Reporter those are serious allegations and we expect the committee to fully investigate them. Well hear how they will prevent future benghazi attacks. I think our fellow citizens have a good sense of who is trying to be fair and who is not, and i think they have a sense of the gravity of what we have been asked to do, which is what happened to these four great americans. Anyone who tries to polite sizeo politicize the investigation runs a risk with their fellow citizens. Reporter . That sets the stage for todays first public hearing. Martha everybody wondering the answer to this question. Whats going happen when this hearing gets underway. Well speak with one of the members of this select committee. Then at 10 00 a. M. The hearing gets underway. Well speak with Chris Stirewalt and tucker carlson. An american accused of trying to aid the enemy. This new york man is facing charges of recruiting for isis here in the United States. It seems to have come to fruition in this case as we are g
The war on iraq. That one was arguable from the start. But believe in it or not we did it. Though we needed to end it, we needed to end it right. Our generals in the field urged president obama to keep nearly 30,000 troops in iraq to preserve the gains we had made. The president ultimately left not a single soldier there. And the terror group isis grew like a cancer. They have now established the equivalent of their own country. Our defense secretary says they compare to nothing we have ever seen. Weeks ago president obama said he had no strategy for defeating this group until his poll numbers plummeted. And then last night the man who says he was elected to end wars seemed to announce he was starting a new one. As commander in chief, my highest priority is the security of the American People. Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. First, we will conduct a Systematic Campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. Second, we will increase our support to
Despite the release of an video on saturday showing yet another gruesome execution, this time of a british aid worker, even our closest ally, the uk, will not commit to joining us on air strikes. We have Team Coverage with ed henry, Chris Stirewalt and seth jones. We begin with ed henry at the white house. Good evening, megyn. This was a direct threat just in the last few hours from a senior white house official to Bashar Al Assad warning if the syrian president tries to stop and block the u. S. From bombing isis targets in the days and weeks ahead, that we know, this official said, where assad has his command and control systems and that the u. S. At the president s orders will attack assads defense systems. Potentially widening this conflict far beyond just going after isis. This tough talk tonight comes after the president as you know has been stung by criticism about his leadership over the weekend. The New York Times reporting he had a meeting last week with columnist and offthere
Despite the release of an isis video on saturday showing yet another gruesome execution, this time of a british aid worker, even our closest ally, the uk, will not commit to joining us on air strikes. We have Team Coverage with ed henry, Chris Stirewalt and seth jones. We begin with ed henry at the white house. Good evening, megyn. This was a direct threat just in the last few hours from a senior white house official to Bashar Al Assad warning if the syrian president tries to stop and block the u. S. From bombing isis targets in the days and weeks ahead, that we know, this official said, where assad has his command and control systems and that the u. S. At the president s orders will attack assads defense systems. Potentially widening this conflict far beyond just going after isis. This tough talk tonight comes after the president as you know has been stung by criticism about his leadership over the weekend. The New York Times reporting he had a meeting last week with columnist and off
Support to the isis Terror Network including fighters for this group. Meanwhile today isis kxrelease new video earlier this morning warning the u. S. About sending soldiers into iraq and vowing to kill any Ground Troops that are foxs own Rick Leventhal has all the details inq our new york ciy newsroom. The video is a slick ni production, 52 seconds long, showing militants blowing up tanks andxd images of Wounded Soldiers saying combat troops wont return to iraq and text reading fighting has just begun. Today the nypd put on another show of force in times square using 76 marked patrol cars from every precinct in the city. The commissioner, bill bratton, says the Department Remains on high alert and is quite ca of isis. Now, while he says there are no specific threats, were living in a new era of potential terrorism. And isis, he says, has mastered social media. In fact, one of the things that led to the arrest of the terror suspect in rochester was his twitter account. A member of the