Before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. What i have seen in news reports suggests folks are getting further ahead than where we currently are. Thats not just my assessment but the assessment of our military as well. Martha this video i so disturbing and the brutality of this group is clear. Reporter the two new videos today are nonetheless shock. In the first video isis appears to execute 200 Syrian Government troops. The soldiers were captured and killed. And a captured kurdish fighter is behead. Militants say this video is a warning to the proamerican kurds to end their military cooperation to the United States government. Martha how is the fighting in iraq going at this point, connor . Reporter isis controls huge amounts of territory in iraq and syria. The u. S. Airstrikes coupled with an advancing military and the kurdish militias have provided stages to mount a counterattack. They continue to hold several key Oil Producing towns. Iraqi troops seem to have secured baghdad and the surrounding area but the general consensus is with u. S. Airstrikes, its not enough to push iraq away from the isis scourge through that country. They are proving to be more resilient and organized than anybody expected. There are thousands of isis fighters joining their ranks every single month. They are getting stronger. Reporter there is startling information how the war the toll the war is taking on people in syria. One out of of 8 syrians is now a refugee. Half of those are children. A top u. N. Official is calling the refugee crisis the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era. Martha colonel oliver north is situation we are seeing in syria should be a wakeup call that these extremists can spread their reign of terror to the u. S. They plan to send terrorists back to the u. S. And strap on suicide vests and get on the metro and does anybody remember madrid . To ignore this is criminal neglect on the part of the white house. Martha and i imam warned sean hannity sharia is coming to a place near you. The rhetoric has not rested in this story. Its escalating every day. Those images they sent out of the recent video of the killing of those soldiers who were fighting for assad. Who would have imagined a world where you feel so sympathetic for those fighting for assad. The dynamic is just unbelievable. Reporter the Islamic State isnt making any bones about what they want to do. In a sick and perverse way they are proud of it. Martha their strategy is very clear. Reporter russia is denyingal facings its launching a stealth invasion of ukraine. Nato reports at least 1,000 Russian Troops are now in the ukraine. New satellite images shows what appears to be Russian Military vehicles crossing the border into that country. But moscow says tonight of its troops in the region are merely volunteers. What are we hearing that may be coming out of that nato meeting today . Reporter nato is meeting in brussels to discuss the crisis in ukraine. It says these satellite images show the positions of Russian Troops inside ukrainian territory. The secretarygeneral says he believes these troops are involved in operations in ukraine. Its now clear that Russian Troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border into eastern and southEastern Ukraine. Reporter nato also says these troop movements are part after pattern over many months. Ukrainian forces had untrecentl. It has seen them open up a new one in the south. The southern town of. Reporter the United States and others have said the russians are lie being this. What else are the rugs saying in response to the International Outcry . Moscow continues to deny any military involvement in ukraine though russia does admit some men may have gone there as volunteers. Speaking today at a youth cam. Russian president Vladimir Putin says ukraine should negotiate with the separatists, something they refused to do. And he says russia should be ready to respond to any aggression. He called on Ukrainian Forces to release Russian Troops. The u. N. Says today that as many as 2,600 people have been killed in this latest fighting. Reporter we are hearing from one of the russian separatist leaders saying the Russian Troops were there on vacation. Im sure anybody believes that as well. Kitty logan live in london. Martha the figures from 2012 show 110 million americans are receiving some form of welfare. Thats more than a third of our population. Think about that. Stuart varney. Most of the varney and company. Stuart, that is an astounding reality in the youths america. Reporter i have two reports that shows what america has become. As you pointed out. 110 Million People receive something from the government because of low income or special needs, food, medical ware, housing or eating subsidy. There has been a steady, strong growth in welfare during the obama years. There is a shift towards well fair in those years. Item number two. The report from pew. They asked are you middle class or upper class. 2008 within 72 said upper class, middle class. 2014, 57 said middle class. That is a huge decline in the number of people who think im a middle american. Thats a significant shift. Its obviously occurred because of the Great Recession and the rather weak recovery. It also occurred because we shift the nature of American Society toward a Welfare Society along european lines. Its a big shift. Martha its a huge shift. The programs were designed 50 years ago, many of them, to help people who fell through the cracks, to get them over the bridge, to be a gap provider for the time when someone was out of work to boost them along so nobody in this country has to go hungry. But what happened is, when you combine all these programs, many people have figured out, you know what . Thats almost 20 minimum wage for me as opposed to 7. 25. So im better off if i can combine these government programs. Reporter its a trap that keeps people out of the middle class. Stops them from moving up the food chain into the middle class. If you are getting the equivalent of 20 an hour through government hand. Outs, thats sure better than getting 7. 25 minimum wage or 10 or 12 an hour. You have no incentive to get out there, work and how much that food chain. Its a trap and it keeps you down. Thats what we have become. Reporter remember that story about the guys who had the device that keep the seats reclining . Well, there has been another midair confrontation over leg room. This time it diverted an International Flight and landed a suspect in front of a judge. Martha nascar star tony stewart making an announcement about him and racing weeks after he was involved in a deadly tragic accidents. Reporter president obama saying there is no strategy yet for fighting isis. Where does that leave us in fighting a brutal wave of terrorism . Well hear from karl rove next. They had all this time to develop what to do with isis in syria and he has no strategy in iraq. Midas. They tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. Highfive arg brakes, tires, oil, everything. whistling leland nascars tony stewart will return to the track this weekend. He skipped the last three nascar events after being involved in an accident that killed kevin ward, jr. He has received all necessary clearances to return to racing activities and is eligible to be this weekend at the atlanta moat speedway. This will be his first time out since he hit and killed ward on a dirt flack upstate new york three weeks ago. Ago. Martha we are just getting this from sky news. The United Kingdom has raised their threat level to severe. What that means is that they are at the second highest level of threat level. According to the home secretary that means a terrorist attack is highly likely in the United Kingdom they believe. There is no intelligence to suggest it is imminent. That while we go back to the fight against isis in syria. Operating virtual safe haven in that area. They are blasting the president for not having a plan to defeat them there which he made clear yesterday. What we need is a strategy to defeat isis. Not to contain them or secure the mosul dam or help the yazidis in a single moment in time. I dont think the president sees this moment for what it is for him, or for us as a country. Martha that was paul ryan reacting to the president s News Conference. Joining me is karl rove. Good morning to you. I saw you last night reacting to this. You now had a chance to sleep on it and process whats going on here. What do you make of it at this point . Reporter i make of the News Conference that it was a check the box. We are about ready to go into a long holiday. I need to talk to the press, i need to be seen. But it had little substance. The president said i dont have a strategy to deal with isis in syria. Im nowhere didnt or further on isil in iraq nor am i going to give you a definitive update on things. When it comes to the ukraine they are doing really bad things but well get together next week in europe and try and figure out how we are going to respond to them. This is an appalling display of a lack of leadership on the part of the United States for our commanderinchief and chief executive. Martha when you look back, we are just getting drips and drops coming out. But the impression is out there right now that the president is the one at the table who is the most reluctant, the most cautious, that others are encouraging him to be more forceful on this and he is concerned about what the outcome might be. Where that might leave us, how involved we have have to be in syria and iraq and for how long. Yes, but on the other hand hes the guy who three years ago said assad must go. Yesterday he said we need to roll back the isil gains in iraq. We need to make certain. He said i have joint chiefs work on plans so isil does not overrun iraq. He said we need to support our partners taking the fight against isil but there is a gap between the president s rhetoric and his actions. Hes constantly behind the 8ball. He does not think strategically. Isil took fallujah and december 30 of last year. They began to break into iraq and cross northwestern iraq in june. We are sitting here in august 18 with the president saying we are going to defend our personnel and consulates and missions and conduct humanitarian measures when clearly we are doing more than that already and hes just not willing to include it in a strategic frame. Martha thats something i dont get. The pentagon is at work every day. The president is at work every day. Fallujah went first. Mosul june. Mr. President , if they to this, here is what we are going to do. Why would we have to be developing a strategy at this late point . The Central Command which has operational responsibility for this region of the world has been working on plans like this for a long time. Our Intelligence Community in the military have been on top of this looking at the threat isis represented months and months ago. Why the president dawdles like he does. He came and said i dont have a strategy and we arent any further along in iraq and ukraine im going go on a foreign trip next week. And then im going on fundraising trips for the next few days. The president has no sense of urgency about what our vastly critical problems facing our allies, interests man this instance the United States itself. Remember the danger with isis is we had on september 11, 19 people financed with a half million dollars. Who brought down the twin towers. Isil has hundreds of americans and europeans and westerners with passports that will allow them to get into this country with ease and access to hundreds of millions of dollars. If we dont think that represents a threat to us, you just reported the increase in the Threat Status in great prey britain. I suspect we are getting a glimpse of what our future looks like if we dont take strong action against isis and destroy them as paul ryan called it. Martha karl rove. Thank you very much. Good to have you here, carl, see you next time. Leland critics have been blasting the nfl for its Domestic Violence policy. You know what i love america . Fine barbecue, good times and zero heart burn. And thats why i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heart burn because it gives me zero heart burn. Prilosec otc the number one dr. Recomended frequent heart burn medicine for nine straight years. You can beat zero herat burn prilosec otc one pill each morning 24hrs, zero heart burn martha look at this volcano erupting in new guinea in australia. So far there are no reports of injuries. The provincial capital residents are being told to stay inside and avoid the falling ash. The the same volcano destroyed a town in 1994. Leland the nfl making a big move on the issue of Domestic Violence. And they warn of tougher penalties to come. What changes have been made to the nfl rules. Reporter Roger Goodell issued a lengthy letter outlining guidelines. They are banned completely after a second offense. It comes after an uprecord over rice being suspended for two games after a Domestic Violence incident in february. He was called on video drags his fiance now wife dragging her out of an elevator while she was unconscious. Under goodells updated guidelines a first offense will result in a sixgame suspension. Players can petition for reinstatement for one year but there is no assurance it will be granted. What has bent reaction so far in this . Reporter many in the sports world say the nfl commissioner did the right thing by saying he did the wrong thing. He says i take responsibility for the decision and to make sure our actions reflect our values in the the future. Former nfl quarterback Charlie Batch tweeted this out. But a lot of people think goodell hasnt done enough, pointing to the Substance Abuse policy that suspend players for four games for a first offense. Laura ingle, jim gray will weigh in on this later. Reporter isis has been called fanatical, diabolical. But is a major element of this group being down played by the white house . Piece are people who believe in the end of days, and what they are doing, the cruelty that threads the conquest are going to hasten the end of days. The president leaves out the religious element of this. 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You see the shot at 10 downing street. Well bring you that live as soon as he comes out. Leland there is concern Political Correctness is clouding the Bigger Picture of this terror in iraq and syria. Obama is taking criticism for ignoring the religious aspect of this. The president leaves out the religious element of this. He talks of them as extremists. What does extremism mean . This is a specific type of extremism. An element, a wing of perhaps small but nonetheless determined one of a great religion. When you are propelled by religion, the belief in the almighty, that gives you the power and determination that is unusual. Its not the runofthemill enemy. Leland let do you think there is a problem with president obama not acknowledging how radical islam plays a role in how isis conducts itself on the battlefield . I think the president under estimates the threat from isis and the religious element may be a part of that. Isil is determined not just to develop a caliphate in the region but to attack the United States as well. Thats all part after general misunderstanding the president may have about the group. Wra why dont you think the president speaks of this in an us against them war on terror view that we heard from president bush post 9 11. I dont know. I was deeply disturbed when the president said we still dont have a strategy to confront isis or isil. I was deeply disturbed that we dont have a coalition organized of nations like the u. K. And other nations to work with us. And im disturbed we dont have a plan to militarily take on as we just heard, an organization that is committed to spreading its hatred and its theocracy throughout the middle east and europe and hopefully to the United States if they have their way. Leland my grandmother used to say its not what you say, its how you say it. Is the fact that president obama isnt ringing the alarm bells a problem your view . Its an absolute problem. This isnt politics. This isnt democrat versus republican. This is just plain common sense. We pulled together after 9 11. This is a threat arguably given there are western jihadists fighting with isis both americans and europeans that we have to take very, very seriously and i hope all americans, democrats and republicans push the administration to take more assertive action more quickly. Reporter do you think there is a political aspect to the president s tone . That he doesnt believe the alarm pells ne