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thanks for watching everybody. i'm megyn kelly and this is "the kelly file" special on weather und underground co-founder bill ayers. this is a fox news alert. major developments today in the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. welcome to "hannity." i'm andrea tanteros in for sean tonight. earlier the ferguson police chief identified the officer involved. watch. >> the officer that was involved in the shooting of michael brown was darren wilson. he's been a police officer for six years, has had no disciplinary action taken against him. he was treated for injuries which occurred on saturday. >> but that's not all. the police department also released surveillance footage taken just minutes before michael brown was shot and killed showing the teen allegedly stealing cigars from a
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convenience store and what is being called "a strong armed robbery." for the very latest we turn to fox news's own mike tobin who is standing by on the ground in missouri. mike. >> reporter: and, andrea, we're now watching the demonstrations throughout the night. and they've really kind of clicked into a routine. you've got cars driving up and down the road here, you've got people on the side chanting, waving, people on top of vehicles dancing, wanting to get on camera. but no indication that things are going to get worse throughout the night. certainly without an aggravating factor. the aggravating factor that came throughout the day of course was the release of that videotape showing the robbery. now the family and representatives of the family of michael brown say that's him on the video. no dispute there. the other aggravating factor of course is the timing of the release of that video and the fact that the police seemed to change their story throughout the process. certainly walking it back saying that officer wilson would not have known there was a robbery and didn't stop mike brown
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because of a report of a robbery. here's the chief. >> what are you saying, chief? did he know that he was a suspect in a case or did he not know? >> no, he didn't. he was walking -- >> had nothing to do with the stop? >> it had nothing to do with the stop. >> at this point why did he stop michael brown? >> because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic. >> reporter: so there you have it from the chief. and now you have the response. people still out on the street demonstrating. a lot of pot out here. a lot of booze, you can smell it. what you don't see out here is police officers. captain johnson's made it clear he doesn't want to see flashes, he doesn't feel any reason to inject the police into the situation. and if you don't have police officers here on the street, you can't have clashes with the police. andrea. >> mike, thank you. and tonight demonstrations continue in ferguson, missouri. and in attendance at one of those gatherings is the reverend jesse jackson from the rainbow
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push coalition. reverend jackson joins us live for "hannity." thank you so much for being here. reverend, when you get involved in these type of situations, a lot of media attention seems to follow. and some have been very critical of your involvement in these instances. do you think that when you get involved in these instances it could be considered a distraction? >> you know, when i brought americans home from prison in cuba and iraq and yugoslavia it was considered by some to be a distraction, others it was a life saving intervention. and so there's some need here to express love to this family and support for the family, but also there's such high frustration here. and it must not become a self-destructive set of actions. they released the name of the police.
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they did not release how many times michael was shot and the way he was shot. that compounds suspicion. they release his name and then some discrediting tapes about michael. broke next between the tapes and the shooting. that just sends further around suspicion. it's now my concern it's not enough to have quietness, which is the absence of noise, but peace. the fact of the matter is the citizens here deserve half the police force, white, black, male and female, or fire force, essentially lack of trust here because there's so much gross injustice and despairties. >> reverend, earlier on "the five," bill o'reilly called in and he said you and others like reverend al sharpton who have been weighing in on this tragedy in ferguson, he called you a racial agitator and your involvement in these issues to ignite, to inflame. do you think that's what you do? >> no, i think it's unfortunate
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for him to name-call and to stereotype in that way. the fact is what i've been meeting with ministers tonight and members of the family, voter registration. telling people the only register voters can be jurors. registered voters elect mayors in fact can elect judges. we've been given instructions. we know that you can reshape the iron when it's hot, but you shouldn't turn the iron on yourself. we discourage that kind of violence by police or people. the real riot here has been a police riot. so they've stepped away. people are upset, but people are really calm. >> reverend, what is your take on how the police have handled this thus far? i know that you said you were upset that they've not released details about how many times brown was shot. how would you grade how they've conducted this investigation so far and how they've communicated with the public? >> well, they had to have an
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outside state trooper to come in to bring some police civil order to the relationships here. what you have here is that when they release the police name and then they released the information about michael brown which had nothing to do with him getting shot. now we need to know how many times was he shot. if you were to come to ferguson and see in the middle of his own neighborhood, not another neighborhood, not downtown, in the middle of his own neighborhood, shot in the middle of -- 2:30 in the afternoon before people watching and him lay there on the ground. you know, michael vick was put in jail for dog fighting. michael brown was treated worse than a dog. it's just not right. it's not fair. i'm glad president obama when they begin -- step in with a calming voice, his voice is a calming voice. governor nixon's voice was a
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calming voice. no one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots. i think that aggressive nonviolent demands will be significant. i think people should go door-to-door full voter registration demanding use voting power to elect officials to their needs. they're not voting for whatever reason has them left being in a rather difficult situation. >> reverend, do you believe that the police were leasing the surveillance footage today is an attempt to smear brown? are you frustrated they didn't release it sooner? >> well, it's an attempt to justify what happened. in other words, the cause that is this tape therefore he got shot. >> but do you think it was designed to smear him? >> of course it's to smear him, to make him less worth of living because this happened. but now it comes out that the police officer that did the shooting didn't know a thing
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about his being a suspect. so this is completely separate, but to release them designed to disrupt and discredit and distort. and people read right through it. people don't like it because it's not a good thing. take seven days to release the policeman's name? i can understand not releasing a minor information on television, but police? to concoct a story people tend not to believe. now the concern is that his name should have been released, he should be safe and protected as an officer of the law, he should be safe and protected. furthermo furthermore, we need to know how many times michael was shot in the back, how many times in the front. the ranges go from one to six shots. we just simply need to know. that would bring some more relief. because it seemed like the justice system is going to work. the peop the power to elect judges and prosecutors and mayors, police and fire chiefs. people here must begin -- turn
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their pain into real political power. they really have the opportunity. >> reverend, if you're confident that the justice system will work and it will play out and we will get answers, don't you think then all of this is a huge distraction? i mean, no one really seems to know what happened. i mean, the police chief came out today. he said that the officer was not aware that brown was the suspect in a robbery. so none of us really have all the answers. don't you think that the protests, the rioting, the distraction, the media, the commenting, the racial igniting of division between white and black is a complete distraction from getting the facts of this and letting this play out and letting the police do their investigation. >> maybe this not just black and white, it's wrong and right. you really can't trust a police that's 56 police and three black. there's great distrust here for this police department. and the police, the judges, they feel the system has fallen out on them. i want to go a step further and
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it is to say that since the presence of the police department and fire department, get money in federal grants. there should be a congressional hearing on the police jobs and fire jobs and teacher jobs and contractors. there must be a fairness. it's not enough to be quiet in this absence of noise. we need peace and presence of justice and people can live and coexist together. most of these police and firemen don't live in ferguson by the way. they work here but don't live here. so they do not share the cause of the people of the majority of the population. rather undemocratic. >> do you believe that brown was targeted specifically because he was black? >> i don't know that. but there is a pattern that creates a strong suspicion. it's trayvon martin in florida. it's oscar grant in oakland. it's shot unarmed -- ram in the rectum until he was nearly bled
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to death and the list goes on. and this madness must stop. i take the position if a black shoots a white, it's quick justice in jail time. the white shoots the black there's begging time. black on black and white on white, slug your shoulder time. nobody should be able to kill anybody. stop the killing. the police should not have a hard military hardware, tanks rolling down the streets. that was not necessary. i'm glad that the governor finally removed that and put ron johnson, the man who seems to be more civil with police control and crowd control. >> reverend, why don't we see more of you in cities like chicago? i think a lot of people wonder why you and reverend al sharpton and others aren't speaking out on all of the murders taking place it seems every other weekend more black children, more black teens, are being gunned down in the streets of chicago. and yet you're not there.
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>> as a matter of fact, i'm -- coming monday. i'm there all of the time. the facts of the matter is -- >> why don't we see that type of attention, reverend? why don't we see the same type of outrage from the black community about these young black kids getting gunned down in the streets of chicago every single day? >> maybe if this is black shooting whites in chicago, or whites shooting blacks in chicago, you have a different dynamic. that's the nature of our culture. but in chicago you do have 50 schools have closed, create great angst, 50 drugstores closed, 75 grocery stores closed, 85,000 big homes been in loss. there's great despair there. there are dry chips around the nation and this spark can send it off. these urban cities deserve attention. and we need -- these young
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people need to be back at work, and do meaningful stuff with their lives. >> well, i think we can both agree that it is a huge issue that definitely deserves more attention. reverend jesse jackson, thank you. >> i'm telling young people here to love each other and love everybody. >> thank you, reverend. coming up on this breaking news edition of "hannity," we go back live to ferguson where protests continue to grow at this hour. a live report as well as st. louis alderman who was arrested during a demonstration. and later disturbing news out of iraq as sources tell fox news that isis terrorists have captured dozens of yazidi women and children and killed more than 90 men. our own greg palkot reports from the region. that and more as this busy news night on "hannity" continues. stay with us.
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this is a fox news alert. tonight, demonstrations continue in ferguson, missouri, on the same day that the officer involved in the shooting of michael brown was identified. the officer's name is darren wilson. we also learned that michael brown was involved in what authorities are calling a strong arm robbery minutes before he was killed. and joining me now with more reaction is a st. louis alderman antonio french. he was arrested wednesday while filming the protest. antonio, thank you for being here. tell us what it's like on the ground. i think it's a repeated theme here over and over. we stood on this tv set and we try to imagine what it's like on the ground, but so few of us actually have the real story. what is it like?
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>> well, it's quite remarkable. yeah, i've been there since day one. in fact, when i came mike brown's body was still on the ground. and the tensions had already flared between the citizens and the police of ferguson. since then we seen this thing escalate to the point of almost disbelief that this could be occurring on an american street. but last night i saw something beautiful. you know, when the governor brought in captain johnson, he brought a kind of hope that we haven't seen in a while for peace finally. and last night we had a beautiful, peaceful demonstration, mostly by young people, that lasted well into the night. and i'm very hopeful that we'll have another peaceful night tonight. >> antonio, it doesn't look peaceful. as you pointed out, it doesn't even feel like we're looking at america. it feels like we're looking at a foreign country with the cops dressed almost like an army. you were actually arrested. why were you arrested?
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>> well, i was arrested on the last night of tear gassing. the police told the crowd to disburse. they fired smoke bombs into the crowd. people ran. then the tear gas came. and a line of police moved forward, moved forward, eventually that line of police came to me and my car where i had gone and rolled up the windows and closed the vents because of the tear gas. armed officers surrounded my vehicle. one of them opened the door, pulled me out and arrested me. i asked why i was being arrested and he said because i didn't listen. and then they put me in the paddy wagon and took me to jail where i spent the night. eventually they released me on no charges after nine hours in jail. >> do you think the cops are out of line or have been out of line? sfwl i think that the local ferguson police and the st. louis county police have approached the situation the wrong way from the beginning. they escalated the situation. in fact, the very presence with
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heavy artillery, snipers on top of armored vehicles pointed at citizens peacefully protesting, it angered people. and it escalated the situation night after night. and so it wasn't until the governor stepped in, removed control of the situation from st. louis county police anded ferguson police and put in state patrol, specifically captain johnson who again has just been remarkable. that transformation he's brought in the last 24 hours. you're right, it didn't look peaceful last week, but last night was definitely a peaceful celebration. >> antonio, thank you so much for being here and telling your story. >> thank you. and joining me now with more reaction to this situation in ferguson is the author of "king rules, ten truths for you rk your family, our nation to prosper." the niece of dr. martin luther king jr. dr. king, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> dr. king, what is your first thought when a story like this
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explodes on to the national scene and just about dominates cable news coverage day after day? is your first thought good, we need to have these kinds of debates, or do you shake your head and go uh-oh? >> my first thought was of course to pray. and ministers on the scene called me immediately. i began to pray and to talk and encourage people to fight for justice but to work for peace and to work nonviolently. you know, i was arrested many years ago in the open housing movement in louisville, kentucky. and the situation was very similar. also, when our home was bombed in birmingham, alabama, my father reverend a.d. king, martin luther king's brother, had to face that same kind of reaction from the police. and the people were very angry as has been stated. so the answer we were trained, i was arrested, i went to jail, but we were trained in peaceful
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nonviolent demonstrations. and of course much prayer. so my immediate reaction was to pray. and that's what i did. >> reverend jesse jackson was just on this program as an exclusive. dr. king, do you think that his presence at these type of tragedies helps or hurts? >> well, i think it's very important at this time not to challenge those who are attempting to help no matter what the reason or the method happens to be. it's more important to focus on the family who is grieving, the people who have actually been terrorized by those tactics of -- i think it was a military presence that really alarmed people. so rather than to challenge anything that reverend jackson is doing, i think it's very important to continue to urge for prayer, peaceful resolution. michael, his dreams are dead. and that's very, very sad. and i am saddened by that, but i'm encouraged by the reports that the young people especially are beginning to pray.
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>> do you think that the cops have behaved appropriately in ferguson? >> i believe it's very disturbing and surprising to know that the police officers have reacted the way they did. i do think the action of the governor was very helpful and to replace that presence with a calmer, more peaceful presence. and i think that things will begin to calm down. there again the father and the mother, the bereaved family of michael brown, that should be our first concern. justice of course. now, if a young man was stealing cigars from a store, then he should have lived to answer that. and perhaps be punished. but i think also a point that has been made, our young people are troubled. and we don't answer them with that military force. >> all right. dr. alveda king, thank you so much. coming up, we go back live to ferguson, missouri, where protesters are continuing to gather at this very hour.
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this is a fox news alert. tonight, our live coverage of the demonstrations in ferguson, missouri, continues. earlier today we learned more about what really happened at that convenience store minutes before the shooting of michael brown took place. images from the surveillance video released today show brown attacking the clerk as someone stands to his left. that person appears to be brown's friend, dorian johnson, who many consider a key eyewitness to the shooting later that day. last night johnson's lawyer appeared on this program to tell his client's side of the story. however, he did not mention anything about a robbery. watch. >> you're describing the
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situation where the only thing these kids did was walk in the middle of the street when the cops said to move out of the street they didn't move right away and he got mad? that's what resulted in all this? that's what this all comes down to? >> in many respects that happens often in st. louis. these young men are taken out of their cars, they're put in handcuffs and sat on the side of the road. most of the time they haven't done anything. >> so -- >> so this is not just the first incident. >> you're saying the police officer basically assassinated, that your client will testify, that this police officer pretty much assassinated this young man, michael brown, in cold blood? that's going to be the testimony of your client, correct? >> no, sir. my client uses the word murder. >> so is johnson's credibility as an eyewitness in question now that it's believed he was present at the robbery. here is rod wheeler and former nypd detective bo deedle.
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is his credibility affected, bo. >> we there was possibly a push robbery there in that convenience store. but it still comes down to so much erroneous information coming out. today i heard there was a shot fired in the police car. the officer was supposedly assaulted. all this is coming out. and i think what's wrong here is this chief is coming out with all different things. he better regroup the wagons, shut your mouth until you regroup your wagons, investigate and then make statements that you have facts to. too many things are coming out. and people are hearing them. most important thing is they keep that city calm. and you can't say this can't blow up tonight because i'm starting to see a lot of kids on the street, they could have alcohol in them. the next thing they do is start throwing stuff. it could get crazy. there's no cops there. and rod's over there and i'd like to find out, rod, what's it like over there? >> and, rod, very quickly i want to ask you as well, today we heard the police chief come out. and he said that the officer had no knowledge that brown was the suspect in the robbery. >> right. >> it's a very interesting
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development. how does that change things? >> well, that changed things immensely, andrea. let me quickly tell you why. actually, if the chief would have came out and said the reason we released this video is because we believe it's related to the shooting that occurred on canfield street only a couple blocks away from where i'm at now, but the chief didn't say that. he actually separated the two incidents. so that's going to leave all of these people that's here wondering why did you even release the tape if that's the case? so i think that's going to be a serious situation that the prosecution, if it goes that far, is going to have to show that, you know, there was some intent on the police department to possibly and i underline the word possibly, cover-up some of this evidence. >> i only have about a minute left, but i want you to weigh in quickly, rod, and then you bo, on why it took the police department six days to release that surveillance footage? >> well, i understand the facts that the officer's life was threatened. but let me tell you, andrea, these situations happen all across the country all the time. there is a protocol.
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and part of that protocol, and, ra is we release information to the community so we can keep riots and protests down. they deserve to know what happened. and that information should have been released earlier than today, andrea. >> rod, have you heard, rod, that there was supposedly a shot that went off in the police car and that the officer was assaulted? did you hear anything like that over there? >> yes. i've been here half the day today. and that is kind of one of the rumors that's going around. and actually tomorrow i'm going to be visiting the actual crime scene -- or the actual shooting scene to actually see if that's possible that that could have even happened. >> all right. rod, bo, thank you so much. >> be careful. >> sure. thank you, andrea. coming up, al sharpton and others were quick to descend to ferguson, missouri, helping to fan the racial tension. but in light of the news that broke today, did they jump to conclusions? and later, breaking news out of iraq, isis terrorists kidnapped dozens of yazidi women and children killing nearly 100 men. greg palkot reports from the ground in irbil.
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heard from exclusively earlier tonight on this program, also expressed outrage over the incident. even likening the shooting to a "state execution." and then there's president obama who interrupted his vacation as well. joining me now with democratic strategist brian benjamin and fox news contributor daneen. what did you think of the president's remarks from martha's vineyard? >> i don't think his remarks really made any difference in terms of what was going on on the ground in ferguson, missouri. he did stick to the script because he has been known to drift off message and he always gets in trouble when he does that. but i don't see his comments any different than al sharpton and jesse jackson who basically they're black community agitators. they are not bringing anything to the table for solutions. and let me answer jesse jackson's question for you, when
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you asked him how come you're not in chicago? there aren't any cameras in chicago. there's no big media outlets for him to stand in front of and command attention, pad his presence there. that's what he does. he's an agitator. he plays the race card every chance he gets. that's why he flew down to missouri. >> what do you think, state execution? >> let me start with her point. i know reverend al sharpton very well and he's always around the country on these issues. the problem is the cameras are not following them. you can say the cameras aren't there and they aren't there. >> he plays the race card every chance he gets. >> let's talk about this case because you have another personal issue. >> it's a fact. >> you don't know this, but i do, the family asked reverend al sharpton to come to ferguson. >> right. and the community shouldn't want him there. >> but that's not even true because the local clergy leaders sat down and had a meeting with him and wanted him to be -- you're making this up.
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>> some of the community of people didn't want -- >> let me finish. for my knowledge which i think is firsthand knowledge, i don't know what her knowledge is, the family called for reverend al sharpton to come out there. also he met with local clergy leaders and they're having their rally on sunday. all they're asking for is justice and an understanding of what happened. it took six days to find out who was the person was, we don't have a picture. we just got a video leased that has nothing to do with the case because as the ferguson police chief says there's no link between what that officer was doing when he saw michael brown and the tape. so people are concerned. they're frustrated. and they're trying to express that in a way that's peaceful. >> but there could be a real issue here. there may be a real issue here. but al sharpton does not -- >> how can you bring that up? >> how can i not? his credibility is distraction. this is distraction from getting the real facts in case there was
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wrongdoing here. >> i don't think it's distraction because the fbi is out there doing their job. the justice department is out there doing their job. i guess the local police officers are out there doing their job. these peaceful protests as the family asked for and sharpton and jackson are saying should be the case, are more than fair. >> jesse jackson saying state execution, you had al sharpton calling michael brown who my heart goes out to the family, called him a gentle giant, not even knowing any of the facts. can i finish? not even knowing any of the facts of the case. none of us really know what happened, andrea. and this is really a big mess that's taken place now. and jesse jackson and al sharpton have inserted themselves. >> well, eric holder met with the victim's family before he had any idea of the facts. >> yeah. >> it's a tragedy. >> he's an activist. >> wait, wait, wait. he's not passing judgment -- you're not letting me speak. >> should be abiding by a law and he boasted this not too long ago that he is an activist. >> final word?
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>> eric -- the attorney general calling the family to express concern about a tragedy sglsh what about the families in chicago? philadelphia? los angeles? >> he's not stating that he's -- why can't you let me speak? so, i mean, i'm not sure what you're so mad about. >> i'm not mad. >> but the truth of the matter is jesse jackson, al sharpton, attorney general and the president have done in this case are totally above board. >> very heated. coming up, isis slaughters nearly 100 yazidi men and kidnaps women and children after they refuse to convert to islam. a live breaking news report from the region up next. i'm m-a-r-y and i have copd. i'm j-e-f-f and i have copd. i'm l-i-s-a and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way of hosting my book club. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o.
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this is a fox news alert. dozens of iraqi yazidis are dead after islamic state militants surrounded and attacked a small village in northern iraq. joining me now from the ground in irbil, iraq, with the latest developments is greg palkot, greg. >> reporter: andrea, multiple sources confirmed to fox news that a terrible tragedy has occurred today involving the ethnic minority yazidis in a town called cujo ten miles south of mt. sinjar in northern iraq. residents there apparently did
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not agree to the isis militants demand to convert to islam, and so at least 80, maybe as many as 90 men, were killed, were executed. and dozens, perhaps as many as 100, women and children, were kidnapped, taken away and brought to a children in mosul. and just a short time ago sentcom has reported u.s. unmanned drones have attacked isis positions armed vehicles just outside the village in response to these reports. all this happened a day after president obama said a siege against yazidis on mt. sinjar itself has been broken. knowledge however that the situation remains dire and that air strikes would continue. andrea. >> greg, thank you. the genocide of nonmuslims in northern iraq continues, but just yesterday president obama declared that the target u.s. air strikes against islamic state militants were a success. take a look. >> the bottom line is is that the situation on the mountain
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has greatly improved. because of these efforts we do not expect there to be an additional operation to evacuate people off the mountain. and it's unlikely that we're going to need to continue humanitarian air drops on the mountain. >> joining me now to discuss the president's lackluster strategy in iraq is fox news radio host and author of "godless america, real stories from the front lines of the attack on traditional values," todd sterns. >> andrea, thanks. >> too soon for the president to take credit for stopping genocide in the region. we see today that 90 men were slaughtered at the hands of isis while women and children were kidnapped. >> well, to use the president's language, the bottom line is that while he's at martha's vineyard whacking golf balls on the golf course, there's a genocide here. christians are being slaughtered. religious minorities are being slaughtered. and this administration really has been late to the issue here. world magazine was reporting back in january, january, that
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isis was on the move. and this administration until just recently has really not paid much attention to this. and you really do have to wonder how important this is to the administration. we're watching christians being slaughtered. this demands a very firm response from this white house. >> you know, todd, christians have been slaughtered in that region for years. i mean, even under the bush administration when the u.s. army was occupying the region. it's a pretty disgraceful legacy for both administrations, but i see it as president obama trying to manage the news cycle. it's not that he's trying to end genocide. as you point out we're a little too late for that. he's just trying to manage the news cycle back here at home. >> and, look, the broader issue and i write about this in "godless america," what's happening in this country and quite frankly what's coming across our border. isis is a very real threat. we've heard that on the channel of many news shows today that they are coming after us.
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and i believe they are. but i'm really wondering how -- if our administration believes that. we have a poorest border and everyone's concerned about what's been coming across. but my concern, do we have people that are a part of isis in this country? we all saw the images -- the image in front of the white house with the isis flag. those types of things should be alarming to many, many people. >> i want to talk about your book for a minute. you talk about godless, that's the title. what is the effect of just getting rid of god in our culture? it seems more and more that we're getting away from religion. what is the effect on our values? >> i thought it was very telling. a great example of what's happening right now in ferguson, missouri. one of the things that i was very impressed with was the police captain that came in. and really instilled calm and he did that by quoting from the bible and using religious imagery. sadly in this country i believe that one of the reasons we've seen moral decline is that christianity has been
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marginalized. we've decided that the common values that we have all had, that the country was founded upon, those traditional american values, are no longer welcome in this country. and yet in times of crisis we see leaders like the police captain in missouri utilize those values. and look what happens, he brings calm, >> it's about this attack on traditional values it's very interesting. we have seen christian faith come under fierceest attack. no other religions, the christian faith. just days ago i reported on the navy for removing bibles from navy lodges. after our readers spoke out, the navy reversed that policy. when people of faith stand together they can facilitate change. >> it's true. it does seem like the last
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this is a fox news alert. today, the ferguson police chief released surveillance store video of michael brown allegedly stealing cigars just moments before he was shot and killed by a police officer. his family and team of attorneys reacted to that footage. >> the family feels that that was strategic, aimed at a
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character assassination. at the time the patrol has been called in, we've got a calm in the community we reach a point for things to settle down, he's now inciting the community over again. >> joining me now are brian benjiman and daneen borelli. your heart has to go out from the family. he allegedly stole cigars but no one deserves to die over. that questions about what transpired and nobody knows yet. that concerns me most. no one knows what happened. >> this is an american family. they're suffering and the community is suffering because there are parents saying that could have been my son they don't have answers police are fumbling around, releasing a little bit of information. not all of it it doesn't seem fair this, is a continuing theme that has to get addressed.
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that is something i hope the police department will get better. let's make sure everyone feels they're includeed and welcome in american society. >> the funeral hasn't occurred yet. al sharpton mentioned it. he seemed excited about the funeral. do you see this getting worse? emotions run high when you see this footage of the casket and the family, weeping. >> i hope it doesn't escalate anymore than what we've witnessed. another thing, too, that libertarian in me question the militariation of the police presence i found it intimidating. we're finding out all aspects of what happened here. i don't know how long it's going to take. i hope things remain calm. and that we don't have to go through this again. it's not good for the community and for our country. >> brian, what do you think frustration is? it seems like black community feels very frustrated.
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and it seems like frustration is there before this happened. >> sure there is a feeling the police there are above the law and a feeling, part of the issue is that you have a majority white police force and a majority black neighborhood. there should be conversations around what should police forces look like in diverse neighborhoods? that is something that is a concern. and also, assuming the police need to be really focused on being fair. and that is when the people don't feel like they're covering for cops that makes people nervous. they don't have power. so that is something. >> maybe you can agree on something? ten seconds? militariation of police? >> i agree. >> common ground at the end? awesome. that is all the time we have left this evening. thanks for joining us. have a great weekend, everybody.
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>> hello, everyone. i'm andrea tantaros along with brian beckel. bob kilmeade, 8:00 in new york city and this is the 5:00. >> well, if you were expecting bill o'reilly, he is going to join us in just a moment. but, first, to the breaking developments in ferguson, missouri where today we finally learned the identity of the officer who killed 18-year-old michael brown. his name is darian wilson, a 6 years veteran of the force who has no history of disciplinary action. also today, police revealed this surveillance video of brown robbing a convene yebs store be
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