former texas governor had already made norris an honorary texas ranger. what is better, a ranger or citizen? here's shep. >> shepard: first from the fox news deck, a pivotal moment for the united states and a world. a major shift from president trump himself this afternoon during a joint news conference with jordan's king abdullah. the president said the latest acts of barber al-assad can't be tolerated. >> that act on children had a been impact on me. it was a horrible thing. i've been watching it and seeing it. it doesn't get any worse than

that. i have that flexibility, and it's very, very possible -- and i will tell you, it's already happened -- that my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much. >> it's already happened, his attitude and syria and assad has changed. does that mean that the united states will become for engaged in the conflict? the president was not specific. when add in syria's actions crossed a red line, he said this. >> it crossed a lot of lines for me. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, baby, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red lines. >> shepard: beyond a red line. the background here is important. you may remember president obama in 2012 warned that barber al-assad crossed a red line

should he use chemical weapons. the dictator did use them anyway. president obama responded with diplomacy and stead of military action. >> the obama administration had an opportunity to solve this crisis when he set the red line in the sand. when he didn't cross that red line after making the threat, that set us back a long ways not only in syria but in many other parts of the world. because it was a blank threat. i think it was something that was not one of our better days as a country. >> that was 2012. and citizen trump urged obama not to intervene in syria. he tweeted this. he also tweeted --

>> shepard: now the president says he's changed his mind. that it's now his responsibility, and that he will act. this is the first time the president has blamed barber al-assad for killing his own people. yesterday the attack was launched killing dozens of people including children asleep in their beds. russia has blamed it on the syrian rebels. they're supported by the united states. officials in moscow says a syrian air strike hit a weapons dump that released the deadly chemicals. here's the big picture. this sort of thing has been happening for years. the syrian dictator's barrel bombs have killed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of innocent victims including women and babies in

their beds. that too is a war crime. but it's a horrific video that the president said changed his minds and the nation's policy towards this conflict. we have no way to know whether the president was signalling an immediate military response. of this we're sure. the syrian regime is backed by the russians. the russians are fighting with them as are iranians. should the united states enter this conflict, supporting militarily the rebels, fighting against the syrians, we would be fighting the russians and the iranians. the chief white house correspondent john roberts is live at the white house. he was not specifically and carefully not so. >> he's been studiously nonspecific about what action he will take across the world. he's been very studious saying too often the obama administration was telegraphing what sort of action they would

take. he goes back to mosul. they telegraphed what they would do in mosul telling leaders what they would do to dig in or get out. it's clear this attack yesterday in syria has had a profound impact on the president. he talked about the images of little children, little babies dying and suffering horribly in the wake of in gas attack. saying that it has crossed a number of lines, not just a red line, and it would seem clear that he would have to take some sort of action in the wake of all of this. talking about it in the strident terms that he has been, but being deliberately ambiguous about what the united states' response might be. here's the president. >> one of the things you've noticed about me is militarily, i don't like to say where i'm going, what i'm doing. i watched attack administrations saying we will attack such and such a day and such and such an hour. i'm not saying i'm doing one

thing. i'm not going to tell you, as much as i respect you. >> this could be a game changer in the posture towards syria. the administration said that regime change was not a particular priority for the u.s. now it looks like the president may be changing his mind, if not on regime change, at least in the united states approach to al-assad. it looks like he has a powerful ally with the king of jordan standing at the president's stride who is strident in his condemnation of what happened in syria. >> and the presence of king abdullah gave this more gravity. speaking on a world stage and certainly on live television. when you can consider what the optics of this are, jordan, the united states, syrian rebels

against the russians and iranians. that's world war defined. >> when you look at in from the 30,000 foot level, it's clear what transpired in the last hour at the white house will have a profound impact on everything going on in the middle east. the president has said in the past, as a candidate and as president there's a problem with regime change. this is pursued by. presidents before him. when you have a regime change, you wind up in a worse spot than you did before exacting a change at the top. he said who are these people fighting in syria? we don't flow who they are. while this may have changed his approach to basser al-assad, it shows he doesn't have any trust of the player there's in syria. unclear what he will do. >> john roberts, thank you.

let's turn to josh letterman. he's a foreign policy reporter for the foreign press. it would appear that we're to take him literally and seriously, seems like a major foreign policy shift. >> if he is indeed changing the way he views assad and changing from just a few days ago when multiple trump administration officials were saying that it was no longer a u.s. priority to get rid of assad in syria, that would be a major shift. what we don't know yet from trump, what is he going to do about it. that is why this is such a defining moment for him. it's one of the first major overseas crises that he's had to deal with and the first time he's had to translate the tough talk about dealing with adversaries and dealing with difficult decisions into actual action. we're definitely seeing already countries around the world that are looking to the u.s. for leadership. one to know if this is a signal of a military respond the u.s.

considering as nikki haley seemed to suggest at the security council or if it's going to be more rhetoric that doesn't amount to anything. trump very reluctant to show any leg on that at the white house today. >> shepard: josh, based on your reporting, hugh would a statement like this in that setting, accompanied by that world leader, be received in tehran, moscow, damascus? >> i think with some un certainty. people are heartened to hear the president so forcefully, talking in emotional terms about the victims of the attack. but talk is talk. really what people want to see is there going to be a difference from the obama administration in what actually happens on the ground. is the u.s. going to try to strike assad to deal with his ability to carry out the attacks. president trump acknowledged,

he's been very reluctant to fire the u.s. in conflicts in the middle east but he has said his view has changed dramatically. it's early to know whether this will affect how trump is affecting the civil war in syria and the fight against the islamic state group in syria, which president trump has said is his top priority. >> josh ledderman at the white house. thank you. let's go to charles handleman from the brookings institute in washington. what does this signal to you and how would this signal be received in your mind in those capitols of damascus, moscow and beyond? >> there are ways for. trump to be very tough on assad without changing his previous policy. i agree with the discussion that you were just engaged in with your colleagues and others on whether trump has taken a whole new perspective on assad. clearly he has. but it doesn't mean he needs to make assad the focus open

american regime change. we have attempted that for six years. it hasn't worked. we've had that as our formal policy since president obama articulated that in 2007. what president trump could say, i want to protect the safe havens that he's talked about. turn them into autonomous parts of syria over time and help the regions if we ever get to a peaceful period to help reconstruct themselves, he doesn't have to give any money or diplomatic support and hope that some other process pushes him out of power. that may not work any time soon but it wouldn't be un precede precedented. like serbia and bosnia and kosovo. we did not make regime change a foreign policy goal.

his own people unseeded him and ended up in a war times trial before his death. there's a number of ways to think this through that allow you to be tough on assad and know it's tough to overthrow him. >> shepard: it's hard to know what has changed. it's without question that the syrian regimes to use barrel bombs to kill babies in their beds by the hundreds of thousands in what is unquestionably a series of war crimes. now there's video of this as horrific as it is, there is no change in action and attitude. this is a continuation of a theme. >> i agree with that 100%. i think what you're seeing is the education of an american president. all of us has been hardened by the wars of the middle east to the point that it was easier to frankly turn off the television and not pay attention to these tragedies because we began to doubt if we can do anything about them anyway. of course, for many republicans,

it was president obama's policies that were causing the problems previously. we've heard sean spicer say that this week. but today or yesterday, president trump had to confront this visual before his own eyes on his watch. i think it's got to feel different when you're sitting in that oval office than it would have ever felt as a consumer of the necessary. that's what's changed. it's the way in which mr. trump himself has become engaged in the whole process. >> shepard: thanks, michael. i appreciate it. the president now tells "the new york times" with no evidence to back it up that the former national security advisor susan rice may have committed a crime. the identities were revealed in intelligence reports after they were mentioned in intercepted communicatio communications. the president did not offer a sliver of evidence and refused to say if he's seen any new intelligence that would back this up. that's coming up from the fox

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did not support any owed to support his claims.ey were surv targets and the names of people within trump's orbit showed up. analysts say it is legal for a national security advisor to ask for the names of americans mentioned in intelligence reports. she says that's what she did. rice said she had to do that as part of her job. she denied she leaked any information to anyone. so far there is no proof of any kind of which fox news is aware that she did. the chief national intelligence correspondence catherine herridge is in washington. how does this unmasking work? >> okay. unmasking is a simple process. in this case, the national security adviser, susan rice, would have contacted the nsa, the agency that runs surveillance and asked to have u.s. person 1 or american 1 identified by their name. the nsa would have to be

satisfied that this is a reasonable re-quest and has a national security foundation for them to identify that american. what is illegal here is if those names, once they're identified, are then given to the media or to individuals who don't have a need to know. there's another development on this, which does raise questions about what susan rice said to nbc yesterday. she said this was all in the course of the russia investigation. while we can't independently review the documents, congressman peter king, a republican on the house intelligence committee was briefed on the documents and he said nothing in them related to russia and the details were highly personal in nature. >> this is information about everyday lives, who they were talking to, meeting to eat, nothing of any substance of value unless you're trying to

lay something out on somebody. >> it's impossible to reach conclusions who has more merit to the story until we can see the documents, if they're ever declassified. this seems to me a classic case of the glass being half full, half empty. those that support the obama administration said they were doing due diligence. those that support the president said it amounted to political spying. >> shepard: might she be called as a witness? >> it's highly likely. we heard from a ranking democrat. he was spoking to cnn this morning and he said that they would be open to having rice testify, but he didn't speak to the merits of what her testimony would be. >> that's a far cry from any suggestion that barack obama was wiretapping donald trump. they're trying to throw up this smoke screen in an effort not only to divert the attention of our committee from the russian investigation but to somehow justify these unjustifiable comments by the president.

>> that wasn't the sound bite i was expecting. he said that he was open to having her. right there he's saying this is an effort by the white house to change the meaning. he said he would be open to having rice testify but it's going to depends on what they find in the course of their investigation. susan rice says she needs to see how things develop before she would make that kind of commitment. >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: at the root of this, the russians interfered in the united states presidential election. that is not in question. they worked to help donald trump's chances of becoming question and hurting hillary clinton's chances. there's three separate investigations into this now in the house, the senate and by the fbi on a criminal level and the question remains was there collusion between team trump and the efforts to interfere in the

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>> shepard: ivanka trump says where she's disagrees with her father, he knows it. president trump responded to questions why she hasn't come out against some of her father's agenda. >> i respect the fact that he always license. that's how he was in business, that's how he is as president. i speak up frequently. my father agrees with me on so many issues. where he doesn't, he knows where i stand. >> last week ivanka trump took an unpaid role in the white house. after the election, she said she would not be working in the administration. some people criticized her

saying she was advising the president without having government ethic rules. she said she took the official title to show she's holding herself to the highest ethical standards. jonathan hunt with this. what else did the first daughter have to say? >> well, shep, the main focus is this issue of not speaking out publicly. ivanka trump said public silence doesn't mean she's silent in private. >> i think there's multiple ways to have your voice heard. in some cases, it's protest, going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue you disagree with. other times it's quietly and directly an candidly. >> she was asked if she felt complicit as she's being parodied as president trump's harsher policies. >> if being complicit is wanting

to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then i'm complicit. i don't know that the critics that may say that of me, if they found themselves in this unique and unprecedented situation that i'm now in would do any differently than i'm doing. >> to a lot of people, shep, that answer in particular sounded like a young woman still working her way through what is, as she put it, an unprecedented situation. shep? >> shepard: what about ethical complications of keeping her business while working at the white house? >> well, she has of course put that business in trust. it's run by family members. she said if her aim was to make money from her father's possession, there's an easier way to do it. >> i would argue if i had not come to washington d.c. and if i was in new york growing my business, i would be doing far better than by placing a restrictions i've placed on my

team and ensuring that any growth is done with extreme caution. >> now she also gave a glimpse of a new family life in d.c. and she's taken her family to museums. and she has not said whether she's ditching the yankees for the nationals. >> thanks, jonathan. more ahead on the massive development of the u.s. foreign policy. president trump north korea and its dictator a big problem in the wake of the latest missile launch. it also comes ahead of a very important meeting between president trump and china's leader. remember, the president has said that the united states is ready to go it alone in north korea if necessary. so what to expect now? we're approaching the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. ooh...

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north korea. president trump called them a big problem. they said kim jong-un is somebody that is not doing the right thing. the president like his secretary of state keeping it brief. analysts say north korea may be looking for attention this week. in a statement, rex tillerson said north korea launch another intermediate range missile. the united states has spoken enough about north korea. we have no further comment. according to the u.s. military officials, the missile came from a facility near the north korean town of shin-po. it landed in the water off the east coast. officials tell fox news that the launch looked like a failure and the missile did not go as far as planned. analysts say the timing of the launch is what really matters. president trump is getting ready to host china's president. in an interview this week, the president said the united states is ready to go it alone with

north korea in china does not take a stronger stance on north korea. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. what are they saying about the launch? >> pentagon officials we've spoken to today said the missile did not go as far as intended. it went 40 miles. did not even reach japanese waters and may have pinwheeled in flight. what is more, the north korean missile might not been the land version of the submarine launched ballistic missile that launched in february when president trump hosted the japanese prime minister in florida. it's thought to have been a scud missile. and north korea will be top of the agenda as the president meets china's president in mar-a-largo.

>> shepard: there's no coincidences on this. we reported it last week when we reported china's president on the schedule. you could put a check mark that north korea does something. >> it's not just the meeting with the chinese president tomorrow. every year at this time, north korea test as series of ball coincide with an annual large scale u.s. and southern korean exercise. this year is no different. the u.s. deployed the sad missile system shown here. president trump is now weighing whether to changing u.s. policy towards pyongyang and said he will pressure the chinese president on the issue during their summit. the head of the u.s. strategic command admitted they could not shoot down a north korean missile after launch. >> we don't have any boost phase intercept capability.

it's a challenging technology. you basically have to be properly positioned with the right kind of weapons capability in order to respond to an immediate launch. >> a stark admission after the pentagon has spent billions on missile defense technology, shep. >> shepard: thanks. gorden clang is here with us, author of "nuclear show down." we talk about their launches and how unstable the regime is. what is different now than a year ago? >> the white house has issued two threats to use force. the clock running out, all options on the table. they're a threat to use force now. you talk about what has happened in syria. the president mentioned that the obama's fail red line. indicating he should have done something. that is a threat. maybe more subtle, but clearly assad understands what he's talking about.

>> and does kim jong-un take something from that? do we have a way to know? >> shepard: what kim jong-un would do, he has links with iran and syria which are established. that i have china in the background. the problem here is that if he thinks the u.s. is going to commit military force in the middle east, he knows that we're not going to do very much in north asia, which means he could starting a provocation against south korea. that's how these things really sort of spread from one region to the other. this looks like 1914 when things get out of control. >> shepard: is that how it feels? >> very much so. clearly two predecessors dealt him a bad hand. you have a situation right now that is volatile. anything can happen. that is the reason write the chinese president is consequential. they'll have a discussion about the use of force in north korea. >> a korean war, another korean war, could be the death of

millions. >> clearly. you have 25 million south koreans that live in seoul. north korea has the world's fourth largest army. about 70% of that army is for warned deployed by the dmz. they have high explosives, chemical weapons, biological agents and nukes. the casualties on the first hours would be in the hundreds of thousands. you talk about a full scare war, we have never seen anything like this before. >> shepard: and china can help us how? >> china can help us. they can cut off north korea's flows of cash. >> shepard: money. >> but clearly they're not going to do that because they have been behind north korea. they've given them much of the technology. for instance, their mobile missiles are riding on chinese launches and the missiles that north korea tested look similar

to the jl-1. trump needs to ask them how that happened. >> shepard: thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: more than 100 navy instructor pilots have gone on strike refusing to fly since late last week. that's according to the exclusive reporting of our jennifer griffin. the navy is now responded by grounding some training jets. fox reports the instructor pilots say that they're upset because defense officials have failed to fix an issue with the oxygen systems on their training jets. multiple flight instructors have told fox news that poison in the oxygen systems can strike without warning causing them to become disoriented. navy officials have admitted to fox news that the oxygen systems are a problem and that they are working to address the issue. reporters griffin and tomlinson were advising vice president mike pence's son, the marine first lieutenant, michael pence, is among the hundreds of students pilots the strike has

affected. now for a live look at the dow. when the president spoke earlier today, the dow was up about 160 points. since then, it has nose dived after a new report that claimed that american business added 263,000 jobs last month. that's according to adp a company that processes payroll. that's nearly 80,000 more jobs than analysts predicted. that's why the market went up this morning and throughout the afternoon. this is a graph of the adp's job numbers since the recession. the labor department's official monthly jobs report came out friday. in the past, the adp's numbers have different from the government's official count. the big news here, what has happened since the president spoke. jerry willis is with us. this most recent report is an interesting one. to me, gerri, what has happened since the president spoke, a

180-point dive is directly related, right? >> yeah, some relation. we started out 180 points. a big gain due to the adp report. why is it so important? it's really the crystal ball friday's job report. the numbers, the biggest gains since december 2014. all eyes on the report today. couldn't hold the gains, not at all. let's take a look at the sectors doing well here. professional services. by that, i mean white collared jobs, back office jobs, up a bunch. hospitality looking good here. that speaks well to tourism. healthcare up. typically is. typically does well. the shocker. manufacturing up 30,000. that's the sector that trump talks about over and over and over again. of course, we talk about the leading sectors, we'll see more detail friday because that's when we get private and public sector jobs together. we'll see both coming in.

let's see if we can hang on to the meager gains at this hours, which are not as great. i have to tell you, shep, looking at the numbers, expectations for friday, gains of 180,000 jobs and we will stick at 14.7%. that's the expectation out there. >> shepard: you know where i'm going to look for you? >> where's that? >> shepard: on kennedy tonight. for our viewers that knew -- i was in studio just a few minutes ago. you didn't know it. >> i didn't. >> shepard: gerri's is kennedy's guest tonight on the fox business network. candy dead a program every night at 8:00, right? >> that's right. >> shepard: and a whole different gerri willis. our survivor and hero will be there talking about her life. you have to see it. i know 8:00 is a busy hour for everybody, but if you can't go see it, dvr it. >> tune in. it's kennedy, kennedy, kennedy.

>> shepard: you can dvr whatever else is going on. you want to see this. you got to see it. gerri, god bless you. >> thank you. >> shepard: the white house taking another whack at healthcare. mike pence is on the hill with lawmakers. this battle is starting to sound like a broken record with the same old problem. healthcare next.

>> shepard: the white house touting what it calls progress on a new healthcare bill after vice president mike pence and met with republican lawmakers on capitol hill last night. but administration officials will not put a timeline on any of this. conservative freedom caucus chairman mark meadows said republicans left without an agreement. but both conservative and moderate republicans said they're making progress and that it was a good talk. both sides are at odds about repealing some obamacare regulation. members of the freedom caucus said the last bill didn't go far enough to roll back regulations

and moderates say we don't want to lose the benefits, which is exactly what they said this day this started. the national reporter from politico is out. paul ryan said yeah, we're making progress but no time line. it sounds like this is not a real thing, doesn't it? >> it does. it's continuing to have the same sorts of conversation. it's progress and they're making progress. but it seems like they -- the conservatives in the house freedom caucus and the moderates in the tuesday group really have fundamentally different goals here. the members of the freedom caucus are prioritizing stripping back the regulations in the obamacare and they think the original bill didn't go far enough. the moderates in the tuesday group have a different priority. they want to maximize health

insurance. there's not a theoretical process that one bill can't do both. but white house at least right now hasn't put forward a bill that would do both things and satisfy both groups. >> so they talk and they say that talking is going well, but it sounds like to hear from paul ryan, they're not getting anywhere. this complicates matters for the budget. they could have saved $880 billion. now they can't. i don't know how you do budget now. >> that was the speaker's case for going healthcare first. that by saving money, by striking a healthcare deal, it would make it easier to do tax reform and do a budget. because you would make progress in chipping away at the savings you'd get from doing it. one interesting thing that emerged from the talks is that the tuesday group and the freedom caucus emerged with different understandings of what

exactly this bill would look like. >> shepard: you know how that happened. >> the white house through mike pence pitched them two different bills or if the members had different understandings. but if two different pieces were pitched, that's an oversight by the white house. >> shepard: wasn't this a case of we'll tell you what you want to hear, don't look? they told the conservative side, yeah, we're saving money. they told the other side, if you want it, you can keep it. neither one of those things are true and they read it and went wow. the american people read it and 17% supported. and now they're saying we're talking about it but not doing anything but talking about it. is that fair? what is that? >> at the very least, the members of two groups had different understandings what would be in the legislation. as my colleague put it, it was either a case of the administration pitching two different things to the different groups or the members

hearing what they wanted to hear from the vice president. whatever the case, no successful compromise reached. so we're no further along than where we were at day one. >> shepard: great to talk to you. thank you. enjoy your wednesday. joining man and machine. want to upgrade your memory so you stop forgetting birthdays? how about adding artificial intelligence to make math homework easier? scientists say not if we do it but when we do it. kennedy is here next.

>> you can upgrade your car, your phone, your house. you can seen upgrade yourself. that's what market watch says. as soon as 60 years from now --

that may be a stretch -- people will be able to buy themselves the human equivalent of performance enhancing apps. a larger hard drive. kennedy is here. she hosts "kennedy" at 8:00 eastern with gerri willis. >> we already have it. it's an external ways of accessing information almost immediately. there's studies that show that we're compromising our own memories by constantly accessing things on the web. >> shepard: there's no doubt. >> so why not cut out the middleman and put the hardware into your brain to begin with. >> shepard: you know phone numbers? i used to know 100 of them. i know two now. i know two numbers. >> unfortunately one is 911. you have to call them.

you're on fire today. >> shepard: thank you. so if you put it in there, attach the phone like -- then you have it in there. you don't have to do anything. >> it's not you don't have to do anything. think of the cool stuff that you can access and the information you'll have. a very short leap from having some sort of a mechanical hard drive implanted in your physiology is the ability to fly. how great would that be? it's like a living, lucid dream. you won't need the matrix. you won't need to be plugged in to a video game. you'll fly all over the place. to the grand canyon now. >> we're in the matrix now. >> we could be. there's philosophies -- >> shepard: we're an ant farm. like a child ant farm somewhere in another world. i bet that kid is laughing. i feel like it's the only thing to explain it all. we're an ant farm of some kid --

>> and that could be an explanation, that we are part of a massive computer model. we're really just -- what did spenoza call him? like noads or something like that. they go -- and set into motion and we have no control over our lives. >> shepard: if we were to call i.t., they'd say unplug it and plug it back in. maybe that would fix it. see you tonight at 8:00. >> our brains and computers combined. you a bonus check for every six months you're accident free. silence. it's good to be in, good hands.

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>> shepard: on this day in 1987, the fox broadcasting company made its prime time debut. at the time only the big three dominated tv. fox shook things up with "married with children" geared to a younger hipper audience. fox went on to become a power house with hits like "simpsons", "x files" and "american idol."

and tv got more fun when fox came to prime time 30 years ago today. disrupters! when news breaks out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on the fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines beyond a red line. >> neil: all right. that prompted and set in motion a lot of selling. not exactly pegged to that, but a trifecta of trying events for this market that had been up about 180 points, finishing down about 41 points. what we're going to do about syria and the large unknown around that was one thing.