camera the monkey used. the monkey grabbed the camera from a nature photographer and then took the picture which quickly went viral. >> good to be on with you. >> very important news day. thanks for being part of "the real story." here is harris. >> thank you, both. the terror group isis now out with what appears to be a chilling new threat to america. warning, they will soon kill another u.s. citizen. and it comes just days after that group released a video of a militant beheading american journalist james foley. so what can the u.s. military do now and could we have to team up with the brutal syrian regime to stop isis from spreading? also, a police officer now under arrest accused of sexually assaulting several women during traffic stops. investigators now reportedly are looking for more potential victims.

i'm harris faulkner in today for shepard smith. the battle against islamic state in iraq is fight the iraqis must take on. what's what we heard from the pentagon spokesperson today here live on fox. he suggested the iraqi government needs to do more to stop the terror group from growing. >> ultimately it's defeating the ideology through good governance. it's removing the unstable conditions, the petri drish through which groups like this with foster and grow. that's really where we've got to get long term. >> isis has taken over a huge portion of syria and iraq. effectively erasing the border between the two countries. we know it's been happening for months now. u.s. officials say they have carried out another series of air strikes against isis targets. and the savages say the beheading of journalist james foley put on video this week was in retaliation for our u.s. air attacks. and as we've been reporting,

they're threatening to kill another american journalist if the air attacks continue. this is new. somebody using a twitter account apparently linked to the terror group posted this. we will deliver the next message with a new american victim as a courier mail. #amessagetoamerica. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says isis has a, quote, apocalypticed of days" mission in the middle east. the group cannot be defeated unless a u.s. and coalition of partners confronted inside syria. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon now. jennifer? >> harris, hagel's press secretary john kirby said just moments ago that what hagel meant is that the u.s. and others would use all the tools at their disposal to defeat isis. here's hagel. >> isil is a sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen -- they're beyond just

a terrorist group. oh, this is beyond anything that we've seen. so we must prepare for everything. >> the chairman of the joint chiefs indicated the military believes isis needs to be struck inside syria and that merely conducting air strikes on the iraq side of the border would not be enough to eliminate the isis threat. >> this is an organization that has an apocalyptic end of days strategic vision and which will eventually have to be defeated. to your question, can they be defeated without addressing that part of their organization which resides in syria? the answer is no. >> secretary hagel said all options are on the table to deal with isis. harris? >> i want to go back, jennifer, if we can to the family of james foley because we heard from them just a short time ago. >> that's right. in fact, they were interviewed today and said they received a condolence call from the pope and released the last e-mail sent to them by their son's isis

captors which suggested that more americans would be killed if u.s. air strikes didn't stop. quote, you and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings. the first of which being the blood of the american citizen james foley. he will be executed as a direct result of your transgressions towards us. >> i actually was excited to see an e-mail, despite the conclusion that they would execute jim. i underest mated that point. i did not realize how brutal they were. >> a suspected isis suicide bomber and gunman attacked a sunni mosque 75 miles north of baghdad today in an area where sunnis had resisted pledging allegiance to the terrorist group. 64 iraqis were killed. harris? >> jennifer griffin, thank you very much. and tara maller is a former military analyst who worked in iraq. she's going to join us now. tara, thank you for being with us. is it fair to say that we've essentially watched them go,

quote, beyond just a terror group as defense secretary chuck hagel called them? so what are they now? >> i mean, they are a terror group but i think it's fair to say we've seen a dramatic ramping up of their activities. a number of developing concerns from sin jar, the last few weeks with the humanitarian situation, in terms of the james foale loy video that we've seen and i also think the mosque bombing today is particularly important. this is actually very similar to a mosque bombing we saw back in 2006, although that bombing was against a shia mosque but it sparked a lot of sectarian violence and it was a cattizing events. things like that can actually cause situations to unravel because it creates security spiral dynamics in city where's people get suspicious of one another. i think the administration is feeling the pressure to take some stronger action. i think that's what you saw in hagel's remarks yesterday. >> you know, you've been on the ground in iraq. i'm curious to know from you. they have our weapons which we left behind after more than a decade of war. does that make it harder or

easier to target them? >> i was not actually on the ground in iraq. i was a military analyst based here in the intelligence community in d.c. as an analyst in 2004-2006 period. in terms of -- it is concerning the weaponry they have, the funding they have, the territory they've been holding. these are things that, to be honest, the amount of territory they're holding and the launching ground from syria is troublesome. it's a concerning dynamic. i think we have to recognize that even though air strikes will damage the capabilities, it's going to be up to the iraqi security forces and it's going to be up to the population on the ground to take action and to be able to push the groups out of their cities. and hopefully now the new iraqi government will see changes in terms of the dynamics on the ground. >> how is our intelligence gathering right now inside of iraq? >> i'm no longer in the intelligence community. i assume they're doing everything they can to gather information about the capabilities of group, the size of the group. i think you saw in the recent

raid, special forces raid, to try to rescue the hostages, that intelligence is never a perfect science. there's always going to be gaps. intelligence is not packaged neatly with a bow. i think that was secretary hagel's quote. that doesn't mean they're doing a bad job. that's just the nature of intelligence. i'm sure they're working their hardest. i'm sure they're up long hours and long nights. i'm sure everybody is committed to trying to make sure that americans are safe both in iraq and in other parts of the world. >> yeah. but it's a balance too that out a lot of people are taking issue with the fact the government didn't have to give quite so much detail and how we accomplished or didn't accomplish an attempted rescue of james foley and other journalists. we appreciate your time today. tara maller, thank you very much. let's move on. president obama has just hung up the phone or had just hung up the phone with james foley's parents before he spoke to the nation about the journalist's death. but soon afterward, the president went golfing. on martha's vineyard where he's on vacation.

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. more now on the fight against isis militants and at the same time president obama is in a fight of his own right now. over perception. the white house today is defending the president's decision to go off and play some golf. right after speaking about the murder, the beheading, of an american journalist, james foley. remember, just a few minutes after president obama said he was, quote, heartbroken by the killing and promised to be, quote, relentless, the president hit the links. critics including democrats, some of them say it sent the wrong message. that the president would rather be playing golf than dealing with a crisis. but the white house today says people who think that were not listening to the president. >> anyone wondering his views on both the situation with isil, that video, or his concern for the foley family should go back and review that statement. it was delivered from the heart. it was candid. it was honest. and it was open. and i think anyone trying to assess how seriously he takes the gravity of that situation

should go back and watch that or read it or listen to it again. >> supporters also say what really matters is what the president does to fight the militants, not what he does on the golf course. let's bring in chris wallace, anchor of "fox news sunday." chris, is this a growing problem, this perception for the white house right now? >> yeah, this is bad. and, you know, as i was listening to the spokesman talking there i thought of the old line, are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? yes, the president said he was heartbroken but we all saw the pictures and he didn't look heartbroken. look, you're exactly right. in the end, the key is the policy. if people had confidence in the policy that the president was doing everything he can and was being effective in rolling back isis, then i don't think they would care what he was doing and plenty of other presidents have taken vacations. but the disconnect between the horror of that video, of the beheading, medieval execution of

james foley and then the comments from the president where he says he's heartbroken and then when you see him out within minutes going directly from the press conference directly out to the golf course playing, smiling, laughing, congratulating his partners on sinking a long putt, you know, as i say, there's just a disconnect there and it seems awfully tone deaf at this point. other presidents have take vacations. they've been fortunate enough they've been able to take it behind closed doors, if you will. they have their ranches. here the president is out in the open. he knows that. he can be seen and we can see that he looks like he doesn't have a care in the world. >> chris, i don't want to spend a lot of time on this but who releases the pictures? who thought it was a good idea within minutes to show the president fist bumping somebody? like i don't get that. >> i don't think -- look, he's out -- >> were these taken sequentially? >> those were not taken by white house photographers. those were taken by the press,

by us, because we have access. we have ways to see him looking. he knows he's out on public. when you're on a golf course you are out in public. i don't think that was the white house doing. >> i just wondered. okay. let's move on. you know, this point of perception. what happens next? so the white house acknowledges clearly that they have to deal with this. but there's a whole other backdrop to all of this. our enemies are watching us, too. >> yeah. although, look, it's not like they -- the people in isis, these are the worst of the worst. they sent this e-mail to tfamil james foley wanting to quench our thirst for their blood. i don't think they're going to care much whether or not barack obama is playing golf. i don't think that's going to encourage them. it just sends a bad message. what's been so interesting this week because, you know, usually it falls along party lines, but this week you've got democrats, liberals, as well as republicans and conservatives, criticizing the president. i really noticed this the day

after that, on thursday, the front page of the liberal-leaning ""new york daily news"" had a picture of obama playing golf and talked about his golf war rather than the gulf war. and they're criticizing him. when your friends are criticizing you, you know you're in trouble. >> just speaking act what the enemy might see i just wonder, you know, you look across the world and you have on one, a killing, a beheading on tape. they could have just said they were going the do it. but they did it. and then you have the president and his people saying, well, listen to what the president said. pay no attention to what he did. just the optics of how different the reaction is, is amazing. so what happens next, do you think, in all of this? >> well, you know, the big news and you covered it at the top of the hour is that we had this fascinating news conference yesterday at the president, the defense secretary and the chairman of the joint chiefs talking very tough about isis, talking about how this is a group way beyond any group we've

confronted. it's an i'm meant threat. you had the chairman of the joint chiefs talking about having to hit them in syria as well as iraq. now, ben rhodes, the national security deputy, was not willing to go that far today. the president clearly hasn't made that decision. the fact that the president is top civilian and military advisers at the pentagon are both talking about, in effect, taking on isis, killing them before they kill us really seems to be forcing the president's hand. we'll be all over that on sunday, trying to examine is this now going to force a change in u.s. policy towards isis. >> chris, real quickly before i let you go we have a former ambassador coming up. i'm going to ask him this but i want to get your first reaction to the thought that we might actually consider working with bashar al-assad, the leader of syria. just quickly, your thought. >> i don't see how we can do that. i mean, it is sometimes the case. it's happening in iraq right now with iran, where we're on the same side as iran in terms of pushing against isis. it may be that in syria we'll be

on the same side as assad pushing against isis there. but whether -- are we going to coordinate with the butcher of damascus? i don't think so. >> yeah. the way you put it, on the same side, the enemy of the enemy is maybe my temporary ally for just a second or so. >> that's the story in the middle east, harris. >> chris wallace, always good to have you. thank you very much. i can never get enough of you. here's my opportunity and everybody else's. chris will have much more on the crisis in iraq and dealing with the islamic state on "fox news sunday." he will talk to john mccain, a member of the senate armed services committee, that is this sunday on your local fox broadcast station, big fox, check your tv listings for the time in your area. nato for the very first time says it has direct evidence that russian troops are active inside ukraine. that is the white house warns russia that it could face serious consequences if it does not get out of ukraine and soon. and another day of peace in

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russia is denying that any of its troops are in ukraine even though its trucks are rolling right now throughout the country there. something that ukraine calls a direct invasion. russia reports it sent more than 130 trucks carrying food water, and sleeping bags. things desperately needed in eastern ukraine but ukraine says it only authorized 35 trucks. that's a big difference. far less than the number that

reportedly entered the country through a rebel-held border point. the kremlin says it finally lost patience with ukraine's stalling tactics but ukraine in the west long said an aid convoy could be a cover for russian invasion. today the white house called on russia to turn the trucks around or face additional costs. >> russia should take the opportunity to remove this convoy from within ukraine. if they don't, they will face additional costs and consequences from the united states and our partners in the international community. >> also today, nato announced that the russian military moved artillery units into ukrainian territory and russian troops used them to fire on ukrainian forces. of course the west has been accusing russia of supporting the pro-russian rebels in ukraine for some time but this is the first time nato says it has direct evidence of it happening. meanwhile, there's word an american who joined the fight to defend ukraine has died during the fighting.

according to vice news, the west point graduate joined the fight to honor his ukrainian an zest industry. amy kellogg is live in the newsroom. amy, any indication that what we're seeing now could escalate? >> well, it certainly has the potential to escalate, harris, but ukraine has said that it does not intend to fire on any of these aid trucks. however, ukraine's ambassador to the u.n. just a short while ago said rather ominously that ukraine will do whatever it has to do to defend its territorial sovereignty or integrity. so that does leave some wiggle room there for all sorts of eventualities. it's not clear how many trucks actually have arrived in the flash point of luhansk. that is why there is potential for flash point because the trucks are at flash point central and that's why the red cross did not go along and

accompany this convoy. if the trucks head back to russia quickly i think that will de-escalate the situation. but when pressed about that today, russia's ambassador to the u.n. said he didn't have the details about the exit strategy for the trucks. so far it looks like the trucks are, in fact, only carrying aid. there has been concern that because some of them are only half full, which is suspicious, however, russians have said that could be because if a truck breaks down and needs to take some of the goods from another truck, that will take care of that potential scenario. questions also being asked why this aid convoy sort of showdown happened now. some suggested it may have been a russian ploy to take attention off the mh-17 investigation which appears to be somewhat stalled at moment and also finally, harris, one analyst from the euasia group said, in fact, this convoy could be a trip wire in order to keep the ukrainian forces from taking back territory in luhansk where

ukrainian forces are fighting vigorously to get back land. with 200 russian aid trucks in the middle of that certainly that could be a deterrent. there are a lot of things going on here. it is a tense situation and obviously we're all watching it, harris. >> yeah, 130 plus trucks versus the 35 that they thought they were dealing with and half of them are half empty. i have questions about why you would need an exit strategy for an aid truck. anyway, what is russia's response to this? >> well, russia, again, russia said they don't know how the trucks are getting out or when. however, russia said it needed to get the trucks in. the aid was desperately needed. it might spoil, there would be no one left to give it to if they waited longer. russia also said they had the green light from ukraine but there's no chain of command in ukraine so kiev says, yes. border guards say no. they said finally they took matters into their own hands and blew across the border. as you pointed out, harris,

they've been condemned by nato, the u.s., pentagon, and many others how russia reacts to all of that pressure now remains to be seen. >> boy, i tell you it's going to be an interesting weekend for news. we'll be all over it. amy kellogg, thank you. armed chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a u.s. military plane. we learned about that a couple hours ago during a pentagon briefing which we took live during out number. and check out the brand new photos now of what they told us about. defense officials say it happened on monday during a routine surveillance flight over the east china sea. international waters. at one point as the chinese jet flew inverted we, above our u.s. plane, their wing tips were just 20 feet apart. sounds like a movie. aing the pentagon spoens man called the incident aggressive, very professional on china's part. unprofessional, rather. chinese military officials have previously said they're against these u.s. surveillance flights. a police officer accuse of

sexually assaulting women while on duty, stopping them as they were walking through neighborhoods and threatening to arrest them, now investigators say there may be more victims out there. plus, the crisis in the middle east continues to escalate. we're learning a palestinian mortar attack has claimed the life of a 4-year-old israeli boy. we're live from the gaza strip right after the break. did you know, your eyes can lose vital nutrients as you age? [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. ocuvite. help protect your eye health.

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some disturbing new details in the case of an oklahoma city police officer accuse of sexually assaulting at least seven women while he was on duty. according to the city's police chief the officer whose mug shot, you can see on your screen now, forced them to expose themselves and raped one of them. >> several of them that he did transport the victims to another location and then perform the acts. again, out of all of them, there was om one case of intercourse.

>> the officer is a three-year veteran of the oklahoma city police department. we're told he is now behind bars on $5 million bond. trace gallagher has the news live from our west coast news hub. trace? >> well, we can tell you, harris, the victims are all black women between the ages of 24 and 58. the police officer is 27-year-old daniel. he was a star linebacker for eastern university of michigan -- eastern michigan university a few years ago. he works that 4:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. shift. police believe all the attacks happened between february and june. now, the women claim they were stopped for bogus reasons, either while they were driving or on foot. one of theal lenled victims said he told told her to, quote, play by his rules and he would help her with her city warrants. here's one of the alleged victims now after she saw the officer on the news. listen. >> oh, my god. i was frantic. i was just devastated. i said, that's him, that's him. that's all i could say, that's

him. my hand started shaking. i turned my head to keep it away and turned back around and looked at him again. that's him, that's him. nothing else would come to my mind. >> she clearly did not want to be identified. police believe there are more than seven victims. they are now asking other women to come forward if they know of the officer. harris? >> how did authorities catch this guy? >> well, one of the alleged victims complained and so police immediately put officer holtzclaw on administrative leaf and then looked back at his various traffic stops and all the contacts he came in with women. in fact, one of the alleged victims he came in contact with twice. and police acknowledge that this is a huge violation of the local trust. listen. >> i have to hope that most of the community realizes that our officers, you know, 99.9% of them, are trustworthy and, you

know, when something like this happens, the officers take it very, very personally. >> if he's convicted he could be facing up to life in prison. harris? >> trace gallagher, thank you very much. the national guard is beginning to pull out of ferguson, missouri, after a second night of relatively calm and very few arrests. about 100 protesters marched last night near the spot where police officer shot and killed a teenager, michael brown, but no sign of the violent outbursts and fights with police that we've seen several times since the shooting happened. it's been almost two weeks ago now. still, the weekend brings the possibility of larger crowds. especially as we approach monday's funeral for 18-year-old michael brown. activists are calling for more demonstrationing and not just in ferguson but outside the state of missouri. i want to bring in the milwaukee county sheriff david clark now. sheriff, good to see you today. i want to touch with you because

you've been a good resource for us just in terms of having dealt with situations where you've got to keep the calm now. we've got it, how do you keep it? >> well, thank you, harris. let's just say that america did not experience its finest hour with what happened in ferguson, missouri, over the last couple of weeks. this was made worse when p provocotures and agitators converged on the city of missouri and to exploit the situation for their own selfish needs and now that the calm seems to be returning to that city, the good people of ferguson are going to be left to deal with the wreckage and to rebuild a city and put this ugly incident behind them and all the groups that i talked about, will be nowhere to be found to help these good people in ferguson rebuild this city. >> you know, all along, sheriff clark, we've witnessed and we've heard even senator mccass sill

called them invaders, these people that you are speaking of that came from outside communities to do damage to ferguson, missouri. how do you keep that from happening? i haven't done your job, but it just sounds strange that so many of these people could come in to ferguson. >> yeah. these situations are exploited and you can't really stop people from converging on the area. but i think that some of the officials in the missouri like governor nixon, senator mccass si kill and i've the attorney general in the united states made irresponsible statements at the time that didn't help the situation, insinuating the law enforcement officers engage in th attempts to violate people's civil rights. i thought that was a slap in the face of every law enforcement officer in america who puts on -- he and she that put on the badge and the uniform every day to go out and risk their lives and service to their community. i think the attorney general

needs to either further explain his anecdotal rechbss to be racially profiled as if, you know, officers across america do this thing. and i think he owes every law enforcement officer in america an apology. he doesn't owe me an apology. but the men and women that i know of that go out and serve their community do not have that kind of maliciousness in their hearts. and i thought that that was a poor display in terms of leadership and adding hot sauce to this volatile situation as well. >> sheriff clark, before i let you go i want to ask you about some of the comments that has been made and you just said them again. as we go forward, what do you hope can happen for ferguson? they have had some really tough discussions and they've had such a tough 13, 14 nights now. what do you want to see happen next there? because we're rolling into this weekend and there are calls for protests all across the country. but still this started in ferguson. >> sure. protest is good.

peaceful protests, i encourage that. that's what i want to go on in america, however this thing can get out of hand. what needs to happen for ferguson, but some of the changes demographics that have gone on over the last 30 years, the political structure, the political power structure has not reflected that and so that's left people in ferguson angry and resentment of the types of pol jis that have gone on. you know, you take a look at the makeup of the ferguson police department. that does not reflect the makeup of that city. so they're going to have to start paying attention to the changing dem dpraographics and more inclusive to those changes. >> we don't know all the facts of what happened that night when michael brown was killed. we continue to learn more and more and that's really at the heart of this. when all of this goes away, we still have the facts to get to in this. sheriff clark, thank you for your time today. >> harris, my pleasure. now let's go on to the on-going crisis in the middle east where hamas says it's executed 18 alleged spies for israel. it comes just one day after an

israeli air strike killed three top mosque military leaders in the gaza strip, that's according to the reporting of the associated press citing a gaza security official. witnesses say militants lined up seven of the victims outside a city mosque with bags over their heads where they shot them dead in front of hundreds of people. according to the palestinian center for human rights, two of those killed were women. meanwhile, military officials say israel launched more than 30 air strikes into the gaza strip just today while militants fired more than 90 rockets at israel. the news comes a third day after cease-fire talks fell through again. more than 2,000 people reportedly killed since this month long war began. rick is live for news gaza city with the latest. so it's late night there, obviously, rick. this war has claimed. another casualty inside israel tonight. >> yeah, harris, a 4-year-old boy was killed late this afternoon when a mortar struck near a kindergarten in southern

israel. this is the fourth civilian casualty in israel since this conflict began. 64 soldiers also killed. no other injuries or deaths reported in that attack near the school but sirens have been sounding across southern israel all day, sending people scrambling for shelters. nearly 100 rockets. one wounded three people. the idea reported ten rockets have been intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system but, harris, we saw another one fired from behind us and intercepted within the last 20 minutes or so. israel says hamas has at least 3,000 rockets left. >> hamas killing palestinians. those executions. what more have you learned? >> well, we know that israeli intelligence has a network of palestinian informers here in gaza that helped to pinpoint hamas home, possible targets for ha air strikes. hamas rounded up 18 of these alleged collaborators and

executed them. seven of them on a street outside a mosque where one of the gold gunmen told the group they sold their souls to the enemy for a cheap price. we heard another group of 11 executed earl i did inside the police station. that group reportedly included two women. it's been a brutal friday here and a very deadly 6 1/2 weeks of war. >> no doubt. thank you very much. the death toll has skyrocketed in syria where that country's president is accused of orchestrating the killer of his own people. they call him the butcher of damascus as you heard chris wallace say just a short time ago during this hour. but now some officials are saying we may need that man's help if we're going to eliminate the islamic state militants, isis. bashar el assad as an ally? we'll break down the options with a former ambassador to the u.n. stay close.

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bashar al-assad, the syrian leader who t slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people may become our ally. and we, quote, should not be squeamish about it, end quote. that's what a senior british official is telling the financial times. assad, remember, used chemical weapons last year to kill hundreds of his own citizens. now the united nations is reporting more than 191,000 people have died in syria since the civil war there began more than three years ago. but that number does not factor in anything after this april. so it's likely much higher. as we've been reporting the islamic state, isis, that group, has also taken over a huge chunk of both iraq and syria, the area you see there in red. and pretty much erase the border between iraq and syria. keep in mind the attempted rescue mission for american journalist james foley and those other hostages took place inside syria. i reported earlier the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says you cannot beat the militants without addressing

syria. joining me now is ambassador stuart holiday, former u.s. ambassador for special political affairs at the united nations. currently ceo for meridian. thanks for joining us today. >> good afternoon. >> my first has to be, can you trust assad? the guy you gave a red line to, or at least president obama did, can you trust him? >> the answer is no. sir malcolm rifken has drawn a comparison to the allies working with stallen during war would two to defeat the nazis. the logic is sometimes you have to work with nasty people to get rid of someone nastier. assad has demonstrated he not only attacked his own people but he may be allowing isis to flourish in syria as a way of tamping down the moderate opposition in syria that we support. >> and what about the relationship between us and

syria at this point? i mean, we moved into their country, according to the white house, just yesterday, we learned this from the president, to try to rescue one of our own. it didn't happen. but would assad likely have known that we were trying to rescue our own americans inside his country? >> no, he would not. and the fact though we he probably doesn't have the kind of control over those parts of the country that normally a head of state would. but the united states has, of course, throughout the world conducted operations when our citizens are in danger. and obviously that's something which we reserve the right to do and i think with air strikes on isis, again, if they use syria as a safe haven, we're going to have to pursue those as well in syria. >> quouf you've heard the critics say and i'm certain of it, ambassador, that we missed a opportunity with syria. not just in terms of holding their feet to the fire about using chemical weapons on their own people but hitting isis earlier this year before they crossed over into iraq.

>> well, i think we missed several opportunities. in this case, though, the challenge has been if you hit isis and syria, what comes next. and we need a moderate opposition in syria that can actually step up and govern. and we've seen that in some cases they're not ready. >> reports americans and brits have joined the fight. is this new, that they would join the militants like this? why is it happening? >> well, if you recall even with al qaeda you had, you know, the gentleman from marin county, you had oi oh i shouldn't say gentleman. you had the misguided youth from marin county. lots of muslim/english second generation diseffected urban youth. this has become a magnet. it's not new but we've never seen anything on this scale beverly hills. there's a nexus of radicalization. in fact, a cause that gives them a sense of meaning and it's a very dangerous situation. they have british, german passports, these are countries

that we have visa ports. these are countries we have visa relationships with where people can travel back and forth. very dangerous. >> the nexus of radicalization. i wrote it down. you're educating us. i appreciate it, ambassador, very much. first let's get to leah gabler who has a fox report. >> reporter: the remains of 27 victims of the airliner attack in ukraine arrived in malaysia today. military guards unloaded coffins and the nation held a moment of silence. fire officials say a brush fire has spread across four acres outside los angeles. the flames did not damage any homes. they also say firefighters have contained the flames and investigators are working to determine what started it. harris, back to you. >> thank you very much. living organisms reportedly found on the outside of the international space station. where do they come from? how do you live outside? plus, food smuggling is so

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you think you're having a bad hair day? ly listen to what the wind did here. they reportedly found plankton that blew into space from earth's oceans. this discovery is is maamazing because it means the little guys survived despite lack of oxygen. i like it when it's windy, but wow. phil? >> this discovery, if it's true, came entirely by accident, but as history shows us so often,

sometimes the bid against discoveries come unintended. during monday's space walk by two russian cosmonauts, the first thing they did was that cosmo released into the satellite. they took swabs alongside the space station's porthole. once inside the space station, that is when the mission chief shared this plankton news. phytoplankton are tiny, lifelike cells, and they tell us it can also be found in the air ejected by breaking waves and carried aloft by wind currents. results of the experiment are absolutely unique. we have found traces of sea plankton and micro particles on

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