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martha: a tribute to the paris terror attack victims. celine dion performing. show producers said it was important to show our solidarity. wonderful to have you back. jon: new terror raid sweeping across brussels. the city that's home to nato headquarters and the european union remains locked down and under the highest state of alert for another day. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. belgian police carrying out a series of raid as they hunt for a suspect called the 8th paris attacker. they shut down subjectways,
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schools and shops across brussels with hundreds of troops patrolling the streets. reporter: 22 raid, 21 arrests. and that streets are shut down around the capital and people were told to stay indoors. helicopters flew overhead and the media were asked not to report specifics until after the raids were finished. in the suburb of molenbeek a suspect got away but was found later in his car shot. there have been warnings of an isis cell. we don't know if that will be prevented.
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the main focus is on salah abdeslam, the paris attacker who got away. let's not forget the authorities had him and let him go. he said he was trying to reach syria. central brussels has been under lockdown at the highest he level it can. thousands of policev are in brussels and telling citizens to stay away. of course, they understand the terror threat that schools and subways need to open. at the moment there is a lot of tension on the streets. jenna: thank you very much. jon: terrorism concerns seem to be animating voters. a new fox polling on the gop
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side of things show donald trump firmly in the lead. 10 points ahead of ben carson who seems to have taken a bit of a hit the last several weeks. but ted cruz and marco rubio both gaining and jeb bush picked up slightly garnering 5%. the rest of the gop hopefuls at 3% or below. in this poll carly fiorina does get more than 3%. she is coming in at number 6 with 4%. we have the senior editor at the daily caller and nina easton. what strikes you about these numbers. >> it many striking that ben carson has lost fraud. people have been waiting for him
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to eww. give on of his answers on foreign policy in particular, i think that hurt hip. the other news, donald trump who people thought would ebb for the last 6 or 7 or 8 months still has a commanding lead. there is a real potential donald trump could win a nomination. jon: there is new concern over terrorism. rivals of the economy as the number one issue. >> we thought after the paris attacks one of two things would happen. there would be what i would call a flight to seriousness. candidates who have done their homework and studied it, marco rubio, ted cruz, jeb bush. someone who promises if he's elected all these things can go away and all these fears will be taken care of with little cost like donald trump. but what we are seeing is it looks like donald trump has not
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been affected. as nina said, there has to be a real possibility donald trump will win this nomination. he has not bungd since he entered this race. he has been tide for front runner since he jumped in the summer. jon: if he does win the nomination he doesn't do as well as some of the other republican candidate. marco rubio comes in at 50% to hillary clinton's 42%. ben carson 42% 39%. then you see trump beating hillary clinton 46%-41%. can you explain those numbers? >> the important aspect is almost all of the republican candidate are beating hillary
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clinton which may take await electability factor as a major thing for candidate to vote on. if all the candidate look like they beat hillary clinton which would maybe help donald trump and hurt marco rubio. he does appear to be the best candidate to go against hillary clinton. but donald trump is a master brander. he appeals to the audience he has to appeal to. in a general election he may have to appeal to a general audience and change what he's saying and help his electability there. jon: what do you think about the trump surge? >> i think the divisive comments he makes whether it has to do with immigration or some racial comments he made. this party need to broaden the
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tent it's too old, it's too white. the demographics of this country are changing. we saw that. that's what happened to mitt romney in 2012. i think he will have a drug until a general election. he may try to brand himself away from it. by already said what he's already said. he's on roared and those are comments that a hillary clinton could easily use against him in advertising. bill: we have clip of that incident. >> do i hear somebody over there? you know, you have one guy over there shouting. we have thousands -- you will read about them tomorrow. they will say, oh, get him the hell out of here, would you, please? get him out of here. throw him out. environment.
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jon: apparently he was shouting "black lives matter," a protester who has been arrested self times. but people like that trump is direct and confrontational. >> a big chunk of the republican party likes it. that's why he's sitting up on the top of the polls. but if you go into a general election. people will be looking for at his demeanor. they will be look at whether he's somebody who can unite rather than divide. they will be looking to somebody who is not as divisive as donald trump has shown himself to be in the nomination process. >> how do voters see him when it comes to terrorism, jamie? >> according to the polls they see him of the field, the best able to handle it which is remarkable because he seems to be from interviews one of the least knowledgeable about actual facts on the ground.
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but let me respond quickly to nina. he has the remarkable ability to not have to stand by things he has previously said. he's able to get around thing that he said and kind of put them to the sideline. you have seen this in the republican primary. he's able to maneuver around say claiming he never said what he said on tape. i do not underestimate his ability to be a chameleon and put away the rhetoric without it hurting him. i think we might be surprised. jenna: a new group of syrian refugees turning themselves in to immigration agents at the u.s. border seek asylum. another group of syrians were
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arrested in honduras attempting to reach the u.s. with stolen pass ports. jenna: this brings the total to 13 syrian refugees who turned up at the texas-mexico bored. it's in the southwest corn of the state. the most recent incident involving five people, a family of 3 degree and two men. federal authorities say they voluntarily turned themselves over to border patrol agents. you may remember two additional families made up of 8 syrians surrendering of their own accord. what is the process when this happens? the department of homeland security says refugees are detained until a thorough background check can be completed and if everything clears, checks out, then they are turned over to i.c.e. for temporary detention.
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this refugee issue has many americans divide. over the weekend an anti-muslim group called the bureau on islamic relations protesting outside a texas mosque upset over the idea of the u.s. taking any syrian refugees. they were earmd, carrying weapons. one man said their intention was to have their guns for quote self-defense. a s.w.a.t. team was on standby in case things got out of hand at that protest. however, they were not needed. no injuries and no arrests. jon: we are getting word of a deadly u.s. chopper crash. arrests in the brutal home invasion that left the pregnant wife an indiana pastor dead who is facing a preliminary murder charge.
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an apache slamming into a road. no reports any casualties on the ground. the helicopter may have hit some high votage power lines because wires were found year the crash site and the upper part of the tower was damaged. right now there are more than 20,000 u.s. troops stationed in south korea. jon: more information on a brutal home invasion that left the pregnant wife of a pastor dead.
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a teen is being held on a preliminary murder charge. police talked about the fact that the killer left evidence. apparently that is dna evidence. >> that's probably the most critical evidence of all. not only was amanda blackburn shot in the head which is awful. but she was raped as well according to police. that means bodily fluids, dna. if the dna matches the us next this case. 18-year-old larry taylor, the case is largely solved. these guys apparently had don't same thing before. they call themselves the kill group and they committed a myriad of similar crimes in the apartmenapartment complex wherey used to live. the ballistic tests are being performed. when a bullet goes through the
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built of a gun it rotates and leaves a specific marking that authorities often refer to as a fingerprint. it's sow precise. so may be able to match the murder weapons to the snrug this case. jon: there are three people arrested. one is thought to be the triggerman. reporter: they are all acome polices and the law treats them all the same way as if they were involved in a conspiracy it's like a bank robbery gone wrong where somebody dies. there is something somebody outside who didn't pull the trigger but the law treats them the same way it many called felony murder. reporter: two of these guys reportedly took her bank card and left the house. even if they weren't on the property when she was shot in the head, they could be charged.
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>> that's critical evidence of the conspiracy, that their intent was to take money, a robbery or burglary. and these two guys who carried out the a.t.m. transactions are part of the conspiracy. that's the evidence it resulted in a killing. that's felony murder. it's murder. jon: what about the death penalty? reporter: indiana has the death penalty. there are five different kinds applicable to this case. any crime which is heinous, atrocious and cruel and surely this one is, flying wait, the evidence is they were waiting for the husband, the pastor, to leave, then they went into the house to commit the crime. killing of a pregnant woman with a viable fetus. killing more money, they wanted her atm card and used it. finally killing involving rape.
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all of these guys could easily be convicted of a capital murder case. the only caveat i see is if they try to flip a witness. police have what's called the open unsolved unit. hundreds of cases they haven't solved. if they can flip one of the witnesses and he can tell them of the myriad of crimes that hee able to save his own life and testify against the others. reporter: obviously they are putting pressure on all of these guys to do that. >> they put him in what's called the box, the interrogation room. and they sit and stew and start thinking about what trouble they are in. and police come in. video recorder through a glass window. and they start taking statements. and that's oftentimes how they are able to put pressure on people to tell the truth.
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jon: it's a horrible crime. it's nice to know somebody is under arrest. jon: president obama says the u.s. and world will defeat terrorism. the president says journalists can play a role. our media panel will debate that role next. an american journalist sentenced to prison time in iran on what many are calling trumped up charges.
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jon: president obama says he's confident in the u.s. and the
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world to defeat terrorists. by says the media plays a role. >> the media needs to help in this. during course of this week a difficult week, it's understandable that this has been a primary focus. but one of the things that has to happen is how we report on this as to maintain perspective and not empower in any way these terrorist organizations or elevate them in ways that make it easier for them to recruit or make them stronger. jon: tammy bruce, and alan colmes. so tammy, what is it that displeased you.
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>> he likes to micromanage everything. obama's focus has always been about winning the news cycle. the only way he can do that is to make sure reporters don't cover what's happening in the world. when you cover tear riforts and the terrorism, you foojtd out what a -- you find out what a failure obama is. his plan for the next year was race rife oughts on campus, bad cop marches. gun control and clue hat change. and looking at the failure -- people deserve to know, they need to know, they need to be advised the condition of the world. but here he's telling the media, in other words, to do what he's doing. ignore it, downplay it, don't even discuss it. discuss what's important to me
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in my narrative. that's what he wants them to do. and this week they stopped. >> when you have attacks like we have seen in paris with $10 dozen people dead and the subway disaccept shut down because they are afraid of an imminent terror attack, it's unusual for the president to step up and tell the media to maintain perspective. >> i think you have got it wrong on a couple of counts. to say he's just sitting back and the terrorist attack is his fault is a false narrative. i want a president who's calm. the hysteria we see is playing into the hands of the media. people going crazy and giving them all this attention. we should have a measured response which is what the president is doing which is the proper response for a leader to have in spite of the brick bats
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going his way. it's smart of him not to give the terrorists the emotional reaction he would love us to have. reporter: he said we are not afraiden we'll wipe out isis. on what basis do we believe that? >> it sounded like another red line. this is a man who says a lot of things and doesn't do them. he says enough to win the news cycle so you can gone it nature of what he would prefer to be covered. americans reamized top number one issue in if the polls is now terrorism, the economy is second. that is not what he wanted to see. this is the obama legacy. this is the thing that infewer yates him more than ever. i don't know what he's been doing because i think they:blew up some oil trucks.
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but the reaction has to do nothing. it has been france. >> before the terror paris attacks, one was jihadi john, somebody else was killed in syria and iraq. to say he's doing nothing is a false narrative. >> beruit and mali. >> land has been taken back from isis in iraq and syria. >> tell that to the 40 dead in beruit. >> you don't want to focus on the land taken back from isis and they are losing territory. >> it's about the entire picture that has to be dealt with. jon: the police chief of washington, d.c. was one of those features on 60 minutes. she had a different take from the president. here is her comment.
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>> if you concentrate on the actions you can save some lives. i'm worried about a numbness about what is potentially a reality. >> a numbness, what do you mean? >> just ignore it and not preparing yourself. that's not an option anymore. jon: the president is worried about the media overreacting. she says she is worried about people being numb and not repaired. john kerry said when he was running for president that he wanted people to be prepared. there is more danger to under reacting and ignoring than there is to facing the truth. >> we should not be hysterical. not overreact to something that would give the terrorists the
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kind of reaction they would like who to see us have. >> we shouldn't feed into the hysteria that gives hem more comfort. >> we need to be concerned about eliminating them from the planet. >> not promoting hysteria on the media. jon: we'll continue to cover whatever happens in regard to the story. it's a line for the media to try to balance on. alan colmes and tammy bruce. jenna: an american journalist held in iran sentenced to prison for an unsphessified number of years -- for an unpiecifie. for an unspecified number of year. a student accused of killing his teacher.
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jon: right now, a quick look what is still to come this hour of "happening now." u.s. and allies already going after isis with airstrikes but what about ground troops? the latest reports about the possibility of boots on the ground. new scare in the air. the third incident for one airline in less than a week. more details on passenger plane diverted mid-flight after some passengers are accused of suspicious behavior. and remember this viral rant? former university of connecticut student whose obscenity-laced and drunken tirade about
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macaroni and cheese, well he is making his first appearance in court. we'll have the latest on the charges filed against him. jenna: breaking now, iran reportedly sentencing a detained american journalist to unspecified prison term. you know his name, jason rezaian. he is the "washington post" bureau chief in iran. he has been jailed in this country for nearly 500 days. tehran's revolutionary court convicting him last month of various charges including espionage. "the washington post" vigorously denied those charges. the news todays perhaps there is a sentence. we have ali rezaian, jason's brother. he is coming to us from paris. there is a little bit of delay. what are you heard about your brother and his sentence today? >> we heard the spokesman came out said there was a conviction and the conviction included prison time. hasn't said anything what he was convicted of. doesn't say anything how long
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the conviction is for. we really haven't gotten any clarity. they haven't spoken to jason, his lawyer or anybody else about anymore specifics. jenna: what are have you heard from the united states government so far, if anything? >> you know, i haven't spoken to the government since the information came out but we know that they're still talking with the iranians. they have these meetings regarding isis as well as other times they get together and we know that is something they're still working on but you know what we do know iran still doesn't feel like they need to release jason. they have held him as you said 48 days. they haven't produced anything he had done anything wrong. there is no reason for him to be held a day much less 500. jenna: what is next, ali. >> we're working with the folks at u.n. there is petition on arbitrary detention. the u.n. strongly came out this is arbitrary detention and completely illegal by international standards as well as iranian standards.
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right now we'll be working with them and pushing forward as hard as we can to make iranians do the right thing and let jason go we know you and your family have been so through so much during the course of these 500 days. as of latest chapter, what pose through your heart, as we hair news about your brother yet to be confirmed again. >> it is unbelievable, every time they come out and give information, just, almost nothing. they give out parts of information. it gives us really know direction where to go. it doesn't close a chapter, and part as you said. that is as frustrating as difficult for us as anything. my mom has been in iran for five months waiting for this trial to end. they have broken their laws in terms of how long a trial should take at every turn. it is absolutely, absolutely tort russ for her to be over there and waiting to hear parts
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like this. jenna: in the past your mother has been able to speak jason. potentially see him at times. this has been very sparse. what is the latest on his condition? who is the last actually being able to see him in person and how he is doing? >> you know, nobody has spoken to him since this information came out but both my mom and my sister-in-law have seen him within the past week. he is very depressed. obviously being in prison in iran, it is winter and cold over there. people wouldn't think that. they're depriving him of things just like books to read and extra warm clothes and things like that. and so he is, it is in a horrible position. he hears about, you know, various different meetings and different progress theoretically we're making with the government. he is sitting there over there. he knows he is innocent and there is no evidence against him. he knows holidays are coming. he wants to come home. he hasn't done anything wrong.
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jenna: go back to the point you mentioned about working with the u.n. our viewers will want to help, ali, him any way they can. perhaps we to the the nuclear deal taken care of maybe more lines of communication would be open with the iranian government and perhaps get us more leverage to get someone like jason out of prison. so far that hasn't been the case. why are you finding the u.n. more effective and what can our viewers do to help if they want to? >> you know the u.n. has been effective it is really only international body the iranians are part of. they have come to the u.n. general assembly. they participate there and it is important to them. they have a permanent mission in new york. we have on our website, freejason.net. we have the address and send them to the permanent meant representative, the ambassador from iran to the u.n. in new york. they can go online to change.org/freejason to sign the petition.
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half a million people around the world signed the petition asking for jason's release. these things make politicians here in the u.s., other ports of the world pay attention because they know it is important to people. gives them more emphasis to go back to the iranians to tell them they need to stop doing this kind of stuff. jenna: question wait for jason to be free and holiday and family we're thinking of your family, of course we'll do anything we can to help. great to have you on the program as always. while stay up with the story. we wish you the best of luck. thank you. >> thank you, jenna. jon: so, just how should the united states take the fight to isis? roughly 50 u.s. special forces troops will be on the ground in syria. will that be enough or will sending in more troops be necessary? coming up, retired marine corps lieutenant colonel bill cowan with his take what the u.s. role should be. plus his epic rant about mac and cheese got him arrested.
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get the recipes at walnuts.org. jon: right now new info on some crime stories we're keeping an eye on. the former uconn student caught on video going on a drunken tirade over mac and cheese, he is due in court today. luke fotti will be arraigned on two misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace and trespassing. gotti has since apologized for the incident. police detective will be back on the witness stand today in the trial of a massachusetts teenage are accused of killing his teacher. prosecutors say phillip chrissism raped and killed his math teacher in 2013 and dumped her body behind the school. mass shooting in a playground in new orleans. two groups of people opening fire. 16 were hurt. the crowds were there for a block party and music video shoot. no word if this was connected to gang violence.
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jenna: as we get reports of u.s. special forces on the ground in syria or at least heading there not everyone fighting the terror group wants troops back on the ground in the region. listen to this reaction from iraqi shia commander. >> would you like to see america having greater role on the ground in iraq. >> translator: he told us he would not welcome a return to the days of when thousands of u.s. troops were deployed here. >> why do you need to bring american soldiers to die on a rocky ground? we have young iraqi men who are able to defend their country, if they had the equipment. it would be shameful for us. jenna: the shia militia are reportedly backed by iran, also of course a shia regime. iraqi-sunnis, who partnered with the united states in war in iraq say the shia, specifically these militias, harass them or worse. >> one much his preferred methods of killing allegedly involved using a power drill to
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pierce the skulls of his adversaries. >> translator: if you have the slightest evidence of even one attack carried out by us against the sunni, you can blame me. >> so are you saying there is no evidence or are you saying it is not true? >> translator: absolutely. i say it never happened. jenna: retired lt. colonel bill cowan, fox news military analyst. very interesting exchange by one of the leaders of these powerful militias that are separate from the iraqi bost, colonel cowan, sort of, but are operating on the ground in iraq, against isis, without our technical support. what do you think that exchange tells us about our quote, unquote, potential partners in iraq? >> well, jenna, i don't think they will be ever be partners of ours. it is important to remember, we, the united states, fought against these same shiite militias during the conduct of almost the entire war and
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unfortunately they're the most powerful force inside of iraq right now. 20% of those capable of fighting that are really on our side, iraqi army as we seen it play out. 80% of the fighters engaged are unfortunately shiite militias, they will fight side by side with the iraqi army but at the end of the day they represent what iran really wants, that is control of all of iraq once again and all sunnis dominated by them, these militia. jenna: appears, at least from the "60 minutes" report that these militias are ones making the most progress against isis on the ground because they have the force and they have the organization and obviously they have some powerful backing. what sort of situation does that put the united states in though, if those are the people that are most successful against our common enemy? >> well it is a marriage of convenience unfortunately because it is certainly our desire to push isis back out. we are not going to be able to do it on our own. the iraqi army, although capable
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at one time apparently really isn't capable. to some degree they are but not enough. shiite militias are only ones that can carry the fight to isis. all of that fight as we know is in sunni-dominated territory. as was suggested in those clips, the shiites are brutal on sunnis. the places they have recaptured, they have wreaked havoc. a awful lot of people disappear, sunnis disappear in those areas. we the united states are bound by this alliance with them, an unfortunate alliance because at the end of the day our primary goal is to fight isis, not to fight iran and shiite militias. jenna: you have innocent sunnies in the anbar province who do not want to go to fill eight with isis but also do not want to fill eight with the shia militias. so they're being terrorized in both directions. senator marco rubio who is running for president has an idea of solution in this part of the world. here is what he had to say to chris wallace.
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>> one of the graphs hissing in that plan is we need a force made up of arab sunnis. they have to be defeated by arab sunnis themselves. they will have to be the bulk of the ground force. there will have to be american operators embedded alongside them. special operators are combat troops. this is not return to iraq. we're not talking about 100,000 people or 50,000 armed soldiers. we're talking about significant force of special operators and others with significant missions embedded alongside sunni-arab coalition if the president of the united states must put together to defeat isis on the ground. that is the only way to do it. they have to be defeated by a ground force and has to be made up of sunnis. jenna: what do you think of that hypothetically and practically, colonel cowan? >> when he speaks of arab sunnis he is not speaking about iraqi-sunnis, we're getting as much out of them we can. i'm sure his intent to talk about jordanians, egyptians,
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saudi, united arab emirates, most of them are sunni who themselves do not like the iranians by any means and fearful of iranian nuclear-armed country but the reality is this administration has never gone out and reached really with pressure on those other arab nations to come in and join that coalition. at the end of the day, if we were able to get a coalition together, and i think the jordanians, although they have a lot of issues inside jordan with syrian refugees and palestinians, the egyptians would come forward i believe we could get some arab force in there if the administration pushed on it. jenna, we would have requirement of some time of u.s. special operations forces out there primarily to assist calling in close air support. the ground troops can engage with isis. they can engage on the ground. it is air power that often makes the difference. we need u.s. operators on the ground to call in us air strikes and others to call in their own
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country's airstrikes if that's what they're calling for. jenna: lieutenant cowan, great to have you on the program. thank you. jon: a scary case of lost and found, a bag of military weapons stolen from a army armory in massachusetts suddenly turned up and who found them. the latest behind a diverted southwest plane.
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they take about five people off of the plane. and take them in somewhere to the airport. and we never seen them again. >> immediately, seven or eight cops come on board. they go right to the back of the plane. >> i didn't think it was threat at all. the whole thing seemed to a little overblown. reporter: problem, some passengers tried to trade seats but did not sit down before takeoff. third incident involving middle eastern men on southwest on wednesday, arab-speaking palestinian could not immediately board a flight because another passenger didn't feel safe. the same day, southwest delayed another flight because of behavior of six middle earn men. >> obviously there is a lost fee right now. sometimes fear drives us to do crazy things and treat people the way we shouldn't be treating them. i hope in this case there was a real threat and, if there wasn't, the guys are on their
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way and hopefully home for the holidays. reporter: jon, basically the saw says, can't disrupt or be disobedient to make the flight attendant uncomfortable. back to you. jon: william la jeunesse. thank you. we'll be right back. jeb bush: leadership means you've got to be all in.
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it's not about yappin'. it's not about talking. it's about doing. i know how to do this because i was privileged to serve in florida for eight years. and we turned the systems upside down that weren't working. 1.3 million new jobs were created. we cut taxes every year. income rose in people's pockets. people were lifted out of poverty.
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children started to learn. as president of the united states, i pledge to you that i will solve problems. announcer: right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. >> see you back here an hour. "outnumbered" starts right now. harris: fox news alert. we begin day three. the people of belgium on high alert for a terror attack of the prime minister there saying to the people in the capitol, should brace for an imminent threat. brussels on lockdown. police conducting raids overnight, up to 22 of them we've her, sweeping up more terror suspects as they hunt for one of the suspected terror attackers. still on at run 10 days out. this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today, andrea tantaros, host of kennedy i on sister network fox business.

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