i'm megyn kelly. just 48 hours after the islamic state horrified the world by locking a jordanian man in a cage and burning him alive, jordan continued its follow through on vows to avenge that execution with jordanian f-16s hammering the terrorists de facto capital in syria. actions jordan says are only the beginning. in the meantime back in washington, president obama appeared at the national prayer breakfast with what he apparently thought was an important message in the wake of this pilot's execution. to advise americans that hundreds of years ago christians killed in the name of religion too. >> lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place remember that during the crusades and the inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. in our home country, slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. it is not unique to one group or one religion. there is a tendency in us a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.

ed. >> good evening, megyn. for the second straight day the president looked like maybe he was more in an ivory tower than in the middle of a war. take a listen to some of the final sessions, the titles of these final sessions that included "understanding violent extremism today and economic communities vulnerable to radicalization. critics like republican homeland security chairman said this is a summit without substance that the president spent more time explaining why muslims may get into terror rather than spelling out what he's going to do to defeat isis. even some democrats are saying that the focus was off. while republicans are stepping up pressure on the commander in chief to send in ground troops. listen. >> and that focus is on this islamic extremist threat that is posed not only to the united states in the american people but around the world. from what we've heard so far the administration is really claiming that the motivation or the thing that's fueling this terrorism around the world is something

i'm megyn kelly. a sickening video out of libya surfacing this weekend showing isis jihadists beheading 21 christians who had reportedly traveled from egypt in the hopes of finding some honest work. the egyptian men wearing orange jumpsuits forced to kneel down before the terrorists who were dressed in black simultaneously slit their throats. now the focus is not just on what happened but where. remember back in 2011 after the fall of libyan dictator moammar gadhafi president obama declared that "the dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted from the libyan people" and called it a "momentous day," but in the years since libya has descended into chaos. and the islamic state ideology that took hold in iraq spread into syria and helped drive the recent collapse in yemen. has now clearly also established a strong foothold in libya. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live tonight in washington. ed. >> megyn, good evening. that is the bottom line tonight, that isis is expanded into yet another country

megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly reporting from l.a. please remember the spin stops here because we're looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, there's action in iraq involving u.s. troops and isis tonight. reports that u.s. helicopter gunships may have been deployed beat back an isis attack on an iraqi town and iraqi base that houses hundreds of american soldiers. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone, i'm megyn kelly. yesterday isis fighters reportedly took over the iraqi town of al baghdadi. today they were beaten back after attempting to infiltrate a base where hundreds of americans are based. there are reports that at least one aircraft american aircraft endwajed gauged the terrorists. if these reports are confirmed it may signal a significant escalation as low-flying potentially vulnerable american aircraft entered this fight. former iraq and afghanistan -- pete hegsheth has been investigating on this. but first, also breaking tonight fierce new reaction with our interview last night to the state department's jen psaki as experts

i'm megyn kelly. a sickening video out of libya surfacing this weekend showing isis jihadists beheading 21 christians who had reportedly traveled from egypt in the hopes of finding some honest work. the egyptian men wearing orange jumpsuits forced to kneel down before the terrorists who were dressed in black simultaneously slit their throats. now the focus is not just on what happened but where. remember back in 2011 after the fall of libyan dictator moammar gadhafi president obama declared that "the dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted from the libyan people" and called it a "momentous day," but in the years since libya has descended into chaos. and the islamic state ideology that took hold in iraq spread into syria and helped drive the recent collapse in yemen. has now clearly also established a strong foothold in libya. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live tonight in washington. ed. >> megyn, good evening. that is the bottom line tonight, that isis is expanded into yet another country

ed. >> good evening, megyn. for the second straight day the president looked like maybe he was more in an ivory tower than in the middle of a war. take a listen to some of the final sessions, the titles of these final sessions that included "understanding violent extremism today and economic communities vulnerable to radicalization. critics like republican homeland security chairman said this is a summit without substance that the president spent more time explaining why muslims may get into terror rather than spelling out what he's going to do to defeat isis. even some democrats are saying that the focus was off. while republicans are stepping up pressure on the commander in chief to send in ground troops. listen. >> and that focus is on this islamic extremist threat that is posed not only to the united states in the american people but around the world. from what we've heard so far the administration is really claiming that the motivation or the thing that's fueling this terrorism around the world is something

>> the administration lied to us, megyn. the reason they bail is because there is no what we calm a combat search and rescue close by that could have, for instance helped rescue the jordanian pilot when he went down. that is true. i checked different sources and there efforts are at best, very minimal we're putting pilots at risk because we have, which i think is other part of the campaign, they don't see a determined u.s. air effort against saddam hussien during desert storm, we had 1100 sorties per day. against saddam hussien in 93, operation iraqi freedom, we had 800 sorties per day. we're flying seven strike sorties per day, now. it isn't even pin pricks i think the uae is seeing half hearted effort by the united states is not doing what needs to be done. >> this is one of the partners that was the most willing. the united states more stallwart arab ally in this fight and one of the first to join. we can't keep the partners who are most eager to help in this coalition battle. >> i rest my case that is exactly right. they

megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly. the spin stops here. we are definitely looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, two big stories raising questions about trust in this administration. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. i'm megyn kelly. the white house meeting with muslim leaders just hours ago. and now it refuses to tell the american people exactly which muslim leaders were there. why? second we just learned a key player in the coalition against isis bailed a month ago. a fact the administration misrepresented repeatedly. radical islam raised its head in a new and horrifying way this week when the terror group isis released video of a jordanian air force pilot locked in a cage and burned alive. so when the white house said the threat from isis was on the agenda in a meeting with muslim leaders late today, we asked who was there from what groups and how they might help. but the administration is now refusing to say more. we'll have more on that in moments. but first, to the stunning admission that a country hailed as a key player in t

>> megyn, they hope. they hope that these vehicles will be there and our embassy will be -- it is maddening how naive this administration is. and it manifests itself all the way down to the humble action of a marine having to give up their personal firearm because the john kerry state department clearly hasn't learned what hillary clinton's state department never learned that you've got to have a contingency plan in these situations. benghazi was one thing. but in yemen, we knew this was happening, it was happening for weeks. this is a marine infantry company. we had ospreys, they have all the assets, they decided not to do the military because some politically correct state department official said they should leave with tear tail between their legs to respect some local custom and indicative of the foreign policy of this administration. and that's why we get so fired up about this. it's not just about marines and their rifles, it's about signals and the optics it shows to the world. >> the image of amer

i'm megyn kelly. president obama sat down with vox late last month and seemed to suggest people's fears about terror are a product of a sensationalized news cycle. >> the trajectory of this planet overall is one towards less violence, more tolerance, less strife, less poverty -- >> do you think the media sometimes overstates the sort of level of alarm people should have about terrorism and this kind of chaos as opposed to a longer term problem like climate change? >> absolutely. i don't blame the media for that. what's the thing saying about local newscasts right? if it bleeds it leaks. all right. you show crime stories and you show fires, because that's what folks watch. it's all -- >> well that message in conflict with the warnings of several four-star generals, chairman of the joint chiefs and former defense secretary all of whom have recently warned of a threat that seems very real and very grave. >> we are facing a form of a cancerous component of the islamic religion, which has a fanaticism to i

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i'm megyn kelly. last summer president obama freed five top taliban generals from the guantanamo bay prison camp with the white house insisting freedom came with conditions. and we need not worry. the five men had to stay under house arrest in the gulf nation of qatar. they could not return to afghanistan for one year. and they could not communicate with other terrorists. but then last week just months after their release shockingly we learned that at least one of the five had in fact attempted to return to terrorizing people. on friday night i asked the pentagon's spokesman how these killers had the ability to reach out to fellow terrorists when they were supposed to be under such close watch. and more importantly, what's going to happen when they are scot-free in three months. what we're being told they made contact with the haqqani network. if our protocols are so great, how did they make contact? >> i'm not at liberty to describe what the re-engagement system was. >> obviously there's a flaw in th

megyn? >> trace gallagher thank you. >>> a court just halted the president's executive order on immigration. why the president's plan may be going nowhere. >>> governor scott walker is here on the protesters who swarmed his parents' home. [a[a[a[a[a[a >>> new fallout after a court dealt a major blow to president obama's executive action on immigration. a new ruling from a federal court judge in texas forcing the department of homeland security to put a hold on the president's executive order that would have deferred deportations for millions. judge andrew hannon wrote that dhs secretary jay johnson is not just rewriting the laws, he is creating them from scratch. the obama administration has vowed to appeal that ruling, although hasn't yet. here to react we have senator ted cruz and judge napolitano. we go first to the judge. judge, how bad is it for the administration? >> this is devastating for the administration. this is a preliminary injunction which means the court viewed the court's do

i'm megyn kelly. tonight the white house responding to a growing chorus of critics including franklin graham, the son of world renowned evangelist billy graham after many found the president's remarks at the international prayer breakfast yesterday insulting, misguided or confused. the white house saying the president was simply encouraging americans to hold themselves accountable. here's what he said. >> lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades and the inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. in our home country slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. it is not unique to one group or one religion. there is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. >> trace gallagher live tonight with the reaction. trace. >> megyn, among those criticizing the president's comments at the prayer breakfast are historians who called a comparison of isis to medieva

which, megyn, the jurors just don't buy it.10% that the defense is successful. >> i agree. mark, i agree with him on that, it reallyarely works. but they have argument here. >> i want to shift case because there's this situation in north carolina where there were three muslims women killed by their neighbor, but the question is whether it's a hate crime or murder without the added hate crime charge. the father of the two girls who are sisters here says this was about them being muslim. and the police say at this point they believe this was about an argument over a parking space. arthur, how do they prove that this was a hate crime? >> well they have to show that it was a real element, a substantial part of the crime. it doesn't have to be the whole part, but it's got to be a substantial part in the crime had to do with their religion. i don't think they're going to prove it. i don't think they're going to get there. just because you're an atheist doesn't mean you want to wipe out all other religions. i will tell you megyn, some

miss megyn is next. remember the spin stops here california, we're definitely looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, brian williams has been suspended without pay effective immediately. welcome to "the kelly file," everyone, i'm mee gangyn kelly. williams has been off the air since last week, he took himself off the air after falsely suggesting that a helicopter he was traveling in back in 2003 in iraq came under fire. it was a story he has been repeating for years. but only caught up to him after veterans who were with him at the time of that event started to publicly speak out. nbc issuing a memo to staffers saying, brian williams' actions were wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in his position. we have coverage tonight. bernard goldberg is here, political analyst brit hume is here as well. but we begin tonight with trace gallagher on the breaking news. trace? >> megyn, in the memo debra turner said brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. i

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i'm megyn kelly. in just the last week the administration has been rocked with repeated controversies over its handling of the threat from the islamic state terror group. first, almost two dozen christians are beheaded. and the president's team is hammered for failing to identify the victims as christian or the killers as islamic. as the white house told it, egyptian citizens were killed. then the attorney general of the united states comes out and declares that we are not at war with anyone. a statement he has to retract hours later since the white house just sent a war authorization to congress and is in the midst of a bombing campaign in iraq and syria not to mention afghanistan. on top of that the state department has been relentlessly questioned over the last 48 hours after deputy press secretary marie harf seemed to suggest that the key to ending the terror threat is to create more jobs in the middle east. as if walmart could make a real difference in syria. here is the president just a couple o

i'm megyn kelly. in just the last week the administration has been rocked with repeated controversies over its handling of the threat from the islamic state terror group. first, almost two dozen christians are beheaded. and the president's team is hammered for failing to identify the victims as christian or the killers as islamic. as the white house told it, egyptian citizens were killed. then the attorney general of the united states comes out and declares that we are not at war with anyone. a statement he has to retract hours later since the white house just sent a war authorization to congress and is in the midst of a bombing campaign in iraq and syria not to mention afghanistan. on top of that the state department has been relentlessly questioned over the last 48 hours after deputy press secretary marie harf seemed to suggest that the key to ending the terror threat is to create more jobs in the middle east. as if walmart could make a real difference in syria. here is the president just a couple o

>> well megyn. the marines, know you have put out accurate information on this, they followed proper protocol to destroy weapons or to disassemble their weapons before getting on the plane. what wasn't planned here is for the hootis to take control of our vehicles we had locally employed staff who work proudly in partnership with our embassy. they were going to drive the cars back but we're not going to put them at risk either. did everything go as planned? no. we've been planning this for weeks and everybody was following proper protocols. >> who gave the order for u.s. marines to destroy personal firearms? they're reporting it was state? >> it was not the state department. they have said it wasn't the state department. it was not the ambassador. they talked about protocol followed. with nonstandard protocol. i don't have anymore details for you. >> why didn't we send them out in military transport? >> this was the way we determined was best way to bring our staff out of yemen. we can bring, we use

i'm megyn kelly.th vox late last month and seemed to suggest people's fears about terror are a product of a sensationalized news cycle. >> the trajectory of this planet overall is one towards

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miss megyn is next.ember the spin stops here california, we're definitely looking out for you. >> it is wednesday february 11th. speaking overnight brian william paying the price for his lies about iraq. nbc suspend the face of the network? but is it enough? the brand new information and what happens now. >> family and friends mourning the loss of isis' last american hostage. >> kayla touched the heart of the world. the world grieves with us she mourns with us. >> kayla's last letter home and why some in congress say the white house failed. >> two years after he was murdered in cold blood the trial for chris kyle's accused killer begins. what happens now in the saga. >> "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ >> good morning to you and your family. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with a fox news alert. the hammer dropping on brian williams. the nightly news anchor suspended for six months without pay after falsely claiming for years he

i'm megyn kelly.mer president obama freed five top taliban generals from the guantanamo bay prison camp with the white house insisting freedom came with conditions. and we need not worry. the five men had to stay under house arrest in the gulf nation of qatar. they could not return to afghanistan for one year. and they could not communicate with other terrorists. but then last week just months after their release shockingly we learned that at least one of

miss megyn is next.fornia, we're definitely looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, brian williams has been suspended without pay effective immediately. welcome to "the kelly file," everyone, i'm mee gangyn kelly. williams has been off the air since last week, he took himself off the air after falsely suggesting that a helicopter he was traveling in back in 2003 in iraq came under fire. it was a story he has been repeating for years. but only caught up to him after veterans who were with him at the time of that event started to publicly speak out. nbc issuing a memo to staffers saying, brian williams' actions were wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in his position.

megyn: but there's a question about whether we blew it in each of those instances and in the case ofen -- >> well, what i'm getting at, megyn, is that there are hardly these are hardly exactly the same circumstances, and we're dealing with each of these countries separately. >> all right. so you heard jen psaki mention libya and what could have been done. this is what she was talking about, obviously, benghazi back in 2012 the terror attack that killed four americans. all of this raising new questions about how we could be caught off guard again. katie, it's a fair question although i have to say when people first heard the story this week i did hear some pushback. we have an embassy in yemen? [laughter] i think because there was that near closing back in may of last year that it might be assumed weren't we going to close that? >> one of the things that stands out the is the point you just made about the number of embassies that we have had to close or flee or suspend operations in since the arab spring. because the arab spring was supposed to be this amazing, you know breaching of d

megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly. please remember the spin stops here because w out for you. >>> breaking tonight, as critics launch new attacks on the obama administration for failing to get tougher on islamic terror new reports surface from the department of homeland security that outlines the threat from right wing radicals right here inside the united states. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly. as the details go public the administration is continuing to take hard questions about the just-finished summit on combatting violent extremism an event focused on fighting terror through social media and powering communities and creating economic opportunity for would-be radicals. sounding for like an academic exercise than an action plan for taking on isis. and now this release of a report pointing at domestic right wingers is raising questions about its timing and intent. we're looking at all the angles on the issue tonight with dr. ben carson and chris stirewalt. but first, let's go to mr.

i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly. gop hopefuls testing the waters at the cpac. over the past couple days we've seen a full slate seeking to woo the crowd. two of them will join us tonight. first, a look at some of today's big hits. >> imagine if we had a commander in chief that understood the way to defeat isis is not to find them a job. imagine if we had a president who doesn't trafl the world bad mouthing america. after all that's the u.n.'s job. >> you think about it, we've survived worse. we had a civil war in this country. we had two world wars. we even survived jimmy carter. we will sur sooif the obama years too. >> isis wants to establish a seventh century caliphate. they want to behead, crucify, burn. in response the obama-clinton foreign policy team refused not only to acknowledge it but they insist that the greatest threat to american security is global climate change. we don't need a weatherman in chief, we need a commander in chief to run this country. >> it's time for a new way, a new set of ideas, a new leader. one you can trust, one who works for

we have to have a ground force with air power to do this but there is none on the horizon, megyn. this is disinagain yuis on the part, because have you to have other countries involved in this and we have to take their money away and push back on a narrative. all of those things have to be done at the same time. but the main event is using military capability to kill, and capture, otherwise, butchery will continue. >> and cancer continues to metatasize. >> up next, we'll speak to one of the met who met the king to find out what he wants and whether the united states will give it to him. and media outlets went after republicans after some made controversial comments about vaccinations. is this really a republican issue? and then an anti-israel campaign takes hold in a major university campus. laura engram is here on the ugliness that followed. every truck can tow a boat. every truck can climb a hill. every truck can haul a trailer. but not everyone can say they're the fastest-growing truck brand... in america. guts. glory. ram. you used to sleep like a champ. then boom... what happ

megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly. the spin stops here.ooking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, growing outrage directed at the pentagon after a senior official publicly releases key details about our upcoming war plans against the terror group isis in iraq. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. i'm megyn kelly. the news coming during a briefing with reporters. officials disclosing the timing of the planned attack, the location, even the number of troops involved. already the fallout has begun with military intel officers telling fox news the details not only help the enemy but could put lives in danger. we'll have much more on this shortly when we speak with lieutenant tom mcinerney and arkansas senator tom cotton who's also an iraq war veteran. but first -- breaking tonight the obama

and rudy juliangiuliani mounting a media blitz and being pressed by megyn kelly. >> mr. mayor, do you want to apologize for your comment? >> not at all. >> is the press being fair to the former mayor? i'm howard kurtz and this is "#mediabuzz". bill o'reilly hit back hard against the mother jones speech challenging his war reporting. david corn writing that the fox news host had suggested he was in the falklands islands covering the 1982 are war between britain and arrest again see in a. >> basically david corn, a layer, says i exaggerated situations. >> o'reilly says he's allege made clear as a cbs correspondent, he covered a violence protest in argentina in the war's after math. >> i was there in the street with my camera crews. the violence was horrific. soldiers fired into the crowd who were responding with violence acts of that ieir own. i never said i was on the falklands islands as corn purports. i said i covered the talk lands war, which i did. >> bill owe really'reilly gets out there and calls me a liar.lands war, which i did. >> bill o'reilly gets out there and

megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly reporting from l.a.ause we're looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, there's action in iraq involving u.s. troops and isis tonight. reports that u.s. helicopter gunships may have been deployed beat back an isis attack on an iraqi town and iraqi base that houses hundreds of american soldiers. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone, i'm megyn kelly. yesterday isis fighters reportedly took over the iraqi town of al baghdadi. today they were beaten back after attempting to infiltrate a base where hundreds of americans are based. there are reports that at least one aircraft american aircraft endwajed gauged the terrorists. if these reports are confirmed it may signal a significant escalation as low-flying

megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly. the spin stops here.tely looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, two big stories raising questions about trust in this administration. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. i'm megyn kelly. the white house meeting with muslim leaders just hours ago. and now it refuses to tell the american people exactly which muslim leaders were there. why? second we just learned a key player in the coalition against isis bailed a month ago. a fact the administration misrepresented repeatedly. radical islam raised its head in a new and horrifying way this week when the terror group isis released video of a jordanian air force pilot locked in a cage and burned alive. so when the white house said the

i'm megyn kelly.has been rocked with repeated controversies over its handling of the threat from the islamic state terror group. first, almost two dozen christians are beheaded. and the president's team is hammered for failing to identify the victims as christian or the killers as islamic. as the white house told it, egyptian citizens were killed. then the attorney general of the united states comes out and declares that we are not at war