to them. >> sure do. >> a lot of people have been expressing that to us this morning. you're part of the hashtag noogastrong. >> thanks very much for joining us. the news continues. martha: he took the lives of four u.s. marines and today authorities are scouring the background of muhammad youssef abdulazeez trying to find out if he had ties with others who may also pose threats to americans. gregg: while we are waiting to find out if the gunman had any ties to islamic groups. we are learning the names of the

victims. thomas sullivan died in a shootout with the gunman. a female navy soldier is out of surgery after being badly wounded. when the gunman started firing dozens of rounds into a recruiting center then driving to a navy marine training center ramming his car through the security gate and opening fire, this is where the four marines died. the governor is saying their thoughts and prayers are with the marines and their families. >> we are sickened by the killings of the marines in chattanooga. we are helping any way we can

from the stateside. the federal law enforcement officials are in the middle of it as well. martha: catherine herridge has more on her work on the suspect's possible ties to terrorist groups but we begin with john roberts who joins me live from john roberts. what are you learning from where you are today? >> at a press briefing close to midnight the f.b.i. reminded people it's in the early stages of this investigation. people from the crime lab are going through both the parking lot, there is an area where there are a number of green marks on the ground where the shell casing, so-called brass fell after abdulazeez opened fire there. the f.b.i. says it could take days before they clear the

scene. it began almost 24 hours ago when muhammad youssef abdulazeez pulled up in front of that recruiting center and according to eyewitnesses pumped 25-30 rounds. a few people were hurt inside. from here he drove down the road to that reserve center 7-10 miles. if you make a look at these aerial pictures. he had to weave his way through jersey barriers. he wrapped the gate around the front of his car drove it into the parking lot where he opened fire killing four people. the f.b.i. and s.w.a.t. teams also checked his home. a couple of women were taken

into difficult. >> we are checking every place he resided or could have reside. where he went to school, who his friends were, if he worked out at a gym. we have information he has been in various locations and we'll check each and every one of those. >> reporter: he weren't to the tennessee of chattanooga. he graduated with a degree in engineering. he interned for the tennessee valley electrical authority where he would have had to go through a background check. we also learned he worked at a plant that produces wire and cable in franklin, tennessee. according to his neighbors he was a normal guy from a normal-appearing family. >> they are friendly, i don't have any issues with them.

they are nice people. a neighbor like anybody else. walk the neighborhood, wave at people say hi. >> reporter: the f.b.i. says they have mom idea what this man's motive could have been to cause him to snap the way he did. martha: he went from one mosque to another over the last few months. how is that community reacting to this news? >> reporter: we are hearing from the muslim community through spokes people say it's heartbroken, devastated by what happened in chattanooga. today is the last day of ramadan. they canceled the celebrations and instead they are encouraging all muslims across the region to attend a non-religious vigil tonight at a local church.

gregg: homeland security ramping up security in places like the military recruitment center right here in times square. local law enforcement like the nypd out there trying to protect those buildings. they stress the response is out of caution. martha: president obama calling the killings of the four marines quote heartbreak. here is we had to say. >> my main message is the deepest sympathies of the american people to the four marines who have been killed. it is a heart-breaking circumstance for these individuals who served our country with great valor to be killed in this fashion.

martha: the president spoke shortly after being briefed on the situation yesterday. he said the nation was also thinking of the local law enforcement officials who were injured trying to stop that violence. more on the president's comments and his suggestion about the lone gunman coming up. gregg: did the gunman have ties to any terrorist groups? investigators are reportedly looking at a blog made by the suspect who turns out was never on the f.b.i.'s radar. catherine herridge continues our live coverage in washington. >> reporter: this is a blog widely attributed to the suspect muhammad youssef abdulazeez. the two posts on july 13 and one recent quote brothers and sisters don't be fooled by your desired. this life is short and the opportunity to submit to allah

may pass you by. investigators are reviewing his electronics. at this point there are several avenues of investigation. >> at this point we don't have anything that ties him to an international terrorist organization. i can't speculate on what his motivation would have been or what affiliation he may have had. >> fox news is told there was no indication he was on the radar of federal law enforcement before the shootings and this is the style of attack the f.b.i. director has been warning about in the last few weeks. gregg: there is a particular focus this morning? >> reporter: the focus is getting the crime scenes processed and determining the motive in this case. the evidence so part f.b.i. says

there is no indication anyone else was involved. the u.s. attorney asked for the public's help. >> if you think you have information that might assist this investigation please call the f.b.i. and they will deal with that accordingly. otherwise this as far as we know at this juncture, there are no safety concerns for the general public. >> the national counter-terrorism center has said they have not seen a direct contact between the suspect and terrorist groups but their review is ongoing. they are noting the islamic state has been encouraging extremists to carry out attacks in the u.s. targeting civilians as well.

gregg: from tennessee this hits very very close to home. martha: thank you gregg. we'll have new details as we go throughout the morning on the murder of four united states marines as we learn more about their identity we'll bring you that information as we get it. that sad situation unfolding in chattanooga. critics say in these understand stiewkss we have left our military as sitting ducks and the situation must change and that change must come from the top. gregg: neighbors say the shooter seemed like a normal guy but did they miss signs of radicalization? >> it's a sad day for the united states. these service members served their country with pride and they have been the victims of

these shootings. we are conducting this as a act of domestic terrorism.

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significant injury but they say the president is in excellent shape and should make a full recovery. martha: bill o'reilly is saying the shootings are a wake-up call to this nation and he's urging this president to call the threat what it is. bill: i believe the president is making a mistake in his tentative nature he takes to the attacks. martha: . lieutenant colonel oliver north joins me now. good to have you here. what do you think about what bill o'reilly had to say last night? >> we all grieve for the marine brothers and fathers.

everyone has had to go through that. martha: if we can pull up the picture of the first young man. >> 14th marines artillery unit reserves called up to help the fight. he was in the battle for fallujah. that won. the purple heart recipient. a hero. what his wife and children are going through is heartbreak and totally unnecessary if we were doing the right things here at home. let me take on bill o'reilly's comments. it's not just isis. it's radical islamic terror. it's been perpetrated against the united states since the 1980s when they attacked our embassy at beruit.

for a while they called it al qaeda. now we are calling it isis. if we limit the search for people who are bad people involved in this, we know it's to the point where it wasn't in touch with isis, he was quote radicalized. the idea that you can stop people from learning bad things over the internet, we are way past that. when my family was threatened by terrorists the united states government provided 37 federal agents who lived with us until i retired from the marine corps. they moved us out of our home and brought us to a safe house and eventually brought us back home. there are 100 military families threatened by name. martha: what kind of protection are they giving? >> not enough. many of them have to live off base because they bought a home, they can't afford to leave it open. so they move back to norfolk or

quantico, you have got to live on board the base and you lose your home. the idea that military personnel can be unarmed or have to be unarmed at a military base is lunacy. martha: a purple heart recipient was trained by the u.s. military to protect himself and protect others is left completely vulnerable. it's my understanding one signature on one piece of paper would allow these guys to be protected while they are trying to recruit people into the military. why has that not happened, colonel north. why is it a big deal? >> the commander-in-chief who is famous for saying i have a pen and telephone. if you are at the white house sign an executive order that go back to 1992 saying everybody on a military base who has a

firearm can carry it. the security for that military facility. if you can bring a mustang through the gate it's not good. in a few hours i'll be at at military installation that has a pop-up barricade at every gate. i'm talking about the hospital at walter reed. the families deserve the protection of the government of the united states. those families who have been threatened need that security not necessarily as big as it was for my family and me. but they deserve to have that. if you want to deal with this thing and end it. destroy isis and we can do that a matter of months. doug mcelway is it viewing a sunni leader in iraq and this administration won't even talk

to the man. he's a courageous soldier in the iran-iraq war, he's a sunni leader. it's the kind of thing if we did that, nobody wants to be involved. they don't want to be a loser in a losing campaign. nobody wants to be the last soldier killed in a bad battle. if we destroyed isis they would stop want to go do jihad because isis would be losing. >> call the war what it is. and fight it here at home and abroad. and i feel for you and for the families of those lost and for everybody who has such a close emotional connection to our united states marines. they are heroes, and they are the best among us along with the rest of the united states military. good to have you here today. thank you. gregg: in. >> the story we are following guilty of murdering 1 people in

the aurora, colorado movie massacre. the question now is will james holmes live or die for his crimes. >> i hope i can do everything i can to see that this guy's colorado privileges are taken away an no longer gets to breathe the sweet air anymore. ct. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda.

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gregg: after nearly three years colorado movie theater shooter james holmes has been found guilty. the jury didn't buy his insanity

defense. >> as soon as you heard the first guilty we knew the come knows were all going to fall. this isn't about a thing who indiscriminately kills and if you looked at it it would kill again if he was let out. thank god the jury saw that. >> only an insane juror could find otherwise. you could not come back with any verdict but guilty. gregg: alicia, it took the judge an entire hour to read the verdict, there were so many different charges. >> reporter: that's right gregg. the moment the judge read the word "guilty" on the first count there was an audible gasp in the courtroom. jurors had tears in their eyes as they confirmed the people

were murdered by a person who was sane. the jurors saw the defendant's notebook which laid out details of the defendant's plans including researching mental illness and colorado gun laws. >> we hope the jurors will do the right thing and we are happy that this animal, this monster will never see the light of day. >> reporter: holmes showed no emotion when he stood listening to the verdict. his parents were silent as well. holmes mother did appear at one point as if she was praying. gregg: the penalty phase of the trial next week. this mini trial is expected to

last about a month where the defense will work to save their client's life. janzen young's boyfriend was killed while protecting her. >> at the time i voted my preference was for the death penalty. getting close to sentencing i have been feeling guilt but i think he deserves that justice. >> reporter: she told me she does not plan to testify at sentencing. she is done and wants to move on with her life. gregg: there is a rainbow outside the courthouse. this photo taken moments after the verdict was read. our producer in colorado snapped that picture. it probably means so much to so

many. martha? martha: that's the kind of scene they will be looking for in the days to come in tennessee. today it is a day of shock and a day of deep sadness after the deadly shooting rampage that unfolded in chattanooga, tennessee. thomas sullivan is one of those we lost yesterday. congresswoman marcia blackburn says this attack shows we need to allow our military to defend themselves. first this reaction from the scene. >> i put a prayer for their family. that's real sad.

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chattanooga times free press. a gunman killing four marines and injuring others. we are awaiting the names of the other victims. marcia blackburn it's good to see you. >> the state is in shock. there is so much sadness over this and disbelief that in a regular average american city, on a summer day that this would occur. gregg: recently isis urged its supporters to carry out attacks on americans during ramadan. now the pentagon is saying they did nothing to order increased security at those locations. is that a mistake by the

pentagon? >> hindsight is always going to be 20-20. i think the more important question to ask is what is the strategy our nation is going to have with dealing with this online radicalization. and the president has the ability to develop a strategy to work with homeland security with intel, with our house committees and bring something forward. gregg: civil libertarians cry foul. >> we have the young man posting the tweet that went out yesterday. a strategy in dealing with this online radicalization. >> it keeps happening again and again. shootings at it in facilities. the recruiting center in little rock. the navy yard in washington, the

fort hood massacre. in the last 19 years 21 shootings at military installations in the united states yesterday was the 21st. the president has the ability with the wave of a pen to sign an order to say these individuals, marines yesterday are allowed to be armed to defend themselves and others but he hasn't done it. >> for them to come forward with recommendations -- >> he's the commander-in-chief. >> the president should be listening to his joint chiefs. and he should be listening to the commanders and make a decision. of the recruiting offices are

not places where they have arms. it's where people enter to seek a career there military service. what happened yesterday is so horrific. people say i never would have imagined something like this would happen. and you don't envision something like this. >> do you have of any reservation calling this a terrorist attack? >> you look at what happened yesterday, the f.b.i. took control of that investigation. domestic terrorism. i think the concern is what this may lead to. i'm not fond of the lone wolf term. when you have this online radicalization in sleeper cells around the country that citizen vigilance is an imperative. >> i know it's been tough on you and never tennessee and all

americans. thank you for taking the time. martha: what we are told about this gunman web was a wrestler in high school were he graduated from college in tennessee, he was from cuff wait but what he raised with his flame in the united states. his blog shows signs that he was becoming radicalized. but the f.b.i. didn't have him on their radar. there are so many out there that they couldn't possibly have all of them on their radar. tucker carlson joins me. you know, what's going on here? >> you don't want to draw immediate conclusions before all the facts are in. it's true violent crime in the united states is on the rise under this administration. but certain facts fit a long standing pattern near the united states and in europe going back

decades. you have a muslim immigrant to the united states starting off secular. part of american secular society, becoming increasingly radicalized and it ends in violence. we have seen this story again and again. it would not be surprising if that crime fit that preexisting pattern. what's shocking to me is the unwillingness of the authorities and the administration in particular to acknowledge this. contrast this with the reaction to the shooting in charleston where he in effect said white racism is america's biggest problem. it's common for black citizens to be murdered by white racists and of course it's not. there has not been one word in the pattern to which it seems to fit. this is part of his political base. but snoreover this man if it

turns out he was motivated by this political beliefs. political correctness blinding the authorities in the course of doing their job and that's kinds of scary. martha: it feels like there is such a disconnect. people are very unneverred in this country. you see it showing up in different ways. in polling. people are concerned about our military. recruiting centers. they are concerned with people popping up and killing people across the country. if you can't come over here we would like you to carry it out yourself. we have seen all of these examples in canada, australia right after nine rrl the way we

felt the administration doesn't seem to have that feeling. >> not only the feeling but has taken affirmative tems to stop any conversation. the crimes are muslim immigrants committing crimes in those countries. 30 years in europe. we have seen what happened. offing the floodgates from countries where islamic extremism is common. don't shut down immigration maybe we should at least talk about it. you can't even talk about it. to me that's the most strike and chilling part of all of this. the inability of the country to have a non-hateful open minded and sincere conversation about the effects of immigration opening our national fabric, especially from certain countries. if i tried to have that conversation you are immediately

dismissed as a bigot. americans don't hate muslims or immigrants. but let's be real. gregg: the deadly shootings in chattanooga reviewing the debate over so-called gun free military zones and growing calls to arm our service members at military sites. plus there is a new twist in the dramatic prison escape of the mexican drug lord el chapo. it turns out he had a big head start. they're ready! make summer awesummer with totino's pizza rolls. and get a free movie ticket when you spend $10.

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gregg: we are getting new details on the escape of the drug lord el chapo. it took 18 minutes for prison guard to discover he was gone. unverified pictures posted

online by he will -- by el chapo's son appear to show him nursing a beer and sitting in an airplane cockpit. martha: donald trump weighing in last night on o'reilly. >> it's total lack of respect. these are four great marines from what everybody tells me. they are not allowed to carry guns is ridiculous. this guy walks in he has got a gun, they are sitting there as targets. it's absolutely disgraceful. martha: so once again you have donald trump who is on top of our most recent fox news poll. his politics and what he's talking about seems to be coming

together with these horrific things happening in the real world. mary katharine. cushion about gun control and arming. people at recruiting centers. this man did two tours in iraq and was award a purple heart but he wasn't allowed to have a gun to protect himself in that room. it's so tragic. >> i know liberals will take issue with saying we should have no gun-free zones. these shootings take place in gun-free zones because people cannot protect themselves. these are marines trained to to protect themselves and they have volunteered to be our sheep dogs and protect us and we take away their means to do that. martha: juan, what do you think?

>> i'm baffled by this conversation. this is a strip mall. what we are talking about here is a strip mall with stores and hamburger stand. i don't think you want people walking around with a gun. everybody who gets into an argument. martha: this is a marine recruiting center. that's where this man selected. he went there on purpose with that intention. he killed four united states marines are who were unarmed in that facility. how can you say it's just a strip mall. >> what do you mean? it's a strip mall. that's where it's located. what we are talking about is you are saying -- you will be in fave of the wild wild west, everybody has a gun on them as they are walk can around the mall? not my mall. martha: i don't think you heard a word i said. we are talking about arming our u.s. military at recruiting

centers. why? because there are hundreds of threat that exist against military families in this country juan. it's going to happen again. >> martha, you can pander to fear allege sight and anger over what happened, but it is not a substantial policy to say where we have military police who do have guns, where we have situations where we say we don't want everybody carrying guns that somehow that's i will logical or bad policy. >> it's a rational completely no-brainer policy to say that military personnel who are working in military matters might carry might protect themselves because they are targets. this is the new world that we live in where people are soft targets. where strip malls are targets. it does seem i will long cal to take the power -- it does seem i

willseemilllogical. martha: i wanted to talk about donald trump and i think we still are in a way. he's saying what a lot of people would like to hear, juan. he's saying that for one thing it's ridiculous that these guys are not allowed to arm themselves. they are trained united states military. and they are clearly a target of these islamic radical groups. they made that perfectly clear. so the fact that donald trump is willing to say stuff that people think and feel is what's make him resonate and working for him on the issue of the bored as well. do you not understand that? >> i understand you can say things that other people say i wish somebody would say that. that's pretty wild and radical.

donald trump says it and they say he's speak the truth and he's authentic. but if you think about the policy and why people are having discussion and put limits in place, i think you will understand it makes for a better society. he can play for political passion. he did an interview and spoke to the nra. he's playing politics and trying to win them over by satisfying their immediate need. i don't think he's speaking to our larger concerns as americans. >> you are right that he's playing politics. in the past he has been for an assault weapons ban. so he has been on the other side of this issue. but i do think he's tapping into something. and no it's not insane to think that people trained to protect themselves and others could have guns to protect themselves and others in places that are obviously targets.

i happen to agree with him on this issue. >> you could say that about the post office. people have the right to carry guns. but in the workplace we say no, not in this workplace. martha: you are making a comparison to post office shootings and islamic radical movement going on since 1982? >> i'm making a comparison to workplace violence. this is their workplace. their americans. martha: juan and mary katharine. the conversation is going to go on. gregg: a massive tornado carving a path of destruction in the

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gregg: you will be working this weekend tracking the twisters so we'll keep our viewers informed. we'll stay tuned to fox news over the weekend. it's not just twisters, but it's hurricane season. >> reporter: even though nooa iso d even though noaa is predicting a lower than average season people don't know how to prepare for a hurricane. so i'm helping that situation. gregg: with freddy the frog caster. there is your book. it says by janice dean, the weather machine. hurricanes can be scary to kid. so you decided to do what? >> reporter: to take the scare out of weather situations. the first book was a thunderstorm the second book

was a blizzard. this one was the hurricane book. i don't want this to be scary. i want kid to be prepared and go to mom and dad and say do we have our emergency kit? if there is a hurricane do we know what our evacuation route is? if you talk to your kid in advance it takes the scare out of situations. that's freddy's first on hair moment at the frog news network. gregg: that's me break out in frog sweat. there is a picture of froggy on a serve board. if you want to catch that. janice dean and the weather machine book. martha: military installations across the country are on high alert because of that. yesterday's deadly attack in tennessee. what the intel community is

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the man who committed this was born in kuwait but studied here. investigators are going through this computer and cellphone records searching for a motive. >> would you consider this an act of terrorism? >> i don't know enough to say that. we will let the u.s. attorney make that call. that is why you do your homework to see if this is one person for whatever reason committed a stupid horrible act or was there another connection. that is why the fbi will do their work. >> jennifer griffin is life at the pentagon. i know you have been looking into this story and learning about these individuals killed. tell us what you can this morning. >> thomas sullivan age 40 was from springfield massachusetts and joined the marines in 1997 he has two siblings, no children of his own according to family

and friends. he fought in the 2005 battle of abu grave and earned a combat action medal and purple heart. i am told he earned a second purple heart where the operation chief and motor transport chief was killed. youngest killed was corporal lance 19 years old. the young lance corporal was a reserve member. >> talk about the unit and what they were known for. >> reporter: they were battery 14th marines. a reserve artillery battery. they were named after the johnny cash song. this unit made history by firing more rounds an any other artillery batter since vietnam and members have been activated

three times for service in the iraq war with the first to 2004 in 2005 they deployed to new orleans for katrina. they were known for their toys for tots drive every year in chattanooga locally. thank you. >> jennifer griffin, thank you much. the president is pledging a thorough and prompt investigation into the deadly tens shooting. kevin cork is live. what is the administration saying about this? >> reporter: yesterday, we heard from the president and we heard from white house officials this morning saying they are putting the full amount of resources into this investigation involving every agency they could involve to get to the bottom of what happened so tragically in tennessee.

>> we take all mass shootings serious seriously and when you have an attack on a military base we have to get all of the information to determine how the attack took place and what further precautions we can take in the future. >> reporter: the white house is reeling given this is the latest in what is a series of attacks on the homeland. >> i did research. there have been 21 different attacks in the last 19 years on military facilities like yesterday. on average once a year. are republicans stepping up criticism of the white house handling of terrorism and national security? >> reporter: no doubt. if you think about it through selective profiling and looking at the right target the administration rolled that back

in the last few years. listen to what peter king the congressman from new york told our megyn kelly last night. >> how significantly have we rolled that back under president obama? >> president obama has been overseas and not here. jim comey is doing a great job but the tone against what they call profiling and i call good intelligence and surveillance. >> the failure of this president to identify the enemy is leading to a proliferation of striking against us. the reality is he may not want to be at war with islamic extremist terrorist but somebody has to clue him in they have been at war with us for 20-25 years. >> reporter: you heard the mayor there talking about the long standing history of attacks not

just as you pointed out on military instillations but the homeland broadly speaking. and we will hear from josh ern ernest in a couple hours. >> kevin cork thank you. the president's response to the shooting rampage raises question about this and previous attacks as acts of terrorism. and charles krauthammer picked up on that on special report last night. watch. >> when you say alone government what you are doing is disconnecting the dots. when we had the underwear bomber trying to bring down the plane over detroit. obama immediately said this was an isolated extremist. it wasn't. i think it is the whole six and a half years of obama always wanting to air on the side of downplaying the threat. the threat is radical islamist.

>> chris is here with us. >> so good to be here. >> great to have you. this is the discussion: how serious does the president take the threat? he does look for opportunities to call it anything but. >> one month ago today the republican party faced a test and that tes was there was killing in a church in south carolina and who would call it racist and who would ascribe the motive to the killer. many thought, and i would say democrats hoped they would fail and many in the press thought they would, almost to a man, maybe one exception everybody said this is racist. the president and his party face a similar test. will you name the name? will you say the thing? we understand, we heard the governor in tennessee, there is one thing that is appropriate

caution where you say i don't want to jump to conclusions. this could have been domestic or another motive. as it was the case in charleston it is important to say why. >> it was touched on in the last report the fbi and pentagon seem to be sending out a message that is different from what we are hearing from the president. they feel they are not being given the rope they need to deal with this problem. they are working at the hands of the president of the united states so obviously they are careful about the way they talk about these things but i think the message is getting out there that they want to handle things differently. you have the president responding to what happened in chattanooga and let's play that response one more time: >> we know what appears to be a lone gunman carried out the

attacks we identified a name and a full investigation is taking place. >> it is not necessary for him to come out and say that the jihad is upon us and we must do arms to arms. but the question is today, today is the day you give people the benefit of the doubt, you want facts and evidence to come in. today is the day that the white house is obliged to start to talk about motive and explain because of the data points suggest ish islamic millitant behavior. >> when you look at ferguson baltimore and even back it the cambridge police and that debacle and even bill cosby what the president says when there are times you have to hold some of your cards, he said we have to wait and see how this

plays out but i think the police are going after these young black men in america, i think the police in cambridge acted unjustly but he will not go there and hasn't in any of these incidents >> the question is now he has a party and a frontrunner to be his successor in hillary clinton. she is in her first cattle call that the democrats have had this cycle. they are all going to be on stage in iowa -- >> will they use the phrase? >> will they say islamic extremist or radical islam? >> should they? >> of course they should. their base will not like it just like people didn't like take down the confederate flag. if the democrats want to keep the white house they better be able to say the i-word because

if they not they will not enjoy the trust of the electorate. >> greg back to you. yesterday's attack coming after a warning from the fbi about possible lone wolf attacks. >> isis says go kill. here is a list of military members you can go kill. go do it. we are stopping these things so far through hard work the use of sources, the use of online undercovers but it is incredibly bevelled difficult. >> we will ask max thornberry what else is being done to stop these attacks. and the white house is making a hard sell to get congress to sign off on the

nuclear deal with iran. does the white house have a backup plan all along to make sure this deal would go their way? >> they have a clause that says it will not be implemented for 90 days but this is quite a different place than we expected to be. i think it is something that shows at a minimum a lack of good judgment. >> and wisconsin governor scott walker is rising in the polls but does he have the momentum to get to the top of the pack? >> i love this country. >> i know you love this country and want to be out here. there is no doubt as challenging as things are we can turn this country around. we just need new, fresh leadership. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com.

fox news alert. learning more about the gunman in yesterday's shootings in tennessee. the feds are investigating a month long trip the suspect took to jordan and whether he had any contact with extremist or visited any other countries. we are working to get more details and will bring it to you once it breaks. the obama administration is facing a new hurdle trying to sell the iran nuclear deal. they have been blasted for paving the way for the united

nation to lift the sanctions against tehran before congress has had the 60 days to review the deal. here is what bob corker said. >> i look at that as an a front to the american people and congress and the house of representative. >> senator hatch the most senior gop senator, is joining us now. >> nice to be with you. >> nice to see you in washington. samantha power circulated a draft regulation that would send the sanction on iran once they agree to curb their nuclear program. it is all sting ahead for this plan. >> i think they are making a terrible mistake. proith now it looks as if they

can make it. i don't know where the democrats are in the senate. it is likely they will get together and decide to support the president on this. this is just like jamming a stick in our eye in the congress. look the congress is what really counts. i don't know that i will ever fully understand why president obama does these things other than he must hate congress and i can understand that. >> let's look how the vote is stacking up. senator schummer is the main consent on this. he is from new york and has a large group of jews he supports that are interested in israel's interest. any feeling how he feels on this? >> he is one of the most political and why he is going to be the leader in the next

congress congress. he has to think this through. do we want to give the president this kind of support? on the other hand it is beyond the president. this is a bigger issue than just the president or congress. this is an issue on is this agreement worth supporting or something we must insist on? those are the questions that ought to be asked. the president doesn't automatically go to the u.n. and getting rid of the sanctions before congress it act is a stick in the face to congress and a stupid stick in the face to congress. >> let's look at the polls. what the american people feel about this is what everyone on capitol hill is looking at as well. can the united states trust what iran said about nuclear weapons?

80% says no. the president would probably say we are going to verify it. let's look at the other one going to the issue of how -- the we go. are you concerned that president obama is easing sanctions too much to get this deal iran? which is precisely what they are talking about at the u.n. if you put together the very and somewhat of concerned you are at 68% saying don't ease sanctions in order to get this deal. >> it shows the people are in advance of the executive in this country. the people understand this is a dangerous thing. we also have to consider the feelings of israel and saudi arabia, egypt and other friends like jordan just to name a few friend in that area that have to be frightened as israel is. look you just don't do this to your allies. you don't do this to your

friends or the congress of the united states; jab a stick in their eye saying i don't care what you do we are getting rid of the sanctions. i would be working with congress if i were the president because he has a better chance of getting approval and thus full american support but i am not sure he cares. >> joe biden is over there working on congress and we will see if the president does the same. senator, hatch nice to see you sir. >> nice to be with you. >> we have updated information we have learned the identify of another victim. lance corporal skip wells from georgia and in the u.s. marines reserve. and thomas sullivan from massachusetts who was an iraq war veteran and purple heart recipient. two other service members died and we are working on getting their names.

and islamic terrorist calling on followers to launch attacks and military facilities are very attractive targets. why are they gun-free zones? pete is next on that. >>

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new calls for the pentagon to end gun-free zones at military instillation that policy leaving highly trained marines in chattanooga defenseless. steve is here from ceo of concerned veterans of america. for 23 years, military personal here in the united states have not been able to arm themselves,

defend themselves what is the rational behind that? >> well, multiple rationals. you have this kind of threat that didn't exist for a long time so it didn't seem necessary to have armed armed forces that are currently unarmed at this point on home soil because of no domestic threat. second the perception of policing of our military is something folks have been sensitive about but you have a culture that likes the military cocoon and base where every wherein is secure, weapons in the in the arms room and accountability is important. i think those three things, and really a safety-conscious military culture -- ironic because they are trained to be warriors but are coddled at home has led to this. no one is to blame. it is the momentum of things we need to undo.

>> it has been happening over and over again but the policy of gun-free zone has not changed. i am not making it up. it was a recruiting center in little rock, the navy yard in washington, the fort hood massacre massacre. 21 u.s. military facilities some recruitment centers like yesterday have been attacked and the people there military personal were not allowed to defend themselves and were murdered because of it. isn't this a no-brainer? and it should have been changed a long time ago? >> the pentagon doesn't want it and there is a willful blindness that radical islamist are coming for us at home.

sometimes it takes the most horrific to demonstrate how disarmed the military is and they are not afforded the second amendment rights when in uniform. an iraq and afghanistan vet is introduceing legislation allowing recruit recruiters to be armed or whoever is in charge of that. we have stripped the second amendment right from service members in uniform especially off base and even on we have to look at we are in a different world and if we don't trust thetes these guys to carry who do we? >> absolutely. we are at war. isis issued an order to supporters to carry out attacks during romamadanramadan which ends this weekend, and the military is

saying they didn't increase security and clearly the military is a known target. did the pentagon make a mistake there? >> pentagon has made a mistake. they are taking queues from the white house refusing to call this an islamic terrorist enemy. you talk about extremism as opposed totargeting what it is -- to targeting where it is coming from. i went out and bought a couple guns after this because at the end of it day if you don't have one you are scrambling behind the desk. we have unarmed services or armed forces and we need to be willing to arm them safety precautions need to be there. i was a platoon leader and you introduce you variables and complexties if you have young guys with their only personal firearms no doubt there are

complications that would have to be worked out. but you have to be willing to step back and say we are at war with threats against military members and targets and if they are not armed they are in serious trouble. >> thank you very much. >> you got it. americans could benefit from a potentially big medical break through with cuba's vaccine for lung cancer. dr. park siegel is here on whether he thinks this is as promising as it sounds. and hillary clinton campaigning in iowa today. critics say she lost to obama there in 2008 and we are live in the hawk eye state next. 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. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda.

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same stage today. mike is live. are tay setting fireworks off in iowa tonight? >> some of the sharpest jabs will be directed toward donald trump and the republicans running for white house but we have all five presidential candidates for the democratic side together. a lot of folks are saying five? hillary clinton bernie sanders, martin o'malley and former road island governor and former senator jim web. clinton and sanders have the most staff but clinton support is lacking internally. >> that excitement isn't there yet -- energy -- a number of office holders have endorsed her but others have been holding off or have endorsed say bernie sanders the more progressive side of the party. >> reporter: a lot of folks will

be watching to see if there is more excitement for bernie sanders than hillary clinton or if it is reversed. >> any of these five shaken hands yet? >> reporter: the former maryland governor has been here did an event in des moines and has been talking about immigration. >> we need policy do is keep families together but we need to protect the public if there are people harming others. >> reporter: democrats are looking for someone who can win the election. they are still slighted from the senate race where joni ernst won. mean while there is a brand

new fox poll showing a shakeup in the republican field. donald trump on top at 18%, scott walker in second place at 15%, and jeb bush followed at 14%. ed rollins is joining us and joe trippi as well both of them are fox news contributors. great to see you both. trump on top. is that fleeting or durable? >> my sense is fleeting but a lot of people are not excited about the candidates and trump has dominated the media. he is a celebrity and has more name id to begin with. i ran ross perot campaign 24 years ago and he was at 39% in the polls beating everybody at one point in time and in about

an eight week period he went to 16% and dropped out. once the attacks start and they will by the candidates and media, some of that will evaporate. >> and joe remind me of howard dean on top and then took a nose dive. sorry about that. but i want to ask you this particular question because it is a fox news poll. a majority of people think he is a loud mouth. 34% think he has guts and they admire him. the washington post said dems are thrilled about that. are they? >> i think dems would much rather face trump than jeb bush or rubio or walker or casic. but what trump is a master at is capturing media attention. he is better at that than anybody in this race.

as ed said he has dominated that part of the media attention for a month now. it is a strange thing and a good example of this the more media attention you get the easier it is to capture it. we are talking about trump leading in the polls. i agree with ed at some point it is likely this attack will take trump down a few notches. but we may be a long way off from that. >> let's switch over to the democratic side. this first poll showing trouble for hillary clinton. 58% thinks she hides the truth and 33% thinks she tells the truth. look at this next one. 70% of voters say dishonesty is a deal breaker for their vote. reaction ed? >> i think it is a lack of

excitement among democrats and she doesn't have a serious challenger in the race. those are hard to move away from. when people don't think you are honest after a 30 year career they have been watching you in that is hard to erase in the campaign. my sense is that is going to be one of her achilles heels. >> can she erase that? >> people will have different sets of doubts about everyone running and that is what the campaign for president is about; addressing those and leaping those hurdles in a way that the bes candidate who does that usually wins the thing. right now, frankly with the doubts that people are expressing about her she is still ahead of everybody in the democratic primary and double thinly digits ahead of republicans even the better known ones like jeb

bush and donald trump for example. so we where it goes from here. >> we will see where it goes. and finally, ed quickly go ahead. >> i think the critical thing is six months before voters move half a million of advertising, $500 million loses number a lot. hillary, a candidate you trust would be a tough slogan that could overcome that. >> money is the mother's milk of politics. >> unfortunately it is. >> joe trippi and ed rollins, good to see you. we are heard warning after warning about potential attacks on american soil. "the wall street journal" is now reporting as they investigate this recent attack they are looking into the travel of the gunman in yesterday's shooting including a seven month trip he took to jordan. was this attack inspired by isis? the chairman of the house armed

service committee joins us. but first more reaction from chattanooga. >> we are all cuonnectconnected and care for everyone. >> everyone is shocked and we are blown away to be honest. you cannot believe it, really.

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domestic terrorism investigation is now underway after yesterday's deadly attacks in chattanooga. investigators trying to figure out what happened here. you see the man on the left who was killed on the scene after killing four united states marine. the fbi director just testified on the hill last week warning they were very concerned about this just this kind of incident. his agents are vigilant but they cannot stop every attack every time. >> we are stopping these things so far through hard work use of

sources, online undercovers, but it is incredibly difficult and i cannot see me stopping them indefinitely. >> he has been trying his hardest the director of the fbi. i am joined by the chairman of the house arms committee and we are happy to have you here. we are thinking about the families and the u.s. marines we have lost. we have two pictures of individuals and it is hard breaking and makes us wonder why they cannot be armed. >> i think they should be. but it is true, u.s. military is a unique powerful force for good in the world and that will make them a target for evil. we can do more i think, to help them protect themselves especially on military instillations. we are working on a provision on a bill we are putting the final touches on that would require the secretary to come up with a procedure to allow theme carry weapons on instillations.

recruit recruiting stations is more complicated but woe need to look at that. >> it was recruiting station and a u.s. naval center where the four people lost their lives. and we have as i said pictures of them because we are starting to put names to faces. there are the two different scenes of the shooting. this is thomas sullivan. we know that lance corporal skip wells is the other person notified. it is ic. and a general made comments saying that they know they are vulnerable at the recruiting center because isis has said they want to attack the u.s. military at home and hit their families. so what is being done? >> they are vulnerable and isis made it clear they want to attack the military wherever they are including at home.

i think it would help if they can better arm themselves when here at home on instillations but it is not the only answer. what else needs to happen is we have tied our hands from gathering intelligence and you cannot always find a piece to stop an attack but we need robust intelligence gathering and have been taking steps backwards and tying our own hands and making it harder to find out what people intend. >> how so? >> a variety of things going back to the snowden disclosures make it harded to listen to communication, intercept e-mails. there may have been a fragment of communication that could have helped us with this. the other part is we are not doing well in fighting the ideaological war.

isis is encouraging people to go out and attack americans. there are not enough muslim voices saying don't do that. as well as this physical war in the middle east and around the world. there is a war going on over the internet and other places. >> we hear that given lip service. the president said he need a stronger presence in social media and need to fight back. one element is there. we hear about people being recruited in prisons. but these are kids in college now. and we may have been recruited online. we have seen parallel stories like that. is this because we are not willing to name who we would be addressing that to? >> that is part of the president's problem. he is not willing to speak clearly about the threat and what we face and how to deal

with it. and our government is not very well equipped to fight like this. we did well in the cold but but dismantled these things. so the fears the government is going to overstep bounds with propaganda meant only one side of the story is getting out. muslims around the world need to participate but u.s. leadership is crucial. >> i heard an analyst talking about in world war ii if he had landed on the beaches and someone directed don't call anyone a nazi while you are out there it would be absurd. is that not an accurate parallel? >> i think it has a lot of application to this situation. you have to be able to speak clearly about the enemy you are facing facing you have to learn all you can including listening to their communication and fighting them saying nazi or in this case islamic extremism is wrong and

you have if you do it you are not going to heaven and going somewhere else. we have to have more muslim voices push back. >> their message is strong and effective it appears. congressman thornberry, thank you very much. >> greg, back to you. >> more on the tennessee shootings ahead plus a burglar helping out police by taking an accidental selfie. yep, it is true. next.

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interested to the park as well. >> very interesting and very hopeful. dr. marc siegel thank you. the army officer weighing in on whether the military should be getting rid of gun-free zones. general ray saying there are no immediate plans to arm soldiers at home but the army is going to conduct a look into issue based on the picture you see on the screen. he knows they are vulnerable to the lone wolf scenario we saw yesterday but they don't want to over react. yesterday's shooting happened in a gun-free zone raising questions on why our service members cannot arm themselves. more on that hot debate coming up. ahh! they're ready! make summer awesummer with totino's pizza rolls. and get a free movie

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gregg, thanks for being with us as well. >> we miss you. come back to you martha. >> see you next week. >> "happening now" beginning right now. jon: fox news alert. a search is on for answers after horrific murders of four u.s. marines. federal investigators treating shooting rampage in chattanooga, tennessee, as possible domestic take rich. they previous the gunman acted alone they say. welcome to "happening now" on this friday. i'm jon scott. >> i'm heather childers in for jenna lee. police say the gunman was a 24-year-old american born in kuwait. mohammad youssef abdulazeez, an engineer who opened fire at two military sites in chattanooga. the heavily-armed man killed four marines. injured three other people before officers were able to take him down. federal authorities say that the gunman did not appe