bret? >> ed henry traveling with the president in wales, ed, thank you. >>> for the first time an arab country has weighed in on the isis situation. the united arab emirates called islamic extremism a transnational challenge and the most destabilizing and dangerous global force since fascism, and on isis specifically, quote, now is the time to act. the uae is ready to joint international community in an urgent, coordinated and sustained effort that will, if unchecked, have global ramifications of decades to come this. comes in the context of another brutal murder by isis terrorists. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge reports on what we're learning from the images that have horrific act >> reporter: defense secretary chuck hagel said the military objective is clear. >> to degrade and destroy the capability of isil, to come after u.s. interests all over the world and our allies. >> reporter: and hagel seemed to further conflict with the president when he says there has been a

bret? >> critics say this is like when he surged troops into afghanistan and then had a deadline date for withdrawal. what about sbrub agsds can with congress? the white house is not definitively saying he's going to ask for approval unlike the time when he was going to before the previous strike? >> the previous plan did an all but announced strike on syria was called off by him in order to go to congress. my sense about that was he didn't think he had to go to congress, but he thought if he tried it might be a way to get out of it. then of course vladimir putin came along and he made common cause with him that ended up leaving assad in power. he claims it got rid of nuclear weapons or chemical weapons, perhaps it did, at least some of them. i think in this instance now, i think he thinks he has to go ahead but i wouldn't rule out the possibility that he might decide at the last minute that he needs to go to congress if he gets cold feet. but that's not about the constitution, it's about t

we're back with dan henninger, bret stephens and matt kaminski. so, bret, the president does seem to be toughening his rhetoric somewhat. it's no longer the jv team, isis, the junior varsity, like he said in january. but what about his message? what do you hear? what do you hear about his intentions from what he's saying now? >> well, you hear, when the president talks about turning isis into a manageable problem, i think you hear the real president, the way this president thinks. when he talks about destroying it, you are hearing joe biden, his political advisers, who are telling him, you know what, americans are furious about this because we are seeing helpless american journalists being beheaded. but this is clearly a president who is loathed, reluctant to put boots on the ground, to really take the kinds of steps that you need to destroy this organization. and that's why the administration is talking about a two or three-year time frame, which is insane given the actual resources that isis has. >> but you would agree, i think, that we need to

bret? >> mike, thank you. president obama has long disparjed the decision to go to war with iraq and campaigned on a prom dwrois get u.s. troops out. now, things have changed. jennifer griffin with shape and scope of america's new war. >> i want the american people to understand how this effort will be different from wars in iraq and afghanistan. it will not involve american combat troops fighting on foreign soil. >> but will involve more u.s. military forces adding to 1143 u.s. troops already operating in iraq, the president authorized an additional 475 u.s. troops tonight. more than a dozen teams will embed with iraqi security forces at brigade level and above according to officials until now, the u.s. mill tear advisors were not authorized to leave headquarters the president said it will shift to advising and assisting iraqi military. >> i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terror threat. our objective is clear. we will degrade and ultimately destroy isl to a comprehensi

bret? >> molly, thank you. >>> what do you think of the verdicts? let me know on facebook.com/bret baier or on twitter. use the #special report. >>> the obama justice department is opening a second investigation in the wake of the police shooting of an unarmed african-american man last month in suburban st. louis. here's the report on the federal double play. >> reporter: today the justice department launched yet another investigation in ferguson, missouri, following the shooting death of an unarnold black teenager, michael brown, by a white police officer. the new probe will look into the pattern and practices of the e any evidence of racial bias or discrimination. >> the meetings as well as in listening sessions as well as informal conversations, people consistently express concerns stemming from specific alleged incidents from general policing practices, and from the lack of diversity on the ferguson police force. >> reporter: a justification that only sparked more questions. >> it sound

bret baier interviewed them.irst here's bret asking one of the crucial questions of the night, was help delayed. >> five minutes we're ready. thumbs up, we're ready to go. >> what happened >> bob looks through at me and looks at the team leader and goes you have to wait. >> bob was the cia's base chief in benghazi. >> he's on the phone talking to somebody. i assume they were coordinate us to link up with 17 february. >> probably been 15 minutes i think and i got out of the car and bob and the team leader were standing on the front porch and i said hey we need to get over there, we're losing the initiative. bob looked at me stand down you need wait. >> the house intel committee and others insist no one was blocked from responding but these security team members say they were. >> it happened. >> it happened on the ground. all i can talk about is what happened on the ground that night. to you. to myself twice and to tig once. it happened that night. it happened. we were told to wait and stand down. we were delayed t

let's talk to dan henninger, bret stephens and matt kaminski. matt, looking at where we stand right now, does it look to you as if nato, the u.s. and europe have essentially written off ukraine? >> well, that's been the story for the last six months. the u.s. and the eu did not react forcefully to the taking of crimea in march, and vladimir putin saw a green light to move toward forward. he has moved forward. every step we've been late imposing hard sanctions. we've always fried to give russia a way out. but most importantly we've abandoned ukraine but not helping it defend itself. although ukraine is not a member of nato, it's worked closely for years, served in afghanistan and iraq. they deserved arms and haven't gotten it. >> what about those who say ukraine has historically always been part of russia's sphere of influence. it's not part of nato. we don't have an obligation to defend it. we're not going to war against russia. what else can we do? it's there for russia to take anyway. >> but we made a commitment over the last 25 years since th

bret, we know that these arab nations are involved in this process.we're told by the pentagon they're flying along with us tonight. we don't know the extent of that involvement or what it will be in the days ahead or do we? >> we know a little bit, shep. i want to echo a couple of things. john is right. i'm just getting from sources that these first targets were hard targets, they were arsenals, depots, command and control facilities. they were not targets of opportunity or ones that were time sensitive. these were hard targets that had been planned in the blueprint essentially laid out for the president at centcom when he was down there. and obviously they've chosen these targets specifically. another source telling us just to answer the other question about air defenses that most of the still active syrian air defense is located in the western part of syria, as you continue to look at this video we believe is on the ground in raqqa. most of the air defenses assad controls are in the allah wide areas. it is believed that that's the isis controlled ar

bret? >> ed henry in new york, ed, thank you. the state department is moving some of its diplomats and other personnel out of the u.s. embassy in yemen. it cites the deteriorating security situation there amid sectarian clashes that have left rebels in support of the capital. >>> now to the reason we're here tonight in lake charles, the senate race in louisiana, featuring incumbent mary landrieu, and bill cassidy as well as republican rob manets, one of the most crucial races in the election this fall. louisiana is also one of the most unusual. we begin with some of the key issues here from the two front-runners. . it all relates to the economy. so if the president has a hostility to the energy industry, which is in turn a hostility to the maritime industry, to the service industry, et cetera, people understand that is a war on our state. senator landrieu supports 97% of the time, why would you support so faithfully someone who is so hostile to our economy? >> even though she says the thing

i think you may see that pressure to go to capitol hill incoming days. >> bret thank you. john bussey over the last few days we've figured out these are thing that's are fixed. this is where they sleep where control office is. and since august 8th we've had 190 air strikes in iraq. it is not necessarily a barrack. not necessarily a command and control, sometimes it's an armored vehicle, sometimes a tank or check point blocking a road into the city. so there are lots of other targets the question is whether they're significant enough to change the tide on the ground without there being a larger involvement of troops. that is not to diminish this alliance. united arab emirates, jordan, bahrain, flying missions, that is a interesting coalition. it's more of an arab face on it. if this works maybe there are other areas beginning to affect change as well. >> so tonight from an aircraft carrier rose american pilots, to carry out the orders of central command after it got animalingry sayings from the president of the united states. what was it like for pilots? how much training?

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i think you may see that pressure to go to capitol hill incoming days. >> bret thank you.n bussey over the last few days we've figured out these are thing that's are fixed. this is where they sleep where control office is. and since august 8th we've had 190 air strikes in iraq. it is not necessarily a barrack. not necessarily a command and control, sometimes it's an armored vehicle, sometimes a tank or check point blocking a road into the city. so there are lots of other targets the question is whether they're significant enough to change the tide on the ground without there being a larger involvement of troops. that is not to diminish this alliance. united arab emirates, jordan, bahrain, flying missions, that is a interesting coalition. it's more of an arab face on it. if this works maybe there are other areas beginning to affect change as well. >> so tonight from an aircraft carrier rose american pilots, to carry out the orders of central command after it got animalingry sayings from the president of the united states. what was it like for pilots? how much training? what

bret, thank you. want to bring in our panel. bret hume, dana, former white house press secretary to president george w. bush. kirsten powers a fox news political analyst and usa today columnist. and general jack keane the chairman of the institute for the study of war. he previously served as vice chief of staff of the u.s. army and is a fox news military analyst. we begin tonight with brit. brit, your thoughts. >> well, megyn, nothing that we heard tonight was really beyond what we expected. i was eager to describe him the threat because there's a certain logic to these things. if the threat is sufficiently great to american interests and to america itself, then it seems one would do whatever it takes to eliminate the threat. he didn't quite go that far. he said he was determined to destroy isis, but you heard him at the end when he was talking about what we do in these sipgss. he said we do what it takes. he didn't say we do whatever it takes. of course he couldn't. because this campaign he's describing with u.s. air power, su

both bernie and i don't know. >>> bret baier on deck.s got an exclusive interview with three cia guys present at the benghazi terror attack. >>> the state department calling me sexist. whoa! berkshire hathaway home services. good to know. don't just dream of being the hero. make it happen. i can't believe we're missing the game for this. we're not-- i've got xlte. it doubles our 4g lte bandwidth in cities nationwide, so be that guy with verizon xlte. now get 1gb of bonus data, and our best pricing ever on the more everything plan. >>> back tonight, special report friday at 10:00 p.m. on the kfo newschannel titled "13 hours inside benghazi: the true story. "featuring operatives present the night ambassador christopher stevens was murdered by terrorists in libya. >> five minutes, thumbs up, ready to go. >> then what happened? >> i went to the t.l. and said, we're ready to go. bob looked through me and looks at the team leader and goes, "you guys need to wait." >> joining us from washington, the anchor of that special report, bret baier. wh

bret? >> thank you. >> let's bring in our special expanded panel. okay, first of all, thoughts on the speech. charles? >> this was a military speech. there wasn't a lot in the plan. it's obvious stuff meaning an air campaign to support iraqis ask kurds on the ground which we've been doing and then, analogies to yemen saying what we're doing in yemen and somalia, both failed states we've been doing nothing except pin prick attacks that knock out a leader or two. hasn't changed anything on the ground. this is a political speech, because this is a president trying to save a collapsed presidency. numbers cited about the lack of support confidence in the effect that if he were a prime minister he would be out of office. there is a way to try to tell america america is safer, who believes that? it's got a president that will have not a lot of american that's believe that today with the speech and after the speech. >> you mentioned house armed services chairman had this to say about that. i remind him that al qaeda and arabian pin anyone shah remains most

bret baier had some good information on how they adapt. perhaps they go into these urban centers and they are much more difficult to find. israeli military said they shot down a syrian aircraft that was said to be trying to infiltrate israeli air space around the golan heights. how significant, what do we know about that? >> well, the town where that bombing took place where the syrian aircraft was bombing is about a mile from the border of the golan heights. so if that guy rolled in from the east to drop his bomb and pulled off to the west there is no way he could have avoided flying into israeli air space. so you have got to be careful when you are planning things. for his part he learned a lesson the hard way. when you have got this much activitying if on in an air -- when you have this much activity going on you can't help but have it bleed off borders. the turks are catching leakers. all this stuff about where was turkey, turkey will have to be in this because this war will move north. bill: the geography is intimate and we'll keep th

because i invite bret over every weekend.rough the patio. >> we know this is going to be in the "special report" meeting that's going to be taking place at about noon. bret, first off, president obama has got a big announcement. first a meeting on tuesday. >> yeah. meeting with lawmakers on tuesday. we expect to have him lay out, we're told, the speech that he will make on wednesday and that is about how to deal with isis long-term. all the indications are that the administration is talking long-term here. and the real effort is to get this international coalition to sign on and to deal with this threat. we're not being told it's a call for immediate strikes inside syria or some broad sweeping military plan. so it will be interesting to see how it develops as far as what action will be moving forward. >> you can certainly hear the immediacy and the tone of democrats. let's take a listen to a couple of them. >> what i want to hear is to reassure the american public and the world that we're standing up, we're going to have a st

lou: joining us now is anchor of fox news reporting, bret baier. thirteen hoursin benghazi, the inside story, airtonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. in order to stand down, what happened? >> finally hearing from someone there. and we finally hear and see from someone who is o the ground. cia contractors charged with protecting that. that is about a mile away from the consulate. we're chris stevens and his team were in the what is a delayed response. they call it a stand down order in their boards. and they try tried to rescue up to 30 minutes, ambassador stevens on the house. and there is another attack that they are hearing about the may be a part of this. and heroism in is really compelling. glen doherty and tyrone woods, were lost on the roof, right next to them. lou: how did these three men, how do they manage to survive that night and the terrorist had targeted and in fact, that is the way in which tyrone woods and glen doherty were killed. how do they make it through? >> they say it was because of the teamwork regarding the

>> i don't know bret baier's source, that's the whole point. are there two, three, four people saying the same thing? as i understand it -- >> you do agree that the message from joe biden delivered right there is vastly different from the message of president obama -- >> it's vastly different from all of the politicians. >> then call it that. >> i think that the follow-up to joe biden is, okay, then forget president obama for a moment, you, sir, what specifically then would you do? what are you willing to do to chase someone to the gates of hell? and i'd be interested. >> d.c. is hell. >> i think the real -- one of the real enemies here is the complacency of a distracted country. we're ambivalent because we're so successful. we have everything we need. we have the am bi am by a lens winner, but -- >> every day there are bombs dropped on them. >> you're missing my point. i'm talking as an american citizen, becoming as insane as they are. as finally scaring the hell out of those who scare us daily. why aren't we out in the streets waving flags an

, i'm confusing my polls here, bret, sorry about that. how do you feel about the president's handling of the economy? 37% strongly disapprove. things are not, going so well economically if you're a democrat trying to retain control of the senate right now. >> one of the positive things this administration says they have going for it is the u.s. economy but you look at some of these polls across the country, people just don't feel that and that is real lit important thing. as you look to the midterms. also the foreign policy element is factoring in if you look at these polls and how the president and the administration are dealing with isis and dealing with that threat on foreign policy. he is really down to about 27%. while he is not on the ballot this time, he is on the ballot, president obama, in a lot of these races and that could be a trouble for a lot of democrats in tough races to hold on to their seats. jon: "new york times" has a piece out. democrats see some daylight. see a little bit of, well, i guess a silver lining in their ho

bret? >> thank you. >> let's bring in our special expanded panel. okay, first of all, thoughts on the speech. charles? >> this was a military speech. there wasn't a lot in the plan. it's obvious stuff meaning an air campaign to support iraqis ask kurds on the ground which we've been doing and then, analogies to yemen saying what we're doing in yemen and somalia, both failed states we've been doing nothing except pin prick attacks that knock out a leader or two. hasn't changed anything on the ground. this is a political speech, because this is a president trying to save a collapsed presidency. numbers cited about the lack of support confidence in the effect that if he were a prime minister he would be out of office. there is a way to try to tell america america is safer, who believes that? it's got a president that will have not a lot of american that's believe that today with the speech and after the speech. >> you mentioned house armed services chairman had this to say about that. i remind him that al qaeda and arabian pin anyone shah remains most

joining us bret baier, the anchor of "special report." seems just like about everybody at the white house sy saying this isis strategy has some flaws in it, bret? >> well, not everybody. but definitely some key players in this administrations especially at the beginning of that point of arming and training what we believed were moderate forces in syria. so you have leon panetta laying this out, that the entire national security team, the advisors, were all advising president obama to do that, including the chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey, the cia director david petraeus as well as hillary clinton and leon panetta and the president decided not to do that and panetta laid out the concerns. former defense secretary robert gates, you know, talking about what has to happen as opposed to the semantics of u.s. forces on the ground. these are powerful figures in an administration that was dealing with this at the beginning. jon: and former defense secretary gates saying that the president announcing he will degrade and destroy isis,

. >> bret baier, anchor of "special report" on fox news channel, 6:00 eastern every night. good to see you this morning. >> hey, shannon. heather: two-pronged admission by the president, his intelligence team, although he didn't say him, underestimated isis and also admission that the iraqi forces were not ready for this. >> it is really not sitting well in the intelligence community. we've heard from a couple of lawmakers who say they have talked to people inside the intel community that who say they have been briefing the white house more than a year, specifically on the threat from isis and the expansion of isis and that there is public testimony in congress from the former head of the defense intelligence agency and other people talking about the threat as it was growing, seven, eight months ago. and as for the iraqis, what he didn't talk about in that interview is the status of forces agreement couldn't be reached. and all u.s. troops were pulled out, as you know. a lot of criticses say, had u.s., had some presence to firm up the back he bone of those iraqi troops it c

be sure you join bret tonight. 13 hours at benghazi, the inside story. a fox news reporting special. that's tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. set your dvr if you can't watch it live. >> let's go off-the-record. since day one of benghazi, fox news has aggressively investigated. it hasn't been easy. more like pulling teeth trying to get answers from the obama administration. the obama administration's behavior post benghazi has been weird, like they are hiding something. first that silly story about that video. remember susan rice on all the sunday talk shows and even president obama kept talking about the video for weeks. so fox continued to press for information and it got weirder. remember the days right after the attack the state department had a conference call it brief all the media? and excluded fox news? when confronted, state department apologized and said it was oversight. really? an oversight? twelve happened again a short time later. this time the cia giving a media briefing and guess who was specifically excluded? you got it. fox news. why? well

bret baier, bret, thank you. we'll see you tonight on "special report." >> see you, jon. jon: this fox news alert out of, well, michigan, really, involving one of the longest-serving members of congress, representative john dingell of michigan. taken to the hospital with abdominal pains. he is said to be doing well, receiving an iv treatment of antibiotics, said to be in good spirits. he is retiring at the end of this session of congress. right now he is the longest-serving law maker in congressional history. john dingell promises to be back there next week when congress resumes its business. we certainly wish him well. >> new reaction today to yet another stunning admission by the irs that even more emails linked to that political targeting scandal may be lost. the revelation comes amid controversy whether the lois lerner emails were saved on any kind of backup system which would contradict testimony from the irs chief, who could appear before congress again just days from now. leland vittert is live in washington with the latest. hi, leland. >> reporter: hi, shannon. a

dear bret, you are the most handsome -- no, i'm just kidding.ret, hi, dear, how are you today? i hope all is well with you. my name is miss linda. i just went through your profile in this site. my dear, i am interested in knowing more about you. waiting to hear from you soon. this is pretty cool. i was excited about it, you know what i mean? especially in africa. so i looked it up in the encyclopedia, because i didn't know where dakar was, in africa. so it was pretty cool. the hardest part about doing time, of course i miss my kids, my little niece i never met. so that kills you. but when they call mail, and go out there on the railing, and you stand up there and see all your brothers and friends getting mail, over and over and over, and you're just standing up there, as bad as you want it, it ain't going to come. so here we are. >> while bulmer looks ahead to the possibility of finding love, inmates eric glass and erik coleman look back to the past. and what they've lost. >> just looking at our kids, how much they've grown and everything. remin

>> hard to judge, fewer new judgment, i thought fox did a good job, bret baier did a good job but the point for me initially the charge was that the president our our military had somehow been negligent and not protected the lives of our diplomatic personnel and nothing suggests that. >> maybe bad judgments were made but we don't know about the story. send me a tweet this hour, we always read some at the end of the program. a new segment of on fall elections and how the white house got the press to delay an executive order on immigration culminating in a presidential interview on "meet the press." musical chairs. fun, right? welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. that's their game. the flights you want are blacked out. or they ask for some ridiculous number of miles. honestly, it's time to switch to the venture card from capital one. with venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. no blackout dates. and with every purchase, you'll earn unlimited double miles. from now on, no one's taking your seat away. what's

. >> joining me now with more, bret baier. bret?can't let the hour pass to mark what happened here s a political matter we've been covering sometime the fact this president has been saying i was elected inwarted, not to start them. here we are bombing syria, a line the president did not want to cross. >> there is a lot of reporting and the president getting to this point. i think a lot of people here in washington will say that those two videos of the beheadings drove this administration to this action. but it's important to give the administration credit tonight from getting this coalition together. for getting these arab nations to sign off the fact united arab emirates, saudi arabia, jordan, bahrain and qatar are flying missions, qatar we're not sure flew strike missions but the rest flying f 15s or f 16s inside seara, bombing sunni terrorists is a huge deal. >> and many of our guests have pointed that out, the question remains, does isis care? that is sunnis also bombing it. people here in the united states worry that we're gett

n13 hours of benghazi and the inside story anchored by bret baier. and tomorrow at 8 o'clock p.m.nd 11:00 eastern time only here on the fox news channel. >> turning to the northeast, under a severe weather watch. cold front slamming in steamy air. that could bring hail and damaging winds and perhaps a tornado. it was 90 degrees here in the city and now talking about hail in the northeast, what is going on? >> it feels like summertime in the northeast. 8%÷ comes in this time of year. and as it slams in the unstable air we'll so the threat for severe weather. 91 in dc and 80 in new york. we hit 90 earlier today. and behind it cooler air. and the front continues to move and showers and thunderstorms stretching from texas to tennessee. and we have a severe thunderstorm watch. and no tornado warnings thankfully. we had one in northern massachusetts. we have severe thunderstorm warnings and with that could see gusty winds and hail and isolated tornados and late afternoon and evening hours. this front will exit and bring cooler air and dryer air as we head in sunday and monday. and hurri

well it, turns out bret baier has done a fairly long, interesting special on this. the security contractors were on the ground saying they requested support once the attack began. the people under siege requested support from cia. a group of cia operatives started in their cars going to the scene and were told to stop and wait by their cia supervisor. >> >> five minutes, we're ready thumbs up, thumbs up. we're ready to go. >> then what happened? >> i said hey, we're ready to go. bob looks right through me and looks at the team leader and says we need to wait. >> bob was the cia's wait chief in benghazi. >> we need to get over there we're loading the initiative. >> bob looks at me and said stand down we need to wait. >> getting calls from the state department saying we are taking fire. we need you guys here. we need help. >> after being repeatedly told to wait, the security team says they defied orders and headed to the besieged consulate on their own. they asked repeatedly for armed air support which never came. >> if i gave you 30 minutes bag would ambassador steve

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bret says of all the hours he has done, this is the most dramatic. martha: stunning.o listen to those men. earn has been waiting for so long to hear from those people on the ground. we'll look forward to that. mitt romney is slamming president obama over cuts in the military budget at a time when our country faces numerous threats. bill: lava flows through dozens of homes as people are told to make a run for it. >> it's within close enough proximity that the community could be affected. the time frame we don't know. martha: there are reports coming in from a.p. and others that ukraine and the russian-backed rebels have signed a ceasefire deal that starts in less than two hours. this is according to a european official at the top. there is also word poland is saying they have increased security that would come from a nato military force that would strengthen their presence in the area and they believe that is sending a powerful signal to their eastern neighbors meaning russia as well. so a lot of developments coming through in the ukraine situation. bill: mitt romney b

. >> joining me now with more, bret baier. bret?ical matter we've been covering sometime the fact this president has been saying i was elected inwarted, not to start them. here we are bombing syria, a line the president did not want to cross. >> there is a lot of reporting and the president getting to this point. i think a lot of people here in washington will say that those two videos of the beheadings drove this administration to this action. but it's important to give the administration credit tonight from getting this coalition together. for getting these arab nations to sign off the fact united arab emirates, saudi arabia, jordan, bahrain and qatar are flying missions, qatar we're not sure flew strike missions but the rest flying f 15s or f 16s inside seara, bombing sunni terrorists is a huge deal. >> and many of our guests have pointed that out, the question remains, does isis care? that is sunnis also bombing it. people here in the united states worry that we're getting involved in other war and to group wants to kill us. is

bret, standby.pt go to jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with an update to our story. >> hi, megyn. one thing that's important to remember is earlier this evening there was a conference call held by the white house by a senior administration official who did tell reporters that in fact they had seen signs that some of the 100 or so american jihadists who had gone to syria for training with isis that some of those had come back to the united states. that's the first time we had heard that reported and that confirmed by the white house. and again, the timing of this is very interesting because there will be legal questions as to why the u.s. and these allies are striking syria. this is a sovereign country. they were not invited in to strike against isis targets by bashar assad. they're not working with the government of bashar assad. so there will be legal questions about what the legal basis for these air strikes are. so what you saw happen earlier today is the u.s. officials were laying the grou

good evening, i'm bret baier. the terror threat, we have new insights into the plan to terror leaders for this country. we're also learning more about the disruption of a major attack planned for australia. meanwhile, today, the director of national intelligence, andq the head of the cia, tried to express just how serious the situation now is.7?" >> this is just one more demonstration that this is an international challenge. this is something that's going to be with us for a generation. >> this environment is composed of the most diverse array of threats, and challenges that i've seen in my 50-plus years in the intel business. >> we have team coverage from the white house. more details, and complaints about president obama's strategy of going on the offense against isis. we also have chilling new information on another terror threat from the middle east. but we begin with sky news reporter laura, and the harrowing story of the australian plot. >> in the dead of night, police honed in on their target. 800 investig

security operators in benghazi the night of the attack speaking out for the first time to bret baier.> five minutes thumbs up, thumbs up, go. i said hey, we are ready to go. bob looks right through me and looks at the team leader and goes, you guys need to wait. >> bob was the cia's base chief in benghazi. >> he was on the phone talking to somebody. i assumed they were trying to link up with the local militia. >> i got out of the car and bob and the team leaders were standing on the front porch. i said hey we need to get over there we are losing the initiative. bob looked straight at me and said stand down, you need to wait. >> we are start to go get calls from the state department guys saying we are taking fire we need you guys here. we need help. >> after being repeatedly told to wait the security team says they divide orders and headed to the besieged consulate on their own. they asked repeatedly for armed air support which never came. looking back, the team believes if they hadn't been delayed for nearly half an hour things might have turned out differently. >> i give you that 30

stuart: bret baier, thanks for hanging out with this. take your take on wall street journal headline. gop eyes agenda for the senate. if i was a republican politician i would not be happy about jumping the gun, making a forecast of victories two months in advance. you, too? >> don't want to get overconfident. there is a sense, every pollster, every pundit, every analyst looks at the numbers in all these different races, the new york times has gained 65% chance, others have 75% chance that the republicans take control of the u.s. senate. it looks good right now and as we know what can happen from september 2nd through november 4th, but if you were forced to put a bet, putting it on the republicans taking control is probably better than it was a couple months ago. stuart: bret baier, thanks for joining us today. we do appreciate it. tesla got a look at that today, hitting a new high. i will ask nicole petallides, there are reports that california has walked away, talks with california about getting the factory in california have not collap

when i say pass phrase, my pass phrase i like bret larson.would guess that. >> especially since you don't really like him. >> especially since i don't really like bret larson. that's really important. what these guys are using, they could have potentially be using a program that automatically generates these passwords. >> i'm going to change mine after the show. >> thank you so much. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," behind the scenes of interviews with those three detained americans in north korea. cnn will ripley is now out of that secretive country and he can speak freely. hi, will. >> carol, we are now in beijing, and we can tell you what was happening behind the cameras as we sat down with those detained americans. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. but parallel parking isn't one you do a lof them.ings great. you're either too far from the curb. or too close to other cars... it's just a matter of time until you rip some guy's bumper off. so, here ar

feet away from where she took her last bret, right here in the crosswalk, it was 15th street. it made the turn onto washington avenue and that's when it hit her and her young son. >> reporter: racked with grief, delores white joined her family remembering her daughter. >> he has no mother. no father. i'm what he got. >> police say the young boy and his mom were struck by a septa bus here on washington avenue. delores says her son was conscious and crying. >> asking his mommy to just get up. >> but sheena died at the scene. her 8-year-old son was rushed to chop. you see cuts and bruises, his life eye nearly shut. family members say he'll require a wheelchair, but say it's nothing compared to the emotional scarring. >> i'm going to get him so professional help because, as i said, he has no mother, no father right now. >> these blind sides is what's killing these people. my sister, my nephew and the gentleman that was with her were in the crosswalk. >> we reached out to septa for a response and they said, "since this incident is under investigation, it is inappropriate to respond

i want to draw your attention to something bret was telling us about. the uae now has a stronger statement than the united united states of america saying now is the time to act. you say what? >> well, the president has spoken twice about this in four or five days. last thursday in response to a question and today at another press conference in response to a question and both of them were inarticulate responses to those questions. the simple thing here is that what he needs is an unequivocal statement to the american people and to the world at large is what is our goal and objective in dealing with isis? you can do that in a sentence or two. is it to defeat it and destroy their military capability and to defeat their ideology? then put together a strategy in support of that. and we desperately need that. if he would just do the first, we could get on with the second. but the lack of having a goal and objective unequivocal clear one what you heard from uae and from prime minister cameron continues to chase him in terms of not being articulate and unequiv