Patrick says its truly up to them. Is it wrong . Yes, but its a free country. Thanks to everyone who responded. Have a great wednesday. See you back here tomorrow morning on thursday. Fox friends starts now. Bye. Good morning. It is wednesday, august 13. Im Elisabeth Hasselbeck. While you were sleeping Hillary Clinton called the white house to apologize for throwing the president s Foreign Policy under the bus. But can she have it both ways and could this hurt her more than it will help . Riots continue to rage in st. Louis, and now good thing al sharpton on the scene. We want real peace. We dont want to be told to shut up and suffer in silence. Since when does real peace involve looting and violence . Doesnt he have a show to do . Left wingers failing to find the humor in this one. I think obama understands peoples concerns after spending the day at the beach he said this has been fun but i should really get back to the golf course. Because priorities are priorities. Believe it or not, this backlash about funny man fallon trying to do what everyone does on the tonight show and that is mock whoever is in the white house. Well discuss it. Mornings are better with friends. Hey there. This is kelly pickler. Youre watching fox friends. Welcome back. Eric is filling in for steve today. A lot of news this morning. That was a funny joke. Of course it was funny. Thats what latenight comedians do. They make fun of the president whoever he or she may be. As long as they are safe to do so. Were going to talk about that as well. Could you tell eric to scoot offense a scoot over a little. I am pretty far away. We straddle the crack here on fox friends. Im thinking this is good. A little tight. We have a lot to discuss today because Hillary Clinton and president obama are going to a party. They are . It could get a little awkward because of a phone call and a tweet and a little slam. Were going to explain all of that this morning. First to heather nauert. A lot has been happening overnight. They might squeeze right m and sit as close as you guys. Lets start off talking about Politics Today and key primary races taking place. Weve got the results. All eyes on the state of minnesota. Political newcomer Mike Mcfadden will take on senator al franken after winning the republican primary. Im so honored to have won the primary. I can tell you we did it without saying one bad word about another republican. Period. We immediate to unify our party wree need to unify our party. Another key race tom emmer beating out the commissioner and county commissioner jeff johnson wins primary for governor beating three major rivals. Hell face the democratic governor in november. Well keep watching these races. A storm sliding across the country and this morning leaving two people dead. We start in arizona with this dramatic video. A man sitting on top of his car forced to jump on to a fire truck to get out safely. Look at this video out of detroit. That is a forklift. It had to drag cars out of the water one by one. Ing in thee of that. In some places the water was 14 feet deep. Heading over to detroit, a scuba diver swimming
through the flood waters to see if anyone else is trapped there. Finally in pennsylvania, the heavy rain there opening up this massive sink hole that swallowed a car. We had a lot of rain overnight here in the new york area. In the west coast tragic details about the death of Robin Williams. Investigators confirming he hanged himself with a belt while his wife slept in a separate bedroom. She says she last saw him alive sunday night. She left the house the next morning thinking he was still asleep but his assistant found him before noon with a pocketknife near his body and cuts on his wrist. No words yet for plans for a memorial service. Another hollywood legend has died. Leading lady Lauren Bacall. You know how to whistle. Put your lips together and blow. What a voice and what a face. That is a scene from the 1944 film to have and have not. It is one of the most
iconic moments in movie history. The model turned actress would eventually marry her costar humphrey bogart. She appeared in 60 movies. Lauren bacall died of a stroke. She was 89 years old. What a remarkable career that lady has. At 19 she was discovered. Humphrey bogart was 43, she was 19 and they ended up going out and it was no scandal. It was such a good idea to shoot those movies in black and white. It enhanced the drama. Do you think Hillary Clinton used that voice yesterday when she called the white house . I think that might have helped with the im sorry because that is what she was calling to say. She called president obama to apologize for calling him out on his Foreign Policy. But this came after she was
actually attacked by david axle rod who stepped in to may defense for the president , throwing her support for the iraq war right back at her. This was David Axlerods tweet to Hillary Clinton. Just to clarify, dont do stupid stuff means stuff like occupying iraq in the first place which was a tragically bad decision. To put that in context, one of the things Hillary Clinton said, dont do stupid stuff, is really not a policy. Which she said in the atlantic, an 8,000word interview. As maureen dowd points out today in the New York Times, it is the economy stupid probably is not a great policy either, but bill clinton used that very successfully. Heres the summary of the whole thing. Hillary clinton was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, the full first term of president obama, when president obama was developing these iraq strategies. Remember he was elected on i will get us out of iraq. That was his talking points, plug lines everywhere. He gets out, and during that time Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Dont you think at some point she would have said i disagree with this, this is the wrong strategy, we shouldnt be doing this . He gets out. Isis blows up iraq. And Hillary Clinton now says that was no Foreign Policy. Dont do stupid stuff. That was the wrong thing to do in iraq, that was the wrong thing to do in syria, down the line. It was confirmed last night she did say it. The reason why the president said it on a special report. The reason the president didnt implement it is because he didnt think it was a workable plan. I ask you this. We werent there. If David Petraeus is in the room, leon panetta is in the room and secretary of state all say we have to do something about this and we have to take action right away and actually arm these people that you call pharmacists and doctors who, by the way, they got word of that quote the president just said the other day, highly insulted
and i believe we won the revolutionary war with a bunch of farmers and doctors. Having said all that, the president didnt take the secretary of defense and the c. I. A. Director and the secretary of states advice. Who was he listening to . We dont know. But the dance Hillary Clinton is doing as we approach 2016 might not work so well for her. Karl rove puts it in historical perspective. In 1968 Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey who disagreed with president johnson on the vietnam war, had difficulty breaking from the administration. He finally did in a speech in salt lake in october. By doing so, he neither placated the critics of president johnsons war policy nor kept the support of all of johnsons its just the beginning. Vernon jordan is having a Party Tonight and i guess the word is theyre going to meet eat meet each
other, be in the same room and hug it out. But Hillary Clinton could have probably said listen i dont want you to take it as criticism, but shes not going to get reelected if she doesnt distance herself from the Foreign Policy that 50 of the country think is terrible. And that she was largely a part of. True. But you have to take your orders from the president. Secretary of state cant be like the president told me to do this; im going to do that. Think of what she did. In order to distance herself from a president whose Approval Rating is sliding she went far right. She was looking for boots she went all in on all the wars. Maybe shes getting a little backlash from her base. Shes got a tightrope, a dance to do because now she doesnt want to be an obama Foreign Policy follower to that. Yet she cant be so far right where her base goes are you kidding me . We dont like wars. Shes between a barack and a hard place. Isis even more powerful and more organized. If someone told any president that al qaeda had mastered a certain area, was worth now 100 billion and growing, had a lot of our equipment, what scenario and what president wouldnt hit them . Everybody knows theyre our enemy separate from what were doing or not doing in iraq, ben rhodes on special report last night took that question. What has happened is weve donahue man tehran airdrops weve done humanitarian airdrops to reach the population, but we also need to figure out how to move that population to a safe space and get them humanitarian assistance. Speaking about the christians under attack this and trying to decide what is going to happen. Are we going to now put our forces in the face of isis
in order to rescue those who are facing death over their faith. How do you get a bunch of people with nothing off a mountain . A former commander of the c. I. A. Forces in afghanistan and in kabul stationed, he was one of the first into afghanistan right after the 9 11 attack, gary, welcome back. Good morning. Are you happy with the strategy so far . What strategy . Okay. Thats a no . Let me Say Something about the statement that they talked about how do you get these people off of a mountain. People are forgetting that the israelis evacuated with the help of the u. S. , the falashas in the sudan in the 1990s. Youre going to need to put people on the ground, forces on the ground there. People may not want to enter there but the United States is a signatory to international conventions
against general mow side. If we see genocide, were required by law to act and this administration is looking the other way. Why do we need to put troops on the ground . Didnt the few air the humanitarian strikes and targeted airstrikes, didnt they push isis back . Let me Say Something about why you want air. If you dont or why you want some people on the ground. You want people on the ground to do close air support. If you dont, youre likely to have Collateral Damage and kill innocent people at times. The reason we were very, very effective in afghanistan during the invasion with small numbers of people is we were lasing everything. What does that mean . If youre just bombing what does that mean . You light up a target. The ordinance is flown from an aircraft and it rides the light in. You can send something into a window. Thats how exact it is. Let me ask you this. To complicate things the director of the f. B. I. Said now we have americans moving into syria to actually join this fighting and that theyre absolutely almost impossible to identify. But we need to spend some time on the ground to help do that. Take a listen. We at the f. B. I. And our partners are spending a tremendous amount of time trying to identify those who want to travel to syria to fight, who are there fighting and who may be coming back. But these are people who may not be directed by al qaeda or one of its progeny but who can be trained by what is on the internet. They can be in their pajamas listening that theyve to kill innocent americans. Some people are saying thats their problem, im war weary. What is your answer . We have a problem. Isis presents a threat to the United States. They have capability, intent, and with american citizens fighting for them, they will have access to
america. Two or three weeks ago a young man from florida detonated himself in damascus, killing 14 people. They present a threat to the United States. We need to reexamine the process of visa waivers in the United States. We need to close the southern border. We really need leadership in the United States. And were not getting it. Are you saying our southern border could be the place that isis would enter the United States . If 13 and 14year olds can walk across that border, members of isis can walk across easily as well. And will. And will. Count on it. These guys are not stupid. They are committed. Theyre willing to commit, you know, suicide. Many of them are suicide attackers. They see the United States as a, as an enemy. These are terrorists committed to creating a caliphate, and they have no boundaries. Weve got them burying
people alive, cruise foig people, beheading crucifying people, beheading people. What else do you need to see . This is like the 1930s where people are forgetting. I feel your intensity and your frustration because no one seems to be getting that message. A lot of people in this country are turned off by it and a lot of people in the white house dont seem to understand it. These are islamic fascists. Thanks so much. Pleasure to be with you. There are a lot of islamo fascists. Do we wipe out all terrorists . That would be optimal but its pie in the sky. You talk about north korea, talk about iran. There are a lot of places where islamo terrorists would be enemies to the United States. Heres the thing. I think you need a master plan for north africa, for isis in particular, for what could be me tass
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