>> sit back and relax and watch the fox news channel. >> that helps too. taking your mind off it by focusing on other things. >> cognitive behavior therapy is the word you want to remember. >> thanks for watching. as far as hamas and so-called cease-fire they are violating their own cease-fire. it's come to the level of absurdity. >> actually the question is not just hamas itself, there are several resistance groups in gaza but mr. netanyahu who loves to lump everybody under hamas accused hamas of everything including killing its own people and so on. >> as a religious holiday celebration is about to start, the latest attempt at a truce in the gaza strip seems to be getting little traction as israel and hamas wrangle over terms, international diplomats try to figure out a path to sustainable cease-fire.

plus jerusalem mayor joins us live. life on the board ear documentary film producer says you're not even getting half the real story. he talks to border patrol agents on the front lines of the immigration crisis about what is really happening when illegal immigrants cross the border. dennis michael lynch joins us live. it was the scandal that shook the department of veterans affairs to the core. our veterans dying. lawmakers vowing to take swift action. so why hasn't that happened? we'll talk to senator isaacson. i'm shannon bream. we begin with a fox news alert. 20 days since israel and hamas began fighting. in the meantime death tolls have mounted and humanitarian cease-fires have been short-lived. any agreements quickly broken up by gunfire and rockets. latest attempt at a 24

cease-fire has failed. to sort it out we have coverage. john huddy is at the gaza border but we begin with steve centanni. >> reporter: with diplomatic efforts continuing and less than total cease-fire in place both sides in the bitter israel/palestinian conflict continue a war of words on the sunday talk shows as the death toll mounts on both sides. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledged world opinion may be shifting away from his nation as more palestinian civilians are killed. more than 1,000 palestinians have lost their lives while as few as 50 israelis have been killed. but the prime minister repeated his claim that israel is trying to avoid such casualties while the palestinians use civilians as human shields and said israel won't agree to just any terms for a cease-fire. >> so israel is not obliged and is not going to let a terrorist organization determine when it's convenient for them to fire at

our cities and our people and when it will stop. we'll take the necessary action from text our people. that's my policy. >> secretary of state john kerry back in the u.s. after a trip to the middle east and europe trying to secure a lasting cease-fire. each side remains far apart on terms for a final deal. israel has asked gaza be demilitarized and hamas demand crippling blockade of gaza be lifted. >> they want to keep gaza separate from the rest of the palestinian territory because all this aggression is totally unfufd and i was very shocked that the prime minister was speaking about avoiding civilians and so on, 80% of those that have been killed in gaza are civilians. >> that's how things look from washington. now let's go the gaza reporter from john huddy. >> reporter: steve, there is no

cease-fire. instead we're hearing tremendous amount of machine gun and artillery fire at this point and that's been really the case throughout the day. we've seen air strikes. we heard air strike explosions and rockets being fired from gaza at israel. this, of course, as the military offensive continued today. the primary goal at this point for israeli forces to root out and destroy the infrastructure and network of hamas militant attack tunnels. these tunnels several of which have stretched into israel and then used by hamas militants to attack and in several cases kill israeli soldiers and also to transport and store rockets that have been fired at israel. now, so far the latest numbers, 32 of these tunnels have been found. about half have been destroyed. israel has maintained and stipulated that even with a cease-fire it would continue the offensive and the campaign to destroy these tunnels.

now at this point israel security cabinet has been meeting for the past several hours discussing what to do next if there isn't a cease-fire and one of the proposals is to possibly expand the military operation, expand the military offensive to push even deeper into the gaza strip. so, again, no cease-fire. no proposal at this point. though israel has said it would be willing to match calm for calm and if hamas ceases fire it would cease fire. we're hearing a tremendous amount of machine gun and artillery fire in the distance. >> john, thank you very much. so how is the security situation in gaza affecting israel's largest city, jerusalem's mayor joins us now. mayor, can you give us the latest there from jerusalem? >> well, in jerusalem we view what's happening in the south of

israel and we understand that israel will never accept going back to where we were before this war. we can't accept the fact that militant terrorists can fire indiscriminate rockets or use tunnels to correct at havoc and terror. these are similar people to the ones that committed the crime in september 11th in new york and they don't want to negotiate cease-fire. they want to use every opportunity to hit israel. therefore here in jerusalem and the rest of the country we're backing up our national government, the prime minister, israeli army. we don't want -- we will not return to where we were before this war. >> i want to read you something from a senior palestinian official and give you a chance to respond. he says people under siege will react to defend themselves. the only answer is for israel is to accommodate palestinian demands for ending the occupation and establishment of

an independent palestinian state. your response? >> there's no excuse for terror. the terrorists that committed the september 11 crime, there's no excuse in the world. there's no excuse for shooting indiscriminate rockets. you want to chat with us, you want to speak, lay down your weapon, come and speak. if you want to hit us, well we'll hunt you first. we will make sure that we have the best defense mechanism in the world and we will target only the militants, only the terrorists as much as we can. so as you see the numbers, the army protects israel. the hamas, the residents protect the missiles. we will not allow that and we will never return to where we were. it's very, very clear. it's not about a cease-fire it's about the terms after this round of violence that we will never accept to get back to where we were before this round. >> what would be helpful four in terms of hearing from palestinian officials? what do you need to hear them step up and say because months

ago there was this re-negotiation and mending fractured fences with hamas and that gives great rise for concern for you being in that region and all of those who are in israel in a very tough neighborhood. >> look, let me demonstrate it for you in american standards. assuming that you had 2 1/2 dozen rockets fired at san diego from mexico, god forbid not the best relations with mexico. what would america do to mexico in this case for the analogy if they use indiscriminate rockets at san diego, and you know you're talking about a bunch of people, radical islamists that are not interested in peace? what kind of -- how would you deal with them? would you go down and sit down at a table and have a piece of paper with cease-fire. the terms are very meaningful. no other country -- you do

exactly the same as we would do. any rational democratic country would do the same as israel. make very clear, if you have to use our way, our army to stop them we will do that. it's very, very clear. so, you have to understand we're not talking about peaceful people that to sit down and do peace. if they do they will find israel is a great partner. we've done that with egypt, with jordan. we're open to do that with palestinians. we're peace seeking people. but we also know how to fight and if you challenge us we'll know how to fight and win this battle. >> mayor, we thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. the state department is releasing images it says are solid proof that russian forces are firing across the border into ukraine. state department officials also say the images prove that russian backed separatists used

heavy artillery provide by russia in attacks on ukrainian forces from inside ukraine. state department spokeswoman marie harp says russia plans to send in 0 more powerful rocket launchers. i want comes as a team of international police officers decided it was too dangerous to visit the site of a downed malaysian airliner because of fighting nearby. sources tell us that a violent gang here in the u.s. is using the immigration crisis at the boarder to recruit new members. a member of the national border patrol council says ms-13 has infiltrate ad federal facility in nogales, arizona. they are recruiting pre-teens. the department offal homeland security and immigration and customs enforcement said they have no knowledge of ms-13 vista

facility. the president has been awol on this from the beginning. we want to fix the law. a bipartisan immigration bill is on life support as republicans and democrats are stuck disagreeing not only about what action should be taken to secure our southern border but how much money is needed to deal with the influx of children flowing in from central america. is congress going to get anything done on this front? leland bitter has more. >> the only thing democrats and republicans agree on there's a problem. what needs to be done much less how to fix it or pay for it is a continuing battle. much discussion, president obama perhaps handling things with an executive order or drastically changing policy unilaterally. republicans in congress don't like that idea in the least. even in congress there are competing bills about how to fund various solutions. the president has asked for

nearly $4 billion. senate democrats are willing to give him most of that. house republicans say they can solve the problem with thousands of illegal minors flooding across the southern border at a fraction of the cost. >> the american public wants us to have an orderly border. right now they are not seeing that. they are seeing chaos at the border. keep in mind president obama on june 30th sent a letter asking for money and a policy change. >> if the president wants to sit back and just continue to point fingers at other people he's the president of the united states. he could solve this problem today. >> now, of course, the debate in washington makes great fodder for the sunday shows but precious little progress towards a deal much less the grand bargain on immigration reform that president obama wants. the house recesses for summer vacation at the end of the week and now it is crunch time for there to actually be progress rather than just motion. we'll see over next few days whether that comes to fruition.

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across afghanistan organized after taliban gunmen stopped three mini buses friday and shot 14 passengers to death. afghanistan interior minister spokesman said the killings by the taliban are just meant to instill fear. the controversy surrounding the quality of care of veterans are getting across the country created a firestorm in wake of reports that scores of veterans died simply waiting for medical treatment. so what happened to the urgency about getting something done? joining us now, republican senator johnny isakson. senator, welcome. >> good afternoon, shannon. >> so i know there's a lot of negotiating going on behind-the-scenes. but my understanding is that the last meeting that there was only one democrat showed up, clearly senator bernie sanders not happy about what the house gop has

cooked up. is there anyway to put all of that aside and do something for our vets? >> there is. it would be professional mall practi -- malpractice for us to leave in august. as most fights in washington it's about the money and who pays for it. we're getting closer and i think we'll get it done. >> senator sander said we don't need more speeches and posturing, we need series negotiations to resolve our differences. my guess is you would agree exactly what he said. how does that play out and happen to get done? >> in the end leaders of both parties the ranking member and chairman from the republican and democratic party the big four have to make that happen. we've made some progress. our differences are not as great as they were. the biggest argument is over whether it's emergency spending or appropriated in regular order. we're getting closer to a house

version and the house is getting closer to the senate version which would not declare it as emergency funding. it would be declared as appropriated funding. >> would you think it helpful for the president to get more directly involved? some say he gets involved it looks too politicized. >> i can't think of any issue, the life and health of our veterans that isn't more important than this. and i think the president should be engaged and should stay in washington to work on it. we got a lot of problems. our veterans deserve our foremost and focused attention and every one of us, republican, democrat, house of representatives, the senate should be focused on it. >> have you taken the temperature of your colleagues and what is the appetite for staying here in washington and getting something done? >> i for one would stay until the va bill is done. border situation is another problem entirely. the va deal is a problem we know

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senator, we'll just keep with you on this as things hopefully move forward and hopefully that's quickly. thank you, sir. >> thanks, shannon. >> cease-fire offer on the table in the middle east. the fighting hasn't stop. political battle over immigration may be playing out in washington but the front lines are thousands of miles away. up next a border agent goes on camera saying things have gotten much worse in a very short period of time. >> you have a mexican criminal. so a mexican criminal comes over, got 60 wis in the u.s. after he goes through a little paper shuffling here and there you guys walk him back to the border. >> that's correct. >> just put him on the bridge and he goes over. >> halfway across the bridge and then they go back to their country. and it's very likely that could you see that same person come back the same day or the next day.

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this is a fox news alert. death tolls continue to mount on both sides of the israel/hamas conflict now 20 days in. another attempt at another humanitarian truce has quickly broken up with rocket fire this weekend and growing sense the soe offensive is unlikely to end. conor powell is live in gaza city. hello, conor. >> reporter: hello, shannon. the fighting today was reduced in comparison to what we've seen in the last two weeks or so. but it had not disappeared. we continue to hear rocket fire leaving gaza, heading towards israel. we continue to hear israeli artillery and tank firing pounding the gaza strip. it has reduced somewhat today. yesterday we had a 12 hour cease-fire that was held toby both israel and hamas. israel then tried to extend it for four hours and then an

additional 24 hours. hamas rejected both of those. but then this morning hamas proposed 24 hour cease-fire. that cease-fire as i saidbeen r. hasn't held the entire gaza strip. we're hearing there's a lot of working done in paris and around the world where international officials are meeting with both israeli and palestinian leaders to craft some type of long term cease-fire. at the minimum a short term 24 hour humanitarian cease-fire. secretary of state john kerry did say he thought the framework was in place but there are a couple of issues right now holding up a cease-fire. israel wants to be certain that all the tunnels that hamas uses to go into israel are destroyed. they also want all of the launching positions that they can control and destroy also completely removed. hamas for their part want the blockade of gaza completely removed. they also want israeli troops out of gaza. both of these issues are really

sort of the contentious issues holding up a cease-fire both short term and long term right now but the violence here in gaza really has been tampered down a bit but there is concern that the violence may resume if this cease-fire even sort of the simple one we have in place right now is completely removed. there's this real fear, shannon, that the violence will ratchet up over the course of the next day or so, if international negotiators can't nail down a long term agreement. americans may be split about what to do about thousands illegal children flooding in to our country but my next guest says there's no question the reality on the ground is much different than what's being portrayed in the media. dennis, good to see you today. >> good to see you. thank you for covering this story. >> it hasn't been especially easy for the media to do this in

traditional ways getting to what's happening there has been tough and there have been prohibitions on seeing and speaking to people. you've been there and done it yourself. i want to start by playing a little bit by what you found when you talked to border agents about health screenings of thousands of people coming into the u.s. across the border. >> there is no health screening. there's no health screening. the health screening the closest thing you get to a health screening is fingerprinting. >> there are reports that the kids being put into these detention centers, these holding centers, that they are getting immunization checks. do you have any idea if that's true or not. >> i have not seen one child sent or had any sort of medical staff come and check the children. i've seen numerous families come in and go out and nobody has touched them in any way, shape or form. >> dennis, i know you talked to

people, do i almost everyone is heartbroken over seeing these kids and the conditions they are in. but these health concerns are very real. and the impact it could have on the u.s. you've seen documentation that goes a step forward. tell us what you know. >> i received documents i'm not supposed to receive let's put it that way. i shared some of them with you. it shows just half a day of sort of the process that goes through these detention centers, and what sort of diseases they are finding. swine flu. bacterial pneumonia. chicken pox. the list goes on and on and on. what concerns me most is not so much the children right now in these detention centers, because that only represents 15% of the overall population that has been apprehended at the border patrol or at the border. the real concern is the 85% of people. they call them families. that consists of just one person and at least a kid.

they just have been released into the general public and with school starting in the next month we got ourselves a real problem because these people are carrying the same diseases. nobody has checked them for it or started to addressing it in terms of curing it, putting them in hospitals. these children will start to go school in the beginning of september. and what does that say? >> well, i have to ask you because anyone who has path child into school knows that they are sticklers about immunization records and see the documentation or they can't come to the first day of class. you think that may not happen with these children? >> the problem is this, shannon. what i was told from principals and i'll personalize it. my own principal at our grammar school i met with her the other day and asked her if she was ready for the surge of children. we've gone from 40 new students two years ago to 70 new students. she thinks it will be in the

hundreds. these are new students who can't speak english. they don't register like you or my child. they look to register on the day. these kids will come in on the first day of school and one single nurse and a couple of faculty members will try to deal with hundred of students who are coming in on day one. meanwhile they are supposed to be addressing our students. it's a huge concern. everybody talks about the humanitarian crisis and we got to deal with these children, we got to deal with families. my contention is we need to put that much effort into our own children first. the president wants $4 billion to take care of these children. what about $4 billion to take care of america's children because i can take you through chicago, i can take you through detroit, washington, d.c., i can take you anywhere in the country and you will see hungry children. but nobody is addressing that. snow bound addressing that at all. until america has every american child living the american dream i don't know why we're focusing all of our energy on these

children who came here illegally and their families. i want to repeat. everybody is to discussion on the 15% of the population which is those children. the other 85% are being released into the general public. >> our understanding is that by one study 90% of them will not show up for the court hearings they will have in which they would be processed and sent home so we know there's still much tloefbt done, fighting here in washington over how to address this crisis. we know you'll keep an eye on it. we'll post some more information online. people can check it out for themselves and make their own decisions about what's happening. dennis michael lynch, thank you. >> if people go to cometoamerica.com they will see the report. >> it's not easy to find exactly what's going on. more sunlight is always good for all issues. thank you. we'll see you soon. there's no shortage of trouble around the world, israel, gaza, russia, ukraine,

isis in iraq. there's a whole lot more going on. critics charge president obama is more interested in fundraising than foreign policy. is that a fair charge. a fair and balanced debate right after this. ♪ ♪

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critics including members of his own party say president obama needs to be more engaged when it comes to international issues heating up around the globe. the president's foreign policy is under the microscope because of escalation of violence between israel and gaza and russia and ukraine and isis in ukraine. let's talk about it. we have a fair and balanced and friendly debate. good to have you both here. okay. i want to talk about a poll number, most recent fox news polling that came out this week talking about do you approve or disapprove of the job president obama is doing on prop.

64% say they disapprove. 36% say they approve. 8% said they don't know. david, what does the administration do with that? >> it continues to focus on the hot spots around the world whether ukraine, israeli/gaza situation, russia and so forth. it's a lot to handle. but this president has showed a steady hand. we've seen that from the beginning when he took office and winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and not to mention putting the order out to get osama bin laden once and for all. >> okay. now you know my twitter feed is going to go crazy. a lot of fundraising, a lot of golf that doesn't seem like focus. >> president bush did the same but didn't have the same results. designee said he wasn't going to. >> i think he's -- >> not that he never golfed again but in war time he thought it was important not to do that.

>> there's a lot of hot spots. we're winding down wars as opposed to and reducing the risk of getting entangled in a war. iraq being one of the longest in our history. and so, you know, life goes on but this president has stayed focus on all the issues and the hot spots. >> i have to disagree on russia and ukraine right here. he's taken a pretty passive role in foreign policy and this goes back to first of all putin is not a rational actor he's a bad actor. go back to siro or last september when putin wrote that piece in the "new york times" and our response was to pass the buck when the syrian chemical crisis happened and then fast forward to the spring, ukraine and crimea and what we saw was the president with less sanctions at 4%. now the malaysian downed jet. president should take a more active response saying impose devastating sanctions, get the european union online. arm kiev.

reinstate the central missile -- central european defense missile and give a speech why he's doing it. reset hasn't worked. >> david, do you think regardless what's happening behind the scene do you think the optics don't look good when it's fundraiser after fundraiser this week and golf this weekend. even if he's doing things behind-the-scenes they need to manage the optics. >> the focus should be on substance and going to sarah's point with regard to europe and ukraine and russia. trade with russia or excuse me russia's trade with the u.s. is 5%. it's 50% with europe. this is not us unilaterally just stepping in and firing some jet, russian jet that goes over a space we rather they not go over. in fact, that you have to do this in concert with the europeans because their economy is on the line. whether energy into germany or france or others europe has an interest as well as and

collective with the united states. we're not going to get into a cowboy diplomacy or actions that we haven't studied the consequences of both our allies or ourselves. >> the president should get on a plane and go to europe. >> he has gone to europe and was several weeks ago and had negotiations in europe on sanctions and those sanctions are going through another round. they are hurting russia and make them think what their actions are. if i might just say it in this way. we may have the world's best hammer but not every problem is a nail and there are different ways of dealing with situations and this president is using every tool in his tool box to secure american interests and to lower the cost of doing so. >> what about the fact there are critics within his own party and diane feinstein said it's a good thing if the president was more engaged. >> and the previous ambassador is even saying the u.s. needs

step up. there's a dirth of leadership. the u.s. does need to lead on this one. >> i'll say this. there's a middle ground that needs be struck and i think the president has found it in that overshooting as we did in going into iraq when we thought we had wmds and didn't and we went in there into the longest war we had in decades. and dealing with other options we had. look at the mess that we have left in iraq with the maliki government shutting o inting ou sunnis and the kurds. >> the democrats voted for it. >> misled by the reports coming out of the administration. >> final word. >> again, i would say he needs to step up and lead and with hamas he needs to start cowling out the atrocities and leads. >> i wish we could have resolved all of the world's problems

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israel and hamas cannot seem to lock in a truce ahead of a major holiday celebration. leland vittert is here with more on that and a check of your other headlines. >> reporter: new attacks in the gaza strip as both israel and hamas offer different ideas for truces over the past 24 hours to temporarily halt the fighting, each side is now blaming the other for scuttling cease-fire efforts. >> israel is not obliged and is not going to let a terrorist organization determine when it's convenient for them to fire at our cities, at our people and when it's not. when they can restock. >> we need a cease-fire that will bring about also an end to the conditions that are creating and generating all this violence. >> reporter: a team of dutch and australian police officers are putting off plans to search the malaysian airlines flight 17 crash site after the outbreak of new fighting. armed ukraine forces are mounting a major on slight against pro russian separatist

fighters. with only one week left until congress leaves washington for its august recess, president obama is asking republicans to help ease the influence of illegal consensus on a plan thad include sending national guard troops to the border or changing the law. >> my view is a solution beats no solution every day. and nobody's offered an alternative. so i hope we will act. crews are battling two fast-moving wildfires in california. the fires are threatening many homes and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. the sand pit fire in northern california has tripled in size and is only about 20% contained. meanwhile, a 500-acre fire is threatening homes and cabins in yosemite national park. and those are the top stories right now. shannon, back to you. >> thank you so much. well, veterans helping veterans. sergeant eric shaw founded tactical 16, a company that gifts vets the opportunity to

publish their stories at no cost. he joins us right now along with a highly decorated green beret whose touching book "love me when i'm gone" was published with the help of tactical 16. gentlemen, welcome to you both. >> hey, shannon. >> thanks for having us. >> eric, i want to start with you. we had you on a couple years ago. you were talking about this idea of wanting to help veterans get their stories out by making sure these books and articles could be published. you've grown a lot in the last couple years. how's it going with your mission? >> it's been outstanding. the whole thing has kind of taken off with the help of fox news. like i said, we can't thank you guys it enough. we started just as a company to try and help veterans tell their stories. it's just grown into so much more than that. it's become bigger than we even expected. it's been very, very fulfilling. >> and we know it's an important part of the healing process for a lot of vets and for them reintegrates into a civilian

life. robert, i want to ask you about your book. it sounds like a beautiful premise, that you were writing letters home to the woman who is now your wife. or keeping a journal so she would kind of be able to understand your experiences and things you couldn't tell her. the cover of the book is up there. "love me when i'm gone." tell us what it was like to put together that story. >> well, you know, shannon, it started off as just a way for me to kind of keep a recollection of what was going on. i got to my first unit. i was in first battalion tenth special forces group, which is a quick-reaction group stationed in germany. my first boss, the first meeting i had, he said, start taking notes because you're going to want to remember this. when i was getting out of the army, i knew i wanted to keep a dialogue for those of us who had kids to pass it on. i found out we were pregnant with my first son robert. it became my own mission to start this so that, you know, just in case i forgot something, i would have that legacy to leave to my kids and the other guys on my team so they would know what their dads did.

i started showing it to people. they started saying, this is kind of good. you got to put this out there so other people can see it. thanks to erik and tactical 16, "love me when i'm gone" became a pretty big hit. >> well, congratulations to you on that. and erik, how do you hope the mission will move forward? are there other authors you're working with? i know this is a growing enterprise for you now. >> yeah, i want other authors to know we're here. that's the first thing. i would hope that veteran authors at least talk to us first and see if we can help them out. we can't help everybody, unfortunately, but the products that we put out and the work ethic of my team that we have out here in colorado springs, we can help somebody. if we can help one, you know, that's a great day for us. >> and robert, i want to ask you, how do you think this helps veterans like yourself and others to process what they've been through and kind of share that story so other people will have some kind of understanding? >> you know, it's an absolutely amazing experience. that's one of the big issues.

the va, throughout their psychiatrists and counselors, none of them have any actual combat experience. for us, as a combat veteran, it's very difficult to relate to somebody, even if they're your va counselor, if they really don't know what you're talking about. that's why a lot of us don't want to open up. there's something about writing. i think that's what erik and tactical 16 struck gold. it's a cathartic experience. you sit down, get those demons out, put it on paper. whether you throw it away or publish the book, it's getting that experience down. it speaks volumes. it's the best thing that's out there. that's the amazing thing that erik is doing, helping veterans get it out and deal with those demons and some of those stories end up being really good. >> all right. robert and erik, thank you both, first of all, for your service to this country and for what you're doing now as well in helping veterans. we thank you both for your time today. >> thank you, shannon. >> god bless america. >> we'll tweet out information

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