alliance out of germany is a lead on this case. >> folks thanks a lot for watching. don't forget catch me tonight at fbn. neil will be back on monday. enjoy your weekend. in the meantime "the five" is next. hello, everybody, i'm andrea tantaros along with file file, bob beckel, great gutfeld and bolling. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." breaking developments. downing of a passenger plane in ukraine an israel's widen crack down on hamas. john huddy is in gaza city where israeli forces are preparing to expand their ground expansive. and ed henry is at the house

where president obama held a news conference today. we begin with steve in kiev. steve, what's the latest? >> reporter: well for ukrainian politicians there's no doubt about who is responsible for this tragedy, they are pointing the finger straight at russia. ukrainia officials calling this an act of terrorism. a lot of real anger reaching a peak after three months of fighting here from ordinary citizens on the streets. they are pushing their government to respond and to respond in force to enact which has outraged a lot of people. that crash site is 25 miles from the russian border it's still an active fighting zone, pretty much controlled by the rebels but a lot of shooting going on. it's hard to get a clear analysis of what's going on as far as the plane goes. experts from the european oesc have arrived on the scene but say the rebels won't let them do their job. how has this tragedy affected the fighting on the ground which has shown global implications.

you have president obama and president putin both calling for a cease-fire but the tension, the anger, the passion, so raw on both sides, that's going to be very tough to pull off. back to you. all right. thanks, steve. we turn now to fox's john huddy in gaza city. >> reporter: this has been the most intense 24 hours since all this started 11 days ago. intensified last night, of course when israeli troops moved into gaza and within the past few hours there's been a lot of fighting to the north, to the east and then very close to our location. in fact, probably about 15, 20 minutes ago there was incoming fire literally across the street from our location here, a building that was getting targeted and there was also a missile strike, a missile coming right over us, hitting a building just around the corner. that's as close as things -- that's as close as things have come to this location. we've seen and heard explosions

within a couple of miles, within probably half a mile. we've seen and heard firefights within that proximity but now things are pushing into the gaza city area in west gaza along the coast where we are. of course the ground offensive as i mentioned began last night. there's more than little over 70,000 troops amassed along the israel/gaza border to the east and troops are coming in from the north. the objective to take out hamas' infrastructure in particular the network of underground tunnels that have been used as not only rocket launch sites but also for the storage and transport of those rockets. so right now it's eerily quiet. when we see a lull within 20 to 30 minutes there's an intense fire fight. again that incoming fire has gotten very close to us. i'm hearing some stuff in the distance which sounds like explosions and you're constantly hearing the helicopters

overhead, the hum of the drone circling and jet fighters in the distance and every now and again you hear those explosions and gunfire behind me. back to you. >> some incredible footage coming from gaza. stay safe. back now to the downing of the passenger jet in ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has more details on the investigation from washington. jennifer? >> reporter: andrea, four passengers have not yet been identified from that flight. state department spokesman confirmed so far there's only one american confirmed on board flight 17, a dual dutch u.s. citizen traveling on a dutch passport. u.s. officials repeatedly hinted today at russian involvement in the downing of the plane. the pentagon confirmed it was a russian may sa 11 missile that brought down the flight fired from inside ukraine adding the separatists could not have done it by themselves. >> see no hint that russian support for the separatists has

ceased. we believe russia continues to provide them with weapons, financing and heavy equipment and they continue to allow these russian fighters to enter ukraine freely. >> this war can end. russia can end this war. russia must end this war. >> reporter: just 20 minutes after the plane went down this man igor, the self-proclaimed minister of defense for russian separatists is heard talking to the russian military intelligence officer according to telephone intercepts. the rebel commander is reporting back to a colonel in the russia military's main intelligence department inside russia. this is the smoking gun these telephone intercepts of the separatists reporting back to russian against. andrea. >> we're getting closer i think jennifer to getting an answer. now to the white house where ed henry has details on a news conference. president obama held earlier today. ed, what's the latest?

>> reporter: it was interesting. the president was burned by drawing that red line on syria and not following through. today it was all about caution. he was much more passive than you just saw samantha power the ambassador to the u.n. with the aggressive tone before the u.n. security council, who is responsible, the president repeatedly saying today at this news conference he doesn't want to get ahead of the facts, he is to be carolina, pulled back against saying anything against vladimir putin, getting his troops off the ukrainian border. he took any u.s. military option off the table. john mccain said his leadership has been awol. >> we don't see u.s. military role beyond what we've already been doing in working with our nato partners, and some of the baltic states giving them reassurances that we're prepared to do whatever is required to meet our alliance obligations. >> there's american perception

of american weakness throughout the world and we're paying a very heavy price for it and we'll continue to until we have restoration of american strength. >> reporter: administration officials defend the president by saying look he has to be careful. wants this investigation to go forward. we saw the president say again and again at this news conference he wants to make sure this is an international investigation meaning that vladimir putin doesn't grab hold it. there have already been reports that the pro russian separatists have taken the black boxes connected to this plane, brought them to russia and could have tampered this evidence already. in terms of taking the u.s. military option off the table, the president is focusing on more sanctions aimed at russia trying to pull along european allies to come up with tougher sanctions. european allies have been very resistant worried about those boomeranging on their own economies. u.s. sanctions against russia have not deterred putin from

continuing these aggressive actions. we have got a jammed packed hour ahead. you just heard all the news. next you'll hear our thoughts on the downed plane and the crisis in the middle east. before we go make sure you tune in tonight for a special edition of "the five" at 8:00 p.m. eastern. "the five" returns in just a moment. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life.

♪ hello, everyone, welcome back to "the five." as you know 298 people are dead after a surface to air missile took down a plane in the skies over ukraine. the missile was launched from an area controlled by russian backed separatists. even though putin blames ukraine for the attack and a moment of silence for the victims most of

the world isn't buying it. here's our ambassador to the u.n. >> because of the technical complexity of the sa 11 it's unlikely the separatist cooperate the system without assistance from knowledgeable thus we can't rule out technical assistance from russian personnel in operating the systems. >> and here's former army vice chief of staff jack king. >> putin is fighting a proxy war. this is a proxy war that he's watched the iranians do successfully for 30 years and his objective is a redesign of the international order particularly as it applies to russia. so the focus should be on putin and russia. >> so, with it finally time for the west to stand up to comrade vlad. most of the world thinking yes. >> putin is the only one somehow the ukraine is responsible for taking down the flight,

everybody else thinks it's russian separatist. that buck system was a russian system. they had to be trained by russians. operated by russians not necessarily russian separatist, could it be russians who took the plane down. vladimir putin is on his heels. he's asking for peace in the region. he should get peace. the way it will happen. it's not going to be the u.s. we can send susan rice. what has to happen is the european union has to come down and say look enough is enough. germany, merkel has to say you got to stop, vlad, we're not playing ball with you any more. >> all indicators is that angela merkel and the rest of the eu are loathe to do that. >> that's baffling. baffling to me why they won't step up and push vladimir putin to back off ukraine. >> there's a reason for that. we're not doing it. the fact is how do you avoid a fight. you avoid a fight when you arrive with a gang. you don't have to pull out a

weapon if people are there. the only people that are good at forming a gang is the united states. now putin, he looks bad. but you're dealing with a leader who doesn't care about looking bad. his whole life is auditioning for a bond villain. if there's hell to pay the only way there's hell to pay is if america steps up and encourages europe to do something. without us nobody does anything. >> andrea you heard the president's remarks. i didn't hear any rhetoric that was strong and convincing to urge the rest of the world lead towers impose sanctions or the u.s. would do something. there was some insinuation russia was behind this. >> i don't think that vladimir putin want this. i don't think this is good for him. however now he has to deal with the consequences of it.

this is how we got into world war i, a horrible tragedy if not a misunderstanding and then total chaos. listening to the president today it was very clinical. he list ad checklist of what we expect, investigation. it sounds very similar to some of the reactions he's had when we had domestic crises here at home. however, there was a big blank after what he said. the blank that needs to be filled in or else what? he says all of these things and vladimir putin and the world is watching going or else what? it's like the red line he drew. there's no consequences for anything. he didn't outline any consequences. when ronald reagan was president any person in the world who was cognizant knew that if the soviets moved their tanks into western europe there would be conventions. it was implicit. reagan didn't need to repeatedly state it. president obama doesn't have the appetite for it. and we had a detant. they stayed on their side of the

fence we stayed on ours. there's no detante any more. >> he's been consistent in this area take a back seat when it comes to foreign policy. unfortunately, bob, vladimir putin does not lay awake at night worrying about president obama and for that matter i don't think anybody else does. >> what he's laying awake about. this is the last thing they wanted to have. . the united states is the only one that put sanctions on this country. the europeans have backed off on it. they have to do something. now with this happening i think there's a possibility they may do it. you can't blame obama for this. obama at least took the lead and said let's do some sanctions and the europeans woosed out. if you look at the history of this thing, it's clear this was a russian operation but a russian operation to go after cargo planes not passenger planes. if you look at the passenger planes shot down by mistake. >> you say it was a russian operation not at that russian

separatist. >> i think the guy the head of the separatist group is a russian agent. >> i agree with bob and greg. we need to do something. i think bob is right. we need to, real sanctions. sanctions they are putting on russia are a joke. billionaires can't do business here. here's what you do. >> they are doing business. >> up know what the russian economy is based on. the life blood. oil. slap some real oil sanctions on them like we did with iran. we almost took iran down. we would have kept those sanctions in place if we were smart. put them back on iran and russia. >> here's the problem. they are doing business right now as we speak even the people that we put sanctions against because they do it through other corporations, other individuals and entities and they are back dooring around it. make them scramble but we should press russia and press them harding right back into a recession economically to let them feel the impact of this. >> the last thing the russians want to do is cut off oil.

there's a life blood. good thing it's summer time. we don't need the heating oil as much as we did in the winter. the thing about reagan -- we were in a cold war. you were right. there was a line. you were either with us or on the other side. this is much more difficult to get your hand around. the world is much more complicated place than it was during the cold war. >> just to focus on this, the russian stuff and what we talked about in the a block about the black boxes. and the idea that investigation, somehow, how -- why should russia be allowed at all to be part of this investigation? it's like -- if putin involved that's like having a cat in charge of mice. >> like the doj currently in charge of all the investigations of the administration. >> yeah. >> the u.s. traced the missile coming from ukraine land. what involvement -- >> i think that might be -- we're jumping ahead. that's what missing is a

declaration that the investigation, you have nothing to do with it. >> who is going to take charge and say that because we didn't hear that today. what i month is putin is in fact stepping in and saying russia will be there, don't worry we'll check it out. despite we have intercepted phone calls that implicate the russian separatist and samantha powers believing putin and russia involved. now the black boxes where are they? removed from the crime scene. >> reports they are headed to moscow which is in and of itself a black box. we're not going to get to the bottom of this. putin won't own up to the fact it's him. all signs point it was the russians. this type of assault requires very sophisticated training. the ukrainian army is not very capable. more like the keystone cops. it's obvious the russians were involved. the perception of american weakness is so great that people like putin are emboldened to do

absolutely whatever they want. greg is right. do we think the u.n. security council will give us answers? this all started, kimberly with president obama and the open mic about more flexibility after an election. then he dismantled our weapons system. >> he did not. that's absolutely wrong. dismantling our weapons system. >> sure. nato has been feckless. >> let's talk about hamas and israel. >> we can get to that. >> israel is, yes, a land sea and ground offensive into hamas. all hamas has to really do right now is say you know what? you have us out manned, out gunned, out mattered, no more. call a cease-fire and i guarantee netanyahu would say enough is enough stop. they are not. there was hamas official on cnn

about 20 minutes before this show came on no we're not stopping. they are foolish. they will kill you. they will wipe you out. >> you can't blame israel because they shouldn't back down. >> israel is only doing this because missiles are flying into israeli neighborhoods from the gaza strip. stop doing that and you'll stop getting bombed. >> missiles are coming from iranians and bringing in underground through egypt through tunnels and tunnelling into israel. it's one thing to shoot missiles and say okay that's an obvious infringement on our sovereignty but to build tunnels of course israel has to shut them down. >> interesting thing about netanyahu when he shows up for work people actually pay. he doesn't have the luxury of a variety of options or luxury of consulting people. if he doesn't show up for work his country will be destroyed. so you see him act that way. he takes his border seriously. >> people take him seriously because he follows through on his word. when he states something there's

consequence that follows. andrea? >> that's absolutely true. benjamin netanyahu -- unbelievable to me israel is the only country it seems cannot defend itself. it gets criticism for defending itself. we'll get to israel later in this hour. going back to this whole issue on russia. it's astounding to me the way this whole thing has been handled. we're going into a "weekend now." the world will find out who indict. that's absolutely true. the response from the white house was just disappointing and terrible. >> more on that in the next block. next on "the five," when the going gets tough, president obama gets going to a fundraiser or a golf course or to camp david where he's headed tonight. i'm so sorry, bob, but why can't this president address any crises head on instead of getting out of dodge. stay tuned.

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♪ when mass murder is committed someone must pay. and last night someone did. tickets for thursday's democratic party fundraiser featuring our president went for 32 grand. is it wrong to sigh after benghazi he was off to a fundraiser amid the border mess it was off to a fundraiser. after this attack, well you see the trend. it's his comfort zone campaigning. it's emotional and substantial and driven by sloganeering. the opposite of governance which is hard and substantial and driven by toughchoices. the attack shouldn't be a chance for a blow hard to jab the president but why does he make it so easy. the leadership style is so easy

libs are scratching their puppy noggins. if he's playing cool or not playing at all. times he's like a teen retreating to his room with his comic books. as he claims nothing is definitive. why not demand the black box. as france sells salt chips to russia our foreign policy is predicated on not rocking any boats. we don't want our guy to declare world war iii but we want him to drive with one hand on the wheel. bob, i think that was fair. i'm not shaming him. do you think he should have skipped the fundraiser? >> i think he should have skipped the fundraiser. i'll say this. this election is crucial for democrats and we're way behind right now and needs a lot of money. these things, 32,000 don't happen very often. but no excuse for not moving the thing. leaving that aside, what do people expect him to do?

this notion he should close ranks, go to the situation room and sit there and do what? >> act presidential. review reports. >> it's not the president's job to go to the situation room over something he can do anything about. he can't do anything about a downed aircraft in ukraine. >> that's so inaccurate. you want to hear? he shouldn't be out worrying about whether or not his party has enough, you know, change to win the next election. he should sit at table with national security council members and getting foerjs real-time updates abouts what's happening. what's going on. he's the president of the united states. >> you don't think he's getting real-time updates. >> no. when he's doing photo ops it's a distraction. he's not getting updates when he's talking to donors. >> leaving that aside, at the beginning i said i didn't think

he should go to fundraiser. the idea that somehow he can do something about it any more than anybody else can do about it. >> eric, here's the question. to defend the president does he stick to the schedule as part of philosophy of representing doing business as usual so people don't worry. if i'm going about my regular day so should you. >> you know how yesterday we were supposed to be on at 5:00 because something came up. something came up. they did what they were supposed to do. stuff comes up. with the president maybe you don't take to the script. when benghazi happens you don't go to vegas. when russia annexes crimea you don't go to do two fundraisers. when the va scandal you do two in chicago that night. when the border is being flooded with illegals you go to the border but you don't go to border you go to two fundraisers and drink beer and play pool. he's playing future ex-president

and -- >> he's trying to hold on to congress. >> he's putting his ducks in row. >> he's trying to hold on to the united states senate and difficult to do it. >> politics shouldn't be around here in this particular issue. andrea, he's no drama obama. that positive is a negative. >> definitely a negative. why does it always have to be about him. bob says he has to hold on to the senate because he'll have a bad upcoming two years. we should hold our breath. it will be a bad next two years for everybody else in the country. you said you're trying to coach him. greg, he's uncoachable. bob asks what do you expect him to do. i expect him not to have open mic deals done about flexibility after elections. i don't expect him to put weak sanctions on russia. i don't expect him to disarm our

nuclear defenses. i expect him to encourage ukraine to join nato so they can be stronger. if he can't enforce our own borders he can't enforce the borders of other countries. you know what i say? good. let him go. i much rather have him not playing in hard cities where real armies can march. let him call gay athletes. i don't want him playing on a global stage because he'll muddle it up and mess it up. hang on the next two years will be crazy. >> largest single cut in our nuclear war heads was by ronald reagan. >> the only way putin is in danger from putin if putin is blocking a door to a fundraiser that obama is late getting to. a passenger plane has just been shut down. the state department didn't think to put it on the top of

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♪ ♪ baby, breakdown ♪ give it to me with a ton of news breaking in the last 36 hours in the news business things can get hectic, sometimes things news gets reported smoothly, other times not so much. check out crystal ball over as msnbc making the working mistake of not listening to the guest, answering the question you just asked. >> u.s. staff sergeant michael boyd is at the u.s. embassy in ukraine and says he saw a missile in the air hit the plane, he's on the phone with us. sergeant, are you there? >> yes, i'm here. can you hear me. >> i can. please tell me what you saw there on the ground in ukraine. >> well, i was looking out the window and i saw a projectile flying through the sky and it would appear the plane was shot down by a blast of wind from

howard stern's ass. >> it appeared the plane was shot down. can you tell me anything more from your military training of what sort of missile system that may have been coming from? >> well you're a dumb ass aren't you. >> i'm sorry, sir? we're going to take a quick break. >> now, look, there are a lot of things that went wrong there. she didn't listen to the answer. her producer put on someone who wasn't vetted well enough. she actually did say live on the ground from kiev when that wasn't the crash site he was supposed to be at giving an analysis from the crash site. you want to be careful because like making fun of someone about teleprompter and screwing up the teleprompter. >> there for the grace of god do go i. she should have seen it coming. but i'm here to defend her. the producers think this is

hilarious. a producer probably got fired over that. you're going to make a mistake and hope another network won't pick it up and make fun of you over it. this happened during horrible breaking news. we weren't on. she was. >> you make a very, very good point. the point being -- fox executive said let's not put an opinion show that's not used to interviewing people on air and interview breaking news people at the moment. who do you call out on this? >> that's an executive decision. they should have made a decision that was smart and informed and said listen we're not going to put somebody on without experience with information that's technical and more complicated. i don't know what they were saying in her ear. obviously there was some confusion. doesn't excuse that gentleman's behavior for being rude. >> this has nothing to do with crystal ball. i'm sorry.

howard stern has punked some of the most -- i mean experienced people in the news business. oh, by the way in this building as well. so, yes, the producers have a job to clear these phone conversations but stern has been doing this for what, 30 years? if crystal listened to what he said she would have said thanks and made a joke of it and moved on and had fun with stern because that's what they do. i don't blame this on her. the stern show has done this to a number of seasoned reporters. >> you can forgive a rookie for making a mistake but no excuse for a state department spokesperson for fumbling the ball. here's what happened yesterday on fox news when the briefing started. >> jen psaki the spokesperson live. >> auditing ballots from the afghan presidential runoff. the run off is being conducted. >> this is just highly inappropriate i would say.

today a malaysian airline's jet has fallen from the sky over a war zone and the state department is beginning with routine matters. you figure it out. i can't figure that out. jennifer griffith i can't believe what just happened. >> that's the state department. i'm not surprised. >> we don't have time to read the tweet but she tweeted something ridiculous out of her state department twitter account about a fashion article. bob, dropped the ball? >> dropped the ball she was dropped on her head. it's unbelievable to me -- who in their right mind can walk out with these things going on and talk about a ballot count which is going to be a screwy ballot count in kabul when this is going on. then talks about fashion. i mean, somebody has got to take this woman -- she ought to be press secretary at the department of mimes.

>> she the chief spokesperson for the state department. on a day like that she is talking about ballots. >> they are fresh faced coeds. >> are you going cut her some slack. >> no. this is a different situation than the last one. >> she's pro. >> she's not a serious person. she's the queen of construction paper diplomacy. it was her with the sharpy and magic marker and then the construction paper. that's how we reached out to ukraine was i believe, jen, with a picture that is not happening. >> we make fun of crystal ball. >> wait, there it is. >> where did she come from? >> she came from the obama campaign. that's the problem. she's a campaign person. campaign people can be snarky. they are not suitable for the state department to be

responding to global crises on behalf of the united states. >> that's like pearl harbor she would announce somebody stubbed their toe in alaska. >> you have to wonder what's going on at the state department. benghazi, hillary -- come on guys get the state department together. we return to the crisis in the middle east. if you've been listening to the mainstream media you haven't been getting the real truth about israel's offensive. stick around, you'll get it here. "i've still got it" when you think aarp, then you don't know "aarp". life reimagined gives you tools and support to get the career you'll love. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities

♪ as the conflict between israel and hamas intensifies israeli troops enter the gaza strip president obama is calling

for restraint. >> we're deeply concerned about risks of further escalation and loss of innocent life. we're hopeful israel will continue to approach this process in a way that minimizes civilian casualties. >> but in a rare appearance on "the five," charles krauthammer reminds us who puts innocent lives at risk. >> the u.n. agency had to admit after a delay of a day that it found in one of its schools 20 hamas rockets hidden. now this is the length of the depravity of hamas when even the u.n. has to admit that it is obviously creating situations, hiding its weaponry among children, in fact, as a way to protect itself. >> what i find amazing here is egypt calls for a cease-fire. right? and the israelis say okay. hamas says no we'll keep going. i mean egypt has been feeding a

lot of things to hamas. don't you find that interesting, eric they would not enlist the biggest power? >> because they did it they are not getting support throughout the arab world which i was pointing out earlier in the show. hamas is on their own. they are going to completely get -- you know, israel calls it mowing the lawn every few years, the lawn gets too high and they mow the line. the problem is people are dying. kids are dying. mostly palestinian, hamas kids are dying when they are trying to play soccer. stop. it's your leaders fault. you need to agree to a cease-fire and this thing goes away. israel is not taking gaza back. they are trying to stop rockets coming in to israel. >> how do you think the hamas -- obviously they got these rockets from iran and getting them in somehow. it's surrounded. but egypt doing some work with them and coming in from the sea, don't you think? >> they definitely have support.

they could have had a cease-fire, hamas could have if they wanted to. they don't want to. they've been fighting for decades. they don't know anything different. i was listen to a network oh, the palestinian children, what were two palestinian boys playing on a beach when the israelis gave ample heads they were coming. they dropped leaf lets. they went door-to-door. they did phone calls. we're going to fight back. evacuate. they don't want casualties. benjamin netanyahu said the difference is we're using missile defense to protect our citizens and hamas is using their civilians to protect their missiles and they have been doing that for a while as part of their pr campaign. >> cnn reporter said something about scum, called the israelis scum for sending in these, their own rockets. what are they thinking? >> it's interesting thing. if those in the media who took

their views, their views of israel and had that directed towards parts of africa they would be called racists. you can get away with it for israel because it's a proxy for america it's a suitable punching bag. when you bomb israel it's like their way of saying you're next. >> let me ask you something, kimberly. this was a quote from cnn who tweeted israelis are on a hill above sderot cheer as bombs land on gaza threaten to destroy our car if i say a word wrong. scum. it would take a mentality of a 3-year-old to come up with something like that. >> it's reprehensible and she shouldn't have a job. what should i tell you. there's no place -- by the way if you equip yourself with the facts, again the israelis go out of their way to make sure there

are not civilian casualties. they call every phone register in the building before they hit it. they throw a warning shot to let everyone know to evacuate. they have every right to protect their country and people. hamas murders their children and bury them in a mass job. >> did she really lose her job? >> yeah. >> twitter cost more jobs than obama. >> there you go. one more thing is up next.

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astrazeneca may be able to help. ♪ it's time now for one more thing. eric bolling. >> okay. roll it. ♪ >> the fool of the week was in court this week, jesse ventura is suing chris kyle. kyle risked his life and gave his life for america. jesse ventura is suing his widow. he became governor of minnesota. hosted a tv blaming the government for 9/11. jesse ventura should be thankful for the men and women in uniform who protect his ability to make a living with so little actual talent. >> good for you.

he's taking food out of the mouths of chris kyle's children. disgusting. >> greg. >> okay. well, you know what? it's starting. i lost my train of thought. my sentence is starting. horrible campaign songs. if you love annoying folk rock, feast your ears on this folk song. >> ♪ run, run, run for the office ♪ ♪ we need president >> anyway, if your ears aren't throwing up they will. >> oh, good. kimberly. >> finally, homeland season four, people. take a look at the pictures.

you can take a look at the pictures. that's claire danes. it will premier on october 5th. we're just alerting you because the trailer is beyond belief. you have a stalker on "homeland." just released today. >> am i up? port authority lieutenant david lynn is retiring. one of the 16 people who lived through the collapse of the north build cigarette retiring after 34 years on the police force. he did heroic things that day. congratulations, lieutenant. have a good retirement. you deserve every bit of it. some nice people from grand rapids, michigan gave me this in case i get frustrated. >> we have to come back at 8:00. >> he'll be in hair for an hour. >> that is called a damn it doll and i don't want to know what you're going to do with that. >> he took pictures of it earlier.

i'll clarify very quickly it's not howard stern's show that does it its fans that prank call people. howard stern does not encourage that kind of behavior. got that clear. that's it for us here. have a great weekend. see you monday and at 8:00 p.m. tonight. >> yes, tonight. president obama says the plane shot down by a missile should snap everybody's heads to attention. but will a mixed message from the administration threaten to be a distraction? this is "special report." good evening i'm bret baier. the u.s. believes russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine are responsible for the downing of the passenger airliner killing nearly 300 people. there are still many unanswered questions in an unfolding investigation like who gave them the missile. trained them to use it. why was that plane targeted or