instagram. >> we'll have a segment on that next week. that's it for us "special report" is next. is it open season on cops? the manhunt intensifies for three suspects in the murder of a popular police officer near chicago. this is "special report." >> good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. at least 100 law enforcement officers are looking for clues, running down leads, an conducting what are called saturation paroles in an expanding search area as the hunt for three suspected cop killers continues tonight outside chicago. correspondent mike tobin is live again this evening in fox lake, illinois. hi, mike. >> reporter: and bret, as the manhunt continues we have late developments. just a short time ago we saw a

large group of officers it looked like federal agents, sheriff's deputies and a couple of local police officers, heavily armed. some of them wearing body armor. desend descended on a house in fox lake. that has wrapped up in a short period of time. police will only say that it is part of the investigation and this intense manhunt. thornlts authoriti authorities appear to hold back nothing trying to find the cop killers. helicopters, dogs, personnel from federal local and state agencies. two white males and one black male. all the effort and all the intensity only ruled out the search area. >> after a 14-hour intensive manhunt for these individuals, the perimeter was pulled last night at approximately 10:30 as the individuals were not located within that perimeter after being extensively checked.

>> reporter: lieutenant joe gliniewicz confronted the suspects on tuesday morning because it was early. they were in an industrial area and they looked suspicious. >> you see three individuals there that have no reason for being there. it would be a fundamental police procedure to stop and at least question them as to why they're there. >> reporter: there was a foot chase. the next communication came from the officer who found gliniewicz. >> send everybody you possibly can. officer is down. >> reporter: some efforts today turned to healing. bunting was hung from the police department as well as town signs, black and purple, symbolizing mourning. fox lake remembers a veteran police officer. lieutenant gliniewicz endeared with the nickname g.i. joe. active in community events. he was the kind of cop who bridged the tension between police and public. the latest to be gunned down in the line of duty. >> joe was a tough guy. i don't understand how this could happen to someone like

joe. >> he was just a pillar. a pillar in the community. really well-respected. >> reporter: nation-wide there have been 28 officers killed in the line of duty. most are killed by gunfire. some are hit by cars, some are beaten to death. that is actually down from 32 this time last year. however, 2014 showed a nearly 90% increase in the number of police officers who were killed on the job. bret, back to you. >> mike tobin live in fox lake. we'll head back from breaking details. thanks. officials in massachusetts are looking for the person who fired shots into an milles police department cruiser this afternoon. the car crashed and caught fire. no injuries were reported. police are look for a white male suspect driving a dark-colored pickup truck. the first hearings have begun for six baltimore police officers charged in connection with the death of an african-american man while in police custody. correspondent leeland vittard is

monitoring the proceedings. >> reporter: good evening, bret. we're waiting for a protest that is supposed to begin in about 30 minutes. but so far the only people who have shown up is the baltimore police department awaiting the protesters. which has kind of been the story of the day. perhaps because the prosecution in the case won the first two big battles of the day. on the other hand, the defense is celebrating their own victory in that each officer will receive a separate trial. now, the judge has refused to throw out the charges against the six officers allegedly involved in freddie gray's death and said baltimore state's attorney marilyn mosby could stay on the case. she sat stone faced in court as defense attorneys accused her of misconduct in holding her may first press conference to announce the charges. the judge said her conduct was "troubling" but didn't rise to the level of hurting the officers' right to a fair trial.

he admonished the defense counsel for their own conduct. each officer will receive his or her own trial. hundreds of police officers came in from around the state, ready for fresh riots. mostly they sat around in the shade. police in baltimore arrested one person for blocking traffic, but the few protesters who showed up seemed disorganized at best. >> we were prepared for whatever happened today. i think we showed that. and that's what's important to me. >> reporter: as of now, the first trial could begin as early as october 13th. but a lot could change between now and then. next week there is a change of venue hearing. and bret, protesters have said if the trial is moved out of baltimore it will be a reason once again to return to the streets. back to you. >> leland, thank you. now to politics and a kinder, gentler republican

approach in new hampshire. chief political correspondent carl cameron has that story tonight from manchester. >> reporter: in hooksit, new hampshire at robie's general store that's hosted presidential candidates for decades. ohio governor john kasich now running second in the state with the first primary five months from now got choked up by a voter's sincerity. >> a couple times when i come he here, you all make me a little emotional. >> reporter: while donald trump and jeb bush bush angrily attack each other, he's the only congressman to offer a balanced budget that passed in the last 50 years. >> we have to restore respect. not just in politics but in all of our lives. and one final thing. you have to demand it. >> reporter: kasich barely qualified for the first debate. but will be at the second one in two weeks as a major new hampshire contender. the latest average of recent new

hampshire polls shows trump out front but kasich, the other candidate in double digits, is in second. and jeb bush has slipped into single digits having led here only a few months ago. trump said bush is attacking him out of desperation. >> i think he had really no choice. he's doing very poorly in the polls. >> reporter: trump's flame thrower style has hurt him. only 37% few him favorably, 59% have an unfavorable view. that's slightly improved from july. jeb bush is somewhat better. 38% favorable, a 55% infavorable. kasich says his conservatism is about helping people from criticizing them. he distinguishes himself from rivals by supporting a reasonable wage hike. >> it's about balance. we're doing fine in ohio. i would prefer for the states to deal with it like we do. >> reporter: later for a town hall meeting he tried to contrast his optimistic can do approach with the bush-trump bitterness. >> if it takes mean and angry, count me out.

if it takes determination, if it takes a degree of toughness, count me in. >> reporter: trump's refusal to rule out a run as an independent or third party candidate if he loses the republican nomination has not gone unnoticed by the republican national committee. at least a couple of weeks ago, senior officials there were talking about what they might do about it. in the last couple of days, rnc officials have contacted several campaigns asking them if they'd be willing to take a pledge of loyalty. trump has signalled to big gop donors he's likely to do just that. the question is what bearing it might have should he decide to drop out of the party having lost the nomination and run as an independent, anyway. >> carl cameron, thanks. vice president joe biden dips his toe into the presidential waters in florida while hillary clinton is being hit with charges of hypocrisy by fellow democrats. chief white house correspondent ed henry fills us in. >> reporter: it's a piece of tape that hillary clinton probably doesn't want voters to

see. >> both democratic candidates were invited to a televised debate here in wisconsin. hillary clinton said yes. barack obama hasn't. >> reporter: fox has obtained a copy of a long for gone tgottenm the 2008 campaign when clinton was trying to take out democratic frontrunner obama. this time the script has been flipped. clinton is the embattled front runner who's trying to limit the number of democratic debates and has been ducking questions. >> let me answer one of your questions. because i think that's what you are entitled to. >> reporter: yet a growing list of democratic power brokers are joining former maryland governor martin o'malley in demanding the democratic national committee increase the number of debates. since clinton and obama sparred 18 times in the 2008 campaign. while this time there are only four democratic debates scheduled where the iowa caucuses. afl-cio president told reporters yesterday that democratic candidates could even add a debate on christmas day, because the economic issues are so important. in the influential labor boss

pointedly suggested liberal senator elizabeth warren, who's not even a candidate and democratic socialist senator bernie sanders are connecting better than clinton. >> elizabeth warren does a magnificent job of articulating the needs of workers. people respond to it. i think bernie does a great job of that. and people respond to it. i think hillary's done a good job at times. >> reporter: sanders wants more debates. but the fight has been waged most aggressively by o'malley, who got the cold shoulder from dnc chair mon debbie wasserman schultz after making this declaration at the party's summer meeting on friday. >> four debates? four debates. four debates and four debates only we are told. >> reporter: while clinton does not want to expand the number of debates, democrats are still waiting to go see if vice president joe biden who held a college affordability event today in the critical state of florida will increase the number of candidates at those debates. >> people who aren't willing to risk failing never succeed.

>> reporter: some democrats like o'malley particularly irked the first democratic debate is not until mid october. by then republicans will have had two debates, bret. >> we'll see what happens with biden. ed, thanks. up next the president picks up a key vote for his iran nuclear deal. f fox 5 in new york with a real live fight club at a daycare center? authorities have charged two former workers with child abuse. the prosecutor says they encouraged the 4 to 6-year-olds to fight, shot video of it and put it on social media. the lightbridge academy says no children were physically harmed during the incidents. fox 9 in minneapolis where a judge has set a february trial date for seven young minnesota men accused of trying to join isis in syria. today the judge rejected defendant motions that membership in a terrorist organization is protected under the first amendment and that isis is more like a nation than terror group because it

proclaims itself sovereign. controls territory and has an army. this our look at boston from fox 25. warnings from a cyber security firm that several top internet-connected baby monitors lack basic security features. the report says hackers could use any number of flaws to gain access not only to the video monitors but to other wi-fi-enabled devices in a person's home. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back.

iran's president is trying to reassure hard liners that its nuclear deal with the west will not affect the republic's military capability. that comes as president obama gets enough votes to sustain a veto of a suspected resolution of disapproval from congress over the controversial agreement. correspondent kevin corke at the white house tonight with the decision that put the american president over the top.

>> i'm telling you across the board, economically, politically, militarily and even morally, we would pay an immeasurable price for this unilateral reversal. >> reporter: sounds ominous. but a bit of a bluff. when secretary of state john kerry described the high stakes of the iran nuclear agreement today, he did so knowing the deal would survive. that's because minutes before the speech maryland democrat barbara mccullski became the pivotal vote needed to sustain an override attempt in congress. retiring lawmakers saying in a statement "no deal is perfect especially one negotiated with the iranian regime. i've concluded this joint comprehensive plan of action is the best option available to block iran from having a nuclear bomb." her decision in many ways actually bailed out the president who has struggled mightily to convince just enough democrats to back the deal. the move also allows the white house to set its sights on an even bigger prize, a filibuster

to keep gop lawmakers from voting on a resolution to disapprove the deal. with 34 senators supporting the plan the white house needs just seven out of the remaining 12 democrats to weigh in to back the deal allowing for a filibuster. but republicans, mindful they could still influence red state democrats to oppose the plan, slammed the deal. speaker john boehner tweeted "why should iran be trusted to do its own nuclear inspections at a military site it tried to hide from the world"? meanwhile in iran, anti-american sentiment for show if not for real continues to fester as hard liners there unveiled a plaque at the gate of the former u.s. embassy site in tehran. the sign said to carry a list of condemnations of america uttered by the late ayatollah ko mhomei. this says the head of the iranian guard america is still the great satan. criticism iranian leaders

continue to make in the public, bret, while behind closed doors they've got their hands out and are not walking away from this deal. >> kevin, thank you. medical officials say at least 20 people have been killed in a double bombing at a mosque in senai, yemen. police say a suicide bomber blew himself up and a car bomb exploded outside the mosque's doo. also tonight the international committee of the red cross says two of its yemeni workers were killed twiel traveling there. still ahead, the u.s. campaign against isis terrorists intensifies in syria. first president obama just can't win on the environment. we'll tell you about the flak ooñóokñ.??????ó

this is a fox news alert. a senior defense official confirms to fox news that five

chinese navy ships have been spotted in the bering sea off the alaskan coast. the sighting coincides with president obama's visit to the state. in a few hours, china will also conduct a massive military parade in beijing, featuring 10,000 soldiers, hundreds of aircraft, and weapons not previously shown in public. defense officials say they're monitoring the chinese activity closely. meantime, the president isthe fy tour of alaska. and he's catching heat from all sides over global warming, the environment, and the state's biggest industry. correspondent dan springer in anchorage tonight on what appears to be a no-win situation for the president. >> reporter: president obama wrapped up his three-day trip to alaska by meeting with fishermen in dillingham, the launching point to bristol bay the world's largest fishing industry. park rangers say the ice bed has

retreated 70 feet a year. and say we are losing 70 tons of ice. mr. obama's last stop is the tiny coastal town of kots abu e. but he is not meeting with a single person tied to alaska's lifeblood, the oil industry. >> 90% of alaska's revenues come to us from our oil production. oil production on the north slope. we've been providing jobs and economic opportunities for alaska, and around the country for 40, 45 years. >> reporter: with the price of oil dropping, alaska's economy is suffering. it's in the red $3.5 billion this year. and conoco phillips a major employer just announced it's cutting 1800 jobs company wide. the obama administration's all of the above energy strategy in alaska is pleasing none of the above. environmentalists are outraged the president recently permitted shell oil to go back to drill in the arctic this summer. they sued in protest in seattle.

earl king lived in point hope the closest town to the drill rigs. >> they'll try to kill our language. our language never died. didn't ever destroy our language. now they want it destroy our way of life. >> reporter: but the oil industry says mr. obama remains too restrictive, blocking huge potential reserves and running up shell's tab to $7 billion and years of delay. >> you would think if you wanted all the above you would have consistent access. you would have consistent permitting. we would be allowed to explore and develop those areas of federal land. >> reporter: some more on that breaking news from the region. as you mentioned there are five chinese navy ships operating just off the coast of alaska in the bering sea. pentagon officials say this is as close as they have ever been to this area. they are monitoring the situation. they believe these navy ships had just done a joint operation with russia. bret? >> dan springer, thanks.

u.s. and global stocks recovered partially today from tuesday's big selloff. the dow was up 293, the s&p 500 gained 35. the nasdaq finished ahead 114. next up in the grapevine, talk about a lucky guy. now he wants to spread his good fortune around.

now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. talk is cheap unless you're talking with professionals. the department of homeland security ran up a bill of more than $20 million on conferences. in just 14 months. an inspector general's audit found dhs attended or hosted almost 2,000 conferences, averaging about four a day from october 2013 to december 2014. and that counts weekends and holidays. only 15% of the events costing over 20 grand each were reported to the i.g. all of them are supposed to be. one government watchdog wants the department to focus on priorities. "amid security lapses at dhs agencies like the tsa, the department should spend the money it already receives in a more cost effective way. every dollar spent in a wasteful fashion is a dollar that isn't used to protect the nation." a dhs spokesman concurs with all

of the i.g. recommendations and notes reporting has improved so far in 2015. good, giving to charity. bad, the money getting stuck in red tape and never helping the intended beneficiary. the associated press reviewed california's voluntary tax contribution program and uncovered nearly 10 million donated dollars sat unspent at the end of last year. one example, 278 grand to help asthma and lung disease research ended up in the state treasury. even charities that did get the money were frustrated by the bureaucratic delays, like the ymca needing to take out a line of credit while waiting for a check. the chairman of california's senate governance and finance committee has demanded a review of all state accounts that held and handled charitable tax contributions. finally, speaking of giving, that is what one san francisco man just might do. hubert tang is $1 million richer, before taxes, after he

bought a pair of lotto tickets with a $20 bill he found on the ground at the airport. the stunned winner plans to save the money but may begin leaving $20 bills on the street to spread his good fortune. first he says he'll have a celebration dinner and buy a car for his mom. and liftoff atlas 5. >> a massive atlas 5 rocket took off today from cape canaveral carrying a communications satellite into orbit for the u.s. military. the fourth and final component of the navy's $7.5 billion mobile user objective system is intended to provide 3 g cellular technology to vehicles, ships, sub marines, aircrafts and ships on the move. a car bomb of syrian president ba sure al assad -- black smoke rising from a

vehicle in the port city of latakia. officials estimate 320,000 people have died in the civil war in syria, more than 4 million have become refugees. some of those refugees were part of protests today at the main international railway station in budapest, hungary. hundreds of migrants are upset at another day of being blocked by police from boarding trains headed to germany and other european union countries. an estimated 3,000 already are encamped near the station. more than 150,000 migrants had reached hungary this year. we're learning more tonight about a previously secret effort to hunt i sit terroriisis terro syria using american drones. jennifer griffin has the specifics from the pentagon. >> reporter: a year into the air campaign against isis, the u.s. military and cia have moved into a new phase of targeting high value targets using a method used in iraq when gent

mcchrystal was head. defense sources say the new operation involves the cia and special operations teams, like the ones that killed osama bin laden, carrying out raids that deliver intelligence that then allows the military to target and kill terrorists like the british online hacker janaid hussein. the drone strike that killed him signalled how the military and intelligence community are finally leveraging all their assets to target and kill isis leaders using drones over syria. raids like the one on may 16th by a delta force team targeting abu sayef resulted in an intelligence windfall from computers and the capture of his wife. with turkey finally allows u.s. armed drones to fly out of inserlik enables the drones to hover longer and take advantage of the new intelligence. some military experts say it's too little too late. >> president obama continues take an incremental approach to

warfare. do a little bit more. if that doesn't work do a little bit more. do a little bit more. we've tried that from vietnam forward. it doesn't work. >> reporter: the pentagon won't confirm troubling new reports that russian troops are now operating in syria, but fox has learned russia asked for overnight permission to deliver unspecified cargo to syria. u.s. officials won't say what that cargo might be, but the route to syria involves iran and iraq, and the window for those flights to begin landing opened today. bret? >> jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. so is it open season on law enforcement? around the country, ambush killings and no strong condemnations from many administration officials. we'll ask the panel what's going on after the break.

i'm not going to set a time limit on this. i have a murdered colleague, police officer, and we're not going to stop. >> every cop in america is looking over their shoulder right now. there's no doubt about it. they don't believe america's got their back. >> i strongly condemn these recent and brutal police shootings in texas and in illinois. we have had four more guardians slain. frankly our hearts are broken over this. i offer the families of these officers my condolences, and i ask that all of us come together

and keep them in our prayers. >> the attorney general there, also referencing a paper statement put out by president obama on the recent killings. speaking of officers killed in the line of fire, this year so far 28 officers killed by gunfire or assault. this is as of september 1st. last year, 32 officers by this time, 2014. but in the year prior to that it was 89% increase in officers killed in the line of duty. meantime, murders by city you can see several cities around the country where the crime is up significantly. these are murders again. austin, texas denver, colorado. milwaukee, st. louis and baltimore. this as the black lives matter group in minnesota still getting a lot of attention for one of the champs in their protests and one leader reacting to that. >> he was laughing and joking

with the marchers. so then the marchers kind of started chanting that towards him. it was more playful than anything. >> so you're saying that was in a playful context that chant. >> at that particular demonstration, yes. that was. because the officer was laughing and joking along with the protesters. >> what about all of this? let's bring in our panel. tucker carlson host of fox and friends weekend. mara eliasson national public radio and syndicas krauthammer. >> imagine if marchers called for the murder of a protected group of americans. in other words anyone who was not a cop basically. the justice department would have swooped in immediately. you'd see a primetime address by the president. imagine if instead of 28 cops murdered 28 civil rights leaders over the last year. we would have a massive response

by the white house. he offers a tepid and short statement from his conversation with the widow of the most recent slain officer on the very same day he did that he issued a very long proclamation, passionate and urgent, about national childhood obesity month. i'm just saying, if the president appears to take sides in this question it can be really dangerous. the last graphic you showed up that's the nightmare scenario. people move back to cities because they're safe. if they become dangerous again everything changes. >> mara, law enforcement officers, sheriff's deputies, sheriffs, speaking out now about all this. >> yeah, look, i think that it's wrong to try to see which group is targeted more. we've had horrific murders, asass nations of police officers. we had nine black parishioners killed in the a church. enough on both sides. i think everyone should dial down the rhetoric. i think it doesn't get us anywhere to try to draw some

kind of line between some stupid statement that was made by some protesters and these horrific killings. i think it's time that both sides need to come together. i think loretta lynch was right. and i think she came out and made a really strong statement today. and i assume that the president now that he's back in washington from alaska will do the same. >> charles? >> i don't see it as both sides of a coin. there's a big difference between somebody shooting innocent people in a church and shooting police officers. and i do think there's really a problem where the police have a sense that america doesn't have their back. but what the police chief actually was saying in his own way was that it is the president, it's the authorities who don't seem to have their back. president obama's reaction to every incident where there was race involved, starting with professor gates in cambridge through the trayvon martin and all the way through has always

been to instinctively side himself against the authorities to call them dumb or whatever and to express his sympathies. he didn't do it in extreme way. but with the supposedly aggrieved. and that's a message that the police have received. they've seen what happened in baltimore where they were essentially left unprotected. there is a reason that these murder rates are going up. that is because we're having a slow motion police strike where police are either not going into the neighborhoods or pulling away in a dangerous incident over confrontation. because it used to be if you were a police officer in a confrontation one thought would be how do i escape alive and protect the people. now he has to think, how is this going to look on video. how will i be treated tonight in the evening news and how will i be ultimately treated by the legal system. once you have to add that factor, the policeman is defenseless. >> if i could just say i agree with everything that charles

said. but i think it's more than just about emasculating the police which has happened tragically. also about politicizing crime. when you politicize crime, suggest there are political motives, people have a right to feel frustrated and strike back which the president has done you get more crime. you saw this in the 1970s in new york city. you see it in foreign countries all the time. venezuela and south africa. pick a country with an out of control crime rate and you will find politicians telling people look you have a right to express your frustration or imply that. i'm not saying the president is calling for more crime. but i am saying you should never ascribe political motives to street crime. they have done that. >> here's what the sheriff in harris county, texas said over the weekend. >> our system of justice absolutely requires law enforcement be present to protect our community. so at any point where the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded assassination of police officers

happen, th this rhetoric hat ha gotten out of control. why don't we say all lives matter and take that to the bank. >> to your point, mara, you're saying there's legitimate grievances in some of these communities and concerns. to hear that stated that way is pretty powerful. >> it's pretty powerful. all lives matter, white lives matter, cops lives matter. i think there's been so much violence, i think this is why voters are unsettled. i think this is creating a lot of anxiety around the country. but i don't think pointing fingers at either the police or the protesters is going to be the solution to this. >> what's the best index of the moral cowardice of our political leadership on this is the fact that martin o'malley, candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency, apologized for having said all lives matter.

when he was confronted with black lives matter. when you have democratic leadership do that and go uncriticized, that's appalling. >> next up, using drones to hunt terrorists in syria. plus what is russia up to there?

concerned about reports that russia is sending fighter jets to syria to strike isis? or do you welcome this development? and if so how would you coordinate with the russians? >> so i spoke to this a little bit yesterday. we're frankly still chasing the ground truth on that. we've seen those reports. i think i said yesterday that in response to questions we got last week about frankly in response to some russian

officials saying we need to take the fight to isil, we're already doing that. 70 something some odd coalition taking the fight to isil. we would welcome russia to be more involved in that effort. >> the administration won't confirm it. but multiple stories now russia's stepping up its military presence in satisfied with the gain in ukraine last month flurriy of reports about expanding military involvement in syria. several consultants for this story. the pentagon is being unusually cagey about russia's invigorated role in syria. told the daily beast i'm being told things like we really can't talk about this. that indicates to me that there is some truth to these allegations. meantime the u.s. is stopping up some of its activity with unmanned drones that are armed. we're back with the panel. charles? >> i think it's very generous interpretation of russian motives to the pretend that they are joining the fight against

isis. the russians have a single interest in syria. that is the preservation of the regime of assad that is an ally the russia for 30 years and also an ally of iran which is using it as a proxy state. they are not interested in isis. in fact the assad regime has essentially laid off for isis for almost the entire civil ward. it's conceded the northwestern sector of the country, and its fight has been against the non-jihadist elements in the opposition is. and some other elements as well; it is not an anti-isis operation. this is a save your client operation. freedom of action. they understand no opposition from the obama drawtion. >> meantime the obama administration, according to the "the washington post," we have confirmed that they have stepped up these drone efforts in syria. the "the washington post" writing in this story, the headline, the cia and special operation forces have launched a secret campaign to hunt terrorism

suspects in syria as part of a targeted killing program that's run separately from the broader u.s. military offensive against islamic state. the story goes on to say the involvement of the cia complicates one of president obama's remaining counter terrorism policy goals of gradually reversing the agency's evolution from spy service to paramilitary force. last year obama signaled his intent to have the agency creed control of drone scrix to the defense department and return the spy services to more focus traditional categories of he is pee knowledge. instead syria is in new spreading campaign of secret operations: marah, it seems like this is stepping up and not slowing down. >> well, yeah. it's kind of giving me virtue just not yet. in other words, this is exactly what the president's critics have been asking him to do is to get more involved and, in this case, he is using drones, which have very low casualty rate and risk for americans, obviously because they are unmanned. using them to target these

terrorist targets. this is one way you can conduct this kind of military operation he finds over and over again that these tools are really useful even though he doesn't like the idea of the cia doing. this he comes back to it time and again. he has probably used drones more aggressively than anybody could have imagined anti-drone democrat to do. >> definitively. >> yeah, definitively. it's a useful tactic but it's not a strategy and that's the point. if you were to wake up any of these national security guys from a dead sleep and ask them who should be in charge in syria, i bet you lunch they couldn't answer. it doesn't even seem like they thought it through. meanwhile, syria, which is a real country, is becoming like a somalia right in the middle of the middle east. leaking poison as failed states always do into its neighboring countries. i mean, this will metastasize and spread. itkarjrnw'> all for droning ewes sis, obviously, everybody is. before we do too much more

it might be settling on who we think ought to lead, syria. >> it's not that they haven't given this thought. there are no good options. this group or that group? no, you don't hear anybody chanting. >> the middle east, there never are good options. puck one, by the way, i'm not going to -- you know, to give a preference is to have to defend that preference. and they are cowards in that regard. rather than just standing up and saying, look, someone needs to run the country, the option is untenable. it will infect these other countries. >> add these two stories together. you have got russia with air power that's now going to be essentially over syria. they are defending bashar assad. you have got our drones trying to take out isis, but we are also trying to help some syrian rebels that maybe are taken out by russia, too. >> exactly. >> well, the fight by assad and by extension the russians and a the iranians has been up until now against the good guys. against our people. they have not taken on isis.

they have essentially had unspoken pack of dividing the country, leaving each other alone. these are not our friends. the idea also of russia having his own troops in the region is something that has been an aam in that, the reason in as in ukraine and every other situation when they get no resistance they move and they have got none resistance. >> the one upside there aren't that many rebels that are trained i think 67. >> that's a real problem. >> there are kurds. there are rebels on the south who have advanced out of jordan and done well. it isn't as if there is nobody out there on our side. >> which is worse? assad in power or what's going on now? i'm not defending assad but let's be real. >> we will be real. that's it for the panel but stay tuned for something really cool.

fumely tonight, sometimes we just need to point out great things happening around the country. singer rachel's song has been called the sound track of this summer it's also the anthem for a'-year-old jeremiah fighting stage 4 cancer. after finding out jeremiah was a fan through social media. rachel surprised him for a bedside duet of her hit fight song. >> well, we really wanted to

play that for you and we will on the online show. it is very cool. and good luck, jeremiah. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and unafraid. sometimes the tapes just don't play. greta goes "on the record" right now. "special report" online begins in just seconds. make sure you check it out if you haven't been there before. can you interact with the panel. going to ask questions, make comments and you will be able to hear that kicker that we couldn't play for you that begins in 9 seconds. >> good morning. it is thursday, tail end of the week. it is september 3rd already. the manhunt is now expanding in the search of cop killers.

they are trying to wrap their armings around the devastated wife of the fallen hero. >> my world got a little smaller with his passing. he will truly be missed by all of us. >> we are live with the latest there. >> all she wanted was a fast food fix. instead this cop was denied service simply because she was wearing a uniform. what really happened at the ashby's drive through and the fallout now. >> is your baby really sleeping alone? >> skreechlzing look up baby, look up baby. >> top baby monitors are open to hackers. what every pair p rent needs to know. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good morning. you are watching "fox & friends first".

it is thursday morning. i am heather childers. >> thank you for waking up this early with us. search now for the three gold blooded cop killers. police expanding their hunt in illinois. as we hear from the slain officer's wife for the first time. m matt fin is live for us. >> with those suspects being called cop killers they are still at large. there have been no concrete sightings in the search. >> a woman lied about see two suspicious people in a cornfield. turns out she was apparently looking for attention and will be in court later today. that false alarm aside they have forensic evidence and surveillance tape to comb through and video of a truck driver passing by but no