Also for the first time both the 9 11 museum and memorial will be open. President obama will be at the pentagon. He will lay a wreath at the memorial and then speak. At 10 03 in shanksville, pennsylvania, the names of the flight members and crew from flight 93 will be read. Good morning. It is thursday, september 11. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. The president finally talking tough on terror. The core principle, if you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. Hes vowing to destroy isis. But dont call it a war. Whats the plan . We are live in washington. And what else wont the president say . Isis is islamic. Lots of people say it is islamic. Only the president wont. Why wont he call isis
what they really are . Islamic extremists get this. A brandnew bombshell in the ray rice scandal. Roger goodell says he never saw the knockout video but this morning a Law Enforcement official says the nfl had the tape in april. And a brandnew investigation is launched just while you were sleeping. What a show. Mornings are better with friends. You know, elisabeth, when you lit up the program and said it is september 11, that immediately takes us back. This is a day well never forget. And youre looking at the Freedom Tower in lower manhattan. A lot of lights on i be side there. A day of remembrance and resilience. And this is the 9 11 memorial last night lit. The waterfall, ongoing waterfall, manmade waterfall. You said for a long time it was a construction site. It seemed like forever we were wondering when is it going to be built . Were right there. People are around and the respect with the footprints also present. In the green room, mayor Rudy Giuliani just walked in. He was mayor that day. And we are going to remember, as we do every year, on this september 11. In the meantime we go to a fox news alert. On this september 11, president obama has promised strong action against the terror army isis. The president laying out his plan in a prime time deas last night at 9 p. M. With a strong message to isis. We will hunt you down. Doug luzader live in washington with the fourpoint plan the president laid out last night. Reporter this was the president s response to all of that criticism he ran into last month after
admitting that the administration had no plans to take on isis. Tonight with a new Iraqi Government in place and following consultations with allies abroad and congress at home, i can announce that america will lead a Broad Coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy isil through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. I made it clear we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country wherever they are. That means i will not hesitate to take action against isil in syria as well as iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency. If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. No safe haven. But isis has grown so quickly in recent months that it may now take years to defeat them. Heres the president s fourpoint plan. First, we will conduct aSystematic Campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. Second, we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent isil attacks. Fourth, we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. So this is our strategy. Lets run through this quickly. First and foremost, this is an expansion of the air campaign with airstrikes now in both iraq and syria. The president is also talking about arming and training syrian forces. That will require congressional authority. Hes also sending 475 additional u. S. Troops into iraq. He was very clear, though, to say that those will not be combat forces on the ground. They will be instead working with their iraqi counterparts. However, that obviously brings with it some risk. Back to you guys. Thank you. Hes going to be putting about 500 more people down on the ground. Hes going to be asking for about 500 million to train and arm moderate rebels. I dont know where hes going congress has got to vote on that. Hes got to go find them. He did to his credit, the president did come out stronger than he had in the past when speaking about isis. But when you look at the American People and how theyre feeling right now, more americans roit now feel less safe than before. So did he have a choice . When you see these recent polls, when asked when it comes to foreign policy, they find 57 of voters find the president weak and indecisive. He had a task ahead of him walking into that speech. They find him weak and indecisive at a time, on todays anniversary of 9 11, as were facing isis, they do not feel as though he is steady in terms of decision when it comes to foreign policy. When asked more or less if
we are respected around the world today as compared to 2008, almost 60 of voters say less. Were less respected when it comes globally. I tell you what, the president certainly deserves public support as long as he is willing to fight this war. Although last night he was reluctant to call it war. He wouldnt call it war. Instead he called it a counterterrorism strategy as well. And whats interesting, he also refuses to call them islamic radicals. In fact, he even said theyre not really islamic at all. Heres the president followed by george will. Isil is not islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents. And the vast majority of isils victims have been muslim. And isil is certainly not a state. Isis is islamic. Lots of people say its
islamic. Only the president wont. This may be the president feels obliged to be politically correct. We have islamic people in our country in great numbers, great loyalty, great americans and they want to make sure that everyone feels happy. Clearly isil, the i stands for islamic and thats what it is. This may be a perversion of it but lets just say a strain of islam that has recurred. Whats disturbing when you dont go to war and you dont call our enemy what they are, islamic extremists. There was a major conference among muslims in this country yesterday trying to rally support to stop this version of islam because its attracting mutants from all around the world to go over this and fight against us and for clearthinking people. Its also concerning somewhat that the president keeps on talking about no troops on the ground and comprehensive strategy. Remember how tough it was we have troops on the ground. For our troops to
take back fallujah, ramadi and now mow self. How are we supposed to send the u. A. E. Troops, what the president says pharmacists, farmers and doctors with stethoscopes and tanks to go back and take these three major cities against a ruthless, bloodthirsty enemy . Arming them, he think it was i think it was august 8. Yet yesterday in his speech he said were not going to get on the ground but were going to try to form a coalition as it stood last night to get together and defeat this thing which i cant call radical islam. He said were going to have a coalition, going to have a lot of partners. He would not name them. The key as people wake up, the key is to know the president of the United States there in the white house hast night vowed to destroy isis, which is what we want as opposed to last time what he talked about, managing. This is a step in the right direction. He was forceful, clear and precise. The question is will he bring it up again . The next speech cant be about minimum wage and equal pay. Its got to be about this. It should extend beyond poll results as well. Time will tell and the nation is praying. As we mentioned, americans feel less safe now, the new York Police Commissioner warning the terrorist threat from isis is riskier than it has been in years. Anna kooiman is live from the 9 11 memorial with the latest. Hey, anna. Reporter it was once called ground zero is where we are this morning ahead of ceremony. Despite heightened anxiousness about the terror group isis, new york intelligence is saying there is no evidence of a specific threat ahead of commemoration that begins at 8 30 this morning. We heard from the police
commissioner saying there will be thousands of officers and specialized teams using hightech tools. There will be undercover officers, bomb dogs monitoring today. He says the new York City Police department is ready. Isis creates a totally new area of threat for us and one that is probably even more potentially impactful on us than al qaeda. Their ability to enexpire not only those who will go there to fight and then potentially come back, but also to inspire those affected, sitting in their basements poring over commuter terminals they have incredible ability to affect those young men and women. There will be a moment of silence at 8 46 when the first plane hit the north tower. The names of the 2,983 victims the men, women, the children who died at the World Trade Center and the pentagon and on flight 93, pennsylvania, will be read allowed. In shanksful, pennsylvania, the heroes were honored as the family carried lanterns one by one by the wall of names. In washington, d. C. Later today Fire Fighters and members of our military will unfurl a large American Flag from the roof of the pentagon where 125 people lost their lives. Coming up at 7 20 this morning, im going to give everyone an inside look at the memorial, the museum, the 30,000 artifacts that are inside and hours of sound and video. This will be the first year that the victims families and First Responders families will be able to look i be side the Museum Following the ceremony. It will be open to the public at 6 00 tonight. By the way, the commemoration starts in the 8 00 hour. Youll see the beginning here on the Fox News Channel. Well run our film called as it happened. Which is the only time during the year we show the most dramatic parts of what happened on 9 11, the plane crashing and the buildings falling. Believe it or not, there
is a lot more news going on including an explosive story in the nfl that is getting bigger than it was yesterday, believe it or motte. Heather nauert is here with that. As we continue to remember what happened on 9 11, we continue to follow other news. The nfl struggling to get back on offense after a bombshell revelation, the league actually did receive video of ray rice punching his thenfiancee five months ago. Roger goodell says he didnt see that tape until this week but a Law Enforcement official says he sent that video to the nfl back in april. A League Employee is even heard on a recorded voice mail confirming that she received that video. She called it, quote, terrible. He lied and he knew about this tape. Hes out. So now the question is, if the tape did come to the office, you know, how high up did it go . And why didnt it get to goodell . What happened . The nfl commissioner now
calling in the former f. B. I. Chief Robert Mueller to investigate the nfls handling of the case. What a story. Lets go live overseas to pretoria, south africa, where a verdict could come in at any minute in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. Right now the judge reading a summary of the testimony and then rejecting pistoriuss temporary insanity defense saying he was an evasive witness. A decision could take hours to come, but the judge has said that the state has not provided reasonable evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that pistorius is guilty of premeditated murder. Those are your headlines. See you back here in about 25 minutes. 13 minutes after the hour. 9 11 also marks two years since four americans were killed at benghazi. This is when secretary of state Hillary Clinton, this is what she had to say about it. The fact is we have four dead americans. Was it because of a protester was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they would go kill some
americans. What difference, at this point, does it make . Turns out its a big difference. A new bombshell book claims clinton herself may have doomed them. Doomed them. The authors here live. Here i am. Rock you like a hurricane. Fiber one now makes cookies. Find them in the cookie aisle. In the places you want to be. Where you can explore super destinations and do everything under the sun. Twelve brands. More hotels than anyone else in the world. For a chance to win one million dollars, visit wyndhamrewards. Com with up to 27 more brush movements patented Sonic Technology get healthier gums in two weeks guaranteed. Philips sonicare discover the brush thats perfect for you. Today marks two years since the terror attack in benghazi that left four americans dead, and Hillary Clinton famously saying this. The fact is we have four
dead americans. Was it because of a protester was it because of guys out for a walk one nied who decided they would go kill some americans . What difference at this point does it make . That was then. Now an explosive new book says a security decision finalized by clinton herself may have doomed the americans. Joining us is the author of the book called the real benghazi story. Good morning. What doesnt hillary want us to know . She doesnt want us to know a lot. To start with, it was her personal role in security decisions at the benghazi u. S. Special mission which to this day is still being called by some in the media a consolate. It wasnt. She is saying she didnt review the cables. It wasnt her job. The secretary of state cant review the cables of so much paper work. And the Senate Confirmed this, the senates 88page report, that Hillary Clinton personally signed special waivers to allow the facility to exist because it didnt meet even
the minimum Security Standards of the state department, including and this is critical, especially in light of the new testimony by the survivors of benghazi. They said that they were told to delay in the nearby c. I. A. Annex, which if you remember was about a mile away. She called something called the colocation waiver which meant it allowed the u. S. Special mission to exist separate from the c. I. A. Annex. In other words, the protection for the u. S. Special mission, because of the secretary of states signature on a waiver, was located a mile away. So that decision actually could have ultimately, although unwittingly doomed them. Why was the c. I. A. There . Why were we there . This is the real benghazi story which extends far beyond what happened two years ago and goes all the way, i think, to the current threats of isis. And that is that we were there primarily to, my information its in the book, the real benghazi story for two main reasons. Number one stevens served
less as an ambassador and more as almost an arms dealer to jihadists, to the rebels first fighting in libya against muammar qaddafi and secondly to bring some of those weapons through turkey and other places through the insurgency in syria. That is number one. Number two, there was a section, a separation collection effort of man pads, man pads, missiles which bring down planes. Looted from libya, looted from qaddafis reserves. Woad a multimilliondollar unprecedented effort centered at the c. I. A. Annex, centered at that mission. That is why we were there. May have even prompted the attacks, an awful lot of jihadists. Read about it in a brandnew book called the real benghazi story. Aaron klein, thank you very much. A major health scare for toronto mayor rob ford. Why he was rushed to the hospital. The president now
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september 29. From no strategy to, well, talking tough on terror, the president laying out his plan to take on isis. I can announce that america will lead a Broad Coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy isil through a comprehensive and sustained terrorism strategy. Are we seeing a different, more determined president . The former mayor of new york city, Rudy Giuliani, joins us on this september 11. Good morning to you. Good morning. You were watching the president last night there in the white house. Good news; right . Hes going to destroy them. That is the good news. The answer is we see a more determined president from the one who didnt have a policy a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. On the other hand, its not much of a policy. It doesnt commit enough troops, because troops are
going to be necessary to get this job done. It doesnt acknowledge the fact that its a war, which is really almost silly because theyre at war against us. I dont know why we struggle so much with whe