Rear admiral john kirby joins us. Good evening sir. Good evening. Thanks for having me. Thighs to have nice to have you. We wanted information to be wrong that she was not dead. What you can tell me about the confirmation . What is the confirmation . Well, we do know that she is dead. Im afraid im not at liberty to talk about the evidence and where we got that conclusion from. But the Intelligence Community has looked at this. We have looked at it. We agree with the assessment that she is sadly dead. And our thoughts and prayer goes out to the mueller family, to all her friends back home in arizona we know this is a horrible horrible day for them and we are thinking of them. We have done this with american journalists everyone seems, every dame we see in this t. Is so heart breaking. Its inconceivable to think this could happen. Is there any information about when she died . Is it possible like the jordanian pilot that this was some time ago and just getting information now . No, hones
We have coverage tonight. Bernard goldberg is here, political analyst brit hume is here as well. But we begin tonight with Trace Gallagher on the breaking news. Trace . Megyn, in the memo debra turner said brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions, brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. Of course, williams first claimed he saw a chopper in front of him get hit by a rocketpropelled grenade and later claimed his chopper got hit. Both are untrue. The nbc president went on to say, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside nbc news while brian was talking about his experiences in the field. As managing editor and anchor of nightly news, brian has a responsibility to be truthful and to uphold the high standards of the News Division at all times. Adding, quote, this was a very hard decision. We believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action. The
Administration is kicking off a threeday summit on quote, violent extremism. Talking about fighting the terrorists on the internet and arguing that not only can we not, quote, kill our way out of this but that the key to winning could be job creation. Heres the Deputy State Department spokeswoman. The egyptians jordanians, theyre in the fight with us. We cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups. Whether its lack of opportunity for jobs. We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economy, so they can have Job Opportunities for these people. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry is live on those controversial comments from the white house. Reporter the bottom line is, this gruesome body count is now 66 in just a couple of days, because of the christians killed you mentioned, as well as the kurds today. It comes a
With anyone. A statement he has to retract hours later since the white house just sent a war authorization to congress and is in the midst of a Bombing Campaign in iraq and syria not to mention afghanistan. On top of that the state department has been relentlessly questioned over the last 48 hours after Deputy Press Secretary marie harf seemed to suggest that the key to ending the Terror Threat is to create more jobs in the middle east. As if walmart could make a real difference in syria. Here is the president just a couple of hours ago. Al qaeda and isil and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of islam. Thats why isil presumes to declare itself the Islamic State. And they propagate the notion that america and the west, generally, is at war with islam. We are not at war with islam. We are at war with people who have perverted islam. Of course the terrorists do not speak for over a billion muslims who
Sells. If it bleeds it leads. You show crime stories and fires. Thats what folks watch. Its all about ratings. Bill byron york, you saw the entire interview what did you think of it . You have to remember it was a obamafriendly website. But what he said to terrorism is entirely consistent with his efforts to down play the john playthreats. To claim in his state of the Union Address isis is losing territory when it is gaining territory. What he said is entirely consistent with the what is he tried to downplay the threat. Bill hes asked do you think the media overstates the level of alarm. And he says yes and i dont blame the media for that. And it eventually ends up on Climate Change. The question was a setup. Dont you think Climate Change and other problems are more serious. He referred to the killing at kosher market in paris after the Charlie Hebdo attack, he referred those as randomly shooting a bunch of folks in a paris deli. The kosher market was clearly a jewish target and the pr