on friday. again, thanks for watching tonight. ms. megyn is next. i am bill o'reilly. please always remember the spin stops right here. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, president obama declaring humanity at a crossroads between war and peace trying to rally the world in a generational fight against terrorists. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. i'm megyn kelly. at this hour the smoke is still rising from more than a dozen new air strikes hours after president obama returned to the united nations this morning. he spoke today from the same podium where one year ago he announced the end of a decade of war in iraq and the dismantling of al qaeda, a claim he made repeatedly at that time while touting his fulfillment of this campaign promise from when he was just a senator.

>> i'm running for president to change course, not to continue george bush's course. that's why there will be a clear choice in november, fighting a war without end or ending this war and bringing our troops home. both bush and mccain represent the failed foreign policy and fear monogoring of the past. i believe the american people are ready to reject this approach and choose the future. >> but today it was a very different message from president obama. a 180-degree turn from the man who initially rejected the idea of a war on terror. today it sounded much more like the call to action delivered to the united nations by president george w. bush back in september of 2001. watch this as we compare the message delivered from this podium 13 years ago and the one delivered today. >> we have reaffirmed again and again that the united states is not and never will be at war with islam.

islam teaches peace. >> the terrorists are violating the tenants of every religion including the one they invoke. >> they have embraced a nightmarish vision that would divide the world into adherence and infidels. killing as many innocent civilians as possible. employing the most brutal methods toin dem nate people within their communities. >> the terrorists call their cause holy, yet they fund it with drug dealing. they encourage murder and suicide in the name of a great faith that forbids both. >> and it is no exaggeration to say that humanity's future depends on us uniting against those who would divide us along the default lines of tribe, sex, race or religion. >> civilization itself, the civilization we share is threatened. >> collectively we must take

concrete steps to address the danger posed by religiously motivated fanatics and the trends that fuel their recruitment. >> every nation has a stake in this cause. as we meet, the terrorists are planning more murder, perhaps in my country or perhaps in yours. >> there can be no reasoning, no negotiation with this brand of evil. the only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. >> this threat cannot be ignored. this threat cannot be appeased. >> in this effort we do not act alone. >> the conspiracies of terror are being answered by an expanding global coalition. >> we will train and equip forces fighting against these terrorists on the ground. we will work to cut off their financing and to stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region. >> we have a responsibility to deny any sanctuary, safe haven

or transit to terrorists. >> we are heirs to a proud legacy of freedom. and we're prepared to do what is necessary to secure that legacy for generations to come. >> we did not ask for this mission, yet there is honor in history's call. >> i ask that you join us in this common mission for today's children and tomorrow's. >> so let us go forward confident, determined and unafraid. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> editorial editor and president of "the wall street journal," host of the journal editorial report right here on the fox news channel. wow. the sound bite at the beginning sets it up that he is running for president not to continue george w. bush's course which he

considered a failed foreign policy. and yet he sounded very much like the man he once condemned. >> he sure did. especially the use of the moral language. he used the word evil. remember, that was a word that president bush often uses. he said a network of death, that stark black and white terms us versus them terms that he condemned when he was running. he said we need to think about grays. and now the nuance is gone. he sounded like a nobel peace prize winner who's been mugged by reality that not everybody wants peace. >> the journal wrote an editorial a couple weeks ago suggesting that by launching this war in syria the president is admitting that the liberal critique of the bush's administration approach to islamic terrorism was wrong, that their critique of it was wrong and that the bush approach was right. >> well, when the president said if we open our hand to iran for example then they will cut a deal with us. they haven't done that. if we withdraw from iraq, then

that will be stable and the tide of war will recede. now we're back in iraq. if we don't do anything in syria, we don't getd involved, we can leave it alone. now we're bombing syria. go right down the list, include russia, we set relations with russia, we'll be able to have a new partnership with russia. instead clad mir pvladimir puti upsetting as the president said on wednesday. >> does president obama -- now a wartime president. >> that's right. >> does he now have the same foreign policy approach as president bush? >> i don't think he's quite there yet. and you heard that in his speech today. president bush -- the big difference now i think is president bush said the united states has to lead. and people will follow. this president's still not quite leading entirely. he's still -- he used the word collective or collectively i think five times today.

he's still thinking multilateral. he's not leading from behind but not lead from the front. more like leading from the side. arm in arm, march together, i don't think that's going to work. he's going to have to show the united states is going to put most of the military force here and willing to do more than i think he is so far. you've had the generals on. you've quoted them saying, you know, it's got to be more than just air strikes. >> they don't believe in the strategy. they are predicting we will lose if he sticks to his guns on this strategy and does not put real american ground troops on the fwround. i want to show the audience this on the subject of whether president obama is effect president bush now. the "new york times" even wrote an article on 9/11 of 14 suggesting that unlike mr. bush in the iraq war mr. obama here, they're saying, has sought to surround the united states with partners. they had to issue a correction for that just yesterday. and the correction reads as follows, we gave an incorrect comparison. the approach mr. obama is taking is similar to the one mr. bush

took. i mean, it comes full circle where even the times is acknowledging that the two men are taking similar courses. and yet he was elected to the white house, paul, promising that he would be a different kind of president and republicans said to him that's naive, it's not that president bush loves war. it's that he hates terror. >> i think they've been vindicated on that. i think the president -- as we said wrote tas idly admitted that. when he saw his polls falling as disorder broke out around the world, he understood that he had to do something. so he's now acting with force of the kind that he never imagined he would have to use. >> not only did it sort of collapse as we watched over the past six years, you know, a course that many people felt hopeful about has not apparently worked out. but the president was touting what he viewed as his success thinks of -- less interventionalist policy.

here's an example of that. this is president obama in 2001. this is the longer version. listen to him talking to the united nations, again about a year ago. watch. >> together we've also worked to end a decade of war. five years ago nearly 180,000 americans were serving in harm's way. the war in iraq was the dominant issue in our relationship with the rest of the world. today, all of our troops have left iraq. next year an international coalition will end its war in afghanistan having achieved its mission of dismantling the core of al qaeda that attacked us on 9/11. >> i mean, i don't know where to begin. we've ended a decade of war or we didn't end anything apparently. five years ago iraq was the dominant issue in our relationship with the rest of the world. now it is again. now you can add syria to the list. decimating al qaeda. we had to bomb them thanks to an imminent attack they were planning on the homeland. >> this is his watch. he can no longer say this was

president bush's problem. these problems have developed on his watch because iraq was stable when he took over. >> as his own vice president said. >> as he said about a year ago. so this is now on his watch. and the question on my mind is is he going to stay the course as a war president? is he going to do what's required to win? if ground troops are required, will you put them in? if you have setbacks will you explain those to the american people? and doubledown on the effort. like president bush did with the surge. sometimes wars don't go as nicely as we hope. and this president, the danger here is he's really being gradual about it. and democracies don't do gradual wars well because we get tired of them. i'm worried that this president is starting too slowly and going to extend too long. and we may not succeed. >> we've certainly seen over the past six years that withdrawing from wars does not necessarily end them. paul, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good to see you. we are also getting details on the home grown terror warning

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trace. >> megyn, the videotape is very similar to the isis video showing the beheading of two american journalists and a british aide worker except this one does not show the 55-year-old being beheaded. instead, it shows him being held down and later shows the aftermath. the group claiming responsibility is soldiers of the caliphate which broke away from the local al qaeda affiliate in algeria two weeks ago and pledge allegiance to the islamic state. a french mountain guide was kidnapped just hours after isis called on its supporters around the world to target westerners who support the u.s.-led coalition to strike isis. jun then gave the french a 24-hour deadline to end their air strikes. france, which was the first country to join the u.s. military campaign, responded saying they would continue fighting in iraq as long as necessary. today, french president francois

hollande confirmed the beheading. >> translator: dead because he is the representative of a people, ours, that defends human dignity against barbarit. >> reporter: before the beheading little was known except in 2012 a member of a pakistani terror group with the same name shot and killed three soldiers in france before attacking a jewish school killing a rabbi, a teacher and two students. the question is what other terror groups have or will heed isis call to kill westerners. megyn. >> trace, thank you. well, at the same time that story was unfolding today the president took some heat for a line in his u.n. speech that seemed to praise a cleric. the state department tweeted and then deleted and apologized for promoting a link to his page.

his supporters say he is a moderate and that he's not radical. but as we explained back then, his connections are anything but clear. >> he is the vice president of this outfit called the international union of muslim scholars, which is run by a guy named shikh, really the top jurist of the muslim brotherhood and someone jointly with these other muslim scholars who by the way now include one of the top leaders from hamas who has come on board. >> recognized as a terror group by the united states. >> yes. but they issued the law in 2003-2004 that called for violent jihad against american military troops and personnel, support personnel, in iraq. >> so his group effectively called for the deaths of american soldiers. and even though the white house has repeatedly taken heat for associating with him, he went to the white house once.

the president again invoked this shakh again this morning. >> look at the new form, shikh bin described its purpose. we must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace. >> dr. jasser, founder and president of american islamic forum for democracy and a u.s. navy veteran. good to see you again. so the administration does not believe he is radical. they say that, look, in march of 2014 over 250 muslim scholars met in abu dhabi at the forum for preventing peace in muslim -- and he was at the center of doing that. and so this is someone who they need and they want to promote as an outreach to the muslim world those who are more extreme to bring them back. >> well, megyn, you know this is a narrow, narrow focus of an administration that believes as this speech was riddled with

these comments of violent extremism that it's all about the tactic, not about the ideology or the ends, put their head in the sand and ignore the fact that groups like isis don't come out of thin air. there's a continuum. and condemning the mean but they still believe in the same end, the sue prem schism of the islamic state. quoted to us -- first last week the president was telling us what's islamic. now he's shoving down us muslim throats that i'm supposed to follow when in fact this theocrat we were saying not aligning our soldiers in iraq were not aligning a jihad. but against the moderates and it's actually promoting the status quo. >> just to be clear because i'm confused, i see there's a rabbi of george -- with the center for world religions who calls him

one of the most gentlist peace scholars in the world. the antidefamation league says he's a thee loej onof terror and the state department had to apologize for posting a link to what this guy said. so why then does the president of the united states go before the united nations in an enormous forum and tout the very man who his state department apologized for repeating? >> well, because the bottom line is is the narrative is that he doesn't want to take on this islamist ideology. he wants to take on the tactic of terror. so when you have these super soft and what appear to be kind-hearted gentlemen condemn al qaeda, condemn the isis groups, they're not going to look at what fuels that which is the shakih himself still condone slavery. this group still issuing against israel, against america -- >> they were. i mean, i looked it up. i looked to try to find the part where he denies that or

denounces that or says he's had a change of heart. he's the vice president of this group that issued -- saying it was okay to kill american soldiers. the president of that group is a very troubling man who's done a lot worse than this guy that he called for jihad against the united states and israel. this is this shakh's group. i don't understand why our president is pointing to him. at a minimum he's rather controversial. >> absolutely. because -- can't even come to the u.s. because of his statements and how radical he is and his islamism he's promoting and promoting hamas and other groups. we don't have a vision. we don't have a strategy. so ultimately if it's a counterterrorism operation, we're going to join forces with governments like saudi arabia that promote wa has beenism because it's only a target, in and out and we're gone.

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from the world headquarters of fox news, it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. well, the first air strikes in syria are just 48 hours old and already there are questions about the political fallout. some political observers are labeling this the president's october surprise. an event just before elections that can sway the vote. chris stirewalt joins me now. apparently the october surprise according to allure doesn't have to come in october or september, it can come in early november.

let's get that out of the way. is this it? >> it's a surprise to anybody, it's a surprise to barack obama because if we think about what has happened over the past month, on the 20th of august, he went out and was heartbroken about the beheading of an american journalist and went and playas the start of a very long hard trough for him with the american electorate and it hurt his party. it drove his approval ratings to all-time lows. it was quite dire. if he wouldn't have done something, if he would not have embraced some kind of military action against the beasts, then he'd still be dropping. i don't know, he'd be at 15 today. so it came as a surprise to him evidently that he was going to have to do something. they've course corrected. they've taken action. but i do not think this constitutes any sort of a political strategy. i think the political part of this is they had no choice but to act. and now they are trying to live in 48-hour increments to try to

figure out a way they can turn this election around. >> so is it a game-changer politically? when they talk about october surprises back in 1980, the reagan campaign feared carter would announce he had a deal on the hostages and that would be the october surprise. when bush was running the first time around the fact he'd gotten a dwi years and years ago and so on. hurricane sandy many thought would be an october surprise. is this a game changer in the midterm election sns. >> depends on what he's going to do with it. the deal is this is resetting the formula. the president and his party, if he would not have changed course on iraq and syria, was headed for a crash. was headed for a 12-seat, 15-seat disaster of biblical proportions. this stopped that. but now in terms of political time we have about two geological eras to pass through before election day. is the president going to stay the course and be hawkish? if he does he's going to lose his base and lose seats because

of that. is he going to do what he's done every other time in the past, which is start to walk away, keep his base happy but then further -- cause further anxieties among moderate voters, the so-called security moms start to lose there. >> what all -- there's still the matter about whether congress will take a vote to authorize this action, which many are pushing for them to do saying step up to the plate, congress, tell us how you feel. don't just sit in the shadows and cast dispersions one way or the other. will that happen? >> well, harry reid has a great pen shent and great gift at avoiding votes that are painful. this one he might not be able to avoid. they are so jackknifed on the hypocrisy highway here that they are going to have to do something. there's some action that has to occur because the very staff that the president -- and by the way his party was quite fixated on in 2006 and 2008 about illegal wars and where's congress and lectures on the

constitution, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, there are enough democrats who feel it authentically and enough more who are in difficult political situations that they need a vote. >> really? >> yeah. >> before the midterms you think a vote will take place before the midterms? >> i said harry reid is awful good. i think he may be good enough that he can steer around this disaster. but at the same time the pressure's going to grow. and remember for liberals they want obama not to be bush. and he's looking an awful lot like bush. >> yeah, he's sounding a lot like him these days. and not so much like then-senator obama. chris, good to see you. >> you bet. new details on the home grown terror alert. up next the specifics behind the department of homeland security warning to police departments across america. and as violence erupts in the streets of ferguson, missouri. president obama at the u.n. today envoeking the memory of the teenager killed by a police

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breaking tonight, we are getting new details on the home grown terror warning going out to u.s. law enforcement as officials warn that american air strikes overseas could lead to an increased threat here at home. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge just filed this report. >> reporter: megyn, we broke this story on your show last night. and since then we've obtained a five-page bulletin from homeland security and fbi through confidential sources. and it calls for heightened vigilance warning the air campaign is reducing the chance of a successful attack by terrorists overseas. but at the same time increasing the risk from lone wolf sympathizers in the u.s. it reads in part, we believe

these strikes will contribute to home grown violent extremists, broader grievances about u.s. military intervention in predominantly muslim lands possibly motivating homeland attacks. fox news is told the data suggests significant players tht khorasan group whose members have long standing ties to osama bin laden as well as the nusra front. and one u.s. official confirmed the khorasan plot was far more complex than a single bomb on a jet and suggested it may have included a land-based attack using explosives. >> the fact that they would see a simultaneous attack, they would use perhaps different methods like some bomb maybe shootings, beheadings, is in fact characteristic of an al qaeda attack. >> reporter: today attorney general eric holder confirmed to yahoo news that the president and his national security team had been tracking the khorasan group for at least two years. a former pentagon official

recently told fox news that the administration had a lot of data but failed to act early and decisively. megyn. >> catherine herridge, thank you. we also are hearing about a different terror threat, this one from an organization called the khorasan group. one of the more worrisome details involves this man. he constructed the infamous underwear bomb of 2009 that made it onto a u.s. flight going over detroit. and he is thought to be al qaeda's top bombmaker. he's reportedly apparently training a whole new crop of students. and there are rumors that those trainees are putting those skills to use. tara, a former cia military analyst who focused on the iraq insurgency and research fellow with the new american foundation -- good to see you tonight. so this bombmaker is alsiri said to be al qaeda's most-valued bombmaker. an evil genius who comes up with explosives so dangerous that

they baffle those trying to track him. he was a former chemistry student. so now he's got a bunch of allah wyatt -- >> part of the package of information that led to the u.s. government to take action against khorasan in syria. he is a known -- he's been known to be involved in previous attacks, 2009, the christmas -- the unsuccessful bombing attack, underwear bombing plot. in 2010 there was cargo planes that were found on packages that went through u.p.s. and then again in 2011. reports coming out now saying the airline security warnings in july 2014 were also linked to pen ten shl plots. one piece. >> if that's true, if they're worried about this guy, alsiri getting another bomb on a u.s.-bound flight and he's done it once and almost done it a

second time, and he put a bomb inside of his brother in an assassination attempt in saudi arabia, the brother was killed, the target was not. how is it that increased security at the airports is going to stop him? they're talking about he's making the bomb out of toothpaste, out of undetectable nonmetallic fibers. >> part of the concern was he was cooperating and lending his expertise to the khorasan group located in syria and training people including people with western passports in that area. so part of the reasoning and rationale behind the strikes was to go after the groups here which the leader of khorasan is believed to have strong ties to the bombmaker you were talking about. so that was the reason for going after these sites in syria to sort of impact the potential operations we're planning. now, we don't know the specifics about a particular plot, so homeland security needs to remain vigilant. the public needs to remain vigilant because really it's possible there's more information behind the scenes. but right now there wasn't really a plot that has been out

in the press in terms of the specific target or specific site. it seems like they had a general stream of both aspirations of a group, capabilities of a group and probably a bundle of collected intelligence, credible intelligence about planning. >> this is separate and apart from the lone wolf warning we received. so they had -- >> it is. >> -- enough intel on khorasan to go bomb them, but separately getting warned about lone wolf terrorism here in the united states. >> it is. because the group we're going after in syria affiliated with al qaeda planning more complex attacks that people might be worried about in mass casualty type attacks that would take down an airliner and take preventive measures. lone wolf attacks are things that could be inspired by sympathizers to some of these groups. those actually are the ones to be quite frank that are harder because there rngt as many nodes of interceptions. it's the lone wolf attacks that have the potential i'd argue to fly more under the law enforcement radar simply because it can be one person on a very

low tech and short time duration planning. >> living in the land of the free has some down sides, and one of them is the police don't get to just follow you around all day because you look suspicious or heard something suspicious about you. we all have civil liberties here including these people wlo have american passports some of them and planning jihad against us. tara, thank you. >> thanks for having me. new viejs breaking out in the streets of ferguson, missouri, last night. then president obama was at the united nations today invoking the memory of the teenager killed by a police officer in that town. why would he do that? he spoke of it in discussing america's flaws. really? that's next. my name is karen and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's progressive pain. first you have that, that feeling of numbness. then you get the hot pins. it got to the point where i felt like, almost like lightning bolts, hot strikes into my feet.

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developing tonight, new reaction after president obama put the city of ferguson, missouri, back into the world headlines citing the deadly shooting of teenager michael brown during his u.n. address today. yesterday ferguson made its own news as five people were arrested and two police officers injured during a new outbreak of looting and rioting. some demonstrators saying they were outraged after a memorial for michael brown, the teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer, was damaged by fire. don't forget that police officer is facing a grand jury right now. he may or may not be indicted. hours ago however president obama said that this case in

ferguson is evidence that america is not perfect. >> the summer marked by instability in the middle east and eastern europe. i know the world also took notice of the small american city of ferguson, missouri, where a young man was killed and a community was divided, so, yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. >> joining me now kirsten powers, a fox news political analyst and served n administra. and jason riley, fox news contributor and author of "please stop helping us." so with apologies to the audience we cut that sound bite short. the president says i realize that american's critics will be quick to point out that we too have failed to live up to our ideals, that america has plenty of problems within our own borders. this is true. and a summer marked by instability and points to ferguson. appropriate?

>> no. no. for a couple reasons. a, you mentioned earlier, the investigation is ongoing. so i question the appropriateness of the president speaking out with respect to that. but secondly, the analogy is just ridiculous. in fact, i think it's outrageous. tensions between the black community and the police are not based on race or ethnicity. they're based on the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes in this country. that is what it is based on. and the idea -- i mean, the idea that cops are in these communities to shoot black people is ridiculous. they're in these communities to frankly stop blacks from shooting one another. if the crime stats are any indication. that's sad, but that's the reality. >> the critics have said, kirsten, that the president seemed to be drawing a moral equivalent by even mentioning ferguson in the same breath as isis saying we can criticize those beheading americans because we too have our own problems like race tensions in missouri. >> yeah. i didn't think he was making an analogy. if he was making an analogy, i

would have a problem with it. i think what he was doing u was trying to show humility. he knows he's coming out, basically lecturing the rest of the world on how things should be and i know you don't think we're perfect, we don't think we're perfect. our problems are frankly nothing compared to what's going on in a lot of these countries. i think jason's point of the issue that this isn't actually a resolved case, we don't actually know the results of this or what kind of wrongdoing actually occurred. that was the part that i found problematic. >> right. we don't know if this police officer has committed any wrong whatsoever. >> right. >> that's being handled by a grand jury. but he comes out and points to it as apparently a failure. that this is a problem or a failure. he says that's true about america. krauthammer said earlier, jason, this is another edition of the apology tour. >> i think that's partly true. i think there is something to it. but i also think this is about november.

i think this president and his attorney general and this administration frankly have been exploiting from day one. they want to rile up blacks, they want to get them to the polls. democrats are worried about black turnout in november. and i think this is all about optics. pretending bull connor runs the ferguson police department. they know that's not true. but they're willing to pretend it's the case in order to rile up black voters. >> can you imagine being officer darren wilson who may or may not be charged in this case? we're hearing he's claiming self-defense. we don't know, but that's what he's claiming. and have the president hold up your case in front of a world body. >> well, this isn't the first time he's done this. he did the same thing to the youtube filmmaker. >> oh, yeah. >> in the same speech. basically went out and condemned him in front of the whole world as if he committed a crime by making some cheesy youtube video. so this is something he does. i think, you know, i think that's what makes it inappropriate. it's not as if there has been a

trial and somebody's been convicted and we know exactly what happened. >> he's speaking more to sort of the racial breakdown or at least the distrust between the african-american community in ferguson and the police. he seems to be speaking to that distrust and how america has its own issues. separate and apart from darren wilson's case. >> well, there is distrust. but the reason there is why. that distrust is based on hard crime data. >> that's a problem. >> it is a problem. but we need to be talking about the behavior. >> we got problems too. >> the comparison i think is outrageous. he did not mean to make a comparison, then he should offer some sort of clarification. >> the white house came out later and said, well, we didn't mean to draw moral equivalence. tell it to the folks listening in syria. >> i didn't hear a moral equivalence. i don't think that's what he was saying. to me clearly -- this is what they end up saying, clearly he knew he was taking a lot of the world at task and he was basically trying to say -- >> who in the world is going to be stopping point on the fact --

listen to him i should join the coalition on isis -- >> megyn, i do think there are a lot of people around the world who do think the united states is perpetually lecturing everyone on how to live without having a lot of reflection on what's happening in our own country. >> think he changed a mind on that? >> no, i don't. i think it was a political comment and intended to reach a target audience that frankly he wants to get out in november to support democrats. >> thank you. good to see you. still ahead, the great coffee escapade causing a latte controversy. get it? okay. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] automotive innovation starts... right here. with a control pad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, and a head-up display for enhanced driver focus.

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major update on a major update on a frequent kelly file guest as retired neurosurgeon dr. ben carson comes as close as we have ever heard him confirming a presidential run. he said, quote, i think the chances are reasonably good of that happening, suggesting he is just waiting a little longer before anything is official. head on over to facebook.com/thekellyfile to catch an exclusive interview i taped with dr. carson earlier this week. new developments today on the fallout from what many are calling president obama's latte salute. as the president walked off of marine i yesterday, he saluted the marines, guarding his helicopter with a hot drink in hand. the salute? not so hot. tracy gallagher has stoerthe st.

>> it happened just hours after the president authorized military attacks on syria. but experts pointed out it's not required for the commander in chief to salute back. apparently the practice began with ronald reagan in 1981 and has continued on. while many say president obama should have put down his coffee cup or at least switched hands, others call the controversy dumb, saying the president clearly has his mind on other matters. but in the manual of customs and courtesies, it says, quote, in some situations, the salute is not appropriate. in general, do not salute when carrying articles with both hands or being otherwise so occupied as to make saluting impractical. you don't have to salute, but when you do, do it right. president obama wasn't the first commander to mess it up. president george bush holding

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so fox news was first with news of the syrian air strikes on monday. here's how that happened. so fox news was first with the news of the syrian airstrikes on monday. here's how it happened. my husband brett and i were in new york having taped the show a little earlier that day as doug told imis the show ended early for us. >> she's live at 9:00 and she's so smart heroics instincts are so good. all day she's watching the news, and she said, something is different. the signal is all different. she's e-mailing around and saying, does anybody know anything? everybody says no. i'm leaving the building. do you have anything? no, we got nothing. have fun at the roast. i'm drirng inking, she's not drinking. >> what would she normally be

drinking? >> vodka soda with a splash of orange juice. or white wine. sure enough, we sit at the table and it starts coming in. you were right, within hours we may be bombing syria and iraq. she downs a glass of risoto, and i grabbed a chocolate cake on the way and we were back here and she was reporting on it at 9:00 and then again at midnight live. they normally do a show at 9:00 and repeat it at midnight, but she did midnight live last night just keeping up on current stuff. >> he is selling his new book "the means" which is selling well on amazon and he owes me a chocolate cake and a risoto. and maybe a vodka soda with a splash of orange juice but not too much. live from america's news headquarte headquarters, i'm mary ann

rafferty. speaking at the u.n. general assembly, david cameron said he would seek authority but he didn't know if that included iraq and sir ya. david cameron met with the u.n. for the first time since the iranian revolution in 1989. 32-year-old jesse leroy matthew, jr. has been fleeing for a week. hannah graham went missing after leaving a campus party alone. she still has not been found. i'm mary ann rafferty, foxnews.com. welcome to "hannity" and this is a fox news alert. tonight the fight against isis continues. the united states wants another wa