you may never have another moment like this in your whole life. there may another be a thing like this in new york again. you come now, now is the time, we are going to wait another moment or two on you. >> laura: and shannon bream is up next with a fantastic show. miss shannon. >> shannon: beautiful and it, thank you laura. here's what we've got coming up tonight. governor mike huckabee weighs in on the debate over guns and where we are in our culture as the president listens to students demanding action and religious leaders wonder where is the discussion over individual responsibility and morality in the classroom? acting as director buyers another shot at california, ground zero for what some are calling a civil war over illegal immigration. and he wasn't just america's pastor, he was a pastor to the world and a president. professor jonathan falwell on how reverend billy graham changed the face of evangelism.

♪ >> shannon: hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. tonight the voices of greeting students, parents and educators demanding solutions as the commander-in-chief listening. just one week after 17 people in a south florida school were killed by a gunman many say they knew was troubled and violent, survivors took their demands for new gun-control and security measures to the state capital in tallahassee as president trump built what the white house billed as a listening session. team coverage tonight, ellison barber on what happened here in washington and what his plan for big conservative conference tomorrow. trace gallagher examining some of the claims and counterclaims that have fueled the emotional debate. but first, to parkland work correspondent brian is standing by with the very latest on the student stories. brian. >> good evening, shannon. the memorial out here at marjory

stoneman douglas high school continues to grow this evening. photos, crosses, candles continue to be added here honoring the 17 victims who were gunned down just a week ago. 14 students and three faculty members who were gunned down here at this high school. what a draining week it has been. not only are they morning, but they are also taking action. late last night, three buses carrying about 100 students traveled several hundred miles north to tallahassee, the state capitol where they talked to state legislators trying to pressure them to enact stricter gun control laws swiftly. on tuesday the florida house voted down a move to debate a measure that would have outright banned all assault weapons in the state. a few thousand gun control advocates protested outside the capitol building. the douglas high's students expressed frustration with the answers given to them by state lawmakers today. >> we want to start a conversation.

the most important thing that we want to do is have our legislature, legislators and governors at least speak to us about possible change. >> congress, you are directly responsible for every community that is lost due to gun violence and you have the power to change this. and if you don't, then we will change you! >> would spend too many rooms, we spoke to only a few legislators and try as we might the most with gotten out of them is we will keep you in our thoughts, you are so strong, you are so powerful. we've heard enough of that. the court enough of we are so strong, we are so powerful, because that is not what we are here today. we are not here to be patted on the back. >> the students also met with governor rick scott, who vowed that all options were on the table legislatively. tonight he tweeted "i met with students who came up from marjory stoneman douglas high today. i look forward to putting on my proposal on friday to keep students safe and prevent people with mental illness from getting guns. meanwhile, teams nationwide

walked out of schools in protest for the second day in a row in solidarity with parkland, including about 40 schools in florida, many students walked to douglas high. this state republican legislators saying they are putting together a comprehensive reform bill that they hope to get out within the next three weeks that can raise the age at which you can buy a rifle in florida from 18 to 21, create a waiting period in which you need to wait to purchase a high-capacity gun, add more school security officers and mental health counselors. today the broward county sheriff said he's not waiting. he is arming his sheriff's with rifles including ar-15s. >> are deputies who are qualified and trained will be carrying rifles on school grounds from this point forward. it will be done safely. only deputies who have trained and qualified will carry those rifles. we need to be able to defeat any threat that comes on campus. >> all of this as the funerals continue. today the athletic director was

carried. he received military honors. he died protecting students here. all of this is week expect these buses from tallahassee to arrive early this morning, about 3:00 a.m. students will be embraced by the parents for what has been just an incredibly hard week for this entire community. >> shannon: we continue to hear more heroic stories of the people who are caught up in that mess a week ago. thank you. in the aftermath of parkland, of the president held an emotional listening session at the white house this afternoon. today speakers included survivors and family members of the victims of one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history. ellison barber joins us with that part of the story, good to see you. >> good to see you. they sat and he talked in the white house's state dining room. they talked about gun violence and most of the people in that room had been personally impacted by a mass shooting inside of a school. >> there were families and students from stoneman douglas high school. >> my daughter i'm not going to see again. she's not here, she said

king david cemetery. >> parents of students who went to sandy hook. >> he was seven years old. >> they all called for change and ask for the president's help but they didn't all ask for one specific policy. some said it's time to ban ar-15 weapons. others said t-shirts would carry guns. some said more needed to be done in regards to mental health. many said schools need more security. tsa like checkpoints. all said something needs to be done and more people need to listen to each other. >> it doesn't even feel like a week. i want to feel safe at school. >> these deaths are preventable and i implore you, consider your own children. you don't want to be me. no parent does. and you have the ability to make a difference and save lives today. please don't waste this. >> the president listened and asked for suggestions. >> woke up to the news that my best friend was gone and i don't understand why i can still go in

a store and buy a weapon of war. >> he didn't say exactly one policy might come, but said he's looking looking at many things. >> if you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, it could very well and the attack very quickly. and the good thing about the suggestion like that -- and we will be looking at it very strongly. >> very difficult, very complex. we will find a solution in addition to everything else, in addition to what we are going to do about background checks. we are looking very strong into age of purchase and we are also looking very strong into the mental health aspect. >> in less than 24 hours, cpac, the major conservative conference is set to begin just outside of d.c. the nra is one group sponsoring the event. a spokesperson with the nra confirmed to fox news this evening that wayne is speaking at the conference. but when cpac released their schedule of speakers, he wasn't on the list. >> he is the ceo and executive vice president of the nra.

cpac isn't publicly saying saying exactly when he is speaking. they are concerned about protests. as for the president, he said more than once he be looking at strengthening background check laws. he did not say to what extent or when. >> shannon: thank you for wrapping that up. since the shooting began to unfold, news has been breaking around the clock and emotions are understandably running high. but in the scramble to come to grips with the tragedy and to push for some reform, numerous false news reports and conspiracy theories have emerged from across the political spectrum. trace gallagher is here to do some fact-checking, good evenin evening. >> good evening, shannon. let's begin with cnn's chris cuomo, who promoted a 2-year-old false news story and elijah covered up. he retweeted the headline of 2016 article reading "i was able to buy and ar-15 in 5 minutes. i'm 20 and my i.d. is expired. the tweet caught fire, except it's not true. the 20-year-old was never allowed to purchase an ar-15 and

when he was called out, he responded "isn't the point that the kids age and lack of i.d. wasn't a deterrent. this is in all -- basically was farther than the law requires and makes judgments about whom to sell to. point is the system should be better. but actually that's not the point, at least according to the national review's charles cook. he says the point is that the kid lied about buying a gun that he didn't and that you are now lying too. and speaking of untruths, we've been hearing for days that so far in 2018 there have been 18 school shootings. there have not been. the number, which comes from a gun-control group cofounded by former new york mayor michael bloomberg include seven shootings outside of school hours and four shootings off school grounds where the only person hurt was a man who committed suicide inside his car near a school. the number 18 has been used by cbs, abc, msnbc, and is a

leading search term on google. the number is important because gun-control groups use it to lobby support for stricter gun laws. finally, after eloquently making his case to stop gun violence during several media interviews, parkland high school student david was the victim of a smear campaign when several youtube videos went viral claiming he was not a stoneman douglas student, but rather a "crisis actor" hired to exploit the tragedy and further a liberal agenda, none of which is true. there he is today. >> we are sick and tired of the promises of politicians that they were going to send us their prayers. that's why you are hearing those chairs behind me. those are calls to action by the american people saying we are not being represented and we are not going to take this anymore. >> youtube is issued an apology for classifying the videos as trending and has since removed them. >> shannon: trace, always good

to separate fact from fiction. very emotional time, thank you very much. the new calls for gun laws and government resolutions are questions raised by many who argue that further restricting our constitutional rights won't necessarily solve the problem and that in a country founded on faith, the issues of moral and cultural decay need to be addressed as part of the broader conversation. former arkansas governor mike huckabee is an ordained minister and joins us now from florida, good to see you. >> thank you, shannon. it's been a tough day. watching those kids and their parents at the white house today, gut wrenching for every american and i feel like the president did us all a great service by opening that for the world to see. >> shannon: and you have been through this before as governor of arkansas when there was a school shooting that took many lives there as well. you have experienced this firsthand. how do you walk through that, the grief, the anger, the questions about how to fix it? >> everybody wants to get it

fixed and i remember the thing that was said over and over, just as it has been, whether it's sandy hook or what happened in parkland, florida. we've got to do something. and frankly, sometimes people say we want to do something, even if the something doesn't really fix anything. i understand that. emotions and the pain and the agony people are going through is so intense and it's so very real, and you've got to respect that and you have to listen to it. but ultimately we have to decide what causes this? is there one thing, and frankly there isn't. there are a host of things that contribute. is it psychotic drugs given to teenagers? is at the cultural influence of hollywood that desensitizes the idea of violence? is a video games or people actually play the role of killing people for points, for rewards? is it a society where a kid like this falls through the cracks of the background checks and even the police have been to his

house many times, nobody raised concerns and put him on a list and said son, you can't buy a gun because you have made all kinds of threats. but ultimately it comes down to there are good people and bad people and good people aren't a threat, bad people are, and bad people may be bad for a host of reasons, but the common denominator is not the gun, it's not the truck filled with fertilizer, it's not a car driving through a crowd on a bridge in london or a street in france, it's ultimately a person who has the intent to kill a lot of other people. >> shannon: i want to read something from a piece by brian fisher. it's been met with some controversy. to some people are not happy about the words he wrote. others get it. here's what he said. i suggest when we have mass shootings, school shootings, because we don't have enough god on our campuses, with tragic shootings happened like the one in florida, everyone sends their "thoughts and prayers" to the families and the victims, but we

pray before the shootings instead of happening instead of waiting until somebody is dead? for decades there has been a conversation raging about mixing schools, religion, government, where to draw that line and essentially religion has been taken out of all of our schools, public schools, and a lot of people out there say that's the way it was intended, that's the way it should be. we shouldn't be praying or talk about religion in school. what you make about this piece by mr. fisher? >> i don't think we ought to impose religion in schools. if that means we are going to have certain rituals and rites -- let me tell you what we ought to have. we ought to have a sense in which we are responsible, and what we have lost in this country is consciousness. that awareness. it not about religion, but about the relationship that we as human beings have two a god to who we are ultimately accountable. and if we are raised that, if we take out of our culture the notion that this is not the only life we have, that there's

another one in which we will be held responsible and accountable and we take that away, then we have a society in which every man does what's right in his own eyes, and it is a terrible kind of way for us to live as a civilization. we personalize each other and its disaster. >> shannon: what do you say to the americans who are agnostics or atheists who say they don't want that viewpoint stuffed down their throats, they don't want to hear about thoughts and prayers when something like this happen, how could god let this happen? how do you answer them as a minister? >> not so much even as a minister, but just as a human being. if you don't have to pray, you don't have to believe in god, but if people erase a sense of moral accountability -- and shannon, i would at the atheists, then where does your morality come from? from you? are you are god? do you become your own god? if you are, then why should we trust you, an individual, to make up the rules for the rest

of us? either there's a god or there isn't. i know you're going to talk about billy graham's death. the one thing about all of his life was this. even there's a order there is. if there isn't a god that nothing really matters, nothing matters. our lives, our deaths, nothing matters because when it's over it's over. if there is a god, it all matters and it matters a lot. and that's why the discussion of god is important in our culture. >> shannon: and about where we are and treat each other and the way we value life or don't value it. thank you very much for your time, great to see you tonight. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in california, but ice says it could've been a lot more. how far is acting as director willing to go to uphold a federal law in the face of opposition? we will ask him, so stick around for his answer. hidden cameras take profiles. at the cia, it is the new york

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>> shannon: high-profile crackdowns in the san francisco bay area and los angeles, it appears ice, the immigration and customs enforcement agency is following through on its message to the golden state, thought his hold on tight after declaring sanctuary state status. it all comes amid a backdrop of political tensions between the white house and california. tonight, ice is facing accusations that its use in rates as a political tool for the trump administration. joining us now for his response, acting ice director, thomas homan. great at it with us. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: you seem to not be worried about being in the controversy when it comes to issues about the rates, the enforcement of the backlash are getting. >> i don't mind being here, i'm not running a popularity contest. we are enforcing the laws enacted by congress. >> shannon: that something i know that many people think that the previous administration had a different take on the way to handle that. >> exactly. at last eight years we weren't allowed to enforce laws that are on the books.

we were relegated to a very small portion of the laws in this present, even though people say he created a bunch of executive orders, he could have written them in one sentence. you will now enforce the laws enacted by congress and you have taken an oath to enforce. that's what we are doing. >> shannon: you made a lot of news when you get another interview on fox. you told california, which had become a sanctuary state essentially, that you better buckle up, you will have enforcement there, that you have a vested interest in making sure that the influx that you believe california will get from human smugglers and others who are attracted by the sanctuary state status, and luisi will have more work and your agents will have more work to do there. you know a lot of leaders in california didn't take kindly to that. i want to read a little bit of a letter from the two u.s. senators from there, feinstein and harris. they said we are very concerned when we saw a fox news interview on january 2nd 2018 where you said california better hold on tight and if local politicians don't want to protect their communities than ice well.

if the statement is dead wrong and insulting. nothing could be further from the truth. they want to close that letter saying diverting resources in an effort to punish california and score political points is an abhorrent use abuse of power, not to mention a terrible misuse of scarce resources. your response? >> they are concerned about my scarce resources, then they will let me back into the jail. they argue i have scarce resources, which i do. one officer used to be able to sit in a county jail and process ten criminal aliens a shift. now when they release those ten people to the street, i have to send the whole team out to find these people. that's a danger to my officers, because now we have to arrest somebody in their homes, their place of business where they have access to who knows what weapons. it takes a lot more agents to do that. i didn't think the senators -- talk about scarce resources. i didn't think the senators were in the business of enacting laws they didn't want to enforce. i'm enforcing laws they enacted. >> shannon: i would guess that particularly senator feinstein,

who has had over the years a chance to vote on some of these laws in congress, probably didn't vote for some of these enforcement mechanisms, but that said, they are worried about the perception of immigrants. they say that when you have these rates were going to scoop up all kinds of people, then they are not going to cooperate with law enforcement, how do you respond to that pledge? >> a couple of things, first of all we don't conduct rates. week conduct a targeted enforcement operation grid will go a neighborhood sports knocking on a bunch of doors. every person we arrest we know exactly who we are going to arrest, we know exactly where we are going to arrest them based on a lot of intelligent and investigative work. those folks that want me to really concentrate on criminal aliens, then let me in the county jail. if you're worried about my scarce resources, if you worry about me concentrating on criminal aliens, you can't say that and then not let me in your county jails. you are talking out of two sides of her mouth on that. if you're really concerned about that, let me into jails. what the officers are doing, let me explain to you what these policies have really done because sanctuary cities like to

say they are protecting immigrant communities. there is nothing further from the truth. if i can arrest a bad guy in the county jail that i have to go to his home or have to go to his place of business. that's an officer safety concern. at number two, when i got that at home i may find others, others that weren't on my radar that now i have to take action against. and thirdly, they are releasing a criminal alien back into the communities. the very communities in which they live out the communities they victimize. what they done to those communities? they put them at further risk of criminal activity because they want back those communities where they put them at greater risk of ice arrest because when i'm out there arresting the bad guy i may find others. and thirdly, they are enticing further illegal entry. when these smuggling organizations in mexico and central america here about sanctuary cities, you don't think they are using that as a selling ploy? we will get you to san francisco for this much money and you can even get arrested for committing a crime and we are not going to work with ice. they are bankrolling the very

criminal organizations that have killed my officers, they killed border patrol agents and smuggled guns and drugs into the country. it makes no sense. when we talk about century city's, i'm not asking the local politicians or local police to pull somebody else and ask immigration questions. i'm asking for them to allow a federal law enforcement officer in your county jail to put our hands on somebody that is here illegally and committed yet another crime. these people are sitting in a cell. the local and state authorities arrested them, put them in a jail cell for some reason, either they are a public for safety threat or a flight risk so much so why not give me access to these people when you are done with them rather than releasing them back in the communities to reoffend against those very immigrant communities. it let me do my job and take action and put them in front of an immigration judge, that's all i'm asking for. we were those are questions we would love to hear from senators feinstein and harris in answer to what you have brought up today. they are always welcome on this program. thank you for coming into may. >> thanks for having me.

>> shannon: accused of trying to silence free speech. stick around for domicile testimony about the case against pro-life advocates. we got an exclusive report straight ahead. and some historians say he spoke directly to more people, about 200 million than anyone else in history. not to mention being a spiritual advisor to many presidents. we will look back at the life and legacy of america's pastor and legacy of america's pastor billy graham next with a close whoooo. when it comes to travel, i sweat the details. late checkout... ...down-alternative pillows... ...and of course, price. tripadvisor helps you book a... ...hotel without breaking a sweat. because we now instantly... ...search over 200 booking sites ...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. don't sweat your booking. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices.

>> shannon: the democratic attorney general of new york, eric schneiderman is going after a group of pro-life advocates he says are blocking access to an abortion clinic. but the case has an interesting turn now and it has everything to do with the state's star witness. >> new york attorney general eric schneiderman filed suit against the advocate last year saying they are violating laws regulating access to clinics, pointing to a video that purports to show a pro-life activist trying to talk a woman

out of ending her pregnancy at a clinic in jamaica queens. the state democratic attorney general seeking civil penalties and damages against 14 defendants including angela braxton, who said she discovered religion after the 9/11 terror attacks. the lawsuit alleges the defendants made death threats, pinned patients against the wall and distributed posters of what appeared to be mangled at fetuses. >> we documented all of these tactics with video recordings that we are submitting to the court today. >> it now turns out a star witness for the prosecution reportedly created a fake facebook account complete with a picture of someone else she found on the internet in order to befriend many within the pro-life community and spy on their efforts. thomas more law center attorneys representing some of the pro-life defendants wanted to know more. >> there was a mention in one of the discovery documents just in passing buried deep in the file about a fake facebook account. >> the defendant's legal team says it turns out the woman is an abortion clinic worker who

disguised herself as a pro-life sympathizer in order to look for evidence of aggressive plans of action against new york clinics. >> she didn't see the grand design that she thought she was going to see the people organizing massive protest in any types of illegal activity. i think most of what you found was people sharing bible passages and making prayer requests. >> the witness also reportedly took some of the undercover video which the defense says doesn't show what new york's attorney general claims it does. >> this press conference making allegations about patients being blocked, patients being harassed and then when you actually pull up the evidence, you look at the video evidence. it's just not there. >> a spokeswoman for the attorney general tells fox news "the account was set up by a third party without our office's knowledge and before our office began its investigation. our office did not ask her to share anything from the accounts with us." >> shannon: the defense

attorneys charge of the ag is politically motivated. announcing the lawsuit last year he said he's been part of the pro-choice movement since he was 17 when he took off a year between high school and college to work at an abortion clinic in washington, d.c. tonight the world is mourning the loss of one of the most influential people in history, the reverend billy graham. he died at his north carolina home earlier this morning. he was 99. his body will lie in repose starting monday at the graham library in charlotte, north carolina, and funeral services will be held friday march 2nd. those services are for family and friends. he spread the gospel to hundreds of millions of people in person and nearly 200 countries. he was a pastor to the world and a pastor to presidents. and he paved the way for the media ministry. his son jonathan falwell is now pastor of the church his father started, thomas wrote baptist church. he joins us from lynchburg, virginia. great to have you with us. >> great to be with you, thanks so much. >> shannon: i often heard your

father talk about the influence of reverend graham and thinks he took from his ministry and the way that he operated in the world. what can you say about his influence? >> there's no question that the influence that dr. graham had one that goes back for decades. but what's interesting is if you look back decades in the beginning of his ministry and then you look towards the end of his ministry, the one thing that you see over and over again is that the same message that he preached 80 years ago was the same message that he preached right up until the last time he had the opportunity of sharing the gospel, and that was the message of god's love through his son to jesus christ and what the gospel is all about. that kind of longevity, that kind of passion and that kind of integrity is something that all pastors, myself included, have found great comfort, great encouragement and great courage in because it helps us to continue to do what we do and continue to take that message of hope, the gospel and jesus christ, to the world. >> shannon: came across so many fantastic quotes from him today.

passages from sermons and thinks he sent over the years. one of the things he said was this. the greatest feat in the world is the trans formation of human nature. we need a new heart that will not have lost in greed and hate in it. we need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why jesus came into the world. that sounds like the kind of message we could use and the times we are living in. he never watered it down. as you said over 80 years he didn't apologize for what he said, he was forthright. he truly felt like he was giving humanity the gift they needed to make it through this life. >> that's what dr. graham understood. there's no question that he knew that the world needed hope. he knew they needed help then and of course we know today that we still need hope. the problem is the culture. society looks for hope and lots of different things. money and power and fame and great at all the kinds of things that we are told by hollywood and many in the media that that's what we need to try to attain if we are going to be somebody, if we are going to

find joy and peace. dr. graham knew that the only way to find peace was to find it in the glove of god. the fact that god sent his son jesus, who died on the cross, rose again three days later so that we could have life and forgiveness and freedom and so dr. graham knew that that was the message of hope. governor huckabee who was talking about that a few moments ago. our culture today, you can see when we take god out of the culture there is a hopelessness that ends up in tragedy so often like we've seen. just in these past few days. the world needs hope. dr. graham knew that and so he passionately preached it at every opportunity that he had. >> shannon: he was so interesting because whether he was talking with a drug addict on his last legs or the queen, or presidents, he treated everybody with the same message and the same respect. i want to play something that former president george w. bush had to say about the referent. >> he helped changed my life. he truly did. i was a questioning person. i was drinking a lot and

religion -- i would listen, but never hear. billy graham helped me understand the redemptive power of a risen lord. >> shannon: we heard praise from presidents from both sides of the aisle today talking about how much his counsel had meant to them over the years. >> that's the beautiful thing about the gospel. the gospel is not republican. it's not democrat. it's not independent. the gospel is available to all regardless of what your political persuasion is. so often we look at every issue from the standpoint of which side of the aisle does it come from, and that's the beautiful thing. dr. graham understood that. he knew whether he was talking to a democrat or republican or whether he was talking to a president or whether he was talking to a homeless person on the side of the street, that message was one that people need to hear. everyone needs to hear. that's what makes him so influential, even in his death, and i believe in the generations

to come. what he was able to accomplish and what he did will continue to speak into the lives of many for many years to come because that message is timeless. >> shannon: he was a man of such compassion and grace and as you said, hope. jonathan, thank you so much as we remember him tonight for joining us. >> thank you, i appreciate all that you do. >> shannon: thanks. much more ahead on the reverend billy graham. believe it or not america's pastor helped shape tinsel town. we will explain some of that. but first, moscow allegedly teaming up with assad to attack syrian citizens. ambassador john bolton is here

>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. local media reporting that someone through one or more grenades at the u.s. embassy in the country of montenegro. the embassy there is calling it an active security situation and warning people to avoid the area at this time. unclear right now if there are any injuries but we will bring you more information as soon as we get it. it's an emotional sign of the extraordinarily tense state of affairs in syria. a russian mother says her son was one of several russian mercenaries killed in a u.s. air strike in syria this month that allegedly pitted russian and u.s. forces against each other for the first time in syrian war. the russians sent up to 100 fighters aligned with the syrian regime were killed according to the pentagon. but the kremlin and the pentagon absent little about the incident.

the russians say their military was not involved. tonight is a report that the white house is considering citing the russian deaths in syria as a sign of u.s. resolve in the region and against moscow. a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton joins us now. there's a lot going on to unpack here. quite happy with us. >> glad to be here. >> shannon: let's talk about montenegro. what you make of a situation? it's very early. >> a lot of detail still missing, but it's possible this could be a terrorist attack. a suicide bomber, maybe it didn't go so well, he didn't get inside the compound. no reports of american deaths, although they have closed the embassy tomorrow and have alerted americans in montenegro to stay away until they clear it up. we don't know how serious, whether there's a possibility of more of this tomorrow, but any time an american embassy has somebody throwing hand grenades at it, is a serious situation. >> shannon: let's talk about syria. what do we make of this clash? we are told, or we understand all that there are russian mercenaries on the side of this attack of the u.s.-back to base. at the russians are saying it

wasn't our military so we don't have responsibility for this and the official sense, but what you make of this incursion and potential use it as affirmation that the u.s. is tough on russia? >> i think the russians are parsing words here. the official reports that the russians have admitted that five of their nationals were killed. there are press reports saying as many as 300 russians were killed. what happened was a syrian opposition group with american advisors present came under threat of attack in order to defend the americans. we called in air strikes and it turned out the syrian government troops had been more russians than syrian. where these people come from? the russian government says they were mercenaries. as a three or 400 russians just pitch up in syria having nothing better to do then looking for a gun to go fight in the syrian civil war. in ukraine, actually, there's a strong belief many of those russians were among the little green men, as they called them,

russian military, that infiltrated into eastern ukraine to help feel the separatist activity there, and that they simply moved on to syria. we don't know the details, but i just don't think you accidentally get hundreds of russians on the battlefield in syria. >> shannon: we've been seeing new images that are troubling out of syria. allegations of what the regime is doing against its own people. we just got a statement from the white house a short time ago. i'm reading off my computer, but it's fresh and to us. the statements as the u.s. strongly condemns recent attacks on the people of syria in -- by russia and the assad regime. we offer condolences to the family of those killed and call in the international community to condemn these horrific attacks. >> condemning horrific attacks is great and i think it is important we tag russia here. you could also tag iran. if it weren't for russia and iran, the regime would have fallen long ago. and i think this is a real opportunity in many respects for

the redbook . you'll one but the ironicalll counsel, mueller's indictment last friday at 13 russians gives the president a pivot point. there was no allegation of trump campaign collusion with russians and i think it gives -- the knee-jerk reaction. if the russians were helping from, the trump campaign must have colluded. i think he needs to reverse that. i think in any dealings with russian aggression against the united states in a political debate between liberals and conservatives in this country, conservatives are going to win it. i think the president should take this opportunity on a wide front including russian incursions in the middle east, russian involvement in eastern and central europe and interference in our election to up the game here. >> shannon: 's there are calls across the political spectrum for him to do that and do it publicly into it now.

we will see. great to have you with us. thanks for coming in. he was called america's pastor appeared at the reverend billy graham and the major impact he had in a surprising place. had in a surprising place. the world of you won't see these folks at the post office

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>> shannon: he was dubbed america's pastor, one of the most influential evangelists of

all time, billy graham passed away this morning at the age of 99. he touched lives, millions of them, even the lives of some celebrity spirit joining us now, inside edition correspondent and author of "face in the spotlight," megan alexander. great to have you with us tonight. tell us about this. at what was it, not just questions, but celebrities you may not nobly income were drawn to him, why? >> thank you so much for having me. my faith personally has been inspired by billy graham. as an entertainment reporter today i was fascinated when i realized the impact that this pastor had on pop culture. first of all, did you know that billy graham has a star on the hollywood walk of fame? he got it in 1989. his star is between an actress and an italian opera singer and they say that he drew a large crowd, almost as large as the crowd michael jackson drew when he got his star, which is incredible. as always, he took advantage of the microphone, preached there that day and told holly what could not condemn them because we are all sinners. in terms of his friendships, he

was known for having a great relationship with the late country singer johnny cash. the two often perform together at the billy graham crusades. it johnny cash, some feel he was inspired to have his own altar called at the end of his concerts because billy graham did so during his crusades. he also appeared on "the tonight show" with johnny carson, and that was the show for big names in hollywood if you think about it. and there's billy graham talking to johnny carson sitting next to ed mcmahon and he was witty and he was funny. and most recently we were reminded of his friendship with queen elizabeth. in the current show on netflix, the crown, billy graham wrote in his autobiography "just as i am," that queen elizabeth often asked them about spiritual matters and actually asked for his insight into one of our christmas day addresses. when she addresses the entire world, which i found fascinating. today the tweets came pouring in from big names. country singer reba mcentire had this to say.

she tweeted "billy graham, what incredible life you had. thanks for all your guidance and love." carrie underwood sent this. she tweeted "amazing. rest in the arms of the lord. surely right now he is saying well done, my son." and roma downey tweeted this. the moment we take our last breath on earth we take our first in heaven, which is a quote of billy graham's. and kathy lee gifford shared today that her entire family came to faith because of billy graham. pretty beautiful words they are an incredible tribute. >> shannon: it's interesting. i think i read something about hugh jackman's parents as well had gone to a crusade and felt as though they had been brought to faith i have as well. i want to read another quote. when you talk about all these people that he has met and influenced. he said this. yes, it's been a privilege to know some of the great men and women of the latter part of this century, however most of my time has been spent with people who will never be in the public eye and yet who are just as important to god as a queen or a

president. i think the way that he saw the world, that he stood up against segregation. he held integrated crusades and meetings long before that was something dictated by the law. he leaves a great example for the rest of us. megan, thank you so much for joining us on this. >> you bet, oh, that's lovely... so graceful. the corkscrew spin, flawless... ...his signature move, the flying dutchman. poetry in motion. and there it is, the "baby bird". breathtaking. a sumo wrestler figure skating? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money heather saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.

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