>> minneapolis. >> brian: blake shelton? >> that's right. thanks for coming by. >> thank you. >> brian: do you have another one in you? >> what do you say, boys? >> gretchen: in three seconds. have a great day, everyone. bill: it's a big monday morning. a allout media blitz begins trying to turn the tide for strikes in syria. president obama sits down with fox news' chris wallace and five other networks. will that sell the strike on syria or is it too late. martha: good morning. i'm martha maccallum. we have a high-stakes gamble for president obama. he's going all in with his second term hanging in the balance. many in congress are not on

board with the plan. bill: vice president joe biden hosted these republican senators for dinner. president obama dropped in on that dinner. steven hayes, senior writer, weekly standard, steve, good morning to you. bottom line question, can he sell it? >> i think he will probably not be able to sell it. it's a tough argument for him to make. only one hand he's saying this is no big deal, these will be incredibly limited strikes, on the other hand he's saying these strikes will prevent future dictators from using weapons of mass destruction. it's a dissident message and the president has to choose one if he has any hope at all.

bill: ... >> the president is arguing this is urgent, that this requires the attention of the entire country. yet he didn't call the congress back. he went golfing after he gave his speech about it. he went to stockholm then russia. he's not acting if it carries the same urgency his words indicated it did. bill: what was this calculation in order to get the vote through? >> i honestly don't think they had a plan. i think it was more a president who didn't know what else to do. he had put himself in this box and he wanted congress to share the responsibility for an intervention that didn't go well or take the blame if they were

to restrain him and not authorize the use of force. bill: all of this throughout the day. we'll get a sense tuesday night to see where kings. steven, thank you, martha has more. martha: president obama will sit down with our own chris wallace. do not forget we have live coverage of the president's address to the nation. that is tomorrow night. that happens at 9:00. a lot riding on the speech tonight. bill: send us a tweet. what would you ask the president on syria. send us a tweet right now. you can use the hash tag america's newsroom. you are in this, too. we would like to hear from you throughout the show. martha: i don't know what you

are seeing on twitter. on twitter and in conversations over the weekend there is not a lot of support. when you talk to people about what they want, the president has a steep climb on this and we'll see what he does. syria's president bashar al-asaad is warning the united states against getting involved in what's going on in his country. he spoke in an interview with cbs news' charlie rose. he said any action taken by the use the will be repercussions. >> will it be an attack on american bases. >> you can expect everything. the governments are not the only player in the theater. you have different parties and factions and identities. you have everything in the decision now. you have to expect that. >> tell me what you mean by expect everything.

>> expect every action. >> including chemical warfare? >> that depend if the rebels or the terrorists or any other group have it it could happen, i don't know. i'm not a fortune teller to tell you what's going to happen. martha: in that same interview assad denied his forces were responsible for the chemical aacross august 21 that triggered president obama's call for military action. he says his soldiers were nowhere near the site of that attack. bill: the head of nato says the international community must not allow syria's regime to comeo go unpunished, but he says don't expect nato to do that.

>> if you like your healthcare plan you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. period. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep our doctor. period. martha: remember that? that was president obama promising no one will have to chang their healthcare plans under his healthcare law. but now comes word that time-warner will lose their companies off the company sponsors healthcare plan they were promised throughout their retirement and that follows a similar move by ibm. stuart, good to have you with us. you and i spoke moments ago. your take is this is the beginning of a complete overhaul of insurance as we know it in

this country. >> an era is coming to an end. obama-care did not lower the cost of healthcare. in some respects as palm care approaches, the -- in some respects obama-care is going up. along comes ibh and time-warner and other big companies. they say you worked for us and you get the traditional healthcare coverage. you when you retire you lose that healthcare coverage. we'll give you a lump sum payment that you can spend in the healthcare exchange. but the old days of lifetime healthcare coverage from your old employer is gone. it's the end of an era. martha: they will have until the end of the year to begin this process. it's unnerving for people who counted on that and now have so much anxiety and so many questions about what this means to them and how it's going to

work. >> they are up in the air. they don't find out until october 1 what this lump sum payment is and then how can they spend it? obama-care did not lower healthcare costs, now companies are cutting those costs and to some degree individuals are paying the price. martha: it will probably creep back to regular employees once they try this out on the retiree population. ever unnerving for a lot of people. bill: these are big, big american companies. if they are the ones leading the way you can expect to hear more from those who will follow soon. why a friend of stevens who was in libya at the time of that attack says he was punished for

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bill: the head of nato saying the world cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to go unanswered. the secretary-general of nato, thank you for your time with us. you said the world mist act but it will not be nato that does the action. why not nato taking action and its 28 members there? >> nato already places its part. we have deployed patriot missiles to turkey to insure effective defense and protection of turkey. nato is a for up or consultation among allies and we continue to watch the situation in syria under close review. bill: why does nato consistently rely on the united states to make the next move?

>> if the united states and possibly other allies were to respond militarily to what we have seen in syria, i would envision a short, targeted, limited operation and for that you don't need the nato command and control system. bill: if it's short and targeted and limited to you run the risk of being too short and too small to the point where you do not acleeft agenda which is to degrade and prevent assad from using chemical weapons again? >> the objective is to prevent such horrendous chemical weapons attack to happen again, and to achieve that, i wouldn't foresee a long term military operation,

if the united states and others were to conduct a military operation they would do so in a way that prevents the re jeep from using chemical weapons again. bill: there is a question asked many times by our viewers in the united states. the war has been on for 2 1/2 years, over 100,000 people lost their lives. the recent chemical attack killed at least 1,400 people. >> all the killings in syria are horrendous, conventional or sceptical. chemical weapons can easily be turned into weapons of mass destruction. this is the reason why the end national community has approved international conventions that clearly ban the use of chemical

weapons and in my opinion the international community has a responsibility to uphold and enforce the ban against the use of weapons. >> i'm not sure what assad said with cbs' charlie rose. he he if the u.s. strikes back at syria he will strike back with yet another chemical response. what do you think of that? >> it's not the first time we have heard such threats from him or other dictators. but i can assure you within nato we have all plans in place to assure effective protection of our populations. bill: you said you saw the evidence and you are convinced asaid is responsible for this. what have you seen that the people in europee -- in europe r america have not. >> there is a lot of public evidence presented already.

i'm not alone in this assessment. you have seen clear statements from the league of arab state as well as the european union holding the regime in damascus responsible for these horrendous chemical attacks. bill: there must have been pictures or video or something more than that. what was it, sir? >> as a matter of principle we never comment on detailed intelligence reports. but as you have seen, there is a widespread conviction that the re jeep in damascus is responsible. we know that the attacks were launched from areas controlled by the government into areas controlled by the opposition. and of course it wouldn't make sense for the open significant to attack their own people with sceptical weapons in areas they already control. bill: mr. secretary-general i

appreciate your type. we'll be in touch with you certainly in the days and weeks ahead. thank you for your time in brussels, belgium today. martha: then you have senator lindsay grap not mincing word. he says if we fail to deal with syria the u.s. will mesa nuclear attack. is this over the top or is this something to be considered. bill: the next frontier in government snoop be that is with you everywhere you go.

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bill: we are getting an emotional account of the terror attack in benghazi.

the former diplomat wonders why the military didn't send a unit they had available. as it was the outnumbered and outgunned americans were left to fend for themselves. >> i don't know exactly what was available. i still don't understand why they couldn't fly air krft over to benghazi. when i was a kid i grew up watching western movies. and you know the cavalry always came. -- >> the state department says this is do you feel you are being punished for speak out? >> i feel like i'm being punished. i don't know why i was punished. i don't snowy was shouldn't aside, put in a closet if you will. >> does the state department

know you are speak out now? >> no, they don't know. >> then why talk? >> because the american people need to have the story and ambassador chris stevens, sean smith, ty woods and glen doherty's names are names that should be remembered by every american on the sacrifices they made. bill: he told the house committee it was a terror attack. he said it had nothing to do with rioted that erupted in nearby countries. that day is wednesday, 12 years later and this september 11 takes on a whole new meaning when we look back at the answers that have not been forthcoming in benghazi. martha: he's a courageous man. his boss doesn't know he's doing it and he's gone the in trouble

before. but that's what he's doing. the nsa can spy on you through your smartphone. this is different than what we were led to belief. how extensive are we learning this program is. >> reporter: very expensive according to a german publication. the nsa can tap into phones of any manufacturer. they can tap into contact lists, sms traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been. we have known for some time that the nsa has been able to track any individual's location through smartphones. listen up to this. >> the company at any given time knows where you are as a result of the technical functioning of the network. >> reporter: at a computer conference two computer

scientists discovered the iphone and ipad were keeping location information and keeping it for at least a year. the privacy act was written in 1986 when cell phones had nowhere near the capability they have now. martha: the government reassured us this is nothing anyone needs to worry about. there is no snooping going on. it on has to to with overseas phone calls and that's the only reason they have this metadata they say. >> reporter: that's true. you last month the "wall street journal" noted that the nsa monitors 75% of c traffic and contained the content of e-mails

written by u.s. citizens in the u.s. of course they have been split over whether control phone data is protected under the 2nd amendment. a court in new orleans ruled cell phone record are not protected because they are the property of cell phone companies and not individuals. martha: it's easy to track us now. thank you very much, we'll see you soon. bill: the more we uncover here, all the tapping that's happened so far. martha: it comes at a cost. bill: the zeroed in on the mccallums and they have the hemmers in their cross-hairs, too. critics coming down hard on president obama's mixed message. first there was a red lane, then it was someone else's red line.

>> i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line. we made it clear to the assad regime and other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of creme cam weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus and change my equation. bill: while karl rove describes the president's strategy as amateur hour at the white house. how can i be a more fun mom? hmmm. can you dance? ♪ bum ba bum ba bum ♪ bum ba bum ba bum no. no? can you make campbell's chicken noodle soup? yes! [ wisest kid ] every can has 32 feet of slurpable noodles. now that's fun. mom, you're awesome. oh yeah! ♪ bum ba bum ba bum gong ] [ wisest kid ] m'm! m'm! good!

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march where karl rove over the weekened slamming -- over the weekend slamming obama for failing to get a resolution on the syrian attack before he left for europe. >> we have to disperse all these units to protect themselves as much as possible. build human shield. this is an unmitigated disaster. it's amateur hour at the white house. martha: karl rove joins me at carl. those 10 days really in between the president proclaiming this was a serious issue and we needed to do something, and the g20 and the golf games that happened in the middle. timing is everything in life. is that a big problem for him

now? >> i think it is, martha. let's look at the broader picture. two years ago the president said the time has come for assad to go. it appears he had no strategy, no plan to act on that statement. that's and powerful statement coming from the president. a year ago he said it would be a red line for him if the syrians use chemical weapons it appears in the last year he had no planning, no strategy, no set of meetings designed to create a fashion at coalition if syria used chemical weapons. then we had this, you know, keystone cops, the president looks like he's about ready to take action. then on a friday afternoon has a 45-minute walk around the south lawn of the white house and decides he's going to go to congress, plays golf and heads off to the g20.

the energy behind support for his effort has drained and now the president is going to engage in two hail marries, a series of interviews with anchors and a speech to the country. but every bit of evidence is while this might pass the senate, it has no chance in the u.s. house of representatives. >> you talk about denis mcdonough and the walks he took and how it might have been different if he announced a couple days before we just launched a strike and we degraded assad. now i'm going to go to g20 and talk to everybody about where we go from here and build support for the next moves. that's not way this played out. let's watch this explaining with chris wallace. >> if congress rejects the use of force, will the president blame them for any future atrocities? >> let's not pile hypothetical

on top of hypothetical. here's what's important to consider. this one you are down 10-1 in the house. >> four ifs were followed bier ifs. that's definition after hypothetical. i arhypothetical. we as the international community have been clear as a red line with a real consequence for us, chris. martha: no doubt chris will put that question to president obama. do you think he will get the answer that time? >> i doubt it. but we already have an answer. after the president dee declared he was going to congress. david axlerod tweeted now congress is the dog that caught the car. an aid said the path wanted to

have this cake and eat it too. that the president was going to congress so they can't act out of spite. the president is -- it seems to me one of the important calculuses was that the president decided i have been criticized by congress. i didn't go to congress on libya, i acted, i could act now. but i want to use this as political leverage against the congress. i think that's one of the reasons the president is doing so badly, not just among republicans, some of whom how'd be supporting him. but democrats to are saying the president is trying to jawms and we won't be jammed. martha: he could get it through the senate and he may get to a point -- there is a thinking out there that if you get this

through the senate he may go ahead and say i have got senate approval. i didn't get it through congress. but we did get the senate and imonboard and we are going to go. >> if this had been 10 days ago and the senate voted the president might have done it. but we'll have nearly two weeks from the moment he appeared ready to go but instead called for congress. you have those numbers up. 59 approve -- 59 disapprove, 36 approve. those numbers are similar to what they were before he took action in libya in 2011. and they flipped after the united states, france and britain put in a no-fly zone in libya, those numbers changed. i thought it was a big mistake for the president to alight to -

president to alied to -- allude to he knew what was going not united states base has a polling operation. martha: it will be a big night for the president selling this. make sure to visit our brand-new politics page and sign up for the daily newsletter. go to foxnews.com. enter your e-mail address. you will get the top political headlines sent to you every day. good stuff. bill: this is 15 miles northeast of san francisco in the town of clayton, california. it is almost sunrise there, 6:37 in the morning. you have got a big problem. this is mount diablo state park. 50-75 homes in clayton are under evacuation orders.

the fire is only 10% contained. but the temperatures are hovering -- it's september, northern california. we are around 100 degree. that's not going to help these firefighters. we'll watch that story as it gets lighter on the west the coast this morning. martha: we got a stark warning from senator lindsey graham. he says the united states could get hit with a nuclear attack if it does not take thanks area. should that be considered in this equation? plus this ... bill: the opening night match, this woman was so focused, no one distracted her. serena williams the champion again. jumping up and down. won the u.s. open.

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neighborhood made a crash landing earlier. bill: a top republic can in the senate, one of the staunchest supporters of a military strike on damascus. lindsey graham says i believe if we get syria wrong, there will be a war between iran and israel off their nuclear program. my fear is it won't come to america on top of a missile. it will come in the belly after ship in the charleston or new york harbor. is this hyperbole? >> no. i studied nuclear weapons at mivment t. you don't try to psych out another country in the use of military weapons. i could use the same argument using same information as lindsey graham. i would say it's slap on the wrist.

or get bogged down into an action-reaction cycle and iran could conclude america i preoccupied we'll go ahead with our nuclear program. the big thing you can do is go after the money. do what reagan did during the cold war with. reagan drove down the price of oil. that bankrupted the soviet union and they didn't have money left for "star wars" or their weapons program. bill: why is lindsey graham talking about israel and iran going to war in six months. he's saying that syria isn't just about syria, syria is a proxy war between iran supporting the syrian government. saudi arabia and others supporting the rebels. if we don't stop syria, if we don't stop iran's prokes in

syria, iran will feel i am boldened. and israel will conclude nobody is stopping syria, nobody is going to stop iran. we don't have any choice. we'll have to launch a preemptive attack against iran's nuclear program. bill: you are saying if we develop a better comprehensive energy policy in the u.s. we may not have to deal with these matters? if the united states is self-sufficient in energy, we become energy exporters. at same time we could go to the saudi and say i don't want a milwaukee jar iran. why don't you do for us what you did for reagan. pump more oil. drive the price of oil down. iran has had sanctions. it's been affected by the sanctions. but not enough to stop its nuclear program. but enough to stopped funding

their ref knew of it needed to subsidize its own people, it would be so preoccupied with keeping themselves in they wouldn't have money left over to fund terrorists or pay for a nuclear weapons program. go after the funding. as long as iran does potentially get nuclear weapons. i say go to their ability to make nuclear weapons. bill: we just talked to the secretary-general from nato and he says he supports a limited, narrow strike. but if we do and a strike is approved and it's okayed by the u.s. congress and the commander-in-chief gives the go ahead for a limited narrow strike, do we have the capability to knock out assad's ability? >> no. nobody is talking about going after assad's chemical weapons.

i might go along with that. we are talking about a strike that's' going to punish him and send a signal. maybe a strike that would destroy the delivery systems, the helicopters, the airplanes that can deliver chemical weapons. bill: you think we can do that or is it a quick strike and you are out and you are left to question, what was that all about. >> the japanese attacked pearl harbor because they thought it would and quick strike. the problem with any military planning is you have to assume the other buy is going to respond. assad is going to have to respond to any attack. his credit bit is on the line. pill * charlie rose asked hip that question if chemical weapons could be in play and he seemed to leave the door open. to our viewers at hope. hemmer@februarhemmer@foxnews.co.

martha: it is really a big night for president obama on all as he will take his case for strikes against syria to the american people on 6 met york. about this gamble pay off or will it be problematic? it's a question we'll put to brit hume when he weighs in. bill: this is suppose to be a fun day at the fair and it turns into a nightmare when a ride breaks down and send the kid crashing to the ground. >> everyone was screaming. >> people were yell, screaming, running around. i was scared and it wasn't even my kid. ♪ i'm your venus

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bill: there is a 17-year-old high school football player bint on the shoulder by a shark. he got 30 stitches. a half-hour away two swimmers are recovering after they suffered bites at the same beach. hungry sharks out there. still folks were said to be unfazed on the east coast of florida. >> i have seen a shark and i bummed by one by haven't gotten bit by one. >> are you afraid? >> no, i'm not afraid. >> should people be afraid? >> that's their opinion. bill: the next guy had 30 stitches.

florida led the country in shark attacks last year. martha: police in connecticut are looking into a frightening incident that happened over the weekend. people at a carnival in norwalk watches in horror as a ride lost power. when it lost power, everyone started crashing into each other. >> reporter: you have probably seen this popular ride at the fair. 12 children and one adult were injured in yesterday's terrifying incidents at the oyster festival. one minute kid were up in the air having fun. then they were down on the ground crashing into each other. the ride seemed to abruptly shut

off. >> the chains went swinging around crashing into each other. kids were flying out of it. there were two kids on the floor. >> i heard a crash of seats and metal and i looked to my left and i saw the swing ride. it collapsed on people were there. i saw someone fall out of the car. >> state police say a mechanical failure cause the ride to stop. martha: how are the kids doing? are they okay? >> reporter: one 8-year-old boy who was transported to the hospital was admitted with non-life-threatening injuries. some received medical care at the festival. the norwalk seaport association put out a statement saying it is cooperating fully with

investigators at that scene. bill: congress is back to work and said to consider a possible strike in syria. we'll tell you about the disturbing video given to lawmakers of chemical attacks and whether that changed any minds. and where that vote count stands today. martha: what does the president need to say to the american people? he will do that tonight and tomorrow. brit hume is here with his thoughts on that. i am today by luck. i t in the hours and built a stro reputation in the industry. i set goals and worked hard to meet them. i've made my success happen. so when it comes to my investments, i'm supposed to just hand it er to a broker and back away

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martha: foxes into r news alert. con -- congress is back in town. as president obama is launching a all out media blitz today. he will do six network

interviews in an attempt to drum up support for his strike on syria. he will address the nation tomorrow night. welcome everybody. we are back in "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. hope you had a terrific weekend. this will be a very busy week when it comes to syria. the white house, the administration pulling out al the stops they can to sell a strike on damascus even releasing disturbing video of the alleged chemical weapons attack with men, women and children convulsing. they are are not all convinced military action is the right course of action here. >> my hart is broken and when you see the video and when men, women and children are dieing as a result of chemical weapons. it is pretty clear he did this but the big question for the congress right now what is the most effective way to move forward. >> i can't think of a reason right now based on the objectives the administration

has laid out, based on the strategy they have laid out, i can't come up with a reason right now why the united states should support this action. bill: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel, live on the hill now. how intense has the outreach been to lawmakers? how would you characterize it. bill: mike? >> reporter: well, bill, some has complained it hasn't been intense enough. we do expect it will be the intense over the next 24 to 36 hours or so with a variety of meetings here on capitol hill and over at the white house trying to make the case for the use of force in syria. one house conservative who is in favor of taking military action says he is worried after visiting the region about projecting weakness to the middle east. >> the second thing i saw consistently was that they realized that american inaction, further weakness after benghazi and our failure to do anything in response, all the things thif we fail to act again here you will continue to see the threat to america from the rise of

global jihadis throughout the middle east and that risk will continue to increase. >> reporter: congressman pompeo is an army vet. he is one of the few house members on the record in favor of taking action, bill. bill: democratic side, mike, what is the pitch they're making to their members now? >> reporter: some are saying the president needs you. his agenda is on the line. meanwhile some other democrats are floating an alternative plan. west virginia democrat senator joe manchin, and heidi height camp, a democrat for north dakota, would give the assad regime 45 days to give you up chemical weapons f it fails to do so all elements of national power would be available. and also president obama to come up with a long-term strategy for syria. other democrats are openly expressing concern what happens immediately after the united states takes action. >> i think that there's some real serious questions about the day after and in fact the news reports today indicate we're

talking about a much broader attack, much longer than we were just five days ago. and so the question of the attack itself, whatever that might be, and then the day after. are we able to secure the chemical weapons? >> reporter: i spoke with a prominent ohio lawmaker's office just a few moments ago. i'm told feedback from constituents is 98% against, 2% in favor of military action. so that will be a tough sell for the administration in the coming hours ahead, bill. bill: thank you, mike. mike emanuel working the story on the hill for us. right now the numbers are not looking good for the white house. we'll break down in a moment who's a no, who's a yes and who is leaning one way or the other. we'll speak to ohio congressman bill johnson where he stands. remember he was one of the 81 who came back a week ago for a private briefing from the administration. he is back with us today. we'll talk to him about where he is and maybe where the house is and the rest of his colleagues on this, yea or nay. martha: the president has really

put himself on the line on this he is out there in a big way and his opportunity to change mind is beginning tonight. he will do six network interviews. he has a presidential address to the nation from the oval office that will happen tomorrow night. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst and he joins me now. brit, good morning. good to have you here. it is very interesting when you look at the obama presidency and you see it at this moment, one i don't think anybody expected where he is really out on a limb in many ways, pushing for a military attack in the middle east. >> i agree, martha. i think he has climbed out on a limb here. this is now at the center of everything in washington. it has sucked all the oxygen out of all the other issues facing the president and congress over which there are many deep differences. it put the president's political influence and clout at risk. he will need to use all of it to win this vote.

he is way hyped in the count so far. so there are obviously major risks for him in all of this. martha: a lot rides obviously on what happens in congress, that is a lot on nancy pelosi who helped to bring him over the brink in the health care vote. last night he did something we really haven't seen him do very much of, drop in at the dinner, republican dinner at vice president biden's. if you look at the course of the last couple weeks, looks what is happening now might have been more powerful had it happened 10 days ago. >> well, that's right. i think he did lose -- i think what happened, martha, when he made this sudden turn b-b and decided to go to go to congress he needed a major push immediately of the kind we're now seeing. what happened is he had other things to do. he went off to this meeting of the g20 which is obviously important but maybe, comes at an inopportune time. what happened was a hemorrhage really of support. people were, just bailing right and left to the point where, you

know, you can count in excess of 150 house members who were leaning or declared against this and something less than 30 who were for it. that's, that's a tall hill to climb and i think the time, intervening time gave the opposition the time to mount. it gave the public a chance to react. all the people who were against obama for any number of reasons are, you know, a nation that is tired of fighting and so on, have all let all their voices be heard so he doesn't have any momentum going the other way. martha: the big question denis mcdonough was asked the other day and i'm it will be asked tonight by chris wallace, if you don't get the support from congress, mr. president, will you go it alone? i wonder when we're going to get the answer to that question, brit? >> i guess we'll get the answer to that question, he is not going to say before asking congress for support, for authorization that he is going to do it without it. martha: right. >> i think that would assure he

wouldn't win the vote. maybe not even in the senate. so he can't say he would do it anyway. i suspect he doesn't want to do it anyway. i think his hesitancy to do it was the reason he went to the congress in the first place. this is not the kind of intervention he intends his presidency to be about. martha: yeah. >> he keeps finding himselfs in these situations. the world has a way of intruding on presidents sooner or later and the world has intruded on president obama and his plans, his grand plans both for the world and this country right now. martha: this is a very tricky line to walk as you describe it because if you're hesitant to do something and you're about to go on national television and try to convince six network anchors and america in turn that's what you want to do, then you will go in front of the american people and convince them that's what you want to do, that is a pretty tough position to be. everybody will be watching. >> it is, martha, and the other thing about this is, presidents still have huge megaphone. any president anytime has the

biggest megaphone in the country. martha: yeah. >> but those presidential speeches in presidency and after presidency to be a depreciating asset over time. barack obama is a very talkative president and makes a lot of speeches and seems to like doing it but it is late for him and i think the power of this form of persuasion is diminished and that in turn makes this task the more difficult. martha: indeed. brit, thank you. great to talk to you this morning. we'll see you later. >> thank you. martha: tune in 6:00 p.m. eastern when you will see chris wallace's full interview with president obama. that is going to be one not to miss tonight, folks. "special report", 6:00 p.m., the president will speak with chris wallace. we'll be watching. bill: in the meantime, syrian president bashar assad making strong accusations of his own in an interview with cbs's charlie rose earlier today. here is part of what he said. >> the question remains what can you say to the president who believes chemical weapons were used and used by your government

that this will not happen again? >> very simply, prevent what you have presents what you have as evidence to the public. be transparent. >> if he does? >> if he does. >> he presents that evidence. >> this is where he discuss the evidence that he doesn't have. he didn't present it, because he doesn't have, no one in the organization had. if they had it they would have presented it to you. bill: the syrian president denying his part in the august 21 chemical weapons attack but some of his former allies in the arab league who meet with secretary of state john kerry in paris earlier today do not agree with that assessment. >> all of us agreed, not one dissenter that assad's deplorable use of chemical weapons, which we know killed hundreds of innocent people, including at least 426 children on this occasion, this one occasion, this, crosses an international, global, red line. bill: so the collection of ministers unanimously siding

with the u.s., condemning the assad regime's attack within syria. now syrian officials are heading to russia, which may be one of their only friends left. leland vittert live in jerusalem on this with a lot to cover today. could russia negotiate a solution following these talks, leland? >> reporter: seems like they are the last, best chance, bill. remember it was john kerry who said that the syrians could avoid a military strike by giving up their chemical weapons. if there is anyone who can convince them to do it is the russians. we don't know what was talked about inside the meeting with the russian foreign minister, syrian foreign minister. it goes one of two ways. russians are the main protectors of syria and one much their main weapons suppliers. they could say, all right, continue on, we'll keep supplying you with weapons and protect you in a u.s. strike among other things. there is also time now to give up something to prevent a strike it would be rush shuns. you have to think over the next couple days as the united states

is deciding what it is going to do it is also the syrians and russians sitting in their war council trying to figure out what their next moves are, whether a military option or diplomatic one. bill: leland, i'm sure you heard this one too, rose asked assad are you expecting everything. assad said expect every action including chemical warfare. quoting, the if rebels or terrorists in this region any other group have it could happen. there is lot of reaction on that throughout the day today, legal land. we will be in touch with you out you have our middle east bureau. leland vittert. out of jerusalem. martha has more on this. martha: it was a "fox news sunday" smackdown and karl rove and juan williams erupting at the end of the show the other day over the obama administration's handling of benghazi terror attack. you have to watch this. this is a fascinating back and forth, one year almost after that deadly assault. >> stop living in the past and try to get at susan rice or

whoever. this has nothing to do with the death of ambassador stevens. >> susan rice, whoever, we don't know who is responsible and lied to the american people. you may be comfortable with the american people being told deliberate lie bit administration but i'm not. martha: well the administration promised there would be a arrests in this case. so why have they not happened almost one year later? chris wallace asked that question. we're going to show you what the answer was. bill: more of that too, coming up, right? also a mistake of royal proportions at buckingham palace why scotland yard or who scotland yard mistook for a potential intruder inside the palace. martha: plus her frantic 911 call led to the discovery of three kidnap victims who were held nearly 10 years in a cleveland basement but now why the dispatch who answered amanda berry's phone call may be in hot water. >> stay there with those until they get there i told you they're on the way. talk to them when you get there, okay.

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>> american people were lied to. somebody concoct ad deliberate lie, this was not a terrorist attack. this was spontaneous reaction to a video no one saw. the american people have a legitimate question why were efforts not undertaken to save our people? >> the efforts were made. >> no they weren't. go back to your first point. simply not. with all due respect, no assets were put in motion. they admitted, u.s. military on the ground in tripoli were told, don't go to because gauze. >> no, there was no standing order. what we have is, don't go in after the fact when which don't know what you're getting into and it could result in more american deaths. >> that is the important thing. do not go. >> karl, you're all in the weeds here. >> the death of four people and why they were allowed to die and no one would come to their aid is not in the weeds, juan, with all due respect, it is not in

the wides. martha: karl rove, juan williams in a very heated discussion yesterday over the obama administration's handling of the benghazi terror attack because we are nearly one year from that anniversary of the assault on our u.s. consulate that left four americans killed that night including ambassador chris stevens. chris wallace asking the white house chief of staff why the united states has still not made any arrests and particularly, of a main suspect in this attack? >> why is it that reporters seem to be able to find this guy who the government is charging for involvement in benghazi, but our law enforcement can't find him? >> look, we've been very clear we will hold those people who carried out this dastardly, hain -- heinous attack against our people. >> it has been a year. >> it has been a year. you know what united states does, chris, we track every lead until we find and can accomplish

what we say we will do. martha: interesting. joined by kirsten powers, "daily beast" columnist, tony saying, former press aide to republican vice-presidential nominee jack kemp and talk radio news service. both are fox news contributors. >> good morning. martha: i got the feeling denis mcdonough was not expecting that question. he seemed to have a answer for pretty much everything yesterday but i was shocked honestly that he was not ready for that question. >> we, i think he is not ready for it because nobody else is really asking it and so i think the administration think this is sort of behind them and, that was really sort of a non-answer that he gave. he didn't address the issue that chris raised, which is why can, you know the associated press find this person, you know, reporters are able to find the person but the u.s. isn't? and he hasn't addressed that. and i don't really know how there could be a good answer for that. if they know who it is and

people are to find him, he should be arrested. >> yeah, i mean we all remember the moment, tony, when the president stood up and said, you know, whoever carried out this attack will pay for it and we will track them down. he assured the families of those four people, whoever was responsible would be brought to justice. and now we're coming up against the anniversary. so it strikes me as odd that question was not expected, he especially from fox because you know, this is the network that has pursued that story and we are coming up right on the one year anniversary. >> we find ourselves, martha, a year since the benghazi attack and the tragedy that led to the death of four americans including the first ambassador in over 30 years, the american people really do want answers of the this was dismissed very early on and trivialized by democrats as a political scandal. the reality, if you look at the recent fox poll, 78% of americans think something very serious happened in benghazi. in a "gallup poll" recently, 69% of the americans thought it should be investigated further. both are numbers that eclipsed

the american public opinion on scandals like the irs or controversies like irs and nsa, doj the american peoplefter a yo answers, something terribly wrong is happening. and i think what you saw with juan williams, a man i greatly respect and admire that was big blunder. that was uncharacteristically insensitive of him dead wrong only it is in our heads or only among republican who is care about this the american people are actually really on to this administration's lack of action. martha: when you look at it in big picture and questions we face with syria right now, kirsten, and the need that the president is expressing to have, you know, this nation answer, for the use of chemical weapons, and if i were one of those four families i would look at that and saying, what about the need to answer for the actions of what happened in benghazi? why doesn't it matter? why doesn't the administration want to know? why don't they pursue this

doggedly? and if they are nobody seems to be realizing it? >> i don't think there is a good answer for it, martha, especially because as you said the president said he was going to hold people accountable. that there was, you know, justice would be served. there has been a lot of lip service to this and there's no good explanation and there should have been a better answer frankly. i mean perhaps it's difficult for them to arrest a person in another country, i don't know but they're not giving us an answer that i think, you know, really measures up with the words that they have used in this instance. martha: it strikes my me, that you know, when you look at denis mcdonough's answer, a lot of people would have felt better, if he said, we realize it has been a year. it took us x number of years to find usama bin laden. we are tracking these people down. the investigation may not seem evident to the average american or the person who follows this story but i assure you and i assure those families we are on

this, some kind of reassuring answer. boy, that is not what we got, tony. >> response, martha, on batch of the chief of staff who is leading administration official who understands what they're caring about and working about -- martha: exactly. >> shows complete disconnect. democrats have tried, this administration to certainly dismiss benghazi. here is the problem. forget about the arrest. he has not even been questioned. we have not got an fbi agent or american official to sit and talk with him. yet an american journalists sits in open-air cafe in benghazi hotel and talking to us. i will talk to the fbi as long as it is not an interrogation. this set as very bad example for the rest. region who wants to do same thing to us in other parts. martha: tony, kirsten, thank you. bill: they were the controversial images of disfiguring effects of smoking on a human being. >> i want to give you some idea about getting ready in the

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martha: we are now learning that a 911 dispatcher has been reprimanded over how he handled the call of a woman who was health captive inside of a home in cleveland for 10 years. amanda berry called for help as we all remember back in may, after she finally was able to break through the screen door. >> help me, i'm amanda berry you. >> need police, fire or ambulance? >> i need police. >> okay. and what's going on there? >> i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for 10 years and i'm here, i'm free now. >> okay. and what's your address? >> 2207 seymour avenue.

>> looks like you are calling me from 2210 seymour. >> i'm across the street. i'm using the phone. >> stay there with those neighbors. i told you areyou they're on the way. talk to them when you get there, okay. >> all right the bye. martha: city officials found that jack purdy mishandled the call by failing to remain on the line until officers arrived. they also found he could have been more compassionate they believe in dealing with amanda berry. every time you hear that call it goes right through you. what a moment that was. bill: you've all seen the ads in the past year, former smokers disfigured by disease pleading for people to quit. there is a study released by the cdc we're learning that those comals worked. jonathan serrie live from atlanta today. what is the impact of those ads, jonathan? >> reporter: according to the cdc, 80% of americans saw the first round of ads that aired over a three-month period in

2012. watch. >> my fingers started to go piece by piece. >> first it was my left leg. after my left leg, it was my right leg. so now i'm a double amputee, all from smoking. >> reporter: cdc officials say conservative estimates suggest these ads encouraged 100,000 americans, twice what they were expecting to successfully quit smoking once and for all. listen. >> we think this is a testament to the incredible power of the real stories that these real people told and this is exactly what smokers had told us they thought would work the best to support them and motivate them to quit. >> reporter: and the cdc's findings are published in the lan set medical journal, bill. bill: what is the financial impact of all of this, jonathan? >> reporter: the cdc spent $50 million on this national ad campaign but public health officials say it's a worthy investment when you consider the

much higher annual average health care costs for smokers. listen. >> because a smoker costs about $2,000 more than a non-smoker and about a thousand dollars more than an ex-smoker to care for. if you do the math, this program pays for itself in a year or two, in reduced health care and societal expenditures. >> reporter: and cdc officials estimate this campaign has added more than 300,000 years of life to the u.s. population. bill? bill: that's a lot of life. jonathan serrie, thank you. out of atlanta today about the cdc. martha: as president obama tries to rally support for his plan to strike in syria we'll tell you where the vote count is on the hill right now. a lost work to do. who's in, who's out and who's on the fence. you will find out. bill: a terrible crash caught on tape. a person behind this camera with a terrifying story will join us live here.

martha: once again we're watching a wildfire out west. this is called the mount diabolo fire. this is 15 miles northeast of san francisco. that has a lost folks concerned. they have already evacuated 75 homes in clayton, which is a town of about 11,000 people. so they have got evacuation orders out there. 7:32 a.m. out there as some 200

firefighters try to control that blaze. we'll get you the latest when we get it. now over to bill. bill: martha, we'll give you a snapshot what subpoena haing in congress for where we believe the vote count stands on syria, this is according to "the hill" down in washington, d.c. what you're looking at now, out of 100 u.s. senators now, this is on the senate side, some would argue is a easier climb at the moment, you have 26 yes vote, two to one democrats to republicans there. the undecideds right now stand at 55. the no votes already logged on, 19 total, 14 which are republicans and five are democrats. the senate is close. what about the house? 435 members in the u.s. house of representatives. remember we're talking about republicans and democrats who will be at some point, perhaps, asked to vote in the end. you've got yes votes of 31, okay? 21-10, democrats over republicans. undecided? substantial. much 91 total but the no votes,

139 no votes, 33 democrats and 106 republicans. there is conventional wisdom at the moment anyway, if you were to go to a vote in the senate you might get the authority you want for a military strike but then if it were to move to the house it really appears like it is anyone's game right now. we've been watching those votes over past couple days now. martha: we have. some speculate that if the president got the senate vote he might go ahead. he might say we got senate. didn't get the house republicans or democrats, many of them as well. we're going to go ahead and do it but we'll see. bill: this is what this whole picture is talking about. talking with network anchors and talking with the american people tomorrow night. ohio republican bill johnson with me now. sir, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. how are you? bill: i'm doing fan. we spoke a week ago. where are you now? are you yes, no, undecided, sir? >> i'm strongly leaning no, bill, but i'm listening. this is too much of an important

decision to make a snap judgement. i want to hear all the arguments. i want to see what the resolution in the house looks like. i'm certain that there are going to be some amendments presented. but i want to give it due diligence because i think it is that important. bill: when we spoke last week, you went home on labor day weekend after visiting washington with 80 other members of congress. and you said, you told us anyway, you were offended that the president and the vice president, neither were there in person. that seemed to be a big, a big deal with you. what would it take then, at this point to get a yes note a yes vote, rather, from you? >> certainly their presence alone is not going to get a yes vote. we have still got the unanswered questions. what is our strategic objective? how are we going to get in? how are we going to get out? what's the national security interests or risk at stake? and does it have the support of the american people? bill, there's, there's an air force magazine article from

august 22nd where general dempsey says that we could destroy the syrian air force but, that would not decisively turn the tide. it would not be militarily decisive in turning the tide against the syrian regime but it would decisively engage america in that conflict. and general dempsey went on to say that, the more prudent course of action would be to establish a coalition of friends and allies, and, support a moderate opposition force to deal with the assad regime and he cautioned against military intervention at this time. bill: so now we move to the interview today with bashar assad on cbs i don't know if you had a chance to hear that or not but this is now being factored into the equation today with the headlines from that interview. and when you think about the president's speech on tuesday night, where do we stand?

does it pass or not? >> well, i don't know. let's see what the president says. i can tell you that i have not heard one constituent in my district that has told me that they want me to support giving the president the authority to intervene militarily. bill: not one? >> not one. bill: that is central ohio, right? >> that southeastern ohio. bill: how many people would that be, would you guess. >> i probably talked to several hundred people throughout the district. we've been on the road for the last two weeks but this has been at the forefront of everybody's mind for the last week. bill: what did they tell you? why are they no going after syria right now? >> well, there are many, many different reasons. one, we're a war-weary nation. number two, there is a lack of trust in this administration's ability to carry out this operation and i want to tell you i share some of those concerns. we've got a history in america of when bureaucrats and politicians in washington try to

tell our military commanders how to execute a tactical operation, we have made some big mistakes in our past, and we don't need to repeat those mistakes. so i share some of those concerns that might have constituents expressed to me. bill: one more point here, sir, what evidence have you seen? have you seen the videos that are now circulateing? >> i've seen what everybody else has seen on television but i was not at the senate hearing so i have not seen the specific videos that you're talking about but i have heard about them, and you know, i don't need to see them. i've seen videos during my 26 1/2 years in the air force. i know it is devastating to watch people that have been a attacked with chemical weapons and it is certainly something the world needs to respond to. bill: thank you. bill johnson, republican in ohio. back in washington d.c. with us today. thank you, sir. >> thank you, bill. martha: we were talking about the interview over assad gave over the weekend and he said,

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bill: bit after mix-up, prince andrew, mistaken for a intruder. doesn't happen every day. metropolitan police apologized to duke of york after confronting him in the garden and demanding he identify himself. prince andrew took it all in stride. saying the police have a difficult job to do balances their work. i look forward to the apology and a safe walk in the guard

o.w.n. in the future. that came two days after a man scaled the fence around the palace some folks were on edge. here is my driver's license. here is my identity. martha: all right. back to our top story of the day and syrian president bashar assad now threatening the united states with repercussions if president obama decides to attack his regime. here is assad talking to charlie rose on cbs this morning. watch. >> tell me what you mean by expect everything? >> expect every action. >> including chemical warfare? >> that depends. if the, if the rebel, terrorists in the region or any other group have it, it could happen i don't know. i'm not a fortune teller, to tell you what is going to happen martha: wish somebody was a fortune teller in this situation at this point. retired army general robert

scales is a fox military analyst and has a lost experience dealing with this situation and welcome, general. >> hi, martha. martha: assad was careful to say, that you know, yes, if the rebels, have chemical weapons because he had said earlier in this interview that he was not responsible for the chemical attacks that happened at the end of august -- >> right. martha: he said once you basically unleashed the dogs of war, anything, and everything, could happen. do you think he is right? >> well he is absolutely right. i mean it is, it's a convention of war that if you commit an act of war against an enemy, then he has every right to strike back. i mean, you know there is old adage in the military, martha, if you want to kill a snake you cut off its head and knot its tail. if he keeps his head he can strike back. that is not to say syria will attack america or american interests abroad, he has surrogates. he has iran.

hezbollah. he has other terrorist organizations in the region. remember what happened after our strike in libya in 1986, pan am, 103. remember the bombings in the late '90s against al qaeda, world trade center. every war, even if it is an asymmetric war has action and reaction. an enemy faces another enemy and the other enemy reacts. we shouldn't be surprised number one, that assaud said that and number two, that he might very well act, martha. martha: you wrote a very powerful editorial on this that got a lot of attention. in it you suggested that the u.s. military was somewhat embarrassed to be associated with what you call a amateurish white house in terms of the military strike on this. those are very strong words, bob. and now, you know a few more days have passed on this. and president is seeking approval in congress. where do you stand now on all of this? >> well, my attitude, hasn't changed, look if this strike goes down, i wish our men and

women in uniform, all the luck in the world, and i would hope and i know that they will do a brilliant job. to your point, this whole process of marching to the brink of war and nation taking a knee for two weeks to allow syrians to scatter their strategic weapons all over the countryside, and hide their chemical weapons, you know, two weeks ago, a, cruise missile fired against a scud motor pool would have taken out eight or nine scud launchers. today those scud launchers are buried. they're hidden in wood lines. they're scattered across the country side. every day that goes by, this job gets more and more difficult and the results get less and less decisive, what does that mean? it means either we walk away after these strikes with a pat on the back and the mission isn't done or we strike and restrike and restrike again, and if this continues, lord only knows how it is going to end. remember the war is most

unpredictable of all human endeavor,. so far this has at least, martha, has been pretty unpredictable. martha: you have to game every single possible outcome. >> right. martha: the examples you talked about, the cole and the bombing of the embassies, all those things happened, quite a, time passed after those strikes. >> right. martha: what we have learned about, you know, so many of these aggressors that they're very patient. >> right. martha: they have no problem waiting it out and coming up with a good way to sort of, you know, enact those repercussions. you might not see it the next day but six months later, right. >> absolutely. remember there's an old saying, we have all the watches and the enemy has all the time. not only is he patient but he is also diabolical and ruthless and nations in that region hate the united states, because we've been at war with many of them for a decade. so this isn't going to be, a retaliatory strike by scud missiles against american interests, the day after.

no, they have time. terrorists take their time. they plot, they scheme, and they find the opportune moment to kill most americans. that is what concerns me. these strikes won't reduce the probability that america will be attacked. god forbid, they might well increase the problem. martha: i remember the president said that guantanamo bay served as a big recruiting tool for al qaeda. you wonder what the impact of a strike in syria would do with regard to that as well. a lot of questions. general, thank you very much. >> thank you, martha. bill: watching all the headlines now. coming up "happening now", rolls your way in 12 minutes. jon scott working on that right now. >> we'll follow in your footsteps, bill hemmer. syrian dictator bashar assad denying any responsibility for chemical weapons attacks that killed more than a thousand civilians that played at the white house. we'll play some of that for you. comes as president obama continues to make the case against military action against

syria. congress is back today after a five-week break. lots on the agenda, including syria. health care, the debt ceiling, and nominations. the clock is ticking on this syria matter. we'll have it for you "happening now." bill: busy, busy time. thank you, jon. 11:00 a.m. eastern time. incredible video of a helicopter crash caught on tape. just roll this and watch now. we will talk to a member about the film crew who kept the cameras rolling as that chopper went down. she is on boards next. martha: and, like a page from a comic book, bill, superman saves the day. find out why he needed to fly in and, come to the aid, this time of wonder woman. ♪ ♪

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bill: file this story on lucky to be alive of. a film crew thought they had the perfect shot when this happened. four people on board. everyone survived and the cameraman was rolling at the time. only minor injuries for the four people on board. they were out in new mexico at the time when, the hard landing right there. one of those survivors is with me. she is the host of "double lung outdoors tv." good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: boy, oh, boy. you were coming out of a canyon and you hit a burst of wind or something, right? >> yes. i don't know exactly what happened.

i know what it felt like from the inside of the helicopter. i was in the back left position. it happened awful quick. it was scary. bill: what did it feel like? >> it felt like, first of all, it had been kind of windy and there were burst of air swishing around a little bit. i was holding on, this was another swoosh. no, it wasn't. it actually took us all the way down. i could feel the pilot was trying to get up and we went just directly into the ground. the ground happened to be on my side and i could see it coming up fast and my thoughts were, is he a going to try to land this thing this fast? of course, no. that is not what he was doing. bill: a remarkable thing because everybody was buckled up and everybody came out of it okay but they came out of it okay you say, someone went into crisis management. what happened? >> yes. shane and i were in the back seats and he was strapped in and ended up the helicopter ended up

sideways like this. and i'm on the bottom with my hand trapped underneath the helicopter. shane is hanging from his seatbelt. he is in a lost pain. he is above me. the seats are in front of us. so jeron, actually, he is an ex-police officer, and he is our producer. he helped the pilot get out of the top which was much more difficult. he began trying to help jeron. i was sitting underneath with my hand underneath the helicopter crumpled up. he said, becky lou, are you okay? i said, yes. it is my hand. i didn't any details -- bill: all that just to be your hand. you get out and walk away and you're talking to us about this today. you say this already changed your life for the better. how so? >> oh, lord, it just makes you stop and think, you know, as i was sitting there crumpled up in the helicopter, i'm thinking my life changed forever. i may have lost my hand. who do i talk to?

who will i not get to talk to. a lot went through my mind, as i got out of the helicopter, you hear in the video, we're okay. we're okay. i'm telling everybody, we're okay. bill: what a moment. >> a feeling of relief. bill: what a moment that must have been, too, when you realized you're okay. >> yes. bill: congratulations, my best to you and the other three, that was a really, really good day, becky lou. thank you for your time. >> thank you, bill. bill: look forward to seeing the show as well. >> thank you. it able great one. thank you. bill: i bet it is after that. thanks, martha. martha: good for her. i don't know if superman was involved in that one but we did know superman did save wonder woman recently. we'll show you that, coming up next. good job! still running in the morning? yeah.

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attacked wonder woman, punched her in the legs and face. superman came to the rescue and thwarted the evil-doer. not only super but also a gentleman. bill: and a man. that is way it is supposed to work. take note. martha: exactly. well-done. bye, everybody. jenna: take all the heroes we can get these days. of the start off with a fox news alert. the leader of syria threatens the united states there will be consequences if we attack his country. president assad says retaliation against america, quote, may take different forms. the not only warning assad issued in a brand new interview as president obama prepares to make his case to the nation for a military strike on syria. the countdown is on to presidential prime time address less than 36 hours from now. first right now, brand new stories and breakings news. jon: the manhunt is on after an inmate makes his escape from a courtroom by stabbing one deputy and taking another hostage. how