those who want a stand alone full year measure. so peter doocy, explain why some are happy about the one week extension and why some are not? >> those who are happy still want to cut money at dhs that goes to the enforcement of the executive actions on immigration from president obama. >> all over the country republicans senate and house candidates, told the people if you give us a republican majority, we will stop president obama's illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. i think we need to follow through. >> other republicans on the other side though with senator john mccain telling the hill newspaper, i think we ought to move on to other things. i'm not sure how it helps for the american people to have the perception that republicans in the senate and republicans in the house are at odds with each other. and there are going to be plenty of opportunities in the next few months to see if republicans in the house and the senate can come together get on the same page because they're going have to vote on money for the fight against isis and on a new budget. just in the next few months. >> so how are democrats responding to the shutdown drama? >> we are hearing national democratic groups allege that republicans are using first responders as a bargaining chip to damage the president politically and that the new republican majority is not governing. >> this has been a day of confusion, both here in this house and for the men and women of the department of homeland security. >> so now with the one week extension we are six days away from the department of homeland security shutting down. which means that most of the 240,000 people working at secret service, tsa, coast guard, border patroller who considered essential are six days away from finding out if they need to work without pay for some unknown period of time. julie? >> all right. peter doocy, thank you very much. the stop watch begins yet again with the funding bill lasting only one week. what's the way forward as congress faces a new deadline? our political panel will debate the road ahead in a few minutes. kelly? kurdish fighters backed by u.s. led warplanes are making life in the fight against -- making headway in the fight against isis, retaking a strategic town from the terror group in northeast syria. meanwhile, the u.s. and its partners also conducting 11 air strikes against isis in iraq. jonathan huddy joining us live with more. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, yeah kelly a major ground offensive continues with help as you mentioned from the coalition air strikes. let's start there. let's start in iraq where iraqi forces are battling isis for control of a very key city. strategically located city called samarra. isis suicide bombers reportedly attacked this city and its outskirts earlier today as isis militants also shelled iraqi ground troops there that had been locked in the bloody tug of war for control. but as mentioned aided by the coalition air strikes, those iraqi forces are reportedly gaining -- regaining critical ground. you know, losing control of samarra would be disastrous because it's essentially the dividing line between tikrit to the north and baghdad to the south. now, let's switch over to syria where kurdish forces have retaken control of a town called tal hamis. it's there in the corner this is an isis strong hold because of the location. this is key. it's along the borders of iraq and turkey so it's been used to shuttle, to transport artillery and vehicles back and forth between syria and iraq. so taking back control for those kurdish forces is a major victory. kurdish fighters with help from christian militiamen. this is the same area -- it may sound familiar, because it's where isis militants abducted more than 250 syrian christians earlier this week. we're talking men, women and children when the militants basically went storming into towns and villages clustered together in the norts eastern -- northeastern part of syria, pulling families out. and at this point, kelly their fate remains unknown. back to you. >> john, thank you. well as the fight against the islamic state continues in the middle east, german police are also on edge. they are warning of a potential threat in a northwest earn city after they received a tip about possible islamic extremism activity there. they're not releasing other details about the threat. across europe meantime, officials are on high alert due to the attacks in copenhagen. and officials in iraq reopening the national museum in baghdad after terrorists destroyed rare and ancient artifacts. isis released video this week which appears to the show them using sledgehammers on priceless statues in the northern city of mosul. the group also reportedly sold them in the black market. and the prime minister is trying to quote prevent peace. benjamin netanyahu has made it clear he's skeptical about the on going negotiations and doubts tehran can be trusted. the israeli leader is scheduled to address the u.s. congress next week. many are protesting that. iran's foreign minister saying that bullying and scare mongering will not stop iran and world powers from reaching a final nuclear deal. alcohol and marijuana which is safer for you to use? 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joining me now cal thomas, a syndicated columnist and richard goodstein, former adviser to hillary clinton for president. this stems of course from president obama's november announcement of a program to grant legal status work permits and social security numbers to as many as 4 million illegal immigrants. 55 conservatives voted against the one-week bill along with five democrats. so with conservative republicans steadfast, what's going to change between last night and right now? >> probably not much julie. we'll see more reruns than on tv during the summertime. look, what you have here is a fight between the two wings of the republican party. the capitulation wing and the principled wing. the principled wing those who got elected last november believe they were elected to slow down or stop the obama agenda. they campaigned against the president's executive order on immigration but they don't have the votes to override and none of them are talking about impeaching the president. so i don't know what they're going to do other than either shut down as they say which is not really a shutdown anyway. it's all political theater. the department of homeland security. or go ahead and vote and fund it and then campaign on this in -- for the next election. >> some conservatives argue against a short term bill because it would allow funding to flow to obama's deportation amnesty. richard, are democrats willing to budge? do they not realize who's in control of the senate and the house? >> of course they do. but i think -- >> this won't get them anywhere. >> what cal calls the capitulation wing is what most people call the governing wing of both parties in congress. and that's frankly what they thought they were voting for was for people to govern properly. you have to feel sorry for john boehner. we had this big majority, the biggest republican majority in the house since 1929. the feeling is oh, he can lose a bunch of the tea party folks and still basically govern sensibly. we know that the tea party has a veto. and if there's one thing that unites democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives is that the primary interest of government is protecting the homeland. yet, we see there's this contingent in congress who are prepared to say you know what, maybe we're actually not prepared to fund border security. these are the very people incidentally who insist when it comes to immigration the single thing they want is to protect the border and yet they're voting against border agents and everything else that goes under the department of homeland security. finally, i'll say this. the fear is that this whole mindset carries over to funding the whole government. when that ends in september, or protecting full faith and credit of the dollar and the economy when the debt ceiling needs to be raised. this is kind of troubling. let's hope by this time next week we can move on. >> cal you pointed out obviously the president is not going anywhere for next 22 months and with the white house vetoing anything the republicans come forward with, i mean, the whole world is watching right now. what kind of message is washington sending? >> well, i think that the republicans, julie should do what they said they were going to do. mitch mcconnell said he'll do it, and john boehner suggested he'd do it, send one bill after another to the president and let him veto it and then run on that next year. look, with e -- we know what works in this town. >> continue to politicize, because that ends up happening. >> it's not politicizing when you operate out of conviction. this president's popularity continues to sink. it is rarely above 50%. most of the time it's been below 50% but you have cpac, you have the republicans coming through with different messages. the republican party has to decide what it believes in and run on the convictions. i'm reminded of will rodgers, i don't believe to an organized political party, i'm a democrat. now that applies to republicans. >> richard, you point out how the house speaker went about the whole issue. what does it mean that john boehner didn't speak with mcconnell for two weeks while the clock was ticking down to defunding the nation's efforts to protect the homeland? >> well, look it wasn't encouraging. frankly in the tables were turned an that was harry reid not speaking to barack obama or whatever people would say, come on, how is that a way to kind of do business in washington that's not right. but to boehner's credit i think this was all a ruse because he needed to say to his kind of the rambunctious tea partiers, no, i'm not capitulateing to mitch mcconnell and those in the senate, i'm going to hold fast. he can say by not talking to mcconnell he was holding firm. you know, is that kind of wise governing and frankly, are we going to have that next week and the week after, whatever the issue is. i just think somehow or another that's not a way -- for the republicans controlling congress to think that's an appropriate message to the public that the two leaders aren't speaking. >> cal, go ahead. >> i wish if the circumstances were reversed which they had been in the past and harry reid or george mitchell before him slowed down everything that the republican president wanted to do, i doubt we'd be hearing this from richard right now. >> i have to go. >> bye, julie. >> i have timers in my head. being our producers. thank you very much. >> thank you. for more on the on going battle over funding the department of homeland security be sure to tune in to sunday morning features with maria bartiromo. that's tomorrow 10:00 a.m. only here on the fox news channel. >> should be good watching. a strong new study examining the effects of marijuana versus alcohol. researchers say it's no doubt one is much more harmful than the other. so the question is which one is worse? 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more than 100 times? looking at a variety of factors, researchers say in terms of mortality marijuana is low risk. and alcohol is high risk. dr. david samati is a member of the fox news medical a-team. how much marijuana do you use versus how much alcohol would one use and what would be the harmful factors of both actually? >> this is a study that came in to scientific reports. it's a very deceiving paper and it's also extremely confusing with a lot of flaws in this particular study. what they're basically using is a lethal dose of marijuana heroin, cocaine, and pot and they're putting them all in the same category and saying since alcohol and heroin can kill you faster then pot is perfectly safe. that's a bad logic. and they're also extending this to the whole medical marijuana. and once you get into the medical part which is where i'm coming from as a doctor to legalize it and have access to a lot of people out there it's a very dangerous situation that we're getting to. now, long-term effect of this kind of marijuana on brain, cognitive skills, memory loss, psychosis, there's a five-fold increase of heart attack when you're on marijuana for a long period. pregnant women in colorado are smoking pot and it's affecting kids. now we have crack babies being affected as a result of this marijuana. we don't need this. this is not necessary. if you want to go for medical marijuana, go for the drugs that the fda is looking in to it. it's approved in europe. but to basically legalize this and use the word medical followed by marijuana i don't think this is a good service to the society. it sets a bad example for teenagers. it lowers the iq of our teens by long prolonged use of this. it's all bad all around. >> you impact a lot there, but i want to get back to the one thing that you mentioned for women who are pregnant smoking marijuana that it produces crack babies, aren't the substances totally different? >> well, what it does it basically goes through the blood to the children and there are receptors in the brain which is affected by this thc what it does, it affects their memory. we may see attention deficit kids or a lot of children affected by this now. there's 13 kids been admitted to the icu and for all this overdose so now -- >> you mean the results could be the same as if it were a crack baby. >> absolutely. you're endanger this kid and children as a result of smoking. the same we say pregnant women should not touch smoking or alcohol, same thing with this, it's just not healthy. and i think, you know, it really opens a whole big can of worm. state after state are basically going after this medical marijuana that can easily fall into this creational ones and set a bad example for everyone. >> why, then, would they release this kind of report knowing that there's some in the community who be blindsided by this or perhaps encouraged to do more medicinal marijuana and even recreational? >> i'm not why it got accepted but my job is to bring it to the surface. >> what is your concern? someone comes in to your office using medicinal marijuana, what would be your advice? >> i'm concerned because it's not being regulated. the key word regulation is always a bad word but every one has a different level of thc. over time it's going to cause addiction. you're going to build tolerance and it's just not a safe drug over a long period. yes, short term heroin and alcohol is much worse than this. but also jumping from the building could be worse than alcohol. does it make alcohol safer? bad logic. maybe for hiv cases and perhaps rare cases of pediatric seizures it could be helpful under closure valence witheil surveillance it's okay. getting a chance to pop the hood and kick the tires on the 2016 potential field of gop white house contenders. we've got the latest from the club for growth's annual winter conference coming up next. in my world, wall isn't a street. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. start investing with as little as fifty dollars. toenail fungus? 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