we have had chemical weapons attacks in the past. it happened during the iraq-iran war in the 80s and there have been suspicions all along that assad has been using chemical weapons in his own country. so the question is what makes this latest incident different than those. i m appalled any time innocent people are killed by bad leaders. about it s happening all over the world. do we insert american forces each and every time? that would be a heavy lift. bill: i appreciate your type. bill johnson representative from ohio on his briefing that was classified from yesterday. the e-mail is hemmer@foxnews.com. also on twitter @billhemmer. heather: the white house launching a full court press.
four-star general, former army vice chief of staff and a fox news military analyst and we always enjoy it when he is here with us. thank you for joining us. glad to be with you, heather. heather: talk about the plan. you heard john mccain speaking there. he went on to say it needs to be more than just launch cruise missiles and be done with it. where do we stand and have we ruined any chance to make any real progress in syria given the delay that has gone on? first of all i largely agree with senator mccain what we re about to do should be tied to some strategic objective, not just some punitive strike. by that i mean we always have a stated goal for us to remove assad from power and we should use this intervention to move that along, to change the momentum from the regime which it currently has over the rebels to the rebels and we can do that with a rather significant strike against his military capabilities and take some of that away from him and also
bill: here we go. new hour fox news alert. good mornings, everybody, on this labor day. the white house launching an all out blitz on a military strike on damascus. president obama ready to meet with see key leaders from committees to make his case. i m bill hemter. welcome back. heather. heather: i m heather childers in for martha maccallum on this busy labor day. the president is ready to meet with the lawmakers that should happen tomorrow to brief them on evidence that syrian president bashar al-assad has used chemical weapons against his own people. top aides joining the fight making numerous calls to house lawmakers. they attend ad classified meeting on information, that was on sunday, bill. bill: we talked with an ohio
massive layoffs and cuts to services that would impact everybody in prescott. as much as we would like to, it is really not feasible or legally possible. bill: you remember 19 firefighters losing their lives fighting a fire fire. they were 1 six full-time employees. one of the widows is pleading for benefits that the full-time firefighters will get and she vows not to stop. martha: got some tragic new information in the sudden death of a former reality tv star. gia allemand, is dead after a apparent suicide. she was a contestant on the bachelor. she was taken off life-support yesterday. sad story. julie banderas is live in the new york city newsroom. do we know anything about what happened or what led to this,
life and everyone that knew her was blessed. she was survived by her mother. martha: what a sad story. one of the contestants everyone seemed to like. the show, have they responded in any way to all of this? reporter: the bachelor creator said the entire batchelor family is saddened by our passing of our friend gia. she was truly a sweet and soul. jake pavelka he tweeted this. she was one. sweetest people i ever known. funeral a arrangements are pending. certainly a shock though to a lot of fans out there. martha: always a terrible shock when a young person takes her life like that. julie. thank you very much. bill: president obama will address the latest violence in egypt in a matter of moments. what happens if that country collapses yet again? ambassador john bolton will analyze next. martha: we ve got hundreds of homes that are under threat right now and in one of the