house will face a litany of questions and in new york times written by vladimar putin. a plea for caution from russian and what putin has to say to americans about syria in it a military strike would unleash a new wave of terrorism, this comes the same day as secretary of state john kerry meets with the russian counterparts and discuss a possible diplomatic deal to confiscate syrian chemical weapons and the logistics of carrying out a task. that sit down will take place and a short time ago president obama spoke about secretary kerry's trip and express optimism. >> i am hopeful that the discussions that senator kerry has with foreign minister and

the other players in this can yield a concrete result and i know he's going to be working very hard over the next several days to it see what possibilities are there. >> no doubt he will be working hard on that. chris joins us. fox news digital editor and host of power play on fox news.com. chris, roll back the clock 48 hours and vladimar putin called secretary of state john kerry a liar. it is a strange trip so far to say the least and the fact that soviet union. excuse me russia. >> no it is easy to get there. >> russia is saying about the deal with syria. we want to cut the united states out of this and nothing to do with it and promise they will not have a military strike as part of thisthing. >> poor john kerry and trying to negotiate with the russians and

what is his leverage a strike that can't occur. the president put himself in a terrible political binned when he tried as senior advisor david a xelrod makes the republicans complicent and he tlou it over to congress. congress, the republicans were skeptical and the democrats were a no show. the president didn't want to arm twist and he found himself unable to act and maybe congress was compliceit but it was looking bad for the president. putin throws out a lifeline to get the president out of the jam of his own making and guess what? he is a tough one to deal with. kerry will have russians increase the pressure and as you mention, they will do the best to embarrass and marginalize and disempower barak obama. >> look being at that editorial

this morning and vladimar putin chastising the united states of america for brute force when diplomacy would be the way to go. that encapsuleates the run for obama in 2008. putin is putting that right back in the president's face. look. let me tell you how to deal with leaders in the big world out there. >> you mentioned the soviet union before. vladimar putin working in the kgb, that is where he got the start. that was the modus opranda. it appeals to the democratic left. if there was only diplomacy and undermine the president's clout and ability and president obama is unwilling to take the on base

on as it relates to national security issues and writing in the favorite newspaper on the favorite editorial page and hems in the president. >> it seems that vladimar putin is working over time to sort of reenstall any gravas to on the world stage and puffs himself up and take advantage of this in many ways. it is a great article that chris wrote on all of this and the interesting throw back elements. thank you, chris. >> chief washington correspondent james rosen is traveling with secretary kerry. welcome to you. we just talked about the fact that secretary kerry clearly has his diplomatic work cut out for him especially since he has no leverage at this point. >> martha, that diplomat being work for secretary kerry included, we learned working the phones today. the secretary spoke with the

military and political leaders of the syrian opposition forces with whom the united states collaborates and secretary kerry reassured the syrian opposition leaders that he is going into the ministers with the foreign minister of russia with a place of skepticism and he will continue to make the case that the syrians need to disarm and also there is only a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict. the secretary wrapped up his first meeting here in geneva. it was not with the russians. but it was a special envoy for the united nations and the arab league. he is set to view the talks as a precious windo in the bloody two year conflict to negotiate for peace. most observers place little stock in such hopes. minutes from now, secretary kerry is on the way to the show

down with the famous foreign minister. you can see them meeting in paris. they will look for two quick signs. in the discussion how rapidly the syrians propose to allow for access in the chemical weapons and related facilities and how honest the syrians are in the arsenal and in the weres declarations. they will be joined by teams of experts and technical advisors and both sides will be bringing to the table respective assessments of the extent and scope and locations. syrian criminal stock piles. how far the assess ams about the stock pile could prove decisive. as for president putin, that scorching new york times ed. it was not taking just jabs at president bush and obama and american exceptionism.

it was every reason to believe that rebels that used the chemical weapons. does that complicate the coming talks. the aide said we had conferrings on the phone and exchanging the ideas of the russians. the basis of the weapons are the stock piles of the assad regime. they have a stock pile of chemical weapons. i don't think there is any doubt that the subject of the measure is the stock pile weapons that the assad regime controls. we learned from president assad who expects to file the legal papers necessary for syria to be a formal signaturatory to the chemical weapons convention. if that happens that is unprecedented. martha. >> amazing. thank you, james, see you later tonight. >> fox news alert for you on brand new video out of syria where a fierce battle for

control of a christian town continues. with all of the talk going on. they are in the violent civil war. it is a historic city of maaloula. rebels are ransacking the churches there and said to the civil yaps that they convert to islam or face beheading. >> syrian state tv is reporting that the syrian army solid yers are moving in maaloula with the help of the progovernment militias. they had rescued some of the nuns from the churches and inside of the town. they also show a number of sniper nests that they took out

from positions where members of the free syrian army and the al-qaeda syndicate group that has taken over the town in the past week or so was hiding. they were able to take care of those sniper nests. the town of maaloula had 3300 christians and some of them fed. others were facing choices in terms of protecting their churches and facing execution if they did not convert to islam. the fight is continuing in the town and the syrian army has yet to control all of it. it has to do with not only in terms tra teggic term. assad is trying to prove the rebels and his army is the one that protects syrian freedom and the christians have been aligned

with president assad's regime. his army has largely protecting them. this is one of the christian villages. and whether the army will push all the way through. they have been bombing positions that the rebel groups still held. once they get in the village and secured it, what they may find and what happened to the churches and mons terries. there. they are inside of the village and what we are able to ascertain to the christians that stayed behind. >> what a story. are we headed for a dpft shut down for real this time? can congress fix the dysfunctional system and get a real deal on the table. that focus turned back in washington today. plus, the friend who set up the

man who became thedom -- doomed groom. the friend that set them up is speaking out about the couple's very rocky relationship. >> a controversial plan to save under the water homeowners is disproved. the first in the nation idea could put banks cross the country and future potential homeowners at a serious risk, when we come back. >> they are looking for a principle reduction and refinanced to the current market value which would make it affordable. >> what is next, take my house and decide they want a vegetable garden there? . [ male announcer ] we took new febreze free with no perfume

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wife allegedly pushed him off of the cliff to his death. cody and his wife jordan were married eight days, a close friend who set these two up, said that he questioned her intentions. >> cody was putting everything on the relationship. he put 110 percent and not sure if she felt the same way. you don't do that. cody saved up every penny for the wedding and here's she's taking a vacation to california. >> the friend began to suspect graham when she gave up the lease only two days after johnson went missing. she is charged with second-degree murder and if convicted faces life in prison. >> all right. this one is very interesting. you have to follow it closely with me today. there is new concerns over the

one city's controversial plan to take over the under the water mortgages in richmond, california. the city voted to use imminent domain to buy mortgages from struggling homeowners to prevent foreclosures. there are fores of ripple affects. melissa francis is the host, and how does this work? >> it is a disaster. i talked to former folks in the congressional budget from fannie mae and freddie mac. they upon seize mortgages from banks for homes that are under water. and using imminent domain for the social good. we are going to take the mortgages from the banks at a deep discount and then they will immediately profit by reselling the mortgages to mortgage resolution partners.

it was their idea in the first place. these are former wall street investors and one is a former executive from bank of america who is the father of the subprime loan that got us in the mess. he is part of the group that is going to profit and get another bite at the apple. they will rework and resale it and then they will profit. the person in the house is better off because their original mortgage was under water and they have a new mortgage. they were paying on that mortgage and targeting the ones under water but still current. and so the loans have a lot of value and they are being sewed from the bank that had them. >> if i am from bank a and gave it to the person to start with and they are struggling and trying to get the book backs in gore, i would be screaming bloody murder we will take the loan that is current away from

you. and rob you of the ability to get it right in your own books because no, no, no. we can help the homeowner here and get it back for them. >> the bank takes a tremendous loss. no one is ever croiing for a bank. you don't feel 0 for the bank. it is not fair. and what it means, that no one will make a loan in city of richmond again. they watch the banks get screwed on this deal, why would they ever go in and make another loan. fannie mae and freddie mac will not back loans in richmond or rebuy them or insure them. the rule of law is not applying in this town. one mortgage holder may benefit now, but you guys are in trouble in the town in the future. you will not get loans in the future, the rule of law in rich mopped is thrown out of the winnow.

they have gone around and presented it to a number of cities to try to get them to do it. the others so far have not done it. it will not get through the cowers. court costs are tremendous and they looked down the road and seen the danger to homeownership in the future. it is a dangerous, and bad idea. no one i talked to today did not agree. >> the homeowner loseses control of the home and it is ripped away from them and they have letsz say over their financial swapgz. >> in the short term they are for it because they see themselves getting a better deal and principle is reduced and they are angry at the current bank and they want a loan reduction and reworked. i understand that emotion. but in the long run it is a terrible ordeal for the homeowners in the country. >> and thank you for explaining.

it catch melissa on fox every night 5:00 p.m. eastern. check it out. an american prisoner a cowed of espionage in iran is reaching out to the u.s. details on the letter he managed to smuggle out of jail. and a ohio man pleads not guilty for a fatal drunken crash and not the reasoning. what did it mean for the case when he goes back to court next week. i am ma tthew cordal. on june 22nd, 2013, i hit and killed vincent and this video will act as my confession.

>> this is getting a lot of attention after a continue-year-old student in tennessee was told she could not write about god in a school assignment. she seltzed for michael jackson. the teacher did allow the michael jackson as subject of the story and the mother took it up with the administrators. and was told there is nothing they could do. there is no school policy for students writing about god or any religion in the school papers. >> a cry from help from an american held hostage in iran. the former u.s. marine reaching out to secretary of state john kerry. trace is live with the story. >> give us background.

>> the handwriting is his in that letter and we are talking about the 29-year-old who has dual citizenship in this country and in iran. before he went to iowa ran, he asked the iranian government if there was a problem with a former u.s. marine visiting and he was tholled no issue and he was quickly arrested for allegedly spying to for the ciowa a. he confessed on iranian state television and said that that was forced and made under duress. in his letter to john kerry, he said iran is trying to exchange him for two iranian prisoners held in this country. i had nothing to do with their arrest and committed no crime. i do not wish to set a for

others. >> john kerry urged the iranian government to set him free. he compares his case to the three americans hikers who were arrested in iran for spying. they were all released like 14 months for her and two years for them after paying hefty amounts of bail. he is hoping with iran's new president in place, that might bode well for his release in the near future. right now there are no signs of that at all. >> it is not a case that has gotten a lot of attention and perhaps the letter and in this moment will help them. it certainly helped the hitchhikers. >> and so far no comment on the state department concerning the letter. secretary kerry has his hands

full with other matters at this point. >> and there is growing criticism for the president's handling of the croisis in syria. and a heated debate over a military strike is legal. judge napolitano helps to put the president's action and what he would like to do in constitutional context. and a leap of faith by man's best friend. have you seen the video today? two dogs, trapped inside of a burning building with no choice but to jump. >> less than throw weeks we have to go until the government shuts down and why some people think it might happen at this time. we'll be back with more. >> anything that can be done to slow down, hurt or get rid of government in any way, that's good. shutting down the government

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why this time it may actually happen. and speaker boehner's worst experience of trying to herd the cats in the house and most stray moopg the cats he is trying to hurt is the 30 or so tea party republican conference that are refusing to vote for a continuing resolution that is too watered down. boehner was forced to pull that from a house floor vote knowing he lacked the votes. the continuing resolution contains a second provision to defund obama care. that is non-binding and meaning that the senate could strip it out of their bill and send it to the president without referring it to the house, the speaker today tried to down play the intra- party feud. >> all of the speculation about these deadlines coming up. i am well aware of the dead lines and so are my colleagues.

and that is working our way through the issues and i think there is a way to get there and i will be continuing to work with our fellow members to address the concerns. >> and senate majority leader harry reid said that tea party faction of the house is holding them hostage. >> i said on the florida today anarchist are winning. anything that can be done to slow down and hurt or get rid of government in any way that is good. shutting down the government obviously is what the majority of the republican caucus wants to do in the house. >> bottom line, as much as speaker boehner is trying to down play the crisis, he is stuck between a rock and hard place and democrats who want to pass the clean cr and tea party

faction of the conference are creating trouble of their on or about. the big four of both houses are talking about spoker boehner and pelosi in the house. and reid and mcconnell in the senate characterized the meeting as respectful. the republican leadership after that meeting ended and is not out a notice to their caucus and saying to make plans to cancel the recess for the last week of september. if you include that recess, there are only six legislative days left to pass the resolution. and that is ate up by the syrian crisis and the time is of the essence and the guy who is facing the pressure is house speaker john boehner. >> indeed he is. he referred to the style of legislating as kicking that can down the road. so now it seems to become the norm on capitol hill. is there any way the system will change and are we going to so

a government shutdown now? joining me is crois clant and julie. and julie and crois, welcome and good to have you both here. >> good. >> and let's play the sound by the. >> we'll spend time here today, talking about all of the efforts that are made by many of the cabinet secretaries to stream line operations and to cut out waste, and improve performance and customer satisfaction. we are going to focus on specific issues including managing some of the budget debates that are taking place over the next several weeks. >> the president said it is time to look at the spending, chris plant, and the whole syria story

hasn't gone that well and everybody seeming to be back. and we'll talk about the bad republicans and not willing to compromise on the budget, chris. >> boy, the disaster that is the president's horrific mishandling of syria are front and center and they have to do everything they can to change the subject. we'll put on the album we were listening to three months ago and the president claims he wants to cut spending and the man with trillion deficits wants to cut spending and it is the evil republican's fault. there is a book an insane man in an insane society must a pore insane. >> in washington, anyone who wants to do the right thing is calledan an arkist. we have come to an agreement

with the administration and news media and that is the president doesn't negotiate and doesn't compromise and wants a raise in the debt ceiling so we get further in debt. he doesn't want to do anything reasonable to get spending under control. and if the republicans don't come over to his position. njulie, what do you think? >> the problem is not the president or john boehner. it is the caucus. before you negotiate, the house majority in their own caucus and conference needs to actually pass a continuing resolution or a budget. the budget would be preferable and a continuing resolution. the problem for john boehner as you pointed in the bit, is that john boehner doesn't have members of his own party to pass the continuing resolution. they want to talk about defunding obama care. john boehner knows it is not going anywhere. but if you want to tie the

defunding of obama care to government shutdown, that is what the house calk u.s. is trying to do. >> you think there is a notion that the democrats are willing to let it happen this time because they would want that opportunity to pen this on republicans and see the disarray that they are referring to and anxiage to. >> as a democrat, i think it is important to make sure our country functions and our budgets go forward and alluded to syria and military and sorts of priorities that would not get funded. it is not up to the democrats. it is up to john boehner to coral the caucus. he will have to rely on the democrats to vote and pass the reds lugz and that violates the house rowels for him. it is a weakening of his own leadership. i feel 0 for him.

>> you look at the approval ratings for congress. i haven't sewn the recent number. 12 percent is a estimate is where the approval numbers are. chris, people look at this and they are so over all of you. and if you can't go in a room and say we need a budget. we are not doing another cr and do what the constitution commands we do and develop a budget and give you a little bit and you what you want and get out of here with a budget. is that going to happen? >> not during this administration. the president has gone record periods of time in passing a budget. we played a ridiculous media game whether the republicans get the blame a head of time. and so the democrats are incentized to shut down. give us everything we want or we shut down the government and you

get the blame. >> thank you very much. we have breaking news. >> we want to take everyone live to this in switzerland. secretary of state kerry holding a news conference. let's listen to them. >> and convey in the conference as we reach the syrian, in accordance with the communicate and agree on the creation of the transition bodies that will have all of the executive function and this is our common objective and i hope that today and tomorrow it will be all other efforts to continue to help move on and complete the objective. thank you for your attention. >> well, thank you very much.

my privilege to be here with our delegation and i want to thank you and your delegation on behalf of all of the people on behalf of diplomacy can avoid military action and we thank you for coming quickly to geneva to have this important conversation that we will engage in. over one year ago, president obama and president putin directed high- level experts of our governments, to work together to prepare contingencies involving syria's chemical weapons. the foreign minister and i have been in regular contact about this issue since my visit to moscow earlier this year and as the foreign minister said to me in the phone conversation in st. petersburg, president putin and president obama thought it would be worthwhile for us to

work together to determine if there is life in this concept. this challenge obviously took on grave urgency on august 21st, when the syrian regime used chemical weapons in a massive and indiscriminate way against its own citizens. president obama and dozens of our partners believe that that actions unacceptable and we have in no uncertain terms made it clear that we cannot allow that to happen again. in light of what has happen, the world wonders and watches closely whether or not the assad regime will live up to the public commitments that it made to give up the chemical weapons and whether two of the world's most powerful nations can together take a critical step forward in order to hold the

regime to its stated promises. i have seen reports that the syrian regime suggested as part of the tannedard process they ought to have 30 days to submit data on the technical and chemical weapons stock pile. >> we believe there well is nothing standard about this process at this moment, because of the way the regime has behaved and not only the existence of the weapons but they have been used. the words of the syrian regime in our judgment are not enough which is why we came here in order to work with the russians, and work with sergie la ba rov and his delegation in order to make certain this can be achieved. the united states and russians have and continued to have our

share of disagreements about the situation in syria, including a difference as to the judgment we just offered with respect to who may have done that. but what is important, as we come here, there is much we agree on. we agree on august 21st, syria men, women, and children died grotesque deaths due to chemical weapons. we agree that no one, anywhere at any time should employ chemical weapons and we agree in our joining together with the international community to eliminate stock piles of these weapons in syria would be be a historic moment for the multiy- nonproliferation efforts. we agree on those things. we agree it would help to save

lives if we could accomplish th and reduce the threat to the region and uphold the norm that was established here in againeva almost a century ago, and it would achieve the best of all of our aspirations for curbing weapons of mass destruction. the foreign minister and i came today to test these propositions not just on behalf -- but on everybody who was interested in a peaceful resolution. so i welcome the distinguished russian delegation and i am proud at president obama's direction, we have adeleigation which i lead of some of our nation's foremost chemical weapons experts. people who dedicate their lives every day to countering the proliferation of those weapons and bringing about their eventual elimination from this

earth. the russian delegation has put some ideas forward and we are grateful for that and respect it. and we have prepared our own principles that any plan to accomplish this, needs to encompass. expectations are high. they are high for the united states, perhaps more so for russia to deliver on the promise of this moment. this is not a game, and i said that to my friend sergei when we talked about it initially. it has to be role. it has to be comprehensive. it has to be verifiable. it has to be credible and it has to be timely and implemented in a timely fashion and finally, there ought to be consequences if it doesn't take place. diplomacy is and always has been president obama's and this administration's first resort.

and achieving a peaceful resolution is clearly preferable to military action. president obama has said that again and again. now, it's to early to tell whether or not these efforts will succeed and the technical challenges trying to do this in the context of the civil war are immense. despite how difficult this is, with the collaboration of our experts and only with the compliance from the assad regime, we do believe there is a way to get this done. we have come here to define a potential path forward that we can share with our international partners and together, we will test the assad regime's commitment to follow through on its promises. we are serious, mr. foreign

minister, we are serious as you are about engaging in substantive and meaningful negotiations even as our military maintains its current poster to keep up the pressure on the assad regime. only the credible threat of force and the intervention of president putin and russia, based on that has brought the assad regime to acknowledge for the first time that ittine has chemical weapons and an arsenal and now prepared to relinquish it. president obama made it clear that should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade assad's capacity to deliver the weapons. it will not get rid of them but it could change his willingness to use them. the best thing to do we agree is remove them altogether. our challenge here in geneva is

test the viability of placing assad's chemical weapons under international control and removing them from syria and destroying them forever. but the united states has also made clear that the deaths of more than 100,000 syrians and displacement of millions internally or as refugee is a stain on the world's conscience and we all need to cope that in mind and deal with it. that's why the foreign minister and i will work with the special envoy and ourselves under the auspis of the geneva community. we share those hopes and that could foster a political solution to a civil war that undermines the stability of the region, threatens our own

national security interests and compels us to act. that is our hope and to act. that is our hope and what we hope can come out of this meeting and negotiations. thank you very much. >> all right there you have it. discussions going on in geneva with the foreign minister of russia. boy, what a difference a couple of days makes. but now john kerry is saying because of the threat of military force and because of the open arms of putin to try to wrestle a deal with assad to put their chemical weapons under international control, this is where we find ourselves today. lots more to be said about what is happening there. in the meantime, an ohio man who confessed in a youtube video to

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new details today on the ohio man who confessed to a fig fatal drunk driving crash. that is him without the spotlight and the music and he entered a not guilty plea. his attorney said he will indeed plead guilty. he admitted to drinking heavily before getting into his car and killing a 61 year old man. >> i'm joined by a criminal

defense attorney welcome. this gets a lot of attention today because everyone has seen the video with the music and perfect lighting and said i did this awful thing and there is a look at it. he said i'm going to do a lot of time in jail. he is urging kids not to make the mistake that he made why not guilty. >> though do not plead guilty even if they enter ultimately a plea of guilty. perhaps the prosecution will ufr him a more lenient sentence. >> anyone who is shocked to hear this is that he will indeed plead guilty. nothing has changed and his commitment to plead not guilty. he looks a whole lot different

in court than he does on the video. and a lot of controversy on whether that video was appropriate because it was bl glamour rising him. some people think it is a below for leniency. do you think he is going to get it? >> the prosecution has said they are going to seek the maximum time which is 8.5 years. it is possible that his defense attorneys will be able to mitigate the sentence. it is question al whether the video is going to help or hurt him. there is no jury. the judge will decide whether or not -- what the sentence is going to be in this case. do you think it should have a bearing because he came forward and wanted to stop others from doing the same thing?

>> i think it is admirable he was two times the legal limit and he seems to be apologetic. yes, he should receive some leniency. >> we will be back to syria and the question of chemical weapons right after this. ♪

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government news alert now from the yuunited nations as th syrian government takes what keep to be the fifth sterst ste eliminating chemical weapons. un confirming that they have received a letter from the assad regime applying for a -- that bans deadly chemical weapons. we are live with this. hi, eric. >> reporter: well, we'll turn them over and cooperate. so says syria to the united nations moments ago. that came in a document from the

government. that is the global effort that prohibits chemical weapons. the general has received his request from the government which would mean if it is indeed carried out that the weapons would be put under international super vision. >> in the past few hours we have received a document from the government of syria which is being translated which is to be a government concerning the commemkal weapons convention. we'll study that document and i believe that is meant to be circulated. >> that first step would be syria joining the organization for the chemical weapons. and it is investigating the alleged syrian chemical attacks.

under the regime it would declare it's program and allow u un inspectors to variety and declare what they have. president obama has said he would welcome syria's giving up it's chemical stock piles but has offered to keep the military action on the table. these documents quote cannot be a substitute for disarmament or a stalling tactic. there are some exceptions like syria and north korea and egypt and in 2003 right after the invasion of iraq. libyan dick tatter, he did the same thing. he switched and agreed to give up his chemical weapons program and the un superrized the destruction of that material and

the group is long involved in, inspecting saddam hussein's chemical weapons. >> very, very interesting. we'll see where this gets us. thank you very much. new foch news polls show iing growing disaprosecutprove al wi president's handling of it. that has now jumped to 60%. i'm joined by judge nepolitano and he just wrote an opinion piece for the washington times. putting the actions into context. you are competing with putin today. good to have you judge, with us this morning. >> you are presenting this as something that people need to consider. when they look at whether or not

how the president handled it. you look at how he has aligned with our laws. he can't just destroy any property or shoot at any government he wants. he made what i think most people would agree was an emotional argument on tuesday night. he did this to children. that tugs at everybody's heart strings but it is not a legal argument. the linchpin for us on invasion is not do we hate or condemn what they did. it is does the activity affect our freedom or safety? >> this civil war is 6700 miles away. it has been going on for four and a half years and people are dead. no one in the administration has argued before about whether

assad wins or whether the rebels win. >> the chemical weapons goes against the ban which they had not signed but now they are going to sign it. that is what changed their calculus. it interesting. a lot of what you are saying is what vladamir putin is trained to kill and destroy. which one of them sounds like a noble peace person and which one sounded like a killer. he has been playing he ining hi viol violin. since john kerry put out a suggestion. >> putin says i can ne negotiate

that. and the president says if we take the vote to congress i'm going to loose it. the american people are sick and tired of war. especially a war that will go nowhere. >> it is you know, we watched john kerry and he has been working hard to rewrite or represent what happened before today. and suggests that you know we spoke about this 18 months ago. the president and putin was spoken about it. and that laid the ground work for what you are seeing here. he says that is not the case as all. it is interesting, when you look at what putin is saying, you can't use the military strike you have to take that off the table. >> that seeming like a deal breaker. >> everyone is going to claim

credit for this. if the chemical weapons with destroyed, they will say it is part of our plan all along. >> war would be illegal. war would be against the grain of congress. it would have been turned down the first time in american history that a president has sought authority to wage war. >> he could have done that strike under the war powers act and carried it out and gone back to ask for perp mission later. >> mark twain once said it is amazing what you can get done when you don't care who gets the credit. >> we will see. we will see. >> thank you so much. >> good to talk tow. >> so there are no developments to tell you about and that is the fast and furious case.

remember the government's botched gun running operation? >> but the guns they sent to track them down ended up getting a border agent killed. the justice department is being asked to explain as more arms are turning up. and a contempt case is moving forward. hi william. >> well martha you know we know what happened in fast and furious. now it is about who is responsible and holding them accountable. last year the house found holder in contempt. president obama stepped in and stopped them claiming executive privilege. that prompted them to contact a federal judge. we expect a ruling in the next three weeks.

>> when you consider that the attorney general himself may very well have been accompliss it and knowing the false statement, you have a serious question of whether or not congress can fairly evaluate these individuals staying in their jobs if they can't be counted onto tell the truth. >> at the center of this scandal, sold by lone wolf. while two men are in custody for his death, the family sueded senior atf officials and lonewolf for negligence saying that they should have know the guns would kill. saying that the owner was misslead by the government which falsely told him it was tracking

the guns. >> mr. howard who acts as a highly regulated ffa feels as much a victim as they play. he wondered what happened to those guns and wants the answers as much as they do. >> that case is in federal court. we expect a ruling soon. more guns continue to be found in mexico and elsewhere. the doj is not in forming congress of whether those fatalities are. >> the united states stepping further into the syrian conflict reportedly now sending arps to the rebel forces. so why now? coming up, will the cia be able to keep those weapons from falling into the hands of al qaeda? >> an alarming report shedding light on the fight against cancer. what we are learning about

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as for the editorial. we are not surprised by president putin's words.

but unlike russia, the united states stands up for democratic values and human rights in our country and world taround the w. >> so that was moments ago in the white house president room. when he talked about the syrian crisis and scolded the united states and said that we didn't know how to run things here. new concerns arise as we learn that the united states is now deciding that we will arm the rebel forces. now report says that the cia has been shipping weapons into the area over the last two weeks.

think about that. we have two issues that we want to deal with, colonel oliver north. welcome. >> movemements ago we were watc john kerry and then jay carney steps up and said don't you write this editorial about us. >> in that john kerry is right. but the rest of this whole thing is so surreal. i could not imagine that we would have a president of the united states hand over the power of the presidency to putin. who do you trust?

his original goal was to hang onto syria. and he has now expanded that to become the arbitor of what will happen in the middle east. he wrote his these sis on how we brought the soviet union down. russia is a dying country he knows it we know it. he loses one million people there in population. what does he have? >> he has nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons and also has oil and gas. and you now can keep the price of oil over $100 a barrel where they make money on it in russia.

the price went up by almost $1 just today. he has the authority and credibility to be an arbiter in the middle east. he can say i've gotten rid of the chemical weapons now let's go after the israeli nuclear weapons. that is one of the reasons why the chemical munitions were in iraq and iran. who gave them to them? the soviet union. >> it is an interesting argument that you make and background and history that you bring to the table. we were talking about one of the best weapons we could employ would be to lower world oil prices so that would not be a feather in his cap.

none of which this administration is doing by the way. >> two weeks ago we began to arm the cia to give them weapons to help get these rebels up on their feet who are in the moderate opposition down the middle that we don't think is connected to al qaeda. >> that is a leak from a senior administration official today in the aftermath of all this. they said oh, no, we have been arming them for two weeks not just a day or two. nothing was done until recently at best and perhaps as long as two weeks ago. the requality is it we have allowed the moderate opposition to be over whelmed and he has appointed a man who is maliable

to that. when you are forced to side with the colonel of the syrian army. pay attention mr. obama this will work. direct the cia to hire former military personnel who have experience in that part of the world and put them under employment of the cia and have them build a freedom fight her army who are not radical and who will be trained and equipped and fielded to become a freedom fight her army. >> these people would not be americans? >> you need americans to train them in jordon. you can't do it in lebanon or iraq. >> a lot of people think it is too late for this. >> it is not too late.

i have experience helping freedom fighters get weapons train and win. >> we'll leave it there. interesting. thank you, sir. pleasure to talk tow as always. all right. think about that more a moment folks at home and whether or not that is what we are going to see on the ground. a huge blow to obamacare from one of its biggest supporters the largest federation of unions is upset about obamacare. they say it is going to ruin their worker's insurance plans. plus a small budget film produced by a church is getting slapped with a rating reserved for films with violence and nudity. the pastor thinks they know why the film was given a rating of r. >> as americans are flying into

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outrage over an airport fire drill that took place as the nation was remembering september 11th. boston's logan airport conducted this drill yesterday complete with a mock plane on fire on the tarmac. the two jets took off from logan airport. this took place in full view of passengers. >> probably not the best day. i think if they were going to do something like that. they should have warned people

first. >> it seems rather insensitive and in appropriate to me. i was watching the ground zero ceremony at the white house this morning, and it was disturbing even this many years later. so that doesn't seem very, very nice for the people who are flying in and might see it. >> those two people seem to be full of logic. unlike those who were running this thing. the governor said it was just dumb and the airport had to apologize. >> this story, reaction after a baptist church gets into the movie business and their film got an r rating. the film is called "my son". the pastor is wondering whether the rating has to do with the

message than the content concern. >> what is in this movie that got it an r? >> a little bit of violence and drugs. it was produced on a $25,000 budget. it is a story of a young couple thatli lozs custody of their chd and that leads to a shooting and hostage stand off inside the church. it was given an r rating saying the rating board is kcomprised f parents who work to give films the rating the month jaajority parents would give. >> i think it is more a reflection of how hollywood views jesus in general.

if you are in an action flick and utter his name as a profanity that is a pg-13 rating. if you are in a world tragedy and talk about his name in a place of forgiveness then you get an r rating. >> the church cannot afford to reshoot this film. >> it wasn't an option for us so we have had to run with this with the r rating and hope that our brothers and sisters in the faith will kind of support it. >> a bit of a pickle for the pastor who has said you don't want to take your kids to see an r rated movie. but, you know, god probably understands that the mpaa is not

distributing these ratings on an equal basis. >> you are right. that is a pickle for the pastor in the pulpit. >> i mean you never know what you are going to get when you walk into a pg-13. i recommend people go online and look up what do parents say. trace thank you very much. coming up a disturbing trend in cancer care. why many patients are left feeling like they are on their own. we are going to get insight and advice that you will need from our medical a team. no matter who you know. plus we are finding out now about the new health care law and why it could hurt middle class families. the unions are upset about it right now. >> but we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the

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own. >> you are right. as we get closer a lot of people are beginning to look at the details. there is one problem in the plan th has gotten little attention but must be fixed. what it calls affordable care. premiums cannot be more than 9% of the income. but that does not include the rest of the family. >> workers with modest incomes 20 to $35,000 who work for a company that insures only them and not their family members, still are required by the law to provide for their families. >> their option is to sign up with the employer plan regardless of how much it costs them. and insurance could cost thousands of dollars more a third or more of a worker's gross income and that of course

would have to come out of the worker's pocket. >> so this has become a pretty big deal if people started to piece it through and figure out there are going to be lower wage people stuck with a fairly high premium. >> we are going to find millions of dependants who are not going to have insurance. >> even worse. if the employer offers the insurance at any price and they don't take it, they do not qualify tore subsidies. >> if their family is uninsured they have to pay a penalty. it is obviously not fair. >> we are going to have a lot of angry people. some people are treated lavi lavishly, others are put in a bind. >> when the public discovers all of this he says they are going to be very unhappy. president clinton says this was

surely unintended but critics argue the law is filled with them which is why so many want to change it. >> a lot to figure out here. thank you very much. >> so a major show of union solidarity on this and it is against the new health care law and it comes surprisingly from the aflcio who has signed a resolution to take aim at this overhall. they are complaining that they have looked at it and it is going to drive up the cost of their union sponsored health plans. kirsten is consultant. thank you very much good to have you both with us. this is very surprising. when you look at the history of this, the yup ones first of all, abluteally helped to get

president obama elected and supported him over hillary clinton. have stood by him throughout. and now they are turning on him. >> it is relatively surprising. but in another sense you could have seen this coming. there has been a criticism of the law and how it treats the cadillac plans. it covers a lot. the sorts of plans that many folks get. in a couple of years there is going to be a 40% tax against these plans and if you go on to the exchange, the most high end plans you have to pick up a lot of health care cousts. they are going to come to find that the quality and cost of their care are not what they

expected. >> emily, what do you make of this union turn apparently according to an ap piece this morning, they really tried the white house really tried to get the union to not do this. they are not happy. >> look, as we move through it, you mentioned this in your earlier segment there are pieces of the law that we are discovering as we go through. that is the case with every piece of major legislation with social security, medicare, there are piece that is we need to work through and it is always goes to be an open conversation. president obama has done a huge effort to make sure that the players are coming to the table. he wants to talk to them. small businesses he is bringing them to the table. i think that what we are finding is that it is difficult to have serious conversations about moving forward and making sure that the plan work. >> we are seeing --

>> if there are not serious partners -- >> but for members of congress and all kinds of entities and my guess is that the unions want a carve out too. who is going to be left to pay for this kristen if ever i one gets a carve out and a delay and the rest of the folks are saying i guess i didn't get an exception. >> this law had things like the long-term care insurance program that was a big part of the deficit reduction that had to get scrapped from the law. you begin to see the exceptions delays on certain mandates. the law is less recognitionable but still no less departmental for people. it is not about messages or communicating why people should love this bill. it is going to be about

implementation. it will be tough for this administration to mess sage their way out of it. >> go ahead. >> well, i totally agree with kristen. this is not about messaging. this is why we are seeing a hard-core push from the right in trying to dismantle it. when it is basically theoretical. once people start to see more benefits the bulk of which go into effect jan 1st, it is going to be harder to dismantle it. >> what kind of great things are we going to feel on january one? >> people can find the best plan that works for them. and that makes sense at your budget. when they are starting to go to heal healthcare.govern the subsidies are there. you can see how it is going to work. >> so what is the problem? >> i think one of the big problems is a lot of folks who

were told if you like your health care you can keep it. that is not the case. when people go into see what their options are you are going to find that the insurance is more. p expensive. they are named after medals but even at the platinum level you are still expected to pay 10% out of pocket. the folks in the yup ones are going to be the most surprised to find. > unions that are looking for a carve out on this. republican ares and conservat e conservatives do not what to see that. >> this rate shock is just not there. in some states offices will coming in and we are seeing lower rates than people expected. you are seeing 6% lower for

small businesses. the rand report is predicting 6%. the rate shock just is not there. >> emily and kristen, thank you very much. >> starting october 1, everybody will get to find out what is in the bill and emily things you are going to like it kristen is not so sure. heavy rains triggering some deadly flooding cutting off mountain towns and trapping drivers on washed out roads. rescues when the pavement gave way. >> and a disturbing new report on medical treatment. fox news medical a team dr. mark siegel on that coming up. heart healthy, huh?!

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what is the best thing to do. dr. siegel welcome. good to have you here. you hear so much about the wonderful new breakthroughs in cancer treatment and it is difficult for patients and families to know what the best options are. >> the first problem is the number of patients with cancer is increasing. we have 1.6 million new cases a year. and it is very expensive to take care of cancer. it can be in the hundreds of billions of dollars and we have asia a smaller force of conc oncologists. there is not a uniformity of treatment. you go to the latest medical center, and they are looking at the newest research they are talking about something called

targeted therapy where i love where anti-bodies or vaccines are attacking cancer. but after all, everybody should get the same treatment right? that is not the way it is in the united states. the institute of medicine has a solution. they think that team approach patient centered approach, information extending more information is going to help with efficiency and getting uniformity of care. that sounds good but in practice, people have been practicing the same way for a long time and it is hard to break down those barriers especially regarding obamacare. >> when you log on with a symptom, it is all over the place but it gives people access to learning about treatments that their doctors do not know about. i'm interested in targeted

treatment. i heard about that and i looked it up after dr. siegel mentioned it. it leaves people feeling upset and scary. >> it is well stated what you just said and i would add to that that, the newest treatment may be unproven. or it isn't working as wells you think. you know, so it is not clear that you can actually be your own advocate totally. but you need a dr. you can trust and i agree with the institute of medicine that we need the of medicine that we need the the safes are able to access the treatment and the have nots cannot. >> two points. especially two p population. most cancer is over the age of

65. we are going to see more treatments so the two-tiered system comes in. and cancer treatments are for me might not work for others.for me so, as treatments get more and more personalized you're only going to be able to get them if you can afford them. one is $100,000 a year. they're not off erred in canada. the more we go to juan size fits all situation, the less we can get insurance to coverage. >> the best thought for people to take away. >> be your own advocate. not google everything but get a doctor you can trust. understand that your oncologyishing even if he has a lot of experience you need to know whether he is up to snuff on the latest treatment. >> dr., thank you so much. we appreciate your time today. >> thank you. >> we have been telling you about the heavy rains that have sent literally walls of water crashing down mountainsides in colorado, and all that water is

stranding people and complicates rescue efforts in colorado. we'll be live when we come back more here.

so, extreme weather out there, deadly flooding has been sweeping colorado today with torrential rains that have overtaken roads, sparked some really dramatic rescues. but the high water is now complicating the efforts to get to some of the folks who are stranded. that's a rescue we watched this morning. unbelievable. we're live in bolder, colorado, with more. reporter: rescuers are actually in a touch situation. they want to evacuate some

people in areas that are close to areas like boulder creek. however they can't because in the moving rather is dangerous. not everybody in boulder, colorado, is concerned. the university of colorado has closed the school for today and tomorrow because 25% of the buildings on the campus have been damaged. the city of boulder is closed as well. the concern right now where i am standing is that a wall of water, according to authorities could come this way at any minute because there could be a shift in debris. the police have been here. the warning sirens have been going off, trying to get people to stay away from the area. very few people are actually listening. the people who are paying attention to authorities right now are those folks in lions,s colorado, north of us. they are isolated right now from the rest of colorado. and that is because the roads have been washed out from the

flooded area. right now they're under a boil water order. the sewage plant has been knocked out and they have no fresh water. >> it's one of the issues we are having this overflow coming north of the highway. wanted to meet the river on the south side, and unfortunately the highway is in the middle. so it's crossing over the top of it. so we kept finding ourselves on an island so we keep moving east. structurally, don't know what could be happening underneath us, and for our safety. >> governor issued a disaster declaration and asking for acities stance from miami ma and the -- fema and rain is not expected to stop until tomorrow. >> rough situation for those people. especially those in lyon. we have breaking developments in

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