Has shaken her state to the core. And our fair and balanced Political Panel debates some tough talk today from senator ted cruz on obama care and whether it will lead to a government shutdown. We begin with a fox news alert. Syria has agreed to allow u. N. Inspectors to visit the site of a reported chemical attack. The u. N. Inspectors were already in syria to investigate reports of earlier poison gas strikes against civilians. Until now the assad regime has denied the inspectors access to the site of wednesdays alleged attack outside damascus that killed hundreds. A senior white house official today says there is already very little doubt that poison gas was used. Secretary of state chuck hagel saying the military is preparing for a range of potential options. President obama has asked the Defense Department to prepare options for all contingencies. We have done that. And, again, we are prepared to exercise whatever option if he decides to employ one of those options. Elizabeth joinin
and what went on inside the white house when it came to wars and other matters of national security. tonight, former defense secretary robert gates defends the book he calls an honest account. also, frustration growing in west virginia as people face day four of living without clean water after a chemical spill. families getting by with emergency food shipments, but the damage is not limited to home. fox report small businesses make up 96% of employers in the state, and if they can t open their doors, everybody suffers. and settling political scores. with a little of this and that. former secretary of defense robert gates speaking publicly for the first time since details of his tell-all memoir slamming washington and the obama administration first broke. secretary gates served six years under both presidents bush and obama and now not just in print but on camera, he criticized the entire culture inside our nation s capitol, calling out congress and particularly vice pres
0 pages like this clearly vulgar, they are not. that is wrap on news watch thanks to our panel. i m eric shawn, keep it right here on the fox news channel. gregg: fox news alert. new details now in the crash of flight 214 in san francisco. two teenage girls from china on their way to enjoy a classic american summer tradition are now instead confirmed dead. hello, i m gregg jarrett. welcome to a brand-new honor inside america s news headquarters. heather: i m heather childers. they were on their way to summer camp. so far they are the only fatalities in the crash that spared so many others. hundred people remain hospitalized with various injuries. 49 in critical condition. 53 of the patients originally hospitalized and treated at san francisco today. heather: until the crash of the boeing 777. had an unblemished record. there were two major crashes involved asiana since they were founded back in 1988. investigators will be looking closely at past performance. dominic is live in lo
0 the scandal that the doj is at the center of. it s accused of doing something wrong. he have to answer for that today although the attorney general yesterday defended that action. and he will also be asked about the handling of fbi intel in the run-up to the boston marathon bombings. keep in mind, we reported here first a couple of weeks ago that the doj and a magistrate judge effectively shut down the fbi s questioning of dzhokhar tsarnaev, the boston marathon bombing suspect just 16 hours into the questioning. the fbi said it wasn t done. why did they do that? eric holder has yet to explain that. he will be asked about it today. one thing to listen for. we are hearing new suggestions that the white house needs to appoint a special council to look into particular the irs scandal rather than leaving the doj in charge of an investigation that could eventually, no evidence of it right now, some are already suggesting and the mere possibility may warrant independent counsel that this ma
one group now urging the nobel committee now recognizing secretary clinton. should it? a fair and balanced debate ahead. we begin with some breaking news now in the fate of an american pastor sentenced to prison in iran according to the american senator for law and justice. pastor is a e.d. be a dean any s sense was handed down by one of iran s most notorious judges to be carried out in one of the country s most brutal prisons. now there are growing concerns about whether he will ever make it back home safely to the united states shannon bream is live in washington. what s the latest on this case? family and friends of the pastor fear his life and death 8 year sentence in one of the most dangerous prisons. born in iran but has american citizenship with doing work with orphanage in iran when he was arrested last summer. accord to the american center for law and justice which has been fighting to get him released he was sentenced without warning for threatening national secur