Now, Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news desk. Good afternoon from the deck. First from the fox news deck this afternoon, president obama is expected to make the case for future air strikes in syria when he speaks to the nation in prime time tonight on this network. Thats according to officials talking about the president s plan to wipe out Islamic State terrorists, wipe them out. They say the president is not likely to announce any air strikes tonight, but instead, call for congress to arm the moderate rebels in syria. To fight the Islamic State on the ground. Moderate rebels in syria. Wonder who they are. Well get into that in a bit. President obama today held closeddoor meetings with the Vice President and top Security Advisors were told. The white house let cameras record the president through a window reportedly talking on the phone with the saudi King Abdullah. Saudi arabia is one of several nations to which the United States is now looking for support in fighting the Islamic State. Secretary of state john kerry today made a prediction that at least 40 nations will eventually join this fight as a sort of coalition of the winning. 40. Predicted. Weve written that down for future reference. He spoke in baghdad where we met he met with iraqs new leaders. This is a moment for International Cooperation to prove its value. This is a moment for multilateralism. To prove its value and have its effect. This is a moment for all decent countries to come together and stand up and say to the world that weve had enough. The more aggressive push against the Islamic State comes as polls show a majority of americans supports air strikes in syria. Thats after the terror group cut off the heads of two american journalists and burned or buried alive countless men, women and children across the land at the militants control. Tonights address will come hours before the commen ragss of the attacks on 9 11. Tonight also marks exactly one year since another prime time address about syria. Back then, the president told the nation he was pursuing diplomacy rather than air strikes against syrias brutal assad regime. Now Officials Say that the president is getting closer to authorizing strikes not against assad but against the common enemy, the Islamic State. Well talk about complicated. Ed henry is on fox story live at the white house. What else are you hearing on the president s plans for the speech tonight, ed . Well, shep, what its really hearing like what were hearing from senior officials is that the president is going to be laying the groundwork for expanding u. S. Air strikes into syria, not necessarily authorizing or moving forward tonight, but it was very significant what you were saying about that phone call with King Abdullah of saudi arabia today. Those pictures we have. Because King Abdullah for three years really now, has been urging the u. S. To join his kingdom in arming, training, doing a lot more to help the Syrian Opposition and what the president is signaling by suggesting to congressional leaders at a meeting here yesterday that he wants to ramp up support to the levels, the Syrian Opposition would be the Ground Troops inside syria instead of u. S. Combat troops to support potentially u. S. Air strikes. Same model weve seen in iraq. Thats where secretary of state kerry was today hailing the fact that the Iraqi Government is now moving forward. Listen. Now that the Iraqi Parliament has approved a new cabinet with new leaders and representation from all iraqi communities, its full speed ahead. And president obama a few hours from now will lay out his strategy for taking america, iraq, the region, and the world, forward. And that strategy in iraq has been the same model i was just talking about potentially for syria, that there have been over 150 u. S. Air strikes inside iraq, but no u. S. Combat troops focusing on the security aspect beyond protecting u. S. Interests. Instead, its been the u. S. Trying to let the Iraqi Security forces take the lead. They are planning the same model, we believe, for syria, shep. Before the strategy is even laid out, of course im confident that critics are circling like buzzards. What are they saying . Its interesting. You have former Vice President dick cheney we know where he stood for a long time in the last administration in terms of the iraq war and you have Senate Majority leader harry reid today saying that critics of the president like dick cheney should not be out there today attackings his strategy before they hear it but what cheney is saying, look, hes seen the president wait too long because weve known about this isis threat for months and he should have laid this out sooner. Listen. So often president obama responds to crises by announcing all the things he will not do and here again, we can only hope that pattern ends tonight. Too often threats and aggression have been met with stern declarations of inaction by the United States, supported by lengthy explanations of our inability to shape events. Now what weve been hearing from Obama Administration officials is that they believe the last administration focused too much on the military aspect of this. The president now wants to focus on diplomacy and other aspects that hell talk about tonight such as the coalition you mentioned that secretary of state kerry is in the middle east trying to build. Important that you noted the goal is to have 40 countries on board. We should know factually theres only nine on board right now, shep. Theyve got a long way to go. Ed henry at the white house, among reporters who are screaming with for reasons unknown. Thank you so much. The white house now says the president told top lawmakers yesterday that he does not need congress to sign off on military action against the Islamic State. But officials are saying that the president is urging congress to get behind this plan by passing bills that would support the fight. Lets take this to the judge. Ive been listening to democrats all day. Some democrats, important ones on capitol hill, say yeah, he does need this from us. Some democrats say he doesnt need this from us. I say that because hes a democrat, the president , and the democrats are clearly divided on this because ive heard them divided all day. Whats real . A lot of division on capitol hill from my sources there, there is a coalition of liberal democrats and libertarian republicans who may be very close to a majority the in the house of representatives who believe that president does not have the authority to do this on his own and if he does do it he must do it pursuant to an act of war declared by congress. Thats what the constitution says. And if they give him this authority, theyre going to put handles on it and tell him when he must end it. The Republican Leadership in the house an the president do not want the congress telling the president how to wage war, even though the constitution says only the congress can wage war. Remember how this started, this started with protect the embassy. Right. These religious minorities who were being slaughtered on a mountain and beyond, go protect them. Thats what that was. Thats what president authorized. Now were talking about something completely different. Now were talking about by any definition available on map net earth, we are declaring war on this bunch. Theyre not going to say that because that would bring in the constitution, but thats what this is. Right. When you send our planes over there to kill people who are part of a group, they say theyre part of a state, thats war. The president will probably argue tonight that the war powers resolution, 1973 statute passed over president nixons veto, will authorize him to deploy American Military for up to 180 days. He is correct. Put aside whether the statute is unconstitutional. Most of us that look at these things believe it is unconstitutional but it is the law. Until challenged it is the law. That only gives him 90 days. Correct. His military advisors and intelligence advisers and diplomatic advisors have said you cannot win this war in 180 days and you cannot lawfully drop a bomb or send a troop there after 180 days. So he in my view, just as a person who reads and understands the constitution and as an american should go to the congress and have the Congress Declare War and tell him what the end game is and then he is legally and constitutionally covered. Like shep, he wont do that. This is in no way to suggest that we should or should not do this. The consensus among americans seems to be isis must be stopped and the facts suggest isis must be stopped. The question is by what means are they stopped and by whom and under what authority. Right. By what lawful and constitutional means are they stopped. When a president wants to bring the country to war, this is the way george bush did it for the invasion of iraq. And we see how that went. Right. Whether you think it was wise or unwise. Please. It was at least lawfully done because declared by the congress. So if barack obama as the president of the United States wants to bring america to war for good or for evil, to kill these evil people, whether its wise or not, he should do it lawfully and constitutionally and that means not on his own. They have said, we will not do this with our boots on the ground. They have said, we will find other boots on the ground. For the moment were talking about the Free Syrian Army or rebels within syria, who, wait, who are these people . Are they trainable . Are they armble . Have they already been killed . Are we talking about smoke and mirrors. Thats coming minutes from now. First there is breaking news now on fox news channel. Theres been a plane crash in the last few minutes. Austin, texas, nearby, smoke rising from that scene just moments ago according to the producers. Im told you can see highway 71 in the background here. Local ems tweeting now that the crash killed at least one person and an investigation is under way. Again, you can see the smoke on the horizon. A small plane is down outside austin, texas. More details as we get them. Ahead, the intelligence on the Islamic State. From the fight over confiscating past passports to what Great Britain is talking ability doing to what we know about the terror groups leadership and particularly the isis leader himself. Who is this guy . To whom will we be relying or on whom will we be relying for boots on the ground. They keep telling us you cannot win this without boots on the ground. You can slow them down. Theyve said it from day one. Who are the boots . Whose boots are they . And make no mistake, we have boots there. But our boots will not be doing the fighting, they tell us. Where are these boots coming from . Somebodys imagination . Or are they real . Stay tuned. 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Government. The same official said the military Intelligence Community knew he was a bad actor closely allied with the decreased leader of al qaeda in iraq when he was captured in 2005. The official added that he was integrated by u. S. Officials, and that he did give up some information before he was handed over to the Iraqi Government who later released him there was no advance notice given to the u. S. Government of that release which was shocking, to say the least, according to this official, because the u. S. Has spent years tracking him down, shepard. You know, remember that laptop, weve talked about this, the laptop that reportedly belonged to a member of the Islamic State. Anything from that . Well theres part two of this investigative piece from Foreign Policy magazine. Youre quite right, they obtained the laptop from the modern Syria Rebel Group in Northern Syria and their reporter was told it had been seized earlier in the year in a raid on an isis hideout. Now theyre going through these 34,000 files in the computer which had originally appeared to be scrubbed, but on closer inspection found they were hidden within the hard drive and theyve now found recipes for ricin, how to make ieds on what they call v beds or vehicleborne devices. It seems to be kind of a road map as to what the ambitions at least are of some of the isis followers. That ought to be helpful, right . Well, lets see if the right people get it he yond the journalists. Lets hope so. Good to see you. See you. This matter of who you arm and who you train. And i say that because often history is our guide. Remember we train the iraqis, dont forget this, we trained the iraqis, 100,000 or more of them, spent a trillion dollars training them so they could stand up and we gave them all the weapons. They handed them to isis followers and now murdering people with the weapons we gave them. Now the plan is were going to arm another group. Who are they . Chicken soup of people, more of a beef stew of people. Lots of people from all over the place and training them, well, so far thats proved to be difficult. So now were going to train more of them. Were going to have their boots there on the ground and give them weapons. I wonder what might happen to those weapons . Does history tell us anything . Well get into all of that in just a minute. Before that the nfl commissioner Roger Goodell speaking out for the First Time Since tmz released the video of ray rice cold cocking his girlfriend and leaving her laid out in the elevator. Officials claim they had no clue what the cameras caught. Tmz claims the commissioner had every chance to see it. Plus, well talk to the wife of a former player who says she, too, was a victim of Domestic Violence. But she says officials should not ban ray rice for life. Heres what she says. She went off and studied what happened to her. She got a degree in what happened to her in the psychology of it all and i will ask her to explain to all of us who dont understand how come knock me out cold once in an elevator and drag my body into a hall is not the end of the relationship because for some people that part is confusing. This woman has knowledge on this matter, has experience, not that, but things similar, so well turn to her as the news continues on a monday afternoon. [announcer]when we make beyond natural dry dog and cat foods. We start with real meat as the first ingredient. We leave out corn,wheat and soy. And we own where our dry food is made100 percent can other brands say all that . For nutrition you can trust and your pet will enjoy. Does your food go beyond . Learn more at purinabeyond. Com. S charlie. His long day of doing it himself starts with back pain. And a choice. Take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. Honey, you did it baby laughs thlook what i got. P. Oh my froot loops [sniffs] lets do this . Get up get up get up get up loop me bring back the awesome. Yeah yeah yeah with the great taste of Kelloggs Froot loops. Follow your nose 21 minutes past the hour. The nfl commissioner Roger Goodell is doubling down on his claim nobody in the league saw the video of ray rice knocking out his then fiancee until tmz released it on monday. That as tmzs founder tells fox news that the commissioner is, quote, full of bs. Unquote. Remember that gossip website released the video on monday showing ray rice punching his then fiancee in the face before dragging her out of that elevator. Then the ravens cut rice. And the League Suspended him indefinitely. In his first interview since all of that went down the commissioner told cbs this morning that officials assumed there was a video, even asked police for the video, but that they didnt get it because they asked only credible sources. Well, i dont know how tmz or any other website gets their information. We are particularly reliant on Law Enforcement as the most reliable, its the most credible, and we dont seek to get that information from sources that are not credible. Followup question, mr. Goodell, i just have one followup question, did you knock on the door of the hotel or casino and say can we see that video . Or would that not be a credible source . It was a credible source for everybody else, inc