welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. it is being called the first major shift of the u.s. mission in iraq. now the pentagon sent 129 military advisers to the embattled country on tuesday. in a moment we'll go to jennifer grifin live at the pentagon. the political battle is brewing in iraq as prime minister nouri al maliki refuses to relinquish power and warns of more turmoil if in fact he's replaced. meanwhile support is growing for hader al abaddi to take over and form a new government in the country. for the latest and assault on

religious minorities, we turn to greg palkot. >> first to the critical internal political news here in iraq. the now-acting prime minister nouri al maliki looks like the fix is in on this version. he went on state tv today and he claimed he would not step down unless the top court approved the decision to oust him. but even his iranian patron the iatola today endorsed a new more moderate successor to nouri al maliki. anymore inclusive government here could help with international help to the refugees including christians being targeted by militants. here are a few we caught up with today. take a look. >> feeding frenzy in iraq. starving, thirsty christian refugees looking for food, looking for water at a soup kitchen at a church in irbil. driven from their homes by isis militants, trying to survive.

>> we saw whole families who had to flee with just the clothes on their back often robbed of everything they had by the isis fighters. we heard multiple times that they were threatened with their lives by isis if they didn't convert to islam or pay a big sum or flee. and that's what they did. we saw the hungry, the thirsty, the sick, we heard about parents worried about their kids and kids worried about not getting to schools. one old woman begged to us international help has to come. and we put it to a lot of people, sean, how do you feel being targeted, being singled out just because you are christian? one person told us, no religion is like that. in the past a couple hours, sean, just one more footnote, we have been seeing and hearing aircraft landing at an airport here in irbil. maybe a sign that a u.s.-led international rescue mission for those refugees still in harm's way might be in the offing.

back to you. >> greg palkot in iraq tonight. according to senior u.s. officials the pentagon sent 129 military advisers to help devise a plan to help the iraqis trapped on a mountain in iraq. this as the u.s. military continues humanitarian air drops into the region. and fox's own jennifer griffin is standing by at the pentagon tonight. she has all the details. jennifer. >> reporter: sean, it will take a few days for the 129 u.s. marines and special operators who arrived in irbil yesterday to assess how to save the yazidis stuck on that mountain. these forces are armed as are all of the 864 u.s. personnel currently in iraq. >> this is not a combat boots on the ground operation. we're not going to have that kind of operation. >> these 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. they're there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off that mountain. >> reporter: the marines arrived

in four v-22 ospreys which will remain in irbil. there are other u.s. air assets that have been positioned there to protect u.s. personnel and troops. again, all of the u.s. forces there are capable of combat because they are going to areas surrounded by isis. u.s. war planes have carried out 17 air strikes in recent days to protect the kurdish capital, irbil, where u.s. personnel are currently located. the president is reportedly going to make a decision about whether to air lift the yazidis off the mountain in the next few days. that decision, however, does not address what to do to stop isis from taking more territory including the capital baghdad where isis is carrying out daily suicide bombings. the president has taken no decision to go after high value targets such as the isis leader. in a surprise statement after spending a few days in iraq, french foreign minister shamed european and other leaders to wake up to the isis threat, "i

know it is the holiday period in our western countries, but when people are dying you must come back from vacation." >> the world is exploding all over. >> that assessment made when hagel addressed u.s. marines in california. the president returns to washington for a few days on sunday, sean. >> all right, jennifer, thank you. while the world watches radical islamists attempt to eradicate religious minorities from iraq and beyond. the vatican is now speaking out against the terror and calling on muslim leaders to condemn it. the vatican released a statement which reads in part, "the dramatic plight of christians, yazidis and other religious communities and ethnic minorities in iraq requires a clear and courageous stance on the part of religious leaders, especially muslims, as well as those engaged in interreligious dialogue and all the people of good will, all must be unanimous in condemning unequivocally these crimes and in denouncing the use of religion to justify them. if not, what credibility will religions, their followers and their leaders have?"

here with more we call him the great one, marc la vin is with us. here we are, marc. we've got genocide now of women and children, they're getting their heads cut off and placed on stakes. that's happening now to christians that have been forced out of their homes, convert or die is the message of isis and isil. and we have one terror group, radical islamist group after another wanting a modern day holocaust in wiping israel off the map. what is your reaction? what should the u.s. reaction be to all of this? >> a couple things. first of all our enemies, teris, couldn't be more pleased. the president should be getting authorization to use military power to use against these cockroaches. he should be calling the world leaders, those who are with us, ignore those who aren't.

putting together a military and other types strategies to deal with this. rather than announcing repeatedly what they're not going to do, they should be announcing what they are going to do to the extent that that would be helpful. you had the secretary of defense that said the united states has never faced a threat like this. you have the secretary of state saying this is a direct threat to the united states. and then you have them saying out of the other side of their mouths we have to wait and see if this government can pull itself together. this is a direct threat to the united states. it's a direct threat to humanity. this is genocide, pure and simple. people see it. people know it. there's enough refugees to deal with it. and rather than sending 129 advisers, i'd send 129 bombers and fighters and put these cockroaches where they want to be. they want to be in the stone age, then we should accommodate them. >> let me ask an important question, that is how did we get here? i would argue that ignoring the red line in syria allowed isis so grow and develop and emerge there. and then of course not keeping advisers, intelligence, troop

training in iraq, i would argue that led to where we are in iraq right now. the president denies that. here's what he said about how he's not responsible. >> what i just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up as if this was my decision. under the previous administration we had turned over the country to a sovereign democratically elected iraqi government. that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. but gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made. >> as if this was my decision, bogus and wrong. well, we went back to our ar kooifs, mark, and this is the president bragging about doing that very thing. let's roll that tape.

>> focus on the fight bring to a responsible end to iraq which had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. last month i announced as promised we will end the war in iraq by the end of this year. after nearly nine years, america's war in iraq will be over. four years ago i promised to end the war in iraq. we did. >> seems to contradict in a pretty direct way, mark. your reaction. >> you know, sean, i've been around a little while. and i've seen a lot of presidents come and go. i don't think we've ever had a more pathetic commander in chief in our life. does he not know what his policies are? what are his policies? what is his foreign policy? can his people even tell us what his foreign policy is? can his secretary of defense or secretary of state? our enemies are on the move. they're on the move because of him. not because of the prior president, not because of other presidents, not because of james buchanan or john tyler or anybody else, because of him.

he's hollowing out our military at the same time he's telling the world what we're not going to do. he's playing golf. he's on martha's vineyard. he's busy attacking republicans. the guy is -- he's not focused. he's disconnected from reality. we have a real problem in this country. i don't know what we do about it, but people are suffering overseas. they're being wiped out. we have genocide going on. people are looking to the united states. and they have to look to martha's vineyard and find him on the ninth hole. i don't know if he reads his intelligence reports. i don't know if he even knows what's going on, if he's bored with the job, whatever the hell the problem is, the world is on fire and this man doesn't seem to give a -- >> at the heart of this the genocide we see in iraq, the proclaimed desire to wipe israel off the map and have a modern day holocaust has one common denominator and that is radical islam. secure america now came out with a new ad. it's hard hitting. i want to get your reaction to it. let's play it.

>> five, four, three, two, one, zero. these are the stakes. we either stand up to supporters of terrorism or we and our allies risk losing the freedom we cherish. we must not let the jihadist government of iran get a nuclear bomb. president obama has had opportunities to stop it, but he is failing. >> mark, the 9/11 commission report said they were at war with us, we were not at war with them. is radical -- are radical islamists at war with israel and the united states and the free world and anybody that's not muslim? is that what's happening? and they're more powerful than ever before. they have more territory than ever before. they have more money than ever before. they have more arms than ever

before. they're slaughtering more people than ever before. and i'll tell you who i blame. i blame them and i blame this administration. this administration, oh, we got out of iraq. the problem is the enemy didn't get out of iraq. we're going to get out of 56 began stan. the problem is the enemy isn't moving from afghanistan. at the same time we have anarchy and catastrophe on our southern border. the enemy sees that and i fear and i pray to god i'm wrong, i fear we're going to get hit because they're on the rise. we're not securing our border. we're hollowing out our military. the that i thinks are all lining up the wrong way. >> what about what john brennan said in 2011 that the idea of an islamic caliphate is absurd, feckless, delusional, never going to happen. do you agree with that? >> well, it appears that it has happened. look what he has surround himself. have you ever seen more knuckleheads in your life? people don't even understand the enemy.

they don't even understand the united states military. i don't know. i mean, the national security council, the secretary of defense. it's as if he said what is the weakest guy i can put over there at stake. who's the dumbest guy i can put over there for vice president, who's the guy that's been wrong for 50 years in the united states senate? let me surround myself with these geniuses. and this is what you have. a catastrophe in our country and overseas. >> all right. mark levin, it's nationally syndicated show. and coming up, we have details on the genocide that's happening at this very hour in iraq. the pentagon's reportedly considering a rescue operation for iraqis that are fleeing the terror group isis. we'll speak with two members of the yazidi community whose family members are now fearing for their very lives. that's next. also tonight, karl rove is here to weigh-in on president obama's head in the sand mentality when it comes to the chaos that's erupting all around the globe. that and much more as this busy news night on "hannity"

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♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ welcome back to "hannity." tonight the pentagon is reportedly weighing a mission to rescue thousands of yazidis that are trapped in the sinjar mountain area. this comes after 130 advisers arrived on the ground in northern iraq yesterday to begin planning a way to save this religious minority from the brutal genocide that they are facing at the hands of isis. and as you know the barbaric sunni militant group is assuming to create an entire caliphate all across the world, not just the middle east, and recently

these terrorists, some children, sent a message to across america. vice news. look at this. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> here with reaction to that madness are yazidi activist haider elias and julie. and also joining us american spokesman mark arabo. good to see you.

mark, you have been very outspoken. we are living -- there is literal death, genocide, murderous rampage on a level we've not seen i don't think since nazi germany. and converter die chased all these people out of their home, slaughtering children and women. explain what's going on. >> you're absolutely right. this is a full-blown genocide. christianity faces its demise in the middle east. and we've been working with the white house and with the united nations for two months now for action. what we've told them recently is we should do what they did in the vietnam war. air lift them out of iraq and give them a chance to live. >> australia has offered and france has stepped up in that area. americans in fairness are offering humanitarian aid. but did america get into this too late? as city after city in iraq, after the president didn't keep his promise in syria with the red line drawn in the sand, didn't that create the opening for them to then expand into iraq and we had pulled out of

iraq because this became a political war in america. >> we should definitely have acted sooner. something folks might not know is we sounded the alarm from california to the white house eight weeks ago. we actually brought them evidence to show that this is a genocide in slow motion. >> what'd they say? eight weeks ago. >> they said let's investigate, get back to you. a month later -- >> now they're investigating again. all right. why don't you tell us, because you're in touch with a lot of people that are stuck on that mountain, why don't you tell us what they're telling you? i keep reading about children being decapitated, heads being put on posts, one kid cut in half. atrocities to women on a scale that we've not seen since nazi germany. >> yes, absolutely. there are thousands of children, women, elderly, who are dying from the starvation and from the thir

thirst. there are people and sinjar had the only safe haven, which was the sinjar mountain. on the morning of its sunday on august 3rd they woke up with all this isis group surrounding their villages, their houses. and they were trying to kill them and convert them to islam. that's why the majority of people and villages try to walk and run if they don't have cars to the mountains of sinjar to just be safe for now until the humanitarian aid and other forces can come and save them. >> let me ask julie this question. explain the choice as people now have been pushed out of their homes and are in desperate need of humanitarian help, explain the choice they were given, convert to islam or die. >> yes. unlike the christians, isis sees

these people as a postate. the christians were given the choice either flee or stay and pay taxes, or convert to islam. unlike them the yazidis were given just the choice of you could convert or you're going to be dying. >> let me go back to you, mark. we've showed some tape here. they taunt america, they taunt europe. you see young kids that have been brainwashed and indoctrinated into this radicalism and talk about the caliphate. john brennan, cia director back in 2011, literally said -- senior advisor to obama, said the idea of an islamic caliphate is absurd. i want to play your words and get reaction. >> our strategy is also shaped by a deeper understanding of al qaeda's goals, strategies and tactics that we have gained over the last decade. i'm not talking about al qaeda's grandiose vision of caliphate, that vision is absurd.

and we are not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that's not going to happen. we are not going to elevate these thugs in the murderous aspirations into something larger than they are. >> isn't israel one of those that want to wipe off the map. isn't convert or die a push by now the most radical islamic radicals out there. isn't that a push for their genocide, isn't that an example of a caliphate they're pushing? >> absolutely is. isis knows no boundaries. they're going country to country. >> how can the cia director of this president be so wrong? >> he was completely out of touch. and i can tell you from my people that are being massacred because they're refusing to convert, all they want right now is a chance to live. >> how many people do you estimate have been amassacred? >> thousands. at least every day around 500 since it started.

so you're talking eight weeks and 540,000 at least. >> so far 40,000 people have been slaughter snd. >> either slaughtered or died because they don't have food, water, diapers, clothes. this is a gloubl humanitarian crisis. and the next president, whether it's rubio or clinton, they would have to fix this problem because it's going to be an open-ended one. >> mark, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, outgoing intel chief tells president obama is either misinformed or "flat out lying babt jihadist." karl rove is here to expond to this explosive statement. plus, tonight violent protests continue to rage in ferguson, missouri, after a police officer shoots and kills a teenager. the police chief of that city will join us to explain the situation on the ground and why at least up to this point they have not released the name of the officer. and we'll get to that and much more on this busy news night. [ man ] cortana, when my wife calls

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welcome back to "hannity." radical islam is on the rise around the world. based on the main democratic talking point of the 2012 election, you may not have thought it was a problem. >> osama bin laden is no longer a threat to our country. we put al qaeda on the path to defeat. >> osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. >> al qaeda's on the path to defeat and osama bin laden's dead. >> we've decimated al qaeda central, we have eliminated osama bin laden. that was our purpose. >> well, now, general michael flin, recently retired head of the intelligence agency had this to say about president obama's favorite claim saying "when asked if the terrorists were on the run, we couldn't respond with any answer but no. when asked if the terrorists were defeated, we had to say no.

and to anyone who answers yes to either of these questions, either they don't know what they're talking about, they're misinformed or they're flat out lying." so as the president is off golfing in martha's vineyard, we're left asking, well, was he lying or misinformed? here with reaction is the architect himself, fox news contributor, karl rove. you know, dana milbanks hardly a member of the right wing conspiracy at "the washington post" had a pretty hard hitting headline yesterday. a new rnc ad out, karl, that says the following. you may want to look at this. >> the first family began a two-week summer vacation. the obamas are visiting the island just south of cape cod. >> the president is enjoying his vacation. >> 17-room property. >> almost impossible to get to the basketball court. >> only a few people may have access to it.

>> infinity pool. >> it was pretty remarkable. he got here and on the golf course in almost record time he was already hitting off the first tee. >> karl rove, your reaction to this. >> well, i think the most important thing is what general flynn said which is that the president was misleading the american people in 2012. you're right, it's either a lie or he's ill informed. there's a third one which is this president i think engages in self-delusion. he thinks that if he thinks something is a certain way, it is that way. and there's no way that in 2012 intelligence community was telling him al qaeda is receded and is no longer a threat, that it's decimated. and there's no way that over the last year that he hasn't been informed. we know he's been informed about the growing power of isis and turned a blind eye to it. i don't know vice president cheney was accurate, i don't

think president obama is engaged enough that he pays attention to his intelligence briefings. that's probably worse than being lying because it means you're not engaged and doing the job you were sent by the american people to do when you were given the occupancy of that funny shaped office in that wing of the white house. >> we played that earlier saying i wasn't responsible for this. what's your reaction to that? >> well, he went around in 2012 proclaiming his personal involvement, his -- it was his decision that the american troops left iraq. it was on his watch that he brought them home. there were all of these events in the 2012 campaign in which he said it. and now he's saying, no, it wasn't me. it's bush's fault we brought home all the troops. first of all it was president obama's fault that we were not able to arrive at a status of forces agreement. the historic record shows that. the president at the time said he was in favor in 2007 and 2008 as a candidate that he was in favor of leaving a stay-behind

force. now the huds pa. it happened during my six years in office but it's really bush's fault. he took them out -- >> he bragged about it. >> he bragged about it for years. he bragged about it during the campaign. he talked about it endlessly. >> isn't all of this -- this is a very dangerous time for the world. if we can't a fight a war like in the case of iraq and finish it because it's politicized, or vietnam because it's politicized. it tells me that the world's going to get -- understand very quickly that they can use our own political system to get us to stop fighting wars. do you think this president really understands the threat of radical islam and the genocide that's happening in iraq and the real desire by some radical islamist group to wipe israel off the map, do you think he gets this? >> no, i don't. and, look, he breaks with a tradition. if you think about this going back to world -- the end of world war ii, we had harry truman, democrat. dwight eisenhower republican,

jfk and lyndon johnson democrats, nixon, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, republicans, bill clinton democratic, george w. bush, all stood in a long arc of foreign policy leadership that at the core said we've got to stand up for america's interests abroad and make certain that america's interests are protected in these long conflicts first against communism and then the conflict against here by putting america's force there. you know, could you imagine what asia would look like if in 1954 or '55 dwight eisenhower said we've been in korea and japan long enough, let's get the heck out of there. germany, we've been there since 1945, pull those troops home. we still have troops today in korea. and it has been a force for stability in the region. and it has helped protect america and expand the range of democracy. >> biggest mistake. >> absolutely. biggest mistake. >> he needs to get off the golf course, put his pants on, sit

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welcome back to "hannity." controversy continues to swirl in ferguson, missouri, tonight around the shooting of michael brown, an unarmed black teenager who was shot multiple times by a ferguson city police officer last saturday. a friend of michael brown who says they witnessed the shooting

says he was gunned down in cold blood. take a look at what he said. >> as he was running, the officer was trying to get out of the car. once he got out of the car, he pursued my friend, but his weapon was drawn. he didn't see any weapon drawn at him or anything like that. his weapon was already drown when he got out the car, he shot again and once my friend felt that shot he turned around and put his hands in the air and he started to get down, but the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and he fired several more shots. >> joining me now to give his insight into what happened on that fateful saturday afternoon, ferguson city police chief thomas jackson. mr. jackson, welcome to the program. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, sean. >> i read your public comments. they differ dramatically from what we just heard. you said in fact the officer was injured, had a facial wound of some kind. and that a struggle ensued over the officer's weapon and a shot was actually fired inside the car. why is there such a dramatically

different story being told here? >> well, sean, unfortunately we're going to have to wait until all the witnesses have been interviewed and all the forensic evidence is examined before we have a fru picture of what happened that day. the people who were there all have different perspectives of what happened. and i know the st. louis county police department's doing a very thorough investigation. they're going to interview everybody. they're going to look at the ballistics. they're going to look at the gunshot wounds. and they're going to come to a conclusion and present their findings to the st. louis county prosecuting attorney. and at that point we will have a final decision. >> well, either a shot was fired inside the police officer's car or it was not. do we know for a fact -- >> yes, it was. >> that is a fact. so there was a struggle for the gun. >> that is a fact. >> there are witnesses that will say there was a struggle for the gun? >> i can't talk to what the witnesses are going to say. and the reason for that is as soon as this happened i called the county police chief and asked him to take over the scene

and the investigation. so i could be certain that there was no appearance of impropriety. and i would know that a very thorough and complete investigation would be done and we could get to the truth of what happened. >> can you shed any light on why so many shots were fired? >> no, i can't. i don't actually know how many were fired at this time. >> do you suspect as been reported ten shots or more? >> it's possible that that many shots were fired. >> i assume you found shell casings, you know a certain amount. do you have a range in which you know? >> no. i can't talk to the evidence at all. that's the st. louis county police department's investigation. >> i understand that the police officer, there's been a lot of death threats against him, a lot of volatile, the new black panther, the reverend al sharpton is there, the chanting. have a sign up the only good cop is a dead cop. there's been rioting and looting, et cetera, going on. that is prevented you from

releasing the name of the officer. some have questioned whether the wisdom of that, the public's right to know versus the safety of the officer, you're balancing that? >> i am. and that's exactly what we did. you know, we had originally believed we had an obligation to release that information to the public and to the press. but what happened is another officer's name was released as being the officer involved in the shooting. he was not. but his picture was put up on the internet, his facebook page was hacked. and death threats started coming in. so that's when we waived the benefit of releasing the information right now versus the safety to the officer, his family and his neighbors and the rest of the police department. so we decided to delay the release of the name. >> let me ask you this one simple question. based on your preliminary investigation and you speaking with other officers that were on the scene as i understand it,

correct? >> yes. >> then are you convinced that the officer involved in the shooting was within department guidelines in protecting himself? >> i can't answer that question until i have the final report from the county. i really don't want to say anything that i might know or that i think. when i say something, i want to say what i know. >> but you are certain that an altercation occurred and a shot was fired within the car, meaning mr. brown was in the car at some point? >> yes. >> in other words he wasn't handcuffed in the car, he went in the car of his own volition. >> yes. >> and do you believe there was a struggle for that gun? >> that's what the county police chief said in his opening statement. he's the one that took the -- his officers are the ones that took the statement from both the officer and the witnesses. >> what about the unrest that has taken place now in your

city? do you believe a lot of the looting and a lot of what has happened is a result of outside agitators as someone has suggested, or do you think this is just a community angry at what happened? >> no, it's a lot of outside agitators that are causing the violence. we've had some -- several very peaceful protests. i mean, they're angry. they want -- they have questions they want answers to. and i understand that. i get that. but we've had -- the community has now stepped up once this violence happened, our community leaders, the clergy, some of the activists have stepped forward and said enough is enough. and they're taking the lead on the protest. they're going to continue to protest, but they want it to be peaceful. >> chief, thank you so much for your time tonight and we wish your community the best in every way. >> thank you very much. and coming up our great american panel weighs in on the american panel weighs in on the escalating violenc i make a lot of purchases for my business.

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shooting is fox news contributor deroy murdock, brian benjamin and denine barelli. to me the one big thing that came out of this interview with the police chief is a struggle ensued in the police car and a shot was fired in the car. that would contradict some of the "eyewitness testimony" that we had heard, right? >> you're right. and there are so many circumstances that are surrounding this tragedy. and my heart goes out to the family of the death of this young kid. >> i agree with you. it's horrible. >> the investigation we hope will sort everything out and we'll get to the bottom of this, sean. what i'm really concerned about is how individuals have taken to the streets, looting and stealing -- >> i want to get to that in a minute because i think you raise a good point. >> sure. >> but, brian, i guess here the question is going to be, was it justifiable use of force? in other words, did the police officer feel that he had a real

threat? now, if mr. brown is in the car and a shot is fired in the car, that would tell me that a struggle for the weapon ensued. that would then change a lot of the narrative that's been going on, wouldn't it? >> that would change maybe a little of the narrative, which he also said potentially ten or more shots got fired. >> that's the biggest question i have. >> so the kid is unarmed and the kid is running away from the car, let's assume part of that is true. if he's running away from the car, why is the cop shooting at this young man, unarmed. >> what you're saying here what kraming and they're claiming there was a struggle for the weapon. in the car and a shot was fired in the car that would sound to be justified use of force. now, the question then to roy is what happened after that? when was the fatal shot fired? i think it was quite a distance from the car. correct? >> yes. there are a lot of questions

about this. and the original story of police brutality and how there are other angles on this. we may take the investigation of the local police chief that stepped away and recused himself. a lot of questions have to be answered. yet there has been a public, violent reaction based on factors. >> we've got video here of pep robbing and looting. how is that a protest against, if you believe is an injustice, how does robbing mag wheels? >> i agree with you. there is a line from the movie "crash owe" one character says to his brother look at this. a gang member, says you embassar me and yourself. these looters embarrass me and themselves. >> what do you mean? >> it's awful to turn on the television and see black

citizens engaged not just protesting. >> we judge people as individuals . >> i know that. they'd be justified to say this is a tragic, this has nothing to do with stealing tires. mag wheels, helping yourself to other people's shoes it take as way credibility or reduces credibility of people with serious questions. >> look at that going on. >> the family has been clear. >> the father had on a no justice, no peace shirt. no justice, no peace. >> the point is, peace means no, you're not going to be able to hang out. >> that is not how i enter pr pret -- interpret it. >> it does not mean violence. the fbi also looking at this. i think that what they're point

is that there is a lot of distrust. >> how many kids are killed in chicago, al sharpton is not there. >> right. >> it's not true. >> hang on a second >> you don't see the level of indignation and outrage. >> you're right. >> why are some cases when appearing to be racial incomes new black panther party. >> we don't know who the police officer s your point is valid and well taken what. is not being discussed is the fact that progressive policies failed urban communities you have individuals who are exploiting this tragedy, exploiting this situation, high unemployment, deplorable school system. policies not helping in the communities the president is making it worse with a war on fossil fuels you're driving up energy prices that doesn't help individuals >> do you agree we don't really know now what happened? >> right. >> i don't know.

i'm listening to the police chief and eye witnesses we don't know. we don't know. >> there is a lot we don't know. >> police are not above the law. >> if they killed this kid for no good reason they've got to go to jail. >> they should have a time line for that. >> so but the bottom line is that everyone is making, none of us really know. >> we don't. >> case is not closed. >> so people should not rush to judgment there. >> and this happens all the time. >> right. right. >> sad case, either way. >> coming up more "hannity" right after the break. wondering what that is?

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