participated. we hope you have a great day. "fox & friends" starts now. >> have a good one. bye. >> good morning. it is wednesday, september 4. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing part of your busy day with us. fox news alert. breaking overnight, the man who held three women captive in that cleveland house of horrors is dead today. what happened in his prison cell? we will have a live report. >>steve: we have açó resolution. senate lawmakers hammering out añr deal lateçó last night to attack syria and secretary kerry cannot rule out boots on the ground. what? the headlines, contact and analysis ahead. >>brian: listen up parents. there is no free lunch for your children. the new decision to let students go hungry if they forget theirñr money. "fox & friends" starts now. ♪ ♪

>>gretchen: i've been out for a couple of days and i assumed things would maybe change over that time. we're moving into september. things are going to change in a couple weeks. but you guys are playing games at the top of the show? >>brian: i realized if we're going to have a three-hour show, it's okay to play poker or yahtzee. >> no such thing as playing that. you've got to hear the dice roll. >>brian: i lost again to the house. >>steve: i'm playing janga which is great. did you see this? john mccain apparently got caught by a "washington post" photographer, and he was playing poker on his iphone. then he tweeted out later, scandal: caught playing iphone game at three-plus hour senate hearing. worst of all, i lost.

>>gretchen: he already made up his mind on syria. he doesn't need to potentially listen to all that stuff. >>steve: but somebody might change his mind. >>gretchen: just kidding. he's one of the few that made up his mind a long time ago. >>brian: a clever retort. he owned up to it because they shot over his shoulder of him playing. >>steve: he had a very busy day. god bless him. meanwhile, two minutes after the top of the hour. let's get to the fox news alert. he just couldn't face the rest of his life behind bars.ñi last night cleveland kidnapper ariel castro committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell. >> apparently at 9:20 last night it happened. prison officials found 53-year-old ariel castro dead and hanging in his prison cell. medical staff at the correctional center in ohio performed c.p.r. and then

he was transported to a hospital but pronounced dead at 10:52 p.m. castro was housed in a single cell in protective custody. he was checked on every 30 minutes but he was not on suicide watch. last month castro was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus one thousand years for abducting and sexually assaulting amanda berry, michelle knight and gina dejesus. michelle knight was the only one of the three who appeared in court. >> i spent 11 years in hell. now your hell is just beginning. i will overcome all this that happened. but you will spend hill in eternity. -- hell in eternity. >> the women escaped in may. in the end castro served slightly less than four months in custody. steve?

>>steve: thank you very much. >>brian: i wonder how those three feel? do they feel that hell in my life is over or do they feel he got off easy not having to spend his life in prison? >>steve: they are going to have to explain because apparently the authorities were going to have to have eyes on him every ten minutes. how did that happen? >>gretchen: in the meantime there are other headlines. a girl had an asthma attack and a friend left her for dead. taylor smith's friend did try to revive her but when that didn't work, they took off. her mother thinks drugs may have been involved. >> as a police officer of course i'm suspicious. i'm very suspicious because that's not normal behavior. >>gretchen: so far two people have been arrested. fort hood shooter nidal hasan clean shaven. the army psychiatrist was

forcibly shaved at fort leavenworth where he's on death row for murdering 13 people. he began growing his beard after the massacre in 2009 saying his muslim faith required it. his trial was put on hold several times over his refusal to shave which is required by army law. i guess it is not a choice now. >> should a man in our country illegally be allowed to practice law? garcia graduated law school, passed the bar. he claims his citizenship status has no bearing on receiving a law license. call it a doggone miracle. a woman thought she would never see her precious pup again after an accident in arizona. a tire blew out on her r.v. in june and one of her dogs ran away. volunteers took turns

searching and left traps near the crash and this week they got exactly what they were looking for. >> the dog only suffered some weight loss. this morning both mom and pup are recovering together. a great story. those are your headlines. >>steve: let's talk a little bit about this. the senate foreign relations committee worked all night long yesterday trying to come up with some official resolution so that we can take military action in syria. apparently this is what they have hammered out. the resolution would have a 60-day limit to launch strikes with a 30-day extension. so the use of force in limited and tailored manner. the purpose, to deter and degrade weapons of mass destruction. it expires in two months. they could get a one-month extension. and must provide integrated strategy to settling syria's civil war. there is one other thing i read about the resolution

in "the washington post" this morning, and this is interesting. and this has a lot of people talking. it would permit the deployment of a small rescue mission in an emergency. so we could actually send people in if things get hairy. in other words, there could be boots on the ground. >>brian: right. that's what he said originally. at one point john kerry said he's not going to rule anything out. later he said don't write a whole bunch of stories about this. there is not going to be boots on the ground. here's the other thing. if i'm a president, if i'm a general, i don't want to rule out any action. how much more are we going to tell this country and this leader about what we can and can't do? why don't we tell them the time we're going to attack, only during daylight, no foggy days, just on these empty buildings. we're going to make sure such and such doesn't happen. going to go six days with an emergency extension. >>gretchen: the only thing i can equate this to is the attack on iraq.

was this the same thing? they went before the u.n., and they went back and forth and do they have weapons of mass destruction? do they not? that's the only thing i can think of in recent time where they played this out in front of the world giving the game plan out to such an extent. the only other interesting thing regarding boots on the ground that came to mind is that before this action is approved, must provide integrated strategy to settling syria's civil war. here's the interesting back story. six months or so ago the president authorized the training of forces in syria and -- trained in jordan, going over now to syria. that should make you wonder this morning if that is already going on and it's a moderate force, one that is compliant with the united states thinking, then how many more of our folks might actually be going into syria? you've got to read between the lines here instead of just looking at the headlines. >>brian: i think they're

training in jordan -- >>gretchen: by u.s. people. >>brian: in jordan because they are an a hraoeufplt they are training -- an ally. they are training 50 people and that first 50 are in syria. i think it is important to point out we waited two and a half years to do this. but when we originally did this, we wanted assad must go and he lost credibility in the region. one thing abundantly clear, assad is not being targeted and we're not looking to however if you talk to john mccain he was assured we will be looking to train the free syria army. i talked to colin powell. officials told him they believe there is a strain within the syrian army. we have to watch what we're doing and what was senator kerry saying -- excuse me -- secretary of state kerry saying as opposed to what senator mccain was told by the president of the united states himself. >>steve: the rebels are the good guys?

don't know exactly. one thing about the united nations that you mentioned, gretch, the difference between now and then. ban ki-moon, the secretary general, warned against military strike. said the u.s. strike in syria would only be lawful if it was in self-defense or we had united nations approval. we don't qualify on either of those. ralph peters was on with sean last night talking about boots on the ground. he's worried this thing is going to snowball. watch. >> today senator kerry was tap dancing when he was saying we might need ground troops, just a few special operations people to secure the stockpile. if you think you're going to secure those vast stockpiles of chemical weapons in syria with a hand full of special operations and a couple of ranger companies you're talking little bighorn scenario. boots on the ground is part of our future if we get into this. >>steve: the senate

relations committee will be voting on the resolution today. democrats are already drafting their own. chris van holland working on their own that would sharply limit what we would do over there. harry reid will probably bring it up to the full senate early next week. in the house, it is uncertain whether or not it would pass even though the speaker of the house, john boehner, and nancy pelosi signed off. >>gretchen: what's also interesting is i wish politicians would vote -- it is sad you have to say this -- vote about what they really feel and not who happens to be president of the united states now. and back when president bush was president the iraq thing was brewing as well. you don't vote yes to drop bombs or drones just because the president is a democrat or republican. that is upsetting to me that politicians might be in favor of it when their guy is in office but not when somebody else's and vice versa. >>brian: senator rand paul is going to be on later. he's voting against it.

a no so far from senator leahy, a democrat, as it is currently constructed. you have the speaker of the house who fights the president on just about everything going along with it. if you voted for iraq, it's not incumbent on you to vote for syria because this is a totally different action. iraq was 250,000 troops going to be in iraq and they're going to come in this way. this is we're not going to hit targets, give them three weeks notice. >>gretchen: i'm not saying it is exactly similar. i'm saying when you use chemical weapons, i'm not saying i'm for it or against it, when you use chemical weapons you better stay true to what you believed five years ago versus today. >>steve: i don't know that they've convinced me yet that it is the right thing to do. what's ominous for the president of the united states is that right now democrats are more opposed in the congress than republicans by 19 points. "the washington post" did a nose count and 105 house

members oppose or are leaning towards opposing. only 16 are supporting. we're stkpw-g to have a special -- going to have a special fox news report tonight. it's going to start at 9 p.m. eastern time. commercial-free. you're going to want to watch it. >>gretchen: the 9/11 verse coming up next wednesday. coming up on our show, what really happened in benghazi. it's already been a year. our next guest got an inside look. what you never heard about their night and their theory on why it's being kept a secret. >>brian: did you know there is an art to napping? sleeping secrets coming your way. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ telephone rings ]

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>>brian: nearly a year after the attack on the u.s. consolate in benghazi, we still have not arrested the terrorists who have murdered four u.s. officials. and while much of what happened that night remains a mystery, a new book aims to change that. we have a former state department counterterrorism chief. author of under fire, the untold story of the attack in benghazi. from what you can tell, fred, what happened that night? >> this is a story of tremendous courage and heroism of five relatively young special agents that did the best they could, and that was what sam and i tried to do, tell a story of heroism and courage that unfolded that night. >>brian: how they held off dozens upon dozens of would-be terrorist attackers. did you find out this was a well-coordinated attack? >> the story of benghazi is the story of diplomatic security service, and the

role of these young men and women in harm spots around the world and in dealing with threats on a day-to-day basis. the story that night isn't the hubris that occurred late in washington over the talking points. it is go an in -- it is about an intrepid group of agents around the world where terrorists -- >>brian: that doesn't surprise me. what surprises me is people don't own up to this and tell what happened. why don't they give those people the respect that they deserve. >> the agents did. as soon as the first round was fired -- >>brian: did they know in washington? >> absolutely. that information was conveyed back from the tactical operation in benghazi to the u.s. embassy in tripoli. >>brian: does it bother you that we weren't told that? >> i think being surprised

that politicians would spin something for their own benefit is no surprise. i think the reality of the world in which we live -- in the book we cover stories of security agents who were in africa who outside the embassy there witnessing warlords cannibalize their victims. all the political debate that happened after the fact is wasted because the effort should be beforehand to see what you can do to provide the state department and diplomatic security service agents with the tools and resources they need to prevent -- >>brian: you said if you had to get to the bottom of this, you wouldn't have called almost any of the witnesses we saw darrell issa call with the oversight committee. who would you like to hear from that we haven't heard from? >> i investigated the last u.s. ambassador killed in the line in duty in 1988. he died aboard pack one. i know in doing these kinds

of investigations that the higher up you go the less individuals know about day-to-day events. i would have called the c.i.a. personnel on the ground in benghazi to find out exactly what they were doing. i would have asked to interview at least the special agents from -- >>brian: patrick kennedy too? >> i think patrick kennedy should be interviewed. i think patrick kennedy is all over this case. >>brian: unbelievably, it is up to a year. we're almost at a year since the attack and we still don't know a lot but your book goes a long way to answer some of those questions. congratulations on the board. it's called "the untold story: the attack in benghazi." thanks for coming in. ten minutes before the bottom of the hour. al qaeda's new plans to take down america. details ahead. a christian bakery refused to make a cake for a gay wedding and protests force them to close their business. that family joins us live after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>>brian: new overnight, top secret documents released by the n.s.a. leaker suspect edward snowden show al qaeda is actively recruiting engineers. their job? to find a way to shoot down, jam or hijack u.s. drones. in a few hours the phrase under god from pledge of allegiance takes center stage in massachusetts. the state supreme court will hear arguments brought by an atheist couple who want it banned from schools. >>steve: an oregon bakery forced to shutter its doors for being intolerant.

a complaint was filed by a lesbian couple after being denied a wedding cake to be baked by that outfit. protests and threats soon followed. >>gretchen: this week the bakery ended up calling it quits. joining us now are the owners of the now closed sweet cakes by melissa. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> hi. >>gretchen: you've been through a whirlwind over the last year or so. what was it about your faith or your belief that you did not want to comply and bake this wedding cake for the lesbian couple? >> it really has to do with just i believe marriage is between a man and a woman. it's not something i want to support and i don't want to be ambiguous in what i stand for. >>steve: melissa, in the past your bakery has baked cakes for gay people in the past. but you simply refused to do gay weddings; right? you didn't refuse to serve

gay people. simply the gay weddings; right? >> absolutely. right. >>steve: why? >> you know, our faith is -- we're christian and we believe in the bible. we believe what it says. you know, we're trying to live our life the best we can by our, by god's word. and, you know, it's -- to me, i can't participate in the wedding because what the bible tells me is that homosexuality is the behavior is a sin. and i can't put one of my creations, you know, the cakes that i do my art on -- >>gretchen: that's your

personal belief and that's your husband's personal belief and in this free country we would think there would be tolerance for your belief and people who disagree with you. what ended up happening? i'm watching the video of protests. you ultimately had to close your business. was it the result of that that made you have to close? >> yeah. really it had to do with a lot of harassing phone calls mainly to the people we do business with. wedding vendors. just all kinds of mean-spirited stuff going on. i mean, we had -- we've got boycott pages on social media, all kinds of stuff going on. really tolerance should be a two-way street, and it has not been in this case. >>steve: it does seem as if there's been a double standard in your case. here's what oregon's bureau of labor and industries said through their commissioner. everybody is entitled to their own beliefs but that doesn't mean that folks have the right to discriminate. the goal is to rehabilitate

those who do violate the law, we want them to learn from that experience and have a good, successful business in oregon. melissa, what would you say to that person who wrote that? >> honestly, i'm not even sure what i would say. it almost -- i don't know, it almost seems to me kind of like that i am having to be retaught how to run my business. i don't know, that's i guess the way i take it. i don't know if that's the way it was meant. >>gretchen: speaking of business, what are you going to do now? >> well, i decided that i'm just going to -- i started my business home, so i'm going to go back to doing my business out of my home. it went well when it was out of our home, so hopefully it will still go good. >>steve: let's hope the

boycotts don't continue because they were devastating to your other business. aaron and melissa, thank you very much for joining us today from oregon. >>gretchen: what do you think about that story? let us know. you can tweet or e-mail us. listen up parents. no free lunch for your kids. a new decision to let students go hungry if they forget their money. >>steve: anna kooiman jumping around this morning. where are you and what are you doing? >> good morning. this is going to make you want to jump, jump today. we are live at a brand-new fit trend. are you ready? hit it! ♪ ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good around ♪ ♪ ♪ turn around barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪

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deliver democratic votes because a lot of them are waffling on supporting the president. >>steve: right now we've got headlines. the story every parent need to hear. five young girls burned by limes. it happened a day after they were at the pool. they got home and suddenly their mothers noticed softball size blisters and burns on their hand, arms and legs. doctors were stumped. turns out the girls picked limes for a lemonade stand and some sort of chemical reaction between the lime juice and the sun caused a terrible rash. >> i didn't think anything of it. >> it was the most, strangest looking sun burn i had seen on different parts of their body. >>steve: the girls spent days in intensive care but are now home safe. they have been told to stay out of the sun for the next six months. >>brian: this morning another patient steps forward claiming her doctor diagnosed her with cancer when she was not sick at

all. she just found out she is not going to die. it was a scam to make money off her treatment. >> i was excited but then this anger, this rage came over me. i was so mad. how could you do that to anyone? >>brian: that doctor is currently behind bars on $9 million bond. prosecutors say patty is not alone. the doctor is accused of raking in more than 35 million bucks on similar medicare scams. >>gretchen: parents, no free lunch for your kids according to a new policy in the willingsborough new jersey school district. students who don't have enough cash to pay for lunch must go hungry. their meals get tossed in the trash. >> that's like wasting food. if the kid already has a lunch, they either bill the parent or let the parents know the lunch is getting low instead of taking food from the kids. >> they're taking dollars

from instruction. we have to go along with what the board adopts as a policy and enforce it. >>gretchen: the superintendent says the new policy is in place because parents abused the free and reduced lunch program last year. >>steve: did you know there's an art to napping? researchers say your quality of sleep depends on two things: time and position. for a quick boost of alertness, a 10 to 20-minute power nap is good for getting back to work in a pinch but don't lay down or sleep in a chair. a 60-minute nap is best for improvement in remembering facts, faces and names. a 90-minute nap helps your memory and creativity. the ideal time to nap is somewhere between 1 and 4 p.m., which is about what i do. what's the tell-tale sign of being sleep deprived? dreaming during a short nap. you have a lot of dreams? that means your body is making up for it during the

day. >>brian: and they're recommending we sleep through it. >>steve: the average persons sleeps through the busiest part of our day. we get up early. got catch up. >>brian: knock before you walk in somebody's office. they might be asleep. four ex--nfl players are seeing the nfl and its helmet maker over brain injuries. the players say they failed to properly protect players and hid information about the dangers. the players want medical care for former, current and future players. last week the nfl agreed to pay $765 million to settle a lawsuit. about $176,000 per person over concussions but the helmet maker was not part of that settlement. lance armstrong has to testify about his doping. a judge ordered armstrong to respond to questions about who knew what and when. a nebraska insurance company is suing to recover three million bucks in paid bonuses. the company says he was

part of a conspiracy to cover up the doping. serena williams one step closer to a fifth u.s. open title. in two games 6-0 and 6-0 in the second. up next williams will face lina from china on thursday. we'll look forward to seeing that. coming up on radio, karl rove will be us. then in the studio martha mccollum. >>gretchen: have you ever met maria molina? >>brian: yes. i watched her being micked up before. -- being miked up. >>gretchen: got a rare glimpse into a private time in your life. on that note, what's the

weather going to be like? >> thanks for sharing that with everyone, brian. let's take a look at weather conditions across the country. i want to start out in new york city. today is going to be a beautiful day. we had a labor day weekend that was a little bit on the soggy side. we had a lot of rain to deal with across not just new york city but the rest of the northeast. now we're looking more like fall with temperatures close to average, very september-like out doors. get out and enjoy it. lower humidity in store for people in the northeast. now i want to take you out west because out west we have a large area of low pressure that today and tomorrow is going to be producing issues in terms of severe weather possible and flash flooding. we do welcome the moisture. we've had a number of wildfires out here. we need the rain. we'll take it. the center of the country feeling very much like summer. upper 90's widespread in texas, parts of nebraska, parts of oklahoma. enjoy the summer heat while you have it because very soon it's going to be fall later on in the month. temperatures will be going downhill. >>gretchen: say it isn't

so. thanks, maria. summer may be officially over but that doesn't mean the sun has to stop. anna kooiman is in new york testing out a hot fitness trend. trampoline sports. >> good morning, gretchen. good morning to everybody at home. we are in syosset, long island at bounce trampoline, a 50,000 square foot facility with trampoline space wall to wall. we've got trampoline basketball. we've got pits. i'm joined by mick kaplan. i can understand why this burns up to a thousand calories. it really gets you winded and it is something that's great for birthday parties and who else? >> it's great for everybody, for the whole family. you can come as a child, come with your parents. it is a family activity. it's safe. it's a lot of fun for everybody. so many different sports and things to do. >> you're celebrating your grand opening this week.

who is it for? you've got professional divers, gymnasts. who else? >> for the whole family. for anybody who wants to do something different, something unique, something to help your health. >> you say it is a more safe environment than a backyard trampoline because you don't risk falling off. there are observation decks for parents. i've got to check out this slam dunk basketball. show me how it's done. you get a running start. good work! okay, here we go. >> are you ready? >> let's try it. running start. here we go. anna! anna! wow! >>steve: i love that pressure. come on, come on. >>brian: anna, they do this all day. that's their job.

you have about 90 seconds to get used to it. all right! [bell rings] >>steve: anna kooiman bouncing off the walls at bounce out in syosset, long island. i want to have my birthday there in october. >>gretchen: kid and adults love it. coming up on the show, what's it like living on the ground in syria amid all that chaos? a man who haseen there and seen how the united states has played out. ♪ ♪ [ woman ] dear chex cereal, you've done the impossible. made gluten-free cereals in a bunch of yummy flavors. like cinnamon chex, honey nut chex, and chocolate chex... we're in cereal heaven.

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>>gretchen: some quick headlines for you. apple fans enjoy. we have an official launch date for the new iphone. the 5s will be revealed next week, tuesday, september 10. >> if you have a hard time remembering your password, this bracelet could be the answer. it logs you in by your heartbeat. the device recognizes your pulse and can be used to unlock everything from computers to cars. steve? >>steve: by delaying an attack on syria president obama may have emboldened syrian dictator bashar al-assad. assad told a french newspaper, quote, if obama was strong he would have said publicly we have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian state. he would have said publicly the only way to proceed is through a u.n. investigations, we therefore refer everything to the security council. but obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the united states.

that according to to mr. assad. a man who has been in syria and has seen how the united states's inaction is playing out is joining us. he is the founder of borderline news. good morning to you. >> good morning. >>steve: what is going on on the ground in syria right now? they know we're probably coming so they're getting ready. >> that's right. this is the biggest mistake i think obama made. he has given ten days minimum for assad to move not only his chemical stockpiles but his command and control centers and a variety of other important elements within the army to schools, to apartments, to gymnasiums, places we can't hit without a lot of collateral damage. >>steve: he would use his own people as human shields. but then again the story is he just killed 1,400 of them with some sort of nerve agent. >> he wouldn't be the first dictator to have done either of those. >>steve: what's it like for the average syrian now? they have got to be terrified that something is

going to be haywire and a cruise missile blows up their house? >> that's right. that is why you see so many flock the country. seven million internally displaced. people are running scared and they don't know where the u.s. would hit. >>steve: e.b., we're looking at video you personally took? >> that's right. we shot this video but this is a daily scene you get in many cities around here. i spent a lot of time in aleppo and seen these disasters up close. they have come to live with this together with the lack of food, water, security. life on the ground is horrible. it's a hell hole. >>steve: how much do they hate assad? >> they hate assad more than they hate anyone else. they have lived with that fear their whole lives. now it has come to the forefront. >>steve: what's the best-case scenario for them? >> for them it would be u.s. intervention, boots on

the ground. they want that, but that is not the best situation for anyone else. i've said for a long time that we have in effect two foes fighting each other. we now have a rebel group hijacked by fundamentalists, fighting an iranian-backed regime. iran is spending $500 million a month shoring up the assad regime. while they would love to see the u.s. caught up and mired in another middle eastern conflict, that is what they're doing at the moment. >>steve: clearly assad is a puppet of iran? >> without a doubt and also russia now. russia has a long standing relationship with them. >>steve: just the fact that the president of the united states, he ad libbed that line about the red line and got himself in trouble and then we had to do something, by virtue of the fact that we haven't done anything for -- we should have done something two years ago -- mr. assad has been emboldened. >> absolutely. those are the two main cases. lack of decisiveness, but there will be more. had obama supported the

rebels fighting to protect their homes and families, i think we could support them early on. now it is so hard to tell who is who and who to support. had he gone in the day after the >> steve: you're saying obama blew it is this. >> i believe so. >> steve: all right. journalist and founder of borderline news, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: keep up the brave reporting. >> i will. >> steve: ten minutes before the top of the hour. the texas national guard defying the pentagon by refusing to process benefits for same sex couples. are they playing politics with our military members? we'll report and you decide. then, she tried to buy a gun legally after being a victim of a crime. but what she found out, well, our gun control laws only work against law-abiding citizens and put the weapons in the hands of the bad guys. emily miller on deck next.

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>> gretchen: after being victimized in a home invasion, reporter emily miller decided she want to do buy a gun legally. but what she found out shocked her. a bunch of me. >> gretchen: you went through this horrific situation. you decided i want to get a gun legally. took you four months in d.c why all the loopholes or ways in

which to hold you up? >> one universal thing we know about gun control, despite all the pressure this year the president has done and mayor bloomberg has done to create gun control is it doesn't decrease crime. the other thing i learned from doing it in dc is that it affects the law-abiding. it took me four months and $435 in government fees to get a gun legally, but the criminals, they're not going through all the processes that i went through. they're not taking written tests and going to classes. they're just getting them on the streets if their buddies or drug dealers. that's how we know criminals get guns. >> gretchen: one of the ways you account this process of getting a gun is you had to take classes in which you needed a car because you had to drive out of dc to do these classes. right in. >> right. it was illegal to take them. dc has taken away their requirement. maryland just passed one this year, again, 'cause the governor -- he's pressing for more gun control and has this new class. again, these classes, what criminal is going to take a

five-hour gun class? it's such an absurd idea. >> gretchen: your purpose with the book was to show that this is such an emotional debate. you have a newtown situation where kids are killed. people feel like they want to do something, but your answer to that is what? >> newtown, we all saw -- it was one of the most horrific days in american history. so horrific. we all felt that need to do something, to protect children, to do something. but the president, president obama used it to exploit for his political agenda, which was pressing for more gun control. he's got the support that he's not -- no one had in 20 years because mayor bloomberg has spent tens of millions of dollars to pressure this on all levels, state and -- five states passed it so far on the national level. the problem is you can't write laws on emotion. you have to write laws on facts and the fact is no gun control law has ever reduced crime. the good news is gun crime is down. they don't tell you that, but it's down 40% in 20 years.

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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. it's wednesday issues september 4. i'm gretchen carlson. i hope you're gonna have a great day. fox news alert, breaking overnight, the kidnapper who held three women captive in his house of horrors found dead in his prison cell. what the heck happened inside that jail? a live report straight ahead. >> brian: hillary clinton under fire for this response to the killing in benghazi. >> what difference at this point on the evee? of the attack of the anniversary, she'll be getting an award. we'll tell you why. >> steve: meanwhile, it's another pet taking over the internet. >> i love you. >> i love you.

>> i love you. >> i love you. >> i love you. [ laughter ] >> steve: is the talking dog for real? she's here this hour. you got to hear her to believe her. "fox & friends" hour two for a wednesday starts right now. >> gretchen: you got to will have that dog that says i love you. so sweet. sounds just like it. >> brian: i had a malamut and for one thing, they are the greatest dogs, but they really don't need you. i really got the sense they'd rather be on thank you own. >> steve: especially this one that can talk. >> brian: not only that, he talks back. >> steve: we'll find out if the dog actually does it live on tv here in a little bit. >> gretchen: that can always be dicey. >> steve: indeed. meanwhile, at 2 minutes after the hour, fox news alert.

he couldn't face the rest of his life behind bars. overnight, the man who held three women captive committed suicide in his prison cell. we're talking about aerial castro. >> happened last night. prison officials found a 3-year-old ariel castro dead and hanging in his prison cell. a medical staff at the correctional resuspicion center in ohio say they performed cpr, but he was transport to do a hospital. he was pronounced dead almost an hour later. he was housed in a single cell. he was in protective custody. shear what that means. he was checked on every 30 minutes. but he was not on suicide watch. last month castro was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years for abducting and sexually assaulting amanda berry, michelle knight and gina dejesus. michelle knight was the only one of the three who appeared at the

sentencing. >> i spent 11 years in hell. your hell is just beginning. i will overcome all this that happened, but you will face hell for eternity. >> all three women escaped back in may when amanda berry managed to break free and alert a neighbor. in the end, castro served slightly less than four months in custody. at this hour, an investigation is underway and we have yet to hear from castro's three victims this morning, but we're trying to get that response as well for you. we'll have it. >> steve: all right. we thank you very much. they were supposed to keep an eye on him pretty much 24 hours a day. visually, every ten minutes. there was a video camera on him. how does something like that happen? >> brian: at least we're not paying for him anymore. we knew he was going to live a hellac irrigation ous move in

prison. >> gretchen: a cowardly move. >> steve: maybe his conscience caught up with him. >> gretchen: maybe. the other stories making headlines, a mother looking for answers after her daughter had an asthma attack and instead of calling for help, her daughters left her. she tried to revive her, but when it didn't work, they took off. her mom thinks drugs could have been involved. >> i can't imagine what they were thinking. as police officers, of course, i'm suspicious. very suspicious because that's not normal behavior. >> gretchen: so far two people have been arrested. the first same sex couples in the military were supposed to be allowed to apply for benefits. the commanding general of the texas military forces says he can't help same sex couples because texas defines marriage as between a man and woman. they're being directed to federal bases in order to apply. should a lawyer who admit to

go being an illegal immigrant be allowed to practice law in the united states? a california resident says yes. he graduated law school, passed the bar. he claims his citizenship status has no bearing on receiving a law license. president obama and the justice department both oppose garcia getting that license. a would-be robber picks the wrong man to mess with. it all went down in a liquor store in missouri. watch as the thief pulls out his weapon, demands cash. the clerk uses his hand to push the gun back before whipping out his own weapon and shoving it in the crook's face. he had no idea his victim was a military vet who served four tours in iraq. he was prepared. those are your headlines. >> brian: every senator on the foreign affairs committee got a chance to ask their question. got a moment with secretary of state kerry, dempsey and hagel.

they all volleyed questions and in the end, they seemed to be from the unofficial head count, being won over and looking to support perhaps the president if they had a limited resolution. it wasn't as open ended as originally was presented to them on saturday when the president brought it up to the shock of many. here is what is in the resolution. >> steve: the senate resolution. it would allow for the use of force in a limited and tailored manner, the purpose to degrade the use of weapons of mass destruction. it would expire 30 days after approved. they could ask for a 30-day extension after the first 60. must provide integrated strategy to settling syria's civil war. >> brian: i don't know what that means. a loaded statement. >> steve: help them out in some way. >> gretchen: that's the part i'm concerned about actually. continue, steve. and then we'll analyze it. >> steve: here is the part that concerns me. it would permit the deployment of small rescue mission in an emergency. so in other words, it would, and we knew this going in, it always

is a possibility there could be boots on the ground. so that brings into question, will this drag us into war? it depends on who you ask. secretary of state john kerry said no. bob corker, the tennessee senator said this. watch. >> the president is not asking you to go to war. he's not asking you to declare war. he's not asking you to send one american troop to war. he's simply saying we need to take an action that can degrade the capacity of a man who has been willing to kill his own people. >> authorize and use of military force, let's face it, is a declaration of war against another country. no matter how limited it is. we have a vote, but the enemy and those in the region also have a vote as to how they'll respond. >> steve: that's right. >> gretchen: the fourth point that's talking about must provide integrated strategy to settling syria's civil war. this is what americans should be

really looking at, i think, this morning because it's a lot different than just dropping a couple drones or a couple bombs. if you're going to provide integrated strategy to settling syria's war, really? that sounds to me like a long-term kind of mission to solve a crisis, a crisis in the middle eastern country where we've seen war for thousands and thousands of years. i don't know if you can settle civil wars in the middle east and is it the united states' responsibility to be doing that? it's a totally different discussion than they used chemical weapons on their own people. if that's why you're going in, then that should be why you're going in and it shouldn't matter who is in office or what's going on. if you agree with it, or disagree with it, you do the drones. if you don't, you don't. but this is a whole different thing down there, to me. >> steve: you know, when you look at the president of the united states, he delayed on getting bin laden. he delayed on action in benghazi. now he's delaying action in syria as well. clearly he wants to deal in

congress. if things go hay wire, he wants congress to take some of the blame as well. so the way things are shaking out right now, in congress it looks like more members of the president's own party are opposed. john boehner backed him, though. eric cantor, the number two republican. nancy pelosi. the number three republican, kevin mccarthy still skeptical. mitch mcconnell, not endorsed. hillary came out yesterday and said she was behind it. but what's ominous for the president is that right now there is a plurality or near majority in the country that oppose military intervention, according to the latest pew poll. 40% are opposed. 29% approve. >> brian: the key is, the president has to use persuasive ability that got him obamacare, got mitt romney to be all of a sudden antiwoman, all that persuasive ability and all his political sway has to be put to this. he has not spoke publicly. the secretary of state was very strong on friday. he was not strong on friday.

on saturday he gives a speech. he did not look strong in the white house. where is the formal setting, here is why i believe it, because if he does have persuasive ability of bill clinton and ronald reagan, this is the chance to show it. instead, he's on a three-day jaunt to sweden, then o russia for the g 12. donald rumsfeld says the president is not providing the kind of leadership that i think almost any president in my adult lifetime would be providing. donald rumsfeld will be coming up shortly. >> gretchen: in the meantime, can you believe it's already almost been a year since the benghazi attacks? it happened on september 11 anniversary. that will be next wednesday already. still really haven't made any arrests or had many questions answered about the four americans killed there. there are two gentlemen who have written a book and they joined us in the last hour. brian asked fred burton and samuel cats whether people knew it was a terrorist attack from the beginning. that was the essence of this entire discussion. >> as soon as the first round was fired --

>> brian: did they know in washington? >> absolutely. that information was conveyed back from the tactical operations center in benghazi to the u.s. embassy in tripoli and conveyed back. >> brian: does it bother you we weren't told that? >> being surprised that politicians would spin something for their own benefit is no surprise. all the political debate that happened after the fact is wasted because the effort should be beforehand to see what you can do to provide the state department and diplomatic security service agents with the tools and resources they need to prevent it. >> steve: from the very beginning, according to their book, agents knew on the ground that it was terror related. what was confusing, however, was the motive. they also don't know exactly why the talking points were perpetuated, but they were out there. famously susan rice went on five sunday chat shows to say it was because of a video. the story is she went out because hillary clinton said absolutely not. i'm not going to go out and go

ahead and say that because it's not true. >> gretchen: meantime, the day before benghazi attack, hillary clinton, secretary of state during that time, will be presented with the liberty medal and apparently the former governor of florida, jeb bush, will give her that honor. this is recognizing individuals who furthered the ideals of freedom, democracy and equality, often against great odds and they say hillary clinton has devoted her life to expanding opportunities for we the people. not just in this country, but around the globe. so many people, i think, or some think it's ironic that it's the day before benghazi that she will be given this honor. >> brian: she pushed for libya. how has that gone? she also said assad was an agent for change. so how is that looking? this will be a series of events, i believe, to build her up to get her ready for 2016. >> steve: it's jeb bush's organization, national constitution center, that's giving her the award. congratulations, mrs. clinton. >> brian: straight ahead. president obama was committed to military action in syria until

he punishmentsed the decision to congress. we're looking at the president's indecisive act. >> gretchen: treasure hunting family pulled in their biggest haul ever. wait until you see what they found and more importantly, what's it worth buried miles from the that -- florida coast. those lucky devils too big. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. inspired by perfection. maybe take a roadtrip to a place with no roads. would you like to make an investment you know will pay off? then you belong at bass pro shops. check out our go outdoors event and sale this weekend

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opportunity. i was thinking about this myself over the weekend. the way in which senator obama typically voted when he was in illinois and that meant he really didn't take a side. you say that that should have been a sign of things to come. now we have this major world wide decision and do you believe he's harkening back to the way in which he's always governed? >> there were 36 times when he was in the illinois state senate where he was the only senator to vote present. so it was unusual. i think president obama always weighs the political calculation and often what that means is he delays making a decision even on something as vital as foreign policy. >> gretchen: so is it the fact that he can not make a decision, he's just one of those people who likes to consult and consult and consult and then ultimately takes time to make a decision, or is it that he's just unsure about his own foreign policy plan? >> it's been clear from his campaigns that his interest in foreign policy has always been limited. i'm not saying he doesn't get good briefings, but it's not what really animates him. as a result, he also is very

nervous about appearing weak because of the iraq war and all of that. he was attacked by many of his opponents for opposing the iraq war and not standing up for american interests. so as a result, he's always weighing the political calculation. in the end, ironically, that makes him appear weak because he dithers. >> gretchen: that's interesting, while the senate foreign realizes committee was getting together to talk about this, old campaign advisors were getting together with the president to talk about, i don't know, how to spin this? is this typical for presidents to get together with the pr machine to decide how to sell it? >> not so visibly normally. i think the problem a lot of people in congress has is the president wants politics to stop at the water's edge. but it's going on inside the white house as they're spinning this. when david axelrod says, congress is not like the dog that caught the car and doesn't know what to do with it, it's like a game of we're

forcing this decision on you, taking it away from us. >> gretchen: a lot of people agree with that. let's talk about how the president has agreed to go to congress on this. that's what you were alluding to. is it a way to take it off of his back to say, well, they voted in this way? it's interesting, because if you look back over his time in office, he has not always gone to congress to see what they think about things. i think we have some examples of that. for example, immigration, gun control. when the feds pardoned pot. why do you think he's taking a different strategy now? >> remember, this president originally said during the campaign, of course congress has to authorize conflict or intervention. and obviously the president cannot act unilaterally. his vice president joe biden agreed with him when he was in the senate. that's all changed now. now the president has an unusual position which no previous president has. i not only have to go to congress for authorization, but if they say tho, i still have the presidential power to go ahead and intervene anyway. that's a very unusual position. almost shows contempt of congress because he says, i'm going to consult you.

i'm going to share the political risk, but i may not listen to you if you disagree with me. >> gretchen: don't you think that's also because in the event that they say no, he has to give himself an out to be able to still do that? >> if he does, i think he's risking a lot because something like 70% of the american people don't want intervention. the polls are very much against him. i think he'd be taking a big risk in going against them. >> gretchen: this week he was in a pickle and he's still in it. thank you very much. stunning news about al-qaeda's new plan to take down america. the brand-new details coming up next. then ever totally bombed a job interview? >> okay, so do you have any questions for me? >> no. i mean, i learned from the vacation days, so i think i'm all good after that. >> gretchen: believe it or not, you can recover from that. cheryl casone here to spruce you back up, stand you back up and get you that job, right

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>> steve: news bit numbers. first, one out of 12. that's how many people got jobs from a stimulus program that cost $455 million. that's according to the inspector general. the labor department told congress that two out of three people who applied got jobs. it was only one out of 12. next, 500,000. that's how much college enrollment declined last year, according to the census burrow. why? more students over age 25 chose instead to go to work. and zero. that's what breakfast at

chick-fil-a will cost you next week. all you've got to do is reserve your breakfast item on-line as part of the chain's breakfast on us promotion. thank you, chick-fil-a. >> brian: they can't hear you. you think you bombed that last interview? do not worry. you may still be able to land that job. here with the more easy fixes for a big interview blunder is fox's own cheryl casone here in person. >> do you ever want to hit rewind? >> brian: absolutely. >> especially when it comes to a job interview. you go home and you think, oh, my god, i can't believe that just happened. has this ever happened? let me give you an example. you never want this to happen when you go in for a job interview. she was late. you were late to the interview! you never want that person to be

so upset. look how mad i was. >> brian: they're looking for little signals to knock you out. that's one. she does not care or he does not care. or if he did or she did, she would have been here on time. >> you can fix this. here is how. if you're going to be running late, you've got to call ahead. don't leave that person like that person left me waiting and not call me. if you're running 20 minutes, fine, maybe you did get a flat tire. if you lost track of time, maybe don't tell me that. but if you've got a legitimate reason, call ahead or if you walk in late, try and explain it. >> brian: like hey, i'm so hungover, sorry i'm late. >> that would be a bad way to kick off that interview. >> brian: still fox hired me. >> i know. >> brian: there are other things to look out for. >> sometimes when you go into a job interview, you've got some things happening in your personal life. take a look. >> why do you think you're good for this job? >> i'm really friendly. i'm a really happy person. you know, it's a job that i'm really, really excited about.

[ laughter ] >> brian: you have a lot of personal things going on and you express that to the interviewer. not a good thing? >> not a good thing. you walk out of the interview and realized you never addressed the fact that you were actually crying when saying you were an upbeat person at the same time. sometimes you have horrible things happen in your life. if you've had a death in the family, something that's going awful, you can always explain that in a follow-up if you're not emotionally ready to say that at the time of the interview. now, if you just had a bad breakup with somebody, that's not a good excuse. you need to hold it together for something like that. but for a real life event, she could have called afterward. >> brian: if the shuttle bus is picking you up from a wake, you probably don't want to go right to the interview. now, we have another thing that we should not do when it comes to interviewing. >> sometimes you miss opportunities in that interview. take a look. >> okay, so do you have any questions for me? >> no. i mean, i learned about the vacation days, so i think i'm all good after that.

[ laughter ] >> all set -- you didn't ask questions. you didn't say thank you. you just kind of walked out. awesome vacation! great. no. that person is not going to hire her. what you can do is right an e-mail. write a follow-up letter and say, i've got follow-up questions. give them a call if they're accessible by phones. i have some questions i want to come back at you with. you may be able to save what was really bad behavior in the interview. i want to thank my actresses today. they're unpaid. i'm going to have to start paying them at some point of the they're not real job interviews. >> brian: they look so real. your hair looks wonderful in all of them. >> well, thank you. >> brian: can i shake your hand. what time can we watch you? >> noon eastern time on the fox business channel. >> brian: next, he calls president obama the weakest president of his lifetime. former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld joins us for an honest conversation about what's

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♪ >> steve: that's a wipeout indeed. it's your shot of the morning. a close call on a honolulu freeway. a guy was riding a surf board, came crashing through the windshield, just missed his face by a couple of inches. witnesses say the red board fell off an overpass, bounced off a school bus. the driver walking away with only minor scratches and bruises. man, he was lucky. >> brian: that's something they would see in honolulu. fox news alert, lawmakers laying out a plan of action in syria, impose ago 90-day deadline for president obama to act. what is the best strategy? >> gretchen: he served as secretary of defense in the ford and bush administration, donald rumsfeld joins us now. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> gretchen: you've been on record as saying you believe president obama is the weakist president in your adult lifetime. is he living up to your comment with regard to his actions on syria as well?

>> i think -- the essence of leadership really is clarity and a vision. there hasn't been one. to the extent someone goes to las vegas during the benghazi problems and plays golf in the middle of this debate over what to do with respect to syria and insists on calling what happened at fort hood workplace violence, i think the signals that go out lack clarity and lack a vision. my view is that we've had over 100,000 people dead in syria over the last year or two. apparently i found secretary kerry's presentation persuasive and forceful. my concern is it seems to me if you're going to do something, you ought to do something that has a value and has a purpose rather than sending signals out that what we're going to do won't be much, it won't last long, and it won't end up with

any changed circumstance on the ground. i think that's unfortunate and i think that is reflective in the fact that the american people are confused by it, the congress is confused, and clearly he doesn't have the kind of support that president bush had with respect to his military action. >> steve: sure. in fact, former senator barak obama pretty much opposed former president bush at every corner regarding his foreign policy and joe biden, the same thing. now we've got a bunch of republicans in the senate and house who are actually supporting this democratic president. you talked about clarity and confusion, this president delayed when it came to getting bin laden, delayed when it came to following up on benghazi. now he has delayed on syria. he has gone to congress probably to share the blame if anything blows up in his face. but do you think going to congress was the right thing for him to do and why? >> i think we won't know the answer to that until we see whether or not he provides any

leadership in the country to have the american people and the congress understand what it is he wants to do. unless he's going to do something that's worth doing, it seems to me he shouldn't act. if you go to congress and ask for their support, they're going to want to know support for what? now, did he need to go to congress? no. under the constitution and practice, we've seen that we haven't had a declaration of war, for example, since world war ii. presidents, as commander in chief, have authority. but they have to behave like a commander in chief, it seems to me. >> gretchen: it's interesting, 'cause he hasn't really gone to congress that much for other big huge decisions. so i think that's why some people are skeptical about why he did maybe for cover. brian, get in your question and then i'll continue. >> brian: so mr. secretary, you know that nancy pelosi, when you were secretary of defense, went to syria, even though your administration, president bush's administration asked her not to because you wanted to isolate them because you thought they were bad actors.

you know senator kerry called them a friend and you know that hillary clinton has called them an agent for change. do you blame assad for getting mixed signals from the very people now asking for warthe per hand of friendship out? >> i think that the fact that the american people are confused and the fact that the congress seems uncertain and the international community is not supportive is a reflection of the fact that the so-called commander in chief has not been acting as a commander in chief. he's not provided leadership. you can't call assad a reformer as secretary clinton did and expect people to understand the damage he's doing to the people of that country. >> gretchen: mr. secretary, here is the part of the revolution drafted yesterday by the senate foreign relation the committee that troubles me.

it's the fourth tenet. must provide integrated strategy to settling syria's civil war. i mean that, is a huge undertaking, is it not? and when has the united states ever settled a civil war in the middle east? and what does that mean about a future mission for america in this country? >> well, in the middle east, has been throughout much of my lifetime, a dangerous place, a place with conflicts and war and a lot of killing. i think that that's not going to get solved by our country. on the other hand, it seems to me that it is important for the president -- i agree with his decision to not use people, forces on the ground there, but it is important to understand that as long as he keeps saying that when it's all over, assad still is going to be the leader

of that country, then everyone in that country that's trying to replace assad and put in a different government is going to be ambivalent because they have to make a choice. they know that if they're on the losing side, they could get killed. so it is -- you know, all the easy decisions were made down below. the president's got a tough job. we have to respect that. but i would dearly love to see him stand up and say what he believes rather than looking to blame others and lay off responsibility on others. >> brian: it's a lot easier to debate when you -- where you know someone stands. rumsfeld rules, that's how you approach life. two-time secretary of defense. you worked with president ford during a critical time. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> brian: now the rest of your headlines. top secret u.s. documents released by nsa.

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gretch, over to you and brian? the dog. >> gretchen: do you spend a lot of time watching animals on youtube? you're not alone if you do. >> brian: it's day two of our week long series featuring the internet's most viral animal video. gretchen, pay attention. like this one of a husky who can say i love you. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> brian: the talking dog joins us right now with her wonderful talking owner, alina. thanks for being here. how many hits has this dog gotten? >> probably close to 8 million. >> gretchen: wow. let's ask. >> 800 million. >> gretchen: let's ask mishka. i love that i love you. you say she started doing this

right away, right? >> yeah. she howls like a lot of huskies do. when we kind of thought it sound like she was saying i love you, we said it to her and she said it back to us. >> brian: for example, can we get her to do it now for us? >> i think so. >> gretchen: cool. >> mishka, say i love you. mishka, i love you. >> i love you. >> good girl. i love you. >> i love you. >> good girl. >> i love you. >> brian: that's how i sound when my wife says that to me. barely audible. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: what does she say when she says take out the trash? >> brian: i say call mishka. does he walk in the room and say that to you unprompted? >> not usually. sometimes we hear her talking with her sister downstairs while we're in bed. back and forth. usually if we tell her we love her, she says it back to us. >> gretchen: it's not just i love you that she says.

she also says hello, i'm hungry, and this is my favorite, when you ask her if she's stupid, what does she say? >> no. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: will she do that now? >> mishka, are you stupid? [ laughter ] >> gretchen: she's thinking about it. >> brian: give her another one. >> gretchen: okay. are you hungry? >> mishka, say, i'm hungry. >> i'm hungry. >> good girl! [ laughter ] >> i'm hungry. >> brian: you bring her around to -- you go to nursing homes? >> we do. she's a certified therapy dog. we've been doing some work with going to nursing homes and the people just love her. i mean, they make a whole event, she comes in, puts on a show. >> brian: we know mr. ed made a lot of money when they found out he was a talking horse. have you thought about a tv series? >> at one point we thought about

maybe an animated series 'cause kids love mishka. so yeah. that's something we've thought about. >> gretchen: wow. we may have mishka back had she has her on series. we love you, mishka, and you as well. >> say i love you. mishka, i love you. >> brian: he knows we're out of time. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> brian: go see him on youtube. speaking of dog, does this sound familiar? your wife let's the dog sit on her lap, on the couch, in the car, at the dinner table. is this normal? is this nuts? dr. keith ablow here live with his diagnosis. >> gretchen: first on this date in 1983, "sweet dreams are made of this" by you're -- eurthymics. prego?! but i buy ragu.

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>> steve: our aflac answer, beyonce. winner, wayne white in florida. congratulations and happy birthday to her. meanwhile, who is normal and who is nuts? it's a question we all ask ourselves every once in a while. it's a question dr. keith ablow answers every week. he joins us now from boston. good morning to you, doctor. >> good morning. how are you? >> steve: doing okay. am i nuts? i think i just heard a dog talking on television. >> i think you're okay. that dog seemed very, very human to me. >> steve: okay. good to know. thank you very much. >> you're okay. >> steve: now on to the prepared question. e-mail number one, my sister has a 13-year-old mini van with over 200,000 miles on it. it's falling apart, but she says she'll feel like a traitor if she buys a new one. she even named her van, vanna. she certainly can afford a new one. is this normal or is this nuts?

>> look, i'm going to call that normal. >> steve: really? >> she's attached to an object. >> sure, she's attached to vanna. good name for her. people get attached to objects all the time. if we're going to condemn or call this nuts, then we have to evaluate all the people who collect things like hummel figurines and if we try to figure them out, we're all going nuts. >> steve: there are a lot of people who collect the hummels, you're right. next question for you, my wife allows our 25-pound dog to sit on her lap on the couch, watching tv, in the car and even let's it sit on her lap while she eats. normal or nuts? >> of course she does. normal. she loves her dog. what i would say is, listen, what's the harm in this? if you try to displace the canine, by the way, you're going to lose. so bottom line is don't interfere. it's a 25-pound dog. it's not an 80-pound dog, in

which case the diagnosis might change. >> steve: if the dog is on your lap in the car, just don't let the dog drive. in most states. >> exactly. >> steve: the final e-mail says this: my daughter's eight-year-old friend is constantly lying about simple things to try to avoid trouble. sounds kind of familiar to many parents. realizing all kids have issue, should i be concerned about daughters being around this kind of behavior? keith? >> here is the thing, listen, i think it's not normal. it's nuts to lie all the time. kids, sure, they lie occasionally, intermittently. but to do it all the time, couple of problems with this. one is, your daughter is exposed to someone who can't embrace the truth. you don't want her to model that behavior. secondly, she is exposed to someone not very creative, who can't lie well. that's just as bad as the first trouble. so i would say for those two reasons not a good idea and

limit the play dates with that girl. >> steve: okay. so most kids do lie from time to time, but it's when they're doing it all the time that you got to keep your kids away from the habitual liars. >> here is the thing, listen, if it's occasionally and on little things, you won't even notice how many cookies did you have? i had three, not two. okay, whatever. i forget myself how many you took. but if you are noticing, then that means it's happening all the time and there is something underlying here that's causing this girl to say, man, i'm feeling so anxious that if i tell the truth, i'll be in huge trouble. >> steve: all right. dr. keith ablow answers your questions every week. if you got a question for him, e-mail us. keith, have a great week. >> keep that dog on your lap, steve. >> steve: will do. as he talks. meanwhile, senator rand paul and secretary of state john kerry in a heated exchange over syria. >> is it more or less likely that assad does it again? do you want to answer that question? >> i don't think it's immoral --

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"fox & friends" starts now. >> it's "fox & friends". >> steve: i love you. i think that's the dog again. >> gretchen: that was very cute. >> brian: by the way, mish dka was just here, female. the first talking dog was barbara walters' dog. remember, she has a talking dog. she swears her dog talked to her. >> gretchen: really? >> brian: remember that? i think we might even have that. >> gretchen: that sounds more like the whale under water. >> brian: right. maybe a whale talking to a dog? >> steve: it would be a great sitcom. >> brian: mr. ed was very successful. he never left the barn. >> steve: you know how they got him to do that? >> gretchen: i have no idea. >> steve: peanut butter. >> brian: they got him to talk? >> steve: they put peanut butter under mr. ed's lip to get him to

talk. >> gretchen: they couldn't do that show anymore because you would have the peta folks against you. >> steve: especially if the horse was sensitive to peanuts. >> gretchen: you never know. >> brian: how he memorized that copy, i'll never know either. >> steve: quite a performer. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: where is mishka when you need the dog to read the headlines. a fox news alert. he was -- the man who held three women captive in his house of horrors committed suicide in his prison cell. heather chilledders has the breaking details for us. good morning. >> that's right. at 9:20 last night, prison officials found 53-year-old ariel castro dead and hanging in his eight by 12-foot cell. medical staff at the state prison, which is just south of columbus, ohio, say they performed cpr, but he was taken to a hospital and he was pronounced dead shortly before 11:00 p.m., about an hour later. castro was housed in a single

cell. he was in protective custody. ha that means is he was checked on every 30 minutes, but he was not on suicide watch. last month castro, you'll remember, was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years for abducting and sexually assaulting amanda berry, michelle knight, and gina dejesus. michelle knight, she was the only one of the three who appeared at the sentencing and she confronted him. >> i spent 11 years in hell. now your hell is just beginning. i will overcome all this that happened, but you will face hell for eternity. >> the women escaped. that was back in may when amanda berry managed to break free and she alerted a neighbor. in the end, castro served slightly less than four months in custody and moments ago, we can add this, gina dejesus' brother said the family is aware of what happened and that they're all doing okay.

gretchen? >> gretchen: heather, thank you very much. now to the other stories making headlines. a mother's daughter had an asthma attack and her friends left her for dead. her friends did try to revive her, but when that didn't work, they apparently took off. her mom thinks drugs could have been involved. >> i can't imagine what they were thinking. as a police officer, of course i'm suspicious. i'm very suspicious because that's not normal behavior. >> gretchen: so far two people have been arrested. fort hood shooter nidal hasan now clean shaven. the army psychiatrist was forcibly shaved at fort leavenworth where he's now on death row for murdering 13 people, including a pregnant woman. he began growing his beard after the massacre in 2009. remember he was saying it was his muslim faith that required it. the trial was held up as a result of that. well, after he refused to shave which is required by army law, now he has to shave.

should a lawyer who admits to being an illegal immigrant be allowed to practice law in the united states? the california law and illegal immigrant says yes. today he's going to ask california supreme court to certify him as a lawyer. now that he graduated law school and passed the bar. he claims his citizenship status has no bearing on receiving a law license, but president obama and the justice department both oppose him receiving that. he wants to be the next governor of georgia, but he can't spell? take a look. there is an r miss noting in the word, governor. state school superintendent and gubernatorial candidate george barge. someone on his campaign realized it and fixed the mistake. let's give him a little slack. he probably didn't create the web site. >> steve: he just gets credit for the mistake. late last night, lawmakers on capitol hill hammering out a

plan for military action in syria. fox news alert. today they will try to sell that plan to their colleagues. there is that reporter brian is referring to, ed henry on the north lawn with details. hello, mr. accurate. >> good morning. how are you guys? very interesting. the president arrived in sweden. he's stopping there quickly before going to russia for the g-20 summit where he's likely to have perhaps a frosty meeting with putin over the syria issue. before he left, the president got a boost because he had a meeting here with congressional leaders yesterday and basically got both the house democratic leader, nancy pelosi, and the republican speaker john boehner to say that they will vote in favor of this resolution when it eventually makes it to the house floor. there is a big test, though, today in the senate foreign relations committee in sort of the first draft of this resolution and that resolution would give the president 60 days to attack syria.

there would be an option for him to go another -- use another 30 days if needed. democratic senator barbara boxer said tikritcal hearing yesterday with john kerry that she thinks it's time to rally around the commander in chief, though there are some republicans who are still very skeptical, including senator bob corker who is wondering why all the help the white house has promised to the syrian rebels has not materialized. take a listen. >> i believe we can not close our eyes to this clear violation of long-standing international norms. i believe america's morality, america's reputation, and america's credibility are on the line. >> to some degree, it's humiliating to be in a refugee camp when our policy has been that we are going to train, we're going to equip, we're going to give humanitarian aid to the vetted opposition and yet when you sit down with the

people we're coal lessing around, coalescing around, very little of that mass occurred. >> the president has repeatedly said no ground troops. john kerry appeared to then leave the door slightly ajar. the president for his part before he left for sweden said he's confident in the end he will have the votes to get this resolution through both the house and senate. but in private, i can tell you there are a -- they're a lot more nervous. i heard there was a strategy meeting with key people. i'm told behind closed doors they're trying to sharpen the message, what's the president going to say to the american people to sell this? will he give an oval office address in the days ahead? they're mulling that because they know eat now, as one top aide told me, they are not sure they have the votes today as we speak to get this through. that is a very big political challenge for this president.

>> brian: when did you -- do you think the house vote will be? >> likely the middle of next week, maybe late next week. 'cause they don't come in until the early part of next week in terms of the full house. look, we've got lawmakers in both parties saying they've got questions. they'll have to have at least a couple of days of debate and not just rush this through. so we're looking at probably the middle or later part of next week. >> gretchen: the interesting thing is if congress says no, if the congress actual lea goes ahead and does it. >> they've left the door open. >> gretchen: exactly. thanks so much for that comprehensive report. >> brian: nancy pelosi left the door open yesterday when she came out and said, remember, president clinton went into bosnia anyway even though it was 216-216 vote in the house. >> gretchen: making sure they cover all the bases. >> brian: then she told the ridiculous story of what her five-year-old asked her. >> gretchen: grandchild? >> brian: yeah. >> gretchen: speaking of boots on the ground, there is one particular part of the resolution that the senate foreign relations committee came up with yesterday that may have you wondering if that could actually come to pass. the fourth tenet says must

provide integrated strategy to settling syria's civil war. it's relatively ambiguous to say the united states will be responsible for settling any kind of civil unrest in syria. huge task. i don't know if we've ever been successful in doing that in the middle east. i don't know if we ever would be in the future. what does that mean about america's involvement down the road? it's something to ponder. >> brian: six in ten americans say we do not want a military response to what's happening in syria. pew research poll says 60% of adults are opposed. i got the sense that some people were convinced, they seemed to be gaining steam and momentum, if you look at the "wall street journal." i was surprised that john boehner took out the drama. he walked up to the microphone to say, i think we should support this action and eric cantor said the same thing. two key republicans who have fought the president many times are supporting this. >> steve: what's curious is boehner and pelosi are not

putting any pressure on their members to go along with the vote. so -- >> brian: i think pelosi will in the end, don't you? >> steve: i don't know. it looks like this way the members can take the politically safe route of opposing and brian, you just cited the public opinion polls out there right now. also they did a head count of the number of people in the house who are for the resolution and there is a lot more against it. one of the problems is, like colonel ralph peters was expressing last night on hannity, is the worry that this thing could just get bigger and bigger and who knows where it will end up? >> today senator kerry was tap dancing, he was saying, well, we might need ground troops, just a few special operations people to secure the stockpiles. if you think you're going to secure those vast stockpiles of chemical weapons in syria with a hand full of special operations a teams and a couple ranger companies, you're talking little big horn scenario. boots on the ground are definitely part of our future if we get into this.

>> gretchen: that's the big question. >> steve: yeah. and if you were watching the fox news coverage last night, one of the best exchanges was between senator rand paul and john kerry. i mean, he had many, many great questions. we've got the senator coming up in just a moment. you know what? he is talking about this morning, the possibility of filibuster. so stand by. we're going to ask him about that in just a couple of minutes. >> gretchen: break out candy bars. >> brian: the president on a three-day trip and sweden and then it gets tough because putin will be waiting for him because evidently doesn't like each other. >> brian: what really happened in benghazi? we're talking to the men who just got an inside look. what they found is shocking. what you've never heard about that night and their theory on why it's been kept a secret coming up. >> gretchen: the cars that might just stop running have a recall. we'll let you know which ones they are.

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>> gretchen: all right. welcome back. we're getting rand paul set to go. he's going to be joining us in just a moment. >> brian: if you looked at the committee hearings yesterday with the foreign relations committee in front of hagel, secretary of defense, secretary of state kerry and definitely all answering the questions, the one who seems the most skeptical going in and going out is senator rand paul. one of the things he brought up was the fact that he appreciates the president coming to the senate and asking for congressional approval, but he still does not approve of this work and he also believes that his kentucky constituents who put him in office are overwhelmingly against this military action, which explains why mitch mcconnell has not made a decision yet and he's up for reelection. >> steve: it got heated at times yesterday between the senator from kentucky and the former

senator from massachusetts. here is rand paul and john f. kerry. >> we don't want to go to war. we don't believe we are going to war in the classic sense of taking american troops and america to war. the president is asking for the authority to do a limited action that will degrade the capacity of a tyrant who has been using chemical weapons to kill his own people. >> gretchen: that republican senator from kentucky, rand paul, joins us now. you were going head to head with the secretary of state yesterday, senator. why do you have so much apprehension about going along with this plan for military action? >> we have a bit of a disagreement. the constitution vests the power to go to war in congress, and i'm proud of the president for coming back to congress and asking for authority, but what i was asking john kerry for is admit we have the authority and if the vote goes against you,

that it's a binding vote. so this morning i will introduce an amendment to the resolution in committee and i will ask to make it a binding vote and that congress acknowledge that this is congressional authority and that we have the ability to grant it to the president, but the president doesn't have the absent to initiate war without congressional authority. that's what the constitution says. >> brian: kicking it to the congress, he said i don't need to, but i want to. let's just move on to your reasons behind not doing it. you do not -- for senator rand paul, if you were president or in control, chemical weapons is not a reason for you in particular to put u.s. forces to work? >> i think the main reason that american forces or soldiers should be asked to put their life on the line should be when american interests are involved. this means attack of our ally allyies, attack of the united states, attack of u.s. assets or a lot of reasons why we would have to defend ourselves. but civilian deaths have

occurred really throughout the last several decades throughout africa, throughout russia, throughout china. we haven't always got involved with civilians' deaths. it's a tragedy. >> gretchen: what about chemical warfare? i think the question is if a republican were in office, would you have the same feeling about attacking? >> i think it's not about the form of civilian deaths. civilian death is an awful thing, whether it's done with a machete, with a sniper machine gun or chemical death, 100,000 people died in syria and now another 1,000 have died. they're all tragic deaths, but i'm not sure they're different because one came from gas and one came from a bullet. civilian deaths are a tragedy and i think we should try to do something about it. i'm just not so sure that war is the answer with american troops involved because i'm not sure i see a good outcome in syria. both sides in syria are unlikely to be allies of the united states. assad is not a friend to israel or the united states. but neither are the islamic

rebels. i'm afraid the islamic rebels taking over will be worse for the christians and worse off for israel. >> steve: senator, i know you said yesterday the resolution is probably going to pass the senate. but you could do one thing to slow things down and that would be a filibuster. >> yeah. only temporarily slows things down. as people saw when i did this previously, you can talk for only so long and eventually nature calls. so you can slow things down and sometimes get an answer to things. but you can't permanently delay. >> steve: are you gonna? >> you can filibuster and permanently delay, but you might delay something 12 or 13 hours. what i will try to do is i will try to lead the opposition. nobody in my state is for this. not one person has come up to me. it's vastly unpopular. ask our soldiers. if you could ask our soldiers, are they ready for another deployment next time in syria, they'll say not no, but hell no. america is not ready for another war. >> gretchen: obviously you do not trust senator john kerry when he says no boots on the ground. we got to wrap it up there. senator rand paul, we'll see if

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in a separate recall, another 106,000 lexus models in the united states are being pulled because the engine could stall. you might want to check on that and see if your car is involved. >> gretchen: okay. she's grown up before our eye, going from a daughter in "who's the boss" to a racy adult drama on now. now alyssa milano is entering the world of comic books? she joins us this morning. to even make it a bit more of a mystery, iran somehow factors into this and the uprise ago couple years ago. >> yeah. i became very fascinated with how social media was affecting all of these sort of uprisings and how people were coming together and using social media to form these protests and then i became obsessed with anonymous, the hacking organization. and i thought, what if anonymous was actually just one guy who is

using a group to sort of front all -- changing the world basically behind his computer? >> steve: a comic boob was born. >> and -- book was born. a graphic novel was involved. arca is releasing it. i'm proud of it. >> brian: you still have your series on called "mistresses." >> yes. >> brian: tell me about that. you're a lawyer and you are having an affair outside your marriage. >> no, i had one night, one torrid night. >> steve: that still counts! >> yes. but i don't want people to think we're glorifying infidelity because we really stayed true to the hardships of what happens after that. and she gets pregnant and her marriage falls apart obviously. it's been a struggle. then the season finale is on monday. >> steve: on abc. >> we finally find out who the

baby's daddy is. >> steve: a cliff hanger. >> gretchen: the other thing is you are so busy, you juggle so many different hats. you have your own company, you're still acting. now you're a mom to a two-year-old. how do you keep everything clean at your house? >> it's really hard. it's really hard. i find that the most important thing is to find this balance, which as a mother is a very difficult thing to do. but really, it's about taking time for myself and part of that is -- i teamed up with febr. >> e and they have this sleep serenity collection that are scents just for the bedroom. and they're doing a sweepstakes with daily candy for pinterest where you can win your own dream bedroom. >> brian: really? >> you design -- you go to pinterest, you can find all the information on fabreze.com. yeah. it's really cool and exciting. i'm happy to be partnered with them. so much of the importance of

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on the margins of both events. it certainly will dominate questions from americans at the news conference here in a couple of minutes. russian president putin says only the u.n. security council can authorize military action in syria and his country has vetoed that. putin is not convinced by the evidence of chemical weapons use. he cites the faulty evidence of iraq's weapons of mass destruction. in an interview last night, mr. beautien down played a poor relationship between him and mr. obama. he says the conversations are often productive despite his description of putin's photo op demeanor as being like the bad kid slouching in the back of a classroom. >> brian: it will be interesting. we'll be covering it live as it unfolds. we'll see what type of questions come out. and i always feel bad for the,

in this case, the prime minister 'cause he won't get any hard questions. >> gretchen: they'll be asking about syria. >> steve: we'll go back to sweden in a couple of minutes when the president and the -- >> brian: which is your native land. this will be very emotional for you. >> steve: it will indeed. >> gretchen: yes, it will be. i'll make sure they're all dressed in yellow and blue. >> steve: we'll be going back to sweden because we expect some questions on what's going on in syria. the rest of the stories making headlines at this hour, nearly one year after the benghazi attack, brand-new details about what really happened that night am according to a brand-new book, the untold story of the attack on benghazi, the state department knew it was a terrorist attack within minutes. the book also says everybody knew our consulate was under attack and wondered why no help was sent. >> i investigated the last u.s. ambassador kim killed in the line of duty, he died aboard pack 1. i know in doing these kind of investigations that the higher up you go, the less those

individuals know about any day-to-day events. so i would have called the c.i.a. personnel that were on the ground in benghazi to find out exactly what they were doing. >> steve: those authors point to the person who probably has key information, patrick kennedy. he was the undersecretary for hillary clinton. we haven't heard from him publicly. >> gretchen: another patient steps forward, claiming her doctor diagnosed her with cancer when she wasn't sick at all. she found out she's not going to die. it was reportedly a scam to make money off of her treatment. >> i was excited, but then like this anger, this rage came over me and i was so mad. how could you do that to anyone? they're my family. >> brian: she had radiation and everything? >> gretchen: i'm not sure. that doctor is currently behind bars on $9 million bonds. prosecutors say he raked in more than $35 million on similar medicare scams.

>> brian: a would-be robber picks the wrong man to mess with. it all went down in a liquor store in missouri. watch as the thief pulls out his weapon and demands some cash. he uses his hand to push the gun back before whipping it out, his own weapon, and shoving it in the crook's face. he had no idea his victim was a military vet who served four tours in iraq. >> steve: there is one gun and here comes the other. oh, my goodness. there is no such thing as a free lunch. a new policy at one school district. students who don't have enough money to pay for lunch aren't going to eat. their meals get tossed in the trash. >> that's like wasting food. they should either bill the parent or let the parents know, okay, the lunch is getting lost instead of taking the food from the kid. >> it's taking dollars from instruction. we have to go along with what the board adopts as a policy.

>> steve: the superintendent of schools there says the new policy is in place because parents abuse the lunch program last year. >> brian: wow. >> gretchen: check this out, republican senator john mccain caught playing poker on his iphone at yesterday's senate hearing on syria. the "washington post" took the picture showing him trying to pass the time. senator mccain later tweeted scandal. caught playing iphone games at three-plus hour senate hearing. worst of all, i lost. those are your headlines. >> steve: meanwhile, we've been talking a lot about syria, but you want to know about your weather today. maria molina is out on the streets of new york city with a look at the day ahead. >> brian: a lot of you don't know if you should wear a shirt or not. >> steve: i'm wearing a shirt. >> always wear a shirt. you mean a sweater, right? >> brian: no, a shirt. a lot of guys walk around without shirts. >> actually, you're right. a lot of people may not want to wear a shirt in texas. temperatures in the upper 90s for some, like in dallas and san antonio. across the northeast, it's going to be a beautiful day.

we're talking a lot of sunshine and very september-like high temperatures. many of you experiencing temperatures into the low 80s and even widespread 70s across the northeast. otherwise we have a large area of low pressure. it will be spinning in some moisture. we need the higher humidity because we have a number of wildfires here that does help firefighters out. the problem is that we could be picking up heavier rain and there is even the risk for severe weather, not just today, but even into tomorrow out west. that's something to keep an eye on. otherwise, also this storm system is going to be producing possibly snow showers. snow showers across some of the higher elevations of the cascades in washington. not too unusual this time of year. still neat to start to see the flakes flying in the mountains. >> steve: thank you very much. good news is, governor rick perry doesn't have to wear a shirt today. >> brian: he probably won't. he also doesn't wear boots anymore because they hurt his feet. we never knew workouts could be this fun. you can exercise on a trampoline. how do i know that?

anna kooiman told us that two hours ago. she's live working on her basketball game and her quads. >> steve: bouncing off the wall. >> yep, that slam dunk basketball has gotten better. we're working on jump rope. we're on long island, 20,000 square feet of trampolines from wall to wall. a bit of a fitness twist on a chuck e. cheese or celebration station. we have talented young ladies. let's see it! twist and flip! all right. don't try to work up the courage. anna! anna! (scream) [ laughter ] wow. i need some help, victor. i got the head trainer here. >> steve: very impresssive! >> you've got about 1,000 calories you can burn in an hour. but the kids don't realize they're working out. this is great for the obesity epidemic. >> one of the most exciting new ways to lose weight, exercise, stay fit, stay limber, and it

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this. 1 to 4 p.m steve and peter, did you listen to that? >> steve: yes, we did. meanwhile, a fox news alert. as lawmakers from both parties debate a strike on syria, the president has called on his old colleagues for help. former campaign advisors. fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. here to explain who showed up at the white house yesterday to help. >> good morning, steve. the president has called in the special forces. that's a fox news alert. qatar, gibbs, axelrod and plouffe. they've been assembled on the lawn of the white house to rescue the hamlet on the potomac who said, i can really do this. i can attack these people for four days. i can bomb the heck out of them. but i'm not going to do it. i'm going to go to congress and make believe i'm taking a principled position, but actually take a political position and then call in all my campaign advisors when my country and my credibility is on

the line. so the president is saying, i need mccain, the guy i really don't like, the guy i beat. i need boehner, who i revile. i need all these people. we're going to have a coalition, even though i couldn't with the french, fresh or arab league. the empty path is in a huge, huge political pick excel put american credibility on the line by making a promise that he refused to keep. >> steve: if you're watching down in that corner there over peter, the president and the prime minister of sweden are making a joint statement. he will probably be taking -- they'll both be taking two questions shortly. probably one of them will regard syria and we will take that in just a moment. you know, it's interesting, ed henry was reporting about how they called in all these aides and while the president says i'm positive that this resolution is going to pass, behind the scenes aides are worried about a crushing defeat. >> the crushing defeat is a credibility issue not only for the president, but more importantly for the united

states of america. when we make a promise, a principled promise to assist children and dead people killed by a government using chemical weapons and then we fail to do it, what good is our word? what good is our strength in the world? when you have david axelrod sending out tweets that are purely political and almost revel not guilty it, he says congress is now the dog that caught the car, as if this is some kind of political game when we're talking about a sustained four-day attack. when a president is trying to convince the world in sweden of all places, a nobel peace prize winner, that a four-day sustained attack is not an act of war, but is something else other than an act of war. we have a problem in the world. we don't know the consequences. we don't know who we're helping. but are we forced into a position where america must act based on principle, based on politics, based on pragmatic

real politics, where we stand in the world as a world leader and as a country who stands for liberty, justice, and freeing people from oppression. we do stand for that. if that's the basis by which we go forward, then we should have gone forward on august 21. saddam hussein killed thousands of people in the most critical and worst chemical attack in world history. president obama and the same msnbc team condemns president bush for taking on saddam hussein for similar reasons. but now in a different day, in 2003, we have a politically popular attack. what end? who knows? the american people are still digesting it. the president has still not spoken out about it in a way that really explains what's at issue in syria and the entire middle east. long ignored. now we have campaign advisors at the white house in full 9-11

mode. maybe if they had been there on the night of benghazi, there han that evening. >> steve: but they had a fund-raiser in las vegas, so they didn't make it. the prime minister of sweden is just wrapping up his comments, as you can see live over there in sweden. meanwhile, the president is expected to answer questions on syria. we're going to bring that to you live. right now let's go live to bill hemmer with a preview of what happens in nine minutes here on the channel. >> good morning to you. we'll get to the next big issue on this story. selling another military strike. will the president convince congress? will he convince you at home? there are more hearings this morning starting in minute, we'll cover all those for you today. general michael hayden what, a strike would look like. senator ron johnson, where do they stand on the vote as it stands now? why are the super bowl champs pitching obamacare? martha and i will kick it off in ten minutes. good question. see you at the top of the hour actually, it's deliciously bold with southwest spices.

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>> steve: a fox news alert. the president of the united states making comments. moments ago the swedish prime minister says sweden condemns the use of chemical weapons in the strongest possible terms. let's listen in. >> we are in agreement that in the face of such barbarism, the international community cannot be silent and fail to go respond to this attack would only increase the risk of more attack s and that possibility that other countries would use these weapons as well. i respect and i said this to the prime minister, the u.n. process. obviously the u.n. investigation team has done heroic work under very difficult circumstances. but we believe very strongly with high confidence that in fact chemical weapons were used and that mr. assad was the source and we want to join with

the international community in an effective response that deters such use in the future. so i updated the prime minister on our efforts to secure congressional authorization for taking action, as well as our efforts to continue to build international support for holding the assad regime accountable in order to deter these kinds of attacks in the future. we also discussed our broader strategy. the united states and sweden are both major donors of humanitarian assistance to the syrian people. we will continue those efforts. we're going to continue to try to strengthen the capabilities of an inclusive and representative opposition and to support the diplomacy that could bring an end to all the violence and advance a political transition and a future in syria where all people's rights are upheld. those are goals that we share and we will keep working towards those goals. more broadly, given sweden's

partnership with nato, we touched on some of the other security challenges and i expressed my appreciation for the extraordinary work that the swedish armed forces has done in a whole range of issues, including afghanistan, efforts to resolve some of the conflicts in central eastern europe and the ongoing training that's also being provided and a good example that's being provided by swedish armed forces here in europe. mindful of the jobs that are supported by a trade between our two countries, we discussed ways to partner more, including creating a clean energy partnership that creates jobs and combats climate change effectively. sweden is obviously an extraordinary leader when it comes to tackling climate change and increasing energy efficiency and developing new technologies,

and the goal of achieving a carbon neutral economy is remarkable and sweden is well on its way. we deeply respect and admire that and think we can learn from it. in the united states we have taken historic steps, doubling our electricity from wind and solar, improving the fuel efficiency of our cars, reducing our carbon pollution to the lowest levels in nearly 20 years, but we all know we need to do more. so my new climate action plan, more clean energy, more energy efficiency, less emissions will allow us to do even more in the years to come and we look forward to close partnership with sweden on what is going to be a global challenge. and at the royal institute of technology today, i look forward to seeing some of the innovative ways we can cooperate. we also talked about trade and the transatlantic trade investment partnership. i want to thank sweden and the prime minister for the strong support of these negotiations

and i believe that for the u.s. and the e.u. to reach a high standard, comprehensive agreement, can create more jobs and opportunity on both sides of the atlantic. as i head into the g-20, i shared my view that here in europe and around the world, we've got to stay focused on creating jobs and growth. that's going to be critically important not only for our economies, but also to maintain stability in many of our democracies that are under severe stress at this point. finally, i want to salute sweden with all the nordic countries for your strong support for democracy and development. strengthening democratic governance in eastern europe, global efforts against aids, tb and malaria, responsible development in africa. i want to thank in advance the prime minister for hosting our meeting tonight with the leaders of all the nordic countries and i look forward to our discussion. so to prime minister, thank you

so much for your hospitality. to the people of sweden, thank you. this is a wonderful visit and i'm looking forward to it producing concrete results that will enhance the lives of both the american people and the people of sweden. with that, i think we'll take some questions. >> we'll open the floor for questions. the first question goes to swedish news agency. >> mr. president, welcome to sweden. >> thank you. >> as you might know, the nsa surveillance affair has stirred up quite a few angry reactions even here in sweden. what do you want to say to those upset and how do you think the affair affects the relationship between our countries? and as a follow-up to that, i know that at home you're sometimes accused of wanting to turn the u.s. into sweden. [ laughter ] now that you're here, you've

been here for several hours, what have you seen? what actually inspires you? what do you want to import to the u.s. in terms of ideas for society? >> well, let me take the nsa question first because this is a question that i received in previous visits since the stories broke in the guardian