don't forget 7:00 p.m. monday. set your dvr right now because you don't want to miss this special. it's fantastic. >> the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> reverend jackson, thank you for what you have done and spending your days with martin luther king. i appreciate it very much. >> why is dr. ben carson complimenting jesse jackson when racial division in america is continuing to escalate? we'll continue our analysis tonight and dr. carson will be here. >> i think what your old boss is doing here is very dangerous for him in an optics way. >> as president obama continues to struggle with his image, white house correspondent ed henry will tell us whether there are changes coming at the white house. >> what truly matters is that we never forget that our success is based on always giving the viewer

something compelling to watch. >> also tonight, actress sophia under fire for satirizing herself at the emmys, but why? we will tell you. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone from los angeles. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly, reporting tonight from southern california, thanks for watching us, the truth about white privilege, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. last night on the factor, megyn kelly and i debated the concept of white privilege whereby some believe that if you are caucasian you have inherent advantages in america. talking points does not, does not believe in white privilege. however, there is no question that african-americans have a much harder time succeeding in our society. even whites do.

but the primary reason is not skin color. it's education. and not only book allergic, here are the facts. according to the bureau of labor statistics, the unemployment rate for black americans is 11.4%. it's just over 5% for whites, 4.5% forations. so, do we havation privilege in america? because the truth is, thattation american households earn far more money than anything else. median income forations close to $69,000 aer i don't. it's 57,000 for whites, 3 $3,000 for black, so the question becomes why? and the answer is found in stable homes and emphasis on education. 88% of asian americans graduate from high school. compared to 86 for whites and just 69% for blacks. that means 31% of

african-americans have little chance to succeed in the free marketplace because they are uneducated. they are high school dropouts. ation americans also tend to keep their families intact. just 13% ofation children live in single parent homes. compared to a whopping 55% for blacks. and 21% for whites. so, there you go. that is whyation americans, who often have to overcome a language barrier, are succeeding far more than african-americans. and, even more than white americans. their families are intact and education is paramount. american children must learn not only academics but also civil behavior, right from wrong, as well as how to speak properly and how to act respectfully in public. if african-american children do not learn those things, they will likely fail as adults.

they will be poor. they will be angry, and they often will be looking to blame someone else. one caveat, thation american experience historically has not been nearly as tough as the african-american experience. slavery is unique and it has harmed black americans to a degree that is still being felt today, but, in order to succeed in our competitive society, every american has to overcome the obstacles that they face. here is where the african-american leadership in america is failing. instead of preaching a cultural revolution, the leadership provide excuses for failure. the race hustlers blame white privilege and unfair society a terrible country, so the message is, it's not your fault if you abandon

your children if you become a substance abuser, if you are a criminal. no, it's not your fault it's society's fault. that is the big lie that is keeping some african-americans from reaching their full potential. until personal responsibility and a cultural change takes place. millions of african-americans will struggle. and their anger, some of it justified will seeted. the federal government can't fix this problem. only a powerful message of responsibility can turn things around. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction on sunday, dr. ben carson debated reverend jesse jackson about racial unfairness in america. here is how dr. carson began. >> first of all, reverend jackson, thank you for what you have done in the past, particularly during your days with reverend martin

luther king. i appreciated it very much. and i would have to say that we really are not on different sides of the issues. we come at it from different points of view. we want people to move up in our environment. not to be satisfied. and not to be dependent. >> joining us now from college station, texas, is dr. carson, the author of the big best seller one nation. you were very generous to jesse jackson in that debate. why? >> it wasn't a matter of being generous. the fact of the matter is that he and a number of other people of all races put a lot on the line. they risked a lot. that was a long time ago i do appreciate all theres that people make. people were thrown in jail. lots of problems. i think perhaps we wouldn't be where we are today if people hadn't done that however, we have a very

different problem today. the problem today is a social problem. it's not so much a racial problem. you can take any group and you put them in an environment where there is no father figures to teach them, you know, personal responsibility and how to relate to authority. you put them in an environment where people advocate resolving issues with violence. and an environment where drugs and alcohol are easily accessible. and an environment where education is not put on the top shelf, it's the thing that you want to accomplish. and then you send them out into society. well, what's going to happen? they're going to meet up with law enforcement or they are going to meet up with other people who were raised the same way as they are. and, also, ha that same mentality. in either case you are going to have a disaster. that's what we are seeing. it's not a racial thing, it's a social thing. >> all right. but reverend jackson, with all due respect, is he not

nearly as bad as al sharpton, he doesn't preach that he doesn't preach a cultural revolution in the black precincts. he doesn't speak out against the deleterious entertainment that's marketed to young black males in particular and young black females as well. he doesn't speak about the collapse of the black family when you compare the black family together in the 1960's when jim crowe laws were still in place until now. i mean, it's like we are in a time capsule going backwards. you don't hear that all you hear is grievance, grievance, grievance, money, money, money. you don't hear anything of what you just said and i just said. zero. >> it's very sad. because when you look at the african-american experience in america, getting through slavery, through jim crow, segregation, i mean, it was horrendous. and, yet, we have strong families that were able to get through that because of those families, because there were people of faith. because we taught children

the right kinds of things about self-reliance and personal responsibility, and we made enormous progress right until the 60's, it was then when we started having people patting you on the head and saying there, there, you poor little thing, i'm going to take care of you. and we created a culture of dependency. and it is absolutely destroying the black community. >> i agree that the welfare culture and the pandering and the condescension by the white establishment to poor blacks has harmed them in economically. but it's more than that. you remember motown. do you not? wasn't that a fabulous, fabulous music industry, uplifting? do you remember jackie rob businessson and willie mays. weren't they fabulous athletes i idolized willie maize. >> sure. >> what do we have now? gangster rappers, you know, beyonce. the most famous, you know, doing these videos that show

these kinds of things to young, 9, 10, 11-year-old girls? it's celebrated. it's celebrated. you know, that is the big change. >> yeah. the bottom line is that we, as a society, must come to understand that this is a problem that effects all of us. and we don't have to wait for jesse jackson, al sharpton or anybody to be the leader on this issue. it doesn't have to be a black person. i appreciate the fact that you are willing to step out and talk about this, because it is politically incorrect to do so. >> it breaks my heart as a former teacher, i had a lot of african-american students see this kind of garbage and by the time the kids 12 or 13 they are almost gone. just so tired of it talking about leadership. going to hold dr. carson over, he may run for president. later, will president obama change his image and put

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lead story with dr. ben carson author of the big best seller lead nation. straw poll in polk county iowa was declared a winner. it was you, doctor. so if you are going to run for president and i know you are going to say you are looking at it, i don't know. you will decide april fools. i don't know. you have to raise a lot of money and you are going to have to start now raising money because you have got to hire people in every state. got to get an organization, you have got to hire pinheads like karl rove. you have got to do all of that okay? so you have started doing that? >> yes, we have started the usa first pac to do exactly that. but, also to raise funds to he candidates

because impact november of this year. we're going to have lots to raise. we have to have a big impact now. >> you you have to look so see what happens in november to see where the country is at this point in time. one of the things you're going to have to overcome is the inexperience in government which, you know, president obama went in fairly inexperienced even though he was a senator, okay. you saw what happened. we are seeing what's happening now. management problem which is crushing the country savvy politicians been around for a while and hell positions like senator congressman say look i like ben carson is he a good guy. he can't run the federal government and how are you going to overcome that? >> can i can tell you in terms of political experience, spending almost four decades in academic institution, get plenty of that. but, there is is no question that i haven't spent a lot of time in government.

can't have people around that you have spent that time. i think the thing that is actually more important is wisdom and understanding and knowing how to use facts. you know when i conducted complex operations including things that hadn't been done before. it some people didn't know things i didn't know about different areas. being able to coordinate those things and make them amalgamate and merge them into something scestles i are also going to need to defeat putin, isis, china. socially in the united states. >> absolutely? the united states you have got it. you would no problem. once you get overseas now, then you are in really, really for a new guy, these are complicated waters over there.

no question very complicated. vitally important is to listen to generals and some of the people who do know that but the fact of the matter there is guiding principles. when you are organization like isis whose stated goal is to destroy you. you can't play with them. you can't drive them back into their little hole and let them regroup and come back out, you have to have a philosophy that you're going to get rid of them and you have to use the means that are necessary in order to do that fascinating, that's for sure. and we will give you a hard time. you are a good man, doctor. directly ahead, will president obama change his image after causing a firestorm by playing golf shortly after the gruesome beheading of an american citizen in syria. later is, it legal on burger king perhaps moving to canada to avoid taxes? those reports after these messages.

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job. >> and joining us now from washington fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry. so, do you believe that president obama is going to change a little bit? try to win back the american people? >> no. if he wanted to do that he might have played three rounds of golf, maybe five or six. instead it was nine. look, everyone likes to get some time off. we have been through this before. but the bottom line is to play around of golf just minutes after a statement condemning the beheading of an american journalist, it showed a president who is pretty insulated right now. pretty frustrated with the critics and frankly doesn't give a fig about those critics and is going to do what he thinks is right whether, you know, damn the consequences. so i don't see change. >> all right. here is what i don't understand. lit terminally no one defended that i didn't hear anyone defend him going on the golf course within an hour of explaining to the american public what action he was going to take in light of the murder of james

foley. no one. >> agreed. >> i don't even think michelle told him it was a good idea. so now you are put in a position you are the guy. i'm here in l.a. i don't know what he is doing. >> you are the guy. my question is. this so you have a president who knows he got hammered by the people who don't like him and the people who do like him didn't say a word because they couldn't defend it he knows that almost like a little child. almost like a little child saying i don't care what anybody says, i'm not going to reconsider. is that where we are in this country? >> that's where i think we are, because it's beyond optics, let's talk it beyond that to credibility. so now he pivots back to work. he has this speech at the american legion today talking to veterans. hey, we might have air strikes in syria, leaving the door open. look what he said. he went on to to talk about iraq and said look, we did a good thing, we brought home

140,000 u.s. troops from iraq. that was the right thing to do. two weeks ago he was here at the white house as air strikes were starting, getting ready to go in iraq and saying i wasn't the one who pulled out of iraq, this is bogus, this is a charge that keeps coming after me. it wasn't my decision. today he says it was his decision and he should be congratulated for it now there are reports that as part of dealing with the syria situation he wants to go just potential military action and build up the free syrian army. been talking about that for three years or longer number one number two in an interview with tom freidman a couple weeks ago he blasted former secretary of state hillary clinton by saying this idea of building up the free syrian army was a fantasy that's what the president said. now there are reports he wants to build up the free syrian army. the policy has been all over the map. maybe it's not good to go out on the golf course at this time.

maybe you play chess and then for 24 hours you don't do that. stay out of the public eye. contemplate what you want to do. is there anybody that has any sway over him? you hear valerie jarrett's name on the time. you. >> dennis mcdonough the chief of staff could do that i don't think he was on martha's vineyard with him. there are telephones, there is email. the idea of playing golf as we already discussed minutes after the talk about the beheading didn't make sense. so, my point being, if there was someone who could actually actually do it and wants to do it they had their chance then. nobody is standing up to him on that. >> okay. now, when his guy goes out to talk to you, what's the new guy's name again. >> josh earnest, he looks to me to be befuddled. i mean, jay carney, you may not have liked him but he looked like he understood

the process. mr. earnest doesn't look like he doesn't have a lot of credibility. is that the buzz in the press corps? i know you have got to work with him and i don't expect him you to hammer. >> i think is he up to the job. i do think as somebody new on his first few weeks of the job is he dealing with air strikes in iraq, maybe air strikes in syria. a journalist beheaded. it's been a difficult, rocky start that would be difficult for anyone who had been doing the job for a long time. so, if it looks like he is struggling with some of the questions, i would say, for his sake, that some of that has to do with the fact that he has been thrown right into the fire and this is not a good time to start. >> as you put it, there is an inconsistent policy that he has to try to explain. >> he is has a bad hand trying to defend that. >> he does. ed henry, everybody, plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. the actress sophia of modern family under fire for her

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be easy or quick. tyrants and murderers before them should recognize that kind of hateful vision ultimately is no match for the strength and hopes of people who stand together for the security and dignity and freedom that is the birth right of every human being. >> once again, tough rhetoric from the president who has been very late to confront the isis terror army. joining us now from new york, monica crowley here in l.a. leslie marshall. i have asked both women to very directly tell us how they would defeat the isis army. all right. you are the defense secretary leslie marshall, frightening. what would you do? i would get a raise certainly. there are a few things that could be done. one of them is we just back off, not back down and other troops on the ground, another is we cozy up to assad. >> i don't want to hear all this leslie. you are the defense secretary. what would you do?

go. >> i would continue air strikes and step up the air strikes and actually bring those air strikes to syria because we missed the mark not working with the free syrian army, the modern faction of the free syrian army earlier. >> we didn't miss the mark because there was no real free syrian army to give anything to. if we had given it to. the isis people would have captured all of the weapons as they did in iraq. that's a moited. what do you think, monica, you are the defense secretary. i just fired leslie. what do you do to defeat the isis army. >> the first thing you need to do is establish the overall objective, which this administration has not done yet. that is the annihilation, total and complete, of isis. you need to state that there is no such thing as containing this enemy. there is no such thing as accommodating this enemy. you have to kill their leadership and take out as many rank and file jihadis as possible. >> how do you do that monica? how? >> do you that in a couple of ways, bill. as leslie referenced you do sustained bombing campaign that's number one from the

air. number two, you have to have some strength on the ground. that doesn't mean u.s. combat forces, bill. what it does mean is equipping and arming our kurdish allies in the north who have doely well against this threat. you also can look to some the sunni tribal militias in iraq. >> you are going to give american arms to sunni tribal militias? i want to state. this isis captured tons and tons. >> they did, yes. >> american weaponry. you are not dealing with people who are lee liable. do you not give them surface to air missiles. >> no. i understand. i'm not arguing for that. this is something actually that former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton has recommended at this point because barring a president who really doesn't want to introduce ground troops in iraq you have to equip some allies on the ground. >> they are not our allies

the sunni people. >> the kurdish people are. bill, there is one other thing. you have to take the head of the snake off that is in sir yamplet just as vietnam went into cambodia and laos to bomb the pipeline. >> the three of us agree on that. the three of us do believe that bombing in jerry is necessary. you can't bomb indiscriminately and bomb syrians. the army to defeat these people is insane. we can't we have to defeat them. >> secretary kerry did say, monica, he didn't say that we need toen do taken them. he said we needed to destroy them. we needed to demolish them. >> get off the plane. >> and in addition to that you have to look at reality when you talk about arming those in iraq, come on, no sunni is going to die forty credit. >> we can't alarm these iraqi people. >> hunt tells me, you know colonel hunt?

our military analyst tells me we have a thousand special forces in iraq that the government doesn't want the people to know about but the u.s. government has put a thousand of them there, mostly they are helping to identify where these isis people are so we can bomb them and help the kurds drop their confidence level. you have to it. you cannot fight this war strictly from the air. >> all right. so you say yes. >> yes, you have to -- this is a president who is in a political box because he ran as the anti-iraq war president and now we are in a situation because of his total withdrawal from iraq where now is he going to have to reintroduce. >> he has to reinsert. >> combat troops. >> monica crowley, secretary of defense, wants to put in advisors, that's what we are going to call them. even though this is a secret. you and i know about it. part of it is perception. iraqi people will proceed as

will the international chief meteorologist community that america is invading the sovereign nation of iraq again. that urets had us. he we -- i. >> i have got to governmental we can cannot train them to be motivated. >> you have to fight the war now or bigger one later. >> all right. got to go. when we come right back, burger king may be high tailing it up to canada to avoid taxes. the trade for sergeant bergdahl involving five captured terrorists was illegal. is it legal moments away. randy t smoking with chantix. as a police officer, i've helped many people in the last 23 years. but i needed help in quitting smoking. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away.

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thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly reporting from los angeles. in the in the legal segment. three hot topics, with he begin with charlesology tree pretty much saying that darren wilson murdered a 18-year-old michael brown. >> this kid had no arms, had no gun, had no defense for himself. you look at what o -- you see televised that he had his hands up saying don't shoot, don't shoot. you look at all these things, and i think that's going to be important. >> joining us now from new york, attorneys and fox news analyst kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. you went to harvard law, very prestigious law school and here is professorrology

professorrology -- ogletree stating facts things i don't think are facts am i wrong. >> no. some things are in dispute. one of the things that he said is michael brown had his hands up, don't shoot. that's in dispute with witnesses. other witnesses said he was running away. other witnesses said no he wasn't running away. a bum rush towards the police officer. we have some things, factual things we don't know. that's for the grand jury to decide that's what they are debating right now. >> ogletree who should know better, guilfoyle, probably the most prestigious law school in the world basically stating on national television things that are not facts but is he stating them as facts as a professor of law, this is very irresponsible. he should know better. the information that we do have the forensics, the multiple autopsy reports are inconclusive as to that that's why a grand jury is convened and he should be reticent to try to publicly make these statements and poison the well, especially

a professor from such an esteemed university of law that people might actually listen to? where is he getting this from? what about justice being blind? >> i don't know where he is getting it. we would like to get the professor so maybe he will come on and explain where he is getting all of that sergeant bowe bergdahl has been out of the news lately. but this report from the army who is investigating his conduct in afghanistan, whether or not he was a deserter or even a traitor, collaborator, whatever, that report has got to come down pretty soon, right? almost could come at any time now. however, the government accountability office has been investigating whether the swap bergdahl for taliban war criminals was legal and it was ruled, guilfoyle, it was illegal. >> right. >> what did they base that off of? >> specifically they said

the department of defense exceeded laws in particular giving congress 30 days notice of its intention to do a prisoner swap. and then using funds where none were available or slotted for it. no funds appropriated for this purpose with a million dollars used to facilitate that and that violates the anti-deficiency act that is a strong finding from the gao as you stated. >> the anti-deficiency act. >> but this has been countered wiehl by the argument we had to move quickly to save bergdahl's life that's the second part of this notification. 30 days to tell congress. also, if they can't make the 30 days or even if they can't, they have to say whatted in the national security is at issue here? they couldn't do that. >> they didn't make the case. >> they said hest his life

was in danger. they had to get him out of there then. that was on the table then. >> where are the facts to substantiate go ahead and act in willful disregard of the laws in place for a reason and misappropriate taxpayer money. >> all right. i'm just telling what you their defense was, which i think will preclude any legal action. finally burger king, the weird guy runs around with the crown on and everything, the whopper? >> i love those. >> burger king is great. >> they want to buy tim horton, former hockey player by the way. his coffee doughnut thing. and the rumor is, denied now by burger king, that they move the whole deal up to canada. why would they do that wiehl? >> tanks you know, corporate taxes here are about 39%. in canada they are 26%. so by this quote, unquote, merger of a smaller company. they can say our headquarters are now in ontario as opposed to miami. paying 26 as opposed to 3 the% in taxes. >> look, incorporation. >> they say they are not

going to do that now because everybody got mad at them. >> we have got to do something in this country to keep businesses here and not have business its. reverse border situation. >> it happens over and over and over again. >> it sounds, guilfoyle, that you are going to be voting republican in november. >> bill, you would like to know he that ireland has the lowest percent. about 12%. >> my country, see? >> and they are trying to come back, ireland. i'm concerned that if i have to go across the border to get a whopper, it's going to be a real onerous trip. >> the fries are worth it. >> shakes too. >> stossel on deck, does he approve? stossel of american police agencies arming themselves with military gear? then, so fee a being criticized for her performance at the emmys last night. i was there. i will tell you exactly what happened up ahead. it's monday.

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if we can't offer faster speeds - or save you money - we'll give you $150. comcast business. built for business. book of the book segment tonight, police using military gear. >> police, search warrant. >> every day, swat teams crash into homes at dawn with their guns drawn. often with lots of military equipment that seems unnecessary and provocative, to me. nobody paid much attention to how heavily armed they were until the ferguson riot. now, suddenly this is a big story. >> joining us from new york is john stossel, who, of course, voiced over that piece of propaganda. [ laughter ] so, you are telling me you believe that swat teams don't need the military gear? is that what you are saying? >> well, most don't need so much. they need some, depending what they are doing for a riot or hostage situation.

but most of what they do is not that most of what they are doing now are drug raids. >> but, you know, this all ignited because of the recovery reaction and i do agree it was an overreaction on the first night of the first looting, that they came out and they were looking like kent state, and americans don't want a militarized law enforcement situation. >> right. >> i will agree with that, i think you're wrong about the s.w.a.t. raids. let me back it up with stats. in the last 10 years, 2003 to 2012, 535 american police officers killed and 580,000 injured during arrests. 580,000 police officers in this country. many of whom couldn't work again. i'm telling you, if i'm out there, and i'm a police officer,

i want every piece of gear i can have on these raids. >> i would too, but why are they doing all the raids. they were originally after the los angeles riots, the watts riots, trying to protect them in a riot. now there are 100 raids a day, poker games, a frat house that supposedly had under aged when you break down a door in the middle of the night, often people react violently, there are alternatives. >> okay, look. >> smart s.w.a.t. teams use -- a ruse. >> i'm going to give you another stat. i don't believe all this stuff. do i believe police agencies make mistakes? yes. every human being does. and every agency does. 99.9% of arrests made in this country are made without incident. without any violence whatsoever. it is infinitessimal.

this is how i destroyed the provok tors who went into ferguson and said police are killing off black men. i did it with stats. only 4% of those are for violent crimes, most of it is dui's and nonviolent arrests, drug possession, it's good, if that's the record, and most cops are good. >> it's unbelievable. it's unbelievable. because you know the emotions that happen, during any arrest, even if it's a small arrest, and the police officer has to protect him or herself. last word. >> we have almost a million police officers in america. some are obnoxious bullies, you are an obnoxious bully, but police officers are special, because they can take our freedom and they can shoot us. and we need to have an extra

standard to watch them. >> you know, i think you're doing a disservice to them. some are, but very few are. very few. >> most are dedicated to protecting us. >> they in turn deserve protection. stossel, thank you. coming next, sophia vergara being criticized for her performance at the emmys. i was there. i'll tell you exactly what happened in a few moments.

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to stewart marsh, megyn kelly's announcement regarding african-americans was misleading. skin color doesn't cause poverty or unemployment, other factors do. mr. o you are right, megyn is wrong, some blacks are poor because of a deteriorating culture. nick, eugene, oregon, if an american comes from a background that does not value education, that does not mean someone else is privileged, that's a good point. justin lauder back, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. i thought it was irresponsible to air responses to people who believe police officers should be convicted without trials. your interviewer was sneaky in the questioning. that is totally false. we are not sneaky in anything. the questions were simple and

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wat watch. >> well, almost immediately social media starting ginning up a controversy that was foolish in the extreme. miss vergara obviously is a tirizing herself. channeling marilyn monroe, she's a very talented comedic actress. even if you don't think the bit was funny, it certainly wasn't demeaning, it was satire, people. and it's outrageous when you think of all the trashy entertainment that holly wood endorses. factor tip of the day, political contradi correctness is harming the country. it's totally out of control. we'd like you to spout off about the factor from anywhere in the world, o'reilly@foxnews.com. word of the day, do not be a t pettifogger. they're all over the place,

don't be one. miss megyn is next, i'm bill o'reilly reporting from los angeles. please always remember, the spin stops here in southern california, we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, is the u.s. about to bomb syria? the mixed messages coming from this white house make that question very hard to answer tonight. we do know surveillance flights over syria have just begun. while air strikes are not part of the plan thus far, the administration reserves the right to conduct them on our own if needed. the air strikes we are already conducting against isis in iraq may be already having some adverse effects. the fbi and homeland security were sending warnings to loca