's the problem that the american electorate has, which is why mr. trump is doing as well as he is, because we've looked at succeeding, successive i should say administrations. you look where we are now. wheels have come off in the middle east. we're $20 trillion in debt. people's faith in institutions and government, not just congress -- david: but with a deal like this, captain nash, forgive me for interrupting, remember the iran con from thing, money came from iran in exchange for various weapons, et cetera. that was a big, big, big news for months and months. led to huge investigation. is this just going to be swept under the rug after couple days? >> there was little

accountability in washington for some time. there is no accountability in washington now. you can get right on it. v, look into the camera and lie, and nobody will hold you accountable. david: wow. >> look what happened last sunday with chris wallace interviewing secretary clinton. he played the video and, it is like, well, are you going to believe me or believe your lying eyes? david: we'll talk more about that coming up in this hour. captain chuck nash, chris harmer. appreciate it. liz. liz: activision blizzard is up more than 1% after-hours. maker of. >> caller: the duty and "world of warcraft" videogames beating estimates. david: rift between donald trump and fellow republicans, what does it say about trump and his relationship with his own party. >> let me tell you what. i couldn't be more proud to stand with donald trump. and we are shoulder to shoulder. [applause] in this campaign, my friend. sometimes things don't come out

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david: donald trump is responding to flak from supporters of newt gingrich who says he taking his eye off the ball which is clearly hillary clinton. even though trump's campaign pulled in record $82 million last month, that was behind hillary in 90, some say his current fights could cost him money. here is sam clovis, trump national campaign co-chair. sam, clear to me, somebody in the media, watching it for several decades that there is a full-blown attack for donald trump. they're looking for anything, recognizing that, i want to separate the truth from the rumor. it is also clear that there are some trump supporters like newt gingrich who say, look you're taking your eye off the ball. get away from the side issues. focus directly on hillary clinton and her programs.

is he open to the notion that he should do that more? >> absolutely. i think that, one thing i wanted to talk about, david, is really important you're bringing this up, anytime you have a campaign, you're going to go out and hire very strong people, people who are very good at what we do and so the circumstances are you're liable to get a lot of discussion and, as we call it, cussing and discussing inside of a campaign what ought to be done. i think that speaker gingrich is a friend of the family. he is a friend of mr. trump and also a very high visibility public figure and when he says things that he is probably expressing his views, on what's going on but i think when at the end of the day, the biggest issue is to contrast mr. trump and his policies with the failed policies of barack obama and those endorsed by hillary clinton. david: side issues we've been dealing with over past couple days are distracting from that reality. do you agree with that, that he

has been distracted from that primary mission? >> i think we have not been able to go out here and show those stark comparisons and i think, that the more we focus on comparing mr. trump and the trump campaign, movement, that we have started in this country, against hillary clinton, the better we're going to do. if that is message that resonates with americans and it is going to be great. david: very quickly on fund-raising, i know there was record $82 million last month, very close to what hillary -- i'm wondering if this week it has been tougher to raise money as a result of all the bad press? >> i don't think so. here is why i think, one of the things happening, david, we're getting a lot of small donations, something republicans typically don't get. a lot is because of media coverage. a lot of people are donating to get back at the media. david: very interesting. >> this is why we're after it. david: sam, wonderful to see you. please come back see us again. >> thanks, david. always great to be on. david: thank you. liz: president barack obama about to take the stage as questions continue to fly over

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liz: we are moments away from a press conference from president obama. he also possibly take questions on $400 million payment to iran. blake burman is at the pentagon with the very latest. blake? reporter: we're expecting president here any moment. he has been at the pentagon better part of an hour 1/2 or so, huddled with many members in his administration. folks along the line of foreign policy and national security. focus specifically in the pentagon is on isis. we'll see if the president mentions any sort of. you mentioned iran and $400 million. there will be questions from reporters to the president. we expect that potentially will

be brought up. also doubles somewhat end of summer news conference as well as president from here will then head to his summer vacation two weeks on the road. so we anticipate the president here moments from now. and weil see what he mentions as far as anything, as far as the strategy change with isis. elizabeth? liz: that's terrific. thank you, blake, appreciate it. david: national security remaining a focal point of the election, more so with the iran news. "fox news poll," who voters trust to do better job on terrorism, hillary clinton and donald trump are tied 47%. when it comes to destroying isis, voters believe trump would do a better job than clinton. he edgesser had out 51-42%. joining us with details, kristin sole last, "washington examiner," boris epstein and trump strategist and capri cafaro, ohio state senator. they're all with me right now.

first to you, president obama and hillary clinton have both tried to show trump a very dangerous guy. you don't want his finger on the trigger but on other hand doesn't seem like that rhetoric is working with these polls. >> there is another part of the poll which it shows a large number of voters prefer hillary clinton to donald trump on question of who to handle nuclear weapons but on terrorism, some people are making a distinction. certainly donald trump has said, look, things are not going on the right track. we need a dramatically different approach. voters are pretty split whether a dramatically different approach embodied by donald trump's tough talk and tough rhetoric is the direction they want to take. david: capri, there are a number of foreign policy advisors donald trump has. some of whom we have used here at fox news. one is walid phares, who spoke earlier today about whether he would trust donald trump with these key issues of terrorism and war and such.

let's play that tape, get your response. >> because i heard him, i met him, we looked at maps, i heard what partners are saying. as long as he right direction and experts in the future he could do it better than others in my view. david: walid is a serious guy. there are other serious foreign policy twice would trust trump. looks like from the polls people believe these guys rather than the rhetoric coming from president or hillary. >> i think people need to remember, that national security issues are not just issues of terrorism. certainly donald trump has been forceful on issue particularly of isis. no question the leading issue on minds of american voters. walid phares said, mr. trump, needs guidance and individuals to support his efforts. i think that is the key. mr. trump, people see his value as someone who is executor and

make tough decisions but at same time, no question he will need experts around him in order to drive his national security and foreign policy message. someone like myself, who spent times studying former soviet republics. when you look at comments surrounding crimea for example, russia did take crimea in 2014. that was absolute violation of territorial integrity of the 1995 treaty where the ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons for sovereignty. david: boris, the point is people look around today, and boy, the world is a mess. you look at what is happening in the middle east. you look what is happening specifically in libya, which hillary clinton sort of took credit for changing back when she was secretary of state. the whole arab spring thing, when they were giving much, too much leeway to the muslim brotherhood to take over in egypt. that had to change. all over the world things look like a mess. is donald trump going to focus on the mess that the world has become or how he would change

it? >> you have to do both.inton har tryout to be president. hiorically a lot of presidents ha been cretary of state, jefferson, madison, monroe. hillary clinton is one of the worst, if not one of the worst secretary of states in the history of the this country. go to the videotape. go to libya. not just benghazi and awful death of u.s. ambassador but libya is failed state under hillary clinton's watch. isis coming to rise on hillary clinton's watch. egypt becoming disaster, hillary clinton's watch. our relationship with israel becoming worse than strained on hillary clinton's watch. trade deficits with china and mexico. horrible relationship with russia, all under hillary clinton's watch. she achieved nothing as secretary of state. we have to talk about the iran deal. david: what would donald trump do, kristin, one thing not mentioned, putting top secret emails on a server that could be violated. >> i could go on for hours. david: what does trump propose to do about the world?

so far we heard relatively kind remarks about putin in russia. that haven't been well-received. his prescriptions for the future that seem too vague. >> sure. i think that is one of the key challenges he has to confront in the next 90 some days as we head toward november. in the same poll, hillary clinton is beating donald trump by about 10 points, even though they run even on issue of terrorism. an even though he is ahead by a couple points on issue of the economy. i think people are really looking for something more concrete than just tough talk, we're going to take out isis, we'll be tougher on islamic terrorism. i think he needs to put more meat on those bones. a lot of voters are thinking, i don't necessarily love the way things are right now. i'll really concerned. do i want four more years what we already had or take a gamble on someone like donald trump who says he will be very different but i don't know what that looks like yet. david: capri, it is gamble based on pretty sure knowledge what has happened in the past six or seven years that hasn't worked out very well.

part of that time, being, when hillary was secretary of state. >> what we've seen is binary of choice of lesser of two evils. people don't like hillary clinton. they don't like donald trump. they distrust them for different reasons. both are valid concerns over temperment and knowledge of issues and track record not stellar in context of hillary clinton. people are trying to figure out, what the best choice is of what may be perceived as poor choices, which is why i think this election will be so difficult to predict. david: one thing that is going to clarify things a lot, boris, i think you will agree, the debates themselves. when you see both individuals, both having to defend the positions that they have taken or the work that they have done, i things will be somewhat clarified, no. >> absolutely and donald trump will talk about his proposals. his proposals, making sure america is leading, not leading from behind under obama and hillary.

making sure our allies are protected but paying our fair share of nato, paying 2% of gdp to defense. they haven't been doing that in a lot of cases. david: okay. >> very important, making sure the country is protected, closing our borders to those that want to harm america. hillary clinton and barack obama failed at that. donald trump will succeed. that is why he will be president. david: stick with us folks. liz has questions. liz: here we got hillary clinton hitting campaign trail today at a rally in las vegas. mrs. clinton didn't hesitate to continually slamming donald trump. >> it makes no sense to me that donald trump can take bankruptcies six times, get out from under his debt and we don't let families and students refinance their college debt. [cheering] >> hillary clinton edging out donald trump nationally in the latest "fox news poll," 49-39. but when it comes to being perceived honest and trustworthy, voters see both clinton and trump lacking in

this area, 61% don't see clinton as honest and trustworthy with mr. trump right there with her at 62%. our panel is with us to react. chris, what do you make of those numbers? >> donald trump has not come out of these conventions in a better position when he started. part of that is because, this is sort of a mudslinging match where donald trump versus hillary clinton who voters dislike less, that may not be a great place for donald trump, considering that on some of these issue questions he is actually doing a little bit better than she is. so i think last couple of days, have really focused a lot on picked fight with gold star family, fights within the republican party versus paul ryan. this is not the most favorable turf for donald trump to be on, he gets back to the core strength and pushing back against things hillary clinton is trying to say about his business record, talking about the economy and his record as a business person, that is stuff

that seems to do best with voters at this point. liz: interesting point. here's the thing, boris, we have the president coming out speak about moves against isis and libya, whether they are effective. we already have isis operating in 18 country, nearly triple where they were, just seven in 2014. donald trump continuously criticized nato, boris. nato numbers lost a lost blood and tresh-- a lot of blood in afghanistan and iraq. will voters prove him trustworthy to put together a alitn ifeedeto p a booton t broed ainst is. >> wt heaid couriesf to nd toay tir fr sharper e agemen if wpay r ouagreent,o should our partners. if we agree to buy a house and 50% of the money, if you don't i own the whole house. he asks nato members to live up to the bargain. of course we'll protect them and

making sure they pay their fair share. full blame for isis has too hiarclto >> hillary clinton's answers to president obama, i hear what you're saying. >> $400 million payment to iran is travesty and going directly to terrorists. liz: take it to you, capri. here's the thing, there are two hot-button issues for each candidate, one each. for hillary clinton is clinton foundation and whether 30,000 emails erased had to do with a time her husband was taking money for speeches. >> and she was chief diplomat. liz: for donald trump, the hot button trust issue is seemingly going from pillar to post and his tax returns. which is the worst lowering trustworthiness, not releasing tax returns or the clinton foundation. >> both are significant, where there is smoke there is fire with regards to the clinton

foundation issue. while i'm a democrat i made no secret about my concerns surrounding hillary clinton's veracity. we litigated the email issue, but when we saw director comey testify in front of congress he was posed question whether or not there was pending investigation about the clinton foundation and declined to actually say one way or the other, says to me there is probably a pending investigation. while i don't want to speculate, if indeed there is nexus point between the clinton foundation, the secretary of state and those emails, that's a real problem. liz: kristen, to you, final word, what is worse, lack of transparency on tax returns or the clinton foundation? >> i think clinton foundation is worse. he has weathered the tax return story so well but focusing on so many other controversies. i don't know if the tax returns are top of mind for a lot of voters, but for the clinton

foundation, i think if there is something else out there that has not yet come out. donald trump has control whether or not he releases tax returns. if the clinton foundation is there stuff outside of clinton's control that changes the narrative. liz: thank you,. david: what a full panel discussion. meanwhile still awaiting a news conference from president obama. if you follow these things the president you know is often not on time. he is 15 minutes overdue. he is meeting with the national security council about the fight against isis. they will probably talk a little bit about iran. president obama is expected to be asked definitely within the presser about that $400 million cash payment to iran on the same day that four americans were freed from the country. liz: security concerns at the olympics in rio. authorities increasing police presence in the city there as isis is calling for terror attacks during the olympic games. i have asthma... ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back

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david: could happen at any moment, folks. this is press conference we've been waiting for at the pentagon. the president met with military staff at the pentagon. he doesn't do it very often. i would guess half a dozen times since he has been president. this was a very significant meeting because they're talking about the strategies, various strategies against isis as pentagon seems to have picked up attacks against isis. it is also very interesting time because of iran and that $400 million that was 1/4 of a payment to iran was done practically in dead of night on a private plane on the day that four hostages were relate and some people say, it was money for hostages. kind of hard to believe, administration, pentagon, that not being in exchange for hostages. liz: there are $2 billion in

frozen assets iran wants back. will media ask the questions of president. will the president release the $2 billion? could he do it dead of night christmastime in waning days of his presidency. $2 billion the iran wants back in frozen assets. david: way it was done, dead of night on private plane. administration knew it was being done. some people from the administration were saying it will be done, not indicating it had been done. of course it wasn't just in dollars. it was in foreign currency. some people are saying that the way it was done violated certain money laundering procedures, that if had been done in the private sector the people doing it would have been arrested. liz: timing of it, there are some questions around that. also, excuse me, more hostages taken as well. so does this set a bad precedent, that the u.s. has given over cash money as iran is still wreaking havoc around the world?

david: all the questions undoubtedly will be asked by the press corps which is there. the president of course has the discretion to choose who he wishes. that doesn't necessarily mean he knows what the questions are beforehand, but he certainly knows who is favoring him. and here is the president of the united states, from the pentagon, president obama. >> good evening, everybody. i just met again with my national security council on the campaign to destroys isil. i want to thank secretary carter and chairman dunford who just returned from meeting with our coalition partners in the middle east, for hosting us and for their continued leadership of our men and women in uniform. i last updated the american people on our campaign in june, shortly after the horrifying attack in orlando. in the weeks since we have continued to be relentless in our fight against isil. and on the ground in syria and iraq isil continues to lose territory. tragically however we've also seen isil still has the ability

to direct and inspire attacks. so we've seen terrible bombings in iraq, in jordan, lebanon, saudi arabia, yemen and afghanistan, attacks on an istanbul airport, a restaurant in bangladesh, bastille day celebrations and a church in france and a music festival in germany. in fact, the decline of isil in syria and iraq appears to be causing it to shift to tactics that we've seen before, and even greater emphasis encouraging high-profile terrorist attacks including in the united states. as always our military, diplomatic, intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement professionals are working around the clock with other countries and communities here at home to share information and prevent such attacks. over the years they have prevent many. as we've seen it is difficult to prevent lone actors or small

cells of terrorists who are determined to kill the innocent and are willing to die. that is why as we discussed today we'll keep going after isil aggressively across every front of this campaign. our air campaign continues to hammer isil targets. more than 14,000 strikes so far. more than 100,000 sorties including hitting the isil core in raqqa and mosul. in stark contrast to isil who uses people as human shields, we do everything in our power to avoid civilian casualties. with our extraordinary technology we're conducting the most precise air campaign in history. after all it is the innocent civilians of syria and iraq who are suffering the most. and we need to be saved from isil's terror and so when there are allegations of civilian casualties we take them very seriously. we work to be transparent and

hold ourselves accountable for doing better in the future. we continue to take out senior isil leaders and commanders. this includes isil's deputy minister of war, mohamed, mohamed,alwashir. the top commander in mosul and other significant loss for isil, minister of war, kumar alshoshani. none of isil leaders are safe and we'll keep going after them. in major success iraqi forces with coalition support finally liberated fallujah. now they're clearing isil fight is for more areas up the euphrates valley and iraqi forces retook the strategic airbase just 40 miles from mosul. now the last major isil strong hold in iraq. given the success, the additional 560 u.s. support

personnel that i or thed to iraq last month will help turn this base into a low gistal hub and launchpad for iraqi forces as they push into mosul. meanwhile in syria a coalition of local forces backed by our special operat airstrikes continues to take the fight to isil as well. the coalition is fighting its way into the town of monditch, a gateway for isil fighters coming in and terrorists heading out to attack europe. why isil is fighting hard to hold it. as isil is beaten back, we're gaining vast amounts of intelligence, thousands of documents, thumb drives, digital files we will use to keep destroying isil networks and stop foreign fighters. we also continue to intensify our efforts against al qaeda in syria which no matter what name it calls itself can not be allowed to maintain a safe haven to train and plot attacks against us. i do want to step back and note the broader progress that has

been made in this campaign so far. two years ago isil was racing across iraq, to the outskirts of baghdad and to many observers isil looked invincible. they have lost at the dam at the tikrit, at bayji. at tikrit, and rubah and in syria. in syria they lost at kobani and it albiyah and the tishran dam. they have lost territory across vast stretches border around all major transit routes into raqqa in both iraq and syria isil has not been able to reclaim any significant territory they have lost. i want to repeat, isil has not had a major successful offensive operation in either syria or iraq in a full year. even isil's leaders know they

will keep losing and their message to followers, they're increasingly acknowledging they may lose mosul and raqqa and isil is right. they will lose them. and we'll keep hitting them and pushing them back and driving them out until they do. in other words, isil turns out not to be invincible. they are in fact, ininevitably going to be defeated but we do recognize at the same time that the situation is complexed and this can not be solve by military force alone. that's why last month the united states and countries around the world pledged more than $2 billion in new funds to help iraqis stablize and rebuild their communities. why we're working with iraq so that the military campaign to liberate mosul is matched with humanitarian and political efforts to protect civilians and promote inclusive governance and development so isil can not return by exploiting divisions or new grievances. in syria, as i repeatedly said,

defeating isil and al qaeda requires an end to the civil war and the assad regime's brutality against the syrian people which pushes people into the arms of extremists. the regime and its allies continue to violate the cessation of hostilities including with vicious attacks on defenseless civilians, medieval sieges against cities like aleppo and blocking food from reaching families that are starving. it is deplorable and the depravity of the syrian regime rightly earned the condemnation of the world. russia's direct involvement in these actions over the last several weeks raises very serious questions about their commitment to pulling the situation back from the brink. the u.s. remains prepared to work with russia to try to reduce the violence and strengthen our efforts against isil and al qaeda in syria but so far russia has failed to take the necessary steps. give the deteriorating situation, it is time for russia to show that it is serious about pursuing these objectives.

beyond syria and iraq, we'll keep working with allies and partners to go after isil wherever it tries to spread. at the request of libya's government of national accord we are conducting strikes in support of government forces as they align to retake sirt from isil. in afghanistan i largely decided to maintain the current force posture to keep eliminating isil's presence there. we deliver ad blow last month when we took out top isil leader in afghanistan, omar khalifa. it should be clear by now, no one knows this better than our military leaders, even as we need to crush isil on the battlefield their military defeat will not be enough. so long as their twisted ideology persists and drives people to violence, then groups like isil will keep emerging and the international community will

continue to be at risk getting sucked into the kind of global "whack-a-mole" where we're always reacting to the latest threat or lone actor. we're also working to counter violent extremism more broadly, including social, economic, political factors that help fuel groups like isil and al qaeda in the first place. nothing will do more to discredit isil and its phony claims to be a caliphate than when it loses its base in raqqa and in mosul. and we're going to keep working with partners including muslim countries and communities especially online to expose isil for what they are, murders who kill innocent people including muslim families and children as they break their ramadan fast and who set off bombs in medina near the prophet's mosque, one of the holiest sites in islam. moreover we refuse to let terrorist the and voices of division undermine the unity and values of diversity and pluralism that keep our nation

strong. one of the reason america's armed forces are best in the world because we draw on the skills and tale lengths of all of our citizens from all backgrounds and faith, including patriotic muslim-americans who risk and give their lives for our freedom. i think entire world was inspired this past sunday when muslims across france joined their catholic neighbors in france in moving display of solidarity, prayed together. the greeting extended to each other has to be the message that we echo in all of our countries. now, before i take some questions i also want to say a few words on another topic. as our public health experts had been warning for some time we are seen the first locally transmitted cases. this was predicted and protectable. predictable. so far we've seen 15 cases in the miami area. we are taking this extremely seriously.

cbs -- cdc experts are on the ground. there is a very aggressive effort underway. pregnant women had been urged to stairway stay away from the neighborhood we are focused on. we will work as one team to slow and limit the spread of the pilots. our public health experts do not expect to see the kind of wads -- widespread out breaks that we've seen in brazil or puerto rico. they are limited to certain region of our country. but we cannot be complacent because we do expect to see more cases. and even though the symptoms for most people are mild many may never even know they have it we've seen the complications for pregnant women and their babies can be severe. so i again want to encourage everyone to learn what they can do by going to our website.