Having impact . Doesnt seem as of yet. They are symbolic are unlikely to change the battlefield equation by that much. The jordan hit weapon depos. And experts point the law of the diminishing returns against the terrorist army. There is growing criticism on the administrations handling of the isis threat. Susan rice doubled down on the president s policy for confronting terror. While the dangers we face are more numberous and varied. They are not of the nature that we confronted in world war ii or during the cold war. We cannot a forward to be buffeted by alarmism, and the nearly instantous news cycle. It was a exercise in self congratulation. And the message is wow, we are doing so well and well give you more of the same. My barf factor soarred when susan rice speaking of the Administration Call today our unparalleled leadership. This is not a strategy. And by the way, Islamic State deserves more than this. Isis continues to hold in syria things in iraq are looking up for kurdish fig
Keeping on. It is all happening now. But we begin with the fox news alert ahead of the Republican National convention. Welcome to the second hour of happening now. I am jon scott. I am Melissa Francis in for jenna lee. Hours from now donald trump will take the stage to accept the republican nomination capping off a convention that was anything but conventional including twists and turns including this last night. God bless each and everyone of you and god bless the United States of america. Texas senator ted cruz refusing to endorse his Party Nominee and was booed off of the stage and prompting donald trump to make an unplanned early entrance to take back the crowd. A crowd is expected to gather for an anti trump march planned in cleveland. We have live fox team coverage. We start with carl cameron. Carl, what everyone is talking about is the cruz controversy today. Where does all it stand . Reporter in limbo and may not be resolved for four years. The Cruz Campaign made it obvious tha
Cowboys. Hopefully they lost. They were down 76 when i wept to sleep. I was dance in the moonlight yesterday. It was National Smores day yesterday. We had a bonfire. A little too late with smores in the moonlight. You had your own. We had smores by day open you had smores by night . Absolutely. You cant overeat. I didnt have a smore. I had an adult beverage. The kids has smores. It was great. Happy to have you here again. Its a pleasure. We got news to get to as well. Attorney general william barr ordering an investigation by the Inspector General into Jeffrey Epsteins death. The fbi also investigating. Found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide. Were hearing the guards reportedly did not follow prison protocol. Yeah. That is part of the question right now. Who is to blame. Ag barr determined to find that out. In a statement he writes, i was appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead early this morning from an apparent suicide while in federal custody. Mr. Epsteins deat
Plus the former Trump Campaign Economic Advisor steven moore joins me this morning on the state of the economy and President Trumps fans, on the role of the Federal Reserve, its ability to set Interest Rates, all that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on sunday morning futures. Maria and we begin this morning with an update on the situation at the southern border. New numbers from customs and Border Protection show that apprehensions have dropped for a second month in a row suggesting the administrations tough talk with mexico and guatemala appears to be working but acting dhs secretary says we are still in crisis mode, just two weeks ago on this program he talked about the ongoing fight to build a wall. It was a big victory at the Supreme Court to allow the department of defense to move forward with that 2. 5 billion to really accelerate the progress on the wall, and kind of double what were doing with the congressionallyappropriated funding which is going well as y