i will see you at 2:00 this afternoon. we'll have more coming up. eric, thank you for being here. >> see you tomorrow morning at 9:00. we'll covering and have full analysis of these historic decision throughout the day on the fox news channel. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: let's pick up right where we left off. fox news alert on two major rulings from the supreme court. big monday. hope you're having a good one. i'm jenna lee. jon: what a way to begin the week. i'm jon scott. the big ruling centers on the obamacare birth control mandate. the supreme court rules 5-4 in favor of the hobby lobby company which objected on religious ground to paying for certain kinds of contraceptions to their employees. if the obama administration wants to provide birth control under company as health insurance plans must find a way to pay for them. we have tom goldstein, founder of scotusblog. he is a frequent guest of the fox news channel.

this is narrowly-tailored opinion. we heard that in the previous hour. means what? it will apply to hobby lobby and a few other count companies but not publicly-traded ones? >> that is probably the right, that is probably the answer. the court didn't say whether it was going to issue, what it would ultimately do with publiclied traded corporations. it limited decisions to the small, closely-held companies in terms of number of others but these companies can be quite large. hobby lobby is nationwide company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue of the decision unquestionably is significant even just to those companies. jon: what does it mean for the larger companies, the publicly-traded companies of the world? they do not have this exception? they will have to continue to offer this kind of, this kind of coverage? >> well the justices didn't answer that question today but it is very likely that they will. i think the court was very concerned with the owners of hobby lobby and other companies like it, basically families with strong religious convictions and didn't want them to lose the

ability to implement convictions because they used the corporate forum. something like ford motor company, apple, ibm that doesn't have the same situation were the ownership of the company has really closely-held strong religious beliefs. jon: what, how does this change the debate going forward? i mean for instance, if there are hobby lobby employees who for whatever reason want this kind of coverage, does the obama administration now owe it to them to figure out some kind of a way to pay for this? >> it may not owe it to them but it is absolutely inevitable. wouldn't surprise me within a couple hours the obama administration said it would fill in this gap in coverage. so for the women employees, it may not have a lot of practical consequence but this is a big social decision, a cultural decision in which the majority of the supreme court is really reinforcing the importance of respecting religious convictions. that will i think play out over the course of decades. couldn't be more true that it's

a very significant ruling. jon: there is no free lunch. if it is going to be paid for by someone, i assume that means taxpayers right? >> that's right. jon: then you get into the same argument all over again. do i necessarily want to be paying for that kind of coverage for someone if i don't believe in it? >> well you know, the case that the government does all kind of things with our money we don't really like and there is not much we can do bit. the supreme court made that clear too. i don't think it will more than a tiny blip when it comes to amount of money. what is at stake here is principle more than cash. jon: all right. and, so let's turn our attention to the union case. the supreme court also ruled in favor of, well, i guess you could call it a financial blow that was dealt to labor unions, saying that public sector unions can not collect fees from workers who object to being affiliated with a union. the justices saying collecting those fees would violate those workers first amendment rights. >> let me just say, i don't

think that is quite right. i completely understand why you take that reading of the decision but justices said they weren't actually going to decide that broad question because the way you described it, you would say have a teachers union and it wouldn't be able to take money in from teachers that teachers were come to pay them. what the justices say, we have a very special kind of employee, it called a partial public employee. these were home health workers. they didn't work in government office building. they worked in somebody's house. the court said 5-4, that the government couldn't compel those workers to contribute to union negotiating. up shot it is real barrier to expansion of public employee unions. but it doesn't deal a death blow they were afraid to get from the supreme court majority. jon: is this one also then narrowly tailored? >> just depends on your perspective. those object to unions were quite pleased. they didn't hit a grand slam but home run. unions are thinking it could be

much worse for us. it's a ruling against the unions but not a dramatic ruling. jon: you keep such a close eye on working of the supreme court, does either decision surprised you? >> i was surprised at narrowness of decisions. looked like there were majorities on the supreme court to do more, particularly in the union case. seemed like the court had poised itself to say exacting money to support union negotiations was unconstitutional but it didn't go that far. i think roberts court, moving steadily in conservative direction but trying to do so in measured steps. jon: tom goldstein, the founder of scotusblog.com. thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. >> thanks for having me. jenna: opinions come in fast and furious to those cases. we'll bring them to you as fast as we get them. new information in the oscar pistorius murder trial which resumed after a month-long break. the trial was postponed after the former olympian was undergoing a court ordered

psychiatric evaluation. paul tilsley is back in today's court for the hearing. paul. >> reporter: oscar pistorius has been out of the spotlight for six weeks. the verdict on that came in but just barely. one of the five psychiatrists examining the athlete suffered a heart attack. was only well enough to file the report on pistorius this morning. it arrived in court with minutes to go when the court intervened. it came in so late that the judge didn't have time to look at report. prosecutor harry nell took pleasure what the report said. >> mr. miss tore just chris didn't not suffer from mental deeffects at the time of the offense that would have rendered him -- for offenses charged. >> reporter: nell claims that the property said pistorius was able to tell right from wrong on the night he shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. both accepted the report findings and on a that basis the

judge allowed the defense to call the next witness, the surgeon who amputated pistorius's lower legs. the doctor asked pistorius to take off the prosthetic legs in court and judge, how difficult for him to walk around. it was ensuing cross-examination, hair re nell showed why they call them the pit pull bull. he got the doctor to admit if the defense saying it was very dark, if it was pitch black he would have found it difficult to move around the room without falling downs as fans and other items were on the floor. in the court, lights are very much back on, jenna. jenna: paul tilsley, live in south after bra. paul, thank you. jon: there is new court action for the benghazi terror suspect after his brief appearance before a federal judge this weekend. we're learning what went on during the interrogation as he was on board the uss new york. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in the

washington bureau. tell us what you learned about that trip? >> reporter: i was sitting less than 25 feet from the benghazi suspect. he appeers dazed when he entered the courtroom here in washington as the judge spoke he became laser like in his focus almost hanking on the judge's every word. after the court hearing progressed khatalla seemed almost depressed as gravity of his situation sunk n we're also learning more information about khattalah's interrogation on board the uss new york. the u.s. official describing the benghazi some compliant but not forth coming, providing details but not enough that the intelligence could be immediately act the upon. chairman of house homeland security commit see saying there are a dozen suspects still free with charges. they waited to build up khattalah until they built up a criminal case against him. the targeting list of 11 suspects was drawn up by the military's africa command, known as africom within 48 hours of

the assault which included members of ansar al sharia, that is khattalah's group and al qaeda if i have at in north africa. >> we're finding out the reason he wasn't apprehended as quickly because we were so focused building a criminal case rather than capturing the suspects who were responsible for attacking benghazi and killing our u.s. ambassador and three others. >> reporter: in the coming week khattalah has a series of procedural hearings here in washington with the u.s. official telling reporters that there will be more charges. over the weekend a single count of material support was unsealed by the court and alleges khattalah was in effect supporting the attack on consulate and cia annex but provides no detail about his alleged role in those assaults, jon. jon: the military is still looking for some of the other people that were seen there at that night? >> according to what mccall said, the big headline they drawn up a target list, they knew who the suspects were but

he alleges that the administration waited well over a year to pick up at least one individual because they were busy building a criminal case. remember there is virtually no forensic evidence from the site of consulate because that site was never secured by the fbi. jon: interesting. catherine herridge in washington, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jenna: well the inflatable slide on a commercial airplane is never a good sign when passengers see it deploy. imagine what went through people as minds when they saw this right in the middle after flight. doesn't look so guide right? we'll find out who will clean up the mess of the va. president nominates robert mcdonald as new va secretary. are the problems at va so severe simply beyond repair or can a new secretary fulfill a promise to provide quality care for our nation's veterans? go to foxnews.com/happeningnow and quick on "america's asking."

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from both sides of the aisle to the potential appointment? >> first of all, thanks for having me. second of all i think right now people on the hill are wash schuss but excited about this choice. when you look at the potential decision coming from president obama to bring in someone with some business experience to run the va which i think a lot of people think is needed here. someone who is bit after manager. someone who can clean house and try to deal what is described as corrosive culture. if we remember, the issues we're seeing with veterans affairs and veterans facilities date back for decades. these are non-partisan issues of mismanagement, of bureaucracy and veterans not receiving care they deserve and we promised them. so here again, you need to bring in an outsider who can really help bring in sweeping changes and some sweeping reforms and so right now, even from republicans we're seeing praise of this potential choice. >> the question becomes the timeline. we know congressional lawmakers are working from both sides of the aisle to develop some new legislation they hope will help with the va.

congress is on break because of the july 4th holiday. we this appointment as well, wes, ontimeline. when do we see results either a new secretary from the va or from legislatures. >> i can't give you any good news or veterans watching at home. it will be probably long timeline before we see sub assistant sieve changes in the va we're talking about problems entrenched for decades. we're looking at noll knee accepted quickly. but going facility by facility, reviewing wait times and care being provided and diving deep into the institutional cultural problem, you're talking about the course of years and something likely going to stretch. >> the next presidential administration no matter what. jenna: good to have realistic expectations, wesley. to your point it could take a long time. i'm curious, what do you think this is a maybe a bigger

political question. we have the massive overhaul of the health care system. we got a ruling from the supreme court on part of it. that is percolating. now there seems to be massive upheaval in the va health care system. how do these issues intersect or do they and how they're going to be handled moving forward? >> when we talk about the federal government here we talk about applications of bureaucracy. i think in this case, i think there are small intersection. i think the decision the supreme court today in lot of ways are specific. it certainly is a loss for some of the proponents of the affordable care act and certainly in some ways the supreme court reining in some of that, but with that being said the difference between that and what is going on with the va, the va is kind of a social contract we provided to our soldiers for decade and for centuries really, we provide them with certain types of care. but, there's been largely complications with that. we have not always, we've not always delivered on our promissory note to them.

there is certainly a common them theme it is that when you bring bureaucracy into things especially in things like health care you will have complications. we're seeing that. that is not to judge the pros or cons of programs like the veterans affairs or the affordable care act but that is to say, that things get in a little messy once you bring in federal government and complications coming with that we're seeing that in both cases. jenna: we'll see when they get the solutions how they navigate the big question when it comes to the va, what is appropriate role of government in health care and how used efficiently or perhaps maybe there is another option. wes, always nice to have you on the program. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. happy monday. jon: happy monday indeed. tense moments for passengers on a cross country flight. see what happened after this plane's emergency slide suddenly deployed in midair. sunni militants gaining ground in iraq. coming up why some analysts say this could lead to a new wave of terror attacks. [gunfire]

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passengers heard a pop and saw the emergency slide inflate inside of the plane at the rear of the cabin. no one was hurt but the united airlines plane was diverted to wichita kansas. there were 96 passengers and five crewmembers on board. passengers told reporters it was scary but the crew remained calmed and everyone stayed seated. they stayed the night in kansas and threw to fly to california this morning. it is not clear why the chute deployed. a united spokesman denied speculation that a passenger might have opened the door in flight. they said no one was near the door when the slide unexpectedly opened, jon. jon: that is good news. they open almost explosively. so nobody standing nearby probably saved them a broken leg or something. patti ann browne thank you. >> thanks. >> the sunni terrorist group known as isis is declaring the creation of their own islamic state in heart of the middle east. their new claim spanks chunks of territory they have taken the past few months in both iraq and

syria as new reports that isis militants are fighting against other rebel groups along 89 iraq border. former cia head michael hayden said if this new islamic state is allowed to take hold it could be the base for a new wave of terror attacks. >> i fear what will happen. it wail not be just iraq but eastern syria too as that border loses all meaning. i fear, chris, for a while we may have to treat this new radical sunni stand the way we've been forced to treat waziristan over the past decade. jenna: we have counselor at washington institute for nearest policy a senior middle east advisor for president obama two from 2009 and 2011. he is also a foreign affairs analyst. ambassador, been a while. nice to have you back on the program. >> thank you. jenna: talk about the reference to waziristan. that is the tribal area between peak stan and afghanistan where all the bad guys are. it's a constant issue in our war on terror.

do you see that comparison working for this area of the middle east now isis is taking over? >> i do and i'm concerned about it because first, it's not nearly as distant as waziristan from all of our friends in the region, from europe and frankly also from us. and i think we have to recognize it is not just iraq. it isn't syria. there is no border between syria and iraq today. you already have what amounts to the creation of what is a sanctuary that exists and somehow that is going to have to be addressed. jenna: how do we address it? >> i think we're going to have to find ways to blunt isis but we'll have to do it in a way that also joins with our other friends in the region. we can not be doing this in a way where we're fighting isis as the iranians and assad regime are fighting isis because that will, in effect scare off our sunni friends. the saudis, turks, jordanians. they have to see we have a plan to deal with isis.

they have to see they need to be a part of it. they have to see this is not about us acting in a way with iranians where the net effect that iranians become stronger and in effect this proxy war that goes on between iran and saudi arabia is one in which iran gains and our friend lose. jenna: talk about specifics when we say a plan to deal with isis. do you mean destroy isis? do you mean to go in and kill bad guys and get them out there have completely? does it mean to tolerate a certain islamic state in the area? what does it mean exactly? >> we can not tolerate the islamic state. i mean they call themselves a islamic state. we should call them what they are. we shouldn't somehow give legitimacy to a name which they're giving themselves. they're islamic state of iraq and alsham, meaning isis. the truth we can't allow them to establish themselves and we have to act with our friend and or on our own. if it means carrying on drone strikes, if it means working with others, if it does mean

finding ways to choke off money, arms that go to them. it is a comprehensive approach that requires first containing them and then working to weaken them. taking them on directly but it has to be a collective effort. it can not be us by ourselves. that is something they might actually want. jenna: this is one of the things we talk about a lot on the show, what is the goal for the middle east and how do we articulate the goal from the white house on down. speaking from the white house i like to ask you quickly about this bit of news we received. mentioned it in the intro to the segment, isis is battling quote, unquote, with other rebel groups. to point out these rebel groups include an al qaeda affiliate as well. this at the same time white house asked congress for half billion dollars to support some rebel groups in syria that we deem appropriate to receive these sort of fund and this sort of support and money. what do you think about the timing of all this now? considering the chaos in the

area how difficult will it be to do that? what about that dollar amount? is it going to be enough, not enough, what do you think? >> well i think it is probably a beginning. it is a sort of thing that follows under the rubric of better late than never. the fact it would have been better to do this earlier before isis established itself as the strongest element within the syrian opposition. it is important to do it now. it is more complicated now but it is very necessary to do it now. i think again the key is, not just the money. how does one coordinate a broader effort? how do you insure that saudis, emiratis, jordanians, turkey, the french, all those who have interested taking on isis including the specifically the syrian opposition groups with whom we vet and with whom we would like to see a more stable syria emerge, how do we assure all of that assistance is managed in a way that is additive, that is cumulative? you create a division of labor. you create a complimentary

effort. we need to quarterback this effort so that in a sense, the training, the intelligence, the lethal assistance, non-lethal assistance, the salaries all of this has to be done in a way that actually helps groups we're doing and insures that everyone is contributing in a consistent fashion. one of the problems with the effort to the syrian opposition has not just been that they have been fractured but that the effort to help them has also not been a coordinated one. now time to make that a very coordinated one. we need to run it. the $500 million is a good step but needs to be part of a larger plan. jenna: we're curious talking about the larger plan and friends we can rely on in the region. i hope you come back, ambassador, to do more extensive conversation about that. nice to see you as always. thank you. >> always my pleasure, thank you. jon: they tried sneaker bombs and underwear bombs. now the new security at airports with word that terrorists are working on bombs that could slip right through security checkpoints and on board

commercial flights. what the feds are doing try to keep you safe. we're live with more on that. plus, the scathing report on the va scandal. why some network news shows glossed over it and ignored it all together. we'll go in depth.

jon: still to come this hour of "happening now," new developments of a case in a live-in nanny who refused to move out after she was fired. we're live with more on that.

shocking hit-and-run caught on tape. the hunt is on for a man who left a man critically injured. facebook under fire for a bizarre research experiment it conducted on users. what it was and why it has folks so outraged. jenna: this just in. word of a new threat from war-ravaged syria. al qaeda is reportedly developing a new generation of bombs that could be smuggled on planes and could generate changes at airports we all use. doug mckelway with more on this doug? >> reporter: there is deep concern that isis advances into iraq and growth of this al qaeda-like army may potentially be connected to new threats to airline passengers. intelligence experts say among isis fighters are thousands of men who hold u.s. and european passports. isis is known to have a strong relationship with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and many bomb-makers who seek to produce

devices difficult to detect by most airport screening features. >> you have aqap, who has designed the ink cartridge bombs, remember those. they were going to detonate, i forget how many now, eight or 11 or whatever it was nine, in different airplanes over the oceans right? that was therapy goal. these cartridges were designed to circumvent security. you have good intelligence work. we were able to shut that particular operation down but we know they never stop trying to design explosives that circumvent security. >> reporter: the administration is reportedly pushing foreign countries to step up security at their airports. >> i can't go into all the details but that is very important to do because a number of airports do not have the type security they should have. basically we're saying anyone that will be having to fly to the u.s. he have this to increase their security. >> reporter: we're learning there is discussions within the administration whether to

strengthen airport security at home. new procedures being discussed, increasing rates of random screenings at airports, targeting certain types of travelers, or more visible changes for ticket holder who pass through security lines. jenna. jenna: doug mckelway, live in d.c. doug, thank you. jon: a scathing report from the white house on the va scandal seems to get very little play on most of the network news programs over the weekend. one show ignored it completely. despite the review finding, quote, significant and chronic system failures and a corrosive culture, with the report concluding that the veterans administration must be restructured. so why does a report like that get so roundly ignored? joining us now, jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for the "american conservative" magazine. alan colmes, with us, host of the alan colmes show, author of, "thank the liberals for saving america." both fox news contributors. jim what is your guest? are veterans not just that interesting to the american people? >> i think veterans are

interested by the american people. the mainstream media can take them or leave them. if it involves hurting president obama or obama administration, they don't want that. an example of where the heart of the media still is in the sixth year of the obama presidency, last week on "nbc nightly news," they did a big feature, cynthia mcfaden, valerie jarrett, white house advisor the she is not news. she is important person but they treated that segment on valerie jarrett like they were star-struck teenagers, so wonderful and powerful, so close. kind of thing you see in first week of administration but six years later still doing that. valerie jarrett's reported split called ambitions back home in illinois. she is getting a big run-up, meantime there is no room for the veterans and va scandal and all the deaths. that is not on the media agenda. jon: alan, you have the second largest federal agency and obviously huge problems by the conclusion of the report itself

and yet it got virtually no coverage on some of the networks, primarily abc but also nbc. >> primarily. nbc and cbs gave a couple minutes to it, which is lot of time when you look how many minutes you get in 30-minute newscast. only abc is one, this is most important story, however, let's not forget, the networks have given too much coverage to so-called scandals like benghazi, which is a tragedy, not a scandal. the irs, which is incompetence, not a scandal. i'm sure we can debate that. a the that got tremendous amount of coverage. va issue is scandal. a stain on the american culture to have veterans treated this waive and deserves all the attention media give it. jon: why did they give it more? >> they did, except abc. i don't speak for abc news. nbc and cbs did and most given attention. >> if you compare this to abu ghraib 10 years ago, when media really thinks something is a scandal they put it on front

page of "new york times" and front page of nightly news, first section of the nightly news every night for a month or a year and then everybody knows it is a scandal. i agree completely with alan on dimensions of the va scandal. a stain on america, not just the obama administration. obviously problem is going on for a while. when the report, read it, as you said, jon, the corrosive culture and so on, make it sound like entire place ought to be overhauled and not just a few leaders and so on but again the mainstream media are more interested in other stories than this one. >> we just pointed out even news busters, which generally goes after so-called liberal media pointed out both cbs, nbc gave it fair amount of coverage on saturday newscast. >> not saturation coverage. jon: cbs on friday. >> never will be enough for certain people who want to blast the media, somehow claiming that the media is always protecting the obama administration but, i go back to what i just said about the irs and benghazi which

has been covered extensively and to me, i know it is my humble opinion they're not scandals. they fall in another category. they have gotten tremendous coverage on all networks. >> well the benghazi scandal got coverage after while. fox and few others led the way but media has -- hearings but i think the va scandal is bigger because it goes right, as alan just said, right to the heart of american culture and mainstream media are not giving it, could be turning everyone of these tragic cases in arizona and other facilities around country in big story, they're not doing night if the media hopefully does jump on board to greater extent va scandal, how far back the problems with va go and predate a number of administrations and how this got started and how we very rarely treat our returning veterans than we should. that is much greater story that deserves greater coverage. >> i agree. jon: agreed.

alan colmes, jim pinkerton, thank you. >> thank you. jenna: a shocking hit-and-run video and now a frantic search for the driver. a growing crisis in iraq. we talked a little bit about some of those new chilling security threats that could target airports here in the united states. >> i think we have been under serious threat my entire presidency and we have been under serious threat predating 9/11 from those who embrace this ideology. what i expected. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. captain: here's a review, it's worse in person.

jenna: let's check out what is ahead on "outnumbered" at top of the hour. andrea and jedediah are standing by. what is coming up, guys? >> the supreme court rules against the obamacare contraception mandate. what the hobby lobby ruling means for the president's signature legislation. >> the pentagon says 2/3 of americans are unfit for military service. in some cases because of their weight or tattoos? are pentagon standards out of date? >> i love the big controversy over underwear. what are some women doing at wimbledon has some officials with their panties in a bunch. >> plus our hashtag unlucky guy at the top of the hour on "outnumbered." andrea, jedediah, thank you. >> thank you, jenna. jon: an intense search underway for a driver on hit-and-run accident that left a man in critical condition. it was captured saturday night and begins showing a man running

across the street an almost makes it when he is struck by a pickup truck. take a look at it again in slow motion. the vehicle identified as a dark-colored older model for the pickup. anyone with information on what happened, asked to called the lynn den willed police at 856, 784-7566. jenna: hard to watch. hopefully they find out who that person is. back to the growing crisis in iraq. militants claiming more ground and claiming a state across syria and iraq and looking to build hard to detect bombs that can be smuggled on planes. doug mckelway reported on that. this threat is made more real by the fact that this group has thousands of fighters with western passports who can enter the united states without a visa. >> we've seen europeans who are sympathetic to their cause, traveling into syria and now

may, travel into iraq, getting battle hardened. then they come back. they have got european passports. they don't need a visa to get into the united states. now we're spending a lot of time, and we have been for years, making sure that we are improving intelligence so that we can respond to that. we have to improve our surveillance, reconnaissance intelligence there. special forces will have a role and there will be times where we take strikes against organizations that could do us harm. jenna: raises the question how much pull does u.s. have on the current situation in iraq and what historic comparisons can be made so we develop better solutions what is going on there now? jeffrey engle, director of presidential history at southern methodist university, reflections on the gulf war. you're the right person to talk to, jeffrey, about this i like to hear from our viewers and often on twitter and viewer just wrote me and very ironic that you're our next segment. as a vietnam vet i have written

iraq off. that is comparison we hear very often. comparison between iraq and war in vietnam. what works? what doesn't? >> i think it is actually very apt comparison because in both situations we see the united states was remarkably effective on the battlefield. we had military superiority and strategic and tactical level and really never lost an effective battle. the problem happens in both vietnam and united states when we can't find effective political partners. it teaches us a lesson, we can throw all military might at a problem. if we don't have stable, political partners to work with on the ground not much is going to stick. >> take that forward, learning from the past what must we do this time around to make sure we have political partners or those relationships are ones that are going to sustain whatever comes up over next couple years? >> the truth of the matter is most of the work of creating that kind of stable, political environment in iraq, in any other country in the region,

through american influence really comes from long-term strategic partnerships. it comes from the relationship building. it comes from the fact that vice president obama, excuse me, vice president biden has spoken to iraqi leaders almost monthly for the past several years, really trying to create partners over the long term. there is very little that we can do in the immediate term, in terms of throwing in troops, throwing in dollars, throwing in our influence that will help create, good, stable partners until those partners want a stable iraq. when we have -- >> also need a strategic vision, right, don't you, jeff, for an area to develop the partnerships so you can have similar goals or work toward those goals? if you look over the last several decades has any administration come forward with a very clear, strategic vision for the middle east? >> i think actually the first bush administration, the h.w. bush administration, had a very clear strategic vision which insure stability in the region. to insure sovereignty. we have to remember the first

gulf war was fought at end of the gulf war which for all terrible anxieties was a stablizing force throughout the whole world. saddam hussein in 1990-91 threat 10:00ed the stability of region by violating state borders. to be honest that is the not problem we're facing. the problem we're facing is complete erosion of sovereignty and erosion of state borders. as president obama mentioned a few moments ago on your program through a tape we have to think about striking hard at individuals where they are, to insure they don't leave the region and borders don't crumble more. jenna: very interesting. looking to solution and past to see what lessons we learned or perhaps now not. hope to have you back on the program and talk more about this thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you, my pleasure. jon: facebook is under fire. users upset over reports that the social media giant used thousands of them in a huge experiment. what is that all about?

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check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business. built for business. jenna: facebook under fire today over reports that it conducted a huge social experiment on its users. and the purpose is to see if the social network giant could influence their emotional state. david lee miller has more on this. david lee? >> reporter: jenna, researchers did find that posts on facebook do in fact influence how we feel. but facebook learned another important lesson here. treat people as begin any pigs without their knowledge and they will be outraged. so, what exactly did facebook do? well in january of 2012 the company altered news feeds of 700,000 users. that is 1 in 2500 facebook members. news feeds provide personal information to facebook users who know one another. in some cases here, facebook omitted good news. in other cases they omitted bad

news. researchers measured how recipients responded on line, quoting a study in the national academy of science. when positive expressions were produced people poused fewer positive posts and more negative posts. when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred. the research concluded that online messages influence emotions which could affect how you behave when you are not online. in other words, if you feel depressed today, because, it may be because, your aunt tilly posted she has a bad cold and you got bummed out. reaction from facebook users to the study, well, that was swift and negative and critics calling it unethical manipulation of user emotions. facebook's user data policy clearly states information can be used for what it calls, reserve. one of the researchers who worked on study posted a message on his facebook page and said in part, i can tell you that our goal was never to upset anyone. he goes on to say, my coauthors

and i are very sorry for the way the paper described the research and any anxiety it caused in hindsight. the research benefits of the paper may not just a justified all of this anxiety. but despite the apology, a lot of people today, well, they're not feeling very good about facebook. you might say, some of them, jenna, their feeling sick because as the study itself points out, there is a connection between your emotions and your physical well-being. jenna: very interesting. so watch out for what you read on facebook. you never know if you're going to be watched a little bit, right? >> isn't a case being watched about how alter information you receive. go back to january 2012. maybe you got a lot of good news one week, maybe got a lot of bad news one week. now you know why. jenna: that is little weird. jon: a little creepy actually. jenna: i think creepy is a good word, jon. jon: looking at stories we'll bring you in the next hour of "happening now." bullets go

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