bill: marcus luttrell with us on the phone. martha?a: 15 people survived when this plane crashed into a river minutes after takeoff. shows importance of water rescues in emergency situations. we'll take you to survival systems usa where rick leventhal is learning the tips to get out alive. bill: christians under attack. isis taking hundreds of hostages in syria. what if anything is being done to save them. >> it's a genuine holocaust against christians and, bill, these christians are kidnapped. our president does nothing. does all greek yogurt have to be thick? does it all have to be the same? not with new light and fluffy yoplait greek 100 whips! let's whip up the rules of greek! martha: there are some very mixed messages coming out of the obama administration on how safe we really are. secretary of state john kerry says the daily threat to americans is historically low. but a short time ago the country's top intelligence official, james clapper told a senate committee that global terrorism is at its peak. >> we're actually living in

joining us is marcus luttrell. thank you for being with us today. what's your reaction? >> it's troubling. isis isn't having any problem moving through the region and now that they're down in anbar and al assad it needs to be a fight. i overheard you saying there is a couple hundred marines in there. best thing you can do right there is jerk the chains off of those guys and let them go to work. i know we're there for other reasons, but apparently the enemy doesn't. so you can't just let them -- they'll hold off as long as possible, but eventually you're gog have to snap that chain off of them and let them go to work. >> you think it's inevitable that the marines are sitting there. if you were one of those marines at that base f you're one of the people there, what is the thoughts going through your head as they are gaining? what are we capable of doing with 300 guys? >> with 300 marines, you could probably take over iraq if you wanted to and get rid of isis completely. make no mistake about it, marines are war fighters. they're really good at what t

. >> marcus luttrell giving an interview since the verdict in the trial of the man who killed chris kyle and littlefield. he slams routh claiming to have ptsd. >> ptsd isn't a straight line to do murder. it is not a straight line to break the law. basically you are saying if i got ptsd i can go out and slap anybody i want i can do that i am a veteran. that is not how it works. >> routh eights lawyers plan to afeel. >> a bombshell report low ryes earner earned 129,000 dollars in bonuses while targeting conservative tea party groups. the reason incentive to keep him from retiring are going to the private sector. he retired ensuring that she receives a full federal pension. >>> remember when this disgraced dc official called american voters stupid? >> the stupidity of the american voter or whatever but basically that was really critical to get this thing to pass. >> now obamacare architect jonathan gruber is out of a job. he was just fired from the massachusetts health insurance exchange. no specific reason was given. the governor only saying he wants to take a bresh look at the state's exc

. >>> we just posted that emotional interview with lone survivor marcus luttrell on the "american sniperdict. you can see it on facebook.com/thekellyfile. join me tomorrow morning. i will see you at 9:00 a.m. eastern on "america's newsroom." thanksksksksksks united >> it is thursday february 26th. a fox news lart. ter -- alert. terror take down. details about what two men in isis plan to do. >> we have various actions of people radicalizing in all 50 states. >> the new warning about the threats here at home. >> conflict of interest. breaking developments surrounding the clinton foundation. follow money in while hillary was running the state department. >> mid aramis takes. warning the pilots as they put passenger planes in the path of darrening. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this thursday morning. >> our worst nightmare coming true. would be terrorists trying to join isis with plans to attack right here inside the united states. >> the fbi nabbing three new york city residents as they plotted to travel to syria t

book now at choicehotels.com >>> we just posted that emotional interview with lone survivor marcus luttrellsniper" verdict. you can see it on facebook.com/thekellyfile. join me tomorrow morning. i will see you at 9:00 a.m. eastern on "america's newsroom." thanks for watching everybody. i'm martha maccallum. this is "the kelly file." >>> tonight, three charged with plotting to help isis militants. we'll explain what they were plotting. >> we the jury found the defendant eddie ray routh guilty. >> the man accused of killing "american sniper" chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield is found guilty. tonight, in a "hannity" exclusive hear from a man who served alongside kyle. and kimberly here with reaction. >> how did you grow up, giuliani? a privileged cracker. >> lewis farrakhan launches a violent attack on former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. ann coulter is here and charles

. >>> we just posted that emotional interview with lone survivor marcus luttrell on the "american snipert on facebook.com/thekellyfile. join me tomorrow morning. i will see you at 9:00 a.m. eastern on "america's newsroom." thanks >>> live from america's news headquarters. i'm jackie ibanez. a massive winter storm pummeling parts are of the deep south. the most intense parts of the storm stretching from texas to north carolina and virginia. the winkt weather could impact 47 million people before warmer temperatures move in later thursday. >>> northern arizona should be back on line in the next couple of hours. police blaming vandalism for the outage. technicians found a damage fiberoptic cable which had been completely cut through. it affected an area north of phoenix to flagstaff. about 100 miles away. so far, there's no word of any arrests. i'm jackie ibanez. "hannity" starts now. everybody. i'm martha maccallum. this is "the kelly file." >>> tonight, three charged with plotting to help isis militants. we'll explain what they were plotting. >> we the jury found the defendant eddie ray r

someone who was a friend of chris kyle, marcus luttrell, this is what he posted. justice served for chris and chad littlefield's family. you thought you had ptsd before, wait till the boys in t.d.c. find out you killed a texas hero. >> how long after a verdict before a sentence? >> in texas there is no other sentence. normally there is a couple of weeks and the defense attorney is pointing out mitigating factors. we've seen it in jodi arias, where there is a period of time. here the judge is handcuffed. this is the only sentence that could be handed down so he handed it down. >> thank you arthur aidala for the analysis. meanwhile, we have other headlines. >> good morning. hope you're off to a good day. we start with another fox news alert. sweater -- southwest airlines grounding planes to inspect a hydraulic backup system. they canceled 80 flights yesterday but most of those grounded planes will in fact fly later today. southwest made an unusual agreement with the feds to let the planes keep flying for a maximum of five days while all those inspections are being w

marcus luttrell was on the network yesterday and said it's not a straight line to commit murder.e to do anything breaking the law. if it is, you can -- basically you're saying if i have ptsd i can slap around somebody all i want and when the cops show up i claim i'm a veteran and have ptsd. >> it seems like common sense but it seems like the defense was trying to put forward as truth. >> right. there are so many things that led up to that. so many times that he had done you know crazy things. and instead of taking him to jail they would put him in a hospital. and the v.a. would find that, you know there was nothing wrong with him because he was on drugs. and send him back out. >> right. do you worry about the fact that the v.a. did send him out and say he's okay he's fine. we'll monitor him and give him pills. >> i don't worry about that at all. he's not crazy. he was just always hopped up on drugs. you know that's not crazy. >> how would you explain what your family has gone through since this murder took place? i mean in one sense, the biggest -- highest grossing movie we can r

. >> host: what about marcus luttrell's book? >> guest: i did read that. marcus is a good friend of mine and i definitely wanted to support him, so bought the book. i definitely read it and you know, it's a tough one to read but i appreciate his story. and, again, in that book he's not saying, hey, look at me he's trying to highlight the friends that he lost and show the true heroes that they were. >> host: next call for chris kyle "american sniper," comes from julio in chicago. good morning -- or good afternoon. >> caller: good morning. um, mr. kyle i saw you on your previous publicity tour on "the o'reilly factor", and you had mentioned you had punched governor jesse ventura. now, i saw an interview where governor ventura said that incident did not take place at the bar in california. now, it's obvious someone is lying. it's either you or governor ventura, so was it -- what was going on here? did this incident happen? if not, why would you call out a navy seal someone who is well respected and a big public figure like governor ventura? >> guest: my intent