opine. word of the day, do not be phlegmatic. ms. megyn is next. remember, the spin stops here cause we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, sources inside the white house telling us that president obama is under pressure to change his strategy to defeat isis terrorists. but the president is not budging. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone, i'm megyn kelly. hours ago president obama huddling at the pentagon with the nation's highest ranking military leaders before he goes off to a fundraiser. as his war strategy and leadership is publicly questioned by white house insiders, a former president, military leaders and now a majority of the american people. tonight marks two months since the commander in chief ordered air strikes against isis. and less than 30 days since he laid out his strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy

this terror group." 60 days later new images of massive explosions rocking a key syrian city that is in grave danger of being overrun by isis. and the administration says we either cannot or will not save it. this as thousands of civilians sit in that town tonight wondering what fate awaits them. now the american people are making clear they do not approve of how president obama is handling isis. the question tonight, are we already losing this war? we have full coverage of this developing story. texas senator ted cruz is here to discuss a possible change in strategy. plus glenn beck who predicted the islamic caliphate as others mocked him for it. a state of the unioning look tonight at what he calls a real threat in the middle east. general jack keane, developed the successful iraq surge strategy. plus, democratic campaign vet joe trippie and charles

krauthammer on the midterms, polls and why the american people now say this presidency is officially "a failure." but we begin tonight with the breaking news from chief white house correspondent ed henry who is live at the white house. ed. >> megyn, good to see you. sources inside the administration say, yes, the president is under pressure from top officials and the pentagon who are concerned saying, yes, progress is being made in terms of pushing back on isis but not moving closer to defeating isis. that you can see isis still gaining ground inside iraq, especially inside syria along the turkish border as you noted. and that when the president went behind closed doors today with top military planners, he basically said, look, he is staying the course at least for now. and top administration officials are telling us they believe the strategy is working although jen psaki had a little time articulating how that strategy is working as she tried to lay out some of the successes so far

in battling isis. listen to this. >> we've gone after refineries. we're going after strategic locations. and let me just tick through these and we can go to your next question. some of our successes we've seen on the ground by the iraqi security forces. one moment. sorry. >> today, jen psaki found that page as josh earnest did here at the white house and both said, look, there have been gains, specifically turning back and taking back the mosul dam for example inside iraq, preventing a genocide on sinjar mountain at the very beginning of this two months ago. but when you hear leon panetta, the former defense secretary, tell bill o'reilly very directly he thinks the real problem starts at the top and they've been reacting to crises and not leading, listen to this. >> i think deep down, you know, he knows what needs to be done.

but what he's got to do is develop the will to fight to get into the ring. >> do our enemies throughout the world fear us? >> i think they're getting a mixed message. >> now, all of this is sparking speculation that maybe the president's going to have to shake up his staff after the midterm elections. they're downplaying that here at the white house saying they're always looking to bring in fresh legs, new blood if they need to to deal with the war, to deal with the crises, megyn. >> ed henry, thank you. exactly four weeks ago president obama was laying out his strategy to take on the terror army known as isis in a primetime speech during this broadcast. almost immediately one suggesting the commander in chief's plan would not work. >> i thought the remarks tonight continued the president's approach to this crisis, which they were fundamentally unserious. >> joining me now senator ted cruds a member of the senate armed services committee. fundamentally unserious you said then. and tonight i ask you in the wake of what we've just heard

from these administers officials whether we are setting ourselves up to lose this war already? >> well, megyn, i'm sorry to tell you that they remain unserious. i wish that were not the case. i mean, it has gotten to the point now that you have president obama's own former defense secretary leon panetta having no choice but to call the president out. you've even got jimmy carter now calling president obama out for his lack of seriousness in focusing on defending the national security interests of this country. unfortunately what we have seen in six years of the obama-clinton-kerry foreign policy has been a foreign policy that seems to focus on photo-ops, on press releases, but not on concrete military objectives that are tied to our national security. our objective here should be to take isis out, but instead this seems to be a campaign driven by political operatives and political mandates in the white

house rather than clear military -- >> he says it is. he says it is a plan to degrade and ultimately destroy isis. he came out today and said the solution is to stay the course. it will be a difficult mission. it won't be solved overnight. but once again over the objections of the generals he will not offer ground troops. and we heard this from the pentagon on whether the air strikes can get it done. listen to admiral kirby today. >> kobani could be taken. we recognize that. air power's not alone going to be enough to save that city. we don't have a force inside syria that we can cooperate with and work with. we all need to prepare ourselves for the reality that other towns and villages and perhaps kobani will be taken by isil. >> what do you make of that? >> well, you know, a month ago president obama analogized his strategy to what we've pursued

in somalia and yemen, two countries where we've had a failed strategy that isn't working. and sadly it continues to be of that piece. a couple weeks ago the senate armed services committee had a hearing where i asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, i said if the objective were to destroy isis within 90 days, what would be required militarily to do that? he said it's impossible to do. i said, okay, if that timeframe is not reasonable, then you tell me in your military judgment what would be required to destroy, not to weaken and contain isis, but to destroy them? and his response sadly reflected the approach of the obama white house. he said it cannot be accomplished militarily. instead the answer is we have to change the conditions on the ground so people are not receptive to radicalism. that is completely missing the objective of protecting this country from violent terrorists who want to kill us.

>> i have to ask you tonight because there is breaking news on another front that you've been very outspoken on. and of course you're a senator from the good state of texas. and the country has suffered its first death on u.s. soil of an ebola victim, a man from liberia who came here without announcing that he'd been expose ed to it. and that man now has died tonight in dallas from this virus. the administration is stepping up screening at five airports for ebola. it's requiring temperatures be taken in certain instances. but it will not ban air travel. your thoughts? >> well, like every american i'm deeply concerned about this. our prayers are obviously with the thousands of people in west africa who've been afflicted with this terrible disease. but the top concern of the u.s. government should be protecting the american people. today i visited ft. hood where hundreds of soldiers are preparing to deploy to west africa. and there's a great deal of concern there among their

families understandably. i also met with major hospital leaders at one of the larger hospitals in texas. and the health professionals in texas are preparing to deal with the potential of ebola here. but the first line of defense should be to prevent that terrible virus from coming here. we know that that first line of defense has already failed at least once because we know that this individual came, landed in texas and there are concerns that he may have infected others. we don't know for sure right now. and so last week i raised questions. i asked the administrator of the faa what steps they're taking and in particular why they have not stopped commercial air travel from nations that are stricken with widespread outbreaks of ebola. >> right. >> the cdc is estimating there could be upwards of a million people afflicted with this terrible virus by january of next year. and our priorities should be protecting the american people and preventing ebola from coming here. >> senator, thank you for being

here. >> thank you. and i'll note, megyn, a year ago and a day on your first show i was with you then and it's good to be with you on your first show in your second year. congratulations for a tremendous year on the air. >> thank you so much, sir. that was no accident. we love having you here. all the best. coming up, problems for the president are also playing out in a stunning poll that just came out. charles krauthammer tells us what it means for the road ahead. and the fbi's making a desperate plea for help in identifying what may be an american man helping with some of the most horrifying scenes playing out overseas with isis. and up next right after this break, glenn beck joins "the kelly file" to talk about what he calls the real threat facing america now. >> not one more life. not one more life. kinda: we're new to the pacific northwest.

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>> not one more life. not one more life. not one more dollar. not one more airplane. not one more bullet. not one more marine. not one more arm or leg or eye. not one more. >> moments before we came to air tonight i spoke with glenn beck, founder and chairman of the blaze. glenn, great to see you. with this terror group still on the march gaining more territory, endangering more people in the middle east and according to the experts potentially america. >> modern day nazis. >> how do you feel about it now? >> not one more body, not one more arm, not one more leg, not one more dollar. here's why, megyn. we haven't learned the lesson. we don't even know what they're fighting about. nobody even knows about psychs pico. this is why they're fighting.

they're going back to world war i. the re-establishment of the caliphate. and siex pi kr, o was british and french coming together and redesigning the entire middle east making it so dictators had to be put in those places. so when we come and say, oh, we're going to go ahead and get rid of the dictators, you're helping them establish the caliphate. and until we can recognize what it was, what they're actually fighting for, what it means to remove somebody like assad. mark my words because when assad goes down because that's what we're doing now, we're community organizing the middle east. the next one to fall will be jordan. and it will sweep the middle east. not one more. >> what should we do? if we shouldn't fight them, what should we do? >> educate ourselves first. educate ourselves and be honest with each other. this is actually an original copy from during the jefferson administration of the quran. this is what we printed as a

nation because we -- our first foreign war was against the bar bring pirates. the islamic extremists of the day, that's why we have leather necks. it was to stop the beheading of christians and americans. and in this there's actually a warning printed by us here in the united states. a warning that's in every american needs to read this, a note to the reader. you need to read this. you need to see what they actually believe. that's where you need to start. >> but do you believe that of all muslims? i mean, do you accept there are millions of peace loving muslims in the world who don't see the world in anywhere near -- >> i think honestly there are millions of muslims that are behaving very consistently as an abused spouse would. we've had them testify in congress, help us, help us, don't you understand who they are? help us. but now they're not saying

anything because they'll be beheaded. >> in the meantime we've got some on the left in this country talking about how there's a moral equivalence between america and isis. and in fact may not even be an equivalence. we may come out on the short end of that comparison. according to the students at harvard university, here's a sample. >> what is a bigger threat to world peace, america or isis? to world peace? oh, america. >> in many ways i have to think it's america because america is making decisions that are much more likely to affect the world. >> as a western civilization we're to blame for a lot of the problems we're facing now. i don't think anyone wouldn't argue we didn't create the problem of isis ourselves. >> your reaction to that, glenn beck? >> i am in dallas i might have the 24-hour ebola because blood just shot out of my eye for a little bit. how do you even react to that? here's the biggest danger to america.

an uneducated citizenry. i can guarantee you -- in fact, we have asked. you go and ask some of these geniuses. who is charles lindbergh? who is he? tell me who our second president was. tell me about this. here's an idea. this is the actual flight jacket and goggles from amelia earhart, can you tell me who amelia earhart even is? i can guarantee you these geniuses don't have any clue. we are going off the rails because we don't know our own history. >> well, now what we hear more and more is not just from the folks at harvard but that america is to blame. i did this long interview with ward churchill who gave us a window into how these professors feel and that america deserves what it's getting and isis isn't doing anything to us that we haven't done ten times over to them. >> that's not true. >> this is aspouzed in a way by a very popular american actor,

ben affleck, who went on bill maher the other night. >> to them, tom? is that your solution? >> we killed more muslims -- >> yet somehow we're exempt because they're not really reflections of what we believe in. we did it by accident. that's why we invaded iraq and -- >> ask ben affleck what siex pico is. once you understand, then you understand the west has played a role here. but we can correct it if we recognize the history of the middle east. now, that's different than i'm going to behead you because i believe allah is telling me to do it. but we do play a role here. and we have to recognize our part. >> stop messing with the dictators. >> pardon me? >> stop messing with the dictators. >> stop messing with the dictators, stop propping up

dictators. i've been trying to get bill maher on. he's been doing a show. he wants applause. he wants the conflict. the time for conflict, megyn, is over. i truly believe we are in a cold civil war. and it is time to start finding things that bring us together. we've got to find the things that bring us together. bill maher is talking about muslims in the middle east. and he's right. statistically he is right on much of what he says. however, he always follows it with, but all religious people are stupid. can we stop with this? and start saying there are really good muslims and we need to unite with people like zudi jasser. unite with him. he's a martin luther of the islamic world. he's under attack. unite with them. christians, atheists, jews, let's get together. we all have our whole life and the western way of life, freedom of all mankind at stake.

we agree on much more than we disagree. we have to come together. >> glenn beck says there's a civil cold war and he's well on his way to solving it starting with that sweater. it's getting warmer by the minute. glenn, great to see you. >> good to see you. thank you so much. >> all the best, sir. >> god bless. >> also tonight, one of the most iconic images of world war ii now causing an international controversy. and wait until you hear why. plus, we told you last week about what may be an american seen in a horrifying terror video by isis. up next, the new and desperate attempt to id this guy. and, did you see what leon panetta said to our own bill o'reilly last night? tonight, general jack keane weighs in on what he called a stunning moment in that exchange. >> would i be wrong and a mean guy to say i don't believe barack obama has the stomach for the fight? when we say the all-new chrysler 200 is all-new, we mean it.

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the fbi proposed this propaganda and tip line. this will be the first documented case of a u.s. citizen engaging in a mass execution for the isis terror network. the fbi wants tips from the public on any american who is traveling overseas to join terrorists. and you'll remember, megyn, that propaganda video flames war of a second man with north american accent. questions whether isis may be learning from its mistakes. it's now widely reported that the executioner first seen in this horrific video, james foley's murder is a british national and the new tapes may be doctored to shield the terrorists. >> there's always a possibility that that voice is not the voice of the individual you see. it could be a voiceover for the tape itself because the mouth is covered fairly well. that may not necessarily be true, but it's always a possibility. >> and this afternoon fbi official confirming to fox news that they are assessing this

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now desperate to distance themselves from this president. and new poll numbers out tonight may explain why. a majority of americans, 53%, now characterize the obama presidency as a failure. just 41% rate it as a success. charles krauthammer is a fox news contributor, syndicated columnist and author of the book "things that matter," which has sold more than a million copies. charles, a flatout failure. invesco field, what a turnabout. >> that's what six years of hope and change will give you. he came in as a guy who would revolutionize our politics, bring in a new spirit. that was sort of a main message. that of course has been sort of mocked by his performance because it's the most bitter partisan atmosphere in decades in washington. >> let me ask you this. the numbers on a lot of these items you're ticking off, they

weren't very good going into re-election and yet he was re-elected by a decisive number. so what's happening now to cause the shift? >> in the presidential election, the issues matter but the personalities matter more than anything. they ran one of the best negative campaigns in history. they portrayed romney from the very beginning, february, march and april of these ads, a vulture capitalist, a man who cares nothing for ordinary folks. that succeeded. midterm elections are far more ideological than are presidential elections because the personalities aren't there. and it seems to me when you run on the issues, obama actually said i'm not on the ballot but the policies are. well, that will kill the democratic candidates within 12 hours there were ads running in some of their states on behalf of republicans quoting obama saying that my policies are on the ballot. >> let me ask you, there's an

article in "new york times" today talking about how he has been -- the president has been placed on the bench by his own party. obama's party benches him. and it talks about how democratic senators in colorado speaking of invesco field, 80,000 people in the stadium, obama! north carolina, virginia, states pivotal to his success. and the winning coalition of the young minority, female voters, do not want him. they're saying stay out. we're going to lose if you come campaign for us here. >> that's because of the first poll you cited. people think this is a failed presidency. they have a sense of things falling apart. you look around and just the basic competence, just the delivery of health care and the v.a., just the secret service, the one agency people would idolize in the past. and then you look abroad of how america is no longer really respected. our enemies have contempt for us. isis will proudly and gloriously

behead two americans and distribute it to the world on a video as a way to show how much it discounts, how much it disdains america. in that sense of america dimini diminished, america in decline, it weighs very heavily on the presidency. and by association it weighs on the democrats running for office. >> let's talk about that because it seems like unlike, you know, some prior conflicts where the president had the support of most democrats but not the republicans and maybe not some of the independents. his overall approval rating on foreign policy and his handling of isis is not good. here you can see the latest handling of isis 51% disapprove. it's to the point now, charles, where jimmy carter is criticizing him. first let me tell you one thing he said and then play you the sound bite. he came out and said we waited too long. we let the islamic state build up its money, capability, strength and weapons while it

was still in syria. he thought that was a mistake, waiting too long. then he went onto add this. >> president obama -- been hard to know what his policy is, changes from time to time. i've noticed both secretaries of defense have been very critical at the lack of positive action. sometimes delays, sometimes ignores red lines in the sand. when the timeoesn't go through with it. >> he said he'd been a transformational figure and he has been. he's managed to bring together dick cheney and jimmy carter on issue of foreign policy. >> maybe he'll get a second nobel peace prize for that. what's important about that statement is what carter mentioned about the two secretaries of defense. he let people with a certain loyalty to the president want a

democrat and democrat panetta is a straight shooter. they both say in their memoirs this guy is indecisive, he vacillates, he doesn't know how to lead. and the word they haven't used but i think we can use is that he's been unserious. he wasn't serious in libya. he wasn't serious about the red line. he wasn't serious about supporting the moderate opposition two years ago in syria when it would have made a difference as panetta says. and he wasn't serious when he left iraq entirely with no residual american force. this is on the advice of his political advisors so he can run for re-election as i'm the guy who ended the war in iraq. he didn't end the war in iraq. petraeus ended the war in iraq. obama threw away the fruits of victory. as a result of that the whirlwind we are reaping right now. >> unserious, same word we heard

from senator ted cruz. charles, thank you, sir. >> pleasure. >> you just heard charles mention a remarkable comment from president obama about his policies in the midterms. here is that. >> i'm not on the ballot this fall. michelle's pretty happy about that. but make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. every single one of them. >> joe trippie veteran and fox news contributor. david axlerod comes outs and says that was a mistake. was it and do you agree with him? >> i agree with him. big mistake. the president is a drag on democrats. it's the case. he can't run away from it. democrats are trying to localize these elections, make it between them and their opponent, not between them and obama and their opponent. and this just walked in a gift to the republicans. it really was. >> what do you make of the poll?

this is a failed presidency. is that unfair six years in? >> not at all. look, that number isn't really that high. i mean, bush had a 68% at this point we're considering him a failed president. >> that's what i'm saying. so is it too early? don't we need some passage of time once he leaves the oval office? >> absolutely, megyn. if you go back now and look at bush, those numbers have gotten a lot, lot better. he's nowhere near those numbers anymore. >> thanks in part to what we've seen when his policies were reversed. >> but the real impact is those numbers and this president's numbers impact the 2014 elections just as bush's numbers impacted losing the house. so, you know, we're going -- democrats are going to lose u.s. senate seats. the question now is how many and whether it's five seats or eight seats, but it's going to be a number above four i'm pretty sure as a democrat.

>> okay, so that's fine. let's say the democrats lose the senate. >> sure. >> even less will get done than get done now. >> that's true. >> but focus on 2016 whether a failed presidency even in the minds of the voters even if it's not fair yet impacts that race? >> i'm not sure that it will because if hillary clinton -- first of all, it's way too early to know about that. but also i think part of the posturing right now is to protect hillary from some of this. >> is that what panetta's doing? >> i would argue that that would be a fair assumption to some extent. >> wow. >> so, you know -- look, i said this for weeks now. when the republican running against hillary clinton is going to be saying if only president obama had listened to hillary clinton on the syrian rebels, that's literally the position that people -- some of her opponents may be put in. so i'm not sure yet because they

ran against each other. i mean, it's not like she's wed to the obama policies. and i think she may be able to separate herself. and so far i think she has. >> so you think she's running? >> actually, i'm one of the few people on the planet and few people in washington, d.c. who think she's may not run. >> crazy talk, joe. i don't know what's in that coffee mug down there but we're going to have somebody check it immediately. good to see you joe trippi. >> good to be with you, megyn. >> defense secretary leon panetta made major headlines this week. did you see in particular what he said to bill o'reilly last night? up next general jack keane weighs in on what he calls a stunning moment. and he knows leon panetta well, in those remarks. also tonight, one of the most iconic images of world war ii causing an international controversy. and you won't believe -- or maybe you will, why. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches?

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asked them to kiss them in joy. you cannot make this up. the identity of the kissers has been disputed over the years, but the woman believed to be the nurse maintains she was happy to have been kissed. so there. and joining us now to discuss that -- no, just kidding. general keane is here on something much more important. this is the new fallout tonight after defense secretary leon panetta sat down for a remarkable conversation with our own bill o'reilly. here's just a little of that. >> have you ever heard barack obama in your conversations with him as chief and defense secretary say i was wrong, i made a mistake? >> i've heard him admit to mistakes. the real question is whether or not you learn from those lessons and then do the right thing. >> would i be wrong and a mean guy to say i don't believe barack obama has the stomach for the fight? >> look, i'm a guy who believes

that barack obama by virtue of what i've seen in the time i was there has the guts to do the right thing. the real question is will he make the decision to do it? >> i am worried about this country. >> me too. i think right now -- >> we're in decline. >> we govern either by leadership or crisis. and today we are large lly governing by crisis. >> general jack keane, fox news military analyst, chairman of the institute for the study of war. convinced president bush it could work despite the iraq war. also served as a member of -- general, you say that was a stunning moment. why? what was stunning? >> i thought it was a stunning moment to have a prominent establishment democrat who served in two national security posts at a key to indict the leadership of a serving president. i think it's quite unprecedented

given who leon panetta truly is. and i do have respect for him having seen him up close. the fact of the matter is he is focusing on the president's leadership. and he's telling us that the president does not have the will to make the tough decisions. i call that in my words he is paralyzed by the fear of adverse consequence. and as such i think the conclusion that you draw from secretary panetta's comments and the reason why he is speaking to us and speaking so sincerely and so honestly, he's rooting for the president to get it right. but he fears the president's leadership. >> there it is. >> has already hurt the country. and he fears it will continue to hurt the continue. >> there it is. fear. i felt the same when i watched him when he talked about how worried he was. and to be speaking out in the first place about how the president has the guts but the question is will he actually act on the nerve that he believes

the president has. and that's the question. when i heard him, i felt fear from him. and i wondered whether americans should be fearful. >> yeah. i absolutely think so. i mean, obviously his tone and respect for the president is there. and you would expect that and it's the kind of person that leon panetta is. but i don't think he's out here having this discussion with the american people given his loyalty to the administration and his loyalty to his party. he puts the american people first. and that is why he's having this discussion. and he wants us to know that this is not right. and i really commend him for it. >> you've been telling us all along that president obama doesn't listen to the generals. we've seen the results of that in iraq, obviously in the middle east more generally and we're about to see it in afghanistan. and today they had an extraordinary meeting with the pentagon, the commander in chief, before he went to another fundraiser for a couple of days. at that meeting we are told the generals once again said the strategy's not working. you've got to change it.

you know a thing or two about doing that to a united states president. this president didn't listen. the reports were today he said i'm not changing. once again he's not listening, general. >> yeah. as we have said before, i mean, this is a pattern from 2009 to the present. the fact of the matter is on every major resource recommendation and policy recommendation that the united states military has made, he's never ever accepted it. and here it is again. and now we're facing a significant threat. he is rejecting their recommendation on a sense of urgency, a sense of overwhelming combat power to go against this force. and we're just not executing that. you can see what's happening. the american people sort of get it, that air power by itself is not doing the job. we're not containing isis as even we thought air power would do. quite frankly, as we have seen they're on the offense despite the air power we're using. they're on the offense in iraq taking new territory and they're

clearly as fox has done a marvelous job in exposing what's taken place at kobani, they are about to take this town. and frankly it is a disgrace, i think, we haven't been able to stop them because they've been out in the open for days. we just didn't get enough isr, that's platforms to target them. and we obviously have no partner on the ground that has the ability to help coordinate that air activity to stop them. it's very frustrating frankly to watch it. >> it's not just general jack keane saying that, as if that wouldn't be enough, but it's the pentagon. they said exactly that today. that's the situation we're in. that the president calls the shots and nothing's going to change. general, good to see you tonight. thank you, sir. >> good talking to you, megyn, as always. up next, the molestation allegations against "seventh heaven" star steven collins took a bizarre turn today. we'll tell you why. ry flatbread before we craft it into a sandwich. the tender, slow-roasted turkey, the zesty cranberry mostarda,

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sometimes we make decisions about people based on appearances rather than taking the time to find out the truth. >> why's that? >> wish i knew, sweetie. >> that was a clip from the popular family tv show "seventh heaven." the patriarch of that family is now under investigation for child molestation. now his lawyer's claiming he was blackmailed. trace gallagher has more in a kelly file investigation. >> steven collins attorney is accusing the estranged wife to try to use the tape to blackmail collins into paying her millions of dollars. when he said no, she tried to peddle the tape to various media outlets. made public by tmz in which you

reportedly hear him admit in a therapy session in 2012 that he molested a young girl in los angeles and two others in new york. listen. >> the exposure happened a couple of times. >> a couple of times? you told me once. >> no, i said on the list it happened several times. >> with a 10-year-old? >> she was 11 and then 12 and 13. >> she says she didn't sell the tape, she gave it to the l.a. and nypd. but because there were never any crimes reported and no victims surfaced, the cases were never pursued although the l.a.p.d. is re-investigating and in new york a woman filed a complaint alleging he molested her in the '70s. a lengthy list of acting credits including "all the president's

men." collins and fay grant were married 27 years. grant claims she is sickened by his actions and believes there are more victims. collins was fired from his latest movie, megyn and resigned from the screen actors guild. >> trace, thank you. we'll be right back. and coming up on "hannity". >> it makes me angry to this day. i'll say it a million times again, it was misleading. it was not the truth. it was a lie. i thought it'd be bigger. ♪ ♪

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