welcome to the journal editorial report i'm paul gigot. outrage spread across the world this week after a video was released showing a caged jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive by islamic state militants. jordan jordan's king vowed to avenge with a relentless war on the terror group. president obama denounced isis at the prayer breakfast in washington calling it a brutal and vicious death cult. but he also told attendees that violence rooted in religion isn't exclusive to islam. >> unless 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 crowe all too often was justified in the name of christ. >> joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist dan henning injury. and mary o'grady. >> dan, starting with you, what has this week and this brutal murder of the jordanian mean for the war and the alliance against isis. >> you raised the possibility it might be a turn

i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> congress going down to the wire avoiding partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. with the house voting 356-60 with two hours to spare before a midnight deadline. lawmakers passing a seven-day stopgap funding extension to keep the agency up and running. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. >> i'm julie banderas. the one-week patch underscoring deep divisions over the way forward with some gop lawmakers split on reversing president obama's immigration policies as a provision for the

i'm paul gigot. outrage spread across the world this week after a video was released showing a caged jordan yan fighter pilot being burned alive by islamic state militants, an act that king abdullah vowed to a avenge with a war. and president obama called it a brutal and vicious death cult but he told the attendees that violence rooted in religion isn't exclusive to islam. >> and 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. and our home country, slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. >> joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, dorothy rabinowitz and columnist mary anastasia o'grady. we'll get to the president's remarks in a bit, but what does this week and the -- and this brutal murder of the jordanian mean for the war and the alliance against isis? >> well, you raise the possi

i'm paul gigot. the white house released its 2015 national security strategy last week with susan rice telling a washington, d.c. audience that quote, as a nation, we're stronger than we have been in a very long time. the president's national security adviser accused administration critics of lacking perspective and claimed america no longer faced existential threats. >> while the dangers we place may be more numerous and varied they're not of the existential nature we confronted during world war ii or during the cold war. we cannot afford to be buffetted by alarmism and a nearly instantaneous news cycle. >> in an interview with vox.com, president obama agreed that the media has overhyped the threat from terrorism while down playing the risk of climate change. a charge white house press secretary josh earnest doubled down on a day later. >> the point that the president is making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the impact the direct impact on their lives of c

i'm paul gigot. isis extended its bloody reach into libya this week with the beheadings of 21 egyptian christians. but as the obama white house host ad a three-day summit on countering what they call violent extremism, the president and his staff once again refuse to use the term islamic to describe the threat, a distinction they say is necessary in part to deprive terror groups of legitimacy. >> al qaeda and isil and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. they try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of islam. we must never accept the premise that they put forward, because it is a lie. nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy that they seek. they are not religious leaders, they're terrorists! >> joining the panel this week "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger editorial board member dorothy robenowitz and columnist bret stephens author of the new book "america in retreat." so, dorothy the president's summit was supp

i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. \s >> time now for sunday house call i'm eric shaw. >> i'm ar they will never ill. joining us is dr. david sam oodred ay, chaiman and professor of yourology at wlen objection hill hospital. >> and dr. mark siegel. author of the inyou are pulse. they join us every sunday here on this program. >> good to see you both. let's get right to it. february is american heart month. today we are going to talk about all the things you can do to show your heart a little love. it's very important. i mean, without the heart we've got nothing. dr. sammed ay, what's first on the list? >> obviously this is a very serious problem because it is a leading cause of death among men and women. we have 720,000 deaths and heart attacks as a result this. i'm glad we are all wearing the red color as of bringing awareness in this situation. i always talk about knew monics because i think it's always easy to remember exactly what we're talking about. i think a -- and i'll post this on line. a is for ask your docto

i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. ♪ >>> and time now for "sunday housecall."'m eric shawn. >> and i'm after sella neville. welcome. dr. david samadi is chairman and professor of neurology at lenox hill hospital and chief of robotic surgery. >> and dr. marc siegel, nyu's langone medical center and author of "the inner pulse: unlocking the code of sickness and inner health." >> great to see you both. we have an action-packed show. the hollywood movie shedding light on a debilitating disease. take a look. >> it's called motorneuron disease. life expectancy is two years. >> the brain. what about the brain? >> the brain isn't affected. your thoughts won't change. it's just no one will know what they are. >> that was a clip from the oscar-nominated film "the theory of everything," depicting the life of physicist stephen hawking, following his diagnosis of motorneuron disease, also known as als or lou gehrig's disease. dr. smadi, hocking's an unbelievable person, his perseverance, intelligence, his brilliance, but this terrible disease. >> eric, but even more powerfu

i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> congress going down to the wire avoiding partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. with the house voting 356-60 with two hours to spare before a midnight deadline. lawmakers passing a seven-day stopgap funding extension to keep the agency up and running. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. >> i'm julie banderas. the one-week patch underscoring deep divisions over the way forward with some gop lawmakers split on reversing president obama's immigration policies as a provision for the funding. those who want a stand alone full year measure. so peter doocy, explain why some are happy about the one week extension and why some are not? >> those who are happy still want to cut money at dhs that goes to the enforcement of the executive actions on immigration from president obama. >> all over the country republicans senate and house candidates, told the people if you give us a republican majority, w

i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> a fox news alert. the security as much as in denmark now calling a shooting at a meeting about freedom of speech a likely terror attack. one person confirmed dead three others were hurt. shots rang out at the cafe in copenhagen. where the event was being held and police are now on the lookout for the shooters who sped away in a car. the free speech event was put together by the controversial swedish artist lars vilks. he's fine, but one organizer thinks vilks was the target. he's faced death threats for his cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad. >> thanks for joining us. we'll continue to follow the latest on that breaking story. >>> but in the meantime we're following a suicide attack against an iraq -- or an air base in iraq carried out by two dozen terrorists from isis. this is according to the pentagon. it happened at the al assad air base where american and coalition troops are training iraqi forces. the pentagon says most of the militants died in the attack killed by those iraqi troops or by se

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i'm paul gigot. the white house released its 2015 national security