. >>> we're back with fox's ed henry, chief washington correspondent james rosen. ntlemen, i'm going to divide this into two. ed, on ferguson and james on iraq. to you first, ed. i get the impression the president really wanted to talk. he wanted -- >> and talk about this case and talk about race. if you don't subtract points for the lack of brevity, okay. he went on a little bit, he seemed to strike a pretty good tone. two quick points. when he said i have to be very careful about not prejudging the case, he learned a lesson from trayvon martin, perhaps, and from the massachusetts police officer case where he said the police officer acted stupidly. that was prejudging the case. he's not doing that now. second point is, when he said, look, just because there are grievances, it doesn't excuse looting, and went on to say let's seek some understanding instead of hollering. let's heal instead of wounding one another. that's an important message. >> but he didn't come down hard and say you risers knock it off. >> but he did try to set a positive tone i think. we'll see w

james rosen reports she seems to be putting daylight between herself and the incumbent. >> reporter: in her sharp eest criticism yet hillary clinton said that president obama is cautious on foreign policy and lacks an overarching framework for it. >> she's looking at the near term future of al qaeda and isis and all these groups and saying, you know what, we failed to e defeat them. that's going to be put on me if i'm the candidate. so i better separate myself out from some of the policy troubles in the international arena that the obama administration may be noun for. >> reporter: clinton cited the early stages of the syrian civil war when the commander-in-chief rejected her advice to arm moderate rebels. the failure, clinton said, to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against assad, there was everything in the middle, the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled. speaking to "the new york times" last week, president obama derided clinton's proposal as a fantasy. >> this idea that we could p

our chief washington correspondent james rosen picks up the story live from d.c. james, good to see you. what's happening with this? >> kelly and julie, good afternoon. america's longest serving governor now facing two felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. these carry a maximum punishment of 109 years in prison. a travis county grand jury charged that perry tried to force the resignation of this woman in austin after she was arrested on a drunken driving charge last year. when she refused, perry made good on a threat to veto claiming she had lost the public's confidence. the special prosecutor in this case says governor perry will soon be arraigned at the county criminal courthouse a few blocks from the governor's mansion. in a statement, perry's counsel called the indictment a political abuse of the court system adding, the facts of this case conclude that the governor's veto was lawful, appropriate and well within the authority of the office of the governor. today's action which violates the separation of powers outlined in

james rosen here with the administration's call an inclusive iraqi government means. we begin with national security correspondent jennifer griffin with more from the white house. >> sources tell us the pentagon is in the process of sending more than 100 additional military planners to iraq to develop a strategy for relocating the tens of thousands of those trapped in the mountain range. >> reporter: u.s. defense officials say the effort to air lift the refugees to safety would take hundreds of flights and ten days or more of constant round trip missions. >> no help, nothing, we have nothing. just to say, we don't want no money, no oil, no higher position. we want to live in peace. >> reporter: the air lift would come with considerable risk, pentagon officials warn. earlier today an iraqi rescue helicopter crashed carrying veteran "new york times" correspondent. the iraqi pilot was killed. the american journalist suffered concussion and risked injuries. the u.s. has not encountered any anti-aircraft fire, but that could change given the heavy weaponry isis has at its

jon: james rosen in washington. thank you. heather: relatively quiet night on the streets of ferguson, missouri, as governor jay nixon orders the national guard to pull out of the st. louis suburb. police making only a handful of arrests as federal civil rights probe gets underway and attorney general holder promise as thorough investigation into the police killing of michael brown. leland vittert is live in washington for us. leland, what exactly is the doj investigating? >> reporter: all right, heather, best described in layman's terms the fbi and justice department looking to see in darren wilson, the officer involved in the shooting deprived michael brown's civil rights and if they can prove it was intentional. eric holder visit it to ferguson and promise to feds looking into things appears to calm the streets down even the attorney general held back making any kind of promises. >> it will take time. i think patience is in abundance in, in ferguson. doesn't mean that this thing should drag on. we will try to do this as exp

in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> fox 29 meteorologist caitlin roth is back now with a look atur wake up weather. hey, caitlin. >>> hey, joyce f you're up very early tomorrow morning it might look a little gloom mow but sleep in about 11, 12:00 o'clo 12:00 o'clock, but then you'll see the sun come out we are going to see a few clouds to start us off. a cold front coming in from the northwest will spread some clouds maybe even some showers to roll in by early tomorrow morning. so again we might not be 100% rain free on sunday. we've got the chance of clouds and some showers north then everyone has slight chance for thunderstorm later on in the d day. right now take a look at current temperatures beautiful evening and very comfortable. 72 in philly. 66 in pottstown. 66 in allentown. 61 the top of mount pocono and 71 in wilmington. 64 in millville, new jersey. wake up weather forecast for sunday, again, don't be deterred by ally the clouds the the front approaching early tomorrow morning. temperatures in the 60s and comfortable. best chance for showers in the morning will be off t

we have fox team coverage, katherine carriage, james rosen with why iran may end up doing america's bidding in the struggle against this terror group. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry and the complications that could influence whether the president takes action. good evening, ed. >> reporter: good evening, bret. more chaos tonight in syria. syrian rebels with help from an al qaeda-linked group have seized a frontier crossing with israel along the golan heights. this is considered a symbolic move for now. obviously long term it has the danger of drawing israel into this long civil war, meanwhile, the threat from the isis militants in syria and iraq continues. >> a heartbreaking appeal from the mother of yet another journalist held hostage by isis militants, one of several americans still in captivity right now. >> my son steven is in your hands. >> reporter: in a video broadcast on al arabiya, shirley sotloff urged them not to suffer a grisly murder. >> he's always tried to help the weak. >> reporter: steven sotloff has free lanced for magazines like "time" and with pre

james rosen, thank you. and don't miss the texas governor on fox news sunday tomorrow on what else he has to say about these charges. he's shannon breen's guest and check your local listings for times. >>> the u.s. launching new air strikes against islamic terrorists in northern iraq in a bid to drive out terrorist. this coming after the terrorists kidnapped and killed women and children. now the latest. >> reporter: it looks very clearly like the u.s. is opening up yet another front here in northern iraq with its ally in its fight against the isis militants. fonews can confirm that f-16 and f-18 fighter jets, as well as unmanned drones have been hitting militant positions around the strategic mosul dam. word just in, nine strikes since this morning, local time. again, just in, those strikes destroying and damaging something like 14 militant vehicles. and official sources tell us this is air cover for joint kurdish-iraqi cooperation to retake the dam. sources say this is to keep isis from blowing up the dawn

chief washington correspondent james rosen looks at how that strategy may have affected the growth of isis now in syria. >> the chairman has indicated to me that our capacity to execute this mission is not time sensitive. it will be effective tomorrow or next week or one month from now. >> reporter: now one year has passed since president obama abruptly cancelled planned air strikes in syria against the assad regime and the same commander in chief is again contemplating air strikes in syria, this time against isis. at the time the obama administration denied jihadist influence in syria was on the rise. >> it seems like initially the opposition was more democratic, as time has gone by it's become more infiltrated by al qaeda. is that basically true? >> no. that is actually basically not true. it's basically incorrect. the opposition has increasingly become more defined by its moderation. >> reporter: friendsly arab governments privately condemned the administration's conduct as erratic and weak, likely to 'em bolden bad actors, and many in the united states agreed. >> the failure to do

shrine in the us constitution all the same it's not enough to shield new york times journalist james rosen has exclusive revealing how the cia tried to undermine iran's nuclear program has seen him embroiled with the government on the courts he now faces jail for not revealing his whistleblowing source but he's not going into battle alone explains this is a petition with one hundred thousand signatures on it demanding that the u.s. government stop it's to see the new york times journalist james writes that the u.s. justice department wants him to give up the name of the sorts which james lies and has refused to do time and time again now the justice department considers forcing . him to change flies and continues to refuse he may go to jail the source has provided him with information about a bungled cia operation in iran which the journalist used in his two thousand and six book state of war and was first subpoenaed in two thousand and eight to testify against james sterling the former cia employee who was later charged under the espionage act for allegedly disclosing secrets to the repor

now with more on the indictment and the impact this may have on the governor's political future, james rosen. james, this news happening against the governor who's had a high profile lately with the ongoing border crisis. what's all this about? >> well, good morning. the longest serving governor in the united states, rick perry, now faces two felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. as texas justice legendarily inclines towards harshness, the first one carries a penalty of 5 to 99 years in prison, the second 2 to 10. a grand jury charged that perry tried to force the resignation of the district attorney there, the top prosecutor in austin and chief of a unit that probes political corruption, after she was arrested on a drunken driving charge last year. when she refused, perry made good on that threat to veto state funding for her office claiming she had lost the public's confidence. the special prosecutor in this case says governor perry will soon be arraigned at the county criminal courthouse just a few blocks from the governor's mansion. in a statement,

james rosen looks at both sets of numbers tonight. >> reporter: initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose last week the labor department reported to 311,000. 16,000 higher than projected. even the four week average of such claims are more reliable indicator saw an increase up to 295,000. claims at that level economists say a sign the labor market strengthening. >> you know what? it did work. the economy is better. >> reporter: indeed still another report showed hiring in june reached its highest level in six and a half years and the federal reserve said industrial production rose last month with manufacturing output posting its largest increase in five months all of which has the federal reserve considering raising interest rates and easing its reliance on quantitative easing. >> if the committee continues to see improvement in the labor market, and continues to forecast ongoing progress in the labor market over time, and inflation moving back towards 2%, it is our intention to wind down our asset purchases to conclude them after the october meeting. >> reporter: but what ki

our own james rosen reporting that senior administration officials telling him that they concede this is a long-term threat that isis is going to be around after president obama leaves and they're doing a number of different things beyond the military strikes to push it back. >> i mean, the president is historically very deliberative in his decisions. and every president has to find his own way with making what is the toughest decision that any president makes, perhaps, that's to put people in harm's way and send perhaps even troops in to this mission. is there any indication, bret, at this point, of which way he is leaning? >> not yet. i mean, the white house signaled kind of people reading through the tea leaves in a picture they sent out of the president walking with the white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough. you may remember there was a similar image walking on the south lawn before the president decided to not strike inside syria around the chemical attacks era and instead have congress weigh in. they never did. and those strikes never happened. whether that was a signal b

just a few moments ago, james rosen was pressing the sportswoman at the state department saying it was year ago this very week that president obama was mulling u.s. air strikes in syria. he pulled back. james was pressing on whether the president's failure to act a year ago helped lead to isis gaining strength. listen. >> last year the president made clear he did make a decision to strike. that he wanted to go to congress. the two are not conflicting. it wasn't a change of decision about what to do so. it was a change of decision about tactically how to do it. >> reporter: you can see e administration saying it was a question of tactics but certainly a lot of tough questions for them now and in the days ahead about whether the president's failure to act a year ago which the administration tauted that the pressure they put on president assad in syria enabled him to turn over a large stockpile of chemical weapons. there was not a u.s. attack. the civil war has continued and we see isis' threat level growing by the day. >> a lot of people think it left that opening for isis to grow very s

james rosen at the state department tonight looks how designates 12 months ago is affecting the worseningion now. >> the chair marc anthony indicated to me our capacity to execute this mission is not time sensitive. it will be effective tomorrow or next week or one month from now. >> reporter: now one year has passed since president obama abruptly cancelled planned air strikes in syria against the assad regime and same commander-in-chief again is contemplating air strikes in syria this time against isis. at the time the obama administration denied jihadist influence in syria was on the rise. >> what seems initially the opposition was maybe more western leading, more moderate, more democratic. as time has gone by it's degraded. is that basically true? >> no. that's actually basically not true, basically incorrect. the opposition has increasingly become more defined. >> reporter: friendly arab governments condemn the administration's conduct as erratic and weak likely to embolden bad actors. many in the united states agreed. strikes against the assad regime was overruled by parliament, caut

chief washington correspondent james rosen reports, it's a war that many people feel america is losing. >> gaze upon ferguson, missouri, the new epicenter of racial tension in america, is to observe a city transforms in demography and knk economics fr quarter century ago. when the majority was white, its median income was higher than that of missouri as a whole. today with ferguson two thirds black, the median income has inched up to $37,000, but the lags behind missouri's state income by a full $10,0 thou,000 year, meaning as their racial composition reversed, so did their economic position. >> the notion of working class people not present there for that black community, and i think it has helped to impoverish them. if we think back to the war on poverty and taking steps to try to deal with it, you understand the limits then of what the government can do when you don't have people making their way in terms of the political structure, in terms of the economic structure. >> the war against poverty will not be won here in washington. it must be won in the field. >> though announced in t

an administration official told james rosen that they think probably isis will outlast the presidentch is a pretty frightening idea when you see how quickly they're metastasizing, right? >> yes. >> if you think of this a couple years down the road, what's it going to be like? they need to get on top of this immediately and eradicate it. it can't be the sort of thing we say, oh, we need to learn to live with us because they're going to eventually attack the united states. >> does the president face the ip evidenten reality this should never have reached this point on his watch? >> i think so. i think the fact that, of course, it's great that we have a report now that's saying that this was going on for a long time, but that's just common sense. these kinds of things don't happen overnight. >> right. >> they don't -- >> but nothing was done. >> i was going to say, if i'm allowed to disagree with ms. powers who knows a lot more about this than i do, the president of the united states in a not too long ago article in the "new yorker" magazine referred to them as the junior varsity team,

ation correspondence and james rosen. you cover the state department.re you buying the big hug hillary says she will give the president tonight? >> you asked bill if i'm buying it. for this transaction to be completed, the currency that one must push across the counter is the same suspension of disbelief that buy the idea that hillary clinton and barack obama have ever truly been at any point since the 2008 pennsylvania primary all hugy with each other. this raises two very troubling questions and i hope you will let me sketch this out. the facts is that mrs. clinton has chosen to display her distance from the president, in this case on foreign policy, specifically syria and specifically still the question of whether the u.s. should have armed the syrian rebels much earlier on. clinton advocated for that at the time. she says the failure to do that allowed isis and other terrorists to fill the vacuum. the president rejected that at the time and today he called it a fantasy that would never have worked. here are the important questions it wasn't just hil

i wonder if james rosen feels like the department of justice has been helpful and cooperative. >> transparency and stuff about the journalist. >> yeah. all those press groups i feel they have been bumped out of white house events. the official barack obama.com and white house photographers can handle those events. i want to echo what john said. he looked and sounded exhausted. and we have seen president day after day. this was the first time i have seen him where it looked like his hair went gray overnight. i don't think he has been showing much enthusiasm for anything. he doesn't convey to me that he is excited about the job in the sense that he wants to sink his teeth into and solve these problems. he seems like he has had it. >> >> after the newtown and grifd shooting speaking powers to bring the country together. this is a time he could have came together. >> phoning it in. >> i would say that i would think that's a fair assessment. it's good that he wants transparency here. i think the biggest mistake is at the local level. i don't know why these cops didn't have cameras rolling. they hav

. >> look on the how he treated not james risen but james rosen, his own family members. this administration is hell bent on squeezing the press. >> i think everyone has picked up on it and it's interesting that 100,000 people signed a petition demanding that the government stop all legal action against risen so people are aware. people are holding the obama administration accountable for their actions and recognizing this is a consistent pattern in this administration to go after the press. that's not something that obama wants to hang his legacy on. >> brian, you hear the president speaking out about the reporters and how they've been treated in ferguson and you go, oh, really? you're defending reporters now? you've been going after them but his administration is going after them nonetheless. >> he's still the washington correspondent. people say they just want to give him a pass. no other president, not bill clinton, not george bush. it goes through the whole administration. think about john brennan. the c.i.a. that he was in charge of was spying on key senators in the

chief washington correspondent james rosen on a president who is clearly not the life of his own party reporter: at dawn of president obama's second term chief of staff dennis mcdonagh launch a celebrated charm offensive to repair the white house's frayed relations with capitol hill. now published reports suggest the president's relations with congress, even democrats, have never been frostier. nearly six years into his term with his popularity at the lowest of his presidency reports the "new york times," mr. obama appears remarkably distant from his own party on capitol hill with his long neglect of would-be allies catching up to him. in interviews, nearly two dozen democratic lawmakers and senior congressional aides suggested that mr. obama's approach has left him with few loyalists to effectively manage the issues erupting abroad and at home and could imperil his efforts to leave a legacy in his final stretch in office. >> we've heard this criticism repeatedly throughout obama's presidency. obama needs to take this want his presidency to end inin the same dismal way that the carter

ace correspondent james rosen and that's a headline. do you give it too much attention, karl?it turns out after the congress began its investigation and lois lerner for targeting alleged groups, lerner had all her blackberry wiped clean and had it destroyed in june of 2012. the date matters because lerner says her laptop crashed a year earlier destroying countless e-mails and might have found had they had her blackberry. according to an affidavit to a watchdog group judicial watch, there was no effort to search her blackberry in response to the congressional investigation. they say it's sort of standard procedure when somebody has to have their hand-held swiped to have it disposed of. but lawmakers think they're being stonewalled and obstructed and that only makes things a heck of a lot worse. >> there is no doubt ms. lerner did something untoward there is no doubt that the attorney general of the united states will most likely not do anything to her. so that's not justice. everybody is screaming about justice. we're not getting justice in this case. and i'm not optimistic we

here with more on that story is fox's own james rosen. >> sean, good evening.n its face you might think iran providing arms to the kurds in northern iraq to help them combat the terrorist army known as isis would be a clear cut case is the enemy of my enemy is my friend. not in this case. begun funneling weapons to krg in northern iraq emerged when the iranian foreign minister visited irbil yesterday and met with krg president. the state department wouldn't confirm the weapons deliveries but clearly did not look kindly upon them. >> i think we've expressed concerns in the past about the reports of iranian flow of arms into iraq previously. that would apply here as well. >> when isis captured the iraqi city of mosul in early june, the kurdish army responded by seizing the oil hub of kirkuk and the u.s. intervened with air strikes. a kurdish analyst told fox news his people are grateful for that but readily accepted iran's offer of weapons. >> the dynamics of politics in kurdistan does not lend itself to too much iranian domination unlike what might seem iran is

and i'll bet most americans if you were to stop the average person street that have no idea who james rosen is yet yesterday we had a washington post reporter and huffington post reporter in you know arrested in mcdonald's and for some missouri. also an egregious thing right but that's the one everybody knows about because that you know it's this is the shiny there's a bang grenades and no doubt you're right well i'm glad people saw it because the war on journalists you know in our free in a free society in any society u.s. russia journalists have to do their jobs or you can't have a decent society journalists have to be a check on government and if government is arresting jailing threatening journalists you have lost your check this is this is why the press is often referred to as the fourth estate it's a function of the fourth branch of government it's why it's the only industry that's identified in the constitution no doubt and we in the united states basically invented freedom of the press you know we in the first amendment is an american thing and now we had someone speaking today at t

because the report out today from our own james rosen reported top aides to president obama expect that president obama's second term will end without the united states defeating isis. it sounds like they're declaring defeat before we've even engaged in the battle. >> well, you know, we've seen this movie before unfortunately. when syria was starting to go, our arab league partners were calling the united states, they came here, they sent leaders here, they asked congress, they asked the white house, hey, we need some help here. we don't need, you know, the 141st airborne division, we need intelligence, we need logistics, we need help in command and control. we need your leadership at the table and we think we can handle this. and the white house really turned their back on those conversations. and the longer it went, the worse it got. so our fear here is that this notion if we just don't do anything everything is going to be okay is going to continue. this is as dangerous a threat matrix as i have ever seen in my time on the intel committee, which is about ten years, megyn. it is serio

chief washington correspondent james rosen is live in d.c. with all this for us. >> good morning.istory is repeat with some views like the air museum back in 1994 defined controversial exhibit and the dropping of the atomic bomb on japan. today the powerful institution in question is the college board. the nonprofit that produces the sat and advanced placement for educational courses, live way most high school seniors can study college material and obtain college credits. they recently expanded from five to 98 pages, and george washington gets half a sentence referencing his farewell address as president. they speak rigid racial hierarchy and strong belief in cultural superiority. absent from the new framework or thomas jefferson, theodore roosevelt, dr. martin luther king jr. >> those who don't go on to college to take u.s. history in college, this is it, so if this is the impression they come away with, i'm afraid we are creating a cynical generation. >> high school is a time you can use what they have and take that opportunity to go deeper until they understand the economic sid

chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us with the details. >> good afternoon.s county grand jury charged perry abused his office and tried to compaerce a public servant. perry made good on threats to veto state funding for her office. perry will soon be arraigned at the county criminal courthouse just a few blocks about the governor's mansion. the special prosecutor in this case has donated to a democratic campaign fund in the past. but he has also received high level republican support in his failed bid for a federal judgeship. the facts of this case sent perry in a statement -- conclude the governor's three tow was lawful, appropriate and well within the authority of the office of the governor. today's action which violates the separation of powers outlined in the texas constitution is nothing more than an effort to weaken the constitutional authority granted to the office of the texas governor and sets a dangerous precedent. texas democrats swiftly upload ad web page adorned with a photo of the embattled governor looking stern and asking users to demand pair

ones eric holder approved this unindicted co-conspirator warrant thing against our fox colleague james rosenalling him a flight risk and you will of that. so they should really, admin mum they should be transparent. tell us why you want this stuff, what you are going to do with it. as it stand right now, the doj in general and this administration in particular have earned no right to the benefit of the doubt when it comes to this kind of stuff. bill: here's the statement about the work from the fbi, all right? quote, this shall allow personnel to have better situational a awareness and support proactive and reactive public communications strategies. what does that mean? >> that's washington speak for, we wanted to spend money on something cool so we can read clips about ourselves would be my guess at least. it is true, look, law enforcement is getting a different image in the public eye these days, particularly like the local police departments, their s.w.a.t. teams and all of the rest, changing attitudes on the war on drugs are a big deal. much the worrying about domestic surveillance is a