everywhere. remember missteps don't count. how you handle them does. wow, that is so insightful because in the end it's failures thattic ma you really appreciate success, right? thanks for being part of the real story, have a great weekend. i'm gretchen carlson. mass surveillance in america. this sunday the government will lose its power to collect phone records from millions of americans unless the senate takes action. president obama says lawmakers need to act fast because it's a matter of public safety. but critics say it violates our right to privacy. so what actually happens if the surveillance program shuts down. and two more republican candidates for president jumped into the race this week as you may know. we'll look at the political picture and see how the contenders are trying to set themselves apart. let's get to it. i'm in on this friday for shepard smith. first there's word u.s. military

commanders watched as islamic state savages surrounded the city of ramadi in iraq and they saw iraqi troops dropping their weapons and running. now we're hearing even though the pentagon knew what was coming the military did not order any air strikes and left the fighting to the iraqi soldiers. those claims are coming from intelligence and military sources to bloomberg reporter eli lake who has been a guest on this program. according to his sources, the impending siege of ramadi was an open secret inside our military. the institute for the study of war think tank released policy papers warning ramadi could fall and it did. and reportedly without american fire power to defend the city. a spokesman for the u.s. central command is now claiming -- or telling us the claims are ridiculous and absolutely false. but if they were not aware of the buildup of isis forces outside the city it raises a different question a new question. why didn't our military know?

what many private analysts in fact did know. still, in the fight's aftermath, the white house admitted it was a serious setback. defense secretary ash carter blamed iraqi troops and said they lacked the will to fight. remember we reported that. the loss in the region where we lost so many american lives years ago in the war has pentagon officials saying they'll, quote, fine tune their strategy. but the white house insists u.s. troops will not be fighting on the ground. we'll bring in general jack keen for this in just a moment. first, though -- the islamic state is waging a campaign of death and destruction. this is baghdad, where the terror group is taking credit for a pair of bombings at luxury star hotels there. at least 15 people are dead. john is live in our middle east news hub. john what is the security situation like in baghdad right now? >> reporter: well it's --

there's a lot of concerns harris about whether baghdad is more vulnerable and whether there have been security lapses outside some of these popular places like the two hotels that are, by the way, heavily guarded. particularly concerns about security lapses since isis took control of ramadi just about two weeks ago. now, as far as these two attacks that happened iraqi police say that they were coordinated. that the first bomb was detonated in the parking lot outside the babylon hotel and a couple of minutes later a second car bomb exploded outside the crystal hotel. today police also found a car bomb near the babylon hotel that was, fortunately, diffused. isis posted a message online saying that one of the cars was loaded with 230 kilograms worth of explosives. that's half a ton of explosives harris. >> john huddy, thank you very much. let's bring in four-star general

jack keen appeared the chairman of the group i mentioned, the think tank. general, always good to have you and especially considering what the u.s. central command has just told fox news. it is denying the report that your colleagues from the institute were quoted in what is your response? >> listen ramadi has been important to isis from the very beginning. the first city to fall in january, twepgt -- 2014 was fallujah. isis began to take over ramadi shortly after that and has been enter mitt eptintermittently attacking ramadi all the way up until it fell. the iraqi security forces deserve some credit although people aren't giving them much to having successfully defended ramadi during this entire time which is close to 15 months. i think what happened is after tikrit and the fall of tikrit

isis made up their minds that they were truly going to take ramadi. they had tried many times before and not succeeded. so they generated combat power to do that. they conducted a number of supporting attacks in the area seizing towns, and also seizing some of the influential neighborhoods that are on the outskirts of ramadi so that they can conduct an attack into the government center from those neighborhoods. those are obvious to everybody looking at it. and i think the military characterized ramadi if you can remember at the time, general dempsey said it wasn't as high a priority as the refinery and was not strategically important. i likely think that's a statement that he would likely like to withdraw. >> general, let me step in here for just a second because you said something that i want to press in on. you said at this point you want to give the iraqi forces a little bit more credit. defense secretary ash carter absolutely did not do that.

he said that they looked the will to fight. and from this report supported by your colleagues at the institute for the study of war, it would seem that either we were told something that was different or untrue about the iraqi forces and how we purportedly were helping them or something else. what is it? >> well listen i'm not an apologist for the iraqi security forces. what we saw in fallujah and in mosul was real. we saw the collapse of a force. but we also know as does the pentagon the reasons for that. maliki desecrated them and they stopped training. they took the money and pocketed it. his cronies were in charge from 2011 until what we saw last january. so we had a poorly led and poorly trained force that collapsed. what we've been trying to do is fix that problem. we consider iraq a partner in trying to defeat isis. i think it's misplaced to go out

of your way to criticize them the way we did, particularly over ramadi when they have defended it as long as they did. admittedly they lost at the end. >> okay. let's talk a little bit about what your institute and other analysts other experts say that they knew and our pentagon is saying that it did not know that ramadi was, you know imminently about to fall. don't we have some satellites in that region of the world, something that we might be able to see if something that large like the isis army were on the move? i realize they're not a regiment like ours but i would imagine we have some eyes in the sky, some capability. how is it that people that are experts could see it but the pentagon couldn't? >> yeah i find that absolutely stunning. just supporting attacks in towns around ramadi and also moving heavy equipment forward would also tell you. yes, we should be able to see all of that. obviously seizing the towns is

something being reported on by iraqi forces. the thing that isis deserves some credit for here is the fighters that they moved out of syria, they didn't move them in caravans and pickup trucks like they normally do or military vehicles they put them in sedans and they brought those fighters in in numbers. they were largely their suicide bombers who created the attacks to break down the initial defensive positions. some of those bombs were so devastating, entire blocks were blown up. and they also in addition to that all their fighters followed and they came in then in military vehicles having traveled all the way to ramadi by sedan and doing that deceptively. so we got -- it's not always just blame the iraqi army. they have their problems and their problems are serious. but isis deserves a little credit for what they're doing operationally and tactically as well. >> wow. it's hard to want to give the enemy credit. real quickly, you have some

ideas that do not involve putting combat units, american units on the ground there. what are they? how do we defeat isis without actually doing that? >> i'm not suggesting that we will not eventually need some ground combat forces but i still think it's within the realm of possibility to avoid it and support the iraqi security forces in iraq. the first thing we need is a strategy to deal with syria and the defeat of isis in it. that's their headquarters that's where they resupply from that's where they're recruiting from that's where they're training from. they have grown 70% in the last nine months. that is largely in syria, and we're doing nothing about it. >> what's your strategy? >> the strategy is there to put together an arab coalition to deal with it but we have to deal with assad first. in iraq we just have to do so much more. this air problem that you're alluding to we've got to fix it. we have pilots telling us it's taking them too long to be able to drop bombs effectively and

nobody on the ground to help guide those bombs, particularly in urban centers like ramadi. we call that close combat. that problem has to be fixed or else we're going to continue to see a replay of what we have witnessed in ramadi. more trainers more advisers special operation forces conducting many more raids like we saw in syria, but even larger ones to destroy critical infrastructure and to destroy organizations. and mostly we've got to stop distancing ourselves from iraq and have the determination and resolve that we can win this and put the resources in to do it and then have the tough mindedness to persevere through the setbacks and obstacles that do occur. and i just would finally say that iraq is important to us. not just because we've been partners with them since 2003 because it's in the united states' national interest. we are talking about an expanding isis and iraq is very

important to them. it affects the security of the american people and affects the security of our national interests to have a stable middle east. so iraq matters. and let's get our arms around this problem and get at solving it. >> all right. i know you spoke with the senate house armed services committee last week. you testified and then came on this very program right after and talked with us. i glimpse perhaps a return to capitol hill sir. we'll keep an eye out for that. we appreciate your time general keane. >> good talking to you, harris as always. it looks like one of those anthrax packages that was accidentally sent wound up in australia. the reuters news agency is reporting that it turned up at a facility there, and we're talking about live anthrax here the deadly kind. and a 2008 sample from a u.s. army base. it's reportedly the same army base which sent deadly anthrax to laboratories in these nine states as well as to an air force base in south korea and

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boy, we are going into the second week of this. it's hard to watch, people caught up in the flooding in northern texas, getting no relief from all the storms hitting that area. forecasters say some of the areas around dallas got nearly another 7 inches of rain and they're due to get some more overnight. emergency crews rescued more than 10 people today so far alone. look at this. that police officer got stuck in his patrol car while helping out with rescues today and crews had to airlift him out of there before the rushing waters engulfed his vehicle. now, if they show this shot again a little bit wider, it won't be there anymore. some people in central texas and the houston area have started

the long process of cleaning up. will carr is live for us in houston. will you've seen so much the last few days and the number of people reported dead continues to rise. >> reporter: that's right, harris. at least 20 people have died since last weekend with all of these storms. to our west about three hours from where we are now, hays county eight people still unaccounted for there, across the state more than a dozen. with the searches continuing there's more bad weather expected on the way for a region that's already had a historic amount of rainfall. the national weather service says that texas throughout this month has had 35 trillion gallons of rainfall all across the state. that's enough to cover texas 8 inches deep in water, harris. >> well i know it's still a dangerous situation there in dallas particularly. >> reporter: yeah right now i just got off the phone with the national weather service. they're still in a flood warning after getting up to 7 inches of rain in certain parts of dallas last night and into this

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between hillary clinton and florida senator marco rubio as well. worth noting these results are not within the margin of error, which is just over a couple of percentage points. so that's just how tight they are. caitlin huey burns is here. let's start with those two. in particular senator rand paul. 10 1/2 hours on the senate floor, the filibuster against the government watching us through its huge meta data program, nsa. he's gotten a lot of attention recently. >> some of the most interesting debates this cycle have happened on the senate floor with rand paul. he's running against washington and the establishment but also using his position in the senate to really harness that energy appeal to the crowd he wants to build support, build social media momentum and fund raise off of it as well. >> all right. so what do you think gives him such a good one-on-one with hillary clinton? is it just all of the press he's getting and he's kind of in people's minds or is there

really a matchup that you see? >> i think there could be a matchup. in our polling we've seen him running close to hillary clinton for a long time now. what he's trying to do is not only build upon the coalition that his father established but also expand beyond that really appeal to independents who are kind of fed up with both parties. they might be attracted to republican pripnciples in terms of smaller government but are really wary and concerned about getting into another war and privacy issues so rand paul is trying to appeal to them. the question is can he get through a republican primary. independents the people he's reaching out to aren't necessarily part of that dynamic. >> yeah and you know there are some articles out today that point to the fact that he only gets about 10% of the support within the republican party because of his national security views going in and out of a primary. let's move on to senator marco rubio of florida, and that being the next sort of tight matchup with hillary clinton. why? >> that's really interesting.

well the republican field is wide open because all these republicans see that hillary clinton is vulnerable. they're trying to go after her on this kind of dynasty argument that she's been in politics for a long time. she has kind of a family political machine. marco rubio has been able to really capitalize on that. he's positioning himself as a fresh face for the party, someone -- >> compelling personal stories. >> exactly. and so he is really trying to go toe to toe with her. and republicans looking at this wide open field, you know might look at that. they're looking for a candidate who can take her on in the general. >> let's look at somebody who hasn't declared yet because you mentioned the word dynasty and sometimes that comes up when we talk about former florida governor jeb bush. >> right. >> if we put that up on the screen we can see how he did in a one on one too. a little bit wider spread. what are your thoughts about him if and when he gets in any time soon. >> he's expected to get in hopefully by the end of the summer. they have to be ready for these debates in august.

the thing about jeb bush is that he has that name recognition. i mean everybody knows the bush family. they don't necessarily know him. so you're seeing in that poll that you mentioned, he's in a five-way tie with that kind of sky high name recognition. so that's a problem for him. and he hasn't been able to clear this field. he's been you know racking in the cash and getting top talent top republican staff, and he hasn't been able to scare away all these other people who are running, and there are a lot of them. >> personal stories that are compelling governor scott walker of wis sipconsin is another one that comes to mind. real quickly, let's talk about ted cruz senator ted cruz. we can pop that up and see how he would hypothetically do against hillary clinton. a little bit wider spread even so with him. what are your thoughts? >> ted cruz is interesting. a few months ago, actually a year ago when rand paul did his first filibuster on the floor, ted cruz joined him. this time he didn't.

so i'm seeing that ted cruz is kind of trying to put himself in the middle here. he's trying to position himself a little more pragmatically but he's really appealing to the e evangelical base the conservative part of the party. he's really been trying to court those voters. >> doesn't ring sanck santorum doing well with that group? >> he traditionally does. it's clear that last time conservatives were looking for an alternative to mitt romney. now they have a lot of options. >> interesting, okay. came in second. one of his reasons, he says that he sees why he could win because he came in second in the last nomination process to mitt romney. you say, though his message might be a little close to others. >> right. there are a lot of options the republicans have this cycle so they're not -- they don't have to be -- they don't have to claim a candidate just yet. i think this cycle is going to

go for a while. >> and potentially more people will get in so you and i will have a lot to talk about going down the road. always good to see you. thank you very much. well the government may have to stop collecting your phone records. that is if lawmakers do not extend the nsa's controversial program, and fast. we'll get into it with fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. also china has been pretty busy lately building islands. have you heard about this? we just learned that country is sending major weapons to some of those islands. stay with us.

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millions of americans phone records. it's set to expire on midnight on sunday. senators say they'll come back early from vacation just hours before that deadline. the house passed a bill last week you may know that would have ended the bulk collection of our phone records but it also would have allowed the nsa to search phone company records with a warrant. the senate rejected that. president obama has been pushing lawmakers to reach some deal. fox news sunday anchor chris wallace joins us now. so chris, what happens if the program of this meta data gathering ends next week? >> well it's not next week it will end at 11:59, at midnight on sunday eastern time. at that point the government will not be able to hoover up, vacuum up all of our -- let me make it clear what the phone records are. they're not getting any content. if you and i speak to each other. it would get the fact that my phone number called your phone

number at such and such a time and we talked for so many minutes but they wouldn't have that information. the reason it's important is because if there's a suspect number if they believe that there's a terrorist and they get access to his phone number they can then check to see whether or not that number has called any number in the united states. if that number has called any number and there by conceivably you could detect and roll up a terrorist network, so we won't have that protection anymore. if it's a matter of a few hours or a day or so, i suppose it's not a huge deal. but if it drags on as it has for weeks now, then it will be quite serious. >> just for the record sunday actually is the beginning of the next week. we'll move on. we'll come back from vacation is what congress is saying. really is it that urgent? because the meta data gathering didn't really help us out with foiling the boston marathon bombing and there have been some other short comings of it so what's the urgency? >> well you know if you believe the heads of the nsa,

the heads of the intelligence agency the president, the speaker of the house, the republican speaker of the house, it's an important program in order to keep you know track of various things. it's not just that it's also we're able to wire tap lone wolves we're able to have a roving wire tap so if there's a terrorist and there's a wire tap on one phone but he gets another cell phone, that the wire tap extends to that. it's also able to track business records. the interesting thing about this is that there have been two studies done one that found that there has never been an abuse of this many practice. one that's also found that there has never been a major terrorist plot that has been uncovered as a result of this program. there are an awful lot of people who say it's important but in terms of the worst cases, either that it was hugely important in stopping terrorists or that it's a huge human rights privacy abuse. it hasn't done either.

>> that is really fascinating. i'm going to guess it's not free. so i mean there's got to be budgeting for this too. the reason i say that is rolling out a government program and then ending it i would imagine that would save us some cash but it's interesting, if it hasn't helped us and hasn't hurt us then what's the point? >> well again, all i can tell you is that there are an awfully lot of important people including the former head of the nsa and cia, general michael hayden who will be our exclusive guest on sunday who say this is a vital program and you don't want to shut it down. almost nobody wants to shut this program down even though there's a disagreement. it has to do with a house-passed bill. it wouldn't end the program, simply say that instead of the government holding all of those records, the telecommunications companies, the phone companies would hold them. the senate and particularly mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader wants the government to hold it because they say it will take longer. i don't think there's anybody that thinks that this program should simply be shut down. >> right.

even senator rand paul was saying look we just want to look at the warrantless collection of information on americans. we want to be able to press in on how do we keep from disturbing our right to privacy but also have public safety. so you're right about that. nobody is saying completely wipe away but we do as a nation probably deserve to have some conversation that includes privacy and public safety. chris wallace, thank you so much. now i'm going to brag about your show for just a second. chris will have more on fox news sunday don't miss it with the former nsa and cia director general michael hayden. chris will also talk with republican presidential candidate and former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina. don't miss this sunday on your local fox station. check your local tv listings. china's military has put heavy weaponry on the artificial islands it's building in the south china sea. that's the word from a usa official who spoke with fox

news. the official confirms recent surveillance images show artillery vehicles on one of those artificial islands which are among an existing island chain. u.s. officials say just last week china sent several warnings to a u.s. navy plane flying in the area. defense secretary ash carter says u.s. planes have been patrolling that airspace for years. he has also called upon china to stop building those islands immediately. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer what are these chinese officials saying about all of this? >> reporter: they are of course denying in iany malintent. >> translator: everyone is fully aware of the reason which is some countries keep playing up tensions and tarnishing the image of china for self-serving interests. >> reporter: defense secretary ash carter is in singapore where he toured today. he is there for an annual meeting of asian defense ministers. he even took a selfie with the

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>> there should be no mistake about this. the united states will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows as we to all around the world. >> reporter: the militarization of this chain of islands has not just the u.s. but also its allies very concerned right now. harris. >> jennifer thank you. russian president vladimir putin has a secret army of trolls internet trolls who work day and night to push russian propaganda to computers all around the globe. that's a claim of a former so-called troll herself. she says the kremlin has hundreds of workers dedicated to trashing russia's enemies and praising president putin. for example, when somebody assassinated one of his biggest critics, trolls were quick to react in the comments section of news stories. one wrote, quote, who is this gain from this assassination but america? it must have been the cia. the former troll says anybody who claims president putin was

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a fox report now and more of today's headlines from the fox news deck. folks in india are cooling off in whatever ways they can as temperatures in some spots hit 109 degrees. it's part of the heat wave which government officials say has killed more than 1800 people so far. police in new york and new jersey say they're trying to figure out who was pointing a laser at passenger planes near john f. kennedy airport last night. at least five pilots reported a grown beam hit their plane. feds are also investigating a separate incident today in which a commercial jet had to pull up to avoid a drone during its approach. this happened at new york's laguardia airport. harris back to you. >> thank you very much. the colorado shooter, james holmes was mentally ill but still knew what he was doing when he opened fire inside a movie theater nearly three years ago. that's coming from a court-appointed psychiatrist who's testifying for the prosecution. he says he interviewed holmes nine times after the massacre

for a total of 22 hours. defense attorneys are expected to call their own psychiatrist to the stand who will testify that holmes is insane. alisa is live in our rocky mountain newsroom. >> reporter: hi harris. today jurors heard james holmes tell dr. william reed that when he was feeling awkward and freezing up in social situations he would imagine the people around them with their heads sawed off. also during the court-ordered mental evaluation holmes said as a kid he would not sleep against walls in his bedroom out of fear over what he called quote, nail ghosts. he thought that these ghosts would hammer nails into him. holmes also said other inmates in jail would yell the words "baby killer" at him, an apparent reference to the youngest victim of july 20 2012 6-year-old veronica sullivan who was shot four times. holmes and the doctor also discussed religion and god.

>> just that it's changed. >> reporter: harris holmes also told dr. reed that sometimes at night right before he goes to sleep, he would tear up over regrets over the shooting. harris. >> well you know it's interesting, because we talk about all these different psychiatrists. exactly how many mental health evaluations were done on holmes? >> reporter: right. it's an interesting question because we know of at least three, and there are probably going to be more that we're going to hear of. there were two that were ordered by the court, but the defense had their own doctor examine holmes and in opening statements they said their client suffers from schizophrenia, but dr. reed says the diagnosis isn't that important. >> it's the function. the name of the diagnosis or even what the diagnosis truly is, is not the important thing

in my view. it's how is he functioning, what is he capable of no matter what diagnosis he may have. >> reporter: also today, harris dr. reed says that holmes talks about his disdain for other human beings, his hatred for mankind, and he equates it to his disdain of broccoli. harris. >> thank you very much. well beginning today the observatory at one world trade center is officially open to the public 100 stories above ground. take a look this is a view nied inside one of the elevators on the ride up. we'll take you to the top, next.

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1,776 feet it's the nation's tallest building. the observation deck takes up three floors at the top of the skyscraper where our rick leventhal is downtown. how's the view? >> it's incredible. this is a view usually reserved for those expensive sightseeing helicopters. and we're actually looking down on many of those helicopters as they fly around manhattan. you can see for up to 50 miles, they tell us. we're on the 102nd floor. you're seeing all of manhattan looking north. you can see the river crossings, all the way to brooklyn. 360-degree panoramas here. the elevator ride up is also really cool. we also want to show you the ride down. the elevators are filled with floor-to-ceiling l.e.d. screens and a virtual helicopter ride on

the way down. it's a little disconcerting. but both the ride up and down have day and night versions. it takes 47 seconds to travel 102 floors. this space here is event space that you can rent out. there are three restaurants below us on 101 and the 100th floor is basically all observatory. >> beautiful. and i know just adjacent to that are the two footprints from where the buildings stood. what about 9/11? how is it portrayed in the experience you just talked about? >> there's definitely an air of reverence in the building. there are some similarities to the 9/11 museum here. there's a hall they call of voices where you hear the voices and see the people who helped build this tower and you can also obviously see the memorial when you look down from the observatory. but there's definitely more of a celebratory atmosphere here.

it's more about resiliency and accomplishments and rising up. >> the memorials are beautiful and appropriate. 9/11 museum is -- we needed that to continue to tell generations about what actually happened here. and then we needed to put this building back up and say, we're back. >> tickets are available online at oneworldobservatory.com or at the box office downstairs. $32 for adults 26 bucks for kids up to 12. >> we'll be right back.

a couple of cheesy friday stories for you. we could finally know exactly why swiss cheese has holes. you might not like the reason. in a new report swiss researchers say somehow tiny specks of hay are responsible for the holes.

you see they make their way through the cow's system and come out the other end in the milk. modern milking machines are apparently cleaner and able to filter out the hay much better which explains why there are fewer holes in our swiss cheese than decades ago. and you have to be a pretty big cheese to afford 20-year-old cheddar. a wisconsin cheesemaker is selling the stuff at farmers market for about $200 a pound. it's reportedly one of the most expensive cheeses on the planet. on this day in 1953 the first explorers made it to the top of mt. everest. for decades, climbers tried and failed to reach the top of the highest point on the planet. eventually these two men, a sherpa from nepal and a beekeeper from new england overcame low oxygen levels. unpredictable weather and bitter cold.

making it all the way to the summit some 29,000 feet above sea level. two people reached the top of the world 62 years ago today. and we're ending your week right here. "your world" is next. in case you didn't know isis is still blowing things up fears that we are just blowing them off. welcome, everybody. a rather confusing friday. i'm neil cavuto. isis taking credit for two more car bomb attacks outside baghdad hotels. 15 people were killed so the obvious question is what are we doing to kill them? >> if there are things that we can do to make the flow of that equipment more efficient, to getting that equipment in the hands more quickly of the fighters who need it the most we will look for ways to do that. but we're going to make sure that that effort