dinesh, you're great. god bless you. you make a lot of sense. this from dennis. probation sucks. okay. let me know what you think. on twitter @megyn kelly. >> welcome to hannity. this is a fox news alert. the united states along with five arab allies launched a series of air strikes against isis and al qaeda targets in syria last night. tonight we'll have complete coverage for what this means of the security of this homeland as well as what it means politically. we'll check in with colonels ralph peters and allen west. we'll get analysis from our political power players including karl rove, bob beckel, juan williams and even james carville tonight. the very latest where things stand in this fight against isis. jennifer? >> the operation began about

8:30 eastern last night. there were three weevs attacks. the first missile fired came from the uss arly burke. according to the pentagon, 47 tomahawk missiles were fired at command and control headquarters of an al qaeda offshoot called the khorasan group that u.s. officials claim was plotting against the u.s. arab nations did not participate in this initial part of the operation. pentagon officials say this will not be a short mission. >> i would think of it in terms of years, yes. >> the significance of countries participating in these strikes cannot be understated. five countries joined including qatar which flew but did not drop bombs. >> we're still assessing the effects of our strikes, but we've been watching this group closely for some time. we believe the khorasan group was nearing the execution phase. >> the arab coalition members

were involved in the third phase of air strikes which began just after midnight eastern last night. syrian air defenses remain passive. the uae flew four f-16, saudi arabia four f-15 jordan four f-16s, bahrain, f-16s, qatar flew french made mirages. there are no plans to put u.s. ground troops in syria. he ruled that out from the podium here at the pentagon today. >> jennifer, thank you. the president delivered remarks from the white house informing the american people of the ongoing military mission in syria and ensuring them that the u.s. is not alone in this fight. take a look. >> we're joined in this action by our friends and partners, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, jordan, bahrain and qatar. america's proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations on behalf of our commune

security. the strength of this coalition makes it clear to the world that this is not america's fight alone. above all, the people and governments in the middle east are rejecting isil and standing up for the peace and security that the people of the region and the world deserve. >> here to recap the president's remarks and his trip to the u.n. that followed, fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry. talk first about the coalition that is put together here. which by the way i'm actually encouraged by, which might surprise people. >> look, there is some early success here because the president getting five sunni arab nations on board to basically say we're going after the sunni terrorists, we haven't seen a situation like that before. that gives the president some credibility, at least in this stage. he had a lot of fits and starts on the strategy. he had a lot of mixed messages that were coming out in the early stages, but if he can get this part right, we've heard from people all across the political spectrum, the head of the snake is in syria, not in iraq. we've had 200 u.s. air strikes

in iraq and that's been effective in some ways but syria is the real battle. >> has it really been effective? because the reports we've had, they haven't moved an inch in iraq and that's going on six weeks now. >> if you look at the fact that he probably avoided genocide with the yazidis in iraq. then you have the fact that mosul dam which was a strategic victory to take it back. but yes, will the u.s. working with the iraqis on the ground be able to lock in these gains? that's a big question. but you have to know there's early success but got no nato allies there. turkey a nato ally in the region. they've got their own ties to terrorists, maybe that's why they're not not. you have other british citizens who are believed to be still kidnapped and in the hands of isis. they haven't stepped up with air strikes. they've helped in other ways. the french say they've helped with air strikes in iraq but not

sear wra. interesting what the egyptian president said today, i congratulate the president on widening the war againstize -- >> they want it bigger. >> but they say there's extremists all over the mideast. his phrase was interesting. we want to make sure they don't wash their hands of the mideast down the road. that suggests that the egyptians and others in the region don't trust the administration is going to go beyond these early stages. he has credibility -- >> he eviscerated george bush for going into iraq and now he's in iraq and syria, a country that bush never went into. obama bombed seven countries, bush only bombed four. another irony. he said a month ago it was fantasy to arm the syrian rebels. that's now the cornerstone of his strategic plan. it was only january that he called them the jv team. a really dramatic turnaround by the president. >> why knowing he has pressure on the lil left, why would he move forward with this campaign?

america's public opinion is out there for more action. the threat is real. but that runs a bit counterwith starting in january talking about the jv squad. but just a week that the homeland security secretary said isis is not a huge threat. that's what they're using to justify military action. >> i think we're going to learn in the next number of weeks and months is the president just checking the box. in other words, i had to deal with the threat, the american people wanted it done, the lead-up to an election or is he serious about dpeeting isis? >> we don't know the answer tonight. but based on what we -- we don't know yet what the final word is going to be, but what we saw last night getting these five sunni arab nations should not be sneezed at. but you are right long-term, will he follow it up. >> a lot of past defense secretaries and military experts said this strategy alone won't

work. we'll see. >> and you'll need combat troops. >> the president used yemen and somalia as an example. an incredible report yesterday in the associated press about how it's not working in yemen. >> yemen is falling apart. it's falling apart. >> also although the president told the american people we were not alone in the fight against isis. charles krauthammer was quick to point out the gaping holes in the so-called coalition on fox and friends earlier today. >> we had essentially three nations in the air with us. what's missing is europe, there are no europeans. i guess they were burned a bit, some of the british, for example, with the iraq war, but the big glaring absence is turkey. >> yes. >> it's right on the border of syria. it's a nato country. they have an interest in stopping isis, but they've been in a double game. they've allowed a lot of isis fighters to come in. turkey has an islamist

government, moderate if you like, but they paurt the brotherhood in egypt and hamas. so they're a bit on the fence. that's a huge loss for us in not having them. >> here with reaction, lieutenant colonel ralph peters. respond to charles krauthammer. do you agree with that? >> look, it would be nice to have the europeans on board. turkey is essential. but turkey -- president erdogan of turkey, his sympathies are with the terrorists. he's an islamist himself, not as extreme as isis. but he's more on their team than he is on hoours. we've got to get a grip, our memories are short. i'm glad that the president put together this mini coalition of arab states. remember in desert storm? george herbert walker bush will a coalition that included a lot of arab states. it was a saudi brigade that spearheaded the drive into kuwait city. a friend of mine was their brigade adviser. we had syrian armory elements in saudi arabia. they didn't get into the fight.

it went too fast. this is not unprecedented. but sean, if i may, there's something that concerns me far more than that. in the euphoria, the delight of seeing all these cruise missiles taking off and the dramatic footage, all the analysts and all of us have been missing one really big thing. these strikes last night were designed to limit terrorist casualties. these were not serious manful strikes. i'll give you the evidence. why did we go in at night? there was no air defense threat. could have gone in in broad daylight. if you wanted to kill terrorists you would have hit the headquarters at 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning when they were crowded with leaders, staff officers, flunkies, instead we hit empty buildings at night. that's not the way to defeat terrorists who behead americans. let me give you the measure of

success in air strikes against isis. it is not knocking out windows, acres and acres of dead terrorists. that's tactical success. >> if the president is using this as part of a comprehensive strategy -- >> he's not. >> that's my point. to defeat isis, i'm on board, but if it is as i suspect and he's doing this to check the box and he only has to do it for political reasons and he needs to show that he's willing to fight them at least a little bit and he won't listen to his military advisers and commander, then i've got to ask, you know, does this make any sense at all to do it half-assed? that's what i'm concerned about. >> i'm glad when this president does anything to stop terror. but he wants to wage war by measuring it out in teaspoons. and the cardinal advantage of a superpower is, for god's sake, a superpower, if you're going to go to war, you go to war to win. small war, big war, doesn't

matter. but all this, you know,modulate graduated buildups, no! if the united states goes to war, we should fight to win. i'm sick of hearing pundits in washington who never served in uniform saying victory is impossible in the 21st century. victory is always possible if you're willing to pay the price and be ruthless and ferocious and do what's right for our security and win. >> if we believe, colonel, that they are evil and they are and they have the land mass and they do and they have the money and they do and they have the radical ideology which they follow, then we're either going to fight them now or later and later they'll be much stronger. that's a great admonition, if you are going to fight, there has to be victory. winston churchill said the same thing. >> well, it's a no-brainer. you don't have an army to mark time in formation, but my god, it's just stunning to me that we do face truly evil opponents.

we're going to have to fight for a long time. and the president wants to nickel and dime it. we're going to train 5,000 members of the free syrian army and they'll be ready in ten months or a year, i hope. meanwhile, isil or islamic state may have 80 or 100,000 members. they're continuing to attract recruits like wildfire. we have to get over there can't be any civil juan casualties. it's ugly and sloppy and there will be. if you go offer isis, you got to suck it up. civilian casualties, look what isis is doing and it's gaining recruits as they slaughter civilians. >> critics are also questioning the timing of the strikes in syria. concerns are being raised about the action being way too little, way too late. talk about what ambassador john bolton had to say about this early this morning on america's newsroom. take a look.

>> it's about time that these strikes started. they're very late. isis has had a considerable amount of time to prepare and defend against strikes like this. i have the singing feeling based on six years of performance, particularly the timing of this attack last night had more to do for the president's politics than for national security. we're six weeks away from the election. his performance on national security issues has gone into the tank. and i think this is very convenient that he's coming to the u.n. today. >> that was reaction fox news contributor colonel allen west. i think there were two mistakes here. one number that we didn't support the rebels earlier as leon panetta recommended and number two that the president withdrew all our troops from iraq and we didn't provide the intelligence and training they needed and that paved the way forrize to ta izsis to take ove >> you're absolutely right. it precluded what isis really is. it's al qaeda in iraq that's

reconstituted and came back into iraq and has metastasized. back in january a force of 1500 to 2,000, now it's a force of over 3500. you announce you'll have these bombing strikes and you give the enemy an indication. you allow them to harden themselves. it will be interesting to see what the battlefield assessment really is. understand that we're trying to degrade a certain part of their ability. but we also need to cut off the resourcing and funding by way of the black market oil that they're selling. we need to make sure that we don't allow them to have safe passage for recruits. >> for all that the president is doing here, i don't like that he's telegraphed things he won't do, no boots on the ground, no shock and awe. what about the president? does he need congressional approval to continue this conflict? >> well, without a doubt. we're in a war.

and by the constitution the only people that can declare war is the congress. but very interesting that the president wanted to wait to take this action. i think that the congress needs to go back. and the president needs to make his case before the congress before we continue on with any more of these strikes. you been not unilaterally commit the resources, the men and women, materiel of the united states of america without congressional approval. we did that in libya and look what's happened in that country. >> thank you. you won't believe how the commander in chief saluted a marine earlier today less than 24 hours after launching air strikes. we have the video. it will leave you fuming. how he could have prevented all of this despite the start of air strikes last night. what would president bush do if he was in office? i have somebody who knows him well, karl rove. juan williams, james carville all on this busy news night tonight. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality

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welcome back to hannity. yesterday during the white house briefing a reporter questioned josh earnest how would bush handle it differently than president obama. >> how do you see the president's approach different than the one pursued by president bush. >> for american participation and efforts to counter isil. so the involvement of the iraqi government is important because the president doesn't want to fall into -- into a pattern of making a mistake that was made in the previous conflict which

is that the united states was put in the position of essentially trying to deploy significant resources and significant personnel to try to address the security situation across the nation of iraq. >> with analysis on how president bush would have handled this, karl rove. before i get to that, did you see the latte salute in the president gets off marine one today. hang on. obviously you've seen it. i mean, how would -- would president obama ever do that? >> i was surprised. i mean, after all, we got a chai swilling, golf playing, basketball trash talking leading from behind, i got no strategy, osama bin laden is dead, gm is alive, community organizer and community chief. how disrespectful was that?

insensitive. >> men and women? what is that? >> yeah, and look, he knows there's going to be two marines at the bottom of marine one when he gets off. the idea that i'm going to just sort of jaunt out there with my chai tea and give them the old -- it's not a latte salute, it's a chai salute because he drinks chai tea. how disrespectful was that? >> when he said in a speech -- and he was reading his teleprompter, navy corpse-men, again and again and again, this show little he knows about the military. he said navy corpse-men, navy korps men, he doesn't know what a corpsmen is. the chairman of the joint chiefs, former defense secretaries now have have come out and spoken out against him, a little bit frightening and i guess it's shown up in his approval rating. reuters poll, 35-58.

among independents, 23-72. >> no, look, the president, you know, he's demonstrated over the last six years that the military -- he's not convinced that the u.s. military has been a force for good. he thinks that they've frankly created more problems than they've solved and he's cut their budget dramatically. we saw him gesture as he exited marine one what he thinks of them. he's got his tea. he's on his way to his meeting. he's the commander in chief just giving them the latte salute right straight back. >> what do you make of these numbers? 35% approval rating reuters. what impact does that have on the election? because i share your concern. there's too many people overconfident that this is going to be a wave election year. i'm not convinced yet. >> yeah, neither am i. but look, first of all, let's put this in context, these numbers have been bad for over a year. he got re-elected in 2012 by

getting fewer votes than in 20 thousand 8 which meant he didn't get an overwhelming mandate. the approval rating at the time of his reinauguration in 2013 was lower than customarily what you see in the beginning of a second term. starting in april and may, he began to decline. on the foreign policy, it began to accelerate in may and june when we had sergeant bergdahl and then we had the explosion of isis across iraq, so this has been a secular decline of more than a year that's deepen in the last four or five months. it won't get necessarily better before the election. the people that will be cheered by the president's actions are strong conservative republicans who don't like him and don't trust him and don't believe he's doing enough. the people are going to be most unsettled by this are the anti-war left of his own party which are not going to be made more enthusiastic by the president of the united states talking about bombing syria. and he knows this, which is why he's been so restrained in what he has said and so tepid in his response. >> so first of all, bush wouldn't have allowed this to

happen in iraq. he would have kept the intelligence and training on the ground. number two, he probably would have armed the syrian opposition much earlier. with those numbers as bad as they are, what's your prediction as of today, we're 42 days out of an election. what are your thoughts? >> 51 or 52. we'll have louisiana settled in december. we could have the 51st or 52nd vote for the republicans in december from louisiana and we're likely to see some of these races very, very close. it could be bigger. this could be a late developing wave as we've seen in some previous elections including 2010. at this point nobody is really suggesting that mark kirk is going to win in illinois or ron johnson's going to win in wisconsin or pat toomey's going to win in pennsylvania. these were late developing victories in 2010. but i'm still sort of at 51, 52, we've had good movement our way the last few weeks in alaska,

we've had good movement in the last couple of weeks in colorado and iowa. arkansas and louisiana continue to firm up. tom tillis is in a fight. we had good poll numbers in new hampshire and michigan. there's been a lot of good news the last couple of weeks but incremental and small. the movement very small and it will be very tight. >> karl rove, appreciate it. coming up next here on hannity. >> i would expect an october surprise. i'm telling you, i think it's going to shake things up. >> is he right? did the democrats october surprise arrive last night in the firm of syrian air sfliks he'll be up next to explain. later jims carville joins me to explain why hillary clinton has been throwing president obama under the bus? does it have to do with 2016? ♪

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prominent liberals said that president obama would announce some october surprise. so were the u.s.-led air strikes in syria last night the september surprise or should we expect something else to happen? the days and weeks ahead? here to answer the question, the co-host of the five bob beckel, fox news political aimi ianalys williams. is that what you meant? >> that's part of it. but it's the events that happen leading up to the election. >> you said a surprise and you say this is part of it. >> this is part of it. >> so the president is basically checking the box. >> no, i don't think he's doing this -- >> launching air strikes so it will help democrats. >> no, what he did was put together one of the most extraordinary things you've ever seen in the u.s. united states of war, which is to get muslim countries to attack muslim countries.

>> but i don't think he's serious about finishing it but i'll concede that point. how about biden ripping romney for saying he'd start a war in syria. >> listen to what he says about foreign policy. he said it was a mistake to end the war in iraq and bring all of our warriors home. he said it was a mistake to set an end date for our warriors in afghanistan and bring them home. he implies by the speech that he's ready to go to war in syria and iran. >> i was elected to end wars, not start them. i spent the last 4 1/2 years doing everythingic to reduce our reliance on military power as a means of meeting our international obligations and protecting the american people. >> juan, what do we make of that? >> well, i think he was right.

i think biden was right. the president's right. you don't want to start wars after -- >> they just did. >> after the lengthy war that we -- >> they just did. >> based on erroneous information. >> they just did, juan. >> americans are tired. so no, doing here is responding to the beheading of people, to people who are radical islamists who are a threat to our national security and stability in the middle east. >> really? >> and to get back to the october surprise part of this, you look back, i think the idea that the president did this intentionally is not true, but i think the fact is it's going to help him because most americans support --. 35% approval rating. >> yeah, but that's in general. that's not about this. and this could buffer him. this could actually raise him. >> the president's looking at political considerations, you're admitting it? >> no, but that's the political reality. >> let's look at democrats when it came to bashing bush during the time of war. very different mind-set, bob

beckel. >> by refusing to end the war in iraq, president bush is giving the terrorists what they really want and what the congress voted to give them in 2002, a u.s. occupation of undetermined length and undetermined cost with undetermined consequences. >> i love these guys who tell you they're going to stop the war. let me tell you straight up the truth, the truth of the matter is the only one that's emboldened the enemy has been george bush by his policy. >> we have democratic and republican senators who are concerned about this escalation in the war, and we as senators have no ability to have any input in the present position on this. >> what a bunch of hypocrites. admit that that's hypocritical. >> what was wrongs with going to war in iraq in first place, number one. we wouldn't have the problems. >> the one that biden supported and hillary supported. >> i think they were wrong to do that. but what juan just said was a good point, the one most

pressing point and the issue that american people care about now is terrorism. it's gone ahead of the economy. you haven't seen tend of it yet. >> why did the president allow isis to take out every city that americans bled, fought and died for now only that the polls are motivating him to act? >> that's an absolutely erroneous statement. >> fallujah, tikrit, mosul, he didn't do a thing. >> what do you expect him to do? >> well, first of all -- >> we spent $200 million training the infamous iraqi army. >> they bragged about pulling out. >> excuse me. when they went into that ridiculous war they took apart the military, then we built it back up to the tune of $2 million. what do you want him to do. he did not. that's ridiculous. >> i'm always trying to listen to you, sean, learn from you. but houw can you say he did it, like the president built up

isis? >> let me tell you how. >> yeah, sean. >> two ways he did this. he should have supported the syrian rebels two years ago. >> how do you know we were going to give weapons to the right people? >> -- forces on the ground for the iraqi troops. >> if he had been given those weapons to people who turned around and shot at americans, sean hannity would be saying what a big idiot. >> will you for one point in your life will you give this guy credit for something sth. >> i give him credit the day he leaves. >> this tells you all you need to know what you just said. >> everything i said about him was dead-on accurate. the worst president in american history. he's a disaster. and jimmer carter is the next one. >> you ought to be rallying around our troops. >> coming up next, they used to be allies. but hillary clinton can't run away fast enough from president obama. we've got the proof that clinton and the machine is hard at work at that. we've got james carville.

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welcome back to hannity. so what the president's approval rating singing, possibly 2016 presidential candidate hillary clinton has been trying to distance herself from the president. on sunday clinton ally leon panetta blamed not arming the rebels in 2012 for the rise of isis. >> the real key is how can we develop a leadership group among the opposition that would be able to take control? and my view was to have leverage to do that we would have to provide the weapons and the training in order for them to really be willing to work with us in that effort. >> in retrospect now was not arming the rebels at that time a mistake? >> i think that would have helped. and i think in part we paid a price for not doing that in what

we see happening with isis. >> this attack comes as no surprise since leon panetta is a close friend of the clns and served as the white house chief of staff under president bill clinton. was panetta's rebuke of obama's policy the first shoe to drop in hillary clinton's run for the white house in 2016? here with reaction, another clinton insider. what are you laughing at james carville? >> i'm not laughing. i'm in a good mood. glad to be on your show. glad to be discussing my favorite person in the world, hillary rodham clinton. >> you got leon panetta, hillary clinton and bob gates all saying the president is really screwing up with this whole thing. >> well, you got people saying we should have armed the, quote, good rebels. good rebels, by the way, just made a deal with the bad rebel. i think there was a big policy distinction there. i think then-secretary clinton wanted to and so did secretary

panetta, but you know, we can look and would have, should have, could have, i don't know what side was right. maybe what we could have done. but he's a pretty close ally to presidents. he served as president obama's head of the cia, so leon is a pretty independently minded guy. >> you have the chairman of the joint chiefs, top military commanders all in one way or another have said that this strategy the president's adopting is the wrong strategy. they're all saying it. >> i saw him say he supported what the president was doing. some people say we should have armed the good rebel. there's a lot of people that say that the head of the good rebel's not even in syria and they didn't have much of a thing and you don't know the difference between the good and the bad ones. but secretary gates and secretary clinton is very supportive of what the president is doing now. but unusual that you would be president for this long and not have somebody second guess something you did. >> didn't he make a mistake here not arming the rebels earlier?

hang on a second. and the second would be withdrawing our troops which led to the fracturing of the iraqi state. i mean by that not leaving intelligence and training troop on the ground for the iraqi troops. >> first of all, hindsight, i don't know. i don't think that the good rebels would probably do much good but a lot of smart people do. we won't know the answer to that. we spent billions trying to train an army and put them in place. and it did well until somebody shot at them and they all ran. the government turned out the be trying to kill sunnis and god knows whatnot. we've been there for nine years? what are we supposed to do, stay there nor 18 years? >> it's not would have, should have, could have because we watched every city that americans died and shed their blood for being taken one after another and the president didn't lift a finger. in january of this year he ca called isis, the jv team.

a month ago he called the syrian rebels, which is now a big part of his strategic plan, to arm them, he said that's only a fantasy to arm doctors, farmers and dentists. >> probably we shouldn't have gone in iraq. probably the dumbest thing we've done since world war ii. >> hillary said. >> she said it was the biggest mistake she ever made. great admiration for somebody who makes a mistake and stands up and said, i made a mistake, we should have never done that. there's something to be said for that. >> the month ago the president said it's a fantasy to arm the rebels, he's now making arming them being the centerpiece of this strategy. >> i hope i'm wrong, i don't think that's going to work. but i hope i'm wrong. i want to be wrong on that. >> i do not want to -- i want to be wrong that just air strikes is going to work without -- he says no shock and awe and no boots on the ground. >> well, you know, nobody wants to put boots on the ground or whatever. nobody wants american troops,

nobody wants american feet in the boots. the problem is not putting boots on the ground, it's how you get them off the ground. that's the real problem. easy to put on the ground but the kicken dickens to get them. in absence of me having a better idea, i guess we got to keep on bombing. >> let me ask you a last question. >> sure. do you think hillary's running? >> i do. i don't have any insight. i always thought that she would run. i still think she's going to run. i would be surprised if he didn't, but i wouldn't be shocked. but that would be the way i put it. >> do you think she's not really fully completely made up her mind yet? >> i love her speeches. if you look at where she's -- her latest speeches i think are very good. she's right on message. the president's done a lot of stuff to build us back but we've got to get to work on the middle class and get the incomes up. that's exactly the place she needs to be. i'm very encouraged what she's

been saying of late. >> who would you fear on the other side if republicans nominated, who would give you the hardest time from your perspective? >> i'm going to give you a very honest answer. what republicans need is a big strong field and somebody to emerge from that field looking strong and uniting their party. >> if you had to guess? >> i can't tell you who that will be. i don't think it will be ted cruz or rand paul. republicans generally go with somebody who is experienced. i don't discount mitt romney. i actually don't discount rick perry, believe it or not. i don't discount jeb bush, i do discount christie and other people because there's no history of them doing that. but what they really need is one that is mighty and strong and demonstrates that. >> no one puts fear into the heart of carville? >> it would be a person who really performed well. i can't tell you who that would be. i'm being as fair az can be.

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welcome back to "hannity". reaction has been pouring in after last night's air strikes in syria. how is the rest of the world responding? mohammed sadik is with us how are you, sir? >> i'm well, how are you? >> i'm well. is it a good thing? >> it's never a good thing when human beings are being killed, sean. >> so it's not a good thing to take them out? >> i think they need to be taken out but never a good thing have you to use killings i'm never going to be supportive of trying to kill to solve killings. >> people are saying, people are killing other innocent people, raping women, killing children,

and threatening the united states of america, and beheading innocent journalists so you can't have a negotiation with them, have you to kill them, right? >> i don't know if you can have a negotiation there has to be a better way. it doesn't start there. >> the guy, let's say the guy that beheaded two americans is part of isis what. negotiations do you have with a person like that? >> i don't have a negotiation with him. he can receive what he put out. >> okay. that is what we're doing. >> isis is saying they're at war with us. they're killing americans, threatening us in new york and want to raise the flag of islam in the white house. so at war with us. >> but still, 500 pound bombs dropped into space. any time there is a chance of killing innocent people, i'm not comfortable. i'm supporting the presz and support what the government has to do. any time you have to resort to a mass killing of individuals

trying to solve the problem of killing, i don't believe you're going to solve the problem. all you're going to do is create more killing down the road. >> didn't we learn in world war ii? we defeated the nazis? that is a good thing, right? >> no. it wasn't a good thing. a lot of -- wasn't a good thing to defeat hitler. >> waits a good thing to defeat hitler and win the war. i can't second guess -- >> would it be a good thing for the moderate muslim world? isn't it a good thing for them to join us to fight back against radicals? >> you can't hijack god's religion. you can hijack minds of people who have not understood the religion. you can hijack that. but you can't hijack -- >> those that tell their kids strap a bomb and go, kill

innocent people and you get 72 virgins, those are people that hijacked your religion. >> there is no hijacking any god revealed. >> they kill in the name of islam. >> they kill because they're ignorant and lost hope. >> they say they're killing in the name of their religion. >> they're radical people. >> they're radical islamists. >> they're using the koran to justify jihad against infidels, christians and jews they say their holy book says they shouldn't be friends with. >> that is like using a screwdriver to try to fix the moon. . >> i would say, i'm a christian. anyone doing this in the name of christianity, you're trying to hijack my religion.

i think we've got to stop people killing not only christians and jews but other muslims >> we're speaking out by working with good, solid christians and jewish people. we're working feverishly to stop the insanity going on in the world and agree with you like that, sean. we're not against it. we're americans and support our country. >> appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> you bet, any time, right after the break. ♪

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now, we hope you'll record "hannity" the series. we'll see you back here with dick cheney tomorrow night. ♪ "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> last night, on my orders, america's armed forces began strikes against isil targets in syria. >> big expansion of the war on terror, but a necessary one. the question tonight, what took barack obama so long? talking points will answer. >> the problem with the internet, as with human trafficking and online sexual predators, it's also served a lot of grief to our kids. >> what do kelly, pow