backside of my pants and my mother sent me to school with a safety pin to old thing -- hold things together. >> i'm gretchen. have a great day. >> pushing for a plan to take on the islamic state. top republicans and democrats heading to the white house now to meet with the president ahead of tomorrow night's primetime strategy speech. coming up, what the white house just said about possible military action in syria. >> plus, the wife of the former baltimore ravens running back, ray rice, defending her husband, and lashing out at the media. after video surfaced showing the nfl star knocking her out in the hotel casino elevator. now we're hearing from rice himself, and there's in video. apple's unveiling. i just watched it for an hour and a half. the iphone 6, the iphone plus, and the apple watch.

worth the hype? what's the price? what can you do that you can't already do? we'll tell you inch a word, imo, it's dope. let's get to it. a foxlm]?w urgent. first from deck this afternoon, president obama is minutes away from meeting with top lawmakers ahead of tomorrow's primetime address to lay out what the white house says is a plan to take on the islamic state. the white house says the president wants input from congress before the announces his strategy to the nation. the president has repeatedly vowed he will not send american troops into combat. well, the numbers have changed. we'll get to that. the white house does indicate the president may take the fight beyond the islamic state targets in iraq, and into the terror group's safe haven in syria. the press secretary stopped short of saying there will be airstrikes in syria, and instead

talked about giving support to moderate rebels there. >> the president does believe that there would be value to the united states in conjunction with the international community, working to ramp up the assistance we provide to members of the moderate opposition. this would have the effect of taking the fight to isil in syria. >> the united statrp is already conducted 150 airstrikes in iraq, but the president has long resisted taking action in syria, as that country collapses in a bloody civil war. ed henry has the details live this afternoon at the white house. what do we know of the type of involvement from lawmakers the president will be seeking in this meeting? >> josh earnest was talking about how they believe it's a turning point this week, that a new iraqi government has been formed. they're also looking at potentially expanding the military aspect of this campaign beyond iraq, into syria, and

talking about robust consultation with congress. look at the top leaders. nancy pelosi, john boehner, mitch mcconnell, harry reid, they'll be at the white house in a few moments for an intense conversation, we expect, with the president. and john boehner, the speaker of the house is saying, fine, it's great to sit down, great to have a conversation. what they really want is a plan. listen. >> when i hear what the president has to say today, we'll make decisions how we go forward, but until we know what the strategy is, we don't know what is going to be involved. and so it's critically important that we take these in some organized steps, and the first step is, what's the plan? >> remember, a year ago when the president was contemplating u.s. airstrikes inap syria, he stoppd short and took more time because he said he wanted to good to congress for debate and a vote to authorize military force. so far the white house is signaling they're not calling for such a vote in this case. perhaps in part because they think there's a more imminent

threat from eye circumstance but also because they couldn't get a consensus last time, and they'll talk about consulting and conversing with everyone on capitol hill. so far they're not calling for an annual vote. >> ed, any indication on specifics before what the president may say? >> they're trying to let the president do the talking tomorrow night, but they're leaving the door wide open in conversation with senior officials for the president to signal that we're going to be expanding the u.s. airstrikes. not ground troops in iraq or syria, but airstrikes legitimate expanded beyond iraq intonchyp . the public right now, when you look at this abc news "washington post" poll, very much on board of airstrikes and going after isis directly. 65% supporting airstrikes against sunni insurgents into syria. beyond iraq, only 28% opposing. look at the president's leadership. he is struggling. do you approve or disapprove the way the president is handling international affair. only 38% approving.

56% disapproving that's why i pressed josh earnest, the president is not dealing from a position of strength and that will make his case tomorrow night that much harder. listen. >> the president will make his case based firmly on what he believes is in the best interests of the united states. that's the case he has put together and that is the case he will make. the president was elected because of the american people's confidence in his ability to make these kinds of very important decisions, and he was entrusted with the responsibility to protectwn the core national security interests of the united states. >> maybe so but there's no denying that a year after the president pulling back from u.s. airstrikes in syria because he can't have the consensus on capitol hill, you can argue he has less clout one year later. >> ed henry on the north lawn, thank you very much. let's bring in ambassador nicholas burns now, former undersecretary of state and current professor of practice and diplomacy and international politics at harvard. professor, nice to see you again. thank you.

>> thank you, shep. >> what do we need to hear tomorrow? >> i think it's one of most constance channel speeches of the president's time in office, because of the true crisis in the middle east with the rise of isis. what we need to hear tomorrow is, what is the strategy? is it to contain isis? or is it to defeat isis? you walk down different roads if you choose one or the other. that's a very important distinction and is the central distinction the president has to make first. how much help are we going to have? how much help from european allies, the united states should not have to shoulder this burden alone. the europeans, particularly the british and french so be involved in airstrikes. we need physical military support and financial support from the solid di -- saudis and kuwaitis and need to convince their citizens not to fund isis. so there has to be a true coalition of europe, north america, and the arab world to

confront isis. >> live pictures as lawmakers arrive to talk to the president. many analysts make the argue. isis is already contained and that we need to do now is to tamp out isis. we'll have to wait for the president to see if that's the goal. but nancy91 pelosi walking in n. viewers can see that. professor burps, key to all of this is troops on the ground, it seems to me, and that's where be people are going to lie. first the president said no troops on the groundment then he said we're not putting thousands of troops on the grind, and then over the weekend he said we're not going to have 100,000 troops on the ground. words matter. the president knows is. the words have changed. that's concerning. >> well, i think if your aim is to defeat isis then you need a ground force. i don't think the president will put substantial number of american ground troops into iraq, and so the ground force in this case will have to be the peshmerga, the kurdish forces,

has to be a reconstituted iraqi army because that army fell apart in the battle of mosul, and could be arming the rebel groups in northern syria where isis has its base of support. that's could be the ground forces. it would entail heavy arming and training of those by the united states and british and french and others, but i don't think this president and this congress will repeat what we had in iraq and afghanistan in the last decade in the way of hundreds of thousands of american combat forces. >> professor nicholas burns from harvard good, to see you again. thank you. for more on this politics of the president's address tomorrow, let's turn to a staff writer of "the hill" newspaper. couldn't be more important for him right now. his numbers are on the decline. >> that's correct. there's eenormous pressure on president obama both from congressional leaders and the public to outline his strategy. i expect the speech 0 be focused on the international community

and the american public. the white house is interested in rallying an enormous coalition against isis. they need a lot of confidence from our partners internationally and the region in order to mount the kind of ground force the prefer was talking about. you canned expect those calls from the president. >> you're expecting mow more of a sell than details, we'll need cooperation from exactly these people. we'll need this strategy. that thing we shouldn't expect. >> it's unclear what the white house plans. as ed henry point out josh earnest left the door wide open what the speech might entail. we expect to hear more about syria, whether we will be expanding air strikes. odials but you can also expect soaring rhetoric from president obama about what a that this is because so far the public feels like he hasn't addressed it with

enough address. so we'll probably hear him use strong terms against isis in order to raise the public confidence in this approach. >> before we go, from your reporting, there was a line drawn on syria, they crossed and there was no movement. now we have a free syrian army that, by all accounts, has either melted away or fallen down or, quite frankly, been killed because they don't have the arms to compete against isis. this idea of propping up the free syrian army, from your reporting, is that a realistic thing in the short term or even the medium term? >> it is one of the options on the table currently! but i'm not sure congressional leaders are onboard. one of the reasons they're going to say at the white house they don't want to vote to authorize any military force. in fact none of the congressional leaders are interested in that because it would put them on the line in case the effort becomes unpopular later on. the syrian question is still

open. >> elysee from "the hill." thank you. there's breaking news now on fox news channel and this just coming into us. an explosion at a meeting of islamist insurgent arizona reportedly killed the leader of one of syria's biggest rebel groups weapon learned of this moments ago. this is according to state television in syria and monitors and activists who are watching the violence in syria. the analysts say this particular rebel leader had fought against the islamic state, and worked with moderate groups trying to topple president bash shall al-assad the bombing happened in the northwestern province of so, understand, the one that is sort on our side in this conflict, against the isis rebels, and trying to push back

on bashar al-assad, that leader has been killed in a bombing. very bad news in the short term. we just got the notice of this bombing. we'll be getting details in the numbers few minutes and then i'll bring them to you. ray rice has just broken his silence after he lost his job in the nfl for knocking out his then-fiancee in an elevator. she is apparently defending her husband online. we'll have details about that and what exactly the nfl really wanted to know before initially suspending him for two games. did it really want to what was on the video? it could have known. if tmz can get it, roger goodell can get it. make no mistake. ok, if you're up there, i could use some help. smart sarah. seeking guidance.

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>> ray rice says he has to be strong for his wife after his baltimore ravens team cut him from and the nfl suspended him indefinitely, whatever that means. the same day that newly released video showed him knocking her out cold inside an elevator. that's from an espn reporter. she says she talked with ray rice, who told her, and i quote, good spirits. the wife also appeared to defend her husband and lashed out at the media.

part of an instagram post from her account reads: to take something away from man i love, that he his worked his -- off for all his life, just to gain ratings, is horrific. this is your life. what don't you all get? if your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, just know you succeeded on so many levels. just know we will continue to grow and show the world what real love is. ravens nation, we love you. that's from the wife who got knocked out cold in the elevator. >> this all comes after tmz released video showing ray rice punching his then-fiancee in the face in the elevator, knocking her our cold. happened in february at the revel casino in atlantic city.

tmz reports the nfl never even asked the casino to turn over the elevator video. did not request it. the nfl commissioner, roger goodell, had also never seen the video when he issued the orange punishment. but a spokesman for the league says it had requested the video from police, and police don't give up video on an ongoing investigation. so if you're the commissioner of the nfl and you want the video, where do you go? go to the people who recorded the video. why would you not want? well, why wouldn't you? the chief correspondent for fox taking a lot of heat.t. >> every single person knows that in every elevate user in every hotel in every casino, there is a video running all the time theseop days. it is inconceivable to anybody that the nfl did not recognize, did not understand, that video you're looking at right there

existed and did not try their hardest to take a look at it before they decided ray rice's fate. now, sally jenkins alongtime "washington post" columnist saying: this is a league that works with homeland security, confers with the drug enforcement agency, collaborates with law. , and has its own highly equipped and secretive private security arm. you're telling me it cooperate get ahold of a grainy tape from an atlantic city casino elevator butt mz could? that this point everyone is making. the implication here is that a lot of people think that the nfl was willing to tolerate a woman being hit, and it was only when its own reputation started getting hit that it took action. >> that's the timeline. there's a new version of this video that doesn't have thewp jitteriness and no audio, and now we know that despite all that, rice's wife seems to be the only one standing by him. >> his professional partners certainly a lot less forgiving.

they might be in this situation. nike announcing today they irending their business relationship with ray rice and baltimore ravens will offer to exchange any ray rice jerseys. but mr. and mrs. rice are presenting a common% front. in that phone call, ray rice apparently said, quote, we have a lot of people praying for us and will continue to support each other. i have to be there for janay and my family right now, and work through this. janay rice also got on the phone with that reporter, she apparently said, quote, i love my house, i support him, i want people to respect our privacy in this family matter. of course, when you are a player or were a player in one of the world's biggest sports leagues, it is already way beyond being a family matter. >> thank you. theirs much more to this. there's the legal part. if they have video of a man

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more now on the ray rice domestic abuse scandal and, man,

this thing is blowing up. ray rice told an espn reporter he needs to, quote, be strong for his family. this after he lost his job with the nfl on the same day that surveillance tape emerged on the tmz showing him nothing her out in an elevator and then leaving her and not helping her. athyria dolla -- arthur aidala has handled cases of athletes in trouble, including lawrence taylor. as far as charges, the charges were brought, he pleaded not guilty, they sentenced him to enter a dream program. and that was that. >> these treatment programs around the country are becoming more and more prevalent and they do a good job for the most part development believe that the law. team had this video inside the elevator. if they did, shame on them. if they didn't, even more shame on them. >> all they had to do is ask for it. >> if they say no they're the

law. , the jump signs a subpoena, they walk and have it in 15 minutes. those treatment programs are not for these types of cases. number one, the striking of her is disgusting, but then the aftereffect, there's no snapping out of -- when someone has post trauma stress disorder usually things stimulate then and them they snap out. >> my god, look at my girlfriend. >> he$+ is pulling her through e elevator like she is a piece of meat which leads you to believe this is not his first rodeo. this is something that happened before. when you look it's from the victim's point of view, she is now being victimized twice. victimized by her husband and now by the world bus her husband's career is taken away this, relationship is in turmoil. all of the money she basically tolerated this for, she tolled the abuse for the relationship and for the perks, and probably all of that is gone. so everyone here is a loser. all the way around.

>> if the national football league wanted to see the video, wanted to know what was in the elevator, anybody who has been in a casino knows, every you walk you're on a camera. they could have had it. >> they have billions of dollars. >> and -- >> they could have had that video in a new york minute. >> the question they have not appeared to those who pay for direct tv and pay to sit in your the following question: you have answered, no, the inside council didn't see, nobody saw it. did anybody who works for you outside the office see it? that question has been asked and has not been answered and national football league fans, and people who have to deal with the national football league, deserve that answer and they won't answer it, and that tells me. >> the only plausible excuse they could have, we had a video, we saw the video outside the elevator. we assumed that was the only video there was and it shows her on the floor, and he says she

fainted, et cetera, et cetera. in an industry that has billions of dollars, and the quote that jonathan hunt just did about they deal with the homeland security, every suspect of law enforcement in the united states of america to say they can't get a video out of an elevator is ridiculous. the only thing to be skepticallor, now what a money making enterprise the baltimore ravens are. to pull away their main running back is not in the best business interests of the national football league. the you get the debate, are they the a business or the moral compass of america. is it he commissioner's job to run a business or -- >> they get tax breaks from the government to build their stadiums, arthur. >> i didn't answer the question. >> if you want to turn in your ray rice jersey you can turn it in at any nfl store now and get another one. >> not another one, different one. >> someone of someone else. >> correct. >> who for this moment is not on a tmz store. >> the fact that tmz is the hero here -- when you have law.

agencies and the nfl and it takes some kid intern went and found this -- probably a feç bucks here. >> i know harvey levin. he gets this scoops over and over. >> it will be interesting to see. the thing i -- the question i ask is, if michael vick was caught on video with the dogs fighting, with him betting and blood, would her be back in the nfl, i doubt it. >> are you kidding me? dogs in this society? >> never happen. >> that's a woman on the floor there. >> i know. >> are you kidding me? >> even with the video -- it's the video -- when you hear the words its one thing. >> there's one that is not digitized and one with audio and that's coming, and when it does, we'll see. thank you. a new report gives more details on what caused a malaysian airlines crash over eastern ukraine. what the report says and does not say, coming up. plus, it happened. apple watch is here. apple for your wrist?

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into a new category since the ipad. the company hopes to revolutionize technology the way it has done before. >> you already know how to use it. >> apple did, after all, make the computer accessible to the masses in the mid-1980s. introducing a user friendly mouse, and graphical interface as part of the macintosh. then the company transfirm the way folks get their music. >> the biggs thing about ipod it holds a thousand songs. >> with a sleek design and easy to use click wheel. the company wowed critics in 2007 when it unveiled the touch screen interface of the iphone. >> apple's really pushed the bar up further. >> it did so again with the ipad in 20etter than a laptop, better than a smartphone. >> fun of the product was the first of its time but their

design fascinated the public and changed the way we enter act with technology. >> you have to hold it. it's so fantastic. >> it was. this is the first time that apple has introduced a new product like this without the cofounder, steve jobs, who died in 2011. our fox business expert is live in cupertino for this announcement. tell us more about apple watch. >> well, shep, it is an incredible twice. comes in two different sizes, six different straps. what it does is very interesting. it's got that hard saphire glass. got fitness tracker on the back. a sensor that can sense where you're walking and then it will kick in>ç on the map function ad if you're trying to figure out where you're going, it will actually vibrate a little bit to show you which way perhaps you should turn. a lot of different opportunities here. you can also pay with apple pay, new apple payment system tim cook, the ceo, unveiled.

if you want to book an airline ticket on american airlines you can do that. you can check into your starwood hotel as well. there are some security concerns about the watch but it seems here that security is a priority for apple, and there are other things you can do. might like to listen to your music on there, or you might like to talk to siri. so it's an4ú$ really big oppory for apple. a lot of critics saying it's nothing unexpected. but of course, the ipad -- you'll probably remember, when they came out with the first one its wasn't necessarily -- it was the second one that took over the industry and people really got excited and that's when they started to kill it. >> it was unexpected for me. i'm like, how are you going to pinch and squeeze -- you can even open your hotel room's door with the thing. so it's programmable. that's before we talk about the new iphone. there's the 6, little bigger than the current 5. the 6 plus, bigger than the 6,

and apple pay. go through it for us. >> so apple payment -- let's start with the iphone 6. $199 with a two-year contract. both phones coming out on september 19th. the six plus is big birth the by takeway here's is apple payments. apple already has access%b to 800 million i-tunes cons, mose linked up with credit cards so they already have a lot of payment options here. they're going to allow you to pay by just touching your phone with another device. so, that's called mobile payment. another thing to watch out for on the iphone you might like, the photo capable. they're improving the focus. it's eight mega pixels. you can facetime on both sides. a faster processor, better quality images. what i find interesting about this 6 and the 6 plus is actually they're not necessarily any bigger than the samsung

phones or android phones that dominate globally. apple is trying to sell the quality of the experience. they believe they have something that the others don't, but i don't know. what about you? i know you use an iphone, right? >> i love it. watched the whole thing. the better screen, the retina display, the 240 or so frames per second when you're making videos if you want to for slow -- slo-mo. the -- full disclosure, i'm an apple guy some i never watched to change. thank you. have fun in cupertino. you can begin to purchase these -- you can pre-order beginning this friday. the apple watch not available until next year but the iphone 6 will be everywhere in a couple of weeks and it's going to be awesome. malaysia airlines not awesome. flight 17 broke apart in the air after high energy objects from

the -- outside the aircraft struck the jet. high energy objects struck the aircraft over eastern ukraine. we knew that. that's according to a new report from dutch investigators. analysts say it's another sign that russianñ separatists shot down the shut. du. but the report does not indicate that's the case. the flight plummeted into a field in ukraine in an area controlled by pro-russian rebels and if we're honest, by the russian us. the crash killed 298 people onboard. most dutch nationals. u.s. and other western investigators say the pro-russian rebels rebels and te rushings -- russians shot down the plane. russian and the rebels deny that vladimir putin says the ukrainians are responsible for the crash in their own country. meantime, there have been reports of shelling in doh! don k this week. and two months after the crash

the dutch investigators still have not visitedded the crash site because the rebels or russians, whatever you want to dahl them, won't let them. they they've pictures of the debris. this is all that is left of flight 17. look at this, swiss cheese holes. what does this look like to you? to investigators it looks like shrapnel and there's more. a picture of a different part over the plane, more tiny holes. independent military analysts say the size of these things, the size and shape, number of shrapnel impacts-are consistent with an antiaircraft missile, and here is a picture from inside the plane. you can clearly see something hit it and peeled this back toward the inside and this is the crash site today where the thing crashed. the field is still scattered with debris from flight 17 and there is still human remains on site. imagine being a relative and having to deal with that. we have a report from "the wall street journal" now.

more we learned today. did we? >> we learned a few things. but families are not happy. the ones we have spoken to have said, this does not establish culpability and it is not getting you any closer to, in their opinion, who these cold bleed murderers are and saying who they are, and the safety board said they won't do that. they haven't even been out there and this picture -- weeds progress through the debris that is still there, and if you want to find out -- and be able to present in a court of law who was responsible, you need to be able to do metal annualal testing testing and that hasn't happened. >> will the rebels not let enemy there? is the area too tumultuous? >> it's a mix. >> or politics. >> still wild and dangerous for a variety of reasons. the malaysians have gotten in there and say they are going to bring to justice the people who are responsible.

same with dutch investigators. but when that will happen, when they can actually get the kind of access they need when there will be the safety and politics willing allow it, we don't know. >> i'm calling b.s. on all of it. our reporter steve harry gap walked next to three day after the game crashed. like the nfl with the videotape. whoever is investigating this, the dutchç wanted it, they'd he it. >> most significant thing from the report is what it found about the alleged by the russians, alleged fighter jet. ukrainian fighter jet on their radar. this report concludes didn't@qá' doesn't exist. takes that complanation off the table for the ones the russians are stale with, it was shot down by ukrainians, not the separatists. thank you. >> foreign governments reportedly pump tens of millions

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now a report that greatly disturbed my team and me. this is long and complicated but important to all of us and you. bear with me. we often bring experts on the program and across this channelm to explain world's vents and political ramifications. scholars from think tanks, smart people who do research and bring us their find examination analysis. they're crucial to our understanding of things and our reporting to you. they work free of politics and free of influence. now about that there are questions. "the new york times" newspaper is now reporting more than a dozen prominent washington research groups, think tanks, took tens of millions of dollars in foreign government money in

recent years. the times investigation finds that some foreign countries were trying to buy influence, paying those think tanks to put their position in a positive light, for gain influence with lawmakers. the times reports the think tank does not disclose the terms of deals with foreign governments and that is against the law. each is a major recipient of overseas funds, producing policy papers, hosting forums and organizing private briefings for senior u.s. government officials that typically align with foreign government agendas. most of the money comes from countries in europe, the middle east, and asia. in interviews with the times, top executives of the think tanks strongly defended the'v=ñ arrangement, saying their money never compromised the integrity of their organization's research. some think tanks that took money from foreign governments include the brookings institution, center for strategic and international studies, the atlantic council and others. we have invited experts from

these groups on this program many times, including michael o'hanlon, director of foreign policy research at the brookings institution and joins me now govern us their understanding of the story. good to see you again. thank you. >> thank you for having me on. >> man named mr. ollie serves a one of the first viving fellows at the brookings center inn( qar after it opened in 2009 said such a policy was clear. quoting there was a no-go zone when it came to criticizing the qatar government, said mr. ol'y. it was unsettling for academics there but was the price we had to pay. is research ourqc, word's influenced by the money that brookings received? >> no. and we're also very transparent and we put all our information about donors on our web site, been doing that for years. but i would say about mr. ol' ollie he was at brookings for three months.

i am sorry he feels that way. i talked to other scholars and none of them feel that way. a man named sal man sheikh has been trying to build a moderate group of syrian opposition figures to find an alternative to president assad. he has been doing this, even as qatar has funded more extreme groups in syria, and i don't support what qatar does, and just to be very clear, i thinkéq their foreign policy has a lot of problems but the don't put pressure on us to align with them and the comment by mr. ollie is hard to understand. it was from a scholar who was there five years ago for three months. the people i have spoken to who have been there for long periods or short periods of times since have never had that complaint, and in fact we have put out papers on the brookings web site that have taken major issue with northern policy of the government of qatar. >> one thing we wanted to know and can't find the answer is whether isis militants are

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>> glen with michael hanlon a senior fellow and director of foreign policy research at brookings institute. the institute has given the numbers, some others have not. this one-brookings received money from qatar, united arab emirates and norway. $41 million. we always tried to find out definitively whether isis is support edmond terribly by qatar, and when we're told by brookings we don't really know, how is it with all this money coming in we should know we can

trust you? >> a very good question. first, let me just correct your figure but not correct your point because your point is valid. the $41 million as reported in "the new york times" is a dramatic exaggeration of wha4y brookings, for example, gets from all foreign governments combined in any given year. we get 12% of our budget per year, $12 million per year, for all foreign governments combined we work with, including a wide array of foreign governments, and many of them are virtually all of them are supporting us base they believe in the research we're doing. but to your point about qatar. this is a complicated case and i think we have to keep our eye on it because qatar is known to have supported hamas at times, the monday him brotherhood in egypt at times, perhaps elements of the nusra front in syria, which is not much better than isil, it has had a similar ideology. we need to be critical at the

u.s. government level and the brookings level, and we are, of this kind of behavior by qatar, and sometimes it becomes too much. if qatar continues to fund extremists in syria with any realistic worry that money is bleeding over to isil, i would be very, very, very opposed to continuing association with them hope and the u.s. government and others will continue to underscore this point inch the past, the kind of disagreements have been over slightly less extreme cases. still serious and i'm not here to defend qatar's foreign policy, only our independence iy the research we do in doha and elsewhere. >> i hate our time is so limited. i don't think it's fair to the subject matter. but it's always for us really comforting to know today we can get somebody like michael o'hanlon from brookings, and then when you read this article that suggests they ought to register as foreign agents, you wonder, but over time it will flush out. michael, thank you today. as always we'll be back.

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new apple products unveiled today. the iphone 6 and 6 plus, stocks up. apple stock right at four percent. now down ever so slightly. we'll see you here later. well, isis showing no signs backing down. is what is happening at the white house right now going to be enough to take them down? welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto. the president, as we speak, meeting with congressional leaders in the oval office. this video being fed in moments ago. trying to build a coalition for his isis strategy out of his big primetime speech tomorrow night. but is everyone onboard with the strategy and will it, could it mean boots on the ground? the white house is deny it but lieutenant colonel tony schaffer says we're already seeing it. how do you know? >> i've talked to member0s the military who