visitors to be on the lookout but nothing. they went back hiking to look for jade, and she showed up in a meadow, lost some weight but expected to be okay. all is well that ends well. >> yes, happy ending. thank you so much for joining us, have a happy labor day weekend. >> "shepard smith reporting." here you go. >> democratic underdog taking on bernie sanders, posting his best numbers yet now beating hillary clinton in a critical primary said. on the republican side it's not who is on top but who is falling behind. a new poll out shows some one-time favorite with just a fraction of the support they once had. then, a gunman ambushing two cops and opening fire but the officers wouldn't go down without would fight. how police say they brought their attacker down without firing a single shot. plus, word of possible changes in how the u.s. fights the islamic state. after some deadly setbacks overseas. will the reported shift in

strategy be enough or is it too little too late? hello, i'm gregg jarrett in for shep. happy lasher day. forthfrom the fox news deck, bernie sander has overtaken hillary clinton in the early primary state of new hampshire, that according to a brand new poll of democratic voters from nbc news. it shows sanders has pulled nine points ahead of the former secretary of state and now leads her, 41-32%, it is the vermont senator's biggest lead or clinton so far in any poll, and included vice-president joe biden as a potential candidate. when the poll took the veep away, the sanders lead over clinton grew to 11 points, 49% to 38% in july that poll showed clinton ten points ahead of sanders in new hampshire. of course, on the national level, she is still the clear democratic front-runner, but

this latest poll also shows her lead has narrowed in iowa. the first state to hold a democratic contest. clinton is campaigning across iowa today. while sanders and some republican candidates appearing at a labor day parade in new hampshire. doug mckelway is live in washington with more. vice-president biden spoke today. what did he have to say? >> reporter: he had a lot of things to say, a lot of energetic things, said it with enthusiasm, talking about labor day and his big connection to big labor help has plenty of recent to be energetic given the results of the new poll. he sounded very much like a big labor endorsing announced presidential candidate that he is not. at least as of yet. >> there's a simple correlation, build labor, we build america. build labors, we build the middle class. >> in response to a couple of of

shouted questions at a rally on whether he is going to run, biden said, you got to talk to my life about that. clinton, meanwhile, holing her own in iowa but has lost some momentum with sanders 11% behind her. biden another 7% behind him. she put on a good spin about the latest numbers today. >> i've always thought this is going to be a competitive primary, and i welcome that. >> at a chicken fry sponsored by the iowa federation of labor, she said she would work to bring back strong unions and a strong middle class. >> sanders has been a huge supporter of organized labor, right? >> reporter: perhaps more so than either clinton or biden and neither have come out support of the transpacific partnership. a trade deal that will free emexports and immigrant ports to

asia countries. beany sanders says the tpp is part of a global race to the bottom to boost the profits of large corporations and wall street by outsourcing jobs. all that from bernie sanders is music to the earses of big labor. mickey is a democratic strategist who worked on hillary clinton's senate campaign and also the cofounder and executive director of the accountability projet. calls itself a nonprofit organization that investigates political corruption. i take it you're not investigating hillary clinton. >> no, i think that job is being done by many other people right now. >> in a scant two months, clinton has lost 20 points in new hampshire. the most frequently used word to describe her in survey recently was, liar. and the two have to be connected, right? people feel as though she is hiding something or lying about

the e-mail server, and now that's reflected in poll numbers that have dropped precipitously. >> you have to be a fool to say this is not a p.r. disaster there are a lot of hillary people -- i've been talking to them during the day, they said, listen, it's, sure her unfavorability might by high nationally but when it comes to democrats she is polling favorly, if joe biden comes into the race, this favorability ratings are much higher in new hampshire and iowa and is still polling at 20 fors in new hampshire and doing very well. so the question is, when he enters the race, if he does, will he be able to take the favorable polls from hillary, the numbers from hillary, into his camp and turn them into votes. >> you got a little heat for calling hillary clinton too lawyerly and not leaderly. >> yes. >> what did you mean by that? she is lashing the warmth and

charisma of her husband? >> i was responding to the interview she did with andrea mitchell this weekend in which she had an opportunity to connect with voters and say, listen, i understand your concerns. she really played into the -- to play into the human side of her and play up the fact she is championing income inequality, can -- >> she couldn't say i'm sorry. andrea mitchell asked her twice, huh sorry? >> she had a legal defense, and any communication specialists would say, listen, we understand there are legal issues here but humans want to feel connection with their leaders, and that's the big issue she has to focus on right now. how to connect with the voters. >> when the e-mail revelation broke this year, she refused to address it for the longest time. finally the heat became too much. she held a news conference at the u.n. she was roundly criticized by people who said it was awful. her explanation sound like

excuses, wouldn't look anybody in the eye, it was flat, lacking conviction. and some people say she hasn't gotten any better since then. what do you think? >> i have to agree. i think she needs to work on how she messages this, and thus far has been, we're doing really well with democrats and that's important, and this is not a real issue. it is a real issue if it's hitting you in polls, of the news is focusing on it ever day. a it's a real issue. so to come out on top rather than avoiding it might be beneficial to the campaign. >> when she is on the campaign trail and talking, either -- she almost never talks about her tenure as secretary of state. is that because essentially she forged no major foreign policy achievement and is best nope for her suspicious involvement in the benghazi attack and the alleged coverup thereafter? >> i don't necessarily agree with any of that. i think she had quite a few

foreign policy accomplishments. >> like what? >> opening up bur marks improving relationship with china, cuba. she has been a champion for women internationally. we can go through a litany of different accomplishments, but this is not the time we're talking about foreign policy. right now the democratic party is consumed with income inequality. when we have a debate i have no doubt she will talk about her foreign policy experience, and if joe biden is in the race you'll see a split. >> he talked about foreign policy, won't she medley be slammed about benghazi, opening up a whole can of worms. >> month democrats, most democrats think benghazi was overhyped and created -- i think there arlet of issues with benghazi don't think the press has been fair on that. >> good to see you. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> that new poll is also showing big changes for some of the republican contenders, including

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mourners saying farewell to a police lieutenant who was shot dead last week. >> forward, march. >> crowd gathered at a high school about an hour north of chicago to remember lieutenant joe gliniewicz, known to family and friends and colleagues as g.i. joe. family members say he worked in the police department for 32 years and was planning on retiring soon. he had four sons. in the meantime, police say the lieutenant's suspected killer still on the loose but investigators say fbi technicians are going through surveillance videotape to see if they can identify the three men. so far the only description police have made public comes from the murdered officer's final words in radio call for backup tuesday. the officer said, he was chasing a group of men, two white, one black. in las vegas, cops say a gunman ambushed two police officers while they were stopped at a traffic light yesterday.

investigators say the cops were responding to call from a 99-cent store when the suspect walked up to their patrol car and fired three shots. a police official saying one of the cops pulled another person out of the lynn of fire. the gunman shot one officer in the hand but he is expected to survive. the suspect eventually dropped the gun, then surrendered. they say they're now searching for a motive. will car r is live in the west coast news hub. what else are you learning about the case? >> reporter: when you think about the recent headlines we have had in the past only of weeks police in las vegas say this could have been worse. this all went don't yesterday in southwest las vegas in between downtown and henderson. the officers were sitting at an intersection around noon when the suspect approached their car and started firing with a semi automatic handgun. one officer hit in the hand; he was taken to the hospital. the other jumped out of the car and chased the suspect down, important to note here that they

arrested the suspect without firing a single shot. it's the second time a las vegas officer has been shot in just the past three days. on friday, officer germ robertson was shot in the leg by a burglary suspect with an ak-47. he had to have surgery, but is expected to recover. four las vegas officers have been shot in the past two months, forcing law enforcement in the area to change the way they patrol the streets of leaves. -- of las vegas. >> this was more or less not just because of the safety concerns but because it gives our officers a chance to decompress, talk to each other while they're driving around, and just gives them that extra measure of reassurance that they're going to be able to stay safe out the on the streets. >> members of law enforcement in las vegas thinking that new strategy of having two officers in the same car proved successful yesterday. >> what are some of the police officers in las vegas saying

about this attack? >> reporter: well, while they don't think -- i should say none of the shootings before yesterday, in the recent shootings, were ambush style shootings, they're on high alert, especially in the wake of deputy goforth and lieutenant charles gliniewicz being gunned down. look at the numbers in 2013 there were ten fatal ambush attack's police officers across the country in 2014, the number of fatal shootings jumped to 15. so far this year, there are -- there have been four, and according to the metro undersheriff who has quoted by the local paper there in las vegas, he says that he believes that police officers all across the country are having a rough time but at the same time he said he thinks it's a false narrative that there is a war on cops acr country. >> will car r, thank you very much. in the kentucky clerk behind bars for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has new plan to get out

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the county clerk in kentucky who refused to issue major licenses to gay couples now fighting to get out of jail. kim davis has filed an appeal after a judge found her in contempt of court and sent her off to jail last week. he attorneys are asking an appellate court to force the governor of kentucky to let davis refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because of her religious beliefs. davis says she stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples back in june, after the u.s. supreme court legalized gay marriage. over the weekend hundreds of people rallying to support her at the detension center where she is being held' another rally

tomorrow with mike huckabee. joining us now on the news deck, doug vern, criminal defense attorney and a former federal prosecutor. good to see you, doug. >> thank you. >> she violated the supreme court ruling, violated a federal district court judge's ruling, telling her to follow the supreme court ruling. now sitting in jail, cooling her heels. she wants an appellate judge to reverse that. are her chances slim and none. >> very slim, contempt is different. it's civil contempt. it's like here's the keys to your own jail cell if you comply with the court's order to issue these licenses, you walk out of the building. that doesn't mean she technically couldn't win on appeal but the reality is there's almost no legal authority whatsoever for the proposition that your private religious beliefs can prevent you from issuing a lion consistent with a supreme court interpretation of the constitution. >> she can't allow her faith to

prevent citizens from exercising their legal rights and in fact a u.s. supreme court nine years ago decided this very point. we'll put it up on the screen. when a citizen enters government service, the citizen by necessity must accept certain limitations on his or her freedom. in other words, she can't do her duty, she should have another job. >> let me address another point. they kind of got a little cute. the said, wait a minute. when she raised her right arm and anti-shed position, this particular -- accepted this position this ruling was not on the books. that does not matter. the oath is to uphold the constitution of the united states and the commonwealth of kentucky subject to changing amendments, for example, interpretations by court. >> now, governor mike huckabee, holding a rally and he has made the argument on fox news that, look, it is not the job of the supreme court to make law. does he misunderstand -- the supreme court isn't making law

but preserving the constitution, specifically equal protection. >> tremendous respect for governor huckabee, however i don't think he is correct. go back to the first year law school, the supreme court is going to tell you, in situations where the law needs to be interpreted, and a clerk in a county in kentucky must follow that. >> and that makes it even more confounding when davis' lawyer hauls off on fox news and says, it's really questionable whether the supreme court has the constitutional authority to do what it did. my goodness. its primary constitutional authority is to decide constitutional -- >> i think he needs a refresher course. >> did he sleep lou law -- throh law school? >> when she took the job she swore to uphold the law. if people who hold clerkships or other public official positions decide they're going to pick and choose which laws they like, and

which ones they'll enforce and not, does that result in utter are chaos. >> of course, we live in a society of laws. and the point is, if you have these little cracks and breaks and this clerk says i'm not issuing a driver's license and this clerk says i'm not issuing a marriage license-can't work that way. we have to have some organizational framework. let's face it. >> the interesting thing is the judge actually gave her an out. >> he did. >> he said i don't want to through throw you behind bars. how about if you let your deputies issue the marriage licenses as long as you don't interfere. she said, nope. >> a lot of times the clerks paperwork might have her name on it but common sense, the judge could say, issue new paperwork without her name, let your deputies do it, and the fact that she octobers to that, if we assume her name wouldn't be on it, i can't see any justification why she would take that kind of stance.

>> which has led people to say she is a wannabe martyr, they question her motives. doug good to see you. >> thank you, gregg. >> the u.s. air force giving an up. mate thumb to owners surrounded by the top secret area 51. the choice, give up the property for $5.2 million or the government will seize it. but owners of the land northwest of las vegas are rejecting the deal. they have until thursday to accept it. the cia first acknowledged the existence of area 51 two years ago. the feds have reportedly used the cite for nuclear research and spy plane testing and there are rumors the site holds proof of e.t., e.t. did not go home. air force officials say the deal is a matter of national security. going to get e-mails over that. a mysterious fireball darting across the sky, it was

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donald trump polling away from the republican pack accord ago a new nbc poll, showing trump taking the lead in iowa, with 29%. ben carson, seven points behind. jeb bush and scott walker in the single digits. carly fiorina jumped into a tie with walker who was once the iowa front-runner. everybody else in single digits now. trump has an even bigger lead in

new hampshire. more than doubling john kashich, ben carson behind him. bush and walker in single digits there, too. a look at this dramatic reversal in trump's favorability rating, now at 56% in new hampshire after being judd side down in july -- upside down in july. doing better in iowa as well. now close to 60% after an even split in july. carl cameron is live in washington. carl, labor day, and donald trump, laying it out for us? >> polls, parades, and g.o.p. picnic citizen early voting states. it's back to business tomorrow. trump has a huge lead in the polls but for him the big event this week will be on wednesday, when he and ted cruz will attend a rally here in washington against the iranianan nuke deal. trump likes to tout his negotiating skills and said he wouldn't immediately tear it up if he is president help says he would renegotiate it and make it stronger. trump said he will spend as much

as a bill dollars on his campaign so he can stay in the race a long time, but to win the nomination, he still has to make sure that those favorability numbers stay up where they are right now. for the better part of his campaign he has been underwater and that an issue. there are five months between now and the first contest and the issue and attack adds dominating from now until christmas, those will be the issued voted on come spring when the primaries begin. trump has a very strong lead right now. protecting it is going to get tougher. >> carl, tomorrow mike huckabee will weigh in on the kim davis controversy. talk to us about that. >> yes, of course the clerk in jail for refusing to issue the same-sex marriage licenses. this is culture warrior politicking in a big way. huckabee is a form are past you're and the winner of the 2008 iowa caucuses and was popular because of his brown in the church. he'll hold a rally outside the

kentucky jail where davis is being held without bail and will be making headlines, as a consequence, not withstanding the supreme court ruling that says it's save rights protected by the first amendment. davis is making the argue. she has a right to her own religious freedom and huckabee says that's a matter of moral principle and ought to be a better compromise than having her in jail. it's a first amendment battle with conservatives, and most of them are rallying to davis' religious rights. however, today, john kashich, the governor of ohio, in new hampshire, made the point she is also a public servant. she is an elected official, took an old to uphold the law, and he thinks huckabee -- kashich thinks she should do her job. huckabee says that's making her subordinate to judicial tyranny. tough stuff. >> it is. carl, thank you very much. let's bring in kathy lynn taylor, republican strategist, former advicer to george w. bush. good to see you. jeb bush has lost almost half of

his in new hampshire since july. pretty much same thing in iowa. what in the world is going on with jeb bush? is this his own doing or is he a victim of trump? >> i think that it's really both. the reality is that jeb has the wrong strategy and needs to change. americans are looking for a leader whom they can look up and to whom they can relate and he is not doing that and the polls show that. why his campaign does not take a mastiff turn-around is -- massive turn around is unclear help needs a moment of leadership. >> scott walker has lost three-quarters of his support in new hampshire and iowa. he was leading with 21% in april. now it's a scant 6%. that's the real clear politics poll average. talk about implosion. wow. his name is -- >> this is becoming a campaign of outsiders, and those who are insiders are not fair faring

well. folks are looking for change. the poll showing the 71% dissatisfaction, and folks are looking to candidates like trump and fiorina and carson to make some real change, both in washington and outside. and. >> dr. ben carson has moved up tremendously in iowa. he has gone from 7% to roughly 20%, just a few points behind trump, and in fact he is tied with trump in the monmouth poll. how are you handicapping ben carson. >> very difficult. so interests on friday donald trump said i hope ben takes a shot at me. i have a good counterpunch but he is the only person trump has not gone over. and what is notable is ben carson has small donors making up 65% of his contribution. president obama won with 33%. it's a really astounding cam pan he -- campaign he is imagining.

>> the criticism of trump is he alienates more people than he attracts and for the longest time his negatives were way higher than positive. that has changed. his net favorability has soar of 1%. >> other than madonna, i don't know a marketer in the 21-inch century who has been as ingenious about promoting themselves as donald trump, and he is very, very sage at this. he hand into something with voters and is tapping into their anger, and tapped into fearlessness he has changed the conversation of politics to bring up conversations that haven't been had in the past and that's benefiting folks like fiorina and carson and also really an important moment in his history that he is instigating. >> the great unknown is whether trump, the showman, with begin to wear a bit thin on audiences,

and people may begin to wonder, as john sun did in the national review, writing whether there's anything behind the bombast is what people may begin to focus on. >> an excellent point, and i think that the truth remains to be seen but the reality is that conservatives, particularly tea party folks, are going to have a distexas. looking for change for the sake of change or looking for the change to principles and i think donald trump will have a difficult road ahead. >> the highest level of support is from the people least likely to vote. kathy lynn taylor, good to see you, kathy. there's word the pentagones rethinking the strategy to train syrian rebels to fight isis. it comes of we learn that terrorists attacked and kidnapped members of the first graduating class of rebels. coming up we'll ask our own military analysts what the pentagon is reportedly considering after some major setbacks.

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a fax-under gents now. at least 20 people are injured after two air boats crashed into each other at an alligator park in miami. that according to firefighters there. our fox station in miami, wfvn, reports the two boats were filled with tourists when it happened. fortunately nobody fell into the water, which -- it houses more than 200,000 alligators, so that would have been treacherous. the injuries sustained by the individuals not very serious. it also reports the cause appears to be some kind of a miscommunication with the drivers, but everybody stayed onboard the boats. good thing. one of the top officials in iraq escaped a sniper attack targeting him near federal isis controls, that according to a

government statement which claims the defense minister was unharmed. one of his guards was injured, according to the statement, but it didn't give any more details. happened in northern iraq near the biggest refinery where heavy clashes have been going on for months. iraqi officials claim they won the town back from isis in november. all of it comes after two iraqi army generals died in an isis suicide bombing just last month. the pentagon is considering a major overhaul of the program to train syrian rebels to fight isis. this after terrorists captured and killed some of the first graduates. that's according to a report in the "new york times," citing several u.s. officials they said the possible changes include increasing the size of the group's deployed in syria, and improving the intelligence given the rebels. back in july you may recall, the pentagon sent out the first group of graduates, 54 moderate syrian rebels, not much, just

54. al qaeda militants kidnapped more than a dozen 0 of them and attacked the group's base, killing and injuring some fighters. defense officials plan to train 5,000 moderate syrian rebels over the course of the year but the "times" reports even the program's strongest supporters admit this go is no long realistic, the pentagon approved just dozens of volunteers out of thousands who applied. meantime, there's word the islamic state has captured the last oil field under syrian government control. a group reports isis fights seized the oil in central syria just yesterday, after intense fighting with government forces. well, sounds like a mess, joining us now to make sense is retired lieutenant bill cowen. that's a big challenge making sense of this. let's talk about the rebel training program. it took a year to get the thing

off the ground. was it a failure? >> embarrassing to talk about 5. hundred million, that's $500 million, dedicated to the program, and the best we could come up with was somewhat less than 60 fighters-many of whom have lost, been captured or whatever. it's inconceivable but i'm told, by good sources in the pentagon -- the pentagon takes the hit for this -- the reality is, it's state depth, cia, white house, and pentagon, bureaucratic fumbling not allowing the people to make this prom work. >> special forces are not prone to failure at all, are they? >> they're not prone to failure. they know how to do these things. they're trained -- they are trained to train other people to be fight errs -- fighters on our

side. when you get the bureaucratic bumbler in there who have neither their experience or brilliance to understand what is going on and yet are making policy decisions, you can't get anywhere, gregg, and this from day one, last june when it was announced, should have been in fact a covert program. that is, no public announce. s about what wear doing, how we're doing it or how much money we're spending, strictly a covert program that "the new york times" next year or the year after would say, we just found they're run thing big successful program. instead it's been mired in bury cattic failure. >> now we're learning isis captured the last oil field in syria. just -- colonel, just gets worse and worse. who do you lay the blame at? president obama? who? >> well, i wish we didn't have to blame anybody but i certainly lay the blame at the white house. incidentally, gregg, step back. when we started recruiting these

people, their objective was to good against al-assad, the president of syria. had nothing to do with isis. we totally shifted the mission of fighting asad to fighting against isis so this adds to the disarray of the program. i hope the pentagon is able to get tis going again but it's hard to find good, success stories about our efforts against isis. >> there are reports russiaing moving towards a major military buildup in syria to bolster president assad. does russia feel it can act win impunity because they're convinced president obama would nevada anything to stop them? -- would never do anything to stop them? >> i'm sure they believe nat their heart of hearts. there's a not a lot they can do to solve the problem for assad. they may help him get an oncleave in northeastern syria, where he comes from. i don't think russia can turn the tables. interestingly enough, russia is starting to see its own problems with isis in the cheese nia

area. so russia may want to play nor syria but we need more than russia to solve the isis or say sad problems. this president, this white house, not likely to do too muff. >> quick question on iraq and the battle against isis. the iraqis are now using for the very first time american-made f-16 fighter jets. right? >> they are. they've got four of the 36 they ordered. four came in a couple months ago. now got some trained pilots. run something missions, 15 missions over the last few days. that may make a little dent in the efforts against isis but i doubt they have the precision navigation or ordnance women -- weaponry we have. at least they're heart is in wanting to do the right thing. we'll have to find out whether they're capable of doing it.

>> lieutenant colonel bill colin, great to see you, happy labor day to you. italy's top court revealed i threw out the murder convictions of main da knox and her former boyfriend due, to quote, stunning flaws the the investigation. the court announcing there were no buy lodgal traces of the two suspects in the room where the roommate died. the court claimed that investigators seemed to suffer from bouts bouts of am niesha -- amnesia. prosecutors say knox and her boyfriend killed meredith kurcher of a drug-fueled sex game. they served a year in an italian prison after a lower court convicted them but they always maintained their innocence. the court concluded intense media coverage factored in the flaw. >> as tens of thousands of men, women children escape for better

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welcome back. two european nations now welcoming many more refugees escaping violence and terrorists like isis in the middle east and africa. france and the united kingdom pledging to nick tens of thousands of people over the next several years. the british prime minister telling parliament today his nation has a responsibility to act. he cited recent images like this one showing a three-year-old syrian boy who drowned along with his mother and brother on their way from turkey to greece. the united nations estimating that more than 366,000 refugees crossed the

mediterranean sea into europe this year alone and nearly 3,000 men, women and children have died or remain missing. amy kellogg is live in washington history. taking the lead? >> germany is actually taking the lion's share of the refugees. they're expecting to take 800,000, and basically if you're syrian, you're in. no questions asked. they are willing to take pretty much any syrian who can make it to germany's borders, and germany even sent buses to collect those who got lost on route. people in large numbers in germany came out to volunteer. they contributed food and toys and time. >> translator: wonderful to say

speak, especially the children being happy when they got sweets and food. not good to see howing the people arriving have. most just carry small bags for going into town. these people do not have anything. >> as you can see, from the images and the reporting we have didn't doing, europe is really struggling to come up with a unified policy. the eu is the european union and need to be acting as one here. some countries are saying they only want to take christian might my grants, print and france will take 20,000 more over the next few years but want to take those at least britain wants to take those refugees from camps on the borders of syria, those camps in turkey and lebanon are completely overwhelmed. those countries have millions of syrian refugees, and a lot of people are asking, what about the richer gulf arab states, why aren't they take anything of their arab brothers and sisters?

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