indonesia. capturing awesome footage as he rides the barrel. does it couplecouple times. the barrel is the hollow space as it waves break. >> are you a surfer? >> no you are? >> no, i'm kidding. jon: well, some seemingly conflict comments from the president about isis one day after that horrific video emerged, showing the beheading of a second american journalist. hello, i'm jon scott. >> i'm heather nauert in for jenna lee today. the white house is confirming the authenticity of that steven sotloff execution video they released yesterday. the executioner warns president obama continued airstrikes will result in more killing of western hostages. at a news conference the

president promised justice would be served as he tried to clarify the no strategy comment last week, the one we talked so much about. he had fairly tough words for isis today. >> the bottom line is this. our objective is clear. and that is to degrade and destroy isil so it is no longer a threat not just to iraq but also the region and to the united states. >> but a a little later in that same news conference the president seemed to backpedal a bit, telling a the reporter, we need to make isis, quote, a manageable problem. chief white house correspondent ed henry is traveling with the president. he is live from estonia today. hi, ed. >> reporter: good to see you. this was basically a do-over from last week's trouble with the no strategy comment but the president sort of muddled things again, left his staff struggling to explain once again, second time, in barely a weak what he meant about isis.

as you know, he started the news conference pretty strong saying, look this videotape of behead something ghastly, barbaric and america will not be intimidated, justice will be done. but once reporters started pressing him for strategy to follow through on making sure justice is served, the president started out saying we're going to destroy isis and shifted the language. listen. we know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink isil's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities, to the point where it is a manageable problem. >> reporter: republicans immediate mocked the idea that you could manage a terror threat. and they say folks like john mccain, this is one in a series of issues where the president's been lacking

credibility on the world stage. listen. >> and we are paying an incredible price for the president's leading from behind, whether it be in iraq or syria or libya or a number of other countries in the middle east. we are seeing the chickens coming home to roost. >> reporter: white house aides pushed backs on all this saying here is what the president was saying. this is a two-step process and in the short term you have to manage this, lessen the threat from isis but long term, destroy them. but nonetheless, for the white house, twice in six days to be trying to explain what the president meant about isis shows, that beyond just a strategy, the message is well, they're still struggling with it, heather. >> ed henry traveling with the president in estonia. we'll continue to follow the trip. thank you. jon: we turn to iraq where local forces try to make gains against isis where new reports of the group carrying out mass executions of iraqi soldiers.

john huddy live from jerusalem with more on that. jon? >> reporter: jon, some headway has been made in the fight against isis militants in northern iraq. i say some because isis still as we know controls large sections of northern iraq and also northern and eastern syria as well. but let's talk about that. on the ground, right now, iraqi, kurdish and shiite forces have regained control of the mosul dam. this has been a main battlefront and the fight for the dam continues. but also these local forces as you mentioned, jon, have also regained control of several towns in northern iraq, basically just, as i said, trying to push isis militants back from those locations and further back from baghdad as well. now talking about the mass killings, and of course this is chilling. we've seen or at least videos posted online of this, the group, human rights watch, said today that isis militants executed as many as 770 iraqi

soldiers w captured when isis took control of an air bass north of baghdad. we reported extensive sevenly about that. human rights watch says that number could be even higher. they're still doing analysis of that. the u.s., as we know has been carrying out airstrikes to help local forces against isis positions. great britain will be discussing joining in on those airstrikes, when the nato summit begins tomorrow in wales. this as the u.s. announced, jon, that 350 more troops will be heading into baghdad to protect u.s. personnel there, bringing the total number of troops on the ground in baghdad at this point to more than a thousand. jon? jon: john huddy reporting live from jerusalem. thank you. we'll talk a little bit more about the president's, frankly contradictory statements in an early morning news conference from estonia. he vows on the one hand to destroy isis but he also said he wants to make it, quote, a

manageable problem, on the heels of last week's we don't have a strategy comment. even fellow democrats like dianne feinstein, chair of the senate intelligence committee, are saying the president may be too cautious. our next guest spent 20 years fighting terrorists with the cia and tweeted, the issue is not caution, it his lack of ability to make a decision at all. they call that weakness. charles fad, former cia operations officer joins us now. they call that weakness. who do you say is saying that? our enemies, isis? >> definitely isis. definitely our enemies. i think that's why you see these videos addressed specifically to the president, when they're doing these beheadings. they have made the judgment that he does not have what it takes to stand up to them. jon: clearly the president president doesn't want to see large numbers boots on the ground in iraq or syria. is that the kind of thing that you think we need?

>> no. to defeat isis we do not need and we do not want conventional forces in any number in iraq. what we need are intelligence sisters, special forces personnel, us air support, work with local indigenous forces. we know how to do that. we're actually very good at that. that is what we need to do. jon: that is the kind of thing that we did in the opening months of the afghanistan war, isn't it? >> absolutely what we did. in a matter of months we crushed the taliban and destroyed a safe haven for al qaeda. with very, handfuls of individuals on the ground. jon: would you advocate that same strategy inside of syria? as you know, other than perhaps the one raid to try to release the hostages who apparently had been there, we haven't been in syria at all? >> right. well, i think part of the equation here is that you have to recognize that if you really going to destroy isis, you have to now begin to con front the

situation in syria. you can't just launch airstrikes. you are going to have to now begin to seriously support moderate elements in the opposition and wade into a situation we probably should have been in two or three years ago. jon: are there enough allies to work with in that very fractured part of the world to make this a reality? >> absolutely. look, all of the kurds hate isis. all the shia arabs hate isis. all of the yazidis. probably a majority of the sunni-arabs would be love to be rid of these device. there are all sorts of folks waiting to ally with us if we get serious and if we show up. jon: all right, if we show up, so what does the president need to do in your view? send the secretary of state? does he need to send in representatives of the cia and other clandestine services? how does he go about doing this? >> well the first step is to recognize reality, which is, he

continues to predicate everything on this call that baghdad needs to get its act together. the iraq requestkies need to -- iraqis people need to form a fully cohesive government. iraq does not exist anymore as a nation. so we need to get past that and work with the forces that do exist in the real world on the ground. that is a job primarily for special forces and the cia. jon: what did you think about what the president had to say, first, this morning, saying that isis needs to be destroyed and then, saying we want to make it a manageable problem? >> i think the reality is that he has no idea how to proceed because the reality on the ground does not match his wish of what the reality would be. so therefore he is completely stymied. he is launching airstrikes which are sort of stalling the advance of isis. they're not doing anything else. and beyond that he really has no clear idea of how to proceed.

jon: do you think the american public would support the kind of program you're talking about, inserting small groups and working with air power an indigenous forces? >> i think the american people would support that. i think what the american people are tired of is mission creep, of missions like this, then moving into nation-building exercises with no end in sight. something that is tailored, that is tight. focused on concrete threats i absolutely think they support that. jon: charles fad dis, cia operations officer for a couple of decades. charles, thank you for your insight. >> thank you. arthel: >> the man convicted of terrorizing a family, brutal killing a woman and two young daughters and terrorizing the husband and setting their home on fire. is now trying to get a new trial. why his lawyers say his conviction should be reversed. unbelievable. president obama trying to clarify no strategy comments but list statements today may not have made things a whole lot

clearer. he vowed to bring just is to the group that beheaded most recent reporter. he didn't say how he planned to go through with it. we plan to go in depth. what do you think? do you think the white house has a clear enough strategy for dealing with isis? our live chat is up and running. go to foxnews.com/happeningnow and click on "america's asking" to weigh in.

heather: right now, here are some crime stories that we're following across the country. a detroit man sentenced to 17 years inries prison for killing unarmed teenage woman who appeared on his porch in the middle of the night. he said he shot the teenager because he feared for his life but the jury rejected a claim for self-defense. one of the man on death row for killing a mother and two daughters in a brutal home invasion in connecticut is looking for new trial. his lawyers say evidence was withheld from them and his conviction should be reversed. all the 17 inmates who escaped a day ago from juvenile

detention center back in custody in tennessee. 30 inmates initially broke out by kicking metal panels under the window. they reached the courtyard and slipped out under the fence. wow. >> it is not only we're only bringing to justice those that perpetrated this terrible crime against these two fine young men, more broadly the united states will continue to lead a regional and international effort against the kind of barbaric and ultimately empty vision that isil represents. jon: the president there taking a tough stand against isis this morning, but he didn't articulate a clear strategy or explain exactly what he plans to do to bring justice to the terrorists. even seemed to give conflicting statements about his plan. at one point vowing to destroy isis and a little while later

saying he wanted to make the terror group a manageable problem. let's assess all of this. joining us charlie hirt, columnist for "the washington times," ed o'keefe, congressional reporter for "the washington post." charlie, the president was pretty roundly criticized for that come men last week. we don't have a strategy. he seemed to try to explain a little bit this morning. give us your assessment how he did? >> obviously he didn't do a very good job, anytime you talk about these people as ever being a manageable problem, what they're going to hear, you're not going to do anything. these people respond to one thing and one thing only and that's force. it is decisiveness. it is interesting, president obama became president on a campaign, basically ridiculing and attacking the previous administration's effort to fight these people, because the fighting these people, it was ugly, it was nasty. it was painful, and nobody liked it.

and what we're finding out now, it is also nasty and ugly and nobody likes it, when you don't fight them because it is, what we're seeing with the beheading of these journalists, what we're seeing with pictures out of northern iraq and places like, that, it is deeply disturbing, this is what happens when you leave a vacuum there. president obama, i don't know what he can do at this point, but he has got to start doing something because these, mismatched statements and sort of, just sort of going in circles is not going to get them anywhere. jon: ed, we noted that you cover congress for the "washington post" and not a lot of congresspeople around right now. they're mostly home. is there the mood on capitol hill, you know, to give this president the authority to really go after these people? >> absolutely there is, except that most people want to see some kind of a plan. and of course we've spent the last few days hemming and hawing over the fact that the president

is still hemming and hawing what exactly to do about isis. look at statements issued since the death of mr. satloff, a lot of democrats especially said this barbaric. something addressed as soon as possible. they have been a little sharper in their rhetoric than the president has been. that signals that their support on both sides of the aisle, in both chambers of congress to do something, that the president is seeking authority. there are enough democrats that said, he has to come to us seeking new fresh authority for this new entity causing all this trouble in syria and iraq. he can't use old war powers authorizations to go in after these guys, if you're looking for sustained authorization to do so. their arguement is because they suddenly cropped up over the past few months and years and because they're not the syrian government or iraqi government they need authorization. you will see that debate at the same time the potential debate how the u.s. should respond f the president hasn't come up with something by next monday when both chambers return.

it may become a topic of conversation and may make it more difficult for the president to gain con expressional authority. jon: charlie, you say the president of the united states, the most powerful man in the world, is still acting like community organizer. >> the very words he uses, talking about wanting to organize the arab world. wanting to make this a manageable threat with, you no if we get the world community to come together in consensus. sorry, but that is, i don't know who he is talking about. does he want to get syria to join hands with iran, to join hands with countries in north africa? unfortunately, sadly, it will probably come down once again, america doing something, doing something forcefully. hopefully with some, agreement with some other countries, but, he has to stop talking like a community organizer and start talking like commander-in-chief. and when that happens, and then, if it is followed up with real action, real force, that stops these people, only then, i would

argue, are we really going to see any abatement of these atrocities. jon: ed, as you know, people like senator bill nelson of florida, sotloff was a florida-based reporter, bill nelson is saying he will introduce legislation to gift president authority to go after isil in syria or iraq or wherever it may be. it seems like, you know, in many respects the congress is more anxious to get into action here than the president is? >> and that is usually the case on these types of things, yes. and i think, you know, that just signals the fact that someone like bill nelson is willing to come up and do this, signals it will probably pass pretty easily if a plan is presented. there will be questions, is the president going too far? is he not necessarily suggesting enough? is holing back information because he doesn't want to share it with us necessarily? i'm sure there will be concern about that, but generally, yes, if a vote were held tomorrow and

the president was seeking general authorization to do this, there probably would be support and probably a lot of pleasure at least on both sides of congress he was seeking it. you know, we'll see. they're back next week. clearly i think there is some sense among some americans he should be responding more forcefully now, but polling generally shows that the idea of military action in that part of the world is something that is still most americans are either opposed to or very skeptical of. if he has to come up with strategy he will have to sell it to the general public, no matter what the guys across the street at the capitol think. jon: a lot of that polling was taken before the beheadings were thrust among the american people. >> we want to see new polling on that. if it suddenly suggests that there is a need to do it, i suspect that we'll see quick action. jon: ed o'keefe, charlie hirt, thank you both. >> you bet. >> a couple other stories we're watching this morning. the media is now petitioning for release of what could be significant new details on the background of michael brown.

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heather: right now a judge considering pair of media requests, to consider any possible juvenile records of michael brown, the unarmed teenager killed by police in ferguson, missouri. police said the 18-year-old had no adult criminal record. the family attorney refused to discuss whether or not he had a juvenile record. the publications say the public has the right to know his background after his death sparked more than a week of violent protests. jon: an investigation underway now into whether home depot has become the latest u.s. retailer

to have its customers credit card data stolen. lauren simonetti from the fox business network joins us now. we were just talking about this, heather and i, lauren. we both have spent a lot of money at home depot. a lot of folks have. what is going on? >> well it looks like home depot has a data breach. this is what the retailer says. quote, we're looking into some unusual activity. and we're working with our banking partners as well as law enforcement to investigate. the alert came down yesterday when a security blogger, brian krebbs, said multiple banks are seeing evidence that home depot was source of a batch of stolen payment cards that went underground. we're particularly alarmed by the potential breach. krebbs said it could date back five months. that would make it larger than target's credit breach. that happened over one month period during the christmas holidays. home depot is trying to calm customers by sending out this memo.

quote, if we confirm a breach has occurred we'll make sure our customers have been notified immediately. you will not be responsible for any possible fraudulent charges. make sure you're closely monitoring your accounts. now home depot is the fourth biggest retailer. some 2,000 stores across the nation. obviously a data breach of this size and scope would be costly, for reference. target, already spending $146 million, in expenses for its hack attack. and now many retailers are spending money to take precautions. installing pin systems in those stores. those are readers commonly used in europe that take cards with unique codes. they're considered safer than traditional magnetic strips because the codes always change. we'll see those at target, home depot and walmart. some already installing them. jon: up until now they have been balking at extra expense. >> very, expensive, yes. to put the terminal in the store

and get cards and banks to issue cards with chin and pin technology. jon: seems cheaper than going through the mess. >> someone told me, not funnily but really, life is a breach these days. every day are everywhere you look, you know there is a big potential that your credit card information -- jon: cash is king, lauren. that is my advice. >> how much do you have on you is the question? jon: not enough. thanks, lauren simonetti. heather: keep it under the mattress, right? jon: that's right. heather: president obama talking about defeating isis while managing extremists at the same time. so what does it say about our american power and our so-called strategy as it plays out at the global stage? also regions much our country may need to brace for severe weather today. we're talking about some upper parts of the midwest. we're keeping a close eye on some potential tornadoes. more on that when we come back.

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heather: here's look what is still to come in this hour of "happening now." two pickup trucks in parking lot, extreme case of road rage. this confrontation leading to one driver getting thrown under the tires? we'll tell you who police are looking for. alaska senator mark begich vowing to pressure to pull ads from the airwaves after he received a cease and desist

letter from a crime victim. he is in a closely watched race against republican dan sullivan. the search is on for 8-year-old girl in arizona. the girl disappeared from her bedroom. we're watching that closely. jon? jon: from fox extreme weather center now, people in the midwest could get d.c. veer weather especially later this afternoon, damaging hail, high winds, tornadoes are possible. let's go to meteorologist maria molina for more on that. >> jon, that's right. we're looking for more severe weather possible after the holiday weekend. we had at least four confirmed tore made doughs on michigan on lable door day -- tornadoes. two confirmed in kansas. this system cleared portions of the east coast. a lot quieter across portions of east. i want to show you where our next storm system will get going. that is later on today, tonight, across portions of northern plains and upper midwest. large hail, damaging wind and even tornadoes will be possible. in the particular area where you

have higher risk for tornadoes, concentrated around minneapolis, across central portions of minnesota as well. this is the area where these storms are going to get going. they will have rotational to work with. so we could be seeing again tornadoes touching down. just a small risk. nonetheless you have to watch out for that risk. otherwise eventually by tomorrow the storm keeps moving eastward in the parts of the up in michigan. wisconsin you could see bad weather as well with the storm continuing to move eastward. i want to switch gears, take you to the tropics, with tropical depression dolly. this system made landfall in mexico late last night as a tropical storm. it has weakened significantly. the big story will be significant/flooding. as much as 15 inches of rain will be possible. of the life-threatening flash you floods and mud sides are a -- mudslides are a concerned. we have a portions of texas but

i don't think flash flooding will be an issue but we actually need the rain across parts of southern texas. jon, we have another tropical storm in the east pacific, norbert. maximum sustained winds at 65 miles per hour. it should become a hurricane come later today or into tomorrow. head over to you. jon: looks like it is not heading for the west coast though? >> no. it could bring impacts to cabo. we'll keep eye out for that. rough surf and some rain. jon: busy time in the weather send. maria molina thank you. >> thanks. heather: we have a lot of weather. talk about news coming from overseas, president obama is trying to talk fairly tough on american resolve to defeat isis saying the u.s. will not be intimidated. today in the very next breath he made comments from estonia where he is traveling. he said he wants to turn isis, into, quote, manageable problem. so here's the question we're all asking. are we at war or not? here's pentagon chief spokesman today on "fox & friends." listen to this. >> if you're saying the

pentagon, one of the goals is to destroy it, we're at war with isis, aren't we? >> we're certainly combating them, there no question about that. we're hitting them every day. >> would you say america is at war with isis? >> well look, war is one of those very hyper charged words. >> are they at war with us, admiral? >> they're certainly at war with everything we stand for. heather: served with four u.s. ambassadors to the united nations of the we expect politicians to dodge. i don't envy the job kirby has to do at the pentagon but one of the things we expect from our military leaders for them to be frank with us. why don't we call it what it is, a war? >> well, clearly spokesman kirby has been told by the obama team not to say the word war. that is clear. and spokespeople are constantly under that pressure. but he should really call it what it is. he sound really silly when he says we're combating, we're not at war.

this is a typical language issue and a verbage issue that the obama team has tried to do from the very beginning when canned today obama was telling the world that he would pull all of our troops out of iraq and afghanistan, that he would have a different view of the world. you have to remember, heather, that, hillary clinton, at the time, called barack obama's foreign policy naive because of this very issue and these types of wordings. heather: saying something a certain way doesn't, certainly does not make it so. let me ask you about that. the president in estonia, early this morning, 5:00 a.m. eastern time. he is speaking from there. he said our goal is to degrade and destroy isis. 20 minutes later he changed that, and wants to make it a manageable problem. so he really backpedaled on it. what do you make of that change in his language that he used? >> well he went on to really make this an international issue, not just a u.s. issue.

he said it's a manageable problem. that the international community is going to have to step up. you know -- heather: is this a manageable problem, rick? you have advised lots of these people on this issue. you spent time at the united nations. you spent time on capitol hill. is this something we can manage? >> we have to have strategy to destroy isis and to manage the crisis. and i think the only way to do that is to build a coalition. you go back and you look, candidate obama called george bush's diplomacy, cowboy diplomacy. it was, it was a criticism that george bush and his team couldn't build a coalition, but if you look back the march 2003 iraq war coalition had 48 countries with 40 countries contributing troops. now if president obama could get more than the united kingdom to join his coalition, i think we would say that is success. he is not going to be able to get 4countrys to join his

coalition. this is a man who has, who doesn't want to spend the time building a coalition. it is very difficult to try to get other countries on board and takes time. and this is a president that hasn't done it. heather: the president will talk to nato members. john kerry in the region talking to folks there. why won't they be able to assemble more of a coalition? >> first of all if you can't get nato to join we're in sad shape. nato should be there immediately. we haven't led. wee haven't been able to communicate in a way that makes it very clear this is a war. this is not a combating situation. this is a war against isis. we should say it. it is very typical of the obama administration to avoid putting labels. and the reason why they're avoiding these labels is because have said from the beginning to their left-wing liberal base, that war is over. well you can't wish war away. heather: maybe that is what it is all about.

before i let you go, i want to ask you about vladmir putin. he has to be watching this very carefully, very closely. what do you think his takeaway is from how the united states is handling isis? >> loves it. he has been smelling weakness from the very beginning. he relished the fact that hillary clinton and barack obama put the reset button on the russian-u.s. relationship. it really signaled that we are not going to stand up for our values. i think putin is really loving, seeing a weakened u.s. heather: whether we want it or not, we're giving him a green light. rick, appreciate you joining us from michigan. looks like rain out there. be careful. our weather person of course, maria molina. jon: that's right. young teenager raped at the age of 14 years later he get as knock at the door demanding child support. a very strange case. our legal panel will take it on. two candidates for anger management classes. drivers of a couple of pickup

trucks exchanging words, things get ugly. one is in critical condition. the other on the loose.

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jon: in new mexico they're looking for public's help in a road rage incident which left a driver in critical condition, the other on the run. it started before the drivers pulled into parking lot. they both get out of their trucks. the driver of the black truck made a u-turn. the driver of the white truck rammed right into him. the so the driver of the black truck, gets out, climbs in the white pickup as that guy is driving off. but the, black truck driver lost his grip and was run over. he is now in critical condition. though he is expected to survive. the other driver, very much on the loose. the sheriff's office is hoping someone will recognize him from this surveillance video. heather: boy, that is something else. also something else, i i want to tell you about a story. a paternity case, coming out of the state of arizona of the it is grabbing national headlines. it centers on a young man, who at the age of 14 was victim of statutory rape. the woman who did it was in her 20s. now years after this occurred he is being served with papers

demanding child support for a little girl now, six years old he didn't even know that he had this child. bring in former prosecutor brian silver. criminal defense attorney ashley merchant. what a story this is. if the victim were a girl this case would be very different. why, let's start with you, why is the boy not a victim but if it were a girl, she would be a victim. >> first of all this is extremely rare case. you know the instances where such situations come up are practically nil. i think what is interesting about the case is that the fact that there's a position that says, this child owes arrears, amount of about $15,000 which would account for the child support he would have had to owe while he was a minor. to me that is just a wild and crazy thing because the idea would be he might actually have to pay child support with money he got from someone else's child's support.

this seems a little ridiculous. heather: that sound a little complicated. ashley, what is quite simple here, he was 14 years old when this occurred. he was younger than the age of consent. even though it was a boy, a lot of boy, folks might think, this is boy must have enjoyed, this is what every boy wants. not necessarily so. he is minor under the law. therefore a victim. this is bizarre case. should he be treated as a victim, rather than somebody like a perpetrator? >> he definitely should be treated as a victim. this is absolutely ridiculous. he was 14. legally he was not of age where he could actually consent. to hold him responsible for what happened and what basically that act, that crime produced, this child, who is an innocent vick tip in this whole situation, but still, so is this child, this 14-year-old boy at the time. he should not be held responsible. he should not have to pay but he does now want to pay. he does now want to pay going forward. this doesn't make sense for him paying going back to when he was

14. like brian said, he could have been on someone else's child support at that time. heather: brian, bring you back in. to play a devil's advocate, if a state can secure financial care for the young child, from the child's parents, should the state go ahead and do that so taxpayers don't have to foot the bill for this child, regardless how this pregnancy of this child cooccurred? >> they have a duty, number one, to follow the law. the law says father has to pay child support to their child. that is what they're there to enforce. you have unusual situations in the practice of law that don't fit very neatly and very succinctly and very black and whiteley into the law the way it is written. this is type of situation we have. because he have this the duty to enforce this law, to make sure the most innocent party of all in this situation, which is the 6-year-old girl, who needs shelter, who needs food, toys, and health care is protected. the fact that he may have been

the victim of a crime earlier on is really of no practical consequence to the child. and that is why the state is taking that position. heather: ashleigh, brian says it doesn't happen very often. it is happening more and more often. there is similar case out of kansas and california. both of these instances they sided on side of child for child support from the minor father. question we might see a bit more. >> if this is going to be happening going forward, we'll try to collect child support, consider lowering age of consent. if we're saying that a child of 14 years old age is responsible for child support, then maybe we should also say they're able to make the decision whether or not to have sex and whether or not they can consent. it seems, doesn't make sense to say, you're not old enough to consent at 14 but yet you're old enough to have responsibility of paying child support and being a parent. >> you're not old enough to

work. >> not old enough to vote or drive. heather: talking about a lot of different parties, or hold the parents of that young man responsible. that is another way to go about it. >> that is what ultimately happens. heather: ashleigh merchant, thank you so much. the young man wants to pay for the child and now has the child in his life and wants to pay for it from the time he was adult going forward. thanks so much for joining us to talk about this. a lot of messy legal stuff out of this one. jon: very strange story. destrait search for a -- desperate search for missing little girl. where the eight-year-old was seen and resources being called on to find her. charges of playing dirty politics in hotly-contested senate race. why both campaigns had to pull ads. we're live with that story next. the performance review.

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coming out of the state of arizona right now. the fbi and a helicopter as sissing in the search for a missing little girl in that state isabella can nell la. disappeared in the early morning hours. look at that beautiful girl's face. they need help trying to find her. police were called to her home after the family realized she was not in her bed or anywhere else in the house. isabella is just eight years old. she is four feet tall and eight inches. weighs somewhere between 80 and 90 points. she was blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. for anybody with information in the bull head area, bull head, arizona, call the tip line at 928-763-1999. police need your help finding her. we'll keep you posted on developments. jon: controversy swirling around campaign ads in the hotly-contested senate race in alaska. it pits incumbent democrat marge

begich, against his gop challenger, dan sullivan. at issue, ads of both sides that mention brutal murders of elderly couple and sexual assault of their 2-year-old great granddaughter. dan springer with more on the story. dan? >> reporter: this controversy was kicked off by a marge begich ad which he accuses former attorney gin dan sullivan being soft on criminals and partly responsible for one of the most heinous crimes in alaska history. >> let a lot of sex offenders get off with light sentences. one of them got out of prison. he is now charged with breaking into that apartment building, murdererring a senior couple a sexually assaulting their 2-year-old granddaughter. dan sullivan should not be a u.s. senator. >> that ad was running last friday and met by sullivan rebuke ad. it was clerical error that occurred before attorney general, that allowed, jerry active, to get a 3-year sentence

instead of 15-year sentence for sexual assault of a girl in 2009. active allegedly broke into anchorage apartment and murder ad couple in their 70s and sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl and her 92-year-old great-grandmother. the attorney for the victim as families sent a cease and desist letter to demanding the ads be pulled. he called the begich ad abomination of political accuse abuse. sullivan took down his ad. but begich's campaign initially defended their ad and refused to pull it. then yesterday, under mounting pressure, they canceled all future airings. some are calling eight willie horton moment, referring to the burb-dukakis race in 1988. others show begich is worried about holding on to his seat and willing to take big risks. it's a seat republicans need, jon if they want to take back the senate. jon: dan springer reporting.

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