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islamic militants. two f/a-18 jets dropped 500-pound laser guided bombs inside targets in iraq. let me tell you what is in that area of northern iraq. we have u.s. military trainers stationed there. military action, the deepest engagement since our troops left in late 2011 after nearly a decade of war. i don't have to tell you that. you know. the pentagon is delivering food and water to thousands ever families trapped on a mountaintop after they escaped from islamic state extremists targeting christians and other minority groups. chief white house correspondent ed henry live from the south lawn of the white house now. ed, i want to ask you about the scope of this mission in iraq? >> reporter: harris, we may see more airstrikes in the hours ahead because one of president's top national security aides, ben rhodes, told us a short time ago, that the u.s. military has green light from the president. it gives the military a green light to launch more airstrikes on two scenarios.

one, if they believe the refugees, 40,000 christians, others being persecuted in northern iraq on a mountain without food and water, if they're any danger the u.s. military can move forward with us air strikes. if there is any sign isis is moving towards irbil, any key cities that could give them more territory and power inside of iraq after they already gobbled up a lot of territory in syria as well the u.s. air force can move forward with airstrikes as well. in terms of scope, the president made it clear last night and made it for years, obviously that he wanted to get out of iraq. they're making it very straightforward and up front at the beginning, they want this to be limited, targeting mission, no boots on the grounds, et cetera, at least in early hours here. that is what we're being told. >> to make it clear he ran on that. >> exactly. >> going to end the war in iraq. i'm curious. i know journalists in the press corps, we're always trying to put our thumb exactly on the

president's foreign policy strategy here. how does this play in. >> that is interesting. you raise a good question. yesterday we were pressing press secretary josh earnest and he will have a briefing 45 minutes or so, what will it take tore deeper u.s. military action in iraq or maybe even elsewhere? he kept saying only in the core u.s. interests. then the president will move forward with military action. i asked him the direct question several times, does preventing genocide qualify, he wouldn't directly answer. the president gave us more insight last night, saying if there is mass killings that are about to happen or going on the u.s., in his words can't turn a blind eye. when you ask about a strategy, harris, he will talk about iraq but what about syria? you had the u.n. and others say well over 150,000 already been killed by assad? so if you start applying the principle in other places around the world, a president who doesn't want to get deeply involved in military engagement, might sudden if he applies the principle, might find himself

having to be consistent in a lot of other places here. >> the president campaigned as antiwar candidate in 2008. you got a sense he was pretty careful with his words last fighter. >> was. and look, in the president's defense, his aids say look -- aides say look he has the american people behind him that the nation is war-weary not just after iraq but afghanistan which is binding down as well but, on the other side of this, there is some tough questions for the president next time he faces the white house press corps on not just iraq but afghanistan. you remember what the president said in 2011 when he pulled all u.s. forces out of iraq. he said we were leaving behind a stable iraq. based on the president's own words last night and actions in the last 24 hours it is nowhere near a stable iraq right now. it has not worked out as he promised three years ago. what does that mean for afghanistan moving ahead? remember a few days ago a major general, major general greene was killed, a dozen other u.s.

troops wounded in afghanistan. president is planning to leave behind just 9800 u.s. troops. he faced criticism from republicans about that. what is happening, we're seeing play out in iraq, will that force him to change strategy in afghanistan? >> he had henry, teeing it up for us tonight or today. thank you for the report. thank you very much. i want to go to you, first, dean. we are talking about you've been to this part of iraq. you know what you're talking about here. tell me what is your response how we're responding as a country. >> i think we're responding awfully late. once you say we're pulling all troops out you're asking for trouble. i saw this trouble coming way back in the day. everybody said that. i think it is great we're doing something now, one thing i would have, maybe done differently myself is, maybe made some airstrikes first and announced it, just as tactical decision. i know he didn't want to get in there i think that is for political reasons but he had said in a speech, i don't know if it was in 2008 or whatever it was, that genocide is reason for him to come in. he is already opened that door.

he has said protecting people would be a reason. genocide specifically. there is clearly genocide going on right now. isis, the stuff they're doing, is horrendous and kirsten and i were talking about this earlier. we don't see it here in america. so sanitized but you can find videos of those guys, things they're doing to christians and whomever throughout, they are so brutal. i'm certainly for him going in and taking out these guys. >> part of the sickness, they take some of those videos. >> oh, yeah. >> they roll on the stuff themselves. >> they that is positive pr which i don't understand at you will. >> for them, for killers it probably is. kirsten, watch something with me. the president from last night. he says a word that struck you because you hadn't heard it before. let's watch. >> these terrorists have been especially barbaric towards religious minority and christians and yazidi, a small and ancient religious sect. countless iraqis have been replaced and chilling reports

describe isil militants rounding up families, conducting mass executions and enslaving yazidi women. >> there have been a double number of christians killed last year around the year. >> hundreds of thousands of christians driven out the last month. all the christians were driven out of mosul. maybe 5,000 people. but in the whole area there has been hundreds of thousands of christians. this has been going on. he has not uttered the word christian. now suddenly throwses it in with yazidis, it i wonderful we're helping them and doing airdrops to then. we're not doing any airdrops to christians refugees in the kurdish region who, you know, congressman wolf has been taken to the floor, i think seven days in a row now pleading with the administration please help these people. they need humanitarian aid. they need drinking water. they have nothing. they have lost their homes. they have lost everything. the white house has done nothing, said nothing. the president goes on in there

and goes into quite a lost detail about the yazidis, never gets into specifics about christians. unbelievable. he has no right to invoke humanitarianism because he is not a humanitarian president. humanitarian president does not sit quietly by while hundreds of thousands of christians in iraq, forget about the rest of the middle east what is going on, doesn't say a word. not a word. >> interesting to get your viewpoint on that. speaker boehner echoed the same sentiment. i backed airstrikes that president obama has announced but they're still no strategy for these islamic militants. what is the long-term strategy? dean, he makes the point this is still a president and white house that is disengaged in what is going on over there. >> i don't think he has a long-term strategy at this point in time. i don't think he foresaw this happening although people have been screaming about a long time. i can't imagine what his long-term policy is. i know he wanted to get out of iraq. every place we fought a war, world war ii, germany, japan, we

have troops stationed there john mccape took a lot of heat back in the day, how long would he keep troops there? hehe said, well we've had troops in germany or japan for 60 years. that makes sense, not to be fighting all the time. we're not amation building bunch much troops but there for peace keep something important. what you have are a bunch of bullies out there, if they find weakness they will go after it and exploit it and they're using our own weapons now, which is shocking. >> right. >> which maybe, might be easier for us to blow them up. maybe we have little chips, tell us one of ours to go find it. >> why put all your cards out on the table. he keeps saying no boots on the ground. let's announce strategy to islamic extremists every chance we get. you don't know what will change, what will happen in two months that might require more american intervention. you don't know what is happening here day-to-day. you can't predict and say well, no boots on the ground. how do you know that will not be a necessary step the united

states has to take at some point. that is ridiculous. the point of considers sy is also important. people on twitter and facebook, the response i saw was confusion. why didn't we jump into syria? what is justification for this as opposed to that. people are confused why the obama administration intervenes in some cases and not others. what it is, and he needs to better articulate that. >> there is bright way to articulate it. we were talking about this, harris. the difference between iraq and syria we have people we can work with in iraq. we have the kurdish people. they are great allies. you can arm them. >> you think we should try to arm them, kirsten. >> i think we should. >> so do i. >> which don't know who some of these people are. some are isis and free syrian army getting together with isis. we don't know. will we army people in syria and end up being horrible allies? we don't have that problem in iraq. >> one thing i thought about are people on mountaintop and put special forces in for them. i don't want to be them tonight.

you telecast to the world and with you noil put ground troops and people down -- >> political decision. all about politics. all about staying true to campaign promise. not about policy may need to be implemented to help people and secure our own national security. it is ridiculous that he does that receipt he hadly. >> correspondent doug mckelway reported that the mission has not been given a name. that gives to the president's reluctancy. you can't look back in history on sufficient and such date there is operation so-and-so. we won't talk about that as of yet. there is more to talk about. if it like on cue, they are fighting again, the cease-fire ending with hamas terror group firing rockets reportedly at israel and israel striking back. both side remaining far apart in peace talks. and, hmmm, have you seen them? of course you haven't! now guess what the irs says happened to all those important emails from the middle of the scandal about targeting conservatives? remember this top agency

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♪ >> welcome back to "outnumbered." a three-day cease-fire between israel and hamas is over. hamas firing rockets into israel as soon as the truce expired. the israeli military responding with airstrikes in gaza, targeting hamas. now talks in egypt are deadlocked. the israeli delegation leaving cairo saying they won't negotiate while under fire. it isn't clear if they're actually going to return. that is the question of course right? i mean they are still very far apart as far as their negotiations in cairo, but, harris, this could throw things off even more. >> what is so frustrate about this though? we had leaders over there, we had people looking at situation, and we haven't had anybody i will say it again, white house, when will you pressure hamas? when will you push on other side. hamas was elected by the people.

palestinians elected this group. they may have done it at gunpoint. this is what they decided they want to do, right? so if that is the group that has been elected to talk to them and they are killing people from across the way then you have to start to pressure that group. i mean i've seen so much pressure put on israel but haven't seen the same thing -- >> you wonder if it is fear? >> i hope not i hope not! >> would you be surprised they are intimidated by what the consequence will be. >> i would be disappointed. >> the united states would not be proactive and be somewhat disengaged. that wouldn't surprise me if they were afraid to put pressure on what the reaction would be. >> makes sense they feel like israel is only one you can deal with. how do you even pressure hamas. >> they dealt with the taliban? >> they're not reasonable people. you see what i'm saying? it makes sense you go to the reasonable people to try to reason with them. the other people, i don't know what you can do with hamas. somebody has to. >> if you're going to strike a

deal. >> reasonable people are not fire being the rockets. i understand what you're saying it makes logical sense to all of us because you're reasonable. the way situation is playing out, one group that won't stop firing rocket and make things peaceful is hamas. that is the people that have to be dealt with. >> sometimes you have to talk to the people you consider an enemy -- we've done that in every war situation. >> do you really think the u.s. can solve this problem? >> whether they can solve the problem or not, we should die trying. there are allies. >> hollywood's been very vocal what the united states should deal. what israel should and shouldn't do. i don't want to bring too much of that in and i don't want too label you. >> i'm not afraid of that. >> what do you see as next steps, especially on part of the united states here? >> tough to say what the next steps should be. i think benjamin netanyahu having led his country --

listen, put it this way in california. mexico is a very close. if because jaw, california in mexico was sending a number about rockets at san diego, baja, california would become, mexico would become part of california, because we wouldn't stand for that for a second. if people were shooting a the my son like that, i will protect my family. that is what israel trying to do. i'm firmly on israel's side. i can't understand how a democratic country is being attacked like that -- sure there are issues going on obviously, but, if they want peace, they asked for peace. they're not the one breaking the cease-fire. hamas clearly, they're terrorists. and clearly our administration should put a lot of pressure on them. so for me, to speak up about that, i know there has been stuff with javier bar dem and penelope cruz, signed on a letter. i didn't read the letter. jon voight wrote scathing letter back. >> join rivers also. >> did she as well? on the same side of israel? >> yes. very vocal.

>> i'm firmly on their side. i think benjamin netanyahu is very strong leader. if i were being rocketed i would want him making decisions because i think he would make them right now and make them with my best interest at heart. >> words that ring in my head, sandra you remember talking about those children dying and seeing both sides of this. >> that is the hardest farther. >> it is awful to see that. nobody wants to see that, however, hamas is firing rockets and doing things knowing full well civilians will get blown up. they want that. i believe it wholeheartedly. >> all right. well, on to another topic. more key government emails may be missing. we're told a key hhs official involved in the rollout of the obamacare website likely deleted some of her emails. they not be retrievable. marilyn tavenner's mess edges are sought into the investigation into the problems with the healthcare.gov website. this sound very similar to the

missing email problem into the investigation into the irs targeting scandal. you don't need to say anymore. >> i feel horrible that we're laughing. it is not funny. did the dog really eat your homework? >> again. >> again. you know, the statistic by chair of the house oversight, darrell issa, saying that this means more than 20 witnesses in the obama administration lost or deleted emails without notifying congress. this is irresponsible and kirsten, for all we know, no one is going to be held accountable. >> right. >> that is what the problem the american people have. >> emails are missing always seem to be in that little window of exactly -- you know? really pay amazing. >> kirsten, of course. they're ignoring federal law. they're ignoring federal record-keeping. audacity to say we lost them and excuse they gave, was that, her in box gets really busy and she has to keep it orderly. that's why she didn't hold on to emails. you have to be idiot to believe

that. that is not acceptable. there are laws in place that you have to hold on to those. what did you do? how will the people be held accountable? it is craziness. >> what do you think, dean? >> could not agree more. that is insane. if you get audited by irs or i may which will probably happen now, i don't have the receipts, you know, what they went missing, what happens then. >> you will be held accountable by the irs. >> i think they should be held accountable. it is ridiculous. you can't even do it in third grade let alone as a member of our government. so i think it is ridiculous. >> here, do we think they're really missing? in this day and age, isn't there a way to retrieve these. >> i mentioned the archivist group that the government contracted to work with the irs. i mean if i'm them, i'm doing everything i can to prove that i can get my reputation back in a big way by finding those emails. but you know what we're talking about now gets away from the targeting scandal and steps into

a zone where it is pretty easy to talk about somebody breaking the law. i'm wondering why they don't hold somebody accountable. not only get rid of emails, they didn't do one thing the law calls for. they didn't let the archivist know the emails were gone. they didn't print copies of important ones they know they have to. now we're getting into a zone where you can bring in prosecutor and you can hold people legally accountable. might have to carry people out in cuffs. >> i think they will. i don't think there is a choice now. it is so blatantly obvious something went down and a, ridiculous and law breaking. >> i go back to the fact i.t. professionals within the irs said there is a. we need to bring in outside help and irs turned a blind eye and didn't do anything about it. we'll leave it there. islamic militants in iraq capturing a christian town, prompting thousands of people to drop everything to run for their lives. how militants are singling out

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>> fox news alert now. news being made on where we started at the top of the hour. tens of thousand of christians and religious minorities are helpless on a mountaintop in northern iraq following offensive by islamic militants isis. you know they have been rolling across and now we're engaged from the air. they have given those non-muslim as choice. either convert to islam, leave, or die. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in london watching this for us. greg? >> reporter: harris, we spoke with someone who returned from northern iraq and he said the

people there are desperate. the militants from that isis group driving out residents from the biggest christian town in that part of the country, as well as other villages, something like 100,000 christians are now said to be on the run, panicked and helpless. many of those we are told, already fled the larger city of mosul where churches and shrines were destroyed, where in the throwback to nazi days, militants have put markings on houses where christians live. but it is not just iraq. according to one study, christians are said to face some form of hostility or restrictions in 111 countries around the world. another report asserted the number of christians killed for their faith doubled last year, over the year before. and according to still another expert, islamist extremists are enemy number one for christians. two more examples, syria, next door to iraq where isis is already active, 1200 christians were killed in 2013.

christian villages have been overrun and 12 nuns were kidnapped and release only recently. and in the african country of nigeria, proving very dangerous for christians of all ages. there are 270 schoolchildren kidnapped bit boko haram islamist group, mainly christian. most were forced to convert to islam and are still being held. by the way, harris, pope francis is weighing in on the situation in iraq in the past 24 hours. he called for prayers worldwide. he called for international action as well. perhaps that action is coming. prayers, they're always helpful. back to you. >> absolutely. and they can come from all of us. greg palkot, thank you very much. >> we're going to shift over to some economic news. the recession may have officially ended five years ago according to economists but new data from the federal reserve shows americans are still struggling. one-fourth of families say they

are just getting buy. compared to finances now to five years ago, 20% said they were somewhat better off, 34% said they were about the same, but 22% were somewhat worse and 12% were much worse off. kirsten, with, given these statistics, people are saying we're still struggling to get by, do you think this has impact on democrats in the midterm elections? >> democrats are already looking to probably not do that well in -- >> does this put them over the edge here? >> i i think is already baked into the cake. this isn't really new news, that the economy, the recovery hasn't been very robust recovery and hasn't been moving fast enough for people. i think it is already baked into the cake, people that already considered that. yesterday we were talking also a lot of women are still identifying with the democratic party, despite this, still feeling the democratic party will be one that get them out of this mess. so the big question is, will they be sort of activated to vote because of that? >> interesting how you say the

democratic party. then the question becomes, will democrats running this fall distance themselves from president obama because he is clearly not led us strongly out of that recession? i point to this the largest retailer in the world is walmart still. a lot of competition from amazon.com. walmart is still the largest retailer in the world. they have identified their low-income customer is still struggling living paycheck to paycheck. i don't have to tell you guys. that means they're not putting money away for savings. they're not paying down credit card bills or student loans. the poll we discussed on this show two days ago, it revealed average american household, jedediah, is sitting over $5,000 of student loans. $2,000 of unpaid credit card bills they can't pay off month to month. it is tough economic environment out there. kirsten, we have sort of seen the president talk about this booming stock market. it has hit record highs. what good is that if people don't have money to put in the stock market? >> ironically last 4hours it

hasn't? how does the gop grab voters though? i always say a great top student -- opportunity. they're waiting for someone to say this is pro-growth opportunity geared toward you. what are they waiting for and how can they do this today? >> first of all the on student is identifying where weaknesses are. you're talking about people walking around with debt that. hurts all of us in the long run. that is why the housing market is still stagnant. if you're carrying that much debt, you can't get a loan to buy a house. two things are happening, people saddled with debt and can't move something in our economy we need wheels moving along to get us all going. so i think republicans have the opportunity to identify some of these weaknesses. even if they only concentrated on those two areas, maybe can't fix everything. fix something. >> right. >> get that quiver in your pack. get ready to shoot that, i think that would really help. >> dean, didn't republicans have the opportunity in the last election and they sort of

dropped ball about message to economy in voters? >> that is the big word, the message. how do you get the message across? who knows. i sit at home and watch different news shows and things. all i know is this you can throw million statistics at me. >> we did. >> so does the government. throw statistics. i know, people, everyday average people are still struggling. i know that. i don't know where messaging should come from and what is happening. what is going on is not robust recovery. i think tax situation is out of control. even fact we have a tax law that is that thick is crazy. so there has got to be a lot of different changes. i don't see them, i don't see them coming. i don't see anybody giving message that makes sense to me either side. >> gop, this is your opportunity. we say it here every day. seize the opportunity to talk to people. they are waiting. "the blade runner"'s fate, we now know when the judge will hand down the verdict in oscar pistorius's murder trial. plus he is connected to some of

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♪ >> welcome back to "outnumbered." schools in miami-dade county say they will start testing high school students for steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. the announcement comes after tony bosch, founder of mime area biogenesis clinic linked to some of baseball's biggest stars, admitted he also supplied steroids to high school athletes. we have a former football player, professional football player on the couch. sometimes superman but always talented. you have definite opinions about those. >> i do. it comes out of this. the number one problem in all of

this is parents, parenting. they say in the story, there is always an adult who facilitates what goes on. parents, that is number one problem. you have a talented daughter that plays tennis. they start pushing her to do this as she gets older? my son is 14. starts high school. big kid already. could he be bigger and faster with steroids? sure he could. would i have allow that with steroids. >> absolutely not. most of the danger is with the parents oh, i want my kid to do this, get me out of this and be the next johnny manziel or offer whoever. that is the danger. so i blame parents number one. >> does that mean the parents are facilitating taking steroids or putting pressure on kids to find -- >> probably both to be honest. >> there is that. parents could educate themselves to look for warning signs. rather than schools having to buck up tens of thousands of dollars, in some cases hundred of thousands of dollars it will

amount to implement the testing at high school level, how about parents hold themselves more responsible, not only not pushing their kid to the point where they feel like they have to do this to perform to get into colleges but also for them to watch for the warning signs? by the way costs involved i mentioned, this particular school district, harris, is allocating $73,000 for this. it is going to cost $50 per test. so that is $73,000 will be gone in a flash. talking about opening this to private sponsors. it will get messy. >> some kids will never have the test. some kids -- >> i never looked like a culprit. >> let's make it all even and blah blah. there are certain kids you know, they're not a question. you know 5-foot 7, 135-pound kid, oh, he is on steroids. it doesn't happen. kids at camp, developmental camps. things like that where they pointed to in the story. >> i saw, jedediah a solution there. you want to dot testing but hold parents accountable. get parents to pay for -- >> i don't think we should do

testing at high school level. i don't agree with that. >> is it privacy issue? why don't you like the testing. >> it's a cost issue. why should the parents pay for it though? that would buy them in. >> parents will pay to test their own child? fine. >> they might. >> fine. >> talk about buying in, if you get a positive back you know you've got a problem in your household. that pulls the two together. >> took the cost issue aside though, the random testing seems like a good way to figure out what is going on. the kids will not be honest with their parents. a lot of parents don't know what is going on with their kids lives. a lot of parents are not pushing. they're busy. unaware, working two or three jobs. if you took the cost out, good policy though? if you weren't considering the costs, harris's plan goes through, parents pay for it, do you think it's a good policy to test kids at high school level? >> i think you're getting whole new ballgame. amateur athletes enjoying

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>> more "outnumbered" in just a moment. first let's get to jon scott with what is coming up in the second hour of "happening now." jon? jon: sandra, next hour continuing coverage of the ongoing situation in iraq including live reports and analysis. president obama authorizing the use of targeted airstrikes there to protect americans and prevent humanitarian massacres. the pentagon confirms a pair of f/a-18 fighters from the uss george h.w. bush dropped 500-pound bombs to take out isis artillery truck this is morning. we're also awaiting a live briefing from the white house.

we will be monitoring for the latest developments. and final arguments wrapping up today in the murder trial of oscar pistorius. today the defense tried to argue police messed with the evidence in that case and the death of reeva steinkamp was a mistake. our legal panel weighs in. it is all ahead. "happening now." >> thanks, jon. jon: thanks, sandra. >> okay, i may be "outnumbered" but now it is my turn with this story. working moms are often asked about how they balance it all but what about dads? well a ceo of a large software company is stepping down because he says he wants to be a better dad. in a recent blog post max wrote, quote, i have been asked what kind of car i drive, what type of music i like, but never how i balance demands being both a dad and a ceo. whale the press haven't asked me, it is a question i often ask myself. the 44-year-old father of three adding he is forever in his debt to his wife, very smart, for finding a way to keep the family

working despite his crazy schedule. well, good for him. that is my, good for him. that is what i've been doing for the last 15, 14 years of my life. >> doing what? >> i've been, i'm a single father. i raised my son. he is first and foremost and i changed my work schedule 100%. i won't leave, there he is. look at that handsome boy. he will get me for that. >> good-looking boy. >> no steroids though. >> i almost didn't recognize you, there, dean with that facial hair. >> didn't role. >> pressure in hollywood though? isn't like 24/7 lifestyle working on a movie or a show. >> absolutely is. but hard part, i won't move to new york, i won't move to texas. i won't go somewhere else and take a series. so finding work and doing things and balancing with being a father has been number one problem for me. this guy, he has money and it is great and wonderful he can take the time to do that. same with me. there is a lot of fathers out there who can't do that but it is so important to be involved

in your children's lives. same thing with guys in steroids. that should be number one focus. >> i love that you're saying this. i love the guy wrote the blog post. i think it is true. i don't think guys get asked that question. everyone has choices to make. everyone has to think about what their priorities will be. i think it is unfair guys often don't get asked. they have big decisions to make, do i go to work, hire a nanny. you turn down jobs at times? that is big stuff. >> this particular guy said he was on place to fly 300,000 miles this year. >> wow. >> three kids at hole. wife has very important career as well. a doctor and professor at stanford university. that being said, you know, we do have to recognize the very important last point that you made. that he has the financial where with all to do and say this. not a lot men don't. important we recognize they are in this just as much of women. >> not a question that gets asked very often, i promise you that. i turned down, for example, what would have been extremely

lucrative television contract because i would have to move and that would be a problem. >> beautiful, he is blessed to have you as dad. >> i am blessed to have him. he is light of my life. >> we should ask the question, can men have it all? >> yes they can but i don't it all yet. i'm hoping to but i don't have it all yet. working on it. >> speaking of working dads, our own one lucky buy hosting a new show that is sure to mystify called, masters of illusion. which showcases magicians from all around the world, performing amazing acts. take a look. >> enjoy filling in missing information. they don't like an incomplete picture. what do you see here? two blocks of wood. but are you really seeing what you perceive? they are actually inside out and our brain creates them in a perfect world of reality. >> awesome.

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♪ ♪ >> this story makes my blood boil. welcome to "outnumbers". diners in a minneapolis restaurant got a surprise when they saw the minimum wage bill. owners say it is offsetting the state minimum wage. the fee only $0.35 and the diners had mixed reviews. you are essentially blaming the

customers for the increase. and others support the business. it will cost more than 10,000 for the increase. and they passed it along to the customers and they have been nice to point out. we didn't smack it on to the cost of the hamburger. coping the price the same and it is $0.35. everything is wrong here. that anybody gets mad at $0.35 system crazy to me. >> i think if it is to pay the minimum wage. i would pay. it >> the same time complaining are in some cases, the people who are advocating for the minimum wage hike. >> the funny thing about this. of course, consumers get the cost passed on to them. it happens all of the time.

instead of raising the prices. they make it stark and clear and straightforward. you ever get your phone bill and look at the surtax and chargeses. i don't have a clue what they are. at least on that one you know what it is you are paying for. >> apparently the american public doesn't want that transparency. and now we know we are helping benefit the minimum wage. people are glad to pay it if they didn't know what it was for. >> somebody has to pay for stuff. the notion of money growing on trees. somebody has to pay. >> it is $0.35. >> and they are letting people know. >> and so, i mean who is going to look at that. >> harris is asking the question. why did they label it.

>> it was a block point? >> it could have been. i wonder if there is a legal issue. >> legal? >> and the owner said that he was aggravated about the minimum wage hike. >> he was. he didn't have to put it on there. you expect it to hurt his business. but business is booming. >> that's the point and he didn't have to fire workers because of increased cost. there was other small privately owned restaurants in the area and bigger cost increases of upwards a million dollars who are doing something similar. >> we are back on tv monday. it is outnumbered. noon eastern time. monday, "happening now" is starting now. thank you to our one lucky goichlt >> there is a lot of smart women here. >> we like you.

come back comb any time. >> see you. >> and we begin with a fox news alert. white house press secretary josh earnest holding a daily briefing. the situation in iraq is expected to be the dominant topic. and we are waiting on the latest in iraq and we'll bring you the latest. we are monitoring the white house. >> a lot happening for sure. >> yeah. >> american bombs are fall nothing iraq as u.s. war planes carry out the first air strikes against the isis militants. >> welcome to a new hour of "happening now", i am jon scott. >> and i am heather childers. i am in for jenna lee. president obama authorized air strikes to protect americans and prevent the massacre of religious minorities. one strike happening this morning. in the northern