half a million people around the world signed the petition asking for jason s release. these things make politicians here in the u.s., other ports of the world pay attention because they know it is important to people. gives them more emphasis to go back to the iranians to tell them they need to stop doing this kind of stuff. jenna: question wait for jason to be free and holiday and family we re thinking of your family, of course we ll do anything we can to help. great to have you on the program as always. while stay up with the story. we wish you the best of luck. thank you. thank you, jenna. jon: so, just how should the united states take the fight to isis? roughly 50 u.s. special forces troops will be on the ground in syria. will that be enough or will sending in more troops be necessary? coming up, retired marine corps lieutenant colonel bill cowan with his take what the u.s. role should be. plus his epic rant about mac and cheese got him arrested.
but the reaction has to do nothing. it has been france. before the terror paris attacks, one was jihadi john, somebody else was killed in syria and iraq. to say he s doing nothing is a false narrative. beruit and mali. land has been taken back from isis in iraq and syria. tell that to the 40 dead in beruit. you don t want to focus on the land taken back from isis and they are losing territory. it s about the entire picture that has to be dealt with. jon: the police chief of washington, d.c. was one of those features on 60 minutes. she had a different take from the president. here is her comment.
go to facebook.com, dawn saves wildlife. find out how the little things you do, can make a big difference. welcome back to the real story. world leaders work to solve the refugee syrian problems, prince charles sharing on what he believes may have caused it. there s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in syria has been a was a drought that lasted about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land, and increasingly they came into the cities.
the main focus is on salah abdeslam, the paris attacker who got away. let s not forget the authorities had him and let him go. he said he was trying to reach syria. central brussels has been under lockdown at the highest he level it can. thousands of policev are in brussels and telling citizens to stay away. of course, they understand the terror threat that schools and subways need to open. at the moment there is a lot of tension on the streets. jenna: thank you very much. jon: terrorism concerns seem to be animating voters. a new fox polling on the gop
it s the bottom of the hour. i want to talk about stories making headlines today. french police say a street cleaner found an explosive belt missing its detonator today in paris. no word yet if it s tied to the paris terror attacks. it could be that suspect s belt who s still on the loose. british prime minister david camer cameron working with french president hollande. syria on the agenda. syrian meeting between the russian president and iran yain leaders, both countries allies of the syrian dictator unfortunately. the meeting expected to focus on the civil war going on there. so the syrian refugee crisis raising new concerns as it hits close to home for us after a group of well, they just turned themselves in, these