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everybody. have a great weekend. a fox news alert on two major breaking news stories today. welcome inside "america's news headquarters." i'm uma pemmaraju in washington. the peace in missouri shattered by new violence overnight. crowds throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at police, tear gas in the air. we are live on the ground there. and half a world away, fox news confirming brand new air strikes against isis near a crucial water dam in iraq as we learn of more devastating and horrific details of a new massacre of innocents by the islamic fanatics. we begin with the firestorm
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erupting overnight on the streets of ferguson, missouri. at the moment there's a relative calm as the community marks one week ago today that police shot 18-year-old michael brown. 18 hours earlier, though, new violence breaking out around midnight. crowds protesting the shooting up to that point remained peaceful. all that changing after nearly 200 people deciding to attack the same convenience store that brown is accused of robbing the day he died. mike toben is on the ground in ferguson with more on the story. mike, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, uma, for all of the effort by state police captain ron johnson to embrace the demonstrators, the civil rights leaders who came out trying to understand their desire to express their frustration, the mob still ruled the streets. the scenes that ferguson and the nation really wanted to avoid played out one more time last night. police in tactical gear looking militarized out on the streets.
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they formed up, the demonstrators formed up. soon we had tear gas coming out, the smoke grenades, the flash bang grenades, pepper spray being deployed against the demonstrators out on the street and soon the looters ran wild up and down the street. there was a division between some of the demonstrators and the looters. some of the demonstrators tried to block the businesses, protect the businesses. they say that outsiders had injected themselves into the situation. but what we saw was really an opposite extreme of what we saw with the police earlier in the week. instead of coming in heavy-handed, they backed off and tried not to have friction with the demonstrators. the result of that is they ran unstopped. the businesses were unprotected. you know, earlier in the evening you could see the dynamic starting to change. there was a lot of booze inside the crowd there. there was a lot of anger started to build and people noticed that it was losing focus. it was no longer about frustration over the death of an unarmed black teen, this was opportunism, this was mob
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mentality. uma. >> mike, thank you very much. an update on the ground there. we are continuing to watch the developments as they unfold. i would like to hear from you, our viewers. let me know your thoughts. what do you think could or should be done to create lasting peace in ferguson? tweet me your answers @uma pemmaraju and i'm definitely going to read some of your opinions later in the show. in just a few moments, we are going back to ferguson to talk to an elected missouri leader there who has been in the middle of all these protests. we'll get her take on what she believes needs to be done. now, fox news confirming with senior u.s. defense officials that a u.s. f-16 and f-18 fighter jet are striking isis targets around the key mosul dam at this hour. the terror group has been in control of the dam since august 7th and there have been fears that the group would blow up that dam and cause massive flooding, which could kill thousands of people in that area. all of this coming as we also learn of a new isis massacre of
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iraqi minorities. greg is joining us live in kurdish controlled erbil, less than 100 miles away from mosul. greg? >> reporter: uma, this is a significant and new development, possibly indicating that the u.s. is opening up another front in its war against the isis militants. as you just noted, fox news has learned that fighter planes as well as unmanned drones have been hitting isis military positions around that strategic mosul dam. there are reports of fighters killed and one reportedly says it represents air cover for a possible attempt to retake the dam. sources say that the u.s. is trying to head off exactly what you just noted, that isis could blow that dam up and that would be devastating to mosul and the entire region. this as the folks here are still reeling from that isis massacre of yazidi minorities yesterday. take a look.
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it is a long way from sinjar to erbil, about 150 miles, but that's how far these yazidi refugees have come. the horror, the terror that isis militants have created around their towns and villages still very vivid in their memories. now, the refugees we spoke with were shocked but not surprised at word that isis had massacred at least 80 men and kidnapped 100 women and children from one village yesterday after they refused, apparently, to convert to islam. one man we spoke with told me that dozens of members of his extended family had been kidnapped by isis. another angry young man told me he's ready to fight because of what the militants are doing to his people. this as the humanitarian crisis here explodes. in one northern iraqi province alone, there are 400,000 refugees. 1.5 million across northern iraq. several hundred thousand where we are here in erbil.
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a vast international airlift operation swings into place. the british flew in two airplanes full of supplies here today and the u.s. is involved as well. finally, uma, one more word from the yazidis about the isis militants. one man told me they are worse than animals. at least animals, he told me, have the laws of the jungle. these people don't have any rules at all. back to you. >> greg, that is so true. it's been horrific the images that we have been seeing there from that area. tell me for a moment, though, about the response from the kurdish people at this point knowing that some relief has been forthcoming and that the u.s. is at least engaged in some air strikes. >> reporter: they are very encouraged by that, uma. we have spent time with peshmerga fighters and they say those air strikes have been very important to beat back and keep away the isis militants.
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we are here in this big city and just really only about 35,miles militants. so that is how close they are to the kurdish people. they like the airlifts, they like the supplies coming in for the hundreds of thousands of refugees. what they say they need and what is appearing to be in the offing is more weapons. they say they are being o outgunned by the militants. the e.u. cleared the way for european weapons to come in. the u.s. too has said that they would arm their allies here on the ground. it is a fight. it is a fight to the finish. and for these people, for the iraqi people, it is a fight they must win. they must win back their country from these vicious, blood thirsty isis militants. >> greg, thank you so much for that update and stay safe there on the ground. joining us now with some thoughts, lieutenant colonel oliver north who has made many trips to that region. you just heard from greg who's saying that they feel they don't have enough ammunition, they
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don't have enough weapons, they're being outgunned essentially. >> great reporting by greg out there on the ground. one of the big problems for the kurds, peshmerga, they never received a single bit of the aid that was supposed to be delivered to them of american equipment sent to the baghdad government. maliki refused to allow any of that to go north because of their anxiety about a separate kurdish state. finally the europeans, the germans, the pols, the czech republic, the french, are stepping up to give them what they need. here's what they need, not just small arms, ak-47s, they need heavy machine guns and most of all they need mobility. here's the part that bothers me most, because what you just reported and greg just affirmed is that that attack yesterday, if we really do as mr. obama claims, have 60 flights a day up over doing what they call isr, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, if they really do, how come they didn't see
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that column of isis terrorists. not to dispute the way we're reporting this, but these are not militants. this is a 10 to 15,000 man terror army. it's the largest we've ever seen. it is the bloodiest we've ever seen in our lifetimes. it rivals the ethnic and religious cleansing of joseph stalin, adolf hitler, of paul pott and we have a responsibility not just to delivery leaf supplies, we need to make sure we're dropping bombs on the isis command and control nodes, their logistics centers, not just as we spot them one hellfire missile at a time but both in iraq and in syria. now that's a major change, but you're going to need more assets -- >> let's talk right now about that dam. those fighters got hold of that dam a while ago. why nothing was done at that time is just mind boggling.
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but at the same time we are hearing now that air strikes are happening around that area. talk for me just how difficult that is and can that operation be handled strictly by the air? >> the vulnerability, of course the big gates that they can open and close, much of that equipment has been so degraded just by lack of maintenance that it's very difficult to use. but if you had enough explosives, and certainly isis does because they have captured so much equipment from the iraqi army, they have captured full arsenals full, over 1,000 vehicles, lots and lots of explosives, if they have got the capability to blow one of those gates, you're going to empty about a third of water out of that. a 60 foot fall of water down the tigris river. it's a good thing that the kurds are now taking on those, if you will, isis or whatever isl or islamic state, the army that's there. we could do that, but we're
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going to have to put advisers out there in the field to control those air strikes because you don't want an american bomb taking out the dam. and so we've got the best technology, the best equipment, the best kind of targeted weapon systems you can come up with but we don't have the right people on the ground because obama's pledge to do i'm going to drop air supplies, relief supplies, but no boots on the ground, this is a time if this president wants to stop the genocide that's the worst we've seen in our life times, he is going to have to get the help of others and convene some kind of a summit that unifies the west. >> the geneva peace convention talked about countries responding to genocide. this is exactly what this is. so the united states would have no trouble, there would be no problem moving forward, moving ahead in this way to go after the isis militants there on the ground because they are protecting these innocent people. >> except this administration has refused to acknowledge who the enemy really is. the enemy is radical islam.
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and it's not simply isis, that just happens to be the worst of them. but you've got it all over the place. the prime minister of israel said the other day terror is coming to a theater near you. he was talking about us. the only place today in all of the middle east where christians are protected is israel. think about what that means. >> that's quite an ironic statement when you make that. >> it is. people volunteer to go with me to israel every january when i take the groups out. in fact since this began, since the fight in gaza began, more people have signed up. nobody has dropped out. the american people understand what this is. this is religious persecution of the worst kind and we're watching it because these people revel, talking about isis, they revel in this culture of death. and so proposal for a real strategy, convene a conference in washington, d.c., next week. hopefully that's what he's doing when he came back here today. get the west to stand up and say this cannot -- we cannot tolerate this.
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and deploy another carrier battle group. we've only got one out there in the persian gulf. we have none in the mediterranean. send out an extra marine expeditionary unit, qrf, the quick response force if you needed it. start doing the kinds of things like going after high value targets in both syria and iraq. rebuild the relationship that we had with the sunni moderates and the sunni, if you will, the tribes of anbar province that are largely secular and they were with us back in 2006. >> they were. they absolutely were. >> i met with dozens out there with that awakening was beginning. they're terrified by what they have seen. they're our natural allies. but that requires that americans be on the ground to help make that happen. >> we'll see, i don't know. it's very, very troubling indeed. the world is watching as this genocide continues, and we are doing -- we're making an effort, yet, though, there still needs a lot more to be done. we have yet to see it. >> if we don't do more, our children will indict us for willful indifference and i don't want that to happen. >> nor do i.
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always great to see you, sir. thank you for joining us. turning back to news here at home and a surprising development as a texas grand jury indicts governor rick perry for abuse of power in the lone star state. all this tied to allegations that he made good on a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. joining us now with more on the indictment and the impact this may have on the governor's political future, james rosen. james, this news happening against the governor who's had a high profile lately with the ongoing border crisis. what's all this about? >> well, good morning. the longest serving governor in the united states, rick perry, now faces two felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. as texas justice legendarily inclines towards harshness, the first one carries a penalty of 5 to 99 years in prison, the second 2 to 10. a grand jury charged that perry tried to force the resignation
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of the district attorney there, the top prosecutor in austin and chief of a unit that probes political corruption, after she was arrested on a drunken driving charge last year. when she refused, perry made good on that threat to veto state funding for her office claiming she had lost the public's confidence. the special prosecutor in this case says governor perry will soon be arraigned at the county criminal courthouse just a few blocks from the governor's mansion. in a statement, perry's counsel called this a political abuse of the court system, adding the facts of this case conclude that the governor's veto was lawful, appropriate and well within the authority of the office of the governor. today's action which violates the separation of powers outlined in the texas constitution is nothing more than an effort to weaken the constitutional authority granted to the office of texas governor and sets a dangerous precedent. >> what strikes me, though, is that the governor was using his veto power, and i'm not familiar with the situation where a governor has been indicted for vetoing a law that he thought
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should not be signed into law. and so, you know, i just don't know what to think of it. >> needless to say, the indictment poses a serious challenge to perry's efforts to position himself as a leading contender for the 2016 republican presidential nomination to the question of whether perry could ever overcome memories of his 2012 stumbles but now be added the question what use his rivals may make of this development. we do know that the last time a texas governor was indicted by a grand jury, the president of the united states was woodrow wilson. uma. >> that was quite a while back. all right, james, good to see you, thank you very much. >> you bet. and you can hear from the governor himself offering up his response to this indictment tomorrow on "fox news sunday." it's an exclusive interview and you can check your local listings for the time and the channel. how do move forward and bring order and peace back to ferguson. plus, the irs targeting scandal and lois lerner's missing e-mails. wait until you hear what the new
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details are. we've got some about the agency and what it did or didn't do it has a judge boiling mad. you're apparently not getting the whole story. that's what one judge is saying about the ongoing illegal immigration crisis on the border or the real dangers. >> in terms of the amount of people that are coming through that have the potential to be spreading disease, we're pretty much almost at 100% because they're really getting no serious check whatsoever. >> that's correct. >> and just ahead, documentary producer dennis michael lynch and his exclusive video of what he says is really taking place right now at our border. don't go away. woooo.
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welcome back, everybody. now back to ferguson, missouri, where there's been so much anger and frustration and so many people asking how the community can get past the recent violence and find a new way forward. joining us now from ferguson, missouri state senator maria nadoll who found herself caught in the midst of those violent protests earlier in the week and she's been outspoken over her frustration of what's happening there. welcome to the program. great to have you here today. >> thank you so much. >> you know, as i understand it,
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you were unfortunately one of those who was hit by tear gas earlier this week and you took part in a peaceful protest. tell us more about that and concerns that with the new violence overnight, some residents in ferguson are saying they're simply upset with the way the information about this case is being released by authorities and the officer who shot the teen along with the fact that there are still lots of questions. >> well, there are multiple questions that you're asking me right now, but let me just start with this. last saturday i was on the ground at the site of where michael brown was killed. every single day we have held peaceful protests. unfortunately, there are certain elements from outside of the community that decided to start looting. and they cast a dark shadow over ferguson. ferguson is a very peaceful place where black and white associate together every single day and we don't have a problem there. but where we do have the problem is the institutional racism that
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we have in the police department. many of the young people that i represent in isolated events have been intimidated, they have been harassed by law enforcement and other authority and by the death of michael brown, that only brought up the feelings that they have had for a very long time and now there's a movement going on. >> i understand there's a lot of anger in response to the fact that this has been building over some time and you've pointed out some allegations there about your concerns about alleged institutional racism, but why do you believe, though, the anger ignited again overnight? why did protesters actually attack and loot stores, including the same convenience store and attack the employees who were victims in the robbery that took place one week ago today, allegedly by michael brown? >> well, let me tell you and correct you actually. our protesters have been peaceful all week long. >> i'm not talking about you specifically. i'm talking about -- you know the community, you represent
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that area. from what you've been able to determine, why are we seeing this type of response against the same convenience store and against those stores last night where they were looting? this obviously has no place in that community. >> you are absolutely right. but again i have to correct you. our protesters are not looting. there are elements from outside from the city of st. louis who are coming in and protesting violently. we do not condone that type of behavior in this community. in fact it is a dark shadow on this community. we don't want that at all. and so we don't condone it and we want that element out of the community. what we want is justice and transparency in the investigation. we do have a problem with the information that came out yesterday. we wanted to know the name of the officer who killed mike brown. what we found out is we also got a video. well, the video or an alleged
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one has absolutely nothing to do with the first interaction with the police officer and michael brown's death. that is the information that we are tracking. anything in that time frame is what is important to this community. and so again, those looters, who i don't condone their behavior, they -- >> let me ask you this. there have been reports that members of the new black panthers and other outside groups have been wanting to come into ferguson to stir up some trouble there and the authorities have been trying to keep them out. are you saying that some of these outsiders are tied to those groups? >> yes, absolutely. and people who are from ferguson are really upset. when we're out on the street and we see these elements from the outside come in that are violent in their language and their behavior, it's offending the african-americans and the community as a whole because they are casting this dark shadow on our community. so we wish that the people who are trying to take an
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opportunity to just bring violence into our community -- >> does that include people like al sharpton? does that include people like al sharpton? >> you know, al has his own kind of way of doing things. i know he has a protest tomorrow. but i don't think in any way that he is trying to promote violence at all. i was at a church with him this week and he was -- >> well, he was out earlier this week, you know, saying that this isn't -- this is just the beginning, you're going to see a lot more and alluding to the fact that there could be more violence. be that as it may, our thoughts are with all of you. we do hope that things -- >> thank you. >> -- turn out to be more peaceful as the public continues to look for answers in the situation. after all, we don't have all the facts in at this point. so we really have to take a step back and wait until the information comes forward before rushing to judgment on either side. >> you're absolutely right. we have to wait for the facts. again, the timeline that we're looking at as a community is the time of the first interaction -- >> i understand.
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>> -- with the police officer, darren wilson, and the death. >> thank you for joining us. all the best. >> thank you. now we have some new developments tied to the ongoing investigation over the irs targeting scandal. a judge is clearly not impressed with what the irs has turned over so far after it responds to a freedom of information request by the group judicial watch. at issue those missing e-mails from former irs official lois lerner along with other folks involved with the alleged targeting of conservative groups. joining us with more on all of this, elizabeth tran. >> reporter: hi, uma, a federal judge made a bold step on thursday pressing the internal revenue service for more details about lois lerner's missing e-mails. judge sullivan said the irs must provide under oath proof of her computer troubles and how the agency tried to retrieve what was lost. that includes alternative
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devices such as tablets, computers and smartphones. it must also explain the inventory process of hard drives and how they're tracked while being serviced or subsequently destroyed. the president of judicial watch, the group filing the lawsuit against the irs, told fox business the judge's demands are unprecedented. >> well, you know, it's easy to stone wall congress, but you don't want a federal judge suspicious of you. i've been at judicial watch for 16 years, stewart. we filed hundreds of freedom of information act cases. there's nothing like this that i remember ever happening acres judge acting on his own like this. >> lerner remains a central figure over the improper scrutiny of groups seeking tax-exempt status. shortly before the judge's orders the irs did submit declarations saying technology experts did everything they could to fix and recover data from her hard drive but much of the trail remains lost. the irs has not publicly reacted
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to the judge's order since thursday. it does have until august 22nd to comply. back to you. thousands of iraqi minorities from christians to yazidis are struggling for their lives as refugees. we are going to talk to an aid group who's trying to give them vital comfort and support and hearing their horrific stories of survival. >> islamic state fighters came and abducted people in the village. they tried to convert me, but i escaped. my name is karen and i have diabetic nerve pain.
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welcome back everybody. president obama cutting his vacation to martha's vineyard short to return to washington tomorrow. the white house not disclosing why he's returning. meanwhile events unfolding in iraq have made it a working vacation. senior white house foreign
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affairs correspondent wendell is joining us now from massachusetts with more about the president's schedule. wendell? >> reporter: well, uma, first we could point out the return is only for a couple of days and it was scheduled even before this vacation began. no doubt there's been a steady stream of tragedy we've seen in iraq but the president has got good news on a couple of fronts from there this week. prime minister nouri al maliki agreed to step down. maliki had been digging in his heels and refusing to go. and the christian and yazidi refugees on sinjar mountain seem to be finding their own way off and away from isis rebels. a u.s. military team found far fewer refugees than expected about midweek and an evacuation was cancelled, though mr. obama said the u.s. would continue air strikes against isis. >> we will continue air strikes to protect our people and facilities in iraq. we have increased the delivery
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of military assistance to iraqi and kurdish forces fighting isil on the front lines, and, perhaps most importantly, we urging iraqis to come together to turn the tide against isil, above all by seizing the enormous opportunity of forming a new inclusive government under the leadership of prime minister designate abadi. >> the president refers to isil, the islamic state in iraq and l levant. critics want him to go after them in syria and completely dismantle the group. john bolten says the president is miss get threat isis poses to this country. >> we need a presidential decision that the united states has to lead a coalition to destroy isis. we cannot let it hold territory because it's only a short matter of time before isis attacks not just christians and yazidis in
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iraq but in the united states. >> reporter: president obama has made it clear he's not interested in going back into combat in iraq and there's no indication the american public wants that either. to defeat isis, iraq will have to end its bias against sunni muslims, which is part of what attracts them to join the group. >> definitely a working vacation for the president. wenl wendell, thanks very much for the update. while the u.s. military tries to hit isis with air strikes, aid workers trying to care for the thousands of religious minorities in that region who have been forced to become refugees because of this terror group. our next guest represents a group on the front lines of the effort. david curry, president of open doors usa is joining us live. welcome. nice to have you on the show today. >> thank you very much. appreciate you having me on. >> talk to us for a moment about what you're hearing from your folks there on the ground, just how serious the situation is. we keep hearing about the fact
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that many of these refugees who were standing at the top of that mountain have come down from the mountain but yet the real work begins trying to take care of these people who replain homeless, hungry and with no place to go. >> that's right. well, open doors supports iraqis helping iraqis. so we're with churches and christians, we're helping refugees right now in the midst of the trouble. and what we're hearing is that there is a tremendous amount of pressure building up not only amongst the refugees who are hungry, we're providing food through our partners, medical aid, any kind of support we can to help them settle where they're at and to try to remain. we don't want to see a mass exodus of christians out of iraq, we'd like to see them remain and still be a viable christian community in iraq. right now they're under tremendous pressure. there's many physical needs. there's a risk of disease because of a lack of bathrooms. you have tens of thousands of
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people sleeping in churches, public buildings. many families huddling together. so there's a real threat of disease right now as well, so there's a lot of things going on in iraq as you can imagine. >> when you say they're staying in churches there, are they being protected by kurdish forces on the ground near those churches? because isis is on the move. >> well, what you have is you have a group that has continually been pushed north into kurdistan and of course isis is very close to erbil now and they're moving north, which is of course what all of the military action is all about. but you do have some churches towards the north into kurdistan that are supporting refugees and so there are other areas, camps that folks are being forced into and you have these humanitarian type situations where you have large, tens of thousands of people grouping together with limited facilities, limited food and open doors is trying to
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support them with whatever -- in whatever way we can to make sure the situation does not get -- >> but there has to be at the moment apart from the aid drops that are happening, it must be extremely difficult to get to these people, giving them the resources that they need because it is overwhelming. because we continue to hear the stories of desperation, people who really are struggling for survival. >> it really is overwhelming, not just for the refugees but for the workers themselves because these are iraqis helping iraqis. they're kurds helping folks on the move, so it is extremely a pressure cooker type situation, extremely difficult. >> thank you, sir, for joining us with your insights and giving us an update from what you're hearing from your folks there on the ground. we really do appreciate it and wish you all the best as you continue to reach out to those people. if you'd like to help out go to www.opendoorsusa.org to make any
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donations to the organization. allegations of cheating involving one of college football's most storied franchises. we'll bring you a live report, next. >> kick them out of school. the academic integrity of the university and athletes and the fact that they need to represent that is paramount to notre dame maintaining its tradition. save big at bass pro shops' fall hunting classic. with great deals like redhead ripstop camo shirts or bdu pants for under $15 each. your choice of 5 great boots for under $80. and this cuddeback ir game camera for under $100.
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we are back with news of a developing story with the university of notre dame holding four top football players out of practice while it investigates accusations of cheating. this comes just two weeks before college football season kicks off. we have the latest details from our los angeles bureau. dominic? >> reporter: suspected academic
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dishonesty is the very politically correct phrase that notre dame is using today for what effectively is cheating in school. but these four players from the football team are accused of getting somebody else to do their course work. none of them are particularly well known. i think russell on the left there is the best cornerback they have got at the moment. the fighting irish is a better known second consecutive season where they're being affected by misconduct issues. a probe naturally is under way, said a rather stony-faced athletic director. listen. >> we're going to have this investigation go wherever it leads us rand we're going to be thorough. and the possibility that it may affect prior years does not reflect any conclusion, it reflects a commitment to the thoroughness of the investigation. >> apparently evidence appeared at the end of the summer session indicating that papers and homework had been done by other
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people. the university is investigating whether other students were involved in this. the graduates have been talking to the media saying, you know, this is the right thing to do. >> notre dame is such a great academic institution, i think it's one of the few schools that would actually look into the allegations. so as an alum, i'm a little proud of that. but it's also a little bittersweet that our football team is being accused of some academic issues. >> reporter: uma, the coach, brian kelly, is said to be devastated by these allegations. he's now got quite a few holes to fill. the season starts august 30th. none of these players can return until the investigation is over. back to you. >> all right, thank you very much. all right. when we come back, we've got some brand new fox news polls showing how many people believe the president is handling the crisis on the border. we're going to continue to follow the border story because filmmaker dennis michael lynch will bring you a side of the issue you don't always see. when it comes to good nutrition...i'm no expert.
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and we are back with some brand-new fox polls on the concerns over the border crisis and immigration. but more than a 3 to 1 margin voters are picking immigration reform that only includes a pathway to citizenship over no
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congressional action at all. nearly twice as many people disapprove than approve of the president's handling of the central american children who have been crossing our borders illegally. and when asked to rate the president's job performance on immigration, you will find that generally a third of the voters approving and 57% disapproving. washington may be split on what to do about the thousands of children who are flooding into our country, but documentary filmmaker dennis michael lynch so there is no question the reality on the ground is far different than what's being portray nd the media. i recently spoke to mrinlynch a his documentary we ride to d.c., it explores our immigration crisis and many other things that lynch says the mainstream media is unwilling to cover. >> until we remove the incentive for not only these children but the families and the day laborers to come here, we are going to have this continue to continue.
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we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of this problem with the wave of people that are going to be coming here over the months and really for as long as president obama is the president. >> is it true that the expectations are we could have up to 90,000 children before the fall? >> i think you're going to see more than that, to be quite honest. but the other thing, uma, you have to remember is that the children, the children who are come alone, they represent a very small pile, if you will, of the overall picture. they're about 15% or less of the total amount of people coming over and just sacrificing themselves to say to border patrol, i'm here. 85% of that populationing is what they call a family. and that is a family makes up one adult with a child or one adult with a teenager. that's the lion's share of what's coming in right now. those people are just going anywhere in the usa. >> i want to talk about your new film called "we ride to d.c." it's an effort right now to focus on the liberal bias that
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is fueling what you call the elite media. >> absolutely. look, you could use the example of the border. about nine, t ten months ago, a news, diane sawyer, reaches about 9 million, 10 million people, talking about how secure the border is with all the drones and fencing and the president saying the border has never been more secure. i go to that same spot where they film, but i pan to the left and i find it where you've got 46 trucks from drug cartels coming in with all that technology and the border patrol station right there, not one of those trucks have been stopped. >> i want to play a clip of the new documentary because it does point to the fact that you show how the border is right now and that it is not secure. let's listen. >> in the last 22 months, we've had 43 full-size trucks full of marijuana come across this border cutting the wall. >> you've got the drones, the satellites, you've got the radar, the new cameras, the
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border patrol station. how is that happening? >> i don't understand it. haven't been caught. it's absolutely the worst it's been for 23 years. >> that aeunbelievable. you're showing people right there just how the situation is right now and the fact there's no security there. >> and here's the problem. like i said to you about the abc news segment, you could take all the mainstream media outlets and collectively they reach about 30 million people each night. they're seeing a completely different story. the question becomes, how can you have a functional democracy when voters don't have access to the truth? you cannot. this is why i think so many people in america aren't holding the president accountable and ultimately if the media doesn't do its job, well, you don't have access to the truth. so that all goes away. when you look at the way we're treating our veterans treating our borders, we're putting american lives, american jobs and american children at risk "we ride to d.c.," i think this is the most important projectile
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ever do in my life. >> our thanks to dennis michael lynch. and you can get more information about his movi movies at www.th come to america.com. well, elvis may be gone, but he's certainly not forgotten. a look at what's being done to honor the king, next. stay with us. [music] ♪ jackie's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today her doctor has her on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.
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well, elvis fans around the world paying homage to the king of rock 'n' roll. today marks the day 37 years ago when elvis died. fans holding a candlelight vigil at the singer's home in memphis in a sea last night. the rituals are every year at this time, one of the highlights of a week-longing celebration of his life and legacy. i've been asking all of you out there what you think should be done to bring peace to ferguson. kg writes, we have to come to understand we are neighbors and we must love our neighbors as we love ourselves. another viewer says, the town just, quote, needs real leadership. bill says, the president should step in. he suggests sending in the national guard. thanks to the many of you who have sent in tweets today. i appreciate it. it definitely is a very hot button issue at the moment. that will do it for me here in d.c.
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"america's news headquarters" rolls on hold on for that. i'm uma pemmaraju. make it a great day, everybody. hello, i'm kelly write. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's news headquarters. >> i'm julie banderas. topping the hour, isis terrorists have taken a key dam in northern iraq that suppliesmost of the country's walter and electricity. we are live on the ground. and now a new round of air strikes targeting terrorist locations around that dam as the u.s. military road deepens in iraq. this raising concerns of mission creep. and texas governor rick perry indicted on felony charges on 0 abuse of power. the political fallout across the spectrum could be epic. but first, we begin

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