wow! being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. fancy feast broths. wow served daily. that's it. have a great weekend! gin blossoms, folks! bill: thank you, guys. moments ago the united states saying it conducted airstrikes against islamic militants' artillery in northern iraq. >> there is no one coming to help iraq cried to the world. today america is coming to help. bill: the president authorized airstrikes based on the twitter feed we are getting. welcome to america's newsroom.

the president approving food drops for thousands of christians being told to live, convert or die. bill: a late night last night. what is the thinking at the white house. >> reporter: the u.s. launched airstrikes against artillery being used against kurdish forces. the president waited until after the military dropped food and water to the tens of thousands of refugees trapped on a mountaintop in northern iraq. he says they will protect the embassy. he says the isis fighters have been particularly bar barrous o

the refugees. >> i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. even as we support the iraqis as they take the fight to the terrorists, combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq glass you is no american solution to the handler crisis in iraq. the only lasting solution is reconciliation among iraqi communities and stronger security forces. >> reporter: iraq elected a sunni to parliament and that encouraged americans. bill: we know 200-400 is the

last figure i saw. does the white house believe it can stick to that pledge of not putting more americans into this battle? >> reporter: so far they believe they can do that. the president august of only air support and humanitarian aid. nors lindsey graham and john mccain says the president should order airstrikes and help iraq take on isis. >> the united states has to provide air power. when american forces get engaged on the battlefield the first thing they do is call for power to come in and crush the enemy. the iraqis are going to need the same thing if they are going to take their territory back. >> reporter: the president's critics say isil's rise is the

president's failure to give syria aid and not taking action sooner. >> thousands of christians living in iraq have been driven from their homes. a large group stuck on a mountaintop with little food and little water. this is just the latest in christians being persecuted around the world. >> reporter: the christians around the world are being targeted according to one expert by islamist extremists but nowhere is it more evident than in iraq. isis drove 100,000 christians. they are on the run and

panicked. isis gave the ultimatum to convert to islam or die. christian homes have been targeted by militants. isis is active next door in syria. 1,200 christians killed there last year. arthel: , a horrible picture. >> reporter: according to the open doors organization says being a christian around the world is become more and more dangerous. they are said to face hostilities in nine out of the 11 countries. and in egypt coptic christians are being targeted.

churches burneddown down, especially since the removal of mow whommed a morsi. 278 school children kidnapped by the boko haram group were mainly christian and forced to convert to islam. a woman who converted to christianity was sentenced to death. pope francis weighing in on the latest crisis in iraq and calling on people from around the world to pray. also calling for international aid, international help. bill: a quickly moving story on the map. we'll show you as best we can. illustrate what we believe to be happening in the past 48 hours. we heard:the mosul dam which is a critical part of the structure

of iraq. i'll explain why. here is the town of mosul where all the christians were driven out and the other sects noted a hernt ta -- noted anot --not adc creed. the town of -- the town of irb. what exactly is happening on the ground we don't know. the president said if there is a threat against american interests, we know americans are on the ground operating in irbil. perhaps that's why the activity happened a moment ago. back to this dam in mosul. it connected to the tigress river that runs down to tikrit

and baghdad and southeastern iraq. if you control the power, electricity water flow in iraq you control a lot. byron, good morning to you. we cannot say exactly what's happening on the ground but this is a quickly changing story. ultimately what's the solution to what we are seeing today? >> reporter: it sounds like what's happening is entirely consistent with what the president said last night. it's important the remember how carefully limited what the president said was. we are going into iraq for two reasons. one is to protect american forces in this town of irbil, and the other is to offer humanitarian relief to the yazidi sect stranded on top of a mountain dying of thirst. the president didn't say anything about doing any other

things. he said specifically there would be no larger u.s. involvement and the only solution to the problem is a iraqi political solution. bill: we don't know if he can afford not to put troops on the ground. he said it won't happen. how long can he resist? >> opposition to the war in iraq is pretty much in the dna of the democratic party now for the last 10 years. that's how the president won the democratic nomination in 2008. he had not had to vote on iraq while hillary clinton had voted to authorize force there. that's how he got elected president. this is something he's dead set against. they feel if the united states goes in and fights the isil guerrillas it would prop up

al-maliki who we want to leave. bill: genocide is a different equation. >> he $said that on the mountain situation and that the united states would drop humanitarian aid which we have already done and two possibly use airstrikes to break the siege of mount sinjar. bill: we'll track the developments as best we can. there is a part of you that thinks, here we go again. there is a part of you that thinks maybe you get the islamic militants on the run. depending on how much territory they have taken so far, that could be a difficult challenge. arthel: there are more missing government amendments and thi

missing -- there are more missing government emails and they are not lois lerner's. >> who mass and gaza danced and cheered when nine took place. they -- when 9/11 took place. they viewed usama bin laden as a hero. bill: hamas sending rockets to the border. arthel: the gop establishment showing they still have the strength to take on the tea party. we'll talk to lamar alexander live after his big primary win last night. after we make our speeches we'll have to roll up our sleeves, get together, work with each other and get something done. that's the tennessee way, that's the american way, thank you very much. fchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing.

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arthel: bombs falling on iraq this morning after americans are fired at in northern iraq. two fa-18s dropping two 500-pound bombs on is is * military trucks. we are going to talk to pete hedsek who served in iraq and general jack keane as well. breaking news on fox news this

morning. bill: republican senator lamar alexander fought off a hard challenge from a tea party candidate to victory. >> those who voted in the republican primary wanted to send a message to president obama that we are disappointed with the direction of our country and we are hoping after november to have a republican majority in the united states senate. bill: he's the latest incumbent to fend off a challenge from the tea party. congratulations. want to know how you did it. how did you hold off a strong challenge from a tea party candidate? >> i made the argument we didn't want a senator who could just make a conservative speech, we wanted a senator who could try to get something done. change obamacare or secure the border or fix the debt, we have

to pass something. tennesseans know i try to do that. bill: every republican senator has survived a primary challenge to date. why is that? >> one, we campaigned, two, we have had good candidates and, three, we can govern. we have to show the american people they can trust us with the government. that means doing something about the debt, replacing obamacare and securing the border. bill: you know how much disappointment there is in congress across the country. the disapproval is at 14% for the congress. why do people keep sending the same people back to washington if the 14% screen is there, too. >> i'm not happy with congress, too. my approval rating isn't 14%,

it's 60%. i brought in the auto industry, fixed the roads and people want results not just speeches. i think tennesseans can pick and choose and send to washington people who can govern. >> do you believe it's a major coup for the party establishment? >> there are a lot of emotions in tennessee. all of us think the president is leading in the us in the wrong direction. the victory if anything says we selected a nominee who has got a reputation for working across party lines and getting results. i voted for the immigration bill because i wanted to fix the problem. i wanted to end amnesty and secure the border. i hope that's what the message is. >> reporter: the balance of power favors the democrats. all the talk in november will be on the senate side.

republicans need 6 to get a majority. as it stand today will you get that majority? >> i think we have a very good chance. many democrats and independent here are unhappy with the direction of the country. and then when we get it what we are going have to do is show we can govern. that's the important thing to do. the good thing is we have good candidates across the country who can appeal to independent and democratic voters as well as republicans. bill: you are 50-50 on taking the majority? is that what i take from that answer? >> i think we have a better than even chance taking the majority. i think many independents and democrats don't like the direction of the country. apparently airstrikes have been taken out on behalf of the american forces in iraq against

members of the islamic terrorist group running across that country. syria as well. how in the world did we get here, senator? >> it's a complex world. but one advantage we had when president reagan was there is people knew he would do what he said he would do. >> secretary schultz said the president did what he said he would do when he fired the air traffic controllers. i think strength and consistency in the presidency is the surest got it right now. arthel: hawaii is bracing for a rare double whammy. a tropical storm with a category 3 hurricane right behind it. plus this ...

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bill: developments in iraq following the president's statement last night. it was 6:45 time the u.s. conducted an airstrike against the isil terrorists dropping laser-guided bombs on a piece of artillery near the town of irbil.

apparently the islamic terrorists using this artillery to shell kurdish forces defending irbil when the u.s. personnel located this and took care of it. iraqi army troops delivering humanitarian aid to thousands of members of this religious minority known as the yazidis with ancient ties going back thousands of years trapped in the season jar -- inthe sinjar . they are trapped without food or water and surrounded by islamic state fighters down below. we are watching to see how this unfold and whether the united states can add more food and aid to that area. we'll get paul coverage on that as best we income a matter of

moments. arthel: the first of two major storms bearing down on hawaii as former hurricane iselle bears down on the island, knocking out power to thousands. will carr is in in paradise park. what's it looking like there now? >> it's still coming down pretty hard. is sell * being downgrade it good and bad. the initial damage might not be as bad as initially thought. but it's really hovering off parts of hawaii dumping nonstop rain. there is flash flooding all over. just south of the hilo, take a look at some of the conditions. >> hours until daylight but the

winds are whipping strong here on the big island. even though iselle has been downgraded to a tropical storm, you can see how much rain is pounding this area. there has been flash flooding throughout the region and power outages for more than 9,000 people. we spoke to residents who evacuated and they tell us they have self concerns. they are worried about the damage they will find in the morning. they are also worried about hurricane julio which has been "upgrade -- which has been upgraded to a category 3 hurricane. they want to make sure when it's daylight they can pull together. one resident told me she wants to make sure everybody has the aloha spirit to pull together. >> in the home we are staying at in between our reports.

part of the ceiling collapsed because of all of the rain. now the basement is flooding as well. i have a feeling many of the homeowners who evacuated this area may come back in the morning and find similar damage. arthel: floodwaters can be very damaging. thank you, will carr for that report. bill: there will be a lot of rainfall and a lot of wind sheer. we don't know if it will take a direct hit or not, but we shall see, back to back in hawaii. the hopes for an extended ceasefire shattered. rockets launched from gaza. israel responding in kind. we'll go back to the gaza-israeli border. arthel: a border agent on vacation killed by an illegal immigrants in front of his family. >> border agents go out there

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bill: american jets dropping bombs on islamic militants a short time ago. a piece of artillery was taken out by an fa-18. this near the town of irbil after president obama authorized airstrikes to protect our american personnel. pete will be good morning to you. i don't know what kind of access the islamic terrorists had to artillery in the area. but they had something here. the fact that you dropped two 500-pound bombs from fa-18s

tells you what? >> that those sights for threatening u.s. forces in irbil. this strike was intended to deter against more action against isis in irbil which is more aligned with the united states. so this has a lot to do with mosul, with irbil and the kurds in the north and their ability to protect these minorities that are under siege. bill: mosul, the dam that was taken yesterday. mosul had a lot of christians. they have been driven out in huge numbers in the past two months. there is another religious sect called they did why is.

the -- called the yazidis. there are 250,000 who need food and water immediately. how did the islamic terrorist.view these people? >> they don't look kindly on christians and they have been percent kiewght and killing them. that's what happened in mosul. they see the yazidis as lower than christians. they see them as devil worshipers. they are scum to be killed and they want to commit genocide against them if they can. that's why they pushed them on the sinjar mountain. that's why we dropped aid to the yazidis to provide them survivability to give them an option to get off of there.

the president wouldn't peel back isis. bill: we have upwards of 750 operating in iraq. can he stick to that and still be successful and avoid the potential and the possibility for what could ultimately be genocide? >> he can stick to it and if he wants to he will. but can he prevent active genocide by sticking to it, that is very much an open question. you are protecting -- you are providing humanitarian aid, you are providing limited strikes to protect american personnel. you would have to give more support to the peshmerga and the iraqis.

they would need that from us and that's not what the president authorized. bill: we had video of iraqi army troops delivering this humanitarian aid that is so in need for these people in the northern part of the country. when you think about isis and how it rolled across syria in northern iraq. if you wanted to be able to uproot isis you would have to go town to town and force it back toward the syrian bored. and have assad deal with it. is that a solution? >> if you want to defeat isis you have to defeat them militarily. if you don't want boots on the ground you have to more robustly support the assets you have. standing beside and empowering the iraqi army. consolidated and providing air $support and u.s. personal

support is probably your best chance to go city by city and empowering the peshmerga force to push the forces toward syria. if it's not boots on the ground it should be advisors and other air support to go town to town to remove isis. bill: if you don't believe what isis believes you are in their cross-hairs. plain and simple. we'll go to another hot spot in the world with arthel. arthel: the fighting is on again in gaza. hamas and israeli rockets volleyed within minutes after the truce ended. leaving them deadlocked on an extended peace deal. the violence will spread across

the globe if terror groups are not stopped. >> reporter: the middle east is swept up by this volatile mix, a brushfire of terrorist organizations using this tactic targeting civilians while hiding behind $civilians and we are left defenseless and you say you cannot act. i think that will insure the brushfire spread throughout the middle east, throughout north africa, and i say eventually around the globe. arthel: conor powell is live on the israeli-gaza border. what's the latest? >> reporter: the fighting has resumed. it's not as intense as we saw last week. we have been seeing shelling incoming and outgoing from gaza. also the negotiations taking place the past 72 hours in cairo have broken down. as we understand the talks went through the night. before that 8:00 a.m. deadline to extend the ceasefire israeli officials left and hamas began

firing rockets from gaza into israel. 45 already today. israel has begun to strike in gaza. we know one principle has been killed and two israelis have been injured. but talks we understand may pick up later today. there is some hope there may be a ceasefire again starting tonight, maybe at 8:00 p.m. so far what we are hearing is the hopes that egypt and other international community members are hoping to push another ceasefire. but so far the talks have broken down and the fighting resuming. heavy strikes in gaza and injuries and casualties on both sides escalating. arthel: does that mean egypt's role in this peace process is diminishing? reporter: israel is -- egypt is playing a central role in this.

the blockade is even forced by israel and egypt. egypt has a role to play in this. israel said they want and they will not negotiate as long as the rockets are firing here. so it's a tough balance to try to negotiate some type of deal where the blockade is lifted and the fighting stops. but that's what negotiators have to work on right now. bill: as you can tell, there is a lot going on and we'll follow it the best we can. when we get more updates out of iraq we'll take you about. a fitcher goes down after getting hit in the head by a line drive. did you see this? 30,000 fans go silent. but the latest on that pitcher's condition in a matter of moment. arthel: president obama authorizing airstrikes in iraq. but critics are blaming the commander-in-chief for allowing iraq to fall into chaos. >> reporter: the president

does not think strategically at all and the chickens are coming home to roost in iraq and it's a brutal conflict emerging that is against the interest of the united states and against the interest of our allies.

bill: scary moment in pittsburgh. watch if you can. watch this. it's frightening when you hear that could be tact. pitcher dan jennings taking a hit off the side of his head. jennings wave together crowd but he was cart off the field. taken to a hospital for observation. don't know when he will be able to come back to the field. but when you are a pitcher that's the biggest nightmare in

the world. your chance of reacting is so, so slim. arthel: bombs falling on northern iraq after shells land near u.s. personnel. president obama pulling the trigger on those airstrikes after approving them late yesterday. but karl rove says the show of force may be too late. >> the administration has been behind the 8 ball since the beginning because this president does not have a strategic view of what america's interests are or a view strategically of what america ought to do to audits allies and friend and confront its enemies. the president does not want us to be engaged. he does not believe america has been a force for good in the world. arthel: juan williams is here. marchy catherine ham. good to see both of you.

mary katharine. the airstrikes have begun. the president is putting power behind his word. will these airstrikes apiece critics like karl rove or will they continue to say it's too little too late. >> you would probably characterize me as a critic. up appreciate what he's doing on a humanitarian and strategic front's a step in the right direction. he's walking a tightrope where i think he's disinclined to use american force in this way. he made promises in the past that he's not doing this. pulling out of iraq and leaving the situation we have. i think that i'm glad he's doing this. and moving forward i think my concern and i have been saying this since this began. you risk the fact if you are not doing this from the beginning you will reach the point where force is not as helpful as it could have been earlier'.

force would have been most helpful had the american forces we had there been left in place. >> i think if you look at it -- i find it hard to take that a member of the bush administration would be so critical of this administration when it comes to strategic thinking in iraq. there is quite a history there. in terms of key points when you go back to leaving american forces on the ground, it had to do with the status of forces agreement. it had to do with the poor quality of leadership provided by prime minister al-maliki who was not supportive. some say we should have forced his hand but that would have been difficult since american public opinion does not support further involvement. we shed blood and invested treasure in trying to create an atmosphere for democracy and maliki and others have wasted it and i don't think that's our

responsibility. >>it is partly our responsibility because i think like what you are faulting the bush administration for, we did much like post-invasion we brought troops out of there hastily. we left a vacuum and ignored isis that 7 months ago reverses the an bareversedthe anbar awak. juan is right the american people are wary about this. and i think that's warranted. i think what concerns me is isis is very strong as we learned. they are not jv with lakers uniforms on. they have ambitions and we'll end up need to go fight them and i'm not sure president obama is interested in that. arthel: when you talk about fighting isis you are talking about zealots and fanatics. you are not talking about an organized government.

how difficult is it to extra jiets when you are dealing with this irrational group? >> i think as the president said they are bar barans. part of the d they are barbarians. could you have anticipated they would move north against the curd? it's hard to anticipate when you have people engaged in this guerrilla warfare and the extreme to which they will go. they do not behave always as a logical, trained army force. they are behaving as if they are trying to be a conquering religious force. it's bizarre in some ways. >> i want you to take a look back over the past few years and i want you to tell me if you think there is a point where you feel president obama dropped the ball and could have prevented what we are seeing right now.

>> it became apparent more than a year ago that the iraqi military, that we had support and put people in place to train ourselves was being driven by ethnic and tribal loyalties and maliki was not giving support to the sunniss so suddenly he was opposing generals, people who were capable of command for that military, the leadership became weak and what happened was that military cratered the minute isis or any other force showed up. we didn't know that. we didn't have the anticipation. arthel: i have to go, so juan williams and mary katharine ham, thank you. bill: there has been a security breach at the white house that put the place on lockdown. wait until you hear why. more missing emails again? we'll tell you what's going on this time.

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bill: lois lerner is not the only person with missing emails. marilyn tavater had a huge chunk of emails deleted as well. >> reporter: slop write recordkeeping is being blamed for the missing emails. the department of health and human services notified archives that marilyn tavenner like deleted some emails. she is under scrutiny for the botched rollout of the healthcare.gov website.

bill: i guess it's one good way to tick off lawmakers. >> reporter: darrell issa says his committee subpoenaed these emails 10 months ago. he says it defies logic that so many senior officials failed to follow record protocols after being asked to see their emails.

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bill: breaking news. american air power returns to the battlefield in iraq. u.s. fighter jets dropping bombs on isis as religious minorities face potential genocide at the hand of the islamic militants there. welcome to a brand new hour on a busy, busy friday. i'm bill hemmer. arthel. good morning to you. arthel: i'm arthel in for martha today. u.s. war jets hitting jihadist artillery fighting against kurdish forces with u.s.

personnel in iraq. two f/a-18 aircraft dropping 500 bound laser bided bombs. pentagon delivered food and water to thousands of families trapped on a mountaintop as islamic state extremists at tick religious and ethnic minorities. last night president obama explained his decisions. >> these families face a horrible choice, descend the mountain and be slaughtered and or stay and slowly die of thirst and hunger. i said before the united states can not intervene every time there cries necessary in the world. let me be clear why we must act and act now. bill: we have following all the latest developments. doug mckelway live from the meant gone. first, ed henry life from the white house. are we seeing expansion of the mission in northern iraq? >> i don't think so. what the president said in the next sentence in the state dining room was america can't

turn a blind eye if these people will be slaughtered. he made it very clear, remember this is president vehemently opposed war in iraq. he was reluctant to get in to take action here. i think what we're seeing with the air power, there was fear this artillery piece could have been moved toward the city of irbil. that is strategic spot. u.s. has personnel there. there is consulate that. was there fear it could become another benghazi. that u.s. personnel would be sitting ducks. he made it clear he would protect u.s. personnel. the narrow part, protect the refugees, any sign that the islamic militants, isis fighters will go after refugees, slaughter more of them. some already have been slaughtered in recent days. i do not expect, the president made it very clear. he is not sending combat troops. that will be a very narrow mission. bill: we'll see in the end how this goes now, right? we're working hour by hour sometimes and clearly day by day. but the mission is to help the

40,000 on top of this mountaintop, right? but is there a plan to deal with isis long-term? >> reporter: if there is one, we didn't hear it from the president last night. that is where he will be vulnerable in the days ahead you remember a month or two ago the president came out said we've got the big threat from isis. they have taken a lot of territory in syria. moving towards baghdad, taking up big pieces of territory in iraq. he didn't hear very much until the last 48 hours or so until the humanitarian crisis was playing out. he didn't lay out a plan. he talked about the short term. preventing slaughter of up to 40,000 refugees but what is the medium, long-term plan to make sure the isis militants don't take baghdad and bigger cities and potentially become a threat to the united states in terms of using that base to launch terror attacks? bill: we see, will we see the president today? do you have any idea about that? >> reporter: we don't have any idea yet but would seem a strong possibility given the fact that since last night, remember last

night when he came out to speak to the american people, he was only talking about the humanitarian mission and saying he authorized airstrikes. now that those airstrikes move forward, you would expect he would say something later today. bill: thank you, ed henry from the north lawn there at the white house. connell: we go now to the pentagon where doug mckelway is there now with the latest. what is the word from the pentagon there, doug? >> reporter: just to re-emphasize a little bit what ed said this being very limited and targeted strike, it appears to be just that, very, very limited in scope really. here is the latest based on a tweet offered by rear admiral john kirby this morning and later on with fuller statement from admiral john kirby. two f/a-18 hornets dropped 500-pound bombs, two 500-pound laser-guided bombs on artillery piece in irbil. this was targeting kurdish rebels protecting city and u.s. personnel there. too early to assess what the damage was. we can assume the artillery

piece was taken out t was apparently towed by a truck but we don't know how many people were killed. there are as many as 40 earns in the city of irbil as we speak. these are part of the joint operations center. they're stationed at the joint operations center there, aiding iraqi forces and providing targeting information. these are vital american forces that will provide targeting information we may be seeing in the coming days as these kinds of attacks progress if indeed they do progress. but it is important to note that this was very, very limited in scope, just one attack, two 500-pound bombs on one artillery piece. in addition to that, arthel, we have gotten new information about the humanitarian airdrop which occurred last night in the predawn darkness on mount sinjar where the 40,000 refugees gathered to escape the ravages of the isis forces. secretary hagel, who is in india

today for meetings, said that more than 60 of the 72 bundles of food and water airdropped on to the mountain apparently did reach the people who were stranded there. so, that mission appears to have been a success but you can bet that it is not just a one-time operation, dropping 5,000 gallons of water and 8,000 mres will supply for short period of time. this operation will have to continue, assuming that isis maintains its fighting stance. arthel? connell: indeed. doug mckelway thanks a lot for latest from the pentagon. >> we want to bring in fox's military analyst, retired four-star general jack keane. good morning to you. chairman of the institute for the study of war. what's next? >> well, the fact of the matter is as doug just laid out very well in the intro this is a very limited operation to protect irbil and certainly protect the humanitarian relief operation and that's it. the fact of the matter is isis

can attack other areas in kurdistan and that would be outt of the scope of the president's directions or any place else in iraq would be out of the scope of the president's directions. i don't think he has any intentions of changing the direction as of right now. the fact if he listened maliki's niche request from mosul was toppled and he is acting to react to the desperate situation if he adhered to maliki's initial request this situation now would not have been happening because we would be using those airstrikes for a couple months and that is the harsh reality. bill: general when did that request go? how long -- >> that was initial request when they toppled most all. -- mosul. he made emergency request for united states to do airstrikes

to stop. bill: that was three months ago the request went out. why did we not respond then. >> we did not respond because the president came forward and said, i'm going to make a condition for american military response to be a political reconciliation of the government in iraq. i think now in the full face of light, the fact of the matter is that was an excuse not to act. the harsh reality is isis needs to be stopped regardless of the political situation in iraq. which obviously is important but it is not primary. what is primary is stopping isis. bill: general, you know, some of this is water under the dam frankly because the military guidance to the president was leave a force behind in iraq just in case. that did not happen. that is past history now. so in the future you heard the question to ed henry a moment ago. is there a plan from this administration to deal with isis

permanently? >> i don't believe there is. what should be done is, the united states should have an emergency summit with the allies in the region to craft a comprehensive strategy, to stop and defeat isil. this political, diplomatic, economic, militarily and also strategic communications. we have the means to do this. our allies can help us do this, we know, bill, what banks isis is using. we know who their portfolio managers are. we should target that and take their money away like we did so successfully with al qaeda. this isn't just a military solution but the near-term actions that must be taken to be decisive are clearly military. bill: general, thank you. stay close, okay? jack keane with us from washington there. thank you, sir. >> okay, bill. arthel: bill, well the stakes are particularly high in iraq. our fox news middle east and terrorism analyst saying if isis is successful there, it will target the west next.

>> european union officials told me that they are concerned that isis already has somewhere between 1800 to 3,000 jihadists, half of whom are going going too back to the west. we're talking about hundreds. two guys what they have done in boston. one guy what he has done in fort hood. we have hundreds of jihadists, if isis is successful in iraq, they're going to come back to the west. it is not good news. bill: walid phares was excellent on topic earlier today. they are paying attention to the. >> seed disreligious community. the y i can't seedies religion predates, they believe in supreme god but do not believe in hell, or the devil. they have long history of persecution going back centuries. they are part of the target on behalf of isis in addition to

christians run out of the town of mosul. you see clearly what sild about right now. it is isis against everybody else who disagrees with them. we'll figure out who in the end comes out of this alive. connell: that is a scary thought. we move on now, with a new u.s. military operation underway in iraq as we've been reporting aiming to stem the tide of surging isis terrorists. what is the political fallout here at home? bill: also, so you're driving along, right, when this happens. whoa, a massive explosion in the middle of the road the we'll tell what you happened next. connell: growing outrage at the obama administration after the murder of an off-duty border agent killed in cold blood. >> one of our brothers has been murdered by people that shouldn't have been in this country in the first place, who were previously deported. and it shows that it's a failure of our immigration system. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief.

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bill: u.s. fighter jets bombing isis militant targets in northern iraq and our military planes, airdropping food and water to tens of thousand of religious minorities trapped on a mountainside. another hot spot in the world exploding yet again today. of the chris stirewalt, our fox news digital politics editor. he is live in tennessee today, covering lamar alexander's primary vick from last evening. chris, good morning. welcome from here. you look at the map. the middle east is back at war between hamas this morning and the israelis. we're bombing artillery targets in northern iraq that the islamic militants have taken control of. you have putin putting tens of thousands of russian soldiers on the eastern ukrainian border. you've bottom a mess and now you have to find a way to find a solution. how do you see this now politically? >> well, i'm in tennessee because it is a midterm year and

it is, all anybody in washington wants to talk about, all american politicians talk about are the midterm elections but guess what? the world has a funny way of intruding on our plans and that is what is happening for this president and that is what is happening for his fellow democrats looking to hold on to the senate, this president has a terrible approval rating on foreign policy. it is going south and it used to be his high point. it used to be the point which democrats were proudest of him and liked him most. what started to change, you alluded to it perfectly, bill, because we started with a very similar mission to this in libya, long ago. it was going to be prevent a humanitarian crisis to prevent the slaughter of a group by moammar qadaffi. what we ended up with in libya is the president's most notable foreign policy debacle. it has been the worst thing because he committed the united states but not really but then you have a fallen libya that is potentially home to a new kind of terror state. it is very worrisome for

everybody. and it is now most famous for the killing of an american ambassador in benghazi. that is the backdrop as the president start as similar mission. now he is gun shy. now his base isn't behind him and the american public is very concerned about all the things you just described happening all at once. the world seems to be coming unraveled. bill: you could argue all politics are local but it is hard to ignore, what is happening in every corner of the world. "wall street journal" poll two days ago, foreign policy, only 36% of americans surveyed approve of how the president is doing. 60% disapprove. if you're looking 90 days from now, how does that affect, if all politics are truly local, chris, the outcome, the first tuesday in november? >> well, how about this? the tag line for the obama campaign in 2012, you remember, general motors is alive and usama bin laden is dead. they hit it all the time. that was the talking point.

that was their favorite. well, unfortunately now for the democrats who have to run in the wake of the ongoing foreign policy problems of this administration, the economy is causing a lot of people concern. there is deep concerns about that on the home front and internationally, things seem to be out of control. things seem to be out of reach. the president likes to talk about, well, the world is difficult. things don't run an even course and we can't just jump in everywhere. americans certainly don't want that. there is no support of idea, that's why he talked about so much another invasion of the iraq. we have the fourth consecutive president to order airstrikes against iraq. the american public knows this is part of our dna as a nation, and this is part of our foreign policy legacy, especially given the fact these are christians. this is predominantly christian country. especially pastors are hitting this hard from the pulpit every sunday, this issue will continue to fester and fester going up to the midterm elections. bill: the irony, just crossing right now, the f/a-18 strikes

that hit the artillery unit in northern iraq, they left from the uss george herbert walker bush, now in the persian gulf. indeed it is. now, chris, we're trying to find solutions here and you know what the critics will say. they will say that generals told you to leave a force behind in the event something like happens. well there was no force left behind. the president has defended himself on it. said he couldn't get agreement on behalf of the iraqi government. all that now is behind us. the question is what happens in the future? he says no more american forces on the ground in iraq. we do not know what happens next. how long can that position be defended and fought against? >> well, as a consequence of the libya debacle the president was disinclined to engage in syria. that civil war has raged on, raged on despite red lines being

crossed, et cetera, more than 100,000 killed and we said we weren't going to engage. the president said the united states wasn't going to engage. guess what, syria engaged us, and spilled out over the borders, into iraq that we owe, we owe iraq a lot and strategically important to us. so the war came and found us and found barack obama and it will continue to be that way. the thing about foreign policy is, you can't hold a photo-op, you can't have a press release. it will come and get you when i am is time to come and get you. bill: it was 9:30 eastern time we saw the president. ed henry suggested we'll see him today. we'll see if that is the case. chris, thank you, nashville, tennessee. chris stirewalt. arthel: fierce gop primary in the hard land a long time incumbent facing off against no fewer than 60 candidates including two from the tea party. we'll tell you how that turned out. bill: why don't we light inch the mood. connell: let's do that. bill: jet-skiing like you never seen before, neville. connell: i like it. bill: a world champ taking us

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on the new tempur-choice. the triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. arthel: deja vu. a serial stowaway busted again. marilyn hartman arrested at lax after she was seen walking around the terminal. you may remember earlier this week she made it on to a flight from san jose to l.a. without a boarding pass. she was sentenced to 24 months probation and ordered to stay away from the airport unless she had a ticket. police say they're keeping an eye on her. >> fortunately our hands are tied to certain degree and she has want to help. she has been a thorn in the side

of san francisco airport and for san jose airport now. we just want to make sure that we're proactive in this case. >> hartman says she is homeless and she feels safer in the airport than living on the streets. back to politics now, victory in tennessee for republican senator lamar alexander and in the process, holding off a tea party challenge. senator alexander with 50% of the vote in yesterday's primary beating 60 challengers including tea party-backed joe carr, who got 41% of the vote. but alexander, telling, mr. bill last hour that he would not characterize his victory as a coup for the establishment. listen. >> i wouldn't characterize it that way. there are a lot of emotions in tennessee. all of us think the president is leading us in the wrong direction. all of us want something done. i think the victory, if anything, says we've selected a nominee who has got a reputation for working across party lines

and getting results. >> also in tennessee, john roberts live in nashville with more. hi, john. >> reporter: good morning to you, arthel. sorry about the umbrella. it just started pouring here in the downtown area. chalk up another victory for incumbency for tea party challenger. lamar alexander survives for another third term, another 60 years in the senate. he ran on his experience and years of working with folks across the aisle to get things done, repeating at every campaign stop, if you want to make changes you actually have to pass bills. and to do that you do need democratic support. he had words for republicans who value idealogical purity over constructive governance. >> i'm not going to say anybody's right or wrong. you know, that, i get a little bit tired of people coming saying i'm a better conservative than you are, better christian than you are. we're a big tent party.

all i'm saying if you want to change obamacare we'll have to pass a law. we have a constitutional system for doing that. >> reporter: the fact that his closest challenger, state representative joe carr got within 10 points of alexander is a clear sign of the idealogical split and groundswell conservative movement here, even in tennessee. even as he was gracious in defeat, carr said the fight for conservative principles does not end with his campaign. >> we are here to engage in the battle of ideas when they're founded on the fundamental principles of personal responsibility, individual liberty, and free and fair markets and we will not move because we are standing firm. >> reporter: should be pointed out that while the rough estimate is that alexander got 50% of the vote, he actually did not crack 50%. he got 49.7. in many states, arthel that would mean he would face joe carr in runoff election but here in tennessee, a simple plurality

of vote on primary day wins it. lamar alexander wins it. arthel: you should be inside somewhere where it is dry. bill: get a big umbrella. that is good news. 12 1/2 weeks before the first tuesday in november. arthel: counting down. bill: christians under attack in iraq and around the world. what is being done to stop this religious persecution today? arthel: judgment day for oscar pistorius. the date is set for the verdict in the murder trial of his girlfriend. >> a little boy without legs, you experience daily that disability, and the effect of this. was that disability overtime, you get an exaggerated fight response. that is why you would go and not run away. that is the low burn. vo: this is the summer.

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bill: one of the bigger tories of the morning, isis capturing five more christian towns in

northern iraq, forcing tens of thousands of to flee. it is laying out harsh terms for christians and other non-muslims. leave iraq or be killed. not only places where christians are under attack, numerous places around the world, even in some of the ancient communities. in iraq there is desperate plea for help now. >> translator: in the name of humanity i call upon all of you to save us, save us. now at least 30,000 families are besieged in the sin jar mountains without water and food. they are dying. bill: loot colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst. he is with me now. good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: we know fa-18s took out artillery group threatening the town of irbil by the american military. so what now? >> not exaggerated the importance of that strike. it was a fender-bender in military terps. i fully support attacking isis

from the air, using our air power. by the tame, bill, i'm convinced obama grad school grouppies are out of touch with the american people. the idea that american people don't want to hurt jihad differents are nuts. i don't believe american people have any objection to using air pow power to kill jihadis slaughtering christians and other minorities. the key point, when you do use american military power it should be ferocious, hard-hitting, otherwise jihadis and other enemies see, america can't hurt us, america is a paper tiger and only increases their strength. one good thing about obama's decision i applaud to use military force, while we can not destroy islamic state terrorists from the air, we can't destroy a caliphate, we can degrade them and given couragement to kurds and others fighting them who are very discouraged.

glad we're doing something but we've got to do more. bill: you're arguing, if you hit them, hit them hard, you will help given couragement to the others who are frankly fighting the same group? >> yeah. i mean you can't, again, pinprick strikes, this goes back to the terrible mistake bill clinton made in the '90s when he felt like, well i have to do something about al qaeda, i will make a show. he lobbed a few cruise missiles at empty training camp and hit oddball targets in sudan and declared victory. it showed america in their view couldn't destroy them. the military isn't the answer to every problem but when you have jihadis, slaughtering christians, burning 18-year-old churches, attacking this harmless yazidi minority, beheading adults and even beheading children, that is time for america to step up. it is our fight, and yeah, it is water under the bridge we should have left troops in iraq. obama wouldn't. he is aversion to all things

military but to paraphrase the late great james brown, when it comes to military operations, if you're growing to do it, do it right, do it with soul. when you use the military, hit them hard. bill: a lot of this stuff is, it is history, right? we did not leave a force behind, yeah. >> yeah. bill: now we're looking for solutions in trying to figure out how you contain this group and i don't know if you can go from town to town with air power and drive them back to the syrian border and push them back to syria, have assad deal with them. perhaps they're too far advanced for that to happen. you see the map, how much they control from syria across that big barren desert into northern iraq. i remember vividly what bill clinton said about his greatest regret, that was the genocide of rwanda. let me be clear before i ask the question on this. we are not there, and god forbid we go there, but when you look at the number of people on the run, it has to enter into your minds that it could be a possibility in northern iraq

today. >> well, i personally believe that bill clinton probably called obama on this because, bill clinton has said that he feels greatest remorse for not having acted early on in rwanda. and so i would not be surprised if he, nudged obama on this but at any rate, it is important. we can't fix all the world's problems. i certainly understand that. the military not the answer to everything but in this case, our military can do several things. first of all, we owe it to other people of iraq to at least destroy the u.s. equipment we left behind that the iraqi army basically abandoned and turned over to isis. it is easier to use air power on the move, when isis, islamic state, when the terrorists are on the move with heavy equipment. that you can spot and hit. we need to arm the kurds and fully support the kurds. the baghdad government, until we see action out of them, i let them take care of themselves, concentrate on the kurds. they're our guys. concentrate on protecting christians, other religious minorities including muslims,

who are being butchered by isis. isis is, it is now really islamic state. these people are monsterous butch customers. the american people would be glad to see them killed. the problem obama's group is so insular, so inbred they are out of touch with america, americans want to save children from islamist butchers. bill: if you're right we'll see whether or not this position lasts. ralph peters, thank you very much. >> thank you, bill. bill: a from washington today. arthel has more. arthel: we'll get reaction now to this urgent humanitarian crisis in iraq from the city with the largest concentration of arab-americans here in the united states. mike tobin is live in dearborn, michigan. so, mike, what is the talk in islamic community there in dearborn? >> reporter: arthel, the imam at the islamic house of wisdom in dearborn, michigan, was anxious to condemn isis out of concern people will view all muslims through the same prism. he denounced the isis rebels as

ignorant, ego-driven animals who he says are damaging islam. the effort to force the religious minority to convert or impose sharia law is he says, against the tenets of their faith. >> i would prefer this constitution often times more than that shameful, so-called, sharia law, that isis and other extremists, they are talking about. >> reporter: now pressing the notion that the violent islamic radicals are a small minority of muslims, elahi supports military action against the rebels in iraq but would prefer to see it come in the form of support for the iraqi or kurdish forces. arthel? arthel: yeah, certainly didn't, the imam didn't minutes any words there. talk to me now about the reaction to last night's aid drops there in iraq. >> reporter: the reaction it was

badly-needed but it is coming too late. you have hard time meeting demand. in short too little, too late but better than nothing. in short what you see coming from the islamic community here in dearborn support for thenorin the hilltop there. reluctant or tempered support for the u.s. military action. arthel? arthel: mike tobin, thank you very much. bill: so to our viewers at home, at work, on your mobile device what do you think? what should and could the u.s. do now about iraq? the persecution of christians, the growing control of isis? check in on facebook.com /americasnewsroom. like to get your comments and thoughts on line to talk to us on our web page. arthel: yes. of course i think americans are in favor of fighting jihad but maybe not in favor of putting more troops on the ground. that is a catch 22. bill: log in and tell us what you think right now. >> all right. and there is this. the border patrol union is furious over the murder of an off-duty agent in texas.

why they're blaming the folks in washington. bill: also a verdict in the case of the so-called porch shooter. the mother of the victim with an emotional response in court. >> everybody has an opinion. you know, you're entitled to that but we know as parents how we raised her. she was not violent. she was a regular teenager. she was well-raised and brought up with loving family and her life mattered and we showed that. @"

arthel: verdict in the so-called detroit porch shooting murder trial. >> count one, murder in the second degree, guilty of murder in the second degree. count two, manslaughter. guilty of statutory manslaughter. arthel: there you heard it. a jury rejecting the claim by homeowner theodore wafer that he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot renisha mcbride. prosecutors said she was pounding on his door before

dawn, apparently seeking help after crashing her car when wafer opened the door and shot her in the face. the jury agreeing with prosecutors who said wafer had other options to protect himself. bill: 15 minutes before the hour now. growing outrage over u.s. immigration policy on the border. this time after the murder of an off-duty border patrol agent while fishing with his family in texas. two illegals in custody. one had been deported several times, four times in fact. that agent's union blaming congress ant president. sean moran, vice president of the national border patrol council and he is with me now out of san diego. good morning to you. we've been in touch with a lot of people on the texas side of the border. you're in california. what are you up against right now? >> we're up against close to 50 years of lack of border enforcement by the u.s. government. we have two political parties

that are unwailing to take real enforcement action and, we have had two administrations in in a row that gutted enforcement actions by the u.s. border patrol, by i.c.e. agents. that do not allow us to actually go to do our job. we are handcuffed at every single turn. bill: with regard to that. this is one of the stinging tweets sent out this week. border patrol agent javier vega murdered by two illegal aliens. blood on the hands of congress and the president. i take it you don't disagree with that. we were talking to folks in texas this week. what they're saying all the children, tens of thousands coming from central america is taken all the time and attention away from these folks because they have to take care of the kids. and what that allows is the thugs and the criminal element to do whatever they want. and this case, with this dead border patrol agent in texas. you have essentially got a revolving door, deported four times? and then able to come back in

the united states? how in the world do we allow that to happen? >> well, even before we saw the surge of unaccompanied juveniles coming across in south texas we have had problems. we have had our ability to do transportation check, interior enforcement. worksite enforcement. you name it any type much enforcement that the border patrol is specifically authorized and told to do has been restricted. over the past 15 to 20 tester. so if we can't go out to do our job and, we're going to practice this, policy of catch and release where border patrol catch people. these are not people just coming here to work as the, so-called line is fed to us. these people are coming here to do horrible things. i think murder of agent vega shows what these people are capable of.

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an american and a border patrol agent so valiantly fought. >> you know the family is struggling right now, you have a fund set up, tell me about that. >> all the proceeds are going to his family. you can go to the website, there is a link that will take you to that and you can donate to his family. >> thank you, sir. >> we checked out with john scott's to see what is happening on "happening now." us air strikes with iraq and fox team coverage and general who led air campaigns in iraq. kt mcfarland, captain chuck nash, all part of our coverage. plus the underdog republican candidate from california who lived for a week as a homeless man in search of a job. tell you his story.

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we will be on it for you have it covered. great to have you back. jon: and the coverage continues in this fox news alert. heather: thank you for joining us. american bombs falling once again on iraq. jon: president obama giving the go-ahead for strikes. the pentagon announced after 18 fighter jets the one you see here striking a piece of isis mobile artillery. the demings militants were using it to show kurdish forces in the town where american personnel are house. callincalling for military assie for these people trapped by radical religious terrorists. he had this message for them today. america is coming to help. fox news coverage this morning. greg is in london