D with the oscars . He should be more concerned with real issues like terror attacks. Lets keep talking. Log on to the fox friends Facebook Page to weigh in today. Yes. Have a great weekend. Happy friday. Fox friends starts now. Bye. Good morning. It is friday january 16. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. A fox news alert for you. Airstrikes arent working so how will the United States defeat isis . The new plan Just Announced, to send our troops into syria. The white house says they had to release detainees from gitmo because gitmo is whats causing a lot of violence. It would also be unwise to neglect the fact that our the prison at Guantanamo Bay continues to inspire violent acts around the globe. So is letting terrorists back on the battle field. The solution . Well talk about that. We first brought you this story and you fought back. This morning a huge update on Duke Universitys plan to play the muslim call to prayer from the christian chapel. Many of you will like how that ends. I can tell you this, mornings are better with friends. Amen. Hi everybody this is dawn from gilligans island. You are watching fox friends. It is the real threehour tour. From a three hour tour to the three week time when the folks who have dish could not see it. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your patience. Yesterday afternoon they worked everything out and now were back on dish. Were so thankful. Its great to be back with all of you. A lot of loyal dish viewers missed us and we missed you so we look forward to that. We have incredible stories today to go over but first Heather Nauert has a quick update. We start out seas. One day we learned that the u. S. Led airstrikes in syria are not working against isis, the u. S. Military announcing it will send 400 u. S. Troops to the region. The purpose is to train those moderate syrian fighters. They will be brought to neighboring countries for that work. Our troops will head there in the spring. A dozen people were just arrested near paris in connection with the terror attacks there that left 17 people dead. The nine men and three women are now being questioned over possible links to the gunman at the kosher super market massacre. French Police Believed they supplied him with weapons and cars to carry out that attack. My body is on fire. Those were some of the last words from a convicted baby killer who was just executed in oklahoma. Charles warner was killed by lethal injection overnight. He showed no signs of
physical distress bus this was the states first execution since the prisoner died during that botched execution attempt last year. Pope francis is calling for an end to government corruption in asias largest capital nation. The pontiff urging them to use their resources to help tens of millions living in poverty. This as we learn the pope will name an american as a Roman Catholic saint during his visit to the United States in september. He is one of californias original founders. He is being praised for bringing christianity to natives there. Those are your headlines. See you in about a half an hour. Since the president of the United States took over theres been almost no talk about gitmo and what a bad symbol it is. Prior to that, in the Bush Administration all you heard was weve got to close gitmo so the Bush Administration put it on track to be closed. They said in the perfect
world it would be great to not have a need to have gitmo but dick cheney also warned when you look at these cases you will have a hard time closing the place. Believe me there is a hard time closing the place because in there the worst of the worst. Not reformed, al qaedas worst, leadership command structure, they are there. And now theyre getting out. And the explanations were getting on why theyre being released and the places theyre going to, to me, do not fly. A lot of questions here we are now where ed henry took this question to josh earnest to try to wrap his head around why are we releasing these prisoners now. Especially the five we released two days ago. We read their profiles. You would be aghast. Look them up because it is remarkable to see what these terrorists were involved in and now theyre headed out to oman, possibly jump over to yemen. You cant even believe it. Ed henry couldnt. He asked josh earnest why are we doing this right now or at all. Nearly a week after terrorists with ties to yemen, at least one of them trained by al qaeda in yemen, killed at least a dozen people in paris. How could the president release five more gitmo detainees originally from yemen . Because there was a unanimous recommendation from his National Security team that steps could be put in place to ensure that when these individuals are transferred that we can significantly mitigate any threat that they have to the u. S. For our interests. I can tell you that only 6 or so of those transfers somebody suspected of or have been confirmed to rejoin the fight. Isnt that still a problem . Six pght six percent could wind up as terrorists. That is why this administration continues to pursue an aggressive
terrorist strategy. At the same time it would be unwise to neglect the fact that our the prison at Guantanamo Bay continues to inspire violent acts around the globe. Weve heard that before. Keep in mind the people who hate us over there just hate us over there and hate us here. Are we going to close america . No. None of that happened before Guantanamo Bay existed. Thats what Charles Krauthammer said. Listen to this. The idea of guantanamo, recruiting the tool for isis or al qaeda is nonsense. Do you think that the guys who killed the journalist in paris were inspired by gitmo . Do you think the guy who shot the hostages in the jewish deli in paris were inspired by gitmo . 9 11 happened before gitmo ever existed. They have a list of grievances which is as long as the day. These people are inspired and recruited by their
objection to our way of life and the fact that we defend our way of life around the world. And they believe in islamist supremecy where shah rhea rules. Where sharia rules. They close gitmo; theyre not going to hate us anymore . If someone wanted to kill you and they were in prison and they were released, you would think maybe someone should let me know. With these five prisoners being released who terrorists, by the way want to kill you, they want to kill me, they want to kill everybody that doesnt agree with me, you would want to have this information. And you know the network is negligent in letting people know. Only abc gave 35 seconds in letting people know about them being released. Nbc zero not one second to let you know. Heres why it is
significant. The week before you had paris blow up, you had 2,000 killed in nigeria. If you look at the terrorists, one of the brothers he trained in yemen. Then you see oman borders yemen. All these guys are from yemen. This is in the face of the french and all of western europe. And guess what . No wonder theyre mad that their buddies are tied up in gitmo. They cant join them in the terror fight. What kind of Vocational Training have they been through at gitmo . Are they going to get themselves a different job and different career . Probably not. Any way, five more released and theyll be back in the terror business in no time. Meantime yesterday we told you about this story. Duke university 1 00 this afternoon was planning to go ahead and play the muslim call to prayer from the Campus Chapel right there, the bell tower. That is not a mosque but its a chapel. So they were going to do that. Then there was outcry from people like franklin graham
who was upset that christianity was excluded from the public square. He went on to say, you know what if duke supporters were smart if they dont like this, they would withhold their money. Something worked because late yesterday duke caved and said you know what . Maybe this isnt such a good idea after all. Heres what they had to say, from their spokesman. It was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect. The population there 15,000 claim to be muslim. The center did hire its firsttime muslim chaplain. That is perhaps why they were trying to broaden. I saw in one of the local news stations down there in raleigh what they say is and this is only place i saw this there was a credible and serious security threat. Thats why they reversed it. Or it could be the
money, the funds being withheld. Both sides weighed in on sean last night. Here are the students. I consider myself a christian at Duke University, and i was saddened that they had to cancel the call to prayer because in my view, christianity is a religion of love and love for the neighbor. Part of that im thankful the university has reconsidered their decision to play the muslim call to prayer every friday. They heard the voice of not only students but alumni and the public at large. The whole idea was they were trying to include the muslim call to prayer during the day at duke. But heres the thing. They dont include any of the other religions. They excluded everything else. So they included and excluded at the same time and people said come on. If you want to do one, do them all. You cant do one and not do the others. Particularly the actual chapel where this was going to be broadcast. They are going to move it. It is going to occur, not just from the chapel. If you want to pray at certain times an iphone has a little alarm that could buzz your pocket. You dont have to make this a controversial issue. Youre telling me there is an app for that . I even figured it out. Can you believe it . I live in that tech world. I just got off a video game to do the show. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. He saved a navy seal from the hands of terrorists. The reallife story unfolded in the movie lone survivor. Why do you help me . Why was he helping Marcus Latrell . Now that afghani needs saving himself. This story may not be what it seems. New details this morning. Kids, how about some
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stopped the shoe bomber. There are those out there that have this instinct to want to help and do good. Here was one of ours, the best of the best of our society, a navy seal that was felled. This gentleman took him under his wing and the village watched you. He reached out to me this past summer and explained he was in america. Things got weird. I dont know the politics but he left. Now r. P. G. s are going through his home. A couple of months ago a governor issued a letter a death warrant against my client indicating that arrest on sight or kill on sight kind of demand. Is there a sense that there might be people behind the scenes that are manipulating him because he has had two opportunities to come here. He has been here for long periods of time. The paper work has been done and hes insisted on going back. I dont understand the politics, the movie, the book deals, the visits to
america. All i can tell you is i take this guy for what he is and that is somebody who saved one of us and is now trying to get out. The difficulty that we had was the American Embassy in afghanistan was a target and a highpriced person like this where the taliban wanted to kill him imperilled not only himself but the procedure and extracting him out of afghanistan. Im less concerned about the policy of this. Hes a hero, Marcus Luttrell is a hero. My job is to keep immigration laws helping people who do good for us internationally. He did a wonderful thing. If you read the book you see the whole village did a wonderful thing. Do you think the taliban had to hear about a movie to understand that he should be targeted . I dont know what they heard or why theyre doing this. I can just tell you that we want to reward people that step up for our brothers and sisters in harms way. As soon as we do that internationally a red carpet should go out for somebody who did this. Like my other client who was sleeping on a plane and sat on richard reid, this guy pulled him out of the waterfall and gave him safe haven. The whole village as far as im concerned earns our trust. You do a great thing one of the most respected Immigration Attorneys there is, but there is there a sense you might be being manipulated behind the scenes . I appreciate, first of all, your compliment and second of all im not as naive. The truth is that nobody has asked me to raise him money more than for his subsistence internationally and the essence of my profession would not allow me to entangle myself in any money. I dont see anything untoward. I see everything genuine and i refuse on principle im an observant jew. Were biblical cousins. It is an awkward circumstance generally to deal with these kinds of experiences. I see this as a measure of principle. Im so impressed by the hundreds of emails that were getting internationally to see that this guy is given a home. I dont blame the world for being curious or thinking theres something below, like an iceberg below what we can see but i havent seen anything. And youre the guy doing this for free just wanting to help him out. But if he does get here, doesnt speak english and has no skills and does not understand our culture, how would he survive . This is the greatest legacy greatest experiment in democracy. We are a inflammation of immigrants. Who do you want to have here . Our Founding Fathers established that very stock of trade. All of our citizens should have the instinct that this gentleman has to save somebody. Hell learn english hell be productive. He did get two other offers to come here from great, great people like you and he turned them down. Well see what happens. All right. Ten minutes before the bottom of the hour. Straight ahead, we were promised Health Care Costs will go down but our next guest has numbers to show the opposite. He can prove deductibles for expensive plans have gone up a hundred bucks. Ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. Now. I use this. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. I want this time to be my last time. Thats why i choose nicoderm cq. Weve got some headlines for you on this friday morning. We just learned that neurosurgeon dr. Ben carson will make a major announcement in a couple of weeks. He and an advisor are forming an Exploratory Committee thinking about running for the white house. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker is making his own case for candidacy taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton. The reason Hillary Clinton was the big loser is because she embodies washington. She lives in washington. She worked in washington for this president and his
administration. She worked in washington when she was a United States senator. She embodies it. It was announced iowas junior senator joni ernst will deliver the response to the president s state of the union response. Marco rubio adding a little humor saying drink plenty of water before not during the speech. Since the implementation of obamacare, more than six and a half heem reportedly signed people signed up for coverage this year. The deductibles for the least expensive plan have gone up about 100 bucks. This is one example of our next guest and how he gives us evidence of our broken health care system. Steven brill joins us now. Ive always admired your ability to uncover whats going on for the American People. The bitter irony is youre writing this book about health care and you need openheart surgery at about the same time. How did that tweak or refine your perspective on all this . I didnt plan it that