they wanted her to do it for a long time. tomorrow is the day in front of the benghazi select committee. begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. stay tuned for coverage on "america's newsroom." we'll take you through all the events of benghazi situation. so you're ready for that at 10:00. bill: could be a long, long day. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we begin with fox news alert. major developments on capitol hill as congressman paul ryan cracks the door for possible run for speaker of the house. welcome to "happening now," everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. current speaker john boehner scheduled leadership votes for next week. he supports paul ryan to be the new speaker after he told reporters last night he would be open running for the top job if house republicans agree do his conditions, including gets support from the three wings from the gop conference which haven't agreed much lately on anything. here is what paul ryan said last night. >> we have become the problem.

if my colleagues entrust me to be the speaker, i want us to many about the solution. jon: chief con expressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill live. what is the latest from the speaker on this big vote, mike? reporter: jon, the house republican conference is expected to select the nominee for speaker one week from today and vote in the house on floor of the house on speakers expected next thursday. congressman paul ryan as you mentioned laid out his vision for under terms he would consider next speak evident hours. calling gop unity. that speaker should be visionary. family should come first. calling for regular order in the house. doing away with the ability to fire the speaker so easily. here was the retiring house speaker moments ago. >> we all know paul ryan. he is very good member. he works hard. he is very bright and has good relationships i think with all the wings of the party.

that's why i think he will be doing fine. reporter: from paul ryan's position he is fine with taking arrows in the chest from the opposition but trying to make sure he is not getting shot in the back by his fellow colleagues in the republican conference, jon? jon: what about those members of the republican conference who have been you know, in opposition to the establishment? >> well, daniel webster from florida is still considering being a candidate for speaker. another guy considering a run against kevin mccarthy says you can count him out now. >> he is he is the right person at the right time. i'm proud of paul. he gave the right speech and shows why he is kind of leader this conference needs. i'm out and i'm in with paul. reporter: the wildcard is house freedom caucus, 40 members or so. some of them still sound skeptical about paul ryan. >> only concern that i have right now appears he is asking for more power to be in the speaker's office instead of less power.

now i may have misunderstood what he was asking for. that is why i want to hear more from him. i want to talk with him more and see exactly what he is talking about. reporter: paul ryan expected to meet with the house freedom caucus late this afternoon to address some of those concerns. jon? jon: that will be an interesting meeting. mike emanuel on capitol hill. thank you. jenna: switch gears a little bit to presidential politics now. another sign perhaps that joe biden may be gearing up for a white house run. at an event honoring former vice president mondale mr. biden behave a slightly different account of his role in the decision to raid usama bin laden's compound. at the same time taking a subtle swipe at hillary clinton. >> only two people that were definitive and were absolutely certain. leon panetta said go and bob gates, who is already publicly said this, said don't go. as we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, i said, i told him my opinion, that i thought

he should go but follow his own instincts. jenna: rich lowery, of "the national review," and phillip bump washington blog the sixth. this is didn't account than joe biden said in the past. in the past he was hesitant but the president went ahead and made this bold decision. is this matter of semantics or is this strategy? >> it seems clearly aimed at hillary clinton because not only did biden kind of clean up his version and his role in this decision, telling a version that is more favorable to himself, he also undercut hillary's story about what she said in the situation room when biden said look, there are only two people had definite views. so, the democratic race here is clearly entered the passive aggressive phase where both biden and hillary are shooting the subtle and not so subtle arrows across each other's bows.

jenna: passive aggressive phase. that is always where we want to be right, this subtle area of those shots as rich mentioned. one of the other things that biden said yesterday, he knew about the intelligence on abbottabad months before anybody else. hillary clinton says she only knew a few months before the raid. there another, i actually was in the know more than anybody else. do you think this is enough to help biden if he does make the argument time and time again if he jumps into the race, yes, i told the president to go for it? >> i think reinforces one of biden's key arguments, he wants to be the person who inherits all the goodwill barack obama has from democrats which is a lot. democrats love barack obama. joe biden can make stronger claim being heir apparent over hillary clinton over long term i'm not sure that is huge benefit. next year in the general election hillary clinton may have advantage she has more distance from the administration. key thing about the whole biden-clinton race shaping up but we don't technically know if

biden will run, biden and hillary share so much of the same base which makes it interesting dynamic to watch. jenna: where will you watch next, phil, how he frames his argument. >> what i will find next when he finally makes decision, which is supposed to have been 48 hours, more than 48 hours ago. what i'm, the role that biden plays for democrats sort of like the rolls he plays for barack obama. if something goes terribly wrong with hillary clinton he is there to fill in. it will be interesting to watch how he expands past that. how he makes the case he is more than just being backup for hillary clinton. jenna: interesting, you lead this up nicely to a next sound bite we have, joe biden talking about the republicans. take a listen to this. >> whenever there is problem i get sent to the hill. which by the way is useful use of my time. because i really respect the members up there, and still have a lot of republican friends.

i don't think my chief enemy is the republican party. jenna: interesting. so speaking of cleaning up, rich. that was comment got a lot of attention from hillary clinton during the last debate, listing republicans as enemies along with iranians, et cetera, et cetera. what do you think of joe biden's move to say i actually get along with republicans, they're actually my friends? >> again, clearly a dig at hillary clinton. this though, i don't see how much it helps him with the democratic primary. it does have the advantage of being true. you talk to republicans on the hill. they were always extremely frustrated with how stuck in the, unwilling to negotiate the president was and they thought biden was the one who really knew how to get things done on the hill and how to cut a deal but that's not a great message for democratic pry parry voters. i think phil is right, you want to go to those voters to say, look, i'm the heir to president obama. biden also needs to figure out a way to make an appeal to minority and especially

african-american voters. hillary took a shot across his bow yesterday with big endorsement from 55 african-american mayors, saying message to joe, joe, don't do this. i'm too strong for you. jenna: that is what some say, phil, is a problem for joe biden, especially with the african-american community. clintons have always done well. perhaps that is not area he is strongest. he would have to go for specific groups to catch up, if you will. do democrats, phil, in your opinion want a third term of president obama? president obama says he could win a third term but do democrats really want that. >> i think so. i think a lot of democrats feel very strongly with the job barack obama has done. look at his approval ratings among democrats are consistently very high and consistently very low among republicans. a lot of democrats would love to have barack obama run for a third term. the question whether the democrats will see biden as obama part three which is much

different question. jenna: interesting question. the big question for the general election with hillary clinton or joe biden, does america want a third term of president obama? that will be one we'll tackle in the future. great to have you. >> thank you very much. jon: the u.s. pilot is dead after his military jet crashed in england. debris from the f/a-18 hornet fighter scattered across the field where the aircraft went down. the pilot is believed to be only crew member on board. the jet took off from an airbase in eastern england. the air force is now investigating the crash. jenna: to iran where the supreme leader gave his stamp of approval to the landmark nuclear deal hammered out with world powers. the ayatollah warns tehran must be vigilant saying united states can not be trusted of the ayatollah hasn't publicly approved or rejected the deal until now which is why it is significant. his endorsement is paramount because he has major say on -- final say on major policies.

jon: in that horrific church beating case that left one teenager dead and his brother in serious condition. the surviving victim is testifying against his half in an effort to determine whether there is enough evidence to hold her. six congregants, including teenager's parents are accused of beating them at times with electrical cord supposedly to get them to confess their since. rick leventhal is outside the courtroom in new hartford, new york. reporter: jon we're expecting horrific testimony from the brutal attack in word of life church. 11-year-old christopher leonard will be there to testify against his after sister, sara ferguson, who is one of six defendants including chris's parents, charging with beating chris and his 14-year-old brother lucas for 14 hours because lucas threatened to leave the church and described as cult by neighbors and some former members.

they were beaten with fists and electrical cord according to witnesses and lucas's own mother debra, admitted she took part in the beating charged with manslaughter along with her husband bruce who is the boy's father. d.a. says some charges could be upgraded and others could face charges possibly church's pastor and spiritual leader who some witnesses say ordered the discipline. >> if someone commands somebody or, in other words i am pour tunes, basically begs them or encourages them to do it, yes they could be held liable under new york state law and we're looking at that. reporter: well the d.a. says he will present the evidence to the grand jury and let the grand jury decide if more charges are justified. ferguson is currently charged with second degree assault. today's felony hearing will determine if there is enough evidence to hold her behind bars. she is currently behind bars with bail set at $50,000, jon. jon: what a sorry. rec leventhal, thank you. we'll talk about it more later this hour. we'll ask our legal panel why

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texas a&m university freshman is charged with making terror threats. christopher garza, allegedly warned everyone to stay off campus on social media. he could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. after barrels started mysteriously disappearing from his oregon winery. the owner took matters in his own hands. he found them selling barrels online. he ordered them to return the barrels, not pressing charges. it worked. all the wine barrels are back where they belong. jenna: new deadly attacks rocking mideast with female israeli soldier stabbed in jerusalem just hours after others were knifed in west bank. palestinian suspects were shot and killed. as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gets ready for sit-down with secretary of state john kerry in germany. conor powell has the latest developments in jerusalem. reporter: after violence seems

to shift from the old city to palestinian wet bank. there is series of stabbing attacks on israeli soldiers manning checkpoints. tensions remaining very, very high around the region. israel maintaining tight group around palestinian neighborhoods in jerusalem, in light of ongoing attacks. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon, meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas calling an end to the fighting but offering no concrete steps how to do that. a meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu being criticized both here in israel and really around the world for his comments about the holocaust, netanyahu insisted in his speech last night, hitler only wanted to expel jews from europe but that jerusalem's main chief islamic cleric, a palestinian, told hitler to kill them. >> hitler didn't want to exterminate the jews at time. he wanted to expel the jews.

and husseini said if you expel them they will all come here. what should i do with them he asked? he said burn them! reporter: that meeting between the grand muf-t and hitler in 1941, well after nazi germany began a mass policy killing jews. israel's chief historian and defend minister said netanyahu's account is factually incorrect. the opposition leader called it a dangerous historical distortion. palestinian leaders condemning it. netanyahu so hates palestinian he is willing to absolve hitler of the holocaust. the prime minister saying he is not absolving hitler of the holocaust. that is as far back as he walked his comments, jenna. jenna: conor, thank you. jon: dangerous weather walk sparking watches an warnings where heavy rain and tornadoes are possible and how long the threat could last.

plus the horrific beating case in new york, rick leventhal told you about it. the surviving victim testifying today in court. the legal panel says state of mind one person accused in the beating could play a critical role in the outcome. >> victim expressed desire to lead the church and this is what may have initiated the session. we still have not concluded why the session turned so violent and are continuing to investigate other -- [inaudible]

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also the severe weather threat will continue tonight. plus heavy rains stick around through the weekend in much of texas and the plains keeping flooding a major concern into next week. jon: we are awaiting new details on the alleged beatings at a church in upstate new york that left one teenager dead and his 17-year-old younger brother in serious condition. as the 17-year-old survivor testifies in the hearing at least against one of his attackers and 33-year-old half-sister for her alleged role in a quote, counseling session, the police say it included strikes the boys with an electrical cord to get them to confess their sins. talk about with troy slayton, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. wendy patrick is a trial attorney. welcome to both of you. i just can't think of a more horrific case. these, the parents of these boys accused in this horrific crime,

troy, give us, give us, give us a sense -- sorry about audio interference here. we'll try to get that cleared up. give us a sense what is at stake as this teenager testifies against presumably his parent. >> well, he is going to be testifying against his parent and against his half-sister. as wendy can tell you, as a to recaller prosecutor, the burden is very low for the prosecutors to establish the requisite probable cause. all they have to show the prosecutors, that is, all they show at this hearing a crime occurred and the defendant is likely guilty. so having actual victim of the beating coming in and testifying, means that this woman's going to be held to answer. but she may have a very good defense, that of duress. jon: sara ferguson is her name. she is the 33-year-old half-sister. duress, wendy?

how can you claim duress leads you to solve yourself in the killing of your half-brother? >> this is something we see quite frequently. as troy knows being in criminal realm, what will the preliminary hearing will be about what are different levels of liability. we know the parents are accused manslaughter. what did the half-sister, what did she do? the reason this testimony is going to be so powerful, it will establish who did what, to the best this young man was able to observe given horrific hours-long beating that he was subjected to. so it is going to more simply than getting over the bar so to speak. it will be figuring out what charges are appropriate for horrendous -- jon: troy, fairly closed church in small town. if church members stick together, not a lot of information comes out, can't everyone in that room ban together against the surviving brother and say, no, it didn't happen that way?

>> i mean, they could but, it would appear that the best defense for sara ferguson is to say that she was so afraid at what could happen because it was so close, she had no way out. that could play directly into her defense of duress. she has show only that there was some sort of imminent harm and we know that the church members are capable of that. and that she had no reasonable means of escape. if she could show that, that's an affirmative defense. now as a defense strategy, she may not want to raise that at the preliminary hearing level and keep that for the actual trial. jon: she is charged with second degree assault, wendy. the parents are charged with the more serious charge of manslaughter. what does that say about her involvement? >> well, it says that somebody believes it's less. but i got to tell you, injuries speak louder than words. >> as the prosecutor, wendy is saying somebody thinks it is

less, it means the prosecutors think it is less. means the investigators think it is less. not just somebody. people investigated this crime think it's less. >> that is exactly what a preliminary hearing is for. charges were brought as a result of an investigation. in other words they don't just guess. they investigate. what happens at prelim when testimony starts colling out, that is one of the things that will be at issue. should it be less. what was her role and if the defense decides to raise the defense of duress, troy's right. it doesn't necessarily have to be done at the prelim. charges can be changed. they can be inflated. they can be deflated. they can be moved. more people can be charged. one of the things that came out during this investigation. jon: i don't get it troy, if you drive a car to bank robbery, somebody gets killed, even if you weren't in the room, you drove the car you could be charged with murder. why is a woman apparently in the room, in the church where this beating took place, why is she not charged also with some kind

of a manslaughter or homicide? >> right, jon. she is only being charged with second degree assault which is class "d" felony in new york. that means that if this is the only charge that sticks, it means that she could only face up to maximum of seven years. this means that the investigators, that the prosecutors, that the people that have been looking into this for the last 10 days, feel that her level of culpability was much lower than her parents who were charged with manslaughter. jon: again the brother is testifying today and apparently testifying against his half-sister. we'll certainly let the viewers know what we learn about what happened there. the wendy patrick, troy slayton, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: other news, syrian dictator bashar al-assad, has a meeting with one of his staunchest allies, vladmir putin put in moscow. we'll discuss that story. we'll look what challenges border patrol officers face and

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jon: a quick look at what's still to come this hour. new fallout from bashar al-assad's visit to moscow to meet with vladimir putin. one couplery filmmaker whose brother died on the pan am flight that downed over lockerbie scotland. jenna: those issues of immigration and border security taking center stage, but border apprehensions are nearly at a 40-year low. but each border sector takes a different story. william? reporter: jenna, the reason for

that is this triple fence. it's 9 miles long. over there is mexico. then you have this no man's land 70 yard long, and a second fence and third fence. some still try using a home made ladder. but compared to the way it was before, this fence made a huge difference. yuma border agents arrested 800 illegal immigrants a day in 2005. today that number averages just 15. this is the gold standard wit comes to a fence. this as good as it gets, tell me why. >> that's mexico. you get on the other side and then there is a third fence. >> we apprehend 30% of all

entries. it includes 12 miles of sand dunes. reporter: in the past smugglers crossed the dunes on a daily basis. until homeland security erected this floating fence that rises and falls with the sand. it reduced from 2,700 to 27 the number of cars breaching the border urn impede. then smugglers turn to the colorado river. >> they make an attempt to come into the country by swimming across. >> this is a sandbag bridge. that's mexico. behind me is arizona and the immigrants literally walked on water into the united states. others try walking 80 smiles through the desert.

some make it, others don't. agents say a fence alone is not enough. if you build it you have to defend it. otherwise they will go on it, under it and cut through it. and unless you have interior even foamplets and prosecute and jail people you are not delivering consequences and the offense alone is meaningless. tomorrow we'll be in san diego to look at the port of entry. they come through the airports and the ports. jenna: william, thank you. jon: fallout from syrian dictator bashar al-assad's surprise visit to russia. he met with vladimir putin on assad's first known trip abroad in four years.

leland vittert live with more from the white house. reporter: the white house says russia's policies towards syria are ill guide. but this meeting might be the ultimate proof that it's russia calling the shots inside syria, not the united states. this meeting proves a couple of things. first that assad feels comfortable to lead this country, and he's willing to lead the country and shows how close he is to vladimir putin who launches massive airstrikes to try to keep him in power. it shows how much the russians are thumbing their nose at the united states. in the past 24 hours the russians and american military agreed to new procedures where both russia and americans are flying combat missions. senator john mccain has been

making fun of that agreement. >> we'll be watching the russian aircraft bombing and killing and destroying young men who we trained and armed and equipped and sent into syria to fight against isis and bashar al-assad. t be a mid-air collision between a u.s. and russian airplane and we'll be able to observe carefully the killing of these young men we trained and equipped and sent in. this is shameful. reporter: mccain is refer together u.s.-backed rebels who are fighting to try to overthrow assad. u.s. intelligence says the russians are hitting the rebels far harder and more frequently than they are hitting any isis-related targets. still secretary of state john kerry is standing by the white house's strategy. >> i don't see how assad could ever unite and govern the country. no more than the terrorists

could ever unite and govern that country. we have to bring every ounce of our collective influence together to give hope to many syrians who reject the tyrant and the terrorists. reporter: it's difficult to see how the white house wrestles control of syria from the russians. this is having an impact across the middle east in capitals from cairo to islamabad, former stalwart u.s. allies are seeing vladimir putin and russia the ones with the military might to make a difference in the middle east. jenna: nature's fury is on full display in one country as a massive volcano erupts for the second time this week. what they are telling folks about who lives near the mountain. one documentary on the bombing of pan am flight 103 over

lockerbie scotland cracked this cold case wide open. >> my brother and others were killed and there is uncertainty over who did it.

>> the only person ever convicted of the bombing of flight 103, the murder of your daughter, my brother, i'm watching him go free live on television. i'm asking myself, is the murderer getting away? jon: that was a clip from the documentary "my brother's bomb." it builds a case against two new suspects he claims were behind the 1988 bombing that brought

down pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. 189 americans were killed including ken's older brother david. ken -- ornstein joins us now. he's the filmmaker behind the documentary that helped crack the lockerbie case. did the f.b.i. other other agencies involved in this investigation, have they said why it was your documentary that did it? >> i don't know that they have said that. i know that they are aware of the reporting that it was doing, the reporting frontline has put out. and two days before we aired the final segment they made their

first public announcement in 5 years. i don't know what the american and scottish government's process is, but it's not coincidental that it's happening now around this film. jon: let's take us back to the time of the bombing. your older brother was in college. you were still in high school when he was killed. so the skill set you developed that aloud you to pursue this investigation, becoming a documentary filmmaker and investigators, all that led to this point. take us through how that happened. >> there is a way of telling it which could make it seem like i have been on a single-minded quest to arrive at this moment. i think life is probably more complicated than that. after the bombing my life veered in a certain direct and probably veered toward this kind of documentary work, this kind of investigative work.

i found frontline which is the standard bearer for this kind of work which maries journalism and film making in a powerful way. and over the course of a number of years working with frontline filmmakers i learned this powerful set of tools about how you go about going out into the world and finding things and reporting back in a way that other people find reliable. in this particular case, i not on the wanted to kind of advance our understanding of what happened and come face to face with the people who carried out this bomb hog had gotten away with it. but i wanted to film it. i wanted other people to retrace my steps and i want people to not take my word for it. but feel step by step by increments they can see how a case like this is made, if people watch the film, that's what they will see. jon: in the case that was libya after moammar qaddafi abdicated

power and was killed. you went back to libya to investigate this case. was that not terrifying? >> in retrospect do i make the same decision again? certainly in today's libya it probably wouldn't be that wise a decision. there was a moment there. and again working with people who had a lot of experience in these areas people who had done prongs for frontline, going into areas that were as troubled as libya at the time i went in. they said this is the moment, there is a honeymoon moment where thing are chaotic where you have to go in. i had that element of surprise. others were reporting on the arab spring and using that as a cover i went in with this list of names i culled from the original investigation into lockerbie that happened years ago. i took these names and i wanted to knock on doors myself and see

if there was one person now that qaddafi was gone who would tell me the truth. something i could establish that would be beyond doubt, that would put toless all of the sort of remaining lingering questions about who carried out one of the largest attacks against americans ever before 9/11 and why did they do it. jon: who are they? >> he's a well-known figure under the qaddafi regime. he was the second most important person at the time the regime fell. he was an intelligence chief. he had his hand in a number of acts against the west and the libyan people themselves. it's the second figure, a kind of mysterious figure mac mosood

who seemed to be in the right place at the right time. he was on the same flights as the one convicted bomb. he seemed to be a technical expert but he was a ghost. he was a name, a passport number, a fingerprint on landing card when he went in and out of malta on the libyan coast. but no one knew who was and the libyans refused to admit he even existed. i spent years conducting interview and piecing together a puzzle of papers to establish he existed. then found a witness who worked with him on another bombing that targeted the united states a few years before lock he by and that witness led me to the flesh and blood bomb expert and the man i suspect having his hand last on the device that blew up flight 103 and killed my brother and

270 others that day. jon: you did some amazing detective work. the documentary is available online. ken dornstein, thank you for joining us today. jenna: it shows what perseverance can do and how it can be life changing for so many. what a great story. we'll all watch the documentary for sure. the nation's top intelligence officers testifying before a house panel. what they are saying about the 6 greatest threats facing the united states right now. a dramatic video of a man andca his cat stranded at sea in 20-foot waves. may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out

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jon: let's check out what's on outnumbered. >> the state department decided to wait until yesterday to release 1,000 pages of email s from the our ambassador killed in the terror attack. >> donald trump topping the polls. but do republicans think he can win the nomination and the election? >> another school canceling halloween parties. has this p.c. gone too far? >> all that plus our hashtag "one lucky guy outnumbered." jenna: directors of the f.b.i., the department of homeland

security all testifying before a house hearing about the most urgent threats facing the united states. catherine herridge is live in washington with more. reporter: the f.b.i. director testified the number of americans going to syria and iraq to join isis appears to have leveled off but remains at 6 per month. 250 u.s. citizens tried to travel or have traveled to syria. >> isil used that social media to break the model and push into the youth into the pocket, into the mobile device of troubled souls throughout our country and the united states, a twin message. come or kill. reporter: the f.b.i. director has been sounding the alarm since the july 4 weekend when at least one credible isis plot targeting the holiday was

suspected. they redirect them to encrypted communications blinding the f.b.i. to their activity. they have agreed to take refugees from the syrian conflict. >> i think we have now worked successfully to make sure that every bit of available intelligence infor the united states government holds will be looked at with respect to a potential nexus to someone being screened as a potential refugee. i feel good about that process and the degree to which we tightened that up. you can't account for what you don't know. catherine herridge the other significant trend the f.b.i. director is discussion is for those americans who attempt to travel to syria and iraq, they

are getting younger and younger. in many cases they are people in their mid-teens and significantly they are seeing more american women get involved as well, jenna. jenna: fascinating. thank you. we'll be back with more. (0209fox555a.ecl)

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i see is, we will tell you on the second hour of "happening now". >> thanks for joining us, "outnumbered" starts right now. sandra: this is "outnumbered," and sandra smith, with this today harris negative, andrea tantaros, melissa frances and one lucky guy, former ambassador to the united nations ambassador john bolton and he is "outnumbered". great to have you back. >> you all arranged it, you appreciate it. harris: that meeting between vladimir putin and bashar al-assad