on greta wire. i hope you will join us, as well. see you monday night, 7:00 p.m. eastern. a special tonight. watch. this is a fox news alert. hello, this is a special edition of the "five." the u.s. unleashed two sets of air strikes in northern iraq today as isis jihadists threatened genocide against christians in the country. tens of thousands of non-muslims have fled for their lives in fear to a mountainous area and are trapped without food or water. isis terrorists today took hundreds of women captive from the minority group. the u.s. military is trying to help resolve the humanitarian crisis, but questions remain about president obama's strategy going forward and whether air strikes alone can stop isis. we have team fox coverage. doug mckelway is at the pentagon. ed henry is at the white house.

we begin with our reporter on the ground in erbil, iraq. >> reporter: unfortunately, there's still a lot of bad news coming out of the region. one thing in particular, today the iraqi ministry of human rights confirmed rumors that the militant vs have taken hundredsf yazidi women hostage, and are keeping them in a school in mosul. the assumption is that they'll be sold in to sexual slavery and forcibly married. so that's very concerning news. other yazidis are stuck at the top of the mountain without food or water, although there have been some aid drops made the last couple of days. and also the kurdish peforces he managed to rescue some and bus them down the mountain to a nearby town. that's positive. we're still seeing many, many christians fleeing into the kurdistan region, have been driven out from the cities.

they're sleeping in schools, in churches. some are even sleeping outdoors. and it's just overwhelming. it's just -- a huge humanitarian crisis in the making. one last piece of -- concerning news is that the islamic militants may have taken the mosul dam, although it's not yet confirmed. if they have taken it, it's essentially -- could be used as a weapon of mass destruction if they chose to destroy it. they could flood huge areas of northern iraq. apparently it would even reach as far down as baghdad. >> thanks. radical jihadis are pointing guns at americans. listen to this chilling video of an isis politicaltant saying they won't stop -- political militant saying they won't stop until an isis flag flies atop the white house.

we turn now to the pentagon where doug mckelway has more details on this brutal terror network. doug? >> reporter: that's right, kimberly. isis was born in what is called the cradle of civilization. the area between the tigris and euphrates rivers in iraq. sprang from the remnants of al qaeda in iraq and flourished in 2013 in the syrian civil war until other rebel groups booted it out of there. it now seems intent on the destruction of western civilization and anything that's in its path. of most concern to americans is not its barbaric beheadings and seventh century-style culture, but its organization and aspirations. from its leader, al baghdadi to its ranks and structure, it's become not just a terrorist organization but an adept force with thousands of fighters. it has money from the robbing of

banks and selling oil to the syrian government. it has weapons including stolen u.s.-made up-armored humvees, carriers, mraps, and perhaps helicopters and tanks, as well. also has among its ranks many western fighters. perhaps in the neighborhood of 100 americans belong to it. several hundred europeans. they can come and go quite freely by flying commercial to turkey, taking roads southward into iraq, and back again. given that intelligence analysts know that isis is indeed seriously planning attacks on western european capitals and american cities, as well, that prevent -- presents, i should say, a frightening scenario indeed. back to you. >> thanks. let's bring in white house correspondent ed henry. ed, has our commander in chief gotten the memo that what he's dealing with is a varsity organization and not a j.v. group with isis, and how far is he prepared to go? >> reporter: that's the big question.

in fact, the spokesman got the question you raised about j.v. squad because that was the suggestion the president made, you will remember, a few months ago in an interview with the "new yorker" magazine. he said, look, these jierfightee j.v., like j.v. squad putting on kobe bryant's l.a. lakers' jersey and pretending they're pros. the fact of the matter is this "j.v" team is obviously causing the united states and allies trouble in the mideast now. i think one of the questions moving forward is how much of a threat is it -- isis to the united states. today, josh earnest repeatedly said this is a narrow mission. when you ask how far will the president go, it's a narrow mission. when i pressed him on is there a strategy to take isis out, josh earnest said, look, it's not up to the u.s. to take it out. basically it has previously the iraqi military, kurdish forces. there are big questions loom in as to whether the iraqi military

can do a job like that. we've seen them running away in recent weeks and months. not up to the job despite the time, money, blood, treasure spent by the united states the last decade or so to stand up this iraqi military. they may not be ready for. this that's why the u.s. intervened with air strikes to at least help from a hawn standpoint, help prevent a potential genocide. you're right. the big question moving forward is what's going to be don stop isis. all signals from the white house are there's going to be a narrow military operation. flow combat troops on the ground -- no combat troops on the ground. maybe not many more air strikes. if that's the case, it's hard to see how isis is going to be stopped. >> we've heard that these guys are like good businessmen, and they have -- they're also really, really good strategists. but isn't their strategy pretty obvious, which was to wait us out until we left? weren't they lake a thief waiting for -- like a thief waiting for us to go on vacation, and they came back in?

>> to some extent, yes. this is what the critics were saying three years ago when the president brought all u.s. troops home from iraq and said at that time here at the white house that we were leaving behind a stable iraq. you look at some of the pictures you saw a few seconds ago, it's clearly not a stable iraq. otherwise we wouldn't have been needed to go back with air strikes and help. i think the opposite argument, the one the white house is trying to make in their defense is that when the u.s. had well over 100,000 troops on the ground in iraq, we were still getting shot at. we were still losing, unfortunately, men and women in uniform. the president wanted to have end dates. sure, the enemy's going to wait you out. on the other hand, what is the alternative? the u.s. military just keep a large footprint on the ground in iraq for the next decade? spend billions more dollars, lose more lives? obviously we want to stop isis. on the other hand, at what cost to the american military?

>> this is bob -- the strategy was that both the bush administration and the obama administration, as i understand it, was to stabilize iraq and train its military. it's got well over 50,000 trained by u.s. personnel. they outnumber -- if you take the best, most optimistic number for isis, 10,000. they outnumber them 5-1 r. they that -- they're well equipped by the united states are. they that bad? the strategy apparently for both administrations was a lousy one because they couldn't train a military to fight when they had the advantage of 5-1. >> good question because i remember at the end of the bush administration bush officials citing progress within the iraqi military. we had done all this great training, and they were ready to stand up on their own. i've heard the same from the obama administration, whether it's republican or democrat, over the last several years. look, they're standing on their own two feet. that's what we've got to do. you're right. now even though they've outnumbered isis big time, either isis is a lot more crafty, or the iraqi military is

clearly not ready to stand on its own two feet, or some combination therein. that also to me raises questions about the progress we keep hearing from the obama administration about the afghan military. and that they're going to stand on their own two feet at the end of the year when we only have 9,800 u.s. troops left at the end of this year on the ground in afghanistan. is the afghan military ready to stand on its own? based on the rosy reports we heard about the iraqi military, not so sure. >> jedediah? >> reporter: the president said repeatedly no boots on the ground. my question is, strategically, why are you telling everyone that? why are you revealing all of your cards and letting isis know from the start that we have no intention of boots on the ground? doesn't that empower them? doesn't the administration understand that we shouldn't be laying all of our cards on the table from day one? >> reporter: it goes back to the first question i got which is is it the strategy for the enemies, isis or others, just wait us out. if we immediately take options off the table, as you say, it makes it a lot harder for us to

achieve an objective. when i pressured josh earnest about, look, are we going -- what's our strategy to defeat isis, he kept saying, it's up to the iraqi military. we -- they can't be defeated without us working with them. what about the u.s. military? do we have faith and confidence that the u.s. military could defeat isis? if we're not putting the full force of the u.s. military, maybe they're not going to be able to do it. as you say, if we're already ruling options out on the way in, it's going to be harder for the u.s. military to achieve an objective like that. i think the flip argument, the flip side that the president was trying to lay out in the state dining room last night is the country, whether you want to admit it or not, is war weary after more than a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan. and while the president's going to take heat for not being willing to put boots on the ground, if you took a poll now, and we've taken polls in recent months, there's not a lot of people who want to see boots on the ground. >> jesse? >> jesse waters here.

take us behind the scenes at the white house. the power players here s. bi. is biden disagreeing with kerry? is susan rice running around saying something? is the pentagon angry? is there consensus, or are people just disagreeing on this? >> reporter: i think when you name some of the players, it's fascinating. susan rice, this is one of the first big debates she's been in. obviously she's been in here for a short time as national security adviser and was scarred by her part in the clinton administration where president clinton did not get involved and stop the genocide in rwanda. she and others have talked about that being a searing experience. the sense here is that that is a big motivator now to say, you know, put their foot down and say we've got to stop genocide in iraq. another, you asked for a behind-the-scenes moment. that video is of the president today cualling king abdullah of jordan. he was meeting with the national security team huddling about this and was headed to northern virginia for a v.a. event, a signing of the v.a. reform bill.

and out on the south lawn, we got video of the president and chief of staff engaged in an animated conversation. you see it there now. the president waving his right hand, talking to mcdonough. as the video guess on, he get in closer. it wasn't that he was angry, he was agitated. the story going around is that the president was not happy that the story was leaking out while they were meeting the national security team. "the new york times" broke the story that the president was weighing air strikes, maybe leaning toward air strikes. why is that significant? the story may have been leaked by somebody outside the building, the state department or pentagon, that potentially wanted to box him in and say, look, they're weighing this. put it out there publicly. then if the white house pulled back from air strikes, they would look weak. so that's some of the intrigue that's going on right now as to who leaked the story and put it out there. the president didn't seem happy. >> ed, the president had information, had advanced knowledge month ago of the strength of the isis groups, their capability, weaponry, their intelligence, all of that.

we had a unique opportunity to seize the moment at the time. we failed to do so, and now we see the result of it, the genocide. and now humanitarian crisis at our doorstep with a group that is strong, emboldened, with eyes toward the u.s. how does the president justify his inaction and lack of decisiveness against this very strong terror group? >> reporter: what they've said previous to the last 48 hours when this potential genocide really came to the front of mind for all of us was that they didn't have strong intelligence to target isis. i'm talking weeks ago, not the past few days, when the president started talking about it earlier this summer. obviously the intelligence would have gotten better. we know after the president highlighted this threat, we were sending u.s. military planes over iraq and running intelligence missions to get a better sense of where isis was. in the meantime, isis has been on the marks, as you say, getting closer to baghdad, maybe taking over the mosul dam.

you're right, that raises a big question about, yes, it's potentially a positive for the president. even john boehner, a critic, praised the president for the humanitarian mission and air strikes. why didn't we act sooner? putting aside the humanitarian mission, why didn't we act sooner to get issues sis? >> that raises, of course, the obvious which is -- was that going to stop these people by doing air strikes? i think that raises serious questions. the answer is no -- >> bob -- >> maybe slow them down. let's cut right to the chase here. if the iraqis cannot defend themselves, if the afghanis cannot sdedefend themselves, th means the united states, once again, we'll go back to war to fight isis alone. is that right? >> reporter: well, that could be an option. the president is indicating he doesn't want to do that. i'm not going to say yes because the president has indicated he doesn't want to get the u.s. plunged into another war. that's why he didn't get heavily involved in syria last year. that's why he was criticized there. but the way you lay it out, bob, you know, are we going to be the

world policemen for iraq, afghanistan, after many years of war? are we just going to keep going back because they can't stand on their own two feet? that's what i suspect going to be and should be a big issue beyond the midterms in the 2016 presidential campaign. are we just going to be the world's policemen bailing all these folks out because they can't stand on their own two feet? >> i guess the argument is whether we're bailing somebody out, we're actually bailing ourselves out ahead of time. one points, i don't know why we didn't bomb them once they entered iraq. i don't understand. i think that would have done something. i want to bring up just the intel point in the era of snowden. i mentioned that there are 100 americans in isis. i'm assuming that they made contact from the united states to some terrorist outfits in the middle east. is this why -- i'm editorializing, so you can agree with me -- why nsa matter? these are the needles in the haystack that we must keep an eye out on. how do we -- how did we not know who these 100 americans are?

>> reporter: i don't know that we don't know who all of them are. maybe we could be getting american intelligence from them -- >> they might be coming back. >> reporter: sure. if they're on the ground with isis, maybe they come back and tell us what's really happening inside this very shadowy terrorist group. to your point a moment ago, you're absolutely right. my question about being a world policeman, sure. it might be a tough job sometimes. it might cost us a lot of taxpayer money. remember, pre-9/11 when we didn't want to be the world's policeman, we let the taliban and al qaeda grow and grow. there were terrorist camps, and they hit us. i'm not saying that's going to happen this time, but you're right, it's something we have to weigh. >> there's so many hot spots going on for the administration. you have gaza, ukraine, the southern border, now iraq. do you get a sense from inside the white house that they're scrambling and there's panic, or do you get the sense that they're execute something sort of strategy, whatever that is? >> reporter: i'm not sure

they're executing a strategy. when we were pressuring josh earnest on, okay, if the president's -- vision he laid out last night was the american government can't turn a blind eye if there's a potential genocide or mass slaughtered of people involving 40,000 people, say, in iraq in this case, over 175,000 have been killed in syria, and we didn't launch air strikes. we haven't launched a military campaign. he said, well, each is different. in that case, i get that not everything is the same. but if you have a guiding principle like that, why does it apply to iraq and not syria, for example? and so i don't think there is a str -- strategy tying this together. he's going vacation. he's bringing two top security aides to stay in the loop, but you're right. he's got a lot of national security crises on his plate now. >> thanks for the update. coming up next, isis now threatening america. how did the obama administration completely miss the warning signs about this rapidly growing

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about the growing threat of isis in january, he dismissed the terror network, equating it to a "j. "j.v." team in basketball. fast forward seven month later, our commander in chief just ordered air strikes against that j.v. team that is threatening genocide against non-muslims in iraq. not to mention threatening america, as well. did president obama and this administration underestimate this escalating crisis in iraq? charles krauthammer and karl rove certainly think so. >> here's the tragedy -- we had an infrastructure in place. had obama been able to negotiate an agreement -- he wanted to get out completely, he wanted to be able to boast in his re-election campaign, i got us out. as a result, we are nowhere in -- >> the administration has been behind the eight ball since the beginning of this thing. it is because this president does not have a strategic view of what america's interests are. >> jedediah, help me understand this dismissive attitude the president has against threats. he calls them the j.v. team.

he dismisses putin as some regional actor. he called the crash of the obamacare website a glitch. he has a history of doing this. why do you think he does this? >> well, when it comes to foreign policy, i think he doesn't want to be engaged. he doesn't want america to be in a leadership position. i think he hopes that everyone else will take care of it. we step out of the way and prays that it will go away. he's not interested in being the leader and setting the precedent. he's interested in letting it drift and hopefully doesn't become an american problem. as far as domestic issues, i think that's a whole other issue. i think that's politically driven. i think he often caters to his left wing base. he's concerned at this point at the legacy that he will have when he leaves office. i not that's his priority. >> do you actually think, greg, that he's dismissed the threats? or do you think he's seen the threats and ignored them? there's no way, lake you said, the nsa can't detect an army growing with artillery moving in and out of the desert -- we can look inside merkel's cell phone but can't see this in the middle of iraq?

>> you know, he learned everything from the news, as you know. the only thing he ever sees coming is a check. the problem is specifically to iraq, highway would hae would h he had treated what was accomplished in iraq as an achievement and not kind of sneered at it as a huge mistake. he legitimately believes it was a huge mistake. but the war was won, and you could have kept it that way. he never felt that strongly about it. if he had felt strongly about it, perhaps he would have seen this coming. i want to add one more point. people in the media have said -- they don't want to be boots on the ground. and the thing that's driving me sunsets when they say america is tired of war. everybody is tired of war. you don't have that luxury. terrorists don't say, look, america is fatigued, we'll back off for a while. you guys take a few months. to america, exhaustion is never an option for us. we can't go to sleep. the moment we go to sleep, they slit your throats. >> right.

>> not -- let me ask you this, bob. karl rove says they don't have a strategy. we have the powell doctrine, bush doctrine, being a cold war warrior. what is the -- >> let's go back to the bush doctrine. remember he said he wasn't in nation building. then he start aid war this remember that rove was behind. now rove says, oh, we don't have a strategy. hell, we're picking up dust from your strategy, man, which was not very good. and the idea that this war was won and there was some -- krauthammer says there was infrastructure. look at this infrastructure. if this infrastructure is supposed to take care of this country annow the soldiers are running like crazy after we supposedly trained them, the fact is we never could have had this country won. these people are either -- they're afraid of these people and the -- the idea we'll stay there forever, if that's what you're getting down to because they can't handle it themselves, if that's what the bush doctrine straits foreve-- states forever. >> obama said we left behind a stable, viable, peaceful -- >> that's what he said -- >> sovereign iraq. that's what obama said. >> right.

>> from obama. >> jesse, here's the problem. they didn't establish a good agreement to be able to still maintain -- >> so the iraqis wouldn't do. it. >> listen to me -- >> so the -- >> no, bob -- >> why did he brag about not having troops left if he wanted an agreement? >> guys, listen, it wasn't handled right from the beginning. we had them at the table. we shouldn't have negotiated -- >> for bush -- i didn't say that. whoever's in the white house, the opportunity presents itself to exert diplomacy with force that is respected, to say, listen, we're going to have a status forces agreement. we're going to make sure we do not leave gaping holes that the terrorists are going to find the path of least resistance. look at what has happened. we have to examine what we do so we know to not make those mistakes going forward in the future. so this doesn't keep happening throughout the -- >> but they refuse to -- >> kimberly has the last word next on the "five." why america must lead the world in standing up against terror. stay tuned. r ♪

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i love humanitarian aid. and boy humanitariy humanitaria bombs. people think it means fad and water, send them -- food and water. send then canned beans, they'll be fine. you can't eat a meal when you're beheaded. in a world where ghouls rule and death is their dialect, bombs trump bread. we make the best and deliver them faster than dominos -- without the bread stick. we need to remind ourselves, if it isn't us to brings it, then who? whenever we leave, the vacuum is filled by monsters of misery. your shall their happiness. pacifists will shout, think of all the terrorists you're bombs will create. but their pacifism is proportional to their distance from risk. and historically killing bad guys doesn't make more bad guys. killing saddam hussein or bin laden created no new terrorist

despite the prediction. i don't recall any terror movements beginning in japan after august 9th, 1945. america's ability to end conflict is the only thing the world's got left. it's the only prayer that christians, jews, buddhists, and atheists have in living to see tomorrow. islamic extremism exists only to spread. and you never negotiate with a stalker. our response can only come from above in the shape of a 500-pound rsvp. for america is truly the bomb. >> fresh stuff. >> that is. >> it's like you never heard it before, huh? all right. i did it earlier in the day -- >> better the second time. >> people, it's called a -- what do you call it? it's called a classic. that was a classic. >> instant classic. >> a two-hour classic. >> a "mir cole -- a "miracle on 34th street" is clask.

>> -- a classic. >> as you were reading this, which i heard for the first time, amazing, i was thinking what if there were no united states? can you imagine? no one steps up to the plate. if we didn't step up to the place, who would step up to do these things? i can't imagine a country that would. this is why you don't downgrade our military. this is why when people say american military is so important, you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. and what you do know is that the united states is going to be the leader of it, and we're going to be the ones who step in to solve the problem. >> a good point. and wasn't the peace corps dropping those goods? >> the u.n. was dropping food. i think moveon.org came out with a statement about this new air assault against issue sis. they said -- against isis. they said they're for the food drop but against the missile drops. they basically don't want the kurds to die on an empty stomach. they're okay with the u.s. military basically serving people their last meals before they go off to the execution. it doesn't make any seen -- what i'm amazed with is the precision with the food drive. i think it's 80% of the food

gets there. it's amazing, the u.s. military is the only department, the only entities in the federal government that could do something, obacould obama's epa this precise? no. it's an amazing, amazing machine. >> yeah. >> it's an amazing machine, and it's not being degraded, by the way. the point is -- this is what -- what jedediah said, there was no united states, a good point. there is, and we're the one who has to take the lead. does this mean that in fact we're admitting that we are the policemen of the world? that we're going to have to be out for 10, 20 -- you said nobody else -- >> people left, bob -- >> no -- >> humanitarian aid isn't being policemen. that'sno, talking about bombingd stopping isis. nobody else is stopping them except us. we'll be around for a long, long, long -- >> it worked. there isn't another america. there isn't like an america on mars that we can actually have -- >> far be it from me to question your monologue, but the japanese did have a question of atomic bombs that --

>> no, what i'm saying is the logic would say that the bombs would then create terror groups. but that -- yeah. >> look at this. this is america at its best. are we going to complain because we have opportunity? because we have the best military of the world? because we have the most liberty, the most freedom? no. >> you have a lot of coffee today? >> no, didn't have any coffee. this seems to be obvious. we have c-130s dropping food women and school children that are about to die, stuck on a mountain, this is the right thing to do, you should be questioning it. if you don't, it's going to come to our adoptstep. >> kimberly, you made -- our doorstep. >> kimberly, you made your point -- >> kimberly needs to be secretary of state. >> going to be my press secretary when i run for office. >> there you go. next, christians are being forced to flee, convert, or die in iraq. now, the pope is speaking out and demanding action.

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isis has taken over the largest christian city in iraq, forcing tens of thousands of non-muslims to flee from their homes, fearing for their lives. a yazidi member of iraqi parliament has issued this devastating plea for help. >> religious leaders across the globe are condemning the christian persecution, including pope francis himself. the vatican released a statement urging the international community to end the tragedy and protect and provide aid to those

affected by the violence. bob, what should the international community be doing to help christians that are being persecuted? i feel like we're not doing enough, this is a problem that's ongoing, getting worse, what can we do? >> well, first of all, we should have done -- the community should have done something a year ago when this show here was the one that broke out about the cop -- christians' churches being burned in egypt. when you couldn't get ahead of a christian -- only david cameron had the guts to say something about it. obama didn't do it. no other leader in the western power did. it and no church leaders have done it. with all due respect to his holiness, the pope, the -- the fact is that he's late coming to the table, too. i think what you have to do now is -- is for the sake of -- this is genocide. it is genocide. it's trying to eradicate an entire race, in this case a religious sect, that's been around for thousands of years, that became christians. when cite ascechrist -- when ch

ascended. the silence is baffling to me. yet we spend all this time worrying about the muslims whether they get their student visas and can build mosques. i say take care of us. >> kimberly, the media did ignore it for so long, so long. now everyone seems to be paying attention to it. what do you think changed? i'm glad it changed, but what changed? >> i think we've been giving it extensive coverage, and we have the most fears -- let's start with that. this is something that shouldn't have taken this long. it is appalling. how can you watch a video like that and not get involved and not help and not care for all the right moral and ethical reason? if you don't, then you have no heart. and the problem is we need to get vocal and loud about it and be able to show that this kind of genocide will not be tolerated. that there is no time frame for it. that there is no peace accord without safety and freedom of religion for all christians. >> i say for every one of them, we -- every one of us, we take two of them. >> thanks, bob. >> good strategy. greg -- >> dee think we can make a

difference? speaking out as kimberly is saying? can we effectuate change? >> because it were the exception to the rule -- ever since 9/11, no one in the media -- the media is more concerned with muslim backlash than christian persecution. if you did a search. i mean, we were always worried about after 9/11, you don't want to take it out on the muslims. it was a radical sect. we agree -- >> you agree. >> yes, i do. christians are the least cool religion because you can make fun of them, and they won't do anything about it. they are not scary. so it's okay if -- i think it's kind of okay among the press to ignore injustices. i said this earlier today -- care, the council on islam ic relations, they got to do more than release a press release because it goes right into your spam fold.

why doesn't c.a.r.e., modern muslims if they, organize something outside? be -- where is the gandhi of islam? >> right. yep. >> that's a good point. >> where's the pope? let's stop this talk and do something about. this you funnel money from here to the radicals, why don't you go out and save christians? that would be an idea -- >> bob is right. you know -- >> c.a.r.e. is totally silent. this is a holy war. we may not think it's a holy war. they think it's a holy war. when the president doesn't say radical islam. when he kaulz the war on terror overseas contingency operations, and when we're patting down grandma and letting muhammad walk away, i think the failure to articulate accurately what we're fighting against and not shine the spotlight on -- >> yeah, right. got to go -- >> we've got to go. got to run. coming up next on "the five," a live report on the latest in the renewed fighting in the middle east. stay tuned. ...so you say men are superior drivers?

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rick leventhall live in gaza. rick? >> reporter: bob, we're still hearing israeli fighter jets and drones in skies b. 45 minutes ago, an israeli naval ship opened up on a target behind us. we couldn't see what they were shooting at, but we did see a number of air strikes earlier today. all this after hamas broke the truce this morning by launching rockets just minutes after the cease-fire expired. dozens of rockets, 63 total, were launched toward israel including several from spots very close to us here in northern gaza. most landed harmlessly, we're told, within israel. a couple were knocked out by the iron dome missile defense system. at least one rocket caused minor property damage. there were two injuries reported. but here in gaza, the damages were far greater, and the toll far higher with dozens of air strikes throughout the day and the night across the gaza strip leaving at least six dead and 30 wounded, according to the palestinians. of course, israel blames hamas for the bloodshed, says -- and

says that it won't return to the peace talks in cairo as long as it's under attack. bob, these two sides could not seem farther it won't return to the until etc. under attack. >> take care of yourself over there. >> what do you think. is this -- we had a truce that lasted three days -- i know greg's view about cease-fires. does anybody see any possibility this is going to get resolved? >> no. hamas won't stop firing rockets. so, no. hamas is the group that's making peace impossible here. israel wants peace. they're saying, stop firing rockets at us. stop using tunnels, stop trying to tunnel weapons and using them against it. >> every country in the region -- the arab countries have called on them to stop it, too, except for the iranians. they're not paying any attention to their brethren? >> hamas has no interest in a

solution. if there's a solution, hamas ceases to exist. a truce for them is just a pause for the terrorist to apply lipstick to his goat. >> i wish that wasn't a true story. >> i have an opinion on the goat. but the fact that they're pushing for the cease-fire still is shocking to me. you don't need a cease-fire. you just let the military of israel obliterate hamas. i'm not surprised the president isn't letting israel defend its own borders. this president won't defend our borders here. but hamas is going to continue firing these rockets until the world community pressure israel to lay off. we know what they're trying to to do. they're trying to get us to say, israel, calm down. >> this was about gaza, not the mexican border, by the way. >> this is what i think about gaza. i think israel needs to finish the job, get it done. learn from our mistakes. benjamin netanyahu has the support of the israeli people.

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take you away. >> how can you tell he looks happy? >> nothing happier than that bunny right now. >> do you need a psychiatrist? >> yes. but that has nothing to do with that bunny. i could fit in the sink. >> at 5:00, he had a cat in a tub. >> a cat in a bucket. >> it is so odd it defies logic. j save us? >> this week, the death of former white house press secretary james brady who suffered a gunshot wound to the head in 1981 has been ruled a homicide. nancbull, the woman who made the ruling hasn't disclosed the results of the autopsy. but interesting it's been ruled a homicide. curious to see the legality of this and how this plays out. >> is hinckley -- >> yeah. >> i'll be watching it with you. fascinating. t medical examiner has to rule the cause of death was homicide. let's go. >> bob, you want to go?

>> actually, it's me. happy birthday, baby, smokey the bear, that is. smokey the bear turns 70 tomorrow. do you remember him? he has 96% name recognition. he's up there with mickey and mi minnie mouse. only you can prevent forest fires. i was an arson prosecutor and a lot of fires in california. take a look at this -- >> kimberly, you're so hot that smokey keeps trying to put you out. >> oh, yeah, baby! smokey, don't put mamma out. here he is. >> it will take a lifetime to t forest his forest. fires. >> i love it. the commentary, what can i say? bob, you know. >> this is actually a first. you've got to note this down.

donald trump, trumpy, for the first time, wants his name off of something. that's remarkable. he's now filed suit to get his name off of two of his casinos in atlantic city because they don't meet industry standards. donald put them there. donald didn't take care of them, apparently. and then they turn them over to somebody. and he says he has nothing to do with it anymore and he wants his name off of it. i didn't think he wanted his name off of anything. >> your relationship with him, genuine affection -- >> he's a sweet person. >> scary moment in major league baseball last night. take a look at this. >> jordy mercer with the line back to the mound -- oh! hits dan jennings right in the temple. >> wow, that was dan jennings, the marlins pitcher. took a line drive right in the head. he's actually doing okay. he tweeted last night he's doing all right.

he's giving the thumbs-up there. >> wow. that looked scary. thank you for joining us for this special edition of "the five." see you back here on monday. have a great weekend, everyone. breaking tonight, u.s. fighter jets roaring through the skies over iraq today. but there are growing concerns that the targeted strikes and the humanitarian mission under way already may not be enough. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly. hours after president obama authorized the use of force in iraq, a pair of f-18 fighters were bop drdropping bombs on the of isis. the strikes began when that group started firing near erbil. it's just 50 miles from mosul, at