for foley's ransom. she also criticized the broader u.s. response toward isis. >> we are dealing with very difficult people when we are .alking about isis their hate for us is great, yet some of our response to them has only increased the eight. we'll hear from james foley in his own words from a 2012 interview at anti-nato protests in chicago later in the broadcast. al-qaida-linked syrian rebels on -- have released all 45 fijian peacekeepers they had held captive for two weeks, the -- a on heights. the united states marked the anniversary of an 11. meanwhile, chile marked the 41st across the border chile marked the 41st anniversary of its own , 9/11 on thursday. on september 11, 1973, democratically elected president salvador allende was ousted in a u.s. coup, ushering in 17 years of brutal dictatorship under augusto pinochet. chilean president michele bachelet urged people to come forward if they have information on the more than 1,000 disappeared people still missing after the pinochet era. >> i alrea

the james foley execution appeared to take place on some elevated piece of ground. this execution appears to take place more in a hollow in the desert. it is also very wriindy. whereas in the james foley execution video, there was a lot less wind noise, only a very slight breeze could be heard on that video from time to time. so, it does possibly indication that this was a different location. we don't know how far apart. it could be just a few hundred yards apart. possibly a different day. the day steven sotloff seems to have been executed was much windier, wolf. >> . >>> and carl, i want to be precise on the executioner. we don't know for sure the person who beheaded james foley, the executioner is the same who beheaded steven sotloff, although you point out, there are similarities. they are both left-handed and speak with a london british accent. they seem to be the same height. is that right? >> yeah. we have to go right back to the basics. although the british ambassador said that he believed british intelligence services were very close to identifying james fol

foley legacy foundation to protect and support journalists because the foleys don't want others to go through what they have and are going through. they sure set an example for all of us, don't they? i really don't know how they do it. maybe it's because their son was such a strong person himself. >> it's interesting how, you know, how his faith/q-4 was, you know, helped him a lot. >> you can't do this on true grit. >> you can't. you cannot do it on true grit. >> jim wasn't a holy kid, okay? jim was just a good kid. you know, he had a goodness about him that's what daniel said about jim. jim had pure goodness. he had a big laugh. he believed in people. and i think that's where he met god in a way in that goodness. >> you will see much more from our interview with the foleys right here "on the record" at 7:00 p.m. eastern. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. thank you for being with us. we will see you again monday night at 7:00nkn#p p.m. eastern. this sunday night, be sure to tune in to fox business network. business for on-the-record special, the next battle, when our heroes co

here is the killing of james foley. the terrain, time of day, the weather all seem to be generally similar. but there are many details similar, too. in each case, the victims are dressed in orange which analysts say isis uses to. >> mike r.: the jump suits worn by prisoners at guantanamo. in each video, the executioner wears black, keeping his face almost entirely covered. he has a gun and holds a medium sized knife which looks very similar in his left hand. he has the same general body build, gestures and demeanor. so is this the same person? listen to the voice in this latest video. >> you, obama, having to gain from your actions for another american citizen. just as your the opportunity to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. >> now compare that to the voice in the murder of james foley. >> any attempt by you, obama, to deny did the muslims their rights of living in safety under the islamic caliphate will result in the blood shed of your people. >> intelligence analysts say i

the horrible things they have done to these journalists, foley and mrs. sotloff, these are an end to themselves to make us scared of them and weaken us. because they believe that is something to be achieved as a strategy of war. so this is the theater around the decapitations, the specultae of it. >> appreciate you being on, always, dan o'shey, and we have a link on our website, again, we'll have more from james foley's mother, diane in the next hour. >>> next, what the nfl is doing about to listhe lingering questn how it answered the ray rice situation. and what roger goodell possibly knew than what he was letting on. enhance your eye color for a naturally beautiful look with consistent comfort. find your perfect color and get a free trial offer at airoptixcolors.com. >>> breaking news tonight on how the nfl handled the case of ray rice. four sources tell espn that rice met with the commissioner back in june and told them that he punched his fiancee in the elevator months before they released the knockout punch. now just this week, goodell told them that

media is focussed on james foley's story. i.s.i.s., and i.s.i.l., any stories are good news, welcome, but who cares about the saudis the saudis have been cutting off heads for as long as anyone can remember. one of the people whose head was cut off was charged with witchcraft. to me, this is horrifying in our modern age, but it happened, and yet i scanned the u.s. media and canadian media for science of nothing. >> the foley story fits clearly into a narrative we see in the u.s. media, that wants to identify is victim headed by members of i.s.i.s. and they want the story that they are covering to have a clear moral compass about what is right and wrong, who is good, who is evil. the story in saudi arabia, from the u.s. perspective is complicated and ambiguous. we are not sure how to slot in the people beheaded. >> all media exists not in a vacuum, but in relationship to an audience, and journalism is going to be sympathetic, and more aligned with audience that it serves, than with a distant remote remote audience. when a west

tonight our interview with diane foley, mother of murdered captive jim foley. she talks to us in her first interview. her son's faith in humanity. passionate belief in his country. his country let her son down. surprising revelations about what happened behind the scenes while her son was in captivity and what she hopes his legacy will be. breaking news, new report that throws more doubt on nfl commissioner's claim he only learned the details of what ray rice did in the elevator when he saw the tape of it on tmz monday. now, espn is reporting that roger goodell learned these ugly details when ray rice himself told him months ago. we begin with the mother of jim foley. a mother determined to keep her son's legacy alive, a mother revealing details of what she says happened behind the scenes while her son was held hostage. when journalist jim foley was kidnapped in syria by isis terrorists, his mother became tireless advocates for jim's safe return. for 21 months they showed strength, they showed grace, they maintained both as they and the world learned the very w

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foley's family announced the james w. foley legacy fund to support families of american hostages and aid american journalists reporting from conflict zones. >>> on this week isis will dominate the discussions. white house chief of staff will talk about the latest on the administration's strategy against the extremist group. you can see this week with george stephanopoulos at 8:00 here on abc 7. >>> sheriffs deputies are investigating the shooting death of a woman at her glen allen home. they say it was just before 7:00 last night when a man called 911. he reported his wife had attacked him with a knife and that he shot her.

he was last seen in the video of james foley's murder 13 days ago. the killers warning that sotloff would be next if the united states did not stop its attacks on the terrorist group. ca karl penhaul, sotloff looks different in the two videos, the one we saw today and the one 13 day ago, enough so that it seems they weren't done the same day, right? >> absolutely. two or three indicators there that suggest these two videos were not filmed at the same time. take a look at sotloff in first video 13 days ago, he appeared with a virtual shaved head. and also he didn't appear to have any growth or facial growth. in this video we've seen today he clearly has more hair and he also has evidence of stubble and a small beard. also in the video that we've seen today, there seems to be a lot of noise from the wind. in the video we saw two weeks ago very little wind noise. there's also another indicator and that the fact that the executioner refers to the u.s. air strikes on the town of amal-e in northeast iraq. that could put the time of stephen sotloff's execut

foley. >> reporter: while diane foley says she's not blaming the u.s. government, she said the fact her son is now dead is proof something needs to change. >> he was sacrificed because of just a lack of coordination, a lack of communication, a lack of prioritization. as a family, we had to find our way through this on our own. >> more of the challenge for hostage situations is they can't share everything they know with the families of hostages, of course, that's little solace for the foley family who were desperate to get their son back. >>> james foley's parents have died to horn his life and legacy. they started a foundation. you can find out more going to jamesfoleyfund.org. you missed anderson's cooper's interview with diane foley you can watch it entirely on our website cnn.com. >>> foreign fighters are helping swell the forces of isis. a cnn source said they have come from more than 80 countries. brian todd reports on how isis is luring them into its ranks. >> reporter: he's a third-year-old with dangerous networking skills, he's said to be a key

foley. >> reporter: while diane foley says she is not blaming the u.s. government, she says the fact her son is now dead is proof something needs to change. >> he was sacrificed because of just a lack of coordination, a lack of communication, a lack of prioritization. as a family, we had to find our way through this on our own. >> part of the challenge for law enforcement officials with hostage situations is that they can't share everything they know with the families of hostages. but of course, that's a little solace for the foley family who were just desperate to get their loved one back. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >>> james foley's parents are honoring their son's life and legacy by starting a foundation in his name. you can read more about it by going to jamesfoleyfund.org. and if you missed anderson cooper's interview with diane foley, you can watch it in its entirety. just go to our website at cnn.com. >>> still to come here on cnn, on the heels of the nfl's ray rice controversy, we take a look at how domestic violence cases have been handled i

and james foley's terrifying time in captivity so cruel. coming up his parents describe the unthinkable conditions as his failed escaped attempt. plus, you will hear from a fellow journalist and friend of foley's. plus ahead the white house says it has arab states offering air power against isis. who are they? ambassador john bolton is here next. >>> the obama administration now says several arab nations have offered to join in air strikes against isis. secretary of state john kerry not saying which countries have offered air power. who are they? can they really be much help to the u.s. former u.n. ambassador john bolton joins us. good evening, sir. do you have a clue who these air partners are who are going to help us? >> no. i assume several means two or more. there aren't that many arab air forces that can fly with us. naval aviators used to have a saying during the bosnia if you can't hunt with the big dogs stay on the the porch. a lot of countries that have f 16s or f 18s can't fly with us number one. number two, it's not clear from wh

diane foley and her family announced a james foley legacy fund to help others in the conflict zones and their families. he was a freelance journalist. he did not have the infrastructure around him like other journalists do. that makes that fund a really great boon for other reporters. >> the committee to protect journalists. >>> the baltimore ravens back on the field without running back ray rice as new controversy swirls around nfl commissioner roger goodell. stay with us. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? don't avoid it. resolve it. our new formula with a special conditioning ingredient softens your carpet with every use. because it's resolve, you know it cleans and freshens, but now it also softens. so your carpet is always inviting. resolve. a carpet that welcomes you. >>> this morning, espn is reporting ray rice told nfl commissioner roger goodell when they met in june, he punched his then fiancee in an elevator. it contradicts what goodell said that he saw the tape for the first time this week and the june meeting with rice was quote ambiguous concerning details. goodell

siento que nuestro paÍs le fallÓ, foley fue ejecutado por isis el pasado 19 de agosto. la burocracia no nos ayudÓ, funcionarios norteamericanos nos advirtieron que si intentÁbamos rescatarlo por nuestra cuenta enfrentarÍamos acciones legales. para este experto, isis no daba seÑales de querer negociar. >> todos los gobiernos tienen la razÓn de prohibir las negociaciones particulares. esto no solamente ocurre con el gobierno norteamericano, debe ocurre con todos los gobiernos o se convierte en lo que pasa de mÉxico hasta la patagonia que los secuestradores son los que mandan. > > en entrevista con cnn la madre de foley dice que el fbi los usÓ para obtener informaciÓn. >> sabÍamos mÁs que el fbi sobre su paradero posible, durante meses conocÍamos dÓnde se encontraba jim. la versiÓn del gobierno norteamericano es que cientos de trabajadores estaban detrÁs del operativo de rescate de foley que calificaron de atrevido y bien encaminado, pero que cuando llegaron por Él aun posible paradero ya no estaba allÍ. >> la madre de foley dice estar de acuerdo con estrat

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at the foley home in new hampshire today, diane and john foley delivered harsh words for how the obama administration dealt with them during their ordeal. >> we had to beg. >> the higher we went, it was more difficult. >> and we were an annoyance. it felt at some levels, they really didn't have time for us. >> reporter: long before their son james showed up in the isis hostage video last month, his parents had been trying to work behind the scenes to gain his release. but they say a white house national security official and a state department official both threatened them with prosecution if they tried to raise ransom money. >> we were told very clearly, three times, that it was illegal for us to try to ransom our son out and that we had the possibility of being prosecuted. i was surprised that there was so little compassion. >> reporter: the white house denies any threats were made, but acknowledged to abc news today that an official had informed the foleys of a u.s. law against the movement of money to a terrorist group. >> i can tell you that i am totally unaware and would not cond

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. >> and rescue operation by james foley murdered by isis. and the former pentagon official hesitant to proceed and asking for the intelligence to build up more. >> it takes time to be informed enough to conduct that operation. intelligence is not perfect and layered over time. and not unlike the way you all do your jobs when you are working with sources. >> and just to be clear. the allegation that there was delay in the foley rescue operation was first reported by the sunday times of london. and we have provided new detail about that claim. and we are waiting for a response from the national security council. and we'll have questions in at the white house briefing and pentagon briefing as well, john. >> more on that later today. thank you. >> and in just a couple of hours, president obama heads to europe for meetings with baltic and nato leaders. expected to focus on russia and ukraine. nato leaders are planning what they call a rapid reaction force that can deploy to the area within 48 hours. this as russian president vladimar putin is quo

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el intento fracasÓ porque foley ya no se encontraba en el lugar. >> muchas gracias, vilma hablando de isis la amenaza podrÍa llegar a travÉs de la frontera aunque por el momento no parece haber evidencia los rumores circulan por internet y causan alarma en una regiÓn que ya sufre los rigores de la crisis migratoria, pero los terroristas tendrÍan otras vías para ingresar al paÍs desde texas, pedro rojas nos habla de posibles rutas. >> en momentos en que el recuerdo la frontera con mÉxico esta en la mira de toda la naciÓn en las redes socializaciÓn desandado una serie de rumores que menciona la posible de que extremistas islÁmicos pertenecientes al grupo radical isis podrÍan ingresar por esa zona con el objetivo de cometer ataques. algunos residentes expresan preocupaciÓn. >> eso nos afecta la economÍa. mÁs que todo. y hacer vulnerables nosotros que estamos en la frontera los primeros que entrarÍan... >> en la profesor de justicia criminal de la universidad de texas panamerican considera que la posibilidad de que isis entre por la frontera es bastante baja. >> es una posi

foley was killed by isis militants last month. >> we send all of our love and hugs to them. unfortunately, they are sharing the pain we are. so we just ask the world to embrace them as the world has embraced us. it has helped us so much. >> americans are not the only ones being beheaded. a funeral of a soldier for a man who was killed by the isis group. he was captured last month. isis posted a video of his

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but what ends up happening is, foley gets beheaded. right? then the president comes out a week later and says we don't have a strategy. then isis comes and beheads whatever period of time but they come out with a video showing the beheading of sotloff. you don't think we're sending a message over tory terrorist in the world or want to be jihadist in the world, already muslim or not or afghani or pakistani or british or australian, whom ever that we aren't the ones who are winning this war on terror. they are winning. it's time to step up and eradicate the scum of the work. bob, you have to say the president screwed up. if you don't have a strategy don't broadcast it to the world. >> what they said when he did this beheading because the united states was bombing them on a regular basis no one should join in on that bombing. clearly they have acted. when you say we have no strategy. >> i didn't say that. >> he was talking about syria. he was not talk did bush >> he was talking about isis. >> he was talking about syria. go ahead. we can argue th

this is on a lower patch of ground, not from an elevated position like in the james foley video. and also, it appears to have been a much windier location. you can hear the wind battering across the top of the microphone. one of the scenes from that also shows steven's body with a severed head on top of that body, brooke. >> and karl, just so we're clear, because we don't know when this execution took place in conjunction with the previous one with james foley but again, it's that same masked man with the british accent. correct? >> certainly appears to be the same masked man, from what we can tell, the sound that appears on the video is also has been recorded simultaneously. it hasn't been dubbed on top. those are the things that we want to take a look at. but a very similar accent, an accent that linguistic experts have described to us from the previous james foley video of sounding like a southern london multicultural accent. brooke? >> karl, stand by for me. bob baer, i want to get straight to you. when we talked about the execution of james foley, and you can see the isis mi

>> i have an incredible amount of empathy for dan foley and the families of sotloff and foley. i was held hostage for a year and i was released before my now husband and friend and i was in middle of the negotiations for their release. we heard many things from the u.s. government. we heard again and again direct messages of things that would work from the iranian government and sometimes small gestures and we heard this is a nonstarter. this can't be done. and i think people need to put pressure on our government to do a lot more and to safeguard not only journalists and people that are working for the american government in the middle east but citizens and humanitarian workers. this situation in syria, no one went into that situation knowing that beheading was a possibility. that wasn't something that sotloff or the young woman that still remains -- there's a 26-year-old humanitarian worker that's being held hostage by isis right now and an american man. the ransom they asked for her is $6.6 million. i really want to ask if that amount of money is not worth it to save this wo

the parents of beheaded american journalist james foley in their first joint interview. dubai and john foley talk candidly about fig finding out their son was executed by isis. how the u.s. government trend them with possible prosecution if they paid ransom to bring their son home and how they are turning their deep grief into a frontal help others. you will hear it all straight from the foleys the day we spoke with them at their new hampshire home. >> thank you very much for letting me come here. >> you are welcome, greta. >> it's so hard to talk to grieving parents. it's part of what we do in our work regrettably. so i want to start sort of the by talking about your

it's the same methodology of the james foley video. a british citizen, according to "the guardian" newspaper, part of a three-man ring of jihadis known as the beetles. they are addressing the west. they are saying, we have rejected your way of life and your civilization. we have now joined this radical trans national terrorist army stroke state and coming soon to a theater near you. that is the message that they are trying to underscore with this. >> you are in kiev. we know president obama is headed to estonia before going to this -- >> yes. >> the stakes are huge in wales but speaking about the greater since of this global affairs, what is happening where you are, russia, ukraine, and now with isis, the stakes were already obviously high but how does this beheading of the second american -- and by the way, there was a second person in the steven sotloff video we should point. how does this news change the equation and the priority for the presidents at this meeting on thursday? >> well, probably in the least e enviable position. tryi

foley legacy foundation. and it's aimed at assisting hostages and families of hostages with navigating this web. you know, fostering communication between nations. there was really no sharing of information. in fact, when we try to get information from other allies even, you know, we were stonewa stonewalled. so it's a huge gap. >> michael, you know, the whole country was so horrified by the video of what happened to jim. and, you know, obviously no one more so than your family. and it's actually played a major role in the president's announcement last night. i mean, the latest fox news poll showed 65% of the american public believe that the united states should take the lead in going after the killers of your brother. did you watch the video? >> i did. i watched an unedited version of the video. i felt i had to. jim's death means so much more than, you know, a catalyst for some of the u.s. action. but at least there is some comfort in that. certainly with the kind of seminole moment. and clearly, you know, h

as many of us americans are. >> foley's parents launched a legacy foundation to honor their son. it's raising money for families of american hostages and journalists covering conflict zones. you can visit their website at jamesfol jamesfoleyfund.org and you can see more of anderson's report at 8:00 eastern on cnn. cnn's interview with foley's mother is getting strong reaction. susan rice responded to her claims. watch this. >> what i and others in the u.s. government worked very hard with diane foley and her family to try to be supportive, to try to provide what information we could and of course as you know the president ordered a very daring and very well executed rescue operation on the only occasion we had what we thought was fresh and we hoped actionable intelligence about the whereabouts of jim foley and the other hostages. unfortunately they were no longer there. >> james foley was 40 years old when he was brutally executed last month. his mother once wrote that foley gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the syrian people. >>> coming up next, ten ar

diane foley has a message she wants to share. she also has strong feelings about the just announced military escalation against isis. anderson cooper spoke exclusively with diane foley. here's some of that interview. >> i really feel that our country let jim down. and -- >> in what way? >> well, anderson, i -- we met wonderful people within our government, good people who cared, who wanted to help. but the reality of the bureaucracy and really was such that we were not helped. we really weren't. >> you didn't feel like they were there for you, that they were really there to help. >> not at all. >> there was a rescue effort made. >> late. very late. yes. >> you think it should have been sooner? >> we feel that the location, their location was known for more than a year. >> it was? >> yes. >> they had been moved a couple of times. that's true. when there was a movement of isis from alepo, there were several moves from that transiti transition, but there was also two times when they were at a location that we were aware of for month

evan, obviously we saw that horrible video of jim foley being beheaded. if this latest video is confirmed to exist and to be authentic and showing the execution of steven sotloff, what does isis hope to accomplish with this horrific brutal propaganda? >> look, i think we can look back to the most recent example which is what happened back in 2004 when isis' predecessor kidnapped several americans and a british national and they used itest media impact they could. they began murdering people one after the other, one a week. and they managed to draw this out over the space of a month and a half and they really captured the attention of the american public. and i think that's what they're looking to do here, capture the attention of the american public, intimidate the american public and try to create the sense that's city cannot be defeated. it's very much in their interests to try to convince the american public that any attempts to crack down on isis either in iraq or syria will backfire on them. >> all right. evan, thank you so much for your time take. a

foley. >> reporter: while diane foley says she is not blaming the u.s. government, she says the fact that her son is now dead is proof something needs to change. >> he was sacrificed because of just a lack of coordination, a lack of communication, a lack of prioritization. as a family, we had to find our way through this on our own. >> and part of the challenge for law enforcement officials with hostage situations is that they can't share everything they know with the families of hostages. but that's little solace for the foley family who were just trying to get their loved one back. >> no solace at all. pam, thank you so much. let's get more perspective on this from tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi and most importantly in this case, tom, you actually ran the fbi program that is in charge of personnel recovery or would be in charge of recovering people like jim foley. you hear this claim from diane foley where she's saying her family was threatened with criminal action if they were to try to raise a ransom. i think some people have even

for more information and make a donation go to james foley fund.org. what is the latest in the fight against isis in the u.s. national security released a -- sorry the u.s. security council released a statement a short time ago on its discussions with the foley family after cnn has been airing this interview. take a look. the spokesman, the american government did reach out to more than two dozen countries for help in rescuing james foley. "without getting into details of our private discussions with families, the law is clear that ran some payments to designated individuals or entities such as isil are prohibited. there's also a platter of long-standing policy that the u.s. does not grant concessions to hostage takers. doing so would only put more americans at risk of being taken captive. that is what we convey publicly and privately. u.s. official tells cnn surveillance flights are now searching for isis targets in syria as american secretary of state john kerry is set to arrive in turkey to drum up support for the u.s. strategy with middle eastern p

he appeared very clean shaven at the end of the foley video several weeks ago. so it's not clear that these were -- that these killings took place at the same time or place necessarily. >> nbc won't show the video. i imagine most of traditional media will not show it. youtube will block it as quickly as possible. so most americans are not going to see this individual i don't and that is off justly the right decision. but some say the sanitization of war images, people don't know how bad war really is. do you think if a large number of americans would actually see the video, it will chaepg our will toward isis? >> i'm sure that it would have that kind of impact. these are really emotional things to have to see. and i think you see that to a degree among officials in washington. the way president obama responded to the killing of foley a couple weeks ago is i think -- he came to the cameras in a much more emotional manner than we're accustomed to seeing him. so it's not just every day americans affected by the groups and images. it's some of our most senior offici

our prayers go out to the family of jim foley. like steve, he suffered but list hes jailers never broke him. >> meanwhile, the mother of james foley is offering her support to steven sotloff's family. foley had been held captive with sotloff before he was killed on camera by isis militants last month. >> i would hope that their deaths may not be in vain, that they might awaken the world that we must act as a unified world for peace and for goodness and just work together. >> u.s. president barack obama says his objective is clear to degrade and destroy isis. so it's no longer a threat to the middle east and the united states. he spoke wednesday after meeting with baltic leaders in estonia. >> but krcritics say that his message is muddled. jim askcosta reports. >> reporter: president obama all but vowed vengeance for the killing of journalist american steven sotloff. >> our reach is long and justice will be served. a message echoed by vice president biden. >> we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justic

foley. >> reporter: while diane foley is not blaming anybody in the u.s. government she says the fact her son is now dead is proof something needs to change. >> as a family we had to find our way through this on our own. >> and one of the things i think she is really talking about is better communication for family members even between family members. could a family actually be prosecuted for paying ransom or trying to raise ransom. has that ever happen insied? >> reporter: well, anderson, not that i'm aware, they say they're not aware of a situation where a family has paid money to a terrorist organization and then arrested? now, could it happen? yes, there are laws on the books that would make it illegal for any american to pay a terrorist organization but a prosecution would be highly unlikely. >> and you spoke to administration officials, i was wondering about the reaction whether the family was threatened or told this? >> you know, the officials i spoke to were really shocked by this that any government official would threaten a family to try to dissu

this is following the beheading of james foley. the white house has not confirmed the video but offering condolences if found true. >> this is something that the administration has been watching very carefully since the threat against mr. sotloff's made a couple of weeks ago. our thoughts and prayers with mr. sotloff and his family. the united states, as you know, dedicated time and resources to trying and rescue mr. sotloff. i am not in the position to confirm the video or the reports at this point. but this, if a video is released it is going to be analyzed carefully. >> a short time ago the u.s. state department commented on the video. >> we have seen reports of a video that purports to be the murder of u.s. citizen steven sotloff and the u.s. is working to determine if it is genuine. and if it is true, we are sickened. our hearts go out to the sotloff family. >> we are joined live from washington, d.c. and no confirmation yet? >> no, this is breaking in the past hour and going along with the white house briefing and half an hou

this is when james foley was executed and steven sotloff was also in that video. james rosen out of the briefing at the state department and he joins us now. i heard you asking a bunch of questions. >> reporter: i did. i should point out the national security council issued a statement saying the intelligence community in the united states is evaluating this video and trying to confirm its details in particular when the act depicted actually takes place. because a video was released 0en a certain day doesn't mean acts depicted occurred on that day. as the intelligence community evaluates this, the thought is this will prove to be authentic and the state department spokesperson said the video is sickening. i asked if the obama administration regards that we are effectively at war with isis. i asked that question because obviously any conflict you really cannot be successful in if you don't have a clear idea of exactly the nature of the conflict. here's my exchange. >> we have a commander in chief that launched more than 100 air strikes at a given enemy, who is repo

several weeks after the beheading of james foley u.s. law officials believe they've identified the masked man in the video. jim acosta is at the white house this morning. good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning, carol. president obama is laying the groundwork for that big speech on isis tomorrow. in the meantime, he has been meeting with foreign policy experts on the democratic and republican side. he did that last night here at the white house, and later today as you mentioned he'll be sitting down with senior congressional leaders to go over the isis plan as republican leaders appear to be giving him the green light for action. the flood of violence unleashed by isis has mobilized war-weary americans to take on the terror group, even in a bitterly divided washington republicans are backing president obama's expected decision to hit isis hard. >> wherever they go, we're going to have to follow them, and if that leads into syria, then i hope the president has not taken that off the table. >> reporter: a new cnn/orc poll finds three

fear of isis is great and i think this the turning point happens to be i think the beheading of james foley a couple of a couple of days ago and it seems that no you know the death of an american journalist is bringing this back of the spotlight and bringing. closer to home again just so you know if they have just let me ask you do you think that sun intentionally and i'm not dismissing the suffering of that man and his family and his grieving family but you know it's quite interesting from a p.r. perspective isn't it you have such a spotlight on an american being killed by someone with a british accent which i think needs to be a little bit more investigated as well what i'm saying is it fits really well into this kind of media environment what i think i think with the images of of james foley we have possibly the biggest extremist p.r. coup since nine eleven i think this comparable images in terms of london's bombings in madrid bombings and also the death of lee rigby the soldier on the streets of london last year. and i think you know the argument is is that there is a sense that however

journalist a new video appears to show the beheading of stephen soft just weeks after the death of james foley. and protests in east jerusalem continue sparked by the july murder of a palestinian teen and the aftermath many in that same family have been be in or arrested so is this family being targeted the discussion with them coming up. and tensions between nato and russia as delayed as fighting in the east of ukraine continues thousands of civilians remain under bund barden and without food water or electricity more on that later in the show. it's september second four pm in washington d.c. i mean you're a david and you're watching r.t. america. we begin today with the tragic news out of syria the islamic militant group isis has beheaded stephen sought lawford american freelance journalist who was abducted a year ago a video was made public today that shows the brutal murder the video titled a second message to america opens with a clip of president obama talking about isis after the death of james foley another american journalist who fell victim to the same fate just two weeks ago speakin

after killing foley, isis warned sotloff would be next. sotloff's mother pleaded to spare her son. >> i ask you to please release my child. as a mother, i ask your justice to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over. >> reporter: today, a spokesman for the sotloff family would only say, "the family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately." "time," which had published his stories, expressed shock, saying of sotloff: "he gave his life so readers would have access to information from some of the most dangerous places in the world." isis has made it clear the horror may not stop with sotloff's murder. on the tape, the masked executioner presents a british hostage, identified as david cawthorne haines, and suggests his life now depends on the actions of the u.s. and british governments. now, some u.s. officials suspect sotloff may actually have been killed several days ago. and while intelligence analysts are still tonight studying the video, the executioner appears to be same man shown in the foley