wife. >> maybe the vice president is just practicing for life after the white house. he's going to get a part-time job at massage envy. >> absolutely. >> and behind carter's back. >> i don't envy mrs. carter right there. >> have a great day. we'll see you back here tomorrow bill: got some breaking news. cartoonist lars vilks received a suspicious letter at his offices. he has gone into hiding after a gunman killed a journalist and later killed a security guard at a synagogue. kurdish fighters holding off the terrorists in iraq. reportedly so intense air strikes could not hit the area

for hours. good morning. it's a busy morning inside of america's news room and i'm bill hemmer. martha: all of this is happening while the white house is holding a summit on the quote violent threat of extremism. they are talking about addressing the problem of the communities where they live. what can you tell us about this attack that bill was referring to. >> reporter: isis fighters continue to push into territory in iraq and syria. irbil is the major kurdish city where the kurdish fighters are based. they are low on weapons and

supplies than is a fear that if isis pushes through these defensive lines it will open upper bill to isis. we saw where isis fighters pushed into the town of al-baghdadi. a major town near a military base where there are u.s. marines. in doing so they have taken over al-baghdadi and they burned 30 people to death. maybe as many as 45 or so. sighs * is able to break through defensive lines and get close to key population areas. without kurdish fighters there there is a chance irbil could fall to isis. martha: as you say the kurdish fighters don't have the supplies they need.

the conditions in libya appear to be deteriorating as well. >> reporter: libya has been divided since qaddafi fell in 2011. one of the main islamic militias managed to get their hands on some planes and bombed a city linked to the internationally linked is government. the islamic groups in libya are not necessarily tied to isis yet. but if they were to gain a foothold in libya. many of these fighters would be the basis for isis and the fact niche these extremist groups could have their hands on jets and planes not tomorrow warrived people in libya but also egypt

and the entire region. martha: u.s. officials are trying to figure out hot man in charge is. he spoke to the camera as the isis militants beheaded 21 coptic christians. they are using his speech patterns to try to figure out where he may have come from. there are several linguistics experts who believe he may from the united states or educated here. bill: what may or may not be accomplished at the white house summit on countering violent extremism. viewers may be confused. >> what the heck are we talking

about? are the methodists having problems with violent extremism? press whenextremism? no. that's undercut by the fact that the administration is adamant that it's determined that the:"i" word will not be figuring prominently. bill: this panel will focus on the leadership and decision making necessary for civil society actors to create action-oriented social movements. what the hell does that mean? >> it means people will be napping after lunch. they will have had lunch and that will be a good nanl which you can take a doze.

it sounds like something that would take place at an obama for america meeting. that kind of stuff. but again the point here isn't to do anything as much as it is to be seen doing thing and create the appearance of action. bill: take us to thursday when the president makes his speech. what does the white house -- what are they going to get out of this? what are they trying to say from these three days? >> they are trying to say it isn't about religion and it isn't about islam. remember when the president was explaining to his donors in:san francisco that the reason that people in pa were so clingy to their guns and religion was because they were out of work, because they lost their jobs so they got bitter and clinged to their guns and religion. that is the world view amplified by evening,000-fold.

the reason people are in the tow of islamic terrorism is they lack opportunity. it's a starkly different world view than many others have. but it's a sincere one held by this administration. bill: eric holder says islamic extremism is only an issue because you hear it here at fox news. listen to the folks at cnn. they are equally as confused. martha: when you look at descriptions of what's going none the summit, there are a lot of sentences like the ones you read. panel discussions will break down and talk about market-based solutions to confront violent extremism. in the meantime new reaction after a federal judge in texas

put a stop for now to the president's executive action on immigration. here is texas senator ted cruz. >> the federal court concluded the executive amnesty the president attempted to put into place in november is contrary to federal law. it's a major victory and major step in permanently stopping the illegal amnesty the president put into effect in november in defines of the results of the polls in november 2014. martha: texas governor greg abbott filed the lawsuit when he was the texas attorney general. why he thinks the president is overreaching. this could be a game changer. it's being called a crushing defeat for ukraine. government forces there now in retreat as pro-russian rebels continue their onslaught against

this key city. this all despite -- remember the ceasefire that was supposed to go into effect three days ago? what's the latest you are hear being this town and the apparent defeat of a very value cranian force. >> reporter: we are getting reports of some kind of skirmishing in the town. it looks like ukraine has lost russia and its rebels have won. there are something like 2,000 ukrainian soldiers from that strategic transport hub after the rebels using sophisticated russian weaponry fought their way into the town. the troops have been leaving in trucks and on foot. ukraine admits there have been some captured. there are no official casualty

figures yet but our own sources and reports indicate the number of ukrainian soldiers dead could be in the several dozen and a higher number of injured soldiers. a bloody battle indeed. martha: we saw merkel and the discussions that went on with some sort of peace process in the way. it's like vladimir putin said i'm going take this town, then maybe we'll take a pause. >> you are looking at probably the right analysis. as you can imagine the morning after both sides are trying to spin this thing their favor. ukrainian president he -- petro poroshenko says this shows their combat readiness and others say this shows bad decision making and a botched operation.

president putin said kiev should allow their soldiers to surrender. now that putin and his proxies have gotten they wanted. chances of a ceasefire might improve. most of the violations of the ceasefire were the responsibility of those rebels. but we are seeing more fighting and we are hearing about more trouble and that should be just the beginning martha. back to you. bill: all too often it seems like the world is distracted on other things. especially on behalf of the russians moving into eastern ukraine. scott walker making major moves ahead of the potential run for the white house. what he's up to now. martha: did you see this story? children flating snow slip and fall through the ice below.

below. bill: is isis entering a new phase? threats from that terrorist group. >> what we need is a whole of government approach that takes account of law enforcement homeland security and engaging communities.

martha: new signs wisconsin

governor scott walker is inching ever closer to a presidential run. he hired a gop strategist. the governor discussing that move on the kelly file. >> we are looking for strong people. if we are going to seriously look at exploring a race for president we want the top people in there. we are serious about playing in new hampshire as we are the other states. martha: he's the first presidential contender to rent office space in iowa. bill: isis may say they are going to conquer rome but it's the increasing threat of attack in the u.s. that has jeh johnson say we are entering a new phase of risk. >> they are able to recruit

faster than we can take them off the battlefield which is why a whole of government approach is so important. bill: what is that government approach? adam kinzinger served in the iraq war. he joins me now. what is that approach? what does that mean? >> i don't think it's been articulated well by the administration. jeh johnson says we can't kill if they are recruiting faster, i agree. so we have got to kill more, kill as many as we can and as quickly as we can and we have to to roll back momentum of isis. when the chicago bears are doing well everybody is a bears fan. isis is so successful that these folks that are prone to jihadism are joining. i think it takes a pretty intense action to roll back

isis. bill: the characterization of where we are in this battle was addressed by eric holder. already this morning i'll have a clarification on that. i'll play you what he said. >> you don't use an extreme example. in world war ii if a reporter found out about the existence of the manhattan project, is that something that should have been disclosed? we are in a time of war and it's an extreme example. bill: we are not at a time of war. this tweet from the public affairs office for eric holder. he meant akin to world war ii, he absolutely does think we are at war with isil. >> anybody can misspeak, i have misspoken in my life. i think wait shows to me is the

knee jerk reaction of this administration of eric holder and the president himself to not want to be in war, to deny that isis is growing and deny extremism is exploding deny europe is falling apart under the hands of the russians. obama came into office want time of peace and he can't accept the fact that was not the world given to him. because he's not accepting that we are seeing a world dropping chaos. eric holder can fix that and everybody can misspeak but at the end of the day it's been that and many other things that has shown this administration doesn't understand the world we live in. >> leon panetta said we are entering a new chapter and the said the president has learned from their mistakes. do you think that's the case here? >> i haven't seen the president learn from his mistakes yet. i wish the president -- i cheer for american strength around the globe that's been disappearing.

but i hope leon panetta is right. maybe we got something wrong ban we need to change course and change strategy in ukraine and the middle east. and i hope that's right. but i haven't seen that yet. bill: you were in northern prawk a few months ago. will you vote for that authority for the president? what does that look like? >> i introduced my own use of force authorization that takes away the 3-years time limit. we don't play the commander-in-chief as congress so i'll vote to give him authority but i won't vote for any restrictions because that will terry over to the next president who is hopefully a republican. martha: a deadly road range incident has now taken a major turn. why police say this mother of four actually went looking for

the man who eventually killed her. bill: a train derailment and explosion that to have bench worse. >> six cars piled up shaking the trees. surround the home they run into with flames from the cars. the liquids from the cars. about 3 seconds later the guy ran out of his home.

martha: in the wake of that explosive train derailment in west virginia, the accident was one of three in the last year involving rail cars that already met a higher standard than the government required. leland vittert is live in boomer

today. >> reporter: two days after this disaster the fire is still burning from across the river where we are. i'll step back so you can get a sense of the scope and magnitude. they have to let the fires burn out before they can bring crews in to figure out what happened and begin the cleanup process of getting these train cars out. there was an enormous fireball two days ago as this train derailed. one house was destroyed and one man in that house was able to get out just in the nick of time. >> i guess when it erupted it shot flames, a fireball up higher than the mountain.

it was enormous. you could feel the heat inside the house. >> reporter: these are the new tanker cars that are supposed to be much safer than the older versions that crisscross america on a daily basis. still there was a lot of crude oil that leaked out of these cars. there was a fear it could have could be tam nateed the roughs. it's the source of drinking water. they say they believe they have contained evening and they can turn those plants back on but the folks are under a boil water order for the next couple days. martha: is there a way to keep these accidents from happening? >> reporter: there is millions of gallons of crude on the rails every day including in these rail cars that crisscross over the rural and urban parts of the country. there are debates about having more stringent safety standards for these rail cars to keep them from decoupling.

it centers around the keystone xl pipeline. proponents say having the pipeline would mean you don't have to haves many of these types of trains. proponents say the accidents like this show the dangers of crude oil no matter how it's transported. bill: vice president joe biden an official white house ceremony with the hands-on approach that's getting lot of attention. martha: could we solve the isis crisis by getting potential terror recruits a job in or is the media environment fueling this threat? >> the difference today is weapons are more lethal. than is the media. it's drama tighted and people see it.

bill: the u.n. security council getting ready to hold an emergency session with cairo giving the green light. what are the egyptians trying to get done here? >> reporter: the egyptians want the u.n. to sign off on international military intervention against terrorists in libya. isis releasing the video of those executions sometime over the weekend. egypt quickly respond with airstrikes. they are lobbying the u.n. and the u.s., u.k. and france, russia and china.

there could be resistance from some members of the council which is still angry about the 2011 authorization in libya that led to the ouster of moammar qaddafi. bill: there were reports that said the egyptians and russians coordinated with libya. >> reporter: i just spoke with the libyan minister and he told me quote time is of the essence. he says they need help as soon as possible to crush isis. libya want the arms embargo lifted so they have the tools to battle isis on their own. the foreign minister told me there are thousands of fighters with isis in libya right no and the army has been fighting with them since before those coptic christians were executed and

there are some in the libyan community that are sceptical that the international community will want to get involved in libya. they don't expect a permanent resolution will be approved today. bill: you mentioned the town of derna. keep an eye on that. martha: state department deputy spokeswoman doubling down on her comments that the evident to defeat isis should include jobs programs for potential terror recruits. >> we cannot kill every terrorist around the world nor should we try. how do you get to the root cause? it might be an argument by some, the democrats republicans military comearnsd our partners in arab world think we need to combat this. martha: our own ed henry tried

to get some clarification from her boss. >> your colleague last night was on msnbc saying we can't win this war by killing them when talking about isis. what was she trying to say? >> the military component is important and we have done thousands of strikes in iraq and syria, that has continued to pick. you and you covered quite a bit. we need to delegitimize isil. martha: brad, let me start with you on this. when you argue the opposite of what she is saying that it's an oversimplification, maybe it many too nuanced for people to understand. what are we not getting? >> we get it. they are not getting it.

the fact that she would say if we create a jobs program for terrorists they have a job. it's killing americans and killing people who are not in their faith. this is modern daynautsyism. day -- modern day nazism. we have a huge global problem. you don't create jobs for them, you destroy them. that's the on job an american should be doing is eradicating with our allies and our friends this scourge from the earth. martha: i can only imagine what the families of these 21 coptic christians slaughtered on the streets or the 200ing ino -- for the 200 nigerian girls ripped out of

their homes. >> i think she is being terribly misinterpreted here. she is swieg have to get to the root causes. simply having a military action is not going to get to the root cause or solve this terrorist issue. martha: which is what? martha: root cause? >> "people" economically depressed. martha: if that were the case india would be a hotbed of terrorism. there will always be poverty with us, always. >> if all you have is a hammer evening looks like a nail. we have other tools in our tool box besides killing people. we have been pat war now for 14 years. martha: how is it going? >> it's not going well and we are in other eradicating terrorism. we haven't done it in the bush years or the obama years. it doesn't matter who is in office if all we do is kill them

and think we can get rid of terrorism. we are playing whack a mole. we are not solving the problem without getting to the root cause. martha: they say the administration has been at this strategy for some time in terms of the counter terrorism work they are doing in countering violent extremism. my question is, is that plan working? >> it's not working. when you don't identify an enemy for what they are. radical islamists who seek to take over the area they control in the middle east and the world. you heard one of the terrorist leaders say they want to march to rome. this is a systemic problem and the way you win a war is you go in with overwhelming force and you go in to win manner eradicate the even theo -- the -- the

enemy. then we create the atmosphere in which they can live in peace with one another. martha: if you are a moderate muslim of which there are many, many, many who would love for these people to go away and top killing them their own country. do you want someone to help with a jobs program or do you want to make it so impossible for them to exist amongst you that they are gone. >> i don't think she was saying we only have to create jobs. we can help these countries economically. i think she is being misinterpreted. what she said was there are root causes that need to be addressed. simply going in to play whack a mole -- martha: you can't win a war if you don't call it what it is. >> this game gets played, obama didn't say the word "islammic."

he has to say the phrase that pays or somehow he's not concerned about terror. martha: 3 million syrian refugees had to push into other countries, because we crossed the red line in terms of what was going on in syria we decided not to the act. this problem has festered and grown across the middle east ever since that decision. >> jack keane said it the best on fox news. he's so frustrated with the fact that this president refuels to identify the enemy and define the enemy and then go in and eradicate the enemy. we need to win a war not manage a war. >> if we had gone into syria when it was being talked about we would have been on the side of isis. whose side are we on?

martha: now we are going arm the moderate rebels in syria a couple years later. >> we should be out. martha: the word matter tremendously. thank you very much. alan brad. bill: did you see this? vice president joe biden embracing the wife our new defense secretary placing his hands on her shoulders for 10 seconds, then whispering something into stephanie carter's ear before her husband intervened. the moment only outdone later while discussing his relationship with somali americans during the violent extremism summit. i wonder what stephanie carter had to say about that.

reporter: she may say it's no problem. her husband is being sworn in as the second of defense in the united states of america. she is not a child where you put your hand on her shoulders saying isn't it quiting to be here. bill: when you see your somali cab driver today tip him well. 19 minutes before the hour. martha: the opening bell rang down there a couple minutes ago. these are the kind of words people hang on on wall street. they want to know whether interest rates are moving and thedown down 37 points. the s & p closing in on record territory. that's a nice big fat number.

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martha: rescue crews pulling a 14-year-old girl out of icy water in new jersey. she had signs of hypothermia but she is expected to be okay. bill: concerns about potential terrorists hiding among refugees

from syria. mike mccaul saying this about that. >> i have been over there and i have seen them. most of them are women and children. but there are male actors that concern me. i think this would and huge mistake if we bring in these refugees into the united states that could potentially be radicalized. we are not only trying to keep these guise -- the foreign fighters out but under this would be federally sanctioned welcome party if you will to potential terrorists in the united states. bill: gillian turner, a former staffer for presidents bush and obama. you say this is a big problem that hasn't gotten much attention. >> it's also now become so huge that we knock longer avoid.

reality on the ground in syria is there is a constant stream of foreign fighters entering the country seeking to join isis. at the same lime always massive outpouring of syrians fleeing the country to escape the assad regime and the ongoing civil war there. the reality is millions of syrians have become refugees or internally displaced and it's a perfect storm of nightmare conditions for us in terms of counterterrorism operations. bill: you were just in turkey in december what did you see? what did you find? >> turkey has a massive problem with a million refugees inside its borders. when you travel to turkey's major cities the streets are pretty much littered with homeless syrian children. it's a horrendous sight. bill: this is the number we are given now for near the united

states. they put it at least 360. that may seem like a big number here at home. you can look at lebanon and turkey and jordan, they are upwards of the millions. what else your view on our obligation to help harbor these refugees who need safe haven. >> i believe the united states has an obligation to accept these people, harboring refugees fleeing wars across the globe is literally part of our nation's psychological and moral fiber. but at the the same time the government has a real obligation to protect the merit can people from imported terrorism. the key will be our intelligence community. bill: having spend time under two different administrations is it good or not? >> on the intelligence

collection our intelligence community continues to do a fantastic job the limited resources they have. remember a massively slashed budget this year. particularly cia under the directorship of john brennan and nick rasmussen. these are some of our nation's best and brightest career non-intelligence officials. bill: 150 fighters from the u.s. have gone to jordan to battle there. how is this going to ends up? >> the number you decided is important. i find that statistic encouraging when you have gother countries, some of them western and european allies with thousands of nationals traveling to iraq and syria to 0 join isis. the fact that we are at 150 is good. it's closer to zero which is the number we want. it's a lot that 150 is a lot

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be. keeping ahead of aviation threats has always been a top priority. since 9/11 the tsa has been checking bags through the screening process that was originally designed for medical use. it's called the x1,000 and it's the first multi energy stationary explosive detection system to be certified by the tsa. the system has the ability to determine the density of an object and its material. it can tell the difference between a liquid explosive and a battle of cabernet. >> it's faster and cheaper because it's mechanically simple, has less moving parts. >> reporter: developers say the new technology will make

scanning faster and cheaper. bill: seems to be progress, right? day two of the white house summit on countering violent extremism. why the administration is asking community leaders to play a bigger role in the fight against extremists. martha: prosecutors showed this video of the accused killer minutes after he was arrested.

so the whoit house is focusing on the root causes of violent extreme at the panel they are holding hoping to prevent the radical behavior that has been horrific. they are looking for ways to

halt the spread of the radical islam and want to offer a positive alternative to turn their life to rather than that. i am martha maccallum. >> and i will bill hemmer. they are calling on community leaders to pray play a bigger role. president obama writing an opt-ed saying this "we know that military force alone cannot solve this problem nor can we take out terrorist who kill innocent civilians. we have to confront the violent extremist, and enablers" kevin cook is live. the term islamic extremist isn't used but isn't that the heart of the three-day summit? >> rather they say or admit it

violent extremist is at the cor of the issues here. we know they know that. i want to highlight things they want to accomplish. they are representing 60 nations and hope people from becoming radicalized and want to explore entrepreneurship developments. the idea of if i give you hope you are less likely to go kill and they hope to develop social media tools to counter the terrorist. this was supposed to start last fall but they are just getting around to it and the timing couldn't be any better >> what is the explanation given when the question of not calling it islamic extremism? >> i have been told by several white house officials they want

to be careful not to create an us versus them narrative. all throughout the middle east there is a false narrative that the americans are at war with islam and that is not the case and the white house doesn't want to give that more leg so they will talk about how you can practice your faith here and we heard from people this morning and they want to beat the drum islam is not the enemy and killers are the enemy and that is part of the summit. >> kevin cork setting the table for us. thank you. president obama pointing out the peaceful nature of islam and the twisted nature that motivates extremist today. he said with al-qaeda and isis pedaling the law the united states is at war with islam, our

campaign to prevent people from around the world to be radicalized is a battle for hearts and mind. steven dine is here writer at the washington times good to have you. kevin cork touched on this. i think this line is significant. i want to break the quote down into two pieces. the president said with al-qaeda and isis pedaling the lie that the united states is at war with islam. do you think that is the reason that the president doesn't want to be caught on video using the term radical islamist because he believes it will feed into that narrative. >> that is absolutely the reason but the question is whether that is a good enough justification for that. the president has multiple audiences and the important one is the one he is trying to convince at home to give him war powers. you can see the polls suggesting

the majority doesn't trust him in this fight and they believe he is worried about words rather than looking at the fundamentals of the enemy. the white house is causing the obsession with the words and labels because they are afraid of saying that. the opt-ed does get into the fact we are talking about most of the terrorist we are fighting there do subscribe to a muslim belief and this one happens to be a radical muslim belief. so they are acknowledging some of the religious tenants but they will not stick radical and islam together. >> here is eric holder on that. >> we spend more time talking about what do you call it as opposed to what do you do about it. really? if fox didn't talk about this they would have nothing else to talk about.

>> you know look this is an administration that -- obama made his name on words. he is a masterful speech giver and words matter and that is why they are creating the focus on this. we talked about this administration taking six months to send a war resolution to congress. six months to figure out a strategy. the public doesn't trust the administration with the plan holder said we should be focused on. so when they come up with a plan and ways to combat this militarily i think they will have a lot better time selling this. >> in the editorial he says this is a battle of hearts and minds and it is clear he believes that and more than anything we have to bend the thinking of people

in these areas and he thinks you can do that with community organization and convince people it isn't a good idea to join isis. is that you know, is that superficial or over simplistic? >> with the state department this week essentially saying part of the problem is these folks, 17-year-olds without jobs and maybe you could boil down the message, we talk about the economy and the jobs and the president thinks lack of jobs is part of the problem. it is very complex. the president is talking about important things like having moderate muslim clerics to get involved in the discussion. that is important. but when you reduce it to issues of what we call it and we will not use certain terms it is becoming more simplistic. and there is a military aspect. it isn't just about changing hearts and mind.

it is about killing bad guys. >> before we go it is significant, yes that is president used the word egyptian christians when he referred to the men slaughtered on the beach. it took last weekend for them to put those words together. quickly on that steven >> absolutely. the viewers can be forgiven for being confused. they are talking about christian victims and a fight for hearts and minds within the muslim community. at least we are acknowledging the religious aspect of this. the issue of sticking radical and islam together is still not being done. bill o'reilly addressing isis last night: >> we and other countries continue to absorb small blows from fanatical individuals but with isis expanding their territory and recruiting thousands of fanatical killers from all over the world no one is safe.

therefore it is imperative that president obama stop living in a theoreticle/fiction world. the holy war is here. and unfortunately it seems the president of the united states will be the last one to acknowledge that. >> is bill o'reilly right? we will debate that fair and balanced with two terrific guest coming up. and we will debate the war authority for weeks and egypt seems willing to take action. we saw that and heard from rick levinthal and saw what the jordanians did as well. they are taking it seriously as they should. now to the defense and the american sniper murder trial beginning their first full day of testimony today. after yesterday they called the mother of eddy rouse to the stand. they showed another video of him

rambling in the patrol car after the arrest saying i have been so paranoid and schizophrenic today and i don't think what to think of the world and if i am insane. what did his mother have to say in court, casey? >> she started talking off about him as a child saying he was a good kid a guy everyone liked, and joined the marines straight out of high school. when the defense asked how he behaved out of the military and he testified he wasn't the same and in and out of mental hospitals and the dallas va and on nine different medications for psychosis and ptsd. but the real surprise came after the jury had been dismissed for the day when his mother told the

court eddy was receiving military benefits since the murders to the tune of 2800-2900 a month and she had set aside about $30,000 in the count for him. the judge was none too pleased to hear that and said the court was unaware of income or benefits coming in because remember this is a costly trial and he is being represented for free my court appointed lawyers >> the defense asked for a mistrial. on what grounds and what came of that? >> that was a surprise because the prosecution stood up at the start and said they admitted they mishandled evidence by accident and this was all surrounding testimony from a texas ranger by the name of david armstrong who took the stand and while up there he said glass vials filled with an

unknown substance was seized with other drug items from eddy's home. prosecutors admitted the vials were placed into evidence at the crime lab because they contained a chemical used in the test for drugs. they accused armstrong of perjury but the judge said to ignore that testimony and they moved on. and to immigration. a subject that president obama is vowing a fight on after a federal judge blocked the president's executive action. >> i think we will win all of the way for one simple reason and that is the man on the screen is our star witness. 22 times obama said he did not have the authority to implement

this type of measure. >> will that argument work? texas governor greg abbot is here to talk about it. and new cases of measles and we will tell you where and the latest as to why on the outbreak. and have you heard about this? police are looking into victim's version of these events. >> my mom didn't deserve this. she was a mother of four. she was a grandmother of one. my son is only one year and two months. and now i have to deal with my son growing up without knowing his grandmother.

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>> 141 cases of the measles in 17 states and washington, d.c. case cases can be tracked back to disney land in california. doctors are saying most affected were not vaccinated. doctors say it is flowing but far from over at the moment. there is only one leader with a cash to lead the fight and that is obama. this is now a so-called radical war between radicals and everyone else. isis has murdered thousands of

people and they will kill anyone at any time. the holy war is here. and unfortunately it seems the president of the united states will be the last one to acknowledge it. >> bill o'reilly saying the world is in a holy war withcise withcise -- with isis last night. you heard him blasting the president. we have a the founder and president of the american islamic forum for democracy and the author of the battle for the soul of islam and former lieutenant colonel as well and ralph peters is here as well. thank you both for being here. doctor do you agree with bill o'reilly's characterization there? >> i do. and if i could narrow are down as a muslim i would say it is a

holy war within the house of islam between the theocrats and the jihadist all over the world and within the house versus the liberal and secularist that have demonstrated against the brotherhood in egypt and against the islamist around the world. the leader of the free world is the only ally for the reformers. as long as we don't name all islamic states as the new evil empire we will never be able to engage reform and you will never have a solution to the whack a mole project we have. >> this battle has been going on for decades, if not centuries. so it continues and takes the shape of isis at this point and a number of other groups the president has outlined in an

opt-ed. i am wondering how convincing the president is in terms of who we stand with in this battle. >> i believe the president stands with the muslim brotherhood and sees the muslim brothers as the middle ground and the solution. he romanticizes the worst elements of islam. as far as bill o'reilly's comment about a holy war he is right these fanatics are is growing within the islamic states with al-qaeda and others and they are waging a holy war against us. but we are not waging a holy war against them. we are fighting for civilization and the rule of law and we are fighting for freedom of religion

for christians muslims, jews, hindus and atheist. gl you look at what is going on in paris and den mark, i think it is true that civilization in all of these areas around the world is threatened by this rad radicalism. i want to listen to marie heart from the state department saying this is a hearts and mind issue and we need to make sure people have jobs and giving them other things to hope for. what do you think about that? >> i am sorry but this battle of hearts and minds is what we said after 9/11 and this is 15 years later and where are we? they also want to bring the concept of hope from the socialist mindset the

billionaires are the ones that are radicalizing. this is the fort hood shooter for example wasn't looking for a job. if we want to drain the pool the radicals are swimming in that is the supremist behavior of the radical states. this is for liberty. and the president's doctrine which wasn't laid out today was about hope and we have to be for a liberty doctrine. this is a darwin doctrine where the most evil and corrupt survive. i can tell you as a muslim this is almost like a bigotry of low expectation that we can't deal with democracies and let's deal with the people that run the muslim world away from terrorism as the system. >> we will leave it there.

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>> out of this world light show for folks up earlier this morning. that was a meteor streaking across the sky. western ohio and pennsylvania just before five o'clock cameras captured that barreling by at 45,000 miles per hour. hundreds of people saw it. asttronomers say fragments of

the rock may have fallen across pennsylvania. go out andskwand take a look. we were up then but we are in the wrong place. there are ethical questions being raised ahead of an assumed hilary clinton rub. the clinton foundation dropped a self-imposed plan on accepting donation donations from foreign governments and they are accepting money from saudi arabia to germany and in between. what is this about? >> back in 2010 the obama administration asked the clinton foundation to stop receiving funds from foreign governments after taking the secretary of state position. but since stepping down they are receiving donations from foreign governments again.

with hillary considering a run for president this is raising the same concerns. if she becomes president will the governments that contributed to the foundation have a special in at the white house? the australian agency for international development, norway saudi arabia and that astric shows a 2014 australia, netherlands, qutar, taiwan and the foreign affairs trade and development organization in canada. it is illegal for foreign governments to give campaign contributions to a canada but the david levinthal says this is another way into the campaign. >> another way foreign entities can lobby and get the clinton's ears while she is running for president.

>> i was told the ethical questions a obvious to everyone. >> will the foundation continue to take the contributions? >> there is no indication they will not. hilary clinton could have to have her name removed from the foundation if she runs. but this is ammunition for potential opponents including the contribution from qutar who is preparing for the 2022 world cup and the word more than a thousand workers have died building the facilities for the world cup. and chaos at the american embassy in yemen. a fox news exclusive on what happened during the evacuation. it is a very different story from what the state department says. >> and the president is promising a hearing on blocking his executive action on

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president obama's effort to protect millions of illegal immigrants facing deportation is on hold after a judge blocked the executive action for now. the man leading the charge and legal challenge is here now with us, texas governor greg abbot. good morning to you in austin texas. thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. good to be back with you. >> you were on television saying "we will win all of the way" why? >> because of obama's words

himself. if you recall he said 22 times he didn't have the authority to pass a sweeping law like he did through executive action. and then the day after issuing the executive action he said" i just changed the law" and then he said he had to act because congress failed to acts. that sets in the problem with his theory behind this and that is only that congress, not the president, has the authority to issue laws on immigration. the president is making up these laws out of hope clauses. that is what the judge said in this case. and that is the president through the dhs was making this up from scratch. that contradicts the authority granted to the executive branch in the constitution. >> he is arguing the complete opposite and says he will win. this is what he said in the comment from yesterday: >> this isn't the first time

where a lower court judge has blocked something or attempted to block something that was shown to be lawful. and i am confidant that it is well-won my authority and the tradition of the executive branch's discretion to execute this policy. >> he said he will get better border security and go after criminals all over the country doing bad stuff and bring the illegles out of the shadow and into american society. why is he wrong? >> he is completely wrong on what you heard him just say where he said this was prosecution discretion. that is when a prosecutor choses not to prosecute someone for whatever reason. here what they are doing is not such a thing. what they are doing instead is taking a massive group of more

than a million people and not just not prosecuting them but giving them benefits. the trial judge was specifically clear on this issue and that is when you give benefits to those who are in violation of the law that is not prosecution discretion that is rewriting a law that congress has already written. what the president is doing is making up his own law on immigration and that is something he doesn't have the authority to do as president. >> the judge talked about letting the genie out of the bottle and the burden on the states. what is the burden on the states? >> the burden has been immense on the state of texas already. you can remember the scene of thousands of people coming across the border and they are required by federal law to be assimilated into our schools and health care systems and into the

state's fiscal burden to take care of these people. what the judge was talking about is that if the program began today as it was originally intended the state of texas was going to incur additional causes. >> i have a minute left here. the government will no longer check applications pending the ruling from the court. that is a standard move i would suspect, isn't it? >> it is a standard move to hold the status quo until the courts decide. >> the four million illegals are in limbo until this is decided. what happens to them? >> what happens to them is they will continue to live the way they have been living unless and until congress and the president are able to work out a system of

immigration reform which is the way it is supposed to work. >> or if the supreme court upholds the judge's rule or strikes is down. is that what you anticipate? >> i do anticipate it going to be supreme court and i anticipate us winning because the president of the united states does not have authority to decide what the law is in in the united states of america. >> governor thank you for your time. greg abbot from austin texas there. thank you. >> thank you. well with all of the current global unrest foreign policy will be a top issue in the 2016 presidential election. many potential republican candidates are focusing on this. jeb bush is speaking in chicago today. foreign policy jeb bush, what do we expect? >> this is a big speech for him.

it isn't entirely about foreign policy. his last name is an issue and we will talk about that today. he is the son and brother of the last two republican presidents and knows this views will be compared to there. so today we know he will say quote i admire their service to the nation and difficult decisions they had to make. but i am my own man and my views are shaped by thinking and experience. each president learns from those who came before and their principles and adjustments. but one thing we know is every president inherits a changing world. and he will criticize the president and hilary clinton and accuse the obama administration of being indecisive and making the united states look weak around the world. and they will say as a commander

and chief must have a strong military. the gop 2016 rivals have been busy weighing in on foreign policy over the last few days. scott walker was on the kelly file last night and chris christie slammed the president the other night for downplaying how dangerous the world really is. >> this president has the audacity to tell us terrorism is on the run. as they are burning pilots alive and beheading hostages, does terrorism look like it is on the run? >> you were warned about the third world politics. >> in terms of world politics i would like a governor like ronald reagan come in with a strong sense of leadership. >> scott walker governor wisconsin there.

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both are said to be okay. the defense making its case into the trial of the former marine eddy ray rouse. prosecutors showed jurors police video of him in the back of the squad car moments after being arrested following a high-speed chase and you can hear him telling the police i have been so paranoid and schizophrenic today i don't know what i think of the world. i am insane. we have criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor here. thank you, gentlemen, for being here. robert, how significant are the comments in the back of the car? >> i think they are very significant. when there is an in sanity defense they want to see what happens before and immediately after the events because people don't turn on a dime in terms of mental health. he is saying i may be

schizophrenic and i have a problem but he is admitting he did something wrong. >> isn't acknowledging the fact you think you may be insane you are processing you did something wrong? >> that is exactly the point. he is admitting he knew the conduct was wrong and he did something wrong. when you have a mental disease and to be guilty in terms of in sanity he will lose on this because the statements are compelling he knew the wrongfulness of this. >> the defense starts today and it is clear they are trying to present him as a nice guy, good kid, his mom is up there saying the military experience overseas destroyed my son. >> the defense is trying to paint a sympathetic picture of their client not necessarily for who he is today, but who he was and getting a three

dimensional or two deimensiondimensional view of him. that is sometimes difficult to do. but the defense has things to work with in this case. this is an individual who perhas not like chris kyle but served his country in the war and served and helped people in haiti and they will try to betrayal this has a case not involving just two victims, but the victim as the defendant and suffering from ptsd. >> we want to get out of this story and go to tammy myers, who was shot after a road rage incident. and here is sound from her son brandon myers. >> i did what i do to protect my family. everyone can think what they think but i did it for a reason

and i would do it for anyone i love. >> what he is talking about is what we are learning in this case. a fight between myers and her daughter in one car. they went back to their house got the son who is believed to be armed, and went after this guy who insulted him on the road. >> i feel bad for the victims and families but this story hap happen happens over and over again. you don't have a right to pursue someone with a gun. that is not what the case comes down to. it will come down to the fact the defendant came back to the scene of the crime and the issue is going to be according to the reports we have he justopened fire. there is no self-defense. you are supposed to call the police. when the individual is caught

the defense response is going to go away. >> the fact they went after him and came home is irrelevant. >> absolutely. you don't have a duty to pursue people and pull out a gun because you are angry. >> what has been put out so far i think while it is tragic the victim made awful decisions. whatever happened at this road rage scene, she left the scene dropped her daughter off and got her son who was armed with a 22-caliber pistol and went and tried to stalk the other individual in the case. whether or not this is a standard stand your ground state and in every state you have a right to defend yourself but this is a good justification defense when and if an arrest is made. >> i can see how you are saying they through gasoline on the

fire. but the fact remains they disbursed, he came back, pulled out a gun and shot her in the head. >> the question is what happened when he went back and i would bet the son pulled the gun out and he fired the gun to protect himself. >> tom robert thank you very much. >> "happening now" in a few moments. but first, love snow but hate the cold? how about boarding on safe and warm snow? awesome stuff. check it out.

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to protect sensitive information were not filled and spokeswoman jennifer was playing down the decision to pull out. >> we evaluated the security based on the unsecure situations and that has been discussed for a long time. as you know we recently pulled down staff so this was the next step in that effort. >> eight days before the evacuation ambassador matt tooler with the approval of patrick kennedy, one of the state department's most senior executives, ordered open net to stay open in case embassy staff couldn't get out of the airport and had to return. when an embassy evacuates, all classified information is wiped and communication is disabled or removed and that did not happen in this case.

the e-mails show the ambassador and head quarters were not confidant the plan would be successful and wanted the communication line up in a lifeline in a last ditch effort to get out. >> what happened after they left the embassy? >> the e-mails show panic that the communication link was left up and the data wasn't wiped which includes the day to day operation at the embassies and who works there and unclassified e-mails. one e-mail reads in part why need to think about a plan to devoy the open net data. i am a little worried it is out there. we came up with a basic plan last night and i think we need to start implement it as soon as possible. the state department in washington is shown to access the system remotely with only one circuit left.

and half a dozen servers were left in tact including financial management records and passport information. this is the kind of information that could easily be exploited by terrorist. >> sure could. thank you, catherine, for that ex exclusive report. >> the train inferno is still smoldering in west virginia and there are new concerns for the areas water supply now.

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able to do that. >> oh my. foxsters. >> nicely done. >> bye, everybody. see you tomorrow. jon: president obama talking terror today at a white house summit focussing on violent extremism. libya spirals out of control. word surfacing that another shadowy group inside that country may be in control of warplanes. welcome to "happening now." i'm jon scott. jenna: and a lot of news to get to. mr. obama speaking in just a few hours at the summit on countering violent extremism. this is ahead of the gathering the president writing an op ad in the los angeles times saying this. quote, in the face of this challenge, we must stand united internationally and here at home. we know that military force