>> well, right now the biggest thing that is unclear is motive. that's what they're trying to figure out. they will be poring through his facebook pages, talking to him, trying to figure out exactly what is going on here. since they have only been able to according to authorities link will him to four shootings, they think there could be copycats out there. you have to keep in mind that the shootings they linked him to involved guns. there were actually three other shootings out of the 11 that didn't involve guns, they involved projectiles. things like bee bee guns, pellet guns. so they do think there could potentially be more people out there and they say they're definitely looking into that as their investigation moves forward. >> and have we heard there any of his family members? >> yeah, we have. and several of the local reporters caught up to his family last night. they spoke to his dad who said, quote, anybody who thinks that my son is the shooter is a moron. obviously very emotional here. several other family members say they're shocked, they can't

believe it, they say that he's a hard working father. again, a 21-year-old landscaper with two kids. so they are adamantly saying that he is not the guy while authorities on the flip side say that they have forensically linked him to four of those shootings. >> will carr, thank you so much. of course we'll check in with you as the story develops. >> you bet. hillary clinton has taken aim once again at donald trump blasting the republican candidate for not correcting a questioner who falsely called president obama a muslim. meanwhile bernie sanders has stopped by the "late show" with stephen colbert. christian fisher is here with the latest. things are starting to get real. >> and it's a big day for democrats because today is actually the democratic party's state convention in new hampshire. so all the democratic

presidential candidates are there. but so far one of the biggest moments wasn't what a candidate said, it's what the crowd did when the chairman of the democratic national committee debbie wasserman schultz was speaking on stage, several democrats in the crowd actually interrupted her, they held up signs and started shouting we want more debates. at as of now there are only six, compared to 11 republicans. >> we have to interrupt. we apologize. we'll check back in with will carr. we'll listen in live now. >> two felony, four counts of aggravated assault involving a can deadly weapon, class three felonies. four counts of criminal damage class five felonies, four counts of endangerment class six felony, four counts of discharging a firearm within city limit, class six felonies and four counts of disorderly conduct involving a weapon class six felonies.

i have appointed an attorney to represent you. next court date will be a status conference on september 25 at 8:30 in the morning. the county attorney wishes to make a statement in this matter, so i will allow them to do so. >> thank you, your honor. your honor, at this time the state is asking for a $1 million cash bond for the suspect. the state's position is that this suspect presents a dramatic and profound threat to the community. the counts that the court outlined, there are four separate victims. and while no one was the victims of a gunshot wound, they were all victims traveling high rates of speed on the freeway, the fear that was in-staled estill in the occupants as well as the

fear in everyone driving on the i-10 and valley freeways for several weeks was of such an intense nature if this suspect is released or a million dollar cash bond not put in place, the threat to the community must be preserved. beyond that, what this suspect is alleged to have committed creates such a substantial fear in the community at large that it justifies the cash bond requested. beyond the significance, significant prison time that would accompany the charges that he's kufrpts currently facing. the request is supported and we ask that you impose that.

thank you, your honor. >> based on my review of the information that has been provided to me, first of all, i come find that there is very probable cause regarding all of these crimes and i will impose a $1 million cash only bond. if you're able to post that bond, you will be under the supervision of pretrial services on the electronic monitoring program. that will be installed before your release from custody if you post that $1 million cash bond. you're not to return to any of the scene of the alleged crimes, no contact with any of alleged victims, are you not to possess any weapons. those are your release conditions if you're able to post that bail. >> can i speak? >> let me warn that you anything you say can and will be used against you in future court 30e poeings. people often think they can help themselves by making statements. you really should reserve any conversation about what did or did not happen with your attorney and then you'll have an opportunity to talk to an

attorney. >> all i have to say is i'm the guy. my gun has been in the pawn shop for the last two months. i haven't had access to a weapon. >> i understand that is your position and that was reflected in the form 4 and i will tell you take based upon the information that was provided to the court, i do find that there is ample probable cause in this matter. >> i can never afford that bond. i got two kids. >> if you'll step to the clerk, she'll give you your paperwork. >> wow. >> something that we normally do not see. >> you don't see that very often in a lipreliminary hearing. the defendant accused of shooting in to four separate cars in phoenix has been charmed with a whole slew of crimes. the prosecutor called him a dramatic and profound threat to his community and can i speak. >> he said may i speak and the judge said just to warn you, typically you should only speak to your lawyer.

anything that you say can be used and will be used against you. and merritt said i'm the wrong guy, my gun has been in the pawn shop for two months. i haven't had any access to a weapon and i can't afford a million dollar bond. >> i want to bring in will carr who has been following this story. you said you've been looking at this fellow's facebook page and found out that he was a gun enthusiast. obviously there has to be evidence here that the police have that is pretty significant. remember the judge came back and said i know what you told the t detectives, but i see significant probable cause that you are the shooter. any idea what that evidence is, will? >> absolutely. authorities have been pretty tight lipped, but a city counselor tweeted that there is a .9 millimeter gun that was very recently sold to a pawn shop there in phoenix and that that has been forensically linked to all these shootings and that shorts have evidently

linked that .9 millimeter to merritt. so coincides with what he said, that the pawn shop, he hasn't sold any guns to pawn shops in the la two mon last two months. so it goes back to the question of motive. it seems unclear at this point. we know authorities will continue to talk to him as well as they continue with their investigation because they say that there are potential other people, other copycats out there right now. >> unbelievable. you don't see that very often in court. will carr following the story there from our west coast newsroom. and as we recap, leslie alan merritt the gentleman on the screen charged in the phoenix highway shootings. $1 million cash only bond which he says he can't pay. an unusual moment in court there, he said to the judge you've got the wrong guy. obviously a big story to follow as this will play out over a long period of time.

several recent polls have shown hillary clinton losing ground with votesers in early voting states. but a new poll highlights her problem with a key voting group and that's women. according to the poll, clinton's support among women in her own party has dropped about 30 points since the summer started. meanwhile carly fiorina is hoping her debate performance this week whether help her gain momentum with female voters. so here now for a fair and balanced debate, a republican strategist who works for the young american found daks aatio former president of the young democrats of america. thanks for joining us. emily, i want to start with you. is car ly gaining with women an why? >> yeah, absolutely. i think women are looking for authentic candidates specifically conservative women.

and car areally fiorina had three incredibly poignant moments, one in which she was talking about drug abuse, abortion, the personal attack that she herself suffered from another candidate and i think her performance really allowed her sense of authenticity to shine through and that's what young american women are looking for. >> and we know former secretary of state hillary clinton has been vying to be trustworthy and authentic. do you think that she's succeeding at that? >> i absolutely do. and i think that poll is an aberration. every poll since july and every match-up against democratic or republican da republican candidate respect she's been leading in the polls. >> and i think that very clearly what we've seen is american women are really sick of being talked to like they're victims.

i'm not surprised at all that her support from women is slipping and a lot of women will be latching on to fiorina's candidacy because she's demonstrate that had she is authentic and she doesn't speak down to women. she said we're thoot a special interest group and i couldn't agree more. so i think she'll gain a lot of traction with women while secretary clinton losing that traction. >> you do see hillary clinton trying to show a softer side. we saw her on jimmital ly tafal tomorrow on a sunday political talk show. i know you said you feel like she is connecting with women, but it seems like she's really vamping up efforts, is this because she's trying to gain ground that she's losing? >> no. i would love to go back to the point about women as victims. because that is definitely not what secretary clinton has been about. she has always been for advocating for making sure women can make their own decisions about their own health care,

advocating for equal pay for equal work. these are the hallmarks of her leadership and taking that to the next level as secretary of state. i think that it nonstraights in her campaign the fact that a lot of the donors are primarily women that she's actually doing very well among. >> emily, is secretary krclinto is held to a higher standard? >> that's an interesting question. secretary clinton, to talk about the victimization yissue, fioria is a successful business woman, a mother who has been incredibly successful. women want to see that. american women are the in the freest society. they're excited to go out. millennial women are outearning their male peers. and lkhillary clinton's policie about women is something that is

a relic of the past. they're ready to move on. >> and you get the last word. >> i think hillary continues to be and has been a leader for women this politics and has shown women what they can do. and always about empowering women and that is what her campaign has always been about and will continue to be. >> very curious to see in the future after the primaries if these two are on a debate stage together, that would be very interesting. thank you both so much for joining us. we'll continue the conversation. tomorrow fox news sunday's chris wallace will sit down with one of those women who is really hoping to wind white house, carly fiorina. you won't want to miss this interview. a lot of tough questions. a lot of important questions following her big moment during that debate. obviously to fox news sunday, check your local listings for times. moving overseas now, frustration is building and patience is running out.

new fences and armed guards are fortifying border crossing across europe to stop the flood of migrants desperate to find an open door it for freedom. some of the pictures have been heartbreaking. john hutity is watching the hot spot and joins us with details. >> reporter: well, we've been seeing the video and image. it is a desperate situation for the thousands of people that remain trapped along the border. essentially of the countries that are refusing to allow more people in. basically it's a battle of borders. those countries saying they're just overwhelmed. they can't take anymore of those migrants, thousands that remain stuck. among the country, croatia, the country has started shutting down its borders with slovenia, serbia and hungary. at the this point more than 20,000 people have entered cr

croatia since wednesday. and now the country's prime minister says croatia will quote unquote force hungary into accepting migrants by busing them to and leaving them at the border. and along that border, there have already been clashes between police and migrants. hungary according to officials there have called up 500 reservists to deal with the influx of people and we've been seeing over the last couple of days reinforcing and sealing off its borders with razor wire fences. other countries meanwhile including germany and austria have also been calling up reserve troops and police to deal with as officials there in those countries say the overwhelmingly number of migrants that continue to pour in. austrian police say so far close to 7,000 migrants have flooded in to the country since friday

and many more are on their way to europe from fturkey and greee where it's already been a deadly trek for some. in fact they found the body of a 5-year-old girl that apparently drowned. and 14 others remain missing. >> risking so much, often dying for freedom. john huddy live in the middle east. thanks, john. still ahead, it's a key part of the obama administration's plans to fight the islamic state. create a force of moderate rebels to take on isis. but after sending millions of dollar, the pentagon only has a handful of fighters to show for it. major general bob scales is here. and china's leader heads to the white house for high stake talks. and pope francis set to land

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high stakes brainstorming is under way in the highest reaches of the government to reen and try to adapt u.s. policy against isis and do it without deploying more american boots on the ground in the middle east. russia as you might know is expanding its foot prints inside syria in what is believed to be the largest key employment outside the former soviet union since moscow's war in afghanistan. meanwhile the obama administration is reeling from revelations that a $500 million pentagon program to train thousands of anti-isis fighters has only a handful of fighters to show for it. >> it's a small number. and the ones that are in the fight is -- we're talking four or five. at the pace we're going, we won't reach the goal that we had initially established for

ourselves. >> not four or five hundred, four or five. that admission stunned members of the commission who questioned if they're getting an honest accounting from the military brass. >> if we don't have reliable intelligence as policymakers and if the president doesn't have reliable intelligence, we can't make good policy. and this keeps happening. this goes back to the bay of pigs, vietnam, the iraq war. >> fox news military analyst general bob scales here to help take a closer look at the issue. you don't have to look that closely to realize that this is an absolute disaster. >> a total unmitigated disaster. i've been speaking to my friends in septembcentcom, central comm. >> in the private secretary directory if something was this screwed up and you wasted $500

million and you ended up with five or six guys driving away in a pickup, you'd probably be fired. the question is should general austin be held accountable for this or is it a flawed administration policy that he's been forced to implement and only doing his best? >> i think both. everyone i've talked to has said for months that you can't win a war with auxiliakxiliaries andi surrogates. you can't run an air campaign without being able to see the targets. and this has been with us thousand since, what, 2013 and nothing's happened. and so the great frustration in this command among those on the staff who i know is that this is a failure of strategy. it's not necessarily a failure of staff work, it's a failure of a flawed strategy. if you don't know where you're going, how do you know how to get there. >> how in the world do you spend $500 million and end up with five guys?

>> politics. it it's driven by an administration who wants to put a smily face on a disastrous policy from the beginning. once the political train leaves the station, everybody is of a trade to pull on the brake. everyone if they know this thing has been falling apart for months. >> and you could argue that the train left the station when we left syria, crossed the red line and not do anything about it. general scale, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> elizabeth. a number of republican candidates gather in iowa for the 15th annual faith and freedom summit. carl cameron is there with the latest. >> reporter: candidates start speaking later this evening. there will be 1,000 social and fiscal conservatives. iowa caucusgoers gathering to listen to about half the republican field. the other half is in michigan on mackinaw island for the wrap up of a republican conference there. this caps a week in which the

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continues of thousands of americans will wait hour this is week just to get a glimpse of pope francis. but students at our lady queen of angels will get a personal visit. the pontiff is offering a rare private audience at the school that serves most poor children. i'm sure they will figured out our thought at least what they will say. >> no doubt about it. 24 students from four innercity catholic schools will have the honor of heating pope francis.

enough to leave anyone eachle speechless. well, almost anyone. >> i think he's ease s. to talk to, i'll go up and say hi and he's like hi. and you can have a conversation with him. >> nicholas and allison feel like lucky kids. >> what i'm going to say is that i love him so much and give him a hug. >> reporter: they both will meet pope francis in harlem, new york on friday. >> i'm nervous and excited, but more on the excited side. >> reporter: it's the only school the pope will visit. the superintendent of schools -- >> in our innercity schools, 64% of our children live below the poverty line and 98% are going college. and when you juxtapose those two statistics, i think it speaks volumes about what is happening in these classrooms. >> reporter: it's no coincidence

the pope is visiting our lady queen of angels, one of six schools offering a catholic education. 92% of the children are minority, many are hispanic imgrachbts, many are poor. >> what are they feeling? >> they're so confident in themselves and the spokenity that iity will be wonderful in terms of the interaction with the pope and the students. >> reporter: both students agree they have this under control. >> himy mom and dad they ever ge me advice. i figured it out on my own. >> reporter: pope francis will visit a third grade class where they will show off projects. for more continuing coverage on the pope's visit, go to our pope's spibl paecial page on fo latino.com. in what an exciting week for those kids. one they will never to get. we'll be covering it all. thanks, brian.

tens of thousands of catholics are awaiting the the arrival of pope francis in cuba. he's due to touchdown there in less than two hours. a group of nearly 200 catholic pilgrims flew from miami to attended the pope's mass on the islands scheduled for tomorrow. the delegation is led by the archbishop of miami. the group also brought medical supplies and rose osaries to ha out. >> translator: the pope is so special, he is very close to the people. is he so warm. he is what one expects from a pope. he has the smile, the warmth that will touch whomever is nearby. >> the pope travels from havana to washington, d.c. on tuesday. karl anderson with the knights of columbus has sat down where the pope several times. he probably knew what he wanted to say when he sat down with him a few time. and now he sits down with liz

best to ta liz beth to talk about the pay pal visit, that's later in the show. politicians these days are spending a lot of time in iowa. of course where we find a number of gop candidates attending the 15th annual faith and freedom coalition. eight presidential hopefuls are attempting to rally a highly influential faith based group of voters. the challenge for candidate, how to stand out from the rest of the pack. another guy who spends a lot of time in iowa these days, carl camer cameron. so take us through how donald trump, who you would not think is sort of an evangelical die hard christian, is playing with that such important base. >> reporter: he's been reluctant to talk about his faith publicly and been accused of not throwing too much about the babl even

though he says it's his favorite book. bobby jindal suggested because he won't quote verse or recite psalms is because he's not -- donald trump isn't in the bible. so there has always been a bit of sarcasm about the degree to which donald trump doesn't emphasize faith in a republican primary. but here in iowa, the caucuses next february will break a record if they get more than 120,000 voters, caucusgoers. in the past, between 50% or 60% are self described born again evangelical christians and they told sway in a lot of these caucuses. but that means that 40% are not and it's in the necessary lit case that all of these 60% of these self described evangelical christians must vote that way. often they have very, very different voting patterns than their faith. having said that, trump's killing it here in the polls. everybody on his team will tell you that. they expect that he will get a bounce from his debate

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politicking that pafrrents real pay attention to. he after all is a billionaire who has flown into the state fairgrounds where we are the last time in his own chopper. not the kind of thing that average eiowans experience. >> carl cameron live in iowa for us. we'll see what happens. thanks. coming up, chinese president makes his sixth president to the u.s. this week, but why is this visit causing so much controversy? we'll have that story coming up next. [meow mix jingle slowly and quietly plucks] right on cue. [cat meows] ♪meow, meow, meow, meow... it's more than just a meal, it's meow mix mealtime. with great taste and 100% complete nutrition, it's the only one cats ask for by name.

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joining us now, gordon chang. so the question is, is the u.s. handling this this right going into this summit, should we be tougher with china in our rhetoric ahead of having the president here? >> we should be tougher with china in all phases of our relationship with beijing and the last thing we should be doing is legitimizing their rule with this state visit. there should be no pomp, no ceremony. zink xi jinping is coming here for the it televised images to impress the chinese people. so there should be no state dinner, no 21 gun salute. give him a big map as donald trump said. >> if you look at xi jinping's popularity on the world stage and against a graph of the stock

market there in china, folks in china are telling me those are very similarly matched in a sense that back in march and april, he was doing great. the shanghai composite was sky rocketing, he was on top of the world. they were being hacking us. those kinds of things. all of a sudden in the past couple of weeks or so, we saw the bottom drop out of the chinese stock market and now he's coming here and what i'm wondering is in this position, why all of a sudden are we as the wall street journal just reported the fact that the u.s. handed back a bunch of corruption suspects that china wanted? >> we hold all the high cards right now. because the chinese economy is growing at maybe one or two percent, not the 7% that they claim. their stock market is plunging. they're spending about $20 billion a day defending their currency. about $135 billion a month coming out of china. this is a country in real trouble. and you know at this point, president obama, if he wanted to, he could say, look, xi

jinping, i can do a lot of things that could make china hurt. this is what you're going to do. this is not a negotiation. i think that's the way that we should play it especially because china is so fragile right now. >> if you listen to folks at the white house, one thing they think is a key issue here is the green house emission by china and they want emissions pulled back. is that the most serious issue that we have to deal with with the chinese, is that one of them, or is that way down on the list and white house priorities are simply misfw fwifwi fwimisg? >> the white house priorities are misguided. not because climate change is unimportant. chinese will meet their greenhouse gas targets because the sector is contracting. so of course they will put less stuff into the air. there are a lot of other things that we need to talk to china about, the cyber attacking,

reclamations in the south china sea. in is a list of things that we need to talk to the chinese about and we're in the really going to do that because we're focusing on the thing like climate change which they will agree to anyway. >> so i guess the big question, the u.s. simply looking at our position wrong in terms of how the administration seems to be embracing the chinese. the way you describe it, it seems like we could have them by their throats if we felt like it. >> yes, not only this administration but the one before it because we all perceived ourselves to be weak and the chinese acceptsensed th they pressed the advantage. right now the foot is on the other foot. ronald reagan did this with the soviet union. me sure that the west and united states and friends and allies got what they needed and edgily we won the cold war. that's the type of attitude we need.

>> we will see what the optics are. how they play for the president back at home. gordon chang, appreciate your insights. >> thank you mochnths after a d biker brawl, investigators in texas have released almost nothing about the gun fight. evidence now confirms that the gunfire included rounds fired by police and that some of those rounds hit bikers. what isn't clear is if any of the shots by police caused any fatalities. a grand jury is getting ready to review the evidence so far no charges have been filed in the case. and still ahead, as pope francis heads cuba and then to

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many catholics and noncatholic as like. so why is he so popular in karl anderson has met with the pope several times and he joins us now. thank you so much. we know the pope is going to be arriving in cuba today. we've heard him talk in the past about scrapping the >>i >> scrapping the regime there. do you think he'll touch on politics during the trip? >> i think he will be in the approach to cuba. the statement he made before he left to the cuban people was very pastoral and i think he sees this as an opportunity for the church to grow and for the people of cuba to strengthen their faith. that will have fundamental f democracization. >> you haven't met but this is

the first visit to the u.s. there are a lot of firsts that are happening next week. i want you to tell me about what we can expect to see from him. >> i think one thing we'll expect is the unexpected. the pope is hard to put in a particular category. he goes across categories. i think he'll try to say something that all americans will take to heart. to try to put him in a political category isn't going to work this pope. and so politicians shouldn't try to do that. i think one of the important things is, of course, the first time the pope will address congress. it will be the first time that the pope will meet privately or with the speaker of the house. he'll meet with the president. but he'll meet with the republican leader in the congress, in a private meeting. that will be very important and historic as well. >> you mentioned we can't expect him necessarily to be a politician and we don't expect that of him. but he has weighed in on a number of issues that can be divisive.

and he is addressing congress, which we haven't seen. is it really possible for him to stay away from those hot bed topics that some catholics feel very passionate about? >> i think he'll address those certainly, and i think he should look at the message from the standpoint of all the cities and speeches he's going to be visiting. so part of the message will be in congress, at the white house, in philadelphia, families. in new york, at the united nations. i think we have to look at the visit as a whole and so, this one slice of the pie won't tell us the entire message. >> and you talked a lot about him working to grow the catholic church. he's done that by reaching out to people in the transgender community and he's also made that new rule about marriage annulment. what else can we expect from him while he's here to really grow the catholic church? >> well, i think catholics are very excited about this pope because, one, he's joyful. he has the joy of the gospel.

secondly, he's open. he's authentic. he has concern for the poor. he talks about mercy and compassion. and inclusion and being open to everybody. and so these are very important messages. they're very essential christian messages. i think when we look at those values he's talking about, people say, how about a little bit more of that in my life? how about a little bit more mercy and compassion and charity? >> we know you've met with him before but getting a glimpse of him is exciting. thank you so much for joining us and we look forward to seeing him next week. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. the keg has been tapped and the beer tapped is flowing. oktoberfest is officially begun. we're going to tell you how jere germany kicked off its famous party. hello, everybody. i'm uma pemmaraju.

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celebrate the partnership. oktoberfest in munich is in full swing. it kicked off with music and the city's mayor tapping the first ceremonial keg. the festival expected to draw over 6 million visitors, some, of course, dressed in their traditional garb. >> it's munchen. >> we don't know if you'd make it hope. it's been a great show in washington. remember tomorrow, fox news walsh will sit down with carly fiorina. >> and thank you so much for watching us. have a wonderful weekend. >> stay safe. we'll see you tomorrow.

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