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>> translator: hamas people have stopped the cease-fire yesterday morning. the cease-fire that the united states and the united nations, they kid nauped an idf officer and killed others. from here, i send my warm heart to the kidnapped -- the family of the kidnapped soldier and other soldiers whose burial location is not known. we are towards finishing the target of dismantling all the
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tunnels in gaza. the idf is doing very impressive work. this operation is very complicated. we have intelligence and we have commanders and soldiers that are doing a very good job. we have sons that have -- that fell in this operation. >> well, israel clearly not stopping. prime minister benjamin netanyahu having an evening news conference in israel discussing the latest crisis in the middle east, of course concerned not just about the situation with the tunnels that were built by hamas and those continued rocket attacks but also the second lieutenant 22 years old now 0 apparently missing. he was just newly eenl gauged, has a twin brother. that part of the emphasis to try to eventually get peace to the
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middle east. >> we're going to continue our coverage now with connor powell, who is live in gaza city with the very latest for us. hi, connor. >> reporter: hi, patty. while it seems as if the israelis are at least announcing part of this operation is wrapping up with regard to the tunnels, a main sfoek foek focu operation, they've said there's about 32 or so cross-border tunnels hamas have used to come into israel. they've found 31 or 32, dismantled them. it's not clear if they have dismantled all of them. it sounds as if they're wrapping up that part. the other part is the silencing the rockets fired from gaza into israel, that's a little more tricky. that's something he basically said they're going to continue focusing on. the other question they sort of left unanswered right now is what does israel do about this
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missing soldier that hamas is saying they don't have. they've lost contact, according to hamas, not only -- that they don't have this missing soldier but they have lost contact with the fighters that were sent out to launch this attack. they're saying they are likely all dead. whether or not that's true it's impossible to know. hamas normally takes credit for these type of things, but it may just be they have yet to take credit for it. but what happens with that in terms of the fighting here, we don't really know. we know israel has expanded its military operation in the southern part of gaza the last day or so after this missing soldier was declared missing by the israelry military. we have had heavy, heavy fighting in rafah, right on the gaza/egyptian border. whether or not that's going to sort of decrease in the next few hour 0s as the israeli military is saying they've wrapped up a large bart of the operation, it's not clear. these are the questions left unanswered right now. we know they say that they are done basically with removing
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these tunnels, but silencing or creating a sort of long-term silence with regard to the lockets and finding this missing soldier, that's the big question. >> conor powell, live for us in gaza, thank you. now on the telephone, katie mcfarland, a fox news analyst. k.t., something that really struck me that the prime minister said, he said they were basically pleased by the reaction of neighboring countries saying this, quote, opens new possibilities. could he be possibly talking about the rift between moderates in the middle east and the islamist extremists? hamas on one side, israel, saudi arabia, egypt on the other? and what does this mean? >> well, eric, you've hit on the major point of what he said, and that's the realignment happening in the middle east. historically, they have one of these conflicts every couple of years and the entire arab world condemns israel. this time something different has happened.
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despite the fact there are large civilian casualties because hamas uses children and women and innocents as human shields, what's happening is something different. the moderate sunni states as you point out, egypt, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, kuwait, they have either been silent in the condemnation of israel or in fact have been working to have a cease-fire that would allow israel to maintain its security. that's the new development. why has that happened? because those states, the moderate sunni arab states, they look at what's happened in the middle east over the last few years, the arab spring, the toppling the leaders, the rise of isis and al qaeda in the entire region, and they say, we could be next. so what we want in the middle east is stability. we want cease-fire. we want israel's security. we do not want hamas and the muslim brotherhood and radical jihadists to survive, win and potentially come to our neighborhoods. >> k.t., look what happened in
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egypt? pulled the rug out of hamas' support there. do you think we're actually talking about a realignment, this could be an historic moment for the whole middle east for these arab nations to basically in essence move behind and with israel, as you say, for a new alignment that could spread out against islamist jihad everywhere? >> as you said, there is now a rift in the arab world, and it's between moderate sunni states and radicals on the other side, the radicals can be sunni radicals like al qaeda. they could be shiite radicals like in iran. if you see a difference now between the moderate states and if the united states supports the moderate arab states and supports israel, you could hopefully see these more radical groups stop the ascend ensy and success they've enjoyed in the past few years. it's particularly tell willing of president assisi of egypt. he's seen the rise of al qaeda in the sinai peninsula. he knows what threat it could
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make to his own country. that's why it's critically important that the muslim brotherhood, hamas, radical jihad need to be stopped in their tracks. >> it goes beyond the tunnels that were well stocked, to kidnap and kill israelis, to something that may be the potential new dawn in the middle east, as k.t. mcfarland. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you. in other news today, an american doctor infected with the ebola virus in west africa is now back in the u.s. dr. kent brantly arriving in atlanta today for treatment at emory university hospital. the 33-year-old worked for u.s. missionary groups in liberia at a hospital that treats ebola patients. adam housley is live in los angeles with the latest for us. hi, adam. >> yeah, he arrived there about two hours ago of the we watched it live on fox. what a moment 0 it was for the
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first time an american brought back with the ebola virus under very extreme precautions, as you might imagine. the plane landed at dobbins air force base outside of atlanta this morning. you can see it coming in there. a private gulf stream jet outfitted especially for this trip, a plastic tent to keep the doctor in and ensure the safety and zurt of those on the plane. once it taxied and came to 0 a rest, eventually there was a motorcade, an ambulance, about a 15-mile drive from dobbins air force base to emory university hospital. it went through the atlanta metro area, you can see it on y get off the freeway, go through a couple of residential areas, you can see the transport there. once they arrived at emory university hospital, it was quite 0 a moment. the ambulance passed we the main hospital facility over to the area where the cdc and emorie have come together for one of these four units -- there's only four units in the country to treat there disease -- you can
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see the doctor get out and walk toward the side door with the help of a medical professional dressed in the hazmat suits. it was an amazing moment. our own dr. marc siegel says it's miraculous he's walking at all. we hear from emory university, the head of the infectious disease center, he talks about the relationship with the cdc. >> together with them we've developed the unit which can safely care for a patient with a serious communicable disease, delivering the highest level of care required, including intensive care unit. >> yeah, very dangerous disease that's infected at least 1,300 people that we know of, including the doctor, as well as nancy ripel, who also worked for the u.s. group. the plane took off from dobbins air force base after the doctor was dropped off, headed back to africa to pick up nancy and bring her back, the exact aim
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trip. they'll stop in maine, bangor, maine, to refuel and on to dobbins air force base. the same type of scene we saw this morning we'll see again. depending on who you talk to, we're probably talking about maybe 36 hours. it really is dependent on the flight. it's about a 13-hour flight not counting the stopoffs. at some point late tomorrow or the first part of early monday we expect her to arrive. quite a moment, i'll tell you, as we watched it live on fox. we'll 0 continue to follow this throughout this entire process. back to you guys in new york. >> adam housley live in l.a., thank you. coming up, congress, well, it skipped town for summer vacation. that means no deal on immigration that's on the border. coming up, we'll have a fair and balanced debate on what should come next. this is the illegal influx continuing to flood across the rio grande. try dulcolax laxative tablets.
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congress has left town with no new funding to deal with the illegal immigration crisis at our border. house lawmakers did end up passing a bill but with the senate already adjourned and the president vowing to veto it, there is no chance it will become law. in the meantime, thousands of children are still pouring into the country and questions continue to grow as to whether president obama will take executive action. here now for a fair and balanced debate about what should happen next, david mercer former national finance director for the dnc and jimmy la valve ya, a conservative strategist. thank you both for joining us. >> good to be here. >> hi. >> president obama said last night, while they're on vacation, i'm going to have to make some tough choices heat the challenge with our without congress. specifically, he's considered broadening the program daca, which allows immigrants who came
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to the u.s. as children to get work permits and also protects them against being deported. daca currently covers 700,000 immigrants, the proposed expansion could cover 5 million by adding some groups of parents. jimmy, what your view of this? >> well, i suspect he might probably continue doing what he's done all year, and that's nothing 0. but seriously, that's not his job. and this whole situation is just another example of the it dysfunction in washington. frankly, i think that everyone has forgotten what their job is. we pay 535 members of congress and the president a lot of money to govern our country and to govern by the constitution, and they've blocked off the job in the midst of a deteriorating crisis. i think they're all going to pay a political price for 0 it. >> instead of expanding daca, the republicans want to move in the opposite direction. in addition to passing this $694 million funding bill, the
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gop-controlled house also last night passed a companion bill that would prevent those who 0 have already gotten work permits under daca from renewing them. there's no chance of this passing, but david, what is your opinion of that? >> my opinion overall on the bill is what it shows about the gop and the house, which is they wept from pulling a bill that wouldn't pass to passing a bill that won't matter. which is the hallmark of this republican house of representatives. it shows why the congress is at the least popularity it's ever had. it's also been the least productive in decades. you have a gop divided to the point that it's handicapped from addressing the issues that really are of concern to most americans. and finally, doing so all with hypocrisy. on wednesday you have speaker boehner seeking to sue the president for executive actions, and then on thursday when he pulls his own bill that the
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republicans draft he says that the president is on his own and there are executive actions he can take to send the problem on the board border. so you have a problem of dysfunction as jimmy pointed out, but that problem lies in the republican conference and the failure of leadership there. >> you know, yesterday congressman tom marino confronted nancy pelosi and said it's hypocritical for her to criticize the republicans for inaction on illegal immigration, pointing out that back when pelosi was speaker the democrats controlled both houses of congress as well as the presidency and they still failed to get this done. jim jimmy, does congressman marino have a point there? >> yeah. i mean, look, i think there are absolutely no winners here. david's doing what the american people are just sick and tired of, finger pointing and the blame game. it's gotten us into this mess over and over again. it doesn't matter whether you've got an "r" behind your name or
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"d" behind your name. those folks have to go out into the country and make a case for their jobs back. and the only people who are going to do well this year 0 are the ones who can convincingly show that they're committed to making our government work again, regardless of the party. and the reality is people don't want to hear any more about whose fault it is. they want everybody to get back to work and fix the problem. >> you know, our new director -- go ahead, sorry, david. >> i was just going to say that the point falls on its knees when in fact we're reminded that there has been for the last year-plus a bill that came out of the senate and i might add a bipartisan bill led by some leading republicans like senator rubio that got nearly 70 votes that went to the house and has been languishing there under the leadership of speaker boehner, the republican speaker. and to speak with the voice of
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the american public, which the republicans fail to hear, is three out of four people want to see immigration reform. the chamber of commerce and the afl-cio are together and want to 0 see immigration reform. they want gun control. they want a lot of things. that's what the american people aren't seeing from this republican house. >> we're going off the tracks and i'm getting a wrap. i'm getting a hard wrap here. jimmy, david, thank you both. >> you bet. >> pleasure to be here. well, just moments ago we saw israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking out about the continued conflict with hamas. he said there will now be some new possibilities for the middle east. what does that mean and his reported harsh words about the white house. what's next for israel, hamas and us, when we come back. let that phrase sit with you for a second. unlimited. as in, no limits on your hard-earned cash back.
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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu moments ago saying, well, israel is not completely stopping, but beginning to wrap up their search for those tunnels. they've so far found, they say, 31 of those terrorists tunnels built by hamas. unbelievable. motorcycles, idf uniforms, they say, as well as sedatives to kidnap and kill innocent israelis. what does this mean for the future of the meefiddle east an hamas? joining us now, lisa, the prime minister has spoken. what is the motor important thing you heard him say? >> what he said, israel will do whatever it takes to protect its citizens. something we're assuming, rumors circulating before he went up to the podium israel would back down. we could speculate that wasn't true because the missing israeli
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soldier is still beal held by hamas. another very important thing of what he said, we feel for the people of gaza, have nothing against them showing the humanitarian aspect of all of this. a targeted attack on the hamas sites. using their swins as human shields, bavut what's going on,e have nothing against the people of gaza. i want to hear a hamas leader come out and say they have nothing against israeli citizens when they're launches missiles at citizens. >> they have iran balking them, calling on the muslim world to arm itself against israel and destroy israel. >> right. >> israel has been harshly chris sited. more demonstrations in paris, for example. >> a lot of anti-semitism and
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not -- we're seeing celebrities and vocal artists coming out tweeting, where were these people when the children of syria were being beaten and murdered on the streets? we're seeing a lot of what could probably be said as anti-semitism versus something more anti-israel. >> what does this mean going forward jp some this afternoon felt the prime minister would call for a complete halt of the operations. at the same time he said they're opened to, "new possibilities." i mentioned this earlier. are we seeing a re-alignment of the middle east between extremists on one side, hamas, qatar, iran, and then the other side, israel, saudi arabia, egypt, for example, and what does that mean going forward and what does it mean for us? >> the message to john kerry and president obama. saudi arabia and egypt have realized what the threat of these extremist groups are and we still haven't. we cannot negotiate with a terrorist group. hamas is a terror organization.
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we put them on the u.s. terror list. if hamas could build tunnels all the way to new york and washington, d.c., this is not just a conflict between the israelis and hamas. this is the extremists against the free world. they've put it in their charter, as you said, not looking for a cease-fire or diplomatic resolution. they're not looking to abide by the cease-fire. they have singlehandedly, hamas, broken the cease-fire every single time. this puts israel in a position of protecting its civilians and going forward to do whatever it takes to protect the state of israel. >> thank you, and lieutenant goldin, still missing. when we come back, live to the hospital in atlanta. defiance never grows old. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep. ♪
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and the situation in the middle east, israel it is starting to scale back some of its operation in gaza but will not stop its fight against hamas. this as it says more of those hamas terror tunnels have been unearthed and destroyed and hamas weaponry has come from iran. israel continues to launch new air strikes. >> so as it continues, we're reporting every minute on it. >> i'm patty ann brown. benjamin netanyahu vowing to bring peace back to israel. as the country reportedly begins
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to pull some tanks and troops out of central gaza. conor powell is live in gaza city with the very latest. hi, conor. >> reporter: hi, patti. seems there is a redeployment of the israeli military going on as we speak, we're getting reports some israeli units have begun to pull not only out of gaza, some pulling just back in gaza. prime minister netanyahu saying it will continue, moving in a different phase. the israeli military saying they are almost done destroying all cross-border tunnels hamas has built and uses to attack inside israel. the number we're hearing is 32 tunnels they found, and they are almost done knocking out off of them and they'll be done essentially in the next 24 hours or so allowing israeli troops to pull back. netanyahu set essentially there will continue to strike at hamas, continue to strike at the rocket launches operations here. they're not pulling out of gaza
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completely, but it's going to be a redeployment. the larger question going forward what does that mean in terms of fighting. the northern tip of the gaza strip is seen much less fighting in the last 24 hours, the southern tip, where a missing israeli soldier was captured by hamas yesterday, that has become very, very innetense in fightin. hamas saying they don't have the missing soldier, not only that, that the fighters that were sent on this attack that launched and killed two israeli soldiers and reportedly captured this soldier, that all of those fighters have been killed. they've lost contact. whether or not that's true it's tough to know now. given the heavy fighting in the southern part, it's a possibility. israel saying they will continue striking at hamas here in gaza, but are not going to simply pull out of gaza, but the operation is fundamentally changing now. prime minister netanyahu not ruling out a diplomatic solution
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to the ongoing crisis here but essentially said he's not going to negotiate with hamas in the coming days, he'll work with the international community on some type of resolution here, but the operations to continue to silence hamas will continue. whether or not that's actually possible, we've had nearly four weeks of fighting here, and hamas is still firing rockets into israel. so that operation is still very much in play. whether or not israel is capable of silencing hamas ultimately with military force is not clear, but they're going to continue to try to strike at hamas to at least reduce hamas' ability to fire rockets into israel. patty ann? >> conor powell live in gaza, thank you. and the conflict in the middle east is sparking protests we've seen around the globe. a demonstration spiraled out of control a bit. in paris, the french government allowed that demonstration to go ahead after previously banning it. you may know, france has the largest jewish and muslim populations in western europe.
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protests in chile you can see appeared more peaceful. much mon latre later on in the cast. rebels in syria crossing into lebanon and taking its soldiers, according to a lebanese army general who says the gunmen attacked army positions in northeast lebanon, kidnapping soldiers and police officers from their houses. today's attack coming just hours after army troops said they detained a member of an al qaeda-linked group in syria. northeast lebanon is home to thousands of syrian refugees. new developments to tell you about about our nation's border crisis. house lawmakers passing legislation to deal with the thousands of children who are still crossing our southern border. but the president is vowing to veto that and act on his own. then there are reports he may act on his own with an executive order that could give 5 million illegal immigrants legal status. live from washington, we have
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the latest. >> reporter: hi, eric. veto it, if it ever gets to the president's desk, unlikely, since the senate already recessed for august and isn't likely to take it up in the fall. the white house calls what the house passed last night partisan legislation that "does not responsibly address the problem of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border and could result in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of young people brought to this country as children and are americans in every way but on paper." the bill boosts security and adds immigration judges and detention facilities. a companion bill, what the white house was pushes back against in the statement last night and adds a 2012 program by the program granting work permits for immigrants brought here illegally as children. house republicans are pushing back chiding them for leaving
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town before settle on a bill. >> why the senate adjourned, i can't answer that. the president did what the president just does, that is gather the press together and have a press conference. in terms of rolling up his sleeves and asking the senate to come back and act, you have to ask harry reid. >> president obama says had will have to act alone on immigration. republicans are warning him not to take steps outside of his constitutional authority. eric? >> molly, thanks so much. arizona senator john mccain weighing in on the border crisis. here's a preview from his interview for sunday morning futures with maria bartiromo. >> we have to export these children back to the countries from which they came, set up in our consulates and embassies capability for them to go if they need asylum, but if they show up on our border, have have
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to be returned. >> hear much more tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on fox news channel. one of the two americans infected with the ebola virus, dr. kent brantly, pictured on the left,arrived in atlanta from africa. stricken with the deadly disease, the second, on the right, near a few days. both treated in one of the most sophisticated isolation united nations in our country. outside that atlanta hospital right now we have the very late latest. we saw an amazing vitt ydeo of doct being brought in an an isolation suit? >> reporter: that's right. one of only four facilities like this around the country. dr. brantly is on american soil arriving here around 12:30 p.m., he came in an ambulance that
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picked him up outside of dobbins air force base where a private jet had flown him, housed inside a biological containment tent and now moved to that special isolation unit here at emory. again, one of only four in the country capable of handling this type of patient with a serious infectious disease. we know ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids from victims who are already displaying outward symptoms of the disease. emory physicians explained this isolation unit is separate from other patient areas. listen. >> we have an inordinate amount of safety associated with the care of this patient, and we do not believe that any health care worker, any other patient or any visitor to our facility is in any way at risk of acquiring this infection. >> reporter: dr. brant li is a medical missionary with samaritan's purse, a christian
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missionary run by franklin graham, son of billy graham. and nancy writebol, a nurse, became infected treating patients in liberia. samaritan's purse says nurse writebol is expected to arrive in atlanta as well over the next few days. >> thanks so much. they do amazing work in africa for the people there. and, of course, people in our country asking about ebola. what do we know about it? and officials incest there is no threat at all to the general public. marc siegel here later in the news kavk to fill us in on what this means. another man charged with the murder of u.s. border patrol agent brian terry is now in the united states. ivan sochltoborozo extradited from mexico and facing first-degree murder among other charges. terry was shot and killed in a firefight while patrolling the desert in arizona in 2010. the incident sparked controversy when weapons used by the goonman were identified as part of a
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bungled u.s. trafficking investigation. and speaking of controversy, a lot of outrage on capitol hill directed at this man. cia director john brennan. that after his agency admitted to looking into kpumcomputers u at the u.s. senate. a report on the fallout. >> reporter: there are a whole lot of moving parts to this. put aside for a moment the debate and controversy over this report on alleged torture by the cia. the charge that members mp the agency accessed computers belonging to the senate oversight committee that was preparing this initial report. on top of it, the cia director, john brennan, said that this wasn't going on. then found out it was, and had a separate report drawn up on the issue of spying on the intelligence committee, which showed clear wrongdoing. some sap it violated the constitutional separation of powers. earlier in this week, brennan apologized and set up an
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accountability review board. the boundaries drawn with president obama saying he has faith in his cia director. >> john brennan was the person who called for the gi report and has already stood up a task force to make sure that lessons are learned and mistakes resolved. >> an apology isn't enough. we have to -- people have to be held responsible. there has to be a full and complete investigation. not by the cia. full and complete investigation. >> it's not just republicans upset about this. democratic senators as well called for brennan's resignation. whether there will be growing support for that position is unclear as the august recess gets underway on capitol hill. also unclear is how the report on enhanced interrogation techniques and the like will play into the coming debate. eric? >> and the findings of that investigation, by the way, by the cia's inspector general were shared with the justice department. so fair declined to pursue crimincrim
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time for a quick check of the headlines. folks in toledo, ohio, are being urged to boil their water after one of the city the treatment plants techted positive for a toxin. earlier today the city issued a warning against drinking or using the water from the tap. the advisory affects more nthan 400,000 people. general motors opening funds for faulty ignitions coming as a result of fallout over gm's recall of 2.6 million small cars. the funds will have a five-month
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filing period and include everyone from drivers to passengers who were hurt as a result of one of gm's defective vehicles. michael strahan is one of seven set to join the pro football hall of fame tonight. the current host of "live with michael and kelly" admits he was nervous about joining the tv family and is just as nervous about tonight's initiation. he spent his entire 15-year sports career playing for the new york giants. and a major announcement this afternoon from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who says israel will partially scale back part of its operation in gaza, but on its own terms and will not stop the fight against hamas. he says the terror group will "pay an intolerable price if it continues to fire its rockets into israel." the prime minister promised to bring quiet back to his citizens, however long it takes, saying terror has no boundaries. what's nebs? michael warren is a staff writer for the "weekly standard" and
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joins us now. michael, israelis seem to think they can get the terror tunnels demolished. that a part of 9 operation wrapped up in the next 24 hours. astounding what they say they've found. once they do that, what can we expect if hamas continues to fire rockets? >> i guess if they don't continue to fire rockets, then, of course, it will end once these tunnels are cleaned up and sort of cemented in and fixed so gazans can't come through and launch rockets and those sorts of things, but history says that won't happen. you're right. that hamas will keep launching rockets and will be faced with more violence. sort of the same old stare as it's been the last several times gaza has sort of instigated this war, hamas, i should say, and israel has always had to unilaterally pull back and not engage. talked about the cease-fire friday that lasted 90 minutes before hamas was instigated
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terrorist attacks again. i think israel probably will, given netanyahu's rhetoric, probably will keep the hostilities going as long as hamas is, keeps willing to fire the rockets and hurt israeli citizens. >> of course, this comes as the president and secretary of state john kerry urged applying that cease-fire. that's come under criticism in israel, for example, in terms of those tunnels. the latest proposal from the secretary of state was that israel could still have the right to ferret out and destroy those tunnels apparently used for terrorist purposes. what does that do to israeli/u.s. relations and we're hearing that the prime minister was pretty tough on our u.s. babied? >> right. i think the a.p. reported that he basically said, don't try to tell us how to do this again. don't try to tell us how to engage in this war if you're not going to be on our side. i think this is a big failing of the obama administration to not fully back israel in this fight.
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they really sort of vacillated here and not stuck by our ally, our strongest ally in the region on this, and i think that's really damaged the ability for israel to affectively engage in this war. you've got to remember that they're not just fighting with guns and with rockets and shells. they're also fighting against a propaganda war hamas is waging and trying to position themselves as victims here when, of course, they're the once putting women and children in the line of fire, and using that again, of course to blame israel for all of these deaths. so i think that's really hurt israel's ability to wage that war against the propaganda, by not having the united states more sort of firmly in their corner. >> the secretary of state would say, of course, they are, in israel's corner. saying don't second guess me of my support in israel. what does this do going forward? something unique. the prime minister says there is new possibilities now and i
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think he's referring to the fact moderate states, egypt, saudi arabia and others, lined up against qatar, against hamas, against hezbollah and now you have an extreme lift, mod rift split in the middle east and we're right there. >> well, i think israel's going to -- if you listen to what bebe netanyahu says today, tread lightly on this. even if those moderate regimes, so called relatively moderate regimes in the middle east are sort of onboard. again, hamas, israel doesn't have a lot to gain from trying to engage in anything here with hamas, because, of course, remember, hamas' whole purpose is to destroy israel as to wipe it off the face of the earth. wipe it off the map, and so if you're israel, if you're bebe netanyahu what do you really have to gain? i think particularly with this iteration of this ongoing conflict, i think israel is starting to realize that -- that really the only way to get
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through this is to get rid of hamas. it's to stop them from continuing to do this, and to effectively cripple them. i think that's probably the best route for israel and so i would imagine that netanyahu's going to again tread lightly in any talks, if he's not getting anything substantial in terms of stopping the violence. >> hamas voted in, maybe one day they may be voted out. >> maybe. >> thank you so much, michael warren of "the weekly standard." forget about your kids. it's your turn to go to summer camp. adult summer camps are sweeping the country. giving adults a chance to bring out their inner child. live innewsroom, we have details on this. >> reporter: about 1 million adults are vacationing at grown-up summer camps around the country. doubling at grown-up fun. an industry growing about 10% a year. it's a hike. great. you hike through the woods from
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and didn't is the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. an american, dr. kent brantly, infected with the ebola virus arriving at a hospital for treatment in atlanta. look at that. we believe that she he is in on those decontamination suits. an amazing site. this as a second american suffering from the same virus is expected to arrive in the coming days. the two worked in a hospital in west africa, which is seeing the worst outbreak of that deadly illness. new details on that botched execution in arizona. records showed the dose for the lethal injection was 15 times more than the usual amount. that procedure left this inmate gasping more than two hours before he died. renewing debate over the death penalty. tropical storm bertha is passing through the caribbean expected to unleave strong winds and heavy rain there, before, well, the good flus. heading out to sea, not towards us, early next week.
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and a wisconsin judge declared one of the girls accused in the slender man stabbing case incomp tent for trial. court documents show doctors testified the girl believes she has vulcan capabilities and can speak to characters from "harry potter." prosecutors say both girls plotted for months to kill a 12-year-old friend and chasemate luring her into the woods and stabbing her 19 times, all to please a fictional internet character slender man. the victim survived and both suspects are charged as adults with first-degree attempted murder. and a trial attorney, and a fox news legal analysts joins us now to talk about the story. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> one of the doctors said morgan geyser is more upset with upsetting slender mans that the prospect of going to jail,
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believes in unicorn, laughed inappropriately. do you believe she is mentally incompetent, ben? >> i'm not a doctor. judging from the testimony yesterday of two medical examiner, somebody talking to the teenage mutant ninja turtles and possesses by a fictional character slender man who she's more concerned of upsetting this fictional online characters that the prospect of going to jail for 60 years, i'm not a doctor but will trust both of their opinions yesterday and say for the time being she is not fit to stand trial and ai glagree with the judge's ruling. >> the concern is people are faking mental illness. we had two doctors who found her incomp dekomcompetent but other before you and she was fine. is there a concern this is just an act? >> two separate issues. the first is, as ben talked about, the competency to be able to assist counsel at trial. that's number one.
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this judge always, courts always look to experts to help them make this decision. can this person competently stand trial and assist counsel? he found based on evidentiary hearing, no. then you get to the issue. let's assume fast-forward a year from now. let's assume she's competent. now let's bring it the present, to the rear time, a year from now. did she know the difference between right or rawrong at the time of the egent they'll intersect at some point. >> yes. she's being committed to a mental institution, re-evaluated every three months, and her attorneys have a year to restore her to competency. ben, what happens after the year, if she's not found competent? >> like bob was saying, right now her argument that she not competent to stand trial isn't a defense to the underlying crimes. a year from now if restored to
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competency, sometimes in situations like this through therapy and medical drugs there's a good chance she is restored to competency. then we get to the issue of the underlying case, and that's where the her attorneyless probably argue, an insanity argument, insanity defense or diminished capacity that at the time she committed the crime she didn't have the required mental state to commit premeditated attempted murder, louhowever, that's a tough argument as well. saying her and her friend planned this for month months. >> yeah, and the details here -- go ahead. >> i was going to say, you now have, if the victim survives and the victim is able to ultimately testify, surely that evidence will be very important, because now this is the victim of attempted murder that could testify potentially as to at least the evidence state of mind
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at the time that she was lured into the situation. you know, many times somebody -- god forbid, is stabbed 19 times, they're not here to tell the story. assuming she's competent to be able to do that, that being the victim that will be very, very damaging ed for the defense, regardless what they try to put up in the defense of the case. >> piggybacking on bob's point there, we're lucky now we're not in a first-degree murder context. they were this close, one of the stab wounds, this close to the vict victim's artery next to the heart. if they hit the heart, she'd be dead and we'd talk about this in a much different degree light. >> absolutely. go ahead, bob. >> and we have -- i'm sorry. i don't mean to interrupt. i awe apologize. >> it's okay. >> we have a coe defendant with this that may -- we don't know what the involvement was. in other words, if they are more remote from the premeditated --
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says it's nots conspiracy toy commit a murder. that person could end up very relevant is a deal is offered to that other young person for the possible conviction, if and when this spurn competent, to stand trial. >> what about that, ben? both of these girls blaming the other as the mastermind saying i just went along. i was a pawn? how does that work? >> look, they're going to -- they're right now, the two girls, you're in a situation where whoever makes the deal first might get the best deal. this typically happens when you have two different defendants accused of the same crime. however, you know, it's such an egregious act, and say the evidence is so strong against them that this is a premeditated plan between both of them, that i think both of them will have serious, serious -- they're going to have very serious jail terms if convicted of these crimes and also, in wisconsin, you're in a state where if you're charged with a severe crime and over the age of 10,
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you're automatically charged as an adult. her attorneys will argue she should be charged in a juvenile capacity, however, not a more severe crime than attempted mirder where the victim was stabbed 19 times and this close to having a first-degree murder charge. >> right. leave it there. thank you both. >> thank you so much. >> take care. coming up, an update on the desperate search for a missing 38-year-old oregon mother last seen on security footage more than a week ago. what her family and the police are now doing. plus, what's next for dr. kent brantly, infected with the deadly ebola virus while working in africa. now he's back in the u.s., and we'll have insight and analysis from our medical aide team. >> we are very confident in our own infrastructure and our ability to isolate individuals to get them treated in an appropriate way under the appropriate protective conditions that we don't feel that there is a risk of an outbreak.
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calling off rescue efforts for a missing mother of two. but jennifer houston's family is not giving up. the 38-year-old vanished last month. police are still taking tips and her husband says he is still searches for her. >> we get lots of reports of people finding jennifer, so they say, lots of tips and leads. but the fact that we haven't found her car yet is odd. >> jennifer was last seen at a rite aid picking up gatorade, trail mix and sleeping pills. that was more than a week ago. and dr. kent brant li is ly of the two infected with ebola.
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he was taken to emory hospital in atlanta. take a look, dr. brantly in the biohazard suit right there escorted into the hospital. doctors and nurses will treat him there at an isolated area, one of the most sophisticated facilities for this in the nation. brant brantly and the other american, nurse writebol, were in liberia. >> you can't transfer this by eating or sitting in the same space with an individual. it's direct, physical contact with body fluid. >> dr. marc siegel a member of the fox team and first of all, doctor, should we worry?
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>> no. we shouldn't worry, and the reason is, because as dr. fauci said i spoke to him yesterday, head of allergy and infectious diseases, this virus is very lard to get. it's contagious, but you have to be in contact with the secretions of the virus to get. you're not getting it through the air or through casual contact, not get it through touch. plus, he addressed a question for me. if it, god forbid, a case came here, i'm not talking about dr. brantly, but if a case came here, why wouldn't it spread as in west africa? he said in west africa, the infrastructure is poor. here it is terrific. let's hear what he had to say. >> we have the kind of health care system and the ability to isolate and use the kind of containments that we do that is extremely unlikely, very unlikely, that we would even have the conditions for their being an outbreak. that's the reason why the cdc
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and i and other health officials say that the american public should not be concerned about their being an outbreak in the united states, because of our health care conditions. >> dr. fauci went on to say the virus hasn't mute-aid. a couple of strains but hasn't changed since 1976. another way of saying it's not going to suddenly become something contagion and another he spoke about being tested with preliminary results is about to be tested in hymans. >> your heart goes out to dr. brantly and nurse writebol, they go out into conditions, working with ebola patients, talk about self-less, wonderful cause. you could be working somewhere else in america not have to do do that. he was with a christian-associated group. look at the protocols. he followed all the restrictions. he did follow all the protocol, but what happens, how is it
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specifically spread? what is it? and what type of treatment could he get? >> you're marking a point a lot of people are e-mailing about, if he got it, how come we can't get it? the answer, he wore all of these suits, but it's so hot over there. i'm not sure he had the precautions over there we'll have here. the way he walked into the hospital and that's confirmed by a hospital spokesperson, ebola has been up to 90% fatal. if he's walking, the major organ damage that you usually see, liver, kidneys, immune system not responding, it's possible -- i'm going to speculate a second here. while over there he got anti-bodies infused from another person's blood who survived. something never done in this situation. almost something out of "i am legend." the blood from someone who have you ever beened who survived.
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hopefully we can learn something. >> how does it attack you? what does it do? >> first thing, prevents your immune system from fighting it. other viruses don't do that. get the common cold, first thing happening you're making antibodies to the cold. a few days later, you get better. the ebola virus fools the immune system into not responding against it. the people that die from it are not making antibodies to it. ebola parades around the body affecting all organs directly and eventually you end up a lot of bleeding as it goes into the blood vessels. >> he's in good hands. >> looks like he's great. >> the nurse will be in good hope. hope the progrenosis is very go. >> talk about it tomorrow on "sunday house call." >> dr. marc siegel will cover this issue and all sorts of health issues tomorrow, "sunday house call." right here on the fox news channel. see you tomorrow. >> thanks. well, 50 years ago today a
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and now for a look beyond the news, here's author and journalist liz trotta with her weekly commentary. >> 50 years ago today, torpedo boats from communist north vietnam attacked the american"u gulf of tonkin. it was the first of two daring skirmishes that lured america to a war in vietnam. arguments raged for years about the motives of president johnson and defense secretary makena mara during these events. eventually, the classified records strongly indicated that the first attack did occur in international waters. but details on the second on august 4th were mired in
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contradictions. indeed, it may have been a u.s. provocation. just three days later on august 7th, 1964, congress overwhelmingly passed the gulf of tonkin resolution. it allowed johnson to take all necessary measures including the use of armed force in defense of freedom. the obama white house continues to describe the u.s. fight in afghanistan as our longest war. but actually, our affair with vietnam was much longer. americans involved began unofficially in 1950 with the truman administration. advisors and military aid headed to indochina in a low profile operation to check communist aggression. president kennedy, a product of the cold war, raised the ante by dispatching thousands of u.s. advisors to reit nam in 1961. lbj put his stamp on it with the
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gulf of tonkin resolution, and the door opened for a massive military buildup. the rest is history as they say. closing with the fall of saigon in 1975. since then, if you were a student studying history in one of our progressive universities, your view on vietnam probably blames it all on nixon. as long as the left controls the vietnam war, america will be depicted as the bloody giant humbled by poor peasants. these days, people talk of war reparations and civil rights payback. would that such talk would include an apology to all who fought in vietnam. the list of hypocrites is long. we could start with hillary clinton, the anti-war firebrand turned hawk who wants to push the red button on just about every issue. with any luck, the day will come
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when the legacy of vietnam and all its defeatist connotations of quagmire will no longer hang over the decisions of military leaders or the his tear risks of editorial writers. even as u.s. policy pivots toward asia, our former enemy evolves by necessity. the great china beast rises leeching into the south china sea. meanwhile u.s. military ships drop anchor for friendly visits as the danang and cameron bay once the engines of a ferocious war. perhaps a half century later,ing that terrible circle drawn in the gulf of tonkin is about to clos close. >> beginning some inmates some opportunities through music. ♪
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>> you're listening to a state sponsored program aimed at trying to rehabilitate the prisoners and the styles range from jazz and r & b apparently even some jailhouse blues. >> gives me a sense of calm. >> it's an escape for sure. >> and some of the older inmates they say are also giving back, offering music lessons to some of the younger prisoners. >> an amazing story now coming out of florida. a dog, an aging black lab, now has a new home with an heiress. her owner died a couple years ago and she was sent to a local shelter in kansas. one family tried to adopt her but it didn't work out. she was adopted again but then escaped and traveled 30 miles. she's old, remember, back to her second family's home only to be turned away. her luck finally changed when helen rich, the heir to wrigley chewing gum fortune to know saw her story. now the dog renamed lady is
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living in luxury animal shelter in florida. >> she's going to think she went to heaven. >> i wish i was going to florida instead of the dog. >> lady arrived in tampa last night on a private jet. rich has used a portion of her inharristance to help all kinds of abandoned and neglected animals. >> that's just wonderful. isn't it amazing how they can travel back 30 miles? how do they know where they were. >> it's incredible. that's going to do it for us. "a healthy you" and carol alt next. >> see you at 6:00. i'm eric shaw. >> i'm patti ann brown. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them.
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welcome to "a healthy you." i'm carol alt. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a mon ailment affecting millions of people around the country including 5.9 million children. while scientists still have not confirmed the cause of this disorder, more and more studies show artificial food coloring plays a big role. today we show a connection between the two, plus, we head to the grocery store with leaney lieberman to show how easy it is to eat healthy no matter where you shop. it may not be wise to eat
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