joining me now, the assistant secretary for public affairs and the state department spokesman, john kirbyoining us. i can't imagine john kerry's private frustration if that's how angry he appears and nondiplomatic he is in public. the frustration because the russians are just denying the reality that it's been confirmed -- i can say it, you can't -- by american intelligence that these were air strikes. the only regimes, actors with planes in the air in the region are russia and the syrian regime. >> exactly right. >> it could not have been artillery from opposition forces. yet russia which is supposed to be the guarantor of a cessation to get aid into ale, po is sitting across from secretary kerry at the diplomatic table denying it. can you get russia to agree to ground the planes? >> that's the question. the ball is in russia's court and the secretary made it exceedingly clear. he came out to talk about it later. right now we are looking for a gesture by them. a significant extraordinary gesture to prove that they are serious about trying to get a cessation of hostilities that can be enf

you heard john kirby there. is it possible, is it realistic for the u.s.n syria? >> kind of. i think it's realistic for them to have talks and to try to reach an agreement on paper. but, this really reminds me of a kind of cold war era deal where you have great powers coming in and signing an agreement on behalf of their proxies. i don't think that the u.s. has enough control over the rebel forces on the ground to really enter into a deal with russia. i think that we understand that. but that overall the state department still thinks it's worthwhile to have a talk there and to get things rolling. >> you heard john kirby there. he said we need to see significant steps from russia. what are nose? >> well, you know, there's the bombingaleppo which is barbaric and that's what he's pointing to specifically. when you look at what's happening in aleppo right now. from the russian perspective probably several things they're doing. one thing is something that we saw in the 1980s. they basically left that as a signal to other cities that were uprising. another thing

state department spokesman john kirby said the markings on those e-mails were in error and they were not necessary or appropriate at the time they were sent as an actual e-mail, and ambassador kennedy agreed. we asked him about one of these e-mailed dated august 2nd, 2012, and he confirmed that the c in parentheses in that e-mail was a mistake. he also confirmed that every paragraph in that e-mail was also marked sensitive, but unclassified. we asked ambassador kennedy whether the fbi consulted with the state department about the classification status of this particular e-mail and he said he'd get back to us. my question to you is, do you know the status of that question, ms. fryfield? >> i believe he's going to get you the answer in the next day or so. >> i think in the next day or two. >> i thank you and i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. it is the intent of the chair to exhaust the questioning appropriate to an open session. i move that part of the remainder of the hearing be closed to all persons other than the members of the house, staff of the committee, with appropriate s

. >> reporter: state department spokesman john kirby released a statement saying in part, we are aware of seismic activity on the korean peninsula in the vicinity of a known north korean nuclear test site. we are monitoring and continuing to assess the situation. a sniffer jet, the u.s. air for's wc135 constant phoenix joins four similar jets from japan testing for radiation. a former u.s. ambassador to south korea says this is not a question of whether the test was done but of what the u.s. government will do about it. and christopher hill says he doesn't think sanctions and security council resolutions alone will be enough. >> i think we have to sit down with countries like china and go through what could be conceivable options that would physically slow this thing down. >> reporter: i'm andrew spencer reporting. >>> a big warning for samsung users, the galaxy 7 is on the "no fly" list because it could possibly explode midair. the faa says that passengers should not turn their phones on or charge them or even put them into checked bags. the move comes after reports of the batteries e

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the texas governor's announcement came hours after state department's experience john kirby admittedthe refugee program could be exploited by radical islamist terrorists. >> we have seen that in some of the refugee camps whether they try to insert themselves in to population >> the state department spokesperson's not the first official to acknowledge the potential threat to america. fbi director, james comey warned of gaps and screening refugees saying we cannot vet them as we should. >> james clapper a month after that, more than a year ago said that he would not put past the islamic state to infiltrate refugee flows, it was a "huge concern." >> in europe, officials there has warned radical islamic terrorists are already masquerading its refugees. president obama is calling for a 30% increase and a number of refugees to be allowed in this country. 110,000 refugees over the coming fiscal year. >> 40,000 of which from the near east and south asia. >> meanwhile, only trump is making any kind of sense on the issue of border security and the entry of both refugees and illegal immigrants

not have any of these other indicators for classified documents, the state department spokesman john kirby said the markings on those e-mails were in error and they were not necessary or appropriate at the time they were sent as an actual e-mail, and ambassador kennedy agreed. we asked him about one of those e-mails dated august 2nd, 2012, and he confirmed that the c in parentheses in that e-mail was a mistake. he also confirmed that every paragraph in that e-mail was also marked sensitive, but unclassified. we asked ambassador kennedy whether the fbi consulted with the state department about the classification status of this particular e-mail and he said he'd get back to us. my question to you is, do you know the status of that , ms. frye field? felt -- ms. frifield? field: -- ms. frifield: i believe he's going to get you the answer in the next day or so. >> i think in the next day or two. >> i thank you and i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. it is the intent of the chair to exhaust the questioning appropriate to an open session. i move that part of the remainder of the hearing be cl

state department spokesman john kirby here. t to see you. >> thanks for asking me to be here. >> i told john he was responsible for all this traffic. let's talk about this dealing. how much was a pacifying measure? >> it wasn't at all. this was a renewal of a memorandum of understanding we had had already with israel. it was time to renew it. it was lengthy negotiations, but it wasn't done in the context of trying to soothe tensions over the iran deal. and we maintain this -- one of the great benefits is that it removes that much more pressure that people in israel were feeling -- >> well, for some reason they don't feel it, they don't think iran will stick to this. you've been asked this before, but you've got to wonder if they have a pont that iran is bulge up militarily trying to respond to provocation by the u.s. >> yeah, well, clearly we still have issues with iran. we believe that middle east with all the problems that it has, is going to be that much easier to deal with with an iran that cannot get and not use nuclear wea

spokesman john kirby released a statement saying in part we are aware of seismic activity in the vicinity of a known north korean nuclear test site. we are monitoring, continuing to assess the situation. a sniffer jet jones four similar jets from japan testing for radiation. the former u.s. ambassador to south korea says this is not a question of whether do about it. christopher hill says he doesn't think sanctions and security council resolutions alone will be enough. >> i think we have to sit down with countries like china and go through what could be conceivable options that would physically slow this thing down. >> reporter: i'm andrew spencer reporting. >>> also new overnight, durham police are investigating a crash where a car ran into someone's front yard. this happened before on dod street. he should be okay, but his car is total ed. >>> durham police are still searching for a shooting suspect. they surrounded a location on taylor street where they thought the suspect was holed up, but he was not there. they say the gunman shot three people at two other locations in durham yesterd

. >> reporter: state department spokesperson john kirby released a statement, saying in part, "we are aware of seismic activity on the korean peninsula la in the vicinity of a known north korean nuclear test force c135 constant phoenix joins four similar jets from japan testing for radiation. former u.s. ambassador to south korea says this is not a question of whether the test was done, but of what the u.s. government will do about it, and christopher hill says he doesn't think sanctions and security council resolutions alone will be enough. >> i think we have to sit down with countries like china and go through what could be conceivable options that would physically slow this thing down. >> reporter: spencer reporting. >>> durham police are investigating a crash where a car ran into someone's front yard. this happened just before 3:00 a.m. on dowd street. we're told the driver of the car hit a parked van and came to a stop in the lawn. he should be okay, but his car is totaled >>> and durham police are still searching for a shooting suspect. they surrounded a location on taylor stree

let's bring in admiral john kirby.for the secretary of state and the state department. he's in town for the united nations. >> i am. >> good morning to you. a lot of things to talk to you about. first up, the most important thing, brad pitt and angelina jolie. >> i'm going to have to decline comment on that one. >> i'm kidding. pulling your leg. let's talk about what the president's remarks yesterday. we should all accept more refugees in. a lot of people unnerved by that, especially after they see what happened in europe and the way it's boomeranged in germany. why should people feel good about bringing in refugees? >> we have big hearts and it's a part of american dna to be a refuge for people in need. i would tell you that more than 10,000 now syrian refugees that we've admitted into the country by this month have all been extremely and very stridently vetted. in fact, syrian -- >> by whom? >> by the home inner agency, dhs. >> we don't have paperwork, admiral. you know that. syria doesn't exactly accept people strea

. >> the state department spokesman john kirby joining us live from the united nations.ing us. >> reporter: good to be with you, wolf. thank you. >> was this the president's appeal for diplomacy over -- how much was directly aimed at russia and its leader vladimir putin, because at one point the president says the russians are trying to restore lost glory by force? >> reporter: i think the president was making a very strong case for his approach to foreign policy objectors around the world for ent tire time of his presidency and one of the hallmarks of that, engagement. dialogue. it is pushing for diplomatic solutions over military solutions, because you don't want to use the military unless you absolutely have to. that's not always the best way to approach very complicated situations such as facing in the world. the president also has been very pragmatic about the relationship with russia. where we can agree, he's willing to let us try to work towards agreement. such as in syria. where we're not going to agree. such as ukraine or issues of cyber intrusions. we'll take a

. >> reporter: john kirby kept repeating that certain phrasing, namely that iran isn't being allowed to produce any additional nuclear material that could be used for a breakout dash for a nuclear weapon. some in the briefing thought he was leaving a little bit of wiggle room there, namely that this joint commission that issues this secret guidance on how to implement the deal may have given some exemptions that allow iran to produce more nuclear material that isn't immediately usable for such a breakout dash toward a nuclear weapon. shannon. >> thank you. joining us now mark thiessen, a fox news contributor and former chief speechwriter for president george w. bush along with julie roginsky, fox news contributor. great to see you both. julie, how come it is the more that we learn about this iran deal, i mean the sketchier it sounds to be? these are things that are coming out, trickling out. it's one thing after another, and we have lawmakers on the hill saying they never even got the full briefing on exactly what's in it. we're getting new stuff every day. >> those of us who support

state department spokesman john kirby said the markings on those e-mails were in error and they were not necessary or appropriate at the time they were sent as an actual e-mail, and ambassador kennedy agreed. we asked him about one of these e-mailed dated august 2nd, 2012, and he confirmed that the c in parentheses in that e-mail was a mistake. he also confirmed that every paragraph in that e-mail was also marked sensitive, but unclassified. we asked ambassador kennedy whether the fbi consulted with the state department about the classification status of this particular e-mail and he said he'd get back to us. my question to you is, do you know the status of that question, ms. frifield? >> i believe he's going to get you the answer in the next day or so. >> i think in the next day or two. >> i thank you and i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. it is the intent of the chair to exhaust the questioning appropriate to an open session. but pursuant to house really 11, two g2, i move that part of the remainder of the hearing be closed to all persons other than the members of the house, s

we have invited john kirby to join us. we will sit here until he comes.omfortable. >> i will be here. i would love to see him. i love that -- that job is incredible. he is refreshingly honest. this could happen. what i find interesting is that on monday, i was reading -- i think it was tuesday. the financial times. i knew you would love that. the front page headline story is angela merkel saying, i messed up. we weren't ready for this. if i had to do it over again, i would change things. if she's saying that in the face of having -- for bad politics for her but also bad policy, it would stand to reason that we might actually want to rethink things as well. i'm not saying not to allow in refugees. the process has to be iron tight. the other thing is, onkirjohn k points out eight out of ten of the refugees are women and children. the thing about having men come with them is that you need help in providing for these people. somebody has to work. in order to make all of this assimilation actually work out. i have lots of other things. >> i would say to you --

at the state department today, spokesman john kirby seemed to waffle whether they would make them public by early november. he was virginia noncommittal whether they would be able to do that. >> do we have any sense about what these might contain and what the subjects are? >> what key with expect is a lot of duplication from records that are already out there. critic will say it's evidence that she did destroy government-related records in the emails. others will say, look, there is nothing here anymore. you have to keep driving. there will be some benghazi records. what we know is that almost all of them are duplicates. but, for those who feel that records laws were broken, it will be more evidence that, in fact, they were broken because of the thousands of records that were recovered and eventually released leading up to the election. >> catherine, bengals continues to have unanswered questions. i don't think it will shed my more questions what she did that night. >> i think it's very unlikely. the big development, brit, i think going forward is that mrs. clinton had a deadline today t

yesterday john kirby discussed the move by clinton and why information in that e-mail was retroactivelylassified. >> is it unusual for prior secretaries of state to communicate with current staff, particularly in -- not long after they left, absolutely that's not unusual at all. as we previously explained foreign government information may be protected from public release both the executive foreign affairs manual acknowledge that foreign government information often can be maintained on unclassified systems and yet we have a proscription to in order to order to release a document that contains foreign information it has to be redacted. >> the trump campaign weighed in on the revolution releasing a statement that reads in part, hillary clinton's seekd ret server jeopardized our national security and sensitive and shockingly now appears her reckless conduct continued even after leaving the statement department. >>> still ahead, an arrest at the u.s. open after a spectator jumps on to the court with one tennis star. >>> plus the latest on the severe tropical weather heading toward florida

. >> reporter: john kirby kept repeating that certain phrasing, namely that iran isn't being allowedproduce any additional nuclear material that could be used for a breakout dash for a nuclear weapon. some in the briefing thought he was leaving a little bit of wiggle room there, namely that this joint commission that issues this secret guidance on how to implement the deal may have given some exemptions that allow iran to produce more nuclear material that isn't immediately usable for such a breakout dash toward a nuclear weapon. shannon. >> thank you. joining us now mark thiessen, a fox news contributor and former chief speechwriter for president george w. bush along with julie roginsky, fox news contributor. great to see you both. julie, how come it is the more that we learn about this iran deal, i mean the sketchier it sounds to be? these are things that are coming out, trickling out. it's one thing after another, and we have lawmakers on the hill saying they never even got the full briefing on exactly what's in it. we're getting new stuff every day. >> those of us who supported t

reporter: john kirby kept repeating that caveat.n is not allowed to develop any additional nuclear materielh breakout. some in the briefing thought he was leaving a little wiggle room. these exemptions might be granted iran can produce additional material but not immediately material use it for a mad dash breakout toward a nuclear weapon. melissa. melissa: author of the that report, former inspector for international atomic energy agency. a lot of ifs there. james, thank you. >> you bet. david: bad news for elon musk. a massive explosion at cape canaveral. a spacex rocket destroyed nearly routine testing. >> wow, look at that. david: the satellite was destroyed as well. what caused the blast coming up. >>> florida bracing for a life-threatening storm, breaking details on the strength of the hurricane coming up next. it's scary when the lights go out. people get anxious and my office gets flooded with calls. so many things can go wrong. it's my worst nightmare. every second that power is out, my city's at risk. siemens digital grid m

state department spokesperson john kirby, who said this week that russia's bombing campaign could lead to terror attacks in russian cities and russian troops being shipped home in body bags. kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov said the statement amounted to u.s. support for terrorism. in kashmir, pakistan is vowing to defend itself against what it calls indian aggression, after two of its soldiers were killed in cross-border fighting thursday. india says it launched surgical strikes against militants in the disputed line of control region betweeeen indian- and papakistani-controlled kashmiri. pakistan's prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting over the latest fighting, which comes less than two weeks after an attack on an indian army base killed 18 soldiers. india has ordered the evacuation of thousands of people in villages near its border with pakistan. in israel, world leaders gathered friday for the funeral of former prime minister shihimn peres, who died in tel aviv on wednesday at the age of 93. among those paying tribute was president bararack obama. pres. obama: i don'

be is that the administration saw an asortunity to use leverage, state department spokesperson john kirby has admitted, to use leverage, the money was leverage to get hostages back. lots of presidents have used leverage to get hostages back. i think other administrations have also paid ransom. we may not be the first time. what we do is try to create a cover story, that we do not violate our prohibition against ransom payments in order to pay ransom, so we can get hostages back, and that is exactly what happened. the administration does not want to admit it because they don't want to admit ransom after they threatened prosecution, they don't want to admit how much cash has actually gone to iran. i don't think it is $33.6 billion, but probably in the neighborhood of $10 million based on conversations i've had with other officials. i think we are talking about at least $8 million gone to iran period, and the and ministers and does not want to admit that. the $8 billion is going to be used to fund terrorism, fund missile procurement, elicit nuclear procurement in germany. and there is no way

it's clear to me that the administration saw on opportunity to use leverage as john kirby has admitted, to use leverage, the money was leverage to get the hostages back. dr. maloney admits lots of presidents have used leverage to try and get hostages back. i think other administrations also have paid ransom. we try to create a cover story so that we don't violate our prohibition against ransom payments in order to pay ransom so that we can get hostages back. i think the administration doesn't want to admit it because they don't want to admit they paid a ransom after they threatened the prosecution of the sokolove family. i do think it's probably in the neighborhood of $8 billion to $10 billion based on conversations i've had with former administration officials. i think 8 to $10 billion of cash that has gone to iran since the jpoa period and the administration doesn't want to admit that because it's going to be used to fund terrorism, to fund the iranian military, to fund missile procurements and there's no way that our intelligence community once it's in cash can trace and figure out

yesterday, state department spokesman john kirby discussed the move by clinton and why information inis it unusual for prior secretaries of state to communicate with current staff, particularly, and not long after they've left? absolutely. that's not unusual at all. as we previously explained foreign may be protected from public release and the foreign affairs acknowledge that foreign government information can be often main tand on unclassified systems and, yet, we have a proscription to if in order, in order to release a document that contains foreign government information. it has to be redacted. >> the trump campaign weighed in on the revelation releasing a statement that reads in part this. "hillary clinton's secret server jeopardized our national security and sensitive diplomatic efforts on more than 2,000 occasions and shockingly it now appears her reckless conduct continued, even after leaving the state department. this morning, a new franklin and marshal college poll in pennsylvania shows hillary clinton maintaining her lead in that state, 47% to donald trump's 40%, but down