the hillary clinton email scandal is the subject of new

scrutiny by the fbi. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge tells us what her sources are telling her. >> intelligence sources tell fox the fbi is expanding its probe of hillary clinton's emails. with agents deploying if there are allegations of a false statute. the same statute that in 2004 got martha stewart in trouble with insider trading. >> martha stewart was having a conversation with an fbi agent and her lawyer in inside an fbi agent's office. she was not sworn to tell the truth shooxt was asked about certain activity and she lied about them. as a result of those lies she was prosecuted. >> section applies to materially false statements. given either orally or in writen, it is not required that the statements are given under oath. while it's not known who may have been interviewed by the fbi, experts said the statute

could apply if clinton, her aides or attorney were not forthcoming about her use of personal email for state department business, as well as document destruction. >> the fbi takes any false statement seriously. it's, you're wasting the time of fbi agents that could be spending time on multiple leads. >> separately two u.s. government officials said the fbi is doing its own independent classification review of the clinton emails. by going directly to the intelligence agencies. effectively cutting out what has become a grinding process at the state department. >> in order to have a substantive pure investigation, you want to go to the originating source of that information. >> a member of the benghazi select committee, that first discovered mrs. clinton's use of a personal server said it remained a very serious matter. >> it is now readily apparent that there was high-level classified information that was contained on a server that didn't have the normal protections and secretary clinton's server did not meet that standard. >> fbi director comey avoids

commenting on any ongoing investigation. but confirmed he is getting updates, emphasizing the bureau's agents are independent. the clinton contain did not respond to requests for comments. the university of missouri professor who initially refused to cancel an exam because of racial threats, may not be leaving after all. the school says officials did not accept dale brinkham's resignation and that he continues to be a valued faculty member. missouri has selected a recently retired administrator who is african-american as the system's interim president. michael middleton replaces tim wolf who resigned under pressure monday. meantime, thousands of students across the country took part in demonstrations at college campuses today to show what they called, solidarity with protesters at missouri. kurdish fighters with the u.s. air support trying to take back a key iraqi town from isis, that story, when we return.

checking international headlines now, isis is claiming responsibility for a twin suicide attack that has killed at tleest 37 people and wounded 180 others in the southern beirut suburb. the explosions in lebanon occurred minutes apart. the area is a stronghold of lebanon's militant hezbollah group. the u.s. is providing air support to kurdish fighters attempting to take back a key city from isis. correspondent benjamin hall tells us what's happening tonight. >> u.s. bombs began dropping at 9:00 p.m. local last night as operation free sinjab began. while on the ground, 75,000 peshmerga troops began moving toward the city. pentagon confirmed that u.s. special ops are on sinjar

mountain. unclear how close to the front they were. >> i think it's quite likely that they're not directly in the line of action. they might be able to visibly see it. >> sinjar city stits sit on a crucial high way 47, which connects the defacto isis capital, and severing that would hamper their ability to resupply. one of the biggest cities lost by the kurds. the yazidis suffered the most when aisis attacked, massacring villages and enslaving women. i was at the front lines in sinjar city this year and the difficulties i saw then are still true today. one is isis' ability to dig in. every inch of that city is covered in ieds and moving ground troops forward in that urban environment is very close sloe and very dangerous. the other is the weather. winter is coming and when we

were there, cloud cover presented those all-important u.s. air strikes. current weather reports suggest they have only a few days of clear skies ahead. so time is now of the essence. so far, peshmerga troops have recaptured some of the outlying villages and some of the crucial highway. but the real battle lies inside the city. and right now, they're a long way off from getting isis out. brett? >> benjamin hall in london. thank you. defense secretary ashton carter has fired his senior military assistant over allegations of misconduct. carter says lieutenant general ron lewis will be removed from his position. carter did not specify what lewis is accused of doing. but a well-placed source tells fox news the allegation involves an improper relationship. the investigation is not criminal. carter says the matter has been referred to the pentagon inspector general. now, to the desperate situation in africa. millions are facing starvation from a lack of water or too much

of it and the conditions are not expected to improve soon. paul tillsly has the story from johannesburg, south africa. >> can eastern and southern africa, 35 million people. one-third of them children, face the threat of starvation now, following two climate extreme, severe drought and in other parts, heavy flooding. and it's a double whammy. now the worst el nino for over 20 years is beginning to smash into the continent. bringing more drought and floods. the u.n.'s operations chief for the office for humanitarian affairs, john king on an emergency mission here. >> el nino is a very serious climactic impact on the whole continent of africa. here in africa, millions will be affected. >> ging has sent teams to the remote island of madagascar. 2.5 million people need food aid here right now. in somalia, at one end of the country, drought.

ironically, at the other, floods. in sudan and kenya, similar. in ethiopia, 8.2 million needing help and food. in tanzania, cholera is following floods, which have killed over 50. in malawi, el nino arrives to find three million in desperate need for food and a further 1.5 million people are hungry in zimbabwe. here in south africa, the search for water has gotten so bad that a 15-year-old boy was killed. in a fight over simply trying to get some water for his mother. brett? >> paul tillsly in johannesburg, thank you. donald trump not giving an inch on mass deportations, of illegal immigrants, plus cruz and rubio in a battle over the same topic. reaction from the panel, when we come back.

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>> it seems that the campaign. >> this is . >> this is why the fbi was so upset when president obama went on television and said i don't think any criminal acts have been done here and pushed this off to the side. you can't do that. we're still in the middle of the investigation. and any time you get the fbi involved in something it's a little like bringing a contractor in your house to fix one thing. a leak. and then they tell you, well actually you have five other things which you should come and fix. once you start digging you find a lot. this is still hanging over her head. and there's no doubt that it has taken a toll not necessarily with her, the opinion of democrats and the democratic primary. but just on the overall issue among voters, look, you know i went back and i looked at this point in 2007, in november of 2007, only 33% of voters thought she was honest and trurtworthy.

this has been an issue long before the fbi scandal. today it's down to 27%. it's taken a bit of a hit. >> charlie, pertaining to material false statements, when they start investigating that, that starts to open up a whole different ball game, as amy mentioned. you look back at a lot of cases, that's where things go south. >> yeah. and it reminds me of the bill clinton's campaign slogan against h.w. bush. it's the economy, stupid. it's the cover-up, stupid. you know, if in fact they, her or her aides either obfuscated things, flat-out lied or misled investigators looking into this, it suddenly becomes a hole lot more serious. and as you point out, it's not only, not only do the charges become a lot more serious, but then as amy said, the tentacles can go anywhere at that point if they start looking elsewhere.

the other thing i find curious about all this, i really wonder who is leaking all of this stuff. is it somebody, is it just somebody in the fbi who is trying to keep this investigation going? is it somebody in the administration that is getting upset about all of this? and i've thought from the beginning, this is so embarrassing for the president. and at some point if the president gets, hears enough of it, there's a lot he can do that can make this horribly uncomfortable for hillary clinton. >> charles, we're dealing with the email situation, the classified situation. now material false statements investigation into that. we're not even talking about the clinton foundation and how that may bleed into her time as secretary of state. >> look, right now, what it looks like is she's got a martha stewart problem. which is the false information, misleading or her aides or pressuring somebody. that's a pretty big category. it also includes destroying information. remember, she destroyed 30,000 emails and we have to assume that there was nothing in there

that might have affected this case. that's a pretty tall assumption. and she has a david petraeus problem, which is the mishandling of classified information. these are real serious. and i do think the fbi seems to be showing at least when you listen to the head of the fbi that they are not going to be deterred by political pressure. now in the end it could turn out that the political appointees will not allow an indictment to go aid head. if it happens and whoever is leaking this stuff is going to leak about what was suppressed there will be resignations, it will like the saturday night massacre that she knows about. she was there in the watergate days. on the other side, it will be devastating for her. >> does it come up in the debate on saturday. >> he's laid off all of it. i suspect he will continue to do that. look, his brand is he's running on his message, he's running on income inequality and he's

running on his image. once he starts looking like a politician, taking those shots, then he loses a little bit of that luster. >> i bet john diggerson brings it up. stay tun

finally tonight, earlier today president obama awarded the highest medal of distinction to 32-year-old flow. went above and beyond the tour of duty when he tackled a suicide bomber are in afghanistan in august of 2012. >> flo did something extraordinary he grabbed the bomber by his vest and kept pushing him away. all those years of training on the track, in the classroom, out in the field, all of it came together in those few seconds. he had the instincts and the courage to do what was needed. >> flo risked his own life to save those around him. four of whom died in the

attack. he accepted thewut(s in honor of their memory. >> this medal belongs to the true heroes command sergeant major gray major kennedy and -- who made the ultimate sacrifice and didn't come home also belongs to their families. the true heros who lived with that day every day. >> flo suffered life-threatening injuries to his left leg and his recovery included over 30 surgeries. flo, we thank you for your service and sacrifice and thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for&ú:0ñ this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. greta goes "on the record" right greta goes on the record interviewing flo right here. it is friday, november 13th, 2015. a fox news alert. the brutal isis killer jihad john likely dead killed in a

u.s. air strike coming in overnight on a secret to kill this madman. and a heartbreaking murder/mystery. a pastor's pregnant wife murdered, shot in the head before he came home, and the killer still on the loose right now. and college campus chaos exploding across the country. now another top official out of a job as angry students promise more heads will roll. "fox & friends first" starts right now. good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this friday morning. i'm heather childers. >> i'm heather coyman. thank you for starting your friday with us. terrorist down. isis militant jihadi john likely killed by a direct hit from a u.s. drone strike in syria. >> big news this morning. fox news correspondent from washington d.c. with more. good morning, garrett. >> reporter: good morning. the pentagon is still awaiting

confirmation that the drone strike did, in fact, kill jihadi john but a senior u.s. defense official tells fox news right now they're 99% sure they got him. the pentagon released a statement saying in part u.s. forces conducted an airstrike in raqqa, syria, on november 12th, 2016, targeting jihadi john. we are assessing the results of tonight's operation and we will provide additional information as and where appropriate. the senior u.s. defense official tells fox news that the drone had been tracking mohamma mohammad eawazi when he was meeting with other people. when he came out of a meeting and a positive i.d. occurred, that's when the strikes commenced. the british national became the face of the islamic state last year when the terrorist group released propaganda videos ofbeg american journalist steve and james foley, abdul r