trails to his presidential bid. your 2016 roundup of who is up, who is down is just ahead. the pentagon is investigating accusations intelligence reports on isis and al qaeda were altered. dozens of cia analysts are laming their information was changed by top officials suggesting the u.s. is winning the war on terror. you re going to hear from former covert operations officer. phoenix police are investigating a man who is being called a person of interest but not a prime suspect in a string of shootings on area highways. the mysterious sniper shots has drivers on edge for weeks. could the nightmare finally be coming to an end? we ll go live to phoenix for an update on the investigation. more of these and the rest of your top stories at the top of the hour. welcome to the journal. editorial report. i m paul. the obama administration announced thursday that the united states is prepared to take in at least 10,000 syrian
john huddy reporting live. thank you very much. here at home this week president obama committed the u.s. to taking tens of thousands of migrants beginning in october they have acted slower because it must do intensive vetting. but how well can that be done in a crisis of this magnitude and how could this affect our homeland security? a cia covert operations officer and the senior policy adviser on counterterrorism and init tell generals, the chairman on the house homeland security committee, joshua, thank you for joining us. we re hearing reports of tens of thousands at a time, we know the civil war in syria has been going on more than four years. we saw upwards of 4.7 million refugees. what s the real number we re looking at here? the number of refugees worldwide is well over 4 million and it will increase.
children, that breaks my heart in a way i cannot articulate. and as a covert operations officer, as a former army ranger that i really believe we need to go in there with a full weight and the full power of the u.s. military and stop these atrocities, stop the killing, the senseless murder of young people, of innocent people and we re the only ones on the planet that can do this. regardless of what iran says. joshua katz good, to see you. fighter jets had to scramble. an air france jet to jfk international airport in new york. somebody made an anonymous threat against that flight, reportedly involving chemical weapons. that was right there 22 from paris. the fbi eventually released the following statement quote: the plane has lanked and has
domestic security forces that just really aren t up to the task of fighting isis, despite the u.s.-led coalition ask they re airstrikes. you could be talking about syria or iraq. of course, in iraq, they want to blame us. we ll move on. thank you. let s bring in joshy capps now, former cia covert operations officer. good to have you along. good to be with you. how would you describe what we re doing in the fight against the islamic stays terror army. first we need to congratulate secretary carter for his words because the iraqis have shown no will. they ve shown no resolve. and as you have mentioned just a little bit previously, they ve taken no responsibility for their utter failure here. so this campaign is ending up to be a yard. the fight against isis, both in iraq and syria is not going well and it s not going to go
traffic stop. co-workers say tate had a con constant smile. let s now get raid in syria leading to the death of a top isis leader. new questions about whether it was carried out in cooperation with the syrian government led by president al aasked whose forces claim they killed at least 40 isis fighters in a separate attack. for its part, the white house insists it does not cooperate with assad s government. mike biker is here, former c.i.a. covert operations officer and president of diligence llc a global intelligence and security firm. always good to see you. thank you. let s start here, do you believe that assad had anything to do with this? then talk to me about the significance of this new development that we re reporting on and what it means to the overall fight against isis. yeah. you re pointing to one of the real problems we ve got in terms