you know the drill by now, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern. back here with the latest buzz. we start with a fox news alert on another isis atrocity. the terrorists posting a graphic video reporting to show another american hostage beheaded. the victim this time is a 26-year-old aid worker peter kassig. he was captured in syria last year. so far, there is no confirmation from his family or u.s. intelligence agencies that kassig is the victim shown in the videos. hello, i'm eric shawn. this is "america's news headquarters." >> if it is true, kassig would become the fifth western hostage

beheaded by isis. this coming just one day after martin dempsey visited iraq where he told american troops that the fight against isis was starting to turn. live now from washington with the latest. >> the national security advisor briefed president obama a short time ago. while the u.s. intelligence community is reviewing the tape, isis does not have a track record of making false claims about the execution of hostages. after a video last month appeared to show peter kassig, his family made public pleas for his release. in a brief statement today, kass kassig's family asked the media not to further the isis agenda. having watched the full video is a dramatic departure from previous propaganda tapes and appears to be a mass beheading.

there are at least two sections that include what purports to be the british executioner clad in black. on the president's strategy in iraq and syria, last night, his former defense secretary accused the administration of meddling in a way that has not been seen since vietnam. >> i think when a president wants highly centralized control in the white house at the degree of micromanagement that i'm describing, that's not bureaucrat bureaucratic, that's political. >> analysts also say the timing is noteworthy. the same weekend there are new unconfirmed reports the british executioner a recent air strike. >> thanks so much. he went to syria to start his own charity designed to help

the desperate victims of the war there. instead, he paid with his life. peter said this, quote, this work is important for the message that it sends to people back home, that one of the best aspects of the american way of life is our ability to come together in the face of adversity and stand beside those who might need a helping hand. if i can look back on all of this and say our organization is able to truly help people, that i was able to share a little bit of help, then i will know this all stood for something. a courageous american who clearly represented the very best of our country murdered in cold blood by isis. john boll ton, senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and fox news contributor joins us now. this is just so heartbreaking. your thoughts on this continuing

outrage? >> i think unfortunately, tragically, they've demonstrated yet again what they're really made of. although there's still some questions about this tape, i think they're primarily about timing in the sense they don't refer to events since the last beheading of an american. but when you add together killing an aide worker fwr goodness sakes and the beheading of 17 syrian soldiers, clearly this is intended as a message for those in the arab world who would oppose isis and the united states. it's a message of intimidation. it's worked so far. it's one reason the iraqi army collapsed before mosul this past summer. it's one reason why the obama is reluctant to do what is necessary to do to prevent isis from consolidating itself as a new country in the region. >> we're told that peter

converted to islam in captivity, that didn't help. his parents tried to contact isis to try to spare his life. that didn't help. now we have this video, the leader of the islamic state. in that video he is threatening america, threatening to come to the streets and attack us here. there are about 100 americans with passports we're told fighting with isis. how real is that threat? >> i think the threat is real. it's the number of europeans and americans who can get back into their respective countries undetected because they're traveling on valid documents. over the long term, the threat is even greater. if isis can really create a new state, this week they announced they developed their own currency. they believe they've got the staying power to be able to

create a new country carved out of iraq and syria. while i think they are defeatble and why that should be our objective, when they conduct these beheadings, they do it because they think it advances their cause. it's intended to intimidate weak people, whether they're in the middle east or washington. >> what do we do? martin dempsey, he's in iraq now. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says that the tide is turning. do you think it is and how will this end? >> i don't know what general dempsey bases that on. i think isis reached extraordinary lengths this last summer. now they're probably about at the outer limit of their capabilities just because they've reached their point of maximum expansion. i don't believe that anybody particularly in the pentagon thinks that what we're doing now

will be enough to destroy them. it may contain them, but it will not destroy them. as long as they continue to exist to provide a safe haven for other radicals and terrorists, we're going to be threatened. i think the real question is are we committed to do what the president wants, which is destroy them, that's what he says he wants, or are we going to engage in rhetoric. >> ambassador, thank you as always. >> thank you. eric, if his death is confirmed, the 26-year-old will be the fifth western hostage to have been killed by the terror group. more now about peter kassig. just after he graduated from high school, he enlisted in the u.s. army. a few years later, he became assert fied emt. he then atented butler university where he majored in political science and spent one of his spring breaks in buy

route. just two months later, he moved to lebanon to work as a volunteer emt. in 2012, he founded special emergency relief and assistance and later began caring for refugees. then he was taken captive while en route to eastern syria to deliver medical supplies and teach civilians how to be first responders. during captivity, he converted to islam and changed his name. and then last month, on october 3rd, he is identified by his captors in a video message while announcing the death of alan henning. today, we sadly fear the worst. now to the latest ebola patient being treated in our country. it's occurring at the nebraska medical center. he is now said to be in extremely critical condition. he entered the hospital's bio

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dakota. i want to talk to you first of all, thanks for being here. can you hear me senator? >> i can, yes. >> fantastic. so the senate is going to vote on tuesday as we've already established and as you well know. it's my understanding that you have some cokaxing to do to get enough votes for tuesday. do you feel confident? >> we have all 45 republicans on board, all 45 republican senators on board. so we need 15 democrats. the last i heard, we were at about 14. so they need one, maybe two more depending on where they're at. we'll find out tuesday if we have the 60 votes. >> so you're going to kind of play that close to the vest. >> i think there's a good chance we will have the 60 votes. we're at 59 right now. but i believe there's a good chance we will.

of course then the question is what does the president do. >> and if the president does veto the bill, talk to me about the political fallout. >> well, actually i'd -- i wrote this bill sometime ago and have worked to get 56 cosponsors, 45 republicans, 11 democrats. really didn't anticipate this bill coming up until the next congress when based on the election i know we'll have 60 votes. now my cosponsor on the democrat side wanted to bring it up now. so fine, we'll bring it up. i think we may get to the 60. i think the president vetoes. all along i've anticipated we would have to attach it to a broader energy package or an appropriations measure that the president won't veto. >> in the meantime, your cosponsor, she's down there

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as you know, supporters say it will create more jobs and drive down gas prices. the president says it's going to allow canada to produce oil that's going to pass through our land and it's not going to drive down u.s. gas prices. to that, you say what, sir? >> well, that's not what his department of energy's report says. it says it will help reduce gas prices. it's not only canadian crudes that will come to our refineries and we will use here, it will replace what we're bringing in now from places like the middle east. it will move 100 thousand barrels a day to our refineries. so it's about producing more oil in this country as well as working with our close ally canada. >> i have to leave that there. i thank you for your time this sunday morning.

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