>> that looks scary. >> thanks for joining us for this special edition of "the five". 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, that group's iraqi stronghold.

but the president cited another reason for taking actions. as tens of thousands of christians and other religious minorities were left stranded on an iraqi mountain without food or water forcing families to bury old and young in shallow rocky graves and to decide between their own starvation at the top of the mountain or death at the mountain of the mountain at the hands of isis, this group on the march for months claiming control of some of iraq's largest cities by june. they're not stopping there. claiming control now of iraq's largest dam earlier today, an achievement that could allow them to unleash a whole new kind of attack, not only on iraqis, but the u.s. personnel stationed in that country's capital. we have fox team coverage for you tonight. ed henry, charles krauthammer, colonel tom mcnerney and tom sexton. ed?

>> john boehner said he was dismayed by a lack of strategy from the president in terms of dealing with isis' march not just through iraq but syria as well. that seems to be the big challenge for the president. he has a clear short-term strategy but is lacking long-term focus. aides say the president, who campaigned against what he called a dumb war in iraq and was hesitant to use u.s. military power in syria, acted this time because of a tightly defined mission, which was halting a potential humanitarian disaster, also protecting u.s. personnel, wanting to make sure there's not another benghazi situation and also slowing isis down, although i pressed josh earnest today on why there is not a plan to actually stop isis altogether. with al qaeda, the goal has been, defeat and decimate. is the goal to defeat and decimate isis? >> the goal as it relates to this specific situation is the

need for iraq to confront the threat that is posed by isil. >> administration officials defend the lack of a u.s. se centric strategy. john kerry said today that he believes isis is a long-term threat to the united states. you have to wonder if there is a fear that in the long run they could potentially launch terror attacks against the u.s. the president heads toll martha's vineyard tomorrow for a two-week vacation. two of his top national security aides are going along to keep him in the loop. >> the president's announcement of these operations created serious waves last night. one thing he didn't say was whether this mission has a name. as pentagon officials confirmed today that it does not, there

are some suggestions this was a very deliberate decision. retired lieutenant general tom mcnerney is a fox news contributor. how significant is it to you that this operation at this point is nameless? >> it's very significant, shannon. i think the white house better get their name on it or it's going to be called operation martha's vineyard. the white house doesn't want that. those terms have to do with our campaign and our history. it's very important that the -- it shows the significance of the operation when you put a name on it. unfortunately he's making it sound like it isn't significant. >> what do you make of the air-strikes we have conducted so far? they've been specific, limited and targeted. are they going to be enough to -- well, whatever our mission is, to get rid of isis, to stop

them, free those trapped right now? what's the long-term mission and are these air-strikes enough? >> shannon, the mission ought to be simply to protect the kurds and kurdistan and to stop genocide. very simply stated. i would have expected 100 to 200 targets hit today. i think we probably hit less than ten, maybe less than five. i would expect to be over 200 targets -- not talking sorties but targets to be hit. they better get up with a very aggressive campaign or this is going to fail. >> how worried are you about other countries in the region, jordan, lebanon, as isis has quickly and powerfully advanced in that region? >> that's a great question. i am very worried, shannon. this could spread -- if we don't stop it at erbil and kurdistan, then it is going to spread -- it's already gone down to lebanon a little bit.

it will go into jordan and you'll see a link-up between hamas. they're both sunni tribes. and so the fact is if it cou could -- it's a contagion that affects the entire arabian peninsula. it's very important for our national strategic interest that action be taken and it be a very aggressive air campaign. >> if our allies in that region are threatened, more directly than they are currently, how much do you think that ramps up the necessity of the u.s. getting more directly involved with military from the air or from the ground? >> well, first of all, i don't think we need any u.s. ground forces. let them -- the iraqis, the jordanians, let them have the ground forces. let's use our vast asymmetric airpower advantage and use it to decimate isis.

i think we have to do that and we have to do it before it is too late. it is building up its forestructure because they have been successful. if you don't stop them, it is going to continue to grow. it is a cancer and it must be stopped now. >> general, as always, thank you for your time. >> thanks, shannon. >> we are also learning tonight that the president has now officially notified the house of representatives, sending an official breakdown of the actions he authorized in iraq that he says are, quote, in the national security and foreign policy interests of the united states. charles krauthammer is a fox news contributor, syndicated columnist and author of "things that matter." a great summer read. charles, thanks for joining us tonight. >> pleasure. >> what do you make of how the president is navigating this thus far? >> i'll give him credit for one half of the policy, which is to try to put great pressure on baghdad to replace maliki. that's what all the talk about

unity government means, getting rid of him so that you can have some kind of government in baghdad that is a reliable partner that will bring in sunnis and kurds. but that's completely different from what's happening in the north. and for the presidential spokeswoman to say, we're not going to do anything major, it all has to be done by baghdad, all we're here is to help them to repel i ssisisis, that's ridiculous. there is nothing coming out of baghdad. that army fell apart entirely at mosul. the kurds are really tough fighters. peshmurga has held off fighters for years. but they have obsolete weapons. they're trying to hold a 600-mile front against isis on the move. they could do it if they had the bullets. and this administration has refused to send them anything, saying it all has to go through baghdad.

anything we send to baghdad never makes it to kurdistan. the real issue here is, will we supply the kurds with the weapons they need to fight isis and hold the line? i also agree with the general just one more point. these are pinprick strikes. isis is an army on the move, very strong and armed now with all the weapons. advanced american weapons it captured in mosul. if you're going to have an air campaign, you're not going to hit an artillery piece there and a truck over there. that's preposterous. either do it seriously or you don't do it at all. >> i have a good source who says that the kurdish government and leaders there tried to put in an order with a u.s. manufacturer that could provide them ammunition and guns. but that company would need an export agreement from the state can want. department.

they couldn't get it because the state department's indication is it had to come through the iraqi government. and, again, this deference to trying to keep the country together, to try to defer to a centralized iraqi government. but the kurds ordered that stuff months ago and couldn't get it. so where do we streamline the policy within this administration so that they can get the help without having to take that detour? >> here's a president, secretary of state, talking about potential genocide, which we can see happening in front of our eyes. here's a friendly ally, the kurds, whom in the '90s, a democratic president protected with airpower for a decade. here are people who want to fight isis. and these ridiculous legalisms that this administration puts in the way of supplying them is simply incomprehensible. if the president gave the order tonight, we could have the weapons that the kurds need, any tank weapons, and all kinds of

local bw caliber stuff. if the president gave the order, it could arrive from germany, they'd have the supplies within one day. here's what the president and his spokesmen say. everything had to go through baghdad. we know the baghdad government led by this shiite chieftain, maliki, has refused to give the kurds anything since december 2013. the idea that all the aid has to go through baghdad is really preposterous. it's a way of saying, we are not going to supply the kurds. and they are there -- all they want is american help, not in the form of american troops, just the weaponry. after all, our weaponry is in the hands of isis. why not in the hands of the kurds who will fight on their behalf and on our behalf? >> to be fair, this president did campaign on getting out of iraq, getting out of afghanistan.

and he's been under a lot of pressure to do that. it seems he personally, politics aside, his conviction was we didn't need to be there. but he has the political pressure in addition that. now we're at the stage where we are with isis. what does he do? how does he -- is it possible for him to justify this to both sides of the aisle in a way that will allow him to do enough that could actually clean up this tragic disaster? >> this is a president in the sixth year of his presidency. he will never have to run for reelection again. if he allows himself to make the great decisions of our time -- and this is a large decision -- if isis succeeds in kurdistan, it can and will probably succeed everywhere else. and then we are going to have a radical islamist state that al qaeda has ex-communicated because of its savagery in charge. if he has to make those decisions on the grounds of politics, this country is in deep trouble.

>> charles, always good to see you. thank you, sir. >> pleasure. >> also tonight, dozens of rockets raining down after hamas breaks a temporary truce with israel. the very latest and a live report. plus, back to our top story, breaking developments tonight on the tens of thousands of christians fleeing for their lives from one of the world's worst, most brutal terror groups. former governor mike huckabee is here to react. also, a chilling, unprecedented look inside the terrorist group isis and how it is training up the next generation. >> translator: god willing, the caliphate has been established. we will capture your women as you captured our women. no matter where you want to be or what you want to do, chances are we're already there. 12 brands. more hotels than anyone else in the world. like super 8, where every destination is super. for a chance to win one million dollars, visit wyndhamrewards.com

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the terror group isis. >> after sweeping into iraq in june and taking control of mosul and takrit, they were paraded on the streets. >> translator: what do you want to be, a jihadist or to execute a martyrdom operation? why do we kill the infidels? >> they kill muslims. >> for us, we believe that this generation of children is the generation of the caliphate. god willing, this generation will fight infidels, the americans and their allies, god willing. the right doctrine has been

implanted into these children. >> where are you going after ramadan? >> to the camp. >> why? >> to have training? >> training on what? >> the russian. >> what are you going to do after? >> to fight the russians, america, the infidels. >> i'm 14 years old. i'd like to join the islamic state in iraq and syria and to kill with them. they fight infidels. god willing, the iraqi state will not do anything wrong. we love the islamic state. >> to establish the caliphate with one of many across the city. these events also serve as an important recruitment opportunity as the event drew to a close, the crowd were asked to join in a pledge of allegiance.

>> the man you hear them pledging their allegiance to is considered by some to be the new bin laden. at one time, he was actually in u.s. custody but released in 2009. we understand his parting words to american troops were, i'll see you in new york. buck sexton served in iraq, familiar with the intricacies of this documentary. your response to that? >> it's not surprising this is happening. a mass mobilization across the society they're creating, the islamic state. we have to put it in proper context. there was a time under the bush administration we were worried about state sponsors of terror. now we're facing an all-out terrorist state, a state run by and for terrorists. this is a new level and a new level for the jihad. i think what people also need to understand is this is actually an army of evil.

i know people don't like to put it in those terms. it doesn't sounds international relations like. but that's the truth. they engage in headings, suicide bombings. whoever serves there can tell stories, remember them using people with down syndrome as suicide bombers, children as suicide bombers. this is the successor to aqi in iraq. >> is this a good wake-up call for people to hear it from their mouths, for them to say they're going to raise the flag of allah over the white house and to see how they're teaching their children and say, they're the generation we believe is going to establish this caliphate and basically take over the world? >> it's a necessary wake-up call. a lot of people are saying, they don't pose any threat to us and they're not going to as long as we leave them alone. they would be the first jihadist group in history that had no designs on striking the west, our allies or the state of israel. that's just fanciful. seeing they're trying to poison the minds of the young and trying to get everybody that's around them engaged in the jihad

shows us there's no negotiation with them. there's no live and let live. if we don't stop them or someone doesn't stop them, they are going to continue on this path. they're going to create a caliphate broader than the one they already have. and this is going to be a complete disaster beyond the likes of anything anyone's seen before in the middle east. >> your position is if we don't deal with them now, we're going to deal with them later. >> at some point in the future, yeah. >> buck, thank you, always. good to see you. >> thank you. breaking developments on the tens of thousands of christians and other religious minorities stranded on an iraqi mountain without food or water. former governor mike huckabee reacts. plus, the president just sent a letter to congress saying he's authorized strikes in iraq he's authorized strikes in iraq for national sec [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ mom ] with life insurance, we're not just insuring our lives... we're helping protect his. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow.

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breaking tonight, new questions raised by the president's own party on his iraq strategy following his decision to authorize strikes. democratic senator richard blumenthal saying the president, quote, owes the american people a better, fuller explanation. harry reid saying the strikes were the correct action, quote, i also support the president's decision to launch air-strikes as long as no combat forces are on the ground. kirsten powers is a fox news contributor and served in the clinton administration. kirsten, welcome. >> good to be here. >> what do you make of this? it is a very delicate line for the president to walk. there is pushback from some within his party, not necessarily unhappy about what he's doyne but fearful for where it has the potential to go. what does he do now? >> well, i think there have been only a few people who have spoken up like senator blumenthal who's been critical of what the president has done. but overall, i feel he's gotten

a lot of support, at least from people in the democratic party, nancy pelosi, senator levin, elliott engel, the people actively involved in the foreign policy decisions of the democratic party. so i think he's got a lot of support for this. and i think as long as it doesn't turn into something more than this, he'll continue to have support. >> seems like those voicing those early concerns, that's what they're saying. congresswoman barbara lee says, i'm worried about where this could go. you've heard from our military experts and others say to get this job done, we have to do more than we're doing now if we're going to neutralize, stop and really take out isis. it's going to take a lot more than targeted strikes. as we move down that path, how do you think the president has to handle selling that if there is hesitation on either side of the aisle?

>> he has to identify that as a goal. i haven't heard him say he wants to take out isis. he's invoked humanitarian concerns and the need to protect americans on the ground there and that isis was moving towards the town they're in so the president said, we needed to take air-strikes to protect them. he really didn't say he wants to take out isis. so i think we have to see as things develop whether or not he's going to make that case or if he's going to feel that he's accomplished what he said he wanted to accomplish, which is to protect those americans and to stop a slaughter or genocide. >> recent polling out over the last week or so from both the a.p. and also from nbc/"wall street journal," when it comes to how the president handles foreign policy, he's at an all-time low with like 60% saying they disapprove of how he's doing. is this a chance to show some leadership, maybe to change some minds about how he's handled these foreign issues? >> yeah. this strikes me very much as a political move. and i think it is probably geared exactly to what you just brought up, shannon, which is

his low approval numbers on foreign policy, which he ironically was reelected with incredibly high foreign policy numbers. people had a lot of belief, i guess, in his foreign policy skills and they don't anymore. this feels very much something like something he did because he felt he needed to show leadership. but it doesn't have a real strategy behind it. >> we'll have to see what the ultimate plan is for the white house as the president has more time to articulate the long-term strategy. kirsten, always good to see you. >> thanks, shannon. new calls for action along the u.s./mexican border after a border agent was gunned down and killed in front of his family. the attorney general of texas tells us what his state needs now to make things safe. plus, new strikes today in israel as the recent cease-fire ends. the latest in a live report from gaza. and tens of thousands of christians stranded on a mountain in iraq without food or water, facing death. former governor mike huckabee

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breaking tonight, more than 50 rockets falling since the cease-fire between hamas and israel expired. rick leventhal is streaming live from gaza city with the latest. >> the fbi tells us 63 rockets were fired from gaza toward israel but none in the past seven hours. israel responded with air-strikes on 82 separate targets. it all started early this morning, minutes after the cease-fire ended, with rockets launched a few hundred yards from us here.

most of the rockets landed harmlessly in open areas but at least one hit a home and two israelis were injured this morning during the barrage which game despite israel's offer to extend the cease-fire beyond this morning and the result was predictable here in gaza. heavy air-strikes in the north near us. also in central gaza and further south with at least six dead according to palestinians, including three children and 30 others wounded. israel says hamas is responsible for the bloodshed because they fired first and israel says it won't negotiate peace while under fire. but the palestinian delegation is still in cairo and still wants its demands met, it says, to open air and seaports and lift the blockade. >> rick, thank you very much. breaking news tonight on the ugly war that's happening. thousands of christians and religious minorities in iraq fleeing for their very lives.

right now, stranded on a mountain without food or water, facing almost certain death. forced up there because the terror group isis has overrun several of the country's biggest christian towns. leaving them few options. they are to convert to islam or die. form governor mike huckabee joins me. but first, jeremy courtney lives in iraq and runs a christian humanitarian aid organization for all who need it. thank you for joining us tonight. tell us what you've been hearing and seeing. this isn't something that just started overnight. this has been playing out for a very long time and affects religious minorities across the spectrum. if you don't believe what isis says, you're in trouble. >> yeah. this is something that we've been seeing and trying to sound the alarm about for weeks. we have seen people flee their homes from all over the country,

yazdi, turkman, shabak. much of what you're hearing in america is true. >> when we see the images, they seem too horrific to believe. we have to blur and black some things out on the air. but this is what people are really living. my understanding is those who have been forced out of their towns, many of them have been robbed on the way out. their homes are marked when they leave. they're people with nowhere to go. >> yeah. that's the same stuff that we're hearing on the streets in our city where people are displaced as well. >> what can you do to help? what help do you need in order to assist these people? >> well, there are a number of groups on the ground that continue to give, support groups we know well, well-known groups li like samaritan's purse providing relief. my wife and i have made our home available to house people who are displaced.

we're doing everything we can to assist people as we can. at the same time, many of these families who are being displaced have children who are chronically sick with life-threatening heart defects. this is an area we've been working on for years. so our base of operation in southern iraq continues to receive children who are displaced from these areas in northern iraq. and we're doing everything we can with the iraqi government and with partners at international children's heart foundation and others to provide assistance to these children as much as we can. so what we need is ongoing support. it's not enough to just have hashtag campaigns and letters to the white house and air drops for people on the mountain. this is a much wider, more chronic situation that affects all of the country in many ways. >> jeremy, we thank you so much for your willingness to do work there. and we hope and pray you'll continue to have the support that you need as these folks are really in life-or-death situations.

thank you for sharing your story. >> thank you so much. >> for more on this, former governor mike huckabee. he has a new series of animated films for children out called "one nation under god." governor, welcome. good to see you. >> thank you, shannon. great to be here. >> how concerned are you at this? it's at a flashpoint in iraq right now. we have seen across the world for a very long time, religious persecution that seems to be sparking and flaming into someth >> this isn't new. but i think the spotlight is on it in a very new way. when i see people like jeremy, my heart goes out to him. and i think, there's a hero, there's a true hero. he's over there in the midst of trouble, putting his own life and that of his wife on the line to be there as christian ministers and presenting the ana antithesis.

we have to understand what we're up against in the world. the good thing happening out of them, maybe the world is finally going to say, there is a war against christians and jews. and for that matter, hindus. people who do not subscribe to the radical form of islam. in iraq alone, there are 1.5 million christians in 2003 when we first started a war there to liberate them. now there are less than 400,000 christians. and that number is dwindling dramatically because of what's going on with isis right now. >> i have to ask you, as someone who is a minister and has deep faith, do you ever get overwhelmed by what we cover every day in seeing these poor children and these persecuted people -- those who don't get out alive, how do you cope with that? how do you take a view of the world that gives you any optimism? >> the optimism comes from that very faith that you mention. i understand there's a difference between light and dark. there's a difference between good and evil. when people try to portray there's really no difference between hamas and the jews and

israel, i want to say, you're missing the point. there is a difference. there's a difference between people who stand in front of a baby carriage, protecting the baby that's in it and those who stand behind the baby carriage and let the bullets hit the baby before it hits them. there's a difference there. if we don't get that, if we don't understand the difference between the good guys and the bed guys, don't ever go to a western. because you'll never understand the difference between the guys wearing the white hats and the black hats. we are obliterating the line between good and evil. there's a distinction. we need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. when people will behead a child and leave people starving on top of a mountain without food and water, 40,000 of them, i don't care what religion it is, it's evil. that's what we need to be clear about. >> there is a difference. there is black and white. always good to see you. >> thank you very much. the u.s. firing the first air-strikes in northern iraq

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our next guest believes this administration's strategy is actually nonexistent. rick grinnell served as the u.s. spokesperson at the u.n. advising four ambassadors during the iraq and afghanistan wars. you brought something with you. what have we got here? >> it's clear this administration doesn't have a strategy, no name for the project. >> no-name operation. >> no-name operation. they don't know what they're doing. we had the deputy national security spokesman trying to talking about operational details inside iraq. that should be left to the pentagon. this is really an outfit that's making it up as we go along. i think the media are onto it. look at this. "the new york times" says, obama allows -- this is an administration that is dragged to problems. they are forced to look at the facts because they're not paying attention to the facts.

i think that enough is enough. we have so many problems around the world. and this administration is not paying attention and they have no strategy. you can't just make up air-strikes. we've got to have diplomacy. we should have had a plan when isis was building in syria. we should have had a plan as they went into iraq where we spent a lot of blood and treasure. this has now fallen apart because there is no plan. susan rice, who's our national security adviser, she was obama's campaign spokeswoman. so this campaign is continuing inside the white house. the problem is this is a serious situation happening around the world. and we have a lot of humanitarian crises. we cannot have a national security strategy that is just about racing to humanitarian crises. you've got to have a diplomatic strategy. >> where do we go with that?

do we need to be organizing with our allies in the area -- syria's been going on for so long. the red lines have been crossed. we haven't delivered -- >> the saudis want to do something, the jordanians want to do something. the turks could have. but they've been left to their own devices. our nato ally, turkey, is becoming radical. erdogan is not being challenged and yet he's a nato ally. we have fundamental problems. but make no mistake, our arab allies in the region want a plan. the saudis were elected to the security council and then they said, in two months by the time january comes around, we're not going to join because the americans don't know what they're doing. that's what the saudis said. >> and they're a close friend in that region, a very close friend. >> you've got to be able to have a plan of action. we don't do everything. we're having a debate in our own country about not racing around

the world and being the police for everyone. we can't afford it plus are we the best ones to solve these problems all the time? we're not. we have arab allies. we have to have the plan. i've been at the u.n. where when you walk into the room, everyone at the u.n. is looking at the person who's sitting behind the united states' placard. they want to know, what's the plan, where are we going? >> it's a time for leadership. >> it is. >> how do we make that happen? >> we have to decide what our national interests are and where our allies, our arab allys specifically in the middle east, can help us. and there are things they want to do. the saudis are really wanting to do something. we have to give them the tools and say, here's the action plan, take some steps. >> we'll keep an eye on samantha power along with the rest of the administration as we watch to see what comes out. >> it's a big job. >> it is a huge job. thank you for your insights. and visual aids, too. new details coming up on the

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>> they need to go out to the children who lost a father. in the crossfire of this cross border problem!

death like this would happen because they catch and release people coming across here illegally. this is now, shannon, i can't count the number of times we had people, victims of crimes, in this case a murder because people just rotate back in and forth across the border. >> where do you think that message gets lost. these are things we know happen and know family should have to go through this when it would have been potentially preventable if these guys were taken into the country or repeat offenders that they wind up in jail? >> i think the message will no longer be lost now that the obama administration knows it has blood on its own hands. outside of fort worth earlier this month a young 9-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by again a person who had been apprehended in the united states four times and sent back to mexico. clearly, a child being sexually assaulted, border patrol officer being killed that needs to be

warning enough to the obama administration that the border problem is serious and must be fixed. the federal government must step up and do its obligation. texas is not going to stand identically by, which is exactly why we added additional boots on the ground to better secure the border. >> that's my next question. does the department of justice need to do a better job of wrapping up these cases? do you need more humans on the border to make sure these people don't come back? what is the solution to this? >> several things. first, in the short run, we need more boots on the ground. that's just a temporary solution. a permanent solution is for the federal government to do its job and secure the border. until the federal government secures the border we will continue to see individuals like this officer who were slain. we will continue to see little girls like the one in parker county assaulted. these two lives are now impacted because the obama administration

has not secured the border? do you feel like you and governor perry and the other leaders in texas have what you need to protect the people of texas? >> we know we are doing a better job today than was being done before the additional boots were put on the ground. we know however shannon there is more that must be done. the additional dps officers, additional national guard and local level help but they are not enough. we need more resources. we need the federal government to pay for the national guard we are beginning to deploy at the border. >> we'll see. we know there's a big fight on capitol hill what you may or may not get in the help and fight along the border and making sure it's under control and those w want to come legally can do that and those who don't have other motives can be stopped from causing these terrible tragedies. mr. attorney general thank you so much? thank you. >> let us know what you think. get in on the conversation on

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