i'll speak with the state department spokesman jen psaki live from the fox news desk. the tony stewart crash. grand jurors have been hearing evidence against the veteran race car driver who struck and killed another pedestrian sort of driver on the track. are they indicting him today or let him off the hook today? we will find out today, in fact in just a matter of minutes. let's get to it. >> breaking news. shepard smith reporting live from the fox news desk. >> and breaking news begins our hour this wednesday afternoon. president obama moments away from convening a meeting of the world leaders at the united nations to talk about how to tackle terrorism. this marks but the second time the united states president has headed up a security council meeting. we'll be monitoring it once it gets under way and hear from the president and bring you the news. this comes after the pentagon reported another round of air strikes against islamic state terrorists in syria. we'll show you where they are on the wall. according to defense officials the united states and its arab partne

and so you turn over to the state department with jen psaki. every time i've watched her i shake my head in disbelief. i've watched that press conference. i watched -- he asked the most simple question in the world, are we at war? she couldn't give him an answer. you think that's bad, now you see marie harf, i'm sorry, i'm going to say this because it's true, she is a bubble head. i've watched in embarrassment -- this is the best they could come up with? she would flunk a freshman college debating contest. >> i don't think it's a bubble head thing. that implies that she's stupid. i don't think she's stupid. i've interviewed her. she's young. i think she's only 31 years old. her last job was spokesperson for cia. do you give a lot of statements on the record for the cia? no. now she's got a big job. but what she needs to remember in my view is you're not in the vorty trying to defend your sister. now you're at the state department. jen psaki took that criticism like a woman. she didn't come out and complain. the underling did. >> that's the poin

yet in my exchanges, at the daily press briefing today with jen psaki, she repeatedly declined to embrace that term at war. >> a lot of americans sit at home and they see americans who are not even combatants but who are journalists, being beheaded from this group overseas. and from a common sense point of view, the average american will say to himself, this group is at war with us, why does our president or secretary of state not recognize that and say, indeed, we are at war with this group and we will destroy them? >> i think first of all, james, our actions speak to our commitment to this. and the president has authorized more than 100 strikes in iraq. as have been confirmed by the department of defense. i think any american sitting at home should sit and look at the actions that we're taking. i don't think it's a useful exercise to go back and forth about new terms. what's important is what we're doing about it. and the president's authorization, what the secretary will be doing over the next couple weeks is action in that regard. >> jen psaki said this is not an overnight thing, it's

. >> when i asked jen psaki today in today's briefing about the apparent contradiction between wantingstroy something and then wanting simply to reduce it to a manageable problem, she accused me of trying to, quote, twist words and play word games, bill. >> okay, with all due respect and you don't have to comment on that, that woman looks way out of her depth over there, just the way she delivers. it just doesn't look like she has the gravitas for that job. >> okay. so that's my opinion. and as always i could be wrong. but i am not wrong about this. the state department's response was ridiculous. >> i think that when the anchor of a leading cable news show uses, quite frankly, sexist, personally offensive language, that i actually don't think they would ever use about a man against a person that shares this podium with me, i think i have an obligation and i think it's important to step up and say that's not okay. >> so ms. harf is telling the world that i would never ever say something like that about a man. well, tell that to white house spokesman josh ernest? >> josh ernest, okay, he

jen psaki joining us.nutes" on sunday, the president pushing blame for james clapper for not having the intelligence, but it seems at though there was intelligence out there and even michael flynn saying in february in senate testimony, we believe isil or al qaeda in iraq will look to take territory in iraq and syria to exhibit their strength in 2014. so it was out withere. was just not listened to? >> first of all, al qaeda and aqis, they changed their name to isil about a year and a half ago, we've been tracking this group for some people. the president, secretary of state, intelligence community. but there is a difference between that watching a terrorist organization and knowing that the iraqi security forces would lay down their arms, buckle and not fight back. that's an incredibly hard thing to track. and what we've done over the past eight months is increase our assistance to the iraqi security forces. would he ha we've been providing them with hell fire missiles because we've seen the strength grow

he's not too impressed by jen psa psaki. the truth is she's been criticized in many corners in the past for hash tag diplomacy, like united for ukraine and people are looking at her saying what are you doing the state department spokesperson, act like you've been there before. >> right. well, you know, we can debate whether o'reilly was a tad harsh in assessing her whole performance. >> oh, please. >> but when you put yourself out there. when you are the spokesman for the united states department of state, you have to accept criticism. >> this should be alone. when you become the spokesperson for any, you know, organization -- never mind state department, you should not allow to be doing this and then tweeting it out. >> well, it kind of makes me think of if somebody were to criticize you as a primetime cable news anchor, you're picking on a girl because you would fight back. >> that's a joke. i'm a public person. and people can rip on me all they want. and as somebody -- what was it? who said it what people think of me is n

. >> joining me now is state department spokeswoman jen psaki. thank you for being with us tonight. >> my pleasure. >> did the united states know about sotloff's murder before the news became public today? >> erin, let me first say that our intel community is working as quickly as possible to authenticate the video. as we know, we unfortunately had to take similar steps a couple of weeks ago, but i don't want to get ahead of that process. obviously if this is authenticated, this brutality, this horrific act is something that certainly not only do our hearts go out to the sotloff family but raises the specter about the brutality of isil. beyond that i'm not in a position to get into additional details from here. >> a senior administration official tells cnn that it's believed isis is still holding -- and the words were, to be exact, quote, unquote, small number of american hostages. did the administration have a firm count on how many americans are there? >> we do. but for the safety and security of the individuals being held, we don't get more sp

jen psaki appeared on cnn's "new day" last hour and was zd about sending a high rchb profile envoy toorth korea. >> i'm not going to rule out options here but i think it's important for people to understand that there have been a range of steps that we've taken. we have had an offer on the table to end ambassador king to negotiate and discuss the release of these individuals, that trip has been canceled in the past. we're going to do everything we can but it's also important for people to understand we're not going to outline all of that public hisly base because our on jekive it to bring them home. we can't tell you everything we're working on. >> back in february bae's family talked with reverend jesse jackson to see if he could help. he said yes but as of now it's a no go. reverend jackson jones me live. good morning sir. >> good morning. >> did you reach out to north korea back in february about kenneth bae? >> well, as a matter of fact, carol, several times we have written the swedish embassy through our state department making moral and humanitarian appeals to north korean leade

. >> "outfront" tonight, jen psaki. great to have you with us. why is the secretary of state so confident that state sponsored terror funding has stopped? >> well, first of all, he's talking about isil. and we don't have evidence that individual countries are funding isil. but there are individuals and there is more that can be done. counter financing is a key part of the coalition building. >> so how do you find state sponsored is this becau sponsored? because if a country is allowing middle men to trade isis oil, a country knows that that's happening, does that count looking the other way? >> governments are not funding isil and that's an important thing for people to understand out there. there is a lot of misinformation and confusion about that. no, there is no question. there are still individuals in some of these countries and many need to do more. that's why it's so key that a lot of the countries signed on and agreed that they would do more. >> so on this issue, syrian ambassador spoke out. and i want to play what he lad to say because he

jen psaki is making a statement. listen. >> jen, what's the best information regarding sotloff? was he alive as of last week? what was your last information? >> i just don't have any additional information to provide. understand the interest. go ahead. >> you said you've seen reports. does the u.s. government actually have the video in its possession or just siting media reports? >> video has been out there through many media outlets. that's what i'm referring to. >> so the process of authentication is begun? >> this is by our intelligence community. i don't know if it's officially started but in any case that would be happening. >> when were you made aware of this? before the group put it out or do you know if the intel community was aware of it before then? >> i am not sure there's more to say, matt. i'm happy to see if there's more to take on it. go ahead, james. >> i'll defer. >> does the obama administration consider this an act of war? >> we certainly -- i'm not going to put new labels on it, james. i would say

state department spokesperson jen psaki says the war games are preplanned and are not being held in response to current events. >>> the united states is seeking a u.n. security council resolution that calls for action against foreign fighters traveling to join terrorist groups. >> we will encourage international cooperation to prevent foreign terrorist fighter travel and underscore the centrality of countering violent extremism through positive narratives and programs that give would-be fighters alternatives to violence. >> u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power said that on september 25th, president barack obama will convene a security council summit on the issue. power said more than 10,000 foreign fighters have joined the militant group called islamic state in iraq and syria. she said many of them are from western countries. ambassador power said the resolution would set an international standard for dealing with the threat shared by all u.n. member states. the last summit-level security council meeting was in 2009 when obama called for a discussion on nuclear disarmament. >

. >> jen psaki, thank you very much. >>> in afternoon just as we were learning na the third round of u.s. air strikes in syria was starting, i was speaking with rear admiral john kirby. here's what he told me. >> i'm not at liberty to tell you too much detail because it's an ongoing operation although we believe it's wrapping up right now. coalition partners, we're conducting additional air strikes inside syria this afternoon. these targets are in the eastern part of the country and were really aimed at trying to get to the isil's capabilities at developing revenue. so really about going after some of the means by which they finance themselves. >> does that mean oil fields? oil refinery equipment? >> i'd really rather stay away from the specific targets because the operation is under way as we talk but they're trying to get at their streams of revenue. >> there are some reports that u.s. air strikes in the previous round had killed perhaps two of the top leaders of what's being called the khorasan group, an elite cadre of al qaeda fighters in syria. can the pentagon confirm that? >>

well, the iraqi government has invited the united states in to help them address -- >> there's jen psakiing to the horrible news that journalist steven sotloff has been beheaded. real quickly, they say they are holding a third person, a british person identified as david haines. do we know anything about this individual? >> we don't know anything about this individual but it's very, very worrying, wolf, given to what has happened to the other two hostages. >> bob baer, a cnn intelligence analyst, is joining us. give us your quick reaction. this is awful news. this seems that isis is being emboldened right now. not only did they behead steven sotloff but they say they are going to continue on with a british citizen. >> i think they are trying to characterize themselves war against the west and they will keep going if they have to continue to have losses in iraq, as they have in the last couple of days, they will come back at us. they are looking to become an international movement, a caliphate and i still believe they can hit us in the united states and whether there is specific planning

state department spokesperson in the last hour or so jen psaki this is what she had to say when she was asked is america going to go to war with over this response so not maybe as forth royd as the decisive as you think let's listen. does the obama administration consider this an act of war. we certainly i'm not going to put new labels on it james i would say we certainly consider this actor this reported act the act of the killing of james foley as a horrific terrorist act that we certainly have. has has helped has not helped to i should say has been a one of the motivating factors in the effort to undergo the creation of international coalition to address this threat try to very carefully there isn't she did you expect more decisive language and we heard there where she can't get ahead of the president and the president in his most recent report said that they had not decided on a policy yet that john kerry secretary of state is touring the middle east talking with arab leaders and regional leaders to fight try to build a coalition it's very difficult in this situation because isis do

we have a sound here from jen psaki. >> that woman looks way out of her depth over there.look like she has the gravitas for that job. that brings us to john kerry, the secretary of state. >> all right, now, when bill o'reilly says that women doesn't have the gravitas he is then accused in a twitter claim and in another sound of being a sexist. marie harf says, too bad we can't say the same about the o'reilly factor with -- she says, state department spokesperson explains foreign policy with intelligence and class. all right, now, then we've got another sound. guys, do we have that? where there is a criticism of bill o'reilly? >> he looks to me looks, to me, befuddled. jay carney, you may not have liked him, but he looks like he understood the process. mr. ernest doesn't look like he has a whole lot of credibility. he just looks uncertain to me. >> we don't have the sound. they come out and say bill o'reilly is a sexist. i apologize to the viewers about that. what we have played is bill o'reilly clearly criticizing men and women. if you say a woman is in over her depth, doe

i'll speak with the state department spokesman jen psaki live from the fox news desk. tony stewart crash. grand jurors have been hearing evidence against the veteran race car driver who struck and killed another pedestrian sort of driver on the track. are they indicting him today or let him off the hook today? we w

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here is state department spokesperson jen psaki on new evidence of russian aggression in ukraine. >> we have also seen reports of separatists shelling residential areas and in coastal towns and we have seen reports of heavy fighting and shelling near the city and airport in donesk. these incursions indicate a russian directed counteroffensive is likely underway. clearly that is of deep concern to us. >> you will remember putin denied any role in the attack on the malaysian airlines flight downed last month. 268 civilians were killed but video of a russian anti-aircraft missile crossing the border and an intercepted phone conversation between rebel leaders and russian intelligence proved otherwise. also tonight, reports that the fbi is investigating a breach of the u.s. banking system according to those reports, russian hackers attacked and successfully infiltrated jpmorgan chase and at least one other unidentified major bank over the past two weeks. the russian hackers able to obtain gigabytes of sensitive data, that according to jpmorgan officials who declined to be identified. the

they're not dropping bombs, no one even mentioned, jen psaki didn't even mention one of the major things should be doing and that is taking care of the millions of refugees that are destabilizing jordan, lebanon and southern turkey. there are so many things we should be doing besides dropping bombs. i'm not saying that taking on isil in this way isn't an effective way to do. but i'm saying as you said, what's step two, what's step three, what's step four. >> that point about refugees is important. turkey takes several hundred thousand, jordan hundreds of thousands and we have taken i think the number i last saw and we will check this in the break, i think it's less than 100. colonel lawrence wilkerson, thanks for your time. >> thanks, chris. >> i'm going to be hanging out with jay-z this weekend and you can, too, but there's a catch. ♪ >>> a concert on central park's great lawn is one of the most incredible ways to experience live music. 1980 elton john donned a donald duck costume -- that's the first time i have seen this bit of tape. and took to the stage drawing what was estimated at

jen psaki said, quote, we're sickened by this act. press secretary ernest said they will work to determine the video's authenticity. >> this is something the administration has obviously been watching very carefully since this threat against mr. sotloff's life was originally made a few weeks ago. our thoughts and prayers first and foremost are with mr. sotloff and mr. sotloff's family and those who worked with him. >> video released today, a man who appears to be sotloff reads a statement crafted by isis criticizing president obama over u.s. foreign policy. militant then speaks directly to the camera saying president obama is to blame for sotloff's death because of this decision to continue air strikes on isis in iraq. the militant speaks with a british accent similar to thing a accent heard in the james foley video. >> i'm barack obama -- >> we don't know when the new video was made. sotloff's appearance and certain statements by the isis militants in the video would seem to indicate it it was made after the video depicting the video

jen psaki tells me she see no, sir utility on placing labels on terms of engagement.you translate that means no. this administration does not regard the murders of misters foley and sotlov as acts of war. does not place its footing war footing with respect to isis. >> do you think the obama administration sees them as crimes? is that how they process it? >> we got some insight into how this administration is viewing the threat from isis from president obama's remarks in estonia this morning. is he has traveled to europe to participate in a nato summit. in just one appearance in he is stonia, the president set forth three different missions. vis-a-vis isis. at one point he said the mission is to destroy isis. at another point he spoke of wanting to roll them back and at still another point he spoke of wanting to shrink isis's sphere of influence until it is manageable problem. when i asked jen socky today in today's briefing about the apparent contradiction between wanting to destroy something and then wanting simply to reduce to a manageable problem, she accused me of

finally, "the factor" tip of the day, last night i said this about state department spokesperson jen psakith all due respect and you don't have to comment on this, that woman looks way out of her depth over there. just the way she delivers, it just doesn't look like she has the grav tas for that job. well, today the state department responded. >> i think that when the anchor of a leading cable news show uses quite frankly sexist, personally offensive language, that i actually don't think they would ever use about a man against a person that shares this podium with me, i think i have an obligation and i think it's important to step up and say that's not okay. >> now, i would never say that about a man, would i? nah. not me. picking on the ladies. now, we've asked them to appear on "the factor" tomorrow evening. the sexist deal will be discussed if they come here. if they don't come here, we'll discuss it any way. i hope they do come here. "the factor" tip of the day, always invite your adversaries to discuss. tomorrow we'll get into the controversy in a big way. that is it for us tonight. p

state department spokesperson jen psaki was asked bit within the last few minutes. >> we've seen reportseo that purports to the being murder of u.s. citizen steven sotloff by isil. the intelligence community will work as quickly as possible to determine authenticity. if the video is genuine, we're sickened brutal act taking live of another american citizen. our hearts go out to the sotloff family and we will provide more information as it becomes available. >> and melissa, want to let you know, catherine herridge, the intelligence correspondent for fox news, now says, tells us, she has actually seen the video at, that purports to show this and, it is believed to be, sotloff, kneeling in an orange jumpsuit with an executioner in black and it does show this man being behead. melissa? melissa: wow, peter barnes, thanks so much. we have the former chief of the bin laden issue station. he joins me now on the phone for more. what is your initial reaction, michael? >> i don't think this is surprising, ma'am. i think, you know, there is, opinion is strong in this city in washington that they're

also what we've got from jen psaki is they request the north koreans pardon kenneth bae and grant himmnesty and immediate release so he may reunite with his family and seek medical care. so splitting his case apart from the other two a little bit and emphasizing the urgency of him getting home to seek medical care. we also got a statement from patrick van trel, a spokesman for the national security council and the white house saying, quote, securing the release of u.s. citizens is a top priority and we continue to do all we can to secure the earliest possible release. there you have the white house and the state department reacting to cnn's interviews with the three men. especially interesting coming from the state department, separating bae's case out from the other two, saying he needs to get back and get medical treatment. >> without a release or a pardon, how long -- how much time is bae looking at serving? >> he was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in a labor camp. that sentence was handed down last year brianna. if there's nothing done, you can presume he'll there be for quite s

and this is when jen psaki said yesterday. >> chief of base wasn't telling the contractors to wait outce or unwillsness to help those under attack. there is a huge difference between a short delay for security considerations and standdown order. >> i understand this might be semantics. but their argument is that bob wanted to make sure that they got intel, wanted to make sure you had enough weapons, wanted to make sure there was enough backup. it wasn't a political decision. >> and my take on that is the first five minutes -- and i seven said this to the committee. i said the first five minutes, i'll give you that. it is a combat situation. we do immediate to adjust fire and get ourselves in order. the next 20 minutes, no. tactically, that's unsound and minutes cost lives. and they died of smoke inhalation, shaup and tean and bass door. so the decision needed to be made. and also we didn't have a rapport with the militia. we didn't trust them. >> and we've never indicated that there was any malice from them. and why he made the decision. but you have six operators that have probably to

we heard from jen psaki calling it sickening. >> peter alexander, thank you very much for that report. let's turn now to ron fournier, columnist for the national journal. i think the reason why they wanted obama to become president is because i will not overreact and during his presidency he has always head at a timed against overreaction. do you think in a situation like this that he should continue to be cautious? >> oh, yeah, i think any commander in chief needs to be cautious and deliberative even as they at that titake the grav, military action. but he's in a catch 22. like you say, he is president and in large part this response to the public's dismay with the perception that president obama was not deliberative and rushed to judgment and cooked the books on the war in iraq. and now we have a president who is not hawkish, but also appearing weak. and the american public, we're pretty fickle. we don't want our presidents to be hawkish, but we also don't want them to be weakish and the president hasn't figured out how to thread that needle. >> and pew research has a poll that just

think if there was a plot they would have been talking about that and state department spokesperson jen psaki has not come up in the meetings with the iraqis. you have to look at the bigger picture here, ashleigh. in the last few weeks there has been theses u.s. strikes against isis targets in iraq. now over the last few days, you've seen the u.s. turn to syria and focusing on isis targets there. there is an interest by the iraqis in trying to play up the threat that isis in iraq poses to the u.s. homeland but you've heard president obama the dni, james clapper, head of intelligence, saying right now, there is no evidence that isis has the capability to plan and execute attacks in the united states. so i think that there is a little bit of fear mongering going on here. clearly the u.s. will be reaching out to the iraqis to see what they have. >> the associated press is reporting that when al abadi was asked about this, he said had the attack been thwarted his answer was no. but that the united states has been alerted. i want to quickly read a statement from the new york police department cour

. >> state department spokes map jen psaki discussing the video purporting to show the murder of a second american steven sotloff, now apparently the second victim in a few weeks of the grew isis or isil. i'm joined by bill neely in our london bureau. bill, the statement from david cameron's office says that the video purports to show the same british accented man, masked man, purporting to be from isis. so talk a bit about that. because now you have a british citizen being shown at the end of this video in the same way that mr. sotloff was shown at the end of the james foley video and threatened. >> yes. the man on the latest video again dressed in black certainly identifies himself as the same person in the first video which showed the murder of james foley. that caused deep consternation in the british government and here in the uk there were calls for britain to become more deeply involved in confronting isis. so british intelligence services will again like their american counter parts be looking at this video when they eventually get their hands on it because it's only become availa

government and our intelligence officials to determine its authenticity state department spokeswoman jen. psaki has also commented on the sauce apparent murder condemning isis and promising that intelligence officials would get to the bottom of what happened. and we've seen reports of a video that purports to be the murder of u.s. citizen stephen start off by eisel the intelligence community will work as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity if the video is genuine we are sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another innocent american citizens our hearts go out to the family and we will provide more information as it becomes available i don't make no mistake about it if the video saw it last we had a news reel and all signs do point to it being real it raises some really big questions about what's going on between the united states and isis joining me now for more on this is tom hayden director of the peace and justice resource center former california state senator and author of numerous books including inspiring participatory democracy student movements from port huron to

let's bring in state department spokeswoman jen psaki. big vekt going on in the uk. favor the action at least in iraq. do you think david cameron gets the votes he needs and gets the authorization? >> i think that the uk has really felt the impact of isil, the impact of terrorism, just like the united states has. he's made a strong case, i was watching it this morning before i came here to join you. i think they feel pretty good and we feel pretty good about the likelihood they'll get the votes. >> if he does not get the votes, what would that mean for the coalition? how disastrous would that be? >> well, chris, i wouldn't put it that way at all. this has been a very big week for the coalition. more than 50 countries have joined the coalition, more than 100 countries signed on to a resolution about foreign fighters. had you five arab countries join the united states to do air strikes and take on the threat of isil in syria. this has been a very important week. and the uk has already been contributing. we know that they're going to contribute more. they want to contri

here's jen psaki, a spokeswoman for the state department, just a few minutes ago, talking about the release of this video. >> the intelligence community will work as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity. if the video is genuine, we are sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another innocent american citizen. our hearts go out to the sotloff family, and we will provide more information as it becomes available. >> the obama administration now all fully committed to the tragedy of bombing isis in iraq and pushing back along with kurdish allies on the isis advance in the northern part of iraq. the question is whether the united states is going to get into a more expanded war against isis inside the area of syria itself. that question still undecided. also some question now about whether we're going to hear from president obama today on this issue. that is one possibility here in washington but no confirmation that we'll hear from the president yet, guys. back to you. >> thank you. that horrific story happening as president obama is traveling to europe to meet with nato alli

let's bring in jen psaki, the state department spokeswoman and jen it is good to have you with us.usly a request from north korea, we are reaching out. they want a big name. they want to talk, they want attention. what will do you? >> chris, i think it's important for the american people to know that this is something that the united states government, the state department, secretary kerry, president owe bama have n focused on since the individuals were detained. we aurd to have ambassador king go to north korea, that trip canceled by the north koreans in the past. we worked through sweden because they are our protecting power and we remain in close contact with them as well as the families of these individuals. we are going to do erg in our power to bring these men home to their families. >> everything in your power would and should include picking up the phone, talking to bill clinton, talking to george bush, their names were mentioned for a reason, get a big shot to go over there and bring these men home. is that going to happen? >> chris, i'm not going to rule out options here

we've heard the same things from jen psaki.the same thing here when it was asked here, war, one of those words. and she said, are we at war with isis? and he said, they've certainly declared war on us. does that make a difference? >> take a look at what they've been saying over the past few years. what is this right now? they're calling it as john kerry said, counterterrorism operation. what is the war on terror? also they called it an overseas contingency. >> they don't want to say war on isis or terror. when it comes what we were doing leading from behind in libya, it wasn't called a libyan intervention. kinetic military operation makes me scramble for my dictionary. no fort hood, clearly a terrorist attack. no. we label it as workplace violence. >> yeah. >>> it wasn't too long ago where the president of the united states says, by the way, i'm going to repeal that whole mandate we got to have war in iraq. we're not using it in anymore. we lost fallujah, mosul and other places. the president was saying, let's lift that whole m

james rosen got into that conversation with jen psaki at the state department yesterday and the answers not very eye opening but at the same time revealing. >> why does our president or our secretary of state not recognize that and say, indeed, we are at war with this group and we'll destroy them? >> well, i think first of all, james, our actions speak for our commitment to this and the president has authorized more than 100 strikes in iraq, as have been confirmed by the department of defense. any american sitting at home should sit and look at the axships that we're taking. i don't think it's a useful exercise to go back and forth about new terms. >> seemingly uncertain in terms of terminology there, but why isn't it clear? i mean we have a number of troops that's been assigned to hold down and secure our forces there in baghdad. we have air strikes occurring right now. we've got confusing language when it seems like we have two american journalists beheaded. i'm not sure what more calls for war we need. ed henry mentioned a softening of terms and by the end of the speech the president

when james rosen went and, you know, pressed the state department, asked jen psaki, remember, tuesday or wednesday -- >> wednesday. >> will you call this war? are we at war? direct question. simple, okay? following beheading of american journalists, two. she couldn't even respond. so, when james was speaking with bill o'reilly on "the factor" wednesday, bill had this assessment -- fair. >> with all due respect, and you don't have to comment on this, that woman looks way out of her depth over there, just the way she delivers. it just doesn't look like she has the gravitas for that job. >> okay, so, he says she doesn't have the gravitas for the job. and you look at her resume, and she essentially was a spokesperson for a bunch of politicians. where's her, you know, her background in world affairs? she, according to what i've seen, she doesn't really have one. nonetheless, yesterday, deputy spokesperson at the department of state, marie harf, said bill o'reilly, he's talking about her colleague. he's clearly a sexist! listen. >> i think that when the anchor of a leading cable news show u