and hamas warning international airlines not to fly israel starting today, suggesting more rocket fire after the cease-fire was broken. >> thank you so much for joining us today. we'll see you tomorrow on friday. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. well, good morning, everyone. today is thursday, the 21st of august, 2014. i'm in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we know this morning special forces tried and failed to rescue american journalist james foley. but why was that top-secret mission exposed? >> that's the question. meanwhile, while the family of james foley breaks down in tears, the president of the united states went golfing. after saying he was going to find action for others. what? >> this is a quote. we will act against isil, standing alongside others. what the hell does that mean? >> what does that mean? maybe this is what he meant by staying the course in iraq.

and this could change everything in ferguson. new details this morning show the officer who killed michael brown was beaten badly. the exclusive details in a live report straight ahead. "fox & friends" hour one starts right now. welcome aboard, folks. studio "e" live from new york city. it's kind of rainy on this thursday morning. >> muggy, rainy morning. we've got venus williams on the show this morning. there's a big tennis court set up outside. >> venus is rising. >> it won't rain on our parade. are you going to play? >> i think we're all going to play. >> it's going to be embarrassing. stay tuned. >> in heels. >> brian and elisabeth are off. steve's the only one holding down the fort. >> it's great to have you, anna, and clayton with us as well because we start with a "fox news alert." the white house hrevealed that there was a rescue raid in syria

for that man right there, james foley, who was beheaded on youtube. apparently according to "the washington post," several dozen special operators were involved, blackhawks also known as the night stalkers, they used drones. but after landing, they discovered that mr. foley and the others had been moved, and so they got out of there. >> how do we know about this? >> yeah. the question really this morning is if they were able to get in and get out without anybody knowing, why would we share this information from a covert operation? it's something that many experts say should have been kept under wraps for decades. listen to what charles krauthammer and ambassador john bolton had to say. >> this is a political reaction to a horrific event. the administration is trying to say we're not just standing by and watching. so you can understand that politically, but it is the usual instinct of this administration to think first are the politics. >> i think this is a stunning breach of security for the

united states. obviously ordered by the white house. i cannot conceive of the pentagon releasing this on their own. this is exactly the sort of thing that should remain completely confidential for 50 years, number one, because it tells people what we tried to do. number two, it's an admission of failure. well, the united states tried again and couldn't do it. and number three, whoever it was we relied upon, whoever gave us the tip, is now in jeopardy from the islamic state and may well be dead already. this is just not something you do. >> right. it's something that maybe we're going to have a hard time intelligence gathering after the fact as well. if we're just going to share this information. >> what's the political calculus for telling me? it shows me that the president is saying we tried. we tried to do this. we tried to stop this ahead of time. we want the american people to know we're out in front of all of this. and we also are learning more this morning about what exactly this group wanted from the united states before this killing. in fact, they were asking for

ransom money. millions of dollars. the united states, though, i think the only country that didn't funnel money to the terror group. britain and others were funneling millions of dollars to this group. >> that's right. isis apparently demanded 100 million euros, which translates today into $132 million. the united states government said no. now, what's curious is the intel that led the special operators to that part of syria. the intel came from six british nationals who were actually negotiated out. now, one of the nationals also spoke to a british tabloid and revealed that they were held in the city of rocca in syria. and that's why the special operators targeted right there. one of the guys who was known as their guard, they all three had british accents. one of them, he was able to identify from the youtube video the executioner was a fella who

identified himself as john, which coincidentally is one of the names of the beatles, and they referred to all three of these guys as the beatles. >> from britain. they're from that part of the world. no wonder david cameron has cut his vacation short, come back after just one day of vacation, that these guys are british, radicalized, managed to fly into turkey and make it across the border and become part of this group. >> it's not like they're foot soldiers. they are showcasing john the executer as they're calling him, it's part of this radicalization. it's almost like they get accolades from making the switch from being part of western culture to becoming this way. and it's dangerous. think about what this could do for their homeland. they've said they want to get as big as possible and expand. many experts say they are bigger and stronger than al qaeda was on 9/11.

and if these guys look like you and me, it makes you wonder. >> an ak-47 is promised if they join. as soon as they show up and join, they were handed grenades, a couple clips of ammo and an ak-47, and they are part of this group. john the executioner reportedly had sent -- other members of the group had sent e-mails to their family members letting them know that i'm doing all of this in the name of allah. others who have then committed suicide wearing suicide vests saying i moved here because i wanted to become a martyr for allah. >> meanwhile, shortly after the video was released, apparently the wheels were put in motion that the united states would retaliate against isis. and there were 14 new air strikes near the mosul dam yesterday. okay. so we took action. and then the president, at 12:45, at a local school in martha's vineyard, said this. >> the united states of america will continue to do what we must do to protect our people.

we will be vigilant, and we will be relentless. when people harm americans anywhere, we do what's necessary to see that justice is done, and we act against isil, standing alongside others. >> you know, what's so curious about him talking about isil or isis yesterday is this is the same group that back in january, he referred to as the jv squad. >> yeah, they really don't know what they're doing. yesterday he referred to them as a cancer that must be eliminated. the question now is, is this president willing to do what it takes to kill them? >> is it going to be a humanitarian effort? >> no. no. it shouldn't be. >> humanitarian effort, just contain these guys -- >> decimate them? >> right. is this the new face of terror that we're facing in this world, and what do we need to do. and he was a little wishy-washy on his statement yesterday. we're going to stand with others. but we saw what standing with

others has done. they've invaded iraq, taken the mosul dam, taken baghdad. colonel oliver north about what that even means. >> they talked at length about the horrors being perpetrated by isis. and then he says at the end of this -- and this is a quote -- we will act against isil, standing alongside others. what the hell does that mean? there's no real clandestine service on the ground. so human intelligence is not existing. when they conducted the raid, they found out they weren't there, we now know where they are. they're in the hands of isis, isil, and they are going to be murdered. i mean, this is a horrible fact of life on the ground. and what the president is saying when he says we're going to act standing alongside others, it's hollow. it means nothing. there has to be a decision made, and this president can do it like that. he's got a pen. he's got a telephone. start attacking isis command, control and communications inside syria. you can't give terrorist organizations a safe haven.

we've learned nothing since vietnam, a safe haven is a formula for disaster. >> ollie is right, the president has a pen, and he's got a phone, but he's also got a putter. extraordinarily yesterday, he immediately went from the school, the local school in martha's vineyard, directly to the golf course. and as you can see in the "daily news," right there refers to it as "obama's golf war." what's curious, though, is here you see president -- if you come back here, there you see the president of the united states right there. and there you see the grieving parents of james foley who were having a press conference at exactly the same time. it was very emotional, and the optics of this are bad. >> yeah. and if the president doesn't care about the optics which, you know -- >> he should. >> -- he should. i mean, put a tie on, go to the situation room, go back to washington, do something. try to console this poor family who lost their son, you know, after these terrorists were

trying to negotiate. do we negotiate with terrorists? it's not something that a lot of people say that we should do. he did it with bowe bergdahl. >> the french foreign minister said last week regarding the people who were dying in iraq, quote, i know in western countries, this is vacation period, but when people are dying, you must return from vacation. >> even europeans are coming back from vacation. the french lecturing us about vacation, and then david cameron coming back after one day. the british prime minister after one day of vacation. let us know your thoughts. meanwhile, we've got some more headlines. i'll get right to those. they were near death a few weeks ago, but in just a few hours the two americans diagnosed with ebola will be released from the hospital. emory university making the announcement a short time ago. they got the virus while treating people in liberia. brantly expected to speak at a

press conference this morning at 11:00 a.m. the judge says she's old enough to stand trial on charges she started one of the most destructive wildfires of the year. prosecutors say she sparked the fire on purpose. the flames ripped through three dozen homes north of san diego, causing $12 million in damage. police not saying just yet how they linked her to the crime. and robin williams now at peace. we just learned that he was cremated the day after he took his own life. his ashes scattered in the san francisco bay near his home. williams' wife revealed the 63-year-old had been diagnosed with parkinson's disease but was not ready to reveal it to the world. and those are your headlines. >> you can see we've got a very busy news day. and there's a major bombshell out of ferguson, missouri, today. >> yeah, a source telling fox news exclusively that officer darren wilson was beaten badly by michael brown moments before he shot and killed brown. >> our reporter is live on the ground with the brand-new

details. good morning, garrett. >> reporter: good morning. this source who is close to the head of ferguson's police department says that officer darren wilson suffered an eye fracture and was beaten severely by michael brown moments before he fired and eventually killed michael brown. now, this comes after several other accounts we've heard of this story. it matches up along with those. the account of this source says that when officer wilson pulled up to michael brown and his friend dorian johnson, that they -- the officer asked them to get out of the middle of the road, and they ignored him. and then the officer, he started to get out of his car to tell them to get out of the road again. and at that point, the source says they, quote, shoved him right back in. and that's when michael brown leans in and starts beating officer wilson in the head and the face. end quote. the source goes on to say that when brown started to walk away, that's when officer wilson drew his gun and ordered him to freeze at which point brown

said, "what, are you going to shoot me?" and then charged at wilson, prompting the officer to fire six shots at him. wilson suffered that fracture eye socket and was taken to the hospital after the shooting. and the source says he is now living in fear that the grand jury will try to make an example out of him by bringing those charges against him. last night there were several supporters of officer wilson that came out to the protests here. police quickly whisked them away, though, for their own protection when they were surrounded by other protesters. back to you. >> that's the side of the story that a lot of people have not yet heard, and that changes everything. garrett tenney, thank you very much. meanwhile, coming up, it's happened again. first white flags were flown from the brooklyn bridge. those were american flags that were bleached out. now this. a palestinian flag on the manhattan bridge. and then take a close look at this video. that's a man in a wheelchair stranded during a pounding rainstorm. we'll show you what a police officer did when he thought no one was watching. fact.

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isis soldiers in that youtube video. this morning we now know that an attempt was made by special operators to rescue foley, but it failed. >> yeah, releasing the details of that rescue mission, highly unusual. so what's the pentagon's motivation behind the release, and what message is the president sending to our enemies? >> joining us now is pete hegseth. good morning. why do we need this information right now? is this the administration saying we are engaged in this? we're not hands off in this? we tried? >> that's exactly what this is. politically they need that narrative introduced. we don't know who released it or how the reporters got it. there's plenty of blame to go around. was it the pentagon? was it the white house? we don't know. this is the kind of classified released. it wasn't a successful mission. i do give them credit, though. i'm grateful, i'm glad they did what they could with the intelligence they had, with stressful operators to try to go get those guys deep into syria, a dangerous spot.

you've got to give our special operators credit. they did what they could. >> but there's a track record here, isn't there, from the administration leaking this information. we know from the bin laden raid that some members of the administration reportedly had leaked bits of this information to hollywood. for script-writing purposed. >> that's right. usually the leaking has been to sort of take a victory lap on something that's finally gone right for them. in this case, they've got a beheaded journalist, and it looks like there's been inactivity. they feel like they needed to sort of tell their side of the story that this was done. i think a self-assured confident white house would be able to stand up and talk forcefully about what they're going to do to get the killers knowing they've done this. >> one of the reasons you don't reveal an operation, particularly a covert operation like this, is you destroy the source. whoever inserts the information, yesterday you were on this program and you were talking a little bit about the president was probably going to make a statement yesterday. he did. and then he immediately went golfing. and this is the first thing you talked about when you came in here today. you're furious about it. >> it's maddening.

i watched the statement live. i was actually talking to some folks there saying hey, there's no way that he goes to the golf course after this. there's just no way. at first i said why is he not wearing a tie? can we just get a tie at one time to show the respect and the seriousness of this? he literally went straight from the podium to the 1st tee. i'm not saying i need lbj poring over maps, of targets, but some engage tments would go a long w. >> presidents work hard. they all deserve a vacation and time on the golf course, but the timing is not successful. >> the british prime minister canceling his vacation to come back. the british canceling their vacation. so much at stake. pete, thanks a lot. here's what's coming up, outrage over this story. special needs kids made to sort through the trash at school. and get this, it's part of the school curriculum. >> what school is that? and it's white flags were

flown from the brooklyn bridge, now a palestinian flag pops up on the manhattan bridge. what's going on?

and welcome back now. time for some quick headlines. another flag mysteriously appearing on a new york bridge. this flag supporting palestinians hung from the manhattan bridge, was found shortly after 500 people led a pro-palestinian protest nearby. and just last month, two bleached white american flags were hung at the brooklyn bridge. police say they're closing in on a suspect in that case. in a new experiment you're looking at showed screening machines used by the tsa failed. big time. researchers say the machines failed to pick up guns and

explosives, covered in teflon, tape or molded plastic. anna? thanks so much. 24 minutes after the hour. you've heard the expression "you've come a long way, baby." well, women don't celebrate just yet. listen to these sobering statistics. poverty among women is at a record high. some 55.3 million women have left the work force since the recession. more than 250,000 have dropped out since may. women age ed 55 to 64 will carr the bulk of obamacare premium hikes. the left wants to blame the gop for a so-called war on women. our next guest says we need to set the record straight. and joining us now is carly fiorina, former ceo of hewlett-packard and chairwoman of the unlocking potential project. good morning and thanks for joining us. >> good morning, anna. thanks for having me. >> so yes, we've come a long way, baby, right?

but why is it that many democrats, many voters are still buying this phony war on women? >> well, first of all, we know that propaganda works. and the war on women is shameless, baseless propaganda. put another way, it's a bunch of lies. the problem is people don't know the facts such as you just described to your viewers, they may be afraid, they may be fearful of that propaganda. what we're trying to do is really galvanize women on the ground. we've gotten outhustled on the ground too many elections, so we need to get women prepared to be persuasive with other women. and the reality is that liberal policies are hurting this nation, and they're hurting women. >> as i just mentioned, the bulk of the premium hikes for obamacare are going to fall on the shoulders of women, yet somehow if you give women free birth control, all of a sudden they're going to vote democrat, according to some. it's just silly. i want you to take a look at

this attack ad going on in colorado. let's watch this. >> my opponent, congressman gardner, led a crusade that would make birth control illegal and sponsored a bill to make abortion a felony. >> what do you make of this ad? >> well, first, think about all the headlines that you've been talking about this morning. think about everything that's going on in the world and all the problems in our economy and here at home. and this is the ad that democrats are running? first of all, everything that is said in that ad is untrue. but specifically, women don't lack access to abortion or birth control. women lack access under this administration and under democratic policies to their doctor, to the procedures that their doctor might recommend, to their hospital under obamacare. they lack access to opportunity, as your statistics so painfully show. >> yeah. >> we need to talk about the issues, but this war, left unchecked, will be successful. we know that. >> and if you take a look at those statistics, if women were

to vote today, would you vote democrat or gop? for the gop candidate, rather, this is a fox news poll, 50% said they would vote democratic. 34% say they would vote republican. now, your group is aiming to really organize the gop, send a different message to women, focus on technology, but you're not just focusing on the upcoming election. what's your group doing? >> first also in that poll, we know that 13% of women are undecided. that means they're persuadable. and what we're really doing is focusing on what i would call republican-leaning women, women who mostly agree with us but occasional voters or independent women, women who are open to persuasion. for example, i'm going to denver right after the show. we're going to have a training workshop with women as well as men if they want to join us in how to have those persuasive conversations. we know that ads are one thing, but people are most persuaded by other people they know. so here's how you talk about the issues.

here's how you expose the lies, and here's how you begin to persuade a woman you may know. >> get that conversation started and talk to your neighbors and coworkers. >> exactly. >> carly fiorina, the cha chairperson of the unlocking potential project. looking forward to what your group has to offer. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. 6:29. coming up, the images of his execution are brutal. but our next guest says there's a reason every single american should look at them. judy miller up next on that. then the season opener for a florida football team in serious jeopardy this morning. the reason, a volcano? are you kidding? but first, happy birthday to kenny rogers, a friend of "fox & friends." he's 76 today. ♪ know when to hold 'em ♪ know when to fold 'em ♪ know when to talk away ♪ know when to run ♪ you never count your money ♪ when you're sitting at the table ♪ [ kinda ] we are the saunders.

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a fox news alert. the brutal beheading of american journalist james foley, the military is stepping up air strikes on isis in iraq. the president now considering sending additional troops. this following the revelation that the united states sent a special operations team into syria to search for american hostages, but they got there and nobody was there. mission failed. and the hunt is on for the masked executioner. a british national known as john, one of the so-called beatles, because there were three people from great britain who were their captors. u.s. intel officials are combing the video for more clues. after the murder of james foley, some are calling for an isis media blackout, saying broadcasting images of james foley's death only helps to

further the terror group. >> but fox contributor judy miller says it's a video every american to see to know exactly what we are up against. judy knows a thing or two about journalism because she wound up going to jail to protect a source. >> good morning. >> morning. >> james foley's sister says nobody should watch this. you say everybody should watch it. >> i will. every adult who's interested in foreign affairs who wants to know why, what's going on in syria and iraq affects us as americans. that video makes us understand the nature of the enemy that we're fighting. >> doesn't it, though, elevate isis? as we heard from the president, they were junior varsity only six months ago. now we're not even talking about al qaeda. all eyes on isis. are they the new global threat of terror? and maybe this is elevating them. isn't this exactly what they want? >> well, they put out a video, a message to america. clearly they do want the publicity, and they want people to be frightened of them. and they want the people that they want to subject, they want

the people to think that they are the only game in town. but when ordinary people watch a video, i don't care what your religion or nationality is like this. the automatic instinct kicks in that these people are evil and barbaric. you don't have to sit there and dwell on it, but you have to be reminded that these people are exactly what the president called them, a cancer in the middle east, a disgrace to their religion, people who have nothing to do with islam, who are acting in the name of religion, that 99% of the people who follow that religion would reject. so yes, we must fight isis here, there, everywhere. >> steve mentioned james foley's sister said let's not look at this, let's not promote this. the ceo of twitter has come out and tweeted and basically said the same thing and that he's disbanding any accounts that are promoting this message. we saw the cover of a new york tabloid yesterday that took the

picture one step further than what we've been showing on fox with the knife actually at the throat. i mean, where do you draw the line on that? >> i understand it's up to every news organization to decide what they want to know and what they don't. but i think you can't deny the reality. my concern right now is that americans are becoming so isolationist. they think that what's happening over there doesn't affect us. it may not affect us today, but it will tomorrow unless a group like this is fought and defeated. not just contained but defeated. >> what about, judy, the fact that it sounds like yesterday, the white house, after the video hit, they needed to say, well, we tried. we launched this raid, and it didn't work. >> well, steve, i've been critical of the president and this administration, as you know. on this one, i have to say the news organizations found out about this. they began asking questions about it. you can't lie to the american people. >> that's right. >> and frankly, i'm glad that they did something, tried to do something. what we shouldn't do is

ransom. that's what's really difficult for us. >> and we're the only country that hasn't sent millions. >> but $150 million already has been paid by others. >> that's right. judy miller, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. all right. heather childers joins us this half hour with a look at the news. >> we do have some other headlines to talk about right now. the season opener for a florida football team in jeopardy. the reason, a volcano at the game between the university of central florida and penn state is being played in ireland. and 900 miles away in iceland, a volcano is ready to blow. scientists say the ash could easily travel over to ireland, and that could ground flights going in and out of the country. outrage this morning over this story. special needs kids made to sort through the trash at school. it's part of the school curriculum. well, teachers told the children to sift through garbage for recyclables. it has been going on for years,

but just now has come to light. >> she felt humiliated. she felt stigmatized, and she didn't want to tell me about it. so i didn't find out about it until the story came out in the news. >> the school district now suspending that program, but special education teachers saying that this is good for the kids to teach them life skills. try to figure that out. some incredible news for hall of fame quarterback jim kelly. he is cancer free. doctors treating kelly for sinus cancer say that they have found no evidence of remaining cancer. amazing. kelly underwent several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation this spring. kelly telling his fans, "i still need your prayers." and you have them. well, he thought that no one was watching, but this florida cop's act of kindness going viral after it was caught on dash cam. take a look. officer gill benitez on patrol when he spotted a man in a wheelchair stuck in the pouring

rain. benitez immediately got out of his car. he ran over to help. you can see him pull the wheelchair to get it free. he then pushes the man a block back to his house. he got him inside, dried him off, waited until his family came back home. what a great officer. they do do good things. back to you. >> thank you very much. it is feeling almost like, you know, it feels like fall. >> it does feel like fall here in the northeast. >> that pumpkin spiced latte. a chilly prediction for our winter. are we going to have a brutal winter like this past year? >> yeah, apparently our mild summer here in the northeast is a sign of what's to come coming up this winter. according to the old farmers' almanac, they've issued their winter outlook, and they're predicting a colder than average winter, not just here in the northeast but for the entire two-thirds of the country. and right along portions of the i-95 corridor including right here in new york city, we're talking possible above-average

snowfall. so get ready, bundle up. this is their prediction. other areas as well included are florida. they're predicting that their winter could be rainier than most years. and across california where they really need the rain, they're predicting that that drought will continue. most of the state right now under severe to extreme drought conditions out there. so that's something that we'll continue to watch. otherwise across portions of the northern plains today, we're looking at some heavy showers and storms rolling through parts of southern minnesota. we do have severe thunderstorm watches in effect. we could see some gusty wind, some large hail from some of these storms. it's going to be a rough morning commute for you if you're head out to work on the roadways out there. temperaturewise, not feeling below average across the plains or the southeast. temperatures are extreme. you're talking upper 90s in kansas city and dallas. you factor in that humidity, and this is what's the problem. is those heat indices, 104 in kansas city, 103 in dallas and 101 in tampa and new orleans. we have heat advisories in effect because of dangerous amounts of heat. back inside. >> all right, maria.

104 today in kansas city, and we're talking about a bad winter coming up. >> snow coming. >> one season at a time. >> talking about the pumpkin latte. coming up here, it's one of the biggest stories of the week. governor rick perry's indictment. >> i wholeheartedly and unequivocally stand behind my veto, and i'll continue to defend this lawful action. >> so how did the country react to how he handled the whole situation? we're going to look inside the pulse of the people coming up. and everyone's got to follow the rules unless you have friends in high places like nancy pelosi. details coming up. woman: jimmy, all of these travel sites seem the same. captain obvious: tell your grandmother with the hotels.com loyalty program, she'll earn free nights. so they're not the same, because they're different. woman: jimmy's not my grandson, captain obvious. woman: man: he's my lover. no.

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some quick headlines. california farmers forced to cut back on water to save endangered species, but nancy pelosi's home city of san francisco is exempt from the same restrictions? a lawsuit has now been filed against the project which supplies water to the bay area. the suit says the city shouldn't be exempt from severe cutbacks like area farmers have been. and remember when president obama appeared on "saturday night live" back in 2007? >> who is that under there? >> well, according to a new book about the show, producer lorne michaels says they had actually booked hillary clinton, but she backed out at the last minute. michaels said she was angered at clinton's sense of entitlement. steve, over to you. from the beheading of an american journalist by isis to the chaos in ferguson, missouri,

to texas governor rick perry's indictment, all eyes are on our leaders this week. so for answers to find out how americans are reacting, lee carter joins us. she gives us some results from some focus groups you guys have been conducting. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> yesterday in the noon hour, the president of the united states went on television to talk about james foley. watch this. >> jim foley's life stands in stark contrast to his killers. let's be clear about isil. they have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. >> all right, lee, so you had a focus group last night. what did americans tell you about the way the president presented that message? >> you know, i think what they said is that they responded really favorably to what he had to say. first he was respectful of the family. second, he showed that this was an intolerable act that was a terrible, terrible tragedy.

and third, he said he was going to act. so i think the american people gave him an "a." but i think all eyes are going to be on what he's going to do today because people want a really strong strike and a really strong response from him now. >> meanwhile, some of the biggest headlines of the week have been out of ferguson, missouri, where there have been essentially riots at night. governor jay nixon made this statement. and we're going to play it and then get lee's reaction. listen to this. >> all of us were thunder struck by the pictures we saw. i mean, the overmilitarization, the mraps rolling in, the guns pointed at kids in the street. all of that, i think, instead of ratcheting down brought emotion up, and that's why i made the unique decision to bring in our highway patrol, to have a local leader, captain johnson, from that community in that community, which he has been. >> okay. so you've got the dials there.

the democrats had a higher reaction. they were the blue line. the red line were people who were more conservative. what did your focus groups tell you? >> well, what people said is that ho-hum, he seems like an armchair quarterback. how the images made him seem totally out of touch from the governor's mansion, that he's not on the ground. the only thing they responded favorably to was that he had a local hero involved and the hero of that is captain johnson. >> and the grade you give him? >> i would only give him a "c." >> all right. so he is a governor. he's a democrat. let's now go to a republican governor in the great state of texas. we're talking about rick perry. the news this week that he was indicted after he had threatened to veto $7 million worth of funding for a public integrity unit unless the district attorney resign. he felt she shouldn't be in charge of it because she had been convicted of drunk driving. she was super drunk at the time three times the legal limit.

nonetheless, after the indictment, he went on tv and defended the veto. >> i wholeheartedly and unequivocally stand behind my veto, and i'll continue to defend this lawful action. we don't settle political differences with indictments in this country. >> and that's probably true. >> no, absolutely. i mean, there's obviously a huge divide on party lines. democrats totally agree with what -- you know, the suit. republicans say it's a witch hunt. but the bottom line is she agreed on two things. number one, they agree that he is framing it in positive terms and defending his position, and he seems really strong about it. number two, they say he should just stop talking about the partisan divide and how this is an attack on him because that just makes him part of the problem. so what people are saying is that i think he's handling this in a really good way and that he's as well as he can be, and they like that he's strong on his position. >> all right. so what kind of a grade would you give? >> a "b" minus only because this

is such a tough position and it's really hard to come around. >> this has been a fair and balanced segment. we had an a, b and c. >> yeah. >> lee carter, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. coming up, he hunted bin laden from that guy, dr. mark siegle. hello! three grams daily of beta-glucan... a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. thank you!

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welcome back. the governor of new hampshire declared a state of emergency after 44 reported overdoses linked to smoking or ingesting what's called smacked. this synthetic marijuana isn't hard to come by. it's actually legally sold in convenience stores as potpourri. what do parents need to know about it? dr. mark siegle joins us now. potpourri? what is this? >> you said it's legal. but here is the issue. the manchester police department closed down three convenience stores that had it. meaning that it's really not supposed to be in there, but people sneak it in there and then everybody uses it without knowing what they're getting. it's compounds which are a cousin of marijuana. very similar to marijuana, but you don't know what you're getting. it's more active. research shows it binds the receptors in the brain more tightly than pot does. so you get more pronounced effects. >> here are some of the symptoms. take us through some of those. this is different than

marijuana. maybe not much. anxiety, agitation might be added to the mix. what else? >> racing heartbeat, high blood pressure, nausea, vomiting, seizures, suicidal ideas. if you have an underlying problem of a heart condition. 44 cases of overdoses in new hampshire this year. to give you an idea, poison centers are getting over 2,000 calls a year on this particular stuff. you could sprinkle it into marijuana. you can eat it. you can smoke it. you can smoke it as part of pot or you can have it separately. so people can get it and more of a high than getting from pot. >> if i go into a random little gift shop where they sell potpourri, they may actually have it in there, but may be unaware it's illegal and kids are coming in to smoke this stuff? >> if i had to wager on this, if they're selling it, they're probably less concerned than they ought to be.

that's the problem. i think probably a lot of convenience stores know what they're doing, but not policing it themselves. that's the biggest problem. you just said it, kids are getting this stuff. kids are getting this stuff. smoking pot is part of a culture. but this is even more dangerous 'cause it's more active, can cause more harm, have more pronounced effects, cause psychosis and problem with the heart. people are getting it younger and younger without knowing what they're getting. >> parents, pay attention to this out there. dr. mark siegle, fascinating. >> this is a big warning for parents out there. >> absolutely. coming up, bill o'reilly cutting his vacation short, outraged over the michael brown media coverage. >> this carl taken has the gall to do that and nbc husband is paying him! my god! why is that acceptable? >> and that's not all. more from o'reilley at the top of the hour. then her father diagnosed with a debilitating disease. but this bride didn't want him to miss the wedding, so she moved it to him.

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classmate. >> she told me that we're not going to have godly speak not guilty her class. >> did her teacher cross the line? we're going to report and you are going to decide. thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. you're watching "fox & friends". hey, everybody. thanks for being with us. there are so many worst things you could say than god bless you. >> right. that's a natural reaction. >> you're so good looking. welcome to "fox & friends" this morning. a fox news alert following the brutal murder of american journal james foley. the u.s. stepping up air strikes on isis militants in iraq. >> leeland vittert is live with that and we're just finding out that apparently the administration ok'd a rescue mission, but that didn't work out. >> reporter: no. sadly not. the rescue mission didn't work

out. we're learning details in the past 12 or so hours of this story broke overnight. the special operations team spent a lot of time on the ground in the desert of eastern syria searching one compound, then went to a second location searching for a number of american hostages but left empty handed. they did kill a number of isis militants. they didn't find who they were looking for. they believe those hostages had been moved a few days before the raid went off. the focus now in terms of this investigation here into james foley's killing is also now focusing on his executioner, who exactly is this man here in the video, the guardian newspaper reports he's a british national who goes by the name of john from london and part of an ultraradical isis group that operates inside syria. he was reportedly the ring leader in a ransom swap for 11 hostages. the "new york times" reports isis offered to free foley for

$11 million and other demands, but the white house refused, saying the united states did not negotiate with terrorists. >> they claim out of expediency that they are at war with the united states or the west, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision. people like this ultimately fail. >> reporter: coins or not, president obama's statement in details occurred on the same day the pentagon discussed sending 300 more soldiers to iraq namely to provide security assistance in and around the u.s. embassy compound there inside baghdad. also comes as more air strikes against isis in iraq are being carried out. there are still other americans currently held by isis. whether or not there is going to be another rescue attempt is yet to be seen. we know the special force teams involved in the last rescue attempt all made it home safely with one minor injury. back to you in new york. >> thank you very much. the big question is why would

they be publicizing the fact that we had this rescue mission and it didn't work out? a lot of people saying it's politics. the president had to say look, i know he was killed, but i did something. >> and after the press conference that we saw from the president yesterday, wasn't much longer that he went right back to the golf course while on vacation. contrast that with david cameron who rushed back from vacation upon the news. bill o'reilly came back from his vacation. he's outraged about a different story making headlines has been playing out. the michael brown story. take a listen to bill o'reilly. >> i came back from vacation because i am furious, furious about how the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown is being reported and how various people are react to reacting to. mr. brown is a victim. shot six times by ferguson police officer darren wilson, who up until august 9 had a very good record. now, some suspect wilson a murderer and a grand jury is hearing the case.

also attorney general eric holder went to ferguson, missouri today to meet with f.b.i. agents and state authorities who are conducting separate investigations. good! the feds should look into this case. and their investigation should be transparent. that is americans should get hard information as it comes out. which brings us to this video of mr. brown stealing from a convenience store and pushing the clerk around. agitators call the release of the video a smear against michael brown and his family. further inflaming the situation. but facts are not smears and this goes to mr. brown's state of mind on the day he was killed. americans have a right to know what happened leading up to the shooting. you don't suppress an important piece of information in a case like this when only one side of the story is being reported by the media, which is generally terrified of any racial situation. then there is the looting,

disgraceful. one guy even has gun of the shoots the lock off the door while his cohorts break in and steal the merchandise. it doesn't get any lower than this. the people rioting and looting in ferguson are dishonoring the memory of michael brown and his grieving family. they are insulting them. again, flat out disgraceful. the factor has been investigating those arrested. monday night, 78 people were taken into custody and we believe about 30 of them have criminal records. only four four out of the 78 are from ferguson. the others are trouble makers who streamed into town. but the liberal media will never report that. nor will they report the true picture of criminal justice in the usa. instead nbc news pays al sharpton to deliver garbage like

this. >> a young man, 18 years old, shot down in the streets unarmed and rather than you address it, you tried to sneak the young man rather than uphold the principles of justice and dignity! i want you to know these parents are not gonna cry alone! they're not gonna stand alone! they're not gonna fight alone! we have had enough! >> enough of what, al? enough of what? police efficiency? in 2012, the last stats available from the f.b.i., there were about 12 million arrests in the usa. that averages out to 34,000 arrests per day. in 99.9% of those cases, the

perpetrator was not killed by police. in fact, just over 400 fatal police shootings a year are recorded in this country, according to the f.b.i so let me restate, 12 million arrests a year. 400 fatal shootings, many of them justified. and al sharpton has the nerve to insult the american police community, men and women risking their lives to protect us. this charlatan has the gall to do that and nbc news is paying him. my god! why is that acceptable? also on msnbc, another agitator said this. >> there is a war on black boys in this country, in my opinion, there is a war on african-american men. it is an absolutely deplorable situation that the united states, which is supposed to be the greatest nation on earth,

allows black boys to be murdered. >> black boys being murdered in the context of ferguson. are you kidding me? the truth is that 91% of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks. 91%. yet that woman tries to mislead folks by accusing american law enforcement of shooting down young black men in the streets. it's beyond belief. what is going on in this story is beyond belief. yet these people get away with it and in certain places, respected. yet al sharpton is going to speak at the funeral of michael brown on monday morning. the slogan of racial agitators are using in ferguson is hands up, don't shoot. they apparently believe that michael brown was trying to surrender when officer wilson shot him dead. maybe that's true. we'll find out.

but msnbc put a person on the air who said mr. brown was shot in the back. that turns out to be false, according to an autopsy. we also hear today that officer wilson has an orbital blowout fracture of his eye socket. "the factor" has not been able to confirm that and we do not want to try this case on television. we're only reporting the alleged injury to demonstrate that there will be much more to come in this case. that is why there is an investigation and a grand jury and a trial process. but to the race hustlers, officer wilson is already guilty. they have convicted him. their slogan it no justice, no peace. i guess that's lynch mob justice because those people will never accept anything other than a conviction of murder in this case. they don't really care what happened. they want officer wilson punished.

and he should be punished if he murdered michael brown, if a jury finds wilson guilty, he should be put in prison for the rest of his life. but officer wilson is entitled to the presumption of innocence that we all have under our constitution, something al sharpton will never give him because sharpton only cares about his own self-agrand eyesment. and if he has to stoke racial hatred, he'll do in a. i know this man. his record defines him. yet he succeeded in bringing his racial grievance to the white house. when president obama announced his brother's keeper initiative, i was there, sharpton was there. finally, the president himself. he was completely correct to call for calm in missouri. that is his job to lead the nation. but now the president should step aside and allow his own

justice department headed by eric holder, certainly sympathetic to michael brown, to uncover the facts. as you saw with the o. j. simpson acquittal, our justice system can be very flawed, but it's all we have. it's the only thing separating us from the anarchy that al sharpton and others want to impose. what happened to michael brown should never happen to any american. what happened after his death should never happen in this country. but it is happening and only the truth will overcome the chaos. and that's a memo. >> you know what? that was the first time in history of this program we have ever played an entire bill o'reilly talking points memo. but it was so powerful and he was so outraged, we wanted you to see the whole thing. >> yeah. justice for the situation. not just for michael brown, not just for officer wilson, justice for the whole thing. breaking right now, the two americans near death after contracting ebola now leaving the hospital. are they still contagious?

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our attempt to get them. the second thing is, you don't want to put them on the alert that we know where they're holding their prisoners or we think they know where they're holding their prisoners. finally, by announcing it and giving the impression we're still looking, we may move up the execution of the last two americans that they have. it seems to me a juvenile thing to do, sir. >> all right. speaking of juvenile, it was in january that the president of the united states referred to isis as the j.v. team. and yesterday he said this about isis. >> governments and peoples across the middle east, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. >> okay. so in january he called it jv. now it's cancer. what do you make of it? >> he is where he has been since he became president, sir. he's absolutely clueless about what this enemy is up to, what it's about and more importantly, i think, what we're seeing in

the growth of the islamist movement is the popularity of that movement across the middle east. you can't fight unless you have manpower and their manpower is increasing. their geographical reach is increasing, and thanks to the arab spring, they're better armed and have more veteran fighters than they've ever had before. this is not a cancer. this is not a terrorist group. this is in essence a world wide insurgency which we have encoupled by refusing consistently to kill them. we have failed in the field in every opportunity we had to murder them. >> sure. and there are people who are calling for more boots on the ground over there. but what you suggest is this is a big problem. the most important thing we can do right now is close our borders. >> the only thing we could have done after 9-11 that would really improve u.s. security, steve, was to close the southern borrowedder and perhaps even spots on the northern border with canada. at least you secure the

continent in that way. right now we're exposed not only internationally, but we don't know who is in our country. the border is primarily -- remains mostly open. and it's an essential part of national defense in an age when you're not fighting an army that's going to march in and combat order. it's going to infiltrate. it seems to me to be just a simple conclusion of logic. close the border. protect america. but we don't have politicians who give a darn about protecting america. they are concerned with not being called anti-hispanic or antihuman rights. so americans will die because of their preening to the small liberal crowd on the left who believes that we're the homeland for everybody instead of the homeland for americans. >> and there are a number of people on the left who says the border is secure and we know that is not the truth. we thank you very much for joining us live from washington. >> pleasure, sir. thank you. alzheimer's disease was going to keep her father from

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that's how much less the tooth fairy is leaving this year. children now get an average of 3.40 for every tooth lost. that's down from 3.70 last year. who leaves 3.40? >> what's up with the tooth fairy. the perfect we had something what every bride wishes for. one bride refused to let her father's illness keep him from walk her down the aisle. >> joining us is newly wed miriam davis. congratulations on your marriage. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> so you're from a family of faith. your father, bernard, was a police chaplain, pastor, served in the army during vietnam. how important was it for you to have your dad at your wedding, your hero, you say? >> it was very important. it was like the number one thing on my mind.

i just thought the event wouldn't mean much if my father wasn't there. it was important that he was at the ceremony. >> so you were planning to have the wedding in michigan where you're from. of course, your father is not in michigan. he's in ohio. he's been suffering from alzheimer's. he was diagnosed at age 55. so he's been living with alzheimer's disease now for about nine years. what prompted you to say, you know what, we know he can't come here. we need to pick up and bring the whole wedding to him. >> originally we were going to have it at a church, of course, but at first i thought i should ask the facility if i could have him come to my wedding at the church. but i didn't want to take him out of his element and make him nervous or scared. so my sister came up with the idea and brought it up that maybe we should try to have it at the foundation park where he

is. so we went forth in asking them could we have the wedding there. they were super excited and let us plan it out. they gave us no problems. they were very cooperative. >> so many people were crying in the audience there at your wedding trying to hold back emotions. what was it like to have your father walk you down the aisle? >> it was amazing. i was of course nervous because i didn't want him to be afraid or uncomfortable or not be able to walk me down, but as soon as like we hit the doors, he smiled and i just knew it was going to be okay. he stood there and he sat through the ceremony and it just made everything -- it meant everything to me. and i was crying, too. >> makes me cry now. >> okay. here is to your father's health and to a happy, healthy forever marriage for you. thank you so much for being with us today.

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good morning. fox news alert. following the brutal murder of american journalist james foley, the u.s. is stepping up air strikes on isis militants in

iraq. the president now considering sending an additional 300 troops. this coming as it's revealed the u.s. sent in a special operations team in syria to search for american hostages. they were able to kill several isis militants, but the american hostages were not found. now the hunt is on for the mass executioner, a british national known as john. he is believed to be part of an ultraradical group of isis operating inside syria. u.s. intelligence officials are combing the video for more clues, including analyzing the landscape. and there are still other americans being held hostage, including another journalist, steven sotloff, who appeared at the end of the horrific video. but it is unknown if there will be any more rescue attempts. >> we are also hearing this morning, there was a ransom demand of $100 million or euros, according to one story for foley that the united states refused to pay. then just last week before james foley was executed, isis sent an

e-mail to his boss at the global post, this web site. they received the e-mail from isis and he joins us on the phone now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> tell us a little bit about the e-mail you got last wednesday. >> let me just correct one important thing. the e-mail came directly to the family, the foley family. it was wednesday night. they made no demands in this communication. >> no demands? >> no demands. it was filled with rage against the united states for the bombing and they said they were going to execute him as a result. >> you've been working on this for quite a while now. >> almost two years. >> almost two years. what was happening in those two years that most americans had no idea was unfolding behind the scenes? >> you know, so much. i've been a journalist for 46

years and it goes against our nature to withhold information and not write the stories that you have. but it was a long process unfolding to learn where jim was, who was holding him and try to determine how we could free him. along the way, of course, we learned that other americans were being held hostage. that fact was never known to the american people. my thoughts this morning are not only with jim's family and my colleagues, but with the families of the other three american hostages. >> during the two years, how closely was the white house involved in this? was there regular communication? >> the foleys, john and diane foley, jim's parents, did a remarkable job of reaching out to everyone in our government.

obviously the f.b.i. which supervises kidnappings, but state department and the white house. great concern was shown by everyone. it was never clear what could be done and the news of yesterday, which i assume the president revealed for the first time when he called the foleys at home, was never known to us. we never had any idea. >> about the rescue? >> yeah. we never had any idea about the rescue. we always talked about whether a special ops mission could take place. we knew the incredibly -- it would be dangerous. we knew where he was being held. not a fact that been much discussed. >> hold on just a second, phil. you knew where he was held. was that in raca, syria? >> yes. >> and that was revealed to you by the europeans who had a release negotiated?

>> yes. there were, as you know, quite a stream of western hostages who began to be released in the spring of this year. first spanish journalist and then french, italian, danish, german. none of those journalists talked publicly, but we interviewed all of them through our security firm. diane foley herself talked to quite a number of them in europe. they gave us a lot of information about jim's captivity, about the incredible strength that jim had and how he was really an inspiration to the other hostages. jim was singled out for the harshest treatment and he never broke and he never gave up hope that we would bring him back. >> 'cause he truly believed in his cause. philip, people who are familiar with the region, what's going on there have come forward and said it's almost like a black hole there for some journalists that go and they're never heard from

again. isis appears to be getting even more bold with their actions in recent weeks and months. is this the first correspondence from an e-mail, this rage letter that you talk about that you had direct contact with them? >> no. we had our first communication from the captors in november of last year and it was stating a demand, you said it in your inter. it was expressed in euros, 100 million euros. there were other demands made. of course, we shared all of that information with the government. you know, it's illegal to pay a ransom in the united states. it's not in europe. so there was never any consideration that the united states government would pay a ransom. the family would pay a ransom and we began negotiations with the kidnappers, but they ended the negotiations for no reason and never resumed them despite

our efforts. >> what a daunting task for a family to try to raise 100 million euros, which is $130 million. i'm sure they did all they could. i know you there at your organization along with the foleys and even the federal government did spend millions of dollars trying to bring them back. and now the news about the rescue with those brave men dropping out of those helicopters to try to find them and he simply wasn't there. >> i don't understand that. obviously they're not going to share that classified information with us. obviously i would like to know how it was that we couldn't identify the location. maybe at some point in time we'll find that out. >> we know there are other journalists, still many, many more journalists being held hostage around the world. what would you like to see happen from the federal government

going forward? >> you know, i think that there needs to be a reassessment of how we handle situations like this, what sort of communication can take place among governments and i think there is a lot of postmortem to be done here to figure out how we can do better the next time. i can tell you we're devastated by jim's loss. i mean, we did everything humanly possible. jim, his example, i mean, the bravery he showed, if you watch that video, i hope you did not, but until the very last moments, until that knife went into his throat, he never waiverred. he showed no sign of fear. >> we hope that sotloff will be able to come home. we hear the heart break in your

voice. the images stunned us. but being so close -- >> he was your friend. >> he was. >> all right. we're sorry for your loss and please extend our condolences to the foley family as well. >> i will. thank you. >> joining us from global post. we got more news this morning. heather child dress standing by. >> a couple headlines. a fake cop in real trouble. a man under arrest this morning accused of impersonating a police officer. and get this, he's the dad of the affluence zoo teen-ager. he's the one who killed four people while driving drunk, and never learned right from wrong because he was so rich and privileged. well, north richland hills police say his dad showed up to a domestic disturbance call flashing a badge and it's not clear why he was pretending to be a cop in the first place, but he's in trouble. and it all started with a simple sneeze.

kendra turner, a high school senior was sitting in class when her friends sneeze. instinctively she said bless you. her teacher then demanded to know which student said it and then sent her to the principal's office. >> she told me that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class and i said, my pastor told me it's my constitutional right, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. >> turner received an in-school suspension, missing the rest of the class. but says she forgives her teacher and doesn't want any trouble for her because that, too, goes against her religion. and finally this, time for your "fox & friends" biology lesson. the food chain edition. check out this video. >> oh, my god! >> that is a massive grouper gobbling up a four-foot black tip shark in just one bite. the fisherman had the shark on the line off the coast of benita

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hope you're doing well. quick headlines. police getting a head start on a burglary investigation thanks to this selfy. a woman found electronics stolen from her home and found a mysterious selfy uploaded to her cloud, but has no idea who these people are. police are looking for them now. do you recognize them? and a nanny cam for corvette owners? 2015 models will now be able to record what valets do behind the wheel after the owner hands over the keys. it shoots video and records audio all over the car. >> you could use that for your children, too, if you're going to give them your corvette. tear gas, tanks and police in body armor cracking down on protest increase ferguson. >> that imagery raising serious concerns with some over the militarization of american police forces. >> so is this law enforcement gone too far? john stossel is the host of "stossel" on the "fox business" network. good morning to you. so is this going too far?

>> yes. and government always grows and the police are no exception. they're giving them all this equipment and when you have it, you tend to use it. if you show up at a disturbance with all this equipment and shields, think about a shield. you're inviting someone to throw something at you. >> on the other hand, if there is a catastrophe, what if you don't have the equipment? >> right. if there is a hostage situation, one force used a garbage truck to protect their people. you need to have some. but there used to be one swat team raid in america every month. now there are 100 every week. >> many of these swat team interventions are for serving warrants, or showing up to houses to kick down doors. >> it's the drug war, where you could use a ruse, like hey, you got a ups package or won a contest. wake them up at 6:00 o'clock in the morning. >> you got to figure that if you come into a situation, and it happens sometimes in little towns, sometimes in big towns. if there is a situation where somebody is completely clad in

body armor and they seem invincible, unless you've got the tools to take them out, you're going to have a problem. >> some forces need the tools. but they are vastly overused, like government -- everything government does. >> here are some numbers. $449 million in military gear given to police in 2013. swat teams in small towns, over 80% of small towns have swat teams. 90% are in larger areas. >> 90,000 machine guns they were given. 73 grenade launchers. why do they need grenade launchers? >> i talked to members of the military who say they're so outraged about this. they say we train for years and then you get some guy who don't -- you get some hot headed guy who doesn't know how to use this material and it's outrageous to some members of the military. >> some of the national guard may not be all that well trained. young kids. and some cops may be very well trained. we shouldn'tover generalize on that. >> sure. the larger point is there are so

many of these super weapons out there now, the question is where do you draw the line? obviously some swat teams are needed, but maybe not that many. is that what you're saying? >> ferguson, that they came out pointed guns at people. they had so much of this equipment. that's provocative in a town where there has been racial unrest for a long time. >> all right. john stossel, you can watch him. he's got a show on fox business. it is tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time on fox business. john, thank you very much. coming up on "fox & friends," the question of ransom. who should pay to rescue americans? our government or the family or should no one pay? colonel hunt has an interesting point of view on that. first on this date back in 1980, "magic" by olivia newton john, number one song in america. ♪ ♪

there are a lot of questions about ransoms being paid this morning. who should pay to rescue americans? our government or the family, or should nobody ever pay a terrorist? joining us is fox news military analyst, colonel david hunt. good morning to you. >> hi. >> we just had a guest who was james foley's boss at global post and he was talking about how it's against the law here in the united states for the federal government to negotiate with terrorists. however, they do do that in europe. what's your point of view? >> couple. i think that we should go after americans if we can find them. i think we have to do a lot more than the raids, there are intel

issues. there were imperfect operations always. u.s. government needs to get involved in negotiating with these. everything is switched. i'm not going to use the word paradigm. everything changed since 9-11. >> what's the -- >> the spanish did this and the french did it. i think the governments need to be involved and yes, start negotiating with funding. >> we haven't done this for hundreds of years. pirates, we don't negotiate with pirates. we don't pay their ransoms. does this set a dangerous precedent, colonel, where they're emboldened, we're going to grab more americans? that's our life line for money? >> there were three beheadings during the iraq war. couple americans and a brit. then we had another journalist in pakistan. i think that that is a worst image than the image of u.s. government, joining in with the other governments and at least talking about this. 1 million euro is never going to get paid. that was a negotiating point

going back and forth. i want the u.s. government to care enough to try almost anything except trade for terrorists. i think american citizens' lives have to be worth more. i did not appreciate, a lot of people don't -- leaking the information of this raid. it should never have been done. this administration has been blaming intel communities for isis, which it was not, and blaming it for the lack of information going after foley. those are imperfect operations. >> what's the danger of this, colonel hunt? we heard that the family was trying to negotiate. they were trying to pay. the terrorists all of a sudden decided to stop negotiating, appearing that they cared more about their message of propaganda than they cared about the money. is this just emboldening them? >> again, the spanish were successful in this, as were the french and some others. i think that it was unrealistic to think the foleys were gog

come up with $100 million. but again, i think if the u.s. government with its finances with government, you can expect war. you're never going to pay the immediate ransom. by the way, this was a two-year captivity, as it is with one of the other journalists. it's not like this happened overnight. i just think the u.s. government has got to change its policy, or face more of these pictures which we did during the war. >> sure. absolutely. and as isis is spreading, you say more air raids and more air strikes, but do not put boots on the ground. colonel david hunt reporting today from boston. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> you're welcome. it's 3 1/2 minutes before the top of the hour. breaking news, the two americans who were infected with ebola are leaving the hospital. the questions are, could they possibly still be contagious? >> and are you thinking about hiring somebody to fix your house? well, there is a lot you need to know.

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good morning. today is thursday, the 21st of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we now know special forces tried and failed to rescue american journalist james foley. but why was that top secret mission exposed? >> good question. meanwhile, while the family of james foley breaks down in tears, president of the united states after he made a statement went golfing after saying he will and we will take action with others. what? >> this is a quote. we will act against isil standing alongside others. what the hell does that mean? >> maybe this is what the president meant by staying the course in iraq. a golf course.

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images, some of the still frame images of james foley being held by his eventual executioner of isis from youtube. now we understand that apparently u.s. special operators tried to rescue him in syria this summer. this on the heels of apparently as early as last spring the federal government was told by six european hostages which were freed by the militants, isis, because hostage -- rather ransom money was paid, they said, by the way, james foley is in raca, syria. go get him if you want him. apparently we tried to go get him. those brave men who were part of this particular raid, which involved several dozen special operators, choppers, drones, it was blackhawks, the guys from the night stalker team as well, they went in, got there and he wasn't there. nobody was there. they apparently had been moved. there was some small arms fire.

one special operator got shot in the leg, i believe. he is fine. but they just turned around and came home. >> so why are we just learn being this now and who in the obama administration would have released this information because this came from the white house and the pentagon. judy miller on our show earlier and said they felt compelled to do this, get out in front of the story because media outlets were starting to ask questions and were going to report it. though charles krauthammer and john bolton think that something else is at play here. let's listen. >> this is a political reaction to a horrific event. the administration is trying to say we're not just standing by and watching. so you can understand that politically. but it is the usual instinct of this administration to think first of the politics. >> i think this is a stunning breach of security for the united states. obviously ordered by the white house. i cannot conceive of the pentagon releasing this on their own. this is exactly the sort of thing that should remain

completely confidential for 50 years. number one, because it tells people what we tried to do. number two, it's an admission of failure. well, the united states tried again and couldn't do it. and number three, whoever it was we relied upon, whoever gave us the tip is now in jeopardy from the islamic state and may be dead already. this is just not something you do. >> right. how dangerous is it to put all your cards out on the table and show everybody what you're working with? doesn't make sense. then as far as the intelligence gathering goes in the future, as john bolton mentioned, potentially that person is dead or will be unwilling to come forward. >> sure. plus you also have to wonder if apparently we knew in spring, according to philip from global post, the former hostages told people, yeah, go to that particular town, raka, syria, and then months later there wasn't a rescue effort until

summer. why was that? they obviously tried their best to go ahead and confirm the location, probably drones and stuff like that. still it sounds like months 'til they went in there. >> we also know there had been communication with the family, from isis. they had been sending e-mails to the family of james foley. >> since november of 2013. >> yeah. this wasn't just one off e-mail that occurred last week. they had been communicating with them. violence with rage-filled e-mails. they had been requesting money. ransom was requested. it's illegal in the united states to do so. the family and others were trying to figure out how they could raise the money, well over 100 million euro. and members -- well, europeans were able to pay isis, had been funneling millions of dollars to them. the united states is the only country to not do that. so a lot of questions this morning to whether or not we should have paid ransom. >> i was just going to say, just follow up on clayton's point, because the family wanted to pay and said we're going to do our

best to raise the money. it's $132 million, it's going to take a little while. we need time. that's when isis cut off the conversation. so they really didn't want the money. they wanted to make a point. >> they have tons of money. they've been robbing banks, seized oil fields. is this saying our message is more important than the money? we want to behead americans. we want to show you who is boss. beat on our chest a little bit and show you we are growing and we're here to stay. >> we're trying to find out more about who exactly the guy is. john, the executer, the man -- that's what he goes by, the man responsible for the behead not guilty that horrible video. from england, shockingly. that's probable low why david cameron decided to call his vacation short, come back just after one day. he's apparently a member of the beatles, as they're being called, because other english speaking radicals who have been radicalized, saying they wanted to join the fight as martyrs

against allah and joining isis. >> yeah. and these six european hostages, who were freed by isis in the spring said yeah, we called those three guys who were our guards the beatles. this john character they're trying to figure out more about him. meanwhile, after the video came out, the big question is, how would the united states respond? we responded this way. more air strikes. there were 14 yesterday alone on isis targets. the big question is this, what will be the response going forward? the president has said he's outraged, but clearly only the united states of america can take on isis. michael shoyer who once upon a time headed up the bin laden unit was with us and he said the problem for this president is he simply does not understand the threat. >> he is where he has been since he became president. he's absolutely clueless about what this enemy is up to, what it's about, and more importantly i think, what we're seeing in the growth of the islamist

movement is the popularity of that movement across the middle east. this is not a cancer. this is terrorist group. this is in essence a world wide insurgency which we have encouraged by refusing consistently to kill them. >> startling reminder that they're recruiting westerners as well with john the executor. >> the president yesterday was at the podium without a tie on in massachusetts. 45 minutes after he gave that press conference, right to the putter. went to the golf course 45 minutes later. at the same time, david cameron was coming back from his vacation in england, cutting that vacation short. >> some people are outraged that when you think about the imagery, you've got the president of the united states right there screen left. he's out, at the same time the parents of james foley were giving that emotional press conference. >> presidents deserve time off. they deserve to be on the golf course. but have some sensitivity.

>> not smart timing. it's 9 minutes after the top of the hour. and heather childers joins us for breaking news. >> big story we were talking about, an update for you. they were near death just a few weeks ago. but in just a few hours, the two americans diagnosed with ebola are actually going to be released from the hospital. emory university make the announcement a short time ago. dr. kent brantley and nancy writebol contracted the virus in liberia. brantley expected to speak at a news conference this morning. that will happen at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. the patients are no longer contagious, we're told. wow. she's just 13 years old, but a judge says that she is old enough to stand trial on charges that she started one of the most destructive wildfires of the year. prosecutors say that she sparked the fire on purpose. the flames ripped through three dozen homes north of san diego,

causing $12 million in damage. police say they're not saying yet how they linked her to the crime. robin williams at peace. we learned he was cremated the day after he took his own life. his ashes scattered in the san francisco bay near his home. williams' wife revealed the 63-year-old had been diagnosed with parkinson's disease, but he was not yet ready to reveal that to the world. those are a look at your headlines. back to you. >> thank you very much. ten minutes after the hour. a major bombshell out of ferguson. a source telling fox news that officer darren wilson was badly beating at the hands of michael brown. >> this as new video is being released of wilson being honored by the police department six months before that deadly shooting. >> garrett teny is live with the new details. good morning, garrett. >> reporter: good morning. this source who is very close to the head of the ferguson police department says that officer wilson suffered major injuries,

including a fracture to his eye bone in his eye socket as a result of michael brown beating him in the incident shortly before he was shot and killed. this new information comes from a source that is very close to members of the ferguson police department and tells us to fox news exclusively, says after michael brown ignored orders to get out of the middle of the road, officer wilson started getting out of his vehicle when brown, quote, shoved him right back in and that's when michael brown leans in and starts beating officer wilson in the head and the face. wilson suffered a fractured eye socket and was then taken to the hospital, according to this source. and they say the 28-year-old officer is now scared for his life and terrified that a grand jury that has now begun viewing evidence in this case will try to make an example out of him. we're also seeing the first video images of officer wilson. this comes from a ferguson city council meeting just six months before the shooting and shows

the officer receiving a commendation for his extraordinary effort in the line of duty. supporters of darren wilson made a brief appearance at some of the protests last night. but they were quickly whisked away by police officers when other protesters began to surround them. police say that it was for their own safety and online donation campaign for officer wilson and his family has collected nearly $120,000 in just the last four days. >> all right. garrett teny reporting live from ferguson, missouri today. thank you very much. a lot of news. >> when you see that woman who is a supporter of officer wilson having to be whisked away for her own safety, it makes you realize these protesters aren't out there for freedom of speech. they're to push their side. >> setting up a voter registration booth? you think? it's believed to be some of the latest video ever taken of james foley. the story behind this footage from the friend who took it is

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we're very proud of jim. he was a courageous, fearless journalist, very compassionate american. i mean, the best of america. and he always hoped that he would come home. that was his hope and he standed all the others who were with him really with that hope. >> those are james foley's parents. as we remember jim, we bring in a close friend of him, matthew van dyke. >> he's an award winning film maker and has the last video that anybody has seen of foley. some of the last moments captured on video. thanks for being with us. i'm sorry for your loss. >> thank you. >> as we take a look back, tell us what you loved about james. >> he's one of the best people i've known. he was honest. he was hard work. he had a real passion for what

he did. even after in libya when he was captured, he went right back to reporting the same conflict. then onto syria. i don't know anybody who ever said a bad thing about jim. he was loved by his colleagues and his friends. >> talk about how things changed once isis came into the picture, once we started hearing, we only became really familiar with it publicly really over the last few months. it's become a household name in this country. but what happened in that region when isis started to pour in? >> the whole revolution changed. isis arrived on the scene in spring 2013. and syria became a black hole for foreigners. journalists would go in and disappear, including numerous friends of mine, including steven sotloff who is in the video. you would be talking to somebody one day on facebook or e-mail and the next day you wouldn't hear from them again. >> it goes to show you how bloodies -- bloodies thisy isis is. >> how are they finding the

journalists? is it easy to track them down? what's the motivation? is it money from isis? is that what they want at the end of the day? >> it's partially money. it's partially bargaining chips. as we've seen here to try to influence u.s. policy. a lot of times they either grab in ambushes or fixers, people hired by journalists to help them sell them out. >> from your standpoint, how should we be covering it? this is something new we haven't seen, these people. but that's another whole can of worms that we have to deal with. should we be showing this video? should we be showing the images? is that emboldening isis? >> i think it's important to show parts of the video and to show the images because it shows the barghoutiity of this -- barbarity of this group. >> have you watched it? i wasn't going to watch it, i was asked so many times, so i watched it. i don't advise people to see it because it might disturb some people.

in the abstract, you hear about what happened and it doesn't hit you the same way as if you actually see the level of cruelty that is involved with this group. >> matthew, what should the united states government be doing to isis? >> destroy isis as quickly as possible. >> because right now with this i wanted air strikes, is this the way to do it? >> absolutely not. you saw in syria the moderate opposition tried to take on isis. they did some damage, but they didn't eliminate isis and isis came back. you see in libya they tried to take on extremists and they did not eliminate them. extremists had a resurgence and they're there making games. you have to eliminate it completely. >> you're not the only one who feels that way. thank you for joining us. sorry about your loss. >> thank you for having me. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. up next, do we have another beau bergdahl on our hands? this marine now accused of being a deserter. think about hiring someone to fix up your house? there is a lot you need to know.

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welcome back. quick headlines now. brand-new video out of iraq. those are kurdish fighters patrolling the mosul dam. earlier this week, u.s. air strikes took out isis militants there, allowing the ground troops to take back the dam. and an accused deserter expected in court today. marine corporal appeared in iraq -- disappeared in iraq. he said he was kidnapped by insurgents, but some in the military doubted his story. once back in the u.s., he disappeared again and failed to return to camp lejeune.

first it was white flags put on the brooklyn bridge. now this. a palestinian flag was hung from the manhattan bridge. the flag found flying shortly after 500 people led a pro-palestinian protest nearby. anna? >> thanks. making improvements to your home can be fun and exciting. but it can also be dangerous on your wallet. it's important to protect yourself from the contractor and subcontractor payment scams. so what do you need to know to stay safe? here now to answer some of your questions is fox news legal analyst, bob massi. great to see you as always. >> good morning. thank you. >> one point is there are some subcontractor friendly states and some homeowner friendly states. why is that? >> well, bottom line is the fact when you hire a contractor to do home improvements, remember that subcontractor is out getting -- the contractor is getting subcontractors to do the work. let's say you're improving your kitchen or bathroom.

they have to have a plumber or an electrician. so you're dealing directly with the contractor who you pay and they pay the subcontractor. the problem is what happens if there is a dispute between the contractor and the subcontractor you've paid, but there is an issue? you and i as the homeowner could talk today abouthat. something you could do as a homeowner to sort of mitigate your exposure in those type of things. >> our first viewer question is this: how can a dispute regarding payment between the contractor and the subcontractor impact the homeowner? >> well, first of all, understand that that you should do when doing home improve ams, issue joint checks. in other words, you have contractor a and subcontractor b. write a check to both. what that does is you know that you are paying the contractor and the subcontractor for the work done or materials delivered. by doing that, it requires two endorse ams on the check and it's a form of protection for the homeowner. in addition to that, sometimes

what you can do as a homeowner is sub it out yourself. you go full term it. say, i know enough how to do this bathroom, i'm going to sub it out directly to the electrician, to the plumber, and pay directly. but those are some of the things you have to be careful of when you're doing home improvements 'cause all too often if it's not paid, they could put a lien against your house, and ultimately can enforce that lien against your house. >> okay. question number two from our viewers: are there ways to avoid the issue of nonpayment for material or labor in order to protect the homeowner? >> well, one of the things other than the joint checks is this, when you issue a joint check, and you're paying the contractor and the subcontractor, you should get a lien release. in other words, if i write a check to the contractor, the subcontractor, you want from that subcontractor that it's done work on your house. you want them to sign a lien release. what does that mean? that means for the materials and for the work that's been done, that contractor is saying we

will not put a lien against your property. we are releasing from you that because you have rightfully paid that debt. all too often what happens is homeowners get stuck with this lien and they're saying, wait a second. i paid the contractor. he should have paid them. when there is a dispute between the contractor and subcontractor, you and i as homeowners in the midst of this wonderful thing of improving your home, you get stuck with this lien against your property, which requires you to go to a lawyer, have to do certain things. make sure you get diligent explanation of how the relationship is from the contractor and the subcontractor. >> as if your home being in chaos wasn't chaos enough. thank you so much. if you would like to e-mail your questions, go to our web site and click on rebuilding dreams. bob massi there for us. 28 minutes after the hour. coming up on "fox & friends," outrage this morning over this story. special needs children made to sort through the trash at school. it's actually part of the

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we have got a fox news alert for you. the labor department just released brand-new weekly jobless numbers moments ago. 298,000 new jobless claims. that's actually down from last week and less than expected. so that's a little glimmer of good news.

>> this august we have so much bad news because we have another developing story. the u.s. is stepping up air strikes on isis in iraq. >> what should other countries be doing and what about muslim groups? we aren't hearing much from them this morning. joining us is middle east expert and fox news terror analyst, walid feras. why do you think it's important for muslims across the country and all over the globe to speak out against isis? >> it is crucial that muslim americans, international muslim majority countries, organizations will enter the fray of this battle simply because isis is recruiting in the first circle within muslim communities. then they take the action against minorities and then they take action against other communities. so in this sense, i would say the first institution should be the university, equivalent of the vatican in egypt. they could do a lot by delegit mazing the work of isis and the

islamic conference represents 57 muslim governments and some of these governments have criticized isis, but they need to do it at an international level. >> sure. just kind of touched on that at the end, there are no governments that actually support isis. and no groups outwardly support them. for instance, we were talking, what about the muslim brotherhood? why don't they come forward? if they're moderate, come on, let's hear you condemn isis? >> that could have been a strong argument when isis began and the muslim brotherhood were in charge, including in egypt with mr. morsi. when france took action against the sisters of isis in africa and mali, they said i don't want to do that business. he didn't want to fight those jihaddists and he actually supported other jihaddists. so yes, the muslim brotherhood they want to tell the world they're moderate, this is the opportunity to do it. go against isis and its ideology which is very important. >> you look at this map, here is sort of a new map of the middle

east. it seems like it's being reshaped as we stand here and speak this morning. with isis' presence in those red areas on your screen, u.s. air strikes just small little air strikes in that northern portion of the screen there. does the united states need to step up its attacks on isis in all of those regions? >> i think at the end of the day, yes. the united states needs to increase its air campaign against isis. first in iraq. if they don't want to go to syria. but what they need to do in both iraq and syria is to work with those minorities that isis is targeting, both kurds and christians and yazidis and work within the controlled areas by isis with sunni tribesmen. we invested so much with those tribes. now is the time to go back to this eye liians. they will rise against isis. we need an architecture in washington to fight isis. not just a few air strikes from time to time. >> when we see how quickly

they're growing and just how powerful they are, what good is speaking out against them? i mean, they seem to be masterminds at brainwashing and radicalizing young children even. >> well, they have been doing this business for many, many years. the mistake here in washington was that we have not taken seriously the effects of this jihadi ideology, actually since 2009. the policy of the administration was to say this is not about an ideology. it's about everything else except that. now isis is the product of an ideology. we need to change policy in washington. then we can have a strategy against the jihaddists. >> let's see if anybody around the world comes out and denounces the beheadings, aside from people here on this side of the pond and a lot of our european allies. we thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. let's check in now with heather childers who is standing by with a look at other headlines. >> couple things to tell you

about. we begin with this from jeopardy contestant to under arrest. >> click on this channel you and might find yourself in the middle of shark week. >> what is the discovery channel? >> right. >> 400 in the same category. >> that is claire on jeopardy. that was back in 1998. but now she is on trial for attacking the wife of a virginia state law maker, david tuscano. she met the couple on a cruise and she allegedly became obsessed with them and then when they tried to distance themselves from her, police say she attacked the wife, hitting her in the head. she also competed on "who wants to be a millionaire." death was certain, a rock climber fell 100 feet down a glacier. so what saved his life? a back tuck. this is true. 21-year-old dylan was climbing with his friends when he plunged

down saint mary's glacier, over in colorado. while in the air, he remembered his training as a gymnast. in midair, he did a flip and then he landed on his feet. he broke his ankles and his legs, but he's lucky to be alive. he says he will be back doing gymnastics as soon as possible. that's amazing. one more story for you. the season opener for florida football team that is in jeopardy apparently. the reason? a volcano. that's right. the game between the university of central florida and penn state is being played in ireland and 900 miles away is a volcano. it's ready to blow. scientists say the ash could easily travel over to ireland and that could ground flights going in and out of the country. finally, outrage this morning. special needs kids made to sort through the trash at school. kids told -- teachers told the children to sift through garbage

for recyclables. it's actually part of the school curriculum. >> she felt humiliated. she felt stigma advertised and she didn't even want to tell me about it. i didn't find out about it until the story came out on the news. >> yeah. the school district now suspending the program. but special education teachers say that this is standard practice. they claim it teaches the children the skills they will need later in life. so figure that one out. back to you. >> that was for each nickel, if the bottles were worth a nickel, there would be a financial thing. they say this is a skill they may need in they end up working in fast food. let's check in with maria molina who is standing by outside with a look at the forecast. >> good morning. i want to start out by showing you what the old farmers almanac is predicting for this upcoming winter because it's big news, especially for us here across the northeast. if it is true and it does happen coming up this winter, we're looking at potentially a super

cold winter for the eastern two-thirds of the country. not just cold. they're thinking super cold. the northeast could get a lot of snow. the exception across parts of the northeast is going to be section attention of new england. that's where they think that we could be looking at a little bit less snow. otherwise along parts of the west coast, in california, you could be looking at temperatures that are above average. however, out there, dry conditions could continue to be an issue and we do have dry conditions now. so they think that could continue. a rainier winter for cast for florida and potentially a slower hurricane season. this is a long-term prediction, so there are some uncertainties. last year they did predict a cold winter here across the northeast and they were right. otherwise across parts of the northern plains, we do have some storms right now moving through. some showers and storms, very heavy at times across sections of minnesota and also wisconsin. we do have a concern for severe weather. so there is a watch in effect. temperature wise, heat across parts of the plains and also the

southeast. you factor in the humidity and it's going to feel even hotter outside. let's head back inside. >> all right. maria molina, thank you very much. coming up here, the ferguson shooting now in the hands of a grand jury. that whole process is top secret. but why? what's really going on behind closed doors? we'll get some answers on that next. plus, we're getting a lesson in tennis from one of the best in the world. venus williams will be live on our court, check it out, coming up. >> we built a court? ♪ ♪ i know what you're thinking. you're thinking beneful. [announcer]and why wouldn't he be? beneful has wholesome grains,real beef,even accents of spinach,carrots and peas. it has carbohydrates for energy and protein for those serious muscles. [guy] aarrrrr! [announcer]even accents of vitamin-rich veggies. [guy] so happy! you love it so much. yes you do! but it's good for you,too.

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fox news alert. the st. louis grand jury tasked with deciding whether or not officer darren wilson will face charges in the shooting death of michael brown facing protesters outside its doors. what's going on inside of the courtroom? joining us right now with

answers to your questions is fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. good morning. >> viewers have written in last night and this morning with some interesting questions that a lot of people are asking that really haven't been answered before. >> all right. first one from don. he wrote to us on facebook. it says, how often does a grand jury bow to outside pressure? that's what a lot of people looking in are wondering. >> hopefully never. but they're human beings and we saw the video of the protests outside. there is one particularly compelling photo that was published today in the "new york times" showing the protesters outside with kind of inflammatory signs. if you're a grand juror walking into that facility in clayton, missouri, are you going to be affected by that? are you going to be frightened by that? is that going to affect your outcome? are you going to say, should i vote indictment to prevent a future riot? public pressure does matter in all venues. how does a grand jury work? probable cause is the true bill standard. nine to 12 jurors must agree and

we have reports of three of the grand jurors are african-american. there will be a lot of witnesses. officer wilson, dorian johnson, one of the witnesses, and perhaps accomplice of mr. brown, the medical examiner, detectives, eyewitnesses. hearsay is permissible and no judge and no defense counsel will be present. >> peter, so often we've heard people say, if a prosecutor really wants an indictment, you could indict a ham sandwich. >> that's true. we got other questions as to what they want to know going forward. >> for instance, what happens next? >> what happens next, the grand jury will proceed. nine jurors must agree there is probable cause and they'll look at a range of charges from voluntary manslaughter, first degree, second degree murder, involuntary manslaughterrer or no true bill. meaning no indictment whatsoever. dan asked a question on twitter, if the prosecution is the only voice, how does ex

culpatory evidence get presented. >> that means evidence tending to acquit. tending not to prove probable cause with regard to an indictment. evidence that would help the officer with regard to the charges that could be brought. it's up to the prosecutor to provide a range of witnesses. for example, will the grand jury hear medical testimony about the alleged orbital fracture, the eye socket fracture allegedly suffered by officer wilson? will the jury see the video of mr. brown about ten minutes before engaged in that strong arm robbery of the convenience store for the cigars to show the intent, the motive, the state of mind of the decedent, of the man killed here? that's a very, very interesting question. it is a secret proceeding. so we will never know. i'm sure thereafter, a lot of people will say i wasn't called as a witness in this proceeding.

one important point that no one has talked about, not only will this jury be deciding whether there is enough evidence to bring an indictment against the police officer, it will also judge the criminal conduct of the man who died. let me tell you why. they will make a determination whether mr. brown was a felon or a fleeing felon, or whether he assaulted a police officer, or whether he tried to take the hand gun from the police officer. if this grand jury believes that the decedent, the man who died, the man who was shot by officer wilson was in fact a felon, a fleeing felon, had engaged in a felony before or after and was trying to evade capture and engaged in felonious behavior or behavior that was threatening, intimidating or causing to take the life of the police officer, that will have an important determination in this grand

jury's deliberations and it will go to the issue of self-defense and justification, whether it was justifiable homicide or not. so they're going to be look at the conduct of both men to determine whether the police officer's conduct was appropriate under the circumstances. highly charged, highly emotional. great obligation in our society. we may not know the answer for several months based on the number of witnesses here. >> you had some answers to some questions that a lot of details right there. we didn't know about. peter johnson, jr., thank you very much. >> good to see you. coming up next, we're headed out to court. venus williams, good morning to you. she's live on the plaza. find out why coming up. first we check in with bill hemmer who is holding court at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >> how are you doing? interesting segment with peter. very interesting. what we are learning this morning about the life and brutal death of james foley. there are others being held. we know that. how will the president react

now? also what happened in ferguson last night. what we're learning about the police officer accused of shooting and killing michael brown. karl rove is here on the president, john mccain on reaction, and bill o'reilly is ticked off about missouri. see you then, top of the hour like taste inspired by the freshness of the mediterranean. so you always get flavor that's anything but flat. new flatbread sandwiches, try one today.

well, she is a seven-time grand slam champion and she's hardiheading back to the court next week for the u.s. open. >> that's right. first we've got her on our court here on our plaza. tennis star venus williams joins us live. good morning to you. >> hi. thanks for having me. >> round of applause, ladies and gentlemen! the open is just around the corner. >> yeah. starts on monday. so i'm in new york now and this is actually kind of warming up with you guys.

>> you're going to warm up with us? >> yes. >> can you give us some tips? i played years ago, but i'm terrible now. you look at a guy like me -- i used to be good. when you get out there on the court, do you play in heels or anything like that? >> once. but i didn't win the match. >> what are some tips on form, 'cause steve needs help. >> up with of the first tips is, i know it sounds simple, but look at the ball. if you keep your eye on the ball, it he wills almost all of your mistakes. >> really? >> and even the professionals, you see when the moments get tight, everybody starts looking to where they're hitting and that's the wrong thing. you want to see the racket hit the string and then you look up. >> what about serving? >> serving is one of those things that even if you're a master, you go -- it's all about rhythm. on the serve you always want to keep your left hand up. >> can you show us? >> if your right hand is down, you can see where the ball is going to go. so you keep it up high and finish through. >> could you hit like --

>> no, no, no not like that! that's not what i said. not bad. >> what do you eat before a big match? >> before a big match i'm always fueling my body with something healthy and something that is easy to get energy from. >> jamba juice. >> does anyone want any citrus? >> who wants a jamba juice? >> i do a lot of juicing as part of my diet. i think it helps a lot of people to just be able to do something healthy quickly. a lot of people are preferring to get their vegetables and fruits through juice. >> that's how we get our kids to eat their vegetables. cram them full of veggies. they're like, can we have a

smoothie? they don't realize what we shoved in there. >> and it's really good for everyone of all ages. i love jamba juice. i have some franchises, so i believe in the brand. they're doing a lot of wonderful things for people and actually now there is a lot of super foods like baby spinach and kale and those kind of things available in a lot of the stores. >> there is stuff you can grind up and it tastes great. so the open this week. good luck to you. >> thanks so much. you're looking good. >> thanks a lot. ♪ ♪

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tomorrow our summer concert series continues with tyler far. in the after the show show, venus williams. >> you guys want me to come back tomorrow? bill: there is new information on the secret mission to save james foley that failed. we are learning new details on the special forces covert raid and what went wrong. patti ann: the president speaking about james foley yesterday while on vacation but taking considerable criticism for heading back to the golf course after his comments. bill: james goler is in martha's vineyard where the president is on vacation. but