offensive in syria. how it reveals the terror group still has the ability to launch devastating attacks and capture new territory. that's despite recent losses in iraq and other parts of syria. >>> and to afghanistan now where the taliban has named a replacement for the leader killed in a u.s. drone strike. we'll tell you who it is and what it could mean for diplomacy. real is touching a ray. amazing is moving like one. real is making new friends. amazing is getting this close. real is an animal rescue. amazing is over twenty-seven thousand of them. there is only one place where real and amazing live. seaworld. real. amazing >>> welcome back. in a check of the headlines, a devastating lightning strike in paris injuring eight children and three adults. they had apparently taken shelter underneath a tree during the storm when lightning then struck. several are reported in life threatening conditions. >>> over in poland, a man was killed by a lightning strike. >>> to michigan. new reports reveal the price of replacing water nobel peace prize flint due to the lead crisis is nearly double th

effect in syria in hopes of stopping the bloodshed in aleppo. the u.s. and russia persuaded syria's government and moderate rebels to extend the country's truce to the city. where more than 250 people is been reported killed in the last ten days. the cease-fire has taken effect, but u.s. officials acknowledge there have already been violations of the agreement. the fight against isis is far from over. that's the word tonight from defense secretary ash carter. the news comes as the pentagon announced another american has been lost in the war on terror. national security correspondent jennifer griffin tonight on the fight, and new details about how a navy s.e.a.l. was killed. >> this fight is far from over. >> as new details emerge about how a navy s.e.a.l. was kill during a firefight in a village outside mosul defense secretary ash carter was meeting nato defense ministers in stuttgardt, germany. >> we must do this, it's important for civil dags that we do this. we can do this, we're go, with your help. it will go faster. >> the nato ministers pledged more resources, but few specific

-read it this morning. you argue that the best alternative to isis in northeastern syria and western iraq is a new independent sunni state. do you still believe that, and how would that help the crisis going on there now? >> well, i think you need to provide some incentive to sunni arabs both in iraq and syria, territory that isis controls to fight against isis, to help destroy it. i don't think the sunnis in iraq are going attack isis so they can come back under the control of the government in baghdad controlled from tehran and likely sunnis in syria are not going to fight isis so they can come back under the rule of bashar assad. i think what you're seeing in baghdad now is one of the consequences of what i believe is already the break-up of the country we used to know as iraq. i think the kurds are well out of it. the sunnis aren't going to listen to the government in baghdad as long as the shia control it, and what the protests these past couple of days demonstrate is conflict among shia groups for control of what's left of the state, so i think this is just more evidence of con

zones in syria and we'll get the gulf states to put up the money. we're not putting up the money. we're going to build our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. ever before. isis will be gone. if i'm elected president. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i'd blow up the pipes. i'd blow up the refine -- i'd blow up every single inch. there would be nothing left. we have to rebuild america. we have to rebuild the united states. our infrastructure is going to hell. our debts have been forgotten. they have been forgotten. our vets are treated like third-class citizen. our vets will be treated properly with donald trump. we have a disaster called the big lie. obamacare. going up 25%, 35%, 50%, 55%s. we're going to repeal it, replace it with something great. people say trump has a tough tone, a tough temperament. we need a tough temperament now, folks. >> and welcome to this special e edition of "hannity." donald trump is the presumptive republican nominee. tonight for the hour we'll examine trump's stance on immigration, isis, health care, the economy and much more and how

human catastrophe in syria. you know, turns out that tehran's involvement is said to be far deeper and much greater than we knew, that according to the main iranian opposition group, the national council of resistance of iran. it has released satellite photos and video what have it says are numerous iranian revolutionary guard compound and control centers and military compounds, all bases for iranian revolutionary guard forces fight on the ground for bashar al assad. what does this brazen iranian deployment mean? ambassador john bolton joins us as always, former u.s. ambassador and fellow at american enterprise institute and fox news contributor and he's supported the iranian opposition group. abs, if tehran is going all in with these forces, is it projecting its power at the expense of the syrian people and the west? >> well, i think clearly the dynamics supporting the assad regime from the moment the arab spring began in 2011 was the -- was the iranian support and the russian support. without that i think assad would have fallen long ago, and from iran's perspective assad or his regi

, limited, on the ground in syria and iraq, but islamic state, isis, is now a global brand. it's the starbucks or apple of terrorism. >> they still operate at will. colonel, do you see it the same way colonel peter sees it? >> yeah, but -- yes. the issue we have is that we started with a couple hundred so soldiers going to iraq and now we've got over 5,000, and the problem what happened with keating and the great s.e.a.l.s was the day long fight, the s.e.a.l.s ran out of bullets and they didn't have enough to reinforce them. what we've got in this fight, like we have when ramadi was taken back, a city in iraq, absolutely leveled the city. we left 3,000 buildings, 400 roads. while we're doing the progress ralph is talking about, we're actually destroying iraq and the people doing the fighting are the peshmerga and some of the 5,000 guys we've got. this is another example of how a country slips into war, because in the next two years we're going to have actually more than just 5,000, more guys are going to get killed. we are making a difference, but it's not nearly enough. >> 5,000 u.s

forward in syria. let's talk about all that with jonathan shanker, vice president of research at the foundation for defense of democracy, a former terrorism analyst at the treasury department. thanks for joining us. when you look at the details of today's terrific attacks, one was in a busy outdoor market, it was a roadside bomb by a female suicide bomber. it seems like they are targeting civilian areas and civilians.why is that? >> we are seeing a little bit of retribution right now for the involvement of iran's revolutionary guard corps in syria as well as has a lot which is an iran proxy in syria so there's a lot of fear about the damage that iran and its entire network is doing across the region. one gets the sense that jihadist groups are really looking for payback. melissa: you hear the rhetoric coming out of washington and greg palkot highlighted some of it about the amount of territory being taken back but the pentagon say only five percent of isis territory has been recaptured in the last five months and really no change in syria. what do you think the truth is? >> i think w

saw, he died. >> then there's syria. on august 20th, 2012, after the syrian regime led by bashar al assad threatened to use chemical weapons against its enemies in the country's civil war, president obama put him on notice. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >> the president ordered the military to prepare to strike if assad did, indeed, cross that red line. on august 21st, 2013, the assad regime used the chemical weapons to kill hundreds of men, women and children. how would america respond? president obama ordered his military to stand down. >> they used chemical weapons against their own people and we did nothing. we demonstrated weakness instead of strength. >> we'll have more on the results of president obama's foreign policy later. but when we return, we look at how he's transforming our military from the ground up. while you were busy not remodeling your bathroom, the internet got rocket mortgage. a fast, easy way to refinance. family road trip! fun! check engine. not fun! but, you've got hum. that's like

crimia and eastern ukraine and military intervening in syria. and he tries to humiliate and embarrass the united states. it is not a threat to russia. >> the bases where they are located is a small permanent presence of the u.s. forces and that is coming at a time when russian aggression is on the rise. how will that assist the area? >> the point is this. why is russia so upset about p it? why is there so much rhetoric and threatening to attack the systems and lead to a nuclear war and that is typical sabre rattling. this is a tangible sign that the united states and europe as part of nato are strengthening the transatlantic a liiance. putin i believe wants to force nato's collapse. anything that is material to strengthen he resents that. because it makes it that much more difficult to undermine it. that's why they are so excited about it. >> putin has threatened retaliation with the missile shield in poland. by deploying nuclear weapons nearby. and the iraqi capital. 100 people killed in isis bombings in two days. is there any end in sight? >> no, not likely. what is really happening

threats about isis, there was a cancer that was allowed to grow in iraq and syria. it's spread throughout the world. and since 2014 when they established the caliphate, isis has carried out 75 attacks in 20 countries. they're in libya, yemen, saudi arabia, tu nearby sha, pakistan, nigeria, afghanistan and they're now in paris and brussels. this therterrorist threat is growing. and if we want to protect our country we need better airport security but we need to take the fight to them. >> colonel schafer what we're reporting tonight, you heard from trace that the satellites didn't pick up any indication that there was an explosion that took place. does that, based on your theory that something horrible happened here, does that help you to rule anything out? >> no. the fact is that the aircraft went down in a catastrophic fashion. we don't know necessarily if the aircraft went off down below. i have heard others say they saw a blast effect. i think the jury is out on there. we have to look at how this happened. i was reading an article about what the investigation entails. we've g

on the ground in syria. joining us to talk about this and a key battle still underway in iraq, raveed jamali. he is a senior fellow in the foreign policy institute. we now have confirmation of a wounded service member apparenty on the ground in the syrian border, what does that tell you? >> two things. it is no surprouz that we have troops in contact there. and why are they disclosing this? what benefit does it have to disclose intimate details of our operation. >> you think the pentagon should not let that information out? >> the specifics of the troops and they are closerded secrets and should remain so. i don't understand the benefit of doing so. >> as that is underway obviously. the battle for fallujah also underway and undertaken in large part by the iraqi government. can they succeed? >> the thing with fallujah, it is the sunni triangle. what is crazy you have iranian backed militia and the long- term game is not isis or isil. but what happen in the iranian backed militia will they lay down their arms? of course not. what is the long- term strategy with iraq. >> it is a

take time, and it won't happen during this administration. he says the conflict in syria will take a long time and we'll be in a constant state of suppression for a long time. >> donald trump understands media, he's a television star and he's connected with america. >> reince priebus is going to give us an exciting convention. >> we are going to put a program together. this is the ultimate reality show, the presidency of the united states. bill: paul manafort promising a different kind of convention this summer. sir, good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: i heard donald trump say 2012 in tampa was boring. more or less. did you see it that way? >> i think most republican conventions are relatively boring. i hope this year we can do something about that. people are engaged in different platforms and we need to engage them on those platforms. we need to do more education and worry about who's speaking in the limelight a lot less. bill: the suggestion in that interview with manafort was you could see trump earlier that week in a different city? >> we haven't gone far at all on the

in syria. he intervened in libya at hillary clinton's behest and regretted it. hillary clinton is fundamentally more persuaded that military force is an important tool, that american intervention can work out well. that america's role in the world should be as expansive as it has been through the post war period. president obama has been redefining the american role somewhat nmore narrowly. that's the contrast between the two. >> now factor in donald trump. where does he go? more to the president obama side of the equation or secretary clinton? >> it's complicated as things are with donald trump. he can cut either way. on the question of isis for example he's much more hawkish at least in terms of rhetoric. >> so is she. >> so is she. on the question of america's role in the world there are some interesting echoes. he talks about not having to underwrite the cost of nato the way we always did. that sounds like obama talking about free riders. he talks about getting out of the nation building business. so clearly there's a little bit of a strain in which there's a slight echo of ob

of deadly bombings from isis. the group claiming responsibility for the series of blasts in syria leaving 78 dead, dozens injured. the car bombs and suicide attacks taking place in two government cities largely untouched by the fighting. in the meantime the united states stepping up its fight against isis in iraq. supporting iraqi troops in a battle to retake fallujah. now topping the iraqi military's list of priorities. conor powell live in jerusalem. why fallujah and 23409 mosul which is way to the north, controlled by isis, in the second largest city? reporter: the pentagon has been pushing the iraqis to retake mosul for months. but today al-baghdadi announced plans to retake ma through gentleman which is seen as a secondary isis city is more about increased security for the capital of baghdad and the fragile iraqi government. so this operation while the pentagon wanted it to see movement on mosul is really about helping increase the security situation in baghdad. the u.s. military spokesman told fox news the u.s. is providing air support for the conventional iraqi forces. they

this boil down to from a public policy perspective? we have civil wars in libya and syria, and these open and porous borders, fighters are finding their way into europe and clearly we saw attacks in paris and brussels. really, this comes to us holding our leaders accountable to work with the europeans and with our allies to help have a security infrastructure that keeps not only americans safe but -- >> by the way, from the state department's point of view, for them to tell us this, this is what they know, they pass it along? >> they must have enough chatter from our intelligence community and other intelligence communities that there's it's tough to know. >> here, it's certainly on the heels of the attacks that took place in paris and brussels. also, they are well aware of the fact you have fighters coming back from syria and other places, isis fighters. you have more of these people coming back into europe. people never knew they left to begin with. now they are coming back, particularly in major cities as we have seen where they are being protected by their communities and are abl

there were already 50 on the ground. now 150 more special ops forces to syria. our military advisers are working more closely with iraqi troops and closer to the front lines on battlefield decisions. we've got a-10s dropping bombs on isis positions. forget the critics who may think they're doing too much or too little, at the white house do they worry about the slippery slope, and that we're slowly getting sucked back into a greater involvement? >> i think they're mindful of it in the sense that they just do not want to get into a position and have our military posture be like it was under the bush administration in the middle east. that is the thing that they look at as the barrier. i think what we've seen happen, though, is they sometimes take smaller steps to avoid the idea that they are on a slippery slope, and that they are building towards some kind of larger combat role. and you do have tosk a hundred people, 200 people, how much difference does that make? should they be going larger? and do they not go larger because they want to avoid the idea of being on a slippery slope? >> th

colleagues provided a useful update with the progress that has been made against isil in iraq and syria. we are pleased with the progress iraqi security forces have made. the sucht led coalition has little progress in taking control of the isis controlled areas. >>> garrett tenney live for us. thank you, garrett. >> raising new questions if the race for the white house. who is best to take on terror? brand new fox news polls shedding light on what voters think. 52 percent think donald trump will do a better job as commander-in-chief against terrorism as opposed to 3 percent who say they trust hillary clinton. 49 percent said they felt more comfortable with hillary clinton making that decision compared to 38 percent who went with trump. according to the polls the most important issue to voters is the economy. donald trump is the favorite in that category with the 53 to 41 percent edge over clinton. let's keep talking about the new fox news polls. who do you trust to do a better job on terrorism? donald trump or hillary clinton? log on to facebook page with a life debate at keep talking.

. explain. >> no, i would not allow people to come in from syria. they're not vetted properly. they're moving in by the thousands. you remember i told you thousands of people are going to power pour in. thousands of people are coming in from syria. we don't know who they are and if you look at the migration you have a lot of young strong men. you look at the women. where are the women and children? you don't have many by comparison. we cannot allow people to come in from syria and i would stop it and i would stop it immediately. we have tens of thousands of people coming into this country. we don't know who they are. there's no paperwork or documentation. with that being said build safe zones in syria and i'll get the gulf states to pay for it. we have a disaster going on in our country. our roads, our highways, our bridges and tunnels, airports, hospitals, everything, our schools. . have a disaster going on. we're going to rebuild our country. we've spent almost $5 trillion in the middle east. we can't do this anymore. we have to knock the hell out of isis, that i have to say, but we

trial told an undercover fbi informant that mohammed robel was in syria, "handing out money like candy, buying isis fighters cars and paying for their weddings." now he was apparently also approached by some wannabe isis fighters to pay for their travel to syria but there is no indication he actually funded anyone's trip. so far, mohammed robel has not been charged with a crime. prosecutors do believe he is one of a dozen men who left minnesota to join militant groups in syria. but the way, the associated press is the one who linked the court testimony back to the bridge collapse and eventually tied it all to the settlement money. >> unbelievable, trace. thank you so much. >>> for more on this, i'm joined by a fox news contributor and iraq and afghanistan war veteran. you and i are both from minnesota. this story really piqued my interest today because who would have ever thought that reward money from such a horrific event would be uses to help fund isis. but maybe you aren't that surprised because this is a huge problem in minnesota. >> unfortunately, i'm not that surprised. i

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can assure you vladmir putin when he put his russian special operations into syria was wondering where is the american carrier that used to be in the med? i'll tell you where it is? tied up in norfolk and great big hole in the deck because they took reactor out of it. this administration allowed us to become quite frankly a third class military. harris: can i ask a you particular question, this particular president fought whatever wars come on the horizon and whatever battles come on the horizon use of our special operations forces? here people call it the tip of the spear, whatever it is, they are, precision point type fighters. >> yes. harris: so how does that go along with the draw down that you're talking about? >> harris the way you define what your military is going to be to define the threat which this administration failed to do ever since they came into town. harris: they let us know they're comfortable not defining the threat. >> clearly. number two, build a military capable of contending with the that threat. what is the biggest threat we face? here in new york city wh

president did. we are making some limited success in iraq and syria. as in tunisia right next to libya with the team in exile. libya is a failed state. it is a launching pad for external operations. we see isis pulled off sharmel sheikh. about external by the safe havens now being created. from which they can launch external operations in the u.s. security is the biggest threat. it is the largest convergence of terrorists. the last big terror strong hold was afghanistan. compare what's goeng on in syria and iraq to what was going on in afghanistan pre9/11. >> bin laden operated in caves, very primitive communications. now we have a new generation of terrorists that know how to use the internet, know how to exploit it, use it to recruit. they have recruited 40,000 foreign fighters, largest convergence of jihadists in what's now called the caliphate due to the internet. they are expanding their bandwidth in a global jihad movement. that concerns me about the modern day terrorists we face is this global expansion. >> let me ask you a question i posited to the secretary a short time

syria's largest city as fighting there continues between the government and opposition. but, today, talk of progress toward stopping the bloodshed. we have the latest moves in the ongoing syrian civil war. >> reporter: after months of relative calm, the fighting in syria resumed and it's intensifying. in aleppo, civilians are caught in the cross fire. opposition groups say regime forces have bombed several hospitals killing more than 250 people in the last week. the assad regime is focusing all fire power on the key northern city, but denies targeting medical buildings. in damascus, the cease-fire is holding. today, the syrian government announced they were expanding the truce for an additional 48 hours. the latest round of violence comes as diplomats return to geneva to revise peace talks. john kerry said today, there are several proposals on the table. >> a lot of conferences taking place yesterday, the day before, today and we are getting closer to an understanding, but we have some work to do. that's why we are here. >> reporter: kerry stopped short of saying what the proposals were.

arab spring during that time, you've had lots of issues including syria and we all have discussed what happened in libya and benghazi. then you go back before that and you know isis and obviously al qaeda have deep roots in terms of what happened, in terms of the iraq war. but the point that you make is let's have a substantive debate. i think what you're seeing from trump right now is, hey, i just want to demean hillary clinton and shoot off my mouth and get on social media and i don't think that calls into question whether or not he has the temperament to be the president. >> so mercedes, i agree substantively with the trump critique of the hillary years. on the other hand, without knowing what happened to this plane, trump said it was blown out of the sky. he doesn't know that. nobody knows that. he may well be right. that was my first instinct. >> if i were donald trump, i would not have said it. i think donald trump sometimes goes with his gut and it's his first reaction and that's what he tweets out. you know, chances are he's probably right. when it comes to foreign policy

in places like lebanon and syria. >> to our knowledge there's been no claim of responsibility from isis or any other terror group. does that surprise you? >> well, they may come along with one, or it could have been something like this. if you know what you're doing and you are an employee at a hangar, you could do this by yourself or with one or two other people and perhaps without even if it's not by yourself, even a few people, being careful and not saying anything over social media or any of the other things we very carefully watch. >> something like the san bernardino attackers pulled off basically in tribute to isis. >> in a sense, yes. >> so, where do we go from here? the cia is obviously going to be working this case. will there be some kind of record, some kind of internet or communications record that they're sweeping right now? >> maybe, but i think in terms of the government, the most serious thing is going to be the decision, either today or soon, a hearing, anyway, on whether to let in 100,000 people from syria that the administration wants to, and one feels sorry for

terrorist. some people are asking why are we not able to do more in afghanistan and syria that is a $64,000 question. why are we not doing more in afghanistan and iraq and syria? the white house has put handcuffs on our forces. >> general, thank you for being here. we appreciate your perspective. to politics now. a new barrage of donald trump. the presumpative nominee blaming hillary clinton for the rise of isis. crooked hillary clinton foreign interventions unleashed isis in syria and iraq and libia. trump hit clinton against guns and saying she wants to eliminate the second amendment and strip gun owners. a claim he made to the nra. they are winding down the primary system. clinton topping trump in fund raising and organization. clinton's campaign employing ten times more staffers and more offices in battleground states. we have fox team coverage tonight. steve is following the democratic race and starting with peter dossy. how has trump's attack on clinton and guns evolved today. >> trump said he says hypochrissy and tweeting that crooked hillary wants to get rid of gun and yet s

security is the biggest threat. >> have said of syria and iraq it is the largest convergence of terrorists in merchandise everyone history. the last big terror stronghold was afghanistan. compare what is going on in syria and iraq to what was going on in afghanistan pre-9/11? >> they operated in caves with couriers and primitive operations and new we have a new generation of terrorists that necessity how to use the internet. [ inaudible ] there are the largest converge ensure of foreign firefighters that we have sigh of jay haddist and that is due to the internet. they are expanding their bandwidth in a global jihad movement and that conditions me about the modden day terrorists that we face, is the global, expansion. >> let me ask a question that i asked of the secretary. donald trump is criticized for proposing a temporary ban on muslims until we figure out what is going on and who is coming into to cup s that proposal right or wrong? [ inaudible ] >> it has been certified at highest level and unfortunately, the president issued a veto on my bill and i do think that we need to

have hearts and we can build safe zones in syria and we'll get the gulf states to put up the money. we're not putting up the money. we're going to build our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. ever before. isis will be gone. if i'm elected president. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i'd blow up the pipes. i'd blow up the -- i'd blow up every single inch. there would be nothing left. we have to rebuild america. we have to rebuild the united states. our infrastructure is going to hell. our vets have been forgotten. our vets have been treated like third-class citizens. our vets will be treated right with donald trump. we have a disaster called the big lie, obamacare. your premiums are going up 25%, 35%, 50%, 55%. we're going to repeal it, replace it with something great. people say trump has a tough tone, a tough temperament. we need a tough temperament, folks. we need it. >> and welcome to the special edition of "hannity," so with senator ted cruz and governor john kasich dropping out of the race, donald trump is now the presumptive republican nominee. tonight,

. some 30,000 sunni fighters from more than 100 countries traveled to syria and iraq to join extremist groups. we've seen unchecked global expansion of the islamic state savages. one official warning that they have quote, big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, end quote. at least 34 extremist groups pledged their allegiance to the islamic state. al qaeda and its affiliates are gaining strength, even establishing new affiliates. terrorists are returning to the west from syria like those involved in the paris attacks in november. and there have been 23 isis-linked plots to attack inside of the united states since 2014. now one thing we can definitely say, david, our guys are amazing, guys and women who keep us safe here at home but clearly the threat is looming. >> well let's remember going back to the beginning where isis came from. there was a guy named al-baghdadi, who used to be a buddy of saddam hussein who escaped from jail. went to turkey. the turks by the way gave him safe passage for a while. this was before isis was really named. he came back to iraq. once the amer

familiar with whether it's involvement in support of the regime in syria or humanitarian issues. that has not changed that. martha: that blocked out 8 minutes of video where the spokesperson admits sometimes the press needs to be misled to accomplish what the administration needed to do. here is part of the exchange as it originally happened. >> i have no fow information on the timing of when there were discussions with any iranian officials. >> let me try it one last way. is it the policy of the state department where the preservation of the secrecy of secret negotiations are concerned to lie in order to achieve that goal? >> i think there are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. this is a good example of that. bill: in 2016, byron byron, what would be the intent of the state department's decision behind this? what's going on? >> it's not entirely clear. but a lot of this is fallout from a new "new york times" article about ben rhodes, one of the president's top national security advisors in which rhodes admits and brags about how the administration misled the pr

trying to find a way to restore at least a partial cease-fire in syria amid continuous attacks there. connor howell is live in our middle east bureau. that didn't work before. why are they saying work now? reporter: secretary here kerry has remained optimistic throughout the last several year of this war in syria. there is not a lot of expectation that there is anything in the near future that's going to and the overall war but kerry has said that both the united states and russia are dedicated to finding some type of solution to draw down the violence here, at least in the near term. what we've seen in the last few weeks is really heavy fighting in the northern syrian city of aleppo where more than 250 civilians have been killed. the regime airstrikes have targeted both hospitals and other civilian centers and while much of the country is still holding on at least somewhat to this every cease-fire, aleppo has been raging with violence in the last 10 days or so and that really has been the center of the fighting. that's why secretary carrie and his foreign minister counterpart as alo

foreign policy, they took russia and crimea and now in syria. that was a disaster. her policies have consistently failed. this is one of her real challenges. she can't go back and tell you it was a great success because it wasn't. you could say, yes, she has a lot of experience but it's experience of losing. it would be like taking the last coach for the atlanta braves who got fired and say, at least he's got experience of leading a losing team. her policies have failed. and i think trump -- i listened to him on "fox & friends," i think trump is very prepared to debate whoever is ready for foreign policy. >> that 15% tax rate he's talk willing about, you have to believe that will create a boom for the stock market and, perhaps, move needle on economic growth. 15% corporate tax rate, newt. i know there are questions about how he pays for it, but he says once he moves the needle on economic growth, that partly pays for it. >> it clearly does. that's what happened with reagan, and that's what happened with us when we cut capital gains tax that led to a boom in 1990, by the way, against

has been a decrease in the syria conflict. but an increase in other areas like libya. isis continues to attract new followers and they continue to associate themselves with existing insurgencies. that's a problem. it's not something localized in iraq and syria. bill: the state department admitting isis is growing elsewhere other than iraq and syria. progress or not. is it real? >> within iraq we are gaining territory. but as the state department spokesman said. they are metastasizing to cancer. they have these islamic terror groups that are affiliated with isis. >> have you been able to pinpoint why iraq and syria is no longer a draw for these fighters if indeed that's true? >> we have done and better job of shutting down the flow of foreign fighters. we have gained back some territory. but it's been 20 months since president declared our goal to defeat and degrade isis. it took four years to defeat nazi germany. we are making some progress. but islamic terror has been me as sizing, it's a growing and real threat. >> you look at new threat. jack keane told us there are 7,00

have no documentation. we all have hearts and we can build safe zones in syria and we'll get the gulf states to put up the money. we're not putting up the money. we're going build our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. ever before. isis will be gone. if i'm elected president. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i'd blow up the pipes. i'd blow up the -- i'd blow up every single inch. there would be nothing left. we have to rebuild naeamerica. we have to rebuild the united states. our infrastructure is going to hell. our debts have be our vets have been forgotten. our vets have been treated like third-class citizens. we have a disaster called the big lie, obamacare. premiums going up 25%, 35%, 50%, 55%. we're going to repeal it, replace it with something great. people say trump has a tough tone, a tough temperament. we need a tough temperament, folks. >> and welcome to the special edition of "hannity," so with senator ted cruz and governor john kasich dropping out of the race, donald trump is now the presumptive republican nominee. tonight, for the hour, we wil

. bill: fox news alert now. word from the middle east, more than two dozen killed in syria after an airstrike leveled a refugee camp. this video from a first responder showing the devastation. firefighters trying to put out flames. volunteers clearing bodies from the camp. this is northern syria near the border with turkey where it has been tinder hot lately. 28 killed. some 2,000 people have taken refuge there over the past year. it is not clear yet who carried out the airstrike. martha: donald trump opening up about his experience in foreign policy and specifically on russia. trump and russian president vladmir putin have exchanged pleasantries through the media but trump will not say if he has ever met him in person. he also says that he understands the russian people because of an event that he held there once. listen to this. >> you were asked yesterday if you have ever spoken to vladmir putin and you said, i don't want to say. >> yeah i have no comment on that. no comment. i was in russia. >> one of the things people like about you is answer if i questions. >> let's assume i d

minimizing casulties. >> a new offensive in syria. capturing a small village and pressuring the american supported alloys. john hutty has more from our mideast bureau. >> reporter: isis launched a major offensive in northern syria and dangerously close to the turkish border and trapping more than 100,000 people in the cross fire, men, women and children. isis entered the town of muria and pushing syria forces out. mirria is between aleppo to the south and the a zaz. it is it a major supply route for the rebels fighting the government and isis militias. isis has the ability to launch attacks and capture new territory despite the losses in iraq and other parts of syria. fighting in aleppo between syria forces and rebel factions and putting more strains on the u.s. backed fighters struggling to stay alive. thousands of innocent civilians are caught in the cross fire. 150,000 people remain trapped between the turkish border and the city ofazaz. doctors without borders had to shut down a key hospital as isis is pushing closer to it and gaining more ground, patty ann. >> john, thank you. >>> t

? believe me. believe me. and it's happening all over the country. we're taking in people from syria. do you ever notice migration? first of all, there are so many men and they're so young and so strong, right? where are the women? women, but not very many. not very many children. then you wonder how come so many have cell phones? you ever notice? they have cell phones. they're walking into migration. look, i have as big a heart as anybody here. we got to help people and what we'll do is build safe zones in syria where probably they want to be in a certain way. and we'll get the gulf states to pay for it because we don't have the money. all right? but we can't allow them to come into the united states. we can't. we don't have any ideas who they are, where they come from. what about the cell phones with the syrian flag on it, okay? they're taking away cell phones from people. they're making phone calls on their cell phones and their cell phone has the syrian flag. and by the way, worse than the syrian flag, they have some horrible fpictures on some of those cell phones, all right, fol

going to isis. going to syria to fight with isis. that has been diminished. all he's saying. >> why talk about it? >> an art of an american victory. you see the fbi, the administration fighting to make isis less attractive to our young people. >> go ahead, jon. >> you know, before you declare a victory over cockroaches make sure you kill all the cockroaches. >> yeah. it's disingenuous to say it's social media, islamist islam, growing nonstop zins 9/11. bewildering. 1967, israel crushed the el tirn jordan, syria, egypt. six days. it's taken us six years. whether al shabaab, isis, daesh, nfy any of these. we have not discredited the idea. >> go after the ideology. not a state military. >> we haven't done that, juan. if people are still making -- >> we are making progress. wait. you guys don't want to acknowledge progress and success by the american government, i understand, but let me tell you, this is an ideology, a cancer. it's metastasized. >> and we have to keep in mind, i mean, that, really, their goal is a destruction of western civilization. their goal is to come to the united state

, let's start over begin in syria. after we lost 4,000 guys and ten times that with injuries, very severe injuries. the problem that he has is this war has to be fought in the middle east. whether it's securing again iraq or going into syria, it's going to cost american lives again. his job, if he wanted to do his job would be to get the american public behind that. they are not behind it now. >> can you see the american public getting behind another large scale troop operation over there? >> if there was another attack on our soil. >> the president described why we need to be over there. this is what the other mistake that president obama has made in this gradualist approach. he hasn't explained why he's sending troops. at least ash carter had the decency to call this a combat death, which is what it was. we have seated the middle east to iran whether it's iraq, whether it's yemen, lebanon, syria. as brett said, the next president will have to deal with this. it won't just take troops on the ground. it will take a political effort. >> looks like this is shaping up to be a huge victory fo

iran deal has put assad in a better place in syria. these narratives he's selling cost lives. they may not be american lives but they cost lives in the middle east and north africa. ben rhodes is a domestic audience strategic communicator. that's why everyone in a foreign country looks at the white house and wonders what the hell we're doing in regards to national security. >> david, perhaps one concession you're making about ben rhodes here is that it was a bold endeavor and that he did have to sell this and perhaps it was in a way that wasn't altogether informing the public of what this deal entailed. >> it was a very bold endeavor, and we were right to challenge it as many people did and it was hotly debated. there are reasons not to have supported it, including that it did not punish iran for some of the terrorist activities that it supports, for supporting hezbollah, for the damage it did to the u.s. military and the lives that it is responsible for in the u.s. military in iraq. those are all reasons to have not supported it. but all of that information was out there. ben rhod

entering the u.s., they want to know what trump would do with, say, iraq, yemen, iran, syria, just to give you a couple examplees. dr. ferris says those not enhappy with the middle eastern policy are trying to make the argument they would be natural supporters of a trump presidency if trump can answer the middle east questions. give you another question here quick. there's charlie sykes, the prominent talk to video host who backed ted cruz. sykes tweeted out this hand-written note on a newspaper that trump recently sent him. it points to an article about republicans moving trump's way and trump wrote he hopes sykes could do the same as well. trump writing, quoting here, i will win. he wrote that in all caps. however, sykes has not budget one iota. he wrote on his web site of that offering, and i'm quoting, despite the fact that trump has publicly called me a low-life and a dummy, i do appreciate the outreach but still, hash tag, never trump. just a couple of examples five. more months to go, two different stories. >> feel the love. even lindsey graham is telling a lot of donors to privatel

both iraq and syria, but today's bombing and really the last few days prove the group is still of carrying out really effective and deadly attacks. both in baghdad and other parts of iraq and syria. it is losing ground, but it is still a traditional terrorist organization that can kill a lot of people. now, the u.s. has also said that the isis capital city of raqqah is preparing for a u.s. and coalition invasion and declaring a state of emergency. others have discredited this report. there is a feeling in both raqqah and mosul and other isis-held towns that the coalition is beginning to make a move on some of these towns and cities. and that isis is beginning to lose significant and important territory. but, elizabeth, make no mistake that isis, as we're seeing this week, is still a very, very deadly organization that can target and cause a lot of problems in the middle east. >> absolutely. deadly violence. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >>> a fox news alert now out of the united kingdom. we told you about a soccer stadium, major stadium, that had been evacuated because of a

should be point out is while they are losing a great deal of territory in iraq and syria, they are capable and effective launching traditional attacks. it comes at a time when the iraqi government is under pressure shiia reporters. that's been the main target trying to create a sectarian divide. many of them are starting to protest the lack of the government's ability to provide security, that's causing a constitutional crisis where the government is not able to form a governing coalition. but because other element are not participating in the government, they are unable to do so. so they are trying to ratchet up the sectarian division. this country is under a lot of pressure and things look bleak in baghdad even though the fight against isis is going very well. bill: connor, thank you. >> mr. trump is the real live inspiration for ironman. who am i? i'm his publicist joey pepperoni. no, i'm not donald trump in disguise. this ways classy people sounds like. martha: there are claims donald trump impersonated his own publicist with "the washington post." but one of trump's former gir

american soldiers on base and now the unnamed north carolina teenager who wanted to go to syria and join isis is being released from jail on parole after just one year behind bars despite admitting to all of those things. police calling his release a terrible and shocking decision. >>> as you were sleeping voters in london have been heading to the polls likely to elect the first muslim mayor in london's history. labor party candidate sadiq khan poised to beat zac goldsmith, ending a year-long battle for city hall. voting ends at 10:00 p.m. london time. we'll tell you who won tomorrow. ainsley? >>> thanks, steve. the summer months are nope as the 1 hundred -- known as the 100 deadliest days for drivers. imagine seeing a scene like this. [ baby crying ] >> come here! your car is on fire. >> wow. thankfully a highway patrol officer was able to pull the family from the smoking car, but what if there wasn't an officer around would you know what to do with your family? what would you do if you were trapped in one car and someone was injured inside? it can be a life or death decision. here