us. we have the ten best jobs for veterans and the top negotiators will share his best tricks for getting what you want. so don't take a back seat. the f.b.i. is going to help you. >> ainsley will join you as well. >> yeah, i'll be here this weekend. >> see you monday. don: thank you nice. >> upping anti-against isis. >> we said we'll take this all way. we'll go after where they are we're doing that. bill: doing it today. welcome to friday edition of expecter's newsroom. martha has time off. >> great for having me back. i'm jamie colby in for martha. as jordan's air campaign continues. obama administration says it will lay out its snags security strategy. that will happen in a speech later today.

we have fox team coverage for you. chris stirewalt what we expect out of that. first to conor powell live in amman, jordan. con conor, thanks for joining us. what happened today in jordan? >> reporter: across the country we saw strong support for king abdullah and the crown and the family of the jordanian pilot. al-kasaesbeh. we saw anti-isis feeling across the country. the country here is sort of united in their anger and brutality of that video that showed him being burned alive. we're hearing support for wider military engagement by people of jordan for continued airstrikes to pound isis both in iraq and in syria. that is really the big news in the last 24 hours. we're hearing in addition to increased number about of airstrikes the jordanian

military is conducting airstrikes, has been for several weeks now in iraq. that is an expansion of the military presence of jordan in both countries. that really is the only visible sign we've seen so far, jamie of the expansion of the fight against isis by jordan so far. >> i want to ask you about the reports of support of isis in jordan? how does the government deal with that? >> reporter: for the last year or so there have been visible and vocal displays very small and visible and vocal displays of support of isis in jordan. this country is very deeply religious and population of islamic extremism particularly with ties to al qaeda. before the death of the pilot and the king in the and country seem to say they're drawing a line between islamic extremist groups like muslim brotherhood and people with ties of al qaeda. saying you're with us or with isis. seeing with groups like muslim

brotherhood and al qaeda linked people released from jordanian prisons last few months there is movement to say isis is too extreme even for us are generally considered islamic extremists of the government is trying to draw this line and say, you can be part of the state. you can be deeply conservative, you can be deeply religious but if you're part of our society a part of our government you have toanti-isis. so far jamie we are seeing that work to some extent. the population support whether it would be small or very, very remote for isis has really disappeared in recent weeks and months of the government here is doing a masterful job of drawing a line and circling isis as out of the mainstream here. >> lots more to talk. bill has more. thank you so much, connor. bill: jordan's retaliation against isis beyond syria. tell be shepard smith they are hitting targets in iraq as well. >> jordanian pilots and

jordanian aircraft is operating over iraq. to me that is new information. >> we're doing all we can to target isis. isis or daesh, has removed a physical border between syria and iraq. they're in iraq and they're in syria and therefore you have to target them wherever they are. bill: shepard smith is live in amman today. we'll talk to him later this morning on "america's newsroom." later today, national security advisor susan rice unveils president obama's new national security strategy. to lay out his foreign policy priorities rest of time in office. chris stirewalt. digital politics editor. good morning to you in washington. what is your expectations for this today is. >> limited, mitigated. this is, timing of this is very interesting. this is something that has been mandated by congress to brief congress on national security and approach of national security by the administration

since 1986. george w. bush substantially abandoned the practice. only turned in two. president obama only turned in one, so why now, so why do one of these? it would seem to suggest that the administration is looking to cohere its foreign policy make some argument that there is some cohesion to what it is doing around the world. bill: specifically on isis isil daesh, ashton carter in this appearance from two days ago talking with senator john mccain about what the strategy is. this clip, chris, is getting a lot of attention and not for the right reasons. watch it. >> i think the, u u, strategy connects ends and means and our respect to isil needs to be its lasting defeat. i say lasting, because it is important that when they get defeated they stay defeated. and, that is why it is important

that we have, those on the ground there who will insure that they stay defeated once defeated. bill: so you got that? that is really smart guy. senator mccain was shaking his head at the end of that. what you find is you find people doing flips to explain that. why is that? >> it is awfully hard to explain especially when you have somebody like king abdullah that comes out and says, we will fight until we are out of ammunition and out of fuel. we will fight and we will kill them. we will kill them wherever they are. they speak with that sort of certainty. look, let's remember, in hour after hour of congressional testimony, even the best, even the smoothist will have unsmooth word salad kind of moments. the problem for the administration is, it is not what is in one sound bite. it is that the sound bite speaks to a larger confusion about foreign policy around the globe and what happens and what we continue to see happening with

this administration is yemen is model for syria and iraq. wait, never mind, yemen is a disaster and we'll have a new model. we say progress in ukraine is encouraging and russians are being pushed back. now we'll start dumping ammunition and weapons into eastern europe. we see theser assaults and turns from the -- somer assaults and turns from the administration. bill: put libya in that. change any minds today no. >> no. they have a lot of mind they need to change on the hill. want authorization of military force and all kind of things from congress and not even democrats are on board. i highly doubt this second helping of word salad will help. bill: see you at the beautiful fay. chris stirewalt in washington. >> you bet. >> fox news alert on the measles outbreak. it is spreading. new cases reported at a day-care center outside of chicago. five babies are diagnose with

the highly contagious disease an less than a year old. the source of the infection not yet known. health officials say we can expect even more cases. garrett tenney joining us live from chicago. tell me first about the situation at this particular day care center. >> reporter: jamie, on sunday health officials received word that two infants were treated at local hospital with fever and rash they both attended the kindercare learning center just outside of chicago. then on tuesday dare care staff passed word three additional children had also come down with symptoms. lab tests for the first child came back that afternoon positive for measles. in the second child came being bat next day as well. the day-care has received a precautionary deep clean. even though unvaccinated children are being told to stay home at least next 21 days health officials say more cases are expected because of how highly contagious measles is. lab results for the remaining

three children, all under the age of one are expected to come back this morning jamie. >> one thing you didn't mention i have heard these babies are too young to be vaccinated. as you said they haven't been. is there any reason to believe there is connection to the outbreak at disneyland or is it not connected and because they're not vaccinated? >> officials have said there is no reason right now to believe that is the case but it is an ongoing investigation but that is really a key difference there, the age of the children. these children were all too young to be vaccinated. doctors typically recommend children receive that 12 and 15 months years old. officials believe likely the same case for a one-year-old baby in new jersey who is also suspected of contracting the disease. that child now recovered but investigators are looking into how that occurred and if any others were exposed ands nationwide, the cdc says there are now more than 100 cases of measles in 14 states. jamie? >> important news for parents to use. thanks so much. good to see you.

>> reporter: you got it. bill: ten minutes past. fox news alert. jobs number for january is now out and what do the numbers tell us? new reaction to interview from the ceo of gallup who says the unemployment rate is a big american lie. that is coming up. >> investigators releasing what they say caused the deadly plane crash in taiwan, ahead what's apparently the one big mistake that sent that plane into the river. bill: james hi, my you heard the obama administration says they need to close gitmo because terrorists using it for propaganda. a freshman senator and iraq war veteran says the argument doesn't stand up. >> my only problem with the guantanamo bay is there are too many empty beds and empty sells. we should send more terrorist there is for further interrogation to keep this country safe. as far as i am concerned, every last one of them can rot in hell.

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jamie: investigators are announcing the deadly string of events that led to the crash of trans-asia flight 235. taiwan's top aviation safety official saying one of the engines stopped working just 37 seconds after takeoff. this plane could fly with just one engine but a few section later, we're now hearing the pilot shot off the good engine, an apparent mistake that plunged that plane right into the river. at least 35 people died including the pilots. their hand reportedly still on the crows. rescue crews saved 15 passengers

but eight others are still missing. bill: jobs report out for january and this friday unemployment rate rising to 5.7%. we added 257,000 jobs last month and more americans out looking for work. but the real unemployment rate when you factor in the underemployed or those simply giving up looking that is levin .3%. we talked to chairman and ceo of gallup yesterday on an article he wrote about what he calls the great american lie. >> the number of full-time jobs and that's with everybody wants, as a percent of the total population is the lowest it has ever been. that is what the number doesn't show. the consequences of that, there was, at the recession we lost 13 million jobs. only three million have come back. and you can't see that in that number. bill: former economic advisor for president reagan. reagan born on this day in 1911.

art, good morning. >> hi. bill: what did you think of the ceo of gallup there talking about the big american lie? he says we're not looking at all the numbers. >> he is factually correct. i wish he didn't use the word the big american lie. that doesn't encourage discussion but it is exactly correct. all reduction in unemployment rate has basically come from people desserting the labor force. they haven't found jobs. they left the labor force. look at areas like black teenage unemployment. it is crazy terrible. black teenage employment as share of their population is 19%. that is down from 30% when clinton left office this. has been a very very long, deep recession, depression. and the recovery is the worst in the history of the u.s. bill: let me give you headline from app and you react to this. >> sure. bill: u.s. employers add 257,000 jobs wages rose and americans sought work in january. is that good news or not? >> it is better than it has been

for the last several months. it is. then they revised last couple months where they raised number of jobs up past couple months, previous ones. that is good news compared to the history. but history of these employment numbers is terrible, bill. when we were in office in the '80s, we were creating way more jobs than this guy is creating. it was much better for the economy. this is really a terrible recovery but less terrible this month than it was last month before. how is that for putting it? bill: slightly better. all right. what clifton argues you need to create 10 million new jobs. >> that's right. bill: in order to restore the middle class. >> exactly. he is exactly right. his point is totally, totally correct. i just think he is brilliant on that. if you look at employment to population, which is what he did, that is exactly the correct way to look at it. and that number fell sharply in the great recession. way down, it was 64 1/2% when clinton left office t fell to

59%, 58 1/2% and now it is just a little bit over 59% for the last five, six years. this is a tragic non-recovery. clifton is exactly correct. bill: you say you don't like the use of the word lie. >> i don't. that is not a nice word. bill: used it in the piece once or twice. the reason he used that, art i think this is very important to understand, he thinks washington our politicians want americans to believe that things are getting better. and so does wall street so they stay in the market. why is that a lie? >> well, you know i've been in the white house myself back years ago and been involved with this, they all want to do that bill. they want to put sunny side the twist, spin on everything. if you called every politician's comments a lie you would only use the every other word talking about them. what happens here is what everyone else has done. they have looked at unemployment rate. there is no change in the way we calculate the unemployment rate to my knowledge and they always tout the best number they can.

bill, jim clifton is correct the correct number to use is employment as a share of population, which includes people that are so discouraged they leave the labor force. they should be included as part of the unemployment rate the way jim clifton does it. when you say lie, it just turns the conversation into a battle. bill: one more point on that. this got a lot of play all day yesterday and people talk about it again today. >> yeah. bill: he says the unemployment number in america without question, is the most important number you will find across the country because people need a job and they need to know they have a good job. his word, not a caappy job. his croat. >> he could adjust to 11.3 if he wants. i look at total employment of share of population but exact same concept jim clifton and i use. he is exactly correct on his conclusion, period. bill: talk again in a couple weeks. art laffer. thanks for coming back. >> nice happy birthday for the reagan birthday.

bill: indeed, art. thank you. >> bye. jamie: great discussion, bill. there are growing questions over the credibility of nbc's top news kang r anchor. now brian williams is facing a new firestorm not just about an iraq war story but over statements he made after hurricane katrina. howard kurtz is next. that is coming up, plus this. bill: that is the exact moment a snowboarder gets caught in an avalanche. he captured it on his helmet cam. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. that's why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes,

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>> "nbc nightly news" anchor brian williams is now facing new allegations of lying after apologizing already to his viewers for a false story he

told about his time in iraq. a louisiana newspaper finding discrepancies in williams's post-hurricane katrina reporting including his claim he saw a body floating by his hotel in the french quart. the paper says, that area was not affected by devastating flood. howard kurtz is fox news media analyst, the host of "mediabuzz." you know him well. howard, great to see you. >> same here jamie. >> i switched to being journalist from being an attorney. in either profession i was under impression we're held to the highest standard of truth. that we're actually supposed to search for the truth. how significant is this, and now a new allegation for brian williams? >> let me say first. i went to new orleans with brian williams in the wake of katrina while reporting on book. showed me where he saw the first dead body. he told me seeing a body floating by. spent night in superdome without power. went to new orleans, eight or

nine times. when you acknowledge essentially told a law. the story which he apologized for having his copter hit in iraq when in fact it was another helicopter that took the rocket-propelled grenade. it opens everything up so everybody looks back at our record and raise questions and scrutinized and you're never seen in the same light again. jamie: it is interesting, nbc sources, network is standing by him. let's listen to one of the examples of him talking about his katrina experience. i want to get your take. >> when you look out of your hotel room, window in the french quarter and watch a man float by face down, when, when you see bodies that you last saw in bandeache, indonesia, and swore to yourself you would never see in your country, i beat that storm the i was there before it arrived. i rode it out with people who later died in the superdome. >> that statement is pretty

dramatic. so you said you were with him. you saw where he stayed. you believe the story about seeing a dead man floating at katrina? >> i have no way of knowing whether that particular anecdote is true or whether he embelled it. he told it to me. i was not there at the storm. he was treated like hero there, he went some times he was emotionally invested in that story. some of this may be piling on by this new orleans newspaper that is raising discrepancy i don't think it is proven that he didn't have dysentery which he said he contracted on first trip after the storm. i do think nbc with its no comment stance almost has to stand behind brian williams because he is the face of the news division. he is the top-rated anchor. he is a bankable star. almost too big to fail. jamie: show me the money situation? what would it be like if it was anybody else? >> well that is excellent question, jamie, if some other nbc correspondent told on air story about being hit in chopper

and turned out that was not the chopper that person would be lucky to get off reprimand. that person would be lucky to keep his job. brian williams, i do think we have to say in the last 10 years as anchor has a pretty solid track record. not like there is a hit here. at the same time it is inexplicable to me hard to fathom why he would embellish and fabricate frankly the story about his copper being -- copter being hit it was enough to show that he went after invasion of iraq and was in an army chopper and grounded by a sandstorm. that is a pretty dramatic story. why he felt the need or, he blames the fog of memory. i don't think many people are buying that. why he felt the need to make the story even better does raise troubling question. jamie: he says he misremembered. veterans have now spoken out. we'll have more later in the show. howard, thank you very much. we look forward to "mediabuzz" this weekend. >> thanks, jamie. bill: 27 minutes past the hour. president obama is talking about don't talk about violence in name of religion without talking about all the violence committed

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exposed. federal officials say there are more than 100 other measles cases this year. ♪ jamie: republican senator tom cotton making some waves at yesterday's senate armed services committee hearing on guantanamo bay. he is a freshman senator who is also an iraq war veteran going off on the white house taking points that gitmo is a recruiting tool for terrorists. listen to this exchange with undersecretary of defense brian mckeon. >> look at propaganda value. how many detainees were at guantanamo bay on september 11th, 2001. >> zero. >> how many were there in october 2000 when al qaeda bombed uss cole. >> zero. >> what about 1998 when they bombed our embassies. >> the facility was not opened before 2:00 two, senator. >> 1992 first world trade center bombing. >> same answer. >> 1983 when hezbollah bombed our embassy and marine barracks

in lebanon? answer is zero. >> correct. >> islamic terrorists don't need an excuse to attack the united states. they don't attack us for what they do. they attack us for who we are. it is not a security decision. it is political decision based on promise president made on his campaign. to say that it's a security decision based on propaganda value our enemies get from us is pretext t to justify a political decision. the only problem with guantanamo bay there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. we should send more tourists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. as far as i'm concerned every last one of them can rot in hell. as long as they don't do that they can rot in guantanamo bay. jamie: juan williams fox news political analyst. guy benson townhall.com, fox news contributor. thanks for joining me. >> thanks, jamie. jamie: juan, you're the analyst analyze. how effective was that? >> it was tremendously effective

if his goal was headlines and airtime obviously we're giving attention to it. weighs giving i think words to a sentiment many americans feel about wanting to be sure that anyone that is not at, released from guantanamo bay is not going back to the theater of war and there is great concern we're seeing that recently we saw a situation where one person who had been released was in contact with some of the terrorists. but i think that his goal was the theatrics. jamie: really? you're saying it is words and not facts? that is common knowledge. >> well the facts are that if you talk to the supreme court they say you can't have unlimited detention of anybody. obviously it is in violation of the geneva convention. obviously you have a situation where we don't try people and people who have been tried, in the civilian courts in this country, terrorists, we have a better record of conviction there. we can, also house people more cheaply than we do than at guantanamo bay and as defense

intelligence departments pointed out, it is recruiting tool for jihadists. jamie: i will come back to you whether or not you want them in your neighborhood. guy, what did you think? >> three quick points on this. first of all, seems to me that successful terrorist attacks against the west are a far more potent recruiting tool than effective american counterterrorism policies. secondly, as we just heard from the senator i think very well-stated, by senator cotton the terrorists, jihadists did not node an excuse on 9/11 to kill 3,000 americans. guantanamo bay was not open on 9/11. and i think that really is the transition into my final point which is the broader suggestion that we ought to really pay close attention to terrorists propaganda about what their most recent justification might be i think that is such a mistake because before 9/11, it was what? our support for israel. our presence in the middle east. then it became gitmo and enhanced interrogation

techniques. now it is the drone program an killing al qaeda leadership. and cartoons, for crying out loud? we should not be manipulated by the ever-shifting pretexts of killers. jamie: let me go back to you for a second juan. you said it's a recruiting tool guantanamo bay. why is it a recruiting tool? what is the difference between that and any other location where we might house terrorists? >> well, first thing is, clearly we would have trials and we would put them in jail under our laws, our constitution, our laws that say that people who committees kind of crimes, these terrorist acts, deserve to be punished. jamie: has it worked? we have got convictions which you point out but -- >> i think we have not failed so far in convicting terrorists in our civilian courts. jamie: how how is that deterrent, juan? bless help me understand how it's a deterrent. >> what do you mean, put somebody in max security forever?

obviously we put them away forever. i guess you could execute them. i'm saying we have a great record there. on the contrary, when you look at guantanamo, when you're looking at is a situation where people say, exactly what are you doing there? you're just holding people for an unlimited amount of time without charges, without trials. you know, it is, guy was talking about you know there are other reasons that bad people do, terrorists do these things. i would agree. they don't need it but what we're saying is, i think that is what the intelligence and the defense people are saying is, why give them another reason, why give them another tool in terms of their social media campaign to recruit young people. jamie: well, let me ask you guy, what do you think about the performance of the undersecretary? his responses. >> they were accurate, right. tom cotton had a point to make. there is no response he could have given zero zero zero. juan can call it theatrics i think it was very effective making the point very forcefully

the senator wanted to. i really think it is such a mistake to approach the international war against terrorists as a law enforcement proposition. i don't think that works. i know juan says it has been very effective but does know just two weeks ago the obama administration released early by the way, from federal prison, a terrorist, an al qaeda sleeper operative who was convicted in federal court, sent to prison. they released him early two weeks ago. a few years back, there was a jury that convicted a very hardened al qaeda bomber on just one of nearly of 100 counts brought against him in federal court because of our rules of evidence in federal court. jamie: i have to leave it there. we're up against a hard break. >> -- for u.s. citizens, not terrorists of the. jamie: very interesting discussion. thanks to both of you. >> thank you. bill: 22 minutes before the hour. the president brought it up. charles krauthamer has a big problem comparing isis with

christianity. >> mr. president the crusades werehundred years ago and the inquisition was 500 years ago. what is happening right now is not christians on the march. it is radical islam. bill: critics saying president obama is making wrong argument at wrong time. former new york mayor rudy giuliani will react to that. he is our guest next. jamie: who doesn't love a thin mint? how many will it take to set a world record? one group of girl scouts going the distance. ♪

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super bowl. what a great idea. they set up shop all over phoenix last weekend part of their plan to set the first-ever guinness world record for selling girl scout cookies. the process for approving unofficial high mark expected to take two months. i bet all the cookies will be gone by then. bill: there is new reaction after president obama essentially compared the savagery of isis, islamic extremists to acts committed by christian crusaders nearly a thousand years ago. >> unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades and inquisition, people committed terrible deed in the name of christ. in our home country slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. bill: so was that the right thing at the right time? former new york mayor rudy giuliani is with me to talk

about this. good morning to you. you were watching it. what do you think? >> absolutely wrong thing at the wrong time. president is as weak a historian as a president and as weak a theologian. the crusades did not follow word of jesus christ. they were in totally contrary to the word of jesus christ. what they are doing some of it is contrary to the word of mohammed, like burning people. some of it is isn't. killing in the fame of faith going to heaven if you kill in the fame name of the faith. early mohammed was very, very peaceful. late mohammed was a warrior, led wars. jesus christ said forgive those who kill you. so when we see christian atrocities of a thousand years ago,hundred years ago, we're seeing people acting contrary to the word of their founders. when we see muslim atrocities today, they're are word in the koran, nobody wants to face this, that support some of what they're doing, not burning but

beheading. so, what he is missing as a historian is, the protestant reformation, catholic counter reformation, the emergence of reform jude dayism. there are orthodox jews that conflict with the other jews but they don't kill them. there are strict catholics that conflict with less strict catholics but they don't stone them or behead them. there is no stoning for adult terry in christianity or judaism. bill: i know you're not a doctor. i will spare you the psychoanalysis. >> a little bit of a historian and theologian. bill: why are you comparing christianity to isis? >> of 800 years ago. how about the crusades in part were reaction to similar atrocities on part of muslims who invaded spain invaded

europe, took over a good deal of the middle east. sometimes for the better. sometimes for the worst. it was tit-for-tat. it went back to the old testament, eye for an eye as opposed to new testament turn the other cheek. and clearly clearly, in violation of the religion as opposed to, a good many of the practices here can be justified by words that i could pull right out of the koran and show you. bill: it seemed as if he were saying this is the way humanity evolves. deal with it. >> it seems what he is saying we have 800 years to go until this end which is absurd. and, comparison between the crusades and this is inept. the crusade were a reaction albeit an overreaction wrong reaction. we're not doing to them what they are doing to us. the crusade were, they were beheading us and we were beheading them.

here, they're knocking down our twin towers and killing 3,000 people. we're not knocking down some tower. they're taking them in women and putting them in bondage. stoning women for adultery. don't allow women to drive in certain countries. killing their own people as well as our people. killing christians. they're trying to wipe out christian. this isn't reaction what we're doing. we're not doing same thing to them. so the president as a historian gets an f. the president as theologian gets f minus. and, when is he going to start standing up for us, for our western values that have civilized the world and where did the printing press come from? this is a great civilization that we have. that has committed some sins. fortunately we corrected them. there needs to be a muslim reformation. there needs to be a martin luther. there needs to be a catholic counter reformation. there needs to be coalescence of

orthodox conservative, reform judaism where they have respect for each other, rather than kill each other and go to war with each other like the sunnis and shiites. totally different situation. bill: reuters report, sex slaves, boys as young as 18 used as suicide bombers about. united nations watchdog group reports islamic militants crucifying iraqi children and burying them alive. i don't know if what you saw was the professor president perhaps again, but what does it say -- >> professor? what is the class? bill: what does it say about the action that he is willing or not willing to take over his remaining two years? >> it leaves me, i hate to say this, bill leaves me frightened. we need somebody to defend us, to protect us. an american president has to be tough. our enemies, it isn't bad if our enemies are afraid of the president of the united states. it isn't bad if the people who want to come here and kill us

are afraid of the president of the united states. do you think any of them are afraid of him? do you think any are afraid when they hear words like this silliness going back 800 years to the crusade which was a tit-for-tat situation and comparing it to 800 years later when the western civilization has helped to civilize the world? where is the respect and love for america? where is the respect and love for western civilization? never emanates from this president. the first president where i haven't seen that. bill: susan rice talks at 1:00. we'll see what she sends that. rudy giuliani here in new york. thanks. jamie. jamie: trouble for middle class jobs here in the united states. why some companies are replacing americans with guest workers. bill: here is one ride you will not forget. a snowboarder extremely lucky to escape with his life and we will show you why. ♪

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jamie: why i don't snowboard. disturbing trend in the u.s. economy. companies are firing american tech workers and replacing them with lower-paid guest workers here on h one b visas. william la jeunesse reporting live from the west coast newsroom. william, what is the latest example? >> reporter: jamie, the president talks a lot about protecting the middle class yet 400 american workers here in los angeles are losing good middle class jobs to foreign workers on visas approved by administration. laid off workers at sce southern california's largest utility are furious because they must also train replacements from india. guest workers brought in by india-based tata consulting and infosys which the justice department fined two years ago $34 million, for illegally using u.s. visas to displace american workers which is against the law. immigration and nationality act

requires the hiring of a foreign worker not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of u.s. workers comparably employed. but experts say the law is routinely ignored. >> the problem is that has never been enforced of the secretary of labor has the authority to do something about that. the secretary of labor across multiple administrations has decided never to do anything about that. >> reporter: the company responded saying quote, in an effort to act as cost effectively and prudently as possible sce is outsourcing some technology-related functions. the company does not take the action lightly and assisting employees through this difficult period. sce, jamie, will save $40,000 per worker, about $16 million a year by replacing american workers with foreigners on h1b visa. jamie? jamie: secretary of labor should certainly keep an eye on this as should the president. hasn't he taken the position he is doing everything he can to

protect the american worker at least here at home? >> reporter: right. remember he called mitt romney the outsourcer in chief yet this administration supports doubling number of h1b visas despite it undercuts wages. disney cut 500 i.t. workers outsourcing them to india. tata and infosys, together receive about 20,000 visas each year. tough time for workers william thanks. bill: we learn about new retaliation of isis murder of their pilot. king abdullah vows this is only the beginning a live report from amman next.

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president obama could soon ask congress to grant formal authority to wanly war against isis. good morning to you. good morning, jaime. >> i am in for martha today. jordan's military is expanding the operation and hitting another round of target. the pentagon is shooting down claims that their jets are hitting in iraq. good morning, jennifer griffin is live is the coalition at a turning point? >> reporter: we are told by u.s. defense officials to explain more of the same. yesterday they sent 21 planes to drop bombs on northeastern syria and that continued today as jordanian pilots are seen writing messages to isis on the side of the planes. they named the operation after

the jordanian pilot burned alive. they signed their names and a few messages on the bombs before taking off. u.s. f-18s and f-22 flighter jets escorted the planes into syria and provided fuel and radar capability to deter any potential interference from damascus. the question is when the uae will step up and rejoin. the uae excuse there is not enough search and rescue assets is a "red herring". >> can jordan keep up the pace of airstrikes? >> reporter: jordan has 42 fixed wing planes in the arsenal so that means they are flying about half of their war planes on any

given mission over syria. they are not striking in iraq because iraq barred them from doing so according to coalition spokesperson. the u.s. congress is about to consider authorization for military force against isis and iraq and syria. >> when it comes to fighting a war, the congress shouldn't tie the president's hands. i am expecting there will be an authorization of the u.s. of military force -- use -- sent here in the coming days. >> one request is a request for armed drones by the jordanians. a bipartisan committee is asking the president to reconsider that request. that you know. the chairman of the senate intelligence committee issuing a warning of a potential attack on the united states soil.

>> in 14 years serving in the house or senate i have greater fears about something happening today than any time after 9/11. >> steven hays is here and good morning to you. you heard the senator's interview. what do we take from that? >> a fascinating statement. richard burr is not alone. you have heard this from the senior most intelligence service. james clapper said in his 50 years in the intelligence world he has never seen the globe have more crisis. diane feinstein said much of the same thing saying terror is up worldwide. in washington, d.c. everybody

at each other throat except for one thing and that is the threats we face are unlike the threats we have faced in any time in recent memory. everyone agrees to that but the president of the united states. >> the fbi director said they receive threats from isis in every state but alaska. this is also what he said: >> the challenge we face in law enforcement is they may get exposed to the training and poison in the basement. they are not going to a specific place or communicating in a way we can intersect. the call of isis is to just kill somebody. >> stunning and it true 49 different states have a lead. we don't know how extensive it

is. but what you are talking about is the challenge in tracking them down and finding them when you can operate on your own. >> absolutely. and look scary, and the intelligence professionals have been warning this is the new face of jihadist terrorist. the lone wolf terrorist. the rest of the threat, the tret we understood before remains and i would say growing because we see isis in 8-10 countries across the region and al-qaeda is growing and grabbing territory despite the rivalry. we have seen other jihadist groups grow throughout the world. so it is clear the threat is growing. but we have a president of the united states who insist saying america is safer and the threat is diminishing. the difference between the intelligence professionals on

one hand and reality and the words comes from the president's mouth to downplay the threats are extraordinary. >> you are right about where isis continues to pop up. we mentioned libya and now they are talking about egypt and algeria. so it isn't just iraq and syria as well. we will get more than that later. steve, thank you. steven steven steven steven hays, live in washington, d.c. we are waiting to hear the details of president obama national strategy and susan rice will review the plan this afternoon expected to lay out the plan for the rest of the term. kevin is live. what should we expect to hear today? >> sustaining and strengthening america's role in leadership.

that is the vision we expect to hear from the national security advisor talking at the brooking institute. laying out the principles and priorities to guide the use of american power especially internationally within a rules-based international order. what does that mean? especially relating to fighting groups like isis. the vice president talked about it saying america needs to face evil wherever it is. >> the more open the system is they more they attempt to take advantage of it. we cannot let them. we cannot let them change our way of life in order to defeat them and we will not. >> continue to degrade and defeat the enemy. we expect to hear more about that today from susan rice this afternoon, jaime.

>> we have heard a lot from everybody but there is sure specticism on the hill about how strong the white house message is about the problem. any change in the impact today? >> you are right on the money. john boehner among many says the administration has been less than vigorous in attacking. and what about the authorized use of military force? we will hear a great deal about that. here is just a sample of what you can expect john boehner to be saying in the days ahead: >> it is going to be incumbant among the president to go out and make the case for to american people on why we need to fight this fight. >> reporter: is there a need for american force and if so how much is needed to defeat the

enemy enemy. we'll talk about that not just today but in the next couple weeks >> thank you very much kevin. looking forward to meeting you and welcome to the fox family. >> the benghazi select committee on the house side and considering to testify about the terror attack. it list all obama officials, trey gowdy looking to speak to people at the white house and pentagon along with jay carney susan rice david patrius, the list is long and lengthy. what we don't know is when the hearings could begin. we are waiting on word from that. could be matter of weeks, could be a couple weeks but we will see. bill, we know there is disturbing new intelligence information that isis is

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breaking news. ye yemen's powerful rebels are taking over the country and desolving parliament. their power grab has been months in the making. yemen was a country the white house said was a form of government that was working in the world but now inunited states-backed president and his government has been tossed from power. 14 past the hour. watch out for that story. we told you about new intelligence information suggesting the white house isn't entirely accurate about the progress made in the war against isis. top leaders say the terror group has gained grown since the

coalition strikes began expanding into algeria, egypt and even libya and they may be eyeing afghanistan now. defense secretary, ashton carter telling congress we would consider declining the post-withdrawl to stop the expansion. >> i understand the president has a plan. i support the plan. but if is a plan. if i am confirmed and i ascertain we need to change the plan over the years i will recommend the changes to the president. >> kt mcfarland is here with the deputy assistance defense for reagan and a fox news analyst. thank you for being here. this is so important. we are talking about expanding. is anyone tracking the numbers of how quickly the expansion is

happening, you think? >> here is the best. bin laden said it best. if someone has the choice between a weak and strong horse they will take the strong horse. isis is the strong horse in the middle east so they are making in-roads. i was on the iraq-syria border and what used to be in syria that is where isis and al-qaeda is. we see it in libya and algeria and it is going to continue. we laughed and said isis. who are they? they have a worldwide plan for domination and we don't have a plan to deal with them. we don't have a political, economic diplomatic and

ideological ideas >> everybody says we have plan. today we hear from susan rice and carter said there is a plan to tweak it. i want to ask you because you have answer it best what would reagan do? >> we are celebrateing his birthday today by the way. reagan understood defeating evil whether it was communist behavior or the nazi behavior. reagan would have had an ally component. taking down the soviet union helped us make friends to encourage europe. he pushed their vulnerabilities and the soviet union didn't have the money to compete in a cold

war and had to bend to the will. that is the overall plan. what president reagan would have done in the last month was to look at what president cici did. he went to the equivalent of the vatican in cairo and said this is your fault to the clerics. you have to show the way away from this. and to criticize and come up with a different way of looking at our religious and ideology. what did the president do? nothing. we are not aligned with egypt and when the muslim brotherhood has been stagnant at the white house. >> there is so much talk about isis growing and expanding that there is little talk about what we are going to do and what

speculating what we could. what is it going to take? is it going to come here and we will deal with it? or is it here already? >> we just saw the head of the fbi saying it is in every state but alaska. it is here. susan rice is going to talk about the rules-based plan for the global community. do you think isis is playing by rules? do you think isis cares about being part of the global community? they want to tip the global community on their head and assert what their community should look like. the whole approach of a global community and america leading from behind and we will get together and play by the rules. that is the whole point of radical movements. they don't want to play by the rules but change the rules so they are in charge. >> for everybody. thank you. great insight, kt mcfarland, as

always. happy birthday to the past president reagan. >> her boss. 20 minutes past the hour. jordan launching a blistering campain against isis and we are live there and why jordan says this is the middle of world war iii. plus this: >> that is a hollywood block buster american sniper telling the story of chris kyle and now kyle's accused killer is about to stand trial. we will look at the prosecution's evidence and why the defense thinks a change of venue could help their case. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good.

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a car chase in california comes to a dramatic end. more than a dozen police were in chase of the felon who was believed to be armed and dangerous. the officers deployed spike sticks but the suspect kept going despite the tires being punctured and driving on the steal rims even. they finally forced him to stop and the passenger was arrested. they got him. jordan launching another day of airstrikes against the islamic state as thousands march in a rally supporting the current military action. in that crowd, jordan's first lady, the queen, reportedly saying the country was united in their horror. the foreign minister told shepherd smith here on the fox

news channel we are all in this together. >> his majesty, the king says this is a third world war by other means. we have to stand collectively together to fight them and eradicate the evil. >> shepherd smith live in jordan where it is nearly night there. the evening is approaching. what happened there? >> reporter: friday evening prayers underway and today in the last hour we got word the jordan airforce has been busy. they have 24-25 f-16s in all of their air force and half of them were out carrying out airstrikes over syria. they will not say why but they are targeting isis areas they are not specific. trying to hit command and control and weapons depots. they sent out video of the

pilots prepping for this. it is said to be a very emotional thing. reporters are not allowed near the flight launches. but they are clear this is very emotional for the pilots. they say this as something they want do for the kingdom and their lost pilot who was brutally murdered by the terrorist. the rally was about noon time which is seven hours ahead of eastern time. the queen was out with about 2,000 people and our crews. a gathering on the holy day for people to remember and unite around the cause which is stamping out isis. they call it something else. an acronym dash they call it because that is the word for islamic state in syria in arabic. >> if they tip their hand on the

government side about how long they can maintain the offensive posture against targets in iraq and syria? >> they have not been specific about that. they need american support and they have gotten it. i mention there were 12 jordan f-16s and supported by almost the same number of american jets and refueling and a-wax planes. so they cannot do this alone. they have a limited arsenal and are wanting and hoping for more and have hundreds of millions from the united states. regarding future strikes they said today there will be more sources in the near future. a lack of specifying is normal and understandable under the conditions they are facing. we talked about the former spiritual leader of al-qaeda who was rallying in last weeks and

he was rallying against the jordan jordan jordanians part in the campaign against isis. he was in prison and now since the murder of the jordanian pilot he has been released from prison and he is speaking with the jordanian government against isis saying this rally/fight must go on. may not sound like a big deal in the west but it is big man here. a man who was a spiritual ad pp advisor to al-qaeda and telling jordan not to participate is now telling people listening that isis is wrong and against all fundamentals of islam. that is a voice they are happy to her. >> there is a lot of talk back home about the future strategy and the strategy people are lie laying out in their minds with overwhelming united states airpower that leads an arabic

army into the area to root them out whether it is turkish or jordan jordanian. is there much thought of jordanian foot army going in? >> reporter: no thought of that whatsoever. the last time the jordanian army was involved in a campaign like you speak was probably the 67 wars in israel. there is no talk of the turkish army or ground troops. there is talk of figuring out how to make this work and the military leaders at the united states at the highest level say this isn't a problem the military can solve. this is a ideaological way. >> thank you, shepherd.

brian williams is sparking outrage among the veterans. >> they were on a mission and it was the first day of the invasion of iraq. these memories are seared into their mind and they will remember for the rest of their lives. >> we will talk to a u.s. army vet who did take enemy fire in iraq. the parents of a missing journalist in syria is taking the white house to task saying the government is failing to bring home the u.s. hostages. >> we have a state department whose purpose is diplomatic relationships. how do you have diplomatic relations with someone you won't speak to?

u.s. national security strategy just released a moment ago and susan rice is going to

give us more information later on. but looking quickly one thing is following relating to isis to build a "posture that combines with local partners and keeps pressure on isis and al-qaeda and other components" that the local component could be critical. in yemen, the powerful shiite militant militants have announced they are taking over the parliament that the united states backed. there is concern it could strengthen iran's hand as well. breaking just about 60 minutes ago. >> the story started with a

terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of iraq when the helicopter we were in was shot down and we were rescued and kept alive from the third infantry. >> that story about brian williams is sparking backlash with a lot of military members speaking out including amber smith who is here with us and thank you for being part of the program today. we are getting a lot of veterans to weigh in on this. what is your view based on what you heard? >> i respect the work brian williams made for that. i commend him. everybody deserves second chances but in 2004 his second

chance came when he could have stopped the story in the track but instead he kept it going and went on the david letterman in 2013 even saying he was in the helicopter that was hit and did a hard landing and felt his life was in danger and he almost died. that is embellishing and stealing another soldier's story. the event happened but brian williams wasn't a part of it >> he talked about the fog of war. you admit it is real. >> it absolutely is. >> is it possible to confuse them? >> some my perspective, you have the friendly situation and enemy situation and you are flying and talking on a handful of radios and when you add enemy fire in the mix it is a high stress

environment and that can cause the details to be muddled. but when your aircraft is hit by enemy fire and someone is trying to take your life and kill you you don't forget it. there is no aftermath of you and the pilot saying did that happen? did he get hit by enemy fire? no you remember it. and as a passenger in the back of the helicopter, unless he was plugged into the cockpit, he likely never knew unless the pilot did an invasive maneuver. >> an rpg you would know but not a small air craft. williams said you were absolutely right and i was wrong. based on this first two answers you don't accept his apology, do you? >> i think he deserves the give

the american people more than that. they trusted him as a journalist and it is part of the characteristics to have integrity. do you report the truth in stories on job applications? that is something you have to have as integrity and i think it is lost. this isn't a fog of war story. this is at the time as a combat journalist who stole another soldier's story for a career advancement or bragging rights or whatever it doesn't matter. he used someone else's story for another benefit. >> this was the early days and hours of the war in iraq. and he reported on the ground we learned the plane ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky. that was the initial description of the experience. >> that is what i said when it comes to second chances. in the beginning he wasn't

making it claims. as time went on he continued to embellish the story to the point on the dave letterman show he was in the helicopter and went down with that. >> that was on the 10-year anniversary of that day. thank you, amber smith, for coming in. in apparently an nbc spokesperson said there is no suspension or punishment for williams and he was on the air last night without giving reference to it. we will watch where the story goes from here. here is jaime with more. thank you for your service as well. the movie "american sniper" is becoming part of the chris kyle murder trial. why are attorneys taking issue with the film about his life? our legal panel takes on the case as disturbing new details emerge about the suspect. and an ordeal for american

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shack is filing bankruptcy and they will sell or close 4,000 stores in the united states. taking its place is sprint. the nation's third largest carrier setting up shot in nearly 1800 of radio shacks remaining stores. let's bring you up to date on the this case. jury selection is underway in the murder trial accused of killing the real life american sniper chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield. he is an iraq veteran as well and being charged with capital murder in the deaths. defense attorneys are calling for a change of venue claiming the block buster hit is going to make it hard to get an impartial judge. doug burns and chad nelson is here. i guess it is no surprise the

defense is going to try to get the client acquitted, but a change of venue who wouldn't know about the movie? >> of course it is a national movie. change of venue is usually intense reporting in a particular location. as you said the judge denied it and now all they have is they can raise it on appeal. they moved for an adjournment as well. it was denied and they are picking the jury now. >> chad is this a case where you would advise a client to take a plea? >> it depends. ptsd is real. both the veterans instruction and the psychoe atric community started believing it in about 30 years ago. you cannot sell the client down the line if there is a ptsd

defense here and i think they are making a good case for worked hard to provide that. >> what does it take to prove that chad? >> ptsd they will have to show because of the stress he went through as a veteran of the war that at the time he committed this murder he was not aware what he was doing and didn't understand it was wrong. that is the tough verdict. in texas we have one of the tough toughest burdens in the country. it is a very, very real defense. and people disregard it because they think they are gaming the system but it isn't. this is a real deal. there are many many people coming back from the military duty abroad that have problems and some are this severe and result in these criminal acts. >> i will just weigh in an as opportunity and someone who covers the military. there is no question it exist. how could you go and not be

affected? but the facts are both of them were killed. could his prior history be relevant to the case? what can the defense have excluded where their suspect is concern? >> what they did, you know they are fighting hard to keep out a video of an interview done by a member of the texas rangers. and in that video, it is interesting because to chad's point at first the defense was raising issues like i didn't understand right from wrong, i thought if i didn't kill these two people i would be kill. that is classic insanity clauses but then the sheriff said wait a minute, isn't it true this is later in the interview, you knew right from wrong and he admitted yes so that is a big thing. it is an open question whether

that is ruled ad misciblemissable. >> what is the right ruling? >> i am saying it is admissible. unless they can show a fourth amendment violation it is ad ms. missable. >> do you have a ruling the movie will not interfere with where it is being held? what do you think? >> the trial is moving forward. in 25 years, i never had clint eastwood make my victim an american hero. but like they said earlier where will you move it? this movie has been seen in the whole country. i don't know where you want to go. it isn't going anywhere. the issues come down to if ptsd is a believable defense but there is issues with it like the video. if that comes in the defense has problems.

>> we will check back with you both on this as we follow the case. >> "happening now" coming up in a couple minutes. jenna lee has the details: >> i know you have been covering the airstrikes today as jordan continues the pursuit of justice after the brutal murder of a pilot. isis has taken more territory inside syria and what is our next move is the big question. plus european leaders are meeting with putin in moscow trying to get him to lay off ukraine. >> 11 a.m. eastern time. the parents of a missing journalist in syria are taking their case to the white house and why they say the administration isn't doing enough to bring their son home. >> after almost two and a half years, which is february 14th if austin isn't home before then, we feel like we need to let everybody know that our son is missing and will you please

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>> they were a flock of star starlings creating a beautiful picture moving in near perfect unison. they fly in the district and do a cozing pattern to protect themselves themselves. some of the formations can be made of up 250,000 birds. the parents of a journalist missing in syria is encouraging the administration to do more to bring him home. austin disappeared and his

parents call the handling of this appalling. joe waldon is live. has the family heard anything from their son who is missing 800 plus days? >> they have heard he is alive but they have though way of verify verifying them. he is home schooled, national merit scholarship, eagle scout and went to georgetown and interupted his law school stent to report on the syrian war. and since then all on contact has been lost to him and the family feels they are being hindered by the strained united states and syrian government. and the not negotiating for hostages has grown under the

obama administration but the family is remaining frustrated with the u.s. government lack of action. >> it is appalling to us that no such entity currently exist in the united states. there is no personal solely committed to this singular object of the safe return of a host hostage. >> they believe they should respond the family in the response. >> some are suggesting the family's direct involvement could be more harmful than helpful. >> in the sense that all families want their loved ones back at any cost but some suggest having emotion in the negotiation can hurt leverage and not help it. that said there is no on-going negotiation negotiations for him and the fact he is not in isis videos is

encouraging but he hasn't appeared anywhere else so who is holding him is a mystery. >> thank you, doug. thanks bill. jordan's royal air force is taking the fight to isis with dozens of jets flying inside syria. will the white house ask congress to author recognize the war against isis?

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>> great show congratulations. monday night, whole new episode? >> 9:00 p.m. meantime "happening now" starts right now. have a good day. >> thank you jamie, bill. fox news alert on two major international stories developing right now. we begin in jordan were the kingdom warns isis that the airstrikes are, quote the just the beginning. commander-in-chief will ask to expand military role in battling isis. we hope you're off to a great friday so far. i'm jenna lee. gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for jon scott. we're dealing with a rapidly developing situation in ukraine with secretary of state john kerry meeting with leaders in that country trying to fine peace. the german chancellor and french president both set to sit down with vladmir putin to find a way to stop the bloodshed in eastern ukraine. as former commander of nato warns the kremlin could be eyeing other