Also in syria. Joining us in the newsroom in jerusalem, hello, connor. The exact details in the death are still sort of unclear. Officials saying he was killed over the weekend in syria fighting alongside isis. One of hundreds of americans fighting in iraq and in syria alongside different militant groups. Officials say these americans present a real threat to the United States, militants like mccain we use their passports returned to the United States along with some sort of an attack. He grew up in minnesota and recently lived in san diego. It isnt clear would let him down the path of radical islam but his social media account shows around the time of 2010, says they were unaware of his activities, they spoke to him just on friday and believe he was in turkey, not syria. After james foley was killed by militants, the group is demanding nearly 7 million in exchange for the release of another american, identified 26yearold female aid worker third known worker in custody. Funding much of
Tactics in the fight against isis. The military sending apache attack helicopters into combat for the First Time Since the airstrikes started two months ago. Im bill hemmer and well come americas newsroom. Good morning, marcia. Martha im martha maccallum. This new series raising questions about whether air strikes alone are still doing the job. Now you have got a key syrian city about to fall into the hands of isis. Is very fighters closing in on kobani and its looking like they will soon claim victory. Gregg palkot is on that border with syria and isis. Reporter there are reports the black isis flag is flying on a building in the city. The fighing is continuing today. We have been pushed back from the syrian town of kobani over there. You can see the plume of explosion from the impact. You can hear it right now between the isis terrorists and the brave kurdish defenders. As we watch all this action over there we are also watching some tanks of the Turkish Military lining up over on th
We start another week. Good morning bill. Booed morning everybody. Im martha maccallum. Last month the president said intelligence estimates failed to anticipate the rise of isis he is doubling down on the comment and naming names. Singled out his director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Watch. I think our head of the Intelligence Community, jim clapper, has acknowledged i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. He didnt say that, just say that we underestimated isil . He said we overestimated the ability and the will of our allies, the iraqi army to fight. Thats true. That is absolutely true. Bill byron york, chief political correspondent, washington examiner, Fox News Contributor to take us through it. How are you this morning, byron. Good monday to you. He admitted to not one but two major failures in that interview. How so. Absolutely. He his administration failed to detent the growth of isis, the power of isis, spreading throughout territory and iraq
Im martha maccallum. Im here in the americas newsroom. Im eric shawn in for bill hemmer today. Secretary of state john kerry in paris as World Leaders there appear to be united in the face of the brutality of isis. The Islamic Radical terrorist group executing as you know, another western hostage, the third this time. Beheading david haines. He was a brittish aid worker trying to help people in syria. He was kidnapped a year ago. British Prime Minister David Cameron calling it a pure act of evil. Amy kellogg live in london with the very latest. Amy . Reporter eric there, is sadness and outrage across the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister, to man on the street and muslim groups spoken out. David camerons turn of phrase got the most traction. These are not muslims. These are monsters. The fact that there was that familiar british accent behind the murderous mask once again halves sent out a real sense of chills and anger across the United Kingdom. People across this country, would hav
Enemies to motivate people to attack americans overseas. Bill all of our overseas posts received a warning to review their Security Posture for a range of reactions that might occur. K. T. Macfarland joins us. According to the people who read it it will have two block busters. One, that the United States committed torture and suspects and the information gleaned from that torture was not effective. Its the democrats in the senate with the signoff of the white house and the president. Part of it is lets blame bush. The other part is the democrats are leaving the senate, let many kicked in the doors and smash the windows on their way out. If they can show the world how terrible we were in this, somehow well be forgiven of that great season. I think this is a terrible idea. Our foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and death. Our foreign leaders approached the government and said you do this, this will cause violence and death. Our own Intelligence Community assessed th