including former attorney general who says the president moves too far unilaterally after all of this, he's got some bigger problems than just syria. a one stop shop for everything. hello, i'm eric bolling. welcome, everybody. at 9:00 p.m. tonight the president will address the nation. syrian news is breaking fast and furiously. in the last 24 hours alone, russia has seized the peace keeper role from the nobel peace price winner president obama. assad has agreed to turn over chemical weapons. all this is going to happen if and only if president obama promises to reject the use of force. russia had called for u.n. circuit court council meeting to draft a peace resolution. that was supposed to be happening right now. but the russians have pulled that request. it's getting very confusing. let's look at how we got here starting with the president's evolution on syria. >> a red line for us is we start

seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. that would change. >> the world is watching. if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. >> after careful deliberation, i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets. >> i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line. >> my credibility is not on the line. the international community's credibility is on the line. >> can you accept the russian/syrian proposal? >> well, we don't know the details of it yet. but i think that it is a potentially positive development. >> all right, bob. >> what was your question? >> president obama has evolved. it looks like a week ago he was definitely -- it was go time. now it looks like maybe he'd be willing to sit down -- >> that's what you said. evolved. >> evolved.

>> okay. clearly it's evolved. but these situations develop as they move along, things change. russians are doing this. good thing they're doing it, yes. is it something that i would feel comfortable saying that it's going to find itself taking weapons out of assad's arsenal, not completely. and more than that, what happens here if we don't use force, if this guy does not get punished for using them, that means hussein and hitler are still alive and well and the chemical weapon history as well as assad. >> bob brings a very good point. two things on the table at the security council right now are the censoring of bashar al assad and use of military force. on the one side the french and u.s. want bashar al assad censored. they want the use of force. the russians and international community want the exact opposite. how do we fix this? how do we get there? >> when john kerry goes to geneva, let's hope he stands firm and is able to negotiate something with the russians. i'm skeptical of that. what we've seen from this white

house, what we saw yesterday morning, was basically a brain fart foreign policy idea that's now somehow an idea of brilliance. that vladimir putin uses an opening to jump on so that he could continue to control the middle east as he always has. now he can follow in the footsteps and let assad follow in the footsteps of the other tyrants that have used long game diplomacy to draw this process out. eric, the russians are playing chess and we are playing go fish. go fish. someone, fish for a foreign policy answer. and i think tonight president obama is going to spin this as a win. basically say he looked assad in the eyes and assad blinked. he's going to give a lot of tough talk. but i think we are getting played so badly that there's no way they're going to get rid of these weapons. they might do a little bit for pr purposes. but they're never going to get rid of all of them. >> did you say putin controlled the middle east? >> yes, he does. >> oh, my god. >> the russians have extreme power. >> the russians have had no power in the middle east since the 1973 war.

>> let's say what's going on. all day long we heard we were close to a deal. now within the last hour or so, it looks like we may not bes a close. >> with the russians and assad? or congress? >> with the russians and assad. keep congress out of this discussion. >> so i think the white house would rather be lucky than good. sometimes that works for you in politics. but basically what's just happened is that president putin through president obama a lifeline. he tried to reach for it. the russians yanked it back. now tonight president obama reportedly is going to call for a diplomatic pause. in his live primetime oval office address, he's basically going to accomplish what he could have done in a one sentence statement rather than having us whip sawed back and forth. now you have the president -- the international community, that's more academic speak. we must negotiate now with assad. before the united states policy was that assad must go. so does he -- he doesn't have to go anymore? we're supposed to trust

president putin? who basically wants more influence in the middle east? you have assad, we're supposed to trust? he just two days ago said to charlie rose he didn't have chemical weapons. now they're saying they would turn things over? we're putting our trust in people who have proven to us that we cannot trust them. just a month ago president putin could not even do the one diplomatic thing that president obama asked for, which was not to move immunity to richard snowden. he did it. >> ed snowden. >> ed snowden. sorry. >> what do you expect? we sent shaggy from scooby doo to fight boris. remember when obama told medvedev he'd have more flexibility after the election? he's right. you look at russia. russia is now america's pawnbroker. they have robert kraft's super bowl ring from the new england patriots. they have edward snowden. our whistle blower. they now have our foreign policy. is it possible we could hock

detroit to them? they might be able to do something. russia going to pick up chemical weapons, that's like dad taking the car keys from his son for a week. in a few days he'll get it back. it says something, though. it says that bob was right. that syria did it. because russia and syria are agreeing about the stockpile. but not the rebels' chemicals. they're not saying, here, take these. but you also have to take these. which means the rebels don't have chemical weapons. they weren't able to use them. what we've learned from all of this is that syria did commit this attack. that changes a lot. it changes my mind about a lot of things. it should change -- it should maybe strengthen our resolve about what do you do about this. because you can no longer say, well, maybe it was the rebels. in fact, now the argument will be that it was assad's military doing it without his okay. >> but before we get into who did it, because it's very important who did it, let's take a look at where the obama administration has been over the last couple of weeks with respect to russia. listen.

>> because of the guaranteed russian obstructionism of any action through the u.n. security council, the u.n. cannot galvanize the world to act as it should. >> there's no secret that the assad regime has had chemical weapons, significant stockpiles of chemical weapons. >> from a particular country? >> well, the russians supply them. >> a week after the august 21st gas attack, the united kingdom presented a resolution that included a referral of war crimes in syria to the international criminal court. again, the russians opposed it. as they have every form of accountability in syria. >> my problem here is the obama administration put themselves in a box. they trashed the russians for the better part of the last two weeks. now with the syrians saying we will negotiate with the russian plan, obama has to sit down. the administration has to make peace with the russians over what to do in syria. how can you possibly do that after laying this out the way

they have? >> everything they said was absolutely true. the reason that they could not move something through the security council was the russians were going to veto it. the russians now grab hold of this initiative. i don't blame them. i'd grab it, too. now they will make some peace at the national security council. only after they play this out a little more. the idea somehow this is an evolution on thinking about the soviet union is ridiculous. what they said about the soviet union was true then, it'll be true now, true in the future. >> dana's right. president putin gave president obama a lifeline. he let him out of the corner he painted himself in where president obama's only option was to go attack syria. he offered him -- he made a resolution that could at least allow the president the option of not attacking syria. >> doesn't that admit you have them? >> then they walked away from the table. >> they walked away -- >> it would make us happy if we could trust vladimir putin. now we put the man who blocked every effort to try and broker a deal in the diplomatic driver's seat. he's yet again embarrassed the

united states of america by backing out of this u.n. meeting. and i think we're going to have a stalemate for a long time. putin lives for this. >> didn't he back out because president obama and the group said that -- and the french said they couldn't say they would not attack syria given this resolution? >> right. who's going to blink? who is going to blink next? >> there's going to be some diplomatic words that will be used. the idea somehow you're going to not be able to say you've got to have the ability to punish assad. >> my stance would be you shouldn't be there anyway. this is an easy one. >> who shouldn't be there? >> the americans shouldn't. am i wrong here saying -- >> you certainly were wrong about the terrorists using their weapons against themselves. you guys -- >> hold on a second. there was more than one instance of chemical weapons being used. bob, we know for a fact that the al qaeda group al nesra has wmd and has used wmd. did we know for sure every single chemical attack used

against the syrian people was assad? no. the same time that surfaced there was video of these rebels that were moderates blowing the brains out of christians in the country. >> they were not moderates. whoever said that was the free syrian army? that was not the free syrian army. >> i think this is all a completely brilliant strategy executed by hillary. starting with benghazi. the benghazi debacle to create false confidence in syria. so that they would use chemical weapons which would allow us to bring russia to the table for the reset button. >> take a listen to nancy pelosi. >> nothing soaked in there. we'll roll that around. can we listen to nancy pelosi trying to give president obama credit on all this? >> but the initiative from the russians has done is said to the president -- has given the president a victory. because it has taken -- it has recognized that for 2 1/2 years the president has used and

attempted diplomacy to try to have a political solution to what is happening in syria. >> got to hand it to her. that's loyalty. basically she just was on the twister map playing a game with herself. i guess that you could expect that they are going to try to say, yes, of course. this is all because of this. reality doesn't work that way. if that was the case, that president obama had this grand strategy, he put america's reputation on the line for ten days, threatening that he was going to use military strikes, only to say, aha. see? i knew he was going to back down. i knew we would have a diplomatic solution. i am very troubled about what this says tonight to the free syrian army and other people that are fighting for freedom and all sorts of other countries. i think this angers ands confuses our allies. they're not in a position to be able to necessarily say that out loud. perhaps this is the right -- everybody got to the right

solution at the end. which is no military strike. unless you were going to strike initially. i don't know who would believe that anymore in the future. apparently president obama was very, very tough in his talk with senate republicans today at the luncheon that he went to. that sounded like, you know, he was in command. things were going to move forward. an hour, two hours later, he's calling for a diplomatic pause. putin is canceling the meeting at the u.n. >> go ahead. >> very quickly. the idea the united states foreign policy is in a shatters, as if these people get up in the morning, and three weeks from now this is not going to matter one bit. they care about the united states for one reason. economic cooperation from the united states. the idea they sit around like we do and think, oh, my god -- >> it doesn't matter. when it comes to assad, the policy of the united states has been that he should not be there. that has been president obama's position. >> right sf. >> now he's gassed his own people. he gets to stay there. putin gets to control him.

iran gets a free pass. send every weapon they want to to hezbollah and al qaeda. what is our position? >> it hasn't changed any, though, has it? >> but it actually has changed. if he gets to stay, if he gives up our chemical weapons it sh-- >> we weren't going to take him out anyway. >> it's changed in the last 24 hours. john kerry floated this idea thinking outloud again. then said that will never happen. if this is true, what the white house says is true, they've been working on this for years, clearly that failed. because john kerry said, but that'll never happen. that's not realistic. they have changed their position even as recently as a couple hours ago. this whole thing has been i need more evidence. wait, hold on. i'm not going to get involved. i am going to get involved. i'm going to go to congress. i'm not going to go to congress. we are a laughing stock. >> oh, come on. >> i really want to get this in. i think this is really important. reading a biography written about the chairman and ceo of

fox news. reading page -- >> coincidence. >> the hair stood up on the back of my neck. keep in mind this quote is from about a year ago. he says, quote, putin is angry. he thinks the united states doesn't take him seriously or treat russia as a major player. okay, that's fine. that's how he feels. if i were president i'd get in a room with him and say, look. look at the slaughter going on in syria. you can stop it. do it and i'll see to it that you get all the credit. i'll tell the world it was you who saved the innocent children in syria from slaughter. you'll be an international hero. you'll go down in history. putin would go to bed thinking that's not a bad offer. there will still be plenty of other issues i'd have with russia. instead of looking for one huge deal that settles everything, you take a piece of the problem and solve it. give an incentive for good behavior. show the other guy self-interest. everybody has an ego. everybody needs dignity. what does it cost? you get what you want and you

give up nothing. bob, how many lives may have been saved if president obama just went to putin like he suggested? a year ago? >> i know. it was very precedent. i'll fwif you that. what he's saying here is the same thing anybody in the diplomacy business is saying. if you can get your enemy to sit down and get them on your side for one issue, that's probably a good thing. how many lives would have been saved? i'm not sure the putin a year ago would have for a minute come on and done anything with assad. i think it took this bombing of some suburbs of damascus for it to happen. >> i don't think this at all prevents assad -- even though i doubt he's actually going to do anything about these weapons. they'll probably make it look like he's doing something. you can move these weapons very, very easily. it's going to take a long time to actually get inspectors on the ground. it's going to be a stalemate. they'll drag it out. ering it doesn't prevent assad from using other more

traditional ways to oppress and hurt and kill his people. i still don't know what the game plan is after this. >> remember about a year ago or so the administration did a speech in our foreign policy we're going to make a pivot to asia. that is actually -- they're not able to follow through on that. the middle east is going to be something that they have to focus on. because meanwhile in egypt, we still have the discussion of whether or not to continue to fund them. there's so many other things that are happening in the middle east that are going to take up their time. i don't think they'll be able to make that pivot that they promised. >> in the end, it surely is about israel. in terms of our commitment to israel. it needs to be secure. we need to stay there to do that. >> two points. if putin thinks obama doesn't respect him, join the club. the fact is obama is only excited around real star power. that is beyonce, jay-z, maybe if putin could twerk. the bigger point is the president doesn't buy into exceptionalism. now either do we. we follow our leaders. basically he's not a leader. he's a helium balloon.

he can try to dictate answers and the world doesn't listen. >> we have to leave it there. a year ago, folks. a year ago. important programming note. the five will be right back here live at 11:00 tonight reacting to president obama's speech. be sure to stay with fox throughout the night. for the best political coverage on the planet. up next, ed henry is is going to join us from the white house with a preview on what we can expect from president obama tonight. stay with us.

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okay. welcome back. i'm not sure what the producer was thinking with that song. we'll talk to him later. once again we are less than four hours away from the president's primetime address to the nation on syria. for a preview of what we can expect here tonight, let's go to the one, only ed henry, fox news chief white house correspondent. ed, what in the world is going on? >> reporter: good to see you, dana. obviously this speech i'm told by senior officials has been drafted, redrafted. you've been through this process before. events have been changing very rapidly over the last 24 to 36 hours. what i'm told is the president is going to basically tonight tell the american people that he's calling for a so-called

diplomatic pause in these votes that are coming up on capitol hill. a two pronged strategy if you will. on one track, he's not saying call off the votes on capitol hill. he's saying delay them. keep the option of military force being authorized on the table. keep that stick out there against assad and syria. also offer this carrot of potential diplomatic breakthrough where secretary of state john kerry, we're now told, is going to geneva on thursday in order to meet with russian officials to see if this potential tedeal to avert mility action is for real. we should admit the political reality, it is very convenient for the president to call for this pause because he was likely to lose this vote in the house if it were held today or tomorrow or later this week. the senate was also very touch and go. that helps him politically. but they also believe from a substantive standpoint in the white house that this will be smart to give secretary kerry a chance to move forward. this is not even a deal that's been reached yet. today you had the house

democratic leader nancy pelosi claiming it's a victory for the president that the russians have come forward and maybe assad is back pedalling. secretary kerry had this to say on the hill. take a listen. >> but make no mistake, make no mistake about why this idea has any potential legs at all. and why it is that the russians have reached out to the syrians and why the syrians have initially suggested that might be interested. a lot of people say that nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of a hanging. >> they're clearly trying to say it was the threat of u.s. military action that has gotten assad to back pedal. of course, if assad in the end does not back pedal in this russian plan or proposal, whatever you want to call it turns out to be a mirage, those could be embarrassing words. >> ed, let me ask you this. the purpose of an oval office address is to persuade the

nation or a momentous occasion or get them to back something. was there ever a consideration the white house would have postponed this speech? i remember president bush postponed the surge speech a couple of times while they worked through things. i don't think they would have suffered any more embarrassment than they have the past week if they would have kicked it to another night. call an oval office address, primetime, play that card which you don't have many of in a second term, did they talk at all about putting it off? >> reporter: they have not. because they wanted to move forward because i think they realize credibility is on the line. you've heard about american credibility being on the line because of the whole red line comment. it's also on the line because the president has been pushing so hard for these votes in congress. if all the sudden they want this pause, he's got to explain to the american people which one is it? remember, it was only ten days ago the president basically had the finger on the trigger and was about to launch u.s. military action. then pulled back and said i want to go to capitol hill. then it appeared he didn't have the votes. now they're saying let's have a pause. he's got to say something to the american people to say where are

we in this debate? what are the stakes? frankly, what's next in all this, dana. >> bob's next. >> ed, our brilliant foreign policy analyst mr. gutfeld came wup a good point. by stating they were going into this agreement, the syrians have essentially admitted they have stock part-timpiles of chemical. something assad himself said he didn't have. given that -- assume this thing falls apart with the russians. does it seem to you that obama could then go in and strike without having congress? >> reporter: he could at that point. but then does he really have the mandate to do it when he himself was standing in the rose garden a few hundred yards behind me suggesting that he had to go to congress because he wanted the nation to be unified on this? when you look at the public p polls and the clear divide on capitol hill, if he were just to move forward on his own, could he do that? you also have to wonder about how much time, when you say maybe this will fall apart in days or a couple weeks, this could go on for even longer.

as john kerry said, you played it in the open, the u.n. could take a long, long time. putin may just be slowing thi is down. >> 70% of the american people say they're not in favor of the strike. please don't say all three. will he be speaking to the american people, congress, or directly to vladimir putin? >> reporter: i think all three. honestly i think i can pick one. that's a american people. he's already been making his case in phone calls to members of congress. he's done the interviews with media folks to sort of get out there. i think this is not about talking directly to putin or assad. it's about talking to the american people. explaining the stakes, number one. number two, what is the strategy? that has been one of the criticisms not just from republicans, but some of his fellow democrats. frankly, that's what's cut the most for this president. here he is in his fifth year in office struggling to get his legacy items on the domestic front like immigration. meanwhile this has just consumed him completely on the national

security front. fellow democrats have been running from him. >> an dree wdrea? >> what's to prevent assad from using other means to persecute his people? there's other -- maybe not chemical weapon. but there's even worse human rights offenses that he could commit. we know from history, we've asked other dictators like moammar gadhafi to turn over his weapons only to then find weapons years later. has the white house expressed any strategy on what would happen if assad were to act against his people maybe not using wmds? >> reporter: no. the honest answer frankly to your question is, there's nothing to prevent assad from using other things besides chemical weapons. let's not forget he'd already killed 120,000 people of his own people before these chemical weapons attacks. what the white house says privately is that they believe when you have putin and others trying to get assad to the table now, if he were to do something else rash, that would blow up in his face and might actually force some sort of u.n. action. the other last point i'd make we've got to pay attention to,

let's not forget the u.s. policy over the last two years has been getting assad out of power. then they said, wait, this is not about regime change, number one. number two, you now have putin trying to get assad to the table. who's at the table? assad. that means maybe the u.s. policy of getting him out is not going to work. that, in fact, putin may be saving assad here. telling him to try to get rid of the chemical weapon. but keep him in power, guys. >> bringing up the rear. >> as i always do. ed, you mentioned how the syrian issue has consumed president obama. my theory is it's not consuming him at all. that it's consuming us while he attends to the other things as you mentioned, immigration and perhaps climate change stuff. what do you think about that theory or conspiracy. >> reporter: i don't think that's true. i think if you just look at his face, look at his graying hair in recent days and weeks, he's been grappling with this. he's been struggling with this. look at the news conferences last week where he was trying to shift it and say, look, this was not my red line. this was the world's red line.

he knows that, yes, he's working on those other issues as well. he's had countless hours in that situation room inside the white house with his national security team. his critics may not think he's made the right decision. but he's been in there grappling with it. at the end of the day he knows his legacy is as much on the line with how this plays out in syria as it is on immigration or climate change or anything else. >> thank you, ed. you will be penalized because at the end of the day is a band phrase. we are not allowed to use it on the five. we'll send you a list for the next time you're on. thanks so much. we're going to be watching at 9:00 p.m. the address will be followed by a special edition of "on the record" at 10:00 p.m. believe it or not we are back, the five, to break down the president's remarks at 11:00 p.m. >> why? >> it's going to be live. president obama made another trip to the hill today to win over lawmakers skeptical about the strike. we've been talking about that. it's an uphill battle. greg is going to talk about it. no, andrea. andrea next. >> don't scare me.

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president obama made another big push on capitol hill today to win support for a strike on syria. he knows he's got his work cut out for him, and he still hasn't ruled out acting on his own. >> any confidence you're going to get the votes? >> i wouldn't say i'm confident. >> would you act without congress? the answer could be yes, no, or i haven't decided. >> i think it's fair to say that i haven't decided. >> a recent a.p. survey shows an overwhelming majority of lawmakers in the house don't support a strike by 6-1. a "washington post" survey shows a fourth of senators are in favor of this. right now a group of senators, michael emanuel's reporting on this, mccain, graham, iyotte,

schumer, chambliss. also still keep that military option on the table. they don't believe putin's serious. this basically says, putin put up or shut up. assad, i should say. >> in three hours president obama is going to give a live, primetime oval office address saying we need a diplomatic pause. and he doesn't want the congressional vote. >> right. >> i don't understand. what are they doing? it really is driving me crazy. besides, president obama has maintained the entire time that he has the -- and i agree with him. he has the ability to do a strike if he feels it necessary. i understand he wants congress's support along the way. i think that that's smart policy and politics. but you can't jerk the congress around like this. he's had members of his own party have to make a very tough public announcement that they are going to support him. and he's given political cover to those republicans who have said -- come out and made the tough decision to say they're

not going to support him. this is totally messed up. >> if you're a member of congress, eric, that has the pr, okay, i support you on what you're doing. now the president as dana points out is saying, well, i don't know if i'm serious about that. wouldn't you be pretty angry right about now? >> i'm not sure if i'd be angry. first of all, can we just clarify i would never be the member of congress that would say, yes, let's go strike syria, under any circumstances unless an american interest was under threat. in my view of the world right now is they can vote whatever they want. president obama is not going to call for a house vote knowing he's not going to get it. he may get a senate resolution. he may go with the senate. my guess is the house is completely out of play. >> does anyone really care what congress does? i don't mean to poo poo what congress does. if russia and assad don't really care about what the white house is doing, a congressional resolution i'm guessing isn't exactly going to get their attention. >> yeah. first off, when he says it's fair that i haven't decided, if

ambivalence was on the periodic table the symbol would be obama's head. we have so many moving parts. we have the president. minones like kerry and clinton. congress. now putin who's like that neighbor that walks across the street to tell you you're mowing your lawn incorrectly. what's missing on this bus is a driver. the congress, none of this stuff matters. it's the driver. where is he? >> it's like the knight rider car. >> at least that car could talk. it was an articulate car. >> it had a consistent message it would give michael knight when he was in trouble. bob, what happens if they pass this resolution. putin has said, yeah, i'll go along with this as long as military action is on the table. kerry is about to head off to geneva to meet with lavrov. let's say they broker a deal. military use gets taken off the table. >> mm-hmm. >> then what? what happened to that big stick, by the way? >> first of all, what is a periodic table. >> what? >> what's a periodic table? >> you know in chemistry class? >> i didn't get that.

listen -- >> you know chemistry, bob. you just know -- >> the ones in trailers out back. the ones that blow up a lot. i never thought they should have called for congress to do this vote without having a vote count, at least have some idea where they were and they didn't. i think this gives them a pause now to be able to have an excuse to be able to go in and bomb if they want without getting congressional support. i hope they do. i still make the point assad deserves to be punished for what he's done. >> agreed. >> greg was referring to male/female chemistry. i also think the white house knew this vote would pass. so this gives him a bit of an out, too, to have these members go ahead with something else. straight ahead on "the five," a stunning attack on the streets of new york city in broad daylight. a white victim is dead in an apartment hate crime. >> apparent. an apparent hate crime. not apartment hate crime. >> but he passed away. it's serious. it's a national story. the media has been silenced. we want to make sure you know

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maybe because it's a local story. but what's a local story in the internet age? that's a dodge. ignored when there's a story the press wants to tell. jeffrey should be a national story. his death is not fashionable. his face will never be seen on a shirt worn by a big star. hell, i'd have to do a monologue on jeffrey every day for a year to strike a balance. his death is a reminder of evil and the cowardice that fumels i. the least we can do is condemn such acts. you want to talk about crime? sure. let's talk about crime. let's talk about all of it. giving less than half the story is worse than no story at all. >> this is yet to be judged as a hate crime. but i'm guessing when somebody is walking through union square in new york city saying i'm going to hit the first white man i see, i would call that a hate crime, dana.

>> i would imagine if anybody heard him they probably just looked away and hoped that it would dissipate and that they wouldn't have to get involved. >> yeah. >> two people tried to jump in. >> you would think if someone stood up and said al akbar with a gun and then -- you would probably call that a jihad as well. >> that's a good point. bob, if we're going to discuss violence, shouldn't we cover it all? >> listen. from my standpoint, i spend an awful lot of time talking about during the civil rights days white people who were beating up and committing hate crimes against blacks. in this case i think it's very clear as you could possibly be. somebody makes an announcement i'm out here to kill a white person because i hate white people and he proceeds to do it, there's absolutely no question the definition of that is a hate crime. i wish there was another example of when some people like al sharpton and others could stand up and say this is just not acceptable. >> i have another example. if they don't want to jump up to

this one. today in the "new york post" there's a story about a bus rider in manhattan who had his face bashed in, greg. a white man by a black man who called him a cracker and then punched him in the face. they are saying this is a hate attack. an officer said this. a few months ago you wouldn't have a problem stopping somebody. but now we can't do that because of the stop and frisk prohibit -- now we're going to have to second guess ourself. this is from a cop. thanks for that. >> coming up, the ohio man who confessed via youtube to killing another man while driving drunk. these are upbeat stories today. made his first court appearance today. we're going to tell you what the family of the victim is now saying about this widely known video confession. it's up next. uh-oh! guess what day it is?? guess what day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike mike mike... what day is it mike? ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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here it is. >> my name is matthew cordle. and on june 22nd, 2013, i hit and killed vincent canzani. i know exactly what it means and the prosecution, everything they need, to put me away for a very long time.

but i'm willing to take that sentence for just one reason, and that reason is so i can pass this message on to you. i'm begging you, please don't drink and drive. >> today 22-year-old matthew cordle appeared in court after being charged with vehicular homicide. he turned himself in for the hit-and-run death of 51-year-old vincent car zani. he'll be arraigned in ohio tomorrow. some asked if his confession was to get a lighter confession. dana, how about you? >> this is what i would have done. if he wanted to do this, i would say, you don't get any makeup, no back liting, no nice music that makes you -- that evokes sympathy. it's like a political ad and think it's -- to make it more real he should have had do it in the raw. >> in the raw. maked? that's weird. >> no. i mean with none of the

accoutreme accoutrements. >> to me this helped two people, the business that's doing these testimonials. it's about telling the truth. and also him. he does say in this video, he's going away to prison for a long, long time and he wants -- and he accepts full responsibility. so you can't fault him for accepting responsibility. however, it is very clean and very professional and it's meant to make him look likeable and sympathetic that. plays into what the victim's family is saying. >> i think it all depends on the judge. if i were the judge, i would say i would prefer your confession here in court. you have turned my court into a theatre going out as theater and i would be lenient at all. >> this guy was drunk, twice the legal limit and he went the wrong way on a super highway. that's all you need to know. one more thing is up next. ok, i am coming. [ susan ] i hate that the reason we're always stopping

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all righty. time for "one more thing." andrea is going to hit it off. >> okay. a couple of weeks ago i was kindly invited by judy albert to speak, and they gifted me a cool nightlight of "the five." papa's band of munchkins made this cute little night lite that

actually i can doze off and i can dream of all of you guys, which i actually do have dreams of "the five," but now i can dream of you guys. >> nightmares of my five. >> it looks like a cemetery of dead hosts. >> see, i'm taking you off my night looitd tra nightlight tray. i can turn this off because i'll be back here at 11. >> speaking of 11:00 p.m., i don't think i have been up past 10:30 in many moons, many, many moons. >> and you ate that pack of pop rocks. >> embraced the fact they need more sleep. there was a study, of course, in the "daily mail," women need more sleep because they multitask and use so much more of their brain power. women just embrace it. admit that you need more sleep. >> they need to rest their mouth.

>> they have to use their brain power a lot more. sooims. bob, you're up. >> this is a sad but important day. congress today honored the birmingham church bombing victims with the congressional medal, the gold medal, which is awarded every year to people who are distinguished americans, and these four little girls were killed in the 16th street baptist church in 1963. became a code date for the civil rights maneuverment. denise mcnair, age 11, karol robertson, age 14, addie mae collins, age 14, and cynthia wesley, age 14. they're at peace now but because of them the civil rights movement really got energize and we thank you all posthumously for your wonderful, wonderful contributions. >> you're up. well done, bob. >> all right. it's time for greg's "nothing to see here" news. these are news stories that the

media ignores. global warming. yes, it's finally dead. according to a new study there's been a 60% increase amount of ocean covered with ice since last year. a million square miles more ice. a leaked report has led scientist scientists to the fact that the country will be cooling until the middle of the century so all reports have been wrong. >> before we go, tomorrow's 9/11 folks, very important day in a lot of our livens, but also 2 million bikers tomorrow will ride on d.c. they weren't allowed a permit -- that's very interesting. the way i understand it the million muslim march permit was allowed but they will ride. >> 2 million bikers? >> whatever it is. anyway, 9/11 tomorrow. thanks for watching.

tomorrow, special 11:00 p.m. following the president's report. we'll see you at 11:00. >> we're wearing pajamas. good evening. i'm bret baier. this is a fox news alert. secretary of state john kerry is scramble to seal the chemical weapons deal with russia. heading to jen esa va to meet with the russian saeks. this after they pulled out this afternoon. that meeting was then abruptly canceled. tonight's national address from president obama is shaping up dramatically differently than it did just yesterday. all of this started by what the state department described as a throwaway rhetorical line from america's top diplomat. cheap white house correspondent