minnesota minnesota at kin aitkin, minnesot it is sunday september 1st, i'm alisyn camerota. that's for joining us. fox news alert, president obama making an 11th hour decision ditching his plans for the moment taking immediate action in syria, instead waiting for congressional approval. what does this mean moving forward? live in washington with the late breaking details. >> now the president says he wants congressional approval to move gents syria but he hasn't been so big on it in the past. is this political posturing. we'll show you the record. >> plus some parents get sad when their children head back to

school, but not this one. >> video star will be here with us doing her happy dance. glad you're with us. "fox & friends" starts right now. good morning again, everybody. thanks so much for joining us. mike, great to have you. >> good to be here. >> tucker carlson, alert. >> thank you, ali. >> we have a lot of news breaking, want to get that that. president obama says he will seek congressional approval to strike syria but fox news learned the president could strike even if congress says no. live in washington to try to

make sense of all this. >> one senior official says the president's goal is to make military action regardless whether or not they vote approval. the administration has broad legal powers to take military action. many lawmakers would prefer he does take action only at their approval. certainly a flip in the administration's reaction. first a feeling the strike was imminent, then the president announcing to the world they will wait to see how congress votes on the issue before any final decisions are made with the caveat, however, that he does have the power to act alone. >> while i believe i have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization, i know that the country will be stronger if we take this course and our actions will be even more effective. >> the military does have assets positioned united region.

president kerry said over the past 48 hours military action is needed. a request for congress will not sway the president's earlier decision to use force, it's only going to delay implementation. in the rose garden, the president said it's not time sensitive. he will wait for congress to return september 9th and wait for their input. we've heard from john boehner, mitch mcconnell, they praise the president's actions and are speaking out saying they are ready to address the issue. >> the constitution gives congress the power to declare war, and i am very, very glad the president listened to the bipartisan calls to come before congress and come before the american people and make the case not based on international norms, not based on international law but based on the only proper criterion for

military action, which is the vital international security interest of the united states of america. >> on the other hand peter king says the president doesn't need congressional approval and his delay is undermining the authority of all future presidents. certainly two sides to every story, tucker, mike, alisyn, back to you. >> a lot of facts. it looks like it amounts to a muddle. the president says we're not acting to save lives, not acting to save the war, to replace bashar al-assad, we're merely acting to teach him a lesson. we need to do it immediately, we have to wait for congressional approval but we don't have to wait for congressional approval. >> wo words come to mind, two words, mets and week. think of the different scenario. congress says yes, take actionened he doesn't. or congress says, yes, take

action and he does. or congress says no and he does it anyway. i can't figure it out. >> the most confusing thing is, not that the president would seek action, that's what he promised, that's what president bush was doing wrong. he said things need to be more collaborative. why for the better part of this last week he wasn't going to seek congressional approval and why he was going to go it alone and why yesterday he had this change of heart and that he's now going to seek congressional authorization but even if they don't give it to me, still the power to act alone. if you're confused, you're not alone. steven hayes says all this is stunning to him as well. >> this a president that sfent the better part of the last three years campaigning on his ability and willingness to circumvent congress on everything, on virtually every substantive issue the president has been out telling people i don't need to wait for congress, i can do it on my own, including recess appointment. he thinks he has the authority

to determine when congress was or was not in recess. now he's suddenly concerned about this. if you're so concerned about congressional authorization of military action, why didn't he seek it when he did something by most accounts would be much more extensive in libya. >> we talked about it yesterday. one way to get out of this, put it to a vote in congress. >> what a risk. what if turned down by congress. it is not just republicans. there are many on the democratic left who are not going to give authorization for a strike at libya. at that point, what does the president do, humiliated in front of the world, america weakened by the public display. he says we have a moral imperative to strike libya, but at that point can he really? this is a huge reckless move. >> the president says he's operated without congress's approval on many things over these past couple of years. in fact, he's seen it as something of a badge of honor when he's been able to go around

congress and get something done. here he is at a speech in central missouri just last month. >> frankly, sometimes i just can't wait for congress. it just takes them a long time to decide on stuff. we're going to take action on upgrading our that don't require congress. congress didn't get their act together. where i can act on my own, i will. i'm not going to wait for congress. >> this isn't principle, this is flinching. he told aides this is a decision he made while walking around the white house grounds with chief of staff, head in hands, what do i do, they came up with this last minute cobbled together solution where he sort of seeks congressional approval but doesn't. i think the wheels are coming off here. >> so many things didn't need approval. changed to the health care law without approval, cell phone tacks without approval,

overhauling congress, approval. disregarding constitution on immigration. no approval. >> you can make the argument and a sound one going to war is more important than cell phone tacks. he has prerogative to use executive order. predecessors have more than he has. the fact he's gone around congress when there's gridlock is a different category than going to war, which is what the constitution talked about and he talked about as a candidate that he would have to talk to congress. >> he does have the prerogative to take the country to war without congress approval if he believes this country is in imminent danger. if he believes the country is in imminent danger, why wait for congressional approval. there is a contradiction wrapped in the middle of this. if you think libya is such a big deal why the heck are we waiting until september 9th? >> contradiction is the word. lets say he came out yesterday and said, you know, as i'm speaking in the rose garden we're firing on syria, a lot of people would say why didn't he

wait for congressional approval. >> you can't win. the internal rational doesn't actually make sense. if it's such a big deal, such a threat to america we must do it, why are we waiting? >> he hasn't said an imminent threat. he has said we can't stand by and let 1,000 people be gassed before our eyes. that's a different -- you could make the argument -- the rational that is also muddled because they have been using chemical attacks for a year now. >> he says he has the authority to do it without congress because by definition must be an imminent threat. >> besides chemical weapons, shefb been shooting people in the back for two years. does the president not have any pr people? seriously. you can't leave the rose garden after the serious announcement and go play golf. i love golf, too, but just not yesterday afternoon. >> you'd think someone would say, where is valerie jarrett in this. oldest friend, let me level with you, don't do it today.

>> tomorrow or labor day. tomorrow. >> maybe he only has -- >> charles has some feelings about the golfing optics as well. >> this is a declaration of unseriousness. the region is looking at him. he's a man who stood up and said red line six months ago. >> a year ago. >> a year ago. six months ago he ignores it. it happens again then the secretary of state mistakes, leak all the information about the great strike america is going to make, and then he goes off and plays golf. >> as you know, when i run for president, the one platform on which i'm running is i will never go golfing. that is my promise to the american people. >> that's what presidents do, play golf. >> not me. >> what are you going to do? >> bad minton. >> you'll win the micronessian

vote. >> nelson mandela released from the hospital. the 95-year-old rurngd home for the first time since june after coming down with a recurring lung infection. mandela is reportedly still in critical condition but the president's office says upgrades have been made to his home to allow him to receive treatment there. we'll keep you posted on his condition. that massive wildfire raging in and around yosemite park growing 6,000 acres overnight. fire investigators are now saying it may have been sparked by illegal marijuana growers. the rim fire started two weeks ago burned 3,343 miles, about the size of the city of dallas. the fire is not expected to be contained until later this month. >> should we do weather then? >> we're not qualified to do the weather. that's why we have rick standing by. >> that is new information,

though. marijuana growing causing the fire. >> california hat munchies. >> 222,000 acres, fifth largest fire in california history, all burning around yosemite, the country's first national park. a big catastrophe there and potentially causing major problems down the road to san francisco's water supply with this as well. today a chance of a scattered showers moving in the area, also a chance of more lightning moving around there as well. that would potentially not be good. we've got 40% containment on the fire, which is certainly helpful. yesterday on the east coast, a sticky, hot day. a better chance today for a few showers than there was yesterday. so if you're ready as making outdoor plans, showers moving through boston, heading to parts of kentucky. the next system, that's the cold front that is going to move through and dry things out eventually. right now bringing rain across parts of the plains. get ready, more big rain across parts of the southwest. guys, back to you.

>> we're ready. next on the rundown, right now france is the only country standing behind the president's plan to strike syria. where did our other allies go. oh, baby, justin bieber attacked at a club and forced to defend himself. that couldn't go well. we've got the pictures to prove it. >> baby baby. our start up is not making any money yet evenhough it's the best idea ever. but dress for success right? so we started using tide, bounce and downy together. it keeps our clothes looking newer longer and like a million bucks oh, maybe we could sell our clothes [ female announcer ] tide, bounce and downy. great on their own, better together

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doesn't need their approval. what happens if the congress as most likely today if the president denies. can the president go forward anyway? >> i think he can go forward but i don't think he will. you said the key name here, valerie jarrett. anyone watching this knows she is his alter ego, gives him advice across the wide range of topics. she's watching the tea leaves seeing what the public says, american public, she knows it's unlikely he's going to get approval from congress. at the end of the day the president is looking for an out. we all feel bad. nobody is happy about what happened over there. secretary kerry speaking the other day he specifically said we know the assad regime has used chemical weapons multiple time. really? multiple time? i thought there was a red line. what was it that it took to cross it, 426 children being killed? this whole thing is upside down most of the time, tucker. i think if the president can

find a way out, he'll take it. >> that is such a good point. the surprising part is the coalition. he ran in '08 promising to win the world back to our side. in the end the only people coming along is the french of all people. is that surprising to you? >> yeah, very surprising. you know what, i've admired the french. we've had our differences for a long time. quite frankly, tucker, the democracy wouldn't be here if the french wouldn't have helped us in the war. our intelligence services and the french intelligence services have always been extremely close. despite all other differences at the political level, we've had a great relationship with the french. they deserve a lot of credit. what are we up to a coalition of one or two or two and a half, something like that? turks with us also but maybe for different reasons. i think we think, many people think the turks would like to see the resistance movement win over there but not the resistance part we like, more the radical islamist movement because turkey is moving to an

islamist state. >> we put up on the screen what the iraq coalition in 2003 looked like. it's hard to remember it spanned the globe really. certainly by comparison it was vast. so tell me what happens -- what is the point here exactly? we're striking the assad regime for an attempt to a lesson. >> iranians, russians are probably loving it. we've telegraphed we don't plant to do an awful lot but sends a message. i'm not sure we send a message that favors us other than we're operate weak when it comes to doing something. most of us who have been involved in playground fights, i know you have, when you get hit you want to hit back right away. instead we're stumbling around trying to figure out what to do.

you and i can remember the days when america was railroadsed by it's allies and feared by its enemies. i'm not sure either one of those exist. certainly a coalition of one or two or two and a half is an example we're not respect bid our allies. certainly the way iranians, assad feel about our feckless response tells us they are not feared by us -- not fearing us either. >> colonel bill cowan, one of the most interesting men i know. thanks. >> thank you, tucker. a video you've got to see to believe. a driver narrowly escapes being crushed by a giant boulder. >> miley cyrus prompts her mother to write a letter to her daughter. that mad mom joins us next.

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ali. >> it was the raunchy performance that still have people shaking their heads among other body parts. 20 year old miley cyrus twerking on stage at last week's vma awards. one mother was so outraged she blogged abbottabad an open woman to her daughter. >> dear daughter i'm going to fight or die before you turn out like the miley cyrus's of the world. you can thank me later. >> the letter 4 million views. joins us now, roadkill gold fish. good morning, kim. >> good morning, y'all. >> great to see you. tell us what was it about miley cyrus's performance that so outraged you that you wanted to write to your 13-year-old daughter? >> i don't know, just the fact that what's wrong is wrong. i talk to my daughter all the time. i talk to her friends.

it was everything that she was doing was making them uncomfortable. the girls themselves were flabbergasted. as a parent i don't want them to ever think that's the appropriate way to behave to get attention. >> you had an interesting taking on this, and i'm quoting. miley cyrus is not edgy or cute or sexy she's desperate. you probably know girls that emulate this at the next school dance. don't do it with them. you're far too valuable to sell yourself to cheaply. that's heavy and true. what did your daughter say when you said that. >> it was just, okay, mom. you told me this before. i had actually talked to my daughter before the blog was written. we've heard these things before. yeah, it's important to tell our girls you don't have to sell yourself short and recognize when other people are acting out for attention and that you don't have to go along with the crowd.

at the next school dance if you see girls doing this and they think they are funny, you don't have to do it. >> miley screaming, i'm not that character hannah montana anymore, i'm a 20-year-old woman. it's so hard, kim. it's hard enough to be a parent and the media is so powerful. how do you as a parent try to combat that? >> you know, we have a lot of teachable moments in our house. i can't put my kids in a bubble and i'm not going to put them in a bubble. i understand there are some things that are for adults and there are some things for children. but we talk pout things. since they were little bitty know about what is appropriate behavior, what is not appropriate behavior. they have had limits. they have had boundaries. everywhere these kids are going today, we're seeing this stuff. it's on our televisions, on our computers.

the kids can pick it up on their phones. can you go to the grocery store and see it on magazines at the grocery aisle. drive down the street, you see a billboard. to protect my kids from everything out there, i would have to put them in a bubble. they would have no friends. they would have no life. and i just -- i'm tired of these teachable moments. i'm using them and it's great. but my kids, god bless them, they are up against enough as it is. >> it's so true. to have a 13-year-old daughter right now in this country. >> oy. >> oy is right, in this climate. you're staving off the tidal wave. you're doing it in a great way. we appreciate your wisdom and sharing it with us. your blog is roadkill gold fish. >> roadkill gold fish.com. president obama says he wants congressional approval to

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hot wheel if you're building these, our building is a little taller than seven stories. that would be awesome. it's a little sticky across parts of the east. yesterday, a hot sticky day is going to happen again today. a better chance. take a look at the weather map. it's hot. the heat continues across much of the south. dallas you're 83 right now. the heat is going to return across areas of northwest. show you that in a second. across the northeast today, spotty showers, spotty thunderstorms. again, not a washout. but from time to time there will be showers. outdoor plans, keep them. just have a plan to get inside if you need to quickly. temps you notice a couple degrees warmer than yesterday and a little uncomfortable. tomorrow more rain again. tomorrow, a better chance of showers. down to the southeast, eastern side of this picture here, we're going to see spotty showers and thunderstorms, a hot and muggy day. down to dallas where you're baking, seeing highest temperatures of the summer. yesterday in oklahoma city we saw the highest temperature we saw all summer long right here

in time for the end of summer. northern plains, a front moved through. cooler temps special across northern minnesota. see showers as that front moves through. down to the southwest, more thunderstorm. look at that 96 degrees in missoula, temps 15 to 20 degrees above your average, been that all the time. guys, we've been talking fires so long, heat does not help anything, dry, no significant rain. temps that high. looks like it will stay that way for the upcoming week. thanks. >> thanks, rick. all right. lets get to your headlines and tell you what happens while you're sleeping. a giant bolder nearly crushing a car. caught on camera. this boulder comes crashing down after a rock avalanche. wow, that is a boulder. >> whoa. >> we weren't kidding. this happened in china. the car is just far enough away to avoid being crushed, the driver decides to back up. the video, of course, has gone viral.

the owner of a massachusetts diner is apologizing for kicking a disabled veteran and his service dog out of his restaurant. >> standing in front of you embarrassed, ashamed, i just ask for forgiveness, that's all. >> the two hugged it out one week after the original run in. james promised to boycott the diner after the owner rudely threw him and his dog out. he suffers from ptsd and a service dog helps calm him down. >> i'm speechless. it felt good, you know, the sincerity and honesty. we're not trying to hide it. we're not putting out a facade. he learned and i learned. >> never realized the mistake i made. the information about posttraumatic stress and the dog needs to be addressed. >> that's beautiful. they plan to use their story to educate others about the problem. >> tell me about tebow.

>> tebow time is over in new england. the patriots cut the third string quarterback tim tebow from the roster. tebow tweeting i would like to think there kraft, the owner, coach belichick, coach mcdaniels and the spire patriots organization for giving me the opportunity to be part of such a classy organization. i pray for nothing but the best for you all. i will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an nfl quarterback. i predict he will end up in jacksonville. >> are you psychic. >> yes. >> meanwhile this oklahoma woman's new home is literally a zoo. christy carr is making an exotic animal park her new addition for her kangaroo irwin. she won a two-year fight with

the city to keep irwin over a therapy pet. disagreement over licensing and insurance forced her to seek refuge outside her home. she lives in the zoo's staff house and says the move has been good for her and irwin. she nursed the kangaroo back to health after he was partially paralyzed after running into a fence several years ago of the disabled pet sleeps in a bed and loves to eat twizlers. >> who doesn't. that's for sure. >> you have a lot in common. >> how can you be depressed with a kangaroo in your house. >> you can't. >> president obama expecting a vote when congress returns september 9th. is it long overdue, is the president waffling. a pentagon spokesman, for secretary of defense 2005 through 2009. j.d. gordon. good to have you this morning.

>> good to see you. >> does he sign off? >> he has authority to do it on his own. it's a smart move to consult congress. the only thing that's a shame, he should have consulted congress before he started making threats pout red line. we lost credit able because he made threats he may not be able to deliver on. that's really the problem here. >> that line, red line. it might have even been an ad lib. is that something you don't do? is that the lesson we learn here? >> i think even kids in the schoolyard learn not to use red line. if you're not doing to back up a threat, you don't make the threat. the most important person to learn the lesson is the president of the united states. if you're the president and you're talking about red lines and making threats to other countries, if they call your bluff and you're not able to come out and do it, i think it damages the credibility of the whole country. it just emboldens our enemies. >> we heard the strike was going to be fairly imminent. however, not eminent enough or important enough to call

congress back on their holiday weekend. so is the time line here problematic that we have to wait for them to come back from summer recess before they have a vote. >> alisyn, shows weakness again, no sense of urgency. the prime minister called back so they could have the vote. president obama doesn't seem to have that sense of urgency. we see dysfunction in the decision-making process in washington as well. we have secretary kerry go out friday afternoon and make a very emotional plea really to the country about why we need to have action in syria and then everybody in washington that i talked to, including the pentagon thought a strike was imminent. then on saturday president obama made the case to the public that, yeah, we should have a strike but i'm going to consult with congress now. i think that sends a lot of mixed messages, a lot of confusion and almost makes it seem like this administration doesn't know what they are doing. >> the president explained he wants to strike assad not kill assad, not overthrow the assad

regime just enough to prove, show it's a bad idea to use chemical weapons, teach them a lesson. seems lying an awfully precise outcome in real life. can you plan an attack that precisely in the not really. this isn't a video game. it's so difficult to make those kinds of decisions. i think we should go back and look at what happened in '96. we bombed muammar gaddafi. how did he pay us back, killed 270 people over lockerbie scotland. saddam hussein chased him out of kuwait, left him in power. for years he fought a low level fight against israel until we went back to finish the job. we may attack assad with a couple hundred tomahawk missiles. it may not be tomorrow or next month but a year or two. >> thanks for being with us. >> thanks, everybody. up next, justin bieber, the

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nightclub in native canada when a man allegedly tried to tackle him to the ground. the 19-year-old singer apparently got in some karate kicks, naturally, before security broke up that scuffle. mike. >> hollywood lifting the sacred words from the bible and bringing them to the big screen. >> come with me. give up fish and i will make you a fisher of men. >> what are we going to do? >> change the world. >> have you noticed faith-based entertainment has become the latest trend in hollywood. but why does religion bring in the big bucks? joining us stephen mansfield. hi, stephen. >> how are you? >> hollywood has underestimated how much we want to know about

the bible and religion. >> no question about it. underestimate the religious sensibilities of their audience and overreact when a faith-based film does well. overall it's a positive trend. even though we know it may be about money and scripts and the scripts not that great in hollywood, the fact is these stories coming back into the culture, a moment to discuss these things. a generation lost these stories. overall a good trend for it. >> i agree completely. they may be wanting to make money off this. it does raise interest in the bible. a lot of people as we go further and further into life, a lot of us have not read the bible. there's a lot of ignorance about the bible. >> we need to look at two things. first of all, i don't know about you. i'm thrilled every time there is a brave heart, seabiscuit, "the king's speech," some little corner of history our contemporary generation knows

nothing about it, illuminated, i'm delighted about that, the history in the film. during difficult times faith moves center stage. that's reflected in movie. during the cold war, late 50s fifrz, we have "ben-hur," things like that. no surprise it's center stage. >> the passion of the christ made close to half a billion dollars. i hear also there may be a film about moses and noah. >> oh, yeah. getting ready for this interview, i started scanning all the films being put together and attended dozens of them. brad pitt, pontius pilate, et cetera. again, even bad films about faith, films that weren't accurate to the scriptures or meant to be insultings, last temptation of christ, "jesus christ superstar." it still helped engender conversation.

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all right, parents. have you to meet our next guest. that time of year when kids heading back to school and one massachusetts mom shows how she really feels about it. ♪ bye-bye bye ♪ >> over the past week bringing you some of the hottest viral videos sweeping the internet. today that dancing mom of framing ham, massachusetts joins us live. tracy, good morning. >> hi, tracy. >> good morning. >> you're quite a dancer. what gave rise to this seemingly

spontaneous joyful outbreak. >> they are going back to school, everybody gets back on a schedule. i can go to the bathroom with the door open. mom, mom, mom, that's all you hear. >> how many kids do you have? >> i have two boys. >> and you love them. >> i love them to death. yes, i do. i love them very much. >> but by the end of the summer -- let me tell the viewers what you've done in previous years. this isn't your first year. >> no, it's not. >> you also danced to kool & the gang, "celebration" and michael jackson's "beat it." >> they love it. >> how were you feeling when you saw them get on the school bus and see them drive away? >> how do i feel?

i feel relieved. i feel like my house is nice and quiet. not all about the mommy time. i'm excited for them. i want them to be back on a schedule, although i don't have to hear them fight or hear my name a million times a day. >> what do they think? how will they feel like these videos later in life. >> they love it. my younger son comes home and asks to see the video and says how many views do we have? how many views do we have? >> that's cool. >> it's fun. it started on facebook for friends and family to see. it's fun i had no idea this was going to happen. i loved it, enjoying it. it's fun. i know a lot of moms feel that way. >> please tell me you haven't had any negative response to this? >> i have. >> come on. >> unfortunately i have. >> there's a lot of people that are mean out there. they don't live my life.

they don't live with me every day. they don't know i have an autistic child. they don't know what it's like to be me. so when that bus shoes up, i'm excited when they go to school. >> sometimes i know when parents dance, it can be slightly mortifying to adolescents. >> she's good. >> you're great. you've got moves, lady. >> thanks. >> but you have a 12-year-old son, has he expressed any mortification at you dancing in public? >> no. he's the autistic one. he told me last year after last year's dance he didn't want me to do it this year. but we talked about it. i said, if i promise you i won't do it in front of the bus, he said that would be okay. if you notice in the video i waited kind of until the bus started to drive away, then i danced. my other son was watching me outside laughing. >> that's great. >> they love it. they absolutely love it.

they are not going to need therapy. we're a fun, silly family. we have fun. they love me. >> i can see that. >> they love me. i'm the fun mom. >> thanks for having fun with us, tracy. >> thank you so much for having me.

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one big-time producer could not be happier about it. "fox & friends" continues right now. good morning again, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. obviously a big news weekend. yesterday a huge announcement from the white house where the president basically said they decided they changed his mind drastically to wait for congress to give him authorization before making a final decision on what to do about syria. >> at the same time white house aides tell news organizations including fox news the president reserves the right to strike syria anyway, with or without approval. the question remains why seek it in the first place if not necessary. a muddle, much confusion around

issue around this confusing story. >> what did the president say yesterday about the time sensitivity about this. >> our military positioned assets in the region. the chairman of the joint chiefs informed me we are prepared to strike whenever we choose. moreover, the chairman indicated to me our capacity to execute this mission is not time sensitive. it will be effective tomorrow or next week or one month from now. >> it's only time sensitive if you think assad is moving his chemical weapons around and you will no longer have the intelligence of where to bomb. that is, in fact, what we're going to strike. some people say we're going to strike air bases. it's unclear exactly what the plan is. maybe it isn't time sensitive. harry reid put our a statement in reference to this saying the senate will come back and vote on this no later the week of september 9th.

we are certainly telegraphing for syria. >> still not clear, most interesting part what is the point. the president has said on one hand our long-term goal is to replace the assad regime, that is our goal. that is not the point. the point is merely to teach assad a lesson. >> retired navy commander gordon says the strike is long overdue. >> it's a smart move to consult the congress. the only thing that's really a shame here is he should have consulted congress before he started making threats about the red line. now we've lost a lot of credit able because he made a lot of threats that he may not be able to deliver on. >> that's the point. the point is also the people who voted for president obama, part of what was so appealing about him he didn't like how president bush he felt acted unilaterally and sort of rushing to war with iraq. he made the prom he would do

things completely differently, be collaborative, go through congress. the idea for the last week he would not do that has been confusing, why he would go back on campaign philosophy so important to him. >> friday afternoon when secretary john kerry came out, it looked like we were going, the strike was imminent. yesterday afternoon, maybe we can put it off a month. what changed his mind? what do you think changed his mind? i don't think he cares what republicans think about the decision? don't you think there's somebody on his side of the aisle that said. >> what was striking how much effort and time and energy has been taken up by the process. how are we going to do this, what's the process to striking syria. apparently to little time. we can finally calibrate this. we're going to go in and strike just enough to prevent him from using chemical weapons in the future but not topple the

regime. in real life there's consequences you can't forces. we could wind up with a regional war, a global war. our enemies fighting each other, hezbollah versus hamas. why in what is the point? he hasn't explained it yet? >> frankly he has said it's the chemical weapons use. that was it. that was reaching the rubi con for him and seeing 426 children brutally murdered in such a hideous, horrific way. that should get everyone's attention. he has talked about the atrocities of it. >> there's atrocities taking place right now around the world in congo where tens of thousands of children killed indiscriminately we're not invading there. this is an incredibly volatile region with a lot of players weighing in on this. you can disrupt the violence and wind up with a forest fire pretty quickly. >> that's true. the president's decision to delay action in syria is met

with strong criticism almost immediately from our biggest ally in the region. >> conner with the latest. >> president obama's decision sending shock waves across the middle east but particularly in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying israel is calm and self-assured and the country is prepared for any possible scenario. but president obama's decision to postpone a military strike in syria has been blasted by the israeli media. the big concern here is that the u.s. hesitation in syria will only embolden iran's nuclear ambition. the large equestion also asked here and really across the region is is the u.s. superpower willing to address order on a chaotic region. questions about is america willing to come to the aid of its closest allies. already a lot of scepticism in the region about this.

the move to postpone a strike only adds to that sentiment. in syria, government officials said the military there would remain on high alert despite the postponement and assad regime would react if attacked by america. one went on to say america has lost the battle. there are different views of what has taken place. here in israel and across the middle east in terms of closest allies of america there's a lot of concern not only about a strike but the overall postponement means for the entire relationship with the united states, guys, back to you. >> thank you. israeli television, syrian, all carried that rose garden announcement live. some of the commentators on all three, almost making fun of the united states. >> depressing. sarah palin weighing in on this on a facebook quote, if we are dangerously uncertain of the outcome and led into war by a

commander in chief that can't recognize pitting islamist extremists with the theory taken recommend, let alaa figure it out. >> sometimes it's hard to let allah sort it out. >> you think you know what the consequences would be but you don't. >> unintended consequences, particularly war as we've learned throughout our history. this is not easy. this is not easy. if there were an easy decision, somebody would have made it. obviously this is very complicated. we invite your comments as to what you think the u.s. should be doing. find this on twitter. look at headlines. another fox news alert to tell you about. "fox & friends," sir david frost the well-known british broadcaster died. he apparently suffered a heart attack on a cruise ship.

known for sitdown interviews with former president richard nixon in 1977 about watergate and his presidency. interview inspired a play and oscar nominated movie. david frost was 74 years old. also while you were sleeping more international news, doctors releasing nelson mandela from the hospital. the 95-year-old returning home for the first time since june after coming down with a recurring lung in effect. mandela still in critical condition, however, yet the president's office says upgrades have been made to his home to allow him to receive treatment there. and you can add two more targets to the list of who the nsa spied on. brand-new report in germany der spiegel said agency spied on al jazeera and russian airline. they got the information in a document from edward snowden. if true nsa was able to hack into the e-mail season and

airline reservation system. mike, what's going on? >> johnny football benched again against rice. johnny was already benched for the first half for his role in an autograph scandal but did not seem to humble him. after a scramble he gives what looks like an air autograph to an opposing player. then after a touchdown he follows up with a show me the money hand gesture. come on. he had three tds, though. he was benched after a taunting penalty in the fourth quarter. >> no matter what the comments are, you're going to face that every week with people chirping. that's not okay. obviously i addressed that on the sideline after the play. >> yeah, his coach was not happy. his team plays sam houston state next week. >> so the show me the money hand

signal exists? that show me the money hand signal? >> you don't know. you do that in every commercial break. >> come on. >> this is it. >> i'm more familiar with the you're number one hand signal. >> the nelson rockefeller hand signal. i love it. rick, a man familiar with hand signals. >> none of which can be shown on tv. minnesota. where in minnesota are you from? >> d.c. >> you're from d.c., i always got it confused. you're the granddaughter from d.c. and you're from minnesota where. >> apple valley. gretchen's home land. >> very nice. you guys have been hot. >> very. >> now going down. now you're here. it's warm and sticky. take a look at the weather maps and take a look at this spectacular picture. i asked everybody what they were doing for labor day. this i've got to tell you was

the most spectacular shot. royce adams in moab doing arches in canyon land, 72 before the sunrises. today getting up to 92 degrees. keep sending pictures and let me know what you're doing for labor day weekend, the official end of summer, the official school starts now into summer. the picture towards moab next several days, showers and thunderstorms. look at yosemite on the map, good news, a little more moisture headed that direction. hopefully rain will help out firefighters as the containment of that big fire there. all right, guys. send it to you inside. >> thank you, rick. we now know president waiting for congress to decide whether u.s. should or should not strike syria. what would that assault look like. insight next. >> book it like beckham. wait until you hear how many reservations the soccer stud and

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this is a fox news alert. president obama saying he will now seek congressional authorization for a u.s. strike against syria. congress is not due back until the 9th of september. if and when the u.s. does use force, what can we expect in the@math? joining us former secretary of defense and marine infantry officer ben west. thanks for joining us this morning. >> sure. >> lets start broad. what is our strategy in the middle east? what are we seeking to achieve beyond, say, next month? >> well, we're seeking to achieve keeping a promise that was rashly made by president obama. he declared there's a red line

for using chemical weapons when there isn't any such red line. in the 1980th when i was assistant secretary of defense, iran and iraq used hundreds of chemical weapons. it's terrible but it's been used. it was only president obama who said on his own, no, we're not going to use it. now he's saying we'll go to war. make no mistake, he's talking about going to war for the sake of his pride. he doesn't have a personal strategy brf so npg you brought iran iraq war in 1980s, so similar. two enmyself fighting and creating some regional stability. they cancel each other out. in syria, a protection war between hezbollah and hamas. is there some reason why we want to interject ourselves into that? >> none that i can think of, tucker. but if you're going to. if you're going to launch 100 to

200 cruise missiles, you're going to war. if you're going to war, you need a strategy. if you are going to do that, the strategy should be to remove assad. the president promised he's not going to remove assad. we're going to kill many people. i don't know why we're going to kill all those people if we don't change anything. i can guarantee that's only the first act. we strike with a couple hundred crews missiles and expect the other side won't do anything. that's not planning, that's just rash. >> it seems to totally disregard the truth rule of all, no consequences, like there's no fallout. that's impression one got from watching the president's speech. we can finally calibrate so precisely deter further use of chemical weapons and walk away. has that ever happened? >> it's even more than that. he's basically saying lets go to war.

we strike once and that's the end of it. that means he hasn't planned what the move and counter-move will be. it's simply a rash thing to do. it really is. >> amazing. ben west, a man who has seen a lot of war. this is really remarkable and confusing moment and we appreciate your illumination. >> tucker, the way i look at this is very simple, as a marine grunt in three wars, any time i took a grenade and pulled that pin, i knew that things were going to happen to bad people and to some innocent people. you have to balance that. if the president were told, and every member of congress, you're taking a grenade and you're throwing it and you don't know why you're throwing it or who you're going to hurt, they might think twice. >> thank you for that reminder. that's worth posting on the frig. thank you, ben west. president obama says his new

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news by the numbers. 1,977, that's how many cars reported stolen on labor day in 2011. that's one every 43 seconds in this country. experts say it's the top -- it's in the top five holiday thieves

ripping off cars. snakes found at mississippi state veterinary students. cops say loud noises led them to the elaborate breeding operation. 2500 that's how many bookings for david beckham and gordon ramsey's new london restaurant. that happened in just two hours. the restaurant is totally booked soiled, especially on weekends through november. here is ali. >> thanks, mike. because of regulations by epa, coal fuel power plants have been closing and making millions of dollars in changes to improve their environmental footprint. new regulations president obama has been pushing ahead without the approval of congress has made those changes now outdated. now hundreds of american jobs, if not thousands, are at risk. joining us to discuss it is a man fighting back against epa's

anti-coal agenda. p business manager for boilermakers 154. good morning, raymond. >> good morning, ali, how are you? >> i'm doing well. three years ago your plant put in state-of-the-art pollution control equipment. it cost $500 million to do so. this was approved by the epa. then what happened? >> here we are three years later and looks like they are going to close the plant because they need to get even more updated and just can't afford the emissions on the units they wanted. >> just three years later they have changed their tune and now said pollution control equipment state-of-the-art you put in place isn't good enough. do you believe you are able to keep the air clean and continue your business? >> yeah. there's so much new technology.

we burn more coal in the last few decades than we have in the past, and we've cut emissions by 56% or better. here we are a couple years later and they want to do away with coal completely. what it seems like the president wants to do is put on epa to stop building all coal power plants. maybe they should stop retrofit on old plants and start building new plants with the new emissions control on it, you know. >> you represent more than 2,000 boilermakers. how many of those do you think would lose their job, all of them, if, in fact, your new equipment doesn't actually cut muster with the epa? >> at this point this particular plant closes down, we're going to lose maintenance on it, which

we have in the fall and spring of every year some kind of maintenance work on those units at the hatfield power station. so we're losing hundreds of jobs. the in plant people will lose their jobs of the people in plant maintaining these units every day, talking 3 to 400 people in the two plants closing down now. these aren't the only plants across the country closing down. we've closed -- they have shut doors on a lot of these plants in the last couple years. >> we understand 205 plants with a total of 13,000 to 17,000 total jobs lost as your industry estimates. it's an important discussion to be having. raymond, thanks for bringing it to our attention. >> thank you. >> meanwhile the president said syria is a threat to national security but now the time line for an attack is up in the air. one of the most decorated pilots in the air force is here to

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spider-man once again shooting more than spider webs making shot after shot on the basketball court. round two of the superhero taking on opponents in a pickup basketball game. spider-man only fights crime? no way. he can fight you off on a one-on-one basketball court. >> gets beaten up once in a while. you show up in a superhero costume, someone is going to punch you out, right? >> he never comes to new york and does it on a playground. >> no. lets tell you about news from hollywood. left wing lion michael moore ousted from the oscar documentary's voting board. that means he'll no longer have a say in the documentaries that get nominated and win the big-time awards. a big-time producer who has written a scathing letter.

he's extremely happy about this. now he says conservative documentaries will have a fair shake. >> what does this letter say. >> i wouldn't hold your breath? >> you don't think so. >> michael moore voting in the oscars. a producer and legitimately impressive one. he says this, "on behalf of my fellow filmmakers in the vast american heartland which felt disenfranchised by the academy i want to thank you for removing mr. moore and restoring a fair and impartial voting process to the documentary category of the oscars. >> he produced minority report, rainman, "jurassic park," schindler's list, some of the biggest movies you've heard of. he says this is the victory for the silent supermajority in america like the heartland, between the coast, and he thinks they will get a much more fair shake now. >> also a victory for the other judges. michael moore, whatever else, whatever you think of his politics is one of the most

unhappy abrasive people i've ever met in my life. i can't imagine sit ongoing a voting board with him. >> we'll see who they replace him with? >> especially in the documentary category. i only watch documentaries. boy, politics really plays a role. some of the winners are not that good. >> some of your favorite documentaries come to mind? >> man on a wire. a lot of great documentaries. but some are garbage, long editorials, not interesting. >> if you ever get a chance, look up crumb. >> of course i've seen it. >> have you -- it's fascinating. >> okay. i know what you've doing this afternoon. >> crumb. >> rick, we're not calling you a crumb. we're talking to you. >> i love tucker's of course i've seen crumb. then you say van halen, and he'll be, who? van halen, i don't know what you're speaking of.

how about this, did you know popeye's chicken has a chorus? >> of course they do. >> there tucker goes again, of course popeye's has a chorus. if you stick around for another half hour or hour you'll understand what we're talking about. the weather, a sticky day across much of the east coast. in fact, kind of like what you saw yesterday but better chance of storm. take a look at maps and see there's showers and thunderstorms pulling through from time to time. it's not an all day washout. as this humid air mass heats up throughout the afternoon, we're going to see more widespread scattered showers. what you need to know, you'll be able to get outside still. just have a plan to get inside when you need to. then look at storms around omaha and kansas city. behind that is where the final cool air mass is. that's what we'll drop the humidity levels down for, a lot of people. that will be welcome news. down around the southwest, colorado river valley, loflin and lake havasu city, showers and flooding, monsoonal activity

happened overnight. here you go, your temps for the day. heat continues across the plains. 104 in dallas, 102 in san antonio. the heat builds again in northern plains, tomorrow 91. no ultimate relief, big looks at fall just yet, even though we are starting meteorological fall, guys. today is meteorological fall. average fall conditions. >> never heard of that. >> that's what i celebrate, meteorological season. obviously summer starts at memorial day and ends at labor day. everyone knows that. >> i'm a big solstice guy. >> are you? you celebrate? >> uh-huh. >> we see you, we get that. meanwhile lets get to the headlines. we have a lot to tell you about. devastating effects of 2011 earthquake and tsunami in japan are not over yet. experts now predict the radioactive sludge released from the fukushima nuclear plant disaster will likely reach the u.s. coast next year and start peaking in the year 2016.

but there is a bit of good news. according to experts ocean currents diluted the material enough that it will apparently fall within the safe range. all right. do you remember this painful video, fox sportscaster pam oliver taking a football to the face during a game? turns out it was much more serious. oliver just revealed she suffered a concussion. she said after the game she could not remember what happened and had a pounding headache. the good news for her, she will return to the headlines next week. yikes. a world war ii mystery thanks to a metal detector. john meyers making an ultrarare find at memorial park in texas. a world war ii dog tag belongs to a gi named alfred j. martinez. at one time memorial park was camp logan. that was a military base. so mystery solved, right?

wrong. the camp closed in 1919. martinez didn't enlist until 1940 and martinez is from colorado. meyers is determined to solve this mystery. >> this thing right here i want to give back. this has no meaning to me. this has a stronger meaning than a gold ring. i would really like to get this back to the family. >> and we have just learned that someone has located martinez's father alfred martinez, jr. we'll let you know how this all is resolved. those are your headlines. >> what a cool story. a fox news all right now, too. after a week of sitting on the brink of war, the president will seek congressional approval before taking any action against syria. >> what does this back and forth have to do with the military's readiness and psyche, moral of our troops. >> one of the most decorated pilots in u.s. air force history colonel dan hampton joins us now with his reaction. currently hampton, good morning.

>> good morning. >> what do you think about the president now saying he actually will seek authorization from congress? >> you know, ali, i think if the french thought this was a good idea from the beginning, that should have told the president everything he needed to know. it's a real circus, isn't it? he's finally doing what he should have done in the first place, which is seek congress's approval unless it was proven there was an imminent threat to the united states. none of us saw it and none of us could figure out what, in fact, we're doing in syria. that's been revealed as of yesterday when he started to waffle and backpedal on this because he finally realized political ramifications of what he was doing. >> this is so confusing watching, from our vantage here following various rational the white house presented. how would you feel if you were ready to deploy? if you were a pilot about to climb into the cockpit to

support this mission, what would your thoughts be? >> pretty much the same as yours. we wouldn't be able to say it but we'd be thinking it. if they can't get the political goal straight and resolve all the ambiguities, what does that say for a military operation. it's fraught with danger to go into an operation like that. the reasons the president was doing this were never involving the national security of the united states. it's plainly political and that's been shown. >> it's one of the most overtalked military maneuvers ever. i mean, assad can just move everything around when we give him a time line. >> he would have done that anyway. if you're going to attack someone, attack them. you don't give them a week's notice to decoy, camouflage

things. even the syrian military as inept as they are can figure that out and negate any advantage we would have from a tomahawk strike. >> the president said whatever happens it will be a limited strike. we have five navy destroys sitting off the coach. if they were to launch tomahawk missiles at assad's air bases or chemical weapon stores, can that be relatively risk-free for us? >> there's really no such thing as risk-free. we talked about that a little bit yesterday. the thing about tomahawks is, they are going to go wherever it is you program to go. how are we sure they are going to hit anything of any value after a week's worth of warning that's been provided. so the rational behind the strike never made any real military sense. it was again all for show. >> colonel, thanks a lot. >> thanks. >> always great to see you. >> thanks for having me back. appreciate it. >> by the way, don't let the news fool you. it's not too late to get in on

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well, from chasing enemies on the battlefield to chasing balls across the court at the u.s. open, this 24-year-old navy corpsman did not let his wounds

in afghanistan stop him from beating 500 others to win a coveted spot as a ball boy at the u.s. open. angelo, how did you make it from afghanistan to tennis courts of the u.s. open, it's as big as it gets, and you suffered a really severe injury. >> yeah. it was a process. it definitely was. it wasn't an easy one. definitely well worth it to get an opportunity like this. >> you were injured in 2010. >> yes. >> it took you about four months to walk. you have an injury in your arm and in your leg. >> that's correct. >> tell me about these injuries. >> here actually a bullet entered here and ricochetted up and kind of broke my humerus here in the upper part of my arm and exited my bicep here. and then had an entry in this area and blow out here. >> it's incredible the determination that it's got to take to come back from that kind of an injury, just to walk and a

mental anguish, but now you're out doing something like this. >> right. >> what does that make you feel like that you've achieved this kind of obstacle can? >> i'm so blessed to have this opportunity. at the time stuff like this -- i didn't even know opportunity could present itself to me like this. oh, man, i'm honored to even be here. >> you clearly have suffered -- or have been able to deal with a lot of pressure. in the military you have to stand very skill. >> right. >> that's a skill that transferred to the tennis courts. >> right. >> i watch a lot of tennis. i think there is a critical amount of pressure on these guys because if you make one little mistake, you've got thousands and thousands of eyes watching you do this. >> right. >> what's that pressure like? >> most importantly you can't distract that player. he's in the zone and ready to go and he's used to it being one way. the only thing moving right now at that point is probably the receiving player and the ball he tossed in the air. you don't want to be the person that distracts the play ore. that could be match-point, that

could be very important. >> you've got to have good eye-hand coordination. >> yes. >> we have your buddy from the usta who's going to serve you some balls. let's see your skills. >> all right. >> all right. every time i'm watching the u.s. open, i see these ball boys. they never miss. and there's some sort of significant language that's going on between you guys because you know exactly when to pass balls. all right. so just tell me real quickly how do you guys know when you've got to get a ball to the other person? >> all right. so w at each other. and we know that on serve side -- so the person that's actually serving, there's always six balls in play. so behind those two ball persons that are back there, they probably have three balls behind their back. >> and you're giving each other signals. this is awesome. congratulations. thank you so much for your sacrifice and your service and have a great time out there. >> thank you.

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good morning everyone. today is sunday september 1st. i'm allison camarada. the president making a stunning reversal in his call for military intervention in syria. >> i will seek authorization for the use of force from the american people's representatives in congress. >> does this turnaround put the president's credibility online? we'll discuss. and big brother coming to a school near you. probably already there actually. lesson in surveillance one california school in an attempt to combat what they describe as cyber bullying. then the frightening moment

a race car driver's car flipped and caught on fire with him trapped inside. oh, my goodness. how he managed to escape and even finish the race. he got back in that car. he's here to tell his stour of survival straight ahead. "fox & friends" continues right now on this sunday morning. well, good morning. we want to get right to a fox news alert on that still-unfolding crisis in syria. because president obama says now he will wait to take military action and instead seek congressional approval. fox news learned the president could still strike syria even if congress denies its approval. elizabeth pran is live in

washington for us with the very latest on this story. elizabeth, what's going on? >> good morning. you're right. one state department official says the president's goal is to take military action regardless of whether or not congress votes to approve the use of force. president obama does have the broad legal powers to do so. there's certainly been a flip-flop in the administration's reaction. first it was feeling that the strike was imminent and then the world announced yesterday that the ball is now in the court of congress when they come back to session nine days from now, with the caveat of course that the president does have the power to act along. >> while i believe i have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization, i know that the country will be stronger if we take this course and our actions will be even more effective. >> with military assets positioned in the region, one aide is telling fox news a congressional vote will not sway the president's decision. and at the rose garden yesterday we did learn a theoretical attack is really not time

sensitive. some lawmakers praise the decision to wait. >> the constitution gives congress the power to declare war. and i am very, very glad that the president listened to bipartisan calls to come before congress and come before the american people. >> on the other hand, republican representative peter king said the president doesn't need congressional approval and his delay is undermining the authority of future presidents. mike, ali, tucker, back to you. >> thanks for trying to explain it, elizabeth. that's great. it's tough because it is conf e confusing with all of the different muddled myriad messages coming out of the white house in the past week. particularly what president obama said he stood for as a senator in 2007, as a candidate, he would always go to the congress. he didn't believe the president could act unilaterally.

and then this week he sounded as though he was willing to act unilaterally and not even consult with congress. they of course made a big stink and he had a teleconference with them and they will come back and they will vote on it. but obviously not on a holiday weekend. they don't think it's that time sensitive to come back today. >> so many people said, yes, you have to ask for congressional approval. but then why, when he says i'm going to ask for congressional approval, everybody says well you seem very weak and you have no idea what you're doing. >> right. >> so is it all back to that red line comment? is it okay to back off the red line comment, or is this a macho thing now? >> him strung by his own red line, which apparently was extemporaneous to send it off the cuff. >> right. >> but lost in this is the core claim which the president is making is we can go halfway. we can attack syria, but not overthrow the current regime in syria. we talked to bing west, a former assistant secretary of defense and long time marine corps

infantry officer, a moment ago, and he said this. >> the way i look at this is very simple. as a marine in three wars, any time i took a grenade and pulled that pin, i knew things were going to happen to bad people and to some innocent people. and you have to balance that. if the president were told every member of congress you're taking a grenade and you're throwing it and you don't know why you're throwing it or who you're going to hurt, then they might think twice. >> that's a good point. >> yes. none of this can be approached lightly. i mean, it seems on some hand it seems as though, well, we have these destroyers off the coast, we can just lob some tomahawk missells, no fuss, no muss, we can hit the chemical warehouse stores, nobody gets killed and it's not messy at all. >> it's not some simple war in a country in the mideast. this is a fight between bashar

assad and the rebel groups within his country. on a broader perspective it's a fight between hamas and hezbollah. and in a broader view this is a battle between iran and saudi arabia and other gulf states for influence over the region. this could flower into a major conflict really quickly. >> let's get back to the congressional approval. okay if he asks for it and congress says no, then what do you do? >> he says he reserves the right to act then to still take military action if he believes there's imminent danger. >> he's ready to go it alone with only france by our side, the president is willing to do what he criticized for many years when he ran for president against him. that is the kind of lone ranger attitude as he described it of his predecessor george w. bush. >> even though president bush did seek congressional approval. somebody on twitter made that point, he did seek congressional approval. but senator obama still made the case that he would be much more collaborative and he would never

have a go-it-alone attitude. meanwhile, he has gone around congress to do many things in the past year because he's felt there's souch gridlock that he couldn't get anything done with congress. here's what he said about his prerogative to do that. >> frankly, sometimes i just can't wait for congress. it just takes them a long time to decide on stuff. we're going to take action on proving ideas to upgrade our schools but don't require congress. congress didn't get its act together, so where i can act on my own, i'm going to. i'm not going to wait for congress. >> talking about changes to the health care law without approval of congress, ordering cell phone taxes, that may be a small one, overruling congress on drug war sentences, didn't need approval. and disregarding the constitution, some say on immigration. >> and of course all presidents use executive action when they want to do something they don't think congress will go along with. this president is no different. and you can make the argument, i think, that war is in a completely different category. >> this was never the plan

though. the president changed his mind at the last minute apparently walking around white house grounds just with his chief of staff. they are making this up as they go along. from the very beginning. well, that's the red line, the line in the sand and all of a sudden here we are. the bottom line is these guys don't know what they're doing and they're reckless and could wind up spurring a conflict that sucks the united states in to yet another war and hurts an awful lot of people. you got to hope they know what they're doing, but i don't see evidence of that. >> it's very complicated. meanwhile, we have other headlines and another fox news alert for you. just moments ago we learned david frost, well-known british journal i broadcaster. he was best-known for sit-down interviews with former president nixon in 1977 about watergate and his presidency. the interviews inspired a broadway play and then an oscar-nominated movie. david frost was 74 years old. while, president obama said

his administration would be the most transparent in history, but a federal appeals court rules the public does not have the right to know who pays him vitds. a watchdog group asked for the visitor logs to be ruled, but a judge disclosed they could be kept secret for up to 12 years after the president leaves office. and fire crews in california are still battling that huge wildfire in and around yosemite national park. heavy smoke and poor visibility grounded fire fighting aircraft yesterday. meanwhile, investigators are now saying the fire may have been sparked by illegal marijuana growers. nearly 434 square miles have been charged in flames. that's about the size of the city of dallas. the fire's been burning for two weeks. those are your headlines. let's get to weather. >> let's do it. >> here's rick outside. >> hey, guys. that is some disturbing news about how that fire started. i got to tell you. take a look at the maps.

we're going to see maybe improving conditions a little bit. temps not that bad at least right around yosemite area, a little lower. they got up to 40% containment, but it's over 220,000 acres. over the next five days we're going to see more rain, more monsoonal moisture and some of the heaviest in nevada and utah, but see where yosemite is on the map, we'll see a chance for showers to move there. at least an increase in humidity, moisture in the atmosphere would be a big help. temps as you're waking up, it is a hot day still across parts of the plains. a hot morning. you're at 82 in dallas. you're going to get back above 100 again. that heat continues. fwo forward to tomorrow, dallas, you drop a few degrees. a labor day forecast really nice day across the northern plains with plenty of sunshine and increase in moisture and showers all across the eastern seaboard, showers and thunderstorms scattered all day long. back to you inside. rick, thanks so much. >> we've done news, weather and now it's time for sports. college football season in full

swing. the game of the night, the big showdown between border rivals georgia and clemson in death valley. in the fourth quarter clemson up 31-28. boyd finds stanton for the nine-yard touchdown. clemson wins. that was a good one. next, lsu at tcu in a battle two top 25 teams, fourth quarter lsu leading 30-27, zack finds landry, over the middle and he fights his way in for the 20-yard score. lsu wins 37-27. and defending national champions, alabama, playing virginia tech, second quarter krimson tide ahead 21-10. christian jones field the kick aufr, bounces off two defenders and watch this. takes it all the way. 94-yard kickoff return. go. go. go. jones with a punt return and a kick return for touchdowns in the game. but alabama wins it 35-10.

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weapons must never again be used against the world's most vulnerable people. >> i will seek authorization for the use of force from the american people's representatives in congress. >> well, secretary of state john kerry this week arguing vigorously for intervention in syria while the president pulls back on plans for immediate action deciding to wait instead for congressional approval. so are the president and the secretary of state on the same page, or are politics at work here? the host of "fox news sunday" chris wallace, just spoke with secretary of state and joins us now. chris, thanks for joining us. you just spoke with secretary of state john kerry. i know it has been the policy of the state department and the u.s. government we'd like to see bashar al assad moved aside, but now it seems like our immediate aim is not to replace him. how does that work? what is our goal here? >> well, our goal -- and we've always said that in terms of the u.s., yes, we want him to step down. but the u.s. military goal to the degree that we're going to get involved militarily is not

regime change. it is to set a marker that assad cannot use chemical weapons and that any action that is going to be taken, sooner or now it appears later, will be to stop assad from using chemical weapons in the future. >> so, chris, tell us about your exchange with senator kerry. what did he say? >> well, i can't. i wish somebody had told you that. it's all embargoed until 9:00. >> oh. >> i will say this though, it's a very interesting situation because kerry made a very impassioned speech. and you played a clip of it on friday afternoon, in which he laid out the intelligence case that assad had used chemical weapons, seemed to be leading the charge up the hill for what seemed to be immediate action. we expected this weekend. and now we are told that the president on friday night with his chief of staff, dennis mcdo nag, walked out on the south lawn, walked around for about an hour and said i feel maybe we should go to congress. this is a complete change of

strategy. then came in and met with white house aides for two hours and discussed it in the oval office. and it was only then late friday night that he informed secretary of state kerry and other cabinet officials. it will be interesting to hear what the secretary has to say at the top of the hour because of the fact that certainly wasn't what seemed to be his understanding when he made his speech on friday afternoon. >> well, yeah. you can almost get upset with the president if you were the secretary of state. you had many go out and be so strong on friday afternoon. and then look what you do to me saturday afternoon. >> well, yeah. but that may not be the best way if you're a cabinet official -- >> i know you can't say anything. >> ultimately, look, the president's the president. staff is staff. and cabinet secretaries, even the secretary of state, is staff. and the president makes his decision. and if, as in apparently this case, he decided to change his mind, that's his prerogative. >> well, i got to say as an observer, you get a chaotic vibe

out of the white house. is that your sense? >> absolutely. i think you've had that for some period of time. the white house is really i think it's fair to say and they admit they've made some mistakes in the build-up to this war. they were relying on allied support and then of course the surprise defeat in the british parliament of prime minister cameron's effort to get authorization for the use of force. they kept saying repeatedly from the white house podium, we're going to consult with congress. we don't need to seek their congressional approval. the president can act on his own. now the president has made a decision. and, you know, there's another question here. you have kerry on the one hand saying this is a dire situation. this is a crime against humanity. the civilians in damascus and throughout syria are being slaughtered and now you have the president saying, well, i'm going to seek congress -- but i'm not going to call them back right away. i'm going to call them back in a week. it will probably be a week and a half. then he went out and played a round of golf yesterday. that seems to be a very mixed message that's being sent.

>> i would say. >> we know you can't say anything about your show, so we'll do it for you. you also have senator jack reed -- >> can i just say this? the kerry interview is awesome. you do not want to miss it. >> i don't know that we trust you on this, chris. but we will tune in just to see if you're accurate about that. but it will be great. you have obviously secretary kerry as well as senator james inoff and jack reed. tune into fox news sunday. >> chris, we'll be watching. >> trust but verified. how about this? a school district has taken a unique approach to cracking down on cyber bullying. it's hired a private company to monitor students' social networking accounts, like twitter and facebook. is that fair? a fair and balanced debate next. plus, the video you have to see. a driver narrowly escapes being crushed by a giant boulder, and it's literally a giant boulder. no exaggerations here. details ahead. my name is lee kaufman.

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some quick headlines. caught on camera, a giant boulder comes crashing down after a rock avalanche. it just misses that car. this happened in china. the video of course has gone viral. that is a real boulder, by the way. not a hollywood version. and have egypt's enemies gone to the birds? authorities there locked up a suspicious looking stork after someone noticed it has an electronic device on its leg. turns out it was not a bomb or a spying device, just a wildlife tracker. can't be too careful. ali. well, a california school district taking its fight of cyber bullying to new levels, hiring a group to watch over its

students social networking sites. while the program intends to boost student safety, does it do so by putting their privacy at risk? let's debate that. attorney heather hansen and tom kursing, a student counselor at indian high school in new jersey. thanks for being here, guys. heather, you like the idea they have this washdog group that's going to look through the social networks sites, why? >> i don't think it's all that unusual. other schools do it and they have school administrators looking into the sites. here is someone from outside the school looking for certain words, certain key phrases to see if there's a danger. >> they're trying to combat school bullying, tom, and you know that does have really horrific consequences on school campuses. i don't have to tell you thachlt you're a student counselor. >> well, the big b word as i call it, it's something that's very catching. a lot of schools are trying to embrace the idea let's save every kid, let's not play kickball, let's let every kid get a trophy.

in my opinion another way of continuing to take away the backbone of kids. that's one problem. >> what's the harm? if you're monitoring for trigger words like i hate so and so, i'm going to -- >> i can tell you from experience in dealing with these bullying issues. how do we interpret whether that's bullying or not? now the school in my opinion i think what they're doing is holding themselves in a position where they may be accountable if they don't act on something. what do you do if you have a kid, somebody posts something on facebook and there's bottles of beer in the background and the school doesn't act on that, for example? and then that kid has an overdose. who's going to be held liable? >> i agree with tom about the liability, but the liability is also open on the other end. if you're not monitoring and all the other schools are. now the schools have set a standard it's necessary to monitor. when it comes to guns, bullying, life and death, it's different than drinking, smoking, drugs, sex, that you can leave to the parents. >> it's a slippery slope. >> it may be a slippery slope, but also balance the risk and think about the risk of someone

dying and a massacre in the schools and whether or not that's not worth some invasion. and this is stuff kids are putting out there on their own. it's not private. it's not text messages. it's not private facebook postings. >> here's my other argument. i'm all for helping kids stay safe and so forth. but where do the parents fall in? i go out and give talks all the time. schools hire me in the evenings to come and educate parents on proper social networking use and media use. somewhere along the line someone has to step in. some group, some parent has to come in within a school district set up some sort of a timeline as far as when kids should begin to use these things. >> you mean facebook and twitter? >> yeah. i mean, i think that's the problem. parents don't realize how enveloped our society, particularly the kids have become. they're engrossed in this stuff. constant stimulation of the braen e brain. >> certainly a new era and old rules don't apply. thanks so much for being here. >> thanks. >> we'd love to hear your thoughts on it. you can find me on twitter. meanwhile, is president obama using congress and the

situation in syria to present a false sense of transparency? a former deputy assistance to former president george w. bush weighs in on that. and an amazing story of overcoming the odds. a high school football player who lost part of his leg makes a remarkable return to the field. his inspirational story next. and live on the plaza, why are these folks singing about chicken? ♪

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back with a fox news alert. president barack obama waiting on authorization from congress before a u.s. strike against syria. but with congress not due back until september 9th, is the president trying to give a false sense of transparency? and what are the chances he would strike anyway? >> joining us now is former deputy assistant to former president george w. bush. hi, brad. >> good morning. >> you know the predicament very well that this president is in previous presidents obviously have had to deliberate very long and hard about whether or not to go to war. do you think that this syrian situation necessitates? >> absolutely. it's a congressional mandate

article 1 section 8 states only congress can declare war. we know joe biden in 2007 when said it's an impeachable offense for the president to unilaterally make an act of war against a sovereign country without seeking the advice and consent of congress. so the president is the president who cried wolf. he got far out in front of an issue creating red lines, did not have the support of our allies. the brits soundly rejected us. the american people are not with him. and that remains to be seen if congress will be with him. and it certainly there are no circumstances that he thought under imminent danger because he would have called congress back immediately on this. congress is coming back perhaps on the 9th to deliberate on this. the president has signalled now there could be more of a month of delay in whether or not these attacks are going to be approved by congress. so the president really is using congress as his escape route of doing nothing because he doesn't have the power to do it himself.

>> so much has been written about the parallels between this situation and iraq in 2003 and there probably are some parallels. does it drive you crazy to see the media coverage here? 2003, then president bush, president obama has france, possibly turkey, we're not even certain about that. and really not taking a lot of criticism from the press over this very, very thin coalition he's cobbled together. >> no doubt. you pointed out earlier, tucker, we don't have the kind of support that a president should have. we can't even get lithuania to return our calls. and on tuesday the president leaves for the g-20 summit. what is he going to say to our allies there as putin is the person who is probably syria's most staunch ally? we are fighting two enemies in syria. we're fighting assad's government, hezbollah and also hamas and we're also fighting al qaeda. so what is the threat, the immediate threat to america?

and what does it telegraph to our more dangerous enemies like iran as to whether or not this president's words mean anything? >> brad, how do we get out of the mess? >> we let congress deliberate. congress will either weigh-in or weigh-out. and i think the president then has to heed whatever the direction congress gives him. and then we need to move onto other things like iran. the fact is iran is building nuclear weapons, much more dangerous to our country. and the president really has to concentrate on those threats that are more dire to this country than invading syria. >> and, brad, just to circle back in terms of the media coverage, what do you hear? when you hear the media trying to make sense of all this versus how it was clear -- i mean, it was clearly described back with the iraq war and your boss, president bush, this is an unpopular war, the president is pressing ahead even against some of the american spirits. do you hear that same sort of

language? >> no. it's completely duplicitous. the media who created this president is not going to be the media who takes him down. it's up to the american people. and they understand what's going on here. they understand that the president got way out in front of this issue. this is not popular to them. the president didn't lay the proper groundwork constitutionally as he should have bringing congress in first. he only brings congress in because he was rebuffed by our allies. look, the american people are very smart. >> so very, very quickly, brad. a., do you think he's going to get congressional approval? and, b, can he really attack syria without it? >> i don't believe he's going to get congressional approval. look what happened in libya. he was unable to get the house to go along with it and the house finally dropped it. i don't think the president can act without congressional approval. and i think if he does, he does so at his peril. >> brad, thanks so much. >> thanks, brad. i have news headlines. >> you do? >> i'm going to get to those in

a minute. >> okay. >> first -- >> why don't we get to them now? >> okay. i'm going to do them now. i have a fox news alert. who gave inside information to the filmmakers of "zero dark 30," is the question. >> osama bin laden. confidence. >> a judge has just ruled the names of the cia agents and a navy s.e.a.l. do not need to be known. the judge says the names are not in the public domain. washdog group sued to learn details about the osama bin laden raid. it said if private citizens knew, the public should as well. the owner of a massachusetts diner is apologizing for kicking a disabled veteran and his service dog out of his restaurant. >> i stand here in front of you embarrassed, ashamed. and i just ask for some

forgiveness. that's all. >> well, the two hugged it out exactly one week after the run-in. james had promised to boycott the diner and rallied others to do the same after the owner rudely threw him and his dog jack out. he suffers from ptsd and the service dog helps calm him down. >> i'm speechless. you know, it felt good. the sincerity and honesty. we're not trying to hide it. we're not putting out a facade. you know, he's learned and i learned -- >> realize the mistake i made. the information about post-traumatic stress and the situation of these vets, it needs to be addressed. >> the two say they plan to use their story to educate others about the problem of ptsd. and talk about fandomonium. tmz is reporting that the pop star, justin bieber, was attacked. the nightclub owner says the fan was merely trying to get an autograph from the 19-year-old

singer when the bieb's security entourage swooped in and swept him out of the club. tell us what's going on here? montana -- >> hannah montana? >> hannah montana was there. makes a triumphant return to the field. coney dole lost his leg last october after developing compartment syndrome from a compound fracture in a game. on tuesday officials gave dole the okay to play with a prosthetic blade. and he was on the field for this week's season opener. how about that? >> just ang undescribable feeling. everything tonight, undescribable. to be back on the field with my teammates and just thinking that my last play was on this field and just to be here back here again is just an undescribable feeling. >> he did a great job, too. made the most of his game. he scored two touchdowns and made a sac on defense.

he plays both ways. how about that? >> impressive. very impressive. >> good for him. >> those are your headlines. speaking of impressive. >> i leave every week feeling good about myself, tucker. >> we feel good about you. >> let's talk about the weather. everybody thinking they were trying to make the most of the last weekend of summer. some problems especially across the eastern seaboard. look at the weather maps and show you what's going on. we are going to see some showers develop -- oh, we're going to continue to see kind of the scattered showers at times. it will not be any big washout for anybody. but just be prepared for a quick shower. up across parts of the northern plains and the great lakes, that's the cold front that's moving through. and it's bringing the very comfortable relief in temperatures because it's been so hot across the northern plains. and we do have some very heavy rain falling right now across the colorado river valley just east of vegas around the kingman area toward lake havasu. little flash flooding where you see the maroon colored boxes.

but anywhere across the four corners area, there where you see the green, looking at a threat for flooding over the next couple days. maybe another two to three inches of rain. here's the heat we have going throughout the day. kansas city 95, dallas, again 104. it's sticky, it's hot. and doub e down towards areas of the south tomorrow you cool down a little bit. we're going to have a song at the end of weather. you guys ready to do this? i'll explain what's happening in a second. you go. ♪ >> all right. >> this is the columbia university, but for today in the month of september they are the love chicken from pop eyes. >> you're the chief global brand officer of popeye's chicken. september is national chicken month. >> it is. but at popeye's we've acclaimed

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judgment in syria. >> so here with us now is fox news contributor father jonathan morris. hi, father john. >> good morning. >> you've been to syria. >> i have. >> talk about your experience. >> this is several years ago, but we went and visited all the different minority religious groups in syria. the government at the time was a dictatorship. and they were showing us off the religious liberty that existed. similar to what existed in iraq with saddam hussein. doesn't mean it was a perfect situation at all. but, yes, we have to keep in mind that there are a lot of people who are now either been killed for their faith in syria, as well as in egypt, or else they're in hiding right now. >> i don't think a lot of americans understand that throughout the arab world there are a ton of christians, of course they predate the muslims. these were chris chance countries first. but how many are there in syria? >> i think the percentage about three years ago was about 10%. >> wow. >> which is not a small group. >> you know when the pope says please show restraint, i hate

violence and don't rush to judgment, do world leaders listen to the pope? >> you know, not always. but i don't think that means he should stop speaking out. you know, he spoke out as clearly as he could before we went into iraq to such an extent that he sent a special envoy to the white house just a couple of days before the invasion and said -- what did he say? not that war is always bad, but, folks, keep in mind that the consequences of entering iraq at this moment are going to be very different than what you predict. and the reason why the pope can say that is not only from a moral perspective that war is never the answer, but secondly, because there are feet on the ground. there's a huge diplomatic corps, the largest in the world by the vatican, who have people right now in syria, who are talking and talking to the leaders of both sides of the conflict. and the pope and what he's saying don't rush to judgment, he's saying, folks, there might be a lot more to this than you

might think. >> but of course, i mean, watching -- as the president has pointed out, the atrocities that have happened, it's so hideous to read the descriptions of how children were killed by chemical gas. >> yeah. >> so what does the pope say in that situation? >> you know, much of what we see in the geneva convention, for example, or other rules of war, have come from a christian philosophy that has developed these principles and saying you can't do this or that, even within a just war. and one of those is a chemical warfare. and so, yes, we have to say that was terrible if it happened. but what the pope is saying right now is don't rush to judgment about what the next step should be. and i think it's a good thing that we're waiting. no matter what the motives are of the president. >> father, good to see you. >> thanks, guys. >> michael moore, the filmmaker, booted from the oscars documentary board. and one big-time producer could not be happier about it. why? then, the frightening moment

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watching that video. i mean how could you survive is that? >> it's takes a lot of training. we practice a lot to get out of cars so i was prepared very well. >> tell us how it happened. take us through it. >> we were coming out of a corner and i car got caught on my wheel and i shut the motor down, turned off the fuel. after we were down with all that stuff, i wanted to get the car stood back up. i knew there was fuel dripping, i knew there was going to be a fire, i didn't know there was that much fuel. but the first thing i thought, we got to get out of the car. >> were you hurt? >> no, it burned my suit but never burned me at all. it was a bad night. >> were you choking? i would think that anybody engulfed by flames would have been concerned.

>> most people would have gone into panic. and we practice, and when you practice, that's what we do, try to keep yourself from getting into panic. when you panic, you're not going to g -- >> we got to get back together and go back out. i didn't want to let the horse knock me off and not get back on it right away. >> but if the -- you got back on the course? >> yes, 25 minutes later, they had me back together. and the track was nice enough to go a couple of hot laps to make sure that everything was working and we started in the feature and we finished up that night. >> has it changed the way you drive at all? >> it doesn't change the way i drive at all. this kind of stuff happens in racing all the time. >> thank you for being with us. by the way you're sitting right

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good morning, again, everyone. this morning is a busy one. let's get right to the news. a top member of syria's government has just come out swinging against president obama's news conference yesterday. so our elizabeth cran is live with us in washington with the news. >> good morning, we are starting to see reaction from the world after president obama made some very bold statements that he would seek congressional approval for a strike on syria. the syrian foreign minister speaking just moments ago said it was clear that this was a moment of disappointment. there was also a sense of confusion as well. but the question remains what will the administration do. it does have the broad power to act without congressional -- the syrian regime must be confronted, regardless of the inspection findings. >> i'm comfortable going forward

without the approval of a united nations security council that so far has been completely paralyzed and unwilling to hold assad accountable. >> on one hand, lawmakers are criticizing the president's inaction, but others are saying it's better to be cautious, thorough and get a balanced approval from congress. >> i think all of my contacts in the pentagon to include those in the joint chiefs of staff were breathing a huge high of relief. and they're still a bit incredulous about the decision making process, but i think they're all relieved that we backed off a little bit and are taking a more strategic rather than a tactical look at striking syria. >> reporter: that being said congress is returning to the hill on september 9 and both houses have agreed to consider the president's request. still not at all clear what the plan is. you know, i got to say, i hate to start off with an editorial,

but this is why you hire presidents not to do stuff like this. in a moment of crisis, when the 3:00 a.m. phone call comes, you don't want somebody who's halting to the world. >> wasn't that hillary clinton's line? >> this is bad for america. >> it's hard to watch the deliberations happen so publicly. they're not happening in -- well, obviously they are happening in back rooms as well. >> exactly. >> but you're seeing the president's ambivalence, clearly he doesn't want to have to do anything in syria, but then he in this past week said he was willing to go along, and then he decided yesterday, that no, he would wait for congress to come back from their summer vacation and due their deliberations. this is hard to watch. >> when i was watching, the four-letter word came up, mess and weak. even though so many people were calling for the president to get congressional approval, so okay, i'm going to get congressional

approval, but still it seems so weak. and he might just ignore the congressional approval or disapprove it. >> and thus jfis is just a proc. and the process has been horrible and ugly enough. what is our plan for the middle east? what do we want to happen in syria? t do we want to remove bashar al assad? >> they say no, we don't want to do this. isn't that just giving the president's opponents a gift on a silver platter? we're going to make you look really bad. >> it's very hard to see how the president goes ahead with a strike on syria, if congress doesn't give approval, is he going to go ahead? >> confident that congress will do the right thing. he means will give authorization

because obviously he and the president have been calling for congress to give the authorization after they made their case that the atrocities in syria are so terrible that we have to act somehow. and that they have violated international rules against using -- >> a congress is that's not been willing to work with the president, giving him an okay? >> all the congress people that we have talked to say that there is a lot of mixed feeling and am bi give lens in congress. >> those congress people said -- >> we're going to hear a vigorous debate on this and one of the things you're going to hear is that there's some precedence on this situation. i the iran and iraq war both sides used chemical weapons on each other. >> if you're going to look back

at historical references, what president clinton did in the '90s in yugoslavia he --- >> there was no chance of it flowering into a regional conflict. the fact is that saudi arabia and the gulf states are strongly supporting the -- one side in this and the shiites backed by iran are supporting the other side that being the syrian government, al-assad. >> what do our military men and women think about this? they're getting ready to climb into cockpits or fire off missiles. we talked to dan hansen. >> it's a real circus, he's finally doing what he should have done in the first place which is seek congress's approval unless it was proven that there was an imminent threat to the united states and none of us saw it. i mean if you're going to attack

somebody, attack them. you don't give them a week's notice, ten days notice to go in and move things, decoy things, camouflage thing, even the syrian military as inept as they are can figure that out. >> what are we saying? attack him or get congressal approval? >> it's so muddled. >> everybody has a different opinion, even if we do have congressional approval, if it's the right thing to get involved sarah palin said if we're dangerously uncertain of the outcome and comfort recognize that this -- then let allah sort it out. obviously on the flip side, we have made the point that this is hard as children, innocent children who are neither of those groups that she has talked about as they are choked to death by chemical weapons, it's hard to just wash our hands of it and say we're not going to do anything. >> on the other hand, successful

imperial powers maintain order by, you know, overseeing balance and that means having your enemies, you know, absorbed with each other and not with attacking you. i don't know, there's some truth in this. there's a long precedent for this. >> there are arguments to be made on all sides, obviously this is not easy. it's the toughest decision a president has to make and it's a very important weekend. we're glad you're with us, let us know some of the other headlines making news right now. the president said that the obama administration would be the most trance paresparency. but the white house says it does not have to let the public know who visits. judges ruled that those records are not subject to disclosure. that decision mean they could be kept secret for up to 12 years after the president leaves office. there's a huge wildfire outside of yosemite national park.

meanwhile investigators now say the fire may have been sparked by illegal marijuana growers. nearly 343 square miles have been charred by the flames and that's about the size of the city of dallas. the fire has been burning for two weeks now. after a skramable, he gives what looks like an air autogra taunting them. after a touchdown, he follows that up with a show me the money hand gesture. he did have three touchdowns in the second half. but he was benched by his coach after a taunting penalty again in the fourth quarter. >> no matter what the comments are, or what, he's going to face that every week with people chirping and that's not okay. and obviously i address that on

the sideline right after the play. >> yeah, his coach addressed it immediately. by the way johnny football will take on sam houston state next week, we'll see if he's willing to taunt again. >> what's an air autograph? meanwhile a metal detector unearthed a world war ii history. it was a world war ii dog tag that belonged to a gi named alfred j. martinez. at one time the park was camp logan. so mystery solved, right? no, the camp closed in 1919, and martinez did not enlist until 1940, martinez was from camp colorado. but myers is determined to solve this mystery. >> this right here i want to girlfriend back. this has no meaning to me. this has a stronger meaning that a gold ring or anything like that. i would really like to get there back to the family.

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get a fair shake. >> we shall see who they replace him with though. here's the letter from gerald mullen, and he really is a big-time producer. he said on behalf of my fellow filmmakers in the vast american heartland which has felt disenfranchised by the academy for removing michael moore and restoring a fair and impartial voting process of the documentary category in oscar. i have to say this, michael moore is an extremely unpleasant person. i have had a lot of experiences with michael moore, he is an unhappy, grouchy, very unhappy guy. and if you were on the panel with him as a judge, it would not be something you look forward to at all. >> jurassic park, rainman, minority reports, he knows what he's talking about in hollywood. >> he's good. >> with all the bad things happening in the world, we are here to record the good things.

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here's some breaking news for you right now, syrian president bashar al-assad say that syria is capable of facing any potential aggression. >> joining us now is the chairman of the national commission on terrorism and former presidential envoy to iraq, ambassador l. paul bremer. ambassador thank you for being with us. first of all comment if you would off assad's comments there that he can handle any external aggression. >> he would say that. look, i think there are two problems here, there it's a problem of a process and a problem of substance. on the process question. the american people are fatigued with war as the president said yesterday. and if this problem of a chemical weapons and the continued massacre is as important as the president said, and i think it is, if it's important as a consequence that

he should consult congress and i think he should, then there should have been a seriousness and we're going to allow assad two weeks to make his missiles and tanks more efficient and killing people, very emoralizing to our friends and to the rebels. but the real problem is what are we planning to do? that's the real problem. you make a great point about the timing. congress can't come back from their summer labor day break to deal with a possible act of war? >> of course. but again, let's not get -- the very limited nature that we have signaled. the president talked earlier this week about a shot across the bow. it's the stated intention of the shot across the bow to miss the target, that's the point. so what happens after we miss the appoint.

>> let's just be clear, you say missed the target, you think it's possible that our tomahawk missiles, that our goal as the president said is just to act as a deterrent so the president can't use them? >> i'm using the image that the president invoked which was a shot across the bow. basically what we're planning to do which has been very well publicized is to not change the balance on the ground. neither the rebels or al-assad are particularly attractive, but neither side -- it's been the president's stated policy that assad should go. we should be taking robust action that indeed changes the balance of power on the ground. there's a lot of ways to do that, through no move zones no, fly zones, a lot of things which apparently at least at the

moment are not on the table. >> how do we fix it? >> i think we have to fix it with a much more robust response. i thought we learned this problem in vietnam, if you gradually build up, you think it signals to the enemy that you're serious, really it signals that we're weak. our allies, we only have the french so far. >> thank you so much. >> and we haven't armed them. we said we were going to arm them and we haven't done that. >> ambassador paul bremer, thanks for being with us. the man who helped kill osama bin laden has a new chance of freedom. >> we'll talk to dr. afridi.

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afridi commission where it stated that dr. afridi's arrest and prosecution was a travesty of justice. he never should have been sentenced to 33 years and the maximum charges he could have faced even with the trumped up charges were three years. so as a result of the new administration, the new prime minister coming in, what we see now is somebody finally having the guts to overturn what was a complete set up of somebody that really should be an american hero. >> here's what i don't understand, is that the united states has a lot of sway, or some sway in pakistan, and the obama administration has gotten a lot of political mileage out of killing osama bin laden, what is the administration doing to free him? >> at this particular point in time, i think it's more what the american public has done and what hollywood has done and what fox has done candidly. everybody, as a result of the

incredible coverage, the abuse that you originally started. subsequently to that, representative dana orbacher from california grilled the secretary of state and at that point the secretary went over and jumped on the bandwagon and there's been an understanding of the importance of this to the american people created by the film industry, your air and the secretary of state. >> you and your husband are very much americans. what motivated you to spend you helping to free dr. afridi? >> when bob came to me the last thing i wanted to do was get political or get involved with pakistan, but when i first heard the story of a what who helped

america find the worst terrorist of all time and rid the world of his threats, and he was being tortured and beaten and eating like a dog in a prison cell, it made me sad, it made me angry because if this is how america treats the people that help us, what's going to happen the next time we need someone's help. >> exactly. >> so i got on board as a humanitarian issue that we need to get this guy free. next labor day, he's going to be here at our barbecue. >> we were in new york -- actually what happened we were in new york celebrating valentine's day and kira's valentine's day card was a full page in the hollywood reporter that ran to the red carpet attendees saying get out there and tell the world that dr. afridi needs to be freed. and it apparently seems to have caused traction. next on the rundown, the

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well, a fox news alert, president obama appearing to hold president assad accountable for a chemical assault on his people. >> now he's decided to move ahead and get congressional approval. >> congressman, thank you for being with us. does the president have a right to have the authority to attack syria on his own without constitutional approval? >> yeah, he does. if you look under the war powers act, he has 60 days before coming to congress. if you look at history, if you look at 1986 at the attack on

granada, the war in kosovo and you look at all these attempts, president bill clinton firing missiles into afghanistan from the uss "cole." we would have under the war powers act would have the authority to strike without going to congress. >> are you required to give him your approval to do this? >> i think i will. i have been briefed won what's going on. i think there's irrefutable prove that there was -- knowing that they're torn up on the inside and thousands of others. we have to have a standard. and when the president put down a red line, whether you agree with it or not, america's credibility is at stake if we do not enforce that red line. what you have to do is say basically there is a cost

greater to use chemical weapons than any benefit you can get. so it's a strong stand for america to make a stand and say you're going to use chemical weapons there's going to be a toll to pay on this. >> you are a member of the air national guard, do you think there is a way to have a limited strike, to be able to launch tomahawk missiles from our destroyers and to just hit the air access or the chemical weapons stores? >> you can hit air assets, you can shut down airfields, you can hit command and control, you can hit things that are just very costly for the regime. and you can do it all with tomahawk missiles and b-2 bombers that were undetectable. this is isn't the first time the united states will have done anything like this. you look at the last 20 years and there's countless examples of the military on a one or two-day strike. i understand people's concerns, i understand we're war weary, but unfortunately, to whom much

is given or fortunately who whom much is given much is required and we have to take a stand to say there's no place for chemical weapons to be used. >> we did in the in the '90s in iraq and we wound up escalating in a dramatic fashion at war with the country. why don't we just act on what we want now? >> i don't want to keep assad in power. this is a very bad man that has supported iran that is very anti- anti-america, very anti-israel. i think that the obama administration has been asleep at the switch when it comes to syria. they should have had a posts a s sad plan or a post overthrow plan. either he's out of power with the entire country potentially being that way. i'm not taking a side and

staying america needs to intervenes, i'm not saying that at all. we do have to send a message that these chemical weapons will not be tolerated. now he's made his decision, we should debate this, we should vote to give him authorization and then he can go the rest of his trip and make the decision to strike. but assad knows he has at least ten days to move his a assets t take a chill pill. he at least knows now he's got another week. >> congressman, you're willing to get on a plane right now and go to d.c.? >> oh, sure, i would have been willing to get on a plane yesterday. we need to get there. the problem is, there's no reason to go now when the president's made the decision he's leading the company and he's not going to attack when he's out of america. >> congressman, you make a strong case. adam kinsinger great to hear

from you. the devastating effects of the 2011 earth quake and tsunami in japan are not over yet. experts now predict that the radioactive slu radioactive sludge from the foo fukushima start l start hitting the west. >> do you remember this painful video the in pam oliver taking a football to the face during a game. she seemed fine then, turns out it was much more serious. oliver has just revealed that she suffered a concussion. she she revealed that after the game she couldn't remember what happened and had a pounding headache. she will return to the sidelines next week. this woman's new home is literally a zoo. christine carr is making an animal park her new digs.

she's living there to be close to her pet kangaroo. carr won a two-year fight to keep irwin as a therapy pet. but he's not allowed to stay at her home. so they now live at the zoo together. she's living in a zoo. boy, her place is a zoo. carr nursed the kangaroo back to health after he was hit by a car two years ago. he loves to eat twizlers. welcome instagram. former president george w. bush signing up for the photo sharing website. he has nearly 13,000 followers since joining just on friday. this is his first picture posing with the football mascot for southern methodist university. and he also posted this photo,

he w. you can help to go to folds of honor.org. >> i wonder if he's taken a selfie yet? now to a man who has never taken a selfie? >> what is his instagram name? we didn't put it up there. >> george w. bush. >> george w. bush you said 13,000 followers, let's see how many he has after the show. the after the show show. we'll see how many he's up to. an awesome picture coming in to me from mt. rush more, nevadnevadsouth dakota. that's from mt. rushmore, a beautiful day, 51 degrees this

morning. as you're waking up, getting up to 75 today and pure sunshine. it will warm up a little bit there tomorrow. keep sending those pictures. let me know what you're doing today for labor day weekend. here you go, we're going to get some rain across parts of the southwest. california desperately needs it. and you see yosemite there, i think the models are trending with a little more moisture there today and tomorrow. so a chance of a fire right where that big fire is burning in california. that's great news. picture city throughout america, that time stamp up there is east coast time. by 1:00 in the afternoon, dallas you're getting up to 101. and we're going to be very warm across much of the northwest again this week, unfortunately. so that heat from the fires unfortunately continues. >> the breaking news there is they have moved mt. rushmore to nevada from south dakota. >> and you can imagine how heavy that is.

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and notre dame's season opener against temple kicking off with a major spelling area. promotional cups are supposed to say fighting irish, instead saying fig thing which is an entirely different category. let's talk about football, it's a growing problem in america and the numbers don't lie. 50 years ago just one in 20 teens struggled with obesity in the united states. today one in five are battling the bulge. so why is there an ongoing effort to limit or even ban high school sports throughout the country? our next guest says we need football more than ever. there is the author of "the war on obesity." why do our teenagers need football more than ever? i. >> i think the most dangerous

activity for kids is inactivity. and we get too much inactivity. last year the high school level was down and if we have too many more seasons like that, there's not going to be more activities left. i think parents who think signing their kids up for football means signing their kids up for a head injury. it's -- traditionally football has played a role in combatting obesity. we look at players brains and we're obsessed with players brains, but we don't think about players bellies and all too often it's players bellies that that's the issue. >> but daniel, is it irresponsible to ignore all the communicative concussions that these children are receiving? and especially in the pros too. people are getting hurt. >> well rpgs people are getting hurt a lot less than they used

to. in 1968, it was the deadliest year in football history. there were 36 players at all levels of competition that died from football hits. last year two players died from football hits. there are improvements in football and we don't like to on sa on says about something that's become better not worse. >> the leagues that most people watch, they're leagues of giant men like the nfl. the leagues that most football players play in, they're leagues of little boys, of still growing boys and usually they have weight limits so the idea that they're trying to get bigger in leagues when there's a weight limit for them to play just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. if people were to go to a football practice, the primary activity they would see is running. not just running in drills, but

even running a mile during practice, just to the drills, to the water fountaifountains, bec nobody walks on a football field. >> why don't we start pushing soccer then? it's nothing but running. >> well, soccer's great too. i think we should be pushing more sports for kids. and unfortunately, there is a crusade against public health that is massacquerading as a pu on public -- we need to engage kids more in activities not in screens sitting inside the house. that's why we have an extreme obesity problem. a woman owes her life to her quick thinking 6-year-old son. and get this, it's not the first time he's saved her life. they're both on our show next. [ jackie ] its just so frustrating...

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president obama says he's decided to take military action against syria, but will seek congressional action against syria first. syria's deputy foreign minister calling that decision a sign of disappointment and confusion. secretary of state kerry says he is convinced that president obama is doing the right thing and that congress will authorize

the use of force. there is evidence that assad used a chemical attack and that attack came directly from the assad regime. 911, what is the location of the emergency? >> my mother is having a seizure. >> do you know if she has like a disorder? >> what does that mean? i'm only 6 years old. i don't know what everything means. >> little kenny did know enough to stay on the phone line and save his mother's life and they both join us. now welcome latoya and coney. >> thank you so much. >> kenny, listen, you were just sitting, having lunch in the afternoon last week with your mom. how did you know what to do? >> because if it weren't for

her, i would. be in 24 world and it was all thanks to them. if i didn't know how to do that, she would have just laid there and died. anything could have happened. >> that's right. if you had not been trained so well by your mom to call nine, anything could have happened and she could have died. what did you have to tell the 911 operator, kenny? >> i had to tell them that they needed to be a little bit more, you know -- >> patient? >> i don't know what everything means, i'm only 6 years old. that's what i said. >> latoya, he is only 6 years old. but he did the right thing, how do you explain that? >> kenny is 6 years old and he acts like he's 16 years old. he's been here before. he's a gift from god. >> and he's an old soul.

we hear you. and he's a sweetheart. you have epilepsy we should tell everybody, how are you doing now? and do you credit him with actually saving your life? >> yes, i do. like he said, i could have laid there and died and we were actually given some home work on wednesday, he was having his after school snack and i actually felt like i was, you know, getting ready to have a seizure. and he, you know, took action. >> he sure did. and he did exactly he did exactly the right thing. he knew exactly what to tell the dispatcher. you guys are great. la toya and kenny, it looks like kenny could use a nap. you may need to take him home. i'm sure it's been a very big week for him having to do lots of interviews. >> exactly. >> but -- he's falling asleep. more "fox and friends," two

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