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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting February 16, 2016

Tuesday afternoon, it could be the most damning attack yet against any republican who wants to be president. Donald trumps rivals and critics comparing him to the liberal filmmaker michael moore. Jeb bush, ted cruz, even Rush Limbaugh making the comparison, after donald trump said president george w. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction to push for the war in iraq. Trump also doubled down on his claim that president bush the 43rd did not keep the nation safe because the attacks of 9 11 happened on his watch. The former president joined his brother, jeb bush, to campaign in South Carolina. A big part of george w. Bushs speech focused on reliving the day the terror attacks and while he never mentioned donald trump by name, it was pretty clear to observers who the former president was talking about. Strength is not empty rhetoric. It is not bluster. It is not theatrics. Real strength, strength of purpose comes from integrity and character. Today, trump made a surprise appearance at tommys country ham house upstate in South Carolina. There he posed for pictures and signed autographs, even worked in another dig at jeb bush. Doesnt do that when bush comes in here, ill tell you. Well, later, trump posed for a picture with a cardboard cutout of himself at his Campaign Headquarters and posed for more selfies. Hes been campaigning pretty hard for him even as public polls show dronald trump with a doubledigit lead over everybody in South Carolina but rival ted cruz suggests that trump is rattled because internal polling probably shows him slipping in that state. Its fox stop story. Carl cameron is live. Trump called most of his rivals liars yesterday. Anything to top that today . Reporter well, i guess if you would call saying he lies more than any other human topping it, so, yeah, hes pretty much saying that when it comes to lying, ted cruz is the champion and when it comes to assaults, verbal assaults on fellow rivals, donald trump is doing a pretty good job of his own. Its amazing the type of epithets being tossed around between these two candidates and its not just them. Trump is basically at war with jeb bush, with ted cruz. Hes beginning to battle with marco rubio. It just seemed to go on and on and on. Those top four candidates have been in a fourway shooting match in every single possible direction. Its really quite remarkable trumps lead seems pretty solid and comfortable here. The race appears to be for whos going to come in second. And theres been sign of movement from jeb bush. Marco rubio seems to have gotten a little bit more spring in his step out of South Carolina than when he left New Hampshire a week ago. And then theres even john kasich who though hes been in michigan campaigning most of the day and tomorrow, he will be back here tonight, so the trump cruz battle is definitely sort of the billboard headline here but the truth of the matter is trump called virtually all the candidates liars and said politicians in general are all liars and cant be trusted and he wants to be one. Shep . What about the former best buds there, marco rubio and jeb bush . Reporter well, so yesterday, of course, jeb bush had his brother, george w. On the campaign trail. That got him a lot of attention and big, big crowd. Arguably the biggest crowd hes had since he announced his president ial candidacy. Bush and rubio are pushing back aggressively. Its referred to as the establishment lane amongst journalists now. Marco rubio doesnt qualify for the establishment. He was one of the First Tea Party candidates and ran against the republican governor and beat him in a primary, actually chased Charlie Crist out of the Republican Party and where jeb bush is concerned, hes been out of office for nearly ten years, he served two terms, but he has been in the private sector for 30 years. Something that donald trump says is his number one calling card. Being an outsider and a businessman. Now, jeb and marco are also attacking one anothers integrity and honesty. They tend to use it with policy positions more and experience. Rubio argues even though hes younger than jeb, his former mentor, he has far more Foreign Policy and National Security experience than jeb bush ever had. Jeb bush argues his experience as the governor of one of the largest swing states of the country is tremendous experience, of course, hes got an atlantic coast, a gulf coast, and a lot of immigration and a huge economy that competes all over the world. So he argues that he has plenty of foreign and International Affairs experience and hes already proven himself as a leader in disasters in natural catastrophes in florida when he was the governor there, shep. Lots to go there. Carl cameron, thanks to you, and dwight, the Little Office behind you. Thank you both. Lets bring in david, just when you think they cant do anything else, now theyre all liars. It sounds like what the democrats used to but worse. Yeah, but, i mean, look, this is trumps m. O. , and i would caution any of these guys that get in the mud and want to get in the mud with him for a protracted amount of time and think theyre going to come out on top. Look what happened on the debate saturday night. It was the most vicious debate we have seen yet then the poll comes out this week postdebate. Shows trump up 17 . So all the critics that thought trump collapsed, this was his moment that people got to him, jeb had the best debate. We havent seen evidence of it yet, and in fact, the polling is showing that right now even those people who admire the bush family, that admire a lot of them down there. Admire president george w. Bush, trump, according to the polling. Theres been less polling out of South Carolina than anywhere else which gives me a little pause given what happened in iowa. Yeah. Tough to bet against trump in these fistfights. So you think no bump from bush the 43, for bush the jeb exclamati exclamation from South Carolina . Hes down double digits, hes down 20some points in this race. Thats true. I think the president helps. It gets people who like jeb fired up. You know, does it bring in some votes . Marginally. But i think people are sophisticated enough to separate admiration for a past president and choosen a future president and, you know, i think, you know, look, last night, dualing rallies, trump had double the amount of people at his rally, upstate in greenville, than george bush drew in another part of the state. Trump had 60 negatives within the party. So there are a lot of people who clearly want somebody else to win. But if you have this large of group, trump, it seems, keeps his numbers all the time. If you have this big of group, its hard for anybody else to win. But how after South Carolina is there a ticket out . I mean, why would marco rubio quit before florida . Why would jeb bush . Why would john kasich quit before ohio . I cant figure out a reason. Thats true. I think the big question is going to be jeb bush. Now that hes on u. S. News today that says it actually benefits trump if bush gets a boom because he wants all these guys to go on. That is his ideal scenario, if bush, cruz, and rubio are bunched up, say, you know, 18 , 20 , 22 , if theyre all battling within a couple percentages and think thats a ticket to ride on, that is the best scenario for trump because that means the rest are divided and they go in to march divided into those Southern States where he has shown some strength in polling. I think the real question, the real dropout date for marco or jeb comes march 15th when florida votes. If you cant win your home state, or if you cant place at least second in your home state, that means you got to go. If youre right, and what trump needs is for jeb bush to stay in the race, for the numbers that withdryou just men then why would you bring up the war and why would you bring up 9 11 happening . Why would you take those shots . Is it youre just an indiscriminate shooter . I think the latter. I think hes an indiscriminate shooter. I think she shoots from the hip. I was on the phone with his Campaign Manager trying to delve into what is behind all this, going after the president so hard, going after 9 11 forand lewandowski said most americans believe the iraq war was a bad idea. Of course. This is what frump believes and he is going to stick by it. He said we dont take polls, we dont take the temperature of the primary electorate to see if this is going to hurt us like other campaigns do. So i do think its indiscriminate firing and i do actually just think this is what trump believes. Yeah. I mean, what other explanation would wroyou have . Its very risky to do this sitting on a lead. Hes risking his lead going that far. He did it. David catanese from u. S. News. Thanks, shep. Fight against the Islamic State. An official says our military is making progress against the terrorists and were taking back territory in iraq, but thousands of foreign fighters are still traveling to join in. 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Hello, catherine. Thank you, shep. Fighting intensifies in advance of fridays ceasefire. Significant process has been made along the turkish Syrian Border along the terrorist group known as isis or daesh. Speaking to the washington, d. C. , brookings institution, tony blanken said u. S. Is working with fighters. A commitment to the principles that have underwritten an unprecedented era of Greater Peace and prosperity over the last seven decades. Principles of good governance, fundamental freedoms of human rights and human dignity. Five pillars blinken was referring to are the centerpieces of the administrations strategy, rosy assessment on the strategy of iraq and syria really seems to conflict with other Available Evidence as well as congressional testimony, shep. So were making progress. How, pray tell, are they measuring this progress . Based on blinken this morning, the amount of territory isis holds in iraq and syria. No question isis has lost ground but hasnt stopped the group from experimenting with chemical weapons on the battlefield. These images first broadcast by fox news in january document an isis chemical weapon attack against kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq and sunday the cia director confirmed to cbs the terror group is experimenting with weapons of mass destruction. Does isis have chemical weapons . We have a number of instances where isil has used chemical munitions on the battlefield. Artillery shells . Sure. No. Our contact who brought us those photos says isis wants to perfect the recipe in Northern Iraq then export it using social media. Isis propaganda on social media is shrinking because more companies are taking it down. Cutting the salaries of isis, lowering ransom for hostages. I thought that helped out, too. To overcome a major cash shortage. According to the reporting of the associated press. Coalition air strikes and other attacks have drained millions of dollars from the Islamic State budget. The a. P. Reports the group has stopped giving its forces Free Energy Drinks and snickers bars. Isis used to brag about minting its own currency but the a. P. Reports the Islamic State is now ordering people, selfdeclared capital in raqqa in seyria to py bills in american dollars and releasing detainees for 500 bucks. The group in the past asked for millions of dollars in ransom payments and thats working out o okay. Russia is blaming the United States because of a deadly bombing. A cessation of hostilities was to begin or they said it was. You know. Well spoke with a former u. S. Ambassador to nato saying russia will not give anything up in peace talks with the United States because moscow has its own agenda and its a shady agenda and its next. The blame game has begun after a deadly bombing at a hospital in syria as russia appearis to be pointing the finger obviously at the United States. A russian official denied claims moscow carried out strikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital yesterday saying the military doesnt have any ships in area capable of hitting there. The spokesman for the president Vladimir Putin repeated accusations when the Syrian Government which claimed the United States military carried out the strike. U. S. Military Officials Say the coalition was not operating anywhere near that area and a state Department Spokesman blames the attack on the Syrian Government and, quote, its supporters. Of course that means russia because this is a proxy war between russia and the United States. Warplanes yesterday also hit a school and a woman and childrens hospital. Opposition forces and activists say that the militias there and the missiles had russian writing on them. Which might have been a giveaway for the locals. Britains foreign secretary said russia could be guilty of an appalling war crime for the bombing. This all comes just days after the United States and russia brokered the socalled cessation of hostilities treaty or whatever it was in syrias civil war which was supposed to begin later this week but we dont know whether we can report thats going to happen or not really sure we believed it was going to happen in the first place. Kurt volcker is former u. S. Ambassador to nato. Where are we in this proxy war . I find it hard to keep score. I think the russians are certainly advancing their agenda. Theyre putting out this information. Theyre engaging in diplomatic talks to tie up other countries and give them some sense of hope and meanwhile theyre being very effective providing air cover to seyrian forces on the ground, surrounding aleppo creating a massive humanitarian crisis there. It probably was russian bombs that hit these hospitals. The they may not have known they were hospitals. Now, the proxy war, the thing i find a little shocking is the u. S. Is not really engaging in it. Were trying to go after isis minimally with air strikes and minimally support forces there and so were just wanting our proxies to win basically without it, not to deny a proxy war is under way because it is. Well, thats right. I think the Syrian Government has got a very clear strategy. Theyre going after the opposition in syria. Trying to rout them. Really not touching is is very much. The russian arent touching isis. Were going after isis but tellin

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