Thats going to wrap it up for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Heres a political announcement. A political announcement. I saw already this was like two days ago. Take a look at this. Hes been called an elitist. He vacations on Marthas Vineyard. He has been accused of ignoring the crisis in missouri and overlooking the concerns of the africanamerican community. Hell, i could do that. Paid for by romney, 2016. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, august 21st. Welcome to morning joe. A lot to get to this morning. Boy, we do. On the front page of all the papers, we have got news that there was an attempt to rescue jim foley. We start there. The pentagon confirms that dozen of special operation troops unsuccessfully tried to rescue the journalist james foley and
other american hostages earlier this summer in syria. The captives were not at the targeted locations and foley was eventually murdered by islamic. People are very angry right now about not only about this murder. T
Forever. And you have given me the most precious moment, okay, of my athletic and coaching career. Pretty cool. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. Here is greta. This is a fox news alert. U. S. Officials tell fox news they are aware of a video in which isis terrorists claim they have beheaded an american journalist. Fox news chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge joins us. Catherine, what can we report tonight about this. What we have been able to confirm within the last hour is that a very careful analysis is being done by the u. S. Intelligence community to verify the authenticity of this tape. So that will involve a voice analysis, looking at the location, understanding the credibility of the individual who posted this video from isis on to social media. But, more specifically, whether there is anything there that says its a fake. From my experience covering al qaeda now for more than a
decade. These groups do not have a track record of posti
Oh, no. My mike im sorry. Oh. He has always been the fat guy. Man. Thats it for this. Fair, balanced, and unafraid. Heres comes greta. They are the lone wolves of terror. In the animal world you have packs of wolves, and you also have individuals that hunt alone. Radicalized and hell bent on murder. Terrorism came to my front door and took my son. Brown jumped out of the car and shot at him ten times. In canada there were two he lone wolf attacks in two days. One soldier run over by a jihadist and another shot at the doors of parliament. And the debate rages. Is it murder . Workplace violence or terrorism . The idea at the ranch was to start a mujahedin Training Camp. He stated decided to fight. Theyre completing operating outside of the cell structure. Now from studio j at fox news headquarters, here is greta van susteren. The threat of lone wolf attacks at the forefront of everyones mind. New threats to the homeland as well as recent attacks in canada have everyone on alert, but lone
Have a great day. Its an election alert and the republicans have won control of the u. S. Senate. Also they won a bunch of statehouses. They had a very good night. They did indeed catch a wave. And keep control of the house. If youre just waking up, weve got all the numbers for you because many of you were sleeping when the numbers were coming in in the middle of the night. The senate has gone to the republicans, and sore if a with two races yet to be determined at least youve got alaska still up in the air, virginia still up in the air and a runoff in december. But heres the balance of power as it looks. 5245. Right there youve got to wonder what is going on in the white house, as expected what happens so often, the sixth year of a twoterm president , they usually take a pounding and the president s party has certainly taken a pounding. So Mitch Mcconnell
will be the majority leader there in the senate. Meanwhile over in the house, john boehner has expanded his majority. Look at that